Preparing For Summer Heat

Summer is supposed to be fun… so why does the first tank top of the year feel like an emotional ambush?

In this episode, we’re talking about the very real pressure that comes with summer: body expectations, social media comparison, panic-buying shorts, feeling exposed in summer clothes, heat rage, boob sweat, thigh chafing, humidity hair, and the chaos of trying to look cute while simply surviving the weather.

We also get into summer confidence without the toxic “glow-up” pressure.. finding clothes that actually feel good, romanticizing summer instead of fearing it, unfollowing accounts that make us feel worse, and setting summer goals that have nothing to do with appearance.

Because you do not need to earn summer. You’re allowed to exist in it comfortably.

Transcript

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Welcome back everyone. You're listening to Untangle It All with Ella, Emily, and Sam.

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The podcast where the salon tea is hot. The clients are iconic.

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And nothing is off limits.

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Let's dive things.

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I don't know. Sorry, I have to giggle.

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The zooms. Got my energy drink. It's sunny.

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My windows are open, so if you hear animals, forget about it and pretend you didn't hear it.

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Or trucks.

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Or ducks.

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Oh, with no fucks.

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No, Montreal's gonna win tonight. Excuse me. No, don't fucking touch that. I'm gonna turn the ball on.

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Ooh! She saw.

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We're in extra innings.

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Hello, everyone. We're back.

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Sam's been quiet. This is new.

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Oh my god. I said hello, everyone. We're back. Hello. How are we? Good. How was everyone's week? It was good. Ella's wasn't the greatest.

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No, mine wasn't great. No. It's fine though. We're all better now.

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Yep. We thought today we would talk about preparing for summer without losing our minds.

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Yes, because it doesn't make us want to lose our minds.

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No, not at all. We don't get overstimulated as a bunch of neurodivergent women working together in the heat. It doesn't happen ever. No, never, never.

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Very, very true. Very true.

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Well, I thought first we could take a little detour since we didn't release an episode last week. And how was your guys' mother's day?

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Oh it was good.

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It was good. Yeah. I had a good Mother's Day. Went for brunch in the morning with my stepmom and my dad and my kids. And then bacon and eggs. Sourdough toast. I love the crunch. So good. Me too.

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And then hash browns and some were they the were they the crispy big square ones or the little pan fried?

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Uh they were I think they were I can't even remember if they were deep fried or if they were pan-fried.

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They might have been pan-fried.

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I think they're pan-fried from up there.

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Okay, well now, what type of hash brown girlies are you? I there's only one right answer.

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Don't like onions, so I don't like pan-fried sometimes.

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But just depends. The ones that are at McDonald's.

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Oh.

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I like that kind of thing.

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The ones that made Marion's, you know, like. Oh yeah, those ones are good too.

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I like, I don't think there's any hash browns I don't like except for the ones that have the onions on them. I love onions. I don't know what's wrong with you too. That's fair.

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And then I went to the movies in the evening with my mom. We had a mummy daughter date and went to see the Devil Wears Prada 2. Was it good? It was good. I liked it. And it was 20 years since they made the first one.

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Yeah, and now Sam's having a stroke at the fact that we might be right on time to the drive-in tomorrow for the first movie that she already saw.

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Well, that just goes to show it was that good.

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Yeah, and I want to get a good seat and not seat set at the back. Molly, you go early and I'll meet you there.

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Yeah. How's your mother's day, L?

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And not a mother. It was great. Yeah. We ate food.

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Yeah.

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And then we had play practice.

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Oh, that's nice.

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How's your mother's day, bro?

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Mine was good. We had the kids. Um, I had a really cute story. So my youngest son is named Nolan, and they are still at the age where they do um crafts in class. So Nolan's class was making crafts for their moms, and they can only make one each. No disrespect to the two mom families. They just, it's expensive to provide for everyone. I totally understand.

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Because it was that tell them why it's expensive.

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It's expensive because she ended up getting them the paper that you it's normal size, you do your craft, do your writing, and then they put it in heat, like whether the oven or something like that. To like shrink it, and they made keychains. Yes. So he made a keychain about all the reasons I love you, and then another one that says mom, but he made it for Kaylee, his stepmom. That's so cute. I love that. And he said the other little boy in his class also made it for his stepmom because he has two moms. That's awesome. And I just thought that was so cute. That's so cute. I've had people ask, does it bother you that he didn't make it for you? And I'm like, hell no. I think that's adorable. She's just as much his mom as me, and like it wasn't malicious or anything. At church on Sunday, he made me a little Mother's Day paper with a like 85 foam hearts stuck on the song. That's so cute. Got uh got lots of love and good food. I didn't have to cook, I didn't have to clean. That's all that matters. There you go. Same. Yeah. Same.

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My that was like my kids. They made me a little card and a paper that was like, Oh, I love my mom.

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Oh, I love that. And they have the little prompts and stuff, too. They're always so funny, the stuff they say.

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So cute.

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Weston, because she plays with me.

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Yeah, yeah, Weston wrote because she plays with me. And then he did like another little um, it was a picture of me and him. That's cute. That's cute. And they look like a little Michelin man. I love it. That's so cute. I know. And then Kinsley and Weston both were like, Mommy, this is for you. And they were like, Can I open it? Oh and I was like, Well, can I open it? And they were like, No, it's it's for me. It's it's mine, it's not for you. It's mine.

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Well, that's what mom's life is like.

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Literally, yeah. No, it was good.

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Yeah, well, I'm glad that we all had a good Mother's Day. I hope everyone listening did too, whether you're a mom or celebrating a mom.

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Yes. Go, moms.

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Go, moms, go.

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Yes. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms. Yeah, yeah.

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So I don't know why, but when May comes, we act like we never experienced heat before. Yeah. Because it's suddenly chaos. We're cold all winter, and then although that's not true in our salon. We're hot in the winter, too. We're just not allowed to turn on the AC.

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Yeah.

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But we do get warm when we're working.

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Yeah, with all the dryers going and the hot tools and everything. It can get very warm.

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Very warm. And this episode, like, it is gonna be about hair stuff as well, but not totally. Like, this is this is hair and summer survival guide for everybody, so stick around because we got some tips and topics that you probably will relate to.

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But yeah, like once it starts, like on a day like today, like my car was reading 24 when I left. It's like I think it says yours is black.

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Oh yeah, it was soaking up the sun because it did so 28.

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But it's like all of a sudden I forget, oh my god. I've never been warm before. It's like I forget what the heat feels like because my body's coming out of like hibernation mode.

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But it also like even like yesterday it was only like four degrees out, it wasn't very cool. Yeah, yeah. So the other our bodies don't regulate. Yeah, like hair and PEI, it literally goes from like minus two to twenty the next day. So, like, you know, yeah, it's crazy. You just it's big, big extreme weather changes.

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Yeah, and I've been sniffling all day because with that comes allergies. Yeah, usually I don't get my allergies till like July, and all of July is hellish for me. Maybe it'll be early this year. Early this year, and Nolan, my youngest, is really bad this last week his allergies.

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Yeah, like all the pollen off the trees and like the gross. I saw a bumblebee today. Did you?

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What did you see? Let's tell everyone what else we saw outside before coming in your house.

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A butterfly.

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And how did you react?

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I said I don't like butterflies.

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Why?

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Because they're scary.

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What about them? Because they fly?

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Yeah, but they just like fly at you. Yeah, because they're not very smart.

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Oh my god. Are you scared of anything that flies? No. Just butterflies.

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I don't like birds, actually. Because of the shit on you.

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I like them from afar.

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Yeah. But it's not that I don't like butterflies, like I think they're very pretty. It's just like when they're around me, it's like it's gonna like land on me. Like, and I purposely will go to the butterfly house because I think they're very pretty.

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Will you let them land on you?

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And then they land on me and I'm like, I don't like it. I don't like it.

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That's funny. Yeah, I had quite a laugh.

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That's powerful we saw!

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What did you say? I couldn't believe it. I'm like, I've never heard of someone having a fear of a butterfly before.

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They land on you.

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What about ladybugs? I feel like more.

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Yeah, but they don't just like whack you.

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Oh my god.

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They just like doop. They give you a little boop.

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Yeah.

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And like, yeah.

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Okay. Okay.

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Well, also, I don't know about you guys, but I know for me, and it's such a sh like a standard, but it shouldn't be a standard, but it is for everyone. When May hits and the warmer weather hits, it's like, oh, I remember now that I have a body under all of my baggy, comfortable clothes that I've been wearing.

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Yeah.

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And now comes the practice of needing to try on my summer clothes.

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Yes.

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And that can be not fun.

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It can be, honestly. It can be well, it can go both ways. Yeah. It can be depressing or it can be uh like reassuring that you did well. But we really need to celebrate our bodies and not if we do outgrow our clothes. I mean, yeah, we can all look at ourselves if we have unhealthy habits, but just because you gain weight and get bigger, your clothes don't fit doesn't necessarily mean you're unhealthy either. And I think we're all programmed to think that, and I think that's why we do get a bit depressed.

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Yeah.

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Did you guys try on summer clothes yet?

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Yeah, you see that big box over there?

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Oh yeah.

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That's okay. You have lots of nice summer clothes. Ella did a uh a nice good sheen haul. Yeah. It's uh it was funny because I came over and I was like, oh, let me see your little haul there. And I was like, oh, that's a good one. That was a big box.

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It is a big one. You should have done a fashion show for a while. I know.

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But see, I forgot that I got a lot of bathing suits. I should have more dresses to wear to work. I feel like you got a good fair bit of dress, though. Not really. No? No, because two don't fit. Well, one fits, but I can't wear it to work.

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Um well, you can wear like a little show.

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No, no.

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All right, no, Sean. We're not allowed to show our armpits. It's not the armpits. It's the boobits. The boob pits. Oh, the boobies are boots.

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Oh, they're like right out there.

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I can understand that rule in the span, but I'm sorry, Monica, if you're listening, I'm still mad about the armpits. I don't think it's Monica. It's not a Monica rule. Well, whoever needs to hear this. The armpits. I know. We need to free the pits. Free the pit. Free the pits. Free the pits. Oh my. That's skilletish. Do you guys like wearing shorts?

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I love shorts.

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I like shorts. I don't really wear shorts to work though in the summertime. Ever.

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I feel like you don't ever not wear pants to work. Like you don't wear dresses either.

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I'm not dressed girly. No. No.

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So how do you survive in the summer? Because it's so hot.

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I don't know. I don't know. I just do. Like a little like leggings that are light. Not mear shorts outside of work. Oh yeah. Yeah.

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Leggings are still too hot for me.

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But mine are nice and light. I just wear the ones from like either like Lulu or Air Postal. Oh yeah. They're not heavy.

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Me too, I know. It's just no. When I'm sweaty and hot, I don't want anything.

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That's fair. But usually like once it's summertime in the salon, the AC's pretty bumping. She can get like Antarctica levels.

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Yeah, I find in the summer, well, last summer anyway, I didn't find it too bad for sweating. It's like the AC worked really well. But this time of year, I think it's the up and down.

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And yeah.

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Because it's been hot the last like three or four weeks, we've all been sweating, with the exception of a couple girls who are just always cold. Even with our AC on, we're always like, who's hot? Yeah. It's all of us.

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And I'm like, I'm gonna pass out, my butt cracks sweating, everything is sweating.

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Send help. It's totally terrible. I like shorts too. I wear them sometimes to work, and I think we're allowed to wear jean shorts, aren't we? Or just Saturdays. Just Saturdays.

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I have seen jean shorts being worn on on a Saturday. So that's why I question that too.

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I don't know actually. I have a few dress shorts that are but yeah, I I tend to wear skirts and dresses in the summer. Sometimes I'll wear pants too and like a nice shirt. Because I agree, the salon does get cooler.

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Yeah.

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And then it's outside and you're like hitting a wall.

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Yeah. And you know, working with a bunch of females. It can get a little warm in there because you know our hormones are a little cray cray sometimes. That's a thing.

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And also, we're all very open about this. All of us are medicated neurodivergent girlies, and these medications for mental health are known to make you intolerant to heat. And I definitely feel it.

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Yeah.

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Another side effect that I have that I just I was kind of freaking out about it because I got really bad light sensitivity. And that's a side effect of a lot of medications. That's fair. And so I find like I'm not a smoker, but I like to go outside with the smokers and socialize or just get some fresh air. And I it really, really hurts my eyes. Yeah. Like I was squinting or trying to cover it with my hand, and I was like, Do I have a brain tumor? Why is this happening? It's the meds. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's the meds because the meds make me want to not like the summer, and I want to maybe sometimes kill the sun because it's really hot.

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You find too that you're intolerant to heat.

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I have been ever since I started them. And I said that. So you're gonna need to get me off these because they make me have half lashes. She's like, yeah, but they're working.

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You gotta outweigh the benefits. Yeah.

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Sorry, if you hear any grubs noises, it's just sampling with her stress balls.

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Yeah, Sable's got some Nito's on the go here.

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Mine is a quiet dough.

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I feel left out. I don't have a need though. Do you let us know is you guys and your children or Nito, sponsor us. Yeah, Nito, sponsor us. Send us some because it's hard on PEI to get Nito. Yeah, I had to wait line. Commodity. Yeah, everyone loves them. I can see why though. They really are satisfied.

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Monica don't even use hers. Monica, you got a good, nice cube.

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Yeah, you have a good one. Well, just I think I use it more. Yeah, just fair. Take it. Just steal it. See if she notices. Steal it. See if she ever sees. She probably will. That'd be the she'd come in and say, Where's my Need Oak?

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I don't know. Never never seen it before in my life.

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Dress call alert. So we wanted to talk about the pressure around summer and bodies, because we really want to try and be body positive. It isn't our job to like helping people feel positive, and this is a sensitive topic for people. Yep. And we thought that it would be good to discuss.

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Yeah. So, like, what are your some of your summer body expectations? That you grow as well comfortable.

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Yeah, be comfortable.

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I agree.

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Wear as little clothes as I have to with still being professional.

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Yeah. I'll just wear some little bit of clothes.

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Just enough that I don't get sent home.

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And what about outside of work? I mean comfort.

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Yeah.

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I wear a lot of just like I have those like little tank tops. Long tank tops, like that cover my belly, but like I also have some cropped ones, some high waist shorts or just shorts. But like when I'm not at work, I don't have things on my arms. I will be in a tank top 1000% of the time when I'm not at work. Yeah.

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Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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Like last summer I took clothes to change into in my car after work.

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Yeah.

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Because you just don't like the feeling of sleeves.

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No, because I'm fucking hot. Sorry. Sorry. Like the heat makes me rage.

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I know. I feel like it's so cranky too.

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No, it makes me so cranky. I think I was as crankiest I've ever been in my whole life last summer. Contest.

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Yeah, I do too. I get very overheated and then I get overstimulated. Uh in the kitchen, especially.

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No, like, girl, when my hair starts to be feel like it's strangling me, and I'm like, somebody's gonna die.

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Yeah.

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That's when I need to just like go stick my vase in the freezer.

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I feel like we still have not come far enough with society that body expectations are not your stick thin. Yeah.

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No. Exactly.

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Yeah, and we just bodies are bodies and they come in all shapes and sizes. And I'm a little disappointed right now in the media because it's almost like we're going back in time because you're seeing all these celebrities and influencers that are bone thin. Like it's um yeah. Like, did you guys was it to me more recently?

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Did you guys see and they think that that is attractive? And in my opinion, yeah, like if you're like good for you, but like in my opinion, that's not always the most attractive. Like, you gotta have a little bit of meat on your bones.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think, and there's people that are naturally very skinny, doesn't matter what they do, they that's their body shape the same as people who are bigger and they have- I'm chunkier and it's in my bones.

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It's genetic, guys. I can't help it. I've been a chunky monkey since I was in like little kid school.

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Yeah, I don't know. I just I don't like the way social media and media represents it because and now this like I am I'm not against Ozempic. I'm actually pro-Ozempic, and I'd go on it in a heartbeat if my my insurance would cover it honestly. It's just I don't like how everyone is so quick to say people are on Ozempic either. Because it is almost an exactly Oh, they lost weight.

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Oh, Ozempic.

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Yeah, they're skinny, they have Ozempic. Like people just need to stop picking up. Oh, Ozemp.

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Sorry, that goes to my brain.

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But it's funny because I actually seen um oh, what was that big festival they have in the States? Coachella. Coachella. Somebody had made a post, I think it was on TikTok or Instagram, and they were like, Oh yeah, no one's in the food line, it's because they're all on Ozempic. I was like, oh my god.

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No, it's probably because the food lines are probably 36 hours long.

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Yeah, but there was no one in them. So apparently.

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But I mean, again, and Coachella is an example of a time when a lot of people probably look at their body and compare it and say, Oh my god, summer's coming up, and I don't look like these celebrities or influencers. You don't have to.

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You have to look like you. Exactly.

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You are your own person, yeah. Yeah, and as long as you feel comfortable in your own skin, that's all that matters.

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And if you don't feel comfortable, then you wanna change. Change something. You can do it. And it's not gonna happen overnight, and it doesn't need to be a big change. You do what you do to make you feel comfortable. Yeah, and who gives a flying fuck what other people think?

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Yeah.

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Seriously.

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I know, and it's so hard, and that's another thing that's not gonna change overnight. You're not gonna stop caring what other people think overnight, but it really if you care what other people think, you should really try to find a way not to.

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And people will judge you all your whole life over anything, yeah.

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Anything and everything.

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People are just assholes, yeah.

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Honestly, and we just need to be more love and light in the world, and we could start that with our bodies. Yes, loving our bodies, truly, because you can't love outwards until you love inwards, and that's very, very true. That's very true. I'm poet, yeah.

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You're a poet, and you didn't even know it. Do you feel the pressure to like have a perfect like tan sort of when it comes to no?

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I don't either, and I'm a pretty pasty girl.

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Yeah, me too.

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My legs don't get very dark. Me neither. My legs are still pretty white.

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Yeah. It's like the top part of my legs like will tan with me. Never. See, it's so weird.

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Yeah, I don't feel the pressure, but I get jealous because my brother can tan really nice, and I'm like, you're a little like what is the issue? Why can't I do that? But I don't feel like that doesn't make me feel upset. It makes me be like, oh, I wish I could do that.

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You feel jealous, yeah. Yeah, because girls come from the same blood. I just have a desire. Yes, exactly.

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And I exactly I am very lucky. I do tan very well. We got French in the blood.

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Yeah, that's fair. I have to be really careful because I just started Accutane this week. Yeah, you're gonna have to be really doses in, and anybody who's taken whether it's isotretinone, which is Accutane, or just tretinone cream. Oh my god. You have to be really, really careful of the sun because you can burn so easily. I was gonna say, this is gonna make you more than the car like they were warning that you need to put my makeup has sunscreen in it, although my goal is within the month I'm not gonna be wearing makeup anymore. I don't want to.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

I just your skin looks really good so far.

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Like even starting to like it's only five doses in, so there's still a lot to happen, but yeah, the sun is one thing I need to take seriously. I always take it seriously with my face, but um my body I lack a little bit. But people say their right side or their left side driving gets burned really easily when they're on Accutane.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

So anyone listening to that, and if you're big into skincare, vitamin C is another thing that makes you burn really easily. So if you use that in your skincare, you should always be using SPF, but yeah, I was just gonna say that these things will make it a lot. And hair SPF, you can get hair SPF and your scalp. Yes. Please be careful of your scalp because scalp cancer actually is like a problem. Skin cancer on your scalp. Oh my god. What? I don't I'm not sure. If we're okay, we'll be fine. She is like Ella laughs at inappropriate stuff.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

That is not what made me laugh. What made me laugh was that she pointed at me because I was already getting the giggles before that because I just had something funny to say.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

What?

SPEAKER_01 22:15

But now I don't remember, but I remember it was funny. When you said like SPF, I was just gonna like make a slogan.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

What? I don't know. I forget SPF. It'll come back to her. I don't know. We'll we'll round back and see if she remembers. It was just like just like SPF. Oh my god. Sorry. But how do you guys feel about being feeling exposed in summer clothes? Like, do you care? Do you not care?

SPEAKER_00 22:45

I growing up, I used to care about legs because tree trunks for legs.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

Me too.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

But I don't care.

unknown 22:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

I do.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Africa and rugby and soccer did not do me well in the leg.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

I didn't even play sports and still have that problem. Like my actually, that was a thing. Like, whenever I was younger, I always struggled with it. And when I went to my doctor, they just said my legs grew quicker than the rest of my body did.

SPEAKER_00 23:10

Yeah. But you found that too growing up, you had the legs, like the shorts and stuff. Yeah, previously it made me feel like it. Not great. Yeah. It's not easy buying boots. No. Like they don't make halves. Yeah. My feet are like a size six to seven. Like halves. I don't want to know what those things are. I love them now. Like I don't have anything fine. Yeah. I make fun of me having big legs. It's my own. Like anyone else who has big legs, please don't feel insecure. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just if I was ever to feel exposed, that would be it. Or because I'm not great at shape of my legs.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Mine is probably like my feet, because I like to wear my sandals, but I just my feet from being on them all day, did they just get so dry? But I'm like, nobody's actually looking at my heels, I hope. So but I actually feel like too enclosed at work. Like I I feel trapped in my clothes.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

In your clothes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

When it gets like when all the dryers get going in the tools. Like I actually feel like I'm trapped in my own clothes. Yeah. Like I like in the summer sometimes I've like fully like when I go to the bathroom, I've taken my smock off, and like if I have a dress, taking my dress off and like just use the washroom without it, and like arrows. No, like get some sweat off. Because I can be sweating. Like when you do a full, like, especially if you're doing a color and they have to do a full blow drying a style, I'm like, it gets sweaty.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

It does get sweaty.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

And then I look like Clifford the big red dog because I'm all red.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

But I really I I have to say, and I'm beating a dead horse by bringing it up again, but like I do struggle with not being able to wear tank tops at my other salon I was at. We were allowed. We were allowed to wear shorts and a tank top if we wanted all summer, and most of us did.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

And I did notice a big difference. I don't know why this the little sleeves I know that's all. I don't understand why it makes a difference, but it does for me.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Me too. Yeah, and I think because like for me in the winter, if my neck is cold, my body is cold. Yeah. So I feel like when I have a tank top, it's like not on my neck, the strap starts here, so my neck gets that air. Yes. Whereas even this right now, it's like up half my neck.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

And that's true, because the heat does come in and out of your neck.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Sometimes when I put my hair up, I can feel the heat on the back of my head. I'm like, oh my god. When I'm cutting people's hair, I'm like, I said to someone, he's like, sorry, I just came from work and he was like sweating. I'm like, I can feel the heat coming off it. He's like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

Especially when they got the thick hair. Yeah, I was just gonna say that you can feel the heat when you touch in the back of their like it's not hot.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

No, you can feel it literally radiating.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Yeah, like radiating and coming up off their hair. Exactly. Yeah, you totally can.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

And I do understand, like, that it's a sanitary thing and stuff like that, but we're I'll all old enough to like shave our armpits and wear deodorant. But I do understand, like, in their point of view, they own it and they want to keep everything like professional looking.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

Yeah. Like I I don't know. Like, I feel like as long as people are kept well and they're respectful about it, then but see, then that's where you get into the like oh, this is a tank top.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

Why? Is it not thick enough? Oh, is it too low cut? Like, that's where you get into those situations.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

And I think that's why it's easier to keep it.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Yeah, just no across the board.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Well, keep it appropriate and keep it like I can understand the films though. Like, we don't know. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Um, I put one of my dresses on and it was a zipper, and I'm like, okay, I feel good because it zips, but I was like, Yeah, yeah. I was on Face Hall Sam, I'm like, I cannot wear this to work.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

Yeah, I'm like, yeah, yeah, you might be exposed to it.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

Might be able to wear that one to the bar, but I can't wear it to work.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

Okay, so next topic is not wanting to wear tank tops or swimsuits. And I feel like I'm opposite. I love tank tops, yeah, and I do like bathing suits, but I also have bigger like hips and like my upper thighs, I feel like are bigger than my like, which obviously that's a leg. Yeah. So sometimes I don't like to wear bathing suits because especially like in the summertime I'm gonna sweat more and whatever TMI, but like I've always struggled with body acne. Yeah, so when I'm sweating, yeah, I feel like it can get worse. So I get it pretty good on my legs. Yeah. And so sometimes I'm like, oh, I don't like the look of that. But then I'm like, you know what? Like, I don't care.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

No. I've actually recently been really sweating big time in the back of my neck, and I've been getting little breakout pimples. Yeah. I don't like it, and it's new, that's new for me.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Like on my inner thighs is where like I'll get some acne too, because like chafing's a thing, and that's why I wear shorts when I wear like a dress or anything, but even the back of my legs, just where you don't think you sweat and you do, is where I've always struggled with acne and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

So I feel like accutane helps with that. Yeah, yeah. Accutane dries up the oil in your whole body. Yeah. So you know, and they say it like permanently shrinks the oil glands. That's why it works so long.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

And is it a pill or a cream?

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Yeah, a pill. Yeah, you take it and it's like a whole systemic thing. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

But I will say, no, no hate to my body, but I am a one-piece girly. But I really like my one pieces.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

I like one pieces or I like the one-waisted, yeah. I'm not even a full tankini. I'll do like a bikini top, but I like a high waist. High waisted bottom. Yeah, fair. That's fair. And that's a huge thing right now. Yeah. Yeah, they're really pretty. I really like Cupchi and there was another one that oh Ella let me borrow a one piece from LaVan Rolls. La Vienne Rolls. Yes. And it's so nice, and it fits so nicely. And I had gotten the last few uh bathing suits were off Timu, and I could see a huge difference in the quality of La Vienna. I really can't see that.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

Well, yeah, and they probably keep your girls where they need to be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

For four like you liked team. Like in a bed, no, I liked the 70 bucks, but they're not going to say I like Timu and stuff, I can't see a difference. But this I did, the the bathing suits. Yeah. I really think that that's a good investment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like you should invest your money in a quality bathing suit.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

It's true. Because like you, if you watch for their sales, like even online, like they have some really good sales on. Like it's good quality. They are. Let's see.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

I would rather get their one pieces. Yeah. Because they're two pieces, they'll do like $50 per thing, top and bottom.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

So what would a one piece 50 for one piece?

SPEAKER_01 29:43

No, it was it's about 70, but they're really nine plus. They're really good though.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Yeah. It's worth it because like quality-wise, like I haven't had one break at all.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

No, I just had one go missing, and I still have no idea to this day where it is, and I'm pissed. I loved that baby suit. No, it's the black one that has like the little hole here and it goes around your neck.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

I know. We had the same.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Oh, yeah, you walked up to the spa. Yeah. Really comfy.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Now I'm cranky.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Oh, we reminded her. Oops.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

What part of summer stresses you out the most?

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Um things going bugs in my garden. Specifically potato beetles.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

Potato beetles killed her potatoes last year.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

June bugs and mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

June bugs don't count. Those don't come into summer. They are June and gone.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

Nah, sometimes I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

You know what? When I do garden this time of year, I'm digging them up. They literally live under grill. Then you dig them up. And earwigs hate those too.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Bugs. Bugs in just general.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

Are you guys having a lot of issues with Japanese beetles? Yes. They're awful.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

They literally flew into my car last summer and it was so bad. Every time I put my window down, I thought they were ladybugs.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

They look similar. We have issues with ants here.

unknown 31:00

Do you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

Are those like were those the ones I kept calling like the potato bugs? No.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

No, they're just beetles are uh a different type of beetle and they're they're also banned.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

Like these ones aren't red so much that they're orangey.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

The Japanese beetles, yeah. And that's a problem all across PI in the last couple of years. Yeah. Well, it's getting hotter. They're literally like coat my windows on the south side. It's gross.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

We had a couple years ago, we walked in and our whole kitchen wall, like of our sink, was just covered in ants. Yeah, oh my god, I remember they.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

The potato bugs you're talking about are weevils. The little weevils, yes, they're another problem.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

But yeah, we had ants crawling up and down our walls.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

We had to get the vacuum cleaner out and like they're annoying, but I don't mind ants. I'd rather take them over like earwigs or spiders.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Spiders and but the the- No, the three things all the fucking daddy long legs gross. The three things that probably stress me out, like the least amount is bugs. They're just annoying, can be gross. The second thing that stresses me out is just because I run warm is me getting so warm that it just overstimulates me, makes me anxious, makes me cranky.

SPEAKER_02 32:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

That's just summer. And then the biggest stressor only over the last couple years, because it's been, you know, global warming getting so hot, is forest fires. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:22

Like we we weren't allowed to have any campfires last year, and that's okay. But the amount of like little fires you would hear about, and all you gotta think about is that just takes one good gust of wind, and we're we're PEI. Like, we'd be gone.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Yeah, like the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been getting devastating fires, and obviously out west, they always do.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

But like you think of how a big one in like BC would be our island.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

I know, yeah. And our like, especially certain parts of our island that have the trees. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

That's what stresses me out because like we have some firefighters and stuff in our chair, and they just talk about like, oh, it's very dangerous and stuff, and then you come and you hear someone else, oh yeah, no, we just had a fire here. We accidentally threw out like a cigarette and it like caught fire, but we got it out like it just takes something like that.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Compost piles, people don't realize the compost and mulch, how easy. Yeah, they even mulch. If you have mulch in your yard, you might be spraying that shit down. Yeah, and then you gotta be careful when you're spraying it down though, because once it's moist it's moist and warm. Those are perfect conditions for a little fire. It's weird. Really? Yeah, and they'll just like like uh spontaneously combust. That's crazy. That's like dangerous.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

That's one reason why. Like we l I live in an apartment building, and now we're not allowed to have barbecue.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

That's because of that one building that caught it.

SPEAKER_03 33:45

But it was from the mulch that started it, and then it went up the side of the building, and someone had um a barbecue and the propane tank blew and the whole building down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 33:58

Yeah, which sucks because I missed barbecue.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

Yeah, I don't know if it's like that in other provinces or countries, whoever's listening, but here where we live, you can't. It's a literal law. You can't have barbecues and apartment buildings anymore. I'm not sure about duplexes and stuff or like ground level, but yeah. Yeah. And it and it does suck. Same as the campfires. It does suck, but you understand why. Like it just doesn't make it any easier.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

No.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

Um, what trends make you guys feel confident versus uncomfortable?

SPEAKER_01 34:30

I feel like it just changes every year because I don't know what's gonna be the trend of the summer right now.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

I felt confident with the I a couple summers ago I felt confident with like the crop tops. I'm not as comfortable with them anymore. Yeah, yeah. And that's just me, literally just me. I love them on other people, I think they're super cute, but I don't know why I started feeling uncomfortable with them.

SPEAKER_03 34:54

I don't like them personally for myself, but I like a shirt.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

I don't find there's no there's a crop top that's comfortable because I don't know of any crop tops that aren't tight.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Which I don't think crop tops could be loose, it would look like funny.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

Yeah, exactly. And that's just that's c restricting, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Yeah, I agree. When something's too tight in the summer, I'm too hot and sweaty. I need to do it.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Sometimes I'm warm in my tight bathing suits because they're so tight.

SPEAKER_03 35:20

Yeah. Yeah, I just don't like them. On me personally. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

One this might be like a what's that word?

SPEAKER_00 35:33

Controversial.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Yeah. That word. Um, but a couple summers ago it was like and I don't care if you have like body hair, like we all have it, yeah. But like people like purposely growing them out like super long and then like just kind of flaunting it in people's faces.

SPEAKER_04 35:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

Like that was just weird in my opinion. Like the armpit hair, especially, like, whatever. If you want to grow it, like, grow it, that's fine. But then like purposely be like wearing tank tops and then like getting something off of a shelf, yeah. Like in front of someone, like doing it to make people look at you. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 36:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

I just was that didn't make me uncomfortable at all. I was like, why are you trying to put that in someone's face? Yeah. Because like I don't want to I don't want my own iron pits in people's faces when I'm shampooing them.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Well, and that's one reason why we're not allowed to pick it up. I find I don't my iron pits don't go in people's faces, but I don't reach around them, I guess, to shampoo over. That might do it. Yeah. But also close your eyes. We talked about it. Yeah, stay back and relax. Look at us while we shampoo. That's just weird. I agree. I find it awkward.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

Yeah. Let's get nice and comfortable with each other here and talk about the heat struggles that nobody talks about.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

Ugh. The boob sweat. I had that today, but big time.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Like guys, you don't boob sweat. Realize literally every part of your body sweats.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Yeah, and like if you smell sweat and you're wearing deodorant, it's like is it your boobs? Yeah, literally.

SPEAKER_01 37:00

You do that like, is it me? Like, what is happening here?

SPEAKER_00 37:03

Like girls are pressed together. Most people's are pressed together when you're when you're freaking wearing a bra. Yeah. Well then you start sweating, and it's just like I could wear deodorant in my cleavage.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 37:15

And soak your whole body in it.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

Yeah. Um, the back of my knees sweat. Yes, mine too.

SPEAKER_00 37:20

I don't like that. Yeah. And the other, and I mean, I guess we're saying this is TMI, but this is annoying. We get hair on our boobs and in our bras when we've got hair. It just flies up and it flies down. So you add sweat in with that, it's disgusting. Yeah. You need to come home and shower because it's a sweaty hairy mess. Literally. Yeah. No.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

Wipe down 100%. Yeah. Um another thing for me, like when my neck is cold in the winter, I'm cold. When my feet are hot, I'm hot. Yeah, so that's why like I'm sandals, like as soon as the snow goes away.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

Yep. Same. I have to wear socks at home a lot because I don't know why my feet get clammy a lot. And then that makes me feel weird. So I get socks on at home.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

That's fair, because then you wouldn't feel it as bad either.

SPEAKER_00 38:07

Yeah, that's why Kaylee's sometimes I can sleep with socks. She's out. I hate socks. No, I can't.

SPEAKER_01 38:12

I prefer to wear a bra, I think, than socks.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

Really? No, they don't bother me. They I'm one with them.

SPEAKER_01 38:18

I'm one with them. But no, and then, like, obviously, you do not have to wear makeup. You do what makes you feel good, but then you got the makeup on, you took all that work to do it, and by the time you put your makeup on, you're so hot from putting it on that you're sweating it off. Or you get to work and then you start working, and then you're sweating it off anyway.

SPEAKER_03 38:35

Yeah, I feel like it's like melting off my face all the time. Literally. Like today, I went in the back room and I took a little Kleenex, and I was like, oh my god. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

And like, especially in the summer, like my upper lip will sweat. Yes. And I'm like, okay, so now I just like look like a crazy person.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

My upper lip gets really bad, or like right here. Between your eyebrows, yeah. Yes. I hate it.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

Yeah, me too. I'm the same.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Those are medications for you. Yeah, cutane might help because it's not so oily. We'll see. But I also hate getting out of the show when I get out of the shower in the summer, the act of like drying myself off and getting dressed up. I'm sweating. Yeah. And I'm like, What do I mean?

SPEAKER_01 39:10

When I put my makeup on in the morning and I'm yeah, it's so annoying. So I struggle with this, even though my hair is straight, but I know you guys have curly hair, but the friggin' humidity hair in the summer, oh my god. That that is the issue with the heat for me. If it just wanted to be like 27 degrees, perfect. But it's when it's 27 with a humid X of 40, literally shoot me in the face.

SPEAKER_00 39:39

That's a different heat, exactly. That's why I don't get cranky down there.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

No, and they have a constant, pretty good breeze.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

Yeah, yeah.

unknown 39:48

I know.

SPEAKER_01 39:49

But we weren't a good couple weeks without a fucking breeze last year.

SPEAKER_00 39:53

And then we went you're suffocating.

SPEAKER_01 39:55

We went like almost 40 days with no rain. Yeah. Because we made that TikTok, and that was the last day it rained for almost, I think it was 36 days.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Yeah. And then it did, it rained a little bit and that was it. Yeah. Like it wasn't like. And even though we had a lot of rain in the spring, it doesn't matter. No. The ground dries up so far.

SPEAKER_01 40:11

But I'm just glad we got a lot, at least to give it a little bit of moisture for the first time.

SPEAKER_00 40:14

Everyone's grass is really green.

SPEAKER_01 40:16

Very green. Yeah, the little dandelions starting to spread.

SPEAKER_00 40:20

They cut my grass today for the first time, actually.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

I love the smell of frack cut freshly cut grass, but it makes me sneeze.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

Me too. I'm allergic to it. I must do too. I have a slight allergy to it. Yeah, the humidity hair, I don't heat style my hair all summer. It's up all summer. No, me either. Even if I try and like wear my natural curls, they frizz right out. Like it's too much. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

I try to wear my hair down. I even tried today and I did one haircut and it was fine. And then I did my other one, my neck started to sweat, and I was like, nope.

SPEAKER_00 40:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:48

Because the sheet shows. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 40:50

And we're very lucky at our salon. Like some salons make you do your hair. Yeah. Ours.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

Oh, I'd be like, okay, I'll quit. Yeah, like my hair is up, that is me doing my hair.

SPEAKER_03 41:00

Yeah. As long as you look presentable and put together.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:03

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:04

Golden. Alright. Summer inconvenience list. What are your inconveniences over the summer?

SPEAKER_00 41:14

The bugs in my garden.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

That's this is fair.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

Also the watering in my garden, because this heat I'm watering every single night. Yeah. Sometimes night and morning, if I know it's gonna be super crazy. Yeah. And that's a lot of work. Yeah. Mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_03 41:29

And mosquitoes. Mosquitoes. Yes. Biggest inconvenience? We get like the afternoon sun at our apartment. And it gets so hot. It does the beams in. That I'm like, oh my god, Ella, I'm coming over for a nighttime.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

No, Emily, I'm gonna force you this summer, just one day, to just go to Sam's house.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

Do you guys have a window AC? We do in our bedroom, but we don't in our living room. But I was given more given one, but I don't have the side panels, so I'm gonna see if I can find the side panels and see if that helps.

SPEAKER_00 42:03

I'll probably build you some. He built some at my um at one of our other houses. Yeah. Because the it didn't it wasn't big enough. Yeah. So I can't even ask.

SPEAKER_01 42:14

But you know what? If you ever just need to go, like, because some people will find it relaxing to be in a sauna, just go over to Sam's us for a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 42:20

I can't help it, but we'll usually close over our curtains.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

Yeah, you have to.

SPEAKER_03 42:24

Sometimes it's but you're also on the top.

SPEAKER_00 42:26

On the high floor, yeah. The heat rises. Yeah. But that breeze is coming in right now, it's beautiful. Because the boy's dad, he lives on the north side of the building, and it's ungodly still. Yeah. Because the heat rises. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:39

My room where it is, I'm right next to the porch, and our porch gets the most sun. So my room is a furnace, and our window AC goes in our dining room, which is like two rooms away, but just the way it comes in, it cools off like our living room and my parents' room in the bathroom, which is going the opposite way of my room, and I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

Because it's kind of closed off.

SPEAKER_01 43:03

Yes. Because my room didn't used to be a room.

SPEAKER_00 43:06

You guys totally I think I told you before, you guys could totally have a heat pump there.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

I totally said that.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

If they don't believe you, they can ask me.

SPEAKER_01 43:13

I totally said that for a lot of years.

SPEAKER_03 43:14

Do you know what you could also get is a window fan? Like, we do that for Weston's room because he's only five. I don't want to freeze him out, poor little guy. But like, we got a window fan for his room, and what a difference it makes. Yeah. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 43:27

And when I tell you this summer, and I'm not joking, and you can laugh at me, I don't care. When it gets to our heat wave and it's 47,000 degrees, you will see me at work with that little fan that goes around your neck.

SPEAKER_00 43:37

Yes. I just saw those the other day.

SPEAKER_01 43:38

You can laugh at me, I don't care. You made a face.

SPEAKER_03 43:42

I was just laughing with you.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

I need to keep myself cool or else I get overstimulated, anxious, and cranky. And you want me doing your hair that like that?

SPEAKER_03 43:50

Well, no, but usually it's ant Antarctica levels in the salon, so you should be good.

SPEAKER_00 43:54

I'm just What else is your summary inconvenience list?

SPEAKER_03 43:59

Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Just trying to stay cool.

SPEAKER_03 44:01

Yeah. The gas prices. The gas prices. Oh my god. If it keeps going up, I'm gonna have to get a horse and wagon. Literally.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

If you asked any islander like five to ten years ago, everyone would have said, tourists, because the tourist driving. Islanders driving is just as bad, if not worse. So all year round we deal with shit drivers. So that shouldn't be on anyone's list. The drunk driving? Yeah, the drunk driving control on PEI. It's not cool.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

No, and our judicial system is shit, and all you get is a slap on the wrist. You can do many, many things here and get no nothing for it. And drunk driving needs to be more than just a fine and you lose your license. You need to be put in jail for a couple years because it's the only way people are gonna learn. People get many DUIs because they're like, whatever, I just get a fine.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:50

That you're gonna you're killing people.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

Yeah, exactly.

unknown 44:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

Um, my summer inconvenience, another one is especially from home alone, because we have the pool, is trying to put sunscreen on myself. It's hard. It's hard. Even with the spray sunscreen, I'll be I'll like look in the mirror and I'm like, why do I have like hand print four lines of sun on my back? Oh, because I used to spray. Yeah. One year I did my legs and I had one panel which is fully red. I was like, oh no.

SPEAKER_00 45:26

Missed a spot. Missed a spot. Very true.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

What about summer glow-up without toxic toxicity? I can't toxicity.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

How to glow up without being toxic. Yeah. Toxic to yourself because hydrate others.

SPEAKER_01 45:43

Hydrate! Hydrate! Water!

SPEAKER_00 45:47

Yeah, sleep, water, sleep, proteins. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:51

Finding clothes that work for you that make you feel comfortable and not like you're gonna crash out.

SPEAKER_00 45:57

Lots of SPF, especially your face, because it just ages you so much and the wrinkles.

SPEAKER_03 46:02

And it's very important. Actually, I'm pretty sure in PEI we have like one of the highest rates for skin cancer. Like one of my friends, she keeps going to see the dermatologist, and every time she goes, she keeps zapping off precancerous spots. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

And people people don't realize like it doesn't have to be a mole or a fragment either. Like you get a pimple on your face that doesn't go away. Yeah. Maybe it's not a pimple.

SPEAKER_03 46:27

It could be a sunspot. So yeah, melanoma.

SPEAKER_00 46:30

And I'm not talking like two or three weeks, I'm talking like months. If there, if there's a spot that doesn't go away, your scalp, like I all like I told two people today about one they both knew that they had a red spot, and I'm like, you really should watch it. Kaylee actually had a lump, like a little bump on her scalp. The dermatologist checked it out, and I have one on mine that I had to get an ultrasound on.

SPEAKER_02 46:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

So hairstylists who are listening, like, don't be afraid to tell your clients about a spot that they should they should watch it because cancer on your scalp is so hard to know. Yeah. She don't see her own scalp. It is up to us or others to check it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

When I actually have a story on that. Um I worked at another salon before and I was doing one of my older ladies' hair and I was shampooing her hair. And I had noticed a spot. I can't remember if it was on her face though, or head or something. It might have been on like the side. Anyways, I kept telling her, I'm like, you really should get that looked at. Because like it's I've seen her like once a week. And I was like, that looks like it's changing. Like, have you had it looked at? She's like, no. I'm like, maybe you really should get it looked at. Like, you know, you never know. Better to be safe than sorry. 100%. Um so you know, seen her again like a month later, maybe or something like that. And when she came back, she literally was like, Thank you for telling me to go get that looked at, because it actually was cancerous. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 47:57

And the thing about those cancers, not melanoma, but basal cell carcinoma, and the other one there's another one that's similar name, they are very slow growing and treatable.

SPEAKER_02 48:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:10

Oh, there is always exceptions, of course. Someone may know someone that it was aggressive and fast, but like those basal cell carcinomas, usually they only have to cut them out. You're not even looking at chemo and radiation, they're but they need to be caught early.

SPEAKER_02 48:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:24

Like, so you can't be really and people that don't even have moles and fractal still go to the dermatologist and get looked at because your skin can change so much. I have this red, this area on my arm that'll go red that I need to have looked at when it's in the sun. I don't know, it's just something we should do and pay attention to.

SPEAKER_03 48:43

Yeah, like if you're you know a little bit worried about it, then just get it checked out. Like she literally was like, Thank you so much for telling me to go. Like, I'm glad you did because it was cancerous. She was like, Thank you, and I was like, Oh, I'm glad I said something because like you know, some people don't notice it when they see it, but uh they look at themselves every day, they don't notice that exactly, and it's so easy to forget.

SPEAKER_00 49:07

Like if you get a spot and you're just then after a few weeks you kind of forget about it and learn to live with it. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:16

So those are things to be very you know super mindful of.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

Yes, exactly. Um, something else you could do to kind of help your mental health, like for glowing up without being toxic where you're going too far in an extreme and unhealthy, is if accounts are making you feel bad, like how we talked about the celebrities and influencers who are unhealthy, just unfollow them.

SPEAKER_01 49:37

One click, two clicks of a button. Yeah, not hard.

SPEAKER_00 49:40

Because if it really is bothering you and you're somebody who finds yourself comparing your body to others and feeling down about your body, there's a difference between feeling down about your body because you know you're eating unhealthy and not exercising, and you need to do it for your health. And then there's the side where you're comparing your body shitting on it because you think, oh, I'm so ugly. Like, I don't look like so-and-so. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:04

No.

SPEAKER_00 50:05

You we all should strive to be healthy. We all should take care of this vessel we're in and eat healthy, drink water, and exercise.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:12

But that's the angle you should look at it. You shouldn't look at it. I'm not skinny, I don't look like so-and-so, the latest celebrity. Who cares? And you know what? They might not be happy in their skin. Exactly. And you can be skinny and extremely unhealthy. Absolutely. And you can be big and you can be very healthy. There's a lady right now going around TikTok, she's a bigger lady, and she's a Pilates instructor. Pilates hard as hell.

SPEAKER_01 50:36

And people, the thing is, people are like saying you were my teacher, like I'd never take this. I'm like, shut up.

SPEAKER_00 50:40

She's rocking it. Pilates a big thing. And she just had a baby. Yeah, like I it's sick. People are sick. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_03 50:48

The comments were all very comments were actually very sick. And another girl called out that other person.

SPEAKER_00 50:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:56

And she was like, like, thank you. She's like, you know, this girl could do Pilates better than you ever could. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_00 51:03

Like stop judging people's bodies. Exactly. Stop judging their bodies. Some people like hold on to weight, some people are medications, health problems. You don't know what the hell is going on.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

You don't know the background.

SPEAKER_00 51:13

They could have just had a baby, they could have had twins, they could have had quadruplets. I don't know. It could be somebody who's skinny and eats fast food five times a week, never exercises, drinks only caffeine. That's not very healthy. No. So you can't judge a book by its cover. It's very true. And I would I I wish that in 2026 we could say we're a lot better at that than we are as a society. No, we're just getting worse. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 51:37

People are just getting meaner because they're behind screen.

SPEAKER_00 51:39

And now they can all comment anonymously too, so they're getting more ballsy. Oh my god, I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:45

What's your favorite summer essentials? My fan.

SPEAKER_00 51:49

My fan.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

My fan.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

My AC. I AC a van. In it was the spring of 2020. It was during the height of COVID. I bought myself a portable AC and it's still. So we're seven summers later. That that oh no, six summers later, that thing is still going great. Hopefully, we're gonna be able to get the biggest thing.

SPEAKER_01 52:10

I spent like 300 bucks on when this new Huntavirus comes to kill us all.

SPEAKER_00 52:14

Oh god, we're not. Don't worry about the hantavirus, hauntivirus. Be if pay attention to it. Don't bury your head in the sand. Now, you just send me the stuff that's relevant, please. But we don't need to panic yet. Like they said about COVID. But why the fuck did they let them off the boat? I'm sorry, but like, have we not learned from COVID people don't listen to quarantine.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

People don't listen to Well, there's buddy in the fucking bar that got kicked out.

SPEAKER_00 52:41

I know. Oh my god. Oh my god. Yeah, oh my god, is right. I cannot go down and I can't even talk about this because it'll make me fine.

SPEAKER_01 52:52

My fan, um, popsicles, ice, my pool, anything cool.

SPEAKER_03 52:57

Yeah, staying cool. Yes, the driving. I was just gonna say doing fun things, yeah. Driving, beef, Canada Day.

SPEAKER_00 53:05

My hose to water my garden. Yeah, Canada Day.

SPEAKER_01 53:08

We will have the pool up. Hopefully, you'll come over with the kids. Absolutely, yeah. We'll have them with the kids. Yeah, absolutely. We're gonna have those nice nighttime dips burgers that mom makes. Um, those are my favorite. Whatever mix them with like ground turkey because it's healthier, and she'll put stovetop dressing in them uncooked, and then she'll barbecue them. For real. Emily, you need to come, you and the kids need to come over and Kaylee. We do barbecues all the time in the summer. Mom loves to barbecue all the time. Sam brings like it's too hard to cook.

SPEAKER_00 53:40

Sam brings and Olan would really get along. I betcha they probably would. Nolan and my younger nephew, who's not even four yet, they are thick as thieves and they play non-stop. Oh good.

SPEAKER_01 53:50

Well, look how well Alex got along with them, and Weston loves Alex. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:54

I think they'd have a great time.

SPEAKER_01 53:55

Sam brings like she you've brought in macaroni salads, fruits, like she just brings things, dessert, odd things. Brady hang out with us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 54:03

Oh, yeah, why not? It's always fun.

SPEAKER_01 54:06

I actually love hosting.

SPEAKER_03 54:07

Yep. That's fine.

SPEAKER_01 54:09

But in the summer, when I don't have to be stuck inside. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 54:11

I love losing too. We just don't have enough room. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:14

We got a nice new like L seat that's out on the deck. We built a new spot for our fireplace last year, and then we never got to use it once. So that was shitty because of the fire band.

SPEAKER_00 54:25

Stupid fire. I hope there's not one this summer because I set up my firepower.

SPEAKER_01 54:28

I know. Um don't know how. Jason, my father, our pool broke, our other one, but it was like a foot and a half high. So I actually use my own money and I bought a bigger one that comes with a ladder and it comes with all that stuff, and I'm really excited to set that up.

SPEAKER_03 54:44

I can't wait. I'll come help. I'm coming over to um.

SPEAKER_01 54:48

Absolutely, we're gonna have a staff party here. I just said this.

SPEAKER_03 54:50

A staff party.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

Oh, staff parts are just again. Oh, so funny. Legitimate. You don't think eight of us can fit in that pool?

SPEAKER_03 54:58

I don't know. I bet you people say owned a box.

SPEAKER_01 55:01

There's three in there.

SPEAKER_03 55:03

Three in there, just three. That's right. Just three.

SPEAKER_01 55:06

No, but it'll be good.

SPEAKER_03 55:07

Yes. But that'll be fun.

SPEAKER_01 55:09

Alright, I think we should end things off with let's talk about any trips and plans that anyone has planned this summer.

SPEAKER_00 55:16

Nothing crazy. We always go camping. We usually go camping off island with a friend and her son. Nice. But we said this year we're gonna do it on PEI. Yes. Probably in August. No.

SPEAKER_01 55:29

No, you don't have anything in the summer sound?

SPEAKER_03 55:32

I mean, nothing crazy. Going away for ball, going to see Matt Rife.

SPEAKER_01 55:36

Yeah, no, not nothing crazy, you know, just going to see Matt Rife.

SPEAKER_03 55:40

Well.

SPEAKER_01 55:40

Staying in an in Airbnb.

SPEAKER_03 55:43

Nothing insane, but you know, it'll be fun. It'll be fun. Lots of ball.

SPEAKER_01 55:48

I think I'm going to Toronto, but I don't think we're going until September.

SPEAKER_03 55:52

That's okay, though. September's still good to go.

SPEAKER_01 55:54

No, but I'm saying like in the summer. Yeah. But I'm gonna spend a lot of time in my pool.

SPEAKER_00 55:58

Mm-hmm. I'm going to we're taking the kids to the monster trucks. We got VIP passes. That's gonna kick off our summer for Canada. And we also always do the tractor pools. So nice.

SPEAKER_01 56:12

Um I was watching videos of the monster trucks. I would like to go. Yeah, because I think it'd be cool.

SPEAKER_00 56:18

We get to go in the pit and meet the drivers.

SPEAKER_01 56:20

Um that's but I watched like the ones that are coming here. I found their account. Um, are either of your boys sensitive to sound? Because it's gonna be loud as well.

SPEAKER_00 56:28

No, they go to the tractor used to it. Okay, because I was like they did go to the monster trucks too, the ones inside. We took them they were here. Um, but they do have the over-the-head.

SPEAKER_01 56:39

Because I was like, Yeah, that would overstimulate me.

SPEAKER_03 56:42

I would love to go and I'd love to take lesson because he's obsessed with the ball.

SPEAKER_01 56:45

I think that would really bother him though.

SPEAKER_03 56:47

I was I was getting there, but that is the thing that would be.

SPEAKER_01 56:52

He's not he's not a kid that loves loud noises. Like, even at the parades, he's not like I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_00 56:58

He's okay from far away, but up close. When he's close, the bowl's the same, but the over-the-ear thing would really help him.

SPEAKER_01 57:04

Yeah, but see, I don't think he'd like that because he doesn't like things over his ears.

SPEAKER_03 57:07

Yeah, he doesn't like that.

SPEAKER_01 57:09

But it might be different now, it's tubes in his ears.

SPEAKER_03 57:11

He might not mind like that.

SPEAKER_01 57:13

No, but he might not mind something over his ears.

SPEAKER_03 57:15

He does not like it. No.

SPEAKER_01 57:17

He doesn't like things over his head, even his shirts, he panics.

SPEAKER_03 57:19

Yeah, if you pull like a hoodie off over his head, he like wants to get out of it. If you don't pull it off fast, he literally goes and freaks.

SPEAKER_01 57:26

Freaks out.

SPEAKER_03 57:27

Freaks out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:28

But yeah. Um, even like at the parades, like he'll sit with you and like he's like, Oh, look at that, it's really cool. And they'll beep and he's like, I don't like it.

SPEAKER_03 57:36

Yeah, like he'll get up and run away. But they can be really loud. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 57:40

Yeah, they can be. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 57:44

Well, that's how we're gonna prepare for summer so we don't go insane.

SPEAKER_03 57:48

Yep. Yes, keep cool, have lots of treats, have fun.

SPEAKER_01 57:52

Yeah, let eat those treats.

SPEAKER_03 57:54

Yes. Eat those treats, have fun.

SPEAKER_01 57:57

Them ice cream sandwiches.

SPEAKER_03 57:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 57:59

I got a big, large slushie yesterday because my belly was sore from being a woman. So I got a big slushie. Woman things. Woman things. Well, things.

SPEAKER_00 58:11

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SPEAKER_03 58:14

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SPEAKER_01 58:17

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