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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I ever told to you protection of I Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: and today we are so happy to be joined by

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Speaker 1: my good friend and great supporter. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with Usressa. Before we get started, listeners, we

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Speaker 1: did want to add in a quick trigger warning for

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Speaker 1: this episode because we are going to be talking about

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and what is happening inside hospitals and emergency rooms,

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Speaker 1: and we're not going to get to graphic in anything,

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Speaker 1: but totally understand if that is triggering right now. So

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Speaker 1: can you introduce yourself to the listeners. So, Hi, I'm Marissa.

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Speaker 1: I am an ear nurse. I'm a travel nurse. I

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Speaker 1: have been a nurse for eight and a half years.

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Speaker 1: I have traveled to seven different states and I am

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Speaker 1: currently working in a er in Connecticut. Yes, and Mercea

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Speaker 1: and I we have been friends since seventh grade. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We met over Harry Potter Bolder that I was very

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Speaker 1: impressed with, and so I came up and I was like,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be friends. True story. My entire sixth

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Speaker 1: grade year, I hadn't actually like talked to anybody. I

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Speaker 1: seventh grade was a pivotal year. If you talked to

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Speaker 1: our fab five of friends, everybody has a story of

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Speaker 1: Annie being our common link, and usually Harry Potter was

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Speaker 1: somehow involved. Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So the reason we

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Speaker 1: wanted to bring you on here is because you are

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Speaker 1: cool to have a conversation with you about the types

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Speaker 1: of things that you are seeing. But maybe before we

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Speaker 1: get into that, um, can you talk about when did

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Speaker 1: I might actually have you like help me remember what

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Speaker 1: It took me a long time to feel confident enough

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Speaker 1: you so much for coming on and talking about it

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Speaker 1: and for what you're doing as well. I hate that

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Speaker 1: so much for whatever thing you're doing. And good. So

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Speaker 1: you're going to Massachusetts next week? Yeah, Massachusetts is my

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Speaker 1: say a shout out to any body that is actually

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Speaker 1: going to be exposed, um, whether and if you're allowing

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Speaker 1: thank god found a woman in masks that would rent

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Speaker 1: on how we're going to handle things, um as far

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Speaker 1: scrubs before I come into her home and she's going

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Speaker 1: I'm up. Um, we've got a whole procedure that we've

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Speaker 1: worked out. But anybody that's housing like a travel nurse

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Speaker 1: right now. Thank you so much for housing us. We

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Speaker 1: really do appreciate it so much because shelter is the

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Speaker 1: basis for our Maslow's higher camp needs. Yes, yes, um yeah.

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Speaker 1: All the respects um to you and what you're doing

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Speaker 1: You guys are like my friends while I'm away from home,

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Speaker 1: when I'm on a travel assignment. Just to hear a

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Speaker 1: home in a way and I'm right there with you.

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Speaker 1: And even even even though me and Annie have our history, Samantha,

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Speaker 1: you have the most soulful, soothing voice, and I look

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Speaker 1: forward so much to hearing your perspective as a social worker.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I know what she's seen. E er. We

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Speaker 1: love to hear your perspective on everything because it as

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Speaker 1: such a deut We're friends to definitely hung out, We're definitely,

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Speaker 1: big more from from Afar a self distancing virtual hugs yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well, thank you so much um for joining us, Merissa,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll be checking in and making sure

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