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Season 4 - Episode 206 - Observations from our trip! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the Coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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  Good morning. So tell them what we're talking
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  about today. Today.
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  We are going to talk about things that non Californians are
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  observing about California. Yeah.
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  It's I feel like I'm in a very unique space, let's put it that
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  way. You know, coming back, I lived
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  here for 10 years and I've been gone for 14.
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  So coming back, it's like, how did I do this?
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  I don't know. I never lived here and I, I.
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  Don't know, but I do think I will say I do think things have
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  elevated and I will say that I know that I hate to use the C
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  word of COVID, but I do feel like some states didn't recover
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  and some some did better. And I feel there's definitely, I
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  haven't seen as many hand sanitizing stations as I have
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  here. Everywhere you go, it's hand
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  sanitizer. Hand sanitizer still, which I
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  find interesting. I don't see them anywhere in
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  Texas. We don't.
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  I don't see them really anywhere in South Carolina.
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  I didn't see any that much during COVID either so I mean.
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  We didn't. We had very different
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  experiences, like we, let's be very real about it, like we had
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  very different experiences in the states we live in as opposed
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  to. Here, Yeah.
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  So the hand sanitizers was definitely one thing that we've
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  noticed. The other thing is you have to
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  ask for everything. Everything.
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  Like everything. We went to dinner the other
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  night and it said in a very tiny print.
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  Did you see how small that print was in the bottom corner of the
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  menu? It was.
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  If you'd like bread and butter, please ask your server.
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  Supplies are limited. Yes I was like and he was happy
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  to bring it. He didn't complain but like if
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  if we said nothing we weren't getting any.
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  No, no. That was interesting to me.
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  Well, I also found it to be we go into a coffee shop and it's
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  virtually. Do you remember during COVID
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  where everything was like empty? Social.
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  Distancing, social distancing, if they were still doing it in
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  the coffee shop and when you went to go to where you would
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  get your cream and sugar and stirs, straws and all that, it
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  was empty and it said ask at the counter, please.
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  Go to counter for it said condiments, which I thought was
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  weird. 'Cause it's not condiments.
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  They're not. Condiments, but that's what it
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  said. And you go up and I'm like, do
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  you have napkins? And then they hand you 2 napkins
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  and it's like, do you have more? Like I, I don't, I just we're
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  having. Cake they're rationing that
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  they're. Rationing and and it was just
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  very interesting because it's almost like you still feel like
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  you're in that state of what's there and the signage
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  everywhere, you know, like how I mean there's just so much.
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  Oh, and then we were at the restaurant too, in Old Town and
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  remember it said there's like a $3 and like 60 cent.
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  It was a 4% fee. It was 4%, OK, maybe that's
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  calculated it to. Oh yeah, it was 4% fee for
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  increased expenses and wages or something, right?
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  Yeah, it was some some strange thing, but we didn't just see it
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  there. That's been in a couple of
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  different restaurants. Oh.
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  Right. But that one was the restaurant
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  too, where if you had more than eight people, it was a 20%
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  surcharge. So that would be almost 25% of
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  your bill in additional fees. Yes, if eight people went to eat
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  at this restaurant, Yeah. Which was which was shocking.
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  And so we just kept like looking and saying, OK, all these little
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  things like add up and they do things, you know, even like when
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  we went to the spa, there was this observation of let's would
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  you like, you know, obviously have to pay for the service
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  before you go in. And then they are asking, well,
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  would you like to leave a tip? Well, I don't, I haven't even
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  had the service. Why would I want a tip yet?
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  I don't even know if the girl's any good.
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  Like, I don't know. I, I had a girl, a massage, you
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  know, that's why I haven't gone in a long time back, way back
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  when and she 8 months ago and she was horrible.
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  She talked the whole time. It was a miserable experience.
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  So you want you don't want to be pre charged for sure.
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  And then also too, we noticed that several places everything's
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  locked. So like we wanted to go to the
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  rest, the restroom. We just drove an hour and a half
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  and like you can't open the door.
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  You need like a special code from where we got our coffee
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  from. So I guess if you don't order,
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  you can't use the restroom. I mean, I get it, but it's just,
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  you know, everything's on lockdown.
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  And they even said at the spot, too, that, you know, we had
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  these special cars because they didn't want people to come in
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  that weren't supposed to be there.
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  Yeah, so they people, they had people sneaking in.
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  Yeah. So it, it's just been very, very
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  strange. And and just because it's so
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  humorous, I like have to read this because there was a sign
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  that I she's laughing because I took a picture of the sign
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  because I could not understand it at the pool, at the spot.
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  Now we're talking like a really high end place that we were
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  treating ourselves to. This is the sign that was
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  hanging on the gate. Persons having currently active
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  diarrhea or who have had active diarrhea within the previous 14
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  days shall not be allowed to enter the pool water.
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  So I immediately had to take a picture of that because I'm
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  cracking up that how are they policing this?
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  Yes, but the problem was the sign was on the backside of the
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  door. So you already went in and then
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  you probably went in the pool and by the time we saw the sign,
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  we were leaving. Yes.
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  That's true. Had sailed at that point well.
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  But The thing is it that that is a major point.
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  But who's policing this? Who's asked?
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  Who's asked Sir, have you had diarrhea in the last 14 days?
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  I don't know, but it was just one of those things.
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  And it's not a small sign. That was a big sign.
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  That was a significant sign that was hanging on a fence and it
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  was made out of metal. Like there was a commitment to
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  this the. The the problem is is there
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  definitely have had incidents is as to what there is this sign.
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  Maybe who knows? But anyway, so these are our
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  general observations and I think from a, a perspective of like,
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  why are we talking about this? It's that everybody lives
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  differently and understanding their world is so important.
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  Like, you know, you have to understand where someone's
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  coming from. Like for us, we live completely
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  differently and you know, and here they live in a completely
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  different state of mind. So we are just being patient and
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  observant and laughing when we can, which is a lot of the time.
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  I think honestly, like noticing the differences, you know, it's
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  been humorous, but it's also one of those things where I can see
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  people coming to Texas are being like, what is this?
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  Like? I'm sure it happens on the other
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  end too. But we've enjoyed pointing out
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  some of the discrepancies or differences between our States
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  and here. For sure, and we just wanted to
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  share them all with you. So we hope you had a good laugh
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  at that and enjoyed the diarrhea sign.
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  All right, my friends, have a blessed day and we'll see you
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  tomorrow. Bye bye.