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Getting Ready for Ramadan · Obnoxiously Pleasant

• 0:05
  SPEAKER_03: I'm Hanan.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm Lena.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of Obnoxiously Pleasant.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_03: Today's episode is actually really exciting and really special because we're talking about Ramadan.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yay! Ramadan is Ramadan.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_03: Ramadan is very Yeah, I'm excited.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm excited too.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, sorry.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: You're not gonna ask me if I'm excited.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean you're like hold on.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_03: If you guys watched the last episode, you're gonna know that Lena's like, you need to wait for me to talk.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_03: So is it my turn?
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes, go ahead.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_03: How what what do you love about Ramadan?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_03: Um I like the family time, absolutely.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_03: I love the fact that um you kind of it's difficult, right?
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_03: But you kind of work through the difficulty, and it's really just a month that's focused on um God and worship.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: And you don't we kind of tend to lose that sometimes.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like even if you're praying or it it doesn't matter, whatever.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's a great month to reconnect with God, to reconnect with your family, and to reconnect with yourself and like a whole other like spiritual level.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_03: So that's why I love them a dog.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's true, yeah.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: And I I think what I like about it is like you said, you you connect to God, um, you for like it's subhanAllah, you just get closer.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and you do your best.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, this is the one month you really gotta try.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_03: You do, and honestly, yeah, I it's true, but it's I'm not saying it's like it is a lot of fun, but it's also like really hard.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: It is, it can be difficult, especially for working mothers.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: You and I work, yes, and then speaking of working moms, right?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: Let's just do a small tiny tangent.
• 1:30
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• 1:39
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, thank you.
• 1:40
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• 1:42
  SPEAKER_03: And Lena says what unapologetically me, and if you don't like it, toss.
• 1:47
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• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, see, I'm not gonna say that word.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's just so but you know what?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_03: I totally in my heart, absolutely that's what she means.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_03: So I get it.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_03: But no, I I love these, I love these sweatshirts, but just you know, a little tangent shout-out, and that's why we're matching today.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: And um, I think we should do that more.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_03: I really like that.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_03: Like when we find cool things like this and we both wear them.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_02: Guys, and this is the time in that episode where Hanan completely veers off the topic of discussion.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_02: But it's okay.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna get back.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: We we will we will do that.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: We will get back on the Ramadan, Ramadan.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: Ramadan, yeah.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, for me, like you said, working moms, it's it's difficult, but I mean, every year I used to say I'm gonna read the whole Quran.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I've literally I've had my kids for 12 years now, and I've only been able to do that once.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's you know, it's not just it's not so much that I wanna like read Quran.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_03: That's not like I don't have one my goal for Ramadan every year is to make it and make it like make it through Ramadan, number one.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was gonna ask you about goals.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but also make it like happy, right?
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like, not feel like it's such a like a like a horrendous or big um like obligation, but to actually feel like I'm enjoying myself while doing it.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: There's I will say my favorite Ramadan was the first Ramadan we had in the beginning of the pandemic.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: You know why?
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because we didn't have to go to work.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_03: Well I mean we work from home, but not just the work, but you didn't really have to do anything.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_03: There isn't any of that other social obligation.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I love the fact that you could just be home and you actually focus on spirituality.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly, exactly.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_03: So I I think I missed that actually.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_03: But no, actually, the Ramadan was really eye-opening for me, and I decided that that's how I want every Ramadan to be.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to have any social obligations during Ramadan.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_03: I just want to enjoy it, I want to see my family, and like my my family being my immediate family, my extended family, but I like really want to focus on my spirituality during the month.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_02: For me, that's the thing.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_02: I think I was able to actually read the Quran from start to finish last year because I didn't have any social obligations, any social obligations and that's not lying.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: That's not true.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_02: That's not true, that's not true.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_02: That's not true, but but like I was able to focus more, and now that the kids are older, but it's really difficult for for moms with younger kids.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: I agree.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: I mean with getting up for wudu uh fajr and making wudu and preparing uh um the what's the word?
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_02: Sahur.
• 4:02
  unknown: Damn, I'm resting.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: Sahur and the fajr.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's it's just honestly like I I agree with you, and I think it's because you are expected to have this like so you're focused on your own worship, right?
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_03: Your own wheel, I bet that you're focused on your own worship, but you're also like working with your kids to like teach them the joys of like about this month.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_03: And so I will say, like, I love to decorate, my sister loves to decorate, I think it's important, and you have to get them involved too.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's a good way to get them involved and excited for it.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_02: I agree.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_02: We do that every time.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_03: It's just it's a lot of fun.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I really I like it.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_03: That's like honestly, it will it be hard for me personally to keep filming this episode once a week during Ramadan?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, but Lena is good at Lena's gonna push me.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna do it.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm gonna get on you, yeah.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're gonna just switch it.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_03: I think we we decided we're gonna film at night, right?
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, after we break our fast.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_03: It's probably gonna be remote.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_03: But it's okay.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, guys.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_02: It's okay.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I know you guys love seeing us in person like this, but I love seeing us in person too.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, me too.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it's uh Okay, so so you so how do you get your kids to you have two like two kids, different age groups.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_02: So how do you get them both involved and excited?
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_03: Incentivize.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_02: Incentivize, okay.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_03: Incentivize.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_03: So like so I think it's okay.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: I think incentives are really good.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like it gets every human motivated to do something that they might seem difficult.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: So I tell them, like, hey, you know, if you fast from this time to this time, my like my my older son will no problem.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_03: He'll fast and he's he's good about it, right?
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_03: My little one's too little, he's only seven, like he's not gonna fast the full day.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_03: But you incentivize by saying for every day that you fast a full day, you get X, Y, and Z, whether it be money or something that they're working towards, or like a really big gift.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_03: And so, yeah, I I just I think incentives work, but I also think like just teaching them the importance of why we do this, yes, and the fact that like there are people who live like that every day, like they don't know when their next meal is coming.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_03: But it's not just that, like Ramadan is not just about not eating, but it's about giving up everything in in like like like I guess things of this world that bring us joy and really focusing in on your spirituality and in your relationship with God and what that means, and like what giving up these things actually means.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_03: Does it mean that you just don't have them?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: Does it mean that you're just giving up for the month of coming back?
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of times you end up giving up bad habits forever, right?
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_03: Does it give me a thing?
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, for me, like during Ramadan, um, you know, in in the Middle East, they focus on like Musal Salat or like these day shows telenovellas, guys.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't get I don't understand that.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like for me, during Ramadan, I will you will not catch me watching a lot of TV.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_03: You're like my mom.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_02: My mom's like because because it's like and like most of the things that I we watch on TV, there's just so many inappropriate things, and I'm just like, it's the month of Ramadan.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna kind of skip that for at least a month and and just focus.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'd rather focus my time on doing something more beneficial.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, reading Quran or reading just you know, just educating myself about the religion.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_02: And not to sound like a nerd, but honestly, yeah, obviously, like I'll watch something, but I'll make sure that it's it's appropriate, you know.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_02: Like I can't, like I can't see certain stuff, like I can't watch certain things.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_02: I think what you're saying.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_02: I just feel like it this is not the time for that.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: But it culturally it's like huge, especially like in Egypt.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's such a huge thing.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like the the the shows, the Madanas.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_03: The Ramadan shows are like a they're big time, and I feel like it defeats the purpose.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_03: So, Lena, let me ask you a question.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_03: What do you love the most about Ramadan?
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I love like usually, usually in the past couple years, obviously because of the pandemic, like you said.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_02: I love the fact that I didn't have to go anywhere, see anybody, or have anybody come over.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I don't mind people coming over.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_02: That's Lena all the time.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, no.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know why she's trying to be like, I'm waiting for Amadan to not say people.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, no.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_02: There was a benefit to the pandemic in that sense because like you weren't obligated to do these things, and so you had more uh time and opportunity to focus on yourself, yourself and and and and your spirituality with with God.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and but in any other situation, honestly, I think I like the socializing, like getting invited or inviting my friends over.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_02: I like that, you know?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like I can see like I like both.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and I get to experience that with the pandemic, but then like, am I ready to go back to that to socializing?
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, there's I did some I did some socializing during Ramadan last year, so it was fine.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_03: But my issue is not so much the socializing, it's that it's creates like a lot of pressure in an in a time where like I'm already like tired.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh, you're fasting all day, your days kind of flipped around, um, there's a lot of um, you're still like you know, required to like perform at work.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_03: And so to add like, you know, that whole other tier of like social obligation to it is really hard for me personally.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_02: But remember, yeah, I mean I get that, but remember before the pandemic, and like sometimes we'd get invited places, and and my husband would always be like, Listen, you want to invite somebody here in the house every day, I have no problem.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_02: Just don't ask me to go into it.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, my dad's like that too.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, I'm too by the time I eat, and like you know, we were breaking fast at like 9 p.m.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: at one point.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so you're fasting this whole day, and he's like, You can invite anybody you want, I don't care, as long as you're not asking me to go somewhere to go somewhere to eat somebody's food that nine out of ten times I'm not gonna like.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, okay, whatever.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: He's being like a little spoiled, but you know, he's just like, I'm tired.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't want to do it.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's okay.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody's everybody, and that's the thing that like I think about Ahmadon that's you know, like the last couple of years have really like underscored or highlighted is the fact that like if you you really started noticing that there are things like that weirdly became like an obligation during this month that I don't like doing that I'm going to stop doing.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think that was random.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think I think if you if we had people like once a week instead of like every other day, I think yeah, that's more useful.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: But like I also want to I want to touch on like do you have any specific goals for this year?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: I just need to make it.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: Well, my goals, my goals are I'm I'm hoping, I'm hoping to read the Quran like from start to finish again.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm also hoping to because la last year me and the kids we would read like this, there was this book, it's like 30 days stories.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_02: And so I tried doing that, and then like I failed miserably halfway through because I like at that point, like I was so tired.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, guys, you can you want to read it yourself?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_02: Because like in the beginning, I'm good, like I'm pumped.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I'll be honest.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_02: The first two weeks, and then it starts taking its toll.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just like, you know why?
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: You know what's funny?
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_03: I'm the opposite.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, really?
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the last two weeks I'm like, let's go.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: And then the first two weeks, I'm no, no, no, it's the opposite for me.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I think I get drained, and then like you know, like I I I'm the one cooking.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I just remembered a story actually.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I was at work one time, and this guy is no longer employed with us, so like I'm not putting anybody out there.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: And he was like a manager, and he says to me, It was Ramadan, and I was like, dude, like we had this deal, like you know, if you finish your work, you get to go home early because Ramadan, and everybody, this was an unwritten rule.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like everybody understood this, and so this guy was new, and he was like, Well, I don't understand why you guys have to go home early.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like, breakfast is not till like you don't break your fast till like 9 p.m.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't know why you can't home, you can't go home at five.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: Why do you guys want to go home at three?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, and he you know what he said to me?
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: You know what pissed me off?
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, you know, I go home, I get home at 6 30 and I still take a nap for two hours, and I get up and I still don't have like I have enough time.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, you know what?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: Because you don't have to cook, you don't have to cook.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, some of us don't have the luxury of going home and taking a nap.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I want to take a nap, but I don't get to do that because I have to cook for these people who are fasting.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, it's hard.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's really hard.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: And I don't think anybody recognizes that it is actually quite like I tell people at work all the time, I'm like, guys, Radana's coming.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna be a ghost.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is coming.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: And it's harder, I think.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna be a ghost.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_03: You won't find me.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's harder for anyone who's I didn't say women, it's harder for anybody who is preparing the food.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, whether it's uh it's the mom, the woman, the guy, whatever.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's much harder, I think.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: It is, it is, but like my kids are so cute, they'll be like, Mama, how can you stand it?
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_02: You're in the kitchen and you smell.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, it's not even that.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I just need my coffee.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's my biggest thing, honestly.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: It's like the the the lack of coffee in the morning when I wake up.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_03: Ugh, it is.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_03: My heart, my heart aches at the thought of having to give up my morning coffee again, but it's fine, it works out.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so um uh how soon do you think kids should fast?
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's like a very like my my whole thing with fasting is that it's like a very personal thing.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_03: I don't I personally like for me, fasting kind of follows the way that I approach religion, period, which is like you do you boo.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's just what I approach a lot of things in my life.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_03: There is no correct age, it's the age that you feel like you can do it and you're good and you're ready.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_03: Because I mean, there are people who come into Islam and start fasting like very late in their lives, and they do a great job.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and there are other people that find every other part of Islam to be the easiest thing ever, except for the fasting.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_03: So I think every one of us kind of has like a struggle with it with an area of, and I feel like with that way about anybody's.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but I think I know what I mean.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_02: Because I have twins, and so in my experience, like my son, he wanted to fast.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: Like he was like super excited.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: I I mean I used to always get them involved, even when they weren't fasting.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: I used to always like I used to wake them up for so hood anyway, and then they'd get up in the morning and they'd eat breakfast.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: They're like, Oh, we're gonna fast.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, Yeah, do that.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like eat breakfast, go to school, fast, and come home and then eat.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like that's how we started.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_03: That's how when they were younger, no, so you know, so my older one, he just he started like get closer to the mic two years ago, like um, like cold turkey.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well full day, right?
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he used to fast like he used to fast from breakfast to to tour time before that.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_03: But like we were home from the pandemic, he was like, Well, I could do this.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: So my son also he he would fast like half a day.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: Both of them would fast half a day.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_03: The little one can't even do the half a day because it was so long.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_03: He would laugh, he would fast from when he got home at four until aftar time.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I just I just wanted to mention the point about everybody has to do it at their own time.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_02: Because like my son was adamant he's gonna do it.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, okay, and then my daughter, she she kind of felt bad, and I told her, You shouldn't feel bad because you're not like you, you can't, you're just not ready.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: It's fine.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: Do half a day, it's fine.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_03: And she also weighs like 14 pounds.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, it's fun.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, don't compare yourself to him.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: She's like this big.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm like, don't compare yourself to him.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, you'll get there when you're ready.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's fine.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: And like I just like I made sure to She's already like a picky eater.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, she's kind of like a she eats in very small portions anyway, and so like she needs to eat more often and small portions.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I I just felt bad because she was feeling I'm like, don't feel bad.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, you'll get it, and then and then the pandemic happened, and then she's like, I can do this because I'm home.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I don't think her dad helped her, and so now she's good.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_02: So she's great.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_02: She's fasted the the last two years, and she's so looking forward to it.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: They're both, but that's it's very important what you said.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: Don't pressure, yeah.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: There's still kids, you know.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I hate when I see that.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_03: I don't even think you should pressure.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: Like, here's the thing like about religion in general, I don't think you should pressure anybody to do anything.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'm very anti like saying, oh, you have to do this or you're gonna go to hell.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: No, but the key with kids is to like the whole Ramadan, you should you should hear them, we're so excited.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like, because you have to create that environment, you have to have the decorations, you have to get them involved, whether they help you with cooking, even though I don't like anybody in the kitchen with me, especially when I'm fat.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, I don't mind.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but all over the place today.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's okay.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_02: So anything else about working moms during Ramadan?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_03: Get it.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_03: Get it, get it, ladies.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: We got this.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, or gentlemen, whoever is in charge of the children.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: We feel like you both.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, both of you should be.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_03: We believe in you.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: Whoever is in charge of the kids during Ramadan, much love.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, much love because I know how you feel.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_03: We both know how you feel.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, and I'm just glad I made it to this Ramadan.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: Me too.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_02: You know, because it's been a crazy couple of years.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_02: It has been.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: And alhamdulillah, I'm so grateful that I'm here.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: It really has been a crazy couple of years, and like it's um, it's like I think of um, you know, my my my friends who who and like extended family who have seen a lot, especially like with the pandemic over the last year, and like with people getting sick and people passing away.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we really are lucky to just like be here another year.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: We really are lucky to be here another year.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: And I not to sound like really sad and morbid all of a sudden, but no, like last Ramadan for for us was really defining in the fact that like we had a very important person in our family, you know, and my my actually it's my sister-in-law's mom passed away, and it was a huge thing because it was very unexpected.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_03: And so that kind of uh put a really like it cast a shadow on Ramadan last year because you know you're trying to be there for somebody, and it was it was very like unfortunate, you know.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so I'm just happy that we're all healthy and happy and together with this Ramadan.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_03: That's really where I'm at.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_02: So anything else you want to say?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for any new subscribers we have.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I'm talking about Ramadan, but we're gonna get to that.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna get to that.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm all set.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: I'm ready.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_03: Bring it.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm ready, and inshallah, hopefully, God willing.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah we'll we'll do some, we'll do updates.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Ramadan updates.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Ramadan updates.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, how's week one going?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: How's week two going?
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I just think it's great.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I would have loved to, you know what I think we should do for Ramadan?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: What?
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_03: I think we should do like a a weekly check-in, and I'm gonna do it on Instagram, where you like tell me.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_03: She's gonna do it on Instagram.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_03: You're like, I'm gonna do it on Instagram, and then you end up doing nothing.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_03: No, I did a poll the last time I said I was gonna do a poll.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_03: She's such a freaking hater.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not sure.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: She's such a hater and like like a slave driver, and it's too much already.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, but I want to do some sort of check-in.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, we're gonna check-in guys, we're gonna probably be remote because it's Ramadan and nobody has time for that.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: No, yeah.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Are you gonna put that away?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_03: I will do my best.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I will do my best too, but let's be real.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I can't like I'm gonna try, but it's I'm not I'm not gonna talk, I will address it when I get there.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: I can't I can't tell you what I'm gonna do at my final destination once I until I arrive.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: So that's my destination.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_03: I will let you know what happens when I arrive.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna check in with you guys uh during Ramadan.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna check in with you guys during Ramadan.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_03: We're still gonna be uh pushing out episodes once a week.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: The same schedule we are now.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um I want to do something on Instagram where we check in and maybe get some engagement from you folks.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_03: You tell me how you're feeling, what you're doing, any you know, awesome habits you picked up in Ramadan, any bad habits you dropped in Ramadan.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, because I think that that would be really nice.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_03: You know what they say it takes 21 days to form a new habit or 21 days to drop a habit.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_03: So maybe So that's cool.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: That's a good idea.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, maybe we'll figure something out.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we'll keep tabs on you.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, that's originally what I that's the thought I had before she cut me off last time.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_03: That that was it.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: But anyway, Ramadan Rubak to everybody.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's what you get for calling me a slave uh driver.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Ramadan Rubak to everybody.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and Shall I have a wonderful Ramadan with your family and friends.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, and may it be full of joy and blessings.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: InshaAllah.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: And and and I really hope and pray that you know um just God showers all of us with like his mercy during this month, um, in light of what's going on in the world.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I really hope this month brings some peace and some mercy.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: Just uh like for the human for the whole human population.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: Inshallah.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hopefully.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_03: All right, awesome.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks, guys.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: We'll see you next week.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: See you next week, and don't forget to subscribe.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I don't want to sing that stupid song again.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_02: Subscribe and have a wonderful day.