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Happy Hour #243: SMNTY Acts Their Age · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie.
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  Speaker 2: And Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You, a production
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  Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour, where I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to ramble. I'm just going to give everybody a
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  Speaker 3: kind of update on life.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: On my life currently, I decided.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not quite a p * * * y wine,
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  Speaker 3: but it is a p * * * y update.
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  Speaker 1: A ketchup.
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  Speaker 2: Ketchup.
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  Speaker 3: Ketchup and update and whatever. So if you also have wine, wonderful. Annie,
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  Speaker 3: speaking of which, are you sipping on anything for our
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  Speaker 3: happy hour?
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: You need to alert me when it's the wine ones.
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  Speaker 1: Today I have like a hot toddy situation because I
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  Speaker 1: got a little chilled and then Samantha and I were
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  Speaker 1: talking about it, but my face is a little swollen
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  Speaker 1: and stuffy. So if you can hear it, my voice,
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  Speaker 1: I apologize. But yeah. That's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: It's that season.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am actually drinking on like a dirty chai.
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  Speaker 3: I really love those.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of still a little early in the day,
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  Speaker 3: not too early in the day, but earlier in the day,
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  Speaker 3: just a peek behind the curtains here. So I still
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  Speaker 3: need more caffeine. I'm just a sleepy individual. But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: with that and some bubbly water. And if you are
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  Speaker 3: doing anything happy hour-ish, please do so responsibly. I will say,
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  Speaker 3: we don't have a necessary sponsor for this specific episode.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever we mentioned, currently not a sponsor. Things can change.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? Maybe there are sponsors within. You know, all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But one thing I do want to talk about, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really important for all of us, is
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  Speaker 3: colon cancer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'll go ahead and put a little content
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  Speaker 3: warning there. we're going to talk about obviously disease.
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  Speaker 2: Death, sickness, and just trauma, a little bit of trauma.
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  Speaker 3: Not too bad, but you know, it's me. I am
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  Speaker 3: a sad sack. So being a sad sack, Sam, this
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  Speaker 3: is a part of what you're going to hear. But
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  Speaker 3: this week, I actually had my first colonoscopy.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it has been required for a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people at 50.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's gotten younger at 45 because.
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  Speaker 3: Colon cancer has been one of the, I think, the
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  Speaker 3: number two leading cause of cancer in many people, and
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  Speaker 3: it's affecting people at a younger and younger age. So
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  Speaker 3: they've been taking it down a little bit in the
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  Speaker 3: age requirement. And I will say, I was not quite
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  Speaker 3: prepared for everything that it is. It's like a full
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  Speaker 3: month-long process, Annie. A full month-long process. So like, first
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  Speaker 3: you have to make sure you're not taking all these vitamins,
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  Speaker 3: which I was, and I had to like quickly send
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  Speaker 3: an email to my doctor's office and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: so I didn't realize that I was supposed to stop
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  Speaker 3: this two weeks in advance. I did take it a
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  Speaker 3: couple of times. Not sure what to do. They're like,
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  Speaker 3: it's fine. Just stop now. I was like, okay, cool.
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  Speaker 3: And then like a week before that, you have to
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  Speaker 3: do like low fiber diet. So you can eat a
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  Speaker 3: lot of refined sugars, all the white bread, white rice,
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  Speaker 3: but nothing vegetable. They're like, don't eat onions cooked or not. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, our friend of the show, Katie, would be
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  Speaker 3: fine with that. But it's also like no carrots No
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  Speaker 3: raw carrots, no raw fruits outside of like.
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  Speaker 2: Banana.
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  Speaker 3: You can have banana. So that was nice. And then
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  Speaker 3: the day before, you have to go like 24 hours
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  Speaker 3: without eating and only like clear liquids. So I found
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  Speaker 3: pineapple Jell-O that I made. It was nice because I
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  Speaker 3: don't like lemon Jell-O. Lemon Jell-O is gross to me.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't even find it. But pineapple Jell-O was nice.
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  Speaker 3: I found my banana popsicles, which were not fruit because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of them have fruit in it now, trying
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  Speaker 3: to give you more fiber.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Not what you need. And then you have to take
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  Speaker 2: this like huge four liter thing of prep, which was
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  Speaker 2: what I like to think of as a wet cardboard
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  Speaker 2: box flavor. Because that's what it felt like. And it
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  Speaker 2: felt like kind of somehow pulpy, even though it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: It was really thick.
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  Speaker 3: So you have to drink that. And boy, does that
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  Speaker 3: stuff get you. I knew it was going to be bad,
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  Speaker 3: but I didn't realize how bad it was. And the
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  Speaker 3: next day we went in. You have to have someone
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  Speaker 3: with you. My partner came with me. He was wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: He was right beside me holding my little hand, like
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  Speaker 3: making sure I was okay, helping me the day before,
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  Speaker 3: making sure I was prepped, giving me all the good
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  Speaker 3: foods that I needed.
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  Speaker 2: Went out and got me some Sprite because I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I need something. Mm-hmm. So he went and got that
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 3: And then the process was really intimidating because it really
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  Speaker 3: feels like you're being admitted to the hospital for things.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was plugged up to things. I had needles.
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  Speaker 2: I had all the things.
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  Speaker 3: The nurse and the staff were wonderful. I had all
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  Speaker 3: women except for my anesthesiologist, who was an older man
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  Speaker 3: with jokes and a young man in the actual procedure room.
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  Speaker 3: And then outside of that, my doctor and everybody else
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  Speaker 3: were women. So they were all very kind, very sweet.
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  Speaker 3: as well as the fact that they walked me through
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  Speaker 3: the process, made sure I knew what was going on,
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  Speaker 3: was very kind. And the process wasn't bad. Like, you
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  Speaker 3: really do get a deep sleep. A friend of mine
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  Speaker 3: who had gone through the process was like, oh, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be the best sleep of your life.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, what? She was like, yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Which I woke up very confused, obviously, because I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what's happening? I think I was in my dream. I
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  Speaker 3: was fighting someone, like having an argument about politics. which
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  Speaker 3: is fantastic as a dream, but I was sound asleep.
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  Speaker 3: And I woke up and I told about that. And
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  Speaker 3: then I complimented a bald woman on her hair. That
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  Speaker 3: was something that will haunt me. And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I had to kind of retract it in my groggy
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  Speaker 3: voice being like, I mean, your.
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  Speaker 2: Head, I mean, you're really pretty. Sometimes I just wish
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  Speaker 2: I didn't speak. Like, why am I talking?
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  Speaker 3: My partner who was there with me, because as soon
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  Speaker 3: as they pulled me out, they allowed him to come
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  Speaker 3: back and sit with me, was laughing at me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. Leave me alone.
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  Speaker 3: But the procedure went well, and I have a clean
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  Speaker 3: bill of health. And I'm glad to say I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to go back for another 10 years because, ugh. However,
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  Speaker 3: I think this is something that we need to talk
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  Speaker 3: about because I was just talking to another woman who
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  Speaker 3: hadn't had her. She's like 50-something years old and she
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  Speaker 3: was kind of like dreading it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, no, you need to go. This is something.
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  Speaker 3: A family member, which I didn't realize, had actually had polyps.
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  Speaker 3: And when it was examined, it was cancer. But because
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  Speaker 3: they had gotten to it early enough, they didn't have
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  Speaker 3: to do any other treatment outside of removal of that.
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  Speaker 3: They had to make sure she was clear and everything
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  Speaker 3: was great back to what it needed to be. But
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  Speaker 3: Had they not had that routine, she would have been
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  Speaker 3: in really big trouble. There was a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 3: about how fast it can spread. It's one of the
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  Speaker 3: top five cancers that can cause death in women.
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  Speaker 2: So, like, it's a pretty big number.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's important that we remember because also
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  Speaker 3: speaking when we were talking about this with this older woman,
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  Speaker 3: we were like, we need you to go. Another woman
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  Speaker 3: was telling about the fact that her husband's niece had
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  Speaker 3: died of colon cancer.
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  Speaker 2: She was only 26.
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  Speaker 3: So really alarming because these are happening more and more
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  Speaker 3: and more. And one of the things about this is
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  Speaker 3: just like in anything else, for some reason, the symptoms
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  Speaker 3: are different in women. And we've talked about this before
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  Speaker 3: when we talked about perimenopause and menopause, but that's one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that makes the risk even higher.
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  Speaker 2: For women for colon cancer is those symptoms.
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  Speaker 3: And some of those symptoms overlap, so you don't know,
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  Speaker 3: like including fatigue, being bloated, cramping, and you just think
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  Speaker 3: that's just a part of life, but it actually could be.
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  Speaker 2: A sign of colon cancer.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that I read from regionalcancercare.org, they
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  Speaker 3: say in this statement, while colon cancer most often affects
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  Speaker 3: individuals who are age 50 or older, the number of
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  Speaker 3: younger adults being diagnosed with colorectal cancer is increasing. While
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  Speaker 3: colon cancer occurs slightly more frequently in men, women are
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  Speaker 3: nearly as susceptible and should know the warning signs of
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  Speaker 3: the disease. According to the American Cancer Society, the lifetime
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  Speaker 3: risk of developing colon cancer is 1 in 23 for
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  Speaker 3: men and 1 in 25 for women. And those are
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  Speaker 3: just current numbers, and the numbers are growing, which is unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we're not talking about that enough. Again,
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  Speaker 3: they say that some of the difference in factors specific
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  Speaker 3: to women include menopause, They say that drop in estrogen
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  Speaker 3: levels following menopause can accelerate the development of colon polyps,
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  Speaker 3: potentially leading to colon cancer. So a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 3: that need to be had about this. I don't think,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's becoming more frequent and more people are
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  Speaker 3: understanding how important it is.
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  Speaker 2: But really, really, really, if.
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  Speaker 3: You're ever at that 45 mark, go ahead. If you
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  Speaker 3: have symptoms that are unusual, you need to go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: If you have history, that's one of the biggest conversations.
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  Speaker 3: Like if there's history in your family, which I don't
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  Speaker 3: have a my family history, because I am adopted and
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  Speaker 3: which I, you know, that's a risk for me. So
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  Speaker 3: I want to make sure I'm on top of everything.
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  Speaker 3: But for those who do have that information, it's really
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  Speaker 3: important to know about those signs. And some of them
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  Speaker 3: could include like changing in your poop habits, persistent abdominal cramping, bloating, fatigue,
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  Speaker 3: iron deficiencies. There's so much more in this that y'all
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  Speaker 3: should definitely look into. have this conversation with your parents.
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  Speaker 2: Older people may not know.
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  Speaker 3: And I say that for people who have parents in
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  Speaker 3: the 50s, 60s who have not looked yet. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: they have because usually, like I said, 50 is about
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  Speaker 3: the time that they start doing it. If you have signs,
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  Speaker 3: it's better to know. And so if you think that
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  Speaker 3: that could be a problem in your family, something you
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  Speaker 3: need to know, y'all, it's really really scary i think
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  Speaker 3: it's one of those things that we kind of joke
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  Speaker 3: about in aging but it's something that we should absolutely
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  Speaker 3: be aware of and have that conversation And with that,
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  Speaker 3: kind of like what's been happening this couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: has been weird for me.
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  Speaker 1: Aging.
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  Speaker 3: Aging is a conversation I've had often, I know. But
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  Speaker 3: including in my dog, y'all, her anxiety has gotten a
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  Speaker 3: lot worse.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I need to ask.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all need to tell me this because as of late,
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  Speaker 3: she has been pacing a lot and in the, not pacing,
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  Speaker 3: but like frantic in the evening sometimes where she wants
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  Speaker 3: to go outside and doesn't want to come back in.
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  Speaker 3: She just lays down outside and we're like, She's very
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  Speaker 3: food motivated. Even with treats, she doesn't necessarily want to
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  Speaker 3: come in.
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  Speaker 2: So that's new to us.
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  Speaker 3: Lately, last night was the first time I've seen her shake.
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  Speaker 3: She's been like trembling the last day or two.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it might have.
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  Speaker 3: Something to do with anxiety for the fact that we
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  Speaker 3: left for a week and like we took her to
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  Speaker 3: a place that was a little unfamiliar.
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  Speaker 2: Like she's usually, she's gone there before. It's my partner's
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  Speaker 2: family's house. And they were wonderful. Like she ended up
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  Speaker 2: loving being with them. But I think she's like traumatized.
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  Speaker 2: from being left without us. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But like last night, she would not sleep. She kept
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  Speaker 3: jumping around. She was like getting in and out of
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  Speaker 3: the bed. She was panting for a little while. I
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  Speaker 3: thought maybe it was joint pain because I know she's
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  Speaker 3: getting older and that can happen.
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  Speaker 2: But like, I'm wondering if it's anxiety. And if it is,
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  Speaker 2: what do y'all do? She's 12.
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  Speaker 3: And I know like dog dementia can happen around nine
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  Speaker 3: and older.
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  Speaker 2: And I was really, I've never experienced that. So I
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  Speaker 2: needed advice. What's happening? What's happening with my peaches? Because
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  Speaker 2: y'all know I'm a mess. I'm a mess when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to peaches. And you know what? Annie's about to
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  Speaker 2: dog sit for me.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to need to know this information.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. So listeners, you'd be doing us both a
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  Speaker 1: solid to write in about this. I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many concerning things happening. Like, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: for some reason, this weekend was one of those weekends
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  Speaker 2: that were like, hey, by the way, you're mortal and
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  Speaker 2: you might die. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The things aligned. The stars aligned to remind you. It did.
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what? Because I had another incident, which
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into, which Annie and she
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  Speaker 2: and I talked about previously. But I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: what is happening here? Why are we going through this?
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: It's not all about me because it was traumatic. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, this feels like it's trying to
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  Speaker 3: tell me to get my ducks in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know?
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  Speaker 1: No, I know. I do understand that. I've been trying
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  Speaker 1: to update my will.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was asked about this. I was asked about this,
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  Speaker 3: which I thought about. I was asked about this during
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  Speaker 3: my colonoscopy, which.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, all of the things I have to
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  Speaker 2: sign off on for the colonoscopy made me scared a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. I was like, is this going to be
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  Speaker 2: my end? Because what?
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  Speaker 1: It's the anesthesia that scares me. I know.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the thing, which is why, like, I
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  Speaker 3: absolutely refused to drink four hours. Like, I added an
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  Speaker 3: hour to my fasting.
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  Speaker 2: Just in case.
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  Speaker 1: Some breathing room, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm like, look, we're not having this. I will
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  Speaker 2: not choke to death for a colonoscopy.
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  Speaker 1: Ideally not, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, like, it just.
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  Speaker 3: Seemed like all— because they did ask about the living will,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, no. or directive I'm like
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  Speaker 3: I really need to get that together my partner knows
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  Speaker 3: me well enough and would respect my wishes for what
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  Speaker 3: I needed but at the same time I was like
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  Speaker 3: yeah this is I don't know what's happening with because
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  Speaker 3: like I said this wasn't the only thing if this
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  Speaker 3: was the only thing right I think I'd have been
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  Speaker 3: like oh whatever but the few things that have happened
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  Speaker 3: especially within the last week I'm like witnessing some things
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  Speaker 3: witnessing aging like in a different manner that I'm like
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  Speaker 3: time is fleeting get it together like Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You never know.
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  Speaker 2: Also, you need to go to the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I do.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on blast on my happy hour.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to set up a doctor's appointment for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to call your mama. That sounded real country,
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  Speaker 2: didn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 2: Call your mama.
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  Speaker 1: It works, Dawsonville.
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  Speaker 2: DeLonga.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Dawsonville was our arch nemesis town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. Dawsonville's where I went to for
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  Speaker 2: the mall. Back to Dahlonega. They know.
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  Speaker 1: They know. Yeah, my mom would love you.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see them recently on social media? No, you
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: haven't because you're not on social media. They're having a
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  Speaker 3: TikTok battle with another county about gold mining.
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  Speaker 1: Dahlonega is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually cute, but they decided to do a whole, like,
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  Speaker 3: Gold Rush is probably this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Probably.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like a whole office episode. That's a trend
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  Speaker 3: coming on. Or a Parks and Rec episode.
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  Speaker 2: Either one of those.
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  Speaker 3: About how they're having a dispute with a different county
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  Speaker 3: for calling themselves the gold mine capital or something.
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  Speaker 2: Along those lines. It's pretty funny. I'll send you a video.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I'll send you a video.
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  Speaker 3: In a way that you need to go see a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's what all the signs are for me to
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: tell you To take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe. Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Y'all heard it, listeners.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all send her emails telling her to go to the doctor.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: That's what we're doing. We don't do a harassment campaign
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  Speaker 2: until you go to a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. It makes it sound like I'm not in
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  Speaker 1: control of it. I am. But I do have a
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  Speaker 1: really stubborn streak. So I feel like if I get harassed,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be like, Guess what?
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  Speaker 2: Never. I'm just going to do it for you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to call all your friends. I know they know
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  Speaker 2: your information. We'll get it done. You got a nurse friend.
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  Speaker 2: With that, yeah. So y'all, go also, this is y'all's
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  Speaker 2: reminder to make sure you're updated. Go see your doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Go see what you can.
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  Speaker 3: I know everybody's kind of in one of those hard
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  Speaker 3: spots because the U.S., especially in the U.S., insurance sucks.
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  Speaker 3: Bills suck and it's costly to do these things. The
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  Speaker 3: bills I've gotten this year is insane, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth.
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  Speaker 3: Checking yourself out if you can. And I'm sure there's programs, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: that will assist. But go take care of yourself because
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  Speaker 3: if you don't take care of yourself, no one else will. Aw.
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  Speaker 1: I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Go see a Dr. Annie.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Well, thank you for sharing, Samantha,
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