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25 Years Later: We Remember September 11th · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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  Speaker 1: It has been quite the week this week. Jelena started
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  Speaker 1: school today. How did drop-off go?
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  Speaker 2: It went so amazing. Not for me. I was crying.
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  Speaker 2: But Jelena, thank God, was so excited. She was so
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  Speaker 2: happy to be there. And she even says in a video, like,
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  Speaker 2: I was filming her to say goodbye to Mike, my husband.
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  Speaker 2: And she said, I'm not going to cry. I'm not scared.
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  Speaker 2: Mommy's going to leave me. So she was even saying
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  Speaker 2: it out loud herself. And she was just so happy
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  Speaker 2: to be there with all the kids to play with them.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to be a teacher's pet. I already know it.
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  Speaker 2: She's a very loving child. Loves to hug. And she
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  Speaker 2: just kept hugging her teacher. And just following her around
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  Speaker 2: like a little puppy dog too. So, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to love her. Unless they get annoyed. But she's
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  Speaker 2: not an annoying kid. She's just loving. You see her
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  Speaker 2: with your mom. She's like, oh, I love you. Wants
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  Speaker 2: to sit on her lap. Wants to hug her. She's
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  Speaker 2: very loving. But it was good. So we will see.
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  Speaker 2: I could have stayed for story time.
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  Speaker 1: And....
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  Speaker 2: She seemed okay. So I said, you know, is it
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  Speaker 2: okay if mommy goes home? And she's like, yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: can leave. I'm okay. And I was like, oh, part
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  Speaker 2: of my heart broke and part of me was happy
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  Speaker 2: that she was happy and didn't need me. So I
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  Speaker 2: guess when we pick her up today, we will see
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  Speaker 2: how it went. And if she says, I never want
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  Speaker 2: to go back again or she's excited. So I'm hoping that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully she will be excited and hopefully she will
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of new friends. Yes. And work on...
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  Speaker 1: Learning kindergarten things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Learning how to read. That's my biggest thing. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to start reading.com again because I know when she
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  Speaker 2: did it for a little bit for the trial, she
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  Speaker 2: was picking up fast. And it's amazing, that program. So
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  Speaker 2: I think between that with me doing that at home
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  Speaker 2: and then her going here, I think she's going to excel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I asked her the other day what her shirt said,
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  Speaker 1: and she said, you know I can't read.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yep, she can't read. She wants to read badly,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it's hopefully that they can help teach. If
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  Speaker 2: I knew how to teach her how to read, I
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  Speaker 2: would homeschool her. I always say that, but I want
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  Speaker 2: her to learn through a teacher, and then I could
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  Speaker 2: do the reading.com at home and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, if you were to homeschool, you would actually
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  Speaker 1: sit with her at a table and do work, or
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  Speaker 1: do you hire somebody?
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  Speaker 2: Nowadays, they have programs online, so it's almost like an
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  Speaker 2: online school that... uh, you pay for it and it's
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  Speaker 2: pre-recorded by a teacher. So they'll, they'll sit on a
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  Speaker 2: screen and go over lessons. But yes, especially her age,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff would probably be me working with
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  Speaker 2: her one-on-one, like, you know, writing with her. Um, so yeah, I, I,
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  Speaker 2: it would be both, but they say with homeschooling, you
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  Speaker 2: don't need as much time, the kids that are sitting
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  Speaker 2: in school for six, seven hours a day, with homeschooling,
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  Speaker 2: it's usually about two hours a day. And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And they say homeschool kids are far more advanced than
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  Speaker 2: public school. And that's what's crazy to me.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was telling, I don't know if I was
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  Speaker 2: telling you, but I was telling somebody, when I went
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  Speaker 2: to the orientation for homeschool, there's a four-year-old in her class.
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  Speaker 2: And him and his brother have been homeschooled since they
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  Speaker 2: were little. I mean, they're still little, but they've been homeschooled.
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  Speaker 2: So they... They were drawing other countries' flags from memory.
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  Speaker 2: And I was over there, and Jelena's drawing a sun
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  Speaker 2: and flowers and, you know, grass. And these two kids
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  Speaker 2: that are four and five were drawing. One kid's like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to draw Brazil's flag. Oh, yeah, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to draw Belgium's flag. And I'm looking, and they drew
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  Speaker 2: the right flags. And I said, that's amazing. And the
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  Speaker 2: mom goes, oh, yeah, you know, we work on a
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  Speaker 2: different country's flag every, I forget if she said every
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  Speaker 2: week or every few weeks. And they knew all the
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  Speaker 2: flags perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So I believe homeschool kids can be more advanced than
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  Speaker 2: public school.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they can be because you don't have to deal
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  Speaker 1: with all the BS of X plus Y equals Z.
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  Speaker 2: Things you're not going to use.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was my biggest thing, especially in high school.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, who needs to know this? I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to be a contractor. I'm not going to be an architect.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to know what X plus Y plus
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  Speaker 1: Z equals 10 squared. I don't need to know that.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you're going into that field of work, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's when you should take that class.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And what needs to be done is taught life skills.
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  Speaker 1: How to write a check. How to use a credit card.
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  Speaker 1: How to.
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  Speaker 2: Stay out of debt.
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  Speaker 1: Stay out of debt. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Do your taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Do your taxes. Pay your bills on time.
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  Speaker 2: Change a tire. Like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it just, it amazes me what they're teaching
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  Speaker 1: in school. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I know, Gio's in Algebra 1, and it's an
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  Speaker 2: advanced class, and I don't even understand it. And he's
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  Speaker 2: struggling a little this year with it. He's like, this
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  Speaker 2: is so hard. And I said, I want to tell
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  Speaker 2: you you're never going to use it. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: believe you're never going to use it, depending on the
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  Speaker 2: job you're going into. And I'm like, I'm sorry, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not going to get any easier from
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  Speaker 2: here on out. You know, then you're in high school
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  Speaker 2: and all that crap. So, yeah, no. I told him,
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  Speaker 2: I said, I can always homeschool you.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, no. well this week marks 25 years of
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  Speaker 1: september 11th this friday actually i can't believe that it
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  Speaker 1: has been 25 years it's so hard to believe um
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  Speaker 1: and that day truly changed our country our state and
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  Speaker 1: i don't know if you remember where you were when
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  Speaker 1: you heard about it but i remember.
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  Speaker 2: I remember I was in school. I don't remember the class.
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  Speaker 2: That's what a lot of people know exactly. But I
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  Speaker 2: think my teacher didn't tell us. And then I remember
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  Speaker 2: just seeing kids leaving classroom, walking down the hall. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, where's everyone going? You know, I guess
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  Speaker 2: it was the kids whose parents were in the World
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  Speaker 2: Trade Center, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then my mom called the school and she picked
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  Speaker 2: us up early because she was scared. You know, she
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  Speaker 2: thought that. the whole country or the whole state was
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  Speaker 2: under a terrorist attack. You know what I mean? So
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  Speaker 2: she took us home and that's, that's really what sticks
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  Speaker 2: in my mind is my mom. And then when I
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  Speaker 2: was waiting in the office for her, I remember one
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  Speaker 2: of the girls in there and she was crying and
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  Speaker 2: it turned out her father was in the world trade center.
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  Speaker 2: So she didn't probably know he died, but she knew
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  Speaker 2: he was in there. So that sticks out in my
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  Speaker 2: mind too.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember. I remember where I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: in the office and they were just talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a school called Twin Towers. Yeah. In
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  Speaker 1: our town. And that's what I thought it was at first.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: And I just remember like freaking out like, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to come to our school and like bomb us.
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  Speaker 1: And then I didn't realize it until I got home
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  Speaker 1: and my aunt in Florida called. my mom and was
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  Speaker 1: like are you okay or you know what's going on
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  Speaker 1: um and then i i realized i don't think my
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  Speaker 1: mom picked me up early i she might have i'll
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  Speaker 1: have to ask her if she remembers but it was
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  Speaker 1: just so such a scary day and new york hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been the same since and we know so many people
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  Speaker 1: even though you know we're about an hour and a
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  Speaker 1: half away from the city so many people up here
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  Speaker 1: have been affected and so many kids that we went
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  Speaker 1: to school with, they lost loved ones. Even now, like
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  Speaker 1: from being, you know, my mom's friend, we're actually honoring
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  Speaker 1: him tonight at a dinner because he was in 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: He happened to be working as an electrician by 9-11 and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when it happened, he ran in.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how he got his cancer. He's fought it,
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  Speaker 1: fought it, fought it, and then he unfortunately was diagnosed
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  Speaker 1: a few months ago, and he just went so fast,
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  Speaker 1: and he says that it was because of the World
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  Speaker 1: Trade Center. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A friend of mine, I just learned that her father,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't there when it happened, but he was FDNY,
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  Speaker 2: and he was up here, but they called him in,
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  Speaker 2: and he... She said he knew something must be bad
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  Speaker 2: because they called all hands on deck. And she said,
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  Speaker 2: I think she told me he was down there for
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  Speaker 2: six months.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't let them leave. She said that the aftermath
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  Speaker 2: of it was so much and the amount of bodies
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  Speaker 2: and body parts that he saw. She said it really
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  Speaker 2: screwed him up.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it.
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  Speaker 2: She said that he was taking buckets of fingers and
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  Speaker 2: toes and body parts. And I've heard that from another
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  Speaker 2: friend whose father was there doing the same thing and
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  Speaker 2: And he got cancer too. He's been battling cancer. And
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  Speaker 2: it's so crazy that besides the tragedy of 9-11, now
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  Speaker 2: the people who went to save them, they're all dying
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  Speaker 2: from cancer. So it's really a cruel world sometimes. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's crazy that the younger generation really doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that, that they're not really teaching it.
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  Speaker 1: No. I was like, what?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's a... I get really upset, but.
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  Speaker 1: I I don't understand that, you know, you know, like, um,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody the other day and he
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  Speaker 1: was from California and he asked, he's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: did you guys, could you see the smoke from around
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  Speaker 1: here since you're so close to the city? And he
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  Speaker 1: was asking us questions and, um, you know, I said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I said, but then, you know, I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: it and I'm like, The Canada fires, we were affected
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  Speaker 1: by that, but yet we weren't affected by the 9-11
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  Speaker 1: smoke and all that. Like, it was just weird to me, like,
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  Speaker 1: thinking back about it. But he said that his father worked,
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  Speaker 1: he was a police officer in California, and they went
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  Speaker 1: on lockdown, too. Yeah. And they didn't allow any planes
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  Speaker 1: to go out or anything. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, if you remember, the skies were clear. It was
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  Speaker 2: the weirdest thing. You never saw a plane. I forget
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  Speaker 2: how many weeks it was. It was, like, crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm saying, like, in California, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no. They shut down all airspace over the United States.
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  Speaker 2: So you couldn't come in, couldn't go out. And California
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  Speaker 2: is a big city, so then they could put all
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  Speaker 2: the major cities on lockdown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because where is it going next? You don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what he said. He said, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: He said that, you know, they were afraid... They were next,
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  Speaker 1: especially L.A. Yep. You just, you never know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why my mom picked us up because she's like,
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  Speaker 2: she was expecting next maybe a nuclear bomb or some
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  Speaker 2: kind of bomb that's going to take out New York,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or go after the kids in schools.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you just never, ever know.
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  Speaker 2: It was scary. And the depressing part was my parents
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  Speaker 2: just watched it. The news was on, probably your mom too,
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  Speaker 2: the news was on constantly every day and you would
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  Speaker 2: just over and over see the towers go in.
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  Speaker 1: And the names of everyone. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I just remember that as a kid too. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to turn it off because I was getting so upset.
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  Speaker 2: It really, it was very traumatic. It was very, and
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  Speaker 2: it's sad that a lot of either younger generation don't
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  Speaker 2: know or people are forgetting. And, you know, we should
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  Speaker 2: never forget that day because that was the greatest tragedy
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  Speaker 2: to ever occur in our country, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that too. Especially during our childhood. Yeah. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that we will never forget.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the world after that, everything before that
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  Speaker 2: was just nice. And I don't know, it was just different.
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 hit and everything went to crap. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: our country and everything just started going downhill from there
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  Speaker 2: and things got uglier and things got more evil and
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  Speaker 2: cruel and it sucks. It really did.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, but We also there's also so many positive
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  Speaker 2: stories that came out of 9-11 that they always say,
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  Speaker 2: look for the good, look for the good. And there's
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  Speaker 2: so many stories that I'm every day you learn it's
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  Speaker 2: 25 years later and I'm still hearing a new story
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  Speaker 2: about some sort of hero. Or someone that did something
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't have to. But to save others lives.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like wow. There's that many stories of that.
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  Speaker 2: And that is always good to focus on too.
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  Speaker 1: And it's nice that they're finally coming out with these stories.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was scrolling through Facebook the other day. And a
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  Speaker 1: story on People Magazine came up. And a man. Michael Higginson.
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  Speaker 1: He was blind. He's been blind since birth. And he
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  Speaker 1: was working in. the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 1: His office was on the 78th floor. He had a
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  Speaker 1: guide dog, and her name was Roselle. And at first,
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  Speaker 1: he said he didn't know what was going on, but
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  Speaker 1: they ended up obviously figuring it out, and they were
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  Speaker 1: rushing down 78 floors down. And the dog was, like,
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  Speaker 1: getting scared, and he just kept saying, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: good girl, you're doing a good job, you're doing a
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  Speaker 1: good job. And she got them down to, you know, outside.
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  Speaker 1: And it was just, it was an amazing story how
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  Speaker 1: this man who's blind couldn't see, his dog got him
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  Speaker 1: and the co-worker, you know, out safely. It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And he says that dogs don't lead, they guide you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that is totally true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's amazing. And God bless them both. And thank
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  Speaker 2: God they survived. And I saw a story about a
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  Speaker 2: random guy who he is a heartbreaking story, but he
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't even an officer, a firefighter, but he was
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  Speaker 2: nearby and he got out, I think, 20 people. But
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  Speaker 2: he kept going in and out and he called his
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  Speaker 2: parents because they were worried about him. And he lied.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I'm out. I'm good, mom. And then he
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  Speaker 2: would hang up and put his bandana. He had a
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  Speaker 2: red bandana, covered his face, and he went in back
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  Speaker 2: and forth three times, got 18 people out, and then
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  Speaker 2: he died because the towers collapsed. And it's people like
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  Speaker 2: that that's like, ugh. And then I just recently heard
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  Speaker 2: of a new story I never knew. So when 9-11 happened,
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  Speaker 2: obviously they shut down all bridges. You were trapped. If
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  Speaker 2: you were in Manhattan, you were trapped. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: worst thing to feel, especially during a terrorist attack, that
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  Speaker 2: you can't get off that island, you know? So the
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  Speaker 2: Coast Guard put out a call, which I didn't know about,
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  Speaker 2: and he called all available boats, just regular citizen boats.
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  Speaker 2: You have a tugboat.
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  Speaker 1: To get people out? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you can, please meet by the Manhattan city line.
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  Speaker 2: We need to evacuate the city. And I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the number, but yachts came. Tugboats came. Little rowboats came.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone who had a boat that lived in New Jersey
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  Speaker 2: or in New York, they were coming to that coastline
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  Speaker 2: and taking thousands and thousands of people to safety. And
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  Speaker 2: I never knew that. And I'm like, that's amazing. That
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  Speaker 2: is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I just, I find it weird that these stories weren't
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  Speaker 1: out at that time. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they were, you know, word of mouth and then
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  Speaker 2: Everyone was focusing on the towers and not those stories.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And then they come out
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  Speaker 2: more and more. And now, especially with social media, it's
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  Speaker 2: easier for them to spread, you know? But again, it's
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  Speaker 2: just crazy. 25 years later, we're still learning and hearing
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  Speaker 2: new stories about all the heroes and the amazing things
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  Speaker 2: that people did or sacrificed their life to save others.
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  Speaker 2: And that is a great thing to focus on in
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  Speaker 2: something as depressing as 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I have not gone to the site.
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  Speaker 1: When we were going down to ReelAbilities, we had gotten
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  Speaker 1: into the city a little bit early. And the guy
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  Speaker 1: that was driving us down, he was actually FDNY during 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: And he was going to take us to the site
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  Speaker 1: just to see it. And unfortunately, traffic was like an
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  Speaker 1: hour backed up and we couldn't even move. We were
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  Speaker 1: literally locked in So we ended up just turning around,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: doing a U-turn somehow, and going to the ReelAbilities event
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: before we were late. But I would love to go
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: down to their memorial.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I went two times, and it's beautiful, very peaceful.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I found some of the names of the people I
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: knew that were carved into the wall. They have a
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: beautiful fountain.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: It's got to be so emotional.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: It's very emotional. It's very weird. That when I was
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: a kid, my parents took me to the Twin Towers.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: And because my aunt actually worked in the building behind
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the Twin Towers, that debris hit. And luckily that morning
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: she didn't go to work. It's one of those stories
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: where she was always going to work every single day.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And that morning, whatever happened, she didn't.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: That's the same thing with my cousin. Yeah. She was
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: supposed to be down there for a meeting. She went
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the 10th and she was supposed to go to the 11th.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And my cousin missed the bus. Right. Right. she had
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: to bring her daughter to school and missed it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: That's it. They say sometimes things that make you late
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: or traffic are a blessing in disguise and you don't
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: know it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: That's what she said. And she said, she said she
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: was so upset and so mad because she was looking
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: forward to this meeting with whoever it was. And they
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: called and said, you know, she was on her way
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and they said, turn back around. This is a nightmare.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Don't come here.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, lucky.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: It's a catastrophe. And then she's like, she didn't know
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: what was going on. Yeah. Until she got home.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's so many of those stories too. But
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: what I was saying with that was that, yeah, we
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: visited my aunt's building because she was working. And then
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: my parents took us to the Twin Towers. And they
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: were just massive. I remember I was going all the
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: way in and up to the top. And it was
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: so freaky to look over. But they took up a
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: major area of the city. So when you go to...
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Now where they're not there anymore, it's just empty. And
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: it's very eerie to remember what was there, and now
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: it's kind of blank. They have the Freedom Tower, I
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: think it's called now, but still not as massive as
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: those were. So it's weird to know that you're standing
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: where so many people died.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And especially when you go over the bridge, you
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: used to be able to see the Twin Towers, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: then now there's nothing. Yeah. Yeah. And you used to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: be able to see, like, the outline of them because
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of all the smoke and debris. Yep. And now, you know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: obviously 25 years later it's not there. Yeah. But I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: still remember that, like, going to doctor's appointments and looking
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: over and just seeing, like, the outline. Yeah.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's it's sad well uh hopefully we start remembering our
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: country starts remembering that and teaching our younger generation so
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: that we don't ever forget and we don't ever let
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it happen again oh i forgot to tell you about
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the rule about the food for jelena at her school
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: because you know it's like it's not a public school
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: it's a co-op it's outside all this But so the
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: school is on, I don't know what to call them,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: but they're like almost like monks, but Indian, you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: they're and they pray a lot. They meditate. They have yoga.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: So they have a no meat rule because they don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: believe in, you know, killing animals or whatever it is.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It's no meat allowed. And that's tough because she doesn't
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: like peanut butter. She does like chicken. She does like turkey.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: So I can't send any of that. So I made ravioli.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I put them in a thermos. I hope she eats them.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I feel like she's not going to.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: This is disgusting.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, my God. So, yeah, I gave her ravioli.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I gave her fruit, some granola bars. I'm hoping that's
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: enough to fill her little tummy. But I've used the
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: reverse osmosis machine that we got, the Blue Voie.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I mean, I love reverse osmosis. I've
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: used it before, a different brand. that wasn't as good
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: as this. And it's so... I have horrible water at
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: my house. Absolutely horrible.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's terrible.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: It's the smelliest. It's sulfur. It has so many minerals
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in it. It tastes disgusting. And I only know that
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: because when I brush my teeth or I'm in the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: shower and something gets in my mouth, I'm like, oh
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: my God. It just tastes like pond water. Sometimes it
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: smells like pond water. We are in the process of
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: getting a whole house filter.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And it even broke your bathtub.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's corroded every piece of metal. Our bathtub, the drain,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the spout, the showerhead, it just melts it, basically. I'm like,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: if it's doing that to metal, what's it doing to
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: our skin?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like seeping through your pores.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, whole house filters are expensive. We've looked. They're
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: from like $ 3, 000 to $ 8, 000 for a system.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know. We have one. Yeah.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: So I've been buying bottled water. plastic jugs, which plastic
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: isn't good. It leaches into the water, but what am
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I going to do? You know? So I, over the years,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: God only knows how much I've spent on gallons of
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: water and water bottles that is now leaching plastic into
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: my microplastics into our water, you know, but again, what
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: are you going to do? So when we got the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Blue Voie reverse osmosis machine, it's a countertop machine. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: was so excited because I'm like, this will solve so
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: many issues. I'll feel good about what I'm giving my
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: kids to drink. I won't have to worry about buying
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: gallons of water. And it's been great. It's like, it
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: looks almost like a big coffee machine, but it has
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the four filters in it. So it goes through four
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: steps of filtering. It has a UV light, which UV
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: light will kill bacteria. So I put my regular tap
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: water into the back and then I put the glass pitcher.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: So it's a glass pitcher, no plastic there. That's great too.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Put the black pitcher under it. And then I press
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the button to how much I want it to be filled.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And it filters my water through all those filters. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you get pure water coming out. And it shows you
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: my water going in as being almost not deadly levels,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: but levels that the government or the D.C. or the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: health department would say, no, this is not good to drink.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it shows the number. Mine was like five something,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: which is really bad. And then when it comes out,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: you have to get closest to zero is like best.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: So it comes out like 17. So from 500, it
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: comes out like a 17 right now. So once I
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: get the whole house filter and I use this, I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: think it's going to be perfect, you know? But yeah,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: so I've, with school starting, I'm tired of send, I
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: used to send water bottles with my kids or with
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the geo. So now I'm just, I bought the reusable
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: stainless steel thermoses and I filled them up. They, the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: water tastes amazing. And I did that this morning for Jelena.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I filled up her thermos with the reverse osmosis water.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And I feel good about giving it to her. So
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about microplastics now or my disgusting water
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: at home. So it's been great. I highly recommend it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: If you have bad water, even if you don't or
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: if you think, you know, it's really good. Reverse osmosis
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: is really amazing for you. And it takes everything out
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: of the water.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I just don't trust tap water. We used to have
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: really good tap water like when I was younger. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: remember like filling up a cup like when I was
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: little in the bathtub and just drinking it. And now...
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: because we have so many houses that are being built
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and we have a well and with all the houses
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: being built and the weather changing and everything going on
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: everything is just seeping into the well and now we
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: have uh sulfur water and it is absolutely disgusting um
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: but i just don't trust tap water even at restaurants
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: yeah that's why i get a.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Soda yeah um You can, I mean, I'm the same way.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I don't like water at restaurants. Unless I'm really parched,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: then you'll see me chugging one down. But it has
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to taste right.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I know immediately, right? You go in a restaurant, you
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: taste it. I'm like, nope, not drinking this. Tastes disgusting.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It's like almost like a chlorine taste or something.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Chlorine taste. And some have an old, I call it
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: an old lady taste. And everyone's like, how do you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: know what an old lady tastes like? I'm like, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: don't know. But if you ever walk into an old
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: person's house and the smell of that house is Or
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the smell of them. That's what the water tastes like
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: to me. Everyone laughs. Like, you're crazy. I'm like, I
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: don't know how to explain it. Like, that smell that
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I smell when I walk into an old person house
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: is what the water tastes like.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: The best water I had was when we went to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the Garnet Foundation dinner at Villa Venezia. Yes. That was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the best water I've ever tasted.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they have felt. They might have like a.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: get filtered water.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Well, we need to figure that out and get it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, tap water, you can't trust it. But
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: then these factories and these bottled water, they're coming back
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: with arsenic in it. They're coming back with fluoride in it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: So they're using tap water too, they're finding out. And
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: then you don't know because you're trusting this brand. I
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: think they said Fiji water and something else. They found
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: so many chemicals in it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's so expensive, Fiji water. And I was
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: looking at, like, somebody had did, like, a water rating thing.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And even Poland Spring came back bad. And that's all
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: we drink. Yeah. We don't buy Dasani. We don't buy, like,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: once in a while we'll buy ShopRite water. But we
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: mostly stick to Poland Spring. Yeah. It's what I was
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: brought up on. It's what my mom was brought up on.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And now, just like everything else, they're changing everything.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I know. So that's why... I feel better using my
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: tap water and then getting a filter on it. And
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you taste it. I made sure to taste it and said, okay,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: if this tastes weird, I'm not drinking it. But it
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: tasted so good. It was like crystal clear. So, hey,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: you know, it really depends on your area too. There's
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: some people's land that if you're by a lot of farmland,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you got to be careful of the pesticides. But this
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: says it takes out a lot of stuff. I think
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: pesticides are one of them. So I do feel comfortable
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: with it. And we'll see how it goes. But I
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: love being able to just fill the kids' bottles up
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: for school and for us for dinner instead of having
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: to go to Hannaford and buying or Walmart and getting
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: 20 gallons of water like you have to do. And
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: it adds up. And it's just annoying, you know?
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy. So I am getting ready for our trip.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And I finally packed my luggage yesterday. We have to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: put the video out. But I'm so... obsessed with my
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: luggage the bag smart luggage yeah i love it there's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a pocket for everything they even have like a like
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a wet suit thing for a wet bag yeah and
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you could even use it for like your toiletries and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you could use it for really whatever.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: You want something you don't want spilling you know yeah
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: i used to have to put my shampoos in ziplocs
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Because you don't want them spilling on your clothes. But
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: they solved that by giving you that zippered wet bag.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And there's also another one like inside the little
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: compartment too. So there's two of them. And I love
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that my makeup bag fits in there perfectly.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: There's a spot for shoes. It had like the, what
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I love the most is the removable compartments.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: So you can make them bigger or smaller.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: It had like dividers. That's what I'm going to call them.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Dividers that Velcroed in there. So if you need one
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: area smaller, you're like, you know what? I want to
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: separate this by my socks and underwear and then my
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: bras and then my shirts and my pants. You can
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: move the dividers and have four different compartments to keep
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: everything neat.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And organized.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: And organized because that's something I need in every suitcase.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: My husband says I pack like a two-year-old. I just
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: throw everything in there. It looks a wreck. Or even
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: if I try to make it neat, The first day
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: in the hotel and I'm ripping through everything, it's just gone.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: It's a mess.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how I am. So when you go to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Italy because you're planning a trip or wherever you're going,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you could use it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want it because if it's 14 days worth
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: of clothes and we usually stay in Europe, when we go,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: you have to be there for two weeks. You can't
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: go less than two weeks. So that's perfect. And when
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I went to Italy last time, we had so much luggage.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Because we didn't know if we were going to have
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: a washing machine. So it's like, well, we're going to
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: be there. We were there for a little longer than
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: two weeks. We're going to be there for 20 days.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: How the heck are we going to have enough clothes
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: to wear? So we had multiple luggage. This would be
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: great because you'd be cutting down on a lot.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: It's heavy, but Mike could lift it. Yeah. It's heavy.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Like it's light before the stuff's in it but yeah
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: once you're adding in 14 days worth of stuff yeah
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: it's a bit heavy so.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Shoes shoes my beach towel.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah um your bath supplies but that you know luggage
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: it as long as you keep it under the standard
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: i think it's 50 pounds or 60 pounds they allow
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: the airport i can't remember maybe 50 You know, then
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: it's going to weigh the typical suitcase. You know what
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: So it just distributed differently. And I love it for you. Like,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: that's the amount of compartments and little spaces that helps
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: keep you organized. And people like you and me, we
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: need that on vacation because we are a disaster.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm a wreck. Everything comes back, like, just jumbled,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: thrown everywhere, wrinkled. Yeah. I'm a mess. I really don't
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: like unpacking. I love packing, but I just hate unpacking.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: But I'm getting, my cousin is coming over this weekend
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm so excited. He's putting in the dash cam
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that we got.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: The 70 My, I think it's called.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. 70 MAI.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: MAI. Yeah. And you have one in your car and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: you love it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I definitely love it. And Not even for accidents, you know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: because usually you want it to protect you from if
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: someone crashes into you or, you know, you witness an
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: accident or something else. But I've also loved it for
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: little memories. And, you know, the other day, my daughter
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: and my son were singing and they were just being
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: so cute together. And I was driving like, oh, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: wish I could film them. They're so cute right now.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, my God, my dash cam, because
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: it films forward. So it films the road and then
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: it films inside the car.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: It does? Yeah.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's picking this up. So that's amazing. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: so me and Shauna, we have the same company, but
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Shauna has a 360 one. So it can do 360
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: around the car and in the car. Mine faces the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: front of the road and it faces inside. So you
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: could see the driver, the passenger, and the kids in
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the back or whoever's in the back.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that the other day when I
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: was in your car. Oh, no? Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: It films inside the car. So, you know, I think
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: it's cute because, like, those are times where you can't
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: really film a memory or something happening that's funny. And, yeah,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I also was driving to an event for my cannoli business,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and I had my two workers with me. And we
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: were on these crazy roads, and we just– it was, like,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: the funniest moment that happened. And it was– we were
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: all belting out this one song. Like, we were belting it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: The music was blasting, and we're going around the windy roads,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: and we're singing– And then we lost service. And my Pandora,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: when you lose service, it automatically switches to a prerecorded station.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know why it picked Celine Dion as my
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: prerecorded station. So we're belting out this rock song, heavy metal.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden it's like, and it switches
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: to Michael Bolton. It's like, I don't even know the song,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: but it was so awkward because we're screaming. And then
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it's like, like this romantic thing. And we're like, what
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the hell? What the hell just happened? And then we
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: couldn't stop laughing. I said, oh my God, I wish
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I got that on camera. And I said, I did
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: get that on camera. So maybe I will post that.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Can you take the footage?
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to try and get the footage because
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: it's an SD card in there. So what it does
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: is it records constantly when you have the car on.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Or you could hook it up, have it hooked up
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: so that it runs constantly. So when your car is off,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: it will also film. God forbid someone keys your car
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: or hits your car when the car is parked. I
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: don't have that set up yet, but... Yeah, it has
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: an SD card, and I'm going to have to pull
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: that out and try and get that footage off the camera.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Definitely. And, you know, the other day I saw that
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: there's like a scam going on, an insurance scam going on,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: where these people were on the Taconic in Westchester, and
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: this guy passed them and went in front of them
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and slammed on their brakes, and they you know, hit them.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Rear-ended them, and then that's on them.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Well, no, they almost hit them. The guy stops, and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the guy's like, what are you doing? What are you doing?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And he goes and puts the car in reverse and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: hits them. Well, the guy or girl had it on camera. Oh,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: my God. And the people came out, and they were, like,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you know, having their phones out and saying, like, oh,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you hit us, you hit us. And the guy saw
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the camera in the... Oh, shit. In the mirror?
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Or in the thing? Windshield. And you saw his face.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: He was like, oh, shit. Like, he knew he was caught. Mm-hmm.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I've heard of that scam. They said it happens a
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: lot in the city, so be careful. They're brake-checking you
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: and slamming on the brakes so you hit into them.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Because if you know, when you're rear-ended, it's not on you.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: It's on the person who hits you. So they're getting
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: insurance money from that or suing. Oh, you hurt my neck.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I think I saw a video like that and the
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: girl came out acting like her neck was like broke,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: like she was holding it like, oh. And it's like,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: you liar, you know? So you be careful. I recommend
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: dash cams to everyone. It's very important. You never know
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: No.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: And you don't have proof, you know?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: And let me also tell you, my mom and I
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: were in a really bad car accident Christmas Eve 2016.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And the guy only had like limited insurance, like the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: cheapest insurance. And we end up having to pay for
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: most of our medical bills.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Yep. So it doesn't always work in our favor.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. I know.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, it's just, it's crazy. Yeah.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: So I would highly suggest if you don't have one,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: get one and check out 70MAI. They have a few
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: different cameras of your, you could choose what you prefer.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And you don't want to film it. It was easy
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: for you to plug it in.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I set it up myself. I didn't need
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: any help in... Um, I think the hardest part besides
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: setup was just getting the app downloaded and synced up,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you know? So if you're not tech savvy, have like
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Shauna's cousins come in to help, have someone help you
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: with the app. Other than that, it's easy setup. One, two,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: three on the windshield, plug it in. You just stick
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: it in the USB outlet on your car. And if
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: you don't have a USB outlet, you can use, get
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: one of those plugs that plug into your cigarette lighter
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: and they have, they come with a USB on it
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: and I mean, I know it's not called that anymore.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And you just plug it right into the USB outlet
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: in your car. And if you don't have a USB outlet,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: there are things that you can buy that give you
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: a USB outlet. And it goes into the cigarette lighter.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know what I'm talking about,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: but it looks like.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom has one for herself.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you plug it into that area.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: And that's our show for this week. Thank you so
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: much for tuning in. Be sure to check out our website, ShaunaAndLala.com.
• 36:34
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• 36:38
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• 36:42
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• 36:44
  Speaker 1: We will see you next week.