February 27, 2025 • 57 mins
Episode Overview
In today’s hilarious and eye-opening episode, Stefanie & Meredith are joined by Posey Hunter—a seasoned paramedic with stories that will make you laugh, cringe, and question humanity. 🚑😂
💡 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
✅ Life as a paramedic – What it’s REALLY like riding in an ambulance for 12-hour shifts
✅ The weirdest 911 calls – People calling for splinters, public transportation, and… toe parasites?! 😳
✅ Emergency medical myths vs. reality – What happens during a cardiac arrest, and what EMTs realities of Narcan
✅ Bathroom nightmares – The horrors of open-concept public bathrooms 😭
✅ Sibling chaos & childhood fights – Meredith and Posey reminisce about brutal childhood brawls
🔥 Episode Highlights
💥 Being a Paramedic: What does an EMT vs. a paramedic do? How long does it take to become one? Is the job actually like Grey’s Anatomy?
💥 The Craziest 911 Calls Ever: People calling 911 for bad cramps, stomach bugs, and a ride from Burger King?! 🍔
💥 Weirdest Things People Have Brought in an Ambulance: A Diet Coke & a cigarette, a vacuum cleaner, and almost man convinced he had parasites 🫣
💥 Why Thanksgiving & Mother’s Day Are the Worst for 911 Calls: Family fights, forgotten grandmas, and absolute chaos on the holidays.
💥 Public Bathroom Horror Stories: Why open-door bathrooms should be illegal and how to survive bathroom trauma in Walmart. 🚽💀
💥 Sibling Fights & Morning Person vs. Night Owl Battles: The hilarious reality of growing up in a house where fistfights were normal.
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(00:00):
I'm Stephanie.
(00:00):
I'm Meredith.
And welcome to this is mycircus.
So we're chatting today with mysister Posey.
Hello.
You look cute.
Thank you.
Your hair looks on point.
It does.
It was just in a ponytailbecause it was blowing
everywhere and I can't take it.
So, let's tell the people aboutyou.
(00:21):
Oh gosh.
What do we wanna know about me?
It's okay.
There's only two people thatlisten and they probably already
know you, so, um, I'm just Well,I know, I just wanna know what's
your secret to success?
No, I'm just kidding.
So, uh, look, perfect.
Wait a minute.
If everybody, if the two peoplethat listen to you know me, no,
there is no success.
(00:41):
Or there's no secrets.
I There's no secret all overyour stuff today.
I don't know what's wrong.
I'm, it's usually not overthere.
Can you gimme a drink though?
One of those cans?
We're not sponsored by Prime.
No.
Wish we were Prime.
Oh, sorry.
That was a nice, like crispycrack.
It was a perfect prime.
We are here and, and, andavailable.
Yeah.
So do you have a littlerefrigerator in there?
(01:02):
No.
No.
Nope.
You need one?
You need a Prime refrigerator.
You did?
I gave, I gave Dylan.
Well, Dylan has in his room now.
I have one in my office andJackson has it now.
Yeah.
And I have a name for yourrefrigerator.
Ooh Perry.
Because No, not Midge thefridge.
Yes.
That was the one.
Optimus.
(01:23):
Optimus Prime.
That would be perfect.
That's a, that's a cute name.
Yes.
I like it.
When my friend Kristen and I, wewere roommates for a while.
We named all of our appliancesand we had Mitch the fridge and
our, uh, ironing board, which Idon't know what we were like 21
years old.
Why are we iron?
Well, how did you have it in anironing board?
I think because I wore scrubsthen and like, I don't know.
(01:46):
I don't, I don't buy anythingthat needs to Oh, I don't
either.
This was a long, long time ago,but our ironing board was named
Seymour.
I don't iron.
No, I don't buy anything thatneeds to be dry cleaned.
No.
I, if it takes effort, I don'tbuy it.
If it does need to be crop drycleaned, I wash it into washing
machine anyway.
Yes, but A secret to my success.
(02:09):
Yes.
Life changer.
A steamer, a handheld steamer.
They're 20 bucks on Amazon andthey work.
It's like a little hair dryerand you undo this and fill it
with water.
It's portable.
That's steam comes out.
Yeah.
20 bucks on Amazon.
Life changer.
And you don't have to, and youdon't have to have Seymours see
(02:29):
more good stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See more butts.
See more butts.
Okay.
So, which I've seen plenty of.
Yeah.
So Rails.
Rails are gone.
Oh, think of, yeah.
Rails are gone.
No more rails.
so you're a paramedic.
Yes.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
How long, how many years haveyou been a paramedic?
I've been a paramedic since2012.
(02:50):
You were an EMTA few yearsbefore that, since 2009.
What's the difference betweenthe two?
So an EMT, well now they likeforce them out in like eight or
12 weeks ish.
A shorter paramedic.
You go to school longer?
Yeah.
and, and that's every, somebodygoing to school every day they
do that a lot with the firerecruit classes.
(03:11):
They'll send them.
Through EMT class.
And that's what they do, like amonth long or two eight week
long program.
And then they do ride time andthen they go take their state
test.
And they're an EMT?
Yeah.
They pass.
Um, paramedic.
It depends on if you do thedegree program or not.
Yeah.
There's actually a step inbetween that is an advanced EMT.
(03:31):
Okay.
and that's about six monthslong.
Yeah.
And they can do more skills,they can give more, they can
give medicines.
They can work a cardiac arrestup until there's a return of a
pulse.
So, and then it becomes aparamedic skill.
Okay.
Paramedics can do all the skillson the track.
I was gonna say, so what can,what can you do that other
(03:52):
people cannot do because you'rethe big dog.
I can cardiovert the patient,which means if their heart's at
a rhythm, I can shock them.
Okay.
For simple word verbiage?
Yeah.
It's called cardioversion, toget their heart back in rhythm.
are there certain meds you cangive that other people can't
give?
Yes, I can give all the meds onthe track.
Not everybody can get, not allthe para, not all the e EMTs.
(04:14):
What's the, the best med on thetruck?
Don't say that.
'cause then, yeah, they're allterrible.
It's all terrible.
It's like, what do you call,what do you mean the best med?
The men for what?
Pain, I think Nothing.
Nothing.
Nevermind.
'cause I don't want you to getattacked.
Ibuprofen.
Yeah.
Ibuprofen and Benadryl.
Yeah.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
(04:34):
Text me later.
There was a time, like, meanlike when it was like a big
Yeah.
Whatever that um, it was in thenews that a lot of ambulances
were getting attacked.
They were it trying, peopletrying to get drugs and stuff.
Well, and a lot of it was theywere trying to get, Narcan.
People were getting attackedbecause of Narcan.
We actually have public Narcanthat we can give out.
(04:55):
That's a nasal spray.
Yeah, which is what if you go tothe pharmacy, that's what you're
gonna get.
It's a nasal atomizer.
Yeah.
Her hers is does a zoomie stuff.
Yeah.
Why is yours doing an automaticzoom?
I don't know, but I like it.
I do too.
I'm so impressed.
No, not you.
You don't move.
Like when you just sat back yourcamera like auto zoom ded on
your face.
(05:15):
It was really cool.
It was like super professional.
It was, oh, it's just not, Idon't know.
That's the secret to hersuccess.
That's the secret.
I just hit the, I just say.
Zoom and my magic Arby's bubbleand it zooms.
I think there's a setting tokeep you centered so well It,
it's sit all the way back again.
That was really cool.
Nevermind.
That's not flattering at all.
(05:36):
Okay.
Lean all the way forward.
How many pictures have you takenof me like that?
I see that too many.
That's cool.
Yeah.
And they end up in.
Uh, AI pictures.
Yeah.
we had this thing where we takereally unflattering pictures of
each other and then turn'em intolike memes.
And You turned me into a boyscout.
I did.
She turned me into a boy scoutin the middle of the forest.
(05:58):
I did.
It was great.
And you were, weren't youSuperwoman One time.
Oh yeah.
With the brown slicked backhair.
Yeah.
You know why not?
My siblings just take badpictures just for black male
pictures.
Well, that's, and then theythreaten to throw them on social
media.
Yeah, as is.
Well, it started that way asjust for fun, and I would never
(06:18):
put a bad picture of you onsocial media like that.
My siblings would.
They have, well, I just don'tput anything on social media, so
That's true.
Consider yourselves lucky.
Yeah, because I just, I justdon't, I think we put our, all
of our business out on social,right?
Yeah.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Yeah.
Again, that's okay.
People.
(06:39):
Yeah, it's okay.
Wait, so what else?
What would we talk Oh, thedifference in the paramedic
answer.
Yeah.
So I can, there's, I can givenarcotics, I can give cardiac
meds.
I can give you run the truck,right?
Yeah.
Okay.
What?
Unless there's another paramedicwith me.
And then by all means, do youwrite paper, scissors, it, rot
paper?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So if there's two paramedics onthe truck, we usually take turns
(07:01):
riding the call.
Yeah.
If there's a paramedic andeither, like, my partner at work
is an advanced EMT.
Yeah.
so if it's something that shecan ride, they don't need meds
up until a certain point, thenshe can ride it.
But there's some stuff that shecan't ride.
Do you ever, like if they needpaid management, do you ever
look around and you're like,well, I guess I'm the adult in
(07:22):
this situation because that'slike my life.
I'm like, man, I need an adult.
Yeah, you.
Um, I remember the first timethat I realized, oh shoot, I am
the paramedic on the truck.
Yeah.
But I realized, and I, mypartner was actually somebody
that was in my EMT class Yeah.
(07:42):
That I went to, I went to highschool with.
and so I was like, holy cow,wait a minute.
I was in charge of that call.
We ended up flying the patientout and it was like.
I just did an adult thing.
Yeah.
Like the first time I rememberdoing that.
Yeah.
proud of you.
So you have a new partner,right?
I do.
(08:03):
I do.
her name is Kayla.
What's it like, like having aswitch partner?
Do you like have a partner for areally long time and then Yes.
So I had, JC was my lastpartner.
I had her for two years.
Then she had a baby and she wentPRN.
So she assisted, stay home withher kiddos and then a lot.
And PRN means like kinda as, asneeded.
(08:25):
As needed.
She can, yeah.
She makes her own schedule.
Whenever she wants to work, shejust puts down a day, says, Hey,
I can work this day at thistime.
Right.
Before her, Olivia.
Bear And before Olivia I had, Idon't remember.
So if you get a partner, right?
Like I'm sure you've loved allof your partners, but if you get
(08:46):
a partner, you can't stand, canyou request a new partner,
right?
What's the process?
So if there's something that youjust absolutely, you're just not
vibing, there's some people youjust don't, you know, you just
can't get along.
You just put your head, you justput your earbuds in and deal
with it.
It's strictly professional.
Like, okay, I've been very luckyto not have that problem if
(09:06):
there's.
Ethical things that you need totalk about.
I mean, obviously then you haveto be the adult and say, Hey,
can we talk about this?
This is bothering me.
Yeah.
So I guess it's just like anycoworker that you don't really
like, you just kind of, but whenyou're working so almost
intimately with somebody, I meanthat's, so I, I'm on the truck
with Kayla more.
(09:28):
I see her more than I seeanybody else in my life.
Yeah, yeah.
And we're on a truck, so we'reposting at a, in that ambulance
for.
13 hours because we, by the timewe get there, check the truck
off in the morning and then getonline and then by the time we
clean everything up at the endof the day, restock, put our
(09:49):
stuff up, get fuel, wash it.
I mean, we're together for 13hours a day.
So you've been very lucky withyour partners.
Yeah.
Yes, I have.
I haven't replaced Meredithever.
Aw, I wouldn't replace you togo.
So I can tell you that when wewere,'cause now we're on 12 hour
shifts.
There was a time when we were on24 hour truck.
We were on the truck for 24hours, but we didn't, we
(10:09):
weren't.
On the truck like we had bases.
Yeah.
So we could go into that base orwhatever.
This is a, I got a funny story.
So my old partner, LJ and I, wewould go like, you'd go eat
breakfast and I.
Now you're done eatingbreakfast.
You had that cup of coffee andguess now where you gotta go?
You gotta go to the bathroom.
(10:30):
Yes.
And so we would be in thebathroom and we, we'd sit, be
sitting there and we'd send eachother Pinterest pens or you
know, stuff like that.
And you could hear the other perlike, it's like this public
bathroom because it's like, andyour hearing stalls in the
bathroom.
Ding, ding, ding.
And then I'm like.
And I even do this to Abby too.
I'm like, who are you talkingto?
Like, you know, speaking of,okay, I hate to use the bathroom
(10:54):
in public, especially if it's aserious situation.
But I mean, so this new medicineI'm on, my stomach is, you know,
I've told you about it too,Posey, like my stomach is
whatever.
And when I gotta go, I gotta go.
These public bathrooms, the oneswhere they're, like Walmart has
where there's no doors, youjust, everything is open.
(11:15):
Like I'm so scared.
Like the register, people aregoing to hear my disaster
because you know, there's nodoor.
You just like walk around thecorner and it's all so open and
I mean, I already feel terriblefor anybody that might be in
there with me.
Hey, P with you.
Yeah, but it's just, well, it'smore, yeah, it's all of it.
It's the multi flushing, it'sthe sound, it's the, so go in
(11:38):
there and like play some musicout loud on your.
The rhythm is gonna get you.
The rhythm is gonna get you,they not like us.
That they not, you're gonna havelike a, a bathroom playlist.
I am.
I'm gonna have to make one.
Mm-hmm.
I'll have to make one and I'llhave to probably use some of our
songs that we did in ournineties challenge.
You'd be good at that probably.
(11:59):
Yes.
Anything you say?
My sister will have a song forit and sometimes I'm like, wait,
come back.
Say, say, say, yeah.
Say I got one.
Yeah.
so anyway, those open bathroomsare a great concept'cause you
don't have the doors andeverything, but if you hear
somebody have a problem, it'sproblem.
But then no, it happens toeverybody.
(12:20):
And then you walk out andthere's the man standing there
waiting with the yellow sun,like ready to always clean it.
Like we know you don't cleanthis bathroom all day.
Yeah, we can look and tell.
You might wanna give it aminute.
You might wanna wait on that.
Do the men's first.
Do you like the, do you like theback to your job?
Do you like the 12 hour shifts?
Yes.
(12:40):
Like the, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I like sleeping in my bed atnight.
Yeah.
That's a good thing.
And your doggie?
She has two little doggies.
My dog goes, yeah, they'relooking outside right now.
So are you able to tell us anylike crazy stories of.
just like the basic situation,like you don't have to give
(13:00):
super details or, those can betexted to me later.
Yeah.
I'm just kidding.
But, so just don't, obviouslyjust don't give names or locate
No, no, never do that.
But yeah.
Certain situation, has happenedthat a person thought they had
parasites between their toes.
(13:23):
It wasn't, it just wasn't.
I was like, okay, so can youshow me your parasites?
Yeah.
Keep in mind I have met thisperson multiple times.
Yeah.
Multiple times.
Outside of the job.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Some people are frequent, likesuper frequent flyers and some
people, oh yeah.
(13:43):
They'll call to get like a rideto somewhere, won't they?
Yeah.
Like, lemme finish this story.
So, okay.
Sorry.
I'm like, okay, so take yourshoes off.
Lemme see your parasites.
Don't, don't enrail me.
I'm locked in.
And so takes the shoes off andI'm, I'm looking at his feet and
I'm like.
Honey, those are not parasites.
That's toe jam.
(14:04):
Oh, so of course, what do I do?
I like, I have on gloves, so Iget like a alcohol prep pad and
I'm like cleaning between histoes.
I'm like, see, look.
He's like, you don't know whatyou're talking about.
You don't know what you'retalking about.
I said, okay.
I said, is your toe feelingbetter?
No, it's on fire now.
(14:26):
Yeah.
Oh, that's gross.
But yeah, I had a patient onetime.
it wasn't a patient because theyhad no medical problem, but, but
they, we picked them up from arestaurant parking lot we were
dispatched to, and we get thereand the person's standing there
and.
The parking lot with a vacuumcleaner.
(14:47):
What was it, the restaurantright?
Right.
Was it the Quincy's?
No, it was Burger King.
And so we, we get there and I'mlike, well, what's going on
today?
I need a ride.
A ride for what?
I gotta go clean my cousin's carin Charlotte.
I need you to take me to toCharlotte.
Don't nobody.
Okay.
No, I said we don't do that.
(15:09):
Yeah.
But you guys like will takepeople to doctor's appointments
and stuff, don't you?
Yes.
Yes.
But that's a whole thing.
Like they have to fill out thiswhole medical necessity.
Okay.
Okay.
Thing when that happens, do theyride in the back like a patient,
patient?
Or they ride up front.
Nobody rides up front thatnobody had shotgun, so no.
(15:31):
What if they ran into the truck?
Shotgun yeah, so I've had peoplewalk up into the back of my
truck with their Diet Coke and acigarette.
Oh, that's really good.
Near the oxygen.
Yes.
And so I was like, you gotta putyour cigarette out.
You are gonna take your dietCoke, but you gotta put your
cigarette out.
And so I what?
Crazy.
And this pa, this person used tocall all the time.
She'd sit right there in thejump seat and we'd take her to
(15:54):
the hospital.
The jump seat is that like.
A seatbelt over the chest.
Like, you know how like thatairplane?
Yeah.
It's, it's like a race car.
Yes.
It's like a race car.
It has a harness.
Has actually sign us up for the,oh, we need to take a tour of
her ambulance.
When Papa was still alive, hemade medic take him through the
(16:15):
drive through at Kentucky FriedChicken before he would go to
the hospital while he was havinga stroke.
Did you know that?
No.
That's our grandpa.
That's our mom's dad.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
I won't go unless you take methrough the drive through at KFC
and they're Okay, Mr.
Garris.
Let's go.
Oh my gosh.
That's where I get it from.
So, I'm telling you right now,if somebody's having a bad day
(16:38):
and they need a cigarette beforethey get in my truck, I'm fine
with that.
But after you have yourcigarette Yeah.
And then we're going to thehospital.
You know what's so weird to meis that cigarettes are really
aren't much of a thing anymore.
Like, I'm not like warningJackson about the cigarettes.
No.
You know, it's everything else.
I've had all the conversationswith y about what, you know,
stuff.
But he said the same thing.
(16:58):
people don't really smokeanymore now vaping.
They're doing nothing in likethird grade.
In the bathrooms.
Yeah.
Yes.
Did I tell you about myconversation with Jackson?
No.
Oh, okay.
So Jackson.
Objection is I'm not aparamedic.
No.
Jackson.
(17:18):
I would be so bad.
I, I, yeah, I think I would, Ihave a lot of compassion.
I don't, but I wouldn't be ableto deal with a lot of this
stuff.
Like, you're too dumb.
You would be, yeah, because,well, because I like, I'll call
you like to debrief my day andyou're like, okay, I don't wanna
hear about it.
And I'm like, I just needsomebody to talk to.
It's like, how, and I'm like,Allison, yeah, you've got a new
(17:41):
person.
You could, I want, it's like,gimme some of the details, but I
don't want all the details.
Like I want that there was, youknow, we couldn't get him outta
the car, da da da da.
But I don't want to hear, I.
Their heart was at a rhythm andtheir tibia was this and their
whatever.
But you know, I've told you Iwill listen, be, but those are
the important things.
Those are the important thingswould be like so enthralled.
(18:03):
'cause I suck at all of thesciencey stuff.
Yeah.
And I'd be like, you are sosmart.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So I do, oh, go ahead.
Hold on.
Okay.
And then I'll let you tell yourbreathe life into her again.
Oh my goodness.
Tapper.
Somebody tapper.
so remember I got a Heart andHands Award back in October?
October, yes.
So I was gonna mention that.
Yes.
So tell us again what it'scalled.
(18:25):
It's a Hearts and Hands award,and it's from a cardiac arrest
survivor.
And I can tell you this becausethe picture was on Facebook, so
it's like common knowledge.
So tell us about that.
So.
A lot of times people say, oh,they're having a heart attack.
Somebody who's having a heartattack, they think that the
person is dead.
Well, you can be a survivor of aheart attack.
(18:45):
Mm-hmm.
And it doesn't, just because youhave a heart attack doesn't mean
you're gonna die, which is whyyou need to call 9 1 1 the, if
you're having chest pain.
Yeah.
That like, just because you havea little flick in your heart,
you probably need to get thatchecked out like in the next
like.
24 to 36 hours.
If you're having chronic chestpain, you need to get it checked
(19:06):
out.
Yeah.
At least let paramedics comeout, put you on the cardiac
monitor and make sure there'snothing else going on.
Yeah.
So, this patient, we picked herup and she, went into cardiac
arrest on the way to thehospital.
She was not having.
A massive heart attack or an mi,a myocardial infarction.
She was in respiratory distress,and did not have any heart
(19:29):
damage, but she coded, which iswhat, if you watch Grey's
Anatomy or whatever, they'll,they're coding.
I'm now a doctor because ofthat.
So because of grace.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and so anyway, she coded, wegot her back.
So if you get.
It's called a return ofspontaneous circulation.
So if you get that and thepatient actually has a positive
(19:50):
outcome and they come homemm-hmm.
Then you get an A recognitionfor it.
Mm-hmm.
It's a hearts and hands award.
Well, after that patient camehome, I found out that she is at
the same skilled nursingfacility where my daughter
works.
So, oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
So, does the patient nominateyou for that award or is that
(20:12):
just because No, it's just agiven, but it has to like, meet
certain criteria.
The patient has to come homefrom the hospital.
it doesn't necessarily mean theydon't have deficits, but like
they do have to come home fromthe hospital.
Yeah.
If they can't just like, you geta pulse back and then Right.
You left them at the hospitalwith a pulse.
They actually have to bedischarged home.
(20:33):
And that's not something that'sjust thrown around.
That was a big deal that you gotthat.
Yeah.
And so, I'm actually gettinganother one in March.
Are you?
Congratulations.
I'm Congratulations.
That's, I'm so, yeah.
And this one's young.
This one's like in his forties.
So super excited about that.
You get like a little pen oranything?
Mm-hmm.
I do.
(20:53):
So it's a, it's a heart and it'sgot, I have two that have the
Aqua Marine in it.
It's a, a stone in there.
I don't know what this one willhave in it, So is this, this is
your third.
I feel like you got, this isprobably, so I had a drowning, a
long time ago that the littleboy survived.
Oh God.
But he survived.
(21:14):
Yay.
He did survive.
And he did not have anydeficits.
Like, I can't and can't believethat he made it.
You got an award for that?
I did.
I did.
and then I had.
Another lady.
She was actually, um, on thefront of the newspaper when that
Union County first started doingthe Hearts and Hands Awards.
Mm-hmm.
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She was on the front of thenewspaper.
And I got an award for that one.
Oh.
Oh.
Even that makes me feel so, mylife has no meaning.
My God.
Why don't contribute at all tosociety?
It does.
It does, but I mean, like, it'slike.
It's a thing, you know, I mean,I don't have the emotional
bandwidth.
I don't think, I wouldn't, Iwould cr like fold under
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pressure.
You think so?
I do.
I think I would freeze.
Have you ever saved anybody'slife?
Um, no.
I have shut up.
I have.
So any who, um, wait, I have tostop you and tell you about my
conversation with Jackson.
I've got Yes, please do.
Yeah, do it.
Okay.
Good kid, right?
Yeah.
Relatively.
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No, he's good.
He's like, I don't think it,yeah.
So I was, I still check hisphone.
I check his socials that I don'thave access to.
I check all the things, justtrying to see what kind of
messages are coming through.
What I was laughing about thetime we were in Florida and
you're like, Jackson, gimme yourphone.
Oh, and he freaked out.
Yes.
And he wasn't even guilty.
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He, he didn't even do anything.
He wasn't do anything.
He just got so freaked out aboutthe fact that I was gonna look
at his phone.
and that was, seriously, I'mtelling you, I went through all
of his messages.
I went through all of hisphotos, deleted everything.
Okay.
So.
I'm afraid to do that now.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna be there soon.
So we were sitting on the couch,this was like a week or two ago,
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and I was like, Jackson And Ijust checked his stuff and I was
like, your stuff is so dry.
Like there's nothing.
I was like, mama, do you want mein all the drama and all the
girls and whatever?
And I was like, well no, butit's kind of boring bro.
So I was like, tell mesomething, tell me like, we were
just sitting on the couch.
I was like, I'm not letting youget up from here until you give
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me some kind of juicy scoopsomething.
And I should have stopped.
I should have been like, youknow what?
I'm just gonna let him haveprivacy.
And the more he was like, Idon't know what to say.
And you know, he smiles and hejust gets this look.
The more he said that, the more,I dug in more.
Like, I'm not letting you getup.
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So he was like, I don't knowwhat you wanna know.
And I was like, well, I, I mean,I know you're not dating anybody
you're not talking to anybody?
He was like, no.
I said, are you like pre-talk toanybody?
Are you like flirting withanybody talking pre-game right
here?
Or are you like, are there anycute girls you see and talk to
on the regular basis?
Like, give me something.
And he was still just so closedlipped about it.
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I was like, okay, let's talkabout STDs.
And he was like, what?
And I was like, you ever seenpictures of somebody with Omid?
So I'm just pulling up pictures.
And he was like, bro, mama.
And I'm like, look.
You wanna tell me anything now?
And Brian sit over therelaughing like, you better tell,
like make something up.
Tell her something.
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And I'm like, have you ever seensomebody with scabies?
Like I'm showing he was finally,I literally got like two cute
girls that he sees that he kindalike flirts with on the daily.
But I was like, that's all youhad to say.
I just wanted something.
So I'm pressuring my kid withpictures of nasty junk.
Yes.
And I'm like, don't want it tofall off to you.
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This is what he is like, oh,ball.
Because you know, that's what Iused to tell the boys.
Don't put that somewhere.
It'll fall off.
Because if you put it somewhere,it's gonna fall off.
Well, it'll rot and fall off andyou have to take a shower
because it will rot and falloff.
And fall off.
Well I held him a hostage.
Um.
By using gross pictures toentice him to give me some sc
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And you know, boys too, boysdon't have much drama.
Yeah.
There's usually not a lot goingon.
Once they get out of elementaryschool, there's no drama.
Yes.
But in elementary school, yes.
And there might be some kind oflike, so and so got in a fight
today, or, I don't know, thatwas random, but like, whatever.
But that's it.
Like that's, but then it's over.
That's the whole conversation.
But then that's over.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
They have a, they get into afight.
Okay.
Whatever.
There's no, they know they'resharing french fries, right.
Yeah.
Right.
And they don't, Jackson won'tknow why they got in a fight,
what their punishment was, whowas on whose side.
What else?
Yeah.
No Dylan and I have a very,very, very, very open mm-hmm.
Dialogue relationship.
Mm-hmm.
Where he, me everything.
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Yeah.
Which is good.
Mm-hmm.
And, and that's a, that's arelationship that I have built
with him.
Yeah.
So I get all the details.
Yeah, and I know everybody'sbusiness and I do well, and so
Abby, that's, sorry.
Abby's birthday is today, and soshe tells me everything and some
things.
I'm like, did not even know whatXY, Z was until I was a
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paramedic.
Like, didn't even know what thatwas.
And now you know what bluewaffles are.
I saw something on and it, itjust like resonated because I
was such a bad teenager.
I was doing things I had nobusiness to do as a teenager.
And, and I always thought like,oh my gosh, when he becomes a
teenager, I'm in so muchtrouble.
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'cause you know, they say youget back like 10 times.
Yeah.
Worse.
And Brandon was really like, wewere bad together.
but they don't get into like.
Not that stuff like that we getinto No, I'm, so there was a
post a, a dad was like, mydaughter asked to go to a party
and when I asked like what kindof party it was like her and
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three friends like going to gettheir Nissen and having a
sleepover and like, it was likelegit, like that's saying that
like I did.
But going to a field wherethere's a bonfire bonfire, he
and my daughter is so boring andI would not invite my own
daughter to a party.
And he is like, and I was like,it's so true though.
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Like they don't like, they'renot out in the middle of a
field.
No drinking boons farm and doingsome stupid ass.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
I'm just kidding.
Yeah.
Y'all don't like that?
No, I was, no, I was, no, shewas not.
So true story.
Well, I was too busy having kids'cause I was a young mother.
She's a young mother and I'm anold mother.
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Like I didn't get in trouble.
Yeah.
All right.
Back to your, your profession.
Yeah.
Okay.
So funny story.
a friend of mine was talking theother day about how like,
accidents will shut the roaddown or whatever, you know?
and like people will stop andwhat's going on up there, what's
going on up there, you know,they wanna, everybody wants to
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know, no matter how bad it is,everybody wants to know what's
going on up there.
Mm-hmm.
All Caterpillar migration roadshut down.
Seriously, people believe that.
Oh, oh.
People believe it.
I was like, I had a mentalpicture.
You totally just leave.
I know you're thinking thehungry Caterpillar going ch
across the road.
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Yeah.
People believe that.
Caterpillar migration.
We totally did.
We, I'm trying to figure outwhen I could get there and watch
it, because do you remember whenwe were on vacation?
And I don't remember if it wasFlorida or South Carolina Beach
and there was some migration oflike starfish or something.
Okay.
There was sand dollars and stuffin the water.
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Like natural?
Yes.
But then we had the migratoryfish.
No, nevermind.
You don't.
You don't.
Yeah, I do remember.
Yes I do.
I wish she remembered.
I do remember they weren't fish.
They, well there was a fish, butthere was starfish too.
It's still fish.
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Star fish.
Don't they need water?
Like what are they starfish?
Yeah.
Like wouldn't they die?
Just'cause it's called fishdoesn't mean it's a fish.
What do they eat?
Stars.
I don't know, but they, I'm surethey, that you say horse to
horse.
Or is it a, yeah, get that thinga saddle up.
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It.
Is it a saddle?
It's a, it's a horse.
The Little Mermaid.
Yes.
They're ridden like a horse.
They are, but they live inwater.
since we just railed down theLittle Mermaid bath and Body
Works now.
Has a Disney addition since, didyou smell And they're playing?
Of course I did.
How were they?
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I'm, I'm feeling a lot offlorals.
Yes.
I don't, lot of floral.
I don't either, but Bath andBody Works was playing under the
Sea and the Beast.
I was dancing in Bath and BodyWorks earlier today, so it was
great.
I wanted some mermaid sent tosmell like, like coconut, like a
piece of, yeah, like um, um,tanning lunch and stuff.
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I think it did kind of havesome, there was like the ye the
green girl.
Oh, from the Frog and the Princeand the Frog?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Frog Prince or Frog something?
Her, her, she was floy.
Okay.
She was floy.
Cinderella was very floy.
Yeah.
I like, um, like musky andwoodsy and stuff.
Me too.
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Or fruity.
Like fruity Or like, like supersweet.
Like, like icing.
I, I want someone to feel likethey need to lick me.
Wait.
Goodness.
Take that out.
See, you're gonna have to cutthat too.
All of it.
So Jackson had really gotten, wehad talked about that a little
bit too.
He had gotten into clones andthe bath and body work.
Yeah.
Washes and hair stuff.
Well, his first block at schoolis weightlifting and cardio and
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so they shower after that.
Mm-hmm.
Which is great, but he's kindalike salty about it.
'cause he is like, and he hasthe little clones.
He's like, I just don't wanna doit there.
Like, he's like, I don't have mysmell good.
You know?
Mm-hmm.
Did we ever do that though?
We I never showered.
I never showered at school.
No.
No.
I was always super lucky.
Like all his stuff was always atthe end of the day.
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Yeah.
So it was like his last block.
Yeah.
Every time.
Yeah.
It you, it depends on the seasonon when they shift him to, so
this is football class sinceit's not football season is
first in the day.
Yeah.
But they had max week last week.
That boy squatted 500 pounds.
You didn't tell me that.
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You told me he was in a thousandpound club.
He is in the a thousand poundclub.
And I was like, does that meanyou like a thousand pound girls?
He said no, that means that hisbench, his squat and something
else is over a thousand pounds.
Yeah.
And he's the only one in itright now as a freaking
sophomore.
Well, that's how Dylan hurt hisknee, so Yeah.
Careful.
Luckily he hasn't hurt anythingyet.
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Yeah.
But I was like 500 pounds.
I was like, you were too youngto be getting a cortisone shot.
Yeah.
Was he squatting?
Is that what it was?
Mm-hmm.
So I'm trying to think of likestories that I can tell you that
are appropriate.
You don't have to tell anymore.
Let's step those questions.
Let's, let's talk about like thecrazy, like people like bugging
out.
If they're high, like they thinkwell, okay.
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So on steps, steps, you know,tying all this together, you
know, I see videos all the timeon TikTok and stuff, but people
seriously, like, I forgot whatit's called.
Like it's a Russian something.
Wait, no, that's not right.
I don't know.
Crocodile.
Oh, that's so bad.
Do we have that in Union County?
Like, do you have mm-hmm.
A lot of people.
What is it?
So I don't, do you know what itis?
(32:27):
It's, like horse tranquilizer.
Step, I'm talking about justwalking down the street like
zombies is what?
Yeah.
Like you can't, and there's no,you, there's not enough Narcan
to reverse that.
Do you see that a lot or a goodamount?
So there's quite a few people inthat I see a lot.
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They are walking, they arewalking down the road.
Like totally out of it.
Totally out of it.
They did something like that.
Mm-hmm.
Probably so.
So do you ever get calls like togo because people are thinking
that they're ODing?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And but like, oh yeah.
And then they refuse to go withyou?
Yeah.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Because they can, and they cananswer all their questions
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appropriately.
So you can't do anything aboutit.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
That's crazy.
This is why I wouldn't be a goodparamedic'cause I would then
just start messing with them.
Well, so she tells me some stuffthat, um, not that she's messing
with them, but you almost haveto entertain, just like you were
talking about the dude with theparasites.
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Like you were like, let me seeyour parasites.
Like, you almost have to feedinto it sometimes to get them to
communicate.
Yeah.
With you.
But you would take it too much.
You'd be like, well, let me cutyour motherfucking toes off
then.
Let me get the tweezing mouth, Imean, yeah, flu.
Flu.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, so like, got one.
(33:53):
I would because So when you'relike on the way to the call,
you're like, do they really haveparasites?
So is that what you were caughtout there for is paras, tennis
toes?
Yes.
It wasn't like something elseand he was like, Hey, while
you're here.
No, we got caught up because hehad a hole in his leg that the
parasites were going in and theywere coming out of his toes.
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Well, he had sores on his legsthat he probably was, I were
either meth bugs or he wasinjecting himself there.
Probably not.
They're probably meth bugs.
And so he thought those soreswere where?
Yeah.
So meth.
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I've never heard of that before.
What is that?
Meth bugs Uhhuh.
So you know how you see peoplelike on mugshots or whatever,
and they have like the sores allover their face, they think that
there's, there's bugs underneaththeir skin.
They're scratching.
So they're scratch, right?
So they're scratching.
Yeah.
And you can always tell somebodywho is like, on meth because of
their behavior.
They're just like constantlymoving and constantly, I mean, I
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have a DD so I could just aswell be a meth person, but, um,
like they're, you know, they'realways scratching or like
picking and there's nothing.
There's nothing there.
And so then they'll, you knowit, that meth bug is not gonna
go away.
Yeah.
And still they use again.
So that's why they use again.
And then they hallucinate andit's a party, and then the bugs
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come up.
Then it's, and then the bugs,when they start detoxing coming
off of that, that's when they'reso itchy and Oh yeah.
That's when they're just like,woo.
How many showers do you takewhen you get home?
I take one the night and thenone before I go to work again
the next day.
Oh, I know.
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I, like, I just, I would not bea good, like, that would not be
my profession, but now I feellike I am like so insignificant
because I, no, you're not.
But I can tell you, like when Ihad my partner before Kayla,
there's some places that havebedbugs.
Yeah, like bedbugs.
I can spot'em, I can spot'emreal easy.
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Like I'm, I'm cleaning out mytruck, gonna turn the heat up.
Like they, you know, she at onepoint thought she was gonna go
home and give bedbugs to her newbaby.
I was like, they're notcontagious like that.
Well, no, but they could ride.
But you, and then they get thereand then there's no way to get
rid of those other than like,throw everything away.
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I would be Exactly.
Fleas.
Yeah.
I sub for like two years whenDylan was in elementary school
and.
A little girl would come in,covered in fleas.
Oh.
And it was, I felt so bad forher.
Yeah.
But it was so disgusting.
Yeah.
And oh, I was like, go to the,go to the nurse.
Oh God, that's terrible.
(36:47):
But you can't get rid of'em.
No.
Mm-hmm.
And so when we have eitherboarded our dogs or for one
reason or another, I found likea.
I freak out.
Yeah.
'cause then I start like puttingBorax down around the baseboard,
like doing all the things.
Yeah.
And I mean, it was one, youknow, just literally one,
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they're fine.
Yeah.
But it freaks me out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I could see where like, shewould be Oh yeah.
Like bugging about that becauseOh, yeah.
No pun intended.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But before I got in the car, Imean, I was like searching by my
pants.
Oh yeah.
And well then it's just like themental thing.
You start thinking about it andthen you start, start
scratching.
Yeah.
Oh.
And then, but if, okay, so, butif you think about all the
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people that go, and here's whatgrosses me out, don't you?
Ready?
No.
You're gonna make me never leavemy house again.
Right.
Am I never gonna, you probablywon't tell again, I, I don't,
that's why I bought a camper.
I survived a million parties andI'm not gonna be able to go out
in public anymore.
Never.
I'm gonna continue to keepmyself covered up.
Well, okay.
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Yeah.
Let's roll on to the next thing.
Yes.
So tell me the best story youhave about Meredith.
No, no.
You can, there's probably not.
I was, I was really a nerdy, sogrowing up, there's just a
couple.
Oh my gosh.
I got one.
Quin, there was, she was thepretty one and I was the smart
one.
Am I wrong?
Yeah.
But that No, but you were the,definitely the smart one.
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I don't know about the prettyone, but she didn't, she was not
a fan of school and so she hatedit.
She is very, I mean, you canhear her talk, she's very smart,
but she hated school, so she wasthe pretty one, and I was the
nerdy smarty one.
Nerdy smarty.
So that was kind of our rolesgrowing up.
And now.
I am both of the things and shecan strive to be like me.
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No, I'm just kidding.
I got, I got nothing.
I know what you're gonna tellher.
You're gonna tell her about howI'm not a morning person.
No.
Okay.
Well, she is not a morningperson.
Is that the story you were gonnatell?
I'm early every day.
Mm-hmm.
Because I have no choice.
No, she's not a morning personto this day.
No.
She called me the other day.
I called her Saturday morning at11 o'clock yesterday or 1130 and
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I'm like, Hey, can I talk to youabout this?
Yeah.
I'm not verbal yet.
I'm nonverbal.
Actually, that was not, that wason, that was on Friday.
Friday.
Friday.
That Friday.
And it was like eight o'clock.
And you wanted, she is a morningperson and she wanted at eight
o'clock on Friday.
I've been up since five o'clock.
So she, on Monday off, shecalled to text me or she texted
(39:24):
me or something, I don't know.
But she called and she was like,are you up?
I was like, yeah, but I'm notverbal.
Like I'm awake, but I'm notthere yet.
Oh, so you must hate my text atlike nine o'clock in the
morning.
Text is fine, but like, shetext, she'll text me at like
eight 15.
Call me when you're up.
15 minutes later she'll call meand I'm like, I, I'm like
getting Jackson ready, likeyeah.
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Trying to get him out the door.
Look, look, she's frustratedright now.
She's like, what were you gonnasay though?
So she is in fact not a morningperson.
We, when we were teenagers, weworked together at Plantation
Estates.
This retirement community, it'sa retirement community.
It's a retirement community.
And we worked in the diningroom.
So people would come down there,get their breakfast trays, go
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sit at the table, whatever.
We rode together because welived together at that time.
We had to be there at 6:00 AM.
Oof.
What was I thinking?
I don't know.
Because you worked there first.
I know you worked there first.
And they paid really good.
So we worked, it was the morningshift from six to 10.
And we would ride together andwe would ride together.
And she's like, stop talking.
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So we're stop at the stoplightone morning.
And I look over and this guy'slike waving at us and I'm like
waving back at him.
And she's like, where are youwaving at?
I'm like, that man.
He just waved.
She was like, it's six o'clockin the morning.
Why are you waving at somebody?
And I'm like, I don't remember.
They waved.
They waved.
I don't know.
So anyway, it was a very quietride the rest of the way, and I
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don't that at all.
I'm really sitting right therewith the old Matthews pottery.
We were getting ready to turnleft and I was like, you're
like, who are you waving at?
No, but everything don't wave.
Anybody Don't wave.
And still to this day, anythinganybody does before I'm ready
for it to happen, annoys me.
So, when she was in middleschool, mama would take us to
school and she would literallysit in the passenger seat with a
(41:18):
piece of notebook paper withnothing on it and pretend like
she was studying so that shewould not have to talk to
anyone.
I didn't realize I did thateither until they reminded me,
her and my mom, what you'retalking about.
I was like, oh my gosh, I can'tbelieve I tried to fake y'all
out with a blank piece of paper.
At least I should have opened abook Yeah.
(41:38):
Or something.
But yeah, I'm just no a blankpiece of paper.
Now I'd be like, gimme that.
I'd be ripping it up.
Talk to me.
So, my new partner, she is not amorning person.
What is the worst shift to work?
Like the, the weird, like forme?
Yeah.
So I worked 7:00 PM to 7:00 AMand I hated it.
(42:00):
I hated it.
I'm not a night person.
People on nights that lovenights, love nights.
Mm-hmm.
I hated it.
Hated it.
Did you get more crazy weirdstuff?
I would assume at night Weirdstuff happens.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, there's people that areweird during the day too, but
there's, so how about, how aboutlike Halloween or something
(42:22):
like, is that, or 4th of July,like what would you, when you
see your name is on like aspecific holiday or weekend, are
you like, crap, I gotta switchthat at, well, you can't switch.
'cause if you're, if that's yourholiday, it was a hypothetical.
Um, Halloween, not that bad.
I'm laughing at myself.
Um, mother's Day.
(42:44):
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Thanksgiving Mother's Day.
I'm sure 4th of July is notgreat Thanksgiving.
People haven't seen their, theirgrandma or their mama in nine
months, or 10 or 11 months sinceChristmas.
And they come home and now she'ssitting in on the couch and she
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can't get up.
And this huge brawl breaks out,why haven't you been doing this?
And it's like, everybody lovesto fight on Thanksgiving.
Everybody loves to fight onThanksgiving.
Same thing on Mother's Day.
I never would've guessed that.
I never would've either.
Would not, would not.
Mm-hmm.
I wouldn't.
Fighting about who's gonna dothe dishes?
(43:26):
It's Mother's Day.
You do the dishes.
Well, the mama doesn't want,mama should get a day off during
Covid.
How was that?
Oh yeah.
Bad.
Yeah.
People and people got mean.
People got absolutely meanCovid.
I think people, we've talkedabout how so much has changed
since Covid, but I think peopleare so mean.
'cause they were scared.
No, I just think that they gotmean because they didn't see
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anybody and they didn't have anysocial skills anymore.
Well, that too.
No, just like have lost theirminds.
And still to this day, I, I sayit, I like, I don't like going
to the grocery store.
'cause people still have thatmentality of Yeah, I'm not a
people person.
I'm not either.
I'm not either.
Like, and people will get mad onthe ambulance and they're like,
(44:08):
well, but you can't talk to methat way.
I'm like, I'm here to help you.
I don't want you to help me.
Then why did you call?
Yeah, yeah.
If you need me, I'll be sittingright here behind you.
I mean obviously if they were acritical patient to where, but
people call for some really,like what's the most, like,
seriously, you just called forsplinter that.
(44:30):
I got a splinter, and I'm nottalking.
Remember Jackson's birthdayparty?
Jordan had that big, hugetoothpick.
Splinter in his foot.
Yeah, no, I'm talking about alittle tiny splinter.
it's crazy yeah.
People call for some really,apparently, if you're on your
cycle and you have bad cramps,you're supposed to call 9 1 1.
What?
Like I would have never.
(44:51):
No.
Apparently there's so manypeople that apparently have
never had a stomach virus.
It's mind blowing.
If I have a stomach bug, put mein the bathroom floor and leave
me there until I'm better.
Nope.
Mm-hmm.
Nope.
They don't know what to do.
They're like, there's somethingwrong with me.
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Are people, are these like.
20.
There's old year old both thatjust left the house.
I don't know what to do as anadult.
Right?
Yeah.
If an old person calls you andsays, I'm sick.
They're sick.
You can bet your bottom dollar,they're sick.
But if a, so like I had somebodycall one time because he had
used marijuana He was high, buthe didn't want his mom to come
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home and find him high.
And he kept saying, we got togo.
We got to go right now.
We gotta go to the hospitalbefore she gets home.
His older brother showed up andwas like, get in the house.
Get in the house.
Mom's gonna be home.
They gotta take me before momgets home.
Nah, mom's in the driveway, getin the house like, oh my gosh.
Go hide in a closet.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
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I mean, sometimes it's likewatching a Madea movie.
Yeah.
Sometimes I try to act, likemad.
I'm like, what's wrong with you?
Yeah.
What is wrong with you?
So when you said, get in thehouse, it reminds me of we
fought when we were little, likephysically fought.
I don't know how our mom didn'tget, like, DSS called because we
would claw and scratch eachother's.
(46:14):
You remember this, right?
Oh yeah.
Like we, we were evil to eachother.
Just like physically beat theshit out of each other.
And mom would say, just go tothe yard.
Go to the yard.
I was actually telling somebodythat, I was like, yeah, mommy
used to say, go to the yard.
Like if y'all are gonna fight,go to the yard.
The yard.
Yeah.
Did y'all, did you and yoursiblings fight?
We did, but the only time I everlike fought, fought my sis.
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My one sister was,'cause she hadlike, got in my mom's face and I
pushed her.
Mm-hmm.
And she swung on me.
And I had a phone in my handbecause I was on the phone with
my dad and I hit her over thehead with the phone.
But like, let me tell you, ifanybody ever like messed with my
family.
Oh right.
Like I, I'm like the crazyyounger sister.
Yes Yes.
That's coming to the weddingwith us, by the way.
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Wouldn't that be really?
I keep telling her she's coming.
She told me I have to be hersecurity.
Yes.
Just you and Jackson andAnthony.
Apparently we gotta bring her onsecurity.
yeah.
We Whose side are you on?
Meredith.
So you better act right?
Wait a minute.
I thought we were on the sameteam.
We are.
We are a hundred percent.
As long it sounds like we areuntil there's a breaking point
(47:20):
and then see ya.
And then I become the mediator.
I'm just saying, I'm just sayingwe're not fighting each other.
We're not, don't make me, Imean, you gonna throw me in the
bathtub again?
I don't do that.
Wait.
I need to hear the story of, ofthe bathtub.
we were fighting, this wasprobably like our last big
fight.
Because I thought I broke, likeher friends used to want to pay
us to fight.
(47:40):
Some of her friends, like usedto want to pay us to fight.
We weren't even like that.
We weren't like these,apparently we were, I dunno, I
didn't think us being like that.
So I, I can remember runningfrom you with my back like this
because we would hit each otherin the back.
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Like it would be over and Iwould run like this, so you
couldn't get me in the back.
Do you remember doing that?
But you used to get me in theback all the time.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I did.
Like, that was my thing.
So I think that's why I got inthe bathtub or was trying to get
in the bath.
I was in the bathroom and we hadthose sliding shower doors.
So I'm like, what's she gonnado?
Break down the shower doors.
Next thing I know I am.
(48:21):
In the bathtub.
I picked her up and threw her,like she wasn't taking a bath
and it was like, um, a showerbath combo.
So, you know, it was like acouple feet high where you sit.
I had a lip on it.
Yeah.
And, um, I picked her up andthrew her.
And you hit her back on the, onthe soap thing?
Yeah.
And I was really scared I hadher, her, and obviously she was
(48:42):
fine.
I don't think, I wonder ifthat's why my back hurts now.
I think that's why I have sleepdisorders because you don't let
me freaking sleep.
So, see, I could turn it up.
Maybe you should just get upback around.
I don't wanna get up.
Now.
Do you go to bed super late?
Yeah.
Okay.
No, I'm going to bed early.
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She does go to bed early, but Iam that typical.
You know, there, I think there'sa commercial out now.
Why does mom stay up so late andmom's watching tv.
Yeah, that is decompressed.
I finally get the remote.
I can finally watch what I wannawatch.
I can sit and do what I wannado.
I'm turning into my mother, bythe way.
Mm-hmm.
I don't sleep.
Yeah.
Like we've talked about this, I,if I get three, four hours of
(49:26):
sleep at night, I got lucky.
Yeah.
I think I was up last night.
It's Why do you function?
Like just my nerves.
Like, I, I get it.
I get it.
When I was on nights, on my daysoff, I would like crash.
Mm-hmm.
But then the next night Icouldn't sleep.
I would sleep two or threehours.
It's gonna be really tough onyour body.
And then like, duh.
(49:48):
It's, and like a friend of minesleeps like an hour and a half,
two hours a night.
And I'm like, you evenbreathing?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Over exaggerated breathing.
I doom scroll all night long.
Last night I fell asleep on thecouch at about one,'cause I was
watching something and at two Igot in bed and then was up at
about seven.
Yeah.
Because I'm house sitting somedogs and I went over to let'em
out.
(50:08):
Yeah.
I, mm-hmm.
I don't sleep.
I don't either.
And once I'm awake, like if Iwake up at four o'clock, hello
world.
Yeah.
Let's get it going.
You know?
And when she's up, she thinkseverybody else should be awake
too.
Which is why she calls you pausethis.
That's why she puts it on do notdisturb.
I do too.
I live with all the time.
Yeah.
Everybody, everybody.
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Now if you call me and it's anemergency, it's gonna ring.
I've got some people as my asthat.
But am I on that list?
Did I make the list?
yeah, sure.
I'm just kidding.
You are.
Of course you are.
But don't abuse it.
Oh, I was gonna show you myhearts and hands pen.
You ready?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Just so you can see it.
See the little, Aw, that's cool.
(50:50):
So it's a different color stoneprobably for every month.
I don't know.
And then I got this at the airshow, but then I got Don't be so
proud get and Loser.
And then I have one that saysMonster.
It was on my coffee actually,but I thought it was fitting for
my name Batch.
yeah, of course I'm proud of youfor that though.
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That's, that's reallyimpressive.
It's just, I just get to be, usemy hands and my brain to do
something.
Do you get paid more because ofthis awards, your accolades?
Do you get like when you're at aparty or something like, just
like a birthday party, peopleask you like weird health
questions.
Like, what is this fungusbetween my toes?
(51:35):
I'll say this, and this mightjog your memory.
I don't know if you getapproached, but she's always
alert.
Mm-hmm.
For things for sure.
Like, for sure where we are.
Like, she's like on the lookoutfor somebody.
I am so scared to get on aplane.
Yeah.
And like somebody have a medicalemergency.
(51:56):
Is there a doctor plane?
Is there a doctor?
Um, so mm-hmm.
It's a family thing.
Yeah, I guess so.
So I can tell you that I don'tsit in a restaurant with my back
to the door.
Mm-hmm.
I will sit in a corner, like ina corner booth, but I'm gonna be
facing the door and I know wheremy exits are.
I think some of this is from ourtrauma maybe.
(52:20):
I had a guy the other day triedto open my car door and like was
yelling, walking up to the carand I was like, yeah, this is
not okay.
Your personal vehicle or mypersonal, no, my personal
vehicle.
What?
And I was like, yeah, nope.
And I stepped on the gas andwent around the corner.
um, do you get a lot of weirdquestions though, other than by
me?
(52:40):
I don't know.
Not really.
I think it's great when peopleask me if my hair's gonna fall
out, my hair's tingling, is itgonna fall out?
No.
Unless you pull it out.
Yeah, no.
People will ask you, am I gonnadie?
Like, you know, the, the peoplethat were on, they've eaten half
a sheet of brownies, you know,or half a pan of brownies.
They were like, am I gonna die?
(53:02):
No, you're not gonna die justdon't go to the light.
That's when you would mess withthem, isn't it?
It would, that's when Stephwould be like, do you see the
bright light?
Don't go.
No.
I'd be like, go ahead.
You'd be like, go.
So people are like, I'm sick,I'm sick.
Well, if you here's a bag, throwup.
it's so funny because I put onlike this whole different
persona when I'm working Yeah.
(53:23):
Than I do, like when I'm athome.
Mm-hmm.
I think you have to, um, uhhuh,you actually have to, I've
talked to several people though,so we don't live in the same
area anymore, obviously.
But people that I know that haveeither worked with Poe or who
have seen her working are like,she is so good when she's
(53:44):
coming.
We know it's gonna be okay.
Like when we know she's on thecall.
And I've had people tell me thattoo, and I'm like, because I
don't see myself like that.
I see myself as this.
Do, do, do.
Yeah.
Where are my keys?
Or talk looking for your phonewhile you're on it.
Yes.
Or I'm reading a book and itcomes down and falls down and
boxing me the, you know, I meanlike, I've done that over, I had
to like, I'm the person thatoutside of work, I cannot for
(54:08):
the life of me get my shittogether.
Yeah.
So when people are like, oh,we're so glad you're here.
I'm like, okay, well at leastthere's one of us literally got
my, foot tangled up in mypocketbook candle earlier, tried
to get out of the car with theseatbelt still on.
Yeah.
Oh, that's on the daily.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well just to let you know, and Iknow that award is great, but
when your peers recognize youtoo, well, yeah, and I'll show
(54:31):
up on a call and fire will bethere.
And they're like, well, you havethe best paramedic in the
county.
And I'm like, you are such asmoke blower or whatever.
You know, you should be like,where, when are they coming?
I can't wait to meet them.
sometimes I turn into this wholeother person I guess where I'm
like really surprised.
Did you on a call with an ex anaccent one time?
(54:52):
Yes.
And so did my partner, Kayla,and she was like, hello, my name
is Kayla and the lady, I loveyou.
Yeah, absolutely differentaccent for every call.
Uhhuh.
I don't know if you know thatabout me, but I love accents and
I like if I meet somebody withsome, an accent different than
mine, I have to know wherethey're from.
I ask so many people.
(55:13):
I I love your, are you French?
Like I will ask anybody.
So what was your accent whenyou.
Were you just, hello?
No, of course I was.
Of course.
I was like from, yes.
From England.
Yes, from England.
I'd like a nip of tea, please.
So my partner Kayla, she ran awhole call and the lady
eventually was like, where areyou from, ma'am?
(55:35):
And she's like, oh, you know,just overseas, like, couldn't
think of anything across thepond.
She, the lady was from Britain.
Shut up.
That's funny.
So one of the favorite things,we used to have this dispatcher
who would, I miss him, dispatchhim, but he would come on.
Welcome to the Hunger Games.
Maybe odds forever be in yourfavor.
Yes, absolutely.
(55:56):
Especially after it was like awhole poop show of a day.
Yeah.
Would, I would be a greatdispatcher.
I'm just gonna go ahead and putit out there I mean, with your
helicopter experience, right?
Why not?
It would be, it would be so muchfun, I think to tell people
where to go, but just, I'vespent my whole life, someone
sitting in a box and telling mewhere to go and what to do and
(56:18):
how when to get there.
Yeah, like, and I'm a good, it'scrazy.
Tell her what to do her.
You're a bossy.
I am.
You're a boss.
I'm bossy.
I'm a real bad, God.
I own money.
She don't even know we'releaving it right there.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
For, for the insight on my, myfriend here.
Mm-hmm.
(56:38):
My angry streak and my lack ofmourning, awareness.
So we didn't even hit your angrystreak.
We didn't even get that.
We can talk about Oh yeah.
Next time.
well, congratulations on youraccolades.
Yes.
And we're so proud of you forthat.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
And you let us know what colorthe stone is.
Yeah, I will.
It was so nice to meet you.
(56:59):
Thank you for doing Thanks.
Thanks little homey.
And, and if I'm security at thewedding, I'll see there.
But I will talk to you later.
I love you.
Thank you for being honest.
I love you too.
You're welcome.
It was nice to meet you too,Stephanie.
Bye bye.
Bye.
I'm Stephanie.
(00:00):
I'm Meredith.
And welcome to this is mycircus.
So we're chatting today with mysister Posey.
Hello.
You look cute.
Thank you.
Your hair looks on point.
It does.
It was just in a ponytailbecause it was blowing
everywhere and I can't take it.
So, let's tell the people aboutyou.
(00:21):
Oh gosh.
What do we wanna know about me?
It's okay.
There's only two people thatlisten and they probably already
know you, so, um, I'm just Well,I know, I just wanna know what's
your secret to success?
No, I'm just kidding.
So, uh, look, perfect.
Wait a minute.
If everybody, if the two peoplethat listen to you know me, no,
there is no success.
(00:41):
Or there's no secrets.
I There's no secret all overyour stuff today.
I don't know what's wrong.
I'm, it's usually not overthere.
Can you gimme a drink though?
One of those cans?
We're not sponsored by Prime.
No.
Wish we were Prime.
Oh, sorry.
That was a nice, like crispycrack.
It was a perfect prime.
We are here and, and, andavailable.
Yeah.
So do you have a littlerefrigerator in there?
(01:02):
No.
No.
Nope.
You need one?
You need a Prime refrigerator.
You did?
I gave, I gave Dylan.
Well, Dylan has in his room now.
I have one in my office andJackson has it now.
Yeah.
And I have a name for yourrefrigerator.
Ooh Perry.
Because No, not Midge thefridge.
Yes.
That was the one.
Optimus.
(01:23):
Optimus Prime.
That would be perfect.
That's a, that's a cute name.
Yes.
I like it.
When my friend Kristen and I, wewere roommates for a while.
We named all of our appliancesand we had Mitch the fridge and
our, uh, ironing board, which Idon't know what we were like 21
years old.
Why are we iron?
Well, how did you have it in anironing board?
I think because I wore scrubsthen and like, I don't know.
(01:46):
I don't, I don't buy anythingthat needs to Oh, I don't
either.
This was a long, long time ago,but our ironing board was named
Seymour.
I don't iron.
No, I don't buy anything thatneeds to be dry cleaned.
No.
I, if it takes effort, I don'tbuy it.
If it does need to be crop drycleaned, I wash it into washing
machine anyway.
Yes, but A secret to my success.
(02:09):
Yes.
Life changer.
A steamer, a handheld steamer.
They're 20 bucks on Amazon andthey work.
It's like a little hair dryerand you undo this and fill it
with water.
It's portable.
That's steam comes out.
Yeah.
20 bucks on Amazon.
Life changer.
And you don't have to, and youdon't have to have Seymours see
(02:29):
more good stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See more butts.
See more butts.
Okay.
So, which I've seen plenty of.
Yeah.
So Rails.
Rails are gone.
Oh, think of, yeah.
Rails are gone.
No more rails.
so you're a paramedic.
Yes.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
How long, how many years haveyou been a paramedic?
I've been a paramedic since2012.
(02:50):
You were an EMTA few yearsbefore that, since 2009.
What's the difference betweenthe two?
So an EMT, well now they likeforce them out in like eight or
12 weeks ish.
A shorter paramedic.
You go to school longer?
Yeah.
and, and that's every, somebodygoing to school every day they
do that a lot with the firerecruit classes.
(03:11):
They'll send them.
Through EMT class.
And that's what they do, like amonth long or two eight week
long program.
And then they do ride time andthen they go take their state
test.
And they're an EMT?
Yeah.
They pass.
Um, paramedic.
It depends on if you do thedegree program or not.
Yeah.
There's actually a step inbetween that is an advanced EMT.
(03:31):
Okay.
and that's about six monthslong.
Yeah.
And they can do more skills,they can give more, they can
give medicines.
They can work a cardiac arrestup until there's a return of a
pulse.
So, and then it becomes aparamedic skill.
Okay.
Paramedics can do all the skillson the track.
I was gonna say, so what can,what can you do that other
(03:52):
people cannot do because you'rethe big dog.
I can cardiovert the patient,which means if their heart's at
a rhythm, I can shock them.
Okay.
For simple word verbiage?
Yeah.
It's called cardioversion, toget their heart back in rhythm.
are there certain meds you cangive that other people can't
give?
Yes, I can give all the meds onthe track.
Not everybody can get, not allthe para, not all the e EMTs.
(04:14):
What's the, the best med on thetruck?
Don't say that.
'cause then, yeah, they're allterrible.
It's all terrible.
It's like, what do you call,what do you mean the best med?
The men for what?
Pain, I think Nothing.
Nothing.
Nevermind.
'cause I don't want you to getattacked.
Ibuprofen.
Yeah.
Ibuprofen and Benadryl.
Yeah.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
(04:34):
Text me later.
There was a time, like, meanlike when it was like a big
Yeah.
Whatever that um, it was in thenews that a lot of ambulances
were getting attacked.
They were it trying, peopletrying to get drugs and stuff.
Well, and a lot of it was theywere trying to get, Narcan.
People were getting attackedbecause of Narcan.
We actually have public Narcanthat we can give out.
(04:55):
That's a nasal spray.
Yeah, which is what if you go tothe pharmacy, that's what you're
gonna get.
It's a nasal atomizer.
Yeah.
Her hers is does a zoomie stuff.
Yeah.
Why is yours doing an automaticzoom?
I don't know, but I like it.
I do too.
I'm so impressed.
No, not you.
You don't move.
Like when you just sat back yourcamera like auto zoom ded on
your face.
(05:15):
It was really cool.
It was like super professional.
It was, oh, it's just not, Idon't know.
That's the secret to hersuccess.
That's the secret.
I just hit the, I just say.
Zoom and my magic Arby's bubbleand it zooms.
I think there's a setting tokeep you centered so well It,
it's sit all the way back again.
That was really cool.
Nevermind.
That's not flattering at all.
(05:36):
Okay.
Lean all the way forward.
How many pictures have you takenof me like that?
I see that too many.
That's cool.
Yeah.
And they end up in.
Uh, AI pictures.
Yeah.
we had this thing where we takereally unflattering pictures of
each other and then turn'em intolike memes.
And You turned me into a boyscout.
I did.
She turned me into a boy scoutin the middle of the forest.
(05:58):
I did.
It was great.
And you were, weren't youSuperwoman One time.
Oh yeah.
With the brown slicked backhair.
Yeah.
You know why not?
My siblings just take badpictures just for black male
pictures.
Well, that's, and then theythreaten to throw them on social
media.
Yeah, as is.
Well, it started that way asjust for fun, and I would never
(06:18):
put a bad picture of you onsocial media like that.
My siblings would.
They have, well, I just don'tput anything on social media, so
That's true.
Consider yourselves lucky.
Yeah, because I just, I justdon't, I think we put our, all
of our business out on social,right?
Yeah.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Yeah.
Again, that's okay.
People.
(06:39):
Yeah, it's okay.
Wait, so what else?
What would we talk Oh, thedifference in the paramedic
answer.
Yeah.
So I can, there's, I can givenarcotics, I can give cardiac
meds.
I can give you run the truck,right?
Yeah.
Okay.
What?
Unless there's another paramedicwith me.
And then by all means, do youwrite paper, scissors, it, rot
paper?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So if there's two paramedics onthe truck, we usually take turns
(07:01):
riding the call.
Yeah.
If there's a paramedic andeither, like, my partner at work
is an advanced EMT.
Yeah.
so if it's something that shecan ride, they don't need meds
up until a certain point, thenshe can ride it.
But there's some stuff that shecan't ride.
Do you ever, like if they needpaid management, do you ever
look around and you're like,well, I guess I'm the adult in
(07:22):
this situation because that'slike my life.
I'm like, man, I need an adult.
Yeah, you.
Um, I remember the first timethat I realized, oh shoot, I am
the paramedic on the truck.
Yeah.
But I realized, and I, mypartner was actually somebody
that was in my EMT class Yeah.
(07:42):
That I went to, I went to highschool with.
and so I was like, holy cow,wait a minute.
I was in charge of that call.
We ended up flying the patientout and it was like.
I just did an adult thing.
Yeah.
Like the first time I rememberdoing that.
Yeah.
proud of you.
So you have a new partner,right?
I do.
(08:03):
I do.
her name is Kayla.
What's it like, like having aswitch partner?
Do you like have a partner for areally long time and then Yes.
So I had, JC was my lastpartner.
I had her for two years.
Then she had a baby and she wentPRN.
So she assisted, stay home withher kiddos and then a lot.
And PRN means like kinda as, asneeded.
(08:25):
As needed.
She can, yeah.
She makes her own schedule.
Whenever she wants to work, shejust puts down a day, says, Hey,
I can work this day at thistime.
Right.
Before her, Olivia.
Bear And before Olivia I had, Idon't remember.
So if you get a partner, right?
Like I'm sure you've loved allof your partners, but if you get
(08:46):
a partner, you can't stand, canyou request a new partner,
right?
What's the process?
So if there's something that youjust absolutely, you're just not
vibing, there's some people youjust don't, you know, you just
can't get along.
You just put your head, you justput your earbuds in and deal
with it.
It's strictly professional.
Like, okay, I've been very luckyto not have that problem if
(09:06):
there's.
Ethical things that you need totalk about.
I mean, obviously then you haveto be the adult and say, Hey,
can we talk about this?
This is bothering me.
Yeah.
So I guess it's just like anycoworker that you don't really
like, you just kind of, but whenyou're working so almost
intimately with somebody, I meanthat's, so I, I'm on the truck
with Kayla more.
(09:28):
I see her more than I seeanybody else in my life.
Yeah, yeah.
And we're on a truck, so we'reposting at a, in that ambulance
for.
13 hours because we, by the timewe get there, check the truck
off in the morning and then getonline and then by the time we
clean everything up at the endof the day, restock, put our
(09:49):
stuff up, get fuel, wash it.
I mean, we're together for 13hours a day.
So you've been very lucky withyour partners.
Yeah.
Yes, I have.
I haven't replaced Meredithever.
Aw, I wouldn't replace you togo.
So I can tell you that when wewere,'cause now we're on 12 hour
shifts.
There was a time when we were on24 hour truck.
We were on the truck for 24hours, but we didn't, we
(10:09):
weren't.
On the truck like we had bases.
Yeah.
So we could go into that base orwhatever.
This is a, I got a funny story.
So my old partner, LJ and I, wewould go like, you'd go eat
breakfast and I.
Now you're done eatingbreakfast.
You had that cup of coffee andguess now where you gotta go?
You gotta go to the bathroom.
(10:30):
Yes.
And so we would be in thebathroom and we, we'd sit, be
sitting there and we'd send eachother Pinterest pens or you
know, stuff like that.
And you could hear the other perlike, it's like this public
bathroom because it's like, andyour hearing stalls in the
bathroom.
Ding, ding, ding.
And then I'm like.
And I even do this to Abby too.
I'm like, who are you talkingto?
Like, you know, speaking of,okay, I hate to use the bathroom
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in public, especially if it's aserious situation.
But I mean, so this new medicineI'm on, my stomach is, you know,
I've told you about it too,Posey, like my stomach is
whatever.
And when I gotta go, I gotta go.
These public bathrooms, the oneswhere they're, like Walmart has
where there's no doors, youjust, everything is open.
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Like I'm so scared.
Like the register, people aregoing to hear my disaster
because you know, there's nodoor.
You just like walk around thecorner and it's all so open and
I mean, I already feel terriblefor anybody that might be in
there with me.
Hey, P with you.
Yeah, but it's just, well, it'smore, yeah, it's all of it.
It's the multi flushing, it'sthe sound, it's the, so go in
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there and like play some musicout loud on your.
The rhythm is gonna get you.
The rhythm is gonna get you,they not like us.
That they not, you're gonna havelike a, a bathroom playlist.
I am.
I'm gonna have to make one.
Mm-hmm.
I'll have to make one and I'llhave to probably use some of our
songs that we did in ournineties challenge.
You'd be good at that probably.
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Yes.
Anything you say?
My sister will have a song forit and sometimes I'm like, wait,
come back.
Say, say, say, yeah.
Say I got one.
Yeah.
so anyway, those open bathroomsare a great concept'cause you
don't have the doors andeverything, but if you hear
somebody have a problem, it'sproblem.
But then no, it happens toeverybody.
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And then you walk out andthere's the man standing there
waiting with the yellow sun,like ready to always clean it.
Like we know you don't cleanthis bathroom all day.
Yeah, we can look and tell.
You might wanna give it aminute.
You might wanna wait on that.
Do the men's first.
Do you like the, do you like theback to your job?
Do you like the 12 hour shifts?
Yes.
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Like the, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I like sleeping in my bed atnight.
Yeah.
That's a good thing.
And your doggie?
She has two little doggies.
My dog goes, yeah, they'relooking outside right now.
So are you able to tell us anylike crazy stories of.
just like the basic situation,like you don't have to give
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super details or, those can betexted to me later.
Yeah.
I'm just kidding.
But, so just don't, obviouslyjust don't give names or locate
No, no, never do that.
But yeah.
Certain situation, has happenedthat a person thought they had
parasites between their toes.
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It wasn't, it just wasn't.
I was like, okay, so can youshow me your parasites?
Yeah.
Keep in mind I have met thisperson multiple times.
Yeah.
Multiple times.
Outside of the job.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Some people are frequent, likesuper frequent flyers and some
people, oh yeah.
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They'll call to get like a rideto somewhere, won't they?
Yeah.
Like, lemme finish this story.
So, okay.
Sorry.
I'm like, okay, so take yourshoes off.
Lemme see your parasites.
Don't, don't enrail me.
I'm locked in.
And so takes the shoes off andI'm, I'm looking at his feet and
I'm like.
Honey, those are not parasites.
That's toe jam.
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Oh, so of course, what do I do?
I like, I have on gloves, so Iget like a alcohol prep pad and
I'm like cleaning between histoes.
I'm like, see, look.
He's like, you don't know whatyou're talking about.
You don't know what you'retalking about.
I said, okay.
I said, is your toe feelingbetter?
No, it's on fire now.
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Yeah.
Oh, that's gross.
But yeah, I had a patient onetime.
it wasn't a patient because theyhad no medical problem, but, but
they, we picked them up from arestaurant parking lot we were
dispatched to, and we get thereand the person's standing there
and.
The parking lot with a vacuumcleaner.
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What was it, the restaurantright?
Right.
Was it the Quincy's?
No, it was Burger King.
And so we, we get there and I'mlike, well, what's going on
today?
I need a ride.
A ride for what?
I gotta go clean my cousin's carin Charlotte.
I need you to take me to toCharlotte.
Don't nobody.
Okay.
No, I said we don't do that.
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Yeah.
But you guys like will takepeople to doctor's appointments
and stuff, don't you?
Yes.
Yes.
But that's a whole thing.
Like they have to fill out thiswhole medical necessity.
Okay.
Okay.
Thing when that happens, do theyride in the back like a patient,
patient?
Or they ride up front.
Nobody rides up front thatnobody had shotgun, so no.
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What if they ran into the truck?
Shotgun yeah, so I've had peoplewalk up into the back of my
truck with their Diet Coke and acigarette.
Oh, that's really good.
Near the oxygen.
Yes.
And so I was like, you gotta putyour cigarette out.
You are gonna take your dietCoke, but you gotta put your
cigarette out.
And so I what?
Crazy.
And this pa, this person used tocall all the time.
She'd sit right there in thejump seat and we'd take her to
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the hospital.
The jump seat is that like.
A seatbelt over the chest.
Like, you know how like thatairplane?
Yeah.
It's, it's like a race car.
Yes.
It's like a race car.
It has a harness.
Has actually sign us up for the,oh, we need to take a tour of
her ambulance.
When Papa was still alive, hemade medic take him through the
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drive through at Kentucky FriedChicken before he would go to
the hospital while he was havinga stroke.
Did you know that?
No.
That's our grandpa.
That's our mom's dad.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
I won't go unless you take methrough the drive through at KFC
and they're Okay, Mr.
Garris.
Let's go.
Oh my gosh.
That's where I get it from.
So, I'm telling you right now,if somebody's having a bad day
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and they need a cigarette beforethey get in my truck, I'm fine
with that.
But after you have yourcigarette Yeah.
And then we're going to thehospital.
You know what's so weird to meis that cigarettes are really
aren't much of a thing anymore.
Like, I'm not like warningJackson about the cigarettes.
No.
You know, it's everything else.
I've had all the conversationswith y about what, you know,
stuff.
But he said the same thing.
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people don't really smokeanymore now vaping.
They're doing nothing in likethird grade.
In the bathrooms.
Yeah.
Yes.
Did I tell you about myconversation with Jackson?
No.
Oh, okay.
So Jackson.
Objection is I'm not aparamedic.
No.
Jackson.
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I would be so bad.
I, I, yeah, I think I would, Ihave a lot of compassion.
I don't, but I wouldn't be ableto deal with a lot of this
stuff.
Like, you're too dumb.
You would be, yeah, because,well, because I like, I'll call
you like to debrief my day andyou're like, okay, I don't wanna
hear about it.
And I'm like, I just needsomebody to talk to.
It's like, how, and I'm like,Allison, yeah, you've got a new
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person.
You could, I want, it's like,gimme some of the details, but I
don't want all the details.
Like I want that there was, youknow, we couldn't get him outta
the car, da da da da.
But I don't want to hear, I.
Their heart was at a rhythm andtheir tibia was this and their
whatever.
But you know, I've told you Iwill listen, be, but those are
the important things.
Those are the important thingswould be like so enthralled.
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'cause I suck at all of thesciencey stuff.
Yeah.
And I'd be like, you are sosmart.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So I do, oh, go ahead.
Hold on.
Okay.
And then I'll let you tell yourbreathe life into her again.
Oh my goodness.
Tapper.
Somebody tapper.
so remember I got a Heart andHands Award back in October?
October, yes.
So I was gonna mention that.
Yes.
So tell us again what it'scalled.
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It's a Hearts and Hands award,and it's from a cardiac arrest
survivor.
And I can tell you this becausethe picture was on Facebook, so
it's like common knowledge.
So tell us about that.
So.
A lot of times people say, oh,they're having a heart attack.
Somebody who's having a heartattack, they think that the
person is dead.
Well, you can be a survivor of aheart attack.
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Mm-hmm.
And it doesn't, just because youhave a heart attack doesn't mean
you're gonna die, which is whyyou need to call 9 1 1 the, if
you're having chest pain.
Yeah.
That like, just because you havea little flick in your heart,
you probably need to get thatchecked out like in the next
like.
24 to 36 hours.
If you're having chronic chestpain, you need to get it checked
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out.
Yeah.
At least let paramedics comeout, put you on the cardiac
monitor and make sure there'snothing else going on.
Yeah.
So, this patient, we picked herup and she, went into cardiac
arrest on the way to thehospital.
She was not having.
A massive heart attack or an mi,a myocardial infarction.
She was in respiratory distress,and did not have any heart
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damage, but she coded, which iswhat, if you watch Grey's
Anatomy or whatever, they'll,they're coding.
I'm now a doctor because ofthat.
So because of grace.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and so anyway, she coded, wegot her back.
So if you get.
It's called a return ofspontaneous circulation.
So if you get that and thepatient actually has a positive
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outcome and they come homemm-hmm.
Then you get an A recognitionfor it.
Mm-hmm.
It's a hearts and hands award.
Well, after that patient camehome, I found out that she is at
the same skilled nursingfacility where my daughter
works.
So, oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
So, does the patient nominateyou for that award or is that
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just because No, it's just agiven, but it has to like, meet
certain criteria.
The patient has to come homefrom the hospital.
it doesn't necessarily mean theydon't have deficits, but like
they do have to come home fromthe hospital.
Yeah.
If they can't just like, you geta pulse back and then Right.
You left them at the hospitalwith a pulse.
They actually have to bedischarged home.
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And that's not something that'sjust thrown around.
That was a big deal that you gotthat.
Yeah.
And so, I'm actually gettinganother one in March.
Are you?
Congratulations.
I'm Congratulations.
That's, I'm so, yeah.
And this one's young.
This one's like in his forties.
So super excited about that.
You get like a little pen oranything?
Mm-hmm.
I do.
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So it's a, it's a heart and it'sgot, I have two that have the
Aqua Marine in it.
It's a, a stone in there.
I don't know what this one willhave in it, So is this, this is
your third.
I feel like you got, this isprobably, so I had a drowning, a
long time ago that the littleboy survived.
Oh God.
But he survived.
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Yay.
He did survive.
And he did not have anydeficits.
Like, I can't and can't believethat he made it.
You got an award for that?
I did.
I did.
and then I had.
Another lady.
She was actually, um, on thefront of the newspaper when that
Union County first started doingthe Hearts and Hands Awards.
Mm-hmm.
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She was on the front of thenewspaper.
And I got an award for that one.
Oh.
Oh.
Even that makes me feel so, mylife has no meaning.
My God.
Why don't contribute at all tosociety?
It does.
It does, but I mean, like, it'slike.
It's a thing, you know, I mean,I don't have the emotional
bandwidth.
I don't think, I wouldn't, Iwould cr like fold under
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pressure.
You think so?
I do.
I think I would freeze.
Have you ever saved anybody'slife?
Um, no.
I have shut up.
I have.
So any who, um, wait, I have tostop you and tell you about my
conversation with Jackson.
I've got Yes, please do.
Yeah, do it.
Okay.
Good kid, right?
Yeah.
Relatively.
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No, he's good.
He's like, I don't think it,yeah.
So I was, I still check hisphone.
I check his socials that I don'thave access to.
I check all the things, justtrying to see what kind of
messages are coming through.
What I was laughing about thetime we were in Florida and
you're like, Jackson, gimme yourphone.
Oh, and he freaked out.
Yes.
And he wasn't even guilty.
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He, he didn't even do anything.
He wasn't do anything.
He just got so freaked out aboutthe fact that I was gonna look
at his phone.
and that was, seriously, I'mtelling you, I went through all
of his messages.
I went through all of hisphotos, deleted everything.
Okay.
So.
I'm afraid to do that now.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna be there soon.
So we were sitting on the couch,this was like a week or two ago,
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and I was like, Jackson And Ijust checked his stuff and I was
like, your stuff is so dry.
Like there's nothing.
I was like, mama, do you want mein all the drama and all the
girls and whatever?
And I was like, well no, butit's kind of boring bro.
So I was like, tell mesomething, tell me like, we were
just sitting on the couch.
I was like, I'm not letting youget up from here until you give
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me some kind of juicy scoopsomething.
And I should have stopped.
I should have been like, youknow what?
I'm just gonna let him haveprivacy.
And the more he was like, Idon't know what to say.
And you know, he smiles and hejust gets this look.
The more he said that, the more,I dug in more.
Like, I'm not letting you getup.
(23:40):
So he was like, I don't knowwhat you wanna know.
And I was like, well, I, I mean,I know you're not dating anybody
you're not talking to anybody?
He was like, no.
I said, are you like pre-talk toanybody?
Are you like flirting withanybody talking pre-game right
here?
Or are you like, are there anycute girls you see and talk to
on the regular basis?
Like, give me something.
And he was still just so closedlipped about it.
(24:01):
I was like, okay, let's talkabout STDs.
And he was like, what?
And I was like, you ever seenpictures of somebody with Omid?
So I'm just pulling up pictures.
And he was like, bro, mama.
And I'm like, look.
You wanna tell me anything now?
And Brian sit over therelaughing like, you better tell,
like make something up.
Tell her something.
(24:21):
And I'm like, have you ever seensomebody with scabies?
Like I'm showing he was finally,I literally got like two cute
girls that he sees that he kindalike flirts with on the daily.
But I was like, that's all youhad to say.
I just wanted something.
So I'm pressuring my kid withpictures of nasty junk.
Yes.
And I'm like, don't want it tofall off to you.
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This is what he is like, oh,ball.
Because you know, that's what Iused to tell the boys.
Don't put that somewhere.
It'll fall off.
Because if you put it somewhere,it's gonna fall off.
Well, it'll rot and fall off andyou have to take a shower
because it will rot and falloff.
And fall off.
Well I held him a hostage.
Um.
By using gross pictures toentice him to give me some sc
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And you know, boys too, boysdon't have much drama.
Yeah.
There's usually not a lot goingon.
Once they get out of elementaryschool, there's no drama.
Yes.
But in elementary school, yes.
And there might be some kind oflike, so and so got in a fight
today, or, I don't know, thatwas random, but like, whatever.
But that's it.
Like that's, but then it's over.
That's the whole conversation.
But then that's over.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
They have a, they get into afight.
Okay.
Whatever.
There's no, they know they'resharing french fries, right.
Yeah.
Right.
And they don't, Jackson won'tknow why they got in a fight,
what their punishment was, whowas on whose side.
What else?
Yeah.
No Dylan and I have a very,very, very, very open mm-hmm.
Dialogue relationship.
Mm-hmm.
Where he, me everything.
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Yeah.
Which is good.
Mm-hmm.
And, and that's a, that's arelationship that I have built
with him.
Yeah.
So I get all the details.
Yeah, and I know everybody'sbusiness and I do well, and so
Abby, that's, sorry.
Abby's birthday is today, and soshe tells me everything and some
things.
I'm like, did not even know whatXY, Z was until I was a
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paramedic.
Like, didn't even know what thatwas.
And now you know what bluewaffles are.
I saw something on and it, itjust like resonated because I
was such a bad teenager.
I was doing things I had nobusiness to do as a teenager.
And, and I always thought like,oh my gosh, when he becomes a
teenager, I'm in so muchtrouble.
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'cause you know, they say youget back like 10 times.
Yeah.
Worse.
And Brandon was really like, wewere bad together.
but they don't get into like.
Not that stuff like that we getinto No, I'm, so there was a
post a, a dad was like, mydaughter asked to go to a party
and when I asked like what kindof party it was like her and
(26:50):
three friends like going to gettheir Nissen and having a
sleepover and like, it was likelegit, like that's saying that
like I did.
But going to a field wherethere's a bonfire bonfire, he
and my daughter is so boring andI would not invite my own
daughter to a party.
And he is like, and I was like,it's so true though.
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Like they don't like, they'renot out in the middle of a
field.
No drinking boons farm and doingsome stupid ass.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
I'm just kidding.
Yeah.
Y'all don't like that?
No, I was, no, I was, no, shewas not.
So true story.
Well, I was too busy having kids'cause I was a young mother.
She's a young mother and I'm anold mother.
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Like I didn't get in trouble.
Yeah.
All right.
Back to your, your profession.
Yeah.
Okay.
So funny story.
a friend of mine was talking theother day about how like,
accidents will shut the roaddown or whatever, you know?
and like people will stop andwhat's going on up there, what's
going on up there, you know,they wanna, everybody wants to
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know, no matter how bad it is,everybody wants to know what's
going on up there.
Mm-hmm.
All Caterpillar migration roadshut down.
Seriously, people believe that.
Oh, oh.
People believe it.
I was like, I had a mentalpicture.
You totally just leave.
I know you're thinking thehungry Caterpillar going ch
across the road.
(28:13):
Yeah.
People believe that.
Caterpillar migration.
We totally did.
We, I'm trying to figure outwhen I could get there and watch
it, because do you remember whenwe were on vacation?
And I don't remember if it wasFlorida or South Carolina Beach
and there was some migration oflike starfish or something.
Okay.
There was sand dollars and stuffin the water.
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Like natural?
Yes.
But then we had the migratoryfish.
No, nevermind.
You don't.
You don't.
Yeah, I do remember.
Yes I do.
I wish she remembered.
I do remember they weren't fish.
They, well there was a fish, butthere was starfish too.
It's still fish.
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Star fish.
Don't they need water?
Like what are they starfish?
Yeah.
Like wouldn't they die?
Just'cause it's called fishdoesn't mean it's a fish.
What do they eat?
Stars.
I don't know, but they, I'm surethey, that you say horse to
horse.
Or is it a, yeah, get that thinga saddle up.
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It.
Is it a saddle?
It's a, it's a horse.
The Little Mermaid.
Yes.
They're ridden like a horse.
They are, but they live inwater.
since we just railed down theLittle Mermaid bath and Body
Works now.
Has a Disney addition since, didyou smell And they're playing?
Of course I did.
How were they?
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I'm, I'm feeling a lot offlorals.
Yes.
I don't, lot of floral.
I don't either, but Bath andBody Works was playing under the
Sea and the Beast.
I was dancing in Bath and BodyWorks earlier today, so it was
great.
I wanted some mermaid sent tosmell like, like coconut, like a
piece of, yeah, like um, um,tanning lunch and stuff.
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I think it did kind of havesome, there was like the ye the
green girl.
Oh, from the Frog and the Princeand the Frog?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Frog Prince or Frog something?
Her, her, she was floy.
Okay.
She was floy.
Cinderella was very floy.
Yeah.
I like, um, like musky andwoodsy and stuff.
Me too.
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Or fruity.
Like fruity Or like, like supersweet.
Like, like icing.
I, I want someone to feel likethey need to lick me.
Wait.
Goodness.
Take that out.
See, you're gonna have to cutthat too.
All of it.
So Jackson had really gotten, wehad talked about that a little
bit too.
He had gotten into clones andthe bath and body work.
Yeah.
Washes and hair stuff.
Well, his first block at schoolis weightlifting and cardio and
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so they shower after that.
Mm-hmm.
Which is great, but he's kindalike salty about it.
'cause he is like, and he hasthe little clones.
He's like, I just don't wanna doit there.
Like, he's like, I don't have mysmell good.
You know?
Mm-hmm.
Did we ever do that though?
We I never showered.
I never showered at school.
No.
No.
I was always super lucky.
Like all his stuff was always atthe end of the day.
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Yeah.
So it was like his last block.
Yeah.
Every time.
Yeah.
It you, it depends on the seasonon when they shift him to, so
this is football class sinceit's not football season is
first in the day.
Yeah.
But they had max week last week.
That boy squatted 500 pounds.
You didn't tell me that.
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You told me he was in a thousandpound club.
He is in the a thousand poundclub.
And I was like, does that meanyou like a thousand pound girls?
He said no, that means that hisbench, his squat and something
else is over a thousand pounds.
Yeah.
And he's the only one in itright now as a freaking
sophomore.
Well, that's how Dylan hurt hisknee, so Yeah.
Careful.
Luckily he hasn't hurt anythingyet.
(31:43):
Yeah.
But I was like 500 pounds.
I was like, you were too youngto be getting a cortisone shot.
Yeah.
Was he squatting?
Is that what it was?
Mm-hmm.
So I'm trying to think of likestories that I can tell you that
are appropriate.
You don't have to tell anymore.
Let's step those questions.
Let's, let's talk about like thecrazy, like people like bugging
out.
If they're high, like they thinkwell, okay.
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So on steps, steps, you know,tying all this together, you
know, I see videos all the timeon TikTok and stuff, but people
seriously, like, I forgot whatit's called.
Like it's a Russian something.
Wait, no, that's not right.
I don't know.
Crocodile.
Oh, that's so bad.
Do we have that in Union County?
Like, do you have mm-hmm.
A lot of people.
What is it?
So I don't, do you know what itis?
(32:27):
It's, like horse tranquilizer.
Step, I'm talking about justwalking down the street like
zombies is what?
Yeah.
Like you can't, and there's no,you, there's not enough Narcan
to reverse that.
Do you see that a lot or a goodamount?
So there's quite a few people inthat I see a lot.
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They are walking, they arewalking down the road.
Like totally out of it.
Totally out of it.
They did something like that.
Mm-hmm.
Probably so.
So do you ever get calls like togo because people are thinking
that they're ODing?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And but like, oh yeah.
And then they refuse to go withyou?
Yeah.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Because they can, and they cananswer all their questions
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appropriately.
So you can't do anything aboutit.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
That's crazy.
This is why I wouldn't be a goodparamedic'cause I would then
just start messing with them.
Well, so she tells me some stuffthat, um, not that she's messing
with them, but you almost haveto entertain, just like you were
talking about the dude with theparasites.
(33:32):
Like you were like, let me seeyour parasites.
Like, you almost have to feedinto it sometimes to get them to
communicate.
Yeah.
With you.
But you would take it too much.
You'd be like, well, let me cutyour motherfucking toes off
then.
Let me get the tweezing mouth, Imean, yeah, flu.
Flu.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, so like, got one.
(33:53):
I would because So when you'relike on the way to the call,
you're like, do they really haveparasites?
So is that what you were caughtout there for is paras, tennis
toes?
Yes.
It wasn't like something elseand he was like, Hey, while
you're here.
No, we got caught up because hehad a hole in his leg that the
parasites were going in and theywere coming out of his toes.
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Well, he had sores on his legsthat he probably was, I were
either meth bugs or he wasinjecting himself there.
Probably not.
They're probably meth bugs.
And so he thought those soreswere where?
Yeah.
So meth.
(34:36):
I've never heard of that before.
What is that?
Meth bugs Uhhuh.
So you know how you see peoplelike on mugshots or whatever,
and they have like the sores allover their face, they think that
there's, there's bugs underneaththeir skin.
They're scratching.
So they're scratch, right?
So they're scratching.
Yeah.
And you can always tell somebodywho is like, on meth because of
their behavior.
They're just like constantlymoving and constantly, I mean, I
(34:59):
have a DD so I could just aswell be a meth person, but, um,
like they're, you know, they'realways scratching or like
picking and there's nothing.
There's nothing there.
And so then they'll, you knowit, that meth bug is not gonna
go away.
Yeah.
And still they use again.
So that's why they use again.
And then they hallucinate andit's a party, and then the bugs
(35:24):
come up.
Then it's, and then the bugs,when they start detoxing coming
off of that, that's when they'reso itchy and Oh yeah.
That's when they're just like,woo.
How many showers do you takewhen you get home?
I take one the night and thenone before I go to work again
the next day.
Oh, I know.
(35:44):
I, like, I just, I would not bea good, like, that would not be
my profession, but now I feellike I am like so insignificant
because I, no, you're not.
But I can tell you, like when Ihad my partner before Kayla,
there's some places that havebedbugs.
Yeah, like bedbugs.
I can spot'em, I can spot'emreal easy.
(36:06):
Like I'm, I'm cleaning out mytruck, gonna turn the heat up.
Like they, you know, she at onepoint thought she was gonna go
home and give bedbugs to her newbaby.
I was like, they're notcontagious like that.
Well, no, but they could ride.
But you, and then they get thereand then there's no way to get
rid of those other than like,throw everything away.
(36:26):
I would be Exactly.
Fleas.
Yeah.
I sub for like two years whenDylan was in elementary school
and.
A little girl would come in,covered in fleas.
Oh.
And it was, I felt so bad forher.
Yeah.
But it was so disgusting.
Yeah.
And oh, I was like, go to the,go to the nurse.
Oh God, that's terrible.
(36:47):
But you can't get rid of'em.
No.
Mm-hmm.
And so when we have eitherboarded our dogs or for one
reason or another, I found likea.
I freak out.
Yeah.
'cause then I start like puttingBorax down around the baseboard,
like doing all the things.
Yeah.
And I mean, it was one, youknow, just literally one,
(37:08):
they're fine.
Yeah.
But it freaks me out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I could see where like, shewould be Oh yeah.
Like bugging about that becauseOh, yeah.
No pun intended.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But before I got in the car, Imean, I was like searching by my
pants.
Oh yeah.
And well then it's just like themental thing.
You start thinking about it andthen you start, start
scratching.
Yeah.
Oh.
And then, but if, okay, so, butif you think about all the
(37:29):
people that go, and here's whatgrosses me out, don't you?
Ready?
No.
You're gonna make me never leavemy house again.
Right.
Am I never gonna, you probablywon't tell again, I, I don't,
that's why I bought a camper.
I survived a million parties andI'm not gonna be able to go out
in public anymore.
Never.
I'm gonna continue to keepmyself covered up.
Well, okay.
(37:49):
Yeah.
Let's roll on to the next thing.
Yes.
So tell me the best story youhave about Meredith.
No, no.
You can, there's probably not.
I was, I was really a nerdy, sogrowing up, there's just a
couple.
Oh my gosh.
I got one.
Quin, there was, she was thepretty one and I was the smart
one.
Am I wrong?
Yeah.
But that No, but you were the,definitely the smart one.
(38:12):
I don't know about the prettyone, but she didn't, she was not
a fan of school and so she hatedit.
She is very, I mean, you canhear her talk, she's very smart,
but she hated school, so she wasthe pretty one, and I was the
nerdy smarty one.
Nerdy smarty.
So that was kind of our rolesgrowing up.
And now.
I am both of the things and shecan strive to be like me.
(38:35):
No, I'm just kidding.
I got, I got nothing.
I know what you're gonna tellher.
You're gonna tell her about howI'm not a morning person.
No.
Okay.
Well, she is not a morningperson.
Is that the story you were gonnatell?
I'm early every day.
Mm-hmm.
Because I have no choice.
No, she's not a morning personto this day.
No.
She called me the other day.
I called her Saturday morning at11 o'clock yesterday or 1130 and
(39:03):
I'm like, Hey, can I talk to youabout this?
Yeah.
I'm not verbal yet.
I'm nonverbal.
Actually, that was not, that wason, that was on Friday.
Friday.
Friday.
That Friday.
And it was like eight o'clock.
And you wanted, she is a morningperson and she wanted at eight
o'clock on Friday.
I've been up since five o'clock.
So she, on Monday off, shecalled to text me or she texted
(39:24):
me or something, I don't know.
But she called and she was like,are you up?
I was like, yeah, but I'm notverbal.
Like I'm awake, but I'm notthere yet.
Oh, so you must hate my text atlike nine o'clock in the
morning.
Text is fine, but like, shetext, she'll text me at like
eight 15.
Call me when you're up.
15 minutes later she'll call meand I'm like, I, I'm like
getting Jackson ready, likeyeah.
(39:44):
Trying to get him out the door.
Look, look, she's frustratedright now.
She's like, what were you gonnasay though?
So she is in fact not a morningperson.
We, when we were teenagers, weworked together at Plantation
Estates.
This retirement community, it'sa retirement community.
It's a retirement community.
And we worked in the diningroom.
So people would come down there,get their breakfast trays, go
(40:05):
sit at the table, whatever.
We rode together because welived together at that time.
We had to be there at 6:00 AM.
Oof.
What was I thinking?
I don't know.
Because you worked there first.
I know you worked there first.
And they paid really good.
So we worked, it was the morningshift from six to 10.
And we would ride together andwe would ride together.
And she's like, stop talking.
(40:29):
So we're stop at the stoplightone morning.
And I look over and this guy'slike waving at us and I'm like
waving back at him.
And she's like, where are youwaving at?
I'm like, that man.
He just waved.
She was like, it's six o'clockin the morning.
Why are you waving at somebody?
And I'm like, I don't remember.
They waved.
They waved.
I don't know.
So anyway, it was a very quietride the rest of the way, and I
(40:52):
don't that at all.
I'm really sitting right therewith the old Matthews pottery.
We were getting ready to turnleft and I was like, you're
like, who are you waving at?
No, but everything don't wave.
Anybody Don't wave.
And still to this day, anythinganybody does before I'm ready
for it to happen, annoys me.
So, when she was in middleschool, mama would take us to
school and she would literallysit in the passenger seat with a
(41:18):
piece of notebook paper withnothing on it and pretend like
she was studying so that shewould not have to talk to
anyone.
I didn't realize I did thateither until they reminded me,
her and my mom, what you'retalking about.
I was like, oh my gosh, I can'tbelieve I tried to fake y'all
out with a blank piece of paper.
At least I should have opened abook Yeah.
(41:38):
Or something.
But yeah, I'm just no a blankpiece of paper.
Now I'd be like, gimme that.
I'd be ripping it up.
Talk to me.
So, my new partner, she is not amorning person.
What is the worst shift to work?
Like the, the weird, like forme?
Yeah.
So I worked 7:00 PM to 7:00 AMand I hated it.
(42:00):
I hated it.
I'm not a night person.
People on nights that lovenights, love nights.
Mm-hmm.
I hated it.
Hated it.
Did you get more crazy weirdstuff?
I would assume at night Weirdstuff happens.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, there's people that areweird during the day too, but
there's, so how about, how aboutlike Halloween or something
(42:22):
like, is that, or 4th of July,like what would you, when you
see your name is on like aspecific holiday or weekend, are
you like, crap, I gotta switchthat at, well, you can't switch.
'cause if you're, if that's yourholiday, it was a hypothetical.
Um, Halloween, not that bad.
I'm laughing at myself.
Um, mother's Day.
(42:44):
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Thanksgiving Mother's Day.
I'm sure 4th of July is notgreat Thanksgiving.
People haven't seen their, theirgrandma or their mama in nine
months, or 10 or 11 months sinceChristmas.
And they come home and now she'ssitting in on the couch and she
(43:05):
can't get up.
And this huge brawl breaks out,why haven't you been doing this?
And it's like, everybody lovesto fight on Thanksgiving.
Everybody loves to fight onThanksgiving.
Same thing on Mother's Day.
I never would've guessed that.
I never would've either.
Would not, would not.
Mm-hmm.
I wouldn't.
Fighting about who's gonna dothe dishes?
(43:26):
It's Mother's Day.
You do the dishes.
Well, the mama doesn't want,mama should get a day off during
Covid.
How was that?
Oh yeah.
Bad.
Yeah.
People and people got mean.
People got absolutely meanCovid.
I think people, we've talkedabout how so much has changed
since Covid, but I think peopleare so mean.
'cause they were scared.
No, I just think that they gotmean because they didn't see
(43:47):
anybody and they didn't have anysocial skills anymore.
Well, that too.
No, just like have lost theirminds.
And still to this day, I, I sayit, I like, I don't like going
to the grocery store.
'cause people still have thatmentality of Yeah, I'm not a
people person.
I'm not either.
I'm not either.
Like, and people will get mad onthe ambulance and they're like,
(44:08):
well, but you can't talk to methat way.
I'm like, I'm here to help you.
I don't want you to help me.
Then why did you call?
Yeah, yeah.
If you need me, I'll be sittingright here behind you.
I mean obviously if they were acritical patient to where, but
people call for some really,like what's the most, like,
seriously, you just called forsplinter that.
(44:30):
I got a splinter, and I'm nottalking.
Remember Jackson's birthdayparty?
Jordan had that big, hugetoothpick.
Splinter in his foot.
Yeah, no, I'm talking about alittle tiny splinter.
it's crazy yeah.
People call for some really,apparently, if you're on your
cycle and you have bad cramps,you're supposed to call 9 1 1.
What?
Like I would have never.
(44:51):
No.
Apparently there's so manypeople that apparently have
never had a stomach virus.
It's mind blowing.
If I have a stomach bug, put mein the bathroom floor and leave
me there until I'm better.
Nope.
Mm-hmm.
Nope.
They don't know what to do.
They're like, there's somethingwrong with me.
(45:11):
Are people, are these like.
20.
There's old year old both thatjust left the house.
I don't know what to do as anadult.
Right?
Yeah.
If an old person calls you andsays, I'm sick.
They're sick.
You can bet your bottom dollar,they're sick.
But if a, so like I had somebodycall one time because he had
used marijuana He was high, buthe didn't want his mom to come
(45:33):
home and find him high.
And he kept saying, we got togo.
We got to go right now.
We gotta go to the hospitalbefore she gets home.
His older brother showed up andwas like, get in the house.
Get in the house.
Mom's gonna be home.
They gotta take me before momgets home.
Nah, mom's in the driveway, getin the house like, oh my gosh.
Go hide in a closet.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
(45:53):
I mean, sometimes it's likewatching a Madea movie.
Yeah.
Sometimes I try to act, likemad.
I'm like, what's wrong with you?
Yeah.
What is wrong with you?
So when you said, get in thehouse, it reminds me of we
fought when we were little, likephysically fought.
I don't know how our mom didn'tget, like, DSS called because we
would claw and scratch eachother's.
(46:14):
You remember this, right?
Oh yeah.
Like we, we were evil to eachother.
Just like physically beat theshit out of each other.
And mom would say, just go tothe yard.
Go to the yard.
I was actually telling somebodythat, I was like, yeah, mommy
used to say, go to the yard.
Like if y'all are gonna fight,go to the yard.
The yard.
Yeah.
Did y'all, did you and yoursiblings fight?
We did, but the only time I everlike fought, fought my sis.
(46:35):
My one sister was,'cause she hadlike, got in my mom's face and I
pushed her.
Mm-hmm.
And she swung on me.
And I had a phone in my handbecause I was on the phone with
my dad and I hit her over thehead with the phone.
But like, let me tell you, ifanybody ever like messed with my
family.
Oh right.
Like I, I'm like the crazyyounger sister.
Yes Yes.
That's coming to the weddingwith us, by the way.
(46:57):
Wouldn't that be really?
I keep telling her she's coming.
She told me I have to be hersecurity.
Yes.
Just you and Jackson andAnthony.
Apparently we gotta bring her onsecurity.
yeah.
We Whose side are you on?
Meredith.
So you better act right?
Wait a minute.
I thought we were on the sameteam.
We are.
We are a hundred percent.
As long it sounds like we areuntil there's a breaking point
(47:20):
and then see ya.
And then I become the mediator.
I'm just saying, I'm just sayingwe're not fighting each other.
We're not, don't make me, Imean, you gonna throw me in the
bathtub again?
I don't do that.
Wait.
I need to hear the story of, ofthe bathtub.
we were fighting, this wasprobably like our last big
fight.
Because I thought I broke, likeher friends used to want to pay
us to fight.
(47:40):
Some of her friends, like usedto want to pay us to fight.
We weren't even like that.
We weren't like these,apparently we were, I dunno, I
didn't think us being like that.
So I, I can remember runningfrom you with my back like this
because we would hit each otherin the back.
(48:01):
Like it would be over and Iwould run like this, so you
couldn't get me in the back.
Do you remember doing that?
But you used to get me in theback all the time.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I did.
Like, that was my thing.
So I think that's why I got inthe bathtub or was trying to get
in the bath.
I was in the bathroom and we hadthose sliding shower doors.
So I'm like, what's she gonnado?
Break down the shower doors.
Next thing I know I am.
(48:21):
In the bathtub.
I picked her up and threw her,like she wasn't taking a bath
and it was like, um, a showerbath combo.
So, you know, it was like acouple feet high where you sit.
I had a lip on it.
Yeah.
And, um, I picked her up andthrew her.
And you hit her back on the, onthe soap thing?
Yeah.
And I was really scared I hadher, her, and obviously she was
(48:42):
fine.
I don't think, I wonder ifthat's why my back hurts now.
I think that's why I have sleepdisorders because you don't let
me freaking sleep.
So, see, I could turn it up.
Maybe you should just get upback around.
I don't wanna get up.
Now.
Do you go to bed super late?
Yeah.
Okay.
No, I'm going to bed early.
(49:02):
She does go to bed early, but Iam that typical.
You know, there, I think there'sa commercial out now.
Why does mom stay up so late andmom's watching tv.
Yeah, that is decompressed.
I finally get the remote.
I can finally watch what I wannawatch.
I can sit and do what I wannado.
I'm turning into my mother, bythe way.
Mm-hmm.
I don't sleep.
Yeah.
Like we've talked about this, I,if I get three, four hours of
(49:26):
sleep at night, I got lucky.
Yeah.
I think I was up last night.
It's Why do you function?
Like just my nerves.
Like, I, I get it.
I get it.
When I was on nights, on my daysoff, I would like crash.
Mm-hmm.
But then the next night Icouldn't sleep.
I would sleep two or threehours.
It's gonna be really tough onyour body.
And then like, duh.
(49:48):
It's, and like a friend of minesleeps like an hour and a half,
two hours a night.
And I'm like, you evenbreathing?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Over exaggerated breathing.
I doom scroll all night long.
Last night I fell asleep on thecouch at about one,'cause I was
watching something and at two Igot in bed and then was up at
about seven.
Yeah.
Because I'm house sitting somedogs and I went over to let'em
out.
(50:08):
Yeah.
I, mm-hmm.
I don't sleep.
I don't either.
And once I'm awake, like if Iwake up at four o'clock, hello
world.
Yeah.
Let's get it going.
You know?
And when she's up, she thinkseverybody else should be awake
too.
Which is why she calls you pausethis.
That's why she puts it on do notdisturb.
I do too.
I live with all the time.
Yeah.
Everybody, everybody.
(50:29):
Now if you call me and it's anemergency, it's gonna ring.
I've got some people as my asthat.
But am I on that list?
Did I make the list?
yeah, sure.
I'm just kidding.
You are.
Of course you are.
But don't abuse it.
Oh, I was gonna show you myhearts and hands pen.
You ready?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Just so you can see it.
See the little, Aw, that's cool.
(50:50):
So it's a different color stoneprobably for every month.
I don't know.
And then I got this at the airshow, but then I got Don't be so
proud get and Loser.
And then I have one that saysMonster.
It was on my coffee actually,but I thought it was fitting for
my name Batch.
yeah, of course I'm proud of youfor that though.
(51:11):
That's, that's reallyimpressive.
It's just, I just get to be, usemy hands and my brain to do
something.
Do you get paid more because ofthis awards, your accolades?
Do you get like when you're at aparty or something like, just
like a birthday party, peopleask you like weird health
questions.
Like, what is this fungusbetween my toes?
(51:35):
I'll say this, and this mightjog your memory.
I don't know if you getapproached, but she's always
alert.
Mm-hmm.
For things for sure.
Like, for sure where we are.
Like, she's like on the lookoutfor somebody.
I am so scared to get on aplane.
Yeah.
And like somebody have a medicalemergency.
(51:56):
Is there a doctor plane?
Is there a doctor?
Um, so mm-hmm.
It's a family thing.
Yeah, I guess so.
So I can tell you that I don'tsit in a restaurant with my back
to the door.
Mm-hmm.
I will sit in a corner, like ina corner booth, but I'm gonna be
facing the door and I know wheremy exits are.
I think some of this is from ourtrauma maybe.
(52:20):
I had a guy the other day triedto open my car door and like was
yelling, walking up to the carand I was like, yeah, this is
not okay.
Your personal vehicle or mypersonal, no, my personal
vehicle.
What?
And I was like, yeah, nope.
And I stepped on the gas andwent around the corner.
um, do you get a lot of weirdquestions though, other than by
me?
(52:40):
I don't know.
Not really.
I think it's great when peopleask me if my hair's gonna fall
out, my hair's tingling, is itgonna fall out?
No.
Unless you pull it out.
Yeah, no.
People will ask you, am I gonnadie?
Like, you know, the, the peoplethat were on, they've eaten half
a sheet of brownies, you know,or half a pan of brownies.
They were like, am I gonna die?
(53:02):
No, you're not gonna die justdon't go to the light.
That's when you would mess withthem, isn't it?
It would, that's when Stephwould be like, do you see the
bright light?
Don't go.
No.
I'd be like, go ahead.
You'd be like, go.
So people are like, I'm sick,I'm sick.
Well, if you here's a bag, throwup.
it's so funny because I put onlike this whole different
persona when I'm working Yeah.
(53:23):
Than I do, like when I'm athome.
Mm-hmm.
I think you have to, um, uhhuh,you actually have to, I've
talked to several people though,so we don't live in the same
area anymore, obviously.
But people that I know that haveeither worked with Poe or who
have seen her working are like,she is so good when she's
(53:44):
coming.
We know it's gonna be okay.
Like when we know she's on thecall.
And I've had people tell me thattoo, and I'm like, because I
don't see myself like that.
I see myself as this.
Do, do, do.
Yeah.
Where are my keys?
Or talk looking for your phonewhile you're on it.
Yes.
Or I'm reading a book and itcomes down and falls down and
boxing me the, you know, I meanlike, I've done that over, I had
to like, I'm the person thatoutside of work, I cannot for
(54:08):
the life of me get my shittogether.
Yeah.
So when people are like, oh,we're so glad you're here.
I'm like, okay, well at leastthere's one of us literally got
my, foot tangled up in mypocketbook candle earlier, tried
to get out of the car with theseatbelt still on.
Yeah.
Oh, that's on the daily.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well just to let you know, and Iknow that award is great, but
when your peers recognize youtoo, well, yeah, and I'll show
(54:31):
up on a call and fire will bethere.
And they're like, well, you havethe best paramedic in the
county.
And I'm like, you are such asmoke blower or whatever.
You know, you should be like,where, when are they coming?
I can't wait to meet them.
sometimes I turn into this wholeother person I guess where I'm
like really surprised.
Did you on a call with an ex anaccent one time?
(54:52):
Yes.
And so did my partner, Kayla,and she was like, hello, my name
is Kayla and the lady, I loveyou.
Yeah, absolutely differentaccent for every call.
Uhhuh.
I don't know if you know thatabout me, but I love accents and
I like if I meet somebody withsome, an accent different than
mine, I have to know wherethey're from.
I ask so many people.
(55:13):
I I love your, are you French?
Like I will ask anybody.
So what was your accent whenyou.
Were you just, hello?
No, of course I was.
Of course.
I was like from, yes.
From England.
Yes, from England.
I'd like a nip of tea, please.
So my partner Kayla, she ran awhole call and the lady
eventually was like, where areyou from, ma'am?
(55:35):
And she's like, oh, you know,just overseas, like, couldn't
think of anything across thepond.
She, the lady was from Britain.
Shut up.
That's funny.
So one of the favorite things,we used to have this dispatcher
who would, I miss him, dispatchhim, but he would come on.
Welcome to the Hunger Games.
Maybe odds forever be in yourfavor.
Yes, absolutely.
(55:56):
Especially after it was like awhole poop show of a day.
Yeah.
Would, I would be a greatdispatcher.
I'm just gonna go ahead and putit out there I mean, with your
helicopter experience, right?
Why not?
It would be, it would be so muchfun, I think to tell people
where to go, but just, I'vespent my whole life, someone
sitting in a box and telling mewhere to go and what to do and
(56:18):
how when to get there.
Yeah, like, and I'm a good, it'scrazy.
Tell her what to do her.
You're a bossy.
I am.
You're a boss.
I'm bossy.
I'm a real bad, God.
I own money.
She don't even know we'releaving it right there.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
For, for the insight on my, myfriend here.
Mm-hmm.
(56:38):
My angry streak and my lack ofmourning, awareness.
So we didn't even hit your angrystreak.
We didn't even get that.
We can talk about Oh yeah.
Next time.
well, congratulations on youraccolades.
Yes.
And we're so proud of you forthat.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
And you let us know what colorthe stone is.
Yeah, I will.
It was so nice to meet you.
(56:59):
Thank you for doing Thanks.
Thanks little homey.
And, and if I'm security at thewedding, I'll see there.
But I will talk to you later.
I love you.
Thank you for being honest.
I love you too.
You're welcome.
It was nice to meet you too,Stephanie.
Bye bye.
Bye.
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