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Speaker 1: Hello, gorgeous. It's Lala Kent. Welcome to untraditionally, Lala, Hello, gorgeous,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to untraditionally, Lala. I have my rider die

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Speaker 1: here Easton Birmingham.

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Speaker 2: I'm here.

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Speaker 1: So it is shocking how many people wrote in to

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Speaker 1: be like, I'm trying to kick the vape too. Everywhere

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Speaker 1: I looked, someone was like in their car vaping and

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, that looks so freaking good.

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Speaker 1: After a meal Eastan, I would look at each other

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, what I would give, What I would

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Speaker 1: fucking give to just smack the shit out of that.

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Speaker 2: I'm weird. I like eating like all stuff my face.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll sit back, hit the vape and I'll

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Speaker 3: dive back into that meal.

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Speaker 1: Baby, Oh yeah, dive straight back and look at mom.

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Speaker 2: I think it's nauseating.

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Speaker 1: Tried it. I'm like Chandler, Chandler being on front when

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Speaker 1: Rachel starts smoking and she's like, I actually feel like

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Speaker 1: I could throw up, and he's like, but you gotta

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Speaker 1: gotta push past that. It's about to get so good.

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Speaker 1: And then they're talking about how discussing songing is he goes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is the best and I'm like, I relate. I relate,

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Speaker 1: and guess.

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Speaker 2: What, I also relate because he went five years. I

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Speaker 2: made it five days.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so back to that we this is my reward.

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Speaker 1: It has not gone well, Ethan. Let's talk about your

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Speaker 1: moment of caving back to the wape. How many we

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Speaker 1: went a week? We went a week. I went a

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Speaker 1: little more than a week.

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Speaker 3: And I'm proud of you for that. Oh my god,

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Speaker 3: there's so many things just traveling back to this little

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Speaker 3: old mind of what is it?

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Speaker 2: I don't even know.

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Speaker 3: It's like I was. I was never content. But when

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Speaker 3: everybody this is the fucking thing. I hate when people

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Speaker 3: are like it's hard. I know it's struggling, but you

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Speaker 3: can get through it because you're sipping your mocktail or

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Speaker 3: your cocktail.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, fuck you.

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Speaker 1: We have we have a friend who, by the way,

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Speaker 1: calls us buzzed while he's smoking a cigarette, telling us

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Speaker 1: that we can do it, we can give up the bape.

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Speaker 2: I was like, if I.

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Speaker 1: Could come through the phone and you punch you in

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Speaker 1: your throat so you cannot speak anymore, I would I'd

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Speaker 1: punch you with two fists. Easton's very new in his

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Speaker 1: sobriety journey, and there was a moment where he was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm tweaking out.

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Speaker 2: I need some good.

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Speaker 1: So he went and bought one. But the day that

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Speaker 1: he bought it, he was like really down, you remember mom,

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Speaker 1: And he had like called his sponsor and he talked.

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Speaker 2: To him as down for good two days, three days.

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Speaker 4: I was not you know what, I would much rather

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Speaker 4: have you smoking a vabe than relaps that time.

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Speaker 1: I just cannot deal. I cannot deal with a fifth relapse.

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Speaker 2: No, but this is your journey.

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Speaker 1: And I'm here to support you through the thick and

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Speaker 1: the thin.

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Speaker 2: There it is, Here's what kept me from a relapse.

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Speaker 1: But Easton, he kept saying that like going out and

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Speaker 1: buying the vape, he felt like he had relapsed.

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Speaker 3: And I was on, I mean, I don't, I I

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Speaker 3: don't I like sharing. I like was a speaker at

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Speaker 3: a meeting in you know, our program. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 3: told a lot of people that like that I felt

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Speaker 3: like I relapsed. And I can't tell you how many

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Speaker 3: people were like I felt the exact same way. Really yeah,

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Speaker 3: because you know, you're it's all in the same You

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Speaker 3: gave up drinking, you gave up smoking, you gave up whatever,

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Speaker 3: gone another unhealthy. Yeah, you don't have advice, and now

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Speaker 3: you give it up, and like you feel like you're

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Speaker 3: doing these things and it's like, you know, you have

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Speaker 3: pink cloud moments of like okay, I gave up the vape.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm doing it, and then when you hit it,

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Speaker 3: you're like everything that you just worked for feels like

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Speaker 3: it went down the tube.

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Speaker 1: And I can completely understand.

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Speaker 2: I had to call multiple people.

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Speaker 3: I had to call my sponsor and I was like,

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Speaker 3: I feel like I relapsed, and everybody the meeting is

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Speaker 3: what made me feel good. They were like, now this

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Speaker 3: is you know, this is what we're this is what

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Speaker 3: we're in here for, and we gave up the things

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Speaker 3: that alter us and this does not alter you.

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Speaker 1: Now. I was like, okay, that's okay, mom, come a

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Speaker 1: fucking joy. It makes me need to hit the vabe.

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Speaker 2: I know, and then she I just that's why I

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Speaker 2: also feel bad. I just like it.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, it's either a cocktail or this vape and

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Speaker 3: then I hit it and Least says over there, it's.

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Speaker 2: Like, fuck, let me live. I can't condon. I'm your

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Speaker 2: mother and I don't want you. No, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to condonate. I want you to

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Speaker 1: point out all the horrific things because guess what, you guys,

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Speaker 1: I am going to have to give it up. Like

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Speaker 1: I'm having surgery in a little over a month, Like

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Speaker 1: it has to be done on top of I know

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Speaker 1: what it's doing to my body. I have two little

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Speaker 1: girls that I need to be around for. That's important

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Speaker 1: to me. Okay, hear me out, because I know everyone's

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Speaker 1: gonna think I'm insane. I got sober and it was

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Speaker 1: pretty much I woke up and said I was not

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Speaker 1: going to live this way anymore. And that is when

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Speaker 1: the vaping started. I didn't go buy one, but I

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Speaker 1: was hitting other peoples and it was happening long enough

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Speaker 1: to where I in moments of stress or I would

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Speaker 1: need to go out, and the people I was going

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Speaker 1: the entertainment. Like now I'm more of a homebody and

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Speaker 1: now it's a full on addiction. But back then it

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Speaker 1: was like We're going to can for a film festival

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Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, and I'm like that is triggering.

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Speaker 1: People are drinking. There's social lubricant happening. I need something.

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Speaker 1: Then I get pregnant. Because someone pointed this out in

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Speaker 1: the comments section, you quit for nine months and then

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Speaker 1: you breastbud. Yes, I did quit for nine months with

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Speaker 1: Sosa well before that, because I knew that I was

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Speaker 1: having to prep my body for it, right, so I

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Speaker 1: gave it up. There was something very big on the

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Speaker 1: line that you can't be vaping for and then breastfeeding,

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Speaker 1: and why I then go back to doing it is

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Speaker 1: because it's an addiction. And I said to someone in

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Speaker 1: one of my meetings, I was like, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: time ago. If I can quit drinking, I can quit vaping.

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Speaker 1: And she goes, well, have you ever given up heroin?

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Speaker 1: And I go no, and she goes, that's it's the equivalent.

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Speaker 1: Easton is relatively news. We have to keep him where

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Speaker 1: he is for me. Easton had a friend come over

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Speaker 1: the other night. Her name's Dina, Little Dina shout out,

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Speaker 1: and she brought me this little like anti vaping device

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Speaker 1: which I'm going to have to implement. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: San Francisco this weekend. I don't think I can be

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Speaker 1: without it. I'll be the vape, just letting you know. Mom.

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Speaker 1: I can see her face shift. Her energy is undeniable

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Speaker 1: right now, it's suffocating. Worry about you, guys, I worry

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Speaker 1: about me too. I worry about me too. After that,

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Speaker 1: I come home Easton. You gotta hide that ship from me,

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Speaker 1: and you can. If I say, let me have a

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Speaker 1: smacky smack, which is what I do every morning, let

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Speaker 1: of that. I will and after this, because even when

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Speaker 1: on the boom, I'm fucking smacking a shit out of

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Speaker 1: that stuff. Seriously, I know this round, this round, I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you what it is going to be a we

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Speaker 1: are giving up the vape and there is no timeline

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Speaker 1: happening where you get through recovery of the boobs and

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Speaker 1: you get to hit it. No, it's gone, it's done.

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Speaker 1: It has to be done well.

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Speaker 4: If my dad, your grandfather, look for fifty some odd

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Speaker 4: years and give it up cold turkey with hard candies.

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Speaker 2: I think anybody can.

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Speaker 1: I finished a pound a pound of popcorn flavored jelly

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Speaker 1: bellies in less than thirty six hours, chewing it the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. It's just where. We'll do what we have

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Speaker 1: to do. I may gain a little weight, which is fine.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get a fat ass.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna just hit this verbe.

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Speaker 1: The fattest of asses. I'm gonna walk in looking like

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Speaker 1: moving party. B apologies, Okay, I'm gonna have like twelve

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Speaker 1: boyfriends moving on. People have asked me, how's the vave going?

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Speaker 2: It's going great?

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Speaker 1: You know what I say, Drenda Medley. Not well, bitch,

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Speaker 1: it's going well. What are you thinking? Mom?

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Speaker 2: I know I feel like I'm just.

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Speaker 3: Judge, judging.

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Speaker 2: I'm not judging at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty five years old, you guys, and have to

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Speaker 1: hide my vaping from my mother.

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Speaker 2: We don't do a very good job.

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Speaker 1: It's because I finally give up. I'm like, I can't,

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Speaker 1: I'm tweaking, and she knows I'm going to Easton's black

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Speaker 3: I know, did we even tell that story? When I

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Speaker 3: found the vape? In my bag and Mom walked into

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Speaker 1: No, but that's so funny.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we were in it.

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Speaker 3: We had just given it up, and it was maybe

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Speaker 3: day two or three, and the attict I am.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm gonna give it. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 3: I hit it the final time, and I thought, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna put this in my Duffel bag just in case.

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Speaker 2: Just in case.

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Speaker 1: Don't like vitamins, Like you don't know if you're gonna

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Speaker 2: So I like threw to the Duffel bag. I forgot

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Speaker 3: And then when I was in my room, I was

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Speaker 3: like getting my clothes out and I see this grain

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Speaker 3: thing at the bottom, and I thought, there's just no

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Speaker 3: fucking way, and I grabbed it. And I'm not kidding you,

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Speaker 1: Was it a freshier and oldie like?

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Speaker 2: It was pretty freshy. It was the worst.

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Speaker 3: And I looked at it and the what went through

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Speaker 3: my mind was do I hit this and not tell anyone,

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Speaker 3: or do I go find my friend?

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Speaker 2: So we hit it together, meaning me meaning my sister.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to bring me down with him.

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Speaker 3: And right when I'm thinking this, I'm looking at it

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Speaker 3: and Mom walks.

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Speaker 2: In and I was like, I'm trying to pape. I

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Speaker 2: just ratted myself. I was like, I didn't know what

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Speaker 4: You had a babe because I didn't have my g

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Speaker 4: She didn't even care, but I just looked at her.

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Speaker 2: I was essentially blind, like jilty, and I was.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm proud of both of you, so you know,

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Speaker 1: No one ever pick up the vape. If you have

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Speaker 1: I don't co parent. We parallel parent. What happens at

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Speaker 1: vape just all roads lead back to the vape. My

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Speaker 1: love Easton. Thank you so much for being here and

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Speaker 1: participating My loves. Thank you for listening to another episode

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Speaker 1: of Untraditionally, La La. I know being a parent is rough.

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Speaker 1: I am here to tell you you're doing a fucking awesome job.

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Speaker 1: Let's go out there and show our kids some love,

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Speaker 1: but show them who's boss. I'm gonna catch you guys

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Speaker 1: on Monday and again next week.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye,