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Welcome to the Thick AF podcast. This is Dawn Mitchell. I am Sarah Wright's mom and a guest

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on the show this evening. Woo woo! We've been talking about it for a long time now. Yes.

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I'm visiting the Birmingham area from way up north. Thawing out from the winter. The

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frozen tundra. The frozen tundra. And you guys went to the beach. So how was that? It

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was so good. Except for it was really the first time that I've ever experienced two

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rain days while we were there. It was very weird. Usually, you know, even last year we

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sat through like a 15 minute like real aggressive like rainstorm. But it cleared up after that.

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But we had two almost two full days where we could not do anything. Like the entire

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day. Yeah. Did y'all go like, I don't know, what do you do with rains? So the first day

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that it rained, we really didn't do a whole lot. Like, I don't know, it was bad outside.

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Like it was real stormy. We went out to lunch somewhere I think. That was on the second

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rainy day though. That was on the second rainy day? Yeah. I think we were just we just arrived

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the afternoon before and we went right to the pool. Last year we went to the same condo

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complex and the pool was closed for renovations. So this year we got there and it was really

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pretty so we said let's just unload and go right to the pool. So we did do that. So we

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kind of got an extra little bit of half day of sun. Yeah, we knew the next day was going

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to be really rainy. So it was bad. Like we didn't I don't I think for dinner that night

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we like picked up pizzas or something instead of you know trying to go out anywhere because

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it was just really ugly outside all day. But then the next day was beautiful and we had

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a full day on the beach and then the the next day so this so it was rained Thursday was

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perfect on Friday rained again on Saturday. We went to like a real late lunch I guess

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at Sea and Suds in Gulf Shores and then we came back and we're able to go to the pool

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again that day. Well at least we got to go to the pool. Speaking of pools so I have like

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an FMK for you guys. Oh my gosh. Okay what is it? So I don't really have a third one

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yet but let's go with so when you're at the beach do you would you rather go to the pool

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the beach or shopping? Yeah yeah yeah. Because I feel like those are the three things that

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you would do mom. Or like you could go on like do like an excursion like a jet skis

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or something. I mean that's though I kind of want to marry that because I like to do

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that stuff but. You go first mom. Well I'm marrying the beach. Okay it's my happy place.

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It's in the butt crack and all. Yes the beach is my happy place and that's my first choice.

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Okay. I guess I'm going to. You have to F something so it's like you have to do it like

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one time. Yeah. It's not forever and then you got to kill something else. Yeah we can

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we say the F word. Yeah. If you would like to say it you can if you don't want to say

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it. I will F the jet ski parasailing adventure. Every time. F it or kill it. Or kill it. Yeah.

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I'm going to kill it. Yeah sorry. And the pool I guess I'll F. I feel ya. Which is a

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good place. Yeah. I feel like my if I was at like a local beach like Orange Beach you

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know Gulf Shores you know Panhandle area that would be my choice as well. If I was at like

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an all inclusive then I might not kill the excursion portion. Yeah or like shopping excursion

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type of thing. I don't want to shop ever. I don't want to go to outlets. I don't want

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to do anything. I don't either. She's already like tomorrow she's like it's only 73 I don't

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know if it's going to be a good pool day. I'm like oh that's the perfect pool day. She's

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like but I may go to the outlets. I'm like well if you do that then I'm probably going

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to check my work email. You're supposed to be a snowbird. What if the 73 is like hot

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for you right? So yeah so I feel like I will marry the so I used to be different. I will

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I'm going to marry the beach of course but when I was younger I hated going to the beach

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because I would have to come back and I'd have sand all over me and so I always wanted

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to go to the pool and I had this boyfriend and he liked the pool too and we both always

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would go to the pool and we'd like get down there early and make sure we had our seats

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and all that stuff and everything set up and then we would kind of go to the beach sometimes

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and then come back but now I cannot stand the pool because I think about all the people

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and their bodily stuff floating in the pool and us all just like yeah and then the kids

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that get in the pools down there they're just like listen those diapers are just holding

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the stuff in there. Oh yeah. They're not those diapers like this isn't pandemic this is kind

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of generated thought. No this has been just for a while yeah well yeah because I was a

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lifeguard like for a while and yeah. I also think you have some germ issues. Yeah probably

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but I just think about it my mom loves the pool but if honestly I think if my mom heard

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me talk about this she probably would never want to go to the pool again and she she always

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makes us so we have to go to the pool after we go to the beach. Oh you have to. We have

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to because she does not want sand in the house and if you get in the pool the sands coming

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off of you but I'm like can't I just get straight in the shower. Yeah. And so I we fight every

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time. Listen I've about gotten to fight with Brandon this weekend so I've obviously this

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is my first like real kind of real vacation like I know that he went to the lake with

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us or whatever but like that was that was only a couple of nights you know it wasn't

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a handful of nights and it wasn't the beach and to me the beach is like a very different

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situation where like the sand is something you know about right. Right. So you're like

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very careful about your movements on the beach not to like stir up sand or you know when

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you bring everything back that you've been out. I'm just imagining all the things that

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could have gone wrong with this. Oh my god. Well first of all yesterday he just like kicked

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sands like all over me at one point and I was like what the fuck Brandon. But the thing

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that really got me was after our first day on the beach there was he bought this bag

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and this is a massive tote bag because I told him I'm not carrying your shit. I'm not. It

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doesn't have that much but he still bought a big effing bag and it's like a mesh bag

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so all the sand and shit can get up all in there. Yeah. And it's not mesh on the bottom

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so it just collects on the bottom. This mug came back up to our room to the condo and

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put that fucking bag on the on the bed on the bed. And I heard Sarah screech. I was

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like do not put that bag on the bed. This is like a love is blind thing. Oh my god.

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With the suitcase on the bed. I was like you did not just do that. Oh my god. Don't ever

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do that again. First of all that beach bag would not have made it into my parents condo

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because my mom would have been like nope hold it right there. Go dunk that thing in the

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pool or leave it outside. Well and it's funny because like Jerry has kind of taught me over

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the years like buying the Costco Tommy Bahama chairs you know have the cooler and the zipper

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pocket and I'm like you can pack shit in that chair and not have to also bring a beach bag

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like a cooler separate unless you know you're only going to have a couple beers and then

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it'll fit in the back pocket cooler whatever. But so day one I brought my little zipper

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bag like cosmetic bag that has like my sunscreen hair ties chapstick you know what have you

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just random shit in there that typically goes inside of my pool bag. Well I just bought

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that little bag down but it's behind you so every time you need something out of that

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sucker you got to get up unzip your pocket and then you know get stuff out of it or whatever.

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So day two Brandon was like you can put your stuff in my bag. I knew that you would end

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up doing that and I'm like oh my gosh that one got the big one. Oh my god yes and it

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took everything that I had not to be like okay you're like kind of right but also I'm

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still not carrying your stuff. But this is your first time to the beach with him. Yeah

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y'all are getting used to each other and well I mean that's the longest we've ever been

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in the car together before too. Well my thing is okay so when you go to the beach or to

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anything you should carry your own things you should if you need that stuff you should

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carry it. 100% which is why I said get your own bag. You're not carrying everybody else's

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stuff. Right. Everybody fend for themselves on the stuff. Yes. Honestly though like if

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we're making sandwiches and put pack in a cooler like you know a lot of times one person

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will do that. Of course and we did. We had a food cooler you know whatever. If you want

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to bring a radio and some balls or whatever you're gonna play with. No I don't want all

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that. I've got my own stuff and I'm not carrying it. So I was. Oh my mom makes us carry all

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of her stuff. She doesn't carry one thing. She might carry a towel but she doesn't.

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I'm pretty sure my dad carries her towel. So my husband and I have a routine. He carries

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the cooler. I carry the beach bag. Yeah. And then we both carry our chairs on our back

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and that's pretty much it. So my parents got older and they are spoiled. They've spoiled

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themselves. Let's just say that they instead of we used to carry the chairs down and they

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have bought the you know you can get like they have like the rental chairs and they

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buy the whole year. They pay for it up front. So they have those so they don't have to carry

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any chairs down. They don't have to carry an umbrella or anything like that. They just

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like my mom shows up. My dad brings everything down for her. She shows up and it's done.

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But she does. She packs it. Makes everything. Yeah. Does all the work and then he actually

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just carries it down there. He does the physical labor part of it. She does the organization.

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Yes. Well and I will say this. Brandon carried a lot of stuff. Like he didn't just carry

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his stuff. Like he carried like the snack bags and you know whatever. He carried additional

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stuff other than that. But I think my biggest beef with him over this weekend is like the

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non acknowledgement of like the sand and wherever it is it will follow you everywhere. Yeah

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and it multiplies. You think you've got it gone. Right. But no there's a little piece

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right there down the corner. I know. It was wild. But like we had a good weekend. Nobody

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got I didn't even get drunk the whole time. I mean I had a good buzz going a couple times

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but like I didn't get drunk. I was asleep before midnight every single night. That's

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still kind of late for you isn't it? I mean kind of. I mean yeah I don't know. I would

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say probably asleep by 11 then maybe. Well Brandon gets up early too. So the tendency

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is when the first person starts yawning and they've been up he because of his work he

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gets up early so by nine ten o'clock he's yawning. Yeah because he still gets up and

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I mean he even took a wicked cool like time lapse video of the sunrise. I'll have to show

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it to you but it was super nice and he got up in time to like do that but he wakes up

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and so then by nine thirty he's tired every fucking night and I'm like dude you peak too

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soon during the day on vacation. You gotta sleep in. Take some drugs. I don't know. Every

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morning when I opened my curtains from the master suite there was Brandon. If he wasn't

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there I would have been worried like seriously. Well because he would get up and like make

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coffee and just drink his coffee. And he didn't have anything else to do except for sit outside

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and we didn't want to be loud. Well he went down a couple of times and walked on the treadmill

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and you know just like watched a movie on his phone while he was on the treadmill or

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whatever but like yeah I mean for the most part he's up waiting for like two three hours

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for somebody else to get up. For me if it's if I if I wake up if even if I'm like can't

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sleep or whatever if I wake up and everybody else is still asleep and I know they're gonna

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be asleep forever I'm not getting up and making coffee I'm laying back down I don't care.

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He doesn't function without coffee though. I know but like I would just like get back

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in the bed and just like lay there for a while. Yeah but Emily you have to realize that he's

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not in the bed by himself he's in the bed with me and I'm snoring sleeping good and

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he's leaving me alone which I appreciate. Go away if you're awake and you're gonna wiggle

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worm in the bed. Oh I don't know I just if anybody else is awake I also can sleep like

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all day long for the entire day. Like honestly I think about it sometimes and I'm like I

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should probably just be dead because I sleep I could sleep for the entire weekend. Well

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you were one of the latest risers what time did you wake up that first time and it was

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so late? 1115. Woo! I would love that sleep. But the most common played. Couch bed rotation.

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Yeah. Yeah I'm pretty sure next year we're just gonna go ahead and get a four bedroom

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chalk it up to that so when everybody has their own room to go in and then. If somebody snores

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you get an extra room. Well not yeah but. They literally have like 365 days to get a

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solution to his snoring. Does he have sleep apnea or something? No. But I'm just saying

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we need to get four bedrooms so then if somebody needs to go sleep elsewhere they can and then

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nobody's in the living room that's my problem with it. I don't like I think it's unfair

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that everybody else has to tip toe around in the morning if somebody's sleeping on the

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sofa. Yeah that's true. And I mean I understand why y'all are doing it but it's just you know

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it's slightly inconvenient for other people. Yeah well that and then like my parents what

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they would do because my mom. Or get a bunk room. A small bunk room. Yes that's what I'm

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saying. Yes. They sleep my parents snore bad and my mom snores really bad and then she

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says no that was your father. And I'm like no it wasn't I was in the bed with him like

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we were literally in the same bed it was not him. And you can hear my mom snoring from

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like outside. You probably can hear me snoring. Was I snoring today when I took a nap? In

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fact I said to Brandon you're a better man than I am because he's been and he said normally

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I'm asleep before she is. But it is true my husband can saw wood like nobody's business

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and drinking. Makes it worse. Right worsens it so that's the problem like he is staying

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up later than normal probably drinking more than usual and so then it just relaxes the

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jaw even more so it just. It's probably a deeper like couldn't even handle it. Yes see

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my earplugs I had to order I was at the beach last time and my earplugs I was like I think

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it's my earplugs. I got on Amazon and ordered these like earplugs that said that they were

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going to block out all the sound. Had them delivered like next day because I was like

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going to be there for like however many days. Did it work? No not for my mom. Do you want

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to know what you need to use? I just I discovered this and I don't know if you've flown with

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them before but your AirPod Max's. I know but I can't sleep with them because I sleep

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on my side. I know and I was thinking about I understand I just. Eric put his on last

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night. Those things are insane in the membrane when I flew to Philly a couple weeks ago I

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wore them on the plane. They're so good. I slept on every all four flights that's how

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I couldn't even hear the hum of the airplane. What is what are they called? They're my AirPod

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Max blue headphones and they have noise canceling. Yeah they're the best. I'll let you try them

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on when we get home. You should let me wear them tonight. You have to sleep like this?

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That's okay. Okay yeah. You saw me when you checked on me the other morning how was I

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sleeping? She was I'm I opened the door the other day because I was like Jerry how long

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do we let her sleep and she was like I don't know just let her sleep. I went in there she

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looks like she's in a coffin except for one foot out of the covers. Her eye mask on. Or

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her arms crossed across her chest. Well no she was all this. Yeah but she's got covers

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all the way up to her chin and she's just I mean light light light snore but she was

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snoozing I was like I'm just gonna leave her. Good listen if somebody leaves me to sleep

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I usually get woken up like at the beach I usually get woken up because I'll end up being

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on the couch or whatever and then my dad wakes up at the crack of dawn like Brandon and he

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comes in there making breakfast waking up my niece and then she comes in there she just

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stares at me and I pretend like I'm asleep still because I want her to leave me alone

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but she's real sweet about not waking me up but she wants me to wake up so she's like

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any little move if I make a move she's like Emily's awake Emily's awake and I'm like oh

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don't don't move. Can't even breathe right now. How old is she? She's five. She's so cute

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I love her. Such a great age. But normally you know honestly if it wasn't for her coming

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over there and doing that I wouldn't like it would be sad for to wake up anyway I'd

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be like oh I'm going back to bed. Yeah I know that but those those things are great I just

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oh my gosh it was the wildest thing. Yeah but I'm like you I sleep on my side I start

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my night so whatever side my head's on the pillow because I wear the airplane ones that

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are connected I just pop that side out. Okay. And then if I go the other side. Yeah because

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you're right like it hurts when you lay on them. I've had that problem so bad and I'm

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like oh these hurt. I've woken up before and just been throbbing ear pain because it was

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pushed in so far. But it's like the the risk you have to take to get a good night's sleep

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I guess. I tried to use the earplugs that they used last summer when we were at the

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beach because Melanie and I were staying so we stayed the same condo just in a different

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unit this year and so the room that Melanie and I were in had two twin beds because she

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doesn't want to share a bed even if it's a king size bed she would rather sleep in a

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twin than sleep in the same size bed with me. I don't know when this happened to her we

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used to sleep in the same bed all the time when we traveled. Because you snore probably.

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So does she. Oh. So does she. And so every time that we travel together and we stay in

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the same room regardless of you know what the bed situation is we will fight back and

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forth on different nights with who's the more tired and snoring and whatever but I tried

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to sleep with those earplugs. I can't. They feel like they hurt. Some stuff in my ear

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hole. I hate it. Yeah it's hurt it's painful. But I have so I saw someone on Amazon that

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you put like a you do like a mold kind of like those things that you do in your teeth.

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Yeah. I saw that and I'm like a little nervous I was like I don't know how I feel about like

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trying stuff in there. I've tried just every earplug there is available. They just don't

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work that well. I know. It's very difficult to get a good night's rest sometimes. Yeah.

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When you're traveling. We really struggle. That is one of our biggest struggles is we

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are so tired when we get home because we sleep in separate rooms. Well that's probably what

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you need to do is start working up to sleeping in the same room for a couple weeks before

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you leave so then you're just you're not totally throwing your routine off. Because it is.

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Because even in the hotel rooms we get separate queen beds and we're far enough apart. That

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it's not. Make sure he's way over there in his bed and I'm way over here. So your earplugs

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are actually working a little better because he's further away. Right. So I'm OK in a hotel

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room. It's when we're in this even if it's a king bed. If he doesn't go far enough over

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away from me I can still hear him. Yeah. Part of my problem is the earplugs and the eye

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mask. Oh I wear the eye mask too. I do too. I wear mine almost every night. I do. Do you

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really. Yeah. I just can't get used to the eye mask. So really. Oh my gosh. I mean I've

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got a couple of it. Is it on your eyes or is it like pressure or something. I have one

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that's adjustable. No it's indentations and it's adjustable and everything like it accommodates

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for your lashes and your eyes. See I don't even wear one of those. I just wear a black

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silk one. I would just rather wear the earplugs and leave the eye mask. See I'm more sensitive

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to the light than I am to the sound. Somebody said I think it was Pete that was like I said

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something about how I needed to put my eye mask on to go to sleep because and he's like

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well doesn't that just like shouldn't you just like close your eyes and it gets dark.

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There's something about it doesn't. No it doesn't. It's the pressure of it on your eyes though

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that help I feel like. It helps me feel like warm or something. I feel like I'm in a womb.

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And I'm just like ooh so nice. Absolutely. There are times where I'm trying to go to

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sleep at night and like I have blackout curtains but there's still like a little bit of light

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that comes in at the top and I did put them like six inches above the sill but there's

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still a little bit of light that comes in but I'm just so sensitive to the light that

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like I'll find myself not falling asleep. I can put that mask on and be out in ten. Oh

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my gosh I have a like my okay so you know how like some outlet plugs have like a little

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dot on it to tell you or like a little there's one in my bathroom and it stares at me from

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my bathroom and it's like my room will be blacked out and then it's just that one little

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green light and I'm like oh my god. I totally agree. I put little post-it notes over my

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room. That's a good idea. Cable box because the lights they're in blue. And it like illuminates

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the entire room. My whole room is lit up. Crazy. So I found that if I take post-its

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and double them and stick it on the top that it'll mute it. Oh such a good idea. It really

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works and I pull it off in the morning set it on the side and you can also use your remote

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it'll go through the post-its. Oh cool. Nice. Yeah so I put it on there even when I get

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my bed. I don't have a TV in my bedroom anymore. So that's good. Okay I have one in there now

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but I used to not have one in there. The only reason I've moved it in there when I get sick

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and I like lay in bed all day I like to have the TV when I'm in there. In the background.

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I don't like to have TV when I'm in there because I feel like your bedroom is for sleep

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and other things if you do those other things. I don't do those other things obviously. I

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have one. I have one person. Me and my dog's cuddle but that's about it. But you know what

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I mean? Like and sleep it's hard enough for me to get like a good night's sleep even though

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I could sleep all day. I just don't get a good night's sleep I don't think but for me

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to have the TV in there I will just be like oh I'm gonna watch the show all night and

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it'll be like two o'clock in the morning and I'm like oh my gosh it's two in the morning.

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Oh see I don't have that problem at all. I can't go to sleep with the TV on and I'll

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get tired enough and turn it off but I think my original theory when I moved into my two

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bedroom was I'm gonna be working from that other office so if I want to like work and

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watch TV at the same time then I have a TV in there to do that. Oh okay yeah. That's

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a good thought. That is good. That is really a good thought. I never watched. You wanna

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take a break and put the television on. I very rarely watched. It was like you said

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when I was sick and I would like need to be in the bed all day or whatever then that was

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really the most that I utilized. I never watched TV in there nightly. Never. I don't either.

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Sometimes I turn it on in the morning like to watch the news while like getting ready

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and taking the dogs out. You have the news? Like YouTube TV. Yeah. I watch the news a

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lot more. So this is one of my big travel things. We rented an Airbnb in Mobile where

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Sarah's sister lives and of course the whole streaming thing. Oh yeah yeah. Oh you don't

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you don't have you have a cable box. So we are cable people so. Boo. Yes. Basically nobody

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in the world has cable except for if you're 60 or plus you're. Yeah and now even now that

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you have you're the only ones that have it it costs like $400 a month. Oh yeah. It's

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ridiculous. And you rent an Airbnb and you're fumbling through the streaming and you're

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you know you gotta have your passwords if you do have any like Prime video or anything.

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One thing that I want to teach you about as far as this goes and I understand I'll let

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you finish but I want to teach you how to create a note in your phone so you can keep

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your passwords there instead of in a notebook. You should also have it in a notebook somewhere

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just in case like something happens and nobody can get in. And I travel with my notebook

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that has my password. How big is the notebook? Like a little one? Okay so we should delete

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that from this podcast so that nobody like mugs you. Right. You know like. All they're

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gonna be able to do is. Get all your passwords and take your text. They're not gonna be able

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to do anything. You know she probably got like her. No they have someone do their taxes.

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That's not yeah. They're not doing them on TurboTax. Oh I did my TurboTax. I did mine

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on the last day to do it like five minutes before it was due. It takes. Listen last year

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I paid extra money like $350 or however much it was to have them the TurboTax people do

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my taxes because I bought a home and I was like. Yeah. Maybe I don't know what I'm supposed

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to do. I've never bought a home before so I don't know what type of weird stuff I have

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to do. Oh my gosh. You don't have to do anything extra really. I'm sure you just had to have

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your paperwork and fill in the blanks. Yeah put paperwork in fill in the blanks. It took

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longer with the girl doing it from TurboTax. Any tax forms that you need will be sent to

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you. Yeah. Email to you. So they send it all to me. And I just had to do it. Anything that's

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emailed to you that says for tax purposes. Yeah. We use an accountant but also you know

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when there's a death in the family and there's you know other things going on you especially

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want to have an accountant make sure that everything's in order. Yeah see I don't have

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a lot of like assets or like things like that. I don't have you know I just have like a job

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and like a job and house or a car. A business and we got like a business going. We would

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have to like figure that out. This is a business. Well I mean like you know what I mean. Yes.

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So you will want a professional. Yeah. To be involved. But like it took me it took me

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like less than an hour to do my own taxes with the people that paying to do it. It took

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like a week and a half. I was like seriously. I sent them all my stuff too. And she was

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like I need you to send me this and this. And I'm just like why is this taking so long.

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Like why are why do you suck. And I feel like it shouldn't have been that way. There was

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like a four week turnaround for our accountant. Which is normal when somebody else you're

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outsourcing it to someone else. So you have to get everything together early because you

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know then by the time you're done you go meet with them and have to electronically sign.

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No I paid to I gave my stuff to my dad one time and I paid for his accountant to do it

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and it cost me more than TurboTax has ever costed me. And I will never do it any other

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way. I don't have anything crazy going on. Yeah it's like and if you do it asks you all

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the questions. Yeah. Do you have this. Yeah I do. And they're like oh this is exactly

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what you need to do. It only costs like not that much. Yeah. Yeah like a hundred dollars.

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Yeah. I was like wasted my money last year. That was ridiculous. But at least you did

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it right this time. I know you're getting older when you need an accountant to do your

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business. Well I think here's my beef with stuff like that. When we were in you know

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high school and college nobody taught us how to do this shit. No. And they want to talk

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about you know home ec classes and the things that you need to know. I don't need to know

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how to sew a damn pillow or make a fucking bag. Drawstring bag. I need to learn how to

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do my taxes. Well they thought we were gonna all be white season. I need to learn how to

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invest money. I need to learn how to not accrue credit card debt. Like those are the things

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that I should have learned. So I've been talking about this forever about how they need to

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change that and put it in schools and stuff. Yeah. But they have. I believe they are starting

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to. Yeah. I know some of the schools in our area are adding more financial planning. Yes.

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Almost for young people to help them understand budgets and things. But don't you think that

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younger people that are in school because of the technology maybe. I don't think that

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that matters at all. No. I mean you gotta think about all these people that are influencers

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right. What are these kids doing? Some of these kids are 22 year old influencers. Have

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they ever had a job with a W-2 that you know takes taxes out for them. Most of these things

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are like 1099 type situations with these companies that only maybe a six month contract. Are

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they. Those taxes aren't taken out for you. You have to pay taxes on all that income and

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that is something that we are not taught. Nobody told me that they were even. I didn't know

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there were tax brackets until like seven or eight years ago. I was like what there's a

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different tax bracket. I thought we all just paid the same taxes. And it makes me feel

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dumb when I find I know and I'm like 35 years old and I'm like huh. Oh well then again I

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had trying to buy a house too. I had no idea. And my parents my parents are the type of

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people like I got mine you get yours. Like I try to ask them questions and they'll just

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be like oh they'll teach they'll tell you how to do that stuff. The realtor the realtor

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they act like you know you've done this before. And I'm like calling my mortgage lady and

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I'm like well I don't know how about this and like I'm asking all these questions and

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I'm like I'm so sorry that I'm asking so many questions. But like I've never done this before

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and nobody's told me how to do this. It's completely valid that I mean I've never bought

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a house before when it comes that time. I don't know all the things that I was confused

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about. I still don't know. Getting your own attorney because you have to have your own

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attorney to represent you. My parents were very helpful in that respect that my mother

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was a banker for many many years. And so one of the things we did when we were growing

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up was we were taught how to write a check. We all had our own banking bank accounts savings

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accounts. We our grandparents you know gave us savings bonds. In fact my children have

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savings bonds from their great grandparents. That's what they purchased for them every

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year for Christmas was a savings bond. My mother was a banker and you know savings bonds

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were a safe investment. And so Sarah still has savings bonds. I've got like they would

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give us stock for ExxonMobil stock for Christmas and birthdays. And I was like 10 and I was

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like thanks. Doesn't seem like fun at the time. But I still have to pay taxes on it

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now and I'm like I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know. I have no idea how much stock

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I have because I like they send me stuff in the mail but it's all like different accounts

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and stuff. And so I'm like real confused about all that. I need to call somebody. But anyway

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my father was in the insurance business so we all knew about homeowners and life insurance

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and renters insurance like the first thing we did when we got out of college or when

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we were in college renting an apartment. They were like did you get renters insurance. And

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I'm like no. And they're like yes you get renters insurance and you know how to bundle

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your home and your vehicles and things like that. My parents had earthquake insurance

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in our small hometown. Oh my god. I just canceled it after my mom's passing. No way. Grim Joan

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had it for that long. Yes. So there was a fault line that runs near underneath you know

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in the core of the earth near our hometown. And my parents and a handful of people they

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had an earthquake there many many many years ago. So an earthquake is not included in an

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insurance. See that's crazy to me that you can have like something like a flood. So flood

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flooding doesn't count. And so now they've changed my place. There's a creek back here

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and it was not a flood zone when I bought this place and now it is apparently. And so

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they're gonna I'm gonna have to start paying. Our HOA dues went up and because we have to

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pay for the outside and the inside. So I'm going having to pay all this extra money for

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flood insurance. But like. But you do have to qualify for flood insurance. So that's

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the other thing. Which means that we have to be in a flood zone right. Yes. If you're

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in a flood zone at least you qualify for that. Other places get flooded that weren't in a

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flood zone and you can't get flood insurance. You do not qualify to buy flood insurance.

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Oh I thought you could. No not in every state. So I think that's based on whatever state

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you're in. That's crazy. Because we had a flood in our basement at one time and I tried

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to buy flood insurance and not in a flood zone. So I don't qualify. No way. Well so

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that may have been what happened. I went when I worked at my last previous job. Listen we

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went to. After Hurricane was it Katrina in Houston. No Harvey. I think I don't know.

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Hurricane. I have a hat. I forgot which one they said. Whichever one that flooded Houston

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basically. I thought that was Harvey for some reason. I don't know. Maybe it was Harvey.

381
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I don't know. One of those. It's usually a female that floods. Right. Opal. Iris. Katrina.

382
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I don't remember which one it was. Although Hurricane Andrew caused quite a bit of flooding

383
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in Homestead Florida. Oh really. Yeah. Well but usually people in Florida like I think

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that they qualify but this place their insurance they had you know they had they were not super

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rich or anything. They were like probably lower middle upper middle class kind of thing.

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And he the husband was like I think he had like autism or something. So he worked in

387
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a different in an interesting like field. But the their insurance they their house flooded

388
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like all the way to like she had to get somebody somebody came to rescue her on a boat. Oh

389
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and their house is in the middle of there's no water anywhere to be found. Like and we

390
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felt when we went out there to help them rebuild their house and like we had to pull down all

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the walls and put up new. Can you imagine that feeling. It's crazy that because they

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couldn't the insurance wouldn't pay for anything. They didn't have a house to live in like.

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Because they weren't in the flood zone. No. Yeah. It was an act of nature. Yeah. So when

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you have an act of nature there are certain things that will not be covered. That should

395
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be the insurance though. Like that's like. I totally agree with that. I think that that's

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wild. Like insurance. It's a natural disaster and nobody plans on that happening. And even

397
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if you tried to plan on it happening you still can't pay for it. That's where FEMA comes

398
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in. That's where FEMA comes in. That's the federal government comes in and gives people

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money but only if you qualify. And then you have to go through all the stuff to get it

400
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and it's like a whole thing. Yeah. I just remember then it was so sad because you know

401
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you don't think you think about like a lot of times people that are like not as well

402
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off that they're poor. They don't a lot of times don't have insurance at all. Right.

403
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And you would think about like helping them but you don't really. I mean I didn't. I was

404
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:59,760
like well these people have like it seems like they would be able to fix this house

405
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but like honestly if it happened to me this I'd be in the same boat. I'd be like oh my

406
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god what am I going to do. And you still have to pay your mortgage. A flood like that ruins

407
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everything. Yeah. Like everything. Yeah I mean you had to take the. They had to. I mean

408
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,480
it was bad. I mean they probably even had to get rid of furniture clothes. Oh yeah.

409
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100 percent yeah. I mean you're starting from ground zero when you still like she just said

410
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to have a mortgage to pay. And then you got to you know rebuy everything. I think she

411
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said she was in the in like the attic or something. I can't remember where she said she was. I

412
00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:34,280
don't know. And she was like I think she said she was like taking stuff like pictures and

413
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stuff up to the highest like then to the attic just in case because she didn't know how high

414
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it was going to go. I mean you could see when you went in there where the water level stopped

415
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:51,040
it was crazy. And it sat there. The water sat there and got molded. And right outside

416
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of Houston. OK. OK. Is it Galveston. Somewhere near there. On the water. Well no no no. Galveston

417
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:03,600
wasn't. It was somewhere outside. Galveston. They're all on the water. Somewhere right

418
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outside of Houston. But yeah. We have a little memory box that we keep. Oh you do. What do

419
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you keep in your memory box. So we were gifted this glass memory box when we got married.

420
00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:25,600
You and Mitch. Paul Mitchell and myself. Mitch. Yes. And no his name is not Mitch Mitchell.

421
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,680
So relax. Yes it is Paul David Mitchell but he's always. Just give his full name and a

422
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:35,000
social why don't you. Didn't he say that he's like named after a butcher or something too.

423
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,000
Oh their local butcher. And the local butcher. We were talking about that the other day.

424
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,720
I forgot who I was talking about. That is true. I was like Paul Mitchell and some kind

425
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:46,360
of butcher. And I was like that's so funny. Yeah but everybody asks him like the hair

426
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:52,280
guy. No so when he introduces himself as Paul Mitchell he says not the hair guy. Not the

427
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:58,440
hair guy. And so now when he participates in like March Madness and like the football

428
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:03,280
bowl pulls of my dad and whenever like my dad will like recap the week or whatever.

429
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,480
So it'll be like you know the top three and then like the biggest movers and shakers or

430
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:12,560
whatever and he'll always call Mitch you know Paul Mitchell not you know Paul not the hair

431
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,840
guy Mitchell. Yeah I was going to look him up because I was like I remember what Paul

432
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,720
Mitchell looks like but I can't remember exactly. And so I look. I just. John Paul Mitchell

433
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:25,720
was his name actually. Oh it was. The Paul Mitchell hair guy. Well he does not look anything

434
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:31,520
like your husband. Your Paul Mitchell. So I was like maybe they look alike. No. But

435
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:37,700
we have a memory box and it's glass and every year around our anniversary or sometimes before

436
00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:43,940
like will our beach trip now that we take our annual beach trips will keep a memory

437
00:38:43,940 --> 00:38:48,920
from our beach trip or somewhere. What's going in there this time? Well we haven't decided

438
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:55,800
but I don't know. Birdie's an option. Birdie cocktail napkin. Birdie's napkin. Is an option.

439
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,880
It's like a little white cocktail napkin and it has a picture of my cat on it and it says

440
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,480
Birdie a gentleman and a scholar and he has a little bow tie collar on. So Birdie's an

441
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:08,720
option but we you know we have concert tickets you know different things like that. We have

442
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:14,120
napkins matches back in the day. We would always grab a pack of matches from. We all

443
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:18,840
have to put Birdie and something in from the Poconos. Yes we're going to the Poconos.

444
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,640
Poconos on the way home. Which I always thought the Poconos. Do you know where the Poconos

445
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:28,760
are? No. I always thought the Poconos were like. An island. Yeah. Like tropical. It's

446
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:33,760
like the mountains of like what New York. Pennsylvania. On the border of like New Jersey

447
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,960
and New York City and Pennsylvania. So you know how they say Virginia Beach is for lovers.

448
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:46,560
The Pocono Mountains is like for lovers in northern New York. In northern Pennsylvania.

449
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:52,200
Yeah so it's not far from our hometown. It's probably only about five hours away. But for

450
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:59,040
some reason we've never been there and they've developed it even further like they have an

451
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:05,240
actual NASCAR race track up there where they have a Poconos race every year. I thought

452
00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:12,040
it was an island too. Or like some. The Poconos Islands. I want to talk about something else

453
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:18,440
though. You just said five hours from home it's not that far. How far is Birmingham from

454
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Canton New York? Approximately 20 hours. 18 to 20 hours. And this lady will not get on

455
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:41,760
an aeroplane. What year. What is the last year. I need you to tell everybody the year that

456
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:51,200
you last flew on an aeroplane. Probably 1990. Okay and where did you go? To Dallas. What

457
00:40:51,200 --> 00:41:01,120
were you two years old Sarah? Yes. And Jerry was a wee baby. A wee one. Yeah. Yes how sad

458
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:13,360
is that. So why? What's the justification for no aeroplanes? I just had a bad really

459
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:24,840
bad flight like when Sarah was a baby and we Sarah was a baby. She wasn't even 12 months

460
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:35,680
old. We drove to Sumter South Carolina. My brother and his wife lived there. My brother

461
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:42,040
was in the Air Force and they had a three year old daughter I believe. And she was expecting

462
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:49,480
another baby from our hometown and so we drove there and flew together to northern New York

463
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:58,080
State to have a baby shower for her. And it was really really cold and it was during the

464
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:06,320
winter months. In fact Sarah you were quite young because your dad had injured his knee

465
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:12,440
and you and I I think he was in a leg cast or something when we left. So you were only

466
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:18,320
two or three months old I think at the time. Anyway on the way back from we flew I think

467
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:27,000
from Syracuse New York to wherever Columbus South Carolina I think and we hit turbulence

468
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:37,760
and everything like went flying and she was basically in my arms and the drinks went flying

469
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:43,120
and we had an emergency light come on and everything. Did the masks come out of the

470
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,360
ceiling? Yes everything happened on that flight. Yeah I probably wouldn't go on an airplane.

471
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And I was a new young mom and it scared me to death. Even though she was with me it scared

472
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:04,600
me to death and it made my brain rethink the whole flying thing and with or without your

473
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:11,000
children or whatever. And the interesting thing is my brother works for American Airlines

474
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:18,200
and has for almost 40 years and we could fly standby on his tickets do anything. He's been

475
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:27,720
in aviation when it was in the Air Force at the age of 18. He's now almost 65. Aviation

476
00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:31,200
has been a part of his life the whole time and he always would tell me it's safer than

477
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,920
driving in a car. It is I was going to say I do realize it's way safer. Yes. Especially

478
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:41,360
that 20 hours you're only going to go on a couple hour flight. The risk is so much higher

479
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:47,760
in the car. But it scared me to my core. So I think I flew maybe a couple of times after

480
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,680
that. So one time was when Sarah was young and of course we were flying standby tickets

481
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:58,520
from Birmingham to Dallas. It was a no brainer up and down really and it was fine but then

482
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:04,640
there was something I don't know there was just still something that was just very. It

483
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:11,800
was off. Yeah. Right. Yes. I mean I have flown from New York to LAX and different places

484
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:18,200
but for some reason that reset. Well they say go with your gut instinct for some things

485
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:24,040
because that means there is a sometimes it means it's a problem. Well there's also anxiety

486
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:31,000
medicine and cocktails that can get you through and I both Jerry and I keep threatening her

487
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:36,080
that we're going to get married you know somewhere to make it. No we're going to make her get

488
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:41,480
on a plane. She's not going to miss a wedding if she does that really really hurt my feelings.

489
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:48,680
Where are you going to get married at. Not here. Not in Alabama but like like yeah. Like

490
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:54,040
a destination or something sort of something easy. Yeah. Gotcha. I don't give a shit. I

491
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,720
don't want to be the center of attention. I don't even really want to get married in front

492
00:44:56,720 --> 00:45:04,800
of anybody. I just think as I have a doctor that's probably prescribe me anything to go

493
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:12,840
to my daughter's wedding. So guys in the next couple of years let's hope that Donnie gets

494
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:24,000
on an airplane. Pray for me. Everybody on the flight. Make sure you say or something

495
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:30,680
like you know what you could take a train like to the Caribbean. Oh no. Oh my god. I

496
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:37,440
said something about taking a long boat trip to Europe. I said something. I said no that

497
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:45,440
was Jerry. I said something about Mexico and she was like we crossed the border in Mexico.

498
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:51,320
Yeah I've been there before in a car. No actually I walked. You walked across the border. Walked

499
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:58,320
across the border. Where? Where in like San Diego or something. Yeah we went to um right

500
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:04,240
across Cabo. No. She was she was she's a what do they call them refugees. I'm sorry I'm

501
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:08,640
having a brain fart. Right across from San Diego. I know what you're talking about Tijuana.

502
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:13,520
Tijuana. Tijuana. Yes. I still have. I knew it wasn't Juarez. I still have blankets. Me

503
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:19,160
too that you got on the way back. Yes. In the line. I have this like big huge like leopard

504
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:24,720
print one that's like we've had it for a hundred years. It smells like Tijuana. Yes. I was

505
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:31,800
in nursing school with a friend who ended up living in San Diego and I flew to LAX.

506
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:40,880
My brother lived in Riverside at the time and a friend of mine and I flew from Albany,

507
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:47,060
New York. That was my first cross country flight and we had a great time and we rented

508
00:46:47,060 --> 00:46:52,720
a car and drove to San Diego to see our friend who worked with us in Albany, New York at

509
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:59,040
the hospital and she married a guy that was in the Navy on a nuclear sub and they landed

510
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:03,420
in San Diego and she's like if you're coming to see your brother you better come see me.

511
00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:08,280
So we did and and we got a ride to the border and walked across to Tijuana spent the whole

512
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:13,320
day had a blast. Where did you eat some good food? Oh yes. We went we found some like random

513
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:20,920
like we literally drove down a road like a dirt road I think it seems that way it might

514
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:27,640
have been paved but like cactuses, cacti all over the place but nothing in sight for miles

515
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:32,200
except for this one little Mexican restaurant building and it was like something in a weird

516
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:38,240
movie and we went to it and it was so good. Who was this? The shrimp were like this big

517
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:42,040
like as big as my head. Who was this with? Me and my family, my parents. I was like twelve.

518
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:47,360
Oh okay. Eric I wasn't twelve I don't know how old I was but Eric was in or he was in

519
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,360
the Marines and so he was stationed in San Diego. Your brother was in the Marines? I

520
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:55,200
didn't know that. My dad was a Marine. Oh cool yeah. I did not know that. Hurrah or whatever

521
00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:03,840
yeah Eric was in the Marines. Cool. Yeah. Wow did he go overseas? He did not luckily

522
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:09,680
he didn't have to but he was in boot camp during September 11th and that happened like

523
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:14,880
he was and he was 17 so his birthday was 18th. Was he in Camp Lejeune? Yes his 18th birthday

524
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:22,440
was September 13th 2001 and we were all like he just gone he was in boot camp you know

525
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:27,600
being trained and he didn't they didn't have TV or anything they had to get letters of

526
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,000
people telling them what was happening and we were like oh my god he's gonna go he's

527
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:38,360
gonna go to war like immediately but he didn't have to so okay so we want some stories about

528
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:43,120
Sarah when she was little like funny stories you got anything good? Funny stories about

529
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,840
Sarah? You're not gonna hurt my feelings at all this is fair game. I was gonna text you

530
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:52,640
guys before and say hey y'all need to think about what you can't talk about. I don't care

531
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:59,000
at this point. Can I not hurt your feelings? Yeah go ahead. So the Cabo Valley Church of

532
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:05,280
Christ on is it Cabo Valley Road or? No Caldwell Mill. Caldwell Mill Road yes. Do you remember

533
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:17,720
this story? No. With the cradle and the baby doll? Nope. Okay so I worked part time Monday

534
00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:27,280
Wednesday Fridays I believe I had a hospital and Sarah started they had this mother's day

535
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:31,120
out have you ever heard of that? Yeah I have. Before okay so they had a mother's day out

536
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:37,360
and I believe the hours were 9 to 1 and so Tuesdays and Thursdays I believe on my days

537
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:42,920
off was they started this mother's day out and of course you know the guilt that you

538
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:47,160
work three days a week your kids are with the sitter and then the two days that you're

539
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,080
not working all of a sudden you put your child in mother's day out. Right because you have

540
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:57,080
to have time to do things. Well right and my friends were like Dawn you know give yourself

541
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:01,520
a couple day you know what I mean so anyways she started going to mother's day out and

542
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:09,240
one day I went to pick Sarah up. I'm nervous. And you do I'm like what did she do? And y'all

543
00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:15,800
are not moms but one day if you become a mom and you go through the pick up circle and

544
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:22,880
they say can you pull around and park and come in and get Sarah today and I'm like yes

545
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:29,880
sure you know whatever I had no idea. She's like what did this bitch do now? And let's

546
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:38,160
just be clear anybody that knows Sarah knows that she's an overachiever in all aspects

547
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:44,560
of her life right. So you know potty trained at 18 months because we're having another

548
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:51,160
baby and it was not a problem for her sleeping in a big girl bed at about 20 months you know

549
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:58,000
what I mean. Like everything she just overachiever. So I can win and they said we need to have

550
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:05,840
a talk and Sarah's sitting there and I'm looking at her and she's kind of like no eye contact.

551
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:10,680
Like she's looking at the ceiling and around and I'm trying to figure out how old she is

552
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:17,800
maybe three four something maybe and I said what happened? Well she and a friend were

553
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:23,920
playing with a baby doll and Sarah wanted the baby doll to put in this cradle and the

554
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:30,800
other girl wanted the baby doll to play with herself and apparently when she didn't get

555
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:37,400
the baby doll Sarah picked up the cradle and hit the other girl in the head with the cradle.

556
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:44,680
Sarah! It was her nap time she needed to take a nap. Right and it was her friend too her

557
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:50,520
little friend. Am I still friends with this person? I don't even remember the girl's name

558
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:55,520
but we went to church with her parents too which is always great. That is hilarious.

559
00:51:55,520 --> 00:52:01,680
You know when you take your child to Mother's Day out and most of the kids that are you

560
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:06,080
know participating in Mother's Day out and the parents are go to church together. So

561
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:10,440
of course you know then you go to church on Sunday hey. And everyone's like not all the

562
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:16,560
pop pop in the head. So of course you know we had to do the whole apology thing and Sarah

563
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:23,960
was like. Oh my gosh you just made the Sarah face. She just was like no. She ain't doing

564
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:32,360
that. So we were like there for quite a while convincing. I think the greatest story of

565
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:42,120
all though is the Disney story. Oh God bless America. What's the Disney story? Oh my gosh.

566
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:49,440
I kind of had put that out of my mind but yes so we took the girls Sarah's dad and I

567
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:54,560
took the girls to Disney World because I love Disney World. Believe it or not it's like

568
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:59,560
one of my favorite places to go. Are you serious? Would you be one of those like Disney honeymooners?

569
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:05,840
Totally. Ew. If I could get Mitch to go. I think it's cool but it's very expensive and

570
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:11,800
like you have to go on rides. Yes exactly fun rides. You don't go on roller coasters

571
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:16,520
mom. I go on all kinds of rides at Disney World. I love Disney World. It's a small world. When's

572
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:21,880
the last time you've been at Disney World? Speaking of it's a small world. It's creepy.

573
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:32,720
This is really creepy that you just said this. Oh yeah. Oh is this your story? Yes this is

574
00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:42,240
so this is Kismet. So Jerry Murray was four Sarah four and a half six and a half whatever

575
00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:46,280
and of course their dad was like I don't think they're old enough. Yes perfect age let's

576
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:53,800
go. Anyway we're having a great time. We go to it's a small world after a blah blah blah

577
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:59,200
blah blah blah. And I'm not sure if I know exactly all of it but you know by the time

578
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:03,520
you do get off that particular ride which I don't believe they have anymore. What they

579
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:08,960
don't have it anymore? I do not believe they have it's a small world anymore because I

580
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:14,400
was reading something and I don't think that's one of. Oh my gosh well good because that

581
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,880
thing is creepy. I thought I was somebody that's gonna come out like the shining and

582
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:22,920
like murder me. So you know that you can drop coins in the water you're on the boat I don't

583
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:32,200
know if you've ever been and I don't know exactly the turn of events but somehow this

584
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:39,080
child ended up with a coin in her hand. I was gonna be a softball star what can I say?

585
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:46,920
Right so she used her overachieving muscle throwing softball arm. Six and a half year

586
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:55,120
old arm. To throw a coin which lands in a man's eye that's wearing eyeglasses and they

587
00:54:55,120 --> 00:55:02,760
immediately crack and break. Oh yes. Obviously unintentional. Did they know it was you? Oh

588
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,880
hell yeah. Or were you all just like covering your faces like nada. They were behind us

589
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:12,440
in the boats in behind us so we immediately get off the ride and this man's furious no

590
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:21,360
less. He's furious and Sarah's dad is furious. Well because he was fussing at me. Yes. The

591
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:27,520
man was. Oh the man was? Yeah. Well I mean you were the one that did it. Yeah but I was

592
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:31,400
also six and a half years old it wasn't like I'm a grown teenager and can take care of

593
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:36,440
myself like I didn't mean to do it. I don't know six year olds are I mean if some little

594
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,720
six year old did that to me I would probably yell at him too. So anyway we get off the

595
00:55:40,720 --> 00:55:52,160
ride and that man immediately just beeline it for us right and I mean we were mortified.

596
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:59,880
Absolutely mortified and I mean we offered our names like we will pay for your glasses

597
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:08,520
here's our phone number the whole nine yards her dad has the grip of death on her arm.

598
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:17,280
Oh my god like you will apologize. Another apology moment. But the good news is though

599
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:26,280
is that I'm really good at apologizing now. Are you? Yes Tom. So what did you say to him?

600
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:31,600
Do you remember? Hell no. Do you remember throwing it? Nope. That is hilarious Sarah

601
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,400
I feel like I'm learning so much about you when you were a younger little baby. I was

602
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:44,840
the worst I was bad kid. What why? That is the truth. That is a moment right there. I

603
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:50,720
wasn't I didn't listen. Ownership. Even throughout high school my theory was and I even said

604
00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:55,960
this to her face when I was in high school I play sports and I get good grades you can't

605
00:56:55,960 --> 00:57:04,000
tell me what to do. That was my quote unquote. That was my theory on life. I got good grades

606
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:11,240
in school and I played sports I played three sports a year. Can I tell you another story?

607
00:57:11,240 --> 00:57:15,120
Can I tell you another story? Oh no no no that doesn't mean you get to break the rules

608
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:21,080
and I get that but like sometimes it's like okay. The character rules still apply. That's

609
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,680
true the character rules but like you know if you're going out like doing fun things

610
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,440
I don't know you can go I get that. If you're doing. Oh they did fun things believe me there

611
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:35,720
was lots of fun in her life there was no shortage of fun for crazy training. No there wasn't

612
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:43,080
and it's also the invention of drawing the lines on the liquor bottles and then also

613
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:47,960
learning how to drink watered down vodka. Yes. So let me tell you a story about. Oh

614
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:53,520
listen I used to water down the vodka too and I know my mom knew. I just lost my story

615
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:57,880
too. What was I going to tell her the story about? I can't remember now I've lost the

616
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:04,080
story. I don't know high school. Oh no we removed the door from her bedroom right off

617
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:11,280
the hinges. More than once. Because we have a slam the door problem you know what I mean?

618
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:16,240
Well also they were those doors that were like bullshit doors they weren't even like

619
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:23,440
hard doors like they were thin just. Oh those ones that you can punch a hole in. Yes 100%

620
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:27,320
they were not even a real wood door but then also we didn't have central air so when it

621
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:32,400
was warm outside the windows were open you I mean two fingers closed that hole and it's

622
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:37,080
gonna slam like I mean you threw it again. Oh yeah when the windows are open yeah. That's

623
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:42,400
your story and you're sticking to it? Yes it is. I get it I used to get it. If I accidentally

624
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:47,560
did something like growing up my parents I got in trouble like I did it on purpose. So

625
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:52,480
like you can't accidentally do anything wrong because. No I did all that shit. You did it

626
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:57,320
on purpose. I did all that shit on purpose. The overachieving softball arm knew how to

627
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,920
slam that door just perfectly. Anyway she's trying to get her point across. I will tell

628
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:12,580
you her stepdad my husband Mr. Mitch is a very kind chill individual but that was one

629
00:59:12,580 --> 00:59:19,440
of the times where he said enough is enough and when Mitch said enough is enough you listen

630
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:25,000
and honey that door came right off the hinges. So about three weeks later you know Mitch

631
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:30,320
says are you ready for your door? Nope I don't want a door anymore. Oh my gosh. I love not

632
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:41,280
having a door but the remnants of not having a door I still have the manufactured door

633
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:47,800
on the linen closet with the dent from the big clog heel that you threw at it. I don't

634
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:55,800
remember that. Sarah you are wild. Those are memories. So every time. I know this. I'm

635
00:59:55,800 --> 01:00:05,440
not denying it. I love it. Listen if I my curfew was midnight I think from like maybe

636
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:10,160
like sophomore junior senior year and then it was like 1230 after I was done with high

637
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:18,920
school or whatever if I came home at 1159 passed out not paying attention to me probably

638
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:25,800
not asleep but like I thought she was asleep whatever if it was 1215 this bitch was in

639
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:34,160
the driveway wait let me smell your breath. What happens if it smells like alcohol? Nothing.

640
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:39,760
I mean I don't know. I don't know let's ask our next door neighbor who is a retired tripper

641
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:44,080
Oh lord yeah that's not good. Oh my god. Did I ever tell you all about the test? So my

642
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:49,280
dad would wake up. You asked for this you said you're not gonna hurt my feelings. It doesn't

643
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:55,360
hurt my feelings because that was like a way one-off situation. Sarah was 15 years old

644
01:00:55,360 --> 01:01:01,120
trying to leave in a car with five boys. Oh I think you told me this story haven't you

645
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:06,480
told me this? And I said you may not leave this house we called the neighbor who was

646
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:14,840
a trooper state trooper in New York State and he came over to kind of let her know what

647
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:18,800
the consequences would be. Was this like that thing like that TV show where they take little

648
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:25,240
kids that are being bad to the prison and show them like this is yes. Pretty much. I

649
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:33,800
forgot what it's called. Outline juvenile detention for her. She did not get in the

650
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:39,480
car and she did come in the house but we suffered the car. That's probably around the time she

651
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:44,680
had the door taken off another time. It got better. It did get better. Well what about

652
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:50,280
the time I went my jammies to go get you. Where? On a Sunday night when you were saying

653
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:55,120
you were staying at your friend's grandmother's and you were at a party and we went to the

654
01:01:55,120 --> 01:02:00,760
friend's grandmother's and she said. Whose friend's grandmother? Elise? No that is not

655
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:06,360
what happened. That was in the falls. That no that is not what happened actually. That

656
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:10,400
was the very first time I can tell you the story that was not what happened actually.

657
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:15,920
She threatened to come get me. She did not come get me. It was the very first night I

658
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:20,840
ever drank alcohol. I had three and a half regular Smirnoff and I was so hung over the

659
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:28,360
next day. It was during the summer and I usually yes this is well this is a story anyways.

660
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:33,080
I came home and during the summer I used to sleep in the basement because we don't have

661
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:38,080
central air and it's cool down there and I got home that morning and Jerry was sleeping

662
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:44,880
on the futon and I was like girl move over. I am hung over and so she moves over and lets

663
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:51,520
me get in the bed and then Dawn decides that she's going to make taco salad for dinner

664
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:59,400
and I was like oh my god how am I going to eat this taco salad for dinner after I've

665
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:04,680
been hung over all day. That sounds good to me. Well at the time it didn't it look like

666
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:10,120
puke on a plate and I was like I can't do this. This is terrible. I ate as much as I

667
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:15,160
possibly could and I went and even when we're sitting at that dinner she goes you hung over?

668
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:23,360
I was like no I'm not. I'm good. I did everything I could and then Jerry the little snitch that

669
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:28,440
she was got in trouble like three months later and then told on me and then I got grounded

670
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:35,600
like way after the fact. But we did have a Sunday night. I don't remember this. It was

671
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:41,680
like. Was this during the summer? Veterans day or something the next Monday and you got

672
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:47,540
school was out on Monday but I still had to work because it's not a federal holiday really

673
01:03:47,540 --> 01:03:56,440
for non-federal employees and you were going to have friends to spend the night and we

674
01:03:56,440 --> 01:04:01,240
always ask for the phone numbers. Is this the same person that was staying that was

675
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:08,400
with me at Corey's? Yes. Okay. So one of the things that we did kind of when cell phones

676
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:13,660
were kind of coming around where kids were parents were buying them cell phones or whatever

677
01:04:13,660 --> 01:04:20,240
I always asked for the landline number. Yeah. So they thought they would be funny and only

678
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:27,000
give me cell phone numbers because then you don't know where they are and so she gave

679
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:32,680
me a cell phone number. Well I ended up finding the landline number and called. Because it

680
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:38,920
was probably in the phone book. Oh my gosh remember those? The phone books. You can't

681
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:45,760
think of it all when you're a kid okay. You can't think of it all. No makeup jammies Mitch

682
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:51,000
and I got in the car and we went to where she was supposed to be and we were told oh

683
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:56,000
no they're not here right now they're at so and so's. I don't even know where I was. You

684
01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:03,560
were at Corey's. Oh again. Was it Fuller Road or something? Fowler. Fowler whatever and

685
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:09,400
we showed up and said get in the car you're going home and here I am in my full glory

686
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:15,520
of pajamas. And she's probably like putting her. She's like mom why are you here in your

687
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:21,880
pajamas? That's not my mom. And I used to tell them. She's kidnapping me. She's kidnapping

688
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:27,800
me. And I used to tell both of them when they were growing up when you become a mom that

689
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:33,200
is your full time job. No matter what you do whether you work two other full time jobs

690
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:41,120
your full time job is to make sure your children are safe. Except for when they become of age

691
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:45,720
and you don't want to pick them up from the bar and you make them walk home. After the

692
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:51,480
years and years of if you need a ride call me anytime then you're 21 and you call for

693
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:58,280
a ride home and it's nah girl you can walk. One time. One time. I was so tired. I'll never

694
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:03,360
forget it. One time I was so tired. That is actually not true. There were two times. The

695
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:10,600
time that I got rug burn on my face when I was at Joey Trim's house in Colton and Zach

696
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:15,680
Lawrence picked me up that night. Right. Okay well hold on. Where did you get rug burn on

697
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:21,240
your face? We were having an 80's party and I had on these dumb stupid wedges and like

698
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:27,040
this just stupid outfit and we were at this guy's house. He like lived in a double wide

699
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:32,240
or whatever and it was where you know when like carpet and like linoleum will meet and

700
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:37,800
they'll put those like gold. Yes. Metal stripes. Listen I decided that night. Threshold strips.

701
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:42,560
I decided it was a really good idea that night to play beer pong with straight Jaeger and

702
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:47,720
so I had done that and I tripped over this metal stripping and I didn't even put my hands

703
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:55,400
out to catch myself. The rug caught my face. Oh my gosh. And then after that I was so upset

704
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:59,440
because it happened. I called everybody in my phone looking for a ride home until I got

705
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:03,480
all the way down to Z who was my fourth grade boyfriend Zach Lawrence and he took me home.

706
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:10,540
But can we talk about Zach Lawrence? Zach Lawrence. I think we do need to give me kudos

707
01:07:10,540 --> 01:07:19,800
for all the times I did come pick your friends up early in the morning because their parents

708
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:26,320
would have had a stroke. Yes. Had they had to call their parents. Sarah Wright always

709
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:32,800
would come in and say mom I need your help. I need you to go pick somebody up and I would

710
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:39,040
I've never to this day ever told one of the parents ever when I picked their child up

711
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:44,520
because I just picked them up took them home made sure they were safe. Yeah. And that I

712
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:48,680
think there's only hand that somebody's safe is all that really matters. And I will say

713
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:56,240
this much like what I move back to Canton now. No probably not. But I have absolutely

714
01:07:56,240 --> 01:08:03,520
no regret about growing up there because it was such like a safe community as far as like

715
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:08,680
families taking care of one another's kids go like I there's absolutely no way that I

716
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:12,920
could have pulled any of the bullshit that I pulled. And I wasn't always bad. I will

717
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:18,200
say this like I mean I worked. Her mom is shaking her head yes. No she wasn't. Oh she

718
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:22,600
wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't always bad. I thought you were saying oh no yes you were. Sarah

719
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:30,680
worked. Like we we had kind of an understanding that in order to learn responsibility and

720
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:38,840
I think that is one of the things her work ethic and her understanding of responsibility.

721
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:45,000
I said I want you to get your license and you know like I worked with her dad or dad

722
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:50,640
got her a car and then we got insurance. But I wanted them to also work and earn their

723
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:55,680
own money and have their own accounts and pay for a part of their insurance. That was

724
01:08:55,680 --> 01:09:03,800
all part of the deal like learning responsibility because I think the most dangerous thing that

725
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:10,840
a parent can do is send your child off to college and pretend like there aren't dangers

726
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:15,480
out there and there are responsibilities out there. And that was my biggest thing that

727
01:09:15,480 --> 01:09:22,560
my parents taught me is when you leave our home we want you to have all the tools that

728
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:30,120
you need to be safe and make good choices and be responsible but also own those mistakes

729
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:35,120
because they help you grow. Yeah and it wasn't like she kept me on lockdown either because

730
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:39,600
like there were times like I had my license and I you know even had a car and stuff like

731
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:46,240
that but like when like even my junior and senior year of high school like I played my

732
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:50,520
sports I also worked at Josie's the pizza place on the weekend. Still the greatest pizza

733
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:54,520
ever if you ever visit Canton, New York go to Josie's it's literally the greatest pizza

734
01:09:54,520 --> 01:10:02,320
you'll ever have. 100% true. Oh my gosh this is the greatest. But like she if I had a sporting

735
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:07,520
event on a Friday night like she was always at my games there was I mean very rarely I

736
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:11,600
don't even know if there was ever a game that she missed but I would you know get done with

737
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:15,680
that come home take a shower get ready whatever and she would like drop me off because there

738
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:20,720
were kids we lived in an area that was so small that these communities were all super

739
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,100
close together even if we didn't go to high school together but we also had two colleges

740
01:10:24,100 --> 01:10:28,080
in the town of Canton so there were a lot of kids that were older than me that were

741
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:33,060
already in college and had like local apartments and like she went to high school with their

742
01:10:33,060 --> 01:10:37,220
parents and I just so happened to like make friends with them and so she would like drop

743
01:10:37,220 --> 01:10:41,480
me off at somebody's apartment like on a Friday night and like that's where I was staying

744
01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:46,380
or I would get a ride home and like I wasn't drinking and driving and stuff like that so

745
01:10:46,380 --> 01:10:52,120
I mean it was the greatest experience growing up because I wasn't sheltered but I also wasn't

746
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:58,800
like a complete psychopath and we also knew all the local police officers and the chief

747
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:05,280
of police that it came in handy a couple times. Oh Lord. Because they knew us and they said

748
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:12,960
go home get out of this environment and go home or they would call us and say hey your

749
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:17,440
kids out here. Yes they would. Your kids out here act foolish. They knew she wasn't a bad

750
01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:22,120
kid they knew she was just with a group of friends and maybe the environment became a

751
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:29,920
little more dangerous you know then she needed to be in her stepdad was the editor of the

752
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:35,600
local paper he knew everybody in the community and he was well respected. Which wasn't a

753
01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:41,000
ticket to get off scot-free either. No it wasn't but it was a respectful thing it was

754
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:46,400
a thing where they said hey your stepdaughter needs to get out of this. If I had been drinking

755
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:51,520
and driving and gotten caught it Mitch wouldn't have had a choice but to write it up in the

756
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:57,800
paper. Right. So as Jerry Marie her sister would say yeah one day we were driving down

757
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:01,320
the road and Mitch didn't have a seatbelt on and Jerry Marie is very young and she says

758
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:05,000
Mitch you better put your seatbelt on or you'll have to write about yourself in your own paper.

759
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:16,320
That's so funny. So what else did you do that was bad? Some bad. Let's talk about some of

760
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:21,560
the good things. Okay. But I didn't I mean those were among the worst things I guess

761
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:27,120
I like I wasn't that bad I mean I think I say I'm bad and. Well not bad I'm trying to

762
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:30,160
say I'm just trying to get the funny stories. The fun stuff. You know the funny stories

763
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:35,400
where you like did something. Well I remember like going on AAU basketball trips with her

764
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:41,640
and all her friends like there's an example small town group of girls playing AAU basketball

765
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:46,840
travel basketball team together the parents would all get together and decide are you

766
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:51,640
going to the tournament or whatever we always went to the tournaments and we transported

767
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:55,640
lots of her friends. Well and you went to high school with the two other moms of the

768
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:58,720
girls that like I was close with and those girls were in high school together I wasn't

769
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:03,240
with them one was older than me and one was the same age but it was hysterical I mean

770
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:09,040
we would go to these tournaments in like Vermont and Rochester and I don't even know Plattsburg

771
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:13,540
and wherever else and like this was back when like going to the mall was like a thing so

772
01:13:13,540 --> 01:13:17,640
like in between games of the tournament we would just go to the mall and like sit in

773
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:20,680
the food court and just like everybody. Go to players and afterthoughts and get like

774
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:26,760
whatever food that they wanted to get and then we'd go like sit outside the mall until

775
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:31,120
it was like ready to leave or whatever and these hookers I don't know if they were drinking

776
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:34,640
yes the moms I don't know if they were drinking or not. We would drink when we got back to

777
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:39,280
the hotel we would not drink before all the games were done. No no no they were still

778
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:43,340
just wicked funny together regardless and they would be like because there were other

779
01:13:43,340 --> 01:13:46,880
people on our team that were more talented than we were but we all had so much fun and

780
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:50,720
we were good like we weren't bad I mean you had to qualify to be on this travel basketball

781
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:55,080
team and they would be like we'll give you a dollar every time you shoot the basketball

782
01:13:55,080 --> 01:14:01,760
because we all used to pass to these other people and just like get a million assists

783
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,800
in a game but we would never shoot and so they'd be like every time you girls shoot

784
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:08,440
we're gonna give you a dollar and so we'd go into the next game and be like all right

785
01:14:08,440 --> 01:14:14,560
we're gonna do this and then we'd make like three dollars. But they'd go to the mall to

786
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:20,440
buy clairs to go shop because you could buy how many earrings for a dollar of clairs.

787
01:14:20,440 --> 01:14:25,840
If anybody's out there remember clairs. But we just we would have so much fun and it was

788
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:31,040
such like you know innocent fun. We'd have music on in the car and we'd be singing and

789
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:35,100
those were good times. That sounds like fun. I remember we would go on these choir trips

790
01:14:35,100 --> 01:14:40,920
and I was in high school and they would the choir was huge and we would go take huge charter

791
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:47,120
buses multiples of them and drive up to like New York or wherever and go sing and go on

792
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:52,400
whatever go see it you know tourism and stuff like that. Well I can't remember where we

793
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:56,360
were. I think they did it every time but when we would stay in the hotels probably the first

794
01:14:56,360 --> 01:15:01,560
time they did it I think we were in Chicago and they would tape us into the door into

795
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:07,760
the hotel room so that if you open the door to leave after a certain after your curfew

796
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,280
they would know because you can't you can't re tape it from outside. That's what we did

797
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:17,200
during the pandemic at our hotel. Did they tape it? Yes when we traveled during the pandemic

798
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:23,800
when we were able to finally travel we would go to the hotel and it would be sealed with

799
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:29,840
tape. Really? Yes that would mean that room was sanitized. So this is hilarious. Yeah

800
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:35,200
they used to tape us in and so if and if you your entire room it wouldn't matter if it

801
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:39,160
was just one person you're in everybody in your entire room would be sent home then your

802
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:42,720
parents would have to probably pay for the ticket it was a whole rule thing. Wow. So

803
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:47,960
like you had to make sure all the other three people in your room were not like gonna escape.

804
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:53,840
Oh my god. But they it means when you've got like you know 200 kids or I don't know how

805
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:57,760
many we have probably a hundred or so. And not enough chaperones to keep up with them.

806
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:03,040
Well one year this was when I was in college or it might have been recently maybe like

807
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:08,040
seven or eight years ago they had the parents apparently got in trouble they were on like

808
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:12,280
the news and stuff because the parents were caught drinking and they weren't supposed

809
01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:15,960
to like but everybody was in the hotel room and they were chaperones they went down to

810
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:21,480
the hotel lobby. On my senior trip our chaperones got hammered. Which I don't understand like

811
01:16:21,480 --> 01:16:26,240
if they're all all the kids are locked in their rooms. I mean they were slacking. The only

812
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:33,400
reason why we got drunk though was because one of our friends came from his cousin's

813
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:45,760
college graduation or. Who was that? Nichols. AP. Oh yes. And came from a cousin's either

814
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:51,680
military graduation or college graduation so that cousin was old enough and his bag

815
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:57,600
didn't get checked like everybody else's because they met us we went to Virginia Beach for

816
01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:03,320
our senior trip so he met us there. They got checked at the school when they boarded their

817
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:08,440
buses. Yes and his didn't because he met us there. He met them there. But also he was

818
01:17:08,440 --> 01:17:12,960
like really smart and a goody goody and so they're like he's not gonna bring anything

819
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:23,880
let's not check his bag. And it's true. We got drunk. So were your teachers like this

820
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:29,360
is your senior trip. Yes but there were less there were 89 of us who graduated. So there

821
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:35,260
yeah I mean we're we're 18. I guess you were in the yeah so. But we only had like four

822
01:17:35,260 --> 01:17:41,080
or five chaperones because our class wasn't very big. We graduated with like 86 or 89

823
01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:46,160
people and not every one of those went on the trip. We had like two different trip senior

824
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:50,400
trips that happened at Mara Place. There might have been more people that but two big ones

825
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:55,280
and it was like the people that like to party and the people the goody goodies is what we

826
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:59,200
call them. The people and the people with like the goody goodies they all kind of went

827
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:03,480
on a cruise and like the teachers went like as chaperones and stuff and they had other

828
01:18:03,480 --> 01:18:09,360
parents and stuff. Our crew our thing was like an all inclusive cancun resort with all

829
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:16,480
the drunk parents. Like I'm pretty sure we were like my side somewhere and the guys were

830
01:18:16,480 --> 01:18:26,480
like getting naked. It was crazy. That would not have happened with the teachers. 18 year

831
01:18:26,480 --> 01:18:32,800
old boys love take the clothes off. Right. Yeah. No that that was and I'm gonna talk

832
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:36,280
about him real quick and hopefully he doesn't get mad at me for saying this but I'm pretty

833
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:43,000
sure that Dave Parker found he I'm pretty sure he found this French girl who was on

834
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:52,320
vacation there and had a good make out. I'm pretty sure that AP had to do the translating

835
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:59,680
for him as well. Yeah. That's funny. This is funny though thinking back though. I mean

836
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:07,720
we did have a lot of really fun times like the community we live in is you know some

837
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:13,560
people would say who would live there. It's literally with I think it's hard to understand

838
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:21,280
the Canadian border. The winters are freezing. Well they are cold and sometimes harsh but

839
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:31,120
I can tell you the people that live up there they snowshoe and they ski and they snowmobile

840
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:37,760
and they ice fish and they play hockey and they skate. It's definitely a very active

841
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:43,920
community. I think without like spending a significant amount of time there it's hard

842
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:48,840
to understand why somebody would live there. Correct. I think that's what people think

843
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:53,960
about Alabama too. They're like why would anybody want to move there and then they come

844
01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:58,560
here and they're like oh this is actually really nice. Yeah I mean even just to kind

845
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:02,820
of wrap it up and come full circle with all this like when I was telling my co-workers

846
01:20:02,820 --> 01:20:05,480
they were like where are you going to the beach and I'm like I'm going to Orange Beach

847
01:20:05,480 --> 01:20:08,000
and they're like where is that and I'm like it's in Alabama and they're like oh I didn't

848
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:13,000
know that Alabama had beaches so like it's just one of those things where I know but

849
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:17,160
if you if you don't know you don't know and you don't think about it like that because

850
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:21,480
I mean for all these years when you say Alabama all people think about is like rednecks and

851
01:20:21,480 --> 01:20:27,060
confederate flags and racism and that's not what it is. But in our hometown people have

852
01:20:27,060 --> 01:20:32,360
discovered Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. Right. So we have some friends that do a well they

853
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:37,120
need to quit telling anybody about it. Right they do an annual trip down here to Gulf Shores

854
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:41,360
and Orange Beach and I said keep it a secret and they're like no we're sharing it with

855
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:49,780
everyone so everyone in our hometown is instead of going to Myrtle Beach which many of them

856
01:20:49,780 --> 01:20:56,040
still do on spring break in our Easter break go to Myrtle Beach you know. It's not the

857
01:20:56,040 --> 01:21:02,020
same though. Hell no. Well right but they're discovering the beaches of Alabama and the

858
01:21:02,020 --> 01:21:08,840
Gulf Coast and we're like shhh you know what I mean. Keep it a secret of course them down

859
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:13,480
you know along the beach and all the businesses want people to come but I think they're going

860
01:21:13,480 --> 01:21:19,880
to not be able to accommodate everybody that's discovering it because it's everywhere. I

861
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:26,240
read on my phone the other day a story about like the 10 best beaches in the south and

862
01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:32,120
of course Orange Beach was like number six and I was like shhh don't tell anybody. Stop

863
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:35,040
stop reading this in the newspaper. We don't have enough places for everybody. They probably

864
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,920
paid that company to like put them on there you know what I mean. You don't have to pay

865
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:43,160
anybody to say that Orange Beach is beautiful because it is. And now we're putting it all

866
01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:50,040
over our podcast so here we go. So alright I think we're gonna wrap this up. Mom thank

867
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:55,240
you so much for being here. Thank you for coming all the way. You did so good. You were

868
01:21:55,240 --> 01:21:59,960
nervous in the beginning do you feel good now? I do. Good. I do like this is fun. It

869
01:21:59,960 --> 01:22:05,280
is fun and you guys look exactly the same. It's the weirdest thing. We what? Look so

870
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:10,520
similar like obviously she came from your. Our photo for this week's episode is just

871
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:14,880
gonna have to be me and Dawn. Yes. Well it does need to be. I was gonna try to take a

872
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:18,760
picture of you guys but your butt was kind of hanging out of your dress a minute ago

873
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:23,440
so I didn't take it. I was like never mind. I appreciate that. We took a good one at the

874
01:22:23,440 --> 01:22:30,200
beach so I've got something for us to post. I'm proud to be Sarah Wright's mom. Thank

875
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:35,680
you. I'm appreciative of you accepting like this podcast and supporting us and listening

876
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:40,560
even though you didn't do your job on the way down here and get caught up on all the

877
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:46,360
episodes. You'll have to do it on the way home. We definitely started at the last minute.

878
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:53,240
We also had a there's a guy that Mitch works with and he did a whole flash drive of like

879
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:59,920
music that we like. Haven't listened to one. Oh my gosh. We forgot. We were just like totally.

880
01:22:59,920 --> 01:23:05,280
I don't know. We we chat a lot when we're driving. I'm just gonna say we live in the

881
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:13,000
same house together but honestly when you're driving for many hours at a time you know

882
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:19,280
sometimes when you have children and maybe one day you'll both find this out it's hard

883
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:25,820
to talk face to face with a child but when you're in a car there's something about the

884
01:23:25,820 --> 01:23:33,920
flow of conversation. Sure. True. So you can't really escape it. My husband and I have I

885
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:39,160
think great conversation when we're in the car that maybe we don't have on a daily basis

886
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:45,640
at home with all the work stuff and you know just home maintenance stuff. Well I think

887
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:50,560
that's fair because you're talking about the everyday life. Yes. So it's it's always great

888
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:56,120
for us. We reconnect in our travels. So when my parents go in the car on the like on the

889
01:23:56,120 --> 01:24:01,640
road they drive to the beach a lot and I know that they've gotten sick of talking to each

890
01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:05,360
other when there's nothing on the radio because they'll call me. They call me and be like

891
01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:09,160
hey what are you doing? And I'm like they want to they'd rather talk to me than but

892
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:13,400
it helps their conversation because they'll start talking to each other and then at some

893
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:18,920
point my mom will be like sick of talking to me and she's like okay we got to go by.

894
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:22,400
I really wanted you to meet Saucy but it didn't work out so we'll have to do it again. Yes

895
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:26,200
I look forward to that. Also I wanted to say I'm also proud to be Jerry Murray Wright's

896
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:31,720
mom. Fair enough. We'll try and get her on the podcast at some point. Jerry do need to

897
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:39,800
do it. All right thanks. Hey let us out. Sarah give us that extra detail for people out there

898
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:45,600
who need to send us stuff. Thank you for joining us today. It was wonderful to have you. You

899
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:52,600
can follow us on Instagram at Thick AF Podcast. You can send us an email at thickafpodcast.gmail.com.

900
01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:57,000
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901
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:26,600
those five stars y'all. Thanks. Bye. Bye.

902
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:37,880
Peace City EFT. I have to go. I don't know why it's so good.