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Pumpkins, Storms, and Standing Up for Our Kids · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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  Speaker 1: From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
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  Speaker 1: the rhythm of your day.
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  Speaker 2: It's Shawna.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? You're listening to Shauna and Lalla. Check us
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  Speaker 1: media platforms at Shawna and Lala. You could follow me
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram at the Real Shawna Bay.
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  Speaker 2: And you can check me out at Bella Underscore Laala
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  Speaker 2: one two five.
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  Speaker 1: We are back after being away for two weeks. I
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  Speaker 1: was in Florida and I have to say, the weather
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I love Florida. It's nine out of ten times,
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  Speaker 2: it's always gorgeous, and I just love that about it.
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  Speaker 1: It rained almost every day.
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  Speaker 2: Just quickly, probably right, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we actually went to this restaurant on the beach. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was across the street from the beach, and I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you, the devastation from the hurricane absolutely horrendous.
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  Speaker 2: I know Florida was hit so so bad, especially the
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  Speaker 2: Gulf Coast. I didn't know the East Coast was hit
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  Speaker 2: that bad, but that's that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my aunts. I visited to my aunts. Their area
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  Speaker 1: didn't get hit, so they didn't have damage, but by
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  Speaker 1: the beach where my aunt Karen lives that got hit
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad.
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  Speaker 2: The waves are just crashing on the shore and they
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  Speaker 2: were it was, you know, ruining the sand, ruining the roads.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad. It really is the spot in Florida that
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking to move to in a few years. Down
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  Speaker 2: it's by Sarasota. They're just they're gone. It's like annihilated.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing left of the road, The beaches were all
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  Speaker 2: there's sand in all the houses, and it's really sad
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  Speaker 2: and devastating looking at and seeing all the pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom's friend, we we went for a real
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  Speaker 1: estate conference and to visit family. So my mom's friend
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  Speaker 1: met us at the hotel that we were staying at,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I was telling her how I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go to the beach and She's was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would be really careful because the glass from houses
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  Speaker 1: that got destroyed is all over the beach.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm guessing they didn't sift it because right now
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  Speaker 2: down the protocol is that after a hurricane, they you're
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  Speaker 2: not allot on the beach. They come in with big bulldozers,
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  Speaker 2: they take the sand and they physically sift all the
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  Speaker 2: sand out for debris number one, so people don't get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, so it's not going back in the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm guessing they didn't get to that point yet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't know that they did that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but that's good to know.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, they're doing that in Englewood, Florida and CS
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  Speaker 2: the Key. They have mounds. If you see pictures, there's mounds,
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  Speaker 2: hill like mountains of sand and it's sand that they
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  Speaker 2: already sifted or sand that they have to sift through
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  Speaker 2: because they Yeah, there's so much there's so much glass,
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  Speaker 2: there's metal that could impale you if you fell on it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's pollutions, pollutants, toxic waste. All that has
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  Speaker 2: to be it has to be cleaned.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was pretty sad looking, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And the wind was just horrendous by the you know,
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  Speaker 1: we went to two different beaches. Yeah, the wind was
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  Speaker 1: just horrendous, the waves and uh, they're actually expecting another
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  Speaker 1: hurricane and.
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  Speaker 2: Sheeeze, I was gonna say, is it. I guess the
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  Speaker 2: weather was angry. The ocean was pretty angry when you
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  Speaker 2: were there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was very angry. Uh, though I don't know
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  Speaker 1: when the hurricane is actually coming. I believe it's this week.
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  Speaker 1: So we got home just in time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's your luck. You you missed
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  Speaker 2: the I know you were worried before going down to
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  Speaker 2: Florida because all the hurricanes were happening and happening. You're like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: is this safe? Are we gonna be okay going down there?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you missed it. You got lucky both times.
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  Speaker 2: You can't. I always tell to the people you can't
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  Speaker 2: travel to Florida between the end of August to pretty
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  Speaker 2: much the end of November. But I October is pretty bad.
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  Speaker 2: September and October pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't think we'll be going to Florida
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon. It was. It was a good trip, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a very long trip. We went for a
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  Speaker 1: real estate conference and I have to tell you we
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  Speaker 1: stayed at the gay Lord Palms Hotel Having Goods. It's
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  Speaker 1: called and uh it is definitely not disabled friendly.
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  Speaker 2: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Everything was a ten to fifteen minute walk no
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  Speaker 1: matter where you went.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so big.
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  Speaker 1: We could not find the pool. There was a water
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  Speaker 1: park apparently, couldn't find it. It was it was a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you couldn't even enjoy it all.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't even enjoy it all it was. And then I
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  Speaker 1: got sick.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's shocking. Yeah. Can everyone you know believe that
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  Speaker 2: Shawna actually got sick on vacation. That seems to be
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  Speaker 2: your uh right. That happens every single time in one
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  Speaker 2: way or another.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the last time I went to Florida last year,
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  Speaker 1: I actually didn't get sick. I probably had like a
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  Speaker 1: migraine or something, but I didn't get sick. But the
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  Speaker 1: time before that, I was super sick. I was in
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  Speaker 1: urgent care every day.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: It was insane. But this time I think I had
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  Speaker 1: like food poisoning. Oh my god. Yeah, it was really bad.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been I never had a noseous feeling like
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  Speaker 1: I had.
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  Speaker 2: That just the complete NASA for days or for like
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  Speaker 2: two days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my god.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was I don't know, horrible, really weird.
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  Speaker 1: It was really bad. And I didn't eat for like
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  Speaker 1: two days. And we actually got to my aunt's house
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  Speaker 1: and I just kind of like rated her cabinet.
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  Speaker 2: Your body was finally all right, we're over this. We
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  Speaker 2: need to eat, we need to feel up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like you need to eat bread, just bread,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I've been eating bread for like
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  Speaker 1: two days now, and it was just it was bad.
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  Speaker 2: That sucks. Well, I'm glad that you're better, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you're happy to be home. And I guess i'll
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  Speaker 2: have to when I go to Florida. I'll just you
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  Speaker 2: can live through me if you're never going back, because
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  Speaker 2: I love Florida. I'm never gonna stop going. I would
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  Speaker 2: love to move there. I just I love everything about it.
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  Speaker 1: I like it too. It's just the traffic, yeah, was horrendous.
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  Speaker 1: We actually, I don't know if you've ever been to BUCkies.
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  Speaker 2: I've not, but I know about it. I heard. It's
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  Speaker 2: like a really cool, huge store.
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  Speaker 1: It's humongous. Yeah, we didn't eat the food, but they
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  Speaker 1: were like yelling, like every time a sandwich was made,
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  Speaker 1: they would yell like hey, oh and whatever. They would yell.
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  Speaker 1: But they have really good food apparently, and they have
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  Speaker 1: really cute like home decorations. Oh really yeah. And everything
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  Speaker 1: was like they have clothing, they have pajamas everything, and
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  Speaker 1: everything is like the Bucky Beaver.
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  Speaker 2: He's cute. I've seen Sure. I saw sure that you
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  Speaker 2: got you brought home. That was funny. Yeah, I always
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  Speaker 2: see it on TikTok and Instagram reels. I'll have to
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  Speaker 2: when I go down there in a few months. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to check it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Did you go to Sunny's.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know, so you passed it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh, she's going, I'm so jealous.
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  Speaker 1: I did. We passed it. But my aunt was telling
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  Speaker 1: me that it's all smoked food.
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  Speaker 2: It's barbecue. It's not smoked, but that's what barbecue is smoked.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean, Oh, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like the taste of smoked.
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  Speaker 2: It's what ribs are. When you get ribs at like
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  Speaker 2: Texas Roadhouse, they're smoked.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how while you you have a smoker outside
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  Speaker 2: to make ribs. Yeah, that's smoked. It just means that
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  Speaker 2: it's slow, slow cooked and like it has the wood
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  Speaker 2: chip's usually like a flavoring that makes the smoke like
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  Speaker 2: hickory or whatever they you know, whatever other scent they have,
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  Speaker 2: like bacon is smoked.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll have to live through you because I won't
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  Speaker 1: be going back anyhow.
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  Speaker 2: Why what would what would that reasoning be? Though? Like,
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  Speaker 2: don't go to Sunny's. Everything smoked, Like what did she
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  Speaker 2: she knew you didn't like it, or.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't like this taste of smoked anything like smoked.
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  Speaker 2: No, they taste like regular ribs. But they're just so
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  Speaker 2: tender and so amazing, and you have all the choices
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  Speaker 2: of different barbecue sauces and the size. It's really really
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  Speaker 2: good and decently priced. And they I love their sweet tea.
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  Speaker 2: It's like my favorite in the world. And they gave
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  Speaker 2: you this humongous cup, like you would be peeing for
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  Speaker 2: a month, but you get your money's worth there and
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  Speaker 2: the cup is like this wide and this tall. So
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I wish we had a Sunny's here,
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  Speaker 2: but I guess they're not coming. No, no, no, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're not doing that. Oh. So, I didn't get to
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  Speaker 2: update you guys on the whole vaccine situation with GEO.
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  Speaker 2: If you didn't hear the last episode, I was saying
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  Speaker 2: that the school was forcing me to get my son
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  Speaker 2: vaccinated for a tea DAP and I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 2: I was like in tears because I'm forced to do
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  Speaker 2: this when I don't want to do it. And my
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  Speaker 2: reasoning is really is it's important because my son has
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  Speaker 2: always had reactions since he was little to any vaccine
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  Speaker 2: he got, and they weren't normal reactions, but they weren't anaphylectic,
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  Speaker 2: so the doctors didn't care, unfortunately. So I've held off
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  Speaker 2: as long as I could. The school's like, we are
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  Speaker 2: going to kick him out tomorrow if you don't get
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  Speaker 2: it by this day. So I took him into the
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  Speaker 2: pediatrician and I told him I want to talk to
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  Speaker 2: a pediatrician before I give him this vaccination. And the
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  Speaker 2: pediatrician came in and I right away, I've dealt with
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  Speaker 2: this doctor before because it's a team of a few
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  Speaker 2: different doctors there, so you kind of get whoever they
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  Speaker 2: give you. And I'm like, oh, here we go, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so she says, so he's getting his vaccine today,
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  Speaker 2: and I said unfortunately, and she looked at me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I she said, well, vaccines are safe, and this
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  Speaker 2: is good that you're doing this. He needs it to
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  Speaker 2: go to school. I said, I know he needs it,
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  Speaker 2: but I that my hands are hied. I hate that
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  Speaker 2: I have to be forced to give this to my
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  Speaker 2: child when he has reactions, and I really don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: So I really need you to give him a metal
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  Speaker 2: exemption so that my child doesn't get this. And she's like,
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  Speaker 2: what reactions. I said, look back in your files, because
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  Speaker 2: I've taken him here since he was born, and every
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  Speaker 2: time he had a reaction, I would call you guys
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  Speaker 2: and tell you, hey, my baby has a ration now
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  Speaker 2: all over their body. My baby has this. My baby
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  Speaker 2: has been lethargic for two to three days where I
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  Speaker 2: can't really wake him to eat, and you guys would
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  Speaker 2: tell me it's normal, it's normal, it's normal, and that's
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  Speaker 2: not normal. She's like, it is normal. I said, it's
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  Speaker 2: not normal. I'm like, he does not react well, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to take that chance. And she said
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  Speaker 2: vaccines have been tested and proved, you know that whole whole,
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  Speaker 2: the whole spiel that they do. And I just was
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  Speaker 2: looking at her and said, I'm like, no, they're not.
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  Speaker 2: And she goes, oh, don't believe that small community that
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  Speaker 2: that's against vaccines. They don't know what they're talking about. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: she says to me, so I come back with after
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  Speaker 2: I tell her all the reactions he had, Like the
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  Speaker 2: rational that I come back with, I said, so let
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  Speaker 2: me get this straight. You tell me it's not a reaction,
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  Speaker 2: and that it's fine that he gets these symptoms or
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  Speaker 2: side effects, but it's not a reaction to the vaccine,
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  Speaker 2: or not a bad one. I said, But if I
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  Speaker 2: came in and said that my child, I fed my
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  Speaker 2: child in apple, and after they ate the apple, they
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  Speaker 2: broke out in hives. They broke out in a rash.
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  Speaker 2: They had fevers for two days, three days. They were lethargic.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't wake them, they were inconsolable. What would you
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  Speaker 2: tell me? And she knew where I was going with it,
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  Speaker 2: and she looked at me and she tilted her head
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  Speaker 2: and she went, apples, wouldn't do that to you. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to freaking strangle her, Shaana, because that was the
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  Speaker 2: most Oh my god, she was being such a little
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  Speaker 2: beach responding to me that way. She knew where I
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  Speaker 2: was going with it, and that was her freaking response.
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  Speaker 2: I said, Oh, I said, come on, come on, all right,
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  Speaker 2: not apples. Let's go with peanut butter, Let's go a fish.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is. You would tell me, what would you
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  Speaker 2: tell me? She's like that they're allergic? I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: there you go. You tell me that they're allergic. But
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  Speaker 2: right now, when I say that that's the same reactions
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  Speaker 2: he has the vaccinations, you're saying that it's not a
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  Speaker 2: reaction and it's normal and fine, yeah, because it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: work that way. I said, why doesn't it work that way?
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  Speaker 2: And she had no answer for me. It's different, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: She kept saying, it's different.
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  Speaker 1: Because she doesn't know what to say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. And I went toe to toe with her,
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  Speaker 2: and then Geo was like, Mom, I'm gonna be fine,
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  Speaker 2: just let me get it. I want to go to school,
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  Speaker 2: because I kept saying, please let me homeschool you please, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want to be homeschooled. So he's not freaking out.
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  Speaker 2: He's perfectly normal, telling me like, Mom, like I want,
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  Speaker 2: I want it. So I give in. And the doctor said, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have an EpiPen ready for him. If he has
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  Speaker 2: a reaction. You could sit here thirty minutes after or
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  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes after, and we'll keep an eye on him.
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  Speaker 2: I said, And I was crying. I said, I fucking
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  Speaker 2: hate that I'm being forced to do this to my child. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: do it, And they gave him the vaccine. They walked out,
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  Speaker 2: They said, if anything, come and get us. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: staying there on my phone texting. I'm about to text
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  Speaker 2: my husband, and my son goes, ma, I can't feel
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  Speaker 2: my throat. I'm like, what, Geo's I can't feel my throat.
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  Speaker 2: It's numb. It's completely numb. I said, can you breathe?
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  Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, I could breathe. So his throat wasn't
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  Speaker 2: closing up. He could breathe, but his throat, his whole
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  Speaker 2: like esophagus and the back of his throat down, he said,
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  Speaker 2: had no feeling like it was just numb. Like that's
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  Speaker 2: all he kept saying. So I immediately call run out there,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, he's having a reaction, you know. The
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  Speaker 2: nurse comes running in. She's like, what's going on? He
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  Speaker 2: tells her. She runs out and gets bena. Drrill comes
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  Speaker 2: back in, makes him chug the ben a. Drill goes
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  Speaker 2: gets the EpiPen. She didn't give it him the EpiPen,
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  Speaker 2: and then she must have told the doctor. The doctor
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  Speaker 2: comes in and she looked annoyed. She looked like she
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  Speaker 2: didn't believe me type thing, you know, and she's like,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on? And I said, my son is having
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  Speaker 2: a reaction to the vaccine. His throat is numb. So
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  Speaker 2: all she does is take out her step scopelessens to
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  Speaker 2: his heart, puts the oxygen thing on his finger, and
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  Speaker 2: she goes, He's fine, He's fine, his heart rates normal.
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  Speaker 2: I said, his throat's numb. You know it's fine. So
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  Speaker 2: long story short. She told me that you better not
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  Speaker 2: think this was a reaction to the vaccination, because it wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: she says to me. And she told me to send
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  Speaker 2: him to school, even though they gave him ben aderyl.
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  Speaker 2: And the nurse, the nurse that told me don't send
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  Speaker 2: him to school because he's gonna fall asleep, she said,
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  Speaker 2: why aren't you sending him the school. He can go
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  Speaker 2: to school. I'm like, you gave him a lot of
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  Speaker 2: ben aderyl.
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  Speaker 1: You know I would have said the nurse told me
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  Speaker 1: not to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I said that too, and she's just like,
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  Speaker 2: he'll be fine. So she was just so just cold,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And I left. I went
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  Speaker 2: to the front desk and I said, I'm switching pediatricians.
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  Speaker 2: I want all my files. What do I gotta do?
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  Speaker 2: Give me the paperwork. I'm out of this practice. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I was livid. I was absolutely livid. And you know
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  Speaker 2: that they never called me. They never called me after
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  Speaker 2: to see if he was okay, to check in, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: how's he feeling now? Did his throat get better? Nothing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised, nothing, I am. I'm getting upset again
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  Speaker 2: talking about this because how how can you be a
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  Speaker 2: doctor to and take care of children and all you care,
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  Speaker 2: all they care about is those vaccines and they's brainwashed.
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  Speaker 2: You really cared about my child, you would have called
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  Speaker 2: or called mom. How you doing. I know that was
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  Speaker 2: very stressful for you to see your child go through that.
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  Speaker 2: But because he didn't have an anaphyilectic reaction, they told me,
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  Speaker 2: because he didn't die or almost die, they can't give
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  Speaker 2: me a medical exemption. And this is New York State
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  Speaker 2: for you. And I am just so upset about it.
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  Speaker 2: But I have a little hope after what happened this
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: week with the elections, right, it's crazy, it is crazy.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: What I can't believe that he won.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I know I can't either. I fell asleep around midnight
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: and then my mom came and woke me up at
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: like I don't even know one in the morning, and
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: then she woke me up again, like to something, and
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: she's like, are you gonna watch his speech with me?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: And I'm like what, I'm like, I have to be
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: up at like six thirty. So I ended up watching
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: his speech and I don't know, I think he could
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: have done a better job. I don't like the way
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: he speaks.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I don't like the way he speaks either.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: No, it was kind of boring. But I didn't go
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: to bed till four in the morning, and then I
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: had to be up at six thirty, so jeez.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a long night. I kept dozing off.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I don't like watching the elections. I never have. I
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: get too much anxiety, and it's kind of boring just
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: sitting there, like waiting and waiting and waiting. You know.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: My husband kept yelling and he's like paying attention. I'm
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: like to what to what they're talking and then a
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: number changes every twenty minutes, Like I'm bored, you know.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really boring. I mean it was kind
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: of cool to hear like the commentary.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of it was cool. Yes, I liked seeing
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: like the they were going back to twenty twenty to
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, you know, they were doing that. That was cool.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: To see and you know, then I ended up laying
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: in bed fell I fell asleep and I woke up
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: because the cat was banging on the door. I don't
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: know if the cat was trying to tell me the
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Trump one, but the cat woke me up at like
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: one fifty, I don't know, woke up, put the cat outside.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I looked up in the sky and I saw a
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: shooting star and I'm like, oh, it's a sign. Turn
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: on the TV and it basically said that he won.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: So I was I was very shocked, and I'm not
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: gonna lie. I was happy, but I didn't think I
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: didn't think they would let him win. I know that
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: sounds horrible, but I didn't think they anyone would allow
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: him to win.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't think so either. I thought it was I
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: really thought she was gonna win.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I kept telling all my friends, like, I
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: don't have faith. I even said it to your mom
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: and she's like, don't say that, you know, but it's hard.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: It's hard in this day and age. It's not a
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Republican verse Democrat thing. It's just so hard now that
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: we have all these different ways of voting. We have electronic,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: we have paper, we have mail in we have this
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: that I don't like that for all sides, Like I
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: think we need to get away from the mail in ballots.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: We need to get away from electronic I don't know,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and just do paper ballots the old school way with
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: id's and there you go. You know, I can't trust
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: elections when we don't some states are not even using
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: IDs to Did you see the one video the guy
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: he put a secret camera on his shirt, went up
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: to the desk and they said he has an ID
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: and they're like, I don't need I don't need that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And he goes, okay, and she goes, what's your name?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: So he gives a name and he goes, it could
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: be me. It could not be me. I saw that,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: and they didn't care. So they say, okay, is this
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: your address? He goes, could be, it could not be,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: and they didn't care. They just ignored him, saying he
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: was basically telling them, I'm not telling you that is me.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: It might not be. They didn't care. They did not care.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: So that's that's scary to me on all sides of it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: So that's what I mean when I said I had
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: no I had no faith in our election system because
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: it can easily be rigged. It can be it could
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: be messed with.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: A few years ago, my uncle went to vote and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: they said that he had already voted, Are you kidding me? Yeah,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and he didn't vote, so he had to fill out
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: like some kind of affidavit.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: And yeah, and then they it takes a long time.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, I have no idea. Was someone
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: who's that happened to someone in Staten Island and they said, okay,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: we needed to report that someone voted in your husband's name.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: You could fill out a paper ballot and then it's
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: going to take a couple of days to go through.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: And she said, well, is the other person's vote going
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: to count? And they said yes. So it's just crazy
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: to me. And then in Pennsylvania, a non citizen Chinese
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: student was able to vote in our election, non citizen,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: not a citizen, went into the voting center, voted left.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: No one knew, no one asked any questions. The only
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: reason they were caught was they changed their mind about
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I think either who they wanted to vote for, or
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: they found ot they can get in trouble. So they
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: went to see if they could pull their vote. They
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: went back and that's how they were caught, because they
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: kind of out of themselves, they were arrested. And how
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: did that happen in the first place? Yea, how things
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: need to change. So how I was kind of getting
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: that with the vaccinations was that RFK is. I've said
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: it multiple times. I love him, I love what he
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: stands for, love he wants to change to protect our
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: children and our health. And so I'm so glad that
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: he is working with Trump, and I pray to God
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: that he is able to end all mandates on vaccinations
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and let it be our choice. Let it be our
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: choice what we want to inject into our children. And
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: if vaccines are so great, they'll protect your child to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: if you give them to your child, and I should
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: have the right to not give it to my child
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: who has reactions to it. And that's why I'm just
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: hopeful for that with Trump winning, that RFK is going
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: to be able to change this.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I hope so too. I really do, especially with our food, Yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: because I think that's what my problem is and why
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I get so sick my gi. I've seen countless gis
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and they've all said it's what they put in the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: foods that makes me sick.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's toxic. It's so toxic.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And we're seeing it more and more on Facebook and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: social media that people are having digestive issues. Yes, Celiac,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and it's really big right now. Uh.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Chromes, yep, I know all that about that one chromes disease,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the diabetes, the gluten intolerance is because they're saying that
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: just the shit in our food, that our bodies can't
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: handle it, and just so many different childhood obesity, the
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: list goes on and on, that we are not healthy
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: anymore and we need to get back to that. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: right now there's a lot of moms going after Kellogg's.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw that. They're like doing,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: going outside the building, telling them, hey, why get the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: crap out of our food? They allow Canada and Europe
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: to have better cereals than us without all the toxics
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: and toxins in them, but yet for Americans they poison us.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Why why can you make one brand of cereal without
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: all the dyes, without the toxic chemicals, and you send
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: it to Europe but not for your own country. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: they're fighting that right now. There are a few celebrities
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: behind them, you know, supporting them with this, and we
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: shall see. I'm hoping that the next four years are
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: healthier America, a safer America, are more peaceful America. And
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: all we can do is is try and make the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: best of it. I understand a lot of people aren't happy,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: and I feel for you because I've been there in
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: your shoes when my candidate lost and you feel like
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: what now you know? But I have hope and I
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: have faith things are going to get better as long
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: as we work together. And like I said to my
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: friends that are very upset about him winning, they're afraid,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: don't be afraid, and if anything happens, we will stand
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: beside you. We want to protect America, so God forbid
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: you think like my friends, I think Trump's gonna be
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: a dictator if that ever happened, I'm not supporting that.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I will be right alongside you fighting for our America,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: for our country, for our freedoms and our rights. It
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean because he won that we're all just gonna like,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: let him do whatever he wants, you know, So we
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: will stand beside you if you're and protect you as
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: our fellow Americans, our friends, our family. Even if we
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: don't agree politically, We're not gonna let anything happen to
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: our country. We love it too much. We love our
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: freedoms too much and our rights too much.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Prior to me going away, we saw Brian Killmead at
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the Hudson Valley Paramount and what a great show he
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: put on.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I was so you know me, I was like really
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: into a lot of it. The history. It's amazing. It's
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: so amazing the things that I never knew happened in
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: history that I learned. I learned so much from him
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: in that show. He talked about different battles that went
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: on to get us to where we are now, different
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: key people in history that made our country what it
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: is right now. And like Booker T. Washington, we learned
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: about the Battle of Tripoli, which I've never heard of before.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I never knew about this battle, so now it had me.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Because of me sitting in that show and him talking
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a little bit about it, it like sparked. I was intrigued.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: So I went on my own and researched it. And
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: there's a movie I'm gonna watch that was based off
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: of this amazing battle that happened in the Middle East.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I never knew that way back when when our country
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: was created, we had actually had a battle in the
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Middle East, which you know, like it was our first
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: like terrorist type thing that went on. So yeah, very interesting.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: He is so intelligent. We've said it a million times.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: He is such a smart man. And I enjoyed myself.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I learned. I learned a lot.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I did too.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and even in line, we learned.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: A lot, right, we did.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, there was Vietnam vets that we were blessed to
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: be standing next to for I'd say half hour we
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: were out there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the stuff that they were telling us is
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: just mind blowing.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, that they had some inside information
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: that like was kind of sketchy. We taught. We heard
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: about their sacrifices fighting for our country, the good, the bad,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: the evil that went on, and it was it was
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: very refreshing talking to them and like eye opening listening
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to their their war stories and what they had seen
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and dealt with and what they know that goes on
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: behind closed doors. So very the whole the whole evening
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: was very informational and I did learn a lot all
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: different ways. Brian Kilmey it also gave us his book
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: The Brian about Booker t Washington. Yes, so we all
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: got a copy of that, which was amazing. He autographed it,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: took pictures with us, and I didn't get to read
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: it yet because my husband took it. He was like
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: really excited to read that. So once he's finished with it,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I'm going to read it next. But my husband's loving
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: it so far. He said that Brian makes history interesting.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: It makes it makes you want to read it. You're
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: not bored, you know, like how we used to feel
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: in history class.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Like you, I absolutely hated history class.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, so boring. But if you can find a way
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: to make things interesting, then people learn more. And that's
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: what he did.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And I love the fact that he really does his
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: own research. And he said before he writes a book,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he does two to five years of yeah, uh research.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: He researches the family, the friends, the places that these
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: presidents went, everything, which is really phenomenal.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I know. I think he said on one of them
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: he spent like ten years. I don't even maybe longer
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: than that. I forget what book researching and researching and
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: digging into old old artifacts and finds a museum. So
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: he really he goes out of his way to make sure,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: he's getting you every bit of information that you might
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: never have heard of. And that's what his goal was,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to do things that you might not know or find
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: information that you would you don't know about in history. Yeah,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: and he does a good job.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Well, Halloween just passed. What was Julina and Geo.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Jelina was Wednesday Adams and she was so funny. She
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: loved singing and dancing like Wednesday. She really got into character.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I'd have to day. Geo was supposed to be Deadpool,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: but the costume didn't come and so I just quickly
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: like threw some face paint on and made him a skeleton, blackjacket,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: black pants, and he thought he looked cool. So as
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: long as he was happy, mom was happy, you know.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And yeah, so I had a skeleton on Wednesday and
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: they had a good time. Julina, it was a beautiful
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: the best Halloween I've ever had. With the weather, it
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: was gorgeous out, Oh my god. We were in T shirts,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: you know, not cold at all. And before Halloween we
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: were carving pumpkins and we got this really awesome product
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: called the Stacker Lantern and it's a pumpkin stacking kit.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: So you know, you have three pumpkins. Let's say you
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: carve them out. You take out the center, make carve
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the faces on them, and you get three different sizes.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: So we had like a big one, a medium one,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: and a small one. And this kit comes with like
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: a top. It's like a ring with spikes in it,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: an open ring, and you once you carve the top
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: out of the pumpkin, you stick this ring on it,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: this plastic ring with spikes. You stick the spikes into
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the pumpkin and it has spikes on the top of
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: it too, And then you take that middle sized pumpkin
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and you kind of jam it onto the spikes or
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: inside the spikes if it's smaller, and then the smaller one,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Before you do that, there's
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: also these little lights they give you, which is so genius.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: They are these little tea lights that are battery operated,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and they have a screw at the back of on
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the bottom of them, so you screw it into the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: lid of the pumpkin, or you can screw it into
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the pumpkin that's stacking on top, so
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: it kind of hangs there and you don't have to
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: worry about burning yourself sticking your hand in the ouey
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: guey stuff. You know, really cute. I love it. We
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: have it on the porch the kids. My daughter had
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: a blast doing it with me and scooping out the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: goop and stacking them. It's really cute. It's a good
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: idea that makes it easy to stack pumpkins like on
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: top of each other and make kind of like a
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: totem pole, like a pumpkin totem pole, you know. Really cool.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And this is from the company, the Amazing company who
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: we always work with. We love them. My son absolutely
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: adores their products because he does the Easter eggs on Easter,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: which you've seen him do since he was a little boy.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: And they also have the Christmas ornament one where the
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: kids can decorate that, so you'll see that in the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: coming months with Christmas coming up. But love it. Awesome product.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I would highly suggest getting it for next year. Get
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: it now on Amazon they sell it. You can have
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: it ready for next Halloween.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And that's our show for this week. Thank you so
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: much for tuning in. Make sure to follow us on
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• 29:13
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• 29:17
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