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One Week, Two Dreams - PEOPLE Magazine and TV Time · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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  Speaker 1: From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
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  Speaker 1: the rhythm of your day.
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  Speaker 2: It's Shawna and.
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  Speaker 3: What's up. You're listening to Shauna and Lalla. Check us
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  Speaker 3: out at Shauna and Lala dot com on all social
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  Speaker 3: media platforms at Shauna and La La. You could follow
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  Speaker 3: me on Instagram at the Real Shawna.
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  Speaker 4: May and check me out at Bella Underscore La La
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  Speaker 4: one two five.
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  Speaker 3: It has been a very busy few weeks for us.
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  Speaker 3: It has been NonStop.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like we haven't been on the show
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  Speaker 4: for a while, but it's just it's been a lot.
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  Speaker 4: And then that's what happens in the summertime for us,
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  Speaker 4: or a springtime going into summer. We have trips, we
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  Speaker 4: have things booked, lots of gigs, interviews and personal stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So and on top of all that, we've been busy
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  Speaker 4: in the media world right now. You know, we had
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  Speaker 4: our News twelve interview, which was great. Then after that,
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  Speaker 4: Seana was interviewed by People magazine, and then she was
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  Speaker 4: on a talk show recently. So it's been crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a whirlwind. I will say that I
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  Speaker 3: still can't believe that I'm in People magazine. Well, we
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  Speaker 3: both are, but they really interviewed me, but they interviewed
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  Speaker 3: you too, and our pictures are there, so we're both
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  Speaker 3: in it. And I'm still like, I'm just like on
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  Speaker 3: cloud nine. I still can't believe it. I just keep
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  Speaker 3: clicking on the article every day. I'm like, is this
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  Speaker 3: real right now? Like it's crazy? And I did. I
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  Speaker 3: went to the city on Wednesday and I filmed a
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  Speaker 3: TV show with Sarah V Living Abundantly and that was
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  Speaker 3: a really cool experience. It's my first ever TV show
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  Speaker 3: that I've been on, and just to see what goes
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  Speaker 3: on behind the scenes and how the show works and
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  Speaker 3: is put together was really really cool. Everyone was so
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  Speaker 3: nice and they had a makeup artist there. She also
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  Speaker 3: did hair for everyone. It was just it was a
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  Speaker 3: really nice, fun time. And they even gave us food.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, really yeah. I couldn't believe it, and it
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  Speaker 3: was really good food. I had a cookie, of course,
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  Speaker 3: but that's all you had. I had a cook Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they had sandwiches there, but I don't know, it was
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  Speaker 3: like stuff that I didn't know what it was.
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  Speaker 4: So well, you said that had really good food, so
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, you must have tried something.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my mom ate those sandwiches. Yeah, and then our
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  Speaker 3: friend she also came with us. She drove us and
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  Speaker 3: she ate the sandwich and she was like, this is excellent. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: good so but the cookies were amazing. I only had one,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, it was really fun. And the show would
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  Speaker 3: be coming out in June. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been crazy. It's like all happens at once.
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  Speaker 4: That's how it is in life. It's like you don't
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  Speaker 4: it's like quiet for a long time and then boom,
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  Speaker 4: everything piles on top of each other.
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  Speaker 3: I know, and it goes by so fast. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And on top of that too, it was your birthday, right,
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  Speaker 4: So how was it? How did your birthday go?
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  Speaker 3: It was horrible? Oh jeez, I couldn't move. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what I did to my neck, but I had
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  Speaker 3: like a flare up and I had the worst magarine ever.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't move. I went from my bed to
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  Speaker 3: the couch and I think I laid on the couch
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  Speaker 3: all day till nighttime. My mom's like, you know, why
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  Speaker 3: don't you get up, take a shower, We'll go out
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  Speaker 3: to dinner. You know, it's your birthday, let's do something.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, I can't move. So I did take
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  Speaker 3: a shower. It did not help one bit. And then
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday I ended up going to the hospital and getting
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  Speaker 3: a shot for the myraine and the neck pain. They
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  Speaker 3: were going to do a procedure where they do like
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  Speaker 3: a nerve block, and I was like, oh, can I
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  Speaker 3: can get that done tonight? And the guy's like, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: And then I said, wait a minute. I said, I
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  Speaker 3: have to be on TV tomorrow, like I have to
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  Speaker 3: record a TV show. I said, is that gonna mess
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  Speaker 3: it up? Like, you know, am I gonna be like
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  Speaker 3: screwed up from it? And he was like, honestly, he's
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  Speaker 3: like I would wait, he said, just in case. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, he gave me the shot for the migraine
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  Speaker 3: and it worked. It helped for about forty eight hours,
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  Speaker 3: and then the headache came back. But yeah, so I
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  Speaker 3: didn't do anything for my birthday. You know, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even realize. I didn't open my mom's card that she
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  Speaker 3: got me for like two days. And then my dad
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  Speaker 3: was there, My poor dad. He was just watching me
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  Speaker 3: sleep and he was like, are you going to open
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  Speaker 3: up your card? And I was like, oh, yeah, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: and I opened it up. And it was like the
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  Speaker 3: perfect card for me. And then my mom bought me flowers.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even notice she bought me flowers. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: that's how out of it. I was, like, I couldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I was so like, so much in pain.
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  Speaker 3: But they were beautiful roses. She got me. So now
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  Speaker 3: that I'm feeling better, I'm celebrating a little bit late.
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  Speaker 3: But who cares. I mean, thirty seven, it's not that
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  Speaker 3: big of a deal exactly. But I will say after
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  Speaker 3: the city we went to a really good restaurant, Table
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  Speaker 3: nine in Peak Skill. I believe it was excellent.
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  Speaker 4: Oh really, Oh my god. It's right on the corner.
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  Speaker 3: Right yeah, where is yep where we always get stuff. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it's right over there. And I had the chicken marsala
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  Speaker 3: with pasta, and you know how I don't eat the chicken.
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  Speaker 3: I ate the chicken. It was so good good, So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we have to go there one day.
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  Speaker 4: This girl so like order chicken marsala or like chicken.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you get chicken franches. I do, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: chicken franch ches, and I don't want the chicken. Like
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  Speaker 4: that's the best part. I mean, yes, the sauce is
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  Speaker 4: the best part. But the chicken, if it's done right
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  Speaker 4: and tender, oh my god, it's like perfect with the
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  Speaker 4: pasta and the juice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Well, I don't know what they did
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  Speaker 3: to this chicken, but they they cut it up in
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  Speaker 3: like little pieces and it was like cubed pieces of
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  Speaker 3: chicken flat and it was just it was so good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. So yeah, it was great. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we did that for Wednesday after after the city and
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  Speaker 3: I have to say, you know how like all this
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  Speaker 3: like negative news is on TV about the city. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we did not see anything crazy going down. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: see there was not one cop around. It was empty.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe how empty the city was. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: this is insane, like what is going on. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: my mom's friend said, it's Memorial Day weekend, so she
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  Speaker 3: said a lot of people go away to the Hamptons, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: or upstate or yeah, by us. So I didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 3: But that's the time to go to the city, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when everyone's gone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a really nice time. When I was
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  Speaker 3: at the hospital on Tuesday, I had asked if I
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  Speaker 3: could get the MRI sooner like that day, since I
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  Speaker 3: was in pain so they could see what was going on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and because my original appointment isn't scheduled till August, which
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  Speaker 3: I think is ridiculous. Yep. So i said, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: can you is there any way you could do it
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  Speaker 3: like a stat MRI? And the doctor said, no, they
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  Speaker 3: don't do that anymore. He said, unless you're like in
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  Speaker 3: the emergency room. Yeah, he said that. You know they
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  Speaker 3: can't do it. He said, we could try to get
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  Speaker 3: you in earlier, he said, but he can't guarantee anything.
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  Speaker 3: No one has called me. I've been calling almost every
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  Speaker 3: day and no one is either calling me back or
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  Speaker 3: they say, like, you have to reach out to the doctor.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, the doctor told me to call you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, what is the problem here. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 3: to do their job. Nobody knows how to do their job,
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  Speaker 3: and it's so frustrating. Like I'm in pain now, obviously
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  Speaker 3: I'm having a flare up. Now why wait till August?
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know it doesn't make sense. Oh and
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  Speaker 3: my GI is no longer covered under my insurance. I
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  Speaker 3: found that out when they I went to sign in
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  Speaker 3: for my appointment and they handed me a bill and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what is this for? And they're like,
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  Speaker 3: your insurance doesn't cover the doctor anymore. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think it's because you have two GI's or
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  Speaker 3: just this.
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  Speaker 4: Practice doesn't accept that anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I have no idea because.
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  Speaker 4: My insurance is kind of picky, like you can't have
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  Speaker 4: to the same specialty doctors you know, so well, that's
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  Speaker 4: your problem.
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  Speaker 3: I have like a regular g I, which is who
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  Speaker 3: you say, and then I have the GI specialist in Westchester,
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  Speaker 3: but he is retiring. Yeah, so I won't be seeing
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  Speaker 3: him anymore. So I don't know I should ask, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because they don't.
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  Speaker 4: It just might show up as GI on in the
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  Speaker 4: insurance side of it, and it looks like you have
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  Speaker 4: two different ones, so they're like, you know what, pick
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  Speaker 4: you know, pick one. Maybe I don't know. I could
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  Speaker 4: be wrong, but mine I can only get one for
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  Speaker 4: each area, you know what I mean, unless it's a
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  Speaker 4: totally different doctor, that's but yeah, if it's like g
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  Speaker 4: I or cardiologists, I can't see two different cardiologists even
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  Speaker 4: though they're in different locations, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, because my regular GI if he
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  Speaker 3: can't figure out what's going on. He sends me to
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  Speaker 3: west Schuster. He's a specialist, so it's weird. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I should have asked him. I didn't ask him, but
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  Speaker 3: I should try and figure that out. Maybe I'll call
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  Speaker 3: the insurance and see what's going on. It's just it's
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  Speaker 3: really ridiculous that all these things are getting cut.
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  Speaker 4: I know, and then you get to jump through hoops
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  Speaker 4: just for basic stuff. So health care healthier is hard.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard all over, you know, Like a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people talk about the United States health care, but you
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  Speaker 4: go to other countries, it's there's a different sort of
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  Speaker 4: problem there. You know, it might not be as expensive,
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  Speaker 4: but then their wait time is much longer than it
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  Speaker 4: is here, you know. So yeah, my training one thing
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  Speaker 4: for another.
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  Speaker 3: My cousin lived in England for many, many years and
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  Speaker 3: she was married and her husband had health issues and
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  Speaker 3: she had to pay to get him further up on
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  Speaker 3: the list.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's messed up.
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  Speaker 3: And the more you pay, the further you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: closer you get. But they couldn't afford to like be
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  Speaker 3: like the next patient, and he died, yeah, before he
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  Speaker 3: could even be seen.
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  Speaker 4: So I've heard my cousin lives in Italy, same thing,
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  Speaker 4: like with just long wait times, and so you're always
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  Speaker 4: going to trade something. Look at Canada. I have friends
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  Speaker 4: I follow or they're not friends or acquaintances that have
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  Speaker 4: the same illness as me, and they tell me all
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  Speaker 4: the time how in Canada they yes, they don't have
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  Speaker 4: to pay, but they come to the United States for
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  Speaker 4: a lot of their treatments because they can get in
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  Speaker 4: faster to see a doctor. Or when they have cancer,
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  Speaker 4: they come to the United States because they can get
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  Speaker 4: in faster for treatment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so like we have to. It sucks.
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  Speaker 4: I wish that we could have a great on both
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  Speaker 4: sides of it, but it's like what you gotta trade
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  Speaker 4: one for the other, it seems, and that sucks to
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  Speaker 4: have to do that in any situation.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, my doctor who's retiring, I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: the country's gonna do because he's the only one on
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  Speaker 3: the whole northeast side that does a certain test.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 3: There's nobody else that does the test.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, he should train somebody.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was joking, and he was like, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not joking. He said, I'm the only only one
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  Speaker 3: that does it on the Northeast, he said, and people
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  Speaker 3: come from other countries to see him. Wow. And I said,
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  Speaker 3: I said, what are you What are we gonna do
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  Speaker 3: without you? And he was like, well, hopefully somebody will
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  Speaker 3: get trained. He's like, you know, he's trained people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but he said, uh, you know, you have to be
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  Speaker 3: like certified to do this tust or whatever. He said
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  Speaker 3: that they're just gonna have to recertify somebody. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: it's absolutely mind boggling. Mm hmmm. We're gonna hop into
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  Speaker 3: an interview right now with Juna and Joey. They were
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  Speaker 3: so nice.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I love them. I want to see
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  Speaker 4: them live. They play a lot in Florida, they said,
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  Speaker 4: and I hopefully I'll catch them there when I'm down
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  Speaker 4: to Florida. My many trips down there. But they were
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  Speaker 4: so sweet, so humble, so freaking talented. The way they harmonize,
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  Speaker 4: it was like I got chills. I got goosebumps listening
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  Speaker 4: to them. So they're they're really great. I hope to
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  Speaker 4: God that they go far with their careers. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 4: deserve to be They deserve to be up there with
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  Speaker 4: a lot of these top top musicians.
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  Speaker 3: They were so so nice, and I hope that they
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't really get to Florida as much
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  Speaker 3: as you do, but I hope they come to New York.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 3: On the show today we have Juna and Joey And
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  Speaker 3: for anyone who's just discovering you, how would you describe
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  Speaker 3: your sound and what makes you guys unique?
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  Speaker 2: I would describe our sound. We'd like to say modern
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  Speaker 2: country with a traditional twist. And I think something that's
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  Speaker 2: unique about us and something that the fans, you know,
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  Speaker 2: something that they can gravitate towards, is that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our brother and sister and our harmonies is something that
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  Speaker 2: we really like to embellish on because they just come
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  Speaker 2: together so smooth and really work hard to like get
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  Speaker 2: them tight and get them down. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: something that we can bring to the table as a duo,
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  Speaker 2: is those sibling harmonies. And also it's we have a
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  Speaker 2: male perspective and a female perspective in writing.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: That we can write about our own personal journeys from
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  Speaker 2: like a guy's point of view and then a woman's
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  Speaker 2: point of view, and we have that to like play
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  Speaker 2: off of in the different songs that you're writing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they compare us to like Dan and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: brothers Osbourne. So I'd say, like, that's like where we're
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  Speaker 1: aiming for. And then obviously like going on tour and
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  Speaker 1: stuff and singing with you know, your sister's always fun
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  Speaker 1: creating memories and you know it's always fun.
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys fight a lot?
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  Speaker 5: Never?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, we don't really ever, it's just when we're writing.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like sometimes we'll have some creative differences, and
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  Speaker 2: you know when it comes to like lyrics, lyrics or melodies,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably when the fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're good.
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  Speaker 5: It's just music related.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it's normal. And I have a brother and
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  Speaker 4: I love him. Me and him work together too with
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  Speaker 4: different things, and we butt heads. It's just normal. It
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  Speaker 4: comes with the territory, right, and he picks on me.
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  Speaker 4: But the one I will say, that's the one thing
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  Speaker 4: I noticed when listening to your songs was the harmony.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's like angelic. It I've never heard, well, i've
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  Speaker 4: heard harmonies that good before, but it's very rare to
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  Speaker 4: find it. It's just like like a puzzle piece, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing So when did you both realize that this
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  Speaker 3: could be more than just posting covers online and you
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  Speaker 3: could actually make a career out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we got started super young, So I feel like
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  Speaker 2: this has kind of always been our journey, whether that
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  Speaker 2: was you know, at a serious level and then becoming
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  Speaker 2: a serious level. I just we kind of always knew
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  Speaker 2: that music was going to be in our lives. I
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  Speaker 2: started singing at like age of four. I was obsessed
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  Speaker 2: with the movie The Little Rascals and I would watch
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  Speaker 2: it every day my way to school, and I became
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  Speaker 2: you know, I fell in love with the Talent show
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  Speaker 2: scene with Darlen Alfalfa and they sang together, and I
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  Speaker 2: was just like amazed by that scene.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if something just hit me. And I
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  Speaker 5: would watch it over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: And then I got into singing lessons, and then I started,
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing piano, and that's kind of when Joey
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  Speaker 2: joined me.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, I was into sports. I played baseball
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  Speaker 1: for eight years. I thought I was going to be
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  Speaker 1: the next eeron Judge, and then basketball came along with that,
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  Speaker 1: and then thought I was going to be the next Kobe,
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  Speaker 1: but I said no, I just it just was a hobby.
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  Speaker 1: I guess because I went to one of Juna's lessons
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  Speaker 1: and the teacher was like, do you sing it all?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I just play sports. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about being a sports guy. And eventually I
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  Speaker 1: went to one of her lessons, like I said, and
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  Speaker 1: went to the piano and she was like, just hum something,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just give me, give me a little hum.
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  Speaker 1: I was like okay. She was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta get you lessons. She's like, oh, there's something here.
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  Speaker 2: And then so she was kind of the one that
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  Speaker 2: got us started together, I guess. And then we went
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: into a classic rock band when we were like like eight.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: And classic rockow.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're doing like Blondie.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking she's going to stay like fifteen.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: No eight, Yeah, we're really young. And then we did
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that for a couple of years and then we split
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: off and did our own kind of rock band and yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and then we eventually fizzed out and we said like,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: why don't we just do music together?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's when we kind of started writing music.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Was when we were like, Okay, this is something that's
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: coming out of our hearts naturally, like this is something
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: that we could pursue as Juna and Joey and not
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: as Category five, which was the name of our rock band,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: which will not Yeah Nee Category five because we were
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: all from Florida, so you know with the hurricane Hurricane,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: it's like naming your band after a natural disaster. Yeah,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: but then we when we started writing is when we
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: kind of started to take it like a little more serious,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: like this could be something that we get into for
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: a future.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: So what does your typical songwriting process look like then?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Do you start with the lyrics or are you guys
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: just butting heads or you you know, come together with
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: your own little ideas and mesh them.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we usually just start with a four chord progression.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: We'll have like our little hook books or a little
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: notes page where we just grab a couple of titles
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and we just brainstorm from there. Sometimes, you know, it
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: depends because sometimes we'll be on zoom and sometimes we'll
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: be in person, but we always love in person because
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: it just flows better.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll just start with the with the core progression
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and then we'll go from there.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll usually like loop a little thing going joy.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: We'll start playing something on guitar, and then I'm like, oh,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: what if we did this here and I'd just start.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Saying a bunch of gibberish.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Like most of the time when we start out, you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: with words, it's just a bunch of la la he who.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: It's not anything like real until we can kind of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: get the story down and then we start puzzling the
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: words in together where it fits.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit of la la And I know
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: what you mean.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: I was in a band when I was in my
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: teens and we would do the same thing, would just
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: like a little hummed things. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: And what has been like the most memorable part of
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: your journey so far?
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: I would probably have to say when we went overseas.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: We went to the UK and we did a school tour,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: which was it was so amazing, It was really inspiring
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and it was just such a great opportunity to go
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: over there and perform some of our songs and get
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: to know some kids. We did a we did a
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: school tour which was like a couple classes per day.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: We went to England, Scotland and Wales and we did
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: a speech on anti blaying and mental health and then
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: we kind of performed some country music and science and
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: posters and it was like a little mini concert. It
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: was so fun, and it was great to be able
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: to like connect with the kids and like leave a
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: mark on a lot of them.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Like they've reached out even to this day. Like you
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: guys were such an inspiration. You helped me through such a.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Hard time in my life, and I appreciate you guys
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: taking the time to get to know us and things
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: like that. So it was really awesome to be able
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to do that and connect with them.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I'd say, like another Memora memorable thing was we went
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: to LA and we did America's Most Musical Family. It
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: was like a little episode kind of seasonal thing for Nickelodeon.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I remember seeing Beautiful Crazy up on stage.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I think it was like the first time we run
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: national television. And the sound system was really good, the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: judges were really cool. We got to meet everybody backstage
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: and that was that was a fun time.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: That's amazing to get that far from starting out and
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: then on a national TV show.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: That's I know. I was so nervous.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't I was like, I don't know if I'm
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: going to pass out.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: I was like just.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Going over the song over and over again, like what
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: if I forget the words?
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Even though I sang the song like three hundred thousands,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: like a hundred times. I was just nervous.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: But as soon as we got on stage, like everything
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: kind of just settles falls into place.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: It's just like the leading moments that you're like, oh.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Jeezus, yeah, it's scary.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: It's scary, and then yeah, just you don't know what
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: to expect to If that was like your first time
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: to do something that major, that's it's a lot. There's
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: a lot of stressors there.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: And you've opened up for Morgan Wallen and Jason Alden
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: just to name two people that you opened up for,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: and that must have been like, were you nervous?
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we were. We were pretty nervous.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It was like a show in our hometown and it
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: was it was pretty nerve wracking. It was great to
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: be able to like share the name and this age
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: like with those names. I mean, it's incredible, but yeah,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: it was definitely.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: It was fun.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: We remember when Morgan Wallend we actually went to the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the Florida, Georgia line, Morgan wall and Dan Shay. That
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: was the three acts that were performing and Morgan Wallen
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was opening up over them, and we actually got to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: go backstage with Florida Georgia Line that day and we
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: when they were you know, and then they were a thing,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and we got to pray with pray with them, like
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: before the they came out and sang one of our friends, Zia,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: who's like another artist, she got to sing for bb
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Rexa because she wasn't there that day, so she got
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to like do the part and we were.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: On the side.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a fun day.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: So it was crazy to see how he was an
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: opener and now he's like huge artist.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Like it's just crazy how that works.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: So it was great to like be associated on the
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: same in the same show with them.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: It was just amazing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: You know when you heard the name Morgan Wallen, you
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: were like okay, just like but he was like happening.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: He just I mean, I didn't know who he was.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: You know, it's been like the what the last year,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: three years?
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a couple of years. Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's awesome.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: But that's it. That's crazy, and I hope that that
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: happens for you guys. So maybe that's you know, you
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: surrounded your I believe in manifesting, manifestation and yep, surrounding
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: yourself and that, so maybe that will come for you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, you know, they opened and now look
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: at them. Hopefully we're saying that in a couple of years, like,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: oh my god, we had them on the show, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: well that has happened, it has, it has Jesse James
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Decker that was one. Yeah, so you never know, right,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: So what's next for you guys, Anything new that the
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: fans should know about or should be excited about.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Well, tomorrow we're actually going to key West, So we're
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: doing the key West Songwriters Festival. We got a couple
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of dates there. We always love key West. It's uh,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it's such it's just such a fun time. There's chickens,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like the like the wild ones that yeah yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, walking around. We got bikes, we got some good food,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: some good sunshine.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Good writers, a lot of like writers just like the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: craziest people like with the most success, just walking around
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: with their foot cups on, like.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Hey, didn't you like number one song? Like yeah, they
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: down there just chill.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Level, yeah, drinking. Now that you're twenty one, we're gonna
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: be drinking.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Get your drink on right after the show, maybe right.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And then we are going to get into the studio
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: and record some new music. We just had like our
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: last single of our EP come out, and now we're
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: just looking to get some new stuff rolling out.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I'm excited.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: And what's the name of the single.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: It's called Stop Thinking, Stop Thinking?
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look out for that one.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for coming on the show.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Are you guys coming to New York anytime soon?
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: I don't want anytime soon, but we have been a
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: couple of times. A couple of fashion weeks.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: We went to New York Fashion Week, and we've done
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: some like photo shoots and things there, some publicity events.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: We have.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Our manager works for the Publicist New York, so he's
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: constantly getting too something.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Getting into Bethel Woods. That's like you know where Woodstock.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Was up here? Yes, you guys really should h So we.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Always have country artists up here and it's like big
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: because you know that's what the original Woodstock, right am I?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah? Fourteen thousand people. WOWK yeah, people can see them.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I've ever.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I go to Florida a lot.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: So if you guys.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Ever, you just play around there too, like just on
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: typical weekends or well.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: We live mostly in Nashville now, but we'll come back
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: here and there to do a show or you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: if there's an event going on down here, we'll come back.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So yeah, at June eleventh, yes, so you know we
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: have a couple of shows.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to. Okay, yeah, Now do you
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: guys go to the main street? What is that Broadway?
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: We're in Nashville with all the bars being crazy road.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: We have before.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: We don't usually play down there too much, but we
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: have in the past, played like a Jason Audine's place.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: We played at Tutsi's Redneck Riviera. Yeah, in the past,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: that was.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Our basically where we stayed.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have friends. I don't know if you've heard
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: of them that they have a band down there called
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: the Hudson Valley Band. I mean they're smaller, but they
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: play all the time of Old Red So we went
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: to go.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: See them there.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Did you guys sleep?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Not really well. I got more sleep than I was.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Rolling the streets by myself because I'm like, I'm in Nashville.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I want to I want to experience it and I
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: went out by myself and it was safe. Except for
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: the last night it was a little weird, so but
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: it was a nice.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: You know, we're going out to call the cops.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just drunk people bothering me. I was by myself,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: but it was everything turned out good.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: That's good.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: There's some crazy rowdy, you know, people down there wild,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: so you know, alcohol brings brings it out, so it's
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: good to.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Be when you go down there.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: So where can our listeners find you guys and check
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: out your music?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Well, they can check us on all social media's It's
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: just Juna, j U n A, the letter n j
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: O e Y on Instagram, you know, TikTok, Spotify, all
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the streaming platforms.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: YouTube also awesome.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: We'll have to follow you guys.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: We'd love that. Thank you.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much Juna and Joey for coming on
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: the show and let us know and you'll be in
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: New York. We'd love to uh get hang out and.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: See you guys.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Thank you, and that's our show for this week. Thank
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you so much for tuning in. Make sure to follow
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: us at Shaunaanlala dot com. Follow us on social media
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: at Shauna and Lala. You could follow me on Instagram
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: at the real Shauna May.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: And check me out at Bella Underscore Laala one two five.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: We will see you next week.