DDs Episode 13: Summer Safety Warnings: 2 Stories Every Parent Needs to Hear

TRIGGER WARNING: Please skip this episode if it's too much!! Very serious topics!!


Summer is finally here, Divas, but today we’re getting serious. In this episode, we are diving into two heartbreaking and shocking recent stories that serve as crucial wake-up calls for vacation safety.
​First, we discuss the Texas parents arrested for child neglect after leaving their 6-month-old completely alone in a beach tent for nearly an hour. Then, we cover the devastating tragedy of 5-year-old twin sisters who accidentally drowned in a Florida vacation pool after their teenage babysitter fell asleep.

​Grab your iced coffee and tune in as we break down these cases, discuss the reality of "vacation brain," and share essential safety reminders to keep your babies safe near the water this summer.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hello, welcome to Distracted Divas. I'm Diva Pearl. We have Diva Mona, Diva Pamela, and D.Va Becky. Please join us for our podcast and see what's going on today on Distracted Divas.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

Welcome to Distracted Divas. Today is, what is today? Thursday. Wednesday? Tuesday? That's Wednesday. What happens when you retire? Um welcome distracted divas. We have diva Pam and we have Diva Mona. The other two divas will be joining us shortly. They're distracted. Look, they're distracted. Um today we're going to talk about two different scenarios, but this but kind of the same premise. Ummer safety. Yeah, we're going to try to do a lot of summer safety on some of our podcasts.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

Everybody's out of the state. Yes. Everybody's out of school, and there's a lot of different things going on and things that should be aware of. And to me, it takes a village to help raise children. So, meaning if you're at the beach and there's other people around and they see kids, you want to look. You want to keep your eyes on it to see if there's anything that doesn't look right or or you can inter, you know, interject or help somebody with. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

So we got two stories to talk about today, and um they could be triggering for some people. So if you don't want to listen to that, then feel free to skip this episode because um there are gonna be some children that lose their lives and stuff too. So you may, you know, that may be triggering for people, so might want to just let them know up front, and maybe they maybe if you don't want to listen to a serious podcast, you can skip this one. And we got a bunch of other ones where we're definitely not this serious, but uh we got two different stories we want to talk about, and one of them um is from October of 2025. This happened on a Friday, October 10th, 2025, in Miramar Beach, Florida. And it was a Texas couple, Brian and Sarah Wilkes of Houston. They were arrested in Florida after leaving their six-month-old baby unattended under a beach tent. Beachgoers found the infant and notified authorities. The parents were arrested and charged with felony, felony uh child neglect while their children were placed in state custody. Um, so some details about the event. It like I said, it was in Miramar Beach, which is Walton County, uh, which is near like Destin in in Panhandle, Florida. Um, it was a Friday afternoon. The parents were Brian Wilkes, 40 years old, and Sarah Wilkes, 37. So plenty old enough to know better. Um, they placed their infant in in a beach tent for a nap, and then they walked down the shore with their three older children, leaving the baby alone for roughly an hour. And uh the baby was, I think I already said it, but six months old. Yeah. So fellow beachgoers noticed that the baby was unattended and waited with the infant until until a hotel security guard and deputies arrived. And um uh, well, I guess we could talk about the story first and then we can go into what the charges were and stuff because Pam and I both watched a video, it was about uh 20 minutes long or so, and um and so basically I'll let you go summarize what you saw on the video of what happened that day.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

So basically, the um the couple had have four kids in total, and three of them one was one, one was three, and one was five. They supposedly took them along the beach to catch crabs, you know. Oh, that's right. They were trying to catch some crabs, so they were walking. But what happened is the there were other people on the beach and they didn't notice, they didn't know, they knew they had the three kids, but they didn't know there was another kid, the baby, the six-month-old, under a uh tent or something um in the in the car seat or a stroller or whatever it is, a carrier. And um someone else noticed that there was a kid in there, but the the couple was gone for more than an hour because they called the cops. And as the cops were there, while the cops were there, was it like 20 minutes? It was still 20 minutes or so before the cops, the couple came back. But they had already been gone an hour. Right. And then they saw them coming back, and then they came back. You know, then of course the cops talked to them, but the kid was six months old, six months old. They said he did the kid didn't look dehydrated or anything like that. It did regurgitate on one of the but it again it was hot outside, they left the kid a six-month-old child for an more than an hour alone, yes, and right, more than an hour, and thank god nothing happened to the kid. Um, right. Uh this there's another point I wanted to make that the there was people on the beach watching after they noticed that it was a kid and they were actually looking for the parents themselves, but they were so far away that they lost sight of them and they couldn't find them anywhere. It wasn't like you could say, oh, they're over there, they were so far away from the baby that no one could find them until they started walking back, and that's when the other people noticed it. But they they they had already somebody had already picked the baby up and took them to the security guard before the police officer came to take. And then they called paramedics and everything.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

Um and yeah, and I think um one of the things that like stuck out about why people even recognized the couple was because the dad was like yelling at the kids in the water or on the beach or something. So like kind of like being a little bit sounding like he was a little aggressive with the little guys, and um, you know, kind of caught some of the the people around them caught their eye and their ears because he was, you know, yelling at the kids. So that's part of why they kind of like notice this group anyway, you know.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Yes, absolutely. So and to me, when I go to the beach and I see people with kids with a lot of kids, I'm always watching anyway. I have grandkids, I'm always watching, I'm always thinking if the parent goes this way and the kid is standing there, I'm always watching because it's not just the water that can get them, there's predators on the beach as well.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

So you well, that's what's crazy to me. Like, yes, this kid could, well, it was October, so it could have been hot that day, it could have been it's Florida, like it could have been hot, it could have been kind of a nice day. But either way, you're gonna like leave a child alone in a little tent. Like that thing's gonna get hot. And one of the things I remember the dad saying when they do come back, I mean, we can kind of get to that in a few minutes, but like one of the things he does say is like, well, she takes like a two-hour nap usually, like, okay, so that's an excuse to leave this. But that's at home, that's not out in a child. Right? I guess she woke up like 30 minutes into it because hey, it's probably effing hot in there, you know what I mean? Right, right. But anyway, like that I I was reading through some of the comments because I saw this video on Facebook, and one of the things that one of the people said was like, I don't even like to leave my like sunglasses and flip-flops alone. Like, like, what are you even thinking?

SPEAKER_02 8:08

And another thing, too, if to me, if my child is sleeping, and it's not that you trust everybody, but these ladies were sitting there, they looked like nice ladies, even though nice are predators too. You can just say, Hey, I'm gonna walk over here, my baby's sleeping. Right. So they know if you can keep if you can look up, they probably would have been like, Oh, sure, I'll watch because they're called.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

They probably would have watched your child for you or can't deny all your I mean, at least like you've got somebody that you have appointed to keep an eye. Like, would I do that? Like ask a stranger to watch my kid while I walk away. No, you know, but at least leaving that child alone alone.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

But a six-month-old child who can't send for themselves, the only thing they can do is cry. But they didn't even say the baby was crying. Maybe the baby started to overheat, but they did say the diaper was full. The cop did say, Oh, yeah, the diaper's pretty full. Uh, so like so they might have left a bottle or something there for the child. Either way, a six-month-old child doesn't have the motor skills to hold a bottle unless they have microphones on. They don't have the motor skills to hold a bottle. To you know, to they only know I need something. And and according to further further investigation, the mother breastfed to me. Right.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

So, uh okay, so the good Samaritans around notice that this child's alone and get proper authorities and everything involved. And like you said, the cops had been there for probably at least 20 minutes before these people come strolling up. And the and they didn't even run.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

Wait, I'm sorry, they didn't even run up when they saw the cops. They just are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Didn't they really just seem oblivious? Yes, just in general to everything, like they did absolutely nothing wrong.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Yes, yes, it was wild, it's a wild and the mother wanted to go take a bath, a shower, like we haven't even got there yet.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

No, yeah, they definitely seemed oblivious, like they were like they start questioning them, asking them, you know, getting their side of the story because they've heard all these different witnesses' accounts, and like like you said, one of the ones like that were sitting directly behind where they were, he said that he noticed that they'd been gone for at least 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_04 10:33

Yes, you know.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

So the dad comes up and tries to say that, well, we weren't that far away. The kids kind of ran off a little bit ahead of us, and we were just a little bit down here, like almost try and make it sound like they were like within visual sight, which they weren't because if you were, you would have been there immediately when the cops came up.

SPEAKER_02 10:53

Well, they weren't they weren't because the people that were sitting there knew exactly what they had on and everything and did not see them at all. He was a cop, they walked closer to the water to take a peripheral view, and he still didn't see them.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

So they were like, Well, we're watching like a 20-minute edited video, it had to have gone on. That whole encounter with the police had to have gone on for probably several hours between when they first talk to them and encounter them on the beach to the time that they go up to their room, to the time that they book them and all that stuff, and they've got their body cameras on the whole time. So, I mean honestly and it's a body cam video, it's not even a cell phone video, it's a body cam video.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Right, right. So it's not even somebody else taking a picture of them.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Yeah, it's a really good, interesting video. It really sucks you in to want to see the whole thing. It's like 20 minutes or more. And I watched the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

I was like, what the hell? I actually look at it more than once because I'm like, is she really asked to take a job?

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Yeah, so then I'm serious. You know, they did they so the baby spits up a couple times while uh, you know, the deputies have her in custody. And um, even the parents asked to hold her and they were like, No, not at this point, you know. We're we need to get more information before you can, you know, have your child back or anything. And um yeah, and then they're from Texas, so they have nobody there, anybody, no family nearby or whatever. Anyway, they come up, they really like act like it's so nonchalant, like it wasn't a big deal. They did this, which that kind of scares me because like what are you doing on a day-to-day basis that you didn't realize that what you did here was horrible, you know.

SPEAKER_02 12:41

Well, I'm looking at the video too, like we skipped something. Is that one of the ladies said that um they the couple was arguing and the man is yelling and screaming at the kids? She didn't say he was talking to them, she said, Oh, you're the the man is yelling, was yelling at screaming at the kids. But as a mom, me, I'm not gonna walk away with you, right? With the kids, you got them. I'll take one of them if you can't handle all of them, but I'm gonna take one of them and I'm gonna stay with the baby. Like, why are you keeping your baby?

SPEAKER_01 13:17

I don't understand that. Right. You take the kids and go crabbing, right? You know, or or you take two and I'll take two.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

You know and even even if the baby was asleep, you could have crab right in front of where you were sitting.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Right? I mean, these kids don't know. They're they're what five and under, they don't care like if they're ten feet away or a mile away, you know. Uh let's pause for a second. But Welcome, Diva Becky, how are you? Hello, hello, I'm doing well. Welcome, welcome. All right, we're gonna continue on with our story about this uh this Texas couple at the beach with their kid left alone in the tent. So where were we at? We were talking about, oh, the people talking about the yelling at the kids.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Yes, yes. Because we're working our way to them getting going to the room right and putting their stuff up, putting their stuff, their tent and stuff up.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

So essentially, yeah, essentially they thought it was a great idea to go on an hour walk, leave the six-month behind in a tent, and uh just go on an hour walk, and time got away from them with the three kids.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

It was more than an hour, that's a dad on show.

SPEAKER_01 14:27

They said time got away. Like, this sounds like something that maybe like a 19-year-old, 20-year-old mom might do by accident, not knowing yet, but like none of us are perfect, but you would think at child number two, maybe three, you wouldn't.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

No, four. That's the fourth one. But you would think that at child number two or three, they would understand basic awareness. Right?

SPEAKER_01 14:55

Yeah, true. It's so it's one of the craziest stories that I've seen lately. To just like I I told Pam earlier there was a comment that said, like, I get nervous leaving my glasses and flip-flops, you know, while I go swimming at the beach.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

But at the I mean, I I if it was October, it wasn't 90 degrees outside, but it was nice enough for them to be able to go to the beach.

unknown 15:19

Right.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

The point, the baby six months. There's perverts, Salomona. There's perverts out there.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

They took it to steal the baby. They took well imagine if somebody was watching you and thinking, like, oh, the maybe they saw them a day or two before, and they're like, Oh, these are people who are oblivious, you know, and they're like, Oh, now's my chance, and they snagged that baby, and now they're they're at least an hour away with that baby, and you'll never see that baby again.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Because you didn't because the wife had to follow the husband, or the husband had to follow the wife. Beats all I ever see. Yeah, there's two people at yeah, there's two minutes saying way too seriously. But the thing is, there's two people there. You got four kids. You take two, you take two. Why do I have to? We're I see you every day. Why do I have to be with you? Why do I have to be with you an hour away from our child? The baby, are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Well, sometimes um when you're raising kids, and just in general, you gotta uh as a couple, you gotta divide and conquer, you know.

SPEAKER_02 16:21

Yes, you can't be insecure because to me that that that's the sign of an insecure man or woman, whoever decided that they're gonna follow this person or follow that person, that's a sign of insecurity because it that's dangerous. Number one, that's dangerous, period.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

That's now the one the one thing and the only thing I'll give this couple credit for is they are a good example of how you should act when you are dealing with police. Yes, because they are very apologetic. Well, not even apologetic, because they weren't really apologetic, they're actually they're subdued. Yes, they're very subdued, they're very like like I understand you know what that this is your job and you're doing what you have to do, and you know, they're like trying to get along, so to speak, or whatever, but still like they weren't screaming, they weren't hollering, they won't do it because they were wrong, period.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

Oh and and the thing is the husband is a health exec health something, something in the health department executive. So how do you not know? Look, how do you not know? Right, of all people, that's like a nurse doing that dumb shit. Yeah, they do not know.

SPEAKER_03 17:32

There was a nurse in the next fence over.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

She's the one that she's yeah, the the two ladies they said they were retired nurses. So, yes, that's why they stayed, that's why they were there watching. She said, I'm a retired nurse, so I know right you have we are obligated by law to report these things, so she knew she knew that they were gone too long.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Well, and then when the police came up and had the baby for a little while and the baby had spit up, now the parents come back and then they tell him, like, well, she has been spitting up. Well, he's like, Oh, well, she spits up all the time. Well, how do you know that that she's spitting up because she spits up all the time, or is she actually on the verge of being dehydrated? Right. You know, because that's a symptom when you get dehydrated, which seems kind of counterproductive, but your body starts expelling things, yeah. So she already had a full diaper, so yeah. Oh, and that was another thing. They yeah, they made a comment about that that her diaper was full. So, I mean, you know, how long has she been sitting in a full diaper?

SPEAKER_03 18:31

And they had they had it too where they thought they had it down packed that the baby naps for two hours. Not all babies nap the same amount of time every day.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Yeah, right. I mentioned that earlier too. Like, okay, well, so maybe she woke up because she was hot, you know, because you got her old tent on the beach, you know, with the sun beaten down on her. There's no umbrella over her or anything, you know. Not that any of that would have made a difference because there's there's there's no excuse for leaving a six-month-old alone, period, you know.

SPEAKER_04 19:00

None.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Yep. Stop none. But then so now the cops come out, the cops are there, the the people are back. They're telling them that basically, you know, they're contacting their supervisor on what the next steps are because this is child abuse, and uh that DCF is gonna be involved, which is Department of Children and Families, and uh, you know, now they're going to let them go back to the room. Um, I don't remember why they were going back to the room.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

If it was going back to the room so that she can uh they wanted to take their stuff up to the room because they were gonna be arrested. They were wanted to take their stuff up to the room and they wanted she wanted to pump. She wanted to go pump milk. Oh, that's right, because she also the the the cell phones were up there and they had to call the family to drive down from that's right, to drive down, I think six, seven hours to grab the you know, I'm watching a video again, and that they're gonna they're walking up nonchalantly, like, hey, what can I do for you as a little kid? Now he sees the cops, so he takes the little kid and puts them on the shoulder, and they're walking next to each other. Mother's not running saying, Where's my child? She's not doing any of that. They're just walking nonchalantly up to the room.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Oh my god, the cops are there. Maybe like something happened. Yes, nothing. Yeah, they're so they're do that on the regular, they do that back in their town. That's what I said. I think like this worries me of like what's going on with these kids behind the scenes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, but what she is concerned about is like she doesn't want somebody else to gather up their stuff because the cops say, Well, we're gonna have you know, so and so, maybe one of the beachgoers or security or whoever gather up your stuff, and she doesn't want that to happen. She decides she'd rather it just sit there because she doesn't want them to get sand, too much sand. She wants everything shaken out real well and all this stuff.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

Like they were embarking road for sure. You know what they said? They said they said we lost track of time. Yeah. Really? Really?

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Lost track of time. Like, why do you that's that doesn't even excuse the fact that you left your baby alone, period. You're how far down the beach nobody can see you. You're so far away. So, yeah, so she's worried about her stuff getting dirty, too much sand being packed up.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

And she's walking away while they're trying to talk to her, and she's like, Oh, I'm just getting my stuff. This is what she like, she literally walked away like they're just talking to the husband, so let him take care of it. And I'm walking, she's walking toward her stuff, and they're like, ma'am, what are you doing? Come back over here. She's like, I'm just getting my stuff. Yeah, bitch, you ain't getting no oops. You're not getting anything. Your ass over here. Get your ass over here. That's what you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Yeah. Those police officers were super nice and calm too though, man.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

They really were like And then they're looking at them like take the other two kids. She picks the kid up, like they're not gonna take the kid out of her arm. Dude, are you serious? You're not getting either one of these other three kids.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

I don't think it really hit them until um they took them, you know, they went back up to the room and then they basically started.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

No, because downstairs they said the cop came and got all the kids and said, We're you're being detained. They told them downstairs you're being detained. And he's like, All right. And they're reading them their rights, and they're just both standing there looking at each other like, okay, do what you got to do so we can go on about our business.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

Definitely we need to follow and see what ends up happening there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Yeah. So um I'll go ahead and go on with the arrest in the aftermath. So the charges, the parents admitted to leaving the child, claiming that they lost track of time and did not want to disturb the baby's nap. Security cameras corroborated that they were gone for nearly 60 minutes without taking a cell phone with them. Uh, they were both arrested on the scene and charged with felony child neglect without great body bodily harm. And they were released the following day after posting a thousand dollar bond for each. Each. Each. That's nothing.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

And it's totally nothing. But I'm saying they did it each. That's how could you they got a slap on the wrist, basically? Yeah, they damn did.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

The Florida families um took custody of the couple's four children until relatives could travel from Texas to pick them up. So I guess there was an update in January. I don't know if there was something new. Um let me look it up.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

They need to keep ties on those kids.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

I think so.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Well, they said that that I do re recall that the cop did tell them that once we once this is handled and you bond out and you go home or whatever it is, the case, whatever you do, they are gonna family and children's services are gonna continue to monitor until they feel until they feel that everything's okay.

SPEAKER_03 24:12

Poor kids, like if you if you gotta know at some point if you can handle more or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 24:18

Right. Right.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

Or I mean it sounds like they're not hurting for money. I mean, I uh I'm not trying to assume too much definitely hacking in many places, though. Yeah, so you know, hire nanny or something. You know, if you if you really are that like oblivious, like hire nanny. But yeah, I mean I hope that wherever they are right now that that there is somebody that's that's looking into this further. Because to me, like if you have the mentality that you're gonna leave your child on the beach like that, like you said, Becky, I think that this is going on more than just this one incident. Like you have to be doing some things that are not safe for those children, um, to have the mentality that you can leave a six-month-old on the beach alone. I mean, it's just ludicrous, really. So when they when they arrest them, uh the mom asks, this was the part Pam was going crazy about. The mom asked if she could have a shower before she goes to jail.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

She wanted to take a damn shower. Yeah, okay, ma'am, sure. You can tell me that the cop said we're not going to watch you. No, you cannot take a shower. We'll have a a a joint shower with everyone. She said, she said, um, well, then can I pump? They said, Yes, you can pump. And and you're like, she wanted to pump with the door closed. But it's pull that breast out and do what you gotta do. You're not going anywhere that we can't see. Period. You can try to slit your throat for one. Oh my lord. You're embarrassed. Well, you should be, you wouldn't pump out the pump window.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

I'm not laughing at the slitting her throat, but I am laughing at Becky's reaction. Oh my lord. I mean, I don't think that that I don't think that they were. I mean, you never know. People are crazy. They were crazy enough to leave their child on the beach.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

That would be oh look, oh, can't before you arrest me, can I please take a shallow put some makeup on?

SPEAKER_03 26:26

You don't need oh, they're gonna see all your ass, man.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

Yeah, they're gonna see the bone, okay?

SPEAKER_01 26:35

And then when they take them down to the paddy wagon, uh the police officer there was nice enough to start the vehicle up and start cooling it off for them. Yes, because she said it's hot in here. Yeah, yeah. I think that I think he shouldn't have war uh cooled it off. And like if it's too hot back there, too bad.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Like this is how your child felt felt when you left them for more than your child was hot. Did you think about your child when you walked away?

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Yeah, and that's the thing too. I read some comments, people saying that she's basically they feel like she's just a narcissist because the fact that she never once was like aware of like just other this all other things around them. Worried about the sand, worried about herself, worried about taking a shower, but not worried about your child.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

But the thing to me that was more alarming than anything is the fact that when they walked up nonchalantly, nobody ran and said, Oh my god, the cops are there, they're they had the baby in their hand or whatever. They didn't run and even say, Where's my baby? What's going on? They didn't say any of that. Nothing. I don't think the baby, I don't think the baby was there. I think they took the baby, the baby, they had to have the baby checked. So I don't even think the baby was there. They didn't freak out.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Yeah, you just get either you see police around all your stuff.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

I mean, you know I'd be freaking out. Yeah, I'd be screaming from running. Like I'd be like, hold the baby, you come walk with the baby. I'm going to see what's going on. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Yeah. But of course, I wouldn't have been in that situation because I I would never I would never.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

We have too many people for that shit to happen. Yeah. I'm watching other people's kids. I've never had baby kids when I go to the beach. I'm looking at other people's kids like, hey, your kid is right there, and I'm already walking toward the kid.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

I've been doing that too all the time. Yeah, I'm walking toward the kid already. Yeah, and she was also worried about DCF sitting with her kids. You were worried about DCF, but you were worried about keeping letting your kid be there by him themselves. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

And total strangers. With total strangers. Yeah. At least they're not. They're they have a uniform on and they're doing what they're paid to be done. That's bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

So you guys have any more thoughts on that one? If not, I'm gonna go on to the next one.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

No, I just think they were entitled, if you ask me. I feel like they felt like they can they can dictate what was gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

They gotta scare.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Yeah, that's how they gotta scare. Oh. They didn't say anything about wiping their records. That's the difference that I didn't see.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

Yeah, they gotta how easy, but they definitely got a scare, and I bet you they won't do it again.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

I bet you they will.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

Or even if they do it, they're gonna be extra careful now.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

Yeah, I don't think that I don't I don't know. At least from the video, it didn't seem like they really learned anything.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

I I feel like they didn't learn anything. Oh my god, this is a little bump. How long is it gonna how long are we gonna be there? Are we during vacation? Do we have to check out of our room? How long are we gonna oh we'll just go somewhere else? You know, they to me that like you said, they were like, Oh, this is a little interruption in our schedule. Okay, fine.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

They were out of touch with the reality for sure. Yes, all around.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

All right, no crying, no tears, no nothing about my kids or not. I'm not gonna see my kids for a couple of hours, whether the family member gets them or not. No nothing. No they're scared. Can you make sure that they have this dog? Or can you make sure that they have this? None of none of that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Um, the next story was the one that we really had. We kind of did a trigger warning in the beginning that you might not want to listen to these stories today because we're going a little more serious than we normally do.

SPEAKER_04 30:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Um, and this next story definitely is um a very sad one. It's about two two five-year-old twins, and they do not make it. So um if you need to skip, feel free to skip.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

But uh yes, because it's not pretty at all. No, no, there's gonna be a bunch of opinions being being um said, and you don't really know what happens unless you're in that situation. But I and and there could have been things done differently, for sure.

SPEAKER_04 30:55

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

For sure.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Um, okay, so this story is uh absolutely devastating. Five-year-old twin sisters were found unresponsive at the bottom of a swimming pool at a vacation um rental in Kissimmee, Florida. This post is just from just a few days ago, so it's very fresh. Um the twins who were visiting from Georgia were discovered inside the private pool at a rental home on Friday morning. Emergency crews rushed to the house shortly after 11 a.m., pulled both girls from the water and airlifted them to Arnold Palmer Hospital for children. Despite efforts to save both, both were pronounced dead. The investigators say four adults who were staying at the home had left that morning to get food, leaving a 15-year-old at the house with the children. Authorities have not expected.

SPEAKER_02 31:49

Mona, hold on one second. Um, it appears that in the when you start going further into the story that there was another kid, there was another person in the house besides the 15-year-old. They didn't say how old the person was, but there was another person in the house with the 15 year old.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

I think it's another child though.

SPEAKER_02 32:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

But let's see. Um well I have this one. This is actually just the synopsis from Facebook, but I also have pulled up some more details. But um, investigator investigators say four adults who were staying at the home had left that morning to get food, leaving a 15-year-old at the house with the children. Authorities have not explained exactly what the teenager was told, how long the adults were gone, how the twins reached the pool, or how much time passed before they were found. The Osceola County Sheriff's Office has assigned homicide detectives to the case, which is standard procedure when children die under unexplained circum circumstances. No arrests have been announced, no charges have been filed. Detectives are now working to determine whether the pool had a child safety fence, uh, working door alarms or other safeguards, and whether anyone could face consequences for an inadequate supervision. So um that's the details that I got from Facebook. I also pulled up uh some details from MSN if it wants to pull back up or maybe it's not gonna work for me. Oh, okay. So a little bit more um about the story. The two five year okay, we already got that. Um there is a GoFundMe for the twins um to help the family with their funeral and burial cost. Uh the young twin sisters are from Georgia. Um let's see. Tuesday, June 16th, Orange County Medical Examiner's Office say that the two victims were Parker Sandage and Paisley Sandage, both five years old. So sad. They're so cute. They are so cute. Oh my god, they're so cute. Yeah. Um they say that the cause of death was drowning and it was accidental. Um and let's see. They police officers were summoned there at 11 a.m. local time on Friday, June 12th. Um we already went over that. That they were they're busy. Okay, so it says the uh uh the teen that was watching them allegedly fell back to sleep after the adults left, and it was another child in the house who later woke up and saw the twins had vanished.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

So they didn't have a they said they didn't have gate locks on the pool, which they don't because I've rented several Airbnbs in Kissimmee, and you just open up the screen door, they have a screen around the pool area, but there's no screen. I mean the backyard, but there's no screen pool area, right?

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Yeah, I want to talk about the little girls too, because this is this is very sad, but it's also it sounds like they were very close. It says if you knew knew these girls, you knew they came as a pair, they were inseparable, they were always following each other side by side in everything they did. They were playful, loving, and endlessly curious with infectious smiles that lit up every room they walked into. No Paisley and Parker was to love them.

SPEAKER_02 35:17

But if you look at all the pictures of them, yeah, they're all they're very there's a bunch of pictures of them, and they're very close. Very, very close. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

Um let's see. Man. Yep. So like I said, very heavy, deep story, but we're doing this because we're trying to kind of just bring up like summer safety and you know, like uh like like you said earlier, that that family before kind of took that idea of like it takes a village to raise a child, like to the next level. But like it really does. And um, like I also feel bad for the kids that were left to watch them. Yes, because ever, the survivor, survival, survivor guilt they're gonna have, you know.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

Yeah, but a 15-year-old nowadays is not a reliable nanny. They get distracted, they got games. If they're not fully there, he fell back asleep or she fell back asleep. They didn't really know that they were there, that they were supposed to do a job.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

Right.

SPEAKER_03 36:22

Well, the thing is they must have told them while they were sleeping, hey, watch the kids, like, and then they went back to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

Oh, I mean, how many times have you like walked in like to your child or your significant other or somebody and they're sleeping and you talk to them and you think that they're awake, and then they tell you later, like, oh, you came in there and told me that? I don't remember that. You know, like who knows? Like, was that kid awake or was that kid like sleeping and you woke them up and you thought that they got what was going on? Because yeah, you would think a 15-year-old could watch kids. But at the same time, like, I mean, we were just at uh Airbnb recently and they did not have a pool fence. No, you know, and we had my three-year-old grandson there.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

So everybody was on top of it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

And one of the things I want to personally bring up is like the I was once told a long time ago, maybe in like a parenting class or a CPR class or something, but like the more people that you have in a party setting, the higher the chances are that the child will drown. Yes, and the reasoning for that is because everybody thinks everybody else is watching the kids. Yep. And I have always made it a point. I mean, you saw me. To have one designated person. Well, I freaked out at my sister-in-law's party because I was like, Where's Dakota? Like, who's watching him? You know, because yeah, I like I lost track of him for a minute, and my mom had two, and like like the first thing I do, if I'm like in that situation, I go straight to the pool. Yeah, and make sure first there that that baby's not in that pool. You know what I mean? But like what I have always done in my situations of having parties and things is I if I've left a child that's could not swim um alone for a minute because I had to run to the restroom or whatever, I would specifically say, Hey Pam, I need you to watch Dakota. I'm going to the bathroom, you know. So you specifically tell somebody, you know, it's your turn. Yes. And I'll be right back or whatever. But um, I mean, even like this blow-up pool that we have, like we got from Costco last year, it came with like this tag, and you could put it on your wrist, you know. I I threw it away because we don't need it. But like, but that's like the idea of like, okay, I'm in charge of this kid right now. But I mean, whatever it takes for you to know that you're in charge of that kid. Yes, you know.

SPEAKER_02 38:48

I'm not turning my head, I'm not leaving them, I'm not doing any of that. I'm super duper aware of it can be like that in a child's home. Because I remember when the kids used to swim when I lived in um Clearwater, and the kids used to swim, and Vanessa used to try to go to the other end. No, ma'am.

unknown 39:06

Right.

SPEAKER_02 39:08

Will you show me that you can swim? Because you can swim, but you I'm not I'm not comfortable with you. I can swim very well, but I'm not comfortable with you going to the nine-foot area yet. Show me that you could I can be responsible, but you're still under your, you're not, you weren't quite a teenager there then. I'm still watching you. I don't care. I don't care if you can swim, I'm still watching you.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

Right.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

Because you know how kids eat and then jump back in the pool. They can get a cramp. Anything can happen. We can do it. It can happen to us. So it definitely can happen to them.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

Yeah, I just I it's such a sad story, and I really feel for vacation. They drop like say again, you kind of cut out for a second.

SPEAKER_03 39:52

When people go on vacation, they tend to drop like safety because they're kicking back, they're relaxing, and all that. But no, you still have to be an alert, especially if you're in another state that you really don't frequent or don't really know how things move. Why all the adults had to leave and leave just the teen? That's another thing. Why does everybody have to ride to go get food?

SPEAKER_02 40:15

Well, the one thing that um I was gonna say that is that when we were looking at the comments, everybody was blaming the parents, blaming the parents, blaming the parents. Again, there's no way I would do that. I would not leave, and I definitely wouldn't leave a teenager because they don't watch kids, period. They're not they're too busy on their phones, they'll they don't watch kids. I wouldn't leave, I wouldn't be gone with with all the adults being gone out of the house and leave a kid there with two other kids. Because number two, you're in an Airbnb. You don't know who lives over there or who's over there or who's over there. They can knock on the door and the kids thinking, oh, this is not my house. Let me just open the door. Because that can happen as well. Yeah. So okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Well, at the one that we just stayed at when we were in Florida, the pool guy came and did like pool work one day. Right. You know, we didn't know he was coming. They didn't tell us. He probably comes there every week at a certain day. I don't know who that pool guy is. Right. You know, I don't know if he's a sexual predator or not. If he's looking around, I'm not trying to like throw that out there and say that that guy was in any way, shape, or form. Yeah, but we're saying that you don't know. You're Becky, your mic's not sometimes when you're talking, it's just I see you, but you're not it's not picking you up. What about now? Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:36

What did you just say? Oh, since yeah, those all of those things. Sometimes the people just forget about thinking of X, Y, and Z.

SPEAKER_01 41:44

Right. I mean cool guy.

SPEAKER_03 41:48

Yeah, he could have he could have scoped out the area, whatever, anything.

SPEAKER_02 41:52

He could have been looking to see if there's any men around, if there's women, if they're drinking, what's going on, there's kids. He could have been doing anything because you know sometimes they'll go, they'll go past the door and check the door to see if the door is open or unlocked or locked. They don't know, but they don't know that they have sleuths like us around who's checking door. I'm locking the door. I don't care. Everybody's in the house. I might go to the bathroom and think I'm going to the bathroom, but I'm going to check that door back there to make sure that that door is locked because the kids' room is over here, the adults' room is over there.

SPEAKER_03 42:22

I'm looking at that door. And people, but you still throw caution to the wind. You cannot you can't. I mean, unfortunately, set up for that. So make it some criminals, let's say it like that, make it to where they target like vacation areas.

SPEAKER_04 42:39

Yes, true.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Yeah, because a lot of times those service people and stuff know that that's a rental, you know. Yes, exactly. And so, yeah, you're gonna get, you know, sometimes people that are you know that are predators that are looking for that type of setup. It's just again, these are like safety awareness it's summertime, and you gotta be so so vigilant, like for each other and you know, yes, especially for your kids, you know.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

Like and you definitely wanna you definitely you definitely want to leave um be on vacation with people that will have that will actually help you. Like you get up and go to the bathroom and before you even say, Can you watch my child and like I got him, don't worry, I got 'em. Right.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Maybe one can still enjoy because everybody carries the load.

SPEAKER_02 43:32

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Right. And I don't take the village. I haven't um investigated that house further at all. I haven't had time to look into that house to see what their setup was. But like I said, the one we stayed at, there was I mean it had a fence around the backyard, but there wasn't a particular pool fence, which I I mean I didn't care. Like and the the the doors had safety locks on them, you know, like who they had. I think they had

SPEAKER_02 44:00

Noises on it too. Like if you open it, didn't they have a noise or something?

SPEAKER_01 44:03

I don't know if it did or not. You know. So um I'm sure it was compliant with whatever it needed to be, but I'm just saying I haven't looked into this house further to see, but I mean there I'm there's just so many, I'm sure so many things that the parents and family, the whole family is a well, what what if we did this different? What if we did that different, you know?

SPEAKER_02 44:26

So and it doesn't matter how much money you have, that's not gonna keep your child safe because Usher has a had a house with a pool and his grand and his um son or stepson um drowned in the pool.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

Yeah, well, this was a rental, so they were renting it, but and that's another thing too, is like you know, teach your children to swim, you know. Yes, like from a very young age, even if you don't have a pool, like these I don't they said they're from Georgia, so I mean I don't know if they live over near the coast in Georgia or not, you know, but um like they definitely, you know, or if they have pools where they're at or whatever. But like you said earlier, kids are attracted to water, period.

SPEAKER_02 45:10

There's pools everywhere, it's not just there's pools everywhere, right?

SPEAKER_01 45:15

All that, yeah, yeah. So, you know, maybe if they knew how to swim, they would have been out there swimming in the pool, you know, and it would have been a different story.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

But then you drill into their head like 9,000 times, not that they listen all the time, put this on before you get in the pool. Like you they don't nope, get out. You're saying if you do that enough, they're like, wait, even if you're not around, let me put this thing on because she could be looking from heaven down at me.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

And I'm going to Well, I mean, you heard me like with Dakota, I would always say this, like you know, you can only swim with an adult and stuff like that. Now, not to say that his little three-year-old brain is gonna remember it, but you hope that if you're saying it over and over and over, that but I also remember when Dakota wanted to take the things off.

SPEAKER_02 46:01

We were watching, he wanted to take it off because he was like, Like, I can swim, and he did it, and he didn't like it because he didn't like the way Porter did it, so he's like, No, I need that back on. I need that, yeah. So I was like, so we put the little vest back on. Yeah, yeah. He was like, No, I'm not I'm not taking this vest off. No, sir, I didn't like that.

SPEAKER_01 46:17

And he was getting um overconfident, so I was like, Let's try it without your vest so you can see, you know, yeah what your body does without a vest.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

And he didn't like it. He was like, No, nope, that's not for me.

SPEAKER_03 46:30

Yeah, but yeah, so kids' safety, and uh yeah, we're in summer, so yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think the takeaway is like make sure an adult is in charge of those little ones, you know. Like, don't put that pressure that that like I feel for that 15-year-old. I'd be keeping a close eye on that 15-year-old because that 15-year-old is gonna be having so right.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

That there you go, Becky. Therapy, they whether they whether they exhibit it now or not, they still need therapy because it's gonna still be in there. Because they're gonna think it's their fault. Yes, yeah. So they definitely therapy is definitely recommended for sure.

SPEAKER_03 47:14

Or so with that family, and we're with that 15-year-old.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

No, I blame the adults in this.

SPEAKER_02 47:23

I do too, definitely. Definitely. Because you should mean it. I don't care who you are, you shouldn't leave you shouldn't leave a 15-year-old in charge.

SPEAKER_01 47:30

Well, they could have taken the little ones with them. Yes. You know, leave the 15-year-old at home, that's fine. 15-year-olds can take care of themselves. Yeah. Um, hopefully they know how to swim. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:39

Yeah, since they all wanted to go grab food, they should have taken the kids. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 47:42

Yeah, yeah. I feel that I feel like that absolutely a hundred percent. The 15-year-old can stay home and you take the little cute little girls because you know you're gonna get looks because everybody's gonna like, oh, they're so cute, because they absolutely look identical. Yeah, they were all the pictures that they show, they're so cute. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 48:01

Yeah, that's um, I don't know how old the other kid was. Uh I the I don't know if I I don't know which person found them if it was one of the kids. That is tragic, too.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

So yes, absolutely, absolutely. Well, I feel like the person, the kid, even though they didn't say the name, we we have to look into it more, but even though they didn't say the name the age of the other kid, it had to be an older kid, like a teenager as well. Because why would why would a young kid look for the little girls? It would have to be a like such and such, where are the girls at?

SPEAKER_03 48:34

Yeah, that's gonna be a lot of trauma.

SPEAKER_04 48:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 48:40

Very sad stories, but we're just trying to raise awareness to not take your eyes off these little guys, you know, especially the more people that there are, you know, the more you need to be.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

And especially around more, like you said, especially around water, too. And another thing, too, and this is a little distracted, is um only because I'm retired and I see a lot of things that um when your kids outside riding their bikes or using their um scooters or roller skates or whatever it is, you have to watch them too because there's so many people out there driving. There's new drivers every year. There's new drivers, remember that. And they're on their phones, they're not looking, and they can run into the kid. Yeah. And it's like, oops, oh my God. Because we just saw, I just saw something on the news with this girl. The school bus was stopped. The little boy was standing there, but he was getting ready to get on the bus, and she blew through there and hit hit the boy and hit, ran into the house.

SPEAKER_01 49:39

Was she on an electric bike or something?

SPEAKER_02 49:41

No, she was she was in the car. The boy was standing at the bus stop, getting ready to get on the bus, and this and the the clearly can see the the stop sign out. And she, I guess at the last minute she said, she was probably on her phone because she said, Oh my god, I was distracted. Yeah. And she she ran into the she hit the boy, he knocked him over there, and she ran into the house. Thank God she had the wherewithal to get out and go check on the kid.

SPEAKER_01 50:09

And not run.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

And not run, yes.

SPEAKER_01 50:11

Well, she hits somebody, so there's no way he's run. Is when you're driving these vehicles and you are distracted like that, or you're hitting somebody, you're you're essentially turning that vehicle into a weapon. Yes. And if you think that you're gonna say, you know, oh, I wasn't on my phone. Bullshit, blah blah blah, because you think you're gonna close stuff out, or you think you're in incognito mode, or whatever it is that you think that that can't see what you were doing, they can see what you were doing. Oh, yes. I mean, I can tell you from when we lost Kaylee and the police officers went through her phone and stuff, they could go back for years, years.

SPEAKER_02 50:53

Well, another thing too, Mona, as well, another thing too is I feel like in the summertime when kids are home. Oh, yes, that's where you see, like I've already heard of about five or six accidents involving kids and other kids hitting them because they're on their phones, they're not, they're they're not paying attention to what's them.

SPEAKER_03 51:15

Yeah, my last the last this last uh holiday that just passed, that's when my daughter got hit. Um the sheep and she was sandwiched between two cars. So the first car braked near downtown Tampa. She braked, but the car behind her was on the phone going 60. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 51:34

And then on her car.

SPEAKER_01 51:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:36

So they never they never hit the brakes. No, never. Well, that's the same thing that happened to me right outside on right outside of where I live. I don't want to say it, but right outside where I live. I was coming from the store and I literally was debating long before then. Should I I hate this store, but I need this real quick. Should I go? And I kept debating it. I was like, just go get it. I know because I went to the store. Uh hell yeah, I went to the store, picked up what I had to pick up. Everything's cool. Is, you know, there's not a lot of traffic. I'm sitting here, I couldn't turn because there was a car maybe five or six inches in front of me that was stopped to where I can turn off and go. So I had to wait. And there was a car behind me, and then there was, I guess the the young boy was coming off of the exit, and he was distressed. He was, he said it. He was looking at his phone, looking at the directions because he was lost, and he hit the car behind me, and that car behind me hit mine. I was like, what the fuck? And I had, I think I had the car like a month or two. The fuck man, what? And the guy, don't get me wrong, I I feel really bad for him because he did say, and he was he probably boy was like 25, 26. He said, I'm so sorry. I was in pain. I don't know where I am. I was looking at the um, I was looking at the he was looking at the GPS on his car, and he said, I put my head up, and next thing I know, it was stopped. Everybody stopped. Yes, and that's what happened.

SPEAKER_01 53:08

Sorry. How is your daughter doing? Yeah, how is she doing?

SPEAKER_03 53:12

Oh, she's going to therapy, and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:16

Well, she didn't have any major injuries, right?

SPEAKER_03 53:19

Um, just neck pain and like spinal uh like swelling and things like that. So yeah, therapy several times a week.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Yeah, yeah, well, we didn't discuss that under her lawyers. Um, you know.

SPEAKER_01 53:34

Well, um, the reason I asked if that one girl was on an electric bike, because that's another thing that I've been hearing is there's a lot of kids on these electric scooters, electric bikes, and things, and they're not obeying, you know, motorcycles, like off-road little motorcycles, ATVs and stuff, especially like up here in Tennessee out in the country, you know, they're not obeying um the traffic walls, you know, like stop signs and things.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

So Vanessa has one, and she's always on her phone. And I'm like, why are you like, why are you letting her drive? I don't understand why you're letting her use that thing. She never gets off her phone.

SPEAKER_01 54:10

It's so dangerous. Yes. Because now she's on her phone, a car driving by her, maybe they're on their phone, and then they glance up and go, Oh my gosh, you know. Yes, yes. There's a little old dude who walks down um a major road we have here, and he I guess he walks to the store every day and there's no sidewalk. And so it's just a two-lane road and cars. I mean, the speed limit's like 45 or 50, and so you know, and and um he has not very good posture. He's kind of older, so you know, he's kind of like a little hunched over and stuff, so I don't think he can see real well. But anyway, he walks every day around lunchtime or so. And I used to always tell my girls, especially like, if you're driving up and down this road, you do not be on your phone. Because he'll come around a curve and he'll be right there. And it's like, if you're not paying attention, I can't believe he hasn't been hit. You know, like I really can't. Yeah, right. But um yeah, so I guess like some of our if if I were to summarize our safety tips, it would be, you know, to stay vigilant, stay aware. You know, put your phone down, like it it's okay. Like whatever it is you want to look at, it's gonna be there when you get to where you're going, you know? Like it's not it doesn't need to be seen while you're watching your kid in the pool or you know um because that it can happen in a split second there too, you know. Yeah. Maybe maybe you're distracted on your phone and and the kid goes under and you don't realize it, you know, because drowning is a quiet thing, you know, it's not loud. Yeah. So you know, if it gets too quiet, it is definitely, yes. So um anyway, what are y'all's safety tips?

SPEAKER_02 55:56

I just say be aware of your surroundings. I as far as I'm concerned with a kid, it's it's best to even if you're walking on a sidewalk, walk as far as close to the yard instead of right on the corner, and have your kid on the other on the yard side of you, not on the outside of you. Because I see people doing that, and I just want to stop the car and get out and slap them. Because it's like, dude, how are you gonna save your kid if your kid, you know, that that doesn't make any damn sense. Yeah, you can save your kid by letting your kid walk. This is the sidewalk, this is the house, this is the street, the kids right here. Get your butt over there.

SPEAKER_03 56:36

Like, come on. Mainly stay vigilant and think what others may do. You may, right? But also think of the ifs, you know, the what ifs.

SPEAKER_02 56:47

So even when the when the grandkids come over and like the girls and the boys come over, whenever they're riding the bikes outside, and I see a car car, and it says dead end on one end. But ever when I see a car coming down the block, I'm like, stop loud. And they all know to stop and get off your bike because they already know if one of them doesn't do it, none of us are riding bikes, and they don't want that to happen. So everybody normally, because I already tell them before, if I say stop and any one of you keep going, nobody's gonna ride the bike. Nobody's right, and they're gonna that's not fair. I don't care. Hey, like I don't care. There's one part I there's one of me and there's six of y'all. Nope. If one person doesn't listen, nobody's riding the bikes.

SPEAKER_01 57:32

So well, that's how you get them to be accountable to each other. Yeah, it's like hey, you gotta do that, or you know, and I really haven't let us do this.

SPEAKER_02 57:41

Right, and I really haven't had a problem with them. Like whenever I say stop, they stop and they get off the bike and they stand there and let the car go by, and the car will slow down and let the car go by, and then I'm looking, and then I go, okay, go back, and then they'll get on the bike and go back. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 57:56

Yeah, and while you got that one up, uh or that tip up, like also like if you're driving through neighborhoods and you know, yes, there's not kids out like there used to be, but they are out, you know. Like up here in Tennessee, the last couple of days, we had like no humidity and like mid to upper 70s. Oh my god, that's awful. Sun out, beautiful. So so many people are out. So, you know, when you see those little kids going out, just like slow down, maybe come to almost a stop and just make sure they see you, you know. As uh as a driver, you know, delivery driver, we like we kind of like beep beep our horn, you know, just to kind of let them know we're coming, you know, and the kids love it, and I'll do extra beeps for the kids and I always wave to them and stuff because I just want to know I see you, yeah, you know, you see me, yeah. Like, let's not do anything crazy, you know. And I feel like a little slower than usual. Like you like, let's get to where we're going and let's all stay alive, you know.

SPEAKER_02 59:00

I feel like I'm a speeder, I don't want to admit that, but I'm a speeder, I drive a little fast, but I'm definitely a kid person, so I'm definitely not doing it when I see when there's kids around. If I'm a speeder, I'm a speeder on the highway. But I'm right not if I'm in a neighborhood, there's no way I'm doing that. No way. Yeah. And when people ride past me, I'm like, if you don't slow down, and if they try to stop the car like they're scaring me, they got the right one, don't they? Car lady, they got the right one because I'm walking up to you because I'm not afraid of you.

SPEAKER_01 59:31

Yeah, what you need to do better duck. Get yourself a little basket of like beach balls and like when just throw them out in the road as they drive by, like it'll freak them out, you know. Yeah, oh that's you know, if you see a ball going across the road, there's probably a kid chasing it.

SPEAKER_02 59:46

That's a great, you know what? You gotta say that again, Mona. That's a great here's a tip for for anybody who has kids around them who are kids are playing in the street because I feel like if you live in the street live there, you could play in the street.

SPEAKER_01 59:58

Yeah, and the beach ball is not gonna hurt somebody's car, so if it hits it, you know, maybe it'll great tip. Yeah, I say get a basket, fill it with some beach balls, and when you got speeders coming through, just throw it out there, you know, as they go by or as they're coming and freak them out a little bit. And then if they do hit it, you'd be like, that could have been a kid.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:16

Yeah, you know. That's a great tip. Now I'm gonna go to the city. Yes, yeah, that's hey billion dollar idea there. There you go, diva. You get the diva beach balls. Yes, that's a great tip. Yes. Now we need some diva soon. Diva Beach Balls coming to a place near you soon. Or online, or you can order. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:49

Oh, that's funny. That's totally all right. Well, let's wrap this one up. Who wants to wrap it up?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:56

Thank you guys for uh being with us for another Distracted Divas Live. And we hope to see you soon. Please take these tips as they are great tips for the summer. And you could also comment ones that you have of yourself.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:12

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SPEAKER_01 1:01:22

Yes, send us your comments. We want to know about your safety tips. Yes, or if you have any good hacks like the beach ball one. Yes, that is awesome. Sorry for the deep, deep stuff today, but sometimes we gotta go deep. It has to be can't always be laughing.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:39

We can, but you know, we can go we can we can laugh a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:43

We can be serious and laugh. Yes, seriously, have to be done. So yeah, absolutely. And my condolences to that family. So that's that's gonna be a hard one for a while.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:56

The girls were absolutely beautiful. Yeah, I did look at the pictures. I'll get their pictures and put them on here. Yeah, they were absolutely beautiful, beautiful. Sorry to the all right.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:08

Well, let's get out of here, divos. All right, diva out. Don't leave Becky. Bye, divas. Bye bye.