Critters, Cucaracha & the Unscripted Office

This week, Ryan is joined by his coworker and Franklin Pierce University sophomore Mia Cucaracha — and if you work in admissions, you already know the chaos that comes with it. From early morning school visits to nap time on the office floor, Ryan and Mia pull back the curtain on life inside the admissions office before things get a lot more personal.

Mia opens up about her journey from Pinkerton Academy — the largest private high school in America — to finding her footing at a smaller school where her voice could actually be heard. She talks about being the oldest daughter from a long line of oldest daughters, the 15-year age gap between her and her youngest sibling, and why family has always been at the center of everything she does. Oh, and somehow critter club comes up, too.

Two coworkers. One office. Completely unscripted.

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SPEAKER_01 0:13

Live on the Talon, that's WFPCLP 105.3 FM radio. I'm Ryan FitzPadrick, and this is another episode, and welcome to Unscripted with Ryan. Once again, I'm your host, and today, another episode of it. It's been a little while, um, it's been actually a couple weeks since another episode came out because I've been sick, been traveling. As you know, it's been a lot of work been going on in the office. But uh today my guest is a coworker of mine, a student at Frankel Pierce University. She's involved with a ton. You might see her shooting some frisbee, right? A little frisbee action. And uh today's guest, Mia Kukaracha. Mia, what's going on?

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Hey Fitz, not not much. Um yeah, no, not a crazy day today. It was.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Well, we were really late, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

We were very late today. It was a crazy day with meeting. Um one meeting. One meeting that yes. Um but um not much today. What's going on with you?

SPEAKER_01 1:15

A lot today. I got to wake up early in the emissions office. How early? Alright, well, it's not that early. I'm being dramatic, but like for work we have to travel to go to these schools, as you might know. And I had to get there like 7 30.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

How far away was the school? Ten minutes. Riot.

unknown 1:32

Ryan.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

I don't know. I don't listen, like, I I'm fine with getting up early. I really am. Like, it's not that big of a deal, especially like when playing football and everything. Um, it was fine, but now it's just like getting up that early to go to school and then talk to kids about Frankl Pierce for a while. Um, I mean, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed I enjoyed doing that stuff, but then after I'm like uh But then you crashed in admissions pretty hard, so I was a little tired after I got back to admissions and uh I found a blanket and I cuddled up nice and nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Yes, you found a blanket and a pillow, you had your your your nap time.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

I have my computer right next to me. I was still doing this.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

You were doing work.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

Uh Nick took a picture of us. Um Nick took a picture of me uh laying on the ground.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Did he really?

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Yeah. That's a funny thing. That's really funny, actually. Um but yeah, uh let me actually show you it, because it was it was a it was pretty interesting. It's actually a very nice picture. Um it's not the typical type of um laying down person type of picture.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

It looks like laying down person?

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Yeah, that's that's me.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Oh, with your feet on the chair, right?

SPEAKER_01 2:35

No, right, of course. Right after um right after uh getting back from work. But yeah, it's been an okay day after that. Um dealing with some students from high schools, getting them to come to Franklin Pierce. How was that visit? Was alright. Conant in high school, uh great kids, lots of good kids. Um went with Jordan who graduated from Conant, so that was nice. But other than that, um I I just I like talking to kids and like I like talking to groups. Yeah. We presented in the beginnings, which was nice, but 745 presentation, the kids were not having it. I wasn't having it. But I I put on my brave face, I smile, you know? Nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

What do you talk about in the presentation?

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Uh Frankly Pierce. We talk about like um we have like a structured slideshow. Basically, all of us show in the admissions office. We show like the same thing. Show the school, uh show the majors, talk about the majors, our relationship with the school. I like to talk about my experiences the most because I just graduated from here. So I'm big on talking about my experience. And um basically just going through the majors we have. Obviously, I had to get accustomed to the other majors because I'm not like those aren't my what was your major? Sports media.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

And communications. So like this like health sciences stuff, pfft, I don't know a thing about until I started working here. And then I had to learn that, learn a couple of new languages of majors. Um, not actual languages, but some of this stuff is more complicated than think. What's your major?

SPEAKER_00 4:01

Uh psychology, criminal justice, and then I have minors in political science and forensic psych.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

So it's double major, double minor?

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Why'd you want to do that?

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Um, I came in with just a psychology major, but I want to be a body language analyst and work in FBI, CIA, something like that. Right. So I added criminal justice and then forensic psych pairs well with that. And then political science. I took a political science course and then I just added it.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

You thought it was fun. Yeah. That's what I do with psychology.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

Cohen emailed me and he was like, hey, you should add it. And I was like, okay, I guess Cohen's the man.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yeah. He's the man. Frank, that's a good guy right there. Um, so you were just like, Yeah, let me double, let me double it up.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

Essentially.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Yeah, that's what happened with me. Like I I was taking psychology classes for fun as electives.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Because I was a sports, I guess sports media communications, but my after taking a f a lot of courses in psychology for fun, uh, my uh advisor Buddington, who was in the office tonight, she's like, You have enough credits to almost minor in this my junior year. And I was like, Alright, add it on. Added it on, and now I have a double minor. So um graduated with it just a year ago. Don't graduate from here. It's the worst thing ever.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

That was essentially what I did with um forensic psych. Yeah. I don't have to take any extra classes for it. I just kind of have to maneuver what classes I was going to take. Right. Because of um political science, psych, and criminal justice, they all overlap enough to where I was able to add it on without actually adding on any credits.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Nice. Alright, that's pretty good. And do you have to take you feel like you have to take it's like more extra work, or you were just already on that pace, you might as well get more credits or kind of just already on that pace.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Um I'm a part of the honors program too. So um I don't know, I kind of just kept adding stuff as I as I went along the past year and a half. Um so yeah, I mean, more work in terms of planning my classes, but the classes themselves, like my credit requirements and whatnot, didn't change crazy.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

That's pretty cool. That's that's what I found myself in too. Um yeah, like you said, it just takes a little more effort in picking your glasses because then you have to pick specific ones, make sure you have the right ones. Um, which I understand. But um you all not only do all that schoolwork, all that stuff, but you have you're you're pretty busy on campus. You keep yourself busy. You you like I said, the frisbee stuff before you work in admissions, I think you work in another job too, a library calf.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

I do, not the library calf, but I'm a reference assistant for the library.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

Oh, library. Yeah, yeah. Got half of that right, 50-50. Um, so yeah, how do you what what got you into that stuff being part of the you know, multiple jobs on campus type feel?

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Um Jordan got me into admissions, actually. Um she just kind of told me that I should work in admissions, so I applied. And then um I applied to the library second semester last year. Honestly, just because I wanted more money. I wanted something else to do on campus. Yeah. Um, so that gets me like eight hours a week where I can help people, but also like I have some time to do homework and organize what I need to do for the week. Um yeah, I don't know. I like to stay busy. I feel like when I'm not busy, I have a hard time being productive.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

So kind of being able to structure my day and both the library specifically reference and admissions close at four. So no matter what, my day ends at four, which is nice.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

What do you do? What do you find yourself doing after four o'clock?

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Um Frisbee.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

As well as um me and a couple other people just started Critter Club.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Critter Club.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Um interesting. Yeah, essentially we want to be able to um like find different bugs and quote unquote critters across campus. Hey, shut up. Um, and just be able to learn more about them, help educate people about them.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

So you find like gross ones and you're like learn about it. Sure.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Um, we haven't yet.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

But you that's the plan.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

But yeah, that is kind of the plan.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Slimy little thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Not like slugs.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

That's what I think of. I think of bugs. What do you think of when you think of bugs?

SPEAKER_00 8:12

I don't think slugs. I think bugs. Yeah. Butterflies, fireflies, okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

Those are the coolest ones.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Spiders. I actually hate spiders. Exactly. But that is one of the ones that we were looking into.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

You ever get bit by one?

SPEAKER_00 8:25

Yeah, a lot.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

What's like the worst one? Like the tarantulas are huge.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Tarantulas suck. My cousin used to have like eight tarantulas, and I had arachnophobia as a child.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

So arachnophobia is fair. Fair of spiders, yeah. I think my brother has that, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

It's not fun. Um, my aunt brought me to a museum once. It was the Boston Museum.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Um, and they were doing a spider exhibit, and I ran out of it.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Where are you from?

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Uh, Derry, New Hampshire.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

Derry, New Hampshire. Oh, you're a local. Oh, not too local. You went to Pinkerton Academy. Oh, that's right. We went over this. So you went you stayed in New Hampshire. Was it a big motivation to come to Franklin's to stay in New Hampshire?

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Um, not necessarily to stay in New Hampshire, but like to be at a smaller school. Yeah. Because Pinkerton has almost 4,000 kids and not my style of learning in the slightest. I uh honestly didn't do amazing in high school just because I had no control. Yeah. Um, so being able to come here and like having that community, being like knowing that my voice was gonna be heard was such a big factor.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Exactly. That's a big reason I came here. I mean, I didn't even realize the whole voice being heard thing. I didn't realize until about like a year or two ago. But um but coming here into the small classroom environment, I mean, you're from obviously you're from New Hampshire, which is not known for a lot of people being around, but Pinkerton, as you mentioned, it's the biggest pu it's the biggest school in in New Hampshire, biggest uh high school in New Hampshire.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

It's also technically the largest private school in America, I believe. Because it's owned privately, but um if you're within five towns, you go to it. So it's not really private. But is it like technically?

SPEAKER_01 10:00

Is it like you're paying for a private school or is it like through taxes?

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Like uh if you live within the five towns taxes, yeah. If you like lived in a random town that wasn't part of it, you would pay for it, but otherwise, um it's part of taxes and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

Yeah, that's how it was back at home in Long Island. We like like I was saying, it's there's a ton of people down there too. Like people were everywhere. Maybe the classrooms weren't as big uh at the Rocky Point High School that I went to, but um there's still a lot going on. A lot of people around you, not just at in school, but just otherwise outside of school, just people everywhere at work and everything, and then coming here is a good transition. Yeah. Just going into the smaller classrooms, getting that uh idolized time with your professors, that uh that helped me a ton too. So uh yeah, and you're here, but um, you got away from your brother that does the t uh the the spider stuff to you, you said, or your aunt cousin?

SPEAKER_00 10:51

Um no, my aunt brought me to the spider museum. But she had good intentions, she forgot that I had arachnophobia.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Um how crazy is arachnophobia? Is it like so?

SPEAKER_00 11:01

I'm not arachnophobic? I don't know if that's the right tense for that word, but I'm not that afraid of spiders anymore. Um but like I used to go to a lake house every summer. Yeah, and there was one summer like um a part of the wall was lined with daddy long legs. I refuse to go in the house because I wouldn't walk past them.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

I mean, they're gross. I wouldn't want them to be gross. Oh my god. Not like I'm not thinking like everyone's growing up, they're like, hey, you're bigger than the thing, but no, I don't want that thing crawling on me. I don't want it touching me.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

No, especially they move fast.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Oh, see, now you're f now now like the thought of that kind of freaks me out. They could be anywhere at all times. It's not a big spider spot I've noticed.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

No, this isn't, which is surprising because we're in the middle of the woods. But I also haven't noticed very many spiders.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Yeah, growing up I had a Vermont house and now it was a big spider spot. Huge sp huge spiders in general, big ants, all that stuff. Um, I mean ants, I don't know, but I mean you do what do you like? Ants with your with your club that you got?

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Yeah, we want to start a um ant farm. Um fair.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

I mean ants are cool, I guess, but they're not red or fire ants or something like that. I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Yeah, we don't want we don't want like ants that'll hurt you. Um and we're working with President Eden, but we're still in the very early stages of everything. So we're still working out um what we'd be able to do and like what the timeline is for everything. The club just kind of got started at the beginning of the semester.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

So cool. I don't know. I don't I'm Tormsine saying it's cool or disgusting. It's kind of like a I mean, like honestly, it is an acquired taste, you can't lie.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

No, it definitely is. I've um uh as Fitz said before, I'm a tour guide and I've mentioned it a few times on tour, and it definitely has been a turnoff most of the times that I've said it. Don't say that to my kids. I'll I'll be like, oh yeah, so there's a lot of different um ways to start clubs and you know, a lot of different activities you can join. I and a couple of my friends started Critter Club, and all of the parents are very grossed out. Um, but part of what we also want to do is kind of create awareness to um invasive species and like protect um potentially endangered species that might be around us. So really anything we can do to help the wildlife around us.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Yeah, it's fair.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

Yeah. So less about um your creepy gross slugs and more about protecting the environment.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

Okay, you know what? I'll give you that because that's pretty cool. And um honestly, people don't know a bullet enough about that stuff. Like, like I said, I I I hear critters or bugs or whatever, and I get grossed out. But um, yeah. Do you work with Doug Hardy too to get that stuff started? Or are you talking about President Eden?

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Primarily it's been President Eden. As I said before, we're still in the early stages of it.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:51

Um, but we're hoping to get involved with Doug Cardi and kind of be able to plan some stuff. But um, yeah, everything is still very in the works.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

Nice. And you talked a little bit about how you give tours. So you work in emissions. Um talk to me about your job. I mean, today you had an annoying meeting that made us very late. Sorry to the live listeners out there. Four o'clock usually start with a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Also, I apologize if Brie, Corey, or Nick are part of the live listeners.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

They're not. They'll be fine. They'll get over it.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

They will they will accept it.

SPEAKER_01 14:24

It took forever. So tell me about your job though in emissions, because it's fun working in there. Uh it's a good environment. A lot of people in the world.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

It is a good environment.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

For sure. So, yeah, tell me about it.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Um, yeah, so there's some office work, some uh packing accept packets for accepted students, a lot of taking potential students out on tour. Um, also, if any sports teams bring in students, either as recruit or a part of the overnights that they do, we'll take them out. Um and then myself and Nick Fish are also student managers, and we're just coming into this role, so we're um kind of beginning to start planning things for other student ambassadors, um, setting schedules and whatnot. So, yeah, definitely a learning curve, but a welcome one.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Yeah, and what do you think the hardest part is? Because you know, you give it tours and everything. I I kind of don't like giving tours because my job's different. My job's obviously meeting with families after the tours and talking to them about Franklier and everything like that, but walking them around. I know sometimes there's like could be awkward silences where you're walking. I don't know. I don't I don't know how I feel about that, but uh what do you think your least favorite part of uh giving tours at least is?

SPEAKER_00 15:34

My least favorite part.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

You get nervous?

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Um, I don't think I get nervous anymore. Honestly, it's also helped with like public speaking.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

Oh 100%.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

I really don't feel uncomfortable talking to like a random group of people anymore. Yeah. Um, but I'd say my least favorite part is like if the students aren't engaged. I've taken a couple tours where um the students just aren't super involved in the process. And even if they want to go to college and they want to do whatever career they want to do, if they're not like, oh, what are the dorms looking like? What are um like the activities you have on campus? If they're not engaged, the tour isn't gonna go as well.

unknown 16:15

Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

So um I mean, even if the parents are engaged, which it's always welcome that they are engaged, but the students kind of being at the forefront, it always makes it the best.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

And so you like you like the tours, you like the public speaking sport.

SPEAKER_00 16:29

Yeah, I am definitely a people person. I like kind of putting myself out there, getting all the um information and seeming personable to people. So yeah, I like giving tours.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

You mentioned talking uh working now, starting out a direct role with Nick Fish, a buddy of a very good buddy of mine, as you might be able to tell. You're making a face already. Um I mean he's been on this podcast. Nick Fish was the one who took the photo earlier of Ryan laying on the floor. Yes, that's my buddy Nick. Um what was your like we're pretty loud in the office. We we like to talk a lot. Um what's your what's your initial um what's the word I'm looking for? What was your initial like uh reaction? Perspective? Perspective, maybe uh opinion on us, like in the office. Right when you met us right away.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

Um hmm. That's interesting. I'm not sure. Honestly, I just thought you were loud. That's it. Um no, you weren't annoying just because like it wasn't um an unwelcome distraction. It was always quite entertaining.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Um, so I'll give you that. Also, I feel like admissions has always been a very communicative place. Um you know, we're all tour guides and or counselors. We all like talking to each other. Yes, we're all a very social bunch. Um so I more thought it was interesting that you had that dynamic in the office, but not that you had that dynamic.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Yeah, I was there before all of them, but I stayed on my side of the office for a while, which was like where the you know the adults stay. Yeah, where the like real people, but ever since like now Nick got a job, Cole got a job in there, I was like, I have to just go over there and work. Because I hate sitting in my office. I mean, come on, what like what do you like better? You taking people out, talking to families, or sitting in the office, sitting there and maybe doing some work on the computer.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

No, I will say for sure, like being able to talk to everyone is much nicer. Some of like the best office days have been like when you and Madsy and everyone else is in there and we're all just kind of screwing around, yeah. I miss Lily so much. I saw her walking to class earlier, I ran out of admissions and I went, Lily.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Yeah, she's she's back down at uh Student Financial Services, but uh yeah, it it's a nice spot over there. So um all right, going outside of that, we talked a little bit about you being from Pinkerton. Obviously the pe a lot of people aspect over there, right? And um what's it like growing up there in general? I mean, you're on the what east very east side of of not too much of the east side of uh New Hampshire, southeast, but um what's it like growing up there? Is it um little too like spread out, you think? Like what what's it like?

SPEAKER_00 19:20

I I think the um landscape is a lot better than here. Not as far as like of course here we have the mountain and the lake, um, but there's a lot more like people and things to do. The town I live in is kind of closer to Keene. Um or like closer to the setup of Keene. Um where there's like more shops. I don't know. I end up going to the beach a lot in the summer.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

There's beaches over there.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

Uh it's about half an hour from my house.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Um as opposed to two hours from here. Yes. Oh, okay. I also live in a town with a lake, so I'll end up going to the lake a lot too.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

A lot of lake time. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

Um, yeah, I grew up swimming a lot, so um. But yeah, I don't know. I like it a lot. There's um still a lot of woods. I mean, it's still New Hampshire. Um the general scenery doesn't change much, it's just a bit more populated than Ringe. So um, but I mean that was part of what drew me to Ringe too for school. Just because you know, I love being at home and seeing all of my high school friends and whatnot. But kind of being able to be here and be in a more isolated space where I could focus was definitely important to me.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

For sure. Yeah, you probably met some of your good friends from here as well, right? Like very important people to you. Um same thing with me. Um yeah, it's good to have that switch up. But um being from pain, do you have any siblings at all?

SPEAKER_00 20:45

I do. I have a um brother who's about to turn thirteen and a sister who's four.

SPEAKER_01 20:51

So you're nineteen, right?

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Whoa, that's a big spread. That's uh wide spread. You're the oldest? I am the oldest. Of three.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

I'm the youngest of three. And I have a brother that's nine years older, and a sister that's five years older, so it's a little different. What's it like being older, especially for 15 years older?

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Yes, fifteen years between me and my sister. Um it's definitely an adjustment. Um when she was born. Yes, I was a junior uh sophomore in high school. Um I mean with my brother, I kind of don't really remember a time before him. I had just turned seven when he was born.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Right, so it's like one sibling.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

Yeah, yeah. So like I in psychology, um in my in my pivotal childhood um moments, I guess I was an only child, but um then he was born, and then when I was fifteen, my sister was born, and um she kind of just feels like a like a mini child to me. Every time I go home, my mom goes, Here, take your baby, and she um my sister comes over.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

So I mean she's she's up and walking and everything. Yes, older than my niece. That's crazy. I mean, I'm the youngest, so it's a lot different. What's it like being the oldest? It's gotta be like a power trip. You definitely have a power trip, especially being six years older than your closest sibling.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

I d I rage bait a lot. You're still worse than I okay. In fairness, my brother is a lot worse than me.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

That gets possible.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

He's a brother. Okay. I promise you you are worse than your sister.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

I I promise you. Kate, if you're listening, don't listen.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

She's in Japan, she's far.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

I don't think I don't think the radio reaches that far.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Um podcast platform does.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

Oh, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Plug, plug.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

But um, yeah, I don't know. I feel like I have a very maternal relationship with my sister where I want to take care of her. Um she had a lot of health issues when she was born. Okay. Um that were, you know, very complicated. So I definitely view her as like, like, oh, that's my little girl. And then I view my brother as he's a brat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's just a good thing. So um I have a very different relationship with the two of them.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Yeah. You have like I I don't know. Uh being the youngest, I feel like I just got picked on growing up, and then but uh when I got time to where I was like old enough to have my own thing, I was like, alright, I'm I'm the man now. Screw what you guys.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Um man, I got it. That's how um that's how my boyfriend feels. He's the youngest of six.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Uh so he's 22, but his oldest sibling is almost forty. Um, so he didn't get picked on a bunch as a child, and he almost wishes he did, but um there's kind of a little bit of like you have to get picked on. I know. It's it's it's definitely uh important event. Well, because his siblings are so protective of him, and he'll try to shoot the shit, and th they'll be like, No, Daniel, you need to get a job. Like they're they they want him to be so prepared, which is lovely. Yeah um because they do care that much about like you know his future. Yeah. Um, but he never he didn't get bullied, I think, as much as um at least you did, it sounds like it's important.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

But um, I don't know. My favorite memory being young was getting over that hump and being like, Alright, you know what? I'm not too bad of myself.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

I'm a grown-up. I'm an adult.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

What's your favorite part about being the oldest part? What what's like a favorite memory of being like, yeah, I'm the oldest? And I don't know, like obviously your sister being so young. I mean, what was the point where you're like, Yeah, screw you, little brother.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Well, so I was there when my brother was born, um, which was definitely I mean I was only seven, but I was like, oh my god, like I feel like a person, even though I was nowhere close. Um, but I think right before coming to college, I we went up to um my stepdad's boss's lake house for the week. Um, and I kind of freaked out one night. I was like, oh my god, I'm so scared to go to college. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm a very like high anxiety person, so I think it all got to me. Um, and I kind of had a good cry it out with my brother, and we were able to talk things out. Um, I mean, we never had any issues before, but kind of just saying, like, oh, we're gonna miss each other, but it'll be okay. Like, I'm a very family-oriented person, so really being able to um feel comfortable leaving kind of made me feel like a grown-up. Um and like I like I had a solid footing in myself, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

100%. I mean, do do you think like you're more family-oriented because you're from like the place where you're from or the type of way you got raised?

SPEAKER_00 25:51

Um, I think it's both. Um, I'm the oldest daughter from an oldest daughter from an oldest daughter. So kind of just throughout my family. I mean, my mom is very responsible, my grandmother is the same way.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Um, so really just having that dynamic, but also the my mom's side of my family is pretty big. My uh grandparents on my dad's side, my grandmother's one of twelve, and my grandfather's one of nine. So I we were always surrounded in a bunch of family. Um family reunions went crazy. So I don't know. I feel like being able to grow up surrounded by family, but also like being the oldest daughter, kind of just having that space.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

That's good stuff. Yeah. And uh kucarachas, all the kucarachas. Am I saying that right?

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Um, are you trying to say my last name or are you trying to say kochiara or uh kucaracha?

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Is it cuchiaro? Cuchiaro. Okay. Well, I introduced Mia as cucaracha, but um I I I don't know if that's her last name or not.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

I actually I don't mind it. I've had enough I I've had you and uh Cole call me kukaracha enough across campus. True. During the um high school tours last week, yeah, I think it was Koning that came down. I was giving a tour and I saw Cole and he goes, Kukaracha! And all of the kids went, Why did he say that to you? And I was like, Oh, it's because there was one time he couldn't pronounce my name, and he goes, No, your name is Cucaracha.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

Um so I've just I've accepted it.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

And we're gonna keep working towards getting Linda to say it.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

Yeah, the the end goal is to get Linda to say it. That's it right there. Um that's what you gotta do. You've already gotten Jordan to say it. I don't think you're gonna get Bree to say it.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

It'll it'll don't worry.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

I think I think Brie might be a tougher sell than Linda just because I talk to Bree more. True. But you could for sure get Heather.

unknown 27:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

And probably Rich.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

I don't know. Rich is too old school. I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

But what about Paul?

SPEAKER_01 27:57

Paul would say it.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

Yeah. Paul would say it. Yeah. I think you could get Paul. Um, he's probably your next step. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah. Well, we're gonna keep working on that. We got a little bit of a scoop of the admissions office on the student side of things, which I really liked. And uh you know, I'm I'm looking forward to really working with you still with me, yeah, for the next, you know, whatever. Whatever.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Whatever, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Yeah, whatever we're working. So um thanks for joining me today, Kuka Dacha. I really appreciate your time. Of course, Fitz. I'm glad we got this talk about this. I asked you today to do this, and you were all up in arms. You were a little late, but we'll get over that.

SPEAKER_00 28:31

It was not my fault that I was late.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

But I'm glad we did this, and uh I'm glad all of you joined us as well. This is unscripted with Ryan. Any last remarks you'd like to say to the people?

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Um no. I I don't think I have any last remarks.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Well, you'll be hearing from us at Franco Pierce University. We're part of the admissions office, but we're here up in the Marlon Fitzwater Center recording this. That is on the town. That's WFPCLP 105.3 FM radio. This was unscripted with Ryan. Folks, I will see you next time. This is Ryan Fitzpatrick signing off. Peace.