Like everyone in this world of COVID-19, Katie and Mary have had to make several substantial adjustments in their life. In this episode of No More Secrets, the duo discusses the human spirit, slowing down, and the new normal of our society.
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Mary & Katie's Book: Broken Nek
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Like everyone in this world of COVID-19, Katie and Mary have had to make several substantial adjustments in their life. In this episode of No More Secrets, the duo discusses the human spirit, slowing down, and the new normal of our society.
If you would like to be a guest on No More Secrets, please fill out the form here and we will be in touch! (In-person recordings will be postponed until after Shelter-in-Place order is lifted.)
Mary & Katie's Book: Broken Nek
Follow us on IG: @thealbrechtauthors
FB: /thealbrechtauthors
www.thealbrechtauthors.com
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Everyone, welcome back to our podcast. No more secrets. I'm your Aunt Mary Albrecht and I'm your niece, Katie Albrecht. And it's been a whole week since we've been in their shelter in home. Is that right? Shelter at home, shelter at home, mother in place in Wisconsin and safer at home. So I mean, there's so many different names for for all of it. And the whole week? Yeah, And believe
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not, there's not as many cops patrolling. The area's had just imagined that there were gonna be people like at my door telling me to go home or, like telling me and my boyfriend separate. Exactly. So that's what I was looking out Windows and stuff like that. So, um, it's actually hasn't been too bad, but it it's it is strange, because there's so many businesses that aren't open, you know? Just drive along Peterson Road and the parking lots are empty. It so Yeah, it's kind of like a ghost town that feel to it. Yeah, but here we are, a weekend we don't know where we're going with it, but we Ah, we did manage to, uh, podcast remotely. We found a way, and, um, we still sound great. Don't. And we still sound great. Hopefully, um, we have been talking, though, Katie and and I have been talking about We feel like we need thio. Ah, just kind of redirect the podcast for a little bit. We were not sure 100% if we're going to go with the topics we had planned. Um, just because some of them are pretty heavy and it's a pretty heavy time a year. Um, but we do have ideas of time of year. Hey, years just happens. We have a pandemic every year, and this is yet pandemic. Marge, you're not a time in our life in general. And hopefully once. Oh, I didn't even realize I said that. Okay, were so punchy. Everybody is where we've gotten to the point where we're just like, yeah, it's like you just kind of like lost. You don't really have any structure. How's everyone doing? Yeah, Rhea is everyone enjoying the quarantine life? It's Just try me. I just get a lot of wine like us. Yeah, just and then just not. I mean, I'm trying to stay structured, but it's just not the same. And and you, you know, you're just not on the ball as much. You're not as stimulated, so I think the brain turns a little mushy. But also it's like it's mushy and a good way to where we're taking a breath where you're you have a chance to pause and kind of recollect and also realize what's important to us there is that and that's all happened in a week at most. I mean, people have really slowed down and started doing things they haven't done for years. Like play board games with their family isn't like great. Yeah, I'll be there. Kids have been so busy there in everything in sports and the extracurriculars, friends, friends, friends. And now that can happen. So yeah, and me, me and my boyfriend even had, like, a good, um, we have a little retention pond behind our yard, but we broke out our fire plate or fire pit for the first time and just enjoy it a whole night by the fire and just kind of reconnected a little bit. And it was really, really nice and knowing you didn't have to like oh, shoot. I gotta, you know, get up. Get going. I gotta finish this before tomorrow. Because you also had a little time off this week, right? Katie? Yeah, I'm still working, but I did have a couple days off. Just a lesson. How much we're working against. But, um, it's kind of nice to be able to spread out and remember what's actually important. And I was thinking that it would be nice if as a as a country or maybe in other countries they didn't. Maybe as the world, um, evolves that we could have, like, a month where we all kind of just do a reset, you know? Yeah. We're not allowed to travel for business or anything during that time were not allowed to. I shouldn't say not allowed because I like having freedom. I'll be honest. Yeah, definitely. But it's just guidelines of like, Okay, so we're gonna take a break. Maybe during the typical flu season when people usually gets sick. That's a good idea. Like, you know, just a healthy request in this in this season, we're going to do a healthy reset because we all need to rest. We all need to stoke up on, you know, different. Um friend, you know, connect with friends that we haven't talked to for a while and, you know, just get some projects done around the house. You know, change some habits that you haven't had time to change before or just sleep more than you. And just saying you have been doing art. So, Sherry, or are your massage therapist here at the fitness loft? Um was telling me that she just, like, took a nap the other day and didn't feel bad about it. Yeah, that's perfectly OK. Let's we should we should be ableto you know, I'll sleep when when we feel tired or need rest and just move. You know, it was forward. At least for a while. It seems like we were not forever just going, going, going, going. And everything was just so much input all the time. And, you know, it just would be so I guess, at least myself, I want to see if I can try to remember to do a reset a little more often, and maybe do it when there's not a pandemic. Because that just makes you feel like you're supposed to. And then you don't want to. Yeah, you told me to do it, so no, I don't want Now. I don't want to. It's like a cat. You know, like, you know, this the world is a cat right now that the world is a cat, you know, you go to pet a cat, which they claim they want you to pet him. But then as soon as you act like you want it, they walk away, and sometimes they turn back and they give you a little like attitude. And you know what? They roll down on their backs and they expose their bellies. And you didn't you think that's like an open invitation to touch their bellies, right? Like, kind of like a like a dog. You know, when you do that and they don't like that after most of the time, That angry cat, you know, video thing or whatever that does a cat diary said cat diary. You know, I will. I will allow my my authority to pet me twice, after which I will proceed to bite their hand to shreds or something like that. Uh, e don't hold the door open long enough for me. Decide if I want to go inside or outside or inside or outside events. They're trying to kill me. I'm sitting outside their room at three o'clock in the morning. They will not let me in. I will just proceed to sing the song. You guys, if you haven't heard the sad Cat Diaries downloaded on YouTube Hilarious. First new content in this ah, isolation time. Speaking of content and you mentioned this last week in our in our podcast that the only thing good that's come out in terms of what you see on TV or on social media are the Mihm's Oh, yeah, there's a lot of funny means we could go on and on. There's so many good stuff. Yeah, they're people of the Internet are really creative and that I love seeing that spirit. Yeah, you know, it gives me a lot of hope. You know, about just the human condition that people are still gonna find a way to laugh, you know? So, yeah, no matter what kind of times you're going through, you're gonna find that most people will be able to find a positive out of it. And I think that's true with this pandemic. Do is that we're there is positive stuff coming out of it. People are obviously taking a breath and being able to regroup and everything. They're finding humor. Um, and we're just resetting a little bit, maybe thinking over priorities to of what we want to do when we return to quote unquote normal. Um, you know, I'm really proud of all of the researchers. Obviously, all of the people in the hospital's caring for the sick. But but the researchers behind the scenes that are scrambling to find a solution for this, I mean, and it's set over and over again on TV, where the greatest country in the world, like we have so many resources at our disposal and our people are really going at it, and I'm really proud of that aspect of it. That's what makes me feel really happy to be American and just to be human in general, because we do have that so many people that are just so smart working to come up with cures or solutions and, um, one of our local companies just this week got it passed to have a rapid test, which is gonna be ah, produced starting 50,000 rapid tests. A day, um, and distributing them out all over starting Wednesday. And that's a game changer. The FDA approved it on emergency basis. Thes people at Abbott, they got it together. They were already working on it. And now they think they're gonna have millions out per month. And if we could have a rapid test where within a few minutes, you know, if you have it, you know, and then you also couldn't wait to see to make sure it also test negative as opposed to, like, neutral. Um, that's only 13 minutes. And if we had that, we could start eventually getting people back into, you know, public, because you can have that as, ah requisite for coming into this establishment. You have to take this rapid test and wait 15 minutes, which means all the healthy people and you were explaining this to me earlier because I was not understanding quite right right away. All the healthy people can then enter the establishment, and it's fine. It's just that sick people that need to, you know, take their time to get the rest up and do the two week thing or whatever you're responsible about it and go home. Yeah, that's really the answer to a lot of a lot of things. And, um, it's also good for the people that are, um, you know, the nurses and and caregivers right now, because if you go into the hospital going forward and you have symptoms, they won't necessarily assume you have covert 19. They'll do the test first. If it comes up negative, then they don't have to use a mask. Or, you know, um, you know it has Matt suit or whatever they're using these days so they can preserve those for the highly contagious people. So that's a big game changer to its gonna get. Give people personal protective equipment, you know, in in larger quantities. Thio handle all of this if it well, if and when it happens again, you know? So I just love what I heard about this from Abbott am. You know, we'll see where it goes, but it's being called a game changer. That gives me a lot of hope. So if you don't know what I'm talking about, look up. Um, Abbott Laboratories, Covad. 19 tests or something like that, and it comes right up, you know, So it's It's Ah, it's a different week coming up, and I'm hoping it will be different. You know, it'll be better and Early's will start to see the light start to see the light. I think that's what's really gotten to me this week is that every day you get up and you're just like, Oh, I don't know how long this is going There's no answers, you know? But I think we're I mean, at least around us. And depending on where you're listening, I mean, people are slowing down. But as we said, like the businesses of shutdown, we're following the orders. There might be some exceptions out there, but the world has slowed almost to a stop at this point in our world. In our worlds. Yeah, and I've heard of other pockets of other areas as well, but that's encouraging that we're gonna be moving on to, you know, the next phase of it. So that was part of the whole flattening the curved thing. We should hopefully start to see um, the results starting to lessen a little bit. That's yeah, that's what Ah, some people are saying like the governor of New York is saying that hasn't flattened the curve, but it's not. The curve isn't getting steeper. And now that's that's probably start, you know, And with the rapid tests and we were talking about this a little bit, there is a chance that we're going to see more positive results of Corona virus, right? But we're also going to see a higher percentage of, um, are lower port for a percentage of mortality rate, right? Because well, actually, no. The rial amount of people that have gotten the virus and recovered there's so many of those that we don't know about. And so therefore, it should lower the mortality rate. Some of the the professionals think it'll be under 1%. Um, because the only way you can really know that is to know who's gotten it and who's recovered that and and we just don't know because we don't have enough tests. So, um so yeah, you know, there. That's a whole another aspect that we're dealing with. This is all gonna be interesting in history someday to read about it, you know, like the Spanish flu. You know, it'll be on Wikipedia, you know? Yeah. Hang in there, everyone. We're going to be a part of the history books that they learn in high school and, you know, every everywhere since South straight. Absolutely. We will. So anyway, we didn't really We don't really know if we're going to. We're definitely air something every week, but it may not be a new topic on mental health because it just feels like this is something that either we need to talk about or we need to do something else and laugh, but not bring up a new mental health problem at this moment. Because right now, I think we're all just trying to get along, you know, um So what we have in mind for after this podcast is, um, something to make you laugh. So I encourage you to tune in because we have a lot of ideas. At least it makes us laugh. Something that's all that's important, right? Right there. There's that. You guys do too. Yeah. And Ah, I don't know. You have a can't really think of any thing else. What's something good that happened you this week? Something good that happened to me. I put my classes online at the fitness loft. I think I had mentioned that it was going to do that last podcast. Um, but it's been something that I've been wanting to do for years. Deport him online, Live where I can interact with my people. And I did it because I had time, you know, And I it was a learning curve, and I had to study, study, study and download ah, platform and learned how to use it And just, you know, so to me, it was like, Wow, I actually accomplished a goal that I've been wanting to do for years and now can hopefully keep it in place going forward because, you know, a lot of times people can't make it to the actual establishment, so that'll be a nice option. And it's been great because I've been able to see my peeps on the screen like The Brady Bunch, and, uh and I'm think a lot of people can relate to that. You know, you're right. That means what's happening all over the world. But we're exercising together. We're staying healthy, we're trying. And so that was That was a really good thing that happened to me in the sense that I had the the motivation to do it, Yo. Yes. Great. Yeah. How about you, Katie? My highlight of the week, honestly, was that bonfire that I had with my boyfriend map? Yeah, And it was because it was just so peaceful. And I got to connect with, um I got to connect to them more so and we just, you know, got to take a step back and and appreciate each other. So it was really nice. We got to see the sunset over a little retention pond on and hang out with all the geese in our backyard. D'oh! And that's that's hopefully something you can do on a regular basis once the weather gets nicer. Um, we're facing kind of, ah, few days here of of rain and storms and thing Midwestern term. Yeah, that's what we get here. Um, but going forward, I'm hoping that there'll be more of that where you can just sit outside and just be, you know? Yeah. Yeah, and it's I like the little or moments like that. I think they're really special in life. Yep. I mean, hopefully we won't forget this. Yeah, I mean, so that's pretty much all we got for today. Yeah. Yeah, we just want to tune in and and just say how we're feeling And just be honest. Like we always talked about her feeling movies ever. Oh, uh, mean girls, which you haven't seen? How of course. No, no. You think I'd be using this time to catch up on Harry Potter like this is just okay. You guys need to help me out on this with with her, because she needs to read Harry Potter and or reading our ah, watching. You know, Disney or all the things that I just haven't ever done in my life. And many people Disney. She's never seen any. I asked anything Disney, anything. It's really sad. And, um nope. I am actually working harder this week than I have prior to the panda bear. Brit, don't make pandemonium pandemic. Say that 10 times, okay? Really punchy. E think it's time for the outro? Yeah, I think so. Um, but yes, we'll see next time. It might be something a little bit different, but, uh, keep tuning in on Thursday mornings. Yep. Laughter to come, I hope. All right. Until next time. Until next time