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School Days, Gym Class Nightmares & Road Trip Ready · 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 2: And check me out at bella _ _ lala125.
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  Speaker 1: Well, summer is officially over and school has started, at
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  Speaker 1: least here in New York. And I guess it is
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  Speaker 1: back to reality and getting up early, especially for you.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate it. I have to be
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  Speaker 2: up at 6, 6.15 every morning and I've been sleeping
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  Speaker 2: till 8. So it's really, it's really frustrating and I
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  Speaker 2: have to get into the swing of things again.
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  Speaker 1: Is Gio excited to be in eighth grade? It says
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  Speaker 1: last year of middle school and then he's only got
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  Speaker 1: four more years left. I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: I know. It goes by so fast. He's excited. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he was a little nervous. Of course, that's normal to
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  Speaker 2: be nervous. But he's excited, and he loves school. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: unless he gets a bad teacher, we'll know. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's trying to gauge how he feels about his teachers.
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  Speaker 2: There's some that he doesn't like, some he likes. But
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  Speaker 2: I've seen with him that changes throughout the year. As
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  Speaker 2: he gets to know them, he's like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't that bad. Or, you know what, now they
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  Speaker 2: are bad.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, he is excited, and he had a good
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  Speaker 2: first day and a good second day, and hopefully that continues.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when he was in preschool, we would get
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  Speaker 1: together at your house and film and record, and he
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  Speaker 1: used to give you such a hard time about going
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  Speaker 1: to preschool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't like going. He wanted to be home
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  Speaker 2: with Mama. It was hard. It was definitely hard, but
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  Speaker 2: luckily it was not a full day of school back then.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it wasn't five days a week, but
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  Speaker 2: maybe it was, but it definitely was a half-day program,
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  Speaker 2: so at least it wasn't too crazy. Nowadays, these poor
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  Speaker 2: kids are going Monday through Friday at three years old,
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  Speaker 2: turning four, but Monday through Friday from 9 to 3.30.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. That's too long of a day for these
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  Speaker 2: little ones.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what my cousin's kids do if they...
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  Speaker 1: I know they're definitely, I know the one is, she's three,
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  Speaker 1: I believe. And I know she goes to like a
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  Speaker 1: preschool program, but I don't know if it's every day,
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  Speaker 1: all day, or if it's like certain days, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like one time. I'll have to find out. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're just maybe preparing them for school life,
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  Speaker 1: but they still, they need to be a kid.
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  Speaker 2: No, I already asked what the reason was because it
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  Speaker 2: made no sense to me. I said.
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  Speaker 1: Babysitting. Babysitting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, parents. Parents complain. This is what they told me.
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  Speaker 2: Parents were not putting their kids in the pre-K program
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  Speaker 2: because then they had to find babysitters or someone to
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  Speaker 2: pick them up half day because most parents work nine
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  Speaker 2: to five. So you're thinking, okay, they're dropping the kids
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  Speaker 2: off fine, but then they have to come back at 1230,
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock, whatever time it was to pick up the kid.
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  Speaker 2: And that was interfering in their work day. So they
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  Speaker 2: complained and said, I want full day. And while I
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  Speaker 2: get that, I don't in a way. It's like I
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  Speaker 2: always say when you have kids, you make sacrifices. You
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  Speaker 2: have little ones. Hey, I know people need to make money,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to work. You got to make it work.
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  Speaker 2: And I will always take my child's mental health and
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  Speaker 2: then how they're growing over a job or money, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because that's most important to me. And a little three-year-old
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  Speaker 2: should not be sitting in class or daycare all day.
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  Speaker 2: That's my opinion. So that's why they did it. That's
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  Speaker 2: what they told me they did it. And the state. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: because it gives them more money. Every student that's enrolled,
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  Speaker 2: they get a certain amount of money. So they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get the enrollment up. So they offer this and
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  Speaker 2: then more parents put their kids in because, Oh yes, perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Now my kid can be in school all day. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to pay a babysitter. I don't have to
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  Speaker 2: do this, just that. And this is great. And the
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  Speaker 2: state makes money and the parents are happy. I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: happy though.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, your mom was home with you, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And your dad, um, So both my parents worked. My
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  Speaker 1: mom worked, you know, two jobs. My dad was an
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  Speaker 1: over-the-road truck driver. So I get that. Like, I get where, like,
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  Speaker 1: my mom's coming from.
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  Speaker 2: But you hated it.
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  Speaker 1: But I hated it.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And then I get where you're coming from, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And my mom, she worked two and three jobs. But
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  Speaker 1: her one job was from, like, 7 in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: She would put me on the bus, leave for work,
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  Speaker 1: and then work till 5, 5.30 a.m. And then sometimes
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  Speaker 1: had to do like meetings or meetings till 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at night, you know, and then she did that. And
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  Speaker 1: then she also was in school. So it was a lot.
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  Speaker 2: That is a lot. And I mean, I know you
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  Speaker 2: guys and I'm never going to tell your mom, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have kids. But I tell women today, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that more women have to work in today's age than
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  Speaker 2: back then. It's like, hey, you got to you got
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  Speaker 2: to make that decision before you have kids. It's either
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  Speaker 2: to me. It's either a full-fledged career or you're raising
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  Speaker 2: your children. And I know everyone falls on hard times,
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  Speaker 2: believe me. But I think that people don't want to
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  Speaker 2: make sacrifices. And this is not about your mom. But
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  Speaker 2: other people don't want to make sacrifices to cut back.
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  Speaker 1: Either that or they're afraid they're not going to have money. Or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they want to live this lavish lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not making sacrifices. When me and Mike got pregnant,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't planning it. We're like, oh, crap, how are
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  Speaker 2: we going to afford this? Well, let's cut down our
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  Speaker 2: cell phone plan. Let's drop down to one car. Hey, Lauren,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to have a car. But God forbid
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  Speaker 2: there's an emergency. Our neighbor will take you this, this
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  Speaker 2: or that. It sucked. I didn't have my own car
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  Speaker 2: for a few years. But we knew that what was
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  Speaker 2: important to us was me being home with Gio and
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  Speaker 2: raising him, not sticking him in a daycare. So people
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  Speaker 2: don't want to live without. And I think that's it, too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some people I know they can't. But for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these women that I know, it's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I want to keep my career. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: change anything. And I'm going to put my little baby.
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  Speaker 2: In a daycare from 7 a.m. till 6 when I
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  Speaker 2: get there from work. And to me, I will never
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  Speaker 2: agree with that. You should not... Your baby should be
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  Speaker 2: raised by you, not a daycare. So that's just my
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  Speaker 2: personal opinion. A lot of women get mad at me
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  Speaker 2: when I say that.
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  Speaker 1: Or family members.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I was always with my grandmother, my aunts. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was always with somebody. You know, because my mom
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  Speaker 1: then was a single mother and... she had to work
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  Speaker 1: to keep a roof over our head but you know
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  Speaker 1: it just times are different now and there's more services
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  Speaker 1: out there for people that need help monetarily that they
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  Speaker 1: can get it and they can be home with.
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  Speaker 2: Their child yeah yeah it's there are so I think
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  Speaker 2: people just need to I think people have kids because
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  Speaker 2: they feel like they need to have kids like this
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  Speaker 2: is the thing to do okay we're married alright what's
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  Speaker 2: next you know what I mean Um, so I just
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  Speaker 2: never been that way.
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  Speaker 1: Not me. Let me tell you. I do not want kids.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I like kids, but if they didn't poop
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  Speaker 1: and throw up, that'd be perfect. And if labor wasn't painful. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you. Cause I, you know, I don't like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I could deal with their poop, my own
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  Speaker 2: kids poop, not anyone else's, but, uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, we already know how I feel. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I get it. And I mean, this also
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  Speaker 2: ties into it. With the back to school starting. Every year.
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  Speaker 2: I complain about this. So if you're an avid listener.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard me complain about this before. But it really
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  Speaker 2: irks me and bothers me. And breaks my heart every
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  Speaker 2: school year. That there are parents. That make these posts.
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  Speaker 2: Or say in front of their kids. Oh my god
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait for you to go back to school.
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  Speaker 2: Thank god school is starting again. I can have my
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  Speaker 2: time back. I can have my space. And you're going
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  Speaker 2: to go to school. And it breaks my heart. Because
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  Speaker 2: in the summer, a lot of parents do in the summer, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my kids are going to be home this summer. I
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  Speaker 2: can't do this. I got to stick them in camp
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  Speaker 2: every day. Why did you have kids? I always say,
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  Speaker 2: I want to say to them, I know I can't,
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  Speaker 2: but in my head, I'm going, why the F did
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  Speaker 2: you have kids? Because kids are an 18 year sacrifice. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: take care of yourself too. But those, especially those first,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say 15 years, maybe 16, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You need there. You need to be able to do
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  Speaker 2: everything for them as much as you can and be
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  Speaker 2: there for them. And that's your life. It's not about you.
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  Speaker 1: Especially when your child is in their teenage years. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be around. Yes. Because, you know, I mean, granted,
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  Speaker 1: I was a different type of child, but I was not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, running the streets at 14 or 15. How
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  Speaker 1: many of our friends were? I know. Or kids that
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  Speaker 1: we went to school with were into drugs and getting
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  Speaker 1: pregnant at a young age, at 16, 17, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And most of their parents weren't around. They were either working,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, where were they? They....
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think it breaks my heart because these
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  Speaker 2: kids are hearing their parents say that. My mom never
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  Speaker 2: said that. If she did, I think it would hurt
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  Speaker 2: me so much. Like, oh, I can't wait for you
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  Speaker 2: to go to school. Oh, summer's here. I can't deal
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  Speaker 2: with you home every day. Oh, my mom used to
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  Speaker 2: say that. I'm sorry. That's horrible, Kathy. That's horrible.
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  Speaker 1: She used to say it, I think, because she had
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  Speaker 1: to work.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but it's horrible. She could keep it in
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  Speaker 2: her head and go, crap, how am I going to
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  Speaker 2: handle all this? It's going to be stressful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I used to go to my aunt's, which was not, like,
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  Speaker 1: when summer came, like, I was excited. But it was like, oh, crap,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go to my aunt's. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sit there and watch TV or, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Go to camp or do whatever. So it was, summer
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  Speaker 1: was not exciting for me.
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  Speaker 2: I love your mom, so I'm not going to bash her,
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  Speaker 2: but see how you felt, like... How you felt is
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  Speaker 2: what I feel is wrong. And these parents don't realize
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  Speaker 2: it or they don't care because it's, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: this as your mom, but a lot of these women
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  Speaker 2: today and men today are, no, me before them, my
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  Speaker 2: needs before my children, my mental health before my, and yes,
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  Speaker 2: you have to protect your mental health. But saying that
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  Speaker 2: crap in front of your kids is not good for
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  Speaker 2: their mental health either.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it. Like those people that stay home
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  Speaker 1: that are like the stay at home moms that are
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  Speaker 1: always like, oh my God, I can't wait for my
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  Speaker 1: kid to go to school. yeah why are you staying
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  Speaker 1: home then I don't know you know why why do
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  Speaker 1: you have kids if you want to stay home and
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  Speaker 1: you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Want to be around them I I don't know I
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  Speaker 2: know being a stay-at-home mom is overwhelming because I was
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  Speaker 2: one you don't get a break but I've never I
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  Speaker 2: was a stay-at-home mom forever and my kids you know
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  Speaker 2: that my kids have always been with me and uh.
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  Speaker 1: They still are they still are in the other room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah Jelena's in the other room my kids are always
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  Speaker 2: with me because We get 18 short years with them,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're off on their own. Then they're in college.
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  Speaker 2: Then they're getting married. And then they're not home. Then
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  Speaker 2: you have an empty house. It's quiet. It's clean. And
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  Speaker 2: then you have your time. That's when I'll have my time.
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  Speaker 2: And I get my time here and there, but not
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  Speaker 2: the summers, not school year. I'm jumping up and down. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they're going back. And my kids drive me absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So I understand needing a break. No, he does. Him
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  Speaker 2: and Jelena fight. So it's them fighting.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's hilarious that they fight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they fight.
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  Speaker 1: Because they are eight years different? Nine years? Seven? Eight,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: Eight years different? Or seven, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's hilarious. I crack up.
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  Speaker 2: It's horrible. I shouldn't say it's the worst, because me
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  Speaker 2: and my sister are worse. We used to hit each other,
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  Speaker 2: but we were close in age. He doesn't hit her,
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  Speaker 2: but they.
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  Speaker 2: They antagonize each other so much. And then I get
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  Speaker 2: involved because she's crying or he's screaming and she's whining
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  Speaker 2: and she's screaming. So I get parents who have multiple
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  Speaker 2: kids and they're just fighting all day. It is exhausting
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  Speaker 2: and draining. And you need, you do need your like
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  Speaker 2: a mental break. Hey, I need, I need tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 2: need to go somewhere. I need to do a me day.
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  Speaker 2: But that's, you don't need every day. You don't need,
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  Speaker 2: oh yes, I want them out five days a week
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  Speaker 2: for eight hours a day, nine hours a day. That's
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  Speaker 2: just like sad to me. Why'd you have kids? So again,
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  Speaker 2: I always, I get in arguments with women. They don't
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  Speaker 2: like hearing that. They feel judged. They feel like I'm
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  Speaker 2: being unrealistic, but I think that we need to get
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  Speaker 2: back to that because back in the day, the mom
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  Speaker 2: stayed home. I know it's not possible right now with money,
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  Speaker 2: but that's how it should be. The mom raising the kids,
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  Speaker 2: the grandma helping, and that's good for kids need their mom.
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  Speaker 2: They don't need a stranger out of daycare at three
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  Speaker 2: months or four months old until the time they go
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  Speaker 2: to school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Until they're four. Like, I don't agree with it. You
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  Speaker 2: got to make sacrifices. Children are sacrifices of life. It's
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  Speaker 2: not about you doing the same shit you're always doing
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  Speaker 2: to keep your life the same. No, you got to
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  Speaker 2: make changes and it sucks. But that's the choice you
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  Speaker 2: make when you have kids. And again, people always come
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  Speaker 2: at me, well, there's things that happen in situations and money.
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  Speaker 1: Get it.
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  Speaker 2: I totally get it. Like I said, me and my
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  Speaker 2: husband went through it. I found a job where I
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  Speaker 2: could bring my son when we were going through money trouble,
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  Speaker 2: even though we got rid of the car. And we
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  Speaker 2: cut down on the cell phone payment. We were still
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  Speaker 2: struggling because the economy tanked. I got a job at
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  Speaker 2: a daycare so I could bring him with me. You
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  Speaker 2: make it work. You make it work.
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  Speaker 1: And you loved it.
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  Speaker 2: He loved it. And then I continued doing that, finding
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  Speaker 2: jobs that I could take him to until he got
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  Speaker 2: into school. And then I was able to work more
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  Speaker 2: of a full-time schedule. And hey, maybe I'm different than people,
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  Speaker 2: but that's how my mom raised me. that having children
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  Speaker 2: is the most important thing and you have to make sacrifices.
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  Speaker 1: And your sister is the same way. She works a
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  Speaker 1: full-time job and on days off that her son has
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  Speaker 1: from school, she could bring him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she brings him with her. She found a job
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  Speaker 2: that she's able to. And that's just how we were raised.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's beneficial to children, very, for their
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  Speaker 2: mental health, their emotional health, their empathy, their stress levels, anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of anxious kids now. How many kids
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  Speaker 2: out there are on On freaking depression medicine and anxiety
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  Speaker 2: medicine young. There's an issue. There's something going on. And
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to bring back that family dynamic
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  Speaker 2: of one of the parents at least being home with
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  Speaker 2: the kid or family member being with them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's a money thing and the economy thing,
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  Speaker 2: but I hope that comes back one day. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: So we can bring back that strong family unit.
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  Speaker 1: So is there anything that Gio like absolutely hates about school?
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  Speaker 2: I know he doesn't like ELA. Yeah. He doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: science sometimes and health class. He absolutely hates health class.
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  Speaker 2: I can only imagine why because these are the years
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  Speaker 2: where they're learning some of that uncomfortable stuff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those are the things he hates. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: he really loves school. He loves gym. He loves math.
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  Speaker 2: He loves math. And I'm so happy because I hated
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  Speaker 2: math and I sucked at math, as I know you
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  Speaker 2: did too. So that's great. I.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't like anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. You hated school. I mean, I did too,
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  Speaker 2: but there were some things I liked.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right? What did you.
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  Speaker 2: Was there anything that you liked about school?
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Gym class. Because I would leave. Oh, geez.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: I would.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm admitting this on air, but in
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: high school, their gym class for me, they were afraid
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: to have me in the regular class with all the
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: other kids, which was so stupid. So they would be like,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: all right, you're going to walk the hallway. So I
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: would walk that hallway from, like, where the gym was
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: to where the pool is. Yeah. And I would walk
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: back and forth. Oh, my God.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Back and forth.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: And I was like, after, like, the second day, I'm like,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I can't do this. So my aunt, on my senior year,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I would have her come pick me up. So I
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: would be there to, like, check in, you know, or
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: for attendance. Yeah. And then I would go out the
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: side door and just hop in a car and leave.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: And when did you come back?
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: You didn't get in trouble for leaving early? Or was
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: it the end of the day?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: No, I was allowed to leave early. So, like, gym was, like,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the last class. And then I was supposed to leave after.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: So I would stick around for, like, five or ten minutes.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: They would do attendance. And, I mean, they had to
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: see me walking out the door.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. you know, older and, you know, like, where is she?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Where did she go?
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. So, but I never got in trouble.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah. I, I missed too many gym classes
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: and they made me write reports. So I'm shocked they
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: didn't make you do that. I had to write a
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: hundred reports on every sport, every, it was like, there
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: was a hundred reports that had to be done. And
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: luckily my friend's mom helped me because my mom unfortunately
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: had passed away. So my friend's mom helped me so
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: that I didn't fail. But that's what they made me
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: do for missing gym classes. It was horrible.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. And I liked lunch, too, obviously.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't really like the food because I would get sick.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: But I did like their nacho day.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, nacho day was the best. Oh, my God.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And their chocolate chip cookies.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I don't remember the high schools being good, but middle
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: school was amazing.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: We didn't have cookies in middle school.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: You did?
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had big cookies in middle school. They were
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: so good. So maybe they, by the time you got there,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: they stopped it. I don't know. But were they the
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: same cookie? Well, you wouldn't know. But yeah, those cookies
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: were so good.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And we're only, what, three years apart?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: High school, the cookies were so good. Oh, my God.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: They were just like, they just came out of the oven.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: They were warm. Oh, my God.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were good.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm sorry if I smell, but I just worked out.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And my trainer kicked my ass. I know.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: I heard you talking and complaining about it before.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: So I used the honeypot wipes just to freshen up
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: a little bit before we came into the studio. So
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: hopefully they're working.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Did it feel... I know it's a cooling. They have
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the cooling version. Did it feel like menthol-y? Like, you know,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: give you a cooling feeling?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: A little bit. Yeah. It didn't burn or anything.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. Yeah, because you can use them anywhere. Like,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: it's not... A lot of people... think honeypot and they
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: think intimate areas which therefore yeah it says you can
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: use them under your armpit you know anywhere on your
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: body that needs like a little refresher or to smell
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: better you know um i haven't used honeypot yet but
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: i've heard such great things about it i know they
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: have an intimate wash they have the wipes and it's
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: gynecologist tested and it's very safe for intimate areas and
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: as a woman you know you have to be careful
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: what you use because it could be bad so.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah I never told you what happened to me.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, Jesus.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I used Vagisil, the wash, and very bad infection.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I had to go.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: To the doctor and get medicine. Yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: You really, yeah, a lot of stuff you should not.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Even if it says you should, you really got to
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: do your research because you should.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: That's what I said to the doctor. I said, well,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that's what it's made for. Yeah. And she's like, no.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: They put a lot of chemicals, a lot of fake fragrances.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: That's what the other thing you have to watch out for.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And um smelled so good though like i like the smell.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Of it it was a perfume and you don't want
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: to perfume is bad like honeypot they use natural ingredients
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: organic a lot of organic ingredients too so you don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: have to worry about the the synthetic fragrances they use
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of aloe too i believe yeah So no
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: synthetic fragrances, no parabens, no sulfates. So really good.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And the wipes have lavender in them.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I love lavender. Lavender and mint, oh my god. And
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: it has lavender mint in it, so it smells amazing.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So my road trip to Myrtle Beach and to Florida
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: is coming up. It is not this coming week, but
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the following week. I can't believe how fast... This summer
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: has just gone by. I know.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: It's gone. It's in the blink of an eye. Every
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: year I feel like it gets faster. We talk about
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: this a lot, but every year the earth must be
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: spinning faster because summer is just a snap and gone.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Something is going on.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And all this rain, it just really needs to stop.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: But I am praying that it does not rain on
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: our way down to Florida. Yeah. Because I know down
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: south it rains a lot. And I am just hoping
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and praying.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and when it rains, it rains down south. You
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: can't see. You have to pull over. We hit some
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: of that in Florida that we had to pull over
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: because you really couldn't see anything. So hopefully, yeah, hopefully
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: you have some nice, perfect, sunny weather. And you get
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: to go to the beach and go in the pool
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: and enjoy yourself.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to it. We are going to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: be looking at real estate down there. But I'm just
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: looking forward to just getting away and taking my big,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: huge suitcase. I got this suitcase. It's from Bagsmart and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it is ginormous.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost as tall as Shauna.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: It's got to be almost four feet tall. Well, I
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: am four feet tall, so it's got to be three
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and a half feet.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like three and a half feet. I've never
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: seen a suitcase that tall, but it's not... I have
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: tall suitcases, but this one is not as wide as those,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: so they kind of made the height the biggest part,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and the width is a little skinnier, but it's supposed
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: to fit... How many days of clothes?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Fourteen. Two weeks worth.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Fourteen days of clothing. And it looks like it would
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: fit perfectly in a trunk because it's narrow, but... Yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's what it's specifically made for is road trips.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Um, you can obviously take it on an airplane underneath, but, um,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I just can't wait to see how many shirts and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: pants I could fit in there. Oh God. Shoes, you know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: can you imagine?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I know. You know, even if we go away for
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: like a night, I have like two bags at least.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So yeah, my dad, he was like, You're going away
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: for a night. This was like when we went to Maya.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: He's like, and you have like five bags. I'm like, yeah. Overpack.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: He's like, what are you going to do when you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: go on your road trip? So he hasn't seen the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: luggage yet, but he.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: He's going to be like, oh my God.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's... Yeah, he's going to have to lift it
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: into the car. Oh my.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not going to be happy.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: No, he's not.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, that suitcase is perfect for Europe trips too.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: When we went to Italy, we stayed for three weeks and...
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: You know, it was hard squishing everything into my suitcase,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: even though it was a bigger suitcase. So you definitely
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: need something like that when you're spending a good amount
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: of time somewhere that they don't have a washer and dryer,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: you know, or that you have to go pay for it.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Definitely good to have enough clothes to make it last
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: throughout the trip.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Thankfully, we're staying with family. So we'll be able
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to do laundry.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm so excited. And I love like packing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but I love packing. Yeah.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I hate unpacking, but I love packing. And I'm just,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm getting everything ready to just pack and go. I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: got my Dramamine already. Good. Because we know me and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: my stomach. But I'm so anxious. That's what I'm mostly
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: anxious about. And I know, like, I keep telling myself,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: all right, we're going to stop every two hours. We're
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: going to stop every two hours. You'll be fine. You'll
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: be fine. And I still, like, my stomach gets upset. Yeah.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: And you got to tell yourself, too. You're with your mom.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: It's not like that bus situation where they're not stopping.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Even if it's less than two hours, even if she says,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not stopping, if you need her to stop if
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: it's an emergency or you're feeling horribly sick, she's going
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: to stop. She might bitch and moan about it, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: she's going to stop.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, she definitely won't stop.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you've got to tell yourself, I'm good. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: can stop whenever I want, and I'm going to be fine.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I've just got to keep telling myself that. I'm just
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: going to keep it on record and just keep replaying it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And I think I'm going to sign up for a few, like,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: relaxation apps.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And, yeah. So if anyone knows of any relaxation apps
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: for IBS especially, let me know.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Put some headphones on and zen out. I mean, your
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: mom wants you to help her with GPS. She'll be fine.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Just put the headphones on. Put some music on.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: She doesn't like to read the map, so. And you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: know that.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Can't she put the sound on?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: She has the sound. But she doesn't, like, follow the GPS.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Well, luckily, going to Florida, you're pretty
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: much on one road most of the time going down south.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: So you might not need to make too many turns.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: So tell her, like, listen, look, it says we're on
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: this road for 70 miles, Mom. I'm going to clock
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: out and zen out, and you'll be fine.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Easier said than done.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And that's our show for this week. Thank you so
• 25:38
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• 25:41
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• 25:48
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• 25:52
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• 25:55
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