Feels Good: Adopting A Swan; Fun-eral Celebration

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Yeah, okay, now I'm in the mood so and the
photos are really adorable. But a Florida couple adopted a
swan and named her Lola. They said she fell in
love with being inside. She thinks she's one of the
dogs or one of the cats. To say that she
has completely changed our life would be an understatement. So
the pair, who live in Orlando, said that it is

(00:23):
illegal to take a swan from the water, so they
transform their backyard into what they call Lola's Cove, complete
with access to a nearby lake, safeguarding it from other
animals in the air area. They've essentially created a sanctuary
for her. And by the way, they are experienced in
rehabilitating animals, so they know how to do this. But yeah,
this little swan wanted to go inside their house and

(00:45):
they're like, Okay, you can't live in here all the time,
but we'll build you your own sanctuary so you can
sometimes come in and say hi.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love Lola.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I didn't mean for this to be a funeral story,
but I have a funeral story, which, honestly, this is
sort of how I would want things to be. It's
sad that somebody passed away but in Arizona, a woman
held what she was calling a fun earle to celebrate
her late husband's life, complete with a bouncy castle, his
favorite food, party bags for the guests to take home,

(01:15):
and a bunch of good vibes. This guy sadly passed
away at the age of thirty nine. The couple had
three children together and didn't want them to have horrible
memories of their dad send off, so they invited hundreds
of people and had essentially a carnival. Wow. They also
gave away his record collection. I guess it was like
you could go through and take what you wanted to
fiss because he was so proud of that. Yeah, this
is I thought this was amazing. But like, you know,

(01:35):
funerals could be so sad, and I'm sure for kids
a terrible memory of their you know, But in this case,
it was like this. I mean, I'm looking at pictures
of it right now. It was this gigantic festival for
kids ages age through eight through twelve. That's when, Yes,
there was a bouncy house and like all kinds of
stuff and all the records and all that. Yeah, that
would be cool if I had like a big collection

(01:56):
of something Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I love the idea of taking someone's record, because music
is so personal.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
You could take it with you and like it's a memory,
because obviously, you know, people choose things for their collection
that means something to them.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, who gets your stuffed animals?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, that's funny book my Beanie Baby collection.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well don't you have Doctor SEUs stuffed animals?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, I have one that Rufio gave me. He gave
me like a life sized cat in the hat. Oh yeah,
that doesn't No one asked any questions about that. It's
totally age appropriate to have that at my age. It
sits in your office. Yeah, no, I think of a
roofew every time. No, the Beanie Baby collection. You're asking
about the care bear collection? Who's going to get that?
I'm not sure. I actually do have every care bear
ever made, But that was that's another story. It is

(02:40):
a sweet story. Oh yeah, yeah. When I was four three,
I had meningitis. I was in the hospital for a month,
and every day somebody from my family brought me a
different care bear and we ran out of care bears
because I was there for too long, and for some reason,
candy canes were involved. I don't know why. I was
bribed with candy canes. I don't know that it was
even the holidays. I don't remember. But anyway, I have
all of the care Bears. If there were something, let

(03:01):
me know.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Probably are yeah O g ones from the eighties.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, be happy to sell those to you. Oh, that'd
be cool.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Kind of on this well, I guess maybe not for
a single man.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Check out my cars on their hearts. Why is Chris
Hansen knocking on the door? Date lighting? Be single?