Welcome to Inside Our Minds Podcast. I'm your moderator, Aaron Collier, and I'm joined weekly by two amazing co-hosts, Robbie McIntosh and Ashama Rucker. Robbie has autism and Ashama has Noonan syndrome. But that doesn't stop them from living life on their own terms. Every episode, we take you into the minds of Robbie and Ashama as they share their perspectives and experiences as adults who don't let their disabilities define them. Keep listening to be inspired. Good morning and happy Wednesday. It is Aaron Carrier on a very special edition of Inside Our Minds Podcast. I am without Ashama and Robbie today, but I'm here with a really, really fun and a really, really awesome episode just to dive deep a little bit about me, what I do for work. So we have group homes, we have supported living, and we also have in-home supports. And I am blessed to work with Susan Evans every single Monday where we have so much fun. We paint pottery, we go out to lunch, we go bowling, and it is just the best time in the whole entire world. And Susan, she always hears our podcast, and it's one of her dreams to be on the podcast and be on the radio show. That's what she likes to call it. And it was just it was just World Down Syndrome Day on March 21st. I understand we're in April, but we wanted to do an episode four World Down Syndrome Day. And I'm just so excited to be with Susan Evans today. And we we're on air with Susan Evans. Susan, do you want to introduce yourself?

SPEAKER_04 1:32

My name is Melody of Virginia. I'm Susan Evans, and I'm very proud of myself. Yay!

SPEAKER_02 1:37

You should be proud of yourself. That's a great intro.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

And I have a uh a friend of mine, his name is Aaron, but he's a great guy. I always like him every m every Mondays.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Yes, we have so much fun on Mondays, don't we? Yeah. What's your what's your favorite thing that we've done together?

SPEAKER_04 1:56

Something like we're going to outplaces and um something we always go to movies. Yeah, movies are fun.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Yeah. Um we've seen some good movies too. We saw Casper and we saw what was the Freaky Friday? But Freaky Friday 2. Freaky Friday. Yeah, that was good, wasn't it? Yeah. Uh dude, we have so much fun together. Are you ready to dive into the show?

SPEAKER_04 2:22

Yes.

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Let's do it.

SPEAKER_04 2:23

So it's do it, oh yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Let's do it. Well, it sounds like it is time to uh welcome you inside Susan's mind.

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Inside up, we're starting to make we don't care, we don't care, we are deadline.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

Welcome inside of mine.

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All right, let's get into it. So Susan is 55 years old and she's lived a really, really amazing life. So we're gonna ask her some questions, just kind of help guide her through her life. You ready? All right, question one. You were a UCrops worker for five years. Tell us about that experience.

SPEAKER_04 3:24

Give me. Hi, my name is Susan Evans. And my experience uh bagging bread or a bagger or uh Mickey Breads, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

You made bread?

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Give me, yeah.

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Was it yummy?

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Ew prickers.

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I miss you crops. Yeah. They have the best cakes.

SPEAKER_04 3:47

I was a location. Maybe a Publix.

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Publix? Okay. Did you work at Publix or you want to work at Publix?

SPEAKER_04 3:57

Uh yes, I do.

SPEAKER_02 3:58

You work there or you want to?

SPEAKER_04 4:00

I think I went to.

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You want to? Okay, well, Publix, if you're listening, Susan wants to work there, right? You ready for the next question? Yeah. Okay, perfect. All right, Susan. So I heard you are a special Olympic star. Pickleball, bowling, track and field, bocce. Out of all those sports, right? What is your favorite sport? Maybe tennis. Tennis? Hey, I I agree. Tennis is fun. Tennis is awesome. Were you good at tennis?

SPEAKER_04 4:27

I'm very good at tennis.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

Very good at tennis, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:29

You always like playing just like pickleball.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Yeah, pickleball is fun. I love pickleball too. I can't wait for us to play pickleball. Yeah. Don't beat me too bad, okay? Yeah, don't beat me too bad, okay? Ah, nice. Alright, well, next question, Susan. You ready? You are a huge family girl, right? Huge. Right? Do you want to shout out your family? Anyone specific you want to shout out?

SPEAKER_04 4:54

If I if I was gonna say one thing for my family, wise I have a mother, namely Gisela Evans, and this is uh May the 22nd. Uh Friday, I guess, excuse me. But I'm gonna say for my mom. Oh, we just have early because I love her, he's my best mom that I have. So anyway, I uh I have a sister-law and Stephanie, and Ronald is a both realtor. I am your best sister and you know I love you. I have a wonderful brother in my life, he put in my mind. I got two brothers, Ronald and Rich. Oh give me uh Stephanie Will is here, my love. And um I love my family, I love Stephanie and Ryan and my best. Stephanie is my best deal ever. And Ronald is the other hand, he's a great realster, he's a great guy, he he's a fox brother. But he always will be. Um anyway, so I depend on that anyway. So thank you for putting my life into my mind. I have a loved one up there. P. S. But um recognition for that one.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Yeah, a hundred percent. I'll I'll touch on that a little bit because I think it is so so sweet. So Susan did have a boyfriend for 17 years and very sweet Johnny, and they were the cutest couple in the whole entire world. Sadly, Johnny did pass, but you wanted to give him a shout-out, didn't you?

SPEAKER_05 6:43

Yeah, I would I hope Johnny hear me right now. I wanna I have a song for you.

SPEAKER_04 6:53

Um something like Home Sweet Home or another song I like the best. You always sing that song Um Sweet Home, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Well, how about this, Susan? So this this this is gonna take us into this is gonna take us into our last question, okay? So I know you absolutely love American Idol. I know your favorite judge is Lionel Richie.

SPEAKER_04 7:16

Yeah.

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So let's have some fun with this last question. So your dream is to be on American Idol, right?

SPEAKER_04 7:21

Yes.

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Do you want to sing for us right now? Do you wanna sing some karaoke for us?

SPEAKER_04 7:25

Yes.

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You want to?

SPEAKER_04 7:26

I love the karaoke.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

Okay, what song do you want to sing?

SPEAKER_04 7:30

Uh let's see. Let me check it out.

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You want to check it out?

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And uh Lovey Dubai, love you.

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Susan, that was amazing. You sounded amazing. Give it up, give it up for yourself. Yeah. Let's go. Thank you. Great job, Lionel Richie. If you're listening, that was a banger, right?

SPEAKER_04 8:16

If you put me on American idol, I've ever dreamed about that.

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Well, I'm telling you what, you sound like an angel. You got the voice of an angel, so you sounded fantastic. So, well, Susan, that wraps up our show for today. Did you have fun?

SPEAKER_04 8:28

Yeah, I really had an awesome time today with me and Aaron.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:34

I had a great time too. I had a good time also.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

I had a really good time, and I hope you like my song.

SPEAKER_04 8:40

I like the best.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Yeah, dude, you you did you sang it so well. You did so good. So, well, Susan, I had a really good time, and for all the inside our minds listeners, we we appreciate you stepping in for a little special episode, right? I mean, that was that was awesome.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

And I just created an episode for you too. Yes. I want to ask you one thing, people I I had to go. But I want to say one thing. Remember this song. I mean, if you're happy. I do win if they in a same category. For Susan. I'm the best singer ever.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Yes, you are.

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Always will be.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

Yes, best singer ever. So all right. Well, that wraps us up. So, from me and Susan from Inside Our Minds, we hope you have a great week.

SPEAKER_04 9:27

Have a great day.

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Inside our minds, we will shine bad state. We can't, we don't care. We write out on headline.