7.14.2026 - Jan Robbins-- Owner of Cuddle Babies

To reach Jan: Janscuddlebabiesservice@yahoo.com; for more information: https://wa.me/c/18286744572  

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Good morning. This is the Blaine's World Podcast, where conversations are worth hearing and seeing. You can watch each week on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. You can also listen on our Spotify Apple Podcasts. And for more information and past episodes, visit my website, which is behind me, Blainsworld.net. I'm your host, Blaine Greenfield, coming to you from my Zoom studio in locally downtown Fairview, North Carolina. And each week we share positive news and uplifting stories about people and organizations in Western North Carolina and, of course, country. And to advent it, it's my pleasure to introduce Jan Robbins, owner of Colo Babies, as my guest today. And Jan, you can feel free to wave to all your fans and friends watching this. That is Jan Robbins. As she mentioned, Jan is a caretaker of a unique kind of business called Colo Babies, which are very realistic newborn dolls that are proven to provide comfort and joy to those with Alzheimer's and dementia diagnosis. And uh, like what she says, never enter underestimate the love of babies. But Jan, aside from doing this, you always amaze me because you do about 27 other things kind of simultaneously, you know. And we'll start talking about them in a second. But before we do, as a child, you grew up where?

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Uh I was born in Weston-Salem, but I grew up for the most part in Hickory, North Carolina.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

Okay, as a child growing up in Hickory, North Carolina, I'll ask you two things. One, did you always know you wanted to be an actor?

SPEAKER_00 1:29

No. I I kind of stumbled into that and it worked.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Yeah, how'd you stumble into it?

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Well, I to be honest with you, I was taking voice lessons because I wanted to learn to sing well. And the person that was giving me the lesson said, you know, we're doing a show called Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and they need more voices. And it was a show in a local community theater, and he said, I've already signed you up for it. So I was like, Okay. And that that did it. I did a little bit of acting here and there when I was growing up, but nothing like I do, like I've done lately. And that's how I got started.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

As an actor. And then you mentioned to me off the air before you were involved in colour babies, and before you, as you mentioned, also in your spare time, you're a security guard. Okay. Um, what else did you do in professionally in your life? What were you well?

SPEAKER_00 2:34

I started out in furniture, and then um furniture went away. Okay, kind of went overseas. So I had to find, I mean, I was a single mother, you know, had three little boys. I was had to find a way to make a living. So I went into medical administration, and that's what I did for the most part. And then I kind of retired from that, but I couldn't afford to retire, retire. So then I thought, well, I could be a security guard. That would be fun, something different. And I've been doing it for the past 11 years.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Okay. What amazed me about you is you're doing that in addition to doing all these other things you do, you know.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

That's my real job.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Well, I was gonna ask you, but how do you um then how do you squeeze and sleep? Is that difficult difficult?

SPEAKER_00 3:20

I've kind of gotten used to it. Uh, I do work a night shift with the security guard, and the whole reason I do is so that I can go to rehearsals, so that I can take my cuddle baby, so that my days are free to do what I want to, and I squeeze sleep in there here and there. I mean, I've gotten used to it. I can pretty much sleep anywhere now.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Okay, I can imagine. And like you said, you get to do the shows, and right now, even as we speak, you're right now kind of involved in two shows. Is that correct?

SPEAKER_00 3:50

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Okay, and what are those?

SPEAKER_00 3:52

I'm doing the Music Man Senior at uh Sart in Mars Hill, which is I'm really excited about it because it's the first, to my knowledge, around here, the first senior production of any show. You always see junior productions, but this is the very first senior one, so everyone is 55 and up. I think our oldest cast member is 83, and she's kind of kicking my butt, to be honest, with but I hope I'm like her when I grow up, you know. But it's been fun.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

And you mentioned it's a senior play, and how do they define it as a uh senior play?

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Well, all the actors are 55 and up in age. It's an hour long, and it's a musical, it's uh you know, it's been challenging, but it's so much fun. Um I I hope it'll start a trend to where we have a lot more senior opportunities because there's not a lot for senior people, and there's so many talented seniors here in this area that have very little opportunity to show what they can do.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Yeah, but but it throws me a little bit. You said 55 and oh, so you barely qualify, right?

SPEAKER_00 5:04

The the uh okay, we could we can uh I'm 72, but I'm willing to go with that. I'm actually playing an eight-year-old girl and a 10-year-old girl.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

So are you?

SPEAKER_00 5:15

Yeah, so it's my first time playing a child. I thought, you know, I have played donkey, I have played a male, I have played all kinds of other things, but I don't think I've ever played a child. Um I've just had a blast. It's just we've had a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

And it's it's certainly perfect for you because in a nice kind of way, I think you certainly are childlike in uh respects. And it ties into the reason one of the reasons I want to talk to you today is this thing I read about on Facebook, and I just thought it was so cool. I all of a sudden I'm reading, and we're friends on Facebook, we're friends outside of Facebook. I read all of a sudden a genuine involvement, something called cuddle babies. And I announced it before, but what exactly are cuddle babies?

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Cuddle babies um is an adventure that I started. I actually am in a Facebook group where another woman in the in Pennsylvania had started doing this. She was taking very realistic looking dolls, which we are going to tell them they're dolls, that they know they're babies. And we we do go to facilities or individuals uh that deal with depression, that deal with dementia, that have Alzheimer's, and they just get to cuddle a baby. And you would be amazed at the difference in the atmosphere when you put a baby in somebody's arms, it doesn't matter what world they're in at that moment, they just focus on that baby, and they rock them.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

And since he mentioned them, can we kind of at least meet one of the babies?

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Yes, let me get this since Elliot. Elliot is my only male, and he is a full silicone baby, so he's soft and he's floppy, and um he weighs seven pounds, he's the actual size of a baby. Okay, and in some ways he's too heavy for some of my clients, you know, some of them aren't that strong, but he's very much in demand. Uh and I don't know partly if that's because he's the only male or if it's just because he's cute. But he's he feels like a real baby when you hold him.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

So he's people like him.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Do women and men like him, or it's just mostly Yeah, no, I don't have as many men, but I do have some. Uh and then one in particular has a crush on um my Julie. Let me get my Julie for you, Elliot. She's at least awake, Elliot's sleeping. So Julie, he grabs her, put your arm down. He grabs her as soon as I get there. And he's in a wheelchair, and he has told her so many things. Of course, I take these babies and I'm there, but I'm not the focus. They will tell these babies things that they don't tell people. And it's uh it's kind of a privilege, it's kind of an honor to hear. I mean, he is a veteran and he has told Julie all about his adventures in the war and his wife, and you know, he has children that are, I guess, not local, so he doesn't get visits from them. And he will just hold her and tell her all about it. And he tells her, you know, how she's so pretty and she's gonna grow up and she's gonna be a she's just gonna break hearts of all these other men, you know, that want her, you know. And it's um one of the things that really touches me is they will tell these babies their fears, and that's kind of uh therapeutic for them.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

How'd you start doing this? What got you the idea to do this?

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Uh a lady in the Facebook group that I was in said she'd started doing it in Pennsylvania, that she had gotten these very realistic dolls that I didn't know existed. Quite frankly, I raised three boys, I didn't have dolls. And um, she introduced me to it, and I thought I really love these dolls, but I I need a reason, you know, to have dolls. And uh that's what started me. She introduced me to the different types of dolls, like the silicone dolls that are heavy, and like Julie's not very heavy, so she can be held for a long time. And um they some of them have pacifiers that they take, and some they give them their bottles, and I take diapers and we change clothes, and it's just one lady that I visited very recently, uh, a new one, uh, told me she was a fairy and we were sitting under a mushroom my whole visit while she was rocking a baby, and she was a little disappointed because the baby didn't have fairy wings. I mean, you know, here we were in this fairy world. It was a delightful morning. Uh, and she was telling me that she lives in a tree and squirrels bring her presents, and that the baby really should have had fairy wings. So I'm gonna make sure the next time I go, I have fairy wings.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

How cool is that! Now, how many of these uh babies do you have?

SPEAKER_00 10:22

I have five, three that are the most popular, and I'm thinking of investing in another male, another boy, because he's so popular. Um, but I don't think I will get one as heavy as Elliot is.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Now, before the um you started collecting them for for this um thing you do, had you had dolls as a kid or were you a big doll?

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Yeah, I loved dolls growing up, but I always loved baby dolls. I never played with Barbies or fashion dolls. I always wanted the ones that were like real babies. And they didn't have the cool dolls then that we have now, and I think we might get photobombed by a cat. Um but this is just I enjoy rocking these babies. They it's been proven that holding a baby and rocking a baby can help someone relax. The gentleman in the wheelchair that I visit quite often is frequently very, very agitated, but as soon as he has a baby in his arms, he's calm as he can be. It it gives them an opportunity to focus on something other than whatever their ailments are or what their situation is or what you know what they uh what world they're in. They all focus on a baby and they just relax.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Talk to Ann, if you would, about the reaction of, I guess, two groups of people. One, you started talking a little bit about it. But first of all, what's your reaction of the people you visit who are in nursing homes or by themselves? What's their reaction?

SPEAKER_00 11:56

They're thrilled. They're thrilled that they're getting some of them probably have not held a baby in you know 50 years. And they they're absolutely thrilled with them. Some of them think they're real, and I never correct them because in their mind they are. In my mind, a lot of times they are too. But they it gives them something to look forward to because some of them don't have other visitors, you know, if they don't have family or you know, if they're in advanced stages, particularly of dementia or Alzheimer's, you know, from day to day, you don't ever know how they are. But some of them don't remember their children's names, but they will remember the names of my babies because they'll ask for them. You know, oh, did you bring Julie? Oh, is you know, have you got Sydney here? You know. Um, so I usually they get to choose, you know, whatever baby they would like to cuddle. And we plan visits for an hour, but it's rare that we ever actually stay that long um with one person. But they they change diapers, they feed, they change clothes, they rock.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

It must be exciting for you in terms of on a visit. They see some people come out of their shelter. Like, that's does that happen at times?

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Yes, it does. Um, particularly people that are are really depressed. There was one lady in particular, she sat in her room in a chair. That's all she did. She didn't come out of the room. And I had a nurse call me, you know, and say, Do you think you could bring one of your babies? And I said, Of course. And I found out, you know, she's not real strong. She's kind of a frail little woman. And she was just very depressed. Um, she had no family anywhere anymore. And I walked in carrying a baby, and I told her, I said, Do you I really like for you to hold my baby if you don't mind? I said, I've got something I need to do. Will you mind holding the baby? And she kind of looked at me and I put it in her arms, and then she's like, Well, I need a rocking chair. And she really hadn't even spoken to nurses there. She just sat in her chair. You know, she had like a recliner type chair. She that's where she sat. I had I went and hunted down. We we found her a rocking chair, and she sat and and she sang to the baby. You know, she was singing lullabies and she had a beautiful voice. I really enjoyed it, but it's an honor. You know, it's it's a real privilege to witness that and to be a part of someone's life that makes it better. And that's the whole point.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

What about the reaction of people who don't have dementia or you know, just in a nursing home or just can't get around?

SPEAKER_00 14:40

In a nursing home, they're they're always thrilled to see me come. It's just like, yeah. It's just like if you see, you know, therapy dogs that people love to have come visit. It's the same thing, but these are these babies require nothing of anybody. You know, they're they're there.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

A nice thing, I guess, too, they don't talk back.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

No, they don't, and they don't cry. They're always happy. A lot of them are like Elliot and Sydney are always asleep, but um, you know, whereas Julie's always awake. But they it gives it gives them a sense of family and a sense of they're needed. You know, I think that's the really important thing is I think some of these people think where they've lived their whole life, now they have nobody. So what's the point in going on? And you know, when you're holding a baby, they gotta take care of it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

It's what's the shame, Jan, and I'll ask you about this in a second, is reaction of some people you know think like it's terrible or you know, yeah, whatever. Yet as you said, they don't visit these people, they don't see them for months on end.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

But you're visiting it not only with the dolls, but you're there also, you know, so it's just a human being, and I guess sees them as other people, you know, not just people in a nursing home. Talk about talk about then where you go. So I know you told me off the air, you go to a couple of nursing homes in the area.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Yeah, and I go to some retirement uh communities, and there's also some different um facilities that are particularly Alzheimer's or dementia related, where um we sometimes try to do a group. It hasn't worked really well, but we're working on that where I have a group at a time rather than an individual. But otherwise, if I go into a facility, I go to individual rooms and I, you know, I take a baby and we talk and cuddle.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

Lovely, is it ever done in groups?

SPEAKER_00 16:38

We're trying to do groups. Um, we tried with four people in a group because I only have so many babies.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Um, but that hasn't really worked well. I thought it in my mind, I thought it would because I thought maybe they could relate to each other, but that really doesn't happen. Um, but it was it was a try, it was an experiment. We're still kind of working on it. Um otherwise, I just go to individual rooms and visit and you know, let them cuddle a baby.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Because one of the things I love about this chant, just hearing you talk about it, is the fact that I think I've told you my wife um takes our dog to nursing homes. But one of the things she doesn't like is the fact that she can only spend a little bit of time with each person as she just move on, you know. So 15, 20 people, you know, there are multiple dogs. But here I've tell about it, she loved the idea of the fact she gets to spend time with people and can now as you're visiting. Are you also speaking to them as well?

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Yes. I always speak to them, I always let them know that you know, this is my baby, and I ask them to help me with the baby. You know, can you hold this baby? Some of them really, I don't think, even see me. They see the baby. But that's where it's an honor to witness what they tell the babies, or if they're singing to the baby. You know, like this lady that just sat in her chair. That's all she did. You know, she barely ate. She didn't, it's it's like she was vacant, she wasn't even really there. But when the baby was there, she focused totally on that baby, and she really had a hard time kind of giving the baby back, which has been a little bit of an issue.

SPEAKER_01 18:23

But uh I love how you describe it too. You describe it beautifully as an honor, you know.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

So it is an honor, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Um, you know, and just it really is a service. Let me ask you in terms of the um reaction you get from people. So I asked you reactional people, what's the reaction you get when you go to a um nursing home or an Alzheimer's facility? What's their reaction in terms of the administrators or the people in charge?

SPEAKER_00 18:49

They have welcomed me. Um, I always call uh ahead before I started this, wanted to start this little venture. I made contact with the activities directors at different places in the administration to make sure that I would be welcome and that it would be okay. And they they were they were happy to hear it. They'd not been aware there was this kind of service. And you know, they the first time I've gone, they meet me at the door, and then some of them have to hold and cuddle a baby too. So, you know, we just passed around. The only negative thing I've ever had with these babies is I took one of my babies, uh Elliot actually, to a store to get him some clothes, and I had to take him because I couldn't figure out what size he wore, and I kept buying things that didn't fit. And there were some people that I think thought I was a little off, but you know, it's it's an education situation. You know, it's like it's nothing wrong with an adult carrying a baby, carrying a doll.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

Well, it's probably exciting for you when you turn somebody's opinion around, you know, that I try, yeah. Yeah, some people have a negative reaction. Again, I told you the minute I heard that. I thought it's just such a cool thing to be doing because you're you're doing a service with people and they're not getting attention. So you go, what do you do every day, or how often do you do this?

SPEAKER_00 20:14

No, I I just kind of do it by appointment. Like right now, I'm very busy. I'm doing a couple shows and working, so I have to kind of work it in when I have time. Uh, I will be, you know, once the shows are done, if I if I don't go into another show, um, I just I make appointments. You know, people call and say, Well, can you come? Particularly with some of the facilities, I have to come in the afternoon because that's like after lunch or in the morning before lunch. You know, they carve out a time in their world, in their day, that I can do it. Uh, and the the individuals that I go to, we just work, they're very flexible. They just want me to come, they don't care when I can. So I get there when I can, and we just make an appointment. Like I say, there's no charge, it's uh it's a free service. I do uh accept donations, and there's one lady, little lady in a nursing home that I visit that wants to pay me to bring the baby, so she gives me a dollar. Well, every time I leave, I give the dollar to the nurse, and the nurse puts the same dollar back in her purse. So when I come the next time, got another dollar. That dollar's gotten a lot of circulation.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Well, except then, you know, this does require, aside from the gas going back and forth and taking care of the um babies and I like it. You actually call them, you call them your cuddle babies?

SPEAKER_00 21:37

Yes. Yep, because that's what they are. They're babies to cuddle.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

So what's your is your goal eventually to have a lot more cuddle babies, or you have enough right now?

SPEAKER_00 21:48

I I I want to expand a little bit. I I want to get another boy. Um and I'm always looking for ones that they can hold easily. You know, to me, the realistic ones. Like my little Elliot or my Sydney, they're they're heavy. You know, like Elliot, who is very, very realistic. Get your arms up here. Um, he weighs seven pounds. And some of these people don't have a kind of strength. So unless I can do it in a way where they can like sit him in their lap where they're not actually like holding him like this, they can only hold him for a short amount of time. But to me, that's the realistic part of it. So I have been doing some research and I found, you know, there are some babies that are maybe two or three pounds, and then there's some like uh my Julie that doesn't weigh anything, you know, she's not weighted. Um, but she looks real. So that's I do want to expand some. Of course, I'm always up for buying a baby.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

So you've done this now. How many you've done about six months, I think you said?

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Okay. So where do you see it going from here?

SPEAKER_00 23:01

Well, I would like to have a situation where some of these facilities had like a nursery where the babies were there all the time. So if someone was having a down day or someone's new there and they're trying to kind of get them acclimated or helping them feel comfortable, they could just go cuddle a baby in this one particular place whenever they wanted to. There are, I will say, there is one lady that I actually bought a baby for because she just needed it. She just needed a baby, and she needed one that she could have all the time. She was it was getting to be a fight to get my babies back, and she just, and as soon as I leave, the nurses said she just goes into her shell and that's it till the next round. And my, you know, I'm only one person, my availability is limited, and I would love to see them just, you know, even if they just had a baby bed and one baby that could just be available whenever it was needed.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Now, I don't mean to put you on the spot here, but if anybody's listening or watching this, are you open to having other people do this with you?

SPEAKER_00 24:18

I am. Um, I've approached a couple of people with it. It's I guess part of my advantage with this is I do have a medical background. So I kind of understand um some of the situations these people are in and and some of the things I need to be careful of. Uh and that's a little tricky, and there are some administrative people that are hesitant to let just anybody do it. In my mind, it would be fine, but I don't run their facilities. Uh, but I I am experienced. Like I said, I've spent many years uh working security in a retirement community, and I am familiar. It when you first go to do this, it can be a little daunting, you know, to go into a nursing home, particularly where there's dementia or Alzheimer's patients, because it's it's sad. And I don't I didn't see it that way, but it was described to me that way. Well, you well, we want to tell you it's sad here. These people aren't always aware where they are, what they're doing. Um, you know, you don't know what world they're in, but with me, I just go to whatever world they're in and I'm in there with them. I just like I sat under a mushroom one morning. You know, it's I I just take them where they're at.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

For you, is is this a fun thing to do?

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Or is it it is it is, and it's very fulfilling to me. You know, I it's giving back to a community that I really want to give back to. Um and if I can brighten somebody, bring somebody some joy, I'm all for it. And it does. You know, they brighten up and they come in and they'll be and then when I leave, they're all smiles.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

Well, that was funny you said that because the first time I read about it, I had a smile. I think I called you up that day. I said, I had to reach you because it was such a and it's an honor even for me to have you talking about this, because first time I've I've had anybody involved with cuddle babies, but I just want to, you know, thank you for doing this. It's just a cool, cool thing. Jan, if somebody is interested in finding out more about cuddle babies, in terms of if they want to volunteer to help you with it or they want to be visited by a cuddle baby, what do you what do they should they do?

SPEAKER_00 26:34

Uh I can give you my email.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Okay, please.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

And it's Jans Cuddlebabieservice at Yahoo.com. That's the best way. Due to the fact that I do sleep at odd times, I'm don't always answer my phone if you try to call me. Uh I will return a call, but uh that email is only for this cuddle baby service.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

And if you would just repeat that in terms of how do you spell it the the first part?

SPEAKER_00 27:02

I know it's a long term. It's Jans, J A N S C U D D L E B A B I E S S E R V I C E. Jans Cuddle Babies Service at Yahoo.com.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Okay. And do me a favor, uh message me, or I'll see if you can get it. Because I'll put it in the description.

unknown 27:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

So they could contact you by email to find about more about it, or also if they want to be visited.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Anything, anything.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

So they will actually visit people at their homes?

SPEAKER_00 27:42

I yes, I will go visit people at home. There are people, you know, caregivers, uh, you know, people that might have their parents living with them that are depressed or you know, in Alzheimer's or dementia, uh, that care for them. And I yeah, so I'll go anywhere that somebody wants to cuddle a baby.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Very sweet. And so it's like from cold babies who can just revisit then your your theatrical career. But again, I've seen you perform, you know, I love watching you perform. And just again, repeat so you're right now, at the end of this month, beginning of next, you're a new museum hand senior that's going to SOD. And I think I have the the website there, SOTPlays.com. And you mentioned that you're doing another play as well.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

I'm doing Almost Maine, which is another reader's theater senior production at Gibbons Community uh Center. And that's I want to say it's August the 27th, I'm thinking, and it's a totally free uh show that is actually, you know, at the scene, it's all senior citizens, also. But it's a reader's theater. Um, I did love loss and what I wore there, I want to say two years ago. And um it's like I say, I'm trying to support all the senior things I can with theater, and this is another one, and I'm very honored to be able to do this show there, and that I got cast in it.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

And in the future, uh have you I know you've been in a bunch of stuff. Do you have a a dream role that you'd like to do at some point in time?

SPEAKER_00 29:20

You mean besides sleep, like eight hours at a time?

SPEAKER_01 29:24

Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

I I I would like to retire and and do cuddle babies all the time. I mean I would go on the road with them if I could.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

But aside from that, in terms of theater, do you have anything you like to do as a show?

SPEAKER_00 29:38

No, I'm I I love the musicals, I love the comedies, and I'm open to anything that I can. I love being on stage. I used to Tati's directors said I'll be a chair as long as I can be on stage. You know, that's that's where I get my joy.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Well, as mentioned, I'll put in the description how to reach Jan because he's just a very versatile, very talented actor as well. And uh just this latest adventure just kind of knocked my socks off. So I want to thank you for doing it, and uh thank you for being my guest today on this um play and throw podcast. And also I thank my producer uh Kim Jones, as I usually conclude by saying I hope to see you in the future, but in your case, I will see you in the future because you want to be in I'll see you Wednesday actually.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

You may see a baby Wednesday too, because I have taken them to rehearsal.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

I was just gonna ask you, really? Do you get what's the reaction when you bring it to rehearsal?

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Every lady there wants to cuddle a baby.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

Do they really?

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

Yes, uh I generally have at least one, sometimes two babies there.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Well, I'll look forward to meeting them on Wednesday. So very exciting. Anyway, Jen, thanks very much. And like I said, I'll see you just a couple days. Thanks, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Thank you. I appreciate you, Blaine.