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If I See Another Tree, I'm Going to Scream · 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. It's Shawna m.
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  Speaker 2: What's up. You're listening to Shauna and Laala. Check us
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  Speaker 2: out at Shauna and Lala dot com on all social
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  Speaker 2: media platforms at Shauna and La La. You could follow
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  Speaker 2: me on Instagram at the Real Shawna May check.
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  Speaker 3: Me out at Bella Underscore La La one two five.
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  Speaker 2: This week has been a very busy week. It has
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  Speaker 2: finally I think turned to summer weather, thank god.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty hot every day now, so we're pretty consistent.
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  Speaker 2: No more bipolar, no, thank god. Last week I went
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  Speaker 2: to West Virginia and that was that was ah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know what to say.
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  Speaker 1: Trip.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about where her mom so I will go
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  Speaker 3: on vacation and booked like a train trip through Virginia mountains. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is the one. So it happened last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it happened last week. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say it was a disaster, but it was a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: It was supposed to be for the elderly and the
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  Speaker 2: senior centersens, you know, with my mom's old people group,
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  Speaker 2: and nothing was handicap accessible, nothing. Yeah, it was really strange.
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  Speaker 2: We couldn't eat at the restaurants that we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: eat at. Really there were none around really, but the
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  Speaker 2: tour basically picked like campsites to eat at. Someone was
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  Speaker 2: like cooking you food, right, yeah, and then they hired
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  Speaker 2: somebody to come in and cook for like forty people.
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  Speaker 2: It was the weirdest thing. So, like, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that how all tours are, but I would never
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  Speaker 2: ever in my life take another tour, yeah, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: it just I don't know. I thought you'd be able
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  Speaker 2: to do like a buffet or or something, give you choices,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was There was no choices. It was
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  Speaker 2: either you ate what they made or you didn't eat.
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  Speaker 2: And the hotel. The hotel made a Thanksgiving dinner for us,
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  Speaker 2: which all right, you know, fine whatever. I got so
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  Speaker 2: sick on it, but that's just me. But that's besides
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  Speaker 2: the point. But you know, I asked like, can we
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  Speaker 2: order something different? And the lady was like, no, you're
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  Speaker 2: not a paying customer. Can we sit by the window? No,
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  Speaker 2: you're not a paying customer? What do you mean We're
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  Speaker 2: not a paying customer? That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get that, because yes, I understand, I paid
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  Speaker 3: for a ticket, all inclusive ticket, and this is part
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  Speaker 3: of that ticket. But if I want to walk up
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  Speaker 3: to that front counter as if i'd never been here before,
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  Speaker 3: or the front hostess thing, get a table elsewhere, and
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  Speaker 3: pay with cash or credit card for something else on
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  Speaker 3: the menu, I should be allowed to do that. That's
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  Speaker 3: my that's my money. If I want to spend extra money,
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't. Like, that's crazy to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I thought. And the girl at the restaurant
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  Speaker 2: and said, no, you're with the party. What I should
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  Speaker 2: have said because I didn't know. The girl said to me,
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  Speaker 2: are you with them? And I said with who? And
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  Speaker 2: she said are you with the tour? And I said yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when she said I'll bring you over to
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  Speaker 2: your seat and I said okay. She said you could
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  Speaker 2: pick your seat, so I said, okay, we'll sit by
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  Speaker 2: the window and she said, no, that's for paying customers only.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, what what are you?
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  Speaker 3: Is this for free?
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  Speaker 2: Is this dinner for free?
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  Speaker 3: Ma'am?
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  Speaker 2: Like yeah, I don't know. It was just it was
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  Speaker 2: really weird. Everything was like two hours away from the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: That's weird.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so nothing was nearby granted we were in the mountains.
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  Speaker 2: It was beautiful, but everything everywhere we went was an
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  Speaker 2: hour and a half to two hours away, which really,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we spent more time in the bus than anything.
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  Speaker 2: And then the train ride that we took was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be four and a half hours. It was five hours.
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  Speaker 2: And the guy was like, oh, I got to stop
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  Speaker 2: for lunch. He stopped in the middle of the woods
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  Speaker 2: and ate his lunch, and I'm like, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be kidding me. It was like the weirdest thing. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, my mom thought it was gonna be stopping
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  Speaker 2: at like little different towns like within the mountains. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah. No, it was like you were just going
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  Speaker 2: through a forest, like there was nothing to say. And
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  Speaker 2: then the guy, you know, was talking over the loudspeaker,
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  Speaker 2: explaining like what we were looking at, and I'm just like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: we're looking at just a bunch of trees, Like there
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  Speaker 2: is nothing specific here that we're looking at. And he's like,
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen twenty something, you know, blah blah blah was here,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, it's a bunch of trees. So it
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  Speaker 2: was it was nice for the first half hour, and
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  Speaker 2: then after that I was like, this is ridiculous, Like it's.
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  Speaker 3: A long time, that's a long train ride.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they gave us lunch, which was not really
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was like a roll with a piece
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  Speaker 2: of craft cheese and a piece of turkey. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was telling you whenever I do, I don't do tours.
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  Speaker 3: I've told Seana in the past, I don't do tours.
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  Speaker 3: That's the exact reason I don't like. I don't like
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  Speaker 3: to be scheduled. I don't like to be on someone
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  Speaker 3: else's time. I don't like to be timed in what
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  Speaker 3: I want to do, you know, or told where to go.
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  Speaker 3: But if the excursions that we've done, when we're somewhere,
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  Speaker 3: they always prefer like, oh, lunch is provided, and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: what's it going to be? And it's always slight mine
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  Speaker 3: at least yours was a role. I had sliced bread
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  Speaker 3: and a piece of baloney, Like, oh my god, I
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  Speaker 3: would have brought something, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And do you know what tickets were? I looked at
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  Speaker 2: the price they had, like the the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: ticket stand or whatever, eighty five dollars for that train ride.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god, yeah, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: For four they just sitting there. So granted we did
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  Speaker 2: get I guess the discount because there was forty of us,
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  Speaker 2: But how much of a discount could you possibly get?
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  Speaker 2: But still eighty five dollars for that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It was just it was an experience. Oh and for
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  Speaker 2: the train ride, you know what I could have used,
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  Speaker 2: what your pure air air? Purefire?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my yeah, put all that soot and smoke that
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  Speaker 3: was blown in there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was horrible. I sent you the video.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that black smoke was just pulling out of it
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  Speaker 3: and into everywhere. So yeah, you would have put that
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  Speaker 3: pure air to work. Man, that would have but it
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  Speaker 3: would have been good. You could have sat in a
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  Speaker 3: little cabin and put that purifier on and had some
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  Speaker 3: clean air.
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  Speaker 2: I said to my mom, I was like, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: bring my inhaler. We didn't bring masks, we didn't bring
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  Speaker 2: who knew?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean I thought you would have brought your
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  Speaker 3: inhaler at least, but geez, yeah, that's bad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know that it was gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: very old train from the nineteen twenties or forties, And
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was cool, but I don't know, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be great because I love it because
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  Speaker 3: it's so easily easy to transport. Your mom would have
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  Speaker 3: had no issue holding it. It's so lightweight, you have
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  Speaker 3: no idea. I really have to look up how much
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  Speaker 3: it weighs, because it really feels like it weighs like
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  Speaker 3: two pounds.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Really, it might be a little bit more than that.
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  Speaker 3: But but it is light and it doesn't really weigh
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  Speaker 3: down my luggage, so it would be nice and easy
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  Speaker 3: for a trip, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I like it. I on our last
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  Speaker 2: night there, we did have dinner at a four H
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  Speaker 2: campsite and we had music and the musicians were called
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  Speaker 2: Crandall Creek and they're from West Virginia. And that was
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  Speaker 2: the best part.
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  Speaker 3: Were they like, were they playing like Appalachia music like
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  Speaker 3: fiddle and yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah they were, and they're on Spotify and I
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  Speaker 2: think they said that they're on serious. They were really good.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed them. It was the best part of the
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  Speaker 2: whole entire trip.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: But oh, then the boss couldn't use the bathrooms.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's bull that's bullshit. The whole point of going
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  Speaker 3: on a short line bus for any trip is because
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  Speaker 3: you have access to a bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't short Line, it was a different company.
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  Speaker 3: I call them that.
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  Speaker 2: What are they called?
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  Speaker 3: Like, So, the whole point of booking to go on
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  Speaker 3: a charter bus is that it has a bathroom. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's why I've always want to try. Like if I
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  Speaker 3: was traveling on to a like even Atlantic City, I
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  Speaker 3: took a charter bus there because they said, oh, if
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  Speaker 3: it gets stuck in traffic, because there's always traffic going
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  Speaker 3: to Atlantic City, at least is a bathroom on the bus. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So that's ridiculous that you guys paid to have a
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  Speaker 3: charter bus take you down there West Virginia and you
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  Speaker 3: couldn't use a bathroom on it, Like that's that's bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they wouldn't let us. And the reason was they
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  Speaker 2: said that because it was a six hour ride there,
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  Speaker 2: six hour ride back, it was gonna smell. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: but I was reading other reviews and somebody else, a
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  Speaker 2: few other people wrote that they weren't allowed to use
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  Speaker 2: the bathroom because it didn't flush, which is why you
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  Speaker 2: would smell it. So I am assuming we got the
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  Speaker 2: broken bus.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't know, but I still would
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  Speaker 3: have went I'm like, nope, if you're not stopping because
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  Speaker 3: I have to go, I'm I'm gonna go in there,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't care because that's that's that's horrible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he stopped every two hours, so he did stop.
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  Speaker 2: The third stop he mapped out. The bathrooms didn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: The building didn't exist. It was broken down. Like we
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  Speaker 2: pull up and it was just completely broken down, and
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  Speaker 2: the guy goes, it's not here, We'll have to go
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  Speaker 2: straight to the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, who planned this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But I tried to enjoy myself. I really really did
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  Speaker 2: like the waterfalls. It was not handicap accessible. I felt
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  Speaker 2: so bad for some of the people, most of the
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  Speaker 2: people actually that were on the tour, because they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do steps, They couldn't do you know, walking down the rocks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard. So they spent like two thousand dollars to
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  Speaker 2: just ride around in a bus and watch everyone else
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  Speaker 2: or wait for everyone else.
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  Speaker 3: That's not because if this is a trip, you're her mom,
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  Speaker 3: and these people are part of like a senior citizen group.
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  Speaker 3: So whoever booked this trip should know, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: they're elderly somewhere with walker. Some have canes. This is
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  Speaker 3: not a good trip for them. I don't know who
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  Speaker 3: in their right mind would book hiking and waterfall down
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  Speaker 3: a cliff or whatever down two hundred steps for elderly
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  Speaker 3: people like that makes no sense.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. And they supposedly told the group that
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  Speaker 2: they had like ramps and stuff, and they didn't, So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where the miscommunication was. But I just
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  Speaker 2: know that I will never be taking a tour ever again.
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  Speaker 2: And it was mostly because of the whole restaurant situation
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  Speaker 2: and the whole everything is planned out hour by hour,
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  Speaker 2: minute by minute. Yeah, you know, if you're not happy
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  Speaker 2: and you want to leave, you can't. Yeah, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: wait for everyone. And sometimes we were waiting three and
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  Speaker 2: four hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not it's not enjoyable. Some people love them.
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  Speaker 3: Some people like that. They don't want to make decisions,
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to have to stress. They like to know,
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  Speaker 3: like everything's planned. I'm good, I'm just following the leader, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like my mother. Yeah, so that's no stress to them.
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  Speaker 3: But for me, for traveling, like you know, we're avid travelers.
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  Speaker 3: The whole fun of traveling for us is trying new
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  Speaker 3: restaurants and what are we doing today? I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: usually have some sort of plan like Okay, we want
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  Speaker 3: to see this, we want to see that, but not
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  Speaker 3: being on a schedule, and I just I guess it's
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  Speaker 3: just different types of people.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: There's people who tore Europe on a bus, who tore
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  Speaker 3: Italy on a bus, and everything is laid out for them,
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  Speaker 3: waking up at this time, eating breakfast at this time,
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  Speaker 3: getting on the bus, lunch. We're only visiting this city,
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  Speaker 3: stay together with your little tour group with the flag,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So yeah, not that's not for me.
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  Speaker 2: Well it is not for me either. I have figured
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  Speaker 2: that out. And my mom loved it. Well, she says
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  Speaker 2: she loved it, but in that moment and she did
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  Speaker 2: not like it. Yeah, so exactly. She said that she
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  Speaker 2: just liked that she didn't have to drive anywhere, she
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to make decisions. You know, everything was you know,
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  Speaker 2: planned out like you said. So she liked that part.
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  Speaker 2: But she did say that she would have liked to
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  Speaker 2: eat wherever she wanted to eat. Yeah, and eat whatever
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  Speaker 2: she wanted to eat, which is what I had said,
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  Speaker 2: and a little bit more freedom of Hey, do you
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  Speaker 2: want to go here? Do you want to go here?
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  Speaker 2: You know, where do you want to go? Maybe? And downtime? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there was the resort we stayed at was beautiful, but
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't do anything because we were always on the bus. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, by the time we got back, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the old people wanted to go swimming, and we
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  Speaker 2: were getting back at seven thirty at night and the
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  Speaker 2: pool closed at eight and they wouldn't make an exception. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, it's hard, It's really hard. But West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia is definitely not a place that I would want
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  Speaker 2: to live. Although my family was born and raised there,
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  Speaker 2: it is not somewhere where I ever want to go again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks beautiful, but maybe a different trip for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's beautiful. It definitely is beautiful. But how many
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  Speaker 2: trees can you look at? You know, a few of
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  Speaker 2: the ladies said, if I see another tree, I'm gonna scream.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at least you got away like I Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta look at the positives getting away from here.
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  Speaker 3: And you didn't really have good food, so that sucks.
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  Speaker 2: But no, and my stomach. You know, it was funny
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  Speaker 2: because my mom when we got back, Moms like, you
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  Speaker 2: really haven't ate much, I said, I think my stomach
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  Speaker 2: is getting used to not eating.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because of the trip, you didn't eat anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had freaking granola bars.
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  Speaker 3: How is breakfast?
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast was really good. I could not eat it as
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  Speaker 2: I because I got sick, so I stayed away from everything.
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  Speaker 2: But they had so much to choose from. I did
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  Speaker 2: eat the breakfast once and it was really good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and that was the day that I got sick. But
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  Speaker 2: I know I got sick from the turkey. I know
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  Speaker 2: it was the turkey lot that I had Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 2: And uh yeah, so no, the breakfast was excellent. They
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  Speaker 2: had anything you could think of, muffin, cereal, fruit, waffles, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: anything you could think of.
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  Speaker 3: They had good not at least that was the one positive,
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  Speaker 3: even though you didn't get to enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: But it was it was also cold, ye, nothing was
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  Speaker 2: warm evens. Yeah. They were just laying out there like
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  Speaker 2: from six o'clock in the morning. Cold, right, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was like the down part. I mean it tasted good, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was Uh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just glad to be home and now you know
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  Speaker 3: not to do it again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love to know if anyone has ever
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  Speaker 2: gone anywhere that has been accessible. I think we should
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  Speaker 2: make that a segment and feature different accessible places that
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  Speaker 2: our listeners can visit that is handicap accessible, like for
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  Speaker 2: nature or nature or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Really, yeah. You know, we've been to water parks that
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  Speaker 2: have been accessible, and we've been to water parks that
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  Speaker 2: haven't been accessible. You know, We've been to plenty of
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  Speaker 2: hotels that haven't been accessible. Yeah, but then we've been
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  Speaker 2: to hotels like the Holston House in Nashville that is accessible.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's hit or miss it is, and
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  Speaker 2: I think every place should be accessible. We're gonna hop
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: into an interview with Mackenzie Phipps and she was on
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  Speaker 2: the voice on Snoop Dogg's Team, which I still find amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I know he's so funny too, but that's besides the point.
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  Speaker 2: I still would love to interview him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that would be a we'd have to
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  Speaker 3: do zoom because you know, he'd be smoking and is
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  Speaker 3: so chill.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be like, hey, what you girls doing on the
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  Speaker 2: show today? We have Mackenzie Phipps and you may know
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  Speaker 2: her from being on the voice and you were on
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  Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg's team, and so what did that teach you
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  Speaker 2: about yourself and about being an artist?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it told me so different, so many
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  Speaker 4: different things, because especially the entire process of being involved
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  Speaker 4: in the Voice, I mean, the production side of things.
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  Speaker 4: They very much make sure that you are as prepared
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  Speaker 4: as possible to go out there in audition, and just
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  Speaker 4: being surrounded by all of the other insanely talented artists
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  Speaker 4: just kind of is uplifting and kind of gives you
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  Speaker 4: a little more drive, I feel, especially with us musicians,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we go day by day doing our thing
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: and just taking it day by day and hoping we
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: continue going up that ladder of where we want to
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: be in our career, and so being on the Voice
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: really showed me that this is one definitely something that
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I've always known I wanted to do, just being a
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: full time musician and sharing my music with others, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: also just.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Really taking it day by day. I mean, because.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Especially in the music industry, everything is so fast paced,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: but also everything is like slow, so you kind of
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: just go day by day and you're like, what am
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I doing? You know, is this really the path the
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Lord wants? To be on and it could kind of
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: be discouraging, but I felt like, really, my time on
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: the show showed me that I'm exactly where I want
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: to be and to just keep going and moving forward
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: and just seeing what happens.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you being a country singer and snoopying Snoop Dogg,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I was that you were on his team. But I
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: guess what I want to ask is were you just
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: as shocked?
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Well, okay, so under my circumstances, especially for those that
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: didn't get the chance to watch the season I was on,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: which was last season. They actually just wrapped up twenty nine,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: so I was on twenty eight, And for those that
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: didn't get the chance to watch my audition, I was
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: the very last person picked. So I was the last
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: person that got to audition that made a team, and
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I closed out the whole thing.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: So basically the day I was auditioning, I was like, I.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Don't care who turns, Like, you know, it's just an
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: honor to even be a part of the audition process.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But I mean, to even make a team is just
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: like the cherry on top.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: So in the beginning, especially doing different b roll when
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: talking to the production and everything they ask you, of course, like, oh, well,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: who would you like to be on as far as
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: a team, And of course I in the beginning did
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: want to be on Team Reba because I've it felt
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: like it would have been a very natural connection just
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: to both of us being country artists and everything like that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: But I did tell them if I didn't get the
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: chance to be with Reba that I have always loved Snoop.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I have an older brother and I also
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: have my dad who both very much enjoyed the old
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: school hip hop R and b RAP, and so I
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: grew up a lot listening to Snoop. And so as
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: the audition process was going on, I knew there wasn't
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: a lot of spots left on the teams. So I
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: was just kind of like, I'm going to go out
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: there and do my thing, and I hope it's good enough.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: So for him to have turned his chair at the
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: very last minute and made me his closer for his
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: team just meant the world to me.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And what kind of advice did he give
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: you that really stuck with you to this day that
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: you use in.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: He was He was very uplifting with all of us.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: He was very much treating all of us like we
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: were a family, like we weren't just a team, like
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: we were a family.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: He was uncle Snoop, and all of.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Us were brothers and sisters among one another, and he
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: was very big on just supporting and highlighting each other,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: especially like you know, my time on the Battles, which
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: is where my time on.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: The show ended.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: He specifically was like, these aren't you know, competitions among
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: one another. This is two insanely talented artists coming together
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: and bringing something awesome to the stage. And he was
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: very big on all of us just really supporting and
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: rooting for one another. And I loved that aspect of him,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: and also the fact that he is just such a
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: kind and generous person. I mean, even when I got
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: eliminated off the show, he and his team brought all
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: of the participants that had been eliminated off the show
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: and had us go perform at a halftime show for
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the Steelers Chargers game because he was commentating and he
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: was like, I think it'd be fun to have them
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: all come out and perform, And.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like, who does that?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, like, he is such a kind, generous I mean, truly,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: he is.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Just like no other.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I've never met him personally, but I have friends that
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: know him. And the industry is so small it's crazy. Yeah,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: it's like everyone knows everybody and if you haven't met
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: this person, you will, yes. And he just seems so
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: down to earth. He's so family oriented. Yes, and you know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: he would be somebody who I would love to just
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: pick his brain.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I mean he was just such a joy to be around.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I mean also too, there's not a lot of time
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: when you're on the show and around the coaches, so
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: sometimes I kind of give them grace of the fact
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: that they have twelve different people that they've never met
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: before on their team, and it's like, well, how do
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: they remember all of their names?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And I mean like he knew who all of us were.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, if he saw us like on set, he'd
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: be like maybe you can see, like he knew who
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: we were.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: And I thought that that was just that was incredible.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like he took the time to know who
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: each and every person is right on the show, off
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the show, you know, And that's what a good coach does,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you know. It's he wasn't He doesn't seem like he's
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: just in it to be on the show, you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Know, yeah, he was on it to just he was honestly,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I feel on it to just have fun and inspire
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: people and to make dreams come true and that kind
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: of thing. And I have talked to a lot of
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: my other friends that I made on the show about
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I feel it's gonna be hard for him to return
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: to another season because, I mean, especially on our season,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: he was gifting us, you know, his dogs supply snoop
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: clothing items. He gave us these nice bomber jackets. I mean,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: he kept sending us all different kinds of stuff. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's gonna be really hard for him
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: so to be on a new season, because everybody's gonna
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: be like, please turn, please turn, that kind of thing.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Besides the show, what are you working on now? And
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: what has what doors have opened up for you from
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the show.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, ever since I finished up with the
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Voice of of Course, I've gotten a lot of new
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: followers on my social media pages who I like to
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: call friends, because I would not be anywhere without all
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: of them supporting my music and sharing everything that I do.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: And I've been working on different shows. I actually have
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: a really exciting show taking place in July that I'm
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: really excited to announce. But I have been working on
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: new music ever since I got back, and I'm very
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: excited to show people what I have been working on.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I just had my debut and Pick Your Poison EP
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: come out, and it has all of my fan favorite
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: drinking songs in one place, and we actually hadn't added
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: bonus to the EP that brought it all together, which
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: was my new single called Whiskey Kills the Time, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I'm very excited just with all of the comments and
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: the love I've gotten from the song since it's been out.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: It is for all of our whiskey drinkers out there,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: if you just want to sit back and relax and
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: have a cold glass and cifia some whiskey.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: While listening to the song.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: But it's just one of those deep country ballads in
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: my opinion. But I'm really excited now that that song
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: is out and I do have some upcoming projects in
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: the works. I'm going to be having my new single
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: coming out on May eighth, and I'm really excited about
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: this one. It's actually a song that I had written.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: It's one of the longest songs I've actually had out.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: It's like four and a half minutes, and it's a
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: very emotional piece to me, and I think it's going
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: to be also emotional to others that listen to it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: So I'm very excited to be releasing that here in
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: the next few weeks.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: But other than that, just putting out.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: New music and showing people all that I've been working
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: on even.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: While I was out on the Voice.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: I have a song that's coming out with a special
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: friend of mine that I'm really excited to share with everybody.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: But they can go to my social media pages as
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: well as my website McKenzie fips dot com to check
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: out what.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Ell I got going on.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much Mackenzie for coming on the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: show today.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for speaking with me. It's
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: been a.
• 25:59
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• 26:01
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