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Oh, thank you. Yeah, you know, great to see you.
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It is so good to see you again. Ever since we met, like when I sat down, I don't know if we're allowed to talk about it yet, but yeah, I sat down on your podcast with you and ever since then I just felt like such a connection to you because you just are such a bright light in this world.
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B
Thank you.
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And it's amazing how you one of The. The things that resonated with me whenever we did sit down is you said that you only use your gift for good, and you talk about how you struggled with it also.
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B
Right.
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And I confided in you that I've always had a gift, but I've been scared too, because of my religious background. So I think that this, this avenue in life, like, you know, mediumship and stuff like that, needs somebody like you. And we've needed somebody like you for a really long time that can show the difference between light and dark. Because gifts like this can be used for such, you know, different things sometimes, things that aren't good. And I just wanted to tell you in person that I really appreciated our time together.
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Thank you. I know. It was so special. It was. It was so amazing. We knew from the moment that I walked into the space, you know, and how your loved ones souls were like, hanging out there already. Like, I still can't get, like when I was drawn to that corner. Yeah. You know, it was just. It was just amazing.
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Yeah, no, it was awesome. I can't get over your style, though. That was like, one of the main things that I really loved about you. I want to dress like you. Like, I love your style. You're so cute the way you are.
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B
Thank you.
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A
And then the legs, I need to know, how are you maintaining this muscle tone?
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B
Well, I have good genes. Yeah. But I do, I work out. I do Pilates. I've always, like, strength trained and stuff like that. And as I got older, I realized I can't work out like that anymore.
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Yeah.
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B
So for the past year, I've been doing Pilates and just kind of changing it up a little bit.
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So I need to stop weightlifting and start doing Pilates because I need legs like this.
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You could do well, you know, so it's hard because I've always had really good legs, you know.
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Have you always been athletic?
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Always been athletic, yeah. So I used to. I used to deadlift. I used to do all that, and I just. I can't do that anymore. I tore my ACL seven years ago. So once I had that repaired, I really couldn't do it anymore. And at the end of the day, I'm 58. I can't be deadlifting anymore. My body just. I can't. But the Pilates really changed. I could feel the change within my body.
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Yeah. And you become, like, connected with your. With your muscles more too. I feel like when you're lifting weights, you're kind of like concentrating on not dying. And in Pilates, you can kind of, like, connect with your body more.
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Yeah. And the thing that I find interesting about it is that it never stops getting hard. It's always hard. And what I've noticed, it's because I'm getting stronger. And it's a different strength. It's a completely different strength.
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Have you ever used a reformer?
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That's what I love those. I have the. I go to a class where it's. It's a reformer. Yeah.
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No, it's amazing if anybody out there has ever done yoga. I get really bored doing yoga, like, regular yoga.
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B
Me too.
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But the reformer, I'm telling you, is a game changer because you have to really concentrate, and it's hard.
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B
It is hard.
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Think, like, stretching and putting your leg in certain positions on a. You know, like, you're used. It's. It's like a table that you lay on that has bands. I don't know how to really explain a reformer. And you're moving your body and contorting it in different ways, but you're holding these positions. And you would think it would be easy, but it's not.
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It's not. And the reformer is only moving because you're weather lifting from your core or you're lunging forward, and it's not. It's really hard.
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Yeah. No, it's crazy.
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B
I find that crazy. You were talking about my style. Because I watch, I follow you, and I'm like, does this girl ever, like, have a bad day? Like, you always look amazing. Like, whether they're in your leggings or, like, you have no makeup on in your hair. You always just look. You don't just look beautiful.
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You're so sweet.
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But I think it also comes from the soul. So I think beauty comes from the soul as well.
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So 100. You could be the most beautiful woman on the outside. And if your soul is ugly, oh, yeah, it. It resonates. And that's how I feel about you, though. I just love everything about you. I think you're just so sweet, and you fascinate me. You are literally everywhere. Does anybody just ever stop and ask you, like, hey, how are you doing?
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No, not real well.
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Yeah, I guess I feel like I just want to ask you, like, how are you? Because I feel like you are just always on the go 24 7. It's like, do you ever have time to stop and, like, catch a breath and, like, process emotions? Because reading people every day and having spirits talk to you every day, you know, like, do you ever just have time to just breathe and Be.
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B
I'm starting to learn to incorporate that into my schedule because it is very hard. I always say I make what I do look very easy, and it's the hardest thing, but I don't know how to be anything else but me. So it's hard to find that balance. But now that I'm a grandma, I really work really hard. I mean, it's always been the center of my touring. You know, I've been touring for 15 years, 14 years, so it's always like we're home for the holidays to make it home for every. Make sure we're home for every milestone in the family, birthdays and things like that. So, yeah, it's gotta.
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I don't know how you have so much energy, because I. I know we have. The next two weeks are about to be crazy, and I'm already exhausted.
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Yeah.
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Watching you, though, I'm like, okay, I can do it. If Theresa can do it, I can do it. I swear.
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I literally was saying this to this morning, to Jenny. I was like. I had a dream that I was complaining to her that I was just so exhausted because, you know, we flew in, we lost two hours this morning. So it was just like I couldn't peel myself of bed this morning. I was like, what?
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And you're doing this on your day off too?
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That.
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That hurt my heart when I heard that. Because I know how special day offs are, you know, especially in our business. So for you to be here on your day off means so much.
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Well, I appreciate it. I mean, I feel like it's. It's an honor. And. And I do. I feel that connection with you. And I love how you respect not only me, but my gift. So I want to thank you for that now. You are.
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I. I was thinking yesterday when I was writing down all your notes, I was like, why couldn't I have a woman like this to grow up with? You know? Like, I just feel like, you know, we'll get into that in a little bit later when we talk about your family. But I. I just feel like if I could have had like a role model such as yourself that, like, my mom was so scared of her gifts that she became a drug addict. And the rest of my family, they were also scared of their gifts. Is there other people in your lineage that have this gift also that you were able to lean on?
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Well, I. I always say I would not be who I am first and foremost without my mom and my dad.
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Yeah.
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Because my mom, that they're like my. My biggest cheerleaders, You Know, they always just encouraged me, you know, like, growing up, like, doing and saying, like, odd things. And my mom is very spiritual, and so is my. My dad. So I come from a very spiritual but also a strong faith family. And I think that's the thing that has always kept me grounded, you know, is to have that faith and that belief. And I know I come from a long line of people that have gifts. Right. But I know everyone's gift is different. You know, everyone's. Maybe it's an intuition. I remember my mom telling me a story about my grandmother that she had. She would soul travel. Like, she would leave her soul, and she'd be like, get back in that body. And she would, like, yell at herself to get back in the body. So, you know, everyone does have gifts and an intuitiveness. And you also know that I've shared this with you, that I believe we all have the ability to connect with our own loved ones that have died. So that's a soul bond that can never be broken. But to have the ability to be so sensitive to people's emotions or energies around you, that's difficult.
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Absolutely. Is the grandma that had the gift the same grandma, the first grandma that appeared to you?
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No, that was my great. But it was her. It was her mom.
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Okay.
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Her mom.
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Okay. So it's kind of passed down between you guys. That's amazing.
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Yeah.
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Can you take me on that journey? I know you've told the story numerous times before, but to anybody who hasn't heard it, you started seeing spirits around the age of four, Right. Take me on that journey.
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So I would always remember a woman standing at the end of my bed, and I would always feel like a protection. So I would always, like, wake up, like, with these blood curdling screams, But I would always just see a woman. But I always felt safe when I saw her. And it wasn't until I started realizing that I had an ability or something different than the average person. And I remember seeing a picture in my grandmother's house, and I said to her, I said, graham, I go, who is this woman? The picture just looked very different to me. And she's like, that's my mom. Support is available 247 with Verbo Care. We're here day or night, ready whenever you need help. Because a great trip starts with the right support. And of course, I've seen pictures of my great grandmother before, but never realizing that that was her. And it just clicked in that moment. Wait, that was the woman that I would see standing at the end of my Bed at night. So, you know, growing up was difficult. There are many times where I had. My dad would have to get. I would tell him that there are people looking at me, you know, through the window in my room. And my dad would be out at 3 o' clock in the morning with a ladder up to my, my, my window. Looking at my brother would be like, yep, I'm. My sister's making us go up on the roof today looking for people that aren't there.
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Oh, my goodness. You know, that must have been a lot to process, though, at such a young age. Like, did that start to create like, you know, like, you know, like when you can't express yourself, especially being that young, did it create like an OCD loop or did it create like certain behaviors?
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So I don't, I think through me it was more of just that anxiety of, of the racing of the heart and feeling like something was going to happen to me if I did not leave that space immediately. So that's how I grew up. And I would say to my mom constantly, I'd be like, mom, I don't feel right. I feel different than everyone else. I don't feel like I belong here. Like something's not right. And my mom, you know, would say to me, she's like, listen, she's like, we love you. You belong to this family. And I always just felt loved and safe with my parents. That's so important too. Yeah. And they, I think it was because my mom also gave me that space to kind of express what I was feeling. And not to make a big deal about it or not to make me feel embarrassed or even weird about it, you know, because I would just say, like, you didn't just see that woman, like, over there? And like, no, we didn't. We didn't see that woman standing in front of the tv. Like, everything was just so matter of fact. So whether if my mom was scared,
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that was my next question is like, did they ever try to take you to like, counselors or like therapy or anything like that? Or did they just accept it and
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roll with it in the beginning? Accepted and rolled with it. And then as I got older, I did go to therapy for my anxiety. And then my mom was the one that suggested that I go see a spiritual healer because of my anxiety was so I couldn't even leave the house. That's how crippling it was. And I had just had my daughter Victoria, and so I would attend these spiritual awareness classes. And that was a sad space for me to kind of navigate My gift. And I would only open up there. Wow. So I was blocking it all. I was holding it in, and that's what was causing the anxiety, because souls make me feel how they died. So I would all of a sudden feel like I couldn't breathe. I would all of a sudden just start tasting blood. And my. My mouth wouldn't be bleeding. So all these things were happening to me, and I couldn't understand it. So through this class, I was able to work through it and understand what it was that I was sen. And feeling and why I would be feeling that.
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We're going to circle back to the spiritual teachings, but I just want to touch base on the fact that you lived with this from the time you were four until you had your first child.
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Yeah. No, I. I. For my. My entire life, I've lived with this. I was almost 30, and nothing.
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Did you know that you were, like, psychic or.
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No.
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You just thought it was just severe panic. Panic disorder.
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I knew that I was sensing and feeling things that other people didn't.
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Right.
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And we were. I was just talking about this this morning, and I think this is interesting. So, like, if people are thinking they don't know how to connect with their loved ones or they're not getting signs, I said to Jenny when we were getting ready this morning, I was like, for some reason, I felt like I needed to wear my grandmother's cross today. And I just. I did. This is my dad's mom. And I was like, I feel like I need to wear this today. I have to put this on. And she's like, okay, so, you know, wear it. And I'm like, yeah. I just feel like I have. And then all of a sudden, I sat back and I looked at my calendar, and today is the day she died 43 years ago. Wow. Yeah. So, like, little things like that, like an intuition. And to me, that was a sign from her of her saying, you know, wear me today.
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Yeah, Right. Remember me.
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Remember me. Bring me with you to. Even though she's always with me.
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Yeah.
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But I just. This is all part of, like, intuition. And some people. Then it. I would say. Because if people are very intuitive, right? Like. Like, you're an intuitive. You're very intuitive. That doesn't mean that. Then you have to be a medium.
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Right.
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Does that make sense? Like. Like there's a difference. I know I was born this way. I was built. My physical body was built to do this kind of work because it's not easy. And I know my gift is guided by God because through that struggle of going to the spiritual awareness classes, I was fighting it. And I was like, well, why would. Why would God give me this gift? Like, this is crazy. And then once I kind of accepted it, I was like, okay, this is great. Then I was like, okay, but now who's going to want to come and speak to a medium who wants to talk to their loved ones that have died? I could not understand that. You have to remember, this was back in the 90s now.
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Right, right.
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So I was struggling with it. Then 911 happened. So now we have this six years where I was battling this gift and. Or the acceptance of. And 911 happened. And that's when I put my gift in God's hands. I said, listen, if this is my soul's journey, then I will put your gift in my hand. I will put my gift in your hands. You open the doors, I will walk through them with my gift. But I only want to use it for healing purposes. I don't want to see scary things. I can't keep seeing people in full form. And remember, I'm afraid of the dark.
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Yes, yes.
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So
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if I had to see what you had to see all the time.
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Yeah. It's startling when you see. Well, my thing was, is because I would feel things and see things. So if I opened my eyes and it was dark and I was still feeling something, I couldn't put it together. So by always having a light or a little brightness to it, I felt safer.
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You do talk about that. You only channel white light. How do you decipher? And how. Because I know the spirit world, especially the dark side of the spirit, is not respectful. So how do they respect your boundaries?
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I think because God wins.
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Yeah.
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Right. If you don't mind me saying.
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Of course. Around here.
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Yeah. So I. I'm always. I never want people to misinterpret. Like, I am a practicing Catholic, and I never want people to misinterpret if I'm pushing a religion. I just think faith is important. I don't care what it is, but faith is part of our foundation.
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Everybody needs something to believe in.
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Exactly. And whatever it is, it doesn't matter as long as you believe in something.
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Yes.
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So I don't know how it is, but I know it's true. I can see souls, but I can't receive direct messages from them. They have to be channeled through another soul. So I know I can't lower my vibration low enough for that. And it's happened where I've seen it in readings and then also I've seen dark energies around people. I cannot get in there, but I'll know what it is and I'll just back off from it. And I'm always protected.
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A
What does. What does a light energy look like and a dark energy look like? Is it pretty self explanatory or do they come in different forms?
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I could just. A lot of. A lot of my communication is through feeling. But the one instance that I was just referring to, I was doing a live show and there was a woman and I asked her to stand up. And when she stood up, I saw all this just darkness around her and I was like. And I just got this, like, pit in my chest and in my stomach. And I literally felt like someone was pushing me back to back away. And I said to her, I said, do you not feel right? Do you feel heavy? Or like, do you feel like. Or do you use the term I have this black cloud over me? And she said, yes. And I said, well, you played with a Ouija board. And she said, I did. I said, well, you have all of these negative energies attached around you. You need to go home and burn the board because that's the only way that you can get rid of, you know, the energy. And. And she. I'll never forget it. She looked at me, she says, well, I don't want to. And I said, okay.
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Wow. Yeah, I just got goosebumps. Why would you want that dark energy around you?
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I. I don't know. I don.
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We had a spooky situation that happened here because I have a lot of antiques in here. This is just our studio where we film. Literally.
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We. Yeah, that door, that room. When you first walk in that room, I guess. I don't know. I walked in and then to the right.
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Yes.
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Yeah, you could. I could feel energy in there.
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Oh, for sure. There's energy all around here. And this is why I will not bring antiques in my house. We were filming one day and I look over, there's a Dolly Parton Ouija board in here. I love Dolly Parton.
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B
Well, today's Dolly Parton's birthday, by the way.
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A
That's crazy, right?
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B
Yeah, a Dolly Parton Ouija board.
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Dolly Parton Ouija board. And we don't know where it came from. Someone just.
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B
That is bizarre.
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Placed it in here. We have no idea where it went. And I was like, get it out of here. Like, nobody even. So crazy. It's so crazy. We talked about it and like, people, you know, the fans that watch the show went back and trace, like when it Appeared and everything. Like. And we still don't know.
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B
Don't know where it's there.
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No. Have no idea.
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B
Like, it's the craziest thing and that you don't maybe. Might not want to know.
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No. Never want to know. But for her to say, like, that. That lady. To say that she didn't want to go home and burn a Ouija board, like, I wouldn't want that dark energy around me.
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Yeah.
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Do you feel that all Ouija boards invite dark energy?
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Yeah, I do. Because you're.
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You're.
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You're calling in energies. You know, you do have this connection, and you do have that ability. And I feel like that is just opening a vortex or. Or a vessel that you don't want to, or you don't really know what to do. I mean, listen, there are times that I end a live show and I can feel energies attached to me. That doesn't mean that it's bad. But I have to do a lot of prayer, you know, to make myself feel better, more grounded. A lot of times after a show, I kind of seclude myself for a little bit because I don't want. And, you know, I don't want to carry that with me. I have to do my own thing to get rid of the energy.
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A
I couldn't imagine. Every time I go to a funeral home, something attaches to me. We just freaking filmed a Christmas video or my Christmas song video in a funeral home. And it. It was grandma got run over by a reindeer, but I ended up with the worst suicidal ideation.
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Wait, did you say that? Because I was literally saying, what? Why would she be doing a Christmas video in a funeral home? I was like, why is she doing that?
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It was Grandma got run over by her dating. Yeah, it was literally grandma got random over by a reindeer. But I paid the price for it because all of December, I had the worst depression after filming that.
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B
I mean, it's real.
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I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
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I. I always say this. I go, people can say whatever they want about what I do, and it. But it's real.
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No, it's.
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I mean, it is real. But what you do, you protect yourself in. When you go into spaces, do you protect yourself in white light?
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I. I haven't done that, and I need to do that more. I actually just did my first Archangel Michael meditation the other day because I need. I wanted to call him in for protection. And I really felt a difference. Like, it was amazing. But I have crosses tattooed all over my body because I've always, like, you as a child, had severe anxiety to where I couldn't leave the house and have always seen spirits. So my obsession with crosses has always been since I was little. So I have crosses in my house all over my body, and I just always pray. But I guess I do need to start doing the white light.
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And I also do Archangel Michael every day. Yeah. Every morning after the rosary, I say the prayer for Saint Michael, Archangel Michael. And then also before every reading that I do, especially a live show.
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Wow, that's amazing. And it really did make a difference. Like, I felt so much better after I did that meditation. Yes.
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Yeah. But so you can. What you do is when you go into a separate space, just, like, imagine yourself like a white light from God, like, coming in through the top of your head and just, like, filling you and, like, pulling out all, like, any energy. Okay. Any grayness. And, like, imagine yourself, like, translucent and just trimmed out in white light. And then imagine that light that you drained, forming into magnificent white light and then filling you up and then showering you in God's white light. And protection.
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Oh, I love that. Yeah.
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Some people do, like a bubble, but it's this form of protection where if anything that's going to come in, you only want for the highest good of all concerned.
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Amazing. I will definitely start doing that. Raising your children in this, you know. You know, you had them on tv and just in your lifestyle, have you. Has your children known that you were. You had this ability ever since they
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were born, since they were little. You know, I mean, my kids, when they went to school, you know, people are sharing, you know, oh, what did you. Oh, my dad's a police officer. My mom's a teacher. My mom's a nurse. There's my kids. My dad's an Italian importer, and my mom speaks to dead people. Like, my kids grew up. That's what they knew, you know, but they. But the beautiful thing about that, they did not think that that was odd,
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like, because it's all they knew.
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That's all they knew.
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Yeah.
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I ran into someone recently where it was a mom that was on a baseball team with my son. And she's like, I never knew that that's what you did. She goes, you used to say things to me all the time. And I thought it. They were. She was like. It always reminded me of my dad. She goes, but now I'm realizing you were channeling my dad on the. At the baseball games, you know, but, like, it was just so matter of fact, and no one ever made a big Deal about it.
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A
Do any of your kids have gifts as well?
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B
Of course they do.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know, my son is just very intuitive. He's very sensitive. My daughter shows signs to be able to do more. Like what I can do. Wow. Yeah. But she. But she also struggles with, you know, mental illness, and she's very, very open about it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And she's good when she. When she puts her mind to it.
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A
Yeah. Yeah.
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B
She's really good at it. But she doesn't want to.
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A
Yeah. And you have to want to. To.
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B
Yeah.
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A
To be able to.
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B
But it's a big responsibility.
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A
Right. She probably has to watch what you have gone through.
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B
Yes. And. And I say this all the time. I'm like, I make what I do look very easy.
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A
It's not.
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B
But is the hardest thing to allow a soul to channel through me. Take people on this emotional roller coaster. Right. And I don't think. I realize. I realize what I do changes people's life in a positive way, but I just got a text message from someone two days ago saying that I read someone in prison and it changed his life. That he said to the person, can you please reach out to Teresa and tell her that I want to thank her because I feel worthy. And he just got married.
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A
No.
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B
So he got out of prison and he's married. And it's just. I don't real. I know what I do changes people's lives, but you can't even imagine to what level on how it changes someone's life.
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A
Who heals the healer? Because you are a healer, in a sense. You are bringing so much light to people, so much closure that most people would never have if they had. Like, you brought me a ton of closure. So I could only imagine you doing that times the thousands and millions of people that you have reached. Who heals the healer, though?
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B
God?
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A
Oh, yeah.
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B
Yeah. Because it said. I mean, in the beginning, I would say I would get it from the woman who helped me with my gift, and unfortunately, she has passed away. But that was in the very beginning. And then since then, it's been my faith.
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A
Yeah. I would be. I just. You're. You're an anomaly. Because I know how, like, you know, I'm not even on your level, and I know how exhausted I get picking up people's energies. I could not imagine what you do. Like, and you don't get, like. Do you ever get physically ill from reading so many people, or do you. Are you constantly protecting yourself?
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B
No, I'm constantly protecting myself in the beginning. That's interesting. That you asked me that in the beginning. I did become very physically ill. This was when I was struggling with my gift. And I don't even know if I even shared this. Courtney, you might know this. My dad had to physically carry me into the doctor. I was. And I was ill. Out of nowhere. My kids were babies, and I was literally in bed for two weeks. But at the time, I smoked and I.
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A
Cigarettes or weed?
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B
No, cigarettes.
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A
Okay.
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B
No, not.
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A
I don't know what that would buy these days.
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B
Listen, people do them. That. That would probably be a disaster, Right? Yeah. I was never one to really dabble, you know, with things like that.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I guess it's, like, also social, like a control thing. I didn't like that feeling.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So it was almost like a way I felt of God detoxing me because I couldn't do the work that I do with filling and putting toxins in my body.
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A
Oh, absolutely.
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B
So I know that. That. And literally my mom said to me was like, a couple of weeks after I had stopped smoking, my mom said to me, she goes, you are such a bitch. She goes, you need to go back to smoking. And I go, no, God doesn't want me to smoke. And we both looked at each other and we were like, whoa. Like. But these are things that I would say. Like, why would. Who would say that? Yeah. And I knew it was for. For a higher purpose.
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A
When you were. When your dad had to carry your dad or your husband.
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B
My dad.
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A
Dad had to carry you into the hospital. What was the diagnos? Was it just. It was just stress and just taking.
- [29:48]
B
No, it was just. I think they chalked it up to, like, a flu.
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A
Wow.
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B
Yeah.
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A
It was just from reading people.
- [29:54]
B
It was me battling and fighting and resisting. And I do believe that sometimes when the worst things happen to us, things happen, but it's always for a reason. Even though that was the worst at that time, it was awful. But I know it was a time for me, like. Like, there was just something deep in my soul that I knew I had to stop smoking and that I had to accept my gift.
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A
Yes. And it's growth. I always say there's a blessing and a lesson in everything that we go through. You were married and raising kids before you ever fully stepped into this work. Do you think motherhood delayed your awakening, or do you think it prepared you for it?
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B
I think it prepared me again. As a child, I always knew that I wanted to get married years young and have children. That was. I knew I wanted to be a young mom. And I think Most people feel that way, but I would not be able to do what I do and travel and all the things that I've done if I did not have children at a young age.
- [30:51]
A
Right, Absolutely.
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B
How.
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A
How. Sorry. How did being a medium affect your marriage in ways that nobody could see?
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B
Well, I do have to say Larry was a great supporter through that. I mean, I used to say I see shadows. Like, if you think you see shadows, go. You see shadows. Like, he really. He really, really didn't believe, or I like to use the word understand. He didn't understand it. But what he understood was that when I read, I became better.
- [31:22]
A
Like, it was like a release.
- [31:23]
B
Yes. Wow. Because the anxiety came from me, trapping all the energy inside. So he did notice that once I started reading, I was more relaxed, I didn't have anxiety. So he was like, I don't care if you think talking to dead people makes you better. He goes, then you talk to all the dead people you want.
- [31:45]
A
Oh. He's like, if mama ain't happy, nobody happy. Did you ever feel guilty? Like you were more emotionally available for strangers than. But you exhausted at home?
- [31:55]
B
100. I still feel that way. I still feel that way.
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A
And that's why you're trying now to kind of slow down and take time.
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B
And I know that that's not true. Like, I know. Cause I work very hard. I have amazing relationships and bonds with my family. You know, I still live next door to my parents, so.
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A
I love that about you.
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B
I love that.
- [32:15]
A
But, like, even older friends, ticking. I mean, that's amazing.
- [32:18]
B
Oh, yeah. My dad is 85. That's cool. And my mom is 78. Yeah. And my dad, you would not think he's so active. He's unbelievable, my dad.
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A
You light up when you talk about your family.
- [32:29]
B
Yeah, well, I wouldn't be who I am without them. I feel so blessed not only to still have my parents, but to have them. They are the most amazing role models and the best parents that anyone could ever ask for.
- [32:43]
A
They sound amazing because a lot of parents, especially hearing stuff like this from their child at 4 years old, would have been, like, immediately trying to, like, put them in a mental institution or put them on medication or, you know, like, you never. You never know what to do with something like that. Especially I say that.
- [33:02]
B
That I would. I might have been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
- [33:05]
A
Yeah.
- [33:05]
B
And yet, unfortunately, that is a real mental illness. But I could have very been easily diagnosed with something else. And not if it wasn't for my parents. I mean, trust me, my dad is very Afraid of my gift. He's always like, you're taking the dead people with you, right?
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A
He's like, keep it over there, though.
- [33:25]
B
I don't want to know. He's like my dad number one supporter. Like, you know, he's always handing out pictures of me and, you know, he's just. Yeah, he's just. He's the best.
- [33:34]
A
Does he ever come to you for readings at all, or is he just completely.
- [33:36]
B
If I say one thing to my dad, he's like, gotta go. I.
- [33:41]
A
He doesn't want anything to do with it.
- [33:43]
B
Like, I always say this. My family and friends get screwed out of readings all the time because am I getting. This is what people also don't understand. If I know something about someone, it's harder for me to read them because when I get the information, it's like, oh, did I know that about them? Or is this my own memory that I'm recalling? So when I read, I can't have any personal thoughts, feelings, or emotions. They have to strictly be the emotions of the souls of the departed or the person that I'm reading. So when I take. I take great pride when I say, if I read someone that's in the public eye and I'm like, I don't know anything about them, it's such a beautiful thing because just. It just makes the. The experience so much more authentic.
- [34:24]
A
You are definitely the real deal. I will say I was a little skeptical when I went into our podcast. Not that I was skeptical, because I totally believe it, right? But you know, people nowadays, you never know the stuff that you have. I can't wait till you guys can actually watch this podcast with us. The stuff that you were saying, down to the fact that my mom was hiding behind people because I had told her to not appear in this reading. And she was like, you were like, your mom's, like, hiding behind people. And I'm like, it's because I told her not to be step up in this reading. And it was just there was so many other things too, that you pulled out like, it was crazy. You are definitely the real deal. Moving on to when you were doing this with your spiritual teacher. You studied with a spiritual teacher. You learned boundaries, grounding, disturb, discernment, and structure. You didn't just wake up and start doing readings. You trained. What was the hardest discipline you had to learn?
- [35:16]
B
I don't know. I don't know if I would look at it in that way. The only thing that. How I could describe it to you, Bunny, is that I put my Gift in God's hands. And I realized that this had nothing to do with me. I know some people might not understand that, but this, I'm just the vessel that they're using. I'm just crazy enough to remove myself from it and allow them to take over my physical being to be able to deliver messages. So I think that was the hardest thing, if you might say that I had to learn because I'm just Theresa Caputo from Hicksville. That's literally how I still view myself. And this does have to do with the souls, not me.
- [36:05]
A
It's so selfless that you have dedicated your entire life to just putting yourself aside so that you can help other people.
- [36:13]
B
Well, I didn't realize that this was going to be my life. You know, I never in a million years thought that I would be where I am today. I didn't. The. If you want to refer to it as a business, I had a business card. I didn't even have a website. I didn't even have an email. I had a business card with a phone number on it, which was the sign of the cross, by the way. And it was a business card. I had a two year waiting list. I was booked for two years. And then one day Courtney, my manager, she came to me. Well, unfortunately, Courtney lost her dad and she was having. You don't mind me sharing this, do you? Trouble moving on. And her sister Victoria said, why don't you go see Teresa? And she came for a reading and it changed her life. And she's involved in television and she had said everyone should have this experience, should be given this opportunity that I had. And she came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a TV show. And I was like, all right. I, you know, it's like, okay. So I thought I was just gonna like film a couple of episodes. I'd be like on my break from filming, like making appointments. And they used to be laughing at me. They're like, what is she making all these appointments for? She's not gonna be able to do this. She's gonna be filming a TV show and all this. And most certainly I never thought that I would be traveling all over the country on a living on a tour bus, doing live shows.
- [37:41]
A
So many back to back to back to back shows. Like you have a tour schedule like my husband. It's insane. Yeah, you have to be proud of yourself. Do you ever just stop and like, think like, pat yourself on the back
- [37:52]
B
and like, you should. I. I'm proud of myself because where I am here's this little girl who couldn't even leave her house because of the anxiety and the fear, insecurities, whatever they may be. And then, you know, to go through your own losses and then to be strong enough to take my abilities to this level, to take these chances. But again, I always just put. I just put it out to God and put it in his hands. Like, if, if this is what I'm supposed to do, every new venture, I do that well.
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A
I'm proud of you.
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B
Thank you.
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A
And I'm, I, I. You are somebody that I love to look up to, and I'm happy that we have role models like you.
- [38:40]
B
Thank you.
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A
What's the biggest misconception people have about how controlled and intentional your work actually is?
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B
Oh, yeah. I always say if people think that or. Then they don't know me. Right. They don't know the first thing about me. And I get it. I mean, I get. I'm honestly the first one to say that what I do is crazy. How in the world can someone communicate with someone that has died?
- [39:05]
A
Right.
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B
But you witnessed it yourself. There were things that. There's no way. Yeah, there might be common things because there's only so many different ways that people can die. Right.
- [39:13]
A
Yeah.
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B
So those things are common. I can't help that. But these other things of. And I think that that was the thing that I loved about your experience was, was the souls really delivered on, communicating with that personality, respecting you, what you asked for, for the first time.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I mean, to me, that still stays with me. And I don't remember my readings that stood out to me.
- [39:35]
A
And they all showed up. I mean, it was crazy. There was a lot of people that showed up in that reading. It was really, really wild.
- [39:41]
B
It was crazy.
- [39:44]
A
It's like. But I feel like they wanted to talk to you as much as they wanted to talk to me. They were like, oh, shit, they're together. Like, let's. What's time to show up and show out? Like, you know, like, I really feel like they were just like, this is our time to shine.
- [39:57]
B
Can I just go back to something? Because you, you said something to me, and I. And I don't know if it's something because I never just. I'm. I am who I am. Do I take. I don't even know how to say this, if this is correct, to say, like, credit for where I am. Yes, I did it. But I always say I would not be who I am without the people around me, including my family, but also my team. I have the most incredible team around me, and people have been with me since day one, so I'm very blessed. And I don't take any of that for granted because I know that if I didn't have these people in my life, things could have been very different for me.
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A
Your vibe attracts your tribe, and I feel like you attracted people who are just like you. So that's a testament again of who you are as a person and then also your team that you have around you. So you have to be proud. I want you to start practicing on saying, I'm proud of myself.
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B
I'm proud of myself.
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A
There you go.
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B
You hear that? I'm proud of myself.
- [41:02]
A
There you go, sister. So your life changed overnight with Long Island Medium when the show exploded, what part of your life disappeared first? Because that show, I mean, you were everywhere, and you still are.
- [41:18]
B
I would say being home or all that, you know, just being home. And also the freedom of just going out, you know, that that's hard. You know, you go out and I. I love people. I will stop and I will talk to people, you know, but people also have to understand if I'm. If you're out, you're doing errands, you're doing things. You can't do things like that for yourself. So I think that was hard because I am such a people person, and I. And I just love to be out there.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So that was just harder than just being home.
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A
I think people, you know, when people hear stuff like this, they're always like, well, you chose this life. Or, like, you know, you. You know what you signed up for, and half the time we didn't know what we signed up. Up for.
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B
I didn't. Right.
- [42:07]
A
Yeah. You know, like, my poor husband, you know, even wants to go to, like, his son's basketball game, and he's getting filmed, you know, so it's like you totally forfeit.
- [42:16]
B
Yes.
- [42:16]
A
Privacy and, like, little things, like even being able to go eat dinner with your kids. You know, something like that. And we're in no way complaining.
- [42:25]
B
Not at all. Not at all.
- [42:27]
A
It does affect us as humans, so.
- [42:30]
B
Because we just want to do things. I mean, people will come up to me and say, what are you doing here? Like, I'll be in Target. This man literally came up to me. He's like, what are you doing here? I go, I don't know. I'm buying toilet paper. What are you doing here? Like, I'm doing the same thing you're doing. Like, I have to. And. And he literally said to me, don't you have people to do that.
- [42:48]
A
I get that all the time. That's so weird.
- [42:50]
B
I. I said to myself, it's such a different misconception. And I think that is one thing, Bunny, that I work on myself, because I think we all do it to an extent. Judgment. We judge. Right. And you don't. My mom always says, don't judge because you don't know the whole story. And it's true, you know, But. Yeah, of course. But they're here to help me not to go. You know what I mean? Like, I could go do my own thing. CVS is my favorite hiding shopping place. I'm like, CVS has become my one stop shopping.
- [43:22]
A
I love that. Okay, well, now everybody's gonna. Everybody's gonna be looking for you at CVS in your hometown. Now. Do you ever feel pressure to be on spiritually, even when you're emotionally empty?
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B
I don't, because there's something that I feel that spirit knows as part of the boundaries. Because, of course, I feel energy now and I feel things, but I'm not being pushed to say anything. That's several things. It means that maybe the soul doesn't need to communicate. Maybe the person doesn't want to hear from their loved ones, because not everyone wants to hear from their loved ones that have died. Right. So I don't really ever feel pressure. And it's hard when people say, oh, are you always on? It's not an on thing. I can't explain it. It's not. So I. I don't know.
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A
It's a lifestyle.
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B
Yeah. But I. I don't know how. I don't know how to turn it off. I don't know how to turn on. It just happens.
- [44:23]
A
Yeah, I understand. What is the funniest thing a spirit has ever said to you?
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B
Oh, there's so many things that. This just popped into my head. I remember doing a live show, and it was an older woman, she was, I think, in her 80s, and her husband had passed away. And he goes, tell my wife she still has it. And then he showed me him chasing her around the dining room table. And then him and her on the dining room table. And I was like, oh, God. Oh, God, I know what it is. How do I unsee this? So I. I tried to deliver this in a way of where. And I said, oh, your. Your husband says, you still have it. And then I felt him, like, hit me on the butt. And she goes, oh. She goes, he would do that to me all the time. And then she says, and he used to chase me around the dining room table. I'm like, oh, la la, la, la, la. I don't want to hear this again.
- [45:12]
A
You're like, I know, I just saw it.
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B
Yeah, exactly.
- [45:16]
A
That is so funny.
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B
But those are the things that I love. Like, so there are always levity moments because I want spirit to communicate with. With personality and laughter because I feel that is the best medicine for the soul. And I. And I think in a way, it also gives us permission to kind of live life with happiness and joy, even though we're missing our loved ones that have died.
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A
Yes. Amen, sister.
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B
Yeah.
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A
What's one thing you wish people would stop asking you?
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B
Stop asking me, what are you doing
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A
here while you're in Target?
- [45:47]
B
Yeah, what are you doing here? Why are you in Target? I don't know. What would it be? Because usually, for the most part, when I see people, they're never like, oh, what are you getting? Like, people never say that to me. They're always just thanking me for what I do. They want to share with how what I do change their life. And they just want. And they just want a picture. Oh, I'm going to say. I'm going to. This is it. Stop asking me to change my hair. It's not going to happen. I love my hair. And the reason why I wear my hair this way is because I don't like it on my face. So when my hair isn't done, my hands are constantly in my hair. And then your hair becomes greasy and, like, dirty. And I don't like that.
- [46:30]
A
The higher the hair, the closer.
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B
And I like. And I like it. I don't know why. I just love big hair.
- [46:35]
A
I think it's your signature. I don't. If you changed your hair, I don't think anybody would recognize you.
- [46:40]
B
Oh, they do. Even in a baseball hat. Someone will say, I noticed the way you stood, the way you walked. I heard you talk.
- [46:46]
A
The voice.
- [46:47]
B
The voice gives it away.
- [46:48]
A
Yeah, yeah, it's definitely. But I always.
- [46:49]
B
Even if I don't do my hair, it's always like in a little poof. Like, I just love a poof. I think I look better with my hair bigger.
- [46:56]
A
I love it. I tell. When she's doing my hair, I'm like, tease it.
- [46:59]
B
Yes.
- [46:59]
A
I want better. I want to look like I just got banged type hair. Like, and when I get my.
- [47:03]
B
We were just talking about that. You love that tussled hair.
- [47:08]
A
Yes.
- [47:08]
B
Right. And I was just saying tussled hair. And then somebody said, oh, like you. Like you just. Yeah. Great. Yeah. And I was like, I didn't think of it like that.
- [47:20]
A
Yeah, no, that's exactly what it is.
- [47:22]
B
I love it.
- [47:23]
A
I love bed. Yeah. It's amazing. What do you think the biggest myth about mediums is?
- [47:30]
B
I think that it's not real. And I. I only speak for myself. I feel that there are people out there that do have abilities. And I always say, if someone is helping someone live their life in a positive way, then I support them, you know? And I can't explain what I do. It just. It just happens.
- [47:54]
A
Yeah.
- [47:54]
B
So when people. I'm like, I don't know. This is just me.
- [47:57]
A
Yeah. So do you have friends that are mediums, too?
- [48:00]
B
I do. I do. I have one really good friend, and she. I kind of helped her along or encouraged her to. To do this because she had. She was. But then she stopped,
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A
so.
- [48:16]
B
She's one of my best friends.
- [48:18]
A
Would you ever get into teachings? Like, actually, like, I don't think people learn from you or mentor. Mentoring somebody.
- [48:24]
B
I don't know, because I always just share with people. People, if they ever ask me, like, if they're struggling with their own gifts, I just share with them what. What I do and what has helped me. But because it's such a personal thing and the way mediums communicate, we're all different. Not one better than another. We're just different on how we get and receive messages. So for me, it's more of a feeling and just a knowing. Like, when I hear someone speak to me, I'm not really hearing someone speak to me. I can't explain it. They're really not speaking to me, but they're speaking to me.
- [48:58]
A
Right. It's. But you feel it and you see it and.
- [49:01]
B
Yes.
- [49:01]
A
Yes.
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B
And I can't. It's just something that I feel, like, deep in my soul.
- [49:05]
A
What would you be doing if you weren't a medium?
- [49:08]
B
Oh, I don't know. So I had. These are the several things that I thought I was going to be. Well, I. I always wanted to. Well, I feel like I accomplished it because I always just wanted to be a mom because I feel like being a parent is the most important job here in the physical world. So I feel like I did accomplish that, but I wanted to be a Dallas cowgirl cheerleader.
- [49:27]
A
With those legs. You could have definitely done it, sister. Okay.
- [49:31]
B
And I wanted to be a legal secretary or a stenographer.
- [49:37]
A
That's amazing. So you just wanted to sit there and type.
- [49:40]
B
And I always had long nails, so I. It was. I could just hear you just clicking
- [49:43]
A
away in the courtroom, that would be amazing. Would you ever try to do that, like, in the second part of life, just be like, you know what? I don't want to be a medium anymore. I'm gonna go be a stenographer?
- [49:52]
B
No, no, because I, I feel like I would get like, too engrossed in the whole. I'd be like, what?
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A
Like, I, like a true crime documentary just right, right in front of your eyes.
- [50:05]
B
And honestly, I, I can't. I know this is, is going to sound crazy because it's probably the not normal, but I feel I will never stop doing what I do because this is who I'm supposed to be. And even being on television and having cameras and to me, it was the most natural feeling. I can't explain it. And I even think my, my family felt the same way. Like, it was never uncomfortable. It was always comfortable. It was always like, this is what was supposed to happen.
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A
As a little girl, did you ever visualize your life like this?
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B
No.
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A
No, not at all.
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B
I, I, I always thought that I was never going to achieve anything in life because I was gonna die.
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A
Oh.
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B
Yeah. So, like, even before I got married, I was like, well, I can't imagine myself married and like, not living with my parents. So I'm gonna die from natural causes or just. No, it was, it was just a thought. It wasn't anything like, this is how I'm gonna die. And it was same thing when I was pregnant. It was like, oh, my God, I can't imagine going through trial birth or something's gonna happen. I'm just gonna die. You know, Like, I never really thought.
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A
Right.
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B
That, never thought that I was gonna grow old.
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A
But you're not old. You're hot. I mean, can we talk? Are we dating? What's happening? Because you are way too hot to be out here single. There's no way that men are not banging your door down. You are so cute.
- [51:26]
B
Nobody, hey, nobody has never banged my door down. I don't know what this is. No one has ever slid in my DMs and was like, hey, no. What? Well, you know what? I have to. Full disclosure.
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A
Are you checking the right. Because there's three inboxes.
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B
I really don't even check my
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A
DMs.
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B
DMs. I'm not even. I'm, I'm. Can I. Are you allowed to. I'm not a big fan of social media.
- [51:50]
A
Right.
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B
I just don't, you know, so I really don't go on it. I'll just Go on it to look like if my friends.
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A
Yeah.
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B
DM me.
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A
So, well, how is dating life for you now that you are single? Well, here it is like a little commodity.
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B
I don't feel like I ever really dated. Like, I've never really dated. Like, how people. What most people say, oh, I met someone at a bar or I met on a. On an app. It was never like that for me.
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A
I couldn't see you on Tinder.
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B
No, there's no way. No.
- [52:19]
A
So how do. How does somebody like you meet somebody?
- [52:22]
B
Well, you. You meet people through connections, through work. That's how. That's how I met my first husband. That's why I met Larry. So. And I never even thought about dating or wanted to date.
- [52:38]
A
Why have we not made a dating show?
- [52:40]
B
It just kind of happened. I'm really not a. A dater or like someone that. And I never was like that. No, I. I am dating. Oh, you are? Well, I'm not, like, freely dating. I have someone in my life that I've been. Been with for, you know, several years now. Okay.
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A
I did not know that. That didn't come up in any search that I was looking for.
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B
Well, you also have to realize I. This was. My life is out there. He does not choose to live a public life.
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A
I love that. That you guys were able to keep that under the radar, though.
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B
That's. Well, I've always been very open about it when I was dating, so. But I'm not like a dater. Dater. Right. Does that make sense?
- [53:23]
A
No, I get it.
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B
You know, you just. And. And I'm very. I have to. I always. You're a. I am. I. You know, Larry and I. I always say this because I'm very proud of also of how we've handled everything and where we are today. You know, we're a family. I always say this even. Just because we're not married doesn't mean that we're not together. We're a family. We have children, we have grandchildren. So we're able to have all these special moments together as a family.
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A
That's beautiful.
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B
Yeah.
- [53:52]
A
That's amazing that you guys can go through, you know, such a public divorce and then still just. Just be so amicable and raise the family together. Because a lot of people let their emotions get in the way because that's.
- [54:03]
B
That's what life is about. Right? It's about family. It's about connection. So.
- [54:08]
A
Absolutely. What is the most misunderstood part of your personality?
- [54:14]
B
I don't know. I don't. I don't think People misunderstand me. I think it's pretty black and white of. Of who I am. I mean, if this is what I always say, if people say. Yeah. Does anyone say anything negative about me? No. I don't even know. I don't know if it's clear that I don't care. Like, I don't know. I don't say, like, because you like nice things. Oh, yeah. And she needs money to give it away.
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A
Right.
- [54:42]
B
In this planet, that donates more than charity or church. Yeah. All these charities among island. Like one. Oh, John Thiessen. Yeah. Buy him a house where he could, like, do such great work with kids with battling cancer. Like, she makes money to give her money away.
- [55:00]
A
Yeah.
- [55:01]
B
But I always like nice things. My grandmother and my mom would always say, we don't know where you came from. You were born with a label on your head. And my grandmother used to tell me, you have champagne taste in a beer pocket. Because I've always. I always love designer things. Always nice things. I always tell this story when I was in fifth grade, that's when Jordache and Sassoon first came out in the Tom McCanns.
- [55:23]
A
Yes.
- [55:23]
B
And it was. We were getting ready for school, and my mom was like, okay, we're gonna go school shopping. And I was like, well, I want Jordache and Sassoons and Tom McCann. So my mom said, look, we could go to TSS and you could get 10 outfits and five pairs of shoes. She said, or you can get one pair of Jordache, one pair of Sassoons, and one pair of Tom McCanns. And I chose the three items.
- [55:49]
A
You're like, I want all three.
- [55:50]
B
Yeah. I've always been like that. Like, I just like nice things. I don't know why. Again, I was just born this way. And I don't think. I think that is one of the biggest misconceptions about me is that people don't know or realize that what I do is so much more than me communicating with people that have died behind the scenes. Yeah. The behind the scenes things. So I did a fan club because. And I'm very proud. Sylvia runs my fan club along with Victoria. We formed the fan club because people were taking advantage of my ticket prices.
- [56:26]
A
So.
- [56:26]
B
And they were with. And filled with empty promises. So we formed this fan club. It's 1999. To join. I mean, first of all, that's ridiculous. 1999. But we did it so they could. Could purchase tickets safely for the correct ticket pricing. So we did that. But all the proceeds after the cost of running the fan club. I donate back to the fans. So we've give it. We do like thousand dollar gift cards at Christmas time. People have said we weren't going to have a holiday if we didn't receive this. One woman was able to get a job and fix her car because of that. So. So changing people's lives in so many different ways and doing a lot of work with the John Thiessen Children's foundation as one of the. Is the greatest foundation that I've ever worked with. And the things that he has done for children and families on Long island is just amazing.
- [57:23]
A
I'll have to look into that. I love donating. I love giving back. Nothing makes me feel better than giving back, especially to strangers. I feel like when I give back to people, I know they don't appreciate it as much, but I feel like when you give to strangers, like such a different feeling, you know?
- [57:38]
B
Because you know what I've also realized, Bunny? You know, people say, oh, I have such a close family. So when people tell me that, I think it's like my family and people don't have that support. That's something that I've learned through my gift. Where I felt that I took for granted of having family, you know, parents, a brother, cousins, where we're all so close and to have support emotionally. And people don't have that.
- [58:03]
A
That we create people who don't have that, because I. I don't have that. We create our own families and we create our own safe spaces. But yes, you are definitely blessed. But I do believe that. Do you believe that we choose our family before we come here?
- [58:18]
B
I do believe the soul chooses the life, yes.
- [58:22]
A
So you think that they pick everything that they go through, like the ailments that they go through, the addiction that they go through? Because I believe that. I truly believe that also.
- [58:30]
B
And I did a past life regression and one of the past lives, I was a young man and I was desperately trying to save someone in a fire in that. In my house. And when I finally pulled the young person out of the fire, the person conducting the past life said, look into the eyes and who do you see in this lifetime? And I saw my nephew, my brother's son. Oh, yeah. So he was my brother in a previous life. Wow. Yeah.
- [59:01]
A
That's insane. I haven't done one of those. I want to do one.
- [59:05]
B
Powerful, very powerful.
- [59:07]
A
I'll have to get a recommendation from you. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast today, especially on your day off.
- [59:14]
B
Like, oh, my God. This was amazing.
- [59:15]
A
Appreciate you being here and I'm so excited for you guys to go check out Goodnight Nashville tonight.
- [59:20]
B
Oh, can't wait. I'm so excited. But I just want to say to you, I just want to thank you because you. I feel like you really did touch something that people don't normally ask or know about me.
- [59:32]
A
Oh.
- [59:33]
B
So next time someone asks me that, I'm gonna say, well, Bunny asked those questions like you asked a side and wanted to show a side of me that most people don't know or that people would never even consider knowing.
- [59:44]
A
And I know sometimes it might be uncomfortable too, because, you know, we especially being interviewed, it's hard to answer personal questions like that. So I always try to be respectful. But I think you did really amazing.
- [59:54]
B
Oh, thank you. I feel like I've been here for like five minutes.
- [59:57]
A
No, it's been an hour, I think. It's been an hour, right? Yeah, it's been an hour, yeah. Thank you so much.
- [60:02]
B
Well, thank you.
- [60:03]
A
Where can people find you if they don't know how to find you?
- [60:06]
B
Just go to teresacaputo.com I'm verified on everything and I'm just going to say this. If people reach out to you asking for a gift card saying that it's me and I'm going to give you a reading, it is not me. There is so much out there for. And this is again, something that through the fan club we work so hard for. That's why I encourage people to join the fan club, because you have direct access to my team and my team only.
- [60:31]
A
Yes. And they can reach that@teresacaputo.com.
- [60:34]
B
yep.
- [60:34]
A
Go sign up for the fan club. I'm gonna go sign up for the fan club. I'm gonna be the number one fan in there. I'm gonna be like a stalker in there. Just crazy. I love you, girl. I can't wait to just continue watching your journey. And I'm just so proud of you.
- [60:47]
B
Oh, thank you so much and equal. I am proud of you, too.
- [60:51]
A
Thank you for being here and thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I'll see you guys next.
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B
That came through. And she was like, I don't know if you don't know exactly what's going on with him or, like, if you do, like, I don't know if you feel like it, but they just keep showing, like, everything's going to be okay. What? Is there something with his blood?
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A
I knew this was gonna.
- [61:30]
B
Yeah. So just so you know, like, how you always say, like, you want to be respectful. Like, I always feel like I. Because I feel like you wanted to ask me, but you were afraid to ask.
- [61:39]
A
Oh, I would never.
- [61:40]
B
No, I know, I know. So you were afraid, you know, to ask. But I feel like. Did you just switch a doctor or did they just switch the treatment?
- [61:55]
A
Yeah, no, he. He bled out a sweet. He lost 50 of his blood at surgery.
- [62:00]
B
And did they change something or did they give him something new? I don't know what it is.
- [62:05]
A
They're switching his nerves that we love so much. It's his last day today, and I've been so scared about that because I swear he's the only reason he's getting better.
- [62:16]
B
Yeah, but he's strong enough now, so he'll like. It's almost like she did her job up. Is he home?
- [62:22]
A
No.
- [62:24]
B
Well, they showed me him home.
- [62:25]
A
So Wednesday, we just found out he's gonna come home. Oh, perfect.
- [62:28]
B
Yeah, so he's. He's stronger. It's almost like now he needs to know, like, he can do all of this. Like, it's. He's gonna be fine. He's. But they're telling me, like, he's a little bit stubborn. Like, he doesn't listen. Like, if they say eat more protein, he's like, I'm only vegetables. Like, I'm not gonna eat protein. Or.
- [62:44]
A
Right.
- [62:44]
B
Does that, like, so mad about the protein. Okay, so he needs to produce. He needs to. He needs to do the pro. He needs to really. It's very. Who's the young male that deported connected to you? I feel like it's more of like a brother energy or. Or did he have a brother that passed or someone that was like a brother and they told me. Yes. So you could just ask him. Oh, I know what that is. Where is Jenny? She's inside. So that was. Okay. So it's gonna be. But he has to just. It's almost like. I don't know if you said to them, like, dad, like, knock this off. Like, just do what they say. Like, stop being so stubborn. This is your effing life now. Enough is enough. Like, he has to, you know, and. And saying he can't give up. He is being a little sad. Like. Like, oh, yeah, you gotta.
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A
You got to eat the protein.
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B
Yeah, yeah.
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A
He hasn't eaten in eight days.
- [63:50]
B
Yeah, so he has. But it's got to. It's got to be. It's got to be little because it really does. He doesn't feel good when he. Like, I get it, but, like, he's got to do little. Like micro doing it is. And he's got it. But he will build that. He will build that up, but he has to just allow it to happen. Yeah. Yeah. But he'll be fine.
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A
Thank you.
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B
Wait, did he. Did he. I don't know what it is. So that. Were there a lot of changes that they said that he should be making in his life? He doesn't want to do that either.
- [64:26]
A
He doesn't want to quit smoking.
- [64:28]
B
He doesn't want to do any of it. He's like, no way.
- [64:34]
A
So stubborn, crazy. I told him I was like, no more surgeries because it stresses me out. I was like, I forget everybody else
- [64:42]
B
have to have this surgery.
- [64:44]
A
It. It was like either he lived in a catheter the rest of his life or it was.
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B
Well, the problem with that was is they show me like he waited too long to have. He did. Like if he had, like. So this is a. A lesson. So we were just talking about this on how the worst thing that can happen in our life turns out to be the best thing, in a sense. So this is also to acknowledge that if he did this sooner. Yes, right. If he did this sooner, this never would have happened.
- [65:13]
A
It literally. We talked about with the doctors. He's been having this prostate issue his whole life, and had they just done this years. But he's at the va, so they're not very.
- [65:23]
B
But it will just gonna say this. They didn't know so much about it, and I don't know if they were just watching something and then all of a sudden it was like, we gotta do this now. So that in itself. So next time things come up, we just have to like. We. We don't have to like it, but we have to do it.
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A
Yes.
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B
Does that make sense?
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A
Yeah.
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B
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