Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the she Said podcast and episode 17.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: We Got it right?
[00:00:05] Speaker A: We got it or I got it right or I got it this time. I couldn't get it last time.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: Have you recovered from 4th of July fireworks and all that? I feel like I'm so drained today. We had a long weekend, but how about yours?
[00:00:18] Speaker A: How many days were you out there?
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Four or five days, I guess. So we were pretty busy the whole time. I mean, going out on the water and watching the fireworks and staying out there for a while and seeing the, the pet tune go by. Do you know what that is?
[00:00:33] Speaker A: I saw the video of. I had. Did not know until.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: It's a Peterbilt truck, because I remember Rocky had like a T shirt or something that has the Peter truck, the Peter tune on it. And I didn't know what it was at the time. And it said, caught you looking at my peter. And I was like, you can't wear that. Like, you cannot. So I've hidden the shirt. I'm like. Because they throw T shirts out of it.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: And it's a. Yeah. So it was just. I didn't, But I didn't even know what it was. I had no idea this was a pontoon. It's the first time I've ever seen it. But it is a huge hit and is so much fun to see it out there at the lake. And then we went to like a private party where they. I don't even know how many thousands of dollars of fireworks that were exploded. I mean, it was a whole show of its own, so.
And tons of barbecue. It was fun. It was, it was a busy weekend, though. And the dogs were traumatized.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: I mean, Skippy especially. Just the Valium didn't work. We had prescription for him. It was just like, tore him two pieces and.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: Aren't fireworks illegal in the city?
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Well, I, I don't, I don't even know. I think you can get a permit because I know people in neighborhoods get. You have to apply for. It's like an inexpensive permit. And you do have to have that supposedly. But there's different areas, like the lake. You don't have to have one. I mean, it's kind of different, I guess, out in the country. I don't know. And I don't even know that it stops anybody.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: It doesn't stop anybody because there were fireworks going off all hours of the night.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Yes.
For days.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not even on the slip very well.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: My dog, I, I, she doesn't seem bothered by them. She Literally hops like a bunny barking at them. But it's like all the neighbors were shooting them off. And then you have the big ones that. The loud booms that are going.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: Those are the worst.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a lot. And then it just is, like, goes on for days.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah. I've never been big on spending money on fireworks. My parents weren't. So I guess I've kind of carried on that.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: Whole, like, let's not light 20 bills on fire and explode them.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: And people. The houses that burnt down, that family have lost their house from fireworks and. Yeah. It's always that one time a year you're ready for it to be over.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, I was good with it being over. I'm tired from it.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: I'm ready for a nap.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: I still, you know, I'm still so near in the grief with losing my mom that every holiday, it just.
It just doesn't feel like the same. Nothing is the same after that. So I did go over and spend a little bit of time with my dad on the 4th, and, you know, and then he gets very nostalgic and he gets sad because it's not the same. And then you end up, you know, talking about her and talking about everything, and then it just turns into just a really sad, sad day. But I.
It's just funny how it's. It's never the same. Like, the holidays are different going forward.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: It does. And sometimes you don't even realize that's what you're like, feeling.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: But it's there.
So now I know in those darn picture, memories pop up and you're like, gosh darn it.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: Yeah. It just never gets easier. It really doesn't. And then you just continual cycle of the next thing. That doesn't seem right because she's not here.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: No, it's ever. It's an. It's a continuing saga.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: It seems like I'm sort of in that space now where it just doesn't seem. You know, you go through all the phases of grief now. It's. That just doesn't seem like she. There's just no way she's gone. Like that doesn't seem.
It just doesn't seem possible.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: No.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: So, yeah, it was always, you know, the holidays just look different and they're not as fun and you still go through the motions, but it's just. There's always that thing in the back of your head that always. Not. Not easy. And then my friend just lost her dad on the six. She lost her mom a couple years ago and lost her dad. I want to. I want read what she said, because I was like, oh, my gosh, that's so. Makes so much sense when I asked her how she was doing after. You know, she's lost both of her parents and she has siblings that she's. She's close to, but she said that feeling of being orphaned and untethered when both are gone is real.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: And I was like, wow. And I thought, Amy must feel that that's your lifeline that's gone.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: It is.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: Sorry.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: I don't want to make somebody has the glue to hold the family together. I mean, like, you really have to. And that's my main goal, to make sure I keep my family together for my mom and dad.
[00:04:58] Speaker A: So, yeah.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Sorry. I did not want to make you cry, but I've just.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: But it's true.
So, you know, you got to be that glue.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: And speaking of that, like, okay, craziest story that I had a friend this week that she'd gone through. She'd broke her ankle at slipping on some rocks. They weren't home, they were out of state. She ended up having to have, like three surgeries is what she told me. And she sent me a picture of all the pins in her ankle. And one doctor said, because they still had more of a road trip to make, but one doctor was going to let her go after this, the second or third surgery, whatever it was.
And then the other surgeon said, absolutely not. She'll have a blood clot. And that was the first thing I told her, too. I was like, you can't be traveling with this, those major surgeries and not have a blood clot. She's like, well, they're going to keep me some longer. She'd been in there 10 days so far, and she's like, a couple more days, probably. Well, I messaged her yesterday just to check on her.
And then I got a call from her husband, and he's like, amy, she died.
What?
[00:05:59] Speaker A: Crazy.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: What are you talking about? And he said, well, we were in the car and her leg started hurting her, her good leg. And she asked to pull over so she could lay down, I guess, in their RV and kind of get her legs up. And he said that she did that. And she said, feel my leg. And it was as hard as a soda can, is what he explained. He said he walked out of the camper, I guess, maybe to set. Continue setting it up maybe a little bit while. Because they were going to pull over in it because they were still, like I said, Traveling and, and he said he walked back in there within five to 10 minutes and she was gone. I mean just a blood clot.
I'm so shocked. It's one of those things that just kind of kept kind of sat with me the couple days. I'm like, goodness gracious. That was my first thought when I heard about her needing to travel. I was like, that is not going to be good.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: That's the biggest fear with surgeries.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Yeah, three hours in the car and that's what happens. So man, people need to be aware like, because like this flying after surgeries for plastic surgeries and things like that, like goodness, got to be on your A game and keep moving and you can't sit there that long.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: Biggest fear with surgery for me is blood clotting.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: I just never thought about it.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. I always think about it. You know, when my mom was had broken her ankle, didn't do surgery because she wasn't healthy enough for surgery. But we, she was in a cast and she was non weight bearing so we had to get her up every day to get her, you know, to go to the bathroom and stuff. And we don't know who did it. I think it was my dad popped a blood vessel in her arm. Yeah, well, and her arm, her whole arm turned purple. And that was my biggest fear was it was a blood clot. And so because you know, she hadn't had surgery but still. And so we, we got her in to see her primary care and he said it looks like somebody it's a broken blood vessel. But I mean her whole arm was swollen and terrifying. Same symptoms. Scared the daylights out of me because man, those things don't end well now.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: So beware when you start turning hard like that in a limb or something and heat and then suddenly moving after sitting still. Like those are just things to be very well aware of.
So. And that is why the hospital wants you up and moving so quickly. You know a lot of people are like, God, they want me up so early. Well, that is why you do not want to lay there.
So if you love somebody, you make sure you're in that hospital with them, getting them moving because they will also be forgotten about.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that is true. And that little thing they put on their feet to keep the. Yeah, the massage. That's why I love those little pants that you get into and zip up because it does that same circulation to keep the blood flowing.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Well. And even in nursing homes I only go in and they'll ask them so many times are you ready to get up and go walk or are you ready? And they. Because the patient has a right to decline.
A patient will end up laying there rotting because they're just mentally not there and so unhappy and want their family. That's why you've got to be there to encourage people in the nursing home especially.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And also they don't feel like getting up because they're tired and they're sore. Just like after laying there for any length of time it's hard to get up. And then if you're a senior and going through all of that.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: It's, it's a very scary.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: So check in on those people and help explain why because like this lady should not have passed away at her age.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: No. So sad story.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: Terrible. So much going on.
Just devastating. Okay. So I was talking to a guy today who's maybe 10 years younger than me and he said yes ma'. Am.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: And I was highly insulted.
Oh my gosh. I guess I've never.
Oh, I don't know that it's. No, I don't think it's ever bothered me. I don't really. I don't think so. And I hear it.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: I think if it's someone your kid's age.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: And they say to me, oh yes ma'. Am. I think that's very respectful and I really appreciate it when it's someone just a few years younger than me.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Well that is true. You did say that you were like it was.
Whereas was it at a store? It was because like works for a.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: Client emailed me back and said yes ma'. Am. And I was highly offended. Oh that is so funny.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: I'm like really?
[00:09:58] Speaker A: Seriously.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: Oh my gosh. I remember my husband would try to get to me so bad and he was like, well I'm just gonna start calling people hun. He's like, how come 80 year old men get along?
[00:10:08] Speaker A: They get away with it.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: I go, you are not. So when Ty was little he would do it in front of Ty, just kind of messing with me at a drive thru. And I remember Ty was like thank you hon. I'm like absolutely not. You are not doing it. Like it became this big drive like we're not going to drive through for or else I'm gonna make you order me ice cream with fudge nuts and extra cream because you know that's a whole problem my whole ice Sunday he will not order me my fudge sundae that I want because I want it with extra fudge nuts and cream and he will not Say it.
He refuses.
Some ice cream, extra fudge nuts, and top that with some green. Yeah, you'll have to ask him about it anytime.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: You see? Oh, that's hilarious.
Well, it is funny how senior men can get away with that.
[00:10:55] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: No one thinks twice about it. Now, your husband, at his age, you.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: Sound like a weirdo. So don't do it. And he's literally trying to do it to get under my skin.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: And I have to tell the lady, I'm like, he's doing that to get on my. Get on my last nerve. He's joking.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: That's not how he normally is.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Golly.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Isn't it funny, though? Let's talk about that. That men can get away with it when they're old people, no matter what. What? Your woman. Women, too, can get away with it when they're old. Get away with.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: I can't imagine calling you sweetie. Okay, sweetie.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Like, you'd be like, sweetie, I would.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Say, get out of my office.
I can just see the look. Your face would go completely straight and.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Like, what happened to you? You've lost your body.
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Come here.
Oh, come here. Huh?
[00:11:42] Speaker A: Or sweet. Yeah, sweetie.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: Oh, sweetie.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: Can you imagine?
No. I would literally send you packing out of here.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Podcaster coming in, she called me hon, and sweetie, you're fired.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: But that is such a thing that older people say they call all the time.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: Yeah, but there's an. There's an age.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: There's an age, and you're not that.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: So I wonder what that magic age is.
[00:12:07] Speaker A: I don't know. It's got to be in the 80s. Yeah. Even 70.
Like, if a 70 year old woman called me hon, I would be like, what?
Go away.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: Oh, that's funny.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: I'm not young and old enough or whatever it is. Yeah.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Oh, that's hilarious.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: I was laughing. A couple weeks ago, you sent me, you texted me, like, your survival kit, which is pretty detailed on surviving the apocalypse.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, my kit came in handy this weekend, but go ahead.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Did it?
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Why?
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Well, we were at the fire at the private fireworks show, and Stephen cannot stand loud noises like that, you know, like just neither. Can you tire or whatever. No, the fireworks. Because the fireworks were literally in our laps. I mean, like, it was dynamite. And I was like, you want. I've got earplugs. You want it? Because I keep earplugs for the whole family. All that in this emergency bag that I carry. Like, it has everything you could imagine. I mean, if we need to drink from a river tonight, we can do that. And get clean water if I need to light fires. I can do that. Keep warm. I can do that. I mean, it's, it's pretty. It's detailed. Yes.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: To survive.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: But it's in my bag. I cannot even tell you how often I am like, well, let me get my trunk. I've got what we need right here. So yeah, it's detailed.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: Well, I was laughing because I was my survival kit.
And your survival kit would be so.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: Opposite, like band Aids and Neosporin. Yeah.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: I'm thinking where now would I need one of those little refrigerators? Like they have it like medical spa that they keep Botox. And I'm like, I'm going to need one of those.
I really was making a list. I'm like, wait, I. What am I, I, My, my list looks so different than her list. It's gonna have to be. Yeah, you gotta down and get it all in there.
And how am I gonna travel with it?
[00:13:59] Speaker B: But you should keep it in your car because, I mean, think about it. If you're. A flood happened. I mean, because there were roads this weekend at the lake that were blocked off from the water crossing the roads. I mean, and then we had to reroute and go a different way. I mean, so. And there were poor houses even at Grand Lake that were flooded out. You could see it. I mean, cars that were flooded. We really haven't heard about that on the news. But I can tell you I looked at it with my own eyes. Oh, we had so much water. Yes. But yeah, I mean, you just got to be kind of prepared for any kind of little thing that could go wrong if you're just got car trouble somewhere. I mean, I know umbrella to cover you from heat, rain or, you know, anything like that.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: So.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: But I was thinking like along the lines, I'm gonna need electricity in this. I'm gonna have to have some backup power because I'm gonna need the heating pad.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: For all my injuries. I'm gonna need.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: That's when you boil water and you put it in a hot water bottle bag, which I happen to really love. She's looking at me crazy right now.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: I haven't seen a hot water bottle.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: I know, but you know what? I just got one not too long ago. And I really like the heat that it puts out. I just, I just boil.
I get really either hot water that comes out, or you can put some in the tea kettle or whatever and pour some in it. And it just gives you a really soothing, moist type heat. It's not electric. I absolutely have a hot water bottle for sure. Yeah, we'll go through your stuff.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I'm gonna need. I'm gonna need some electricity for sure. You know, they have a little portable generator, so that's. That. That's actually.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: Solar powered. Yes. So that's an option.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: But they can't be. We gotta be able to be able to get sunlight or if they're fogging out that sun like they have been.
[00:15:34] Speaker A: If it's an apocalypse, you know.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Then the solar stuff, suddenly it and solar and that. Because, you know, there's times our solar lights don't come on because it didn't get enough sun for the day. So that's why I'm kind of like everyone depends on solar for stuff and it isn't all that dependable.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: No houses that are solar based. Oh yeah, they have backup.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: In case.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: So, yeah, I mean, I still think a gas generator is good and backup gasoline and stuff like that.
[00:16:00] Speaker A: Where do you put the backup gasoline?
[00:16:02] Speaker B: You can store it in the, in the big 5 gallon gas cans and you can put like a preservative. It's like a gasoline preservative that you put in the tanks to help prolong it and make sure water didn't get in it.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah. You got those too.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: Of course.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: Wow. You're looking at.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: You keep that in the back of your car?
[00:16:21] Speaker B: No, I don't keep the gas. No. Are you kidding? I'd be dead.
No, you can keep it in your yard or, you know, just as long as it's covered up from water and you're not going to get water in it and then you need to exchange it out every so often, use it and you know, put it in your car, lawnmower or whatever and get new. Yeah. I can point you to some good Instagrams or TikToks that'll tell you some easy prepping for you to start. But you should be prepared for any kind of like. Oh my gosh, I mean, tornado. Yeah, anything like that.
[00:16:49] Speaker A: Well, you do feel it. Like, you know, my dad, they lost power where he lives, they've been doing that. It's been happening a lot over there.
In five hours, no power, he said. And I called him to see if he was okay. Set it on the front porch because his house was so stuffy.
And so you do. That's when you start really thinking, oh.
[00:17:08] Speaker B: Yeah, five hours can turn into a day. And we've all experienced it during that ice storm that was almost 10 week, two weeks right.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: Well, even the Father's Day storm.
[00:17:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: A couple years ago, it was eight days for us. In my neighborhood without power, people got.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: To learn from those experiences to be kind of prepared.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: Yours is lengthy, though. You had a long one.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: It is lengthy. I spent a lot of years working on that.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: Have you. How many years?
[00:17:33] Speaker B: I mean, when this was all really brought to my attention? Probably 15 years ago.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: So now could I be so much better? A hundred percent. Like, I mean, but I don't have the room to be.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Well, that's it. That the water and all the stuff you have to store, like the bottled water.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: But I think it's important to at least have, like, all. At all times. I do feel I always have five cases of Sam's water at all times. Like, it never. I don't want it to get below 5.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: And where do you store that?
[00:18:03] Speaker B: And we have a mud room. And I just keep it in there stacked up. So, I mean, you can use your mud room or your garage or, you know, just find your spaces. And then I think it's important to always have an extra big bag of dog food available. And for whole big thing of toilet paper, a whole big thing of paper towels, paper goods. Because if you can't wash your dishes. Because when we did lose power, like, if you weren't keeping your garbage disposal cleaned out.
Thankfully, the last time we lost power, I had just cleaned out the garbage disposal. That's one of the first things I do now. If I know we're getting bad weather, I make sure I run that dishwasher so Steph didn't get in there and get stinky. And I run that garbage disposal to make sure stuff isn't jamming up in the sink. Because we've had that happen. And when we were out of power for a little bit, and it was like, oh, my gosh, if only I would have just run the disposal in the dishwasher. It's those little things. So, you know. And then you have rubbermaid bucket. Like a Rubbermaid bucket full of water with a lid that you can use to flush your toilets. Because we just went through that this last year where we didn't have water and we couldn't flush our toilets.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: You distill your water?
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:19:02] Speaker A: Does that use electricity to use.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: That does use power, but it doesn't use very much power.
[00:19:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: So. And then we have these big blowers that I bought from somebody in another state, I don't even remember where. And it was when that big ice storm happened. It was right around that time, I had bought this. This big insert, like these weird giant pipes that fit inside of our wood burning fireplace. And it looks like two big hair dryers, black hair dryers that are.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Oh, I've seen those.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah. That hook up to these big steel posts. Well, those. Those rods heat up heat from the fireplace, but those barely take. Those blowers barely take any electricity. So it would easily run off of a generator or something like that. If you had to help blow heat through a room, that's only going to really help heat a room or two, depending on the size of it.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: Right.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: But it would definitely takes a chill out. Yeah. And like two to three rakes of firewood always, like, always want that around.
I just feel like we've been through too many losses in Midtown, especially Midtown, with trees falling and all that. Yeah. It's a lot easier to be prepared than not prepared.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: I always think back to that storm we had a few years. Well, years ago when we lost power. Everybody lost power for so many days. I was in. I lived in South Tulsa.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:13] Speaker A: And I worked downtown, and I didn't lose power. Needed a location.
So I just kept on working. You know, I went to work every day and I would call people, trying to set up meetings with them because we were forgot. I was really pushing. I think I was trying to build the event side up really big. So we were pushing to get events scheduled. I remember calling one lady, and she just jumped all over me. She goes, I don't have power at home or my office. I'm struggling to just get through my day. I don't have time to deal with.
And I'm thinking, well, ma', am, I do have power.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: I have it all.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: But it was funny because so many people were out, but I was still functioning on a normal.
My normal schedule because I had it everywhere, but nobody else.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: That's crazy.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: And it was. It was bad. And you got to where you didn't dare to tell people that you didn't have power. No. They were highly offended if you.
If you had it and they didn't. So I just got to where I was playing like I was just in the same bad shape they were in because people didn't appreciate it at all.
[00:21:09] Speaker B: No.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: But South Tulsa, you don't lose it as bad as you do Midtown because it's all buried. The cables, it's newer, and the cables are all underground, as opposed to where we live, where.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Makes a big difference.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: Makes a huge difference. But anyway, I was working on my survival kit, and then I gave up because is. It's a lot.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: I'll help you.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Yeah, but you know those little refrigerators? You know what I'm talking about?
[00:21:30] Speaker B: I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Handy. You got to keep that collagen safe.
[00:21:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Peptides. Peptides, my life right now, my lifeline. They're working though.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: That's when you go get some dry ice as fast as you can get it in a cooler.
Put some ice. If you don't have power.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: Do you have dry ice packs?
[00:21:48] Speaker B: No. You'd have to go get. You can buy dry ice at Racers and stuff if everyone else didn't buy it ahead of you. But that's where you would.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: You can't buy it and keep it. Well, I guess you could.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: I don't know how you would keep it. I don't really know the history on how that. I mean like how that works. But yeah, you know, there's ways where there's a will, there's a way to keep those peptides. If you lose power.
[00:22:07] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: But you better figure it out.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: The collagen too has to be regenerated. And that collagen is my lifeline for sure.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: How you've been on it. How?
[00:22:17] Speaker B: Well, I'm just on like day four.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: So. Because I had forgotten it and then so I was like, oh shoot, I need it. So really give me a week of being on it. For real though. Because I wasn't. Because forgetting it wasn't going to help me. So.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Right.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: But I'm anxious to see. Yeah. But you did say my eyes looked really bright today using that pen that I got from you.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: It. Your face is glowing.
That was a very.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: I don't even know what that laugh was.
Very weird. But it is definitely. I could tell the difference. Remember when I. You were telling me something. I was distracted because I was like, wow, she's got a glow about her.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: She said that? Hon?
[00:23:03] Speaker A: Yeah, sweetie? You're really glowing.
[00:23:05] Speaker B: Yes, that's right.
[00:23:07] Speaker A: It is funny though. When you use the right kind of products, it does really matter. Yeah, it does. The thing I always noticed first with the collagen is my hands. You know your hands hurt from holding your phone? You arthritis in your thighs? Yeah, probably. Do you have it sometimes my thumb.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean sometimes they'll ache, but not too terribly bad yet. Lord help me.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: Yeah, well, it does help with. That's what I think.
Most people that I talk to after starting it say that they really noticed it. Their hands don't ache like it normally, you know we hold our phones all day.
[00:23:38] Speaker B: I mean, it's true. God, that's so sad.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: It is sad. You think about in our neck, all of it.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: Tech neck. Like, which, by the way, Stephen had listened to one of my podcasts and I. He came in to the room today and he's like, hey, you need to get me some of those blue glasses.
So I'm like, oh, good, he's listening. Oh, speaking of glasses, this is one thing I want to talk about. So we were with our friends this weekend and my, my friend Pilar had on these rose colored, like sunglasses. Well, Steve is the one who thought to ask her. I just kind of always thought they were just, just she didn't want really dark sunglasses. And that's what she went with. Well, he goes, well, why are they rose colored? Well, come to find out, she originally had bought some eyeglasses that were for migraines. Okay. And she got them off Amazon and they were rose colored lenses. And it's called a migraine eyeglass. And it had real. And she's suffered with migraines for a long time.
And she was like, it was so helpful.
This rose colored eyeglass for migraines you can get. And so she said they went to the eye doctor, talked to the eye doctor, and they're like, hey, can you put this rose colored lens in her prescription? Which ended up being like an eighteen hundred dollar pair of glasses, something insane. But it has been like a lifesaver for her. It's been so helpful.
So that's something that I had never heard of. Where the rose just put in migraine eyeglasses into Amazon and see what you find. That might work for somebody that has migraines.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: I knew there were migraine. I had heard migraine glasses, but I didn't realize rose color.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Yeah, they're like a rose colored lens.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: That's interesting.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Because Steven happened to put them on. He was like, God, I can see really good out of. What are these? And that's how the conversation got started. I learned something new over that. That was pretty interesting.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: That is interesting. Well, I got the red light glasses and the red light light bulbs.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: Which is.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Did you get that in?
[00:25:27] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, they came in last Tuesday and so I started using them Tuesday night. So I started. I made a mistake and I ordered the kind that just slip over your regular eyeglasses.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: And so they don't fit very well. And so I start seeing double because it's not a good.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: And I really need the glasses to be working on my phone. So I'm gonna have to order just a regular. You can get prescription red light glasses, which I'm gonna have to do. But I started wearing them that first night about. I don't know, about the time I start my date nighttime routine about 8:30 or so.
And then the light bulb is red. So then your bedroom is red.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: Right.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Walk in so you're not dealing with the blue flickering stuff in there.
And you know my aura ring. I've tracked it every morning I average about my sleep efficiency has gotten better. It's used to be like in the 40s and now it's 70s and 80s. 82 is about my max. So the next morning I woke up and all the lines that tell you everything about your sleep, your REM sleep, your deep sleep, your efficiency, how long it took you to go to sleep, Most of the time I'll have mostly red lines with a couple of really blue lines that are good. Good. Yeah, all my lines were blue and my sleep efficiency was 91.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Shut your mouth.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: And I was like, well, okay, it works now again, like my normal history, it doesn't stay that efficient.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: Do you think it's more because of the red light or the glasses?
[00:26:53] Speaker A: I think it's more of just blocking the blue light.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: Earlier in the evening.
[00:26:58] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:26:58] Speaker A: We've all read is not good.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Well, that's what we're looking at because of Stephen in the police car at night. Like he's just looking at that laptop at night in the dark.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: It cannot be good for him. And then it takes him so long to wind down. And of course when he gets home, he's gonna look at his phone and it's just a really big process for him to relax. So.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: And I will say, wow. Using the glasses make everything like kind of like those rose colored glasses you were just talking about. Everything looks almost like you don't need your glasses, your sight reading glasses. Like you don't need that because the red light glasses make everything so vivid.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: So clear that it feels like you're seeing better even though there's no vision in them.
It is. And it's weird because everything like the outside light looks so funny in it. Then when you take them off, they almost looks green outside. It's just. It's a weird thing what it plays. It doesn't. Your eyes readjust pretty quickly. But there's a. You know, there's.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: So the lenses of the one you're talking about are what color?
[00:27:58] Speaker A: They're sort of gold.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: Okay. The gold color. Yeah. Okay. And that's what they're. They are for the blue light blocking.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: Right, they're blue light blocking. And they're for nighttime. They're specifically for nighttime it. And then, then I have the red light bulb, which is physically red. It lights up your room red.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:15] Speaker A: And it's a very dim light, which is also took me a minute to get used to.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:20] Speaker A: But if I do it correctly, it helps my sleep tremendously. I mean I got last night 6 hours and 51 minutes.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: Never get over 5 hours of sleep.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: Okay, I'm gonna get him these ordered today.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: I think it would make it especially with the laptop. Viewing the laptop. Yeah, because that's the one thing I, I, you know, I work at home every evening until, you know, whatever time sitting on my laptop and then try to go to sleep after that.
You can't, it just your body can't do it. So I 1000% I'm going to get those orders today. And I think also if you really do have prescription, you need to order your red light in your prescription.
[00:28:58] Speaker B: And an eye doctor will do that.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: This company will. Where I got mine.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Blue light blocking dot com. And it. Okay, you can order your.
[00:29:07] Speaker B: And how much were yours?
[00:29:08] Speaker A: Well, I got the ones that, that don't have any prescription. Okay. Sit on top. Which they were like 35. The ones that you have prescription, like if they're readers, they start at about a hundred and go up depending on what kind of prescription you need.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: It's totally worth it.
[00:29:23] Speaker B: Okay, well, we're gonna get some of those and see how Steven sleep.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Big difference. I'm sure for him he's already got adrenaline flowing through him at 800 miles an hour probably.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: So that's not going to help him getting also all the blue light functioning anyway. So yes, I again, we'll see how long it lasts. But so far, if I do it right, it does work. I just need to get the kind that actually have the prescription in them because it doesn't really.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: Well, our kids, everybody should have them. Honestly, they should be sitting everywhere with all the screen time these days.
[00:29:57] Speaker A: Yeah. And it also reminds me of just wearing the red light goggles that I wear in the morning. It's the same.
You know, I always tell you everything's so clear after you take them off. It's that same concept. It's just bizarre how well you see after you take the goggles off and then how well you see wearing the nighttime blue blocking. Blue light blocking glasses.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: Well, I'm gonna order a four pack.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: You should, right?
[00:30:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:22] Speaker A: I'm gonna. I'm gonna order another pair with prescription so it matches my prescription lenses, because then you just wear those. Now I'm having to wear double glasses, and now it's not. It doesn't work very well.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Not attractive.
[00:30:34] Speaker A: Especially well. Yeah.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: Makes you look kind of like a ma'. Am.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: All right, on that note, we're leaving. We're done. That's all of we. All of our time today.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: We are wrapped up, and Amy will.
[00:30:44] Speaker A: No longer be on the podcast.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: If I need a break, I'm just gonna say. All right, hon. All right, kids.
Bye.
