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Speaker 3: I am Jaselle Bryant. What's up? What's up? I'm Robin Dixon.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being here with us once again. Yes,
Speaker 3: and don't kill us.
Speaker 4: Guys, this is going to be a men need don't.
Speaker 4: Maybe we shouldn't say that because then people just gonna
Speaker 4: log off.
Speaker 3: Well, you never know what can happen in a mini.
Speaker 4: That's true, a foolishness and nonsense. Because it is it
Speaker 4: is Labor Day.
Speaker 3: It is Labor Day.
Speaker 1: Everybody's on a vac You should be enjoying your day
Speaker 1: absolutely on bak because the grind is like about like
Speaker 1: real now, yes, you know now that everyone.
Speaker 3: Is back to school, the traffic in the morning.
Speaker 4: Dumb, stupid, ridiculous, insane, No, absolutely ridiculous. I'm very excited
Speaker 4: about Labor Day because it's it lets everyone know that
Speaker 4: it is time to restart. I think September is like
Speaker 4: you're restarting because you know.
Speaker 3: That's when school starts.
Speaker 4: That's like, yes, it's the end of the calendar, towards
Speaker 4: the end of the calendar year, but you're like restarting life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it is a good it's a good
Speaker 1: like reset. Yes, especially after summer when you've just been
Speaker 1: all over the place, right, you know, the kids have
Speaker 1: been home and maybe you don't have the structure. It
Speaker 1: is good and it just kind of brings everything back together.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I love it. I don't mind it. I
Speaker 3: don't love it.
Speaker 4: You don't love it, well, but then it lets you
Speaker 4: know like you need to be doing something important.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what.
Speaker 1: I don't love it because I know that like the
Speaker 1: dark the dark days are coming.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, all time changes, yes, but you have a
Speaker 4: couple months because I think that's November.
Speaker 3: I think it is is a November or October.
Speaker 4: I think it's always November because I remember always like
Speaker 4: we got an extra hour to party right at Yeah,
Speaker 4: I gotta tell my.
Speaker 1: Right, But but that's so that's the part that I
Speaker 1: don't like. It's like, oh gosh, it's going to be
Speaker 1: dark and cold in the morning. It's gonna be dark
Speaker 1: at five o'clock, you know, at pm. So that's that's
Speaker 1: the part that I don't like, right.
Speaker 4: But I do feel like, Okay, if the kids are
Speaker 4: starting a new school year, I could just be starting
Speaker 4: something new. Let me go start a new business something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's true. Yeah, that's true. It definitely brings
Speaker 3: a focus back.
Speaker 1: Can I just say, speaking of it being dark earl
Speaker 1: here when I spent a few little time in Scotland.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, it's the weirdest on You're on your work retreat. Yes,
Speaker 3: my work conference. Yes, a workoud. I'm about to go
Speaker 3: on to work conference too. Way, I'm going to miss you.
Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna be calling you. I like you, right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Somebody said on my work not to cut you off.
Speaker 4: Somebody said on my work conference that they were gonna
Speaker 4: take my phone. I just heard that yesterday. I said, Okay,
Speaker 4: when's the meeting for that. I want to I want
Speaker 4: to be the first one at that meeting, right, so
Speaker 4: I can tell you to kick They're going to take
Speaker 4: your phone for the day, oh and give it to
Speaker 4: us at night.
Speaker 3: Okay, Nope, I'm gonna have my phone the entire time. Well,
Speaker 3: you need to be locked into I'm going to be
Speaker 3: locked into the morning. The love of your life.
Speaker 4: Yes, I am if that's what the work conference is
Speaker 4: supposed to happen, I am.
Speaker 3: But anytime, let's say you went.
Speaker 4: On a date with somebody that you didn't know, you're
Speaker 4: gonna google him, right, Yeah. I think that they're trying
Speaker 4: to prevent that. People that run the work conference are
Speaker 4: trying to But if they give you your phone back at night,
Speaker 4: then you're going to google them at night.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But what we're not gonna do is have me
Speaker 3: not be able to talk to my children. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 3: so it's not happening. But anyway, I'm sorry to cut
Speaker 3: you off.
Speaker 1: Okay, So in Scotland, it was the craziest thing. It
Speaker 1: would be eleven pm at night and still light outside.
Speaker 3: What yes? Why? It was like the weirdest thing. So
Speaker 3: you're just like, is that near Alaska? It's not. No,
Speaker 3: it's not near Alaska.
Speaker 4: No, that's not crazy, right, people are gonna be coming
Speaker 4: for me. Just that does not no geography. Yeah that
Speaker 4: sounded wild, right, But I think it's near like Iceland. Maybe,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's right, because Iceland. That's they have that
Speaker 4: issue in Iceland. Yeah, think only like twice, I mean
Speaker 4: two weeks out of a year.
Speaker 3: It gets dark in Iceland. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was so crazy though. It was
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like looking out the window, what is
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 3: So in order to go to sleep, you just like close.
Speaker 1: Your Yeah, you gotta have you gotta have like dark
Speaker 1: you know whatever what they call room darkening curtains and stuff.
Speaker 3: Blackout Yeah yeah, yes, definitely need those.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It was weird. So I wonder if they like
Speaker 3: keep restaurants open and.
Speaker 1: You would think so yeah, and then it just it
Speaker 1: just messes up your like.
Speaker 3: Your perception of time. Yeah, you know your Cycadian rhythm. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what it's called. I'm made up a word.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although when you're working, when you're on a work conference, yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter. Your rhythm is just jacked. Yeah, your rhythm can.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter. But it it was crazy. So but
Speaker 1: I was also like, wow, like what I want that here?
Speaker 1: Like as much as I hate how dark it gets
Speaker 1: at five o'clock, like, I would definitely take that trade off. Really, yes,
Speaker 1: I think I think you just get used to it.
Speaker 1: Like I asked the people, I'm like, okay, do y'all
Speaker 1: like do you end up going to bed really late?
Speaker 1: And they're like no, you just kind of adjust.
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, that's interesting. Yeah, I couldn't even imagine. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was neat so and then what in the morning,
Speaker 4: it's it's like regular in the morning, it's it's light.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's light. So when is it dark?
Speaker 1: So when I guess it's only dark for like a
Speaker 1: short period of time, okay, Like it was probably.
Speaker 4: Dark as from like two pm, I mean two am
Speaker 4: to two thirty eight.
Speaker 1: It probably like eventually got dark, like I would say
Speaker 1: it got dark around.
Speaker 4: Midnight okay, yeah, midnight midnight Okay, wow, yeah that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I because it's labor Day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was coming over to go swimming and your
Speaker 4: pool's not here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it wasn't delivered yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, could up suspended lost it?
Speaker 3: Did he?
Speaker 4: Because we could get like the ones that set on
Speaker 4: top of the ground. Remember back in the day, did
Speaker 4: you ever have one? No, because your parents had a
Speaker 4: real pool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had an in ground pool. Yes, I grew
Speaker 3: up with the in ground pool.
Speaker 4: But did you ever were you ever invited to a
Speaker 4: pool party and that ship was on top of the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've been in one, yes, and I was
Speaker 1: definitely confused at first I'm like.
Speaker 3: What is going on here? But a pool is a pool.
Speaker 3: I would not get into that.
Speaker 4: It's so wild because where Grace goes to school, they
Speaker 4: have they have pool days, right, and they'll just put
Speaker 4: out like slipping slides.
Speaker 3: Oh that is so fun. That's fun, you know what.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I actually remember in when I used to go with
Speaker 1: my mom and visit her people in North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that slipping slides.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, they had above they had mobile homes
Speaker 1: yea with an above ground pool and like a deck,
Speaker 1: Like they would build a deck.
Speaker 3: Around the above ground pool. So you didn't really know
Speaker 3: it was an above ground pool. How could you not?
Speaker 1: Because you don't if you you don't see it, do
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? Like, because you say you
Speaker 1: walk out of the back door of the house onto
Speaker 1: a deck, yes, and the pool you know right there?
Speaker 4: Oh, but why can't they just if you're gonna do
Speaker 4: all that, why wouldn't you just dig the dirt and
Speaker 4: put you have?
Speaker 3: It's a mobile home. Oh and you're leaving.
Speaker 1: Right, you're not? Like, I mean not that they I
Speaker 1: don't even know if they ever left. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that Like in a mobile home park,
Speaker 1: you can build an in ground pool. Yes, because if
Speaker 1: they were to leave someone someone else has I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was just like they don't own that probably don't
Speaker 3: own that land, right, yes? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: Okay did you jump in that one? Yeah? And that
Speaker 3: was fun? Did you like slide around because you're because
Speaker 3: they're not that deep, right, right, They're not that deep.
Speaker 3: They're like a foot probably four feet.
Speaker 1: When you are.
Speaker 3: A kid, you don't care. You don't give it. Damn,
Speaker 3: you don't care. You do not give it.
Speaker 1: But I just remember, it's like you don't you know
Speaker 1: when I think back on it, Wait a minute, that
Speaker 1: was a mobile home with a above ground deck, above
Speaker 1: ground pool with.
Speaker 4: A deck like it was just like, oh, you didn't
Speaker 4: know you was in a trailer park. No, and you
Speaker 4: love that, no idea.
Speaker 3: No, I had no clue.
Speaker 1: But there are night there are some very nice mobile
Speaker 1: homes like it. You know, it looked like a regular
Speaker 1: just one level house.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And so you can tell the wheels until you look
Speaker 4: down and you see the wheels and you're like, oh shit,
Speaker 4: you can drive this house down the street right to
Speaker 4: the next park right called trailer park. This is terrible anyway,
Speaker 4: We're not going to be here long, guys. This is
Speaker 4: something called a mini episodes that you didn't have the
Speaker 4: opportunity to spend quality quality, cool quality quality time with
Speaker 4: your family, yes, and your friends and your friends. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and y'all always like, really get mad at us when
Speaker 4: we do.
Speaker 3: Minis Mariah, what's up? Mariah? Hi? Mariah?
Speaker 4: And in the alleys, the Ali family, all of y'all,
Speaker 4: y'all just be mad. We think that y'all are doing
Speaker 4: We're doing y'all a service, right, Yeah, we're allowing you
Speaker 4: all to spend time with your family exactly the end,
Speaker 4: So enjoy.
Speaker 3: Have a drink on us. What's the drink of choice
Speaker 3: these days? You know what? I don't. I cannot drink
Speaker 3: alcohol anymore. It's it's over. Yeah, you were telling me that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's ye.
Speaker 1: Like maybe I still might just do like a rose
Speaker 1: or something, right, but I'm really not.
Speaker 4: I was more like drunk two days ago, and I
Speaker 4: think I'm still I'm still a little I'm still a
Speaker 4: little shook up.
Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, who were you drinking? Tequila stuff? San Gria,
Speaker 3: San Gria, sat Gria And then tequila. Oh wow, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: my body is still trying to recover. Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 3: I understand, I get it.
Speaker 4: And then the next yesterday, I was out in the sun.
Speaker 4: Cannot do that. That san gria was pouring out of me.
Speaker 4: I was wedding like when.
Speaker 3: They say a center in church. I was sweating like
Speaker 3: a center in church. I said, oh, no, where's the
Speaker 3: in condition? Right? Yes, that was terrible. Anyway, We love
Speaker 3: y'all so much, Yes, all right, Happy Labor Day, guys,
Speaker 3: Happy Labor Day. Yes, bye bye, the beginning.
Speaker 4: Of the happy labor Day and it's virgal season. Get
Speaker 4: into oh yes, get it too with okay bye?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, your birthday's next next yes, okayyy by