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

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Speaker 1: One Never Told You, production by Heart Radio, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you

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Speaker 1: are choosing to drink or whatever you're doing, jink responsibly.

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Speaker 1: Are you sipping on anything, Samantha.

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Speaker 2: I got my bubbly water happening over here. Keep it

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Speaker 2: keeping it light.

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Speaker 1: How about you? I, as you saw me struggle to open,

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Speaker 1: have a can of sake. It is snow related, which

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Speaker 1: is perfect. The name is snow related, which is perfect

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Speaker 1: for this episode. But it is cold, so it's both

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Speaker 1: cold here and the sake is cold. Yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: wanted I'm a nerd and I like making things a

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Speaker 1: line where I can, so yeah, but yes, I did

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Speaker 1: have another Happy Hour planned for this one, but I

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Speaker 1: thought we would talk about snow days instead, and just

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Speaker 1: to acknowledge, there's a lot going on. We've got wildfires,

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Speaker 1: we've got freezing temperatures. It's just a lot. So we

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Speaker 1: hope that you are all okay, and I think this

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Speaker 1: will be interesting. I would love to hear from listeners

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Speaker 1: because I think my experience with snow days, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to assume it's very similar for you Samantha is that

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Speaker 1: is something that would make a lot of people where

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Speaker 1: it snows more often roll their eyes.

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Speaker 2: Right, Oh, absolutely, As in fact, I had recently had

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Speaker 2: a conversation about that. They're like, no, I moved here

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So listeners please write in with your opinions.

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Speaker 1: And I do have a little I resea this actually

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Speaker 1: a little bit last night, and I'll put it at

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Speaker 1: the end about women in snow days because as we

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Speaker 1: record this, it bite snow. It looks like it's going

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Speaker 1: to snow tomorrow. In Georgia where we are, that is

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Speaker 1: like I don't have school tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Or right there is this feeling of gettiness and throwing

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Speaker 2: you back into childhood, especially again for us who typically

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Speaker 2: it's odd timing. So I know North Georgia so lived

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Speaker 2: in the foothills of Appalachia. Literally we would get more

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Speaker 2: snow than most of the people in Georgia. But even

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Speaker 2: when we did, because we were in a rural town,

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Speaker 2: it was still exciting because we would have school off,

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Speaker 2: and we would anticipate wake up early or be excitedly

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Speaker 2: or no school, And there was something to be said

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Speaker 2: about like not having school. During my middle school years,

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Speaker 2: we were out of school for like weeks, a couple

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Speaker 2: much fun. But before besides those times and then going

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Speaker 2: into adulthood, being because I worked for the government, so

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Speaker 2: the government is already in the state of Georgia have

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Speaker 2: already said that they would not they would all be

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Speaker 2: closed tomorrow, their offices would be closed. Everybody be either

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Speaker 2: working remote or not working at all. So I remember

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Speaker 2: that excitement too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think that is the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: from like my perspective is that I know outside of

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Speaker 1: I would love for people to write in who have

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Speaker 1: I think you have virtual teaching a lot of times,

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Speaker 1: I think the first year I moved because my family

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Speaker 1: it snowed like in April, and I remember thinking, what

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Speaker 1: when they were deciding whether or not to cancel school,

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Speaker 1: like how icy is it outside? And it was. It

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the one I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: That's when I moved to That's the one that happened. Yes,

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Speaker 2: No, it was not. The National Guard had to be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's another thing. We've talked about this before

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Speaker 1: lot of it's there, but some of it is like

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Speaker 1: we don't have the infrastructure because it doesn't normally snow,

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Speaker 1: what we call like snowpocalypses or the Great Snowjam or whatever,

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Speaker 2: I was like, no, this it's awful. Like the things

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Speaker 2: that happened, it brought both brought a community together. It

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they like canceled everything at the worst time in

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Speaker 1: the experience I'm thinking of. It was like the worst

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Speaker 1: time they could have called things all.

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Speaker 2: It was already snowing, right, are you talking about the snowpocalypse.

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Speaker 2: Stem first clips. Yeah, Like I think that's the one

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Speaker 2: literally because we're sleeping at schools.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It was wild, like they opened, stores would

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Speaker 1: My car slid out. I was almost home and it

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Speaker 2: The reason it's called the Snowpocalypse is because the way

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Speaker 2: the roads were just indeed but had abandoned cars everywhere.

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Speaker 2: It looked like the coming of the end.

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Speaker 1: It looked like the Walking Dead. A lot of people

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. This was my moment of I

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Speaker 2: will talk about it till this day when people bring

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Speaker 2: I was like, it's starting to snow. They're saying it's

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Speaker 2: it hasn't been I was like, I don't care. I'm

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Speaker 2: like and he was very nice, like he was like, okay,

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Speaker 2: And he was like, okay, I guess be careful. And

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Speaker 2: Roads are frozen, and yeah. I was like, that's correct.

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Speaker 2: I was right. And I went to my little grocery store,

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Speaker 2: everything is extra expensive, but they have really nice wines.

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Speaker 2: was like, that's right, fools, I'm at home.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome. I remember times when school will be

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Speaker 2: It's back and forth because we've had those moments where

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Speaker 2: then everybody's made fools of and they're like, we'll never

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Speaker 2: do that again. Oh they're possibly snow. Yeah, we trust

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Speaker 2: to do last time. And then they're all stuck in

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Speaker 2: the ice. And that's the biggest problem is like we're

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Speaker 2: not really worried about the snow. The way temperature works

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Speaker 2: I think at the time of the snow apocalypse, there

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Speaker 2: So they had to like emergency call people out and

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Speaker 2: be like, oh, I gotta fix this, gotta fix this.

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Speaker 1: Do you read snowflowers.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, snowboo bills, Yes, snowflass but I'm gonna calls for

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Speaker 2: the rest but like it makes sense to me, But yeah,

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Speaker 2: many because the South is so underfunded. That's not something

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Speaker 2: that they look at the amount of funding that they

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Speaker 2: put into anything for the community we know is lacking.

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Speaker 2: For anti trans policies, tons of money, tons of money

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Speaker 2: for taking money away from older generations. Tons of money.

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Speaker 2: This like aloof possible dangers of all the immigrants coming in,

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Speaker 2: tons of money, but anything actually useful, like schools, or

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Speaker 2: they do fix the roads. They do a lot of

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Speaker 2: construction on roads. I will give them that they do,

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Speaker 2: just not in preventing accidents they do.

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Speaker 1: Is it a headache, yes, but is it necessary also yes,

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Speaker 1: so they tell me. But yeah, I mean that's it

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Speaker 1: is funny to me because I've had so many conversations.

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Speaker 1: It's just so different based on where you are about this.

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Speaker 1: This whole conversation around snow and snow days and like

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Speaker 1: everybody here, I mean people are going to the store,

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Speaker 1: they're clearing it out. Like my friend was just texting

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Speaker 1: me she couldn't find like a warm coat and all this.

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