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Police at the Hotel, Trouble in the Skies & AI Everywhere · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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  Speaker 1: What's up? You're listening to Shauna and Lala. Check us
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  Speaker 1: You could follow me on Instagram at therealshaunamay.
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  Speaker 2: And check me out at bella _ _ lala125. I
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  Speaker 2: am finally back from vacation.
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  Speaker 1: And Obviously, I came back sick. What else is new?
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  Speaker 1: I just, I cannot believe that I got sick on
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  Speaker 1: the last day.
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  Speaker 2: At least it was the last day and not the
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  Speaker 2: whole trip because that would have really sucked, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. My allergies, let's just say South Carolina is not
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  Speaker 1: for me. My allergies were so bad. Really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It must be some kind of plant. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: know certain parts of Florida you are allergic to, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, West Palm Beach. My favorite part.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. That sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But I swear, like, I don't know if it
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  Speaker 1: was an allergic reaction. Because when I came home, I
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  Speaker 1: was sick. Although, this time, I went to Myrtle Beach.
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  Speaker 1: And I was just so stuffy. And then I went
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  Speaker 1: to my cousin's in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that day, that next morning, I woke up sick
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  Speaker 1: as a dog.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going around. I'm still fighting off a cold.
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  Speaker 2: And I had similar to you, the congestion. My kids
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  Speaker 2: had it. It was like school starts and all the
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  Speaker 2: germs are just everywhere. So it's everywhere. You're bound to
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  Speaker 2: catch it. And at least you're on the mend and
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  Speaker 2: getting better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank God.
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  Speaker 2: So how was the drive? I know you were having
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  Speaker 2: severe anxiety. about that trip before you left.
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  Speaker 1: The drive the first day was not bad at all
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  Speaker 1: uh we drove about nine hours uh we stopped to
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  Speaker 1: see my mom's friend in uh pennsylvania on the border
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  Speaker 1: of pennsylvania and maryland so to kind of like break
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  Speaker 1: it up a little bit which was nice it was
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  Speaker 1: nice to see her and her new house um the
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  Speaker 1: dramamine definitely worked oh good So that was a plus.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And my IBS was fine. You know, I only had
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  Speaker 1: one episode during the whole trip.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I think I just worked myself up beforehand. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was telling you. I said, you're making
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  Speaker 2: yourself worse. And I get it. I've been there. It's hard.
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  Speaker 2: Our brain is so powerful and it takes over, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And it's very hard to fight your brain when your
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  Speaker 2: brain's telling you, nope, nope, nope, we're not doing that.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be bad. It's going to this. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to that. It's really hard to fight that. But
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  Speaker 2: now you can tell yourself, hey, brain, you were wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I was fine. And you've got to remember that for
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  Speaker 2: the next time. And that's how you fight anxiety is
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  Speaker 2: finding that comfort of, no, I was fine last time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be fine this time and telling yourself
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  Speaker 2: that every single time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely helped. I played music pretty much the whole
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  Speaker 1: way down. and just tried not to think about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was hard because, you know, you're trapped in a
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  Speaker 1: car for however long. But the first day really wasn't bad.
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  Speaker 1: After we left my mom's friend's house, we drove through Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 1: and we got a hotel in Virginia. And the first
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  Speaker 1: hotel that we went to was a Holiday Inn Express.
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  Speaker 1: I figured there's a dime a dozen hotels around here.
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  Speaker 1: There's got to be rooms, you know. So we just
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  Speaker 1: pulled in. And we couldn't find a parking spot. And
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  Speaker 1: we finally found a parking spot. And there was homeless
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  Speaker 1: people standing outside. So my mom said, before we walk
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  Speaker 1: in there with all of our stuff, make sure they
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  Speaker 1: have a room. So I said, okay. So I called.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hi. I'm like, do you have a room, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: And the lady's like, we're sold out. I'm like, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I said, do you know of any other hotels around here?
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  Speaker 1: She's like, they're all sold out. She's like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going on in this area, but they're all
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  Speaker 1: sold out. Oh, my God. So, I'm like, okay. So,
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  Speaker 1: I just Googled a hotel and found one. They had
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  Speaker 1: an opening. They had a room available. And it was
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  Speaker 1: the Best Western. So, I figured, like, you know, Best Western,
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  Speaker 1: they have a good reputation.
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  Speaker 2: They used to be really nice, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They've been around for hundreds of years. So... We go
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  Speaker 1: there and the check-in guy was like super, super nice.
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  Speaker 1: The hotel was nice. And we're sitting there checking in
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  Speaker 1: and the police show up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 1: And they say, we're looking for a female. And my
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  Speaker 1: mom goes, there she is. She's right here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: And they just look at me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the guy says that he obviously knew who he
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  Speaker 1: was looking for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He was looking for an EDP. Mm-hmm. And they said...
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  Speaker 1: The guy's like, don't worry, there's no warrant. He said,
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  Speaker 1: but we need to speak to whoever this person was.
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  Speaker 1: So all of a sudden... That was two cops. All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, within five minutes, six cops show up. Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 1: And they're all outside the perimeter of the hotel looking
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  Speaker 1: for this person. And all of a sudden, the person...
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  Speaker 1: comes walking down the sidewalk with like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: people and they're like there she is she's coming down
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk and they're on their radios and like it
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  Speaker 1: was just insane to see like it actually happening yeah
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  Speaker 1: i felt like i was on like a cops episode
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  Speaker 1: like or just watching a cops episode it's crazy so
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  Speaker 1: we get up to the hotel and the room is
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  Speaker 1: just pitch black there's one light that works The lamps
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  Speaker 1: don't work.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't figure out how to turn the TV on.
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  Speaker 1: I finally figured it out. Then I tried to plug
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  Speaker 1: my phone into charge. It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: And my mom is, like, flipping out at this point
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  Speaker 1: because we're exhausted. Yeah. And she's like, what do you
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  Speaker 1: mean the lamps don't work? I said, do we really
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  Speaker 1: need the lamps? Like, we don't need the lamps. We
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  Speaker 1: have a light.
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  Speaker 2: You just need the charger to work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just need the chargers to work. So we
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  Speaker 1: finally get the chargers to work on a different outlet.
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  Speaker 1: And my mom's like, how much was this room? How
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  Speaker 1: much was this room? And I'm like, oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I just want to go to bed. I know.
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  Speaker 1: So I go to bed. I wake up and my
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  Speaker 1: hand feels weird. I'm like, what the heck? And it's hot. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I got bit by something in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: Had an allergic reaction. Didn't know. And the whole rest
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  Speaker 1: of the day, my arm was just. Like, three times
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  Speaker 1: the size. I'm walking and holding on to, like, a
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  Speaker 1: cup of ice. And throughout the hotel, everyone is, like,
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  Speaker 1: looking at me. And I'm like, I just cannot win.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot win. And, you know, we left. We had breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: And on our way. And, you know, there was so
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  Speaker 1: much construction. I thought, like, our area had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of construction. But, man, it is throughout. the East coast.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's, it's, it's never ending and never.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: So, but long story short, the trip was good. It
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  Speaker 1: was good to see my family. It was good to
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  Speaker 1: see my aunts, um, and my cousins. Um, I will
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  Speaker 1: never take the road trip ever again. Um, and I
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  Speaker 1: am flying from now on.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I said to my husband. He's like, Oh geez,
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  Speaker 2: it's a, it's a lot. It's really a lot. And
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  Speaker 2: when you have kids too, you imagine how many times
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  Speaker 2: you got to stop for kids. Everyone's on a different
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  Speaker 2: peace schedule. Everyone's hungry and they're fighting and they're bored.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, let's just go on the plane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we stopped pretty much every two hours except the
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  Speaker 1: last day. We stopped a lot because I was just
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  Speaker 1: I was miserable. We had to find a CVS. I
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  Speaker 1: thought I bought like all my medication that I needed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I missed my allergy medicine and my nose spray. Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 1: And my mom didn't have any cough drops, which is
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  Speaker 1: like rare for her. So we had to find a CVS.
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  Speaker 1: And that took up about, you know, an extra half hour.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 2: At least you're on the road, right? And I always say,
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  Speaker 2: at least you're in the country. You could stop at
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  Speaker 2: regular stores and get what you need. That's the nice part.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really nice.
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  Speaker 2: Traveling out of the country is hard when you forget things. Like, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm shit out of luck.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But it was really nice. I actually met a really
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  Speaker 1: nice person. We went shopping because when we came back
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  Speaker 1: from Florida, I figured I would spend at least two
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  Speaker 1: days on the beach in Myrtle Beach and just relax. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't happening because the storm, it hit Myrtle Beach first. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it just poured. And so we went shopping and
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  Speaker 1: I met this really nice lady. People down there are
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  Speaker 1: so friendly. And it's just slow, like slow paced. And
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  Speaker 1: this lady, she just started talking to me about this
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  Speaker 1: cutting board that was on sale. It was in the
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  Speaker 1: shape of a Christmas tree. They had Christmas stuff out already.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, She goes, oh, it's from India. She said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take it. And she looks at me and she goes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't buy things from China. So I started laughing.
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  Speaker 1: And she said, I make it a game for myself.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, to make it fun, that I don't buy
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  Speaker 1: anything from China. So I was like, oh, okay. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you really need to get this cutting board.
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  Speaker 1: It $ 16. 99.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, I was like, yeah, my mom would
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  Speaker 1: kill me if I have another cutting board. Or anything
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  Speaker 1: for like holiday decor.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And so she was just really funny. And she's like,
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  Speaker 1: she goes, where are you from? I said, New York.
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  Speaker 1: She's like... are you coming back before Christmas? I said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I might. She said, can you bring
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  Speaker 1: me back a shovel? What? And I was like, what?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: I said, can't you order it on Amazon? And she goes, no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't order off of Amazon. Jeff Bezos is disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: She goes, I refuse to order off of Amazon. Go
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  Speaker 1: to Walmart. I said, um, oh, well, there's always like
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  Speaker 1: Home Depot and Lowe's and Walmart, Sam's Club. Yeah. They
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  Speaker 1: have a Costco down there. And she goes, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: she's like, we're in South Carolina. They don't sell shovels.
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  Speaker 2: She wants a snow shovel?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Why? Because it snowed last year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, it does snow here and there. Well, she
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  Speaker 2: can order through Walmart. And it'll come delivered, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or Home Depot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was thinking. I'm like, lady, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not getting on a plane or shuttle. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know you. Yeah, it was just, it was really funny.
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  Speaker 1: But the stores there are so clean.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: So nice. And very well stocked.
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  Speaker 2: I love, I, when we go to Florida, we love
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  Speaker 2: going to, well, Sarasota, their stores are Just gorgeous. They
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  Speaker 2: make every store, even TJ Maxx, look like luxury. So
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  Speaker 2: I do love checking out the stores. It's just different.
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  Speaker 2: Even the hospitals. The hospitals are so clean. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I guess it depends on the area you're in, but
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  Speaker 2: oh my God, we raved about the hospital in Sarasota.
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  Speaker 2: We still talk about how clean it was, how nice
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  Speaker 2: everyone was, how like the slow pace, but they got
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  Speaker 2: you in right away and they were so friendly. Like
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  Speaker 2: you don't see that in New York.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't. Even in Georgia, we went to the
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Center just to, you know, stretch our feet. And
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't even, like, get away from the lady that
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  Speaker 1: was just, like, talking our ear off. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The South is different. It's just they're so amazing. They're
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  Speaker 2: so nice. So sweet, talkative, friendly. Like, it is a
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  Speaker 2: shock when you come from New York how no one
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  Speaker 2: wants to talk to you or even staff at a
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  Speaker 2: restaurant or a drive-thru. They just don't respond to you.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, thank you. And they just look
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  Speaker 2: at you. But down south is like they're starting conversations
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  Speaker 2: with you and they're smiling and they're saying thank you
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  Speaker 2: and please and hi, how are you doing? And they
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  Speaker 2: really want to know. It's not like they just say it.
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  Speaker 2: They really want to know how you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they kept filling my aunt's cup up with refills. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And she wasn't even asking. So then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden I get a refill. My soda wasn't even like
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  Speaker 1: halfway done. And I said, I didn't ask for this.
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  Speaker 1: And my aunt's like, you don't ask for it either.
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  Speaker 1: They just refill it. She's like, and you say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And she goes, you don't say I don't want it.
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  Speaker 1: I said, obviously, I didn't say it to the guy. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, I'll be flowing.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it, though, because I always, I hope you
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  Speaker 2: got sweet tea and not just soda. Did you get
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  Speaker 2: any sweet tea down south?
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: It was not good?
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  Speaker 1: It was not good.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Where, where'd you, I mean, we, the sweet tea was
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  Speaker 2: amazing everywhere we went. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Very strange because when I was in Nashville with you,
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  Speaker 1: that's all I got.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good down South. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: where you went, but South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about North, but South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
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  Speaker 2: I love their sweet tea. And they just, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: they refill it and refill it and it's free. Like
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  Speaker 2: free refills, but they just kept coming over and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to just piss myself like on the way home.
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  Speaker 1: So we went to a really nice restaurant with my
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  Speaker 1: brother in Florida and I got raspberry tea because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have sweet tea. It was so strong. It tasted
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  Speaker 1: like prednisone.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell? That's weird. Maybe they didn't make it fresh.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was like a.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because if they didn't have regular sweet tea, then
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  Speaker 2: maybe they're not even making it. They're just... getting a
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  Speaker 2: container you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know but i couldn't drink it and you
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  Speaker 1: know that that was the joke at the table um
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  Speaker 1: so the lady's like do you want to try another
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  Speaker 1: iced tea and i said no i'll just have a.
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  Speaker 2: Soda well anyway but yeah normally normally it's good but
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  Speaker 2: yeah i was a little.
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  Speaker 1: Shocked that um it wasn't it wasn't great.
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  Speaker 2: Well i'm glad i'm glad it was overall a And
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  Speaker 2: even me. But, you know... But, like I said, flying
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  Speaker 2: comes with anxiety and fears, too. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And just actually two days ago, there was a... Or yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it was. A hijacking of a... Did you see that?
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  Speaker 2: A hijacking of a Dubai air flight?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it, but you had sent it to me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And my friend actually posted about it. And he said
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  Speaker 1: that it's not really on national news. No.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's insane. They're not even... Some news stations that
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  Speaker 2: are reporting it aren't even calling it a terrorist attack.
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  Speaker 2: They're calling it an altercation of pilots. And that's not
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  Speaker 2: what happened. It was a, the co-pilot was a terrorist.
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  Speaker 2: And the co-pilot wanted to crash the plane and started
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  Speaker 2: stabbing the pilot as they were flying. And they started fighting, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: because the pilot's being stabbed. And then the co-pilot made
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  Speaker 2: the plane, he was trying to smash the equipment and
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  Speaker 2: made the plane go nose down. So the plane dropped,
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  Speaker 2: I think they said 18,000 feet in like 1.2, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how fast. It was fast though, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone, the videos, I've seen people are screaming. They
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  Speaker 2: don't know what's going on. And the pilot had enough
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  Speaker 2: strength to unlock the door to the cockpit. And that's
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  Speaker 2: when passengers barged through and saw what was happening. And
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  Speaker 2: they wrestled the terrorist out. And the one guy, he
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  Speaker 2: pulled the nose up. And he's not a pilot. And
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  Speaker 2: everyone asked him, I was watching the interview, like, how'd
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  Speaker 2: you know to do that? He's like, I saw it
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  Speaker 2: on TV. So he pulled the joysticks or whatever up.
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  Speaker 2: And then luckily there was two other pilots on as
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  Speaker 2: passengers for a different airline, I think. They were just
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  Speaker 2: passengers flying. And they ran and flew the plane and
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  Speaker 2: landed it. So thank God. Thank God. But yeah, it's scary.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. And I love, though, how... because 9-11
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: was horrible, but because of 9-11, it's like now everyone's
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: on guard and they're ready to fight for their life.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And I think that's a positive that came out of it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Not that we should have to do that, but that
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: these passengers are like, nope, not letting this happen again.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: And they got that guy and took him out of
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the cockpit.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I think every plane should have police on it. Yeah.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they don't.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: They used to. After 9-11, they had secret I don't
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: want to call them police. They were kind of like,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: but like that had a gun on them.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Like undercover?
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Undercover. So you didn't know who it was. They would
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: look like a normal passenger. And then if something happened,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: they had a weapon on them and they could take.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: But I think that it became maybe expensive. I don't know.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they still do it. Maybe they do.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And it's like secret.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. I would pay extra
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: for a flight to pay that guy's salary.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Right. Right.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Peace of mind.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: And if he could fly the plane, even better because
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: then if something happens, like this one, there was pilots
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: because I was like, what if there wasn't any pilots
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: on the plane? Who's flying that thing? Who's landing that thing? That's,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, that would be really scary
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: because a regular person wouldn't know how to do that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: They probably could try and walk someone through it, but
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: there's so much training that goes into that. I just, it,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: they're lucky. That's all I can say.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: It's not like a, Regular driver's license. No, no.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And oh my God, you know, something else that's been really,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: really annoying me lately is all this AI crap. And
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: now listen, AI has been amazing. It's helped me with
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: my business. It's helped us sometimes with our show. You know, I've,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I've in the beginning when AI was started getting popular.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I used it to make some promo stuff.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: It was great.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my God, this is amazing. But now
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: it's getting out of control.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, everybody's using it. It's oversaturated. There's way
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: too many different programs out there. And you can't tell
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: what's real and what's fake.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And then sometimes you can, and you're like, do these
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: people think we're dumb?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: That too.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: We know that that's AI. We know that that flyer
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: or that picture is AI. We know it.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: And.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Like, I posted Leo's birthday today, my cat, and I
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: posted a picture of him with a birthday hat on
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and a little card that says happy birthday. Yeah. I mean,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: obviously that's AI.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and stuff like that's funny. It's cute. But people
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: that are using it for, like, professional stuff or for
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: businesses constantly or flyers. Oh, the flyers. I can't deal
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: with the flyers anymore. Everyone's flyer looks exactly the same,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: just different colorings. It's like, don't they realize that every
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: business's flyer right now looks the same? Have you noticed that?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: They all look the same. Yeah. Just obviously different wordings.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: or different event, but it's the same format, the same.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: So much is going on on that page where your
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: eyes don't know where to look.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Where's the location? What the hell's going on? It looks cool,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: but it's too busy.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Too much.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, too busy.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And a lot of- You know what really drives me nuts?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Not to cut you off. the emails that we get
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: from people like pitches uh-huh you could totally tell that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: they are from like chat gbt oh my god because
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: they're like hey shauna and lala we loved your episode
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: about blah blah blah blah um you know this would
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: be our product would be a great fit for blah
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: blah you know for you guys blah blah blah blah
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: because of this episode and i'm like this episode has
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with your product.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they put it into GVJ and said, write me
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: an email. I know. And it's getting bad. And they're
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: saying that people are losing, we're going to lose our
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: ability to write, to respond, to think, to create. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: used to make flyers. I've been making flyers since my
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: teen years because I used to work for clubs. I
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: made all their flyers. And I had a band. I
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: made all the flyers. And then, I don't really use
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: it to make flyers anymore, but there was a point
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: where I was starting to use it for more of
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: my creative stuff for my business. And I said, I
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: got to stop because this is not good. You know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it might look cool, but I got to stop. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I did. But I'm seeing all these people are complaining. Now,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: when I see a business use an AI flyer, I'm
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: going to be honest. It might sound ridiculous, but it
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: turns me off to the business. It turns me off.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I can't trust anything that they're doing
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: because everything's AI. or they'll post pictures of their products
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: in their business or something that their business is offering,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and you know it's AI. You could tell it's AI,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, I don't trust your business now
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: because this is all fake. I have a cannoli business, right,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: and an Italian dessert business. All my pictures are real.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I think the only thing I've used AI on is
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: my banner on my website at the time because that
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: was when it first came out. two years ago whatever
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and just my car it's my real car but I
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: said hey make it look like it's sitting in an
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Italian you know whatever and you can tell it's AI
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not hiding it it's obviously kind of cartoony and
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: that's fine but all my product pictures they're my own
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you know I'm not using AI I think I only
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: use AI for one to put a logo on my
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: tiramisu cup because I didn't have a low my logo
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: stickers didn't come in yet but it was my tiramisu
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: cup you know what I'm saying so it's like I
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: see there's a local business by me that does coffee.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: And their pitchers, they're not their own. And it's just
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: a turnoff to me. You have the product, right? Are
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: you making the product? Because maybe you're just getting it
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: from the store. I don't know. That's a fake pitcher.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Why are you using AI? I lose trust in a
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: business when they're doing that.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You should really do a photo shoot.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I had one photo shoot... back in may was it
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: at angry orchard so i should post those pictures but
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: i do i do want to do a big photo
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: shoot um have a content creator come and film more
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: of my stuff because i'm my own content creator i
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: hired a content creator once and it was it was
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: really well worth it but it's just hard when i
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: have so many events going on like to hire people
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: and get that it's just it's a nightmare so yes
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: i do have to do a brand another photo shoot
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: maybe with my gelato cart or my Cheesecake bar or
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Which I am so excited for. You didn't even tell me.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: It's been in the works.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I found out by going... She wanted me to look
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: at her website and tell her how it looked. And I'm, like,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: going through it and I'm telling her. And I'm like,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you have a cheesecake bar? You didn't tell me that.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Shona loves cheesecake. Yeah, it's my mom's recipe.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And it was.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Any family that runs into me or friends of my mom,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: all they... One of the things they always bring up
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: in conversation was, I miss your mom's cheesecake. And my
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: mom's cheesecake was out of this world. I've never tasted
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: a cheesecake like it before.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: But you don't like baking.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I don't like baking. I hate it. And that's what
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I said to my husband. I said, I hate baking.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And now my company is turning into more desserts, which
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I don't, I'm not a dessert eater. I hardly ever
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: eat my product. And it's not because it's bad. I'm just,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: sweets make me sick. Cheesecake, I'll have a slice. Cannoli,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I really don't eat it. I like the way my
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: cannoli tastes, but it's not something I could sit, like
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: my brother will sit there, my sister, and they will
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: squeeze a whole bag of my cannoli cream down their mouth.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I want to throw up. Not because
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: it's bad, but because sugar makes me feel sick, you know?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: But it's funny to me, like you said, I hate baking.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: And it's, but what makes me do it is the love. Like,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm bringing my mom back to life,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: like not back to life, but she's living on through this.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: And to me, that's important. So I put that love
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: into making my stuff and it's like honoring my mother.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: So that's what I love about it. But baking for me,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: like I always say, the reason I don't like baking
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: is because it's so precise. And when I cook, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: cook with just throwing ingredients together. I don't measure anything.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: So I love that way of cooking. But with baking,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: you got to measure. You got to measure everything to
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: the point. And that's where I don't like. So it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: not that I hate baking. It's I hate how structured
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it is because i'm not a structured person.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: See and i am yeah i can't just throw a
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: little bit of this in there a little bit of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that yeah i need to know precise directions even though
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: i get them wrong half the time i need to
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: know half a cup of this tablespoon of this okay.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yep and a lot of people are like that i
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: i have add so me following rules and and ingredients
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: is it's just, it's too much for my brain, so
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: that's why I cook with just a little of this,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and then, but listen, it's amazing, the cheesecake, the cannoli, tiramisu,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I do it, and it's not as, tiramisu, I don't
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: have to bake at least, it's just putting the ingredients together,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and that I kind of do my own thing with,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: but the cheesecake, my mom's recipe, nope, I gotta stick
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: to that, boom, boom, boom, everything has to be exact,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: because if it's not, it won't taste like hers, but
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the point I was making with that was I start,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I made it for my husband's, um, all the chief
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: of the police. I made it for them and they
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: were raving about it. And they're like, is she selling this?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Because she needs it. They love my cannoli. Like she
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: needs to sell this now. She needs to sell this
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: because this is the best cheesecake I've ever had. So
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Mike told me that. And I said, all right, you
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: know what? Um, mom, I'm, I have your cannoli recipe here.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I'm bringing in your cheesecake. And my husband, Oh Jesus,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have told you that. But yeah, so that's
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: what I'm offering now is the cheesecake bar.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: So maybe what you could do, just a thought, the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: kitchen that you cook out of, maybe you could sell
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it there.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking of asking her. She would be
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: fine with it. She sells all baked goods there. She
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: does croissants and she does cinnabons. They're so good. Breads.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: So cheesecake would go perfectly. And especially with the holidays
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: coming up. So I was thinking of, she does pop-ups there.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to do a pop-up and have people...
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: maybe pre-order cheesecakes for Thanksgiving or, you know what I mean? Yeah. Um,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: and I'll have to make one. I'm going to make
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: one this weekend for Gio's birthday and I'll bring it
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: in so you can be a taste tester of the cheesecake.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, definitely. I will never forget. You probably will never
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: let me live it down. The cheesecake recipe that we
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: made for some holiday. Oh yeah. For the show. And
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: it took three days.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. Was it Cheesecake Factory we were trying
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: to mimic?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Listen, I love Cheesecake Factory's vanilla bean cheesecake.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: That's what it was.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Yes. I love it. And it's different than my mom's.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: My mom's is different. My mom's is good, but I
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: love cheesecake, the vanilla bean one. So Shota wanted to
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: make it. I was like, oh, you know I hate baking,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: but okay. This thing had like 30 steps and three
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: days worth of stuff and peeling vanilla bean stalks and
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: scraping out the seeds. And I just was like giving
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: her the look of death the whole time. so luckily
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: my mom's is not that complicated it is a it's
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: a little more complicated than a traditional cheesecake but not
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: that recipe that recipe is insane but it was good
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: tasted good at the end but i'm like i can
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: never i'm never taking that many days to do that
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: it was not worth it no no too much work
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: just go to cheesecake factory and get it because it's
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: delicious but too.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Much work seventeen dollars a slice i'm pretty.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Sure yeah it's expensive I think my mother-in-law, she wants
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: to order one for Christmas. And I'm like, I can't
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: even imagine how a whole cake would cost from Cheesecake Factory.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: So she wants to get the vanilla bean whole pie.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, my God. Like, that must cost a
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: lot of money.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: We have Mary Claire here. And we met in Nashville
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: last year. And all of the memories have just been, like,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: popping up the past, like, two weeks.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Because I guess it's.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Been, like, a year since we've done this.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: In August.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: We went in August.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So it's crazy. And so you are back. And
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: you have been up to.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: A ton of stuff.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: We follow each other on Instagram. And you are just
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: performing everywhere. And you went to the Dove Awards. And
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: you have music videos out and new music. So you've
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: been really really busy well.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: First of all it's just so good to be back
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: with you guys i mean the first time we met
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: it was so much fun you guys you just made
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: it feel like a hangout.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: So it's so good to talk to you guys again. Um,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean, life has.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Been good, you know, God has been answering so many
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: prayers and there've been some fun things happening. Um, I
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: put out a song with Stephen Malcolm who he's just
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: so fun. I mean, he's like got the R and
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: B rap vibe that I cannot bring. So we made
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: a song together and that was so much fun. That
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: was such a blessing. The dev awards were great, you know?
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: So yeah, But yeah, it's just good to talk to
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: you guys again. This is such a blessing.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I had never heard of the Dove Awards until you
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: posted about it. So I had Googled it and I
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: was like, oh my God, there's so many people that
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: we've interviewed and that we know that attend the Dove Awards.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's, I mean.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: it's one of those places where you look around and
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: you're like, Oh, that's that person. That's, you know, you
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: recognize so many faces. It's such a fun event.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: Is it like a networking event? Would you say like,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: could you go up to people like on the carpet
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: and like talk to them and network? Or is it like,
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: is that like shunned upon?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: So I mean, it's a Christian award show. So just
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: like any award show, there's going to be a certain
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: degree of mingling. But for the most part, everyone's there
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: to you know, walk the red carpet, the artists are
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: talking to press. And then when the show is happening,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: it's pretty fast moving, but of course there's time to
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: hang out and see people. And I mean, I'm sure
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: you guys would love it and you'd be great there.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: It'd be such a good environment.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: We've never done an award show.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I know that'd be really cool.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: That would be, that's crazy.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Red carpet stuff, but never, it was not for awards.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It was just, yeah.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: But that, that'd be really cool.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: That would be, yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: That'd be awesome.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: So what have you been up to besides recording new music?
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: So you have a song called Rise Up, and it's
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: obviously uplifting. But everyone has moments where they don't feel
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: their strongest and they don't feel positive. So when you're
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: personally having a rough day, what helps you find encouragement
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: for yourself?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Well, you know what?
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: When I was younger and I would have a hard
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: time or a hard day or something would happen that
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: would just set me off track, my initial reaction was
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: to just distract myself or to turn on the fun
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: music and pretend like it never happened. And the older
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: I get, I'm kind of realizing that the best thing
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: for me is to just go right through it. Like
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: if I'm feeling sad, I just got to turn on
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: the sad music or if a friend, you know, does
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: something or a family member or something happens, I just
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: have to be like, okay, I'm just going to sit
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: in this. I'm just going to cry it out. I'm
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: going to be sad because honestly that gets me through
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: quicker than trying to suppress all those emotions. So when
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: hard days come, I just embrace it. I just turn
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: on the fray and cry it out.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: And that is, that's so funny that you said the
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: fray because I used to, um, I suffer from anxiety
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: and depression and that, that is what I used to just.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Play all the time.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely. It's It's so good.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Her big music for it.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I go to like Celine Dion because I'm a little older.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I love Celine.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I do too. Her songs are so emotional. Sometimes I
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: can just cry from hearing her voice because it's just
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: spiritual and magical. There's nothing about her and Dolly Parton. Yeah.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: They have good hearts. I know.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: I can't believe she's gone. I mean, do you guys
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: remember where you were when you found out about Dolly?
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: In the studio.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: We were in the studio and, and we had just,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: when we went to Nashville to, you know, when we
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: met with you, um, we went to her grand opening
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: of her show down there and it was amazing. Like
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I didn't think I was going to like it. I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: liked Dolly, but not, but I never knew all that
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: about her life. And it's, if you haven't seen it yet,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you have, it's, it's absolutely amazing.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: So I'm glad that we got to do that last year.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: And then she had that, you know, we went to
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: the hall of fame, right. And we sold her outfits
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: and really, I'm really glad that we got to do that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: I can't believe she's gone.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: I just, I, it hasn't registered.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: And it's like, well, my husband said, he's like, you
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: can't believe it. She was 80 or whatever. I'm like,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I know, but some people you think are going to
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: live forever.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: She's a national treasure for sure.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Yes. She definitely is.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: And so you recently hosted your first ever summer house
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: show and you brought a lot of artists together in
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: a much more intimate setting. And what made you want
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: to create something like that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Well, you know what?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I just have so many friends in Nashville that are,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: you know, new artists and we're all kind of doing
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the same thing.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: We're trying to book shows. We're trying to get our
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: names out there.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: And I thought, if I've got a backyard that's big
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: enough to fit a bunch of people, I might as
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: well just invite all these friends over and we just.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Play for whoever shows up. So it was a real
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: house party. It really was.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think everyone sang about four or five
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: songs and it was just a blast. There was no pressure.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: We just had so much fun. But yeah, I've got
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: my next one scheduled for October 3rd and the flyers
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: on my Instagram.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: If anyone is interested, come on over and jam out. Yeah,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: it's so much fun.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're so hospitable because when we were there interviewing her,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: she's like, you want to come back to our house?
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: And I was like, yes, I do.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I wish we had more time.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: We do, but we didn't have time.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: So that's great. We'll see you up on that for
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: next time.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: But that just shows the kind of person you are.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: So that's great.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Don't ever change, you know?
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: I always just, I think about, you know, when God says,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: in the Bible, like to be a good steward of
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: whatever we have, you know? And so my, my mindset
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: is if I can just, you know, give away things
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: that I have and share as much as I can, then,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: then hopefully I'll keep being in a position where I
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: do have these things to, you know, let others be involved.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: And so that's just the heart behind it, but I
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: hope one day it doesn't bite me in.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: The butt, you know, weirdos coming over, but we'll see.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: It happens. It happens.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Sometimes.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Me and Lala are too nice.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: And you learn, you live and learn. Then you tweak
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: things a little bit and you're like, all right, you know,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: maybe we do some background checks.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: That's so real.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Do some social media investigation. Yeah.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, you live and you learn and it's good.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: You know, you're going to get burnt sometimes, but I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: think that is, yeah. When I was younger, I used to,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: or the teenager, I used to always give money to
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the homeless and, No matter what, they come up to me.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: And I remember my friends and my family saying, why
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: are you doing that? They're just going to buy alcohol.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: They're just going to buy drugs. And I said, well,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: in the off chance that they're not or that they
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: need food, I'm glad that I was able to provide,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: you know, give them money. And that's how I think
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I view things a lot, too, is, yeah, you're taking
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: a risk. You're taking a chance. But if your heart
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: is in the right place, I think that in the end,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: you're blessed.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: Remember the guy, you bought a taco and he threw
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: it out in front of you?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, darn.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Want that?
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: I wanted money.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: But you were hungry.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Your sign said you were hungry.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I bought you a taco.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: That's so sad.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: That's so sad.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: But yeah, you did the right thing then.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: And I like your sign behind you. Pray for no rain.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: That was from the first house show. It was raining
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: all day. And I was like, I think we might
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: have to move this inside. And so I just, I
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: grabbed a piece of paper. I wrote, pray for no rain.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: And the rain stayed away the whole night. So that's
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: my lucky sign. Yes.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Keep that next party.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: You should just make copies of it and just send
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: it all over to us because.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: We need it.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's been around every day.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Things like nonstop here.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: I'll send you guys a few.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: So I know you're already back to writing new music.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like the Mary Claire writing these new
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: songs is different from the Mary Claire who wrote Enough?
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think with all the songs that I
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: wrote for that first album last year, I was pretty nervous.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Just to fail.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Or to be myself, there was just so many nerves.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: And I didn't know how much I could be myself
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: without crossing the line. And I wanted to stay Christian,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: but I love pop.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: There were just so many things.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: And so now I think I found more of a
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: sense of who I am and, um, I can be
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: more vulnerable now, uh, just in my lyrics and, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: my music. And so I'm excited for what's to come. Um,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: cause I think it'll just be more me and more
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: open and confident. Yeah.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: The real you like, you know, so that I find
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: that with a lot of artists that we do interview,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: it's how they change from the beginning. It's trying to
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: fit into a mold and, and, and everyone's telling them
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: what to do, what to be, how to act. And
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: you're trying to fit. And then you get to the
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: point where you're like, no, no, this is not me
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: or this is not what I want. And then, then
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: everything starts to take off because they're authentic. The real
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: you comes out, you know?
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: I find that have found so many people are leaving
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: major labels and going and doing their own projects.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that artists just get tired of
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: having to run every idea by someone else or.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Getting ideas approved. I mean, artists are so creative.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: They want to just be able to do what they
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: feel and what the inspiration is that day. And if
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: they constantly have to deal with someone else saying, I
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: don't think so, or not right now, or try this,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: you know, we need you to fit this mold. I
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: think that just gets old. And so a lot of
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: artists are just deciding, Hey, as long as I have,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: you know, content on social media that takes care of
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: 90% of the job.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: So times are changing. Times are changing for sure.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, they really are.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: Now, are you on your own label or do you
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: have a label that you're assigned to?
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Technically I am independent.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I'm an indie artist, but I do have like a
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: distribution company that helps with getting my music out there
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: to the world. But when it comes to like advertising
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: and all of that, that's, me so I've got help
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I definitely feel support but I still get that freedom
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: to be independent.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: And do what you want not yeah that's awesome so
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: that's that's a.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Good thing yeah so we read that you're you were
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: nominated for the new artist to watch in 2026 for
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Christian Entertainment.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah that was such a cool award it was um
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: it was earlier it was a few months ago and
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, just to be nominated for something as such
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: a new artist was so cool. I mean, we live
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: streamed the awards and they happen. The host just live
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: streams it. So it's not a real award show, but
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: it's it was live streamed. And I just remember me
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: and my family were sitting on the couch and I
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: knew that I wasn't going to win because I'm so new.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: But just to, you know, see them say the nominees
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: and my picture popped up. I mean, first award to
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: be nominated for. It was so much fun, so much fun.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: So it was a good experience.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: That's, that's, that's really cool. Especially being a new artist,
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: you know, like how many other new artists do you
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: have to apply? I mean, I'm sure you, you do.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: I think so. I'm not quite sure, but I'm, I mean, probably.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: So where can our listeners find your music or check
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: out more about you?
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: On my website at Mary Claire music.com.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: And then all of my social media, Instagram, Tik TOK, YouTube,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: it's all Mary Claire music.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: It's same thing across the board. Mary Claire Music.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Mary and Claire. It's been great
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: seeing you again. Like we said, we met her in
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Nashville and she's a sweetheart, such a sweetheart. And you
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: feel like she's like that you've known us for years
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: when we met you that day. Like I said, inviting
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: us over, just talking to us like we were. friends
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: forever so don't don't ever change no matter how big
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: you get don't ever change that about yourself.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: You got it it's so good to see you guys
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: and just hear your voices thank you so much for
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: talking to me again I'm just I'm so thankful for
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: our time.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And that's our show for this week thank you so
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: much for tuning in be sure to follow us at shaunaandlala.com
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: on all social media platforms at shaunaandlala you could follow
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: me on instagram at therealshaunamay.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: And check me out at Bella underscore Lala 125.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: We will see you next week.