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Spring fever
4 Plays11 months ago
April and Alicia are back from Spring Break and ready to dive back into another On Call fact or fiction head-to-head! Changing seasons can impact your health in many ways. Allergies, bugs, and changing temperatures are just a few factors that could distract you from the Spring cleaning you've been putting off. What plants are the biggest Spring villains? Does this season make you more vulnerable to ticks? Do you actually need to fill a huge planter with dirt before putting flowers in it? Tune in to find out!
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Humorous Language Mix-ups
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Maddox was telling me the story the other day.
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He was talking about policy and he goes, that's just the way it is.
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And I said, well, I guess.
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And he goes, it's policy, mom, cerebral policy.
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And I was like, not cerebral palsy.
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I think you mean cerebral palsy.
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That's a diagnosis.
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That's not a rule.
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This is on call.
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It would be really cool to just wear scrubs all the time and you don't have to think about what you're going to wear to work.
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That is awesome.
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We're here to answer your questions.
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We can sit down and discuss them.
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Wait, I got to go.
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I'm on call.
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Wait, you're on call?
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I thought I was on call.
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Welcome back to another episode of On Call with April and Alicia.
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I'm April.
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I'm Alicia.
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And we're back.
Weather Wonders and Gardening Adventures
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We are.
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It's good to be back.
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I know.
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It feels like we have spring break.
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Kids got a spring break.
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We got a spring break.
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Sorry, listeners.
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We need break, too.
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You know?
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Yeah, for sure.
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It was nice to have a break.
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It was.
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And guess what?
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It's sunny.
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And it's 35.
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It was, what, 80 a week ago.
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No, it's still so up and down, this weather.
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But it's nice that overall it's been warmer.
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Well, it's allegedly spring.
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But yes, it's sunny.
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And it's supposed to be like 68 degrees.
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Welcome to the weather portion of this podcast already.
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But it's supposed to be 68 or something today and then 80 tomorrow.
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But I had this wild dream that
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It was snowing.
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In my dream, it was snowing and completely covered.
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But I had just seen the weather forecast that said that same day was supposed to be 80.
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And I was like, what's going on with the world?
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There's like two inches of snow, but by the afternoon, it's going to be 80.
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It's so weird.
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The weather's been so light.
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I think Tiffany nailed it on our last episode where she was like, spring, winter, spring, summer, back to winter, fake winter, fake spring.
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Yeah.
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I don't know what's going on.
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I know.
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It's been crazy, but hopefully we're going to be steady moving forward.
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That would be nice.
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How's it been up there in Maryland?
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It's been very windy.
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I mean, where we live is windy in general.
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So it's been windy and cold, but today's supposed to be nice.
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So that's good.
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Which means you'll get the nicer, warmer weather.
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I'm just hoping the bottom doesn't drop out.
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I'm kind of over that.
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And also, you know I don't have a green thumb.
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You had to teach me all about flowers last spring, but I did get some
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Um, my judging neighbors, they don't like the way, um, I got like a really big cement pot to put on my front porch.
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And, um, when I bought it, I was like, oh, I love this pot.
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Like it's big.
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It's like, I don't know, very artistic to me, but I didn't realize I have to fill this whole thing with dirt.
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I was like, certainly people fill this whole thing with their, do they, do they really fill the whole thing with dirt?
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Well, I mean, you need to fill in enough that like when you plant the flowers, you can see them over the pot.
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Right.
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So all I did was put a couple Amazon boxes at the bottom of it.
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And then it came with this little like setting thing that I could.
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And I just put like three potted plants.
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I didn't even take them out of the pot that I bought them from the store.
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But they look good from the street.
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But if you come up on my porch.
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That sounds terrible.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'll take a picture and show you.
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You can't put Amazon boxes in your pot under your plants.
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You have to put dirt.
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But they're not.
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They're still in their original tub that I bought them from.
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So you don't plan to plant them?
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Well, I just thought it was like, do we work smarter or harder?
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It looks good from the street.
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It looks like, wow, those are really pretty flowers.
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But if you come up on the porch, you're like, oh, she shoved three pots in there.
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And I did put a big rock just in case it got windy because we did have some really bad storms a couple weeks ago.
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So, yeah.
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But my neighbor, my judging neighbors, they're lovely, actually, but they're older.
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very like manicured lawn or whatever.
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She always comes over to give me like pointers on like what I should do.
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You should put rocks here.
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You should do this here.
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And she came up on my porch the other day and I was like, I know she's looking down, like shaking her head.
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This girl, it's progress, not perfection.
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I would judge you for this.
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Well, if I can judge away, judge away because it looks pretty.
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And you would, first of all, you have to be invited to be on my porch.
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I mean, you could at least, like, you know, they have those, I want to say tart, but it's not a tart, but it's like an overlay that's like brown.
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It looks like dirt.
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You could get one of those and like put the plants through it.
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So at least if you walk up on the porch.
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It looks like dirt.
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I'll just pour a bunch of dirt over it.
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I just don't intend on filling the whole pot with dirt.
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They should really rethink that.
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They should do those really deep pots.
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You just put a bag of dirt and pour it in.
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I have one now, but I'm just mean.
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I don't intend to take them out of the original.
Creative Kids and Their Vocabulary
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Listen, listen, listen.
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Progress, not perfection.
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How are the girls?
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I guess progress.
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Yes, I know.
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My beautiful plants that are actually planted in the ground are sprouting right now.
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Well, let me tell you one thing.
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Actually, I forget when I plant bulbs.
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Sometimes I just go to the store and I'll see like calla lily is my favorite flower.
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And I think I sell calla lily bulbs at some point.
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I must have.
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I mean, I know I planted them.
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But I forgot I did.
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So in one of the beds, like one of the flower beds up front, they're starting to bloom.
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And I almost thought they were weeds coming through the mulch.
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I was getting ready to pull it out.
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And I was like, oh, I actually think I planted flowers there.
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I planted a bunch of tulips that I forgot about.
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They're all out.
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I was like, where did you guys come from?
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Yeah, they come out early.
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But they don't last very long.
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No, they certainly look green things.
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I think we need to get a picture
Spring Sports and Family Updates
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of this pot with your box.
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Oh, I'm going to give it to you.
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Don't you worry.
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All right.
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I'm going to send it.
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Because it's, well, yeah, it's not embarrassing for me.
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Who says that's the way you have to do it?
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Who made the rules?
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The entire world.
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Well.
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Except for you.
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The world can't always be right.
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That's the way I see it.
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All right.
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Well, wait.
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April with the green thumb.
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What's going on with your families?
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Doing all right, girls?
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Okay?
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Yep.
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Everybody's good.
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We're in the thick of spring sports, and it's good.
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We're in the...
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Like, we're, like, round and third headed home for school season.
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It's almost over.
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I know, it's crazy.
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It's April.
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April.
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I know, it's my month.
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It's almost your birthday.
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It is almost my birthday.
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We're not going to talk about how old you are, 50.
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So, um, let me tell you something about Maddox.
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Maddox is making up words.
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Do you remember?
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Like, I don't know.
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Our kids always say, like, funny things.
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I can remember, like,
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RJ would just say like, that's buterific.
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Like really kind of funny words as a kid or whatever.
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But Maddox was telling me the story the other day.
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He was talking about policy and something with his school.
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And he's like, if I do it this way, he's very much a type one Enneagram April.
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And everything is like right, wrong.
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There's rules.
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You just follow him.
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So he's like going through some school policy.
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And he's challenging me on the policy.
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I can't remember what it was, but he says something and he goes, that's just the way it is.
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And I said, well, I guess.
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And he goes, it's policy, mom, cerebral palsy.
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And I was like, not cerebral palsy.
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I think you mean cerebral palsy.
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That's a diagnosis.
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That's not a rule.
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And then I think like within that same day, he was telling me something, YouTube shorts or something he watches.
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I don't know if your girls watch shorts.
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He doesn't even call it YouTube anymore.
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He goes, I was just watching a short.
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I'm like, a short what?
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It's on YouTube, mom.
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It's like a short.
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I'm like, oh, okay.
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It's just a little video that's short.
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But he was like, this kid like won all this stuff.
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It's really amazing video.
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You should see it.
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He was at the paramedic Olympics.
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Oh my gosh.
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And I was like, oh.
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It was his network.
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I was like, no, I'm going to let him say that one.
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I know, but it's just kind of funny.
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It just kind of triggered my, I wrote it down to share because I was like, kids are, kids are funny, but cerebral policy.
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First time I've ever heard that in my life.
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I've heard a lot of different things, but I've never heard cerebral policy.
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Yeah, I have not either.
Spring-themed Trivia Fun
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Did your girls say, did they ever like make up crazy words or say like my kids would say vitamins instead of vitamins?
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Yeah, they used to when they were kids, they would call escalators alligators.
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They'd be like, can we ride on the alligator?
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And I was like, what?
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The alligator?
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Yeah, I was good on the alligator.
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Well, based off of what happened to one of your kids on Escalator, it is kind of like an alligator, huh?
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I know, it is.
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That was wild.
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For those that don't know April, you want to tell that story?
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No, it's still a little fresh.
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Alright, well, save that for the next one, guys.
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It's a good one.
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But April and spring, we were talking about spring.
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And...
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We always love our fact or fiction.
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A little fun time here.
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So I thought, let's talk about spring.
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Let's do a little fact or fiction.
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Have a little fun.
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We're back from our spring break.
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Let's talk about it.
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All right.
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Let's do it.
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All right.
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As per usual.
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I have my score sheet ready to go.
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Let's go.
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Well, we're Alicia 2.
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I think we're 2-0, correct?
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Yeah, I think so.
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For the year?
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Mm-hmm.
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All right.
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All right.
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You let me.
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I love that.
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Okay, you start.
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All right, I'm going to start with the true or false.
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All right.
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So true or false, the change in temperature that is associated with spring makes people sick.
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False.
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You're correct.
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That is false.
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I almost said true, though.
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I know.
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I thought I was going to trick you because you paused.
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All that matters is you put the tally mark under my name.
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All right.
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Tell us why.
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But yeah, so, you know, people will kind of say, you'll hear them say, oh, well, you know, the change in temperature makes me sick, but it's not actually the change in temperature that is making us sick.
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It's actually more that the symptoms are caused by exposure to allergens that reappear in environments at the change of season.
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You know, there is, you know, truth to the whole global warming thing, but the temperature itself is not actually what makes you sick.
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So it's just the bugs and allergens that come out around that time.
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Do you think it has something to do, you know, we did our winter factor fiction, we were talking about, you know, does the cold, does the cold make you sick?
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You know, put a hat on, you're going to get a cold, but it's really, you know, just because we're in close quarters environments.
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Is that something that has to do with that as well?
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Do you think?
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Maybe.
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I mean, I think it's more that we come back outside, you know, and people get a lot of allergy symptoms and think it might be sickness and it's not, you know, and vice versa.
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Okay.
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Well, if we're,
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We're speaking of being sick in spring, let's go back.
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I'll go factor fiction.
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Let's talk allergies.
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I can talk about, I don't know how bad allergies are in Maryland.
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I know in Ohio, everyone here is getting some form of an allergy shot from birth.
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It feels like we have pretty bad allergies here, but one of the things I've heard recently is people talking about local honey and they're giving their children like local honey to,
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help them not have issues with allergies.
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So fact or fiction, eating local honey cures seasonal allergies.
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Fiction.
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Good.
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Actually, that was good.
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Why did you say fiction though?
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Because I don't think it will, I don't know how it would cure it.
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Okay.
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There's actually no proof that it does because most allergy causing pollen, it doesn't come from
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Flowers.
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It comes from trees and grasses, not flowers.
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And bees cross-pollinate on flowers, not on trees.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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So, there it is.
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All right, you're up.
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We're tied.
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Look at us.
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I know, look at us go.
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All right, I'll do multiple choice.
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I'm going to stay on allergies since you started that topic.
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Okay.
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All of the following will help you manage seasonal allergies before they start, except which one?
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Check pollen A, check pollen counts before you go outside.
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B. Shower after being outside.
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C. Use hand sanitizer.
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Or D. Keep the windows closed.
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And it's which one's wrong or which one's right?
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All of the following will help manage seasonal allergies before they start, except which one.
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I'm going to say hand sanitizer.
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You are correct.
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Boom.
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Look at us.
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I think you made this easy.
Allergy Insights and Tips
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You missed me.
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That's all.
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Well, I mean, these topics are kind of hard to make it hard, but...
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But I thought they were good things to discuss.
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So, yeah.
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So, you know, before, in terms of managing allergies before they start, certainly you can check the pollen counts before you go outside.
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And if it's a high pollen day and you can stay inside, stay inside, right?
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Showering after you've been outside will take that pollen out of your hair and your clothes.
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So you can rinse that off.
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Keeping the windows closed obviously keeps it out of your house, right?
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Right.
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But hand sanitizer has no effect on pollen.
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You know, we use it for germs and things like that.
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But if you really want to get pollen off of your hands, you have to wash with soap and water.
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Yeah, well, likely.
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I mean, your hands are just one part of your body.
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It's everywhere else anyway.
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Right.
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But, you know, we touch our face with our hands.
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Oh, yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Okay.
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I was going to, I thought I was going to say another pollen.
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I have a lot of pollen questions myself, but I don't think I'm going to do that.
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I think I'm going to go.
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True or false?
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OK.
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First of all, score?
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Scorekeeper?
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Well, it's 2-1
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because I've only had one question.
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So I'm not technically winning.
00:14:02
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This is where we're always going to do our check-in is right at this point where I'm always looking for it.
00:14:08
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OK, OK, OK.
00:14:08
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All right, so true or false?
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People are more likely to get food poisoning in the spring.
00:14:16
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Oh.
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I'll say true.
00:14:21
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Can't stand you.
00:14:23
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I love you, but you're right.
00:14:24
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True.
00:14:25
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Absolutely.
00:14:26
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I actually, if I, if you would have said this one to me, I would have been like, no summer, but we can negotiate.
00:14:33
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I warmer temps plus outdoor eating, right?
00:14:38
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Think potato salad, sitting out, sitting in the sun.
00:14:41
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It's basically becomes a bacteria banquet for all of our food.
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Cause we were taking food outside and we're leaving it sitting open and exposed.
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Even if you've got lids on it, it's sitting in the sun.
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And bacteria loves warmth.
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So yes, it is actually true.
00:14:55
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Interesting.
00:14:55
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I also thought maybe it was because we start traveling this time of year too.
00:15:01
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True.
00:15:02
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True.
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But no, it's really more to do with the picnic baskets.
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You can get a picnic basket.
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So yes.
00:15:11
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Just make sure, I guess, you get one of those kudos.
00:15:14
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What are they called?
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Oh, they're really nice.
00:15:19
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They're like the nice brand of food traveling things.
00:15:24
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I don't know what you call it.
00:15:28
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They're like the thermoses that you can put food in, but they're really large and they're super expensive.
00:15:34
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Wow.
00:15:35
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You don't care.
00:15:36
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Okay, moving on.
00:15:37
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Sounds great.
00:15:38
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You're the camper.
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You should know this.
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This is when you go out.
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We don't leave food sitting out.
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We make our meal to eat and we put it back in the camper.
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Do you have a fridge?
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Yeah, we have a fridge and a freezer.
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We have a full kitchen.
00:15:51
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Oh, that sounds like luxury.
00:15:52
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That's glamping.
00:15:52
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It's actually glamping.
00:15:54
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It's not camping.
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You're glamping.
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You're not camping.
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Okay.
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All right.
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All right.
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All right.
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Fine.
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I need to remember what the name of that.
00:16:02
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That's crazy.
00:16:03
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Okay.
00:16:03
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I'll figure it out.
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I'll just probably blurt it out while you're talking.
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Go ahead.
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All right.
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True or false?
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Peak tick season is late summer.
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False.
00:16:16
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Ah, I thought he would trick you on that one.
00:16:18
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Um, only because Maddox was diagnosed with Lyme and I had to do kind of research on Lyme disease.
00:16:25
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Yep.
00:16:25
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And well, well, we missed it.
00:16:27
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We thought it was something else.
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He had, you know, the, um, his, some chest pain, he had some other symptoms that affected other organs.
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Um,
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but we learned a lot about it.
00:16:40
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And I think we didn't really catch the diagnosis till like late summer, but the symptoms that started in the spring, we missed the bullseye.
00:16:47
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We missed, there were a lot of things that we missed.
00:16:50
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Oh, yeah.
00:16:51
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Yeah.
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If you're not watching for it, you might miss it.
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But I actually always kind of thought it was more prevalent in the late summer, like fall time, but,
00:16:59
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In reality, it actually coincidentally starts at the same time that we all start heading outside for spring.
00:17:03
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So around this time.
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So, you know, good to check yourself if you've been out in the woods or out in grassy areas when you come in.
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Check the hair.
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Check the hair, check the armpits, all those places.
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And even the pets.
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You got to get it taken out.
00:17:19
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Yeah.
00:17:19
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Well, I mean, most pets that we give.
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that's it.
00:17:22
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Like that tick tick stuff on the back of their neck thing.
00:17:25
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We, um, I mean, I'm sure you've seen a tick before I've seen them.
00:17:30
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I think maybe once or twice where someone's pointed out like, Oh, that's a tick not on somebody, but like maybe crawling around.
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And we live in a heavily wooded area.
00:17:41
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Um, but our dogs, they were, I was like,
00:17:45
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Baloo, she's a big, you met Baloo, our large Greek Dane.
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She had this, I was like, oh, she's got growth on the back of her ear.
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What is that?
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I was like, oh, she's got a good tumor.
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And Matt's like, that's a tick.
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And I was like, gross.
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But it had like embedded its head in and it just became large.
00:18:03
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It just looked like a large circular yuck.
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It was weird.
00:18:09
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Girl Scouts traumatized me with ticks, by the way.
00:18:12
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I think they had it so embedded in us when we would go camp.
00:18:17
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Those and wolf spiders ruined my entire camping experience, which is why I just say I open my windows now.
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I got to camp that way.
00:18:24
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Okay.
00:18:25
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No ticks for us, Abe.
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So my turn.
00:18:29
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You did multiple choice at one point?
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Yep.
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I'm going to do multiple choice.
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Okay.
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April Burke.
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Which of the following is not a typical spring allergen?
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We're back on allergies, okay?
00:18:41
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Okay.
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What's not a typical allergen?
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A, tree pollen.
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B, ragweed.
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C, grass.
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D, mold spores.
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A. You're wrong.
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Incorrect.
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It's ragweed.
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It's a fall villain.
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Oh.
00:19:00
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It's not a spring villain.
00:19:01
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Tree pollen and mold are springtime suspects, but ragweed is the fall villain, so you're incorrect.
00:19:08
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I'm sorry, what's the score?
00:19:11
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I don't want to talk about the score.
00:19:12
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You lost your post-it?
00:19:15
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How convenient.
00:19:16
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No, I haven't.
00:19:17
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I thought that was interesting, though.
00:19:18
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I feel like we say ragweed.
00:19:19
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That one got me.
00:19:20
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And I was like, I'll step around that one.
00:19:23
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Okay, all right.
00:19:24
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I guess I said A, because I don't really think of trees much.
00:19:27
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I mean, obviously they have the leaves, but I always, I don't know.
00:19:29
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I think of the grass, the flowers, the mold.
00:19:32
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What are the trees that, are they called like Japanese cherry?
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What are the ones
Spring Allergens and Personal Stories
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that bloom?
00:19:37
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The cherry blossoms.
00:19:38
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They bloom white, right?
00:19:40
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Yeah.
00:19:41
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White or pink.
00:19:42
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And then all that stuff flies off of them.
00:19:44
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And then they turn green officially.
00:19:46
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Yeah.
00:19:48
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I think it's flowering trees.
00:19:49
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They smell so bad.
00:19:51
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Do they?
00:19:51
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Yeah, they smell.
00:19:52
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We grew up with a beautiful magnolia tree.
00:19:55
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And I love the smell of magnolias.
00:19:57
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I do like magnolia trees.
00:19:59
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But the blossom trees, they have a smell that I don't like.
00:20:03
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I walked to my house and I was like, what is that smell?
00:20:06
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And then I looked at the tree and I was like, go.
00:20:07
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They stank?
00:20:08
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They stank.
00:20:09
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True, stank.
00:20:10
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Well, then don't put them in your yard.
00:20:13
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That's my suggestion.
00:20:14
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Well, it was already here.
00:20:17
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It came with the property.
00:20:18
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And it is pretty when it blooms.
00:20:21
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I'm curious if they... We'd have to look up if those trees, if they have pollen or something.
00:20:26
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What is their allergen?
00:20:27
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We'll have to take a look at that.
00:20:29
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Okay, your turn.
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Let's go.
00:20:32
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Let's do two more rounds.
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Okay.
00:20:35
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A lot of mine are true or false, so I got another one.
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True or false.
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Resuming your fall running routine at the start of spring increases your risk of injury.
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Resuming your fall running routine?
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Uh-huh.
00:20:49
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So are we saying that we ran in the fall, stopped running in the winter, and we're just going to pick up in spring?
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Is that what they're suggesting?
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I would say true.
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You're correct.
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So I think that, and I am guilty of this in the past when I used to be a runner, you know, I used to run.
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I would
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you know, not run all winter.
00:21:09
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And then I would be like, Oh, I can run like three miles again.
00:21:12
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And I didn't think runners stopped running for days.
00:21:16
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I mean, cause I don't have a treadmill or anything, so I would just not run in the winter.
00:21:19
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And then I would, you know, maybe sporadically here when it wasn't a really cold day.
00:21:24
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Um, but also too, I think like running on a treadmill is different than running outside.
00:21:29
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I would agree that you say that running on a treadmill is better on your joints.
00:21:33
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I think running in general is should just shouldn't happen.
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I know I've stopped at this point.
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I walk in.
00:21:39
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No, that's just cause I'm, I, I, um, I think we got, I got in a conversation with this, um, with one of our colleagues this week, actually, we were talking about running and he's training for a 10 K and he was like, it's just a 10 K. And I was like, what?
00:21:54
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I was like, that's 10 K more than I'm running.
00:21:56
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Like, I think it's impressive.
00:21:59
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I used to really like it.
00:22:00
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Like it was just a time where I could, I don't know, just go out and enjoy it.
00:22:04
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Yeah.
00:22:04
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And, um,
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But as I've gotten older, I'm like, now I just walk with friends instead.
00:22:10
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But yeah.
00:22:11
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But you do turkey trots in the freezing cold.
00:22:14
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I know.
00:22:14
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We haven't done it in the last couple of years.
00:22:16
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But freezing.
00:22:17
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Okay.
00:22:18
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Yeah.
00:22:18
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So if you don't, it's safer to start slowly and gradually increase the endurance over the weeks.
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Because if you don't do that, then you can put yourself at risk for injuries like stress fractures, shin splints, muscle strains, all those things.
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So, and definitely stretch before you.
00:22:34
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Yeah.
00:22:34
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That's another thing I don't do very well.
00:22:37
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It's just like get in and do it and then stop.
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And then I wonder why I'm miserable and sore or I tear something.
00:22:42
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So, all right, well, don't follow my advice.
00:22:44
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All right.
00:22:45
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So April, I'm going to do another multiple choice.
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Okay.
00:22:50
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What's the most common seasonal illness seen in the pediatric ER during spring?
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A, RSV.
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B, norovirus.
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C, strep throat.
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D, hand, foot, and mouth.
00:23:05
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Oh, okay.
00:23:09
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Can you repeat the options?
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Absolutely.
00:23:12
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A, RSV.
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B, norovirus.
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C, strep throat.
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Or D, hand, foot, and mouth.
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I don't know.
00:23:24
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I might go with B. Norovirus?
00:23:28
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Is that your final answer?
00:23:29
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Would you like to phone a friend?
00:23:31
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No.
00:23:32
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Because I don't have a friend to phone.
00:23:34
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You can call me and I'll tell you, you're wrong.
00:23:36
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It's strep throat.
00:23:38
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I have no rationale for it.
00:23:39
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It's just what it is.
00:23:41
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Strep throat is the most common illness that's seen in peds in the springtime.
00:23:46
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Norovirus is more of a fall.
00:23:48
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RSV is fall winter.
00:23:50
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Hand, foot, and mouth, I think, is just daycare, 100 million days, back to back to back to back to back to back to back.
00:23:58
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Yeah.
00:23:59
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I think I said norovirus because, like, I've been hearing about all these things.
00:24:02
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People with two symptoms lately.
00:24:04
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Yeah.
00:24:05
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Yeah.
00:24:05
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That's like, ugh.
00:24:08
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That's one of my biggest fear with cruises.
00:24:10
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Yeah.
00:24:11
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Getting the trots.
00:24:12
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Okay.
00:24:13
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All right.
00:24:13
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Last final round.
00:24:15
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And it sounds like somebody's ahead with a name that begins with an A and ends with an A. So let's go.
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All right.
00:24:24
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Multiple choice to end it for my end.
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All of the following help support your immune system except A,
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Eating fruits, vegetables, lean proteins.
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B, getting six to seven hours of sleep each night.
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C, drinking at least eight glasses of water a day.
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Or D, exercising daily.
00:24:42
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I'm going to say B, six to seven hours because it should be eight hours, right?
00:24:47
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Yeah, it's actually seven to nine.
00:24:49
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So you're right.
00:24:50
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See?
00:24:51
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April, what did you do this time?
00:24:52
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You took it easy on me.
00:24:53
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Why?
00:24:54
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I did.
00:24:55
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Well, these ones were hard to make hard, actually.
00:24:57
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But, you know, then I was just going to be nice because we're just coming back.
00:25:01
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I'm not.
00:25:02
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I know.
00:25:03
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We're on a trajectory of winning here.
00:25:05
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We set a boundary in January and we had people put votes down.
00:25:13
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And the survey said Alicia was going to win this year.
00:25:15
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I don't want people to feel bad.
00:25:19
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Well, you care too much about what people think, but caring what people think doesn't make you win.
00:25:25
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So just kidding.
00:25:26
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Okay.
00:25:26
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All right.
00:25:27
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All right.
00:25:27
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All right.
00:25:27
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Final question.
00:25:30
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April, this is going to be for two points.
00:25:31
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We're going to give this as a bonus for you.
00:25:33
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Because that'll put us, will that tie us?
00:25:35
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Two?
00:25:35
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No.
00:25:38
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No.
00:25:38
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Three ahead?
00:25:40
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Yeah, because you've had more questions.
00:25:42
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Again, you always have two.
00:25:43
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No, no, no.
00:25:44
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I mean, this last question will be even, right?
00:25:46
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No, because I have two right now, so I would need three.
00:25:49
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Okay.
00:25:50
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Well, sorry, you're not going to win.
00:25:51
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But you still have to answer this question.
00:25:52
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All right.
00:25:54
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Just to keep your cool and keep your cool points for the listeners.
00:25:58
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All right.
00:25:58
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Fact or Fiction?
00:26:00
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People are more likely to get kidney stones in the spring.
00:26:07
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Um... Fiction?
00:26:10
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April, Burke, I am... We can't take time off anymore.
00:26:14
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Because you have let me down officially.
00:26:17
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Fact.
00:26:18
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Dehydration becomes more common as temperatures rise.
00:26:21
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Because people, we forget to hydrate early in the season.
00:26:23
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We drink less water.
00:26:25
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Our urine becomes more concentrated.
00:26:27
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Crystal...
00:26:28
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Crystals have a party in your kidneys.
00:26:30
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And then we have kidney stones.
00:26:32
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OK.
00:26:33
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So I won't even make you do a victory lap on.
00:26:37
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I think you may be answering, but all right.
00:26:40
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Yeah, but I won.
00:26:41
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But no, just kidding.
00:26:42
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In all seriousness, first of all, it's great to be back.
00:26:45
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And this was fun.
00:26:47
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But I actually truly left a handful of things in this one, maybe even a little bit more in the winter one.
00:26:53
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Just some things I thought were interesting.
00:26:54
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What do you think?
00:26:55
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Yeah, no, I mean, I think I learn things every time we do this.
00:26:58
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So I love doing them.
00:26:59
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Of course you do.
00:27:00
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Cause you're so smart.
00:27:01
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All right.
00:27:01
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And if you guys want to learn with us too, you guys can reach out to us.
00:27:06
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If you want to send us an email, you can find us on call podcast at sound physicians.com.
00:27:11
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We're also on social media and we are there on Instagram and LinkedIn.
00:27:15
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Now you can follow us at on call with April and Alicia at LinkedIn, and you can follow us on all call with April and Alicia on Instagram.
00:27:22
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00:27:24
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Follow us on any platform that you like to listen to your podcast.
00:27:27
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You can find us on SoundCloud, Apple, Spotify, practically anywhere.
00:27:30
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We would absolutely love to hear from you.
00:27:32
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So until the next time, April.
00:27:35
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You guys stay well and we'll stay on call.
00:27:37
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Bye everyone.
00:27:37
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Happy spring.
00:27:38
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Stay away from pollen.