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Welcome back to The Main Mic. I'm your host,

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Harper, and today I'm joined with Jen. Hi. All

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right, so Jen will be your student stories sort

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of section for our podcast. Her episodes will

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be coming out every Monday, I believe. Is that

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right, Jen? I think so, yes. Yeah, all right.

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So Jen, you're a student at Johnson County Community

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College, but off camera. we were kind of talking

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and you described yourself as a non -traditional

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student. Yeah. So going into that, like what,

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what do you feel resonates with your untraditional

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student life? Well, and I guess maybe that's

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my word. Maybe, maybe other folks might not use

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that word, but to me, I guess I see a traditional

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college student as someone that's like 18 19

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20 you know and early early in their 20s right

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out of high school um i'm 52 i'll be 53 next

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week um so you know i'm older than the lion's

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share of the students here not the oldest though

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i have found throughout my studies here i am

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not the oldest student um it's kind of fun in

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my classes when i meet another old person there's

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like this friendly competition of who's older

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and you know who knows more so that's kind of

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fun but um yeah i it i think everybody comes

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to jccc with their own needs and their own goals

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and their own desires and everybody's story is

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so unique and so amazing and we grow and we get

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stronger and better as students and as people

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every time we hear another person's story and

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we spend some time and walk in their shoes and

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so that's why i'm so thrilled to get to be the

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host for the student stories section here on

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the podcast yeah i went to college the first

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time when i was 18 when i was a traditional student

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and i had my heart set on studying vocal music

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either as a teacher or as a performer and for

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lots of reasons i did not take that route mostly

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self -confidence and then life happened you know

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i went to college and graduated started graduate

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school met the guy got married you know how the

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story goes um and then flash forward to turning

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50 a few years ago um in that year my father

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passed away uh and then two years later uh we

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found out that i had cancer and i'm doing well

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and i'm healthy i'm doing well um thank god but

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um it occurred to me that in the face of so much

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change and then coming out of covid and you know

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everything that happened if you wait for that

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perfect moment to take a chance on your dream

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you'll be waiting your whole life there is never

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the perfect moment right and they say that all

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the time if you wait to get married or wait to

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have a baby until the perfect there is no perfect

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time the perfect time is now And JCCC is such

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a beautiful presence in Overland Park. And I've

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driven by it a million times. And I thought,

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you know what? I'm going to take a chance now.

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That 18 -year -old girl who didn't have the confidence

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to take a chance on her dreams is now 50 -ish.

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Now will be 53 on the 22nd. And she's going to

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do it. and so that's what brought me here um

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i work full time i'm married uh our daughter

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is 23 she just graduated from kansas state uh

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and started a sixth grade teaching job three

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weeks later so um i have a really rich happy

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life a lot of wonderful friends love my work

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love my my colleagues and my bosses um i'm very

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round peg in a round hole um but i think there

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was always this piece missing because as i went

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forward in life and having an incredible career

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and a great life and wonderful people there was

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still always this little voice in the back of

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my head that said you should have done it why

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didn't you do it it's too late you should have

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done it and then life happened and I said okay

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there's no more shoulds it's we're gonna do it

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now um and so here I am that's great um well

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first of all happy early birthday and so far

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I know I've heard a snippet of your life, but

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it sounds like you are such a strong woman and

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student stories just sounds like it's meant for

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you. You are meant to report and connect with

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the other students and help them share their

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student stories with the rest of us. You have

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tons of stories that you have told, like the

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crew and I, about. first of all we'll get into

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it but i've heard you say you have a story about

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eminem being related to you and you're currently

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knitting as well and it's it's are you making

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like a sweater i am the pattern is called the

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sophie hood And if you're on Knit Talk or Knitstagram,

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everybody's making a Sophie shawl or scarf or

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hood. So I'm about to do the wrap part where

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you wrap around your head and pull it down, which,

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thank God, because it has been so cold here in

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Kansas City. And, of course, we're snowed in

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today. So, yeah, it just makes me excited to

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wear it, to know that I'll be toasty. I have

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been seeing those everywhere. It's on my Pinterest

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board. I have been wanting one since forever.

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myself i do not knit but i have tried to kind

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of crochet maybe okay um i have some crochet

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kits i'm not really getting the hang of it um

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it's it's a slow start for me is what i'm saying

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but um i was looking at kind of prints to like

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print out and kind of uh get into that. And,

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uh, you know, I kind of just looked on Etsy and

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saw one for $36. So I think I might think about

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cave at one point. Um, but yeah, you, I should

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get into it. No, we should set up a day on campus.

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Like if you want to learn to knit or you're already

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a knitter or a crocheter, let's meet in the collab

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and bring your Starbucks and we'll sit and knit

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and talk. We should do that. Oh my God, we should.

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The collab is such a... the collab is such a

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great and amazing place yeah uh it helps so many

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people i mean they have record they have like

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small recording studios which for one of my classes

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we're going to be using for a small little interview

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with each other um however they also have i believe

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it's like a music recording booth and they have

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like meeting rooms and separate like meeting

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areas they're constantly hosting uh scavenger

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hunts that uh hopefully help students go and

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explore the campus and get to know like uh the

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library has so many different opportunities to

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like for tutoring or help with math science and

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english etc and i know that they're constantly

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hosting those kinds of scavenger hunts where

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you grab this card and you take it to the library

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each time you go and you uh get informed by these

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uh mentors of that certain section and then they'll

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give you a stamp on your card and then once you

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have all four to six sections stamped you'll

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go back and Then you get a cinnamon roll or some

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coffee or like a donut for the stamps on your

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card. And you get all this amazing information

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out of it. So it's such a great idea. And we,

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I mean, we could totally host our own little

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collab knitting crochet session. It'd be so fun.

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You yourself have spoken to me about how much

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the collab has helped you as well. And I know

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you would love to like talk about your experiences

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with them, especially you were saying off camera,

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like when you were a student starting out, how

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much they helped you. Would you like to like

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get into that? Yeah. So I work full time. I'm

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actually a remote employee, so I'm not in the

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office. uh and i live in gardner so it's it's

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kind of a trek you know from gardner to to johnson

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county um And they, firstly, they were my first

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friends on campus. Here comes the little old

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lady, you know, who hasn't been a college student

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for a hundred years. You know, I don't know.

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I've heard of this canvas that, you know, what

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is this canvas that you speak of, you know, and

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how do I get my assignments? And they just sat

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down with me and walked me through, you know,

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jccc .edu. And they walked me through how to

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print on campus, which I don't know if our students

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know that, but you can print all over campus.

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um they walked me through resources um when i

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would come to campus and have class like let's

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say at noon right or one o 'clock i could work

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for a little while and then go to class and then

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go right back to the co -lab um it's such a cool

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place they have as harper mentioned recording

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studio meeting space they also have a booth where

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you can go and get professional photos taken

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for free so if you let's say you need headshots

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for a website right or like your avatar for your

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i don't know social media um or passport photos

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um you can do that totally free there um and

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they are constantly hosting i think they did

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something with like japanese fan lanterns one

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night this past week i think i saw them when

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i was on campus late um so yeah no i can't i

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can't sing their praises enough um yeah So, yeah,

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I will. I'll get with you offline about a knit

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night and we'll get the word out. We will. We'll

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have our editor and boss, Zach, help us set up

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a messenger article and write about our knit

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night. So it's not just us showing up. Love that.

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Speaking of hobbies, obviously you're coming

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to Johnson County to pursue one of your other

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hobbies, which you're very passionate about.

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One of your other hobbies, is it singing, music,

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or? It was, I was always a singer growing up,

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you know, in the church choir, in the school

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choir, in the plays, in the musicals, and then

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college. And then again, you know, the husband

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and the kid and the job and the life. i would

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say it's actually kind of a funny story and she

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will kill me if she knows i'm telling you um

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it was one day when our daughter was fifth grade

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third fourth i don't know young and she was oscar

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night actually and she walked into our bedroom

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and she's like mom i'm going to juilliard and

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i'm going to win an oscar i'm like dude you're

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in third grade like what do you know about julia

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you're like what So that's when we kind of started

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getting involved in community theater. We did

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go tour Juilliard in New York City, which was

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absolutely beautiful. And she joined community

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theater. And it's because of her that I started

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doing it again. And then I was on the board of

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a theater company and did. six or seven shows

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with them and then covet happens right so the

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stages all go dark um like the rest of the world

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sadly um and unfortunately the theater company

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just really couldn't recover economically so

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they shuttered their doors so that outlet in

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my life got taken from me I, like a lot of people,

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I hope I'm not going to regret telling this story.

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Like a lot of people in the early days of the

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pandemic, you know, your late February, early

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March of 2020, I got on TikTok. If you're not

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on TikTok, don't do it. It's a huge time, a huge

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time waster. But I started singing on TikTok

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and one fan became 10, became maybe 50. You know,

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we're not talking Beyonce here, but I really

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enjoyed doing that. And then people would ask

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me to sing songs for them and I would do it.

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And that was really fun. So I enjoyed that. I

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love to knit. I love to bake. I'm one of those

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Pinterest girlies that will see like some beautiful

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souffle and then I'm like, oh, I can totally

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make that. No, I can't. No, I can't. But I love

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trying it out. I don't know. Yeah, that's about

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it. I'm also brand new into journaling. That's

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my thing for this year is journaling. So I'm

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writing, writing, writing a lot, which feels

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really good. Yeah. Well, if it makes you feel

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any better, I'm in the exact same position as

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you. I am a Pinterest girly. I'm constantly looking

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for new things to bake. I think the most recent

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thing I did bake, I did blueberry muffins. I

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did by scratch, but I do have a box that's been

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sitting in my cupboard, which made me think I

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should probably make those soon. So, but yeah,

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I do love to bake. Earlier you did. off camera

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of course mentioned you've recently bought a

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kindle i also as well recently picked up reading

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again um it's one of those uh one of those i

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don't want to say it's a trending hobby but like

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when you hear like other people are doing it

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like that's why i picked it up because i'm like

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other people are really interested in it and

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i've always wanted to so it gives me the courage

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to be like I know like three people saying they

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just started reading again. I'm going to start

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reading again because I've always wanted to read.

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Or three people saying I just started baking.

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Honestly, I've always baked. It just hasn't been

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like a consistent pattern. But now I'm baking

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like one or two things a month, which doesn't

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sound like a lot. But it's like every other week

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and then... When that runs out, I'm baking cookies

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and then those run out and there's muffins. I

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baked some coffee cake the other week and then

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before that was pumpkin bread. So good, so good.

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I think I totally get what you're saying. There's

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a lot of strength in community and a lot of fun

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in community. the book talk is actually what

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got me into it because people are like, did you

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read this book by Jane Doe? And it's the best

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book ever, you know? And then other people are

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like, yeah, what about this character? You know,

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and like, you see how excited they are and you

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kind of want to gravitate toward that. And it's

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really interesting because it's like anything

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else, you know, somebody and this, this one book,

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oh my Lord, I'm not going to mention it, but

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it was all over 2024's best. It was the worst

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book I've ever read. So it was really fun to

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like see the camps of people. that were falling

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all over it. And then also like, this is the

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worst thing ever. You know, so it was kind of

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fun to be a part of it. Same with like the Knit

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Talk world and the Knitstagram world. I was actually

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taught to knit in the pandemic by some wonderful

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people. And you get a lot of support online and

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it's kind of fun to ooh and ah over people's

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projects. Like, ooh, what are you making? You

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know? So I totally get what you're saying about

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the community aspect of it. Plus, if you can

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make food for somebody or make a scarf for somebody,

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that's... That's huge because that's of your

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heart and of your hands. Anybody can go to, you

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know, a big box store or Amazon and buy you something.

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But if somebody of their heart gives you their

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time and energy, that's huge. You know, I love

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that. No, yeah, totally. I live close to downtown

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Oakland Park, if not like in downtown Oakland

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Park. There's constantly so many. I don't. No,

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the word is on the tip of my tongue. They're

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not carnivals. They're just, like, pop -up shops.

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Oh, yeah, like the farmer's market. Yeah, the

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farmer's market. But last one I went to was right

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around, like, fall time. And farmer's market,

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I believe, had been that same day as well. So

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it was, like, in fall. and everyone there is

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like showing off their art and things that they've

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made and I bought these two little tiny um basically

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like plushies and I mean I bought one for myself

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and then my mom went the next day to the same

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festival fair thing and she bought me almost

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an identical one she got me a Frida Kahlo cat

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and I got just like a pink cat which reminded

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me of um one of the uh stuffies I grew up with

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as a baby um so I got it so I was like that looks

00:17:01.289 --> 00:17:04.890
exactly like the one I had as a child um but

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again like people being able to hand make you

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something even if you're like buying it for a

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gift or uh that obviously I'm saying I can't

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hand make things so like seeing all these people

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who can sell their handmade items is wonderful

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i bought these mittens and they're absolutely

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amazing so warm they're made out of recycled

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sweaters and they have this like stuff like soft

00:17:34.930 --> 00:17:37.970
soft tissue on the inside they're amazing they've

00:17:37.970 --> 00:17:40.470
kept my hands warm through these snow storms

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and today as well because we are snowed in our

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places right now um but i completely feel for

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you when you say that it's just It's an amazing

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experience to be able to give someone something

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you like make and eat, make and wear, like hang

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out with, play with, like a toy doll. My grandma,

00:18:05.539 --> 00:18:09.019
she used to hand knit some little mittens and

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hats for babies. Yeah, so she kind of inspired

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me to want to create something for other people.

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you as well you being able to make things for

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yourself and other people it's it's a loved a

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loved hobby because it's not something you can

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just pick up and put down you have to put in

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work you have to learn to knit to be able to

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knit I mean some people obviously they can pick

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it up so easily and I'm so jealous of that I've

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been trying to learn how to crochet and knit

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for months now two months now and I can't um

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but I'll figure it out I'll figure it out um

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that's like me with guitar like I'm like how

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hard can it be turns out very turns out very

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um but yeah I mean if you if you love something

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or you feel a connection to it don't give up

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You know, I'm your proof positive that you can

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be 52 and go back to school. You know, I'm your

00:19:14.220 --> 00:19:16.819
proof positive that you can learn how to knit

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by watching Zoom things and YouTube and talking

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to people on the internet. You know, so if you

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have a passion for it, you deserve it. You deserve

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to feel good and do the things that make you

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happy. Don't give up like I almost did on guitar

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because it didn't come right away. It's funny,

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I can be like the most patient human in the world

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if I'm teaching somebody else something, but

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I better pick it up like that or I give up. And

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that's not good. So I'm working on it. Yeah,

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no, I feel for you the exact same way. have a

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hard time like currently i'm trying to figure

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out uh i am a huge pc player i'm mouse and keyboard

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entirely i was gifted my brother's old ps4 once

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he upgraded to his ps5 and i have not been able

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to learn ps4 controllers and it's it seems so

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easy but the buttons make no sense to me. How

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are you only limited to, what, 10 buttons? And

00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:27.799
I, like, have a whole keyboard spread in front

00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:33.099
of me, and I just type, and, like, that is so

00:20:33.099 --> 00:20:37.140
much easier. And, like, moving one hand to control

00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:40.440
your whole headspace with your mouse, so much

00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:44.740
easier than your thumb. It's wild, but I'm trying

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to pick up on it. And it's a very hard thing

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to pick up and attach yourself to if you constantly

00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.740
feel that discouragement. Yeah. And I think that

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we have to give ourselves grace. You know, firstly,

00:21:00.420 --> 00:21:02.359
if it was easy, everybody would do it. You know,

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I remember, I mean, I'm really lucky I'm in the

00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.759
honors program at JCCC, but I, you know, I'll

00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:10.039
get like a 98 on a test and my family's like,

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oh, you got a 98. god what a dummy you know like

00:21:14.420 --> 00:21:17.039
they're like if you know everything why are you

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there you know you're not there to be a hundred

00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:21.559
percent all the time you're there to learn and

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it's a that's a safe space to make a mistake

00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.519
in right so it is very hard for me anyway to

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give myself grace um but i'm learning and give

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yourself grace and um Yeah, I mean, if you knit

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something and it's a messy wave of a scarf, guess

00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:39.460
what? It's still going to keep me warm. I'm still

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going to love it. So it doesn't have to have

00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:43.880
neat, perfect edges. You're not selling it. You

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know what I mean? I mean, obviously, we have,

00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.940
you know, our attachments to these hobbies as

00:21:51.940 --> 00:21:54.519
well. I mean, do you have other, like, obviously

00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:57.559
other hobbies? We have baking that we've talked

00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:01.279
about, knitting, and you're a huge, passionate

00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:05.910
music lover. I got into junk journaling last

00:22:05.910 --> 00:22:08.690
year. Do you know what that is? Is that the,

00:22:08.829 --> 00:22:11.509
you kind of just throw a bunch of scraps from

00:22:11.509 --> 00:22:15.809
your day into a book? Yeah. So I took a class

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actually in the honors program about overconsumption.

00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:22.119
and being more intentional and thoughtful in

00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:25.039
your choices and sustainability and you know

00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.299
it happens we all you know you go to starbucks

00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:30.420
today or you i know you go see a show and you

00:22:30.420 --> 00:22:32.960
got the little printed program you know we have

00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:35.920
these relics of our lives that a lot of times

00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:38.180
we just toss to the side and then they just end

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up in landfills and you know money was spent

00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:43.460
and time was spent to develop those relics they're

00:22:43.460 --> 00:22:46.460
a part of our life so i went through maybe a

00:22:46.460 --> 00:22:50.019
good seven months and made many a Instagram video

00:22:50.019 --> 00:22:53.680
about, you know, this was my weekend. I went

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to this place, and then we went to the vintage

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mart, and look at this super cute little vintage

00:22:57.660 --> 00:22:59.940
thing, and here's a teeny tiny picture of me

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and my best friends, you know, at the Starbucks

00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:05.579
or whatever, you know, and it was just kind of

00:23:05.579 --> 00:23:08.799
fun, you know, and you can't really do it wrong.

00:23:09.579 --> 00:23:11.579
There's, I can't think of a way that you could

00:23:11.579 --> 00:23:13.339
junk journal long, unless maybe you went out

00:23:13.339 --> 00:23:15.779
and bought a ton of stuff, then it's not junk,

00:23:15.779 --> 00:23:20.700
it's stuff you bought. But yeah, I love to spend

00:23:20.700 --> 00:23:24.059
time with my friends and family, love to. My

00:23:24.059 --> 00:23:28.339
husband and I went on this quest, oh, 2021. It

00:23:28.339 --> 00:23:30.039
was kind of as the world was starting to kick

00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.569
back from COVID, where we went to... Every coffee

00:23:33.569 --> 00:23:35.809
shop we could get our hands on because we wanted

00:23:35.809 --> 00:23:39.730
the best coffee in Kansas City. And we have our

00:23:39.730 --> 00:23:41.549
opinions. I don't know if I'm allowed to say

00:23:41.549 --> 00:23:45.150
them on this podcast. Go ahead. Feed them. Feed

00:23:45.150 --> 00:23:48.230
them. Black Dog Coffee in Lenexa. Love, love,

00:23:48.309 --> 00:23:51.410
love Black Dog Coffee in Lenexa. Tell them Jennifer

00:23:51.410 --> 00:23:55.650
sent you. They know who I am. very very yummy

00:23:55.650 --> 00:23:59.309
um summer moon coffee also in overland park is

00:23:59.309 --> 00:24:02.130
fantastic um but yeah i mean that was kind of

00:24:02.130 --> 00:24:04.250
fun and then to get together with my girlfriends

00:24:04.250 --> 00:24:08.210
and um go and have coffee and just sit and you

00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:10.809
know girl talk and just that's that's a lot of

00:24:10.809 --> 00:24:14.690
fun um i i feel really blessed to have landed

00:24:14.690 --> 00:24:17.890
in this life with these people you know my husband

00:24:17.890 --> 00:24:21.119
my daughter my friends um we have a really great

00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:22.900
time and so just spending time with them and

00:24:22.900 --> 00:24:27.079
being silly is a lot of fun um i don't know you're

00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:29.339
never too old you know what i mean and we're

00:24:29.339 --> 00:24:30.960
all my close friends and i you know we're all

00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.619
parents now um and our kids are close and in

00:24:34.619 --> 00:24:37.200
fact that's how i met my closest girlfriend is

00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:39.680
her daughter was my daughter's roommate at their

00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:42.480
sorority at k -state so how funny is that you

00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:46.480
know um but yeah oh and i'm a collector too i

00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:50.680
collect portland leather goods so like bags and

00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:53.740
um i have like a couple here's my pink bag with

00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:56.599
my knitting in it um and little wallets this

00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:59.240
is the little penny pouch that you squeeze and

00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:01.279
put your pennies in which is really great for

00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:04.359
guitar picks when you're a guitar student um

00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:06.039
and band -aids because it makes your fingers

00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:11.619
hurt um yeah i love doing that and I don't know.

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:15.000
I would love to learn how to sew, like sew, sew

00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.200
with a machine and like dresses and maybe, maybe

00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:19.680
next year. Right now, I think I'm just going

00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.839
to keep focusing on my knitting and maybe we'll

00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:25.559
pick up a new hobby next year. Yeah. I mean,

00:25:25.579 --> 00:25:28.960
you talked about the cafe hopping, basically.

00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:36.359
Have you seen the KC coffee passport? Huh? What

00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:41.460
is that? So it's, it's honestly. kind of in my

00:25:41.460 --> 00:25:44.980
opinion iffy uh it's a passport that you buy

00:25:44.980 --> 00:25:48.559
and it gives you all of the kansas city cafes

00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:54.140
wow how did i not know this i recently came across

00:25:54.140 --> 00:25:57.640
it obviously an instagram ad trying to like cater

00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:02.359
towards things that i like right um but it came

00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:07.109
across because there's also like uh all the barbecue

00:26:07.109 --> 00:26:09.250
restaurants in Kansas in Kansas City Missouri

00:26:09.250 --> 00:26:13.869
and I mean it has all of them so you can go visit

00:26:13.869 --> 00:26:15.869
and then it has like a little slot next to it

00:26:15.869 --> 00:26:18.789
where you can rank it give a little note to it

00:26:18.789 --> 00:26:21.829
and I think there's a bigger one where you can

00:26:21.829 --> 00:26:24.529
add pictures if you'd like so like you said about

00:26:24.529 --> 00:26:26.710
the junk journaling um it's kind of more like

00:26:26.710 --> 00:26:29.950
a scrapbook I guess but it gives you like an

00:26:29.950 --> 00:26:36.480
actual reason to go yeah coffee bar hopping that's

00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.980
so fun thank you for telling me that no I'm like

00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:42.799
how did I not know about this um yeah I love

00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:45.019
I love being in those kind of spaces because

00:26:45.019 --> 00:26:47.619
if you if you look around there's somebody knitting

00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:49.119
and there's somebody writing and there's somebody

00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:50.920
reading and there's people talking you know like

00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:53.720
it's just this incredible like cross -section

00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:55.799
of life that you get to be a part of for a minute

00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:58.880
um i'm really i kind of kind of geek out on people

00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:01.079
i love that and i think that's another reason

00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:03.859
why i'm so excited to be in the student stories

00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:07.400
uh portion of the podcast because it's just we

00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:09.940
grow so much from each other You know, every

00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:12.140
time that you see somebody do something new or

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:14.579
you hear somebody's story, I can't tell you how

00:27:14.579 --> 00:27:16.539
many times people have walked up to me and said,

00:27:16.619 --> 00:27:19.220
oh, what are you knitting? Oh, that's so pretty.

00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:22.619
You know, and I actually went, I'll never forget

00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:25.940
it. I went to Black Dog actually one day and

00:27:25.940 --> 00:27:28.180
I was just not feeling it. I don't know. I don't

00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:30.099
remember what my deal was, but I had a pretty

00:27:30.099 --> 00:27:32.579
dress on. And this woman walked up to me. She

00:27:32.579 --> 00:27:35.559
goes, look at you, girl. You are way too pretty

00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:37.200
to be wearing that. You don't need to be out

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:38.880
here. What do you do? You got a hot day later,

00:27:39.059 --> 00:27:41.400
girl? You know, and she like totally hyped me

00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.039
up. And I felt so much better. You know, so I

00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:47.119
saw another woman and I walked right up to her.

00:27:47.180 --> 00:27:49.619
I'm like, hi, you're not pretty and you are not

00:27:49.619 --> 00:27:52.119
beautiful. You are stunning. And if nobody's

00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:54.640
told you that today, shame on them. You have

00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:57.839
a nice day. And she was like. nobody's ever said

00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:00.200
that to me i'm like well girl shame on them you

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.960
know so it's just it kind of feels good to be

00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:04.180
in spaces like that where people are kind and

00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:09.119
people are peopling you know yeah um those community

00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:13.539
areas are like really empowering uh just to like

00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:18.259
be in a confident space and that one person that

00:28:18.259 --> 00:28:20.940
starts that always gets the ball ball rolling

00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:23.519
yeah yeah it feels good to be a part of that

00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:27.410
chain I mean, I'm sure you obviously, your day

00:28:27.410 --> 00:28:29.690
was made and you made that lady's day as well.

00:28:30.170 --> 00:28:32.670
I'm sure she went out, probably had the courage

00:28:32.670 --> 00:28:35.710
to compliment someone else. I hope so. I hope

00:28:35.710 --> 00:28:38.230
so. Yeah. I mean, we've all had those days, right?

00:28:38.329 --> 00:28:40.789
Where you just feel like nothing is going right,

00:28:40.890 --> 00:28:43.509
you know, and then somebody shines a little bit

00:28:43.509 --> 00:28:45.589
of light on you and then you just shine like

00:28:45.589 --> 00:28:47.269
the sun and it feels, I know it sounds kind of

00:28:47.269 --> 00:28:50.559
like a Hallmark card, but I don't care. So yeah,

00:28:50.579 --> 00:28:52.160
that feels really good. And lucky me to work

00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.420
in human resources, right? Because I get paid

00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:56.519
to do that. I tell my bosses, I'm like, I cannot

00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:58.480
believe you people pay me to do this job. You

00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.000
know, like, I can't believe I get paid to help

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:05.559
people. But round peg, round hole. Well, earlier

00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:08.880
you did mention how you and your daughter both

00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:13.279
shared that aspiring dream for like concert halls,

00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:18.460
Juilliard, right? so i don't even know how she

00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:21.380
fell into acting it was just that one night she

00:29:21.380 --> 00:29:24.519
brought it up um and she really loved it she

00:29:24.519 --> 00:29:26.579
ended up getting a degree in elementary education

00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:29.960
and is a teacher here in the metro and i think

00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:33.059
she'd probably love one day to help bring theater

00:29:33.059 --> 00:29:35.619
to young people because it really doesn't matter

00:29:35.619 --> 00:29:38.519
what field you study you have to be able to articulate

00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:41.359
yourself right you have to be able to speak um

00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:44.299
and in an explanatory way so that folks can understand

00:29:44.299 --> 00:29:47.019
you and you also need confidence and standing

00:29:47.019 --> 00:29:49.380
up on a stage with a lot of bright lights you're

00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:51.440
going to feel it you know what i mean and you're

00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:54.650
going to sink or you're going to time. One of

00:29:54.650 --> 00:29:56.730
the coolest things about live theater is it's

00:29:56.730 --> 00:29:59.950
live theater, right? A mic is going to fall out

00:29:59.950 --> 00:30:01.869
and boom, hit the ground, or somebody's going

00:30:01.869 --> 00:30:04.450
to forget their line, or a child's going to scream

00:30:04.450 --> 00:30:07.670
in the audience. It happens, but that's life,

00:30:07.789 --> 00:30:11.150
right? You have to be able to regroup and go

00:30:11.150 --> 00:30:15.509
on. But yeah, we do share a love of the stage.

00:30:16.029 --> 00:30:18.589
She went through theater all through high school,

00:30:18.650 --> 00:30:21.690
like I did, and was president of her high school's

00:30:21.690 --> 00:30:25.789
Vespian troupe. she played Mrs. Gibbs in Our

00:30:25.789 --> 00:30:28.049
Town, which is the second female lead. And I

00:30:28.049 --> 00:30:30.730
had that same part in high school. So that was

00:30:30.730 --> 00:30:32.849
me in the front row for all of her shows, like

00:30:32.849 --> 00:30:35.549
bawling my eyes out. And I'm still friends with

00:30:35.549 --> 00:30:37.930
so many of my high school friends. And they're

00:30:37.930 --> 00:30:40.309
like, you mean she was Mrs. Gibbs too? No way.

00:30:40.529 --> 00:30:42.609
You know, so that was really fun. I kind of got

00:30:42.609 --> 00:30:44.890
to live those memories again through her and

00:30:44.890 --> 00:30:46.769
then share the pictures and the videos with my

00:30:46.769 --> 00:30:50.970
friends. So yeah. And she is fearless. She's,

00:30:50.970 --> 00:30:53.720
I wish I had an ass. of her self -confidence

00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:55.579
but god love her she is up there rocking that

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:58.799
stage so she set the bar high for me so i've

00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:01.640
got some big shoes to fill yeah i mean while

00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:04.180
talking about theater and setting stage i mean

00:31:04.180 --> 00:31:07.440
johnson county also has their own very uh like

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.559
theater stage and production as well yeah yeah

00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:16.569
i mean i think it's uh next friday so this episode

00:31:16.569 --> 00:31:21.230
is recorded previous to this friday but we are

00:31:21.230 --> 00:31:23.710
going to be uploading on valentine's day but

00:31:23.710 --> 00:31:28.049
in exactly a week of this episode airing there

00:31:28.049 --> 00:31:32.430
will be a uh the adams family musical comedy

00:31:32.430 --> 00:31:35.990
um it is going to be at johnson county uh so

00:31:35.990 --> 00:31:39.490
it's february 21st it's at 7 30 p .m at the yardley

00:31:39.490 --> 00:31:43.750
hall um so johnson county tickets uh i'm pretty

00:31:43.750 --> 00:31:47.940
sure you can get uh two tickets or it says uh

00:31:47.940 --> 00:31:49.819
i'm looking at the website right now it says

00:31:49.819 --> 00:31:52.640
uh you can purchase up to two tickets for five

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:58.339
dollars each uh beginning uh 10 a .m oh no it's

00:31:58.339 --> 00:32:00.319
literally saying you can purchase tickets now

00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:03.420
for five dollars each of your student very very

00:32:03.420 --> 00:32:06.740
cool and not only that i mean uh you know johnson

00:32:06.740 --> 00:32:10.680
county we also have uh other productions as well

00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:13.500
um of the theater department it's a huge thing

00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:16.480
here and you're really into music we have um

00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.240
we're hosting uh elisa amador uh trio uh she's

00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.880
gonna be at the polsky theater february 22nd

00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.279
um so that's going to be that following uh from

00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:32.000
the adamus family it's going to be on friday

00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.599
the 21st so saturday the 22nd um we will have

00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:42.359
uh her live show um she is immersed in latin

00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:46.619
folk and jazz and uh she's an amazing artist

00:32:46.619 --> 00:32:53.900
uh but if you may not like the solo artist we

00:32:53.900 --> 00:32:58.859
also have a uh band we have multiple bands coming

00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:02.859
so we have amani wins and boss the boston brass

00:33:02.859 --> 00:33:07.819
uh also at yordley hall and that's the Day After

00:33:07.819 --> 00:33:10.559
Her, which is February 23rd, and that starts

00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.920
at 7 p .m., and you can purchase all these tickets

00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:18.200
on Johnson County's website, and it'll be $5

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:22.319
each. Johnson County Theater also has a production

00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.779
of Lieutenant of Inishmore. It's two weekends,

00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.319
February 21st to the 23rd, and February 28th

00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.559
to March 2nd. they there's always something going

00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.539
on on campus that is such an exciting part of

00:33:37.539 --> 00:33:40.500
being at jccc there's always something going

00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:43.140
on um before we were recording we were talking

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:45.420
about those big tvs that are all over campus

00:33:45.420 --> 00:33:48.559
and the screens are always flooded with monday

00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:50.220
you know, here's what's going on Monday. And

00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:52.299
it's like 10 screens on Monday before you can

00:33:52.299 --> 00:33:54.359
get to Tuesday, you know, with all the meetings

00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:56.539
and events and free food and pizza, you know,

00:33:56.539 --> 00:33:59.599
it's just, it's such a cool collaborative place.

00:34:00.140 --> 00:34:03.400
I know that the music department also does, I

00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:06.650
think they do this twice a year. Sorry. think

00:34:06.650 --> 00:34:09.750
they do this twice a year um where the folks

00:34:09.750 --> 00:34:13.449
in private lessons give concerts so like let's

00:34:13.449 --> 00:34:15.809
say and I'm not but let's say I was taking private

00:34:15.809 --> 00:34:19.150
vocal on campus all the private vocal folks do

00:34:19.150 --> 00:34:21.969
a show and it's open you know anybody can come

00:34:21.969 --> 00:34:25.309
and again it goes back to you learn and grow

00:34:25.309 --> 00:34:27.949
so much every time you experience a new kind

00:34:27.949 --> 00:34:30.789
of music or a new kind of art like we were also

00:34:30.789 --> 00:34:33.590
talking offline about the nerman about the the

00:34:33.590 --> 00:34:37.550
exhibit coming up at the nerman um it's just

00:34:37.550 --> 00:34:40.130
such a great place if you're bored at jccc that's

00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:42.969
on you you know that's on you because there's

00:34:42.969 --> 00:34:45.489
always something going on and and how exciting

00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:48.230
for us to get this platform to share that with

00:34:48.230 --> 00:34:52.840
the campus which then aha brings me up to the

00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:58.699
messenger if you would like if you um would like

00:34:58.699 --> 00:35:01.500
to share your student story um tell us who you

00:35:01.500 --> 00:35:03.960
are tell us your journey if you are involved

00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:05.940
in an organization or you're doing something

00:35:05.940 --> 00:35:08.679
fun on campus we want to know about it please

00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:12.400
reach out to us let us link you to other students

00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.280
on this campus and let's share each other's stories

00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:18.320
and grow and learn and make the most of our experience

00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:21.300
here together at the campus let me look I wrote

00:35:21.300 --> 00:35:27.679
down our brand new email address. We are TheMessengerJCCC

00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:33.780
at gmail .com. TheMessengerJCCC, all one word,

00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:38.460
no spaces, at gmail .com. Reach out to us, friends,

00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:41.659
if you would like to have your story shared on

00:35:41.659 --> 00:35:43.500
our podcast, because we would absolutely love

00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:48.619
to have you. Jen also mentioned earlier how...

00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:53.039
The Nerman has a new art exhibit. It's Jeremy

00:35:53.039 --> 00:36:00.360
Scott's. It's a bunch of his costumes that he

00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.360
has created. You can go and you can see Katy

00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:04.940
Perry's, I think it's her hamburger costume.

00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:08.380
Yeah. And you can see it in person. Something

00:36:08.380 --> 00:36:11.900
that Katy Perry has worn, you can go see in person.

00:36:12.340 --> 00:36:15.639
And I think that's great. Didn't she wear it

00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:18.539
on the Grammys or like some major, major program

00:36:18.539 --> 00:36:22.340
on TV? Was it the VMAs maybe? Oh, maybe. Yeah,

00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.639
maybe. But yeah, you were also mentioning, she's,

00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:28.980
I love her. I love Katy Perry. You were mentioning

00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:32.260
how Johnson County, obviously if you're bored

00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:35.619
at Johnson County, it is your fault. it's your

00:36:35.619 --> 00:36:38.500
fault yeah and let us help you with that guys

00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:41.300
please let us help you get connected on campus

00:36:41.300 --> 00:36:44.400
um there's never a shortage of stuff to do never

00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:49.619
yeah no every week i try to mention thanks zach

00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:53.199
but i don't think we're gonna have to correct

00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:55.280
ourselves i don't think we can correct ourselves

00:36:55.280 --> 00:37:02.480
vmas it is uh jen can you see the chat on this

00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.280
section the side You're in the show. Everyone

00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:11.820
can see and hear you. No. Honestly, that's kind

00:37:11.820 --> 00:37:14.960
of like me. This is the equivalent of me talking

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:18.699
in the pod studio with you guys. You can mention

00:37:18.699 --> 00:37:21.579
this. You can say that I'm correcting you. I

00:37:21.579 --> 00:37:26.199
am in this podcast. I'm just not talking. You

00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:28.099
can say, oh, we just got a new message from Zach.

00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:32.079
No, clip this itself right now. Keep this in.

00:37:32.460 --> 00:37:36.539
Zach has been... He has been editing us as we

00:37:36.539 --> 00:37:45.159
speak. It's the Met Gala is where the burger

00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:48.219
dress is from. And it's also, it's not just Jeremy

00:37:48.219 --> 00:37:52.519
Scott. It's also, oh, sorry, what's her name?

00:37:53.059 --> 00:37:55.940
Catherine Bernhardt. She also has a bunch of

00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:57.920
art that's also going to be showcased in that

00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:02.090
same exhibit. Yeah. Cool, cool, cool. I'm going

00:38:02.090 --> 00:38:06.289
to leave again now. Bye, Zach. Bye, Zach. We

00:38:06.289 --> 00:38:09.630
look forward to you editing us in the comments.

00:38:11.510 --> 00:38:16.530
Okay. But like you said, if you're bored at Johnson

00:38:16.530 --> 00:38:20.849
County, it is your fault. We obviously already

00:38:20.849 --> 00:38:25.940
briefly said that. And again. I want to mention

00:38:25.940 --> 00:38:29.039
it because Johnson County always has those boards.

00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:32.460
Like you were saying that like give you the,

00:38:32.579 --> 00:38:36.119
this is what's happening at 10 a .m. today. And

00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:37.960
it gives you like a week rundown, but I think

00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:39.659
it's for the entire month that it gives you a

00:38:39.659 --> 00:38:42.639
schedule. So you can see all the club meetings,

00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:50.219
all the student union meetings. As the messenger

00:38:50.219 --> 00:38:55.420
like articles have stated, we have a, presidency

00:38:55.420 --> 00:39:01.480
candidate yeah candidate c coming up um we have

00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:03.920
a couple articles uh talking about that already

00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:07.599
so we won't dive into that um but i did want

00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.260
to mention we have a couple fun student activities

00:39:10.260 --> 00:39:14.719
coming up like the ultimate birthday party okay

00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:18.239
so the ultimate birthday party unless your birthday

00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.480
is on february 19th when it's hosted sorry you

00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:24.090
only get one birthday but The ultimate birthday

00:39:24.090 --> 00:39:27.769
party is for students to celebrate, that's an

00:39:27.769 --> 00:39:30.769
air quote that you guys can't see, but to celebrate

00:39:30.769 --> 00:39:36.610
your birthday again. It's basically, how do I

00:39:36.610 --> 00:39:41.130
say this, an excuse to party and have fun. No

00:39:41.130 --> 00:39:47.110
shame in that. second birthday party for your

00:39:47.110 --> 00:39:50.269
own self will be at the student center on the

00:39:50.269 --> 00:39:52.909
very first floor so that's around uh there's

00:39:52.909 --> 00:39:56.250
like this little cafe the bookstore where you

00:39:56.250 --> 00:39:58.809
get your student id and some other classrooms

00:39:58.809 --> 00:40:03.889
um it's also right below uh counseling and where

00:40:03.889 --> 00:40:07.230
you can like figure out your counseling isn't

00:40:07.230 --> 00:40:10.090
just you know mental it's also like figuring

00:40:10.090 --> 00:40:12.510
out your school schedule that is all in the student

00:40:12.510 --> 00:40:14.690
center So on the very first floor is where we

00:40:14.690 --> 00:40:17.809
will be celebrating your birthday on February

00:40:17.809 --> 00:40:24.789
13th. Three days early. Again. And another fun

00:40:24.789 --> 00:40:28.389
thing that I saw was on February 21st, there

00:40:28.389 --> 00:40:33.090
is coffee and talking. It's in the student lounge,

00:40:33.289 --> 00:40:39.050
GEB 154. Celebrate Valentine's Day with a creative

00:40:39.050 --> 00:40:42.150
and heartwarming time at the student lounges.

00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:46.239
coffee and talking event so what I'm looking

00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:48.860
at which I look at the student website which

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:51.059
you guys can go and do by yourselves if you like

00:40:51.059 --> 00:40:54.380
because there's tons and tons of events that

00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:57.980
are going on 24 7 I just try to report what I

00:40:57.980 --> 00:41:01.400
think may be fun um and obviously if there's

00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:04.179
something really really important uh that is

00:41:04.179 --> 00:41:08.199
like a need to know like February 17th is coming

00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:11.119
up that's the last day to drop your classes yep

00:41:11.929 --> 00:41:14.429
That's the last day to drop your glasses. I believe

00:41:14.429 --> 00:41:17.570
it's without a W. Without a W, I think. On your

00:41:17.570 --> 00:41:20.909
transcript. I mentioned it last podcast episode,

00:41:21.050 --> 00:41:23.010
and I'm mentioning it again because it's coming

00:41:23.010 --> 00:41:27.869
up this Monday. This episode's on the 14th, Friday

00:41:27.869 --> 00:41:31.469
the 14th. So Monday is when the last day you

00:41:31.469 --> 00:41:32.849
can drop your glasses. If you're not feeling

00:41:32.849 --> 00:41:36.150
your glasses, you're not liking it, if it's maybe

00:41:36.150 --> 00:41:38.150
too difficult, something happened, and you're

00:41:38.150 --> 00:41:41.420
not... Given your full potential to that class,

00:41:41.699 --> 00:41:44.219
last day to drop it without a W1 year transcript

00:41:44.219 --> 00:41:47.099
will be Monday. That's really important to know,

00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:52.320
guys. And I know it's not necessarily next week

00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.500
that you should be looking forward to this. Not

00:41:55.500 --> 00:41:58.480
this week, but the next week, the Student Lounge

00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:02.099
is hosting a Mario Kart racing tournament in

00:42:02.099 --> 00:42:05.659
the game room. So if you guys don't know, we

00:42:05.659 --> 00:42:09.179
have a game room. It's... filled with i think

00:42:09.179 --> 00:42:13.300
it has a playstation and xbox and like loads

00:42:13.300 --> 00:42:18.599
of other games um it's in geb 151 um and it's

00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:21.360
called the game room and that is where you guys

00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:29.920
can show your go mario kart racing skills talents

00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:35.920
talents i used to it's one of the games that

00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:38.019
I believe everyone has to play at least once

00:42:38.019 --> 00:42:40.900
in their lives. Oh, absolutely. Mario Kart racing.

00:42:41.320 --> 00:42:45.320
So, so, so fun. I used to grow up. I used to

00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:47.559
grow up. I used to play that game growing up.

00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:50.579
I don't know which one we used to play, but when

00:42:50.579 --> 00:42:52.719
my daughter was very little, my parents -in -law

00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:55.639
bought all the games and we used to play Mario

00:42:55.639 --> 00:42:58.159
Kart all the time. And I am just not good at

00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:01.239
it. And there is a video floating around on the

00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:04.500
internet somewhere. I shan't say where of me

00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:07.840
constantly driving off the cliff. And I think

00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:10.440
I, as my family is laughing me at me in the background,

00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:13.130
I'm like, okay. state of Kansas, do not look

00:43:13.130 --> 00:43:15.690
at this video. I swear I am a good driver. Please

00:43:15.690 --> 00:43:18.969
do not revoke my driver's license. Mario Kart

00:43:18.969 --> 00:43:25.449
does not reflect how I drive in real life. Oh,

00:43:25.550 --> 00:43:26.909
I'm sorry. Go ahead. What were you going to say?

00:43:27.389 --> 00:43:29.409
I was just going to joke and say, I swear turtle

00:43:29.409 --> 00:43:32.670
shells don't affect how I drive. And banana peels.

00:43:32.750 --> 00:43:35.969
Banana peels. Yeah. And the funny thing is, it's

00:43:35.969 --> 00:43:37.989
like the reverse for me, like that Wii bowling

00:43:37.989 --> 00:43:42.369
game. I can bowl like, you know, a baddie. Can

00:43:42.369 --> 00:43:46.969
I say that? Yeah. On Mario Kart, I mean on Wii

00:43:46.969 --> 00:43:50.570
bowling, but I can't. Those balls are heavy and

00:43:50.570 --> 00:43:53.329
I can't do that. You know, I might get like three

00:43:53.329 --> 00:43:55.710
pins knocked over and I'm like, woo, I'm so excited.

00:43:57.339 --> 00:44:00.239
My daughter's bestie, the one who was her sorority

00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.579
sister that I met her mom. She was on the bowling

00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:05.059
team at K state and she's really great. And we

00:44:05.059 --> 00:44:07.000
always joke about, Oh, we're, we're going to

00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:08.460
go out and go bowling. I'm like, yeah, only if

00:44:08.460 --> 00:44:11.940
Emily's on my team, I need the help. I need the

00:44:11.940 --> 00:44:17.539
help. No. Yeah. We, we sports. That was the game

00:44:17.539 --> 00:44:24.190
going up. Yeah. No. I remember I. I got, like,

00:44:24.289 --> 00:44:27.250
the Wii figures and then having Wii Sports. But

00:44:27.250 --> 00:44:29.690
then it was, like, Wii Sports Elite, I think,

00:44:29.690 --> 00:44:31.670
is the second one where it's, like, the outdoor

00:44:31.670 --> 00:44:35.130
games or, like, competitive. Do you know, like,

00:44:35.230 --> 00:44:39.329
the parasailing and, oh, resort. Zach is, like,

00:44:39.349 --> 00:44:43.070
editing us as we speak. It's Wii Sports Resort.

00:44:43.289 --> 00:44:45.449
Nice. That's the second one that I was thinking

00:44:45.449 --> 00:44:48.710
of. But Wii Sports was the game growing up. Yeah.

00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.559
um if it wasn't mario kart wow and you know i

00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:54.980
mean i grew up in the 80s so all of that was

00:44:54.980 --> 00:44:57.880
kind of new for us back then and i mean i'm sure

00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:00.159
by you know today's standards and technology

00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.960
it's really obsolete but old people like me when

00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:06.079
we go back and see that stuff it is so cool and

00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:10.000
so fun um for that class i was mentioning the

00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:13.400
sustainability class last semester we had to

00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.239
go to the toy and miniature museum and if you

00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.079
have not been there friends go there it's super

00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:21.360
super cool and there's toys from like every generation

00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:26.400
and there was an atari 2600 which of course people

00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:29.099
my age played with um until we wore them out

00:45:29.099 --> 00:45:31.739
and i was so excited and i was geeking out on

00:45:31.739 --> 00:45:33.840
it and it was funny because While I was there,

00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:35.579
there was a couple and they were older than I

00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:38.000
was. And they're like, oh, honey, did you have

00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:39.860
one of these when you were growing up? You know,

00:45:39.860 --> 00:45:42.000
so it was really kind of fun to see them geek

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:44.280
out about the games and the things that were

00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:46.699
meaningful to them when they were younger. And

00:45:46.699 --> 00:45:48.659
how those little pieces of you, you know, stay

00:45:48.659 --> 00:45:54.420
with you all these years later. Okay. So unfortunately,

00:45:55.099 --> 00:45:59.679
my microphone stopped working. Technical difficulties.

00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.300
We tried figuring it out. We're back from technical

00:46:04.300 --> 00:46:09.019
difficulties. But we may have to run this segment

00:46:09.019 --> 00:46:12.320
a bit short due to my microphone not working.

00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.239
I don't even remember where we left off last.

00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:19.059
I'm pretty sure we were talking about student

00:46:19.059 --> 00:46:23.920
activities. I think so, yeah. My worry is that

00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:29.860
since we are on a stream call, that... I think

00:46:29.860 --> 00:46:32.119
my headphones were the reason why I was bugging

00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:35.880
out. And it started ringing and glitching. And

00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:40.639
then my audio, like, I couldn't hear them. And

00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:46.019
then I couldn't, like, nobody heard me. No. So

00:46:46.019 --> 00:46:50.579
I think, like, I hope there's no echo because

00:46:50.579 --> 00:46:54.039
I'm just streaming from my laptop now. No, you

00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:56.420
sound great. I don't hear any echo at all. And

00:46:56.420 --> 00:47:00.079
I don't see our chat. blowing up with, you're

00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.920
echoing! We can't hear you! Zach will call us

00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:08.619
out if I start echoing. My laptop is still at

00:47:08.619 --> 00:47:10.519
full charge. It was on the charge the whole time,

00:47:10.579 --> 00:47:14.019
so it's not like it's dying or anything. It's

00:47:14.019 --> 00:47:18.420
a mystery. Hopefully we'll never have to use

00:47:18.420 --> 00:47:22.000
a streaming tool ever again. I'll just see you

00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:28.059
in person next time. Yes! I wanted to mention

00:47:28.059 --> 00:47:32.800
before we left, first of all, I've already mentioned

00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:35.559
it once, it's going to be Valentine's Day. And

00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:40.579
I think we were still around the topic of like

00:47:40.579 --> 00:47:43.980
people getting together with like student activities.

00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:46.880
There are going to be a bunch of Valentine's

00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:50.059
themed activities coming up. So look out for

00:47:50.059 --> 00:47:55.260
those. And then I really wanted to hear your

00:47:55.260 --> 00:48:02.179
M &M story. Okay, so there was a period of time

00:48:02.179 --> 00:48:07.639
where I was related by marriage, not blood, twice

00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:11.500
over to Eminem. So here's how that went down.

00:48:12.500 --> 00:48:15.599
And before anybody asks, no, I don't know him.

00:48:15.699 --> 00:48:17.880
No, I never met him. No, we're not still related.

00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:21.480
No, I can't get you an autograph. Yes, I think

00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:24.539
he's incredible. But no, I've never met him.

00:48:25.769 --> 00:48:29.409
So this is such a long, crazy story. Okay, so

00:48:29.409 --> 00:48:33.329
what happened was his grandmother is from St.

00:48:33.349 --> 00:48:36.210
Joseph, Missouri, which is where my husband's

00:48:36.210 --> 00:48:38.949
grandmother is from. So there's your first level

00:48:38.949 --> 00:48:41.630
of marriage right there. So we called her Grammy

00:48:41.630 --> 00:48:44.929
in her life. Grammy passed away. Oh gosh, my

00:48:44.929 --> 00:48:46.610
daughter was little when Grammy passed away.

00:48:46.690 --> 00:48:51.800
So quite some time ago. Anyway, when... Grammy

00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:53.840
was married to, of course, my husband's grandfather.

00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:56.500
He passed away before I entered the picture.

00:48:56.659 --> 00:49:00.079
So I never met his biological grandfather. By

00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:02.420
the time I met my husband and married him, Grammy

00:49:02.420 --> 00:49:04.460
was married to a man that we called Papa Jack.

00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:07.400
So, of course, Papa Jack was no blood relation

00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:11.519
to any of us. But Papa Jack, when Grammy passed

00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:15.420
away, married his high school girlfriend. M &M's

00:49:15.420 --> 00:49:18.519
grandmother. So there's your second level of

00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:21.059
marriage, right? So through my husband and then

00:49:21.059 --> 00:49:25.500
through Papa Jack's marriage too. grandma eminem's

00:49:25.500 --> 00:49:28.739
grandma um papa jack has since passed away uh

00:49:28.739 --> 00:49:31.519
sadly he was he was something else he was a lot

00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:35.039
of fun he was this very skinny very tall i don't

00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:36.559
know where i don't know where he put the food

00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:39.239
down i'll share a funny story about him it was

00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:42.300
christmas one year a million years ago grammy

00:49:42.300 --> 00:49:45.179
had passed but he wasn't married um to the new

00:49:45.179 --> 00:49:48.659
gal yet And I made a chocolate trifle for Christmas,

00:49:48.780 --> 00:49:50.760
you know, like with the pudding and the whipped

00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.639
cream and like the crushed up heat bar, you know,

00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:56.690
like you layer it. he thought that was the cool

00:49:56.690 --> 00:49:58.610
no let me back up i made that for thanksgiving

00:49:58.610 --> 00:50:00.590
let me let me get the story right he thought

00:50:00.590 --> 00:50:02.389
that was the coolest thing in the world and he

00:50:02.389 --> 00:50:04.489
said all i want for christmas is trifle jennifer

00:50:04.489 --> 00:50:06.869
all i all i want is trifle i'm like what papa

00:50:06.869 --> 00:50:08.590
jack what are you talking about so that's what

00:50:08.590 --> 00:50:10.849
i did i made like two trifles and then i went

00:50:10.849 --> 00:50:12.969
out and got the little tupperware you know jobbies

00:50:12.969 --> 00:50:15.590
and stuffed them full and i said papa jack clean

00:50:15.590 --> 00:50:17.849
out that freezer my man because you've got trifle

00:50:17.849 --> 00:50:21.949
for the rest of the year um so yeah no it's kind

00:50:21.949 --> 00:50:24.949
of a funny story now but um no unfortunately

00:50:24.949 --> 00:50:28.469
i never got to meet him so that's my one brush

00:50:28.469 --> 00:50:32.030
with fame oh dad and i met dick clark once but

00:50:32.030 --> 00:50:33.750
i don't know if you guys know who dick clark

00:50:33.750 --> 00:50:39.050
was no okay another story for another day no

00:50:39.050 --> 00:50:41.489
but it's a -okay i'd love to hear your story

00:50:41.489 --> 00:50:45.559
about mr clark So Dick Clark, they called him

00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:48.139
the world's oldest teenager because like in the

00:50:48.139 --> 00:50:52.159
50s and the 60s, he was young. He hosted a TV

00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:54.980
show called American Bandstand and teenagers

00:50:54.980 --> 00:50:58.280
would come and dance on the show and they would

00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:00.340
rate records and, you know, people would come

00:51:00.340 --> 00:51:02.900
and sing on the show. And it kind of just became

00:51:02.900 --> 00:51:05.920
this cultural phenomenon into, I believe, the

00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:10.059
90s. um so like madonna you know like in my day

00:51:10.059 --> 00:51:12.539
because i you know grew up in the 80s madonna

00:51:12.539 --> 00:51:16.510
and and just it helped launch a lot of careers

00:51:16.510 --> 00:51:19.809
and it was this big deal well there was a time

00:51:19.809 --> 00:51:22.449
that there were restaurants called american bandstand

00:51:22.449 --> 00:51:24.250
dick clark's american bandstand or something

00:51:24.250 --> 00:51:27.050
like that and when my husband and i were dating

00:51:27.050 --> 00:51:28.929
we weren't even engaged yet we were just dating

00:51:28.929 --> 00:51:32.429
we went to a dick clark's bandstand and i was

00:51:32.429 --> 00:51:35.730
so excited to see him right because i'm a music

00:51:35.730 --> 00:51:38.550
girl right i'm i'm a singer i love music there

00:51:38.550 --> 00:51:42.179
was constantly music on in my house um you know

00:51:42.179 --> 00:51:45.059
my dad was born in 1942 so i always heard about

00:51:45.059 --> 00:51:49.579
you know the um the rolling stones and fleetwood

00:51:49.579 --> 00:51:51.639
mac to this you know god live if he were still

00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:53.260
living he would still be in love with stevie

00:51:53.260 --> 00:51:55.860
nicks right because she used to say or he used

00:51:55.860 --> 00:51:58.239
to say why is she with that geek lindsey buckingham

00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:01.800
you know she's so beautiful um so i was so excited

00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:03.519
to go talk to dick clark right because i was

00:52:03.519 --> 00:52:05.019
going to meet him at the bandstand one night

00:52:05.019 --> 00:52:06.940
they were having an event where if you brought

00:52:06.940 --> 00:52:09.739
like 10 canned foods for charity you could meet

00:52:09.739 --> 00:52:12.179
him And I guess he wasn't feeling good that day.

00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.539
He was really sick. And I was like, hi, my name

00:52:15.539 --> 00:52:17.480
is Jennifer. You know, and I was like all excited

00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:21.059
to see him. And he was like, whoa, hello. That's

00:52:21.059 --> 00:52:24.019
way too much, Jennifer. So I think I was a little

00:52:24.019 --> 00:52:27.559
too much for him. But yeah, other than that,

00:52:27.739 --> 00:52:29.579
Eminem and Dick Clark, those are my only two

00:52:29.579 --> 00:52:36.960
brushes with fame. No, I've been to Stevie Nicks

00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:43.000
concerts. I was at the... I was very lucky. I

00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:48.260
was very, very lucky. My dad, we were in Maine

00:52:48.260 --> 00:52:52.440
visiting one of his offices with a couple of

00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.860
his employees. We went to the Stevie Nicks concert.

00:52:56.119 --> 00:53:02.300
He or someone of his employees knew the guy who

00:53:02.300 --> 00:53:07.619
makes Stevie Nicks' guitars. no way so he had

00:53:07.619 --> 00:53:09.800
a couple extra tickets he wasn't going to be

00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:12.440
able to make the main show and he's like would

00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:16.739
you like our tickets uh yeah yeah duh there were

00:53:16.739 --> 00:53:22.679
floor seats and they were so so cool it was so

00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:27.460
so cool uh first of all being in maine and seeing

00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:33.750
stevie nicks wonderful combo it's amazing um

00:53:33.750 --> 00:53:39.329
i'm sure the concert went on past the law's curfew

00:53:39.329 --> 00:53:43.090
for noise she didn't care no she did not care

00:53:43.090 --> 00:53:45.829
she says now i know there's gonna be a curfew

00:53:45.829 --> 00:53:48.809
it's like 10 o 'clock or something but i have

00:53:48.809 --> 00:53:52.789
one more song that i gotta play it was and i'm

00:53:52.789 --> 00:53:57.630
doing it it was phenomenal um but yeah the other

00:53:57.630 --> 00:54:01.889
like i also went to the stadium tour so that's

00:54:01.889 --> 00:54:06.570
def leopard uh i saw oh shoot what's his name

00:54:06.570 --> 00:54:15.929
i know every huh um he he dated oh goodness he's

00:54:15.929 --> 00:54:20.449
not a good influence there was a uh tv show based

00:54:20.449 --> 00:54:27.659
off him and uh the really blonde lifeguard you

00:54:27.659 --> 00:54:32.659
know oh tommy lee tommy lee tommy yes tommy lee

00:54:32.659 --> 00:54:37.000
yeah he was pamela pamela anderson uh -huh yes

00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:42.960
um i saw it was deaf leopard motley crew poison

00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:48.320
and joan and jet and the jet no way jet and the

00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:52.280
blackheads you got you're talking my language

00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:58.769
girl that was that was a concert that honestly

00:54:58.769 --> 00:55:01.050
i'm never gonna forget it but i had forgotten

00:55:01.050 --> 00:55:04.969
a lot of it because i had a heat stroke at that

00:55:04.969 --> 00:55:08.530
concert oh no it was one of our first summers

00:55:08.530 --> 00:55:13.329
with like 104 degree weather it was awful but

00:55:13.329 --> 00:55:16.469
i went with a friend of mine at the time and

00:55:16.469 --> 00:55:18.929
my dad he's the one who got us the tickets um

00:55:18.929 --> 00:55:24.179
but us three were there and i remember i like

00:55:24.179 --> 00:55:28.820
i could not stand up and at one point i did black

00:55:28.820 --> 00:55:32.820
out and i did like i had a crew of people around

00:55:32.820 --> 00:55:35.820
me like oh my gosh like are you okay someone

00:55:35.820 --> 00:55:40.000
thought i had um like over drink but i literally

00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.119
i was crying i was like i don't drink alcohol

00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:48.440
i was like i need water it was hot i mean it

00:55:48.440 --> 00:55:52.940
was hot outside yeah all those people but i was

00:55:52.940 --> 00:55:55.219
advised to like sit down for a majority of the

00:55:55.219 --> 00:55:58.980
concert one of like the nicest like people were

00:55:58.980 --> 00:56:02.429
there um i was given a little package of like

00:56:02.429 --> 00:56:04.829
peanuts and like trail mix she's like this will

00:56:04.829 --> 00:56:07.210
help you like rebuild it's like protein it'll

00:56:07.210 --> 00:56:09.510
give you some strength yeah um and then someone

00:56:09.510 --> 00:56:11.610
gave me a water someone literally had this like

00:56:11.610 --> 00:56:14.969
spray and they were like spraying me with water

00:56:14.969 --> 00:56:17.110
it was great it was a great community of people

00:56:17.110 --> 00:56:20.449
and um i remember like i had to sit back down

00:56:20.449 --> 00:56:25.530
and someone gave me earplugs just So it was really

00:56:25.530 --> 00:56:29.929
fun that I can remember that it was fun. Well,

00:56:30.050 --> 00:56:32.369
I mean, those were bands. I mean, Joan Jett,

00:56:32.369 --> 00:56:35.190
my gosh, that was like early 1980s. So I was

00:56:35.190 --> 00:56:38.389
really young. But I remember Def Leppard. And

00:56:38.389 --> 00:56:41.090
I remember Poison. I actually saw Poison in concert

00:56:41.090 --> 00:56:44.050
in college the first time. Wow. Did you notice

00:56:44.050 --> 00:56:46.050
the guy in Def Leppard plays the drums with his

00:56:46.050 --> 00:56:50.250
feet? Did you notice that? I did see that. Yeah.

00:56:52.059 --> 00:56:55.099
i honestly wasn't really paying attention it's

00:56:55.099 --> 00:56:57.880
so cool so he was you know he played two -handed

00:56:57.880 --> 00:57:00.139
but he was in a car accident and lost his arm

00:57:00.139 --> 00:57:03.760
and they thought you know oh god our band is

00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:07.000
over no they designed this super cool foot thing

00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:10.239
and he's got one arm going in both feet going

00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:12.260
and you would never know it you would literally

00:57:12.260 --> 00:57:15.420
never know it so he's pretty incredible he's

00:57:15.420 --> 00:57:18.900
pretty incredible oh that's like man that's taking

00:57:18.900 --> 00:57:20.440
me back now i'm gonna have to listen to it on

00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:26.599
my spot um well i think he actually don't quote

00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:29.260
me on this i think at the arrowhead stadium tour

00:57:29.260 --> 00:57:34.500
i think he played upside down what it may not

00:57:34.500 --> 00:57:37.340
have been may not have been poisoned but someone

00:57:37.340 --> 00:57:43.460
did play upside down on the drums wow okay Well,

00:57:43.500 --> 00:57:45.860
it's kind of like Katy Perry on and pink, you

00:57:45.860 --> 00:57:47.880
know, when they get on their wires and they're

00:57:47.880 --> 00:57:49.599
like floating and they're singing. I'm like,

00:57:49.659 --> 00:57:53.539
no, no. Firstly, danger. Second, I don't know

00:57:53.539 --> 00:57:55.599
if I could sing all the way up there. My body

00:57:55.599 --> 00:57:58.920
being jerked around like that, but okay. Takes

00:57:58.920 --> 00:58:02.219
incredible lung strength. Sure. Yeah. I've never

00:58:02.219 --> 00:58:04.239
done it. I will never do it, but I'm sure it

00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:08.809
takes incredible lung strength. I am risk averse

00:58:08.809 --> 00:58:11.110
as it pertains to anything that might kill me.

00:58:11.210 --> 00:58:19.150
No, I'm good. I'm good. Well, now that we've

00:58:19.150 --> 00:58:21.869
pretty much gotten through everything on my list

00:58:21.869 --> 00:58:25.630
that I wanted to talk about. Is there anything

00:58:25.630 --> 00:58:28.110
else that you would like to add to this week's

00:58:28.110 --> 00:58:31.809
episode of Main Mic? Or maybe give some last

00:58:31.809 --> 00:58:34.329
words or some words of encouragement for people

00:58:34.329 --> 00:58:37.789
to go and submit their stories or email you to

00:58:37.789 --> 00:58:42.489
talk to you and like share with the other people

00:58:42.489 --> 00:58:44.070
like their student stories. Is there anything

00:58:44.070 --> 00:58:46.650
you want to just like encourage people or like

00:58:46.650 --> 00:58:50.329
share with them? Yeah, college is a real unique

00:58:50.329 --> 00:58:53.110
opportunity. You know, not everybody gets to

00:58:53.110 --> 00:58:55.110
do it twice, right? Like I'm lucky I get to do

00:58:55.110 --> 00:58:57.289
it twice, but most folks don't. I mean, sure,

00:58:57.389 --> 00:58:59.050
folks might go on to graduate school or whatever,

00:58:59.170 --> 00:59:02.170
but most folks don't get the opportunities that

00:59:02.170 --> 00:59:07.469
we get at JCCC twice. So use this time and this

00:59:07.469 --> 00:59:10.829
space wisely. And that's going to be different

00:59:10.829 --> 00:59:12.590
things for different people, right? For somebody

00:59:12.590 --> 00:59:14.710
like me, I want to be super duper connected and

00:59:14.710 --> 00:59:17.530
know everybody and talk to everybody. Working

00:59:17.530 --> 00:59:19.630
full time and taking a lot of online classes

00:59:19.630 --> 00:59:22.530
doesn't make that easy, right? I'm not on campus

00:59:22.530 --> 00:59:24.849
a whole lot. Well, I am this semester, but in

00:59:24.849 --> 00:59:28.929
past semesters, I've not been. So reach out to

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the hands that are around you and there are many.

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um and know that there is a place for you here

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it doesn't matter how old you are it doesn't

00:59:35.900 --> 00:59:37.739
matter what you look like it doesn't matter what

00:59:37.739 --> 00:59:41.579
you study everybody is welcome here and if you

00:59:41.579 --> 00:59:44.519
keep an open heart and and open ears and open

00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:47.380
eyes you are going to grow tremendously i've

00:59:47.380 --> 00:59:50.559
not been at jccc very long but enough to grow

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and enough to have met some really incredible

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people that i would never have met otherwise

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And in the same way that others can be a support

00:59:59.210 --> 01:00:01.570
to you or a gift to you, you can be a gift for

01:00:01.570 --> 01:00:03.849
other people. And that's where we come in on

01:00:03.849 --> 01:00:08.030
the podcast. Reach out to us, you guys. We want

01:00:08.030 --> 01:00:10.269
to know your stories. We want to help connect

01:00:10.269 --> 01:00:12.829
others to you and help to connect you to others

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as well. We're better and we are stronger for

01:00:17.409 --> 01:00:20.070
each other and because of each other. And that

01:00:20.070 --> 01:00:21.929
sounds like the same thing, but it's not. It's

01:00:21.929 --> 01:00:25.269
two very different things. Um, I personally would

01:00:25.269 --> 01:00:28.809
love to meet you. Um, send us a note at where's

01:00:28.809 --> 01:00:30.869
my list so I can look up the email address at

01:00:30.869 --> 01:00:35.909
Johnson County. Oh, the messenger at JCCC at

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gmail .com. Is it the messenger JCCC? No spaces,

01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:46.659
so themessengerjccc at Gmail. If you reach out

01:00:46.659 --> 01:00:49.179
to us, they will get that email to us and we

01:00:49.179 --> 01:00:52.340
can reach out to you. I told Harper before, I'm

01:00:52.340 --> 01:00:55.539
always down for a Starbucks run. So if you wanna

01:00:55.539 --> 01:00:57.920
meet up at Starbucks or have lunch with me on

01:00:57.920 --> 01:01:00.579
campus and talk to us about your story, we would

01:01:00.579 --> 01:01:02.219
love to share it with the rest of the campus.

01:01:04.909 --> 01:01:08.489
yeah just i guess to anybody in the in the cavalier

01:01:08.489 --> 01:01:11.630
community thank you for welcoming me so kindly

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you know the the girl who didn't think she could

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do it and then thought maybe she could do it

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but she's gonna be you know laughed out of the

01:01:18.250 --> 01:01:21.309
the space because she's too old it is such a

01:01:21.309 --> 01:01:24.829
kind and supportive community to be in and you

01:01:24.829 --> 01:01:27.989
will only grow from reaching out and i think

01:01:27.989 --> 01:01:32.820
i've beaten that horse dead And to all the other

01:01:32.820 --> 01:01:35.280
non -traditional students, do you have a message

01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:38.159
for them that can help us wrap up the end of

01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:41.280
this podcast? Yeah, I would say believe in you.

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Believe in you. It is never too late or too early

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because, I mean, I've spoken of non -traditional

01:01:47.619 --> 01:01:49.480
students in the older sense, but there are non

01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:52.039
-traditional students who are high school students

01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:55.739
as well who are complementing their. their high

01:01:55.739 --> 01:01:58.880
school training with their high school education,

01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:02.699
excuse me, with early college. So there is a

01:02:02.699 --> 01:02:05.539
place for you here and you are worthy of your

01:02:05.539 --> 01:02:09.139
dreams. And there are a million resources at

01:02:09.139 --> 01:02:11.639
JCCC to help you make those dreams come true.

01:02:12.019 --> 01:02:14.400
Don't be afraid to ask for help. There is help

01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:18.340
everywhere. And just have fun. It's such a dynamic

01:02:18.340 --> 01:02:22.699
place. just avail yourselves of all of the opportunities

01:02:22.699 --> 01:02:26.380
that are there on campus and we are one of those

01:02:26.380 --> 01:02:30.679
the entirety of the messenger please stay tuned

01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:34.639
to student media here on campus let us help inform

01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:37.599
you about what's going on in the area and please

01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.500
you help us inform others call us reach out to

01:02:40.500 --> 01:02:43.760
us message us we can't wait to meet you and hear

01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:47.059
your stories Well, Jen, it was amazing to have

01:02:47.059 --> 01:02:51.380
you and such a great introduction episode. It

01:02:51.380 --> 01:02:53.539
was so fun talking to you and I loved hearing

01:02:53.539 --> 01:02:54.920
all those stories that you had to share with

01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:57.239
me. Thank you. I loved being here. Thank you

01:02:57.239 --> 01:02:58.820
guys for having me and thank you for inviting

01:02:58.820 --> 01:03:01.599
me to be a part of the podcast. I'm so excited.

01:03:02.219 --> 01:03:05.300
So excited to be on the team with you. I can't

01:03:05.300 --> 01:03:08.739
wait. And to all of our listeners, we will see

01:03:08.739 --> 01:03:12.510
you next week for a... Well, today, I guess,

01:03:12.530 --> 01:03:16.610
is a very happy Valentine's Day and all that.

01:03:16.690 --> 01:03:19.030
But next week, we're so excited to see you again.

01:03:19.289 --> 01:03:25.869
Hear you. What? To be back with you. And to all

01:03:25.869 --> 01:03:28.710
of our listeners, I can't wait to continue this

01:03:28.710 --> 01:03:32.670
podcast with you. I will see you next week. Have

01:03:32.670 --> 01:03:35.849
a good weekend or week. Bye. Happy Valentine's

01:03:35.849 --> 01:03:38.250
Day. Bye. Happy Valentine's Day.