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Happy Hour #152: SMNTY Takes a Snow Day · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stuff
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  Speaker 1: One Never Told You, production by Heart Radio, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you
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  Speaker 1: are choosing to drink or whatever you're doing, jink responsibly.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sipping on anything, Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I got my bubbly water happening over here. Keep it
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  Speaker 2: keeping it light.
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  Speaker 1: How about you? I, as you saw me struggle to open,
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  Speaker 1: have a can of sake. It is snow related, which
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  Speaker 1: is perfect. The name is snow related, which is perfect
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  Speaker 1: for this episode. But it is cold, so it's both
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  Speaker 1: cold here and the sake is cold. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: wanted I'm a nerd and I like making things a
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  Speaker 1: line where I can, so yeah, but yes, I did
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  Speaker 1: have another Happy Hour planned for this one, but I
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  Speaker 1: thought we would talk about snow days instead, and just
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge, there's a lot going on. We've got wildfires,
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  Speaker 1: we've got freezing temperatures. It's just a lot. So we
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  Speaker 1: hope that you are all okay, and I think this
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  Speaker 1: will be interesting. I would love to hear from listeners
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  Speaker 1: because I think my experience with snow days, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to assume it's very similar for you Samantha is that
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  Speaker 1: is something that would make a lot of people where
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  Speaker 1: it snows more often roll their eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Oh, absolutely, As in fact, I had recently had
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  Speaker 2: a conversation about that. They're like, no, I moved here
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  Speaker 2: for a reason, no snow, and I'm like, I just
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  Speaker 2: want to help it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So listeners please write in with your opinions.
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  Speaker 1: And I do have a little I resea this actually
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  Speaker 1: a little bit last night, and I'll put it at
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  Speaker 1: the end about women in snow days because as we
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  Speaker 1: record this, it bite snow. It looks like it's going
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  Speaker 1: to snow tomorrow. In Georgia where we are, that is
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  Speaker 1: pretty rare, and it causes a lot of I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I don't have school tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Or right there is this feeling of gettiness and throwing
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  Speaker 2: you back into childhood, especially again for us who typically
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  Speaker 2: don't get snow on the regular, and when we do
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  Speaker 2: it's odd timing. So I know North Georgia so lived
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  Speaker 2: in the foothills of Appalachia. Literally we would get more
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  Speaker 2: snow than most of the people in Georgia. But even
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  Speaker 2: when we did, because we were in a rural town,
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  Speaker 2: it was still exciting because we would have school off,
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  Speaker 2: and we would anticipate wake up early or be excitedly
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  Speaker 2: waiting the night before to see if we had school
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  Speaker 2: or no school, And there was something to be said
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  Speaker 2: about like not having school. During my middle school years,
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  Speaker 2: we had one of the biggest nos of Georgia, and
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  Speaker 2: we were out of school for like weeks, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks, and then had to extend to having like
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  Speaker 2: thirty minute extra long days into the summer so we
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  Speaker 2: could have enough accredit at time that was not so
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  Speaker 2: much fun. But before besides those times and then going
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  Speaker 2: into adulthood, being because I worked for the government, so
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  Speaker 2: the government is already in the state of Georgia have
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  Speaker 2: already said that they would not they would all be
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  Speaker 2: closed tomorrow, their offices would be closed. Everybody be either
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  Speaker 2: working remote or not working at all. So I remember
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  Speaker 2: that excitement too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think that is the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: that I feel bad about when I talk about it
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  Speaker 1: from like my perspective is that I know outside of
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  Speaker 1: the South you still go still go to school or
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  Speaker 1: go to work. But even on top of that, and
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  Speaker 1: I would love for people to write in who have
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  Speaker 1: kids now, I think you don't really get the school day.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have virtual teaching a lot of times,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not the same like excitement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Internet doesn't solve everything, obviously, not everything. Not
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  Speaker 2: everything anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I think the first year I moved because my family
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  Speaker 1: lived in Alaska for a while, I don't really have
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with that, but when we moved from
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  Speaker 1: southern Georgia to northern Georgia when I was very not
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  Speaker 1: very young, but like I don't know, kindergarten somewhere there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it snowed like in April, and I remember thinking, what
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: The majority of our bigs nose honestly, in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Georgia is usually March April. It's never actual winter winter.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird at the beginning of spring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we've I mean it. And it was as
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  Speaker 1: a kid. I'm sure again I'm gonna talk about this
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  Speaker 1: more then. I'm sure it wasn't as fun for my parents,
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  Speaker 1: but as a kid, I remember. I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the same storm, but I remember one.
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  Speaker 1: It was like the last week of it was right
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  Speaker 1: before Christmas or something. It was like right before a
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  Speaker 1: break and I was mad because a bunch of my
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  Speaker 1: friends got out of doing a final assignment that I
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  Speaker 1: had already done. But it was just you couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: anywhere because we lived kind of I wouldn't say a mountain,
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  Speaker 1: but we lived up a steep road and it was
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  Speaker 1: treacherous and in fact, they used to call my house
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  Speaker 1: when they were deciding whether or not to cancel school,
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  Speaker 1: like how icy is it outside? And it was. It
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  Speaker 1: stuck around for several weeks and it was mostly ice
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  Speaker 1: and not snow. But I remember the power was out
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  Speaker 1: for we were cooking things over a fire. We were
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  Speaker 1: all sleep being in the same room, and we were
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  Speaker 1: playing board games and stuff, and I loved it because
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  Speaker 1: again I was a kid, and I was like, this
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  Speaker 1: is the coolest, right, but I didn't have to deal
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  Speaker 1: with the stressors of how are we gonna feed these kids? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the one I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I moved to That's the one that happened. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: when I moved to Delanago. That's where it's where I
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  Speaker 1: moved in it. I remember it was the first year
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  Speaker 1: I was there was this normal.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was not. The National Guard had to be
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  Speaker 2: called out apparently, oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's another thing. We've talked about this before
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  Speaker 1: on the show. I mean, we do here in the
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  Speaker 1: South get a lot of ribbing and teasing and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it's there, but some of it is like
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the infrastructure because it doesn't normally snow,
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  Speaker 1: or at least not in a substantial amount that's going
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  Speaker 1: to hang around for a long time. So we've had
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  Speaker 1: every like ten fifteen years for a while, we have
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  Speaker 1: what we call like snowpocalypses or the Great Snowjam or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and it's where there's just massive traffic. I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was caught one for fourteen hours once and it was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: I was crying.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, no, this it's awful. Like the things
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  Speaker 2: that happened, it brought both brought a community together. It
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  Speaker 2: also made us all very angry at our guns at
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  Speaker 2: the time because they were so lacking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they like canceled everything at the worst time in
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  Speaker 1: the experience I'm thinking of. It was like the worst
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  Speaker 1: time they could have called things all.
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  Speaker 2: It was already snowing, right, are you talking about the snowpocalypse.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they were two that kind of happened in close
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  Speaker 1: ish years. I'm talking a Yeah, I think I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the first one, the.
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  Speaker 2: Stem first clips. Yeah, Like I think that's the one
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  Speaker 2: that everybody's like, we, y'all, we can't do this because
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  Speaker 2: literally because we're sleeping at schools.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It was wild, like they opened, stores would
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  Speaker 1: open and have people come in. People were abandoning their cars.
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  Speaker 1: My car slid out. I was almost home and it
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  Speaker 1: slid out, and this group of people had tarps and
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  Speaker 1: they were helping people move their cars and I just
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  Speaker 1: put it in a random spot and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get you later, car. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: The reason it's called the Snowpocalypse is because the way
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  Speaker 2: the roads were just indeed but had abandoned cars everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like the coming of the end.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like the Walking Dead. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: did a lot of shots of just how comparison side
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  Speaker 1: by side of how much it looked like the Walking Dead.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. This was my moment of I
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  Speaker 2: will talk about it till this day when people bring
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  Speaker 2: this up, because I was so proud of my intuition,
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  Speaker 2: because I was not fooling with anybody. Because I was
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  Speaker 2: working in Kawita County noon in Georgia, which is a
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  Speaker 2: good twenty five minutes without traffic type of commute. So
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  Speaker 2: I was like, it's starting to snow. They're saying it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna keep snowing. I'm leaving, like I literally got up,
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  Speaker 2: made an announcement to my boss and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm leaving, and he looked at me. He's like, but
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't been I was like, I don't care. I'm
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  Speaker 2: like and he was very nice, like he was like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I live too far away. I'm not staying here.
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  Speaker 2: And he was like, okay, I guess be careful. And
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  Speaker 2: by the time I made it home is when everybody
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, the road roads are frozen.
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  Speaker 2: Roads are frozen, and yeah. I was like, that's correct.
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  Speaker 2: I was right. And I went to my little grocery store,
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  Speaker 2: which was not it's like a boutique grocery stores or
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  Speaker 2: everything is extra expensive, but they have really nice wines.
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  Speaker 2: I took the bottle of wine and my popcorn. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, that's right, fools, I'm at home.
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  Speaker 1: That is awesome. I remember times when school will be
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  Speaker 1: canceled just at the hint there could be because we
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  Speaker 1: these things have happened, and we know.
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  Speaker 2: It's back and forth because we've had those moments where
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  Speaker 2: people make fun of us because they're like, there may
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  Speaker 2: be snow. Cancel school for a week and then and
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  Speaker 2: then everybody's made fools of and they're like, we'll never
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  Speaker 2: do that again. Oh they're possibly snow. Yeah, we trust
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  Speaker 2: to do last time. And then they're all stuck in
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  Speaker 2: the ice. And that's the biggest problem is like we're
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  Speaker 2: not really worried about the snow. The way temperature works
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  Speaker 2: in the South, with the humidity level and everything that
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  Speaker 2: freezes over so quickly, and the fact that we are
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  Speaker 2: so underprepared, like we don't ice think, we don't assault things.
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  Speaker 2: I think at the time of the snow apocalypse, there
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  Speaker 2: was like seven mobiles in the state, in the whole state,
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  Speaker 2: So they had to like emergency call people out and
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  Speaker 2: be like, oh, I gotta fix this, gotta fix this.
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  Speaker 1: Do you read snowflowers.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, snowboo bills, Yes, snowflass but I'm gonna calls for
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  Speaker 2: the rest but like it makes sense to me, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing is like they did not have that
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  Speaker 2: many because the South is so underfunded. That's not something
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  Speaker 2: that they look at the amount of funding that they
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  Speaker 2: put into anything for the community we know is lacking.
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  Speaker 2: For anti trans policies, tons of money, tons of money
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  Speaker 2: for taking money away from older generations. Tons of money.
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  Speaker 2: This like aloof possible dangers of all the immigrants coming in,
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  Speaker 2: tons of money, but anything actually useful, like schools, or
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  Speaker 2: they do fix the roads. They do a lot of
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  Speaker 2: construction on roads. I will give them that they do,
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  Speaker 2: just not in preventing accidents they do.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a headache, yes, but is it necessary also yes,
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  Speaker 1: so they tell me. But yeah, I mean that's it
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  Speaker 1: is funny to me because I've had so many conversations.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so different based on where you are about this.
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  Speaker 1: This whole conversation around snow and snow days and like
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  Speaker 1: everybody here, I mean people are going to the store,
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  Speaker 1: they're clearing it out. Like my friend was just texting
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  Speaker 1: me she couldn't find like a warm coat and all this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, oh my goodness, me, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to find a scarf for our trip to New
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  Speaker 2: York when I was expecting possible snow there. This was
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  Speaker 2: before I was like, oh no, there's warmer in New
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  Speaker 2: York than it is in Georgia right now. But like,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't find a scarf anywhere it was.
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  Speaker 1: She couldn't find a scarf either. What's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Georgia, do you not believe in scars? They're so cute.
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  Speaker 1: I love a good scarf, I know, great fashion piece, great.
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  Speaker 2: Fashion piece, and keep your neck warm, wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Very warm. But yeah, I mean I have. I would,
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  Speaker 1: I really would love for listeners writing about this because
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  Speaker 1: because no one is so rare where we are, I
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  Speaker 1: do have like these horrible I spent fourteen hours in
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  Speaker 1: a car, but I also have really lovely like one
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  Speaker 1: one year it's not on Christmas, and that was amazing,
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  Speaker 1: just like the picture. Oh it was so nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that, this is what I talked about when
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to find the Christmas spirit. That's what I wanted. Annie.
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  Speaker 2: That one did not freaking get it get.
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  Speaker 1: You got the delay of the time, but you didn't get.
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  Speaker 2: Got so much delayed, very angry annoyed partner by the
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  Speaker 2: end of because he's like, if this doesn't stop, I'm
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: gonna throw something. But no, like I and that's because
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  Speaker 2: I also remember that and we had again. I was
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  Speaker 2: in Lja, Georgia, and my property was completely blanketed in snow.
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  Speaker 2: We were sitting by a nice fire and there's this
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  Speaker 2: like lamp post that my family has, my parents had
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  Speaker 2: put in and the way it looked, it looked like
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  Speaker 2: a scene out of Narnia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is be beautiful the.
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  Speaker 1: One Yeah yeah at one time. One other time I
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  Speaker 1: was in Alabama in it snowed, but it was like
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  Speaker 1: the barest dusting of snow on Christmas. But as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, yeah, this is the best. So
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  Speaker 1: I really like it. I honestly, I'm we're gonna wake
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  Speaker 1: up early. The sad thing is you we You never know,
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  Speaker 1: it might just be sleep. It could just be sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm up here at seven am. I'm like, what,
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  Speaker 1: where's the snow.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be disappointed, just like I wasn't disappointed in
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  Speaker 2: childhood when I would wake up to see if there
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  Speaker 2: was any snow and there was nothing but ice and crunchiness.
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  Speaker 2: I feel the same way. I'm excited about it. I've
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  Speaker 2: actually plan to breakfast oh for my partner and I
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be like the like the bare minimum,
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  Speaker 2: but like because I want to see the snow as well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited about having my dog playing snow because
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  Speaker 2: for the most part in the last her lifetime, there's
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: barely been any that's a little bit but enough, not
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  Speaker 2: enough to play and even this time it won't be
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: enough to play in honestly, but having an open backyard
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  Speaker 2: where for the first time it's my house, you know
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  Speaker 2: that I own with a nice backyard just for her
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  Speaker 2: and want her to play in it to see what
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  Speaker 2: she thinks of it, because she is a hot natured creature,
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  Speaker 2: So I want that to happen like That's part of
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  Speaker 2: my excitement. And my partner has been laughing at me,
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  Speaker 2: like kindly, like not not anything mean, because I have
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  Speaker 2: for the past since the announcement of this arctic freeze,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: have been looking at the weather to see if we
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: would get snow and asking our smart devices if it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna snow and how much snow we're gonna happen. They
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  Speaker 2: keep lying to me telling me there's no snow, and
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  Speaker 2: then I'll be like asking about a specific day and
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: they'll be like, yeah, two inches of snow. I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 2: which is it. Stop lying because it's hurting my feelings.
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  Speaker 1: It is funny, but that, honestly, that is what we are.
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  Speaker 1: Like at this time, We're like, who is it gonna snow?
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  Speaker 1: Are You're checking like every hour for the next day
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  Speaker 1: like it was gonna happen. I get text from friends
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I've heard it's gonna be two inches,
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  Speaker 1: so I've heard one seven. It's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm right on the outskirts of it. So
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  Speaker 2: it looks like one inch maybe with possible two inches
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  Speaker 2: because even though you and I are so close together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the like difference is apparently fairly massive enough to be
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  Speaker 2: like a pretty big change, like you'll have rain when
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I don't have rain, or vice versa. Like, yeah, deftly
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  Speaker 2: had those moments which rain is not, you know, uncommon,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: like we know how that goes isolated thunderstorms and such.
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  Speaker 2: But like for the like weather changes like that that
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  Speaker 2: you would think it wouldn't be too massive difference, but
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  Speaker 2: it's almost predicting, like a half an inch difference from
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  Speaker 2: our Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I'm gonna be so sad if it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: happen at all.
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  Speaker 3: It's I'm gonna be it's just gonna rain, not more right, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but it does bring like for those of
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  Speaker 3: you who are not in the south and who experience
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  Speaker 3: winter pretty heavily and would rather not.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. I get that because we get that with
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  Speaker 2: the humidity. But even like in this conversations before, we
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: talked about people experiencing the weather a little differently, like
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  Speaker 2: what our winter is versus others. But like when it's
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: cold here, the cold is different. Cold is different here,
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  Speaker 2: even though the degrees may seem similar, the way that
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: it is effective, the way the wind hits, the way
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: the humidity hits, like, it's just different. Like I've loved
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the watching people and be like I'm from Colorado, from
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  Speaker 2: this like northern area, but it still feels like it's
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: colder here, like they've said that so many times, which
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: like feels very validating because but it's only a short
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: period of time.
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  Speaker 1: Literally maybe a week, like one day, and then all
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  Speaker 1: of your plants die and then.
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  Speaker 2: Have to kill all through a spirit and then.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And then it doesn't again a month later. Yeah, so
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll report back. I'm planning on frolicking if
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: there's snow. Atlanta does what's called hoff Atlanta and Piedmont Park,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going, yes, if it snows, I'll be back
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: at a reasonable hour because we have.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: To record tomorrow because I'm a procrastinator.
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  Speaker 1: But I will be back because I think the snow
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen early.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna seven am.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It's gonna change to sleep and then freezing rain, which
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: is not as fun. I want the snow part. But
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: that does bring me to what I've been teasing this
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: whole time. I did look it up, and I think
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: this is no surprise to anyone, but working mothers don't
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: love snow days. They don't get the break, especially like
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: if it is for a long term. I don't think
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: this is the case in northern states, but in southern states,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like the stores might close, you might have a real
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: difficult time getting to if you need food or something
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: like that. You can, it's just not easy. And so
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I read several essays from women who were mothers who
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: were like, I hate snow days. I'm just gonna admit it.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I don't get to go play in the snow. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: gotta do this. I gotta do this, I gotta keep working.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And usually help with nowadays the virtual lesson, which is
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: sad because I kind of I feel bad for the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: loss of the snow day. Yeah, I really do, because
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I mean we don't have it off either, and I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: mean I'm not even saying we should, but like technically
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: working tomorrow, we are working tomorrow. I'm still going to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: get up early and frolic around, but that would be working, yes,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: But I do, like I think it's and I know
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: some of you never experienced it because if you were
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: in the north, you probably didn't really have the same
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: thing often. But it was a really magical like I felt.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And I we'll say my mother was a part of
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that because during that big ninety three blizzard, it was
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a blizzard. I think it was like we had a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: couple of feet of snow.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: It was a lot.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And for us who were very underprepared living in a
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: rural area where we did not have power for at
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: least like ten days, like we had to figure out
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: where to go and take showers because nothing was working well.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: See a lot of people in cities don't have well
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: and ours would do that too. And you can't flush
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the toilet like you have to do all these things.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: We had to melt snow like literally, Yeah, but I
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: also remember having my mother for the first time making
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: snow cream and not knowing what that was because we
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: never had enough snow, clean snow because really dirty hair,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: real quick, but clean snow to make that. And I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: remember her making that for us and how magical that was,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and me wanting that from then on and never be
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: able to really get it me because it snow like
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: that again, But like having those moments of that kind
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: of magic having again like the food on the fireplace,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: which felt like I think every child had that dream
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of living in the old days with no electricity, writing
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: by like a little lit lamp, even though in reality
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: we would have been well, probably died early, but exactly
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: it was still a fantasy to romanticize that era, but
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: it felt like we were living that era. On top
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: of the fact that my older siblings all had to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: play with us. Yeah, I'm sure we argued a lot,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and we really got out of each other's nerves, but
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I remember like the board games and the card games,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and as a family who never played together like we didn't.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: My siblings were older than me, so they were gone.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: A lot of the times. My brother and I wanted
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to kill each other half the time because we were
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: too close in age and he did not want a
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: younger sibling. Let's be real, honest, all those things, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: then my family, my parents definitely could not because they
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: were exhausted and tired and working all day and they
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: never played board games. For the bether gut, it never happened.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: So this made us come together and play games. And
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, this is so great. I love every
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: bit of this. I get the cuddle next to my
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: sister and we're playing card games. Well I'm eating snow cream.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's definitely like a core memory that I
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: will treasure because it felt so foreign and so happy.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, me too. I have several like that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite memories is a good friend of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the show, Katie been on the show. Her birthday is
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: coming up. One time it snowed on her birthday and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I made her a rainbow cake and we made hot chocolate,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: and we made this favor. She had a strawberry orange
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: juice thing she loved. But we built snowmen, and my
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: mom always helped with that. Every time it snowed, we
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: built snowmen, and we also I made a ramp of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: snow down the stairs and then our ramp at the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: bottom going up made of snow, and my mom I
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: was like, they did it home alone, and she was like, okay,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and it worked everyone. It was amazing.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, those are the days that I remembered as well.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: And I really hope that these kids get to have
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: some of these memories and get out of you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: because don't get me wrong, I definitely am a media
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: centered inside person, but like having those kind of memories
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: as something that I will all treasure. And it's again
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: like for us in the South once again, I know
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: we have so many listeners who are not from the
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: South are like, come on, get you who are like
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: we just want to shovel to us freaking snow and
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: be able to walk outside. Like yes, for us, we're like,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: we want to dance in this now for a minute.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: But it was it was so rare, you know, it
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: is so rare for us to have a moment of
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: these occasions. It's nice. So I hope, I hope other
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: people can be able to share these memories. We would
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: love to hear about your memories listening.
• 24:38
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• 24:42
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• 24:45
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• 25:12
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• 25:14
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