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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know? I really miss that, I'm from Chicago originally, and I miss the MUMBLEx seasons that, you know, that we used to get up there that you just don't have down here." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I know in, um, I'm from Missouri and we always had pretty nice four seasons and, and you know, ex-, we have some extreme weather in each season," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, uh, I like that and we moved here from Houston in, in, uh, July and everyone kept saying, oh, you're going up north it's not going to be so hot, it's not going to be so humid," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, that has just not been the case." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, uh, I like that and we moved here from Houston in, in, uh, July and everyone kept saying, oh, you're going up north it's not going to be so hot, it's not going to be so humid," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, that has just not been the case." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, really --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "It --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, really --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "It --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- has been," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's pretty hot here during the Summer --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- has been," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's pretty hot here during the Summer --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- it was extremely hot, I thought I was going to die, my car, I thought it was going die last Summer but," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Do have air conditioning in your car or," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- it was extremely hot, I thought I was going to die, my car, I thought it was going die last Summer but," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Do have air conditioning in your car or," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, the air conditioning was broke, but broken, I guess it just couldn't handle," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "the stress, and the heat, the record heat, and, you know, I was worried about every time we came to an intersection -- -- the car started idling rough, you know," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, the air conditioning was broke, but broken, I guess it just couldn't handle," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "the stress, and the heat, the record heat, and, you know, I was worried about every time we came to an intersection -- -- the car started idling rough, you know," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "because --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "because --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- of the extreme heat." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. I know, my husband doesn't have air conditioning in his car and he, when he comes home from work, you know, during the Summer --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- of the extreme heat." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. I know, my husband doesn't have air conditioning in his car and he, when he comes home from work, you know, during the Summer --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- he's just wa-, he feels like he's burning like he's been baking for an hour." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, I know." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Gosh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- he's just wa-, he feels like he's burning like he's been baking for an hour." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, I know." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "That's really awful, but, but I, uh, understand that this is kind of typical for this time of year --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that rainy season." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "That's really awful, but, but I, uh, understand that this is kind of typical for this time of year --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that rainy season." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "What I hate is, I hate having to water so much around here --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know, we never used to have to water our lawns --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "What I hate is, I hate having to water so much around here --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know, we never used to have to water our lawns --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "No." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know in Chicago it was always enough rain here and there --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "No." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know in Chicago it was always enough rain here and there --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- so here if you don't water it just looks awful." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Brown." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I just hate to spend the money just going down the drain and watering grass, you know." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- so here if you don't water it just looks awful." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Brown." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I just hate to spend the money just going down the drain and watering grass, you know." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah. That is, that is awful and it, it takes time and the, the kids, they, you have to water your lawn and they want to go out and run in it and get all muddy," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "You know, so you're going do I want a di-, a green lawn or a muddy feet," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah. That is, that is awful and it, it takes time and the, the kids, they, you have to water your lawn and they want to go out and run in it and get all muddy," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "You know, so you're going do I want a di-, a green lawn or a muddy feet," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "in the house." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we have a dog too so that adds to it --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, no." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "in the house." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we have a dog too so that adds to it --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, no." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know, traipse in and out with whatever the weather is like out there so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I don't know, do, the nice thing I'm looking forward to is, uh, not having a hurricane season." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yeah, because Houston was really hurricane alley, wasn't it," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- you know, traipse in and out with whatever the weather is like out there so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I don't know, do, the nice thing I'm looking forward to is, uh, not having a hurricane season." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yeah, because Houston was really hurricane alley, wasn't it," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "weren't there a lot of hurricanes there?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yes, we always had, uh, big concern about hurricanes, and they're close enough to the coast and, you know, you had to have a supply like, uh, emergency supply on hand all the time --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "weren't there a lot of hurricanes there?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yes, we always had, uh, big concern about hurricanes, and they're close enough to the coast and, you know, you had to have a supply like, uh, emergency supply on hand all the time --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- during the hurricane season," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, that would be, Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- you always have to think, you know, what's the weather doing," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- during the hurricane season," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, that would be, Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- you always have to think, you know, what's the weather doing," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Keep the weather radio close by and stuff like that?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. And do we have enough, you know, um, food storage, and enough, uh, batteries and --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Keep the weather radio close by and stuff like that?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. And do we have enough, you know, um, food storage, and enough, uh, batteries and --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- all the kinds of things." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, really, every time I store batteries, I wind up going to use them and they're dead they've been stored so long." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "That's right." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- all the kinds of things." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, really, every time I store batteries, I wind up going to use them and they're dead they've been stored so long." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "That's right." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "So," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, now this is a little bit of relief, although they still have warnings all the time around here for, you know, tornado season --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "So," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, now this is a little bit of relief, although they still have warnings all the time around here for, you know, tornado season --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- hurricanes and stuff, so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- hurricanes and stuff, so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I, yeah, I don't really like tornadoes either," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "I," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I, yeah, I don't really like tornadoes either," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, uh, at least there isn't, we fe-, I feel like I got rid of something," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "hurricanes, so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "not too much of that." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, uh, at least there isn't, we fe-, I feel like I got rid of something," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "hurricanes, so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "not too much of that." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. Well, I've been worried about mostly with having little kids now with taking them out in the Summer and getting them burnt up, I mean I have to keep the sun screen on them just constantly when they go outside --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- because they say it's just so dangerous for little ones to get a bad sunburn --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. Well, I've been worried about mostly with having little kids now with taking them out in the Summer and getting them burnt up, I mean I have to keep the sun screen on them just constantly when they go outside --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- because they say it's just so dangerous for little ones to get a bad sunburn --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "and --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- it is, and, I just, I can't believe the, the record temperatures that --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "and --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- so," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- it is, and, I just, I can't believe the, the record temperatures that --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- have, were here last Summer that," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "a hundred and ten degrees and," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- have, were here last Summer that," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "a hundred and ten degrees and," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "oh, it was just unbelievably hot." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And I can't stand to be outside at all when it's like that, I just don't even want to go out, you know, of the house to get the mail even," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "leave me in the air conditioning." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "oh, it was just unbelievably hot." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And I can't stand to be outside at all when it's like that, I just don't even want to go out, you know, of the house to get the mail even," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "leave me in the air conditioning." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "That is pretty bad." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We had our air conditioning broke, break last, last Summer. The switch got something wrong with the switch and we had to call somebody out to fix it, because I couldn't take it more than a few hours without it on." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, I know. I can't imagine." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "That is pretty bad." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We had our air conditioning broke, break last, last Summer. The switch got something wrong with the switch and we had to call somebody out to fix it, because I couldn't take it more than a few hours without it on." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, I know. I can't imagine." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Even, well, that would, it is just pretty bad, but I guess, um, I guess the weather hasn't changed too much from here to Houston and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Even, well, that would, it is just pretty bad, but I guess, um, I guess the weather hasn't changed too much from here to Houston and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "But it is, like you say coming a little bit further up north." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "where you have some pleasant weather everyday where you can feel like you just want to open your windows and," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "But it is, like you say coming a little bit further up north." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "where you have some pleasant weather everyday where you can feel like you just want to open your windows and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, that's really nice I hate having to leave the house clo-, you know, closed up all the time." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, that's really nice I hate having to leave the house clo-, you know, closed up all the time." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And get some fresh air in the house and, it feels good but," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, I guess," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "And get some fresh air in the house and, it feels good but," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "but, I guess," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, have you been here during the real heavy, heavy rains? I mean I can't remember what time of year, I think it's usually this time of year when we get some, just torrential down pours." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "No --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Gosh --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, have you been here during the real heavy, heavy rains? I mean I can't remember what time of year, I think it's usually this time of year when we get some, just torrential down pours." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "No --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Gosh --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- but I --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- flooding." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- remember," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- but I --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- flooding." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- remember," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Our neighbors had flooding," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "so badly it was like a foot deep in their house last year." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, no." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Our neighbors had flooding," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "so badly it was like a foot deep in their house last year." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, no." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "They had to replace all their carpeting and everything, it was miserable." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, that sounds awful." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. That would not be fun." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "They had to replace all their carpeting and everything, it was miserable." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, that sounds awful." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. That would not be fun." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, I have seen those. I have driven around in the neighborhoods and seen those little flood gauges --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that will be at little yellow signs, it's, you know, has it like from one foot to four foot and I thought I would never buy a house --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, I have seen those. I have driven around in the neighborhoods and seen those little flood gauges --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that will be at little yellow signs, it's, you know, has it like from one foot to four foot and I thought I would never buy a house --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, really." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- with a flood gauge down the street." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, gosh, no kidding. Talk about asking for trouble, huh?" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, really." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- with a flood gauge down the street." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, gosh, no kidding. Talk about asking for trouble, huh?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, that would be awful." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I've got some kids out on the trampoline I need to go look and see what they're doing." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, that would be awful." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I've got some kids out on the trampoline I need to go look and see what they're doing." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Okay, well, have a good day." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, you too." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Thanks. Bye-bye." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I've got some kids out on the trampoline I need to go look and see what they're doing." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Okay, well, have a good day." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, you too." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Thanks. Bye-bye." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Bye-bye." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh, I don't know. My personal perception of government and, uh, the way things are at this current time, is that nobody can really be trusted. And I don't feel that too many of the candidates are out there to, uh, be self-serving to the community. I think that they have their own, uh, wishes to, uh, be in the limelight and to kind of say, hey, you know, I'm a public official, I don't have to do, uh, certain things and they just stand out more. Involving themselves more and more with politics but it's really, after all the things that I've seen in the last ten years about government and now the overdrafts, uh, of checks, uh, before that it was the wonderful, uh, escapade that they had with, uh, the new, uh, oh God, chief of, uh, well Supreme Court, I'm trying to think of his name and, uh, what they put, uh, him through in regards to," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Thomas?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah, Thomas." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "The sex, sexual harassment, that kind of thing and just to see our government react to that and then just little things that have added up where people have taken vacations on taxpayers ' monies and things like that. I, I just think it's very corrupt and whether or not they need to start with people that are extremely poor," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "and send them into government versus people that are rich. But it's always the rich person that gets into government. That has the money to advertise, the money to d-, to do this. There's no more Abe, Abraham Lincolns out there, uh, that can get into government, even if they were poor. So, I know that's my personal viewpoint of things." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "The sex, sexual harassment, that kind of thing and just to see our government react to that and then just little things that have added up where people have taken vacations on taxpayers ' monies and things like that. I, I just think it's very corrupt and whether or not they need to start with people that are extremely poor," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "and send them into government versus people that are rich. But it's always the rich person that gets into government. That has the money to advertise, the money to d-, to do this. There's no more Abe, Abraham Lincolns out there, uh, that can get into government, even if they were poor. So, I know that's my personal viewpoint of things." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Doesn't Wisconsin have a, uh, state, uh, Medicare program or health program?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, they just, uh, they've already put through the health bill. Yes. It just went through and it was passed and that is going to be a heavier tax burden on a lot of the taxpla-, taxpayers and a little bit more on to the medical. Uh, I don't know if that was done out of just let's be the first state to do it or if it was done really for the needs of the people. You know what I'm saying? It, it's, right now every little state around here is thinking about oh we need to reform the health, uh, system and, of course, they think, uh, Wisconsin, our neigh-, or Minnesota, our neighbor, passed a state law, the health bill and it's kind of like we're the first to do it. So, I don't know if it's done because we're, we want to be standing out as being innovative in the health system or whether it was done for, uh, you know, a real good purpose to help people that can't afford, uh, health insurance, that kind of thing." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right. Well, I, I think the, one of the biggest problems that, uh, we see in government today is a reflection of society in and of itself." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Doesn't Wisconsin have a, uh, state, uh, Medicare program or health program?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Now, they just, uh, they've already put through the health bill. Yes. It just went through and it was passed and that is going to be a heavier tax burden on a lot of the taxpla-, taxpayers and a little bit more on to the medical. Uh, I don't know if that was done out of just let's be the first state to do it or if it was done really for the needs of the people. You know what I'm saying? It, it's, right now every little state around here is thinking about oh we need to reform the health, uh, system and, of course, they think, uh, Wisconsin, our neigh-, or Minnesota, our neighbor, passed a state law, the health bill and it's kind of like we're the first to do it. So, I don't know if it's done because we're, we want to be standing out as being innovative in the health system or whether it was done for, uh, you know, a real good purpose to help people that can't afford, uh, health insurance, that kind of thing." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right. Well, I, I think the, one of the biggest problems that, uh, we see in government today is a reflection of society in and of itself." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh. Oh, sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And that is, uh, uh, we become so debt ridden and credit oriented --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, sure." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh. Oh, sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And that is, uh, uh, we become so debt ridden and credit oriented --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- instead of, uh, cash and carry or debt free --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and therefore, uh, that puts a lot of undue pressure on municipalities, state and federal governments." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- instead of, uh, cash and carry or debt free --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and therefore, uh, that puts a lot of undue pressure on municipalities, state and federal governments." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "It, it sure does. And -- -- I think it, it is reflecting. Like you said I think society as a whole, uh, you can't expect, uh, when we have T V -s and we have things that are kind of bombarded at us for, uh, you know, immorality and this and this and this, that we can expect somebody to come off that's going to be clean, totally clean." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And come into government. Uh, but down the line it does hurt. I mean when somebody's corrupt and somebody's doing something, it's, uh, you know, it does hurt t-, each individual of the society when you find out that somebody's done something or the overdraft policy or, you know, the other things that have occurred, so, uh," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "It, it sure does. And -- -- I think it, it is reflecting. Like you said I think society as a whole, uh, you can't expect, uh, when we have T V -s and we have things that are kind of bombarded at us for, uh, you know, immorality and this and this and this, that we can expect somebody to come off that's going to be clean, totally clean." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And come into government. Uh, but down the line it does hurt. I mean when somebody's corrupt and somebody's doing something, it's, uh, you know, it does hurt t-, each individual of the society when you find out that somebody's done something or the overdraft policy or, you know, the other things that have occurred, so, uh," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, what is, see the thing is, is when a lot of things become acceptable practice --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- uh, it's hard to discern the bor-, what has become muddy as to what is ethical and what is not ethical. And then --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, what is, see the thing is, is when a lot of things become acceptable practice --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- uh, it's hard to discern the bor-, what has become muddy as to what is ethical and what is not ethical. And then --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Exactly." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- someone blows the whistle and says, oh, this is not ethical and yes I did it too." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Exactly." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- someone blows the whistle and says, oh, this is not ethical and yes I did it too." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, that's exactly what happens in government all the time. They blow the whistle on each other. Oh, I hear that you're doing this, I've done it but oh boy, and it's not going to get out. Ex-, yeah, e-, exactly. It's, uh, there's no --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we just had," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- secrets in the government. Uh --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, that's exactly what happens in government all the time. They blow the whistle on each other. Oh, I hear that you're doing this, I've done it but oh boy, and it's not going to get out. Ex-, yeah, e-, exactly. It's, uh, there's no --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we just had," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- secrets in the government. Uh --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I don't think anymore." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right. The mayor of Dallas is, uh, Bartlett, Steve Bartlett." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I don't think anymore." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right. The mayor of Dallas is, uh, Bartlett, Steve Bartlett." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "He also, uh, was a congressman." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "He also, uh, was a congressman." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh, to the, uh, to Congress." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And he had been in that position for years." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh, to the, uh, to Congress." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And he had been in that position for years." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And, uh, he was elected mayor of Dallas --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And, uh, he was elected mayor of Dallas --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- overwhelmingly." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "However, if the vote was taken today, the whole thing might change because he was part of that, uh, check kiting scam." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "And, uh, he was elected mayor of Dallas --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- overwhelmingly." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "However, if the vote was taken today, the whole thing might change because he was part of that, uh, check kiting scam." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, sure. I think, I, I don't think, uh," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, what kind of garden do you have?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, we've tried having, let me turn the T V off, we've tried having a vegetable garden, and I'm from Chicago, and the way that, uh, bugs and weeds grow down here is very different from Chicago." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And we have tried several years in a row, and we've given up, between the fire ants, the pill bugs, the weeds, the drought, and a hundred and ten degree heat all Summer, and we just kind of, uh, decided to go with a few flowers and give up on the vegetable garden." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We had to put so much poison out on everything that we thought, Who'd want to eat that stuff." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh, uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We had to put so much poison out on everything that we thought, Who'd want to eat that stuff." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh, uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "You know, so we have really been frustrated by our gardening attempts here, and, uh, if you really water a lot, you can do it, but, you know, when you have to pay for water, it really gets to be an annoyance to have to water constantly." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So, right now we're just," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "You know, so we have really been frustrated by our gardening attempts here, and, uh, if you really water a lot, you can do it, but, you know, when you have to pay for water, it really gets to be an annoyance to have to water constantly." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So, right now we're just," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Do you have a lawn?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we, we just try to maintain the lawn and the shrubs right now, and the trees." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We have a peach tree. That's the extent of our, um, contributing to our food supply. But that's nice to have" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Do you have a lawn?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, we, we just try to maintain the lawn and the shrubs right now, and the trees." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We have a peach tree. That's the extent of our, um, contributing to our food supply. But that's nice to have" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "yeah. So what do you do up there?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, um, actually it, we've sort of had an ideal Spring." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "yeah. So what do you do up there?" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, um, actually it, we've sort of had an ideal Spring." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Um." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And, um, the, the peonies have been out for now about three weeks --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, wow." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Um." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And, um, the, the peonies have been out for now about three weeks --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, wow." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- and the roses have been blooming for two weeks, and the grass is, uh, this lush green, and of course I've got lots of weeds in mine because," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "I don't use any poison either." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- and the roses have been blooming for two weeks, and the grass is, uh, this lush green, and of course I've got lots of weeds in mine because," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "I don't use any poison either." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "But, um, you know, I just keep looking at, and I say, Jeez, you know, this is the first year it's been so perfect." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Really. Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "But, and my garden, you know, my tomatoes are two and a half feet tall --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "But, um, you know, I just keep looking at, and I say, Jeez, you know, this is the first year it's been so perfect." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Really. Gosh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "But, and my garden, you know, my tomatoes are two and a half feet tall --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- the plants and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- that sounds wonderful." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- the plants and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- that sounds wonderful." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "you know, I'm g-, I'm going, Gee, this can't, you know, we'll have a freeze." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "If you don't have a frost you'll be all right." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "That's what I remember from living up north, is that you'd get everything set and then you'd have a frost and half the stuff would get frostbitten, and you'd have to." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "you know, I'm g-, I'm going, Gee, this can't, you know, we'll have a freeze." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "If you don't have a frost you'll be all right." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "That's what I remember from living up north, is that you'd get everything set and then you'd have a frost and half the stuff would get frostbitten, and you'd have to." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, that's it. Last year, I think it was, you know, my peonies were, were, budding in January, and, you know, there was no way that was going to make it, and sure enough, you know, we d-, had really mild weather until --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Wow." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I think it was May or something --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, that's it. Last year, I think it was, you know, my peonies were, were, budding in January, and, you know, there was no way that was going to make it, and sure enough, you know, we d-, had really mild weather until --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Wow." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- I think it was May or something --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- and then, you know, everything just got hit hard." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy, that's frustrating." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- and then, you know, everything just got hit hard." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, boy, that's frustrating." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "So, but yeah, it, it's interesting, and I enjoy gardening. My son does the mowing of the grass." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yeah, my husband does that, thank goodness, because I, that's not a pleasure for me." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "I don't think that's a pleasure for anybody, the m-, the mowing." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "So, but yeah, it, it's interesting, and I enjoy gardening. My son does the mowing of the grass." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yeah, my husband does that, thank goodness, because I, that's not a pleasure for me." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "I don't think that's a pleasure for anybody, the m-, the mowing." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I love gardens that are well tended, and I just, there's been a few different places I've lived where I've just n-, I don't know whether it's little old ladies living there or what, but you could just tell that they had a love, uh, a love affair with their gardens, with beautiful wild flowers, and just, I love the host of colors that just keep coming all, you know, year long. And, uh, I, I was in England once, and that's one thing that impressed me so much is no matter what size yard somebody had, they had a beautiful garden in it. You know, it could be three feet by four feet or something." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So I do admire that, but I haven't really put, uh, too much energy into it." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "I love gardens that are well tended, and I just, there's been a few different places I've lived where I've just n-, I don't know whether it's little old ladies living there or what, but you could just tell that they had a love, uh, a love affair with their gardens, with beautiful wild flowers, and just, I love the host of colors that just keep coming all, you know, year long. And, uh, I, I was in England once, and that's one thing that impressed me so much is no matter what size yard somebody had, they had a beautiful garden in it. You know, it could be three feet by four feet or something." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So I do admire that, but I haven't really put, uh, too much energy into it." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Course we have two little kids that are two and three years old." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, they help you." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So that has put a crimp in my every activity other than diapers and laundry, I'll tell you." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Course we have two little kids that are two and three years old." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, they help you." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So that has put a crimp in my every activity other than diapers and laundry, I'll tell you." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh dear. Oh but that's nice, you know, I mean the peach tree is, is a start and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Tha-, yeah, that's really lovely. I would love to have different fruit trees. It's, it's been wonderful to have the peaches. They're just delicious. And, we, we ha-, we have, still have to spray some, but we don't have to just asphyxiate ourself with the poison, which is good, because I just, I can't see the point in doing that and eating anything out of it afterwards." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. What about tomatoes, aren't they pretty hardy?" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh dear. Oh but that's nice, you know, I mean the peach tree is, is a start and," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Tha-, yeah, that's really lovely. I would love to have different fruit trees. It's, it's been wonderful to have the peaches. They're just delicious. And, we, we ha-, we have, still have to spray some, but we don't have to just asphyxiate ourself with the poison, which is good, because I just, I can't see the point in doing that and eating anything out of it afterwards." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. What about tomatoes, aren't they pretty hardy?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Um, we've tried them, but again, it's just like the sun scorch." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We've tried them in kind of halfway in the shade and halfway in the s-, I mean it's just, you really, really" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Um, we've tried them, but again, it's just like the sun scorch." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We've tried them in kind of halfway in the shade and halfway in the s-, I mean it's just, you really, really" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "have to be prepared to water constantly during the Summer. People that have been successful out here have done this drip irrigation --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "have to be prepared to water constantly during the Summer. People that have been successful out here have done this drip irrigation --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and installed that, and um, that's really what makes the most sense, because you don't have to use so much water, and --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- it really does the job. But it's just amazing how hot and dry and for how long it gets out here." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and installed that, and um, that's really what makes the most sense, because you don't have to use so much water, and --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- it really does the job. But it's just amazing how hot and dry and for how long it gets out here." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And if you're not really committed to it, I mean, me, I'm, you know, I'm real committed to it for about a week, and then I forget about it for a week, and then I go, Oh, yeah, I need to do something, and by then it's burned up, you know." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's just too distracting right now with these little ones in our lives, so maybe when I get older I'll find, uh, some joy in that." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "And if you're not really committed to it, I mean, me, I'm, you know, I'm real committed to it for about a week, and then I forget about it for a week, and then I go, Oh, yeah, I need to do something, and by then it's burned up, you know." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's just too distracting right now with these little ones in our lives, so maybe when I get older I'll find, uh, some joy in that." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I would a, assume, too, I mean, you've got three or four months you're talking about --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- of, of bad weather." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, I would a, assume, too, I mean, you've got three or four months you're talking about --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- of, of bad weather." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it just gets so hot so fast here. We don't have really a Spring or a Fall --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and it just, uh, immediately heats up. So, that's one thing I miss about living up north, as I remember, um, you know, the long Springs and long Falls and the cooler weather. It was really nice." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it just gets so hot so fast here. We don't have really a Spring or a Fall --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and it just, uh, immediately heats up. So, that's one thing I miss about living up north, as I remember, um, you know, the long Springs and long Falls and the cooler weather. It was really nice." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We always had gardens when I was, uh, living in Chicago. In fact, my mother once tore up our entire back yard," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "and redid it. I'll never forget. Got my stepfather to put in, uh, a waterfall and a little pond in one corner. I mean, that was like the most energy invested in anything in the whole time I ever knew him. They remodeled the entire back yard. Then they sold the house and got divorced, so I don't know what that says about it all." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We always had gardens when I was, uh, living in Chicago. In fact, my mother once tore up our entire back yard," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "and redid it. I'll never forget. Got my stepfather to put in, uh, a waterfall and a little pond in one corner. I mean, that was like the most energy invested in anything in the whole time I ever knew him. They remodeled the entire back yard. Then they sold the house and got divorced, so I don't know what that says about it all." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, dear." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, but she used to love to do stuff like that." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sounds like it would have been pretty." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, dear." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, but she used to love to do stuff like that." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sounds like it would have been pretty." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it really was. I enjoyed it there. But maybe when the boys get a little older, we'll do some more planting, because they like to see things grow. They've done a couple of little seed projects, and so I think it would be fun for them." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, sure, sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, it really was. I enjoyed it there. But maybe when the boys get a little older, we'll do some more planting, because they like to see things grow. They've done a couple of little seed projects, and so I think it would be fun for them." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, sure, sure." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, yeah." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, it sounds like you, you've got your hands full." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yes. They're both running around now." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And, you know, gardening isn't, isn't high on the list, but it's not off the list." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Well, it sounds like you, you've got your hands full." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Oh, yes. They're both running around now." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And, you know, gardening isn't, isn't high on the list, but it's not off the list." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, well, it's very therapeutic, I think, really to get out there and dig in the dirt," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "you know. They certainly enjoy that part of it." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, well, it's very therapeutic, I think, really to get out there and dig in the dirt," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "you know. They certainly enjoy that part of it." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's just trying to keep anything. I planted bulbs last, uh, Fall on the side guard, and when I went out there in the Spring and the first day they came out the little one went and pulled all the flowers off, and the flower petals were scattered all over the walk." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "He thought, what are these fun toys that mommy put out here with all these colors for me to play with?" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "It's just trying to keep anything. I planted bulbs last, uh, Fall on the side guard, and when I went out there in the Spring and the first day they came out the little one went and pulled all the flowers off, and the flower petals were scattered all over the walk." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "He thought, what are these fun toys that mommy put out here with all these colors for me to play with?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "At least he didn't eat them, I mean, I guess I could be thankful for that." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. Maybe next year they'll do better." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, really. If they survive this year. Oh, well, good luck to you." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "At least he didn't eat them, I mean, I guess I could be thankful for that." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Right. Maybe next year they'll do better." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah, really. If they survive this year. Oh, well, good luck to you." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Okay, well, thanks." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Nice talking to you." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "It was nice talking to you too. Bye-bye." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Okay. Well, basically I am a mother of a three year old," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "so I kind of relate to trying to find a good day care because it's, uh, extremely hard thing to do to trust somebody else with your child, uh, trust their emotional and their safety and --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- all the rest of that. And, uh, I've been pretty selective, and what I'm finding is with, um, day cares that are like day care centers like, for instance, uh, Learning Tree or Kinder Care and all of that." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh. Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- all the rest of that. And, uh, I've been pretty selective, and what I'm finding is with, um, day cares that are like day care centers like, for instance, uh, Learning Tree or Kinder Care and all of that." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh. Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh, like nap time or whatever time, uh, because of parents ' hours they are differ, and when I bring my daughter into such a system like that, uh, they only have one thing going on and that's nap time. Everybody is napping," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "whether they came there an hour before or they came a-, right during that time. And with that kind of a system my daughter just isn't likely to enjoy it if she has to good there immediately and lay down," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh, like nap time or whatever time, uh, because of parents ' hours they are differ, and when I bring my daughter into such a system like that, uh, they only have one thing going on and that's nap time. Everybody is napping," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "whether they came there an hour before or they came a-, right during that time. And with that kind of a system my daughter just isn't likely to enjoy it if she has to good there immediately and lay down," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "on a cot. So, um, home day care has been an option. And I've looked into that. The only thing is you raise the question of if it's safe, uh, can you trust the people, you know." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "That's right." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "on a cot. So, um, home day care has been an option. And I've looked into that. The only thing is you raise the question of if it's safe, uh, can you trust the people, you know." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "That's right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Um," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And you never know. I have, um, an ex-sister-in-law that," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Um," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "And you never know. I have, um, an ex-sister-in-law that," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "um, currently has a child abuse case on a home baby-sitter." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure. Oh, sure. Sure. That's really scary. And," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "um, currently has a child abuse case on a home baby-sitter." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Sure. Oh, sure. Sure. That's really scary. And," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "To the point that you kind of say to yourself, especially home day care I mean, I think center day cares there's so many people coming in and out --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that you're better off if you're going to put a child into that type of system for eight hours, it's fine. It depends on the age of the child. Now some children do real well that are at the age of four or five or children that have been in that kind of system for a while but --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "To the point that you kind of say to yourself, especially home day care I mean, I think center day cares there's so many people coming in and out --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- that you're better off if you're going to put a child into that type of system for eight hours, it's fine. It depends on the age of the child. Now some children do real well that are at the age of four or five or children that have been in that kind of system for a while but --" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- home da-, home day care works well if it's an infant. If it's, if it's," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "-- home da-, home day care works well if it's an infant. If it's, if it's," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "The kids have," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Right." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "colds and they're sick all the time and the-," } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "All right, do you want to start out?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Well, it'll be real easy for us," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "because we're both, my husband and I are vegetarians." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, are you really?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So, yeah. So that's the first thing we look for," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh, are you really?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "So, yeah. So that's the first thing we look for," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Oh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "is if we can eat there or not." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Are you strict vegetarians?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We're not vegan vegetarians. We do, we're ovolacto. We do eat, uh, eggs and, and milk products." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "is if we can eat there or not." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Are you strict vegetarians?" }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "We're not vegan vegetarians. We do, we're ovolacto. We do eat, uh, eggs and, and milk products." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I used to be a complete vegan vegetarian," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "I used to be a complete vegan vegetarian," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "where I didn't eat any animal products at all." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "But, um, it was, it's really difficult in the area if you don't have, you know, the products that you can get. And if you go out to dinner, there's virtually, you know, there's not a whole lot of things you can get." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "where I didn't eat any animal products at all." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "But, um, it was, it's really difficult in the area if you don't have, you know, the products that you can get. And if you go out to dinner, there's virtually, you know, there's not a whole lot of things you can get." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "There's very few places that you, I'll bet that you could, uh," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. I think maybe if you were somewhere like California, where they have a lot more vegetarian restaurants --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "There's very few places that you, I'll bet that you could, uh," }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "Yeah. I think maybe if you were somewhere like California, where they have a lot more vegetarian restaurants --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and stuff. But here, basically, you go to an Italian restaurant or you go to a Mexican restaurant," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "you know, where you can get foods that, you know, where you have a little bit more variety as far as the pastas or the --" } ]
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[ { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- and stuff. But here, basically, you go to an Italian restaurant or you go to a Mexican restaurant," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "you know, where you can get foods that, you know, where you have a little bit more variety as far as the pastas or the --" }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- the corn meal, you know," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." } ]
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[ { "speaker": "A", "text": "Uh-huh." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "-- the corn meal, you know," }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "Yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "or something." }, { "speaker": "A", "text": "And you -- -- wouldn't have the meat products in that and some. Yeah." }, { "speaker": "B", "text": "yeah, you have to watch that too. All, you know, some of the restaurants here they will, you know, l-, you can ask them and they'll tell you whether or not they use like lard or," } ]