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NY Winter Blues, Holiday Gift Guide Picks · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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  Speaker 1: The views expressed in this interview belong solely to the
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  Speaker 1: guest and do not necessarily reflect those of the hosts
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  Speaker 1: or life beyond the mic.
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  Speaker 2: From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
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  Speaker 2: the rhythm of your day. It's Shauna MLA. What's up?
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Shauna and Lalla. Check us out at
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  Speaker 1: Shauna and Lala dot com on all social media platforms
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  Speaker 1: at Shauna and La La. You could follow me on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram at the Real Shawna May.
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  Speaker 3: And check me out at Bella Underscore La La one
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  Speaker 3: to five.
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  Speaker 1: We have been gone for a few weeks, but that
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  Speaker 1: is because it has just been absolutely insane. The weather
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  Speaker 1: here has been insane. It's freezing cold one day, it's
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  Speaker 1: snow in the next day, and I believe the end
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  Speaker 1: of the week it's gonna be around fifty degrees. Oh good,
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  Speaker 1: but bipolar. But yeah, and only for like one or
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  Speaker 1: two days. Yeah, it has been frigid. And you were
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  Speaker 1: in Florida last week. Yes, and it was the coldest
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  Speaker 1: week I was gone while you were gone. Yes. I
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  Speaker 1: I complain about the cold all the time. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like cold. Yeah, it hurts my body. But I was
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  Speaker 1: in so much pain. And I think it was a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the doctor's and I was just like complaining,
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  Speaker 1: like in so much pain because it was so cold. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like my body and the cold just do not mix anymore.
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  Speaker 1: The ugh. I got right in my clear light sauna
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  Speaker 1: when I got home and just warmed up.
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  Speaker 3: That's the best thing about having the sauna is just
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  Speaker 3: that hot. How hot does it get?
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  Speaker 1: Oh god hot?
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  Speaker 3: Like what time bridgerd do you go in? One hundred
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  Speaker 3: and something? Right?
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and something. Yeah, I don't know the exact
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  Speaker 1: I haven't put it up to like the max, but
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  Speaker 1: you might have to this winter. Yeah, I might have to,
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  Speaker 1: uh try it out, but you know, just to go
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  Speaker 1: in there and it really loosens my muscles and I
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  Speaker 1: just I really like it a lot, Like it's a
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  Speaker 1: lifesaver for me. It is.
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  Speaker 3: It brings, it boosts your mood. The heat feels good.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Sean has a lot of joint issues
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  Speaker 3: and bone. You know, the cold is not good for that. Song.
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  Speaker 1: I do not have joint issues.
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  Speaker 3: The doctor said, okay, sorry issues, no.
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  Speaker 1: Joint Your joints are fine. They are not swollen, said,
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  Speaker 1: they're not swollen. They hurt. Yeah, my whole, my whole.
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  Speaker 1: I was walking in there and you know how my
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  Speaker 1: body freezes up. And I said, you know, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pain. He said, I could see that.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not the right doctor for you.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is like the never ending journey to
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  Speaker 3: find showing on the right doctor. Yeah, no one is
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  Speaker 3: the right then who the freak is the right dav
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  Speaker 3: doctor for her?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And how come you can't do a nerve test
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  Speaker 1: in a huge facility facility that I go to that
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  Speaker 1: literally owns like they're buying up the country like every
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  Speaker 1: private doctor's office or whatever. This company is like just
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  Speaker 1: taking over, taking over. They are like pac Band, they're
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  Speaker 1: taking over. And how do you not have an EEG machine?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I just I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I am obsessed with the sauna. I use
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  Speaker 1: it every night. Even during the day I use it
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  Speaker 1: sometimes and uh, you know, I'm sleeping better too, so
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  Speaker 1: it puts me right to sleep. It's good.
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  Speaker 3: It detoxes you because you sweat all your toxins out,
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  Speaker 3: So saunas are so so healthy for you. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what everyone needs, a clear light sauna in their house.
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  Speaker 1: I only sweat from my one side though, which is
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  Speaker 1: very odd.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you're blocked, you know, like your lymphatic whatever, his
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  Speaker 3: system is blocked.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but my left side just sweats within
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  Speaker 1: like five minutes, and like the right side of me
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  Speaker 1: is it takes like an at like forty minutes maybe
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  Speaker 1: to start sweating.
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  Speaker 3: So you probably have some blockages in there. That's something
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  Speaker 3: to look into, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep going in. Maybe it'll work its way out.
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  Speaker 1: You never know, it might, but clearly is on our
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  Speaker 1: holiday guide this year, as well as so many other
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  Speaker 1: products we teamed up with. This is a really cool product,
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  Speaker 1: Dugout Mugs, which my dad is gonna love his gift.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't listen to the show, so I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you what I got him. I got him a Dugout mug,
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  Speaker 1: which is a mug made out of a baseball bat,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a baseball bat. The material is actually like
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  Speaker 1: base ball bat material, and you could even engrave it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get it engraved, but you can get it engraved.
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  Speaker 1: They have bottle openers, they have shot glasses, they have
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things. So I'm really excited for him
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  Speaker 1: to open it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was cool because he has the New York
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  Speaker 3: Yankee logo on it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, the old one, like the original, the original one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So there and it looks like a baseball, like the
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  Speaker 3: barrel of the baseball bat, not like the handle. So
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  Speaker 3: and they just hollow it out and you could put
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  Speaker 3: a drink in it. And I think that's so cool
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  Speaker 3: for a man cave or if your father or your
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  Speaker 3: husband or anyone and your family likes sports like that,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I thought it was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And they also have coasters for the mugs that go
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  Speaker 1: with the mugs. And it's not just Yankees that they have.
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  Speaker 1: They have all kinds of different baseball teams that you
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  Speaker 1: could choose from. So and I'm really excited to we
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  Speaker 1: have tried it out yet. But the Panasonic breadmaker. I
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  Speaker 1: am so excited to try that out.
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  Speaker 3: I know. I love bread makers. It's they're so much
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  Speaker 3: easier than doing it by hand because I make bread.
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  Speaker 3: I used to make bread a lot and it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work. It is a lot of work, it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time waiting. And I had a bread
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  Speaker 3: machine growing up, so I would I can't wait to
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  Speaker 3: see the difference in how technology has changed, but you
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  Speaker 3: basically just put all the ingredients inside of it and
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  Speaker 3: press the button like what kind of bread it is
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  Speaker 3: or what it does. It all for you, everything from
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  Speaker 3: mixing to needing, to letting it rise, to proofing and
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  Speaker 3: baking it all in one machine. So it saves time
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  Speaker 3: and I'm and it's healthier. All these breads today and
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  Speaker 3: the stores have so much crap in them. It's the
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  Speaker 3: best thing you could do is make your own bread
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  Speaker 3: at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom has a breadmaker, and I still remember
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  Speaker 1: to this day my mom unwrapping it about thirty years
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  Speaker 1: ago from my dad and she said to my dad,
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  Speaker 1: she turned around and she said, what in the world
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  Speaker 1: made you buy me a bread maker? And he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: my mother has one. And she said, let your mother
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  Speaker 1: bake the bread.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, she.
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  Speaker 1: Said, just because your mother has one doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit and bake bread. Well, we took
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  Speaker 1: it out of the closet a few months ago and
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  Speaker 1: it made bread. It still makes bread.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It came out pretty good the second time I did it,
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  Speaker 1: and I did not read the directions correctly, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: it got a little screwed up. But if my mom.
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  Speaker 1: You know, once we try the bread maker, I might
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  Speaker 1: get it for my mom because she needs an upgrade. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the Panasotic Breadmaker.
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  Speaker 3: So another amazing product we got for Christmas, and it's
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  Speaker 3: just perfect for Christmas was the Harni and Son's Fine
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  Speaker 3: Tease And it was like, basically, do you ever have
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  Speaker 3: an advent calendar when you were a kid?
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  Speaker 1: Oh with a candy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I buy them from my kids. But this
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  Speaker 3: is like an adult advent calendar for tea lovers. I
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  Speaker 3: love tea, as you know, I drink probably four cups
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  Speaker 3: of tea a day, sometimes six.
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  Speaker 1: That is insane.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always in the bathroom. But so this was It's
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  Speaker 3: a great gift. It's for the month of December and
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  Speaker 3: every day is a different tea. And I loved experiencing
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  Speaker 3: different flavors because, you know, sometimes just stick to your
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  Speaker 3: usual me. I always stick to my same old few
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  Speaker 3: teas that I like, and I don't branch out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Camera mile yet camel meal. I like my green tea,
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  Speaker 3: I like my mint. That's pretty much where I stay.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I do an earl gray, but I'm pretty like
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  Speaker 3: blah with that. But this has forced me to experience
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  Speaker 3: different flavors and like, Okay, actually I do like that,
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  Speaker 3: or I don't really love that one, but I like this,
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  Speaker 3: and then I could from there by the type that
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  Speaker 3: I liked, you know. Yeah, this is brilliant of Harny
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  Speaker 3: and Sons to create this like kind of little I'm
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  Speaker 3: caulling it an advent calendar, but this little Christmas twelve
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  Speaker 3: Days of Christmas tea calendar. And their tea comes in
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  Speaker 3: three forms. They have loose tea tea bag and the sachets.
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  Speaker 3: The seschet is like the triangular little bag filled with tea.
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  Speaker 3: And what I love about their company is there's a sugarcane.
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  Speaker 3: So you have to really be careful on the types
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  Speaker 3: of bags that you get your tea in because if
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  Speaker 3: they're made of plastic, what do you think is happening
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  Speaker 3: when you're putting plastic in boiling water? Yeah? Right, So
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  Speaker 3: it's really important to check all that out. And Harny
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  Speaker 3: and Sons, you know, they're all about that. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: really excited to try their loose tea because I'm a
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  Speaker 3: big loose tea fanatic. I just like mixing. I like
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  Speaker 3: mixing flavors in my little teapot. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 3: try that. But there are twelve days of there are
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  Speaker 3: twelve days of tea. Has been such a cool experience
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  Speaker 3: for me, and I'm going to show share the video
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  Speaker 3: with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: So another cool gift that is, like Lala's favorite thing
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  Speaker 1: to do is she loves to take photos, and so
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  Speaker 1: do I and my mom. But you have pictures that
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  Speaker 1: your mom took from like the early eighties, eighties.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I have photos that I found my mom
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  Speaker 3: from back when her parents were little, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: the thing that's crazy I'm all about. I'm a huge
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  Speaker 3: I love saving memories. I'm a big I film everything.
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  Speaker 3: I take a million pictures. My mom was the same way.
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  Speaker 3: So as you can imagine, I have bins and bins
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  Speaker 3: and bins of photos in my basement that I took.
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  Speaker 3: My mom passed away when I was seventeen, and I
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  Speaker 3: just took all the photos, all those memories, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I call myself the memory keeper for the family, for
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  Speaker 3: my siblings, And there's just so many bins down there,
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  Speaker 3: and it's been really depressing me that what am I
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  Speaker 3: gonna do with these? How I don't have time to
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  Speaker 3: sit and put each one in a photo album from
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  Speaker 3: my siblings. I don't have time to scan each one one,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and they're they're gonna rot. Some of them
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  Speaker 3: already have like moisture has gotten to them and they're
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  Speaker 3: stuck together, they're ripped, and that those are memories that
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  Speaker 3: are gone. I can't I can't recreate those pictures, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So there's this company called scan myphotos dot Com and
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  Speaker 3: it's like an absolute lifesaver and it's just a brilliant thing.
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  Speaker 3: So what what it is is they send you a
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  Speaker 3: box and you take all the pictures that you want
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  Speaker 3: and you put them in this box and you send
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  Speaker 3: the box back to them and they are going to
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  Speaker 3: scan every single picture and digitize it and give you
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  Speaker 3: high quality digital files. So you can even send in negatives,
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  Speaker 3: which is cool because if we I have some of
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  Speaker 3: those two from the old old days, I'm sure you
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  Speaker 3: do show on the right negatives, Yeah right, because that's
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  Speaker 3: how back then, that's what they had and they took those.
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  Speaker 3: And so you could send in negatives from your grandparents
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  Speaker 3: and they can they can digitize them and put them
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  Speaker 3: on online, so everything will be saved forever online that
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  Speaker 3: you could share with friends, family, You send them a link,
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  Speaker 3: and I love that. So then they shift the pictures
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  Speaker 3: back to you so you don't have to worry. You
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  Speaker 3: still have them, but now everything is organized, everything is
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  Speaker 3: safe from the elements from rotting in your basement, and
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  Speaker 3: you could share them with your loved ones and keep
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  Speaker 3: those memories going for years and years and years to come.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really excited we're gonna send our box in
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  Speaker 3: and I'm excited to be able to have them protected
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  Speaker 3: an all in one place.
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  Speaker 1: And last, but not least, we are featuring Hearken chocolate candy.
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  Speaker 1: All Right.
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  Speaker 3: I know no one's gonna believe me, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: like chocolate. And Shauna can attest that I don't like chocolate,
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  Speaker 3: she doesn't. I pick out the chocolate chips and my
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  Speaker 3: chocolate chip cookies. I pick out chocolate chips and canola cream,
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  Speaker 3: which Shauna has pictures of me doing from the past.
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  Speaker 3: I just I find chocolate too sweet, too overwhelming for me,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just never been my thing. I will have
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  Speaker 3: like a small amount of it, like I would have
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  Speaker 3: a little hot cocoa, but I can't finish the whole
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  Speaker 3: cup of it. It's just too much.
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  Speaker 1: What about chocolate ice cream?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't like it. You don't even like ice cream,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not a huge ice cream person, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't like get chocolate ice cream.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they will also hate peanut butter.
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  Speaker 3: I hate peanut butter. But the only kind of chocolate
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  Speaker 3: and peanut butter I can deal with is Reese's Pieces
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  Speaker 3: or Reese's pieces, like those little orange and brown things,
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  Speaker 3: because there are only a few of them, but they're
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  Speaker 3: good to me. But anyway, I'm on a tangent. I
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  Speaker 3: am just freaking shocked right now. I tried the hark
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  Speaker 3: in candy. I just wanted to take a bite of
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  Speaker 3: it because it said love candy again. And that kind
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  Speaker 3: of just hit me because I'm like, I don't like candy,
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  Speaker 3: it's too sweet. And this said it had no sugar
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  Speaker 3: in it. It was sweetened naturally with dates.
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  Speaker 1: You're a fruit person too, I.
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  Speaker 3: Love my fruit. I like healthier options, and this had
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  Speaker 3: every It checked all my boxes off. But I was
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  Speaker 3: still worried about that chocolate. I'm like, it's still has
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  Speaker 3: chocolate in it, but I'm gonna take a bite. Oh
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  Speaker 3: my god. I am not exaggerating. I'm not just saying
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  Speaker 3: this because I'm reviewing it. I loved it. I ate
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  Speaker 3: almost every one of them, not in the same day,
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  Speaker 3: but every day that I would come to do the radio,
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  Speaker 3: I was taking a bar and eating it and eating
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  Speaker 3: it and eating it. And they are so good. If
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  Speaker 3: you are not a sweet tooth like me, or if
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  Speaker 3: you don't really like chocolate, this is a game changer,
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  Speaker 3: absolute game changer.
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  Speaker 1: There's only two left in the box.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell them that. Don't tell them how many we
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  Speaker 3: started with. But they're so good. I loved the The
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  Speaker 3: nutty one had crunchy peanuts in it, date caramel, and
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  Speaker 3: like an oat chocolate cover. It says like a coating,
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  Speaker 3: so it only has a few calories in it. There's
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  Speaker 3: only a small small amount of sugar, which is great
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  Speaker 3: has it's an excellent source of fiber. It's plant based ingredients.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a woman owned company, which rights Seana.
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  Speaker 3: We always love supporting woman owned companies. Oh yes, and
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  Speaker 3: there's no artificial ingredients and no sugar added, so it's
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  Speaker 3: a healthy version and you can eat you can eat
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  Speaker 3: candy again, or if you don't like chocolate, I'm telling
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  Speaker 3: you try these out. I'm not lying. So good and
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  Speaker 3: there's so many different flavors. They have a salted date,
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  Speaker 3: caramel one pretzels in it and the nuts and there
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  Speaker 3: is just so yummy and coconut. I don't I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a huge coconut person. I didn't try that one yet.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saving that for the last. But they have a
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  Speaker 3: few different flavors and again dairy free, sugar free, and
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  Speaker 3: it has fiber in it, prebiotics and just all healthy
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  Speaker 3: stuff so you can it's like you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: feel guilty eating it. And it's really bad for me
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  Speaker 3: because I always pry myself like I don't eat sweets,
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  Speaker 3: but I might have to order myself a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these because they really they hit the spot when I
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  Speaker 3: have a little bit of a sugar craving. So not
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  Speaker 3: every grocery store has it, but if a lot of
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  Speaker 3: ours do, Shopwright, Walmart, Acme, And if you're curious to
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  Speaker 3: see if your local stores carry it, just go on
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  Speaker 3: their website hearkensweets dot com and they'll give you a
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  Speaker 3: list of all the stores that carry it. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: telling you try it out because and then let me
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  Speaker 3: know if you like it, because I guarantee you're going
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  Speaker 3: to if I like it, You're gonna love it.
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  Speaker 1: And right now we're gonna jump into an interview with
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  Speaker 1: singers songwriter Refe's Good. You're listening to Shanna and La
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  Speaker 1: La and today we are talking with singers songwriter Reefe's
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  Speaker 1: Good and uh, she just had an album release quote Truth.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about the album?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Truth was an EP that was written about
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  Speaker 2: high school and regaining confidence after someone took it away
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  Speaker 2: from you or someone was mean to you, and so
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  Speaker 2: most of these songs were written about relationships, are just
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  Speaker 2: navigating through high school and those types of people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's normal high school stuff. I think, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everyone goes through that. So yeah, one could relate to
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  Speaker 1: the music.
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  Speaker 3: That's good for younger girls that they're listening to your songs,
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  Speaker 3: which I was listening to them, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good messages in there that's like, hey, you're not alone,
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  Speaker 3: we've all been through this, You're gonna get through it.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And yeah, that's important.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And so what do you have coming up?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: You have some performances, not at the moment, but I'm
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: trying to schedule some more this coming year, trying to
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: get my reps in with performing and just trying to
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: figure out my audience.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: I can't even I don't even know where I would
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: be can So I give you a lot of credits.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you out there right, you know, yes, you gotta
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: move to Nashville and well you actually I believe we
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: were in Nashville around the same time.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Really, Oh really were you performing or you were just
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: there visiting?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I performed performing?
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we had We had a great time. And
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: as a musician, it's like, it's just there's so much
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: talent there.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: We were insane.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: You walk down the street and it's just like talent talent.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: You could hear each each band, each Its just it
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: was insane to me.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's crazy.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now do you record in Texas or do you
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: fly out to Tennessee.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I fly out to Nashville and I record my songs there.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah, So what on on this What was
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: your favorite song on this album to write and and
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to sing?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I have two favorite songs. My first is probably Truth.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: That song. Whenever I wrote it, I just felt such
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: a connection to it because the melody and the lyrics
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: came so fast to me and it was it was
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: like a rush. It was crazy. And so whenever I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: wrote that song, it was basically about there's like a
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: certain group of girls in high school. I think we
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: all know those girls, and so I was thinking about that,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and I was just thinking about how some people are
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: separated from them and that can make you feel alone.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And so Truth was one of the top songs that
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I wrote on this EP, and then Little Old House
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: is my second because honestly, that song, the message I
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: was trying to get like by was when you have
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: a friend that you're close with and y'all don't become
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: friends anymore. I think that many people go through that.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And so I had this childhood best friend and we
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: grew up together and then when we were about thirteen
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: years old, we stopped being friends and that really had
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: an impact on me. And so I've always wanted to
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: write a song about that situation, and so I thought
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: of the title Little Old House, and I was like, Oh,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: this could be like metaphorically or physically, you could be
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: talking about a relationship, a friendship, or a relationship with
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: this song. And so I think that was really cool
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: and neat to tie in to that situation.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, it's hard like friendships. I'm I'm going to
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: be forty this year, but yeah, you still I think
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: you'll still think about that best friend until I still
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: think of my high school best friend Loot. We be
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: friends for ever, and yeah, it's always going to be
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: there and it's crazy.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Definitely.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: You always wonder what they're up to.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, questions like questions, why why why did this happen?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Why did we?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: So it's normal and that's it's a good thing when
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: people are songwriters and sing as they write these songs,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: because you don't feel so alone, like you said, yeah,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I listened to it and like, oh, you know, someone
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: else experienced this. It's not just me, nothing's wrong with me.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Everyone experiences this. Do the people that you wrote the like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: let's say the mean girls or your friend did they
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: do they know about these songs? Do they know that
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: it's geared towards them? Or no?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Would you say, I don't think they really know that
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: it's about them, But yeah, they know about my music,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: but they don't technically know that that was written about them.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Now you're gonna know. Yeah, good, you should put it
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: like in the CD. Do they even have CD pamphlets anymore,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: like you know, which is about the song?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Well it's tough high school growing up. It's all learning experience,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: and it seems like you have a good head on
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: your shoulders and you already could see all this and you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Know, mm hmmm.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Help. So that's great, Thank you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: So who are your role models in the music industry?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: My role models in the music industry are definitely Carrie
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Underwood and Reba McIntyre, Shanaia Twain, all those iconic country staples.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: And I really drew inspiration from those top ones because
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I really liked their grit and their determination and their
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: songs and the message that they were trying to get
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: by with their songs. And I really kind of liked
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the country rock vibe. Yeah, and so that's what I'm
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: kind of leaning more towards.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I have like a Carrie Underwood.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like I was saying to her, and I
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: hopefully this is not something that you take that, but
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: some of your songs you sounded like a young Taylor
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Swift to me.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I was like, is this Taylor Swift or I'm like, oh,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you sound like a young Taylor Swift.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I get that a lot. Actually, I think my voice
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: is kind of like hers. But yeah, I kind of
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: want to lean more towards the rock country in the future.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: With the new songs that I'm writing and everything.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I like that. I like that better.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: So do you have a lot more songs written for
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: our next album or are you giving it time?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I just recorded six more songs in August, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: so I'm really excited for those to come out. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: think I'm still finding my sound and so I think
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: with these first six it was the first time I'd
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: ever recorded, and I was those were the first six
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: songs that I truly believed in and that sounded like me.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: And so these next six I feel like it's me
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: just growing up and older and really like honing in
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: all my sound and what I want to be.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like who you blo you blossomed, and this
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: is you found your little yep. I get it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It takes time.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's doing it the right way, so, you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: because sometimes a lot of artists, they they think that
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: they want to do something and then it's not really them,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and you can kind of when you hear it's not
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: authentic because they're trying to fit in this little mold
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that's not them.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: But exactly great that you are.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: You're finding your little niche and growing into it, and
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: your listeners and fans will know. They'll hear it and.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: They'll know it. So yeah, you'll feel it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Feel it. You know, you can always tell. And I
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: always go back to the artist Pink when you know,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: when I was younger, she was pretty, really really popular,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: and she was pushed into being more hip hop. I
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: don't know what it means to her older stuff, but
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: it was like hip hop and that's not what she
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: wanted and you could hear sometimes that it wasn't she
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: wasn't happy. But then she went her own route and
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: was like, no, this is me and now her more rock,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, So I like that, like when you
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: can find your own place.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think I don't know if you have
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: a label behind you or what, but labels they just
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: they really sometimes they push you and push.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: You you don't want to go.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So to speak.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: True to yourself and what you believe and what you
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: want to do, because in the end of the day,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: that's to make you have to make yourself happy and
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: be happy and what you choose, you know, yeah, I
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: think that you probably have a good support system around
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: you and you're gonna you're gonna do great. Yet, we
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: listen to your songs and you're so talented. Thank you
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: to write your own lyrics, and they're so in depth,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: you know, like you said, there's so many metaphors and
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: that's that's that's amazing for your year eighteen. Yes, that's amazing.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: So we wish you so much luck and we're excited
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: to see how far you go. We know you're going to.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: And what is your website for our listeners to check
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: out your music and purchase reascodmusic dot com dot com
• 26:12
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• 26:21
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• 26:25
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• 26:29
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• 26:31
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• 26:32
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