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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. In the middle of the night, Saskia awoke in a haze. Her husband Mike was on his laptop. What was on his screen would change Saskia's life forever.
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I said, I need you to tell me exactly what you're doing. And immediately, the mask came off.
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You're supposed to be safe.
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That's your home. That's your husband.
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Listen to Betrayal Season 5 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Reggie, I just sold my car online. Let's go, Grandpa. Wait, you did? Yep. On Carvana. Just put in the license plate, answered a few questions, got an offer in minutes. Easier than setting up that new digital picture frame. You don't say. Yeah, they're even picking it up tomorrow. Talk about fast. Wow. Way to go. So about that picture frame. Ah, forget about it. Until Carvana makes one, I'm not interested.
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The Best bits of the week with Morgan Part 1 Behind the Scenes with a member of the show. Welcome, everybody. Abby is joining me this weekend for best bits. Hello, Abby.
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Hello.
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We are warm and we are safe. After Winter Storm, Fern has attacked so many of the states in the country, but we are here.
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That is wild. And I didn't know that it was called Winter Storm Fern.
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You know, fun fact.
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Yes.
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Fern is my great grandmother's name.
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It is? Yes.
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So when I saw Fearne, I was like, oh, grandma Fern, what's going up there?
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You're like, why are you doing that? Yeah.
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And she was a firecracker. So, you know, honestly, makes sense.
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Oh, that's cute. Oh, my gosh. Grand Fern.
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Yes. Okay, so talk to me about your winter storm experience. What happened for you over the past week? What's been going on?
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Oh, my gosh. Okay. So I left last Friday after the show to go to Denver for the Broncos game. So it was kind of good timing. It was kind of good timing for me because, like, the weather was. It was cold there, but, like, it wasn't crazy.
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Well, no. In Colorado, they know how to handle all this. This is what they get all the time.
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Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. That's cold ice.
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They're prepared for it.
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Yeah. You know what's crazy, though, is I was talking to somebody and they said a lot of people, they're a transplant, so they. They don't know how to drive on the roads.
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But this.
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The.
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That's true. The drivers, I'm not as worried about, but the infrastructure, the city is equipped to handle Stuff like that, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I left. I got there Friday evening. We went out to eat. Everything was good. We went to bed early because I knew it was going to be a crazy weekend. Then the next day, we slept in. It was Saturday, and I was like, I want to kind of explore a little bit. And so we went to Red Rocks.
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Wait, have you ever been to Denver before?
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I have, yeah. Ye. But it was, like. It was pretty brief, and I was, like, super young. I've been, like, on the outskirts kind of of Denver, like Greeley. That's where my grandma lives. But I had been one time to visit my friend. She lives in Golden. And so I got to go see Red Rocks. Like, I took her car, and that's. That's about it. So I've seen Red Rocks during the day. Still haven't been to a concert. That's on my bucket list. Have you been?
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No, but it's on my bucket list to go to a concert there, too.
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Oh, my gosh. I cannot wait.
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Yeah, we might need to figure that. We work in this industry. Surely there's someone we could go see at Red Rocks on a weekend.
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And. Yeah, they're announcing, like, new dates, so I. Yeah, I need to look. Okay.
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If you see the one you like, we should do that.
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That'd be so fun, because that'd be.
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A fun trip for us to go take together, and we could find ways to get there and make it all happen.
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Oh, my gosh, it is so cool there. Like, there was. It was too freezing that when we went to see it, but we went in, like, the Trading Post. It's kind of like a store next to it, which is really cute. And then after that, we went to Larimer Square, which is kind of like downtown, and that's where they have all the. The Broncos jerseys, like, hanging. And there was, like, a block party happening with, like, a deejay, and, like, the cheerleaders were there and the mascot.
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Okay, what city is Mile High Stadium in?
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It's in Denver.
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It is in Denver?
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Yes. It's, like, right downtown Denver, basically. Okay, I'm probably wrong, but, like, it's very, like, tall buildings. When we went down, she said it's downtown.
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I've never been. I've never been to the stadium. I've been to Denver a bunch, but honestly, I know that those stadiums can be in all kinds of cities. So that's why I didn't know if it was downtown Denver or if you, like, outskirts or where you were at.
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Yeah, it was like downtown. And they're actually building a new one right now. Well, they're like, in the process, they found land that I think they're going to start building the stadium on. But so we went to that square and there was like that dance party and it was freezing. Like, so we just went dance party in the cold? I mean, yeah, Dance party. Block party. Yeah. People were dancing. The mascot was there. We got our picture with him. And then we went into a bar to get a drink. It was so cold and we like parked far away and we were walking. But we were like, we have to get used to it because the game is Sunday and it's gonna be even more freezing. So we were like, we can handle this. And then we went to Corey Kent at Grizzly Rose, which is a really cool venue.
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I saw that. I saw that. And I have heard great things about Grizzly Rose.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I also love Cory Kent. Was he awesome?
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He was so good. I've seen him before, but this time I was like, oh my gosh. And people were like into it. It was really fun.
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Grizzly Rose is a really cool venue. To see an artist at it is.
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Like, I want to go back. They have like a saloon looking bar inside. They have pool, our bowls, like a mechanical bowl and then like a photo booth. What else do they have? Dance floor. People were two stepping. It was awesome. I was like, we need that in Nashville.
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Yeah. We don't have our own Grizzly Rose. Grizzly Rose is very popular. It's one of those stadium, not stadiums. It's one of those venues I think a lot of artists love to play at. It's one of those top tier ones.
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Oh my God. It's so cool. And it's funny because the friend I went with, she got married there. She knows that.
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Really?
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Yeah. And he was there and he's like the nicest guy ever. Like, he's so hands on. Like he cares about his bar. And then they presented Corey Kent with like a silver buckle, like belt buckle, because he sold it out. So they do that when artists sell it out. And I was like, that is. This is so cool.
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So there was a country music weekend.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Broncos.
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I know. It's like, I might as well. I'm here. I might as well just like do everything again.
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As you should.
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Yes. And so we got home late and then we got up early. Well, it was like 7:30 to get up and start like preparing for the.
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Day because what time was the game at?
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The game was at 1. Okay. There. But the tailgate started at 10, and we had to be there by, like, 9:45. And it took us a long time.
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Was this a tailgate of somebody you guys knew, or was it a tailgate of the friend who knows the coach?
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It was. So we got the tickets through the coach, and then we got the tailgate through one of her friends. They were kind of separate, but it was like a nice tailgate. Like, people paid, I think, like, $200 to get in. And it was, like, unlimited drinks and food. Like, I would. I mean, if I was a Broncos fan living in Denver, I would pay for that because it was really cool. They had, like, an auction in there, a whole bunch of food. Some of the players, like, showed up from, like, past teams. I think they were both in the Super One of. In the Super Bowl. Both of the guys.
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Okay. At one point, when the Broncos played in the super bowl, they were in the Super Bowl.
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They were in it. And I don't remember their names, but I got picture of them signing autographs. I didn't want to wait in the line because I was so cold. And then there was, like, a silent auction, like I said, music going. So that was really fun.
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Oh, that's so fun.
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Drinks. I started drinking. That's like.
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You know how they call if you don't go regular camping, you go glamping?
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Yes, that's exactly.
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You did the glamping version of tailgating.
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I know. So I really didn't get to see, like, the parking lot, like, actual tailgating. Cause I kind of wanted to see that. Cause I heard it's, like, really crazy. But I was kind of along for the ride, you know, Like, I was with them, so.
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Well, and again, you're not going to have that experience. Normally. You can always have the parking lot tailgate experience when you go back. This particular experience isn't always gonna happen, so.
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Oh, my gosh. It was, like. It was so crazy. I was like, how am I getting? The VIP treatment right now is really cool. And so we started. I mean, I had five layers on, so I had three pants. I had, like, the fleece leggings, sweatpants. And then I got a ski suit, which I had already bought. Cause I was like, oh, this will be good. It's really cute. It'll be good for, like, skiing or, you know, when it snows. And it ended up, like, matching the Broncos color. So I was like, I'm wearing this.
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It was perfect. I loved your outfit.
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Yeah.
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And.
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And then we got cayenne pepper in.
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Four to do the Hey, I talked about this on part two.
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You did, but it doesn't work. I chat gbt'd it right before we left the hotel and it said you could get like burns on your feet or blisters. And I was like, oh my gosh. I don't want like sore feet. Like what if we don't want to burn our skin? Yeah. And then have to walk all day. I was like, I know the football players did it, but their football players and they're like tough and they'll do anything.
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But I'm gonna say the football players are not talking about the blisters.
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And yeah.
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Gooeys that are on their feet now.
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The least of their. Yeah. Worries. And so I was like, no, let's not try that. But then we got foil because we saw that on a video where you put a sock on and then you wrap your toes in aluminum foil and then you put another sock on. And I tried that and like halfway through the game we took the sock off and it was just in pieces. The foil?
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The aluminum foil?
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Yes. It like it just shredded from us walking. So that obviously wasn't working. It wasn't keeping the heat in. Yeah, supposedly it's supposed to like keep your heat in.
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I understand the keeping the heat in, but maybe it's not meant for like if you're doing out activities while wearing it, you're just supposed to lay there.
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Yeah, I guess. Oh my gosh. You know what was crazy? We went to Target and they had foil in the lock boxes. You had to go get an employee with a key. Like people are stealing foil. I don't know.
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I wonder if there is something with extreme cold weather and something with that. But I had. That's an interesting. Okay, let me. While you keep talking about your story, let me google some aluminum foil situation.
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So that's what I did with my feet. I had snow boots on and then my hands. I have like hand warmer, like electric hand warmers that I actually use at work. Ray and I both use them because it's always freezing here. And I took them and that was like the savings that. That did everything because they get so hot they like burn your hands. And so I just put them in my pockets and I just had my hands in my pockets the whole time and it like worked.
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And your hands were warm.
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Yes.
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Didn't you guys also do a trick of cardboard where you stood on cardboard for some of the game?
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Uh huh. We took in a cardboard box like folded up and we stood on it and our feet were fine. The whole time I was standing by a girl next to me. I finally was like, oh, my gosh. Come on. The cardboard. Because she just had regular, like, cute boots on.
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No.
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And I was like, what are you doing? Because she was like, I know. I almost wore, like, snow boots, but I changed last minute because she looked super cute. She had, like, on cute jeans. And I was like, you have to be freezing. Oh, heck no.
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And one of those situations. Listen, I love. I love looking cute. I'm all for an outfit for a reason.
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Yes.
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But in that situation, I am over practical. Like, practical and comfort over cute. I do not care. I will look like a Michelin Man.
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Yes.
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If it means me being warm.
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That's how I looked and felt. I was like, I am not attractive right now, but, hey, I'm warm. That's all that matters. Okay.
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I did look up fentanyl. Use prompts downtown target to lock up an aluminum foil. So I think shoplifting is another reason. For some reasons, people are shoplifting the aluminum foil. I'm wondering if it's connected also, again, to drug use, so.
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Oh, my gosh.
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No, it's. Yeah, that.
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Okay. I was like, there has to be reasons. It also $5.
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Well, Anna says thieves use aluminum foil to create booster bags, which are shopping bags or purses lined with foil. So seems like a few different things.
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Okay, so foil is being used, and that is crazy. I couldn't believe it. Yeah.
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So if you see your aluminum foil locked up, that would be why.
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I mean. Yeah, it's like downtown. The target is literally. It's one of those, like, downtown ones. So. Yeah, I mean, there's probably just people coming in all the time. I don't know.
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Okay, so cardboard. You made a friend.
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Yes.
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The girl who definitely dressed cold over. Over comfort. And were you so happy to be there experiencing it? Were you ready for it to be over because you were cold? What were all the feelings?
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No, I loved every minute of it. I was just trying to, like, take it all in. Cause I was like this. I'm never gonna have these seats again. We were like, 10th row, and I got to see the goal. We were kind of, like, on the end zone, on the side. Okay, so you'd, like, see one of the touchdowns at the beginning. And I was like, this is awesome. Oh, my gosh. We're. We're doing great so far. And then it. I mean, it went. Took a turn or we went downhill.
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Because they did start out really good.
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And then we didn't kick that field goal. It was kind of A bummer. Cause then we would have been tied ultimately, but.
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Well, anyway, snow was playing such a huge role, too. I mean, you couldn't see anything if you're sitting in those seats. Did you see stuff when the snow was hitting, or could you even, like.
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So I. We could see. It was hard to see the football, and then you couldn't see the lines on the field. It was crazy because the first half, it was sunny, and I was like, I am so prepared. I'm so warm. Like, I am going to be comfortable the whole game. And then we went to the bathroom. After halftime, came back out, it started snowing, and it was just like. I mean, it was like a snow globe. Seriously. Like, you're in there just snow falling. Everybody loved it. Like, they were just embracing the snow. Like, they're like, this is so cool.
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Okay, you know what? I know we talk a little bit in part two about, like, your top five moments, and I asked you about your brother because your brother is a big reason of why you're a Broncos fan. I think your brother was looking out for the weather because I think he wanted you to have both experiences where it was, like, full clear day, you don't see what's happening. You're cold. But then also, everybody talks about the experiences of when you're in a weather situation at a game or a concert, whether it's pouring down rain or snow. And I would imagine Mile High Stadium being drenched in snow is an experience in itself.
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Yeah. I got goosebumps when you said that. That is craz. I feel like it is that way.
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To give you both and not just five minutes of clear to then have this. You had a first half that was bright. You were good. You were warm, surviving. And then second half, to get to experience the snowfall in Mile High Stadium.
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Oh, my God. Like, he would have loved. He was a huge, like, the biggest Broncos fan ever. He would have, like, loved this so much. So I kind of felt like I was, like, living, like. I don't know, for him, like, being like, oh, my gosh, I wish we could have done this together. But, yeah, it was. It was so cool.
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You were channeling him, trying to make sure you experienced everything.
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Yeah.
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Took it all in. Was happy about it, despite the weather.
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Yeah. And it was cool because there were no, like, annoying fans. Like, sometimes that can, like, ruin a game, you know? Like, I've been to one where someone was, like, cussing me out in Nashville at a Titans game because I was the other team, and I'm just like, I'm not doing anything. So there were Broncos fans behind me, and then there were a few Patriots fans in front of me and that. They were like, nice. So I was like, it was fun. Like, everybody was good vibes. And I was like, it was like that the whole time, which I really liked.
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That's how it should be. Yeah, that's how it should be at concerts. It should be how it is at games. Everybody's going out and spent hard earned money to be in a place like that. And it's supposed to be an experience. Regardless of what happens, you know, regardless of the outcome, you're supposed to have a good time. That's the point.
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That's.
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That's, you know, how you see those videos on social media. I forgot the point or whatever. That's the point. The point is to live and experience and enjoy the experience.
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I know. And I actually. The guys behind me, they were like, so positive because I was getting so nervous. I was like, we're gonna lose. We're gonna lose this game. And they're like, you got this. We still can do this. I was like, thank you, guys. Usually it's like the other way around where, like, they're like, negative, and they're like, are you still. Or I don't know, whatever.
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And I know that's part of sporting events.
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That's the.
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The whole, you know, vibes or whatever.
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Yeah.
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But it's also like, dang, you're at a cool NFL game, and it was a championship game, and there was so many things riding on it. And there's snow falling. This is cool.
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It was wild. They were like, blowing off the snow with like. Like blower. Like leaf blowers, basically.
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Snow blowers. Snow blowers, yeah.
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And people are like. I saw their. Them commenting. They're like, why don't you use a shovel? And I'm like, that's so much faster. What they were doing, it was actually working.
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Everybody's an expert somewhere. Okay. I'm glad you had so much fun.
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It was so fun. And then at the very end, like, a minute and a half, everybody started leaving, like, funneling out, like, all the Broncos fans. And then we're, like, stuck in the parking lot for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, my flight leaves in, like, two hours.
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Oh, gosh. And I was like, I'm assuming you were going straight from the game to the airport.
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Yes. Well, we had to go to the hotel and pack first, but I thought the game would be over at, let's see, 4:30. We'd have time to get to the hotel. My flight was at 7. We'd have time. No, we got stuck on. Because it was snowing. So now it's at a standstill. You know, driving because people. I thought it would not be an issue with driving, but it was.
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There are a lot of transplants. Any big city now?
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Yeah. Oh my gosh. So we're stuck there. Like an hour went by and I'm like, okay, we are boarding in an hour. Like, so we took an Uber. We rode with them. It's kind of complicated. This is why I was so stressed. I. I don't think I've been that stressed in a long time. I was like shaking and like. Yes. Because we had to Uber with them somewhere. Just kind of out of all the craziness. Or ride with them. Then we Ubered to our hotel, ran up to our hotel. I've never packed that fast in my life. I just threw everything and I was like, I hope I don't forget and just throw it. Which I. I basically took my ski suit off and left everything else on, so. So I flew home in three layers. I was sweating.
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In fairness, you were probably uncomfortable on the flight, but when you got here.
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Yes, it was probably worth it. Uh huh. But on the flight, oh my. I was like sweating. I had to take a shower when I got home because I was like, I feel like I just ran like a marathon.
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That's wild. And the flight wasn't impacted by the.
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It was delayed 30 minutes, which is what saved us. Because if it would not have been.
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You don't think you would have made it?
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No, because we had to return our rental car. You have to get on a tram or the trolley.
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The Denver airport is the shuttle.
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The shuttle to get there. Then you have to get on the train and go from the terminal all the way to the sea gates. And I was like, oh my God, I can't do this.
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So when did you arrive at your gate?
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So we got there. Oh man. Like, luckily it got delayed again.
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Okay.
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Till like 7:30, I think.
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So originally 7?
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Yeah, we got there like 7:10.
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Okay. Dang.
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And luckily they kind of delayed the boarding too, because I think they were like deicing the plane or the crew wasn't there yet. Then we did sit on the Runway and they had to de ice the plane for like 30 minutes. And I was like, okay, is this safe? Because I know they canceled thousands of flights. Why are we still going?
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Why are we the only one so going in this moment? And we had. At the point of you coming home, we had already gotten snow but we had not started to get ice yet. So I think that's why you had this again. Everything about this past week was about certain times, moments of time. Yeah. And I think you guys had a sliver of time where you had to make it before the ice. Like the sleep mixture was falling and it hadn't hit yet.
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My gosh.
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And I think that's why you guys made it. Yeah.
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I got in at like 11:30 and then like my fiance picked me up in his truck. So I was like, oh my gosh, I'm nervous. Cause my friend lives like really far away and she had to Uber home because her husband couldn't get out. No, Uber was like a hundred dollars. I was like, you can stay with us. But he. She didn't have power at her house and she didn't want to make him. They have six dogs and she didn't want to make him like be by himself. It was just crazy. But luckily he could pick me up because he had four wheel drive.
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Wait, and that's. Hold on. Pause. Timeline. Wrong. My side. It was Sunday night.
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Sunday night.
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And stuff had already fallen.
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Right.
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I don't know why you guys made it.
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No, I know. That's what I was saying because like when we got on the highway, there was no else on there and he was going like 10 miles an hour. It was solid. Like black ice. You could just. It was solid.
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Yeah.
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How? How.
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I don't know. Did your guys plane?
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I don't know. I kind of wanted to get stuck there. So I could have just like explored Denver.
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Yeah. Hang out for a while. I'll be back when it's all okay again.
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Right. Because I knew here I was just going to be stuck inside because it's not any more snow. It's. It's not like fun snow. It is now ice where you don't want to be outside.
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A
Oh my gosh.
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B
Okay.
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A
We have more to talk about. We need a quick break.
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B
Okay.
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A
We'll be right back. Well, so speaking of all of those timelines. Cuz now I'm. Gosh, it feels like this past week has just been a blur in general.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So. Yeah. Still don't know how you made it. I'm you. It's a miracle you made it back.
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B
There were 10,000 flights canceled that day.
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A
Must have been the pilots. And those flight attendants really wanted to be in Nashville.
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B
For some reason I thanked them. I was like, thank you very much for getting us here safe. Yeah.
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A
That's wild. Because it was so. It was Sunday morning, so we On Friday, I had prepped, I had made chili. I had all my batteries, all my things were charged. I was ready for a winter storm. I knew it. We grew up in Kansas. I'm not unfamiliar with snow and the inches and you may be stuck inside for a little bit kind of vibes, right? Saturday hits. Oh, we're good. This is snow outside. Let's go sledding. So we went and sled at Capitol Hill, which is my favorite hill to sled in in Nashville.
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B
I have not been. And it looks so fun.
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A
It is the best time. I'm telling you, every snow day, you will find me there. Like, if there's an actual snow day, I will be there because scary.
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B
It looks like you're going really fast. It is.
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A
You are going really fast. That's what was funny. So I posted a video of, like, all the contraptions people were using. It went viral, and people were going bonkers over it, which is funny to watch because a lot of people are like, there's not enough snow. I'm like, well, then explain how I was moving at that speed down the hill. Because it's not just grass. There is something there and there isn't. In that defense there, we. We got maybe like three inches of snow, maybe. And it was not falling super hard on those hills and stuff. But you can bet Nashville used it as an opportunity. And we did. And it was. It's so fun. You have to go.
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B
I do. I need to.
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A
It's the best experience. And there's a party. There's always a DJ there at the bottom of the hill. He's playing music, people are drinking. Like, you have people down. It's very much like a mountain in Colorado.
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B
You.
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A
You have people down at the bottom with the dj, and they're drinking and dancing and vibing. And then you have people on top of the hill who are sledding and doing the activities.
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B
That is so cool.
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A
It's such a vibe. And I always go. So we got out, we ventured out Saturday. I was like, oh, the roads aren't bad. This is good. I got four wheel drive. You know, this is what the Bronco's made for. So we went and had that. We had a great time. Came home, made some homemade fondue. Life is good. Okay, we're stuck inside. It's a little cold. That's fine. Go to sleep. 6:30am all of a sudden, the power just out.
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B
That's Saturday morning.
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A
No, Sunday morning.
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B
Sunday. Oh, my gosh.
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A
6:30Am Sunday morning. And I'm like, I Look at my fiance. I'm like, power's out. He's like, it'll. It'll come back on. I'm like, I don't think so. I don't have a very good feeling about this one because if it just went out, it's not good and it's not coming back on easily. Like, we sat there for. Laid in bed for like an hour, being like, okay, it could just come back on. Maybe it's a fluke. It never came back on. And I started panicking. Panic, like set in. And I don't. Something about everything felt different. And normally I would have just wrote it out, stayed at the house, tried to figure things out. And I looked at him and I said, I just don't feel like this is normal. And I don't feel like we should stay here because we don't have a heat source at our house. There's no fireplace. We have nothing to stay warm. There's nothing. And with power out, that takes away any opportunity for like a space heater or anything like that. I don't have a generator. I don't even have like a. We didn't get a rented generator. We didn't do anything like that. We have candles. We have candles and we did have a gas. We have a gas stove, but like that. Also, I, I don't like running the gas stove without the hood because carbon monoxide, like every time I cook on it, that hood is on.
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B
That's the thing too. That's sc. The people were like doing those heaters and stuff.
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A
Yeah. Because carbon monoxide.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And you're not. If you're, you know, especially in a situation with no power, your windows are all closed. You're. You've sealed vents because you don't want cold air coming in. And then you're putting a thing in there that's. It's like the worst case scenario. Which is why I didn't want a generator. I just. Generators freak me out. Unless they're properly installed and you have like the whole thing. And there were so many things online was like, generator needs to be away from your house. I was like, do you put it.
- [24:39]
B
You put it in the front yard?
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A
Just sits there in the front yard. Like, where is it going to go? Can't go in the garage. Can't be in the backyard by the fence. Like, where's it supposed to be? And so I just was like, we're just not, not going to mess with that. But I looked at him and by 9am I was fine. I was on the phone, I called five or six different hotels trying to figure out what everything was happening. Who had power, who didn't have power. Some of them weren't even answering because I don't think they had power.
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B
Shoot.
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A
And also I was like, I'm not paying an insane amount of money. Like, this is not. This is not a vacation stay. Right. Give me like the cheapest option that is dog and cat friendly and that's where we'll be. And that was what we found. We found like a extended stay type place. So we had a little kitchen area and we had free breakfast.
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B
Yes.
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A
Which was the selling point for me.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And they welcomed Remy and Hazel, which was perfect. Not a lot of places allow cats. Allow dogs.
- [25:33]
B
They don't. Oh, I guess I didn't think of that.
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A
Yeah. And a lot of them also have weight restrictions on dogs. And there was not that whole hotel, man. It was. It was a dog party.
- [25:43]
B
Oh, really? That's so cute. Like the elevator and stuff. Yes.
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A
It was a dog party. So we had like after that we load everything up. We took all of our stuff in the fridge and we put it out on the deck. We just put it in bags and it was on the deck. And we were like, if it goes bad, it goes bad. If not, at least we tried. It's out there. It was all frozen by the time we came back.
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B
Probably as hard as a rock. It's like, well, hard as a rock.
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A
Yep. Everything was safe.
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B
Very cold.
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A
So now it's like it was in the house dethawing when we got back. We had to like leave it outside of the fridge for a while to get it just to like go back to normal. But yes, we use nature's refrigerator for kitchen items.
- [26:20]
B
Love that.
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A
We turned off our water and we had drained all the pipes because we're obviously worried about pipes freezing. I know you experience that. We're going to talk about that. And so we, I mean, like we tried to prepare the house as much as possible. Stuffed blankets and towels everywhere, Trying to keep it as warm as we could inside until like we could come back and we went and stay at the hotel with the thought, like what we brought was for one night. Like, surely this will be a one night thing.
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B
We'll go back. That's what you think. Yeah.
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A
Yeah. That's what you hope. Right. And you know, it's getting to be midnight Sunday night. I'm like, this isn't. No, this is getting worse. I have a feeling. And I'm starting to see stuff online and I'M like, this is not looking good for anybody. And so I go down. I extend it another day. Mind you, I extended each day by the day.
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B
Oh, by the day. You were lucky.
- [27:06]
A
Well, because I didn't know that was the crappiest part.
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B
Right.
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A
Was like, you can't cancel a hotel room, Right. If you do it within 24 hours. So if we get power back on, I'm paying for this night that we're staying.
- [27:21]
B
Like, if you. It's like 6pm and you. You're like, oh, we got it back.
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A
Yeah. And I'm like, and that's stupid. And so every night, like, before we went to bed, I didn't. I would go and extend it. I wouldn't extend it, like, the morning of. Until the last day, which was where the problem ended up being, uh.
- [27:36]
B
Oh.
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A
But I'd go extend, like, the night before and be like, okay, we're staying another night, I guess. And so I kept doing that each night at a time, like, just assessing the situation. There was no. Like, up until Tuesday evening, there wasn't even a glimmer of hope. Nobody had even been in our neighborhood. Based on our neighborhood group chat.
- [27:54]
B
Oh, my God. Because.
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A
Have you ever seen Gossip Girl?
- [27:57]
B
No.
- [27:57]
A
Do you know the references to Gossip.
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B
Girl where It's like, spotted.
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A
X.O.X.O. gossip Girl.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So our neighborhood group chat was doing Gossip Girl spotted moments of the lineman.
- [28:07]
B
If they'd be in the neighborhood. Okay, that's funny.
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A
Like, a picture of a truck, and it was like, spotted on da da da street. XOXO Gossip Girl. And it became a funny update.
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B
Yeah.
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A
We didn't see anybody in the neighborhood until, like, Tuesday evening. And that was our first sign of. Okay, they're starting to look at the area. And then Wednesday, I had. We were coming to work, and I have. I felt like we had just gotten our groove with our hotel living and just making the best of what we're working with. And literally, I go up. I didn't extend the night before because I was just like, I feel like, we're fine. This has been working out. I'll extend. Before I leave for work, I go up to the desk. She's like, we're completely booked.
- [28:48]
B
We're sold out. See, that's what I was thinking when you were like, I extended the day of.
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A
And so Wednesday, I'm like, I start panicking. Panic sets in. I'm like, we have to go to another place. Hazel. I had to take her to the emergency ER in the ice storm.
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B
You did?
- [29:02]
A
Yep. She started peeing Blood.
- [29:04]
B
Oh, no.
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A
Yep. She was stressed out from the whole situation. And because she has kidney disease, stress makes everything much worse. And cats with stress often get UTIs, and UTIs connect to the kidney disease. It's all, you know, interconnected in them. And when they start peeing blood, you're in emergency territory already. And so we had to black ice. We're driving, like, five miles an hour. I'm like, we have to. She needs medicine. There's no way she survives this if we don't. Like, those first 24 hours when they start peeing blood are super critical. And thankfully, she hadn't shown any of the other signs yet that she did last year when she was hospitalized, where she, like, stopped eating and started hiding and, like, really was showing bad signs. This was just her peen blood. And so we rushed her to the. To the ER vet. So that was already on our. We were already worried about Hazel and having to then move her to another location to add to her stress. So I was panicked that she said that. And I knew it was also on me because I didn't do it, but I. I didn't have any information. I was just working with what I was given at the time. And so I go to work. Of course, my fiance is keeping his calm, cool head. He's like, we got this. I'll pack up. I'll see you when you get back. We'll be fine. And so I'm panicking, but thankfully there was a listener named Jeff who I actually met at I Heart country last year. He's super nice, and he had an extra house here. They live in Wisconsin. They have a house here. And he was like, you can go and stay. I'm like, thank goodness.
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B
That's so nice.
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A
So nice. So shout out to Jeff and his amazing wife. And because also with. I have a. I have a dog with Addison's disease, and I have a cat with kidney disease. Both of them can't be stressed. I can't take them to the houses of our friends who are awesome and offered their houses for us to stay, which would have been great, but I can't put them in those situations. Like, a lot of them had kids. A lot of them had other animals, none of which worked for Remy and Hazel. And so it was like this situation where I had to put them first. And you can't warm a cat, right? Like, we thought about just staying at the house. You can't keep a cat warm. You can't put clothes on a cat.
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B
Right? I know.
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A
And they only cuddle with you when they want to cuddle.
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B
Oh, yeah, they run. They run from me.
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A
I can force my dog to cuddle with me and be under a blanket. So there's just so many. Honestly, just thinking about them that entire time.
- [31:23]
B
Yeah.
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A
So there were so many factors. But as we were leaving the hotel, we had packed up, just checked out, and we're, like, sitting in the car with everybody packed up. Everything's there. We're about to head to Jeff's house, and I get a text from the neighborhood group chat and was like, spotted. Xoxo, girl. Sip, girl. We have power.
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B
Nuh.
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A
And I like tears of relief where I was just like, oh, my gosh, we get to go home. And it was like the perfect time.
- [31:53]
B
Of Just like, that's like, perfect timing.
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A
Perfect timing. And I'm just like. My whole body was just like, oh, my gosh, it's over. I think. Hopefully. I don't know. Because then we had to go back and assess the situation.
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B
Right.
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A
So we go to the house. The house is 35 degrees inside. Inside. You could see your breath.
- [32:11]
B
Okay. I was gonna say, could you see?
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A
Brutal. Thankfully, though, everything else was in good condition. The power flickered for several hours. When we first got back, they were still working on it, clearly, and trying to do different things. And it wasn't really until about four hours later that we finally got steady power. And it wasn't until 10 o' clock that evening that we finally got, like, actual heat to finally sustain in the house.
- [32:37]
B
Really?
- [32:37]
A
Yeah.
- [32:38]
B
So it went back on at what time?
- [32:39]
A
It went back on about 12:30.
- [32:41]
B
Okay. And then it didn't get, like, comfortable until 10. Oh, my.
- [32:45]
A
I can't imagine the people that were staying in their homes without any power, without any heat source. No.
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B
I don't know how they did it. I mean, like, maybe under a blanket. If you just stay under a blanket. Yeah. Outside of that. That would be so cold.
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A
And we were under, like. We were under blanket. I mean, we had gloves, we had our ski bibs. We had all of our winter clothes on.
- [33:04]
B
Yeah.
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A
And under blankets, and we were still freezing. And that was with the heat coming back on. And I just, like, him and I both looked at each other and we're just like, we have so much to be grateful for. The fact that we were able, one, to keep the girl safe, which was the number one priority. But two, that we got to come back home, and we're in a position that now our heat is back home. And there's so many people that didn't. And, like, you want to talk about the gratitude that both of us were feeling and just thinking of everything that everybody was going through. Like, I just. My whole body was like, you know when you feel like the weight lift off to your shoulders.
- [33:42]
B
Yeah, I felt that.
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A
And like, my body feel like a sigh of relief while also, like, crying because I know there's just so many people that were still dealing with what we're still at the tail end of experiencing.
- [33:51]
B
Huh. It makes me so nervous. Especially, like, elderly that are, like, alone or like, don't have anybody to check on them. Oh, my gosh. I. I hate that thought. Like, I'm hoping. I know. And I've seen a lot of that. That people reaching out, being like, hey, you know, let's check on them. And. But still, that's just always like the worst part.
- [34:08]
A
And it is. And like, I. I tried to reach out to a few different people who were posting like, that they had elderly. And we were gonna. As soon as we got power back.
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B
I was like, I'm.
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A
Let's help.
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B
Like, I know we got it back.
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A
Let's go. And I'm still waiting to. To see responses from some of them, hoping, because I just like, those are the things that you wish happened for you. Right. So why wouldn't you do the things that you wish happened for you?
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B
Yes. To someone. Other.
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A
Other people.
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B
And it's like a small gesture. It's not hard.
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A
No. Like showing up with warm soup.
- [34:38]
B
Yes.
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A
Like sitting in a cold house and you just need something warm. Warm soup would. Would make all the difference. You know what I mean? And that's so easy. But it was. It was crazy times. Like, there was. My heart was like going through it.
- [34:55]
B
That is a lot. I don't want to tell you, don't want to talk about my. I want to hear about.
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A
But you had pipes burst. This is another side of this.
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B
It didn't. They didn't burst it, luckily. Well, I have to go check today. I'm actually really nervous because it froze on the outside, luckily, by the meter.
- [35:13]
A
Okay, wait, hold on.
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B
Pause.
- [35:15]
A
I'm taking a break. And I. I want the rest of this. All right. So it froze at the meter.
- [35:23]
B
Okay. So my fiance's house has been fine. The one that we live in, his kids are in. He never lost power or anything.
- [35:29]
A
That's awesome.
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B
Which is so wild. Yes. That's amazing. But then my town home, which is across from town, it's like 45 minutes from his house. While I was gone in Denver, like, the power went out a day or A day and a half, maybe two days. Because I was asking my neighbors, I was like, do we have power? Because I'm really nervous. I did prepare before I left. Like, I left dripping faucets. I left all the cabinets underneath. And I turned my heat up, like, higher in case it did go out, you know. But then I went and checked on it the other day, and I had no pressure in my water. And so I called the water company, because it usually happens where it freezes at the meter every year. Because it's in the ground, there's not a lot of sunlight that hits that spot. And the insulation's not good because it's in, like, a whole bunch of, like, rock. So it just, like, keeps it freezing. And so they usually come out and fix it. But this time they came out and they're like, oh, there's water there. So I don't know why it would be. Why you don't have any. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, that means my pipe. It's my pipes that are, like, frozen. And. Yeah. And so I went back last night after, like, the sun was out because it got warmer here yesterday. It was, like, 36, I think we.
- [36:30]
A
Saw a hint of some sunshine.
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B
We got some sun, and I went back over, and I did have water, so that's good. But I was only there for a little bit to check it. And so I'm like, I hope that it didn't. Like. Yeah.
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A
When it's so hard. I mean, I remember when we first turned on the house of all, like, when we turned all the water back on and everything was turning back on. I mean, that house was just, like, singing. It had so many cracks and pops and noises. And I was like, what is happening? What's going on? Like, and you're panicking, right? Because you're hearing all these noises, thinking everything's just busting at the seams.
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B
Yes.
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A
But that's also just getting flow back to where it's supposed to be in, like, a normal setting. But you had it all, you know. You know, turned off or dripping. Dripping even causes that if you've not been using it. So it's crazy. Like, the inner workings of all of that. We were having that conversation of. Because Ray mentioned when we got back home, I had turned on emergency heat. And I was like, it was an emergency. Like, it took, you know, eight hours to finally get any version of heat happening. And so I was joking. Like, what's the point of emergency heat? He's like, I think you could have had that turned on. And then Abby and I were having this whole conversation about, like, pipes. And we're like, why didn't anybody teach us this crap?
- [37:42]
B
I don't think. I don't think he's right.
- [37:44]
A
I don't think. I don't think he is either.
- [37:45]
B
He said, like, you can use the emergency heat that takes, like, gas. But I'm like, I have not heard that. I. Everybody would use their. Because mine has that, too.
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A
Yeah.
- [37:54]
B
In my townhome, it says, like, a U X. Auxiliary. Auxiliary.
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A
Auxiliary, I think.
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B
Yes.
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A
I know it stands for.
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B
And I looked it up, and it is emergency. And I was like, what's the point? But I don't think it's gas.
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A
But see, then you go back to the point of carbon monoxide. As soon as you start using gas, there's just so, like. But my point being, why didn't they teach us how to handle these things?
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B
Yes.
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A
How to be aware of these things.
- [38:20]
B
Correct.
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A
Why do we have to utilize social media and word of mouth to understand.
- [38:24]
B
These things and chatgpt. I'm trying to ask. I'm like, hey, can you tell me about this? Yeah.
- [38:30]
A
What does this mean? Do I need help?
- [38:32]
B
I know. Oh, my gosh. Several of my friends still don't have power, like, in. They live in Nashville, and they haven't had it for four days. And I'm like, there's still. If you look at the map of Nashville, like, the nes, the National Electric Service, like, there are so many houses that still don't have power.
- [38:49]
A
Well, and I. I mean, I saw a video of our transformers getting blown.
- [38:53]
B
Yeah.
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A
Over in where. Like, the area of where I live. And I was like, yup, we're screwed.
- [38:57]
B
What causes those to blow?
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A
I assume ice. Cause ice was making trees explode. That was the other thing that was wild when we first woke up and our power was out, because, you know, when your power goes out, everything's quiet. It feels crazy because there's no humming, there's no noises from things, and it's just quiet. And when we were laying in bed, we heard five different trees explode. And it sounds like a bomb going off. I'm not kidding you. Like, we were just laying there, and you'd be like. It'd be like a. And I'm like, what was that? The first one was crazy. And then I remembered seeing on social media that trees can explode with ice. And so I was like, that has to be a tree. And then shortly after, it just kept happening. It was like a boom, boom, boom.
- [39:39]
B
Oh, my God. Wild. That is so crazy. I haven't heard one. I've seen, like, pictures that people were. It's like, it literally exploded. Yeah. But I haven't heard it.
- [39:48]
A
And it's a wild sound.
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B
Even.
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A
Like, my fiance went out back to. Because our magnolia tree did not do well surviving in the ice. I don't know if she's gonna survive it completely, but one of the neighbor's trees, like, fell on her somewhat. Some other branches of their big trees did. And he went out there. He's like, the trees are talking. Like, they are loud. Like, because he was like, they're creaking and moaning and, like. Because they're. They're all, like, in ice. They're encased in ice. She's like. And when you don't. Again, don't have power, there's so much silence. And there's nobody driving on roads because nobody's out. So it's so quiet.
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B
Yeah.
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A
He's like. And I walked out there, and it literally sounds like that, like, weird. They're, like, communicating because they're encased in ice.
- [40:33]
B
Wait, didn't plants talk? Yeah, don't they. We talked about.
- [40:36]
A
We did. We have talked about it. And I heard it. Like, I literally heard them talking to each other. Oh, my God. What was so crazy, though, is, like, my. Also my. My thought process and all of this was just, like, thinking about the elements that are being impacted by this. Right. Like, you have so much structure of trees that are now going to be gone forever. You have who knows how many animals that you know are. Whether they're actual, like, outdoor animals, like squirrels and birds and whatever. But then you think about the stray animals and, like, my mind just.
- [41:05]
B
I don't like thinking about that. It makes me sad. I know. I just can't.
- [41:10]
A
I know.
- [41:10]
B
Because I want to help everything. You can't physically help them. I know.
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A
And I'm like, how. How can I make sure I can help next time? What can I be doing to make sure I can assist next time? It's just. It's so crazy to. To see and be part of. And. And it's. It feels weird because we grew up in tornadoes. We've seen this kind of devastation happen. It was surrounding us as kids. Different types, of course. Right. Ice storm and tornadoes are not the same, but devastation nonetheless. And it's just. It's hard. It's hard to see people go through stuff like that. And it's hard to. To witness and just see the impact of natural disasters and what it does to places. And it's but it's again, like, I go back to how cool it is, though, to see. I mentioned this on, on part two where we talk about, like, the kind things that we saw. But watching my neighborhood come together, watching community come together, people show up for each other and start to support small businesses who were really impacted by it. I mean, that's, you know, that's what it's all about.
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B
It is. And hopefully we can, we'll continue it. Not just this whole, like, open our eyes to be like, okay, we should just continue helping and not just wait for something like this.
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A
No, it should be this way. We should always be trying to support small businesses. We should always be trying to talk to our neighbors and know each other and offer help where you can just. Yeah. So that was, that was the silver lining of all of it was that. And Hazel's on the men. She's doing better.
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B
I feel really good.
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A
And you have water again. We have power again. So there are good things that have. Have come out of it. And I don't just want to talk about those two things. I want, I want to do a fun thing for us to end on.
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B
Okay.
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A
Because we did talk about it and I'm so glad we talked about the Broncos game because I know that was so fun for you. And I did get to go sledding at the beginning of this, which was super fun.
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B
That looked really fun.
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A
It was so fun. It was fun to watch you in Denver. So there were, there were bright moments.
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B
There were.
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A
And now we're on the backside. And I hope everybody who still doesn't have power or who is still struggling or is, you know, in all these positions, if you need ways of helping, I reach out. If you can. Out 1 and 2. I hope you stay warm and safe. So this is what we're going to end on to have, like a fun little happy note. There's a current trend that's happening on social media where you say, I may not know everything, but I know.org where you fill in the blank and it's like a funny thing. And I'll share mine so you. Maybe I'll give you something to think about, but mine is that I can cook in a stainless steel pan. You know how hard that is? Have you ever tried to cook in a stainless steel pan?
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B
No.
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A
Everything sticks to it.
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B
Okay.
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A
Yo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because like, we grew up.
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B
I just cook pasta.
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A
Pasta.
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B
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can.
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A
You can cook anything in stainless steel. But we grew up with nonstick pans. And of course those are really bad for you. As we've learned, you're not supposed to use nonstick pans. Apparently, the thing that made life easier is making your life harder. So I had bought stainless steel pans, I don't know, over a year ago now, and they're really hard to learn to cook on because everything sticks to it. Things burn really easily, especially on a gas stove. And so this was like, an art. And me and my fiance, the amount of YouTube videos we've watched to learn how to cook with stainless steel pans is absurd. But you know what? Now we have figured it out.
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B
That is funny.
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A
And that is my. My skill.
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B
That is awesome.
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A
It's like a funny thing. But I am really impressed with ourselves that we finally know how to cook with them. I didn't realize it was gonna be such a, like, learning experience to change pans.
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B
I didn't know. Wait, what do you usually cook on?
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A
Well, like, you know, a non stick pan that has, like. So things don't stick. You can spray oil and then nothing sticks.
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B
Yeah. Yeah.
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A
If you even just put oil on stainless steel and it's not heated up to the right amount or you don't use the right oil with the right thing, everything just sticks to the sides. There's like, cooking scrambled eggs and stainless steel pan is a disaster if you don't know how to do it. And to clean it sucks even worse.
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B
Okay. Yeah, I haven't had that. I do pasta in that. It always sticks to the bottom.
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A
See? But there's an art to it. And now I know the art. And you know what? Nothing's sticking anymore. That is mine.
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B
It's a little thing. It's the little things.
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A
So tell me what your. I may not know everything, but I know.
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B
I may not know everything, but I know how to survive in a blizzard. Okay.
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A
At the game you did.
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B
And keep my feet warm. I think it worked until it broke. Until I walk too much.
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A
I do think the cardboard was a huge helper.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Because when I realized when we got into our house without power, when it was the 35 degrees and I was walking on the floor barefoot, my feet got so cold so fast.
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B
And once they get cold, there's no going back.
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A
No, you have to thaw them out to then be warm again. Like, you can't just, like, warm them up while they're still cold.
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B
Oh, yeah, Exactly.
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A
Yes.
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B
No, what I did is I did the sock, I did the foil, and then I did another sock, and then I put a foot toe warmer in there.
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A
I love that.
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B
So it heat up the foil.
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A
Your little electric toe warmer thingies.
- [46:11]
B
No, it was just like one of the. They have packets. Yes. That you, like, shake, you know, and it takes a few minutes. I put it in there so they were, like, hot.
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A
I love it.
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B
It was such a good idea. And until the foil busted.
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A
But you didn't know the foil busted to the end, right?
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B
No, I didn't. No.
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A
Maybe it was also a placebo effect.
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B
Foil.
- [46:29]
A
You're like, I'm a. I'm a baked chicken.
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B
I think it was. I really do. I was like, I think this is all in my head. The foil.
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A
So you learn how to survive in a blizzard.
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B
Yeah.
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A
I love this for you. And no cayenne pepper. Don't use that trick.
- [46:43]
B
Yeah.
- [46:43]
A
Footballers lied to us.
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B
I'm scared to try. Like, maybe it does work, but I was like, I don't want to get all these, like, blisters and it burns your skin. Yeah. Someone messaged me, and they said. What did they do? They were cold, and they, like, showered in, like, pepper. Like, cayenne pepper. They showered or something like, how do you sprinkle it on?
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A
How do you shower in cayenne pepper, maybe?
- [47:05]
B
I read it really fast. They were cold, and they, like, sprinkled it on them, and they were, like, burning for, like, days. And I was like, that's why I didn't try it.
- [47:12]
A
Well, that feels like. That went in places it shouldn't go. I think it's a little different if it's just on your feet. Like, I mean, it goes in every hole. And your eyes.
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B
Ouch. Yeah. Your lips.
- [47:26]
A
I like cayenne pepper going in my mouth.
- [47:27]
B
I don't either, let alone anywhere else. I don't need spicy feet. No. Ouch.
- [47:34]
A
No spicy feet.
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B
Yeah. Can you imagine that? That'd be miserable. I couldn't go to the game because my feet are.
- [47:40]
A
You're like, I hurt my feet from cayenne pepper. So that's a no for me, dog. I did say, though, that you have to mix it with a foot powder. So if you don't have the foot powder, I do think you should not just put cayenne pepper on your feet.
- [47:52]
B
Yeah. I was gonna do, like, baby powder. Or is it different?
- [47:55]
A
Baby powder would probably work.
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B
Yeah.
- [47:56]
A
I think you need something to at least alleviate the. This spice touch, if you will.
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B
I wasn't willing to try it, like, on my first game. I didn't want to be miserable, have miserable feet.
- [48:07]
A
Okay. Your next game, you have to try it since you don't want to Try.
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B
On your first game.
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A
You have to try it on your next game.
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B
I'll do one foot. See the difference?
- [48:17]
A
One foot's gonna be, like, either really warm and, like, golden, or it's gonna be all blistered and horrible.
- [48:23]
B
Oh, my God. But then I'll just, like, limp. I'll just limp to the game.
- [48:26]
A
Get some crutches. Borrow some crutches from somebody.
- [48:29]
B
Yeah.
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A
Oh, my goodness. Okay, we're getting out of here. Abby, thanks for being on after a crazy, hectic week. We had so much going on. I'm glad you're okay. I'm glad you made it back, and I'm glad you had fun.
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B
Yes. Thank you.
- [48:41]
A
That's what it was about.
- [48:42]
B
So fun. I went really fast. You know how things go really fast. You don't want it to end. Yeah, really fun.
- [48:46]
A
It's always the things you don't want to end that go fast, and the things that you do want to end go very slow.
- [48:52]
B
Very true.
- [48:53]
A
That is life. All right, go and follow Abby. She's on Instagram at Abby Lee Anderson.
- [48:57]
B
Yep, yep.
- [48:58]
A
And I'm at Web Girl Morgan. And if you're interested, you can check out my podcast. Take this personally. I recently had on Nick Shelton. He's great with introverts. And if you retire and you have no idea what's going to happen with your life, that's some good stuff up there.
- [49:11]
B
Oh, that is good. Yeah.
- [49:12]
A
Fun over there if you need something to listen to and keep you company over the craziness of all the weather we're getting. So again, I repeat, stay safe, stay warm, stay warm. Those are the priorities right now. And if you're here, I appreciate it. Abby, thanks for joining me.
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B
Yes, thank you.
- [49:26]
A
Bye, everybody. Bye. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms. Show and follow at Webgirl Morgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.