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Happy Hour #27: Love Cork Screw · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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Speaker 1: I've never told your protection of. I heart radio. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to another happy hour. I feel like any
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Speaker 1: time I do this, I have that real, like weird
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Speaker 1: podcaster voice. That's a good onl Welcome to another hour
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Speaker 1: happy hour brought to you by sminthe that works out anyway,
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Speaker 1: we are not talking a little bit at that, And yes,
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Speaker 1: everybody cheers. Hope you are doing well. Just reminder, we
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Speaker 1: are not typically sponsored for specific alcohols that we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: We are sponsored in general, as you've heard the many ads,
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Speaker 1: many ads that we have, but not by the companies
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Speaker 1: that we are talking about. Usually if we ever do,
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Speaker 1: will let you know for sure. And if you are
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Speaker 1: drinking an alcoholic adult beverage, please drink responsibly. Yes, but
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Speaker 1: if you know, I suppose any beverage an you know,
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Speaker 1: as any would uh attest she can't drink too much
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Speaker 1: caffeine into trouble. When I've been there, I've been there
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Speaker 1: where my eyes are tired but my heart is racing
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Speaker 1: and I hate that feeling. But anyway, today we are
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Speaker 1: actually going to feature the lovely wines from Love Corkscrew
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Speaker 1: Entertainment LCS and their founder is Kashan Lampley, who started
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Speaker 1: this brand as a blog in radio show that eventually
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Speaker 1: expanded to her wine and other products. I think they
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Speaker 1: have some candles and all this other neat stuff. And
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Speaker 1: she has been a part of this industry for over
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Speaker 1: fifteen years, but she didn't actually start her own brand
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Speaker 1: until but it's still been around for a while and
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Speaker 1: she has grown exponentially. She is nationwide, you can get it.
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Speaker 1: I believe that some targets, whole foods, all kinds of places.
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Speaker 1: So it's out there. And yes, today we are drinking
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Speaker 1: to different as wines, microrect what are you drinking? I
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Speaker 1: am drinking. They read Cabnet San called We're moving on Up,
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Speaker 1: which I don't know if you know this, Samantha, but
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Speaker 1: I have a We talked recently about words that kind
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Speaker 1: of like trip you up and you have a fear
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Speaker 1: around them. One of mine is cavernet, savognan and and
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Speaker 1: a lot of times I say cap save, but it's
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Speaker 1: not because I think it's cool or anything. It's just
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Speaker 1: if you don't want to say something, I do the
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Speaker 1: same thing. And I am drinking the in too deep
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Speaker 1: Veno blanco. And by the way, these labels are super
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Speaker 1: cute and super fun when you need to check it out,
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Speaker 1: as in fact, let me go ahead and pour my glass.
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Speaker 1: Let's see how this sounds. Oh god, that, oh God,
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Speaker 1: was because I just spilled some in my lap. You
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Speaker 1: handled it like a champ. You handled it like a champ.
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Speaker 1: I have a blanket on me, so it went into
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Speaker 1: my blanket. So I guess what needs to be washed
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Speaker 1: because it smells like wine. Now. Yeah, and just to
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about lamb play while we're
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Speaker 1: tasting our beverage. She's been an advocate within the wine
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Speaker 1: industry and has been pushing for more diversity and has
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Speaker 1: been mentoring others to open doors for more women of color,
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Speaker 1: and she has been obviously in a lot of press
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Speaker 1: because of the company that she has. As stated on
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Speaker 1: the Love Corkscrew site, less than one percent of wine
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Speaker 1: industry negotiations are black women, and that the LLC has
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Speaker 1: transformed the industry as the first black woman owned wine
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Speaker 1: to launch whimsical labels. This is all on their site,
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Speaker 1: and it's true. It does a really cute whimsical labels
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Speaker 1: and all the names are very cute. Indeed, and yet
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Speaker 1: mine is, like I said, into deep and it is
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Speaker 1: a veno blanco. So oh, this is really tasty. So
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Speaker 1: I've really gotten into like the effervescent white wines. I
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Speaker 1: don't want it to be too dry. I don't love
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Speaker 1: that this is labeled as a dryer white wine. But
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Speaker 1: it's a brute style, so it's very reminiscent of a
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Speaker 1: champagne or a prosecco type of level. And yeah, I
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Speaker 1: definitely taste a lot of fruits. I taste pair in
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Speaker 1: this and it's quite delightful. Maybe I'm off very crispy,
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Speaker 1: and it reminds me of summer, a lot of summer.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I need to be sitting out on
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Speaker 1: a patio looking towards the mountains. This is that type
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Speaker 1: of wine. Not even a beach wine. It's like a
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Speaker 1: mountain white wine. Um. And from their own description, it
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Speaker 1: says vino blanco a brute style white wine with aromas
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Speaker 1: of green apple and grapefruit. Didn't call either one of that.
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Speaker 1: This line is classically balanced, lightly efforts, vescent, refreshingly soft,
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Speaker 1: yet dry. And yeah, it is very soft in that
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Speaker 1: that the dryness is not overwhelming. The tannins aren't coating
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Speaker 1: my tongue. And they also keep saying this is followed
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Speaker 1: by bursts of complexity and character accented with a touch
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Speaker 1: of crisps nopes to finish off the clean elegance of
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Speaker 1: this variety. And I agree. I like your Your wine
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Speaker 1: reading description voice is a different one too. It's close,
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Speaker 1: it's in the same vein, but not quite the same.
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Speaker 1: And trying to be sophisticated, as if the cabins of
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Speaker 1: a mountain, because I only go there because I'm from
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Speaker 1: the city. And when that sophisticated is I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Samantha knows. I recently was told by an advertiser who
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Speaker 1: shall remain nameless, that I am not sophisticated, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know what to make of that. They really wanted
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Speaker 1: you to say that you sat in your armchair next
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Speaker 1: to your fireplace with a pipe, sipping on a glass
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Speaker 1: of so and so. If only they could see my apartment,
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Speaker 1: then perhaps they never would have asked me to try
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Speaker 1: to be sophisticated. I mean, can we just say that
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Speaker 1: about most people, like the level of people who you
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Speaker 1: think drink This not true. We'll leave that mystery up
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Speaker 1: to you. Listeners that can either confirm nor den I
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Speaker 1: it is it's not this company. No, it is not
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Speaker 1: this company, and absolutely not. I am drinking that. We're
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Speaker 1: moving on a Cabernets copaniall And it's really nice. It
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Speaker 1: feels like when you first have it, it's like kind
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Speaker 1: of a push pull of for me at least, because
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Speaker 1: I do typically drink red wine over white, and I
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Speaker 1: typically drink drier red over sweeter reds um. So when
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Speaker 1: you first taste it, it it feels like it might be
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Speaker 1: a lot sweeter, and then it doesn't, and then it
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Speaker 1: feels like it's going to be more bitter, and then
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Speaker 1: it's not. So it's kind of like a fun um
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Speaker 1: surprise or like you're not really anticipating for me, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: not what I thought it was going to be. And
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Speaker 1: I don't like it when people use the term easy drinking.
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Speaker 1: I don't mind it, but I feel like it's a
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Speaker 1: wide gonna mean a lot of things. But it is.
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Speaker 1: It's like a nice kind of smooth, fruity light. It's
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Speaker 1: not got too much tannins either, it doesn't really coat
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Speaker 1: your mouth or anything like that. Right, So it is
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Speaker 1: it is easy drink. From their description, Sevenian is smoothiet
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Speaker 1: complex with the romans of cedar box, dry tobacco leaves
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Speaker 1: and mission fig a couple of top flavors of black cherry, sugar, plumb,
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Speaker 1: and a hint of vanilla. Enjoy it with steak, beef stew,
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Speaker 1: pot roast, grilled bill or lamb. Do you eat, Bill,
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Speaker 1: I've never bought it and made it for myself. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure I've probably had it at some point, but it's
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Speaker 1: not something I would normally order, and I've definitely never
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Speaker 1: made it or bought it right. Bill makes me sad.
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Speaker 1: I will say it was one of those means I'm like, no,
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Speaker 1: I can't. What was so funny is when I went
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Speaker 1: on a date, my first date. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: when I say me by first date, it's probably my
7:54
Speaker 1: only date. No, my first date ever, actual first date
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Speaker 1: outside of just like being with friends with someone and
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Speaker 1: going out and inadvertently realizing, oh, this is a date. Cool,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't pay for me. We all split like
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Speaker 1: it didn't make sense. But this was like a like
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Speaker 1: we met online, met for the first time, went for lunch,
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Speaker 1: and at the restaurant he he knew I was a vegetarian,
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Speaker 1: didn't know why at that point in time, I was
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Speaker 1: not eating meat and it was conscientious choice and try,
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Speaker 1: like you know, there's a lot of bad reports all
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Speaker 1: these things health wise. I just really want to try
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Speaker 1: these things. And he didn't know why, but you know,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of one of those things that you would
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Speaker 1: think etiquette wise. We went and he ordered bill and
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Speaker 1: I was like, wow, probably one of the least politically
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Speaker 1: correct meats that could be out there, and you ordered vil. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's a statement, that's right. And obviously it was one
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Speaker 1: of those moments of like, oh, this means he does
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Speaker 1: not care about me whatsoever, Like he's not interested because
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Speaker 1: if he wanted to impress me, he would try all
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Speaker 1: one of those things, and it obviously wasn't him trying.
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Speaker 1: But all this does leave me to think because my
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Speaker 1: one specifically and just like this, this all happened to
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Speaker 1: me like during summertimes, and I just wondered, like it's
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Speaker 1: been a while that we've I've actually had a separation,
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Speaker 1: Like I know when it's summertime, but typically vacations for
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Speaker 1: me don't happen on summertimes. I would rather take it
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Speaker 1: around my birthday, which would be fall, or when did
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Speaker 1: we have available and then you have you know, Christmas
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Speaker 1: times when we're off, and so people try to be
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Speaker 1: convenient and put it all their time together so that
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Speaker 1: they can have a longer extension. M h. So summertime
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Speaker 1: is such a like foreign concept to me other than weather, right,
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Speaker 1: because it's been there. But I just wanted to kind
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Speaker 1: of go down. Do you have a fun childhood summertime
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Speaker 1: memory that you knew distinctly was summertime? I do, And
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Speaker 1: I actually was going to bring this up on one
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Speaker 1: of my happy hours because I do think for a
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Speaker 1: lot of us, not in especially like the school system.
9:52
Speaker 1: I have friends with your teachers and so they still
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Speaker 1: have that kind of like summertime. Like if you asked
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Speaker 1: me right now, my favorite month is fall and summer
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Speaker 1: might be my least favorite month. But when I was
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Speaker 1: a kid, yeah, I mean yeah, season wise, temperature wise,
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Speaker 1: I don't really like summer. But when as a kid,
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Speaker 1: you got that time off, and for us, we were
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Speaker 1: lucky enough where I did have access to you've been
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Speaker 1: now my grandparents beach house, and we would go probably
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Speaker 1: every summer, and like you, I mean, we didn't vacation,
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Speaker 1: like we didn't go to Florida or DC. Or wherever
10:28
Speaker 1: we went to that house, which is still not That
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Speaker 1: is a great privilege, and I am so happy that
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Speaker 1: I had it. But it was so fun because every
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Speaker 1: day would be so active and um we would go
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Speaker 1: and like I would go tubing and swimming and build
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Speaker 1: sand castles and exploring and just all these really fun
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Speaker 1: memories of it, and every meal tasting like the best
10:50
Speaker 1: meal that you've ever had, and like ice cream, even
10:55
Speaker 1: though you know it's like not different than ice cream
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Speaker 1: you have back at home, it's somehow so much better. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I have a lot of memories like that, and
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Speaker 1: I've actually been going down that memory lane of like
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Speaker 1: I used to have friends that I would meet over
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Speaker 1: there and they were like my summer friends, and we
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Speaker 1: would get into all kinds of shenanigans over the summer.
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Speaker 1: And I think I was thinking about that because on
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Speaker 1: my recent beach trip I took with my friends, which
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Speaker 1: is to the same house we did our summer Olympics,
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Speaker 1: and it just felt so much like I felt so
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Speaker 1: young when we're having like a water balloon fight, and
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Speaker 1: it just brought me back to those memories of being
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Speaker 1: a kid and just feeling so light and like this
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Speaker 1: is just so fun being in that moment, which is
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Speaker 1: hard for me to do a lot because I'm always
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Speaker 1: thinking about what I need to do this, or I
11:34
Speaker 1: need to do this, or I needed this. So that's
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Speaker 1: kind of for me when I think of summer, especially
11:40
Speaker 1: being a kid, that was that was the epit of me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think there's so many levels of the implications of summertime.
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Speaker 1: So for me as a child, when I came into
11:52
Speaker 1: the US, when I was first come into the US,
11:54
Speaker 1: my uncle, my doctive uncle, was the manager of the
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Speaker 1: city pool, so I had access for free all summer
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Speaker 1: long to this pool, and I went every single day,
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Speaker 1: to the point that my parents would just drop me
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Speaker 1: off and come get me like a several hours later,
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Speaker 1: because that was the babysitting. And I thought about this
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Speaker 1: too for my mother, how hard it must have been
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Speaker 1: for her because without school, and we've talked about this
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Speaker 1: with the pandemic stuff, that being home, it's a whole
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Speaker 1: different story having to entertain your kids having to be
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Speaker 1: there and not having access to daycare. But my mom,
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Speaker 1: that was the daycare that you could do because at
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Speaker 1: least there are lifeguards there and then my own brother
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Speaker 1: would be there as well. So hopefully he would keep
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Speaker 1: an eye on me. And because I was a fairly
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Speaker 1: responsible kid, I didn't just leave. But of course i'd
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Speaker 1: also been there after it closed and have to wait
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Speaker 1: outside the fence wait for my mom if my uncle
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Speaker 1: didn't take me to my my grandparents house. That happened
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Speaker 1: a lot too. But yeah, there's this whole application about
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Speaker 1: how beautiful it is. But you think back on and
12:54
Speaker 1: you're like, man, how did my mom handled me being home?
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Speaker 1: Because as I got older, my uncle stopped being the manager,
13:01
Speaker 1: so I just stayed at home and they couldn't afford camps.
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Speaker 1: They couldn't afford the vacations and and my dad maybe
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Speaker 1: could get a week off at a time. We talked
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Speaker 1: about our vacation habits. Um it was rare. So I
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Speaker 1: would just sit at home watching my distinate memories are
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Speaker 1: watching Green and Green Gables and or reading all day.
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Speaker 1: That was it. That was what I did, And those
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Speaker 1: are the memories that I had. And I wonder where
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Speaker 1: it was like from my mom who watched me just
13:27
Speaker 1: like getting sulky and sulky, and I wouldn't see my
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Speaker 1: friends actually, and I missed school. It's because I couldn't
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Speaker 1: see them, and therefore it was just me and my brother.
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Speaker 1: My brother would go like we would go hang out
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Speaker 1: with people, like we would go and spend the night
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Speaker 1: with people, and every now and then the people would
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Speaker 1: take me on vacation with them, so it was really
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Speaker 1: lovely or hang out in places with them. But like
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Speaker 1: the back and forth was like, wow, this is a
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Speaker 1: weird childhood in comparison to a lot more people. Because
13:53
Speaker 1: I also once again lived in a rural area, so
13:55
Speaker 1: I couldn't just walk to someone's house. I couldn't walk
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Speaker 1: to my friend. I didn't have friends. That neighbors I
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Speaker 1: did not that did not exist. My neighbor was my
14:03
Speaker 1: grandfather and my great aunt, who couldn't go anywhere. You know,
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Speaker 1: they were not gonna play. I went down there, they
14:09
Speaker 1: gave me candy. I went back home like it was
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Speaker 1: a lot of that was happening, but that was it.
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Speaker 1: And so it was really interesting to think on like
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Speaker 1: these are really good memories but also weird memories of
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Speaker 1: like huh, and of course coming back to school and
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Speaker 1: having the comparison of like kids telling me they went
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Speaker 1: to the beach houses or the kids telling me they
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Speaker 1: went to Disney World. I'm like I stayed at home
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Speaker 1: and the Green Gables and game twenty pounds because all
14:33
Speaker 1: I did it was eight noodles in front of my TV,
14:37
Speaker 1: and my TV was very limited because I didn't have
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Speaker 1: cable until I was a teenager in high school. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was really sheltered, but at the same time as
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Speaker 1: an adult having memories like now trying to trying to
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Speaker 1: do some things. It's been interesting in differentiating summer, like
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Speaker 1: I've tried to enjoy the pool, but then again the
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Speaker 1: same issues of body issues. I didn't want to go
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Speaker 1: to a pool because I didn't want to wear a
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Speaker 1: bathing suit. Like I'm having a real back and forth here, y'all,
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Speaker 1: you are you are? It's the line I'm just playing.
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Speaker 1: But there's like a lot of conversations of like what
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Speaker 1: is good, what is bad? And then me who worked
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Speaker 1: in again social work, summertime was really dangerous. That was
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Speaker 1: really because that's when I had to go to the
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Speaker 1: houses personally, go to the houses more than I could
15:31
Speaker 1: because at schools, I could see them at schools and
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Speaker 1: hear what's going on, have teachers telling me what's going on,
15:36
Speaker 1: and have school officials tell me what's going on, and
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Speaker 1: get a lot of answers, but instead I had to
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Speaker 1: go to their homes. Yeah, I was not a fun time,
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Speaker 1: you'll yeah, yeah, And that's I mean, much wider issue
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Speaker 1: than reps this happy hour can contain, because it's true,
15:54
Speaker 1: like if you didn't have the means for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: for childcare or or yeah, and your summer might be,
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be like for me where I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: thank god, school is done, and I was very lucky
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Speaker 1: that I have My best friend was my neighbor, So
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Speaker 1: even if I wasn't going anywhere, like every day we
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Speaker 1: were biking or every day we were rolled leading outside
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Speaker 1: all the time, and yeah, if you don't have those
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Speaker 1: options for whatever reason, then it's not going to be
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Speaker 1: like something you look forward to necessarily. And so I
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Speaker 1: look back really fondly and I'm very grateful that I
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Speaker 1: had those and the the love I had for it
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Speaker 1: was so much that even now when I hate, like
16:36
Speaker 1: right now I'm sweating while I'm working in my apartment
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Speaker 1: um in the summer in Atlanta, I still have a
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Speaker 1: fondness for summer, even though I do think watherwise it's
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Speaker 1: my last favorite month, and I do like, like, I
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Speaker 1: still like I've got to get to the breach summer,
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Speaker 1: even if I have the body issues or whatever. It
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Speaker 1: is like the sun is heu. I've got to go right,
16:56
Speaker 1: I mean, And again, I think the pandemic taught us
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Speaker 1: a lot in the in the courtine is teaching us
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Speaker 1: a lot, and unfortunately climate change is teaching us too
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Speaker 1: much or not listening not enough. Rather, but there's a
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Speaker 1: lot to unpacked with the indications of this feel good idea,
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Speaker 1: which is not necessarily true for everyone. But I'm again
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Speaker 1: trying to be a Debbie downer. I was trying to
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Speaker 1: be really really like, I have a fun time with
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Speaker 1: this one, and all all of a sudden, I was like, wait,
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Speaker 1: wasn't wonderful? So wait, like it wasn't horrible, but it
17:29
Speaker 1: wasn't wonderful, so m damn it. But I need to
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Speaker 1: hear more of what you did, So listeners, please send
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Speaker 1: me all of your childhood memories. Let me know what
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Speaker 1: you did it the summertime, because that's fascinating the differentiations.
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Speaker 1: Did you have what I would imagine would be the
17:45
Speaker 1: child youth novels that I would read about and wish
17:48
Speaker 1: for being and working in the fields with her favorite
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Speaker 1: you know adoptive. I guess uncle. I don't know what
17:55
Speaker 1: she called him at that point. You know, Matthew, her
17:58
Speaker 1: precious Matthew. Or were you like me stuck inside reading
18:01
Speaker 1: about it? Let me know what did you do? Samantha
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