June 19, 2025 • 28 mins
This week, Shawna and LaLa discuss the never-ending rain, school memories that still linger, and their best summers filled with adventures in the woods, family trips, and AOL IM chats. Don’t miss LaLa’s review of the educational Lingo Kids app and why Tom from MySpace gets under her skin!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
the rhythm of your day.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Shauna m. What's up. You're listening to Shauna and Lalla.
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me on Instagram at the Real Shawna May.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one two five.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It has finally stopped raining for about an hour. This
is just getting ridiculous all this rain. I feel like
we're in a rainforest.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I know, it's really depressing. It's been raining for months,
like weeks. It's been weeks and weeks and weeks of
rain and we get maybe one or two days sprinkled
and there with sun and then it rains during that day.
But yeah, it's gonna rain again. It's sunny, it's humid,
but it's gonna rain again tonight, and I don't know.
(01:05):
It's really ruining the summer. A lot of people are
saying like they can't even go in their pools because
it's been rainy. I'm hoping the summer is not like this,
because that's gonna be really depressing. And like the weather
we say, the weather's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's insane, absolutely insane. I do not remember a June
when we were growing up. This is like the first
June that I remember actually of it raining so much range.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Every single day, and it's not like sprinkles. It's like downpour,
downpour of rain. Yeah, Mother Nature's not been happy. But
hopefully what the sun will be sticking around. I heard
it's gonna be beautiful next week, so everyone can kind
of feel like summer's here and maybe we can get
in the pools and go to the beaches and try
(01:56):
to enjoy it. Because it's been really depressing. Sooner than
we think is going to be here, School's starting and fall,
so it's really summer better start sticking around.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So I just googled it. I said how many days
has it rained for in New York? And Google says
it averages about one hundred and twenty days per year.
I think our one hundred and twenty days is up.
I think it was up in at least April or May.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh, yeah, it has to be. I can't.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's insane, it's it's horrible. I just want to go
to the beach and lay out in the sun, and
I can't even do that. Nobody can.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No, I've been waiting to use my tanning pool and
I haven't been able to because it's rained every single day.
So next week I'm getting into that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Slush pool if it doesn't rain.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
If yeah, as long as the weather stays like it
says it's going to be, which you can't even count
on that, but it should be in the like eighties,
nineties and really hot, so.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I really hope. So my friend said yesterday that she
put up the poor She paid for a new liner,
and she even paid to put water in the pool.
I said, why would you pay to put water in
the pool when we've had all this rain.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Filled it up for free, Mother nature.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, seriously, that's the only like good thing that's come
about all this rain. Yeah, so school is almost out.
My niece Haley graduated pre school today. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She looks so cute.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh my god. Her dress was adorable and she picked
it out herself. Of course, it was a long graduation.
You know, we were like the biggest class to ever
go through our high school. Mm hm, and I'm pretty
sure like her class beat us.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, we had over four hundred and something kids that graduated.
There was sixty five kids in her class. Well, there
was two classes because there were so many kids.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know why COVID babies. Yeah, they were COVID babies
and that's why, just like back in the baby boomer
days and they were bored. Everyone just had baby Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I couldn't believe it. We were there for two hours,
but it went by fast, and it was it was
really really cute, I have to say, like there were
so many parents there and so many little siblings, and
some of the siblings were running around, you know, and uh,
the principle if that's what you call her, she uh
(04:24):
was kind of like picking them out of the crowd,
you know. Really yeah, she was kind.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Of like, you know, calling them out.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, like whose kid is this running around? Disrupting you know,
what's going on? Teach your kid? You know, so okay
joking good for her though, Yeah, So it was it
was pretty funny. And she's like, I don't want this
kid in my class next year. It was It was
really funny.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You have to do that because you don't you know,
parents today, they don't parent their kids, they don't watch
their kids. They have no like awareness of okay, situational
awareness like okay, this is a graduation. Let me contain
my child, you know. And I'm proud of that principle
or whoever she was for standing up, even if it
was in a joking way and saying, yo, take control
(05:09):
of your kids here. You know, this is a graduation.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You weren't allowed to have kids under four or five there,
and some people just didn't listen, didn't care, or maybe
they didn't have a babysitter. Yeah, I don't know, but
I understand that. Like when my friend was telling me that,
I thought it was kind of rude, Like I'm like, oh,
like siblings can't go Like that's crazy, But now I
(05:33):
understand why.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, yes, I'm like, well that's real mean because parents
they know, parents aren't going to parent their kids and
it's gonna be. Oh, it's a free for all that
the kids run around and that is just so incredibly rude.
And yeah, it I don't know what. I don't know.
I see it every day, we all see it. We
see it everywhere with parents not being parents.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh and by the way, it was freezing in there, really, Yeah,
it was in the gymneys and it was freezing, and
I'm thinking to myself. I said to my mom, Actually,
I said, when we were in school, we didn't have
air conditioning, No in the gym or anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Anywhere except for maybe one hallway, the new hallway in
high school before that. Never.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Never, No, it was horrible. And I remember, like when
we were growing up, it was always so sunny and
so hot in those school like in our classrooms, and
I remember those big box window fans yep, and they
didn't do crap.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No, you were just sweating at the desk and trying
to drink water and then the teachers say no water
on the desk.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And yeah, we weren't allowed to bring waters, yeah, bottles
to school.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It was horrible. Yeah, I was like sweating and the
smell of the class and the bathroom always had a
weird smell and just from the heat. It just gross.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, it's not like that anymore. I don't think they
probably a AC.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm hoping, I mean my son's school, I don't know.
I don't know if the school has AC. I know
in fifth grade his teacher bought her own AC and
rigged it up in those big windows. She's like, I'm
making this work. And Geo used to say because it'd
be summer and he was wearing a hoodie in pants
to school. And I'm like, Geo, it's gonna be ninety
degrees today, and he's like, my teacher keeps the room
(07:16):
on sixty. We're freezing in there and she's sweating. I'm like, oh, okay,
I get it. So yeah, she made do she.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Made it work good for him though, I mean or her.
The school was allowing it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, I don't know. She was like an old, old teacher,
like who's been there for years. So maybe she got
away with it because I don't know if they'd let
every teacher do that, but.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No, they're electric. Bill would probably.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, and it's not safe because the windows aren't made
for it, Like she had to rig something up, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Also, we pay so much money in school taxes that
I think every classroom should have air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Mm hm, I agree. I agree. Like it's a lot
of money. Those superintendents get paid a lot of money,
and that's where most of the budget seems to go,
is to pay the superintendent.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh, that's where all the money goes is to right
in their pockets. It doesn't go to the school district
to the students, and I remember when we got our
first school pool. I still think it was a waste
of money.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't know. I hardly used it because I was
It was right when I was like almost out of
high school. But I do know the swim team was
really good for menacing and started getting really good, so
maybe it wasn't a waste. I know they were trying
to make money back by having like free swim days
on the weekend. I went to like a two of those.
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh, I never went I went in the pool once,
no twice. First time I went in, I was all right.
Second time I went in, there was a big glob
of hair gel, oh god, floating in the pool, and
I almost threw up. And I said, forget it. And
they said, you're gonna get a zero. I said, I
don't care, give me a zero. Give me a zero.
(09:01):
I'm not going in that thing. It is disgusting, it's dirty,
it's filthy. And I remember they called my mom and
they were like, you know, she really needs to do swimming.
It's part of the grade. If it's too cold for her,
because my CP and stuff will turn the temperature up.
My Mom's like, you know, they're willing to work with you,
and I said, I don't care. I'm not doing it.
(09:24):
And I didn't do it. I sat there and I
watched everyone from the hallway.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
First of all, it's stunk.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I know, the chlorine is so bad for you. It
was like really strong.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Like you walked in and my glasses would just fog up.
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The good old days, all those memories from school, and
I do not miss it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Let me tell you something. Today walking into that gym
was like a high school reunion. And I do not
miss it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
No me either. I still have nightmares of school. It's
like funny how you still dream about it and it's stressful.
It's like I forgot to do homework, forgot to take
a test, or how to use the bathroom, and I'm
getting in trouble because class already started. It's like, you
don't realize how traumatizing school can be for kids, because
it's like my husband always says, they felt like a prison.
They treat a lot of like the high school. You
felt like you're in prison, you know, middle school. And
(10:16):
I don't think it should be that way because I'm
still traumatized by it, or have not traumatized. But if
I'm having nightmares of it, it really affected me. And
how many other kids did it affect? You know?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I still have really bad dreams about getting up in
the morning being sick and then still going to school
on the bus and then my stomach acting up on
the bus.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
In your dream, my dream. Oh my god, Yes, I see.
It's trauma.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So yeah, that's it's gotta be. I still remember the
school route for the bus from my bus route like
for high school, because I literally live six seven minutes
from the school, and we would go all the way
by your dad's house.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh my god, like twenty something minutes away.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, so my ride. I was on the bus for
an hour and I live seven minutes away.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That's horrible. Your mom should have just drove you.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, yeah, I know how that went exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That was not happening.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
No, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I was choking on the lifesaver and in ninth grade.
I will never forget. I was choking on a lifesaver
and the nurse called her, and she said, do I
really have to come and get her? And the nurse said,
if you don't come and get her. We are calling
nine one one and she's like, well, what am I
going to do? And they said, you need to take
(11:34):
her to the doctor. And all the doctor did was
make me drink water. It was one of those minty
life savers. Yeah, and where the hole was and the
lifesaver was where I was like breathing, and I was
breathing through the hole.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That Thank god, it's a lifesaver. Right.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well, I never had another one. No, yes, exactly. It
burnt my throat. It was horrible. I'll never forget that.
There's many things that I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, it's like things that traumatized you, right and scared you.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The kid that we were in the lunch room, I'm
not gonna say his name on air, but he got
mad at the gym teacher, who was I believe he's
now a assistant principal or the principle. But at the
time that we were in high school, this gym teacher
was practicing or whatever to be an assistant principle, like
(12:28):
in the administration office, and he would walk around like
all you know, high and mighty and thinking who he is.
And this kid went up to the lunch thing, grabbed
all these condiments like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, salad dressing, mixed
it all on those paper plates and threw it at
(12:50):
the principle right in front of me. So it hit me,
but it really hit principle. Yea, Oh my god. I
never saw that. That guy jumps so fast. The kid
got arrested. It was insane, and they're like, are you
all right? So I was like, I'm fine, Like it
was just it wasn't all over me, but it was
(13:11):
on me. Yeah, And I'm like, I'm like, as funny
as it was, I'm like, I was kind of upset
because I'm like, you know, I wanted to laugh and yeah,
but I was like, you gotta be kidding me. Of
course it would hit me, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, it's bad school. High school is bad. Kids are bad.
I mean I think they're a lot worse today because
they have no fear today. But that's that was brazen
of that kid.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh he was bad anyway. But now, like I look
back at it and I just crack up. I think
it's the funniest thing. High school was crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I think, yeah, that's that comes with it. High school
is always you're a teenager, you're gonna be getting into
entering the real world soon. And you have all these hormones,
all these emotions. Teachers are dicks in high school and
most of them, it's like a prison. You know. We
have a little bit of freedom, but like a prison.
And I think all that clashes, all that together clashes.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So enough about school, let's get back to summer. What
were some of your favorite summer memories growing up?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, there was so many. We were constantly outside. Like
my dad, we lived in pretty much all these acreage
of farmland, right, and we were always outside. We would
go camping. My dad would take us on the tractor
into the woods. We'd have a big campfire, we'd row
some marshmallows. Those are some of my favorite ones. I
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went hiking a lot with my neighbors, Like we would
pretend that we were lost in the woods and we
would hike for hours and hours and thinking back, like
that's kind of crazy because we covered a lot of
miles on different people's property. And I was I was
in middle school or maybe ninth grade. I was young.
We were out by ourselves. We were a bunch of
girls by ourselves, you know. Yeah, And nowadays I wouldn't
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let Geogo's like, hey, mom, I'm gonna go on a
five mile hike, you know, all through the woods onto
the next person's wood. We lived with a lot of woods,
so it wasn't like you're walking in a neighborhood. And
my mom was like, okay, you know, like that's just crazy.
And we did come across people sometimes, you know. One
time it was a weird man in the woods and
thankful he didn't bother us. But those are some of
my favorite memories of just exploring. And then we always traveled.
(15:17):
We always drove down to Florida. Didn't I didn't like
the ride, of course, but.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Who does besides my father?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, some people like it. But yeah, just being with
my family going on trips. I mean, we traveled throughout
the school year, so we were lucky and didn't have
to wait for summer to go on trips. But in
the summer we usually took that trip down to Florida
and we loved it. And going to Long Island too,
Like we always visited Long Island. My family woud go
(15:45):
to the beach and eat really good food and go
ride our bikes. So it was it was a lot
of outdoor stuff. You know, and I think that was
the difference versus the nowadays.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, I remember always being outside. I always remember going
to camp, like the school camp. Yeah, even though like
it was fun, Like now I look back and I'm like, oh,
then there was girl Scout camp. That was the worst.
That was the absolute worst.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I've never been never went to camp.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
My you didn't go to the school camp for like
the first week or it was like the last week
of school or something. I mean, not the last week
of school, the last week of vacation in August.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, my mom never sent us to anything like. She
was always afraid of us going places, and I was
afraid to do things too. She had us kind of sheltered.
So yeah, we never went to camp. I never none
of that.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I was sheltered too.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But I don't know. Your mom's like girl Scout school babysitter.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I'm kidding. But yeah, we never We never had a babysitter.
We never were with anyone but my mom. But my
mom didn't work. Your mom worked, so she had no choice,
you know.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, she worked three jobs and yeah, support us. But yeah,
I mean, it's it's crazy these days. Geo is lucky
because he goes hiking, he goes out. You make sure
he goes out in the woods and does things. A
lot of these kids today they just stood on their
tablets or on the computer on their TV.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But that's the thing, like, if we didn't, if we
didn't push him to go out, he likes going outside,
but it takes the initial of us saying get outside,
you know, because if we didn't, if we were like
these other parents who were like, I don't want to
be bothered, he would probably sit and play PlayStation or
talk to his friends all day long on the tablet,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Which is what we used to do too.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, after school, my mom didn't let me, but I
so I understand. I try and be fair with him,
knowing how much I wanted to talk to my friends
on AOL and Semesenger, and my mom would only give
me an hour, and an hour wasn't enough because sometimes
your friends didn't come on until, you know, five minutes
before my hour was up, and I'm like, I want
to say please, my friend just came on and she'd
like nope, nope, and she'd take the router or whatever
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she had.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh my god, my mom did too.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's horrible, you know, Like I mean I understand now
as a parent. I mean, you're not a parent, but
I understand that because I have taken his tablet away
or shut down the Wi Fi.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Like, no, my mom took the whole computer one time
because I I don't know, I probably back talked to
her as usual, maybe got failing grades or something, and
she took the whole computer out of the house and
I found it at her job. You must have been
lived in the closet.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You must have been so upset. I used to cry.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I was like cooked to it. You know. I was like,
how am I supposed to do my homework? She'd say,
write it, figure it out.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. I was addicted to talking to my friends, like
that's all I wanted to do was AOL and just
because that was like the newest thing. These kids have
grown up with it, but that was something new that
came out when we were in middle school. So it
was just like the most amazing shit. Like I can
message my friends instantly, and they could talk to me
from their house without a phone, and I could talk
to multiple friends, and I can go in these chatrooms
(18:51):
and asl all these weirdo guys in there.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And I never did that. But I always did like
Checkers and I always plays SIMS.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Oh yeah, I didn't. I didn't do that. I liked
just talking to random people and messing with them, and.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I didn't talk to random people. I did a lot
of the computer games. SIMS was my favorite though growing up.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
SIMS is cool. I played it a little bit, but
I was never into gaming. I couldn't get stuck to it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But I would just leave my computer on the whole time,
you know, on like AOL instant messenger, Uh huh, have
like an away message or oh my god.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, Instagram just brought the away messages to it. Well
they don't call them that, but now you could on
your Instagram put like a message and it lasts for
twenty four hours. I liked AOL because it lasted for
as long as you need it. If you left your
computer on for a week, you your a way message
was up for a week, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I did it for when I went on the cruise
the other a few weeks ago. I put on Instagram
my first time. I was like cruising for the week,
you know, won't be around, and it was gone within
twenty four hours, so I guess it doesn't doesn't last.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I wonder if that will ever come back like AOL.
And because everything is coming back around, you know, everything
from the nineties. The jelly shoes are coming back around.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
The wide legs, the flares.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
My favorite boot cut. I'm waiting for them to come out.
I am just waiting. Polly Pocket is back for the kids.
The scented markers I see now are back.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yep. I'm hoping that they bring back my Space.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
My Space. Oh, don't even get me started. I logged
into mine not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's all gone.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's everything is gone.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, I'm so mad at Tom, Like, why'd you do
this like that? You know, you could have left our
shit up there. We had a lot of good memories
on there.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We had a good pictures and thomsn't even on there.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I don't think screwed Tom took away all our pictures.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I'm not too happy about that because I had
pictures on there that I must not have saved to
my computer and they're gone.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah. I have so many I lost so many photos.
Now I triple save everything because I am so Once again,
I'm gonna use the word traumatized. By all the pictures
and videos that are gone from my youth because I
put them on some random website that was like, here's
a photo album for free, and now that photo album
doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
My photobucket photo.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Bucket, yeah, photo bucket, and there was another photo trail
and all my pictures are gone. So now I'm like,
I got iCloud, I got this, I got external hard drives.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, what I found out with iCloud is if you
delete your pictures off of your phone, they also delete
off of iCloud. Yeah I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, I found that out the hard way too. Remember
I think when I went to the Apple store, He's like,
just put load everything onto because my computer was just
saturated with you couldn't even do anything, it was so
it was so full.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
The guy was like, he said, I've never seen anybody's
computer this phone.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Two terabytes, two terabytes of photos and videos because I
take a lot. And I said, I'm like, what do
I do? I want to move them to external. He's like,
your best bet is to put them on iCloud and
I said, well I was doing that, but once I
delete them to clear the computer, they delete off iCloud
and he's like, oh, yeah, you're right. I was like, yeah,
(22:07):
so that's a problem, you would think. I think iclouct
should be storage that saves and then you can free
up your phone.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But there's gotta be something out there that you could
just like download, kind of like Dropbox, I guess, or
Google Drive, but that you could pick up from anywhere,
and that is large enough to hold all of our photos, videos,
audio files.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Maybe Google. I know Google has like a thing like that,
like unlimited storage for however much.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But unlimited to me and you is not the same
to everyone else exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, I need like three I probably need like ten
terabytes of storage.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And they have the big external hard drives, which I
do have one. I think I have a twelve terabyte one.
It's not really used yet. But for me to put
my photos on that external hard drive, I had to
take the actual photo app from my laptop, move it
to the external hard drive, and now, guess what, can't
(23:09):
access it because it's not on my laptop, so I
can't access the photos. So it's pointless.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, it's just a pain in the ass. And you
would think that Apple would figure something out, you know,
maybe they need to have us on their team.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, they need to ask the public and for people,
I'm sure there's people like us, the photographers videographers that
they need that extra storage and they need to be
protected and they want it should be easy. It should
be easy. It's not easy. Apple does not make it
easy to transfer crap. I'll tell you that much. No, Microsoft,
I had Windows, and that was so easy. If I
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wanted to transfer things. I put an external hard drive in.
I said copy it all. Yeah, I said click on
copy over all photos, and I click photos and videos
on it, and then it all went over Apple. It's
like it's in five different places and it's no easy
way you got to do it. And it's not even
taking them all. It's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I I it like picks and chooses what it wants
to copy over.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, and it makes the double of them. There's like
three folders of the same shit all on my computer.
So I don't know. I gave up. I haven't touched it.
Once winter comes and I'm not worried about being outside,
I'm gonna sit up there and try again.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, but what are you gonna do? I mean, you
can't even turn it on like it barely turns on.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's so slow from old I don't know. I uh,
maybe I'll have to hire someone. I mean, because Apple,
they couldn't freaking help me. They were a waste of
our time and day, you know, but we'll figure.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah that was a big waste of Yeah, big waste.
So one thing that is good for this summer is
a tablet program called Lingo Kids. And you came across it,
and it's really cool for Julina, like toddler ages. I
don't know if they have stuff for like kindergarten and
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elementary school.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah they do. Yeah, I've been seeing it on Instagram.
And Julina loves to learn, and I'm just so busy
I haven't been able to sit with her and teach
her a lot of things, you know. So she likes
to go on the tablet when we're in the car.
You know, I'm always driving, so it's perfect time for
her to do something productive. I should say, I don't
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like her sitting on the tablet, but if we're driving,
I'll let her go on there, or if we're sitting
in a doctor's office. So Lingo Kids was perfect because
it had all these different lessons on it, and just
I can't even name them all. There's so many. I
didn't even get to see them all because there's so many,
from music to speech to writing, to find motor skills
to math to I don't know if I said it speaking, dancing, cooking,
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hygiene chores, like, there's so many different life lessons in there,
and educational lessons that you know, we haven't even touched.
I can't even tell you. There's so many, but Jelena
loves it. There's some interactive ones with like me and
her can do together. Those are her favorite, where it
was kind of like air hockey and I'm on one
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side of the tablet, she's on the other, and we
were able.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I had a lot of fun in doing it with her,
So we like that part of it. And she's, you know,
learning her lowercase letters, which she didn't know. She knew
her uppercase, and the app is doing all this and
it keeps track like a progress report of how well
she's doing, what she's getting wrong, just tracking her progress.
I love looking at that. And you put like the
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year that your child is born, and it will gear
everything to your child's age, so it gears it to her.
She's three, a little over three. She'll be four in October,
so she's closer to four probably, but it gears everything
to her age, and it does knowledge checks, so she
might not be you know, if she's a young three,
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she might not know certain things, so it does a
knowledge check, which then helps the app to better learn
where she's at, you know, educationally. And I love it.
I absolutely love it. I don't feel guilty when she's
on the tablet place it. She actually plays it on
her own, like or you know, opens app on her own.
I don't have to force her to, like, hey, do
your lessons today. She likes to do it on her own.
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And it's just been great. I can't say enough about it,
And I recommend it for especially this age when the
kids aren't in school yet and you want them to
be better prepared for pre K and you might not
have like a lot of time to help them. Lingo
kids is great for that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And she loves it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, that's the best part. She enjoys it. She doesn't
even know it's hard, you know, or like it's something
that she should be bored of. But they because they
make it fun. They make it very interactive, very fun.
She doesn't even realize she's learning. She's playing a game,
you know. And that's what it is to her.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Is that the one where the bird records her, yeah,
repeats what she says.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, Like it helps with speech, so it'll say, like
say firetruck and then she has to say it into
the microphone and it says if she did a good
job or not, you know. Then it told her emotions.
So it wanted her to take a picture of herself
doing a happy face, so she does a happy face
and do this and do that, like do a sad face.
And so it's very interactive and she's she's learning a
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lot from it. It's almost like AI, it's great, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And you could check out the video of Julina doing
lingo kids on her tablet and that video is up
on our YouTube channel and social media and it will
be up on our website along with a link to purchase.
And that's the show for this week. Thank you so
much for tuning in. Check us out next week. You're
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and Lala dot com on all social media platforms at
Shauna and Laala. You could follow me on Instagram at
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Speaker 1 (28:47):
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Speaker 2 (28:50):
We will see you next week and hopefully it will
be a sunny day
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
It has finally stopped raining for about an hour. This
is just getting ridiculous all this rain. I feel like
we're in a rainforest.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I know, it's really depressing. It's been raining for months,
like weeks. It's been weeks and weeks and weeks of
rain and we get maybe one or two days sprinkled
and there with sun and then it rains during that day.
But yeah, it's gonna rain again. It's sunny, it's humid,
but it's gonna rain again tonight, and I don't know.
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It's really ruining the summer. A lot of people are
saying like they can't even go in their pools because
it's been rainy. I'm hoping the summer is not like this,
because that's gonna be really depressing. And like the weather
we say, the weather's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's insane, absolutely insane. I do not remember a June
when we were growing up. This is like the first
June that I remember actually of it raining so much range.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Every single day, and it's not like sprinkles. It's like downpour,
downpour of rain. Yeah, Mother Nature's not been happy. But
hopefully what the sun will be sticking around. I heard
it's gonna be beautiful next week, so everyone can kind
of feel like summer's here and maybe we can get
in the pools and go to the beaches and try
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to enjoy it. Because it's been really depressing. Sooner than
we think is going to be here, School's starting and fall,
so it's really summer better start sticking around.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So I just googled it. I said how many days
has it rained for in New York? And Google says
it averages about one hundred and twenty days per year.
I think our one hundred and twenty days is up.
I think it was up in at least April or May.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh, yeah, it has to be. I can't.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's insane, it's it's horrible. I just want to go
to the beach and lay out in the sun, and
I can't even do that. Nobody can.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No, I've been waiting to use my tanning pool and
I haven't been able to because it's rained every single day.
So next week I'm getting into that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Slush pool if it doesn't rain.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
If yeah, as long as the weather stays like it
says it's going to be, which you can't even count
on that, but it should be in the like eighties,
nineties and really hot, so.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I really hope. So my friend said yesterday that she
put up the poor She paid for a new liner,
and she even paid to put water in the pool.
I said, why would you pay to put water in
the pool when we've had all this rain.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Filled it up for free, Mother nature.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, seriously, that's the only like good thing that's come
about all this rain. Yeah, so school is almost out.
My niece Haley graduated pre school today. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She looks so cute.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh my god. Her dress was adorable and she picked
it out herself. Of course, it was a long graduation.
You know, we were like the biggest class to ever
go through our high school. Mm hm, and I'm pretty
sure like her class beat us.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, we had over four hundred and something kids that graduated.
There was sixty five kids in her class. Well, there
was two classes because there were so many kids.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know why COVID babies. Yeah, they were COVID babies
and that's why, just like back in the baby boomer
days and they were bored. Everyone just had baby Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I couldn't believe it. We were there for two hours,
but it went by fast, and it was it was
really really cute, I have to say, like there were
so many parents there and so many little siblings, and
some of the siblings were running around, you know, and uh,
the principle if that's what you call her, she uh
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was kind of like picking them out of the crowd,
you know. Really yeah, she was kind.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Of like, you know, calling them out.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, like whose kid is this running around? Disrupting you know,
what's going on? Teach your kid? You know, so okay
joking good for her though, Yeah, So it was it
was pretty funny. And she's like, I don't want this
kid in my class next year. It was It was
really funny.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You have to do that because you don't you know,
parents today, they don't parent their kids, they don't watch
their kids. They have no like awareness of okay, situational
awareness like okay, this is a graduation. Let me contain
my child, you know. And I'm proud of that principle
or whoever she was for standing up, even if it
was in a joking way and saying, yo, take control
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of your kids here. You know, this is a graduation.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You weren't allowed to have kids under four or five there,
and some people just didn't listen, didn't care, or maybe
they didn't have a babysitter. Yeah, I don't know, but
I understand that. Like when my friend was telling me that,
I thought it was kind of rude, Like I'm like, oh,
like siblings can't go Like that's crazy, But now I
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understand why.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, yes, I'm like, well that's real mean because parents
they know, parents aren't going to parent their kids and
it's gonna be. Oh, it's a free for all that
the kids run around and that is just so incredibly rude.
And yeah, it I don't know what. I don't know.
I see it every day, we all see it. We
see it everywhere with parents not being parents.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh and by the way, it was freezing in there, really, Yeah,
it was in the gymneys and it was freezing, and
I'm thinking to myself. I said to my mom, Actually,
I said, when we were in school, we didn't have
air conditioning, No in the gym or anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Anywhere except for maybe one hallway, the new hallway in
high school before that. Never.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Never, No, it was horrible. And I remember, like when
we were growing up, it was always so sunny and
so hot in those school like in our classrooms, and
I remember those big box window fans yep, and they
didn't do crap.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No, you were just sweating at the desk and trying
to drink water and then the teachers say no water
on the desk.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And yeah, we weren't allowed to bring waters, yeah, bottles
to school.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It was horrible. Yeah, I was like sweating and the
smell of the class and the bathroom always had a
weird smell and just from the heat. It just gross.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, it's not like that anymore. I don't think they
probably a AC.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm hoping, I mean my son's school, I don't know.
I don't know if the school has AC. I know
in fifth grade his teacher bought her own AC and
rigged it up in those big windows. She's like, I'm
making this work. And Geo used to say because it'd
be summer and he was wearing a hoodie in pants
to school. And I'm like, Geo, it's gonna be ninety
degrees today, and he's like, my teacher keeps the room
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on sixty. We're freezing in there and she's sweating. I'm like, oh, okay,
I get it. So yeah, she made do she.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Made it work good for him though, I mean or her.
The school was allowing it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, I don't know. She was like an old, old teacher,
like who's been there for years. So maybe she got
away with it because I don't know if they'd let
every teacher do that, but.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No, they're electric. Bill would probably.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, and it's not safe because the windows aren't made
for it, Like she had to rig something up, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Also, we pay so much money in school taxes that
I think every classroom should have air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Mm hm, I agree. I agree. Like it's a lot
of money. Those superintendents get paid a lot of money,
and that's where most of the budget seems to go,
is to pay the superintendent.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh, that's where all the money goes is to right
in their pockets. It doesn't go to the school district
to the students, and I remember when we got our
first school pool. I still think it was a waste
of money.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't know. I hardly used it because I was
It was right when I was like almost out of
high school. But I do know the swim team was
really good for menacing and started getting really good, so
maybe it wasn't a waste. I know they were trying
to make money back by having like free swim days
on the weekend. I went to like a two of those.
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh, I never went I went in the pool once,
no twice. First time I went in, I was all right.
Second time I went in, there was a big glob
of hair gel, oh god, floating in the pool, and
I almost threw up. And I said, forget it. And
they said, you're gonna get a zero. I said, I
don't care, give me a zero. Give me a zero.
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I'm not going in that thing. It is disgusting, it's dirty,
it's filthy. And I remember they called my mom and
they were like, you know, she really needs to do swimming.
It's part of the grade. If it's too cold for her,
because my CP and stuff will turn the temperature up.
My Mom's like, you know, they're willing to work with you,
and I said, I don't care. I'm not doing it.
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And I didn't do it. I sat there and I
watched everyone from the hallway.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
First of all, it's stunk.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I know, the chlorine is so bad for you. It
was like really strong.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Like you walked in and my glasses would just fog up.
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The good old days, all those memories from school, and
I do not miss it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Let me tell you something. Today walking into that gym
was like a high school reunion. And I do not
miss it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
No me either. I still have nightmares of school. It's
like funny how you still dream about it and it's stressful.
It's like I forgot to do homework, forgot to take
a test, or how to use the bathroom, and I'm
getting in trouble because class already started. It's like, you
don't realize how traumatizing school can be for kids, because
it's like my husband always says, they felt like a prison.
They treat a lot of like the high school. You
felt like you're in prison, you know, middle school. And
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I don't think it should be that way because I'm
still traumatized by it, or have not traumatized. But if
I'm having nightmares of it, it really affected me. And
how many other kids did it affect? You know?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I still have really bad dreams about getting up in
the morning being sick and then still going to school
on the bus and then my stomach acting up on
the bus.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
In your dream, my dream. Oh my god, Yes, I see.
It's trauma.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So yeah, that's it's gotta be. I still remember the
school route for the bus from my bus route like
for high school, because I literally live six seven minutes
from the school, and we would go all the way
by your dad's house.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh my god, like twenty something minutes away.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, so my ride. I was on the bus for
an hour and I live seven minutes away.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That's horrible. Your mom should have just drove you.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, yeah, I know how that went exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That was not happening.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
No, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I was choking on the lifesaver and in ninth grade.
I will never forget. I was choking on a lifesaver
and the nurse called her, and she said, do I
really have to come and get her? And the nurse said,
if you don't come and get her. We are calling
nine one one and she's like, well, what am I
going to do? And they said, you need to take
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her to the doctor. And all the doctor did was
make me drink water. It was one of those minty
life savers. Yeah, and where the hole was and the
lifesaver was where I was like breathing, and I was
breathing through the hole.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That Thank god, it's a lifesaver. Right.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well, I never had another one. No, yes, exactly. It
burnt my throat. It was horrible. I'll never forget that.
There's many things that I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, it's like things that traumatized you, right and scared you.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The kid that we were in the lunch room, I'm
not gonna say his name on air, but he got
mad at the gym teacher, who was I believe he's
now a assistant principal or the principle. But at the
time that we were in high school, this gym teacher
was practicing or whatever to be an assistant principle, like
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in the administration office, and he would walk around like
all you know, high and mighty and thinking who he is.
And this kid went up to the lunch thing, grabbed
all these condiments like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, salad dressing, mixed
it all on those paper plates and threw it at
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the principle right in front of me. So it hit me,
but it really hit principle. Yea, Oh my god. I
never saw that. That guy jumps so fast. The kid
got arrested. It was insane, and they're like, are you
all right? So I was like, I'm fine, Like it
was just it wasn't all over me, but it was
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on me. Yeah, And I'm like, I'm like, as funny
as it was, I'm like, I was kind of upset
because I'm like, you know, I wanted to laugh and yeah,
but I was like, you gotta be kidding me. Of
course it would hit me, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, it's bad school. High school is bad. Kids are bad.
I mean I think they're a lot worse today because
they have no fear today. But that's that was brazen
of that kid.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Oh he was bad anyway. But now, like I look
back at it and I just crack up. I think
it's the funniest thing. High school was crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I think, yeah, that's that comes with it. High school
is always you're a teenager, you're gonna be getting into
entering the real world soon. And you have all these hormones,
all these emotions. Teachers are dicks in high school and
most of them, it's like a prison. You know. We
have a little bit of freedom, but like a prison.
And I think all that clashes, all that together clashes.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So enough about school, let's get back to summer. What
were some of your favorite summer memories growing up?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, there was so many. We were constantly outside. Like
my dad, we lived in pretty much all these acreage
of farmland, right, and we were always outside. We would
go camping. My dad would take us on the tractor
into the woods. We'd have a big campfire, we'd row
some marshmallows. Those are some of my favorite ones. I
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went hiking a lot with my neighbors, Like we would
pretend that we were lost in the woods and we
would hike for hours and hours and thinking back, like
that's kind of crazy because we covered a lot of
miles on different people's property. And I was I was
in middle school or maybe ninth grade. I was young.
We were out by ourselves. We were a bunch of
girls by ourselves, you know. Yeah, And nowadays I wouldn't
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let Geogo's like, hey, mom, I'm gonna go on a
five mile hike, you know, all through the woods onto
the next person's wood. We lived with a lot of woods,
so it wasn't like you're walking in a neighborhood. And
my mom was like, okay, you know, like that's just crazy.
And we did come across people sometimes, you know. One
time it was a weird man in the woods and
thankful he didn't bother us. But those are some of
my favorite memories of just exploring. And then we always traveled.
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We always drove down to Florida. Didn't I didn't like
the ride, of course, but.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Who does besides my father?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, some people like it. But yeah, just being with
my family going on trips. I mean, we traveled throughout
the school year, so we were lucky and didn't have
to wait for summer to go on trips. But in
the summer we usually took that trip down to Florida
and we loved it. And going to Long Island too,
Like we always visited Long Island. My family woud go
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to the beach and eat really good food and go
ride our bikes. So it was it was a lot
of outdoor stuff. You know, and I think that was
the difference versus the nowadays.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, I remember always being outside. I always remember going
to camp, like the school camp. Yeah, even though like
it was fun, Like now I look back and I'm like, oh,
then there was girl Scout camp. That was the worst.
That was the absolute worst.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I've never been never went to camp.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
My you didn't go to the school camp for like
the first week or it was like the last week
of school or something. I mean, not the last week
of school, the last week of vacation in August.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
No, my mom never sent us to anything like. She
was always afraid of us going places, and I was
afraid to do things too. She had us kind of sheltered.
So yeah, we never went to camp. I never none
of that.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I was sheltered too.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
But I don't know. Your mom's like girl Scout school babysitter.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I'm kidding. But yeah, we never We never had a babysitter.
We never were with anyone but my mom. But my
mom didn't work. Your mom worked, so she had no choice,
you know.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, she worked three jobs and yeah, support us. But yeah,
I mean, it's it's crazy these days. Geo is lucky
because he goes hiking, he goes out. You make sure
he goes out in the woods and does things. A
lot of these kids today they just stood on their
tablets or on the computer on their TV.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But that's the thing, like, if we didn't, if we
didn't push him to go out, he likes going outside,
but it takes the initial of us saying get outside,
you know, because if we didn't, if we were like
these other parents who were like, I don't want to
be bothered, he would probably sit and play PlayStation or
talk to his friends all day long on the tablet,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Which is what we used to do too.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, after school, my mom didn't let me, but I
so I understand. I try and be fair with him,
knowing how much I wanted to talk to my friends
on AOL and Semesenger, and my mom would only give
me an hour, and an hour wasn't enough because sometimes
your friends didn't come on until, you know, five minutes
before my hour was up, and I'm like, I want
to say please, my friend just came on and she'd
like nope, nope, and she'd take the router or whatever
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she had.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh my god, my mom did too.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's horrible, you know, Like I mean I understand now
as a parent. I mean, you're not a parent, but
I understand that because I have taken his tablet away
or shut down the Wi Fi.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Like, no, my mom took the whole computer one time
because I I don't know, I probably back talked to
her as usual, maybe got failing grades or something, and
she took the whole computer out of the house and
I found it at her job. You must have been
lived in the closet.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You must have been so upset. I used to cry.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I was like cooked to it. You know. I was like,
how am I supposed to do my homework? She'd say,
write it, figure it out.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. I was addicted to talking to my friends, like
that's all I wanted to do was AOL and just
because that was like the newest thing. These kids have
grown up with it, but that was something new that
came out when we were in middle school. So it
was just like the most amazing shit. Like I can
message my friends instantly, and they could talk to me
from their house without a phone, and I could talk
to multiple friends, and I can go in these chatrooms
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and asl all these weirdo guys in there.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And I never did that. But I always did like
Checkers and I always plays SIMS.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Oh yeah, I didn't. I didn't do that. I liked
just talking to random people and messing with them, and.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I didn't talk to random people. I did a lot
of the computer games. SIMS was my favorite though growing up.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
SIMS is cool. I played it a little bit, but
I was never into gaming. I couldn't get stuck to it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
But I would just leave my computer on the whole time,
you know, on like AOL instant messenger, Uh huh, have
like an away message or oh my god.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, Instagram just brought the away messages to it. Well
they don't call them that, but now you could on
your Instagram put like a message and it lasts for
twenty four hours. I liked AOL because it lasted for
as long as you need it. If you left your
computer on for a week, you your a way message
was up for a week, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I did it for when I went on the cruise
the other a few weeks ago. I put on Instagram
my first time. I was like cruising for the week,
you know, won't be around, and it was gone within
twenty four hours, so I guess it doesn't doesn't last.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I wonder if that will ever come back like AOL.
And because everything is coming back around, you know, everything
from the nineties. The jelly shoes are coming back around.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
The wide legs, the flares.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
My favorite boot cut. I'm waiting for them to come out.
I am just waiting. Polly Pocket is back for the kids.
The scented markers I see now are back.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yep. I'm hoping that they bring back my Space.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
My Space. Oh, don't even get me started. I logged
into mine not too long ago.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's all gone.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's everything is gone.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, I'm so mad at Tom, Like, why'd you do
this like that? You know, you could have left our
shit up there. We had a lot of good memories
on there.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We had a good pictures and thomsn't even on there.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I don't think screwed Tom took away all our pictures.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I'm not too happy about that because I had
pictures on there that I must not have saved to
my computer and they're gone.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah. I have so many I lost so many photos.
Now I triple save everything because I am so Once again,
I'm gonna use the word traumatized. By all the pictures
and videos that are gone from my youth because I
put them on some random website that was like, here's
a photo album for free, and now that photo album
doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
My photobucket photo.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Bucket, yeah, photo bucket, and there was another photo trail
and all my pictures are gone. So now I'm like,
I got iCloud, I got this, I got external hard drives.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, what I found out with iCloud is if you
delete your pictures off of your phone, they also delete
off of iCloud. Yeah I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, I found that out the hard way too. Remember
I think when I went to the Apple store, He's like,
just put load everything onto because my computer was just
saturated with you couldn't even do anything, it was so
it was so full.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
The guy was like, he said, I've never seen anybody's
computer this phone.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Two terabytes, two terabytes of photos and videos because I
take a lot. And I said, I'm like, what do
I do? I want to move them to external. He's like,
your best bet is to put them on iCloud and
I said, well I was doing that, but once I
delete them to clear the computer, they delete off iCloud
and he's like, oh, yeah, you're right. I was like, yeah,
(22:07):
so that's a problem, you would think. I think iclouct
should be storage that saves and then you can free
up your phone.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But there's gotta be something out there that you could
just like download, kind of like Dropbox, I guess, or
Google Drive, but that you could pick up from anywhere,
and that is large enough to hold all of our photos, videos,
audio files.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Maybe Google. I know Google has like a thing like that,
like unlimited storage for however much.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
But unlimited to me and you is not the same
to everyone else exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, I need like three I probably need like ten
terabytes of storage.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And they have the big external hard drives, which I
do have one. I think I have a twelve terabyte one.
It's not really used yet. But for me to put
my photos on that external hard drive, I had to
take the actual photo app from my laptop, move it
to the external hard drive, and now, guess what, can't
(23:09):
access it because it's not on my laptop, so I
can't access the photos. So it's pointless.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, it's just a pain in the ass. And you
would think that Apple would figure something out, you know,
maybe they need to have us on their team.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, they need to ask the public and for people,
I'm sure there's people like us, the photographers videographers that
they need that extra storage and they need to be
protected and they want it should be easy. It should
be easy. It's not easy. Apple does not make it
easy to transfer crap. I'll tell you that much. No, Microsoft,
I had Windows, and that was so easy. If I
(23:45):
wanted to transfer things. I put an external hard drive in.
I said copy it all. Yeah, I said click on
copy over all photos, and I click photos and videos
on it, and then it all went over Apple. It's
like it's in five different places and it's no easy
way you got to do it. And it's not even
taking them all. It's I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I I it like picks and chooses what it wants
to copy over.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, and it makes the double of them. There's like
three folders of the same shit all on my computer.
So I don't know. I gave up. I haven't touched it.
Once winter comes and I'm not worried about being outside,
I'm gonna sit up there and try again.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, but what are you gonna do? I mean, you
can't even turn it on like it barely turns on.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's so slow from old I don't know. I uh,
maybe I'll have to hire someone. I mean, because Apple,
they couldn't freaking help me. They were a waste of
our time and day, you know, but we'll figure.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah that was a big waste of Yeah, big waste.
So one thing that is good for this summer is
a tablet program called Lingo Kids. And you came across it,
and it's really cool for Julina, like toddler ages. I
don't know if they have stuff for like kindergarten and
(24:55):
elementary school.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah they do. Yeah, I've been seeing it on Instagram.
And Julina loves to learn, and I'm just so busy
I haven't been able to sit with her and teach
her a lot of things, you know. So she likes
to go on the tablet when we're in the car.
You know, I'm always driving, so it's perfect time for
her to do something productive. I should say, I don't
(25:18):
like her sitting on the tablet, but if we're driving,
I'll let her go on there, or if we're sitting
in a doctor's office. So Lingo Kids was perfect because
it had all these different lessons on it, and just
I can't even name them all. There's so many. I
didn't even get to see them all because there's so many,
from music to speech to writing, to find motor skills
to math to I don't know if I said it speaking, dancing, cooking,
(25:43):
hygiene chores, like, there's so many different life lessons in there,
and educational lessons that you know, we haven't even touched.
I can't even tell you. There's so many, but Jelena
loves it. There's some interactive ones with like me and
her can do together. Those are her favorite, where it
was kind of like air hockey and I'm on one
(26:04):
side of the tablet, she's on the other, and we
were able.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I had a lot of fun in doing it with her,
So we like that part of it. And she's, you know,
learning her lowercase letters, which she didn't know. She knew
her uppercase, and the app is doing all this and
it keeps track like a progress report of how well
she's doing, what she's getting wrong, just tracking her progress.
I love looking at that. And you put like the
(26:27):
year that your child is born, and it will gear
everything to your child's age, so it gears it to her.
She's three, a little over three. She'll be four in October,
so she's closer to four probably, but it gears everything
to her age, and it does knowledge checks, so she
might not be you know, if she's a young three,
(26:48):
she might not know certain things, so it does a
knowledge check, which then helps the app to better learn
where she's at, you know, educationally. And I love it.
I absolutely love it. I don't feel guilty when she's
on the tablet place it. She actually plays it on
her own, like or you know, opens app on her own.
I don't have to force her to, like, hey, do
your lessons today. She likes to do it on her own.
(27:09):
And it's just been great. I can't say enough about it,
And I recommend it for especially this age when the
kids aren't in school yet and you want them to
be better prepared for pre K and you might not
have like a lot of time to help them. Lingo
kids is great for that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And she loves it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, that's the best part. She enjoys it. She doesn't
even know it's hard, you know, or like it's something
that she should be bored of. But they because they
make it fun. They make it very interactive, very fun.
She doesn't even realize she's learning. She's playing a game,
you know. And that's what it is to her.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Is that the one where the bird records her, yeah,
repeats what she says.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, Like it helps with speech, so it'll say, like
say firetruck and then she has to say it into
the microphone and it says if she did a good
job or not, you know. Then it told her emotions.
So it wanted her to take a picture of herself
doing a happy face, so she does a happy face
and do this and do that, like do a sad face.
And so it's very interactive and she's she's learning a
(28:06):
lot from it. It's almost like AI, it's great, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And you could check out the video of Julina doing
lingo kids on her tablet and that video is up
on our YouTube channel and social media and it will
be up on our website along with a link to purchase.
And that's the show for this week. Thank you so
much for tuning in. Check us out next week. You're
(28:34):
listening to Shauna and Laala. Check us out at Shauna
and Lala dot com on all social media platforms at
Shauna and Laala. You could follow me on Instagram at
the real Shawna May.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And check me out at Bella Underscore Laala one two five.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We will see you next week and hopefully it will
be a sunny day
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