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Happy Hour #153: Let it Snow · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and well this stuff
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to another Happy hour. Y'all. Were in preps
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  Speaker 2: So it has been a busy week. We've had really
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're gonna make it a little simpler, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought we'd take a minute to revisit our last
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  Speaker 2: happy hour talk from Annie. But before we start all
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  Speaker 2: of that, Annie, are you sipping on anything delicious coffee?
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  Speaker 3: I'm still in coffee coffee mode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am drinking a Seltzer water as well, just
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  Speaker 2: regular bubble water. So it's kind of earlier and we're
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  Speaker 2: jumping very quickly into recording. There's a lot to record today.
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  Speaker 2: But all that to say is we are not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: it goes. Be a good adult. Try this is a
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  Speaker 2: this is an easy adult thing, I say, dot dot
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  Speaker 2: dot uh. But just take care of yourself. That's not
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  Speaker 2: the easy part, though, but taking care of yourself that
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  Speaker 2: I've noted. However, as I said before, I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: kind of revisit because we were so excited and talking about
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  Speaker 2: possible snow coming, all the disasters that could come with us,
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  Speaker 2: everybody prepping for it, as well as like whether or
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  Speaker 2: not we're gonna frolic and Annie, it did snow?
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  Speaker 3: It did it?
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  Speaker 2: Did it did? So I will tell you I have
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  Speaker 2: been telling most people because I think it's hilarious. At
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  Speaker 2: mid forties, I'm like, still very giddy about a good
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  Speaker 2: snow day from Atlanta. You know, we haven't had snow
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of years, really good snow. We've had icings.
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  Speaker 2: Icings are common for us. Unfortunately, at least once a
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  Speaker 2: year we'll get that to the point that people's pipes
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  Speaker 2: burst and we have to figure out what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: But I woke up, I got first of all, Before
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  Speaker 2: I went to bed, I was looking out the window,
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  Speaker 2: looking at the clouds, trying to feel the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the air changes because the environment changes a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and you can feel it. But the morning I woke
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  Speaker 2: up at four am, I had a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: on my mind, but part of that was also is
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  Speaker 2: it snowing? Which is what I did all the way
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  Speaker 2: growing up in school, because you know, the minute we
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  Speaker 2: saw any snow actually hit any bit of it, oftentimes
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  Speaker 2: it would cancel school. And although that's the day we
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  Speaker 2: could sleep in, that's also day the day that we're
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  Speaker 2: not at school and can play in the snow. So
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  Speaker 2: I woke up at four am looking and y'all, there
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  Speaker 2: was no snow yet. I was very sad about it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh no, it's going to be one
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  Speaker 2: of those times. I remember waking up as a kid
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  Speaker 2: being disappointed that there was no actual snow on the
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  Speaker 2: ground and being like man, snow and like feeling really
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  Speaker 2: let down. So I woke up at four am with
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  Speaker 2: that experience and I was like, oh no. But I
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  Speaker 2: went and did my thing in the living room, got coffee,
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  Speaker 2: I fell asleep for like thirty minutes. I went back
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  Speaker 2: to sleep for like a little bit. When I woke
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  Speaker 2: back up, I saw the dusting as you call it,
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  Speaker 2: and then the big giant flakes coming down. I was
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  Speaker 2: so excited to the point at six thirty. I waited
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  Speaker 2: till about six thirty to wake up my partner and
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  Speaker 2: be like, look, it opened up the curtain and made
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  Speaker 2: them look at the big pelts of snow because it
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  Speaker 2: was so big the clusters, and then I just watched
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  Speaker 2: it as it hit and then we got like, I
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  Speaker 2: want to say, three inches. Everybody was saying one to
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  Speaker 2: one and a half. I was like, no, this is
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  Speaker 2: definitely thicker than that. What did you do? How did
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  Speaker 2: you wake up that day?
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  Speaker 1: I think I also woke up at four, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get out of bed until six. And it was
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  Speaker 1: freezing rain at first, but then it pretty quickly became snow.
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  Speaker 1: And the way my apartment is set up, I can
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  Speaker 1: kind of sit and research, and I have windows right
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  Speaker 1: in front of me so I can see out. But
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  Speaker 1: it reminded me of what you were talking about in
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  Speaker 1: the Last Happy Hour about snow, about the lamp post
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  Speaker 1: that your family had. There was a lamp post because
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  Speaker 1: it's still dark, it's like six right outside my window,
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  Speaker 1: and it was so cool to see the snow and
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  Speaker 1: like the light of the lamp post. But then you know,
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  Speaker 1: as the light came out, I was like, oh wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is a this is a good amount of snow
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  Speaker 1: right and it's definitely on top of my car. It
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  Speaker 1: looked more than looked like more than one and a
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  Speaker 1: half inches. I'm not a great judge of but it
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  Speaker 1: looked like a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Like my partner went out and like did a whole
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  Speaker 2: little measurement, but it was on our patio furniture, So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how reliable that is, but I thought
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty reliable because it's like a steady surface and
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  Speaker 2: it was three inches so it felt like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of snow. I will say I got very excited and
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  Speaker 2: made him wake up by at least eight thirty nine,
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  Speaker 2: because I know. I think I let him a sleep
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  Speaker 2: till nine, and we didn't go out to like nine
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  Speaker 2: thirty because I knew it was going to change. The
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  Speaker 2: snow was changing to sleep, and I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: play in sleep. I want the big chunks of snow
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  Speaker 2: falling on you and feeling all like mystical because it's
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  Speaker 2: melting as it lands on you. We are in an area,
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  Speaker 2: though I will say that we don't get flakes, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm very sad the first time I saw actual snowflakes
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  Speaker 2: and realized that whole like a mat like paper cutouts
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  Speaker 2: that we do as children, and I guess some as
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  Speaker 2: adults who are still crafty, that that's what it actually
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  Speaker 2: looks like. I really thought it was just a cartoonish imagination.
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  Speaker 2: And then when I went into a higher elevation where
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  Speaker 2: it actually remains pretty pure, to see actual shapes of
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  Speaker 2: the crystal of the of the flakes was as magical.
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  Speaker 2: It is so beautiful you can hear the giddiness to see.
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  Speaker 2: But in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, like in
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  Speaker 2: that city area, we don't see that. We see clumps
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  Speaker 2: of white flakes that just that's already started to melt, essentially,
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  Speaker 2: which is that conversation we had. But it was lovely,
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  Speaker 2: so we went out. I made my dog wear hoodie
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  Speaker 2: because in my mind, she is cold. Don't fight me
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  Speaker 2: on that. I didn't make her wear booties because I
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  Speaker 2: wanted her to be able to run, and in booties
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't run well. When it got icier, because it
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  Speaker 2: did it turned into ice later and it got harder
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  Speaker 2: and like more difficult. I then put booties on her.
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  Speaker 2: But we had fun. She didn't know what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, what why. That's kind of the like initial like,
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  Speaker 2: what's what's happening? Also her displeasure in the hoodie. But
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  Speaker 2: then when my partner would be like, throw a little
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  Speaker 2: snow at her, like, she was like, oh, okay, it
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  Speaker 2: was the game. We're having a snowball, like we would
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  Speaker 2: play a chase or she would play with the ball.
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  Speaker 2: And it was the same kind of thought with the snowballs.
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  Speaker 2: But then she would try to eat it, and her
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  Speaker 2: eating would be because I don't like it. Oh wait,
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  Speaker 2: what is this all? I like it? No, I don't like
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  Speaker 2: it kind of reaction. We got videos. I'll post those videos.
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  Speaker 2: But it was really fun. And then after we stayed
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  Speaker 2: out for a good fifteen minutes because I got very cold,
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  Speaker 2: I went inside. I had like sixteen layers on me.
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  Speaker 2: I looked really fluffy myself. I was like, okay, I'm good, thanks,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done now. I just want to see it from here,
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  Speaker 2: and I wanted to keep the front yard. We kept
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  Speaker 2: it pretty pure, like we didn't step in it because
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  Speaker 2: I wanted that landscape. But it was so pretty and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of you who are on our social media
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  Speaker 2: got to see some of our pictures. I posted the
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  Speaker 2: picture of the snow falling down outside of my window
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  Speaker 2: because I was really excited. It was really lovely, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I really I enjoyed my time. Did you get to frolic?
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  Speaker 1: I did frolic? I did frolic. I frolicked twice. So
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  Speaker 1: I went out pretty early. It was interesting because I
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  Speaker 1: think I went out around seven thirty and there's nobody out.
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  Speaker 1: There was nobody out. I thought there would be more
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  Speaker 1: people kind of playing. They might have been in some
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  Speaker 1: other area, but I just walked around my neighborhood for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. And when I came back, I did
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  Speaker 1: see these adults who were having like the time of
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  Speaker 1: their life building snowmen, and they were huge snowmen, like
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  Speaker 1: the enormous. And then I saw somebody who was driving
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  Speaker 1: and her car kind of got stuck and all the
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  Speaker 1: people came together to help her move her car into
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  Speaker 1: her driveway because she was fine until she had to turn,
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  Speaker 1: slow down and turn.
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  Speaker 3: So that was nice to see. And then I went
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  Speaker 3: back out and frolic some more.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Feedmont Park and people were doing like
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  Speaker 1: flooding and like the news was there, but it did
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  Speaker 1: change to it did change the freezing rain and we
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  Speaker 1: had to record that day, so I had to be back.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't there very long. I kind of just want
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  Speaker 1: to see what was up. Yeah, but it was really fun.
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  Speaker 1: It was really cool, and it was a Friday, which
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  Speaker 1: I know, like some people, I didn't even tell this story.
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  Speaker 1: I totally forgot about it. But I once had a
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  Speaker 1: meeting and it was a guy. It was for this job,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a guy kind of infamous who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: work with us anymore. But he he was from New York.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't really from New York. I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: was a power play. He actually is from Georgia, but
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  Speaker 1: he lived in New York. But he called a meeting
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  Speaker 1: one of those he called a meeting during this not
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  Speaker 1: like knowing.
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  Speaker 3: We don't do this in Atlanta, and so I had
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  Speaker 3: to drive on the streets.
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  Speaker 1: So all that being said, I'm very glad we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to We don't have to go into the office necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: It was a weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It was nice coming up because it did stay around
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  Speaker 1: for a little while. But also like feel so bad
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  Speaker 1: for the people who have to like find that way
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  Speaker 1: to go to work because it was horrible and I
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  Speaker 1: hated it and it was from a heartless meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm still mad about it, clearly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm just thinking about the character bj Novak
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  Speaker 2: in office where he went to New York for a
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  Speaker 2: little while and be like, well, in New York, this
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  Speaker 2: is what we did. Yeah, I mean, if you really
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  Speaker 2: want to be in New York. But okay, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: how I imagine him. But yeah, I think I just see
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people talking about that. We just had
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  Speaker 2: a conversation with Eve talking about how she was talking
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  Speaker 2: to someone who was a student and they were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we still have school. I don't go in anyway, So
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  Speaker 2: we still had school, and we're not watching to see
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  Speaker 2: whether or not we go in. We're watching to see
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  Speaker 2: whether or not we have online school or in person school.
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  Speaker 2: I will say I did have a friend of mine
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  Speaker 2: who was who is a teacher here in Georgia, and
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  Speaker 2: she I think she's younger students, and they just canceled
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  Speaker 2: school so she got to have an extra three days
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  Speaker 2: and she really was grateful for that because that is
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  Speaker 2: that was part of the fun parts of being in
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  Speaker 2: school and seeing snow days for those who we don't
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  Speaker 2: get snow days, and the state is very ill equipped
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  Speaker 2: to handle snow days when ice is on the road.
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  Speaker 2: There's still snowmen around. Are those snowmen still up? I
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of snowmen still up.
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  Speaker 1: They might be like the bottom part of that snowman
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  Speaker 1: was almost the size of like an average sized adult.
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  Speaker 1: It was insane, Samanth.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably still around because it's still been pretty cold.
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  Speaker 2: It hasn't gotten really above forties, and the sun has
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  Speaker 2: been out, but there's enough shading and it goes cold
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  Speaker 2: enough at night that a lot of essays, I just
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  Speaker 2: have a little pockets of snow in my backyard, which
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  Speaker 2: is surprising. We may get into second snow. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to be as excited. I'm going to be excited.
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  Speaker 2: I still want to see it, but I don't like cold. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but being inside, being able to stay inside, being fortunate
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  Speaker 2: enough to stay inside, having enough food in the house,
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  Speaker 2: and like being with my partner and having a good
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  Speaker 2: time with him. It does feel nice, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really change our days. It just means I can't go
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  Speaker 2: out and about, which is fine because I don't go
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  Speaker 2: out and about too often. Anyway. Yeah, so we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if the second one hits us and how
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  Speaker 2: we feel about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was kind of like comical.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really, but it was kind of comical how
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  Speaker 1: hard I found to find how hard it's to get groceries.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like I think even now.
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  Speaker 2: It's still had. Yeah, those trucks that hadn't come until recently.
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  Speaker 2: I actually asked about that. I was like, is there
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  Speaker 2: something going on because is it the Avian flu? Or
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  Speaker 2: is it because Georgia people go ham when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to joyles, stuck up on the unnecessary stuff that is
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  Speaker 2: necessary to their heads.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's that, But it's also like the reason
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the snowpocalypse, One of the main reasons
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  Speaker 1: it happened is that those big trucks aren't supposed to
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  Speaker 1: go through Atlanta unless they're stopping in Atlanta. They're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to go around we call it to eighty five around
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  Speaker 1: the perimeter. But a lot of them go through. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say because I know being a
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  Speaker 1: trucker is difficult and there's a lot of right bullshit
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  Speaker 1: that happened, so, but well, those trucks get stuck and
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  Speaker 1: then we all get stuck. But yeah, it was there
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  Speaker 1: was like nothing. It was crazy. So we'll see to
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  Speaker 1: have one so close, I'm worried I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: to rely on some Well.
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  Speaker 3: I love eating ramen, so that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's perfect weather. I made four different types
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  Speaker 2: of like stew or soups in the last week and
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  Speaker 2: a half. I'll want you to know those two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Last night I made a hefty potato soup with pretty
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  Speaker 2: much a lot of bacon grease.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds delicious. I also want to just say some of
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  Speaker 3: you listeners wrote in.
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  Speaker 1: About your experiences with snow days and how you've tried
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  Speaker 1: to kind of maintain the snow day and from a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different places, So thank you for that. But
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciated that they were generally non judgmental. They're
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  Speaker 1: happy for us, though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that was so many people. There's different people on
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  Speaker 2: like online that do understand that excitement and felt the
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  Speaker 2: joy with us, So that was nice to see.
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  Speaker 3: It was we really appreciate laughing.
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  Speaker 2: At us or some of the antics that we had.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like even I was like, why Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Stop that.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah, but it was much appreciated that you all
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  Speaker 1: shared your stories, but we're also like, good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Go have fun, don't bring it to that.
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  Speaker 1: So well, we'll see, we'll report back. I guess if
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  Speaker 1: it happens.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Yeah, we will.
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  Speaker 3: The weather changes so rapidly, though, I'm like, I have
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  Speaker 3: no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Sous predictable. I'm not putting too much into that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, either, But at this point it says two inches,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, what I saw?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw three inches.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my goodness, Okay, I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: back to the store.
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  Speaker 3: I be part of the problem.
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  Speaker 2: You're part of the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Well, thank you so much listeners for
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