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Advent 2024 Day 15 is from NYC. Evil Twin NYC has released Walking Down the Streets of NYC with a Christmas Tree Is Completely Normal. This is a NEIPA coming in at 6.5%. It's double dry-hopped with citry and galaxy hops. The result is a very drinkable NEIPA that won't look out of place when you're walking down the streets of NYC with a Christmas tree. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #neipa

On this week's episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree and Justin talk about Path of Exile 2's early access launch, Elder Scrolls Online's anniversary cancelation, EverQuest's latest expansion, the full heat death of ArcheAge, bad MMO monetization, and community temper tantrums. It's the Massively OP Podcast, an action-packed hour of news, tales, opinions, and gamer emails! And remember, if you'd like to send in your question to the show, use this link. Show notes: Intro Adventures in MMOs: WoW Classic, LOTRO, GW2 News: Path of Exile 2 launches into early access News: Elder Scrolls Online cancels its NA anniversary event News: EverQuest releases The Outer Brood News: XLGAMES completely kills ArcheAge in Korea Mailbag: Has bad MMO monetization been normalized? Mailbag: Why do some players throw tantrums over every bit of news? Outro Other info: Podcast theme: "Retrospective" by JJD & Alex Skrindo, provided by NoCopyrightSounds Your show hosts: Justin and Bree Listen to Massively OP Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Player FM, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts, Amazon, and Spotify Follow Massively Overpowered: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch If you're having problems seeing or using the web player, please check your flashblock or scriptblock setting.

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She's baaack! After a month off, Shannon is here to give you all the details of her beautiful, stunning, incredible Italian wedding celebration! Starting with the challenges of packing for an extended trip in Europe and some stress about the little details, Shannon shares the things that went right, and the few things that she would have done differently. From the welcome party to the final reception, this episode walks you through Shannon's wedding experience, the intricate details, the vendors, and honestly, all the parts of pulling together a wedding. She emphasizes her goal of being present for her the day, and shares her splurges, and some costs you might be surprised by. Despite a few mishaps, Shannon reflects on the overwhelming feeling of love and support she felt from her closest family and friends. Tune in for this EXTENDED episode, and every Tuesday for your weekly dose of Probably nonsense.SPONSORS:Get $80 off your first month with promo code SPACE80 at TALKSPACE.COM/PROBABLY.Head to FACTORMEALS.COM/PROBABLY50 for 50% off your first box, and 20% off your second with promo code PROBABLY50.Visit ARTICLE.COM/PROBABLY for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more.To get this new customer offer and your new 3-month premium wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to MINTMOBILE.COM/PROBABLYFor $10 off your first month and free shipping, head to NUTRAFOL.COM and use code PROBABLY.Start earning points on rent you're already paying by going to JOINBILT.COM/PROBABLY.LINKS:Order merch & get your ticket to an upcoming live show!https://linktr.ee/probablyapodcast11/19 - Raleigh11/20 - Atlanta/Alpharetta11/21 - BirminghamGet your Probably A Perfect Packing List: https://shorturl.at/zRTDMTIMESTAMPS:00:00 Introduction and Wedding Overview00:32 Pre-Wedding Preparations and Packing Tips03:24 Traveling to Europe and Wedding Planning07:54 Emotional Moments and Wedding Stress15:06 Welcome Party and Unexpected Challenges23:06 Welcome Party and Final Preparations38:27 A Surprise Special Guest and Details46:06 Getting Ready for the Wedding55:14 A Slight Mishap59:26 Walking Down the Aisle01:09:37 Lucio the Officiant01:12:06 Cocktail Hour and Photo Strategy01:18:15 Fireworks and Club Reception01:24:52 Wedding Budget Insights01:27:42 Bridesmaids and Dress Drama01:30:01 Destination Wedding Tips01:37:26 Final Reflections and GratitudeWEDDING VENDORS:Venue: https://www.instagram.com/marincanto_romantichotel/Photographer: https://www.instagram.com/bushwhacked/Videographer: https://www.instagram.com/lesvaques/Designs by Kitty (Watercolor Menu): https://www.instagram.com/by__kitty/Dinner: https://www.instagram.com/rada_positano_wedding_events/Planners: Val and DanielleGiacomo / The Lord's Boat: https://www.instagram.com/lordsboat/Makeup: https://www.instagram.com/itsmadebybeck/Hair: https://www.instagram.com/hairbynicolasTux rentals: https://generationtux.com/Reception - Music on the Rocks: https://www.instagram.com/musicontherocksofficial/OTHER LINKS:Follow Shannon: https://instagram.com/probablyshannon/Follow Probably A Podcast: https://instagram.com/probablyapodcast/Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/probablyshannonfordFilmed and edited by SocialPodcast.coProduced by Dear MediaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In a select rebroadcast episode, KJ covers the legend of the Gray Man of Pawleys Island, SC. Bill covers a Bigfoot encounter beautiful Washington State that includes hikers getting a good long look at two Bigfoot walking down a trail for greater than 1000 yards. And some great listener mail. Please join us!Thank you for listening!www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.comProduced by: "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."

1. The rich young ruler - Mark 10:17-222. The pharisee in the temple - Luke 18:9-143. Nicodemus the clergyman - John 3:1,2

W/C 19th August 2024This has to be one of the nicest spots I have published a podcast from. I am sat overlooking the sea at the Cafe Iconic in Sant Antoni de Calonge, for no other reason than I need to immerse myself in there Wi-Fi gratis.We are getting to the back-end of what has been a fantastic time in Catalonia, firstly in Girona and latterly at the coast around Palamos. This really is a very special place to spend some time, and a reminder of how life is shaped by the local climate. The promenade is currently dense with a mixture of runners and walkers - everybody seemingly in transit to somewhere else - in a way I would not expect back home at 8am on a Saturday.For someone who likes to observe human behaviour, it's a joy to watch how the world spins and all the local interactions and peculiarities.But enough of this whimsy, I have a croissant to finish, and a café amb llet to start, and if that wasn't enough there is a game of beach paddle (or is it padel) that is reaching a thrilling climax.Stay safe.Walking Down Your Street - The BanglesTherapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.If you want to keep in touch with TFM and the other stuff I do then please follow me on Facebook, Insta, Twitter or Patreon. Thanks for getting this far.

Returning to Italy after years brings a mix of nostalgia and fresh experiences. The blend of familiar streets, old friends, and the distinct flavors of Italian cuisine is both comforting and exhilarating. Visiting Rovigo, my Italian "hometown," and reconnecting with friends while experiencing life in Italy has made this trip special. Spending time here, collaborating on the Italian Citizenship and Real Estate Podcasts with my good friend Marco Permunian, adds layers to my experience of expat life in Italy. Despite changes over time, the deep connection I feel to this place remains strong, making every moment rich and something I might be able to reccomend for anyone considering expat life in Italy. If you find these episodes of Not Your Average Globetrotter helpful, entertaining and/or if you feel as if I've helped you save time, headaches, or legal fees, please consider making a monthly pledge on Patreon and becoming a monthly patron to help make more videos like this possible:

"Man that assassination thing with Trump was so freaky," said Carl while stepping over a woman in a hijab clutching a dead child to her chest. Reading by Tim Foley.

Do you have a favourite street you like walking down? You don't know why: is it the width of the pavement, the way the trees are growing, or the dimensions of the buildings? For Sally Lewis, an urban designer and architect, answering these questions fills much of her day. Originally, Sally's father refused to support her studying architecture at university in South Africa, telling her there were no successful female architects. But she proved that she could, graduating as one of the top students, before going on to win a scholarship to study for an MA in urban design in the UK.Since then, Sally has transformed her vision into an award winning practice, Stitch, initially refinancing her home to enable the start-up of the business. Her passion didn't stop there; she also founded a charity, The London Neighbourhood Scholarship Trust, to help underprivileged individuals pursue studies in architecture. Sally is also a published author who continues to indulge in her love of writing whenever she finds a spare moment.The shortage of housing was a hot issue in the recent UK elections, but it's also a global concern. Sally's insights into the challenges of building large-scale housing are both timely and relevant. Listen here for an intriguing journey that takes us from the port of Durban, South Africa, to London via Oxford.For more information on Sally Lewis: https://stitcharchitects.co.ukFor more information on One Precious Life: https://onepreciouslife.substack.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit onepreciouslife.substack.com

In this episode, we explore the powerful lesson behind an encounter on a dark street that led to a profound understanding of human perspectives. Inspired by a personal blog, we delve into the importance of letting go of judgment and the instinct to defend ourselves. Instead, we highlight the significance of respecting everyone's right to their own opinion. Join us as we discuss how our past experiences shape our reactions, and why it's crucial to approach differences with empathy and curiosity. Discover how a simple story of a dog on a dark street can teach us to embrace compassion and understanding in our interactions with others.

“Trust your partner. Trust the mom. They know things better than you do.”Meagan's husband, Ric, joins the podcast today as they celebrate their VBA2C baby's 8th birthday! Ric gives the perspective from the partner's side of things as they both share details of Webster's birth story. He talks about some not-so-proud moments and is the first to admit how little he knew about how to support a VBA2C labor– especially one that went over 40 hours! But through it all, Ric came to understand the importance of doulas and how magical it can be to have not one but five doulas! He agrees that the births of each of their children ultimately was a special journey and brought the two of them closer together. Needed WebsiteHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode Details 01:17 Review of the Week04:10 Deciding to birth out of the hospital06:35 Agreeing on a birth center10:57 PROM for the third time15:05 Laboring loudly20:23 Relying on the doulas28:33 Navigating doubt and transition on the toilet34:25 Pushing Webb out in three pushes37:08 Passing out after birth40:37 It takes a village42:45 Ric's advice to other dadsMeagan: Today is my VBAC baby's birthday. I cannot believe that it has been 8 years since that little boy joined our family and today I wanted to share or reshare his story. I know I've done it in the past, but I invited my husband, Ric, to share the story again for you and maybe I might just give him a couple of questions and see how he felt about it from his perspective. When we were going through pregnancy and preparing for me, it was just like, This is what I want to do. This is what I want to do. I would always go and say, “Hey, these are my thoughts”, and to be honest, I don't know if I even gave him a ton of opportunity to share his exact thoughts because I was so driven and just wanted to get this.We are going to dive more into his thoughts and his perspective on the birth because we know so many dads out there are also a little hesitant when it comes to the idea of VBAC because the world as we know it talks about VBAC in a very poor manner and it can be a very scary thought. So we will be diving into that today in just one moment.01:17 Review of the WeekMeagan: We have a Review of the Week so I wanted to get to that before we get into Webster's birth story. This is from Katiewarren11. It says, “I wish I would have found this sooner.” It says, “I love the show. I wish I would have heard these before my last baby. I was planning for a VBAC 7 years after my first baby and just thought it would happen. I didn't realize I might have to fight for it.” That just gave me the chills. It says, “I got to the week of my due date and my body didn't seem at all ready. Then they were estimating her to be 9 pounds, 12 ounces, and the doctor told me, ‘No option. You are getting a C-section.' After listening to these stories, I now know that there were other options.”Thank you, Katiewarren11, for sharing your review. I want you to know that you are not alone. There are so many of us who get to the point at the end of our due date. We are being told that our babies are too big or our bodies aren't working because they are not dilated yet or whatever it may be. There are lots of scenarios that people are told, but there are options. You have options and that is definitely what this podcast is about is helping you learn and grow and know your options. So thank you, Kate, again, and as always, if you have one moment, we would love to hear your review of the show. It really does help the show grow. It helps other Women of Strength find these stories and help them know their options as well. You can do that on Apple Podcasts. You can even Google “The VBAC Link” and leave us a review there or if you would like, you can email us a review and let us know what your thoughts are. We always throw those into our spreadsheet as well. Thank you so much. 04:10 Deciding to birth out of the hospitalMeagan: Okay, you guys. As I mentioned, I have my husband, Ric. Hey, hon. Ric:  Hello, everyone. Meagan: I'm sure he is just so excited that he is here. But really, I wanted to go through the experience from your perspective on VBAC and not only just the birth but also before and us deciding to birth out of the hospital. I was already kind of a crazy pants when we were trying to conceive because we really wanted a boy so I was really dialed into that. Then once we found out we were pregnant, I really, really just wanted to find someone to help me through the journey of VBAC. I interviewed many, many, many providers in fact, even before I was pregnant. We know on the show, I have talked about it, that it is really important to interview and look for providers before you are pregnant if you can but I ended up finding a provider actually just right after I found out I was pregnant or right before I found out I was pregnant. We went in and it seemed like a really great fit. Ric, you seemed like you were pretty on board with the provider shift at that point. ric: Yeah, I mean those who know Meagan know that when she is passionate about something, it is very unlikely that she will be turned away. Meagan: Convinced otherwise. Ric: Convinced otherwise so I just kind of went with the flow. But yeah, the provider seemed great. You seemed happy which was most important. Meagan: Yeah. And just kind of a quick little back summary, how did you feel about the C-sections? Did they bug you at all? Did they affect you at all? Did they just seem normal?Ric: Yeah, I mean, I didn't know anything other than the C-sections so it was normal. It was just that you were very unhappy with them which was hard for me. It was hard because I was stoked that we had the babies and you were upset with yourself, with the provider, and I didn't share those feelings because I didn't know. Meagan: Yeah, It was hard because like you said, we were so happy that we had our baby but I was in this cloud of doom and just and unsettled cloud. Ric: Dissatisfied. Meagan: Yeah, I was dissatisfied. 06:35 Agreeing on a birth centerMeagan: Okay, so we found this provider and everything is going really great. This provider at the time was the VBAC provider in Utah. Everybody went to him and he was amazing. He flat-out said after reviewing my op-reports that my pelvis was too small and my baby would probably never come out of my pelvis and that my body didn't know how to dilate, he really agreed that I probably just wasn't given a fair chance and he didn't understand why we wouldn't be able to go forward.But at 24 weeks, I attended a birth just before that with a midwife out of the hospital that blew me away. I immediately knew that I wanted to go talk to her which was kind of interesting because we never really discussed birthing outside of the hospital, but I went and met with her and I told you, “Hey, I want to birth out of the hospital.” Now, you knew nothing but C-sections. You were okay with me finding a provider, but how did you feel about the idea of birthing outside of the hospital?Ric: I don't think I was that excited about it. I was okay switching providers, but not being in the hospital was worrisome. I actually think, didn't you broach the subject on birthing from home? Meagan: I think I did. Ric: I immediately put the kibosh on that. Meagan: You were like, “No.” Ric: So I think when you initially discussed birthing outside of a hospital, you gave a couple of options of a birth center or a birth from home so I completely– that was too big of a jump for me from hospital to home so we went and did we go to multiple birth centers or just one? Meagan: We just went to one and we interviewed with a different provider than the one I met, but it was at the same birth center that the provider I met would have birthed at so we met with another midwife at the birth center. Ric: Right. It was awesome. Meagan: It was awesome.Ric: No, the midwife was cool too. She was great. Meagan: Yeah, she was really awesome. Yeah. So as we were there, did you feel like, Oh, okay. Once you saw it, did you feel more comfortable? Ric: Yeah, because it seemed more medical. I don't know the word for it, but it just seemed like, Oh, hey. Things looked sterile which was a big deal for me and it just made it seem like, Yeah, it's not the hospital, but– can I swear on the podcast? Meagan: Yeah, sure. Ric: –if shit hit the fan, then we were in a better circumstance than trying to find gauze and stuff at our home. Meagan: At our home, yeah. Which for those who are birthing at home, typically your midwives would bring all of that to the birth but we didn't even get there for me to explain that. Ric: I don't need to know if I would have even let you. Meagan: Get to that point? Ric: Yeah. Meagan: Okay, so then fast forward. Labor begins. Actually, we hired a doula. Ric: A doula? Meagan: Multiple doulas.Ric: You had these two mentors in the doula community here and you said, “I definitely want to hire them,” so we did. Those two mentors were in a group of three. Not only that, your really good buddy who became a doula at about the same time and had gone through the doula course with you wanted to attend, and then your cousin who is about as much of a doula as you can be without being a doula– Meagan: Seriously, yeah. Ric: Also had to attend the birth. Plus the midwife–Meagan: And the assistant. Ric: And the assistant. There were a lot of people in the room. Meagan: There were a lot of people in the room.Ric: Initially when you said, “Hey, look. We are going to hire a doula,” because you were doing the stuff, I was totally on board. I had no idea how many doulas would actually show up. Meagan: Yeah. Ric: But they did and it was fine. Meagan: It was great. And rewinding back, remember back with Lyla when I asked you if we could hire a doula or bridge that, you weren't super keen on that idea. Ric: I don't remember that conversation.Meagan: You don't. Ric: But I remember our nurse being a doula. Meagan: Yes. Ric: And she was awesome. Meagan: She was fantastic. Ric: And that solidified your desire to be a doula. Yeah. Meagan: Absolutely. 10:57 PROM for the third timeMeagan: Okay, so with all three of our kids, I for some reason have PROM. If you don't know what PROM means, that's the premature rupture of membranes. My water broke with each kiddo and my body took its sweet old time to kick into labor. They say only 10% of women will experience that, but we are 3 for 3. Ric: Do they know the story about where I was when your water broke with Lyla? Meagan: No, I don't know. That was another reason why I wish we had a doula. So going back to Lyla's birth, my second C-section–Ric: Kind of just showing the progress of where Meagan began as a, “Hey, look. I trust my doctors. I'm going to do everything that they say on the first birth.” The second birth opened my eyes as to how Meagan was going to control the situation as much as she possibly could. So yeah, tell them where I was when your water broke. Meagan: So you were in Texas when my water broke with Lyla. As he mentioned, my cousin is pretty much a doula without the doula training and she just is so loving and caring. She was really excited because we wanted this VBAC. I wanted this VBAC really, really badly. So yeah. Ric was out of town and my water broke. I was like, “Uh, you should probably come home.” Nothing was really happening at all really. I was just leaking. Yeah. You got home probably 6-7 hours later. Ric: No, it was about 10. Meagan: Was it about 10? Ric: Yes and I assumed you were going to go to the hospital. Meagan: Yeah, you were not happy when I was not at the hospital when you got home. Ric: I walked in and you were sitting there naked in the bathtub and I'm like, “What in the world are you doing? You are supposed to be in the hospital. Your water broke.” Because for me, your water breaks, you go to the hospital. For Meagan, that's not necessarily the case. Meagan: Well, yeah. I think going back to what you were saying, a lot of providers actually say, “If your water breaks, come right in,” even if labor is not going on. Through my research with Lyla and the VBAC, I realized that I didn't necessarily need to just run right into the hospital. I checked my vitals. All was well. Everything was good, so we stayed and labored at home. Plus, I was waiting for you to get in town. Ric: Yeah, but it kind of prepped me for what the next birth was going to look like. Obviously, that birth ended up in another C-section and you were really disappointed after that one. You worked really, really hard. Meagan: I was, yeah. Ric: Then with the next one, when you were going through options of birth centers, doulas, and midwives, that instance where I flew home in an emergency fashion as quickly as I could and came home to find you in the bathtub realizing, Meagan is going to do what Meagan wants to do. Meagan: Yeah, so when I told you, “Hey, let's birth out of the hospital”, did you feel like, She is going to do whatever she wants to do anyway? Or were you more comfortable with the birth centers? Were you okay with that? Ric: Yeah. It's hard to tell you no, but when we went to the birth center, I did feel significantly better about having a birth there. Meagan: Yeah. What had you heard about or had you heard anything about VBAC just in general? Ric: Nothing. Meagan: So you didn't really hear a ton. Ric: Other than what I heard from you. Meagan: So you didn't hear anything scary. Ric: No. Meagan: Okay, because a lot of dads out there do hear when they say, “Oh, my wife wants to VBAC,” people are like, “Oh my gosh. It's so scary.” I think that can be really hard especially if their partner is saying, “Hey. I want to birth out of hospital.”15:05 Laboring loudlyMeagan: Okay, so my water broke with Webb at 3:00 AM or something like that. Yeah, what do you remember about that? My water broke in the middle of the night. I don't even think I told you until I woke up. Do you remember anything about that?Ric: With Web, that was where you labored forever, right?Meagan: Yeah, 42 hours. Ric: I don't remember that first morning. I remember the next night. Meagan: Yeah. Ric: Didn't Hillary– Hillary is her cousin, everyone. Hillary showed up at 6:00 in the morning and you guys went out and walked around the neighborhood. Meagan: Yeah, so the night–Ric: The first night?Meagan: No, that was the second morning, yes. My water broke and again, I had PROM so I was so frustrated. I was 40 weeks and 3 days or 4 days. I had him at 40 weeks and 5 days. We had a visit with Danielle and my water had broken. I was sort of contracting a little bit here and there. I asked if you would come up to Park City with me. We went up to Park City and I went in and I did my regular visit and then she said, “You're going to Christine.” Christine, at the time, was my chiropractor so we went to the chiropractor. You got me a Jamba and we drove back down the mountain and came home. My body just really wasn't going into labor. It was taking its time so I went and I took a nap which is really hard to do when you are in labor because your mind is so excited and you just want to have a baby, but I needed to nap so I went in and I napped. It's weird. I can even picture exactly how our room was set up that day. I took a snooze and woke up and I was sort of starting to contract. I actually went out into the driveway and threw a tantrum. Do you remember me throwing a tantrum in the driveway?Ric: No. Was I working? Was I at home?Meagan: You were at home. I threw a tantrum that my water broke. I was triggered. I was like, “This is going to be the same. I'm going to have another C-section.” I was just so upset. I remember our next-door neighbor had this big pine tree and they were watching me throw this insane tantrum in our driveway. But yeah, so then that night, that's when you said you started remembering. My cousin came over for a little bit and actually, my doula came over and was doing some rebozo work and some things, but then they left and I really wanted to labor in my son's room, in our baby's room. Ric: Yeah, but wasn't Hillary there at that time? Meagan: She was for a little bit, uh-huh. You ended up going to sleep because you were super tired and again, labor wasn't super happening. I had Hillary there. We were just hanging out. That's when you came in with a pillow. Ric: Guys, so I mean, it's not a big house but we've got enough space where you can spread out so you don't have to wake everybody up with your– can I say moaning? Meagan: I was moaning. I was moaning to cope through. At that point, I was contracting. Ric: Yeah, so there were three bedrooms right next to each other, but we had a whole family room on the other side of the house and she could have done that and not woken everybody up, but instead– Meagan: I just woke you up. Ric: You were so loud though. You were so loud and can I make the noise? Can I pretend? Meagan: Oh my gosh, sure. But you are going to be dramatizing it. Ric: No. No. You exaggerate pain so much. Meagan: I don't think so. Ric: You think you are great at handling it but–Meagan: I am. Ric: You obviously are enough, but the way you are great at it is by being really loud. Meagan: Posterior baby, everybody just to let you know. Ric: I don't know what that means. But you were contracting every 5 minutes or so– Meagan: Yeah, every 5-8. Oh my gosh. Ric: That's exactly how it was and it was loud and you were in the room right next door to our two little girls and right across the hall from me so I was super frustrated because I was exhausted and I couldn't sleep and of all of the places you decided to labor, it was right next to everyone so I came in with a pillow and threw it in your face and said, “Muffle yourself.” Meagan: Oh my gosh. This was not the brightest moment. Ric: This is why you hire a doula because sometimes dads just don't get it. Meagan: Just don't get it. And you were tired. It was really late. Ric: You don't need to excuse me. I was being a complete jerk. Meagan: But this is why I love that it is from your perspective because in my perspective, I was not that loud. I was moaning for sure. I was coping. Oh my gosh. I had so much back labor, but yeah. It was so funny. 20:23 Relying on the doulasMeagan: You throw the pillow at my face. You walk out and you leave and Hillary, my cousin, was like, “Oh no he didn't.” She was laughing. So we continued. We definitely were just quieter. I don't know. Ric: No, you didn't leave the room. Meagan: No, we didn't. Ric: You were so stubborn. You were so stubborn. You probably were louder after that because you were so mad. Meagan: When you find a space where you want to labor and are coping really well, you stay. Then the next morning came around and one of my doulas was up in the canyon so she was not even getting a ton of messages and didn't have service. She was coming down and obviously the texts were blowing up so she started texting me and said, “Why don't we call the midwife and see? Maybe we should plan on heading there.” Like Ric said, my cousin and I decided to go walk. It was 6:00 in the morning and my cousin and I decided to go walk around the block. Man, my labor totally picked up after walking. We were doing curb walks. You go up and down the curbs. We were just walking and it was such a beautiful morning, absolutely beautiful. The birds were chirping. It was July 1st. It was such a great time of year. We actually had gone to the birth center the night before to go get checked. I don't remember if you remember that and they placed a Foley balloon which is a catheter that they can fill up with saline that pushes pressure on the cervix to try and help dilate so I think it was 1 centimeter or something like that. But it popped on the way, so nothing really happened. The next morning, we went in. It was 9:00 AM and we met everybody there. My cousin had left at this point. Maybe she had stayed for a little bit actually, and then my doulas were there so like Ric said, there were just so many people there. Do you remember arriving and anything about that?Ric: No, I don't actually. The part that I do remember is hanging out outside of the birth center with Robin who is my favorite and just watching her. She just had her hands on your belly and was just calming you down. Meagan: Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to rewind a little bit. We get to the birth center. She does. She did do a cervical exam and she said, “All right. We're going to stay. Let's go upstairs.” So we go upstairs. At that point, she didn't tell me what I was dilated to but I knew I was dilated enough to stay. For me, dilation was a big mental block because I had never made it past 3 before. I had never made it past 70% effaced either. I was told on my op reports. I don't know if you remember that day that I got the op reports and I was just crying and so upset, but I was told on those op reports that I was failure to progress and that my pelvis was too small. I was just worried about dilating but at the same time, it gave me some oomph because she said, “Let's go. Let's go upstairs.” So we went upstairs. I later learned that I was 4 centimeters which was huge and yeah. My baby just really was posterior and really having a hard time turning. We did the stairs. We walked up and down the stairs and like Ric said, we went outside and we went underneath this beautiful tree. I sat on a peanut ball or I sat on a ball and my one doula was behind me holding my belly. You were there and then I had another doula keeping me hydrated. It was just a beautiful time. It was a beautiful time. I really liked it. Yeah, then we went in and I feel like that's from the point we went in, it started getting a little bit more serious but you hadn't eaten. It was like, Okay if we are going to take a turn, we need to get Ric food because we are going to have a baby soon. Do you remember that you left for a little while? Do you remember leaving? Ric: I don't. No, I do remember leaving because that's when I came back and everybody had shown up. Everybody had shown up. Meagan: Everybody was there, everybody. Yeah, so you left which was nice that you were able to leave and decompress and maybe reset. Did it feel good to be able to leave? Did you feel nervous leaving?Ric: No, again, the benefit of having Robin there. Robin was kind of the main doula for me. She was always the one who would talk to me and make sure that I was doing okay which I was. Meagan: Which is good to know because I think that hours and hours and hours into labor, you could have easily been freaking out. Ric: Yeah, I don't know why. It was just calming. Meagan: It felt calming. Ric: It just seemed we had a bunch of hands on deck that could have handled any situation that presented itself. So yeah, I remember coming back. Did you move to the room with the bed? Meagan: Mhmm. I had. I was getting counterpressure. Ric: I walked in and there was Courtney, Robin, Hillary, Angie, Danielle– there were five. Yeah. Meagan: You said Courtney, yeah. Ric: There were five women there. Meagan: Surrounding. Ric: I walked in and there was such a relief. I didn't have to do a thing. I was like, I can just sit. Because I think I brought my food. I just sat and ate and watched as you were getting pampered. You were getting attended to by these amazing women. Meagan: Such a princess. Really, there was a point where all of them like you said, all hands were on deck. They were all giving me counterpressure. They were all doing something. After you ate, do you remember when I was like, “I need Ric”?Ric: Yeah, for some reason I've got magic fists. Meagan: You have strength. Ric: I basically punched my wife in the lower back over and over and over again. Just as hard and as much pressure as possible. For some reason, it worked for her. Those women are way stronger than a man. Meagan: They are so incredible. Ric: Yeah, but I remember we would go between there and the bathroom that had the bathtub. I remember for a second we filled up the bathtub. You hung out in the bathtub for a while. Meagan: Yeah. Ric: And just kind of sat there. You obviously kept working yourself up because the progress wasn't quick enough. Baby wasn't coming fast enough. You were obviously uncomfortable. Meagan: Yeah, it had been at least 35 hours at this point of being in that tub. Ric: Yeah, so you just kept trying to find the spot where you felt would trigger things for the labor and get the labor going. Meagan: Yeah, I was really trying to get that baby to rotate. I was trying to move. Every five contractions, I would re-position myself in that tub. Eventually, I got out. Ric: Yeah, we went back into the bedroom and that's when Robin pulled me aside– or maybe it was Danielle– I think it was Robin who pulled me aside and she was like, “Hey, you were very much in your own head and starting to doubt yourself.” Meagan: I was, yeah. 28:33 Navigating doubt and transition on the toiletRic: Robin said, “Hey, I think we need to leave.” Meagan: We might need to leave, yeah. Ric: No, no, no, no, no. Meagan: Oh, I don't know. I shouldn't correct you. Ric: She was saying that the girls needed to leave like all of the women needed to leave and it just needed to be me and you. So we hung out for a little bit longer. We went back into the bathroom. Do you remember fainting on the toilet? Meagan: That was after the birth, but yes. Ric: That was after birth. Meagan: So it was just you and I. What happened was you all went out and Danielle and I were in the bathroom and she did an NST on me. She was just checking on the baby to make sure he was doing okay and  he was doing fantastic. Ric: What's an NST? Meagan: A non-stress test. They did a non-stress test on him and he was doing great. Everything was great. We weren't having issues. I didn't have any fever because again, it had been many hours since my water had broken and I'm assuming that's when you were being talked to and then I remember Danielle taking the machine out, going out and you coming in. It was just you and me. I was on the toilet. I was facing backward– the dilation station– and I was really hot. That position is a really good one though. It really opens the hips. It just helps. So I was there and I had a backpack– or not a backpack. I had a pillow. Ric: You had everything. Meagan: Yeah, I had a pillow and then you were keeping me cool with rags and stuff. There were some pictures of you even touching me and just your touch was so amazing and did so much for me. I remember just absolutely loving it. I think that's even more of why I was like, “I need Ric,” for counterpressure. Yes, your counterpressure was incredible, but I just needed your touch too. Anyway, but yeah, we were in the bathroom for a bit. It felt like a little bit. Ric: Yeah, and you really started doubting yourself. Meagan: I really was getting down. She had just done an NST and she said the NST was great, but I was thinking, Whatever. They're going to transfer me. I'm going to have a C-section. Ric: The one lady had come in and said that you should transfer so a midwife who wasn't our midwife who was at the center–Meagan: With another mom.Ric: I think she was frustrated that we were taking so long. Meagan: She was. Ric: But she had mentioned the hospital word and that really set you off. Meagan: That really impacted me. Ric: You immediately started feeling doubt in yourself. Up until this point, I don't think you had. Meagan: In my head, I was like, Oh my gosh. This is taking forever and it's getting really strong but we're not getting anywhere. I was thinking that, but when she said the word– I remember she wasn't very great. Her bedside manner was not very great. She checked me and I was 6 centimeters which was great, but I had been just lagging. She was like, “I think it's time to go to the hospital,” or something like that. I think that's when she told the midwife and the midwife came in and did the NST. But we were in there and one of our other doulas came in, Angie. I turned to her and said, “Are they going to transfer me?” She just said honestly which I really appreciated, and I really encourage doulas if you are listening, to be honest with your clients. Honesty is so important. She just said, “They are looking at things. It's one of the things they may consider.” I was like, “Okay. We've got to do something here.” Ric: No, that's not what you did. Meagan: In my head, that was what I was thinking. Ric: You got really down on yourself. Meagan: I did. Ric: This is when I turned into super-Meagan. I was like, “No. You can do this. You've got this. You worked so hard. You've done everything in your power to have the baby here. Let's have the baby here. You keep doing what you are doing and it will happen.” That was the one time when I think I was the one who was pushing more for having the VBAC than you were and was it 5 minutes later when Danielle came in and said, “All right, we're good.” Meagan: Well, yeah. She came in. She had me turn around. Ric: You had been checked. Sorry, let's go back a little bit. Right before it was just you and I in the bathroom, you had been checked and you were like an 8.5 or a 9. Meagan: Oh, yes. I was a 6 when the other midwife checked. She had checked me right before. Ric: Probably a half hour past. Meagan: Yeah. Ric: Then right before we were left alone in the bathroom, Danielle came in and checked you and you were like a 9. I don't know what everything else means, but I don't think that Webb was in a great position though. Meagan: He wasn't. I don't know if you remember, but first of all, I was already having back labor. Now my baby was really low. I was dilated pretty far and I wanted to push. I don't know if you remember. I was trying to push, but they were like, “You're not dilated.”Ric: You thought you were going to go to the bathroom. Meagan: Yeah, so I was living on the toilet then she came in and I think that they had been listening. It really wasn't that long. Yeah. She checked me and what she did was she kind of advanced my cervix. I was 9 centimeters. My baby was posterior and she stretched my cervix over his head. Ric: Yeah. Meagan: She manually brought me to a 10. Ric: She assisted. 34:25 Pushing Webb out in three pushesMeagan: As soon as she did that, it was like, Oh my gosh. This baby is coming. Everybody flooded. Ric: She brought in the stool. Meagan: Yeah, she brought in the stool and everybody flooded in the bathroom. It was insane. There were so many people in this small bathroom. Yeah. I sat on the stool and you were right behind me. I think I put at least one of my feet on someone's shoulder. Ric: Courtney. Meagan: Maybe. Courtney was taking pictures. Ric: I don't know. Meagan: Yeah. I don't know either but yeah. I put my foot on someone and I started pushing. She was like, “Let's have a baby.” I still in that moment was like, No. It's not going to happen. This isn't happening. How am I pushing a baby out now? It was so– I don't know if it's euphoric but it was really weird. Ric: It was exciting. Meagan: It was super exciting but I didn't believe it. I didn't believe that what was happening was happening. Ric: I did. I remember they asked me if I wanted to catch the baby and then they asked if you wanted to catch the baby which because of where you were at on the stool, you weren't able to. Meagan: Yeah. Yeah. I pushed and within one push, he made really great progress. He had rotated. He had rotated because I did not give birth to him posterior. He had rotated and yeah. It was one push with major movement. The second push had major movement then I just remember I was sitting there. It was really quiet and there was another mom in the next room also pushing. She was a VBAC and I was like, I'm going to have this baby before her. I made it a competition a little bit. It seemed like we were kind of on and off. When I was pushing, she was not. When she was pushing, I wasn't. With the next contraction, Danielle looked at me. I remember her eyes and I was like, It's going to happen. I felt it. I felt a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure. I pushed him out, pulled him up, put him on my chest, and I don't know. Were you crying? Ric: No. You were. Meagan: I was bawling. Everybody else I feel like was bawling, just all of the women in the room who had just gone through this whole experience with me, not just the labor but the journey of wanting the VBAC and then also as a doula watching me want this VBAC. So anyway, we were all crying and then you'll have to say. I don't know what happened. 37:08 Passing out after birthRic: Yeah, you passed out. I was behind you with my arms around you and the baby. You had been crying and with the emotion, with all of the hard work, you suddenly just went limp. So I had just told one of the doulas, “Hey, can one of you guys grab the kid because Meagan just passed out and we need to wake her up?” They grabbed Webb and–Meagan: Gave him to you, right? Ric: No. Meagan: Oh, really? Ric: No, I hung out with you while they had the baby. Meagan: Oh, I didn't know that. Ric: You came to and did they start? I remember they cut the umbilical cord. Meagan: Yeah, because they took the baby. They cut the umbilical cord. I saw pictures of you holding the baby and me on the ground. Ric: I was just focused on you because you had passed out. Meagan: I just assumed they handed the baby to you. Ric: Eventually. Meagan: Okay, yeah. So yeah. I don't know. I woke up pretty quickly. It was pretty quick it seemed like. Ric: Yeah. Meagan: But yeah, then I was just on the floor and I was just beaming and laughing and just so stinking happy. And then we went into the bedroom and I nursed for a while and was doing really, really well. They were like, “Okay. Let's get you to the bathroom and showered and then you can go home.” What happened?Ric: You passed out again. Meagan: I passed out again. Ric: Yep. You woke up on the floor. You had just sat up on the side of the bed and you passed out. This is when I did have Webb in my hands at this time and you passed out. Luckily, another doula had come so we had a fresh one, Rachel. You woke up laughing. You were like, “Oh, I'm on the floor again.” Meagan: I was like, “Why does this keep happening?” Ric: But you really wanted to go to the bathroom so we went. You and I just went to the bathroom. You sat down on the potty and you passed out again. Meagan: Yeah, and Robin came in. I remember waking up and you and Robin were right there. Ric: Yeah. We had to pick you up so we hung out in the birth center a lot longer than we would have. Meagan: Than normal.Ric: I think you ended up going to sleep. Meagan: I did. Ric: Because I was next to you and then Webb was between us. I was super worried about rolling over on him or you rolling over on him, but I think we hung out there for a couple of hours. They checked on him. They checked on you and then I just remember how amazing it was to go home that night. Meagan: Yeah. Ric: I mean, it was later. I think it was 11:00 at night. Meagan: He was born at 5:30 and it was like 11:00 that we were finally stable enough to go home. Ric: It was so odd to be told, “Hey, look. You can go home now.” He didn't have to wait in the nursery. He didn't have to do any of that. We were just able to go home. We came home. We had the crib in our room. We put him in the crib and we slept great that night. Meagan: Yeah, we did. Ric: He did too. He did awesome. I think he woke up once or twice to feed, but he was so calm. 40:37 It takes a villageRic: From my perspective, seeing you accomplish what you wanted and for those of you who are unaware, I told Meagan unequivocally that this was our last child, so this was her last opportunity. She wouldn't have had another opportunity after this. So it was really fun to see you accomplish what you had wanted to accomplish. It truly did. It took a village. You had so much help. We had so much help. I had no idea what I was doing and it was awesome because I had no idea what I was doing and everybody else who was there knew exactly what they were doing and they did such a good job. Meagan: Yeah, so obviously you would advocate for a doula. Ric: Oh, 100%. When people come up to me and ask what a doula is, I tell them it's what the perfect partner would be and how they would act and how they would treat their partner during birth. Meagan: Mhmm. Ric: So yeah, they were fantastic. Again, being able to leave and come back knowing that you were 100% taken care of– obviously, I had my spot there. I don't feel like I was minimized or my role was minimized at all. There were a bunch of times where you would have me step in when I needed to get in there and help, but I was able to focus on being there for you and they were able to show me, “Hey, look Ric. Here's where she wants you to push.” I remember that. You had showed and I think Robin or Angie said, “Hey, this is the spot where you need to push.” I remember when we were out under the tree, I was able to look at you because Robin was holding you from behind and that was a big deal because I remember Robin was obviously there and it was just serene having her with us, but it very much felt like a moment between just you and I because we were able to just sit there and be with each other and talk to each other. Meagan: Yeah. Yeah. It just helped the connection and the bond and everything. I just love doulas so much. I love you and I am so grateful that we were able to have this journey together. 42:45 Ric's advice to other dadsMeagan: Do you have any advice to a dad who may be in the spot that I put you in? Ric: Yeah, I'm sorry. First and foremost, I apologize to you because that's rough. It's a rough spot to be in. No, honestly, trust your partner. Trust the mom. They know things better than you do and again, for us, it's really easy because you get your way 99% of the time in our marriage but seeing how things ended and how everything happened, it just showed me that yeah, I can trust her and I know that she's listening to her body and she'll know what needs to happen. Meagan: I love that you point out that I was listening to my body. I think that can be a hard thing for any dad or partner to understand because there is this weird, innate thing inside of us. It just felt so right to birth vaginally after two C-sections and then it also felt right to birth out of the hospital. So thank you for supporting me through all of that and for being there. I can't believe our baby boy is 8 years old today so happy birthday, Webster. We love you so stinking much. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. 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We are not experts and the information is not designed to serve as legal, financial, or tax advice. Always do your own research and due diligence before making a decision.     Transcript from YouTube hey Jason and Laura welcome back to the travel tips segment of the travel path podcast yes thank you for having us stat nice to talk again yes if you guys haven't heard we had episode 13 Jason lore and their daughter Alexis came on the show talking about their 75-day road trip they took with the three of them and their dog Polly um they talked about everything from the frustrations some of the hurdles and obstacles traveling with children so if you're looking to get into an extended road trip with kids definitely check that one out today travel tips we're talking about one destination they know best so Laura and Jason what are we talking about today the Florida Keys awesome I'm particularly excited about this because that is very high on my list where we're going to end up for a little while at some point this year but tell us why this is such a important special place for you guys I think just it's very versatile I feel like there's just there's a lot out there and there's a lot of availability and um it just it's a great it's a fun place you feel like you're on vacation it's one of those plac as you go and you're like okay I'm on vacation and you can drive there and you can drive there it's accessible I would say and uh you you feel like you are far far away from anything normal absolutely now obviously this is a great vacation destination if you want warm weather this is exactly where you should go but what would you say for someone who wants what type of experience who should go to the Florida Keys well and that's great because like it's be there's Beach there's a lot of water sports but there's tons of like history there as well that's super interesting if people are you know it's not our thing but people just like to go bar hopping I mean you can't beat Deval Street and Key West or fishing a lot of people go fishing is huge um but again she mentioned the history the beaches there's not a ton of beaches actually in the keys people might think oh there's beaches there's not a ton of beaches we'll mention we can mention some few of those that we like and but again it's there's a lot to offer for a lot of different types of people there and a very laid-back Vibe I think that's the biggest thing is you really do feel like you're on vacation when you go I mean just it is very laate back it's not for somebody who wants to climb mountains or anything like that there's not a lot of intense sports to do probably but um I guess snorkeling you know that that can work up a good a good workout but yeah it's definitely like that laidback I want to be on vacation Vibe perfect and sometimes you need that especially you know for us who are doing these extended road trips and you know Are Climbing like you said climbing mountains and just constantly on Trails sometimes it's nice to get that vacation in where you can actually just wind down reset relax get your vitamin D and fuel you a little bit more for those longer trips that we're going to take later to get that full Key West experience how long do you think someone should plan to take their trip there I know for us like we say we want to have at least five days there but you can actually do a day trip go down to Key West and come back you can spend months there it's again it's very versatile with timing is that you know there's tons of stuff to do down there or if you really ever like I only have one day or I only have one evening or two days still do it yeah it's uh just so people realize from Mainland Florida to Key West depending on traffic you're looking between two and three hour drive yeah which really isn't that bad especially if you just want to be able to go down and experience it for a day or a night and then you know head back into like you said the mainland I'm sure we'll talk about it later on but that two or three hour drive is probably worth it just for the keyan Pai alone right it is it definitely is the type of driving that you're going to do there is not like anything else that you can do either so it's it's worth it just to make the drive MH yeah very true what would you say is the best time of year to visit or what time the year do you guys like to go so I will say we have two opinions so this is this will be interesting so I love to snorkel and be in the water but I found that going in the winter for me I don't like being cold the water was so cold I couldn't even breathe in my snorkel mask properly because I kept getting salt water let's let's get this up straight though it's it's maybe cold by Florida standards it's not cold by Lake Michigan standards or anything in the Northeast 70 degrees it's 70 degrees is what the temperature is it's probably a little bit cooler in the winter time than you would might think that it is right so the water itself is 70 degrees on average um in the winter time and for me that's just too cold to I just I was shivering so much so um I now I've only been in the summer the fall and the winter I haven't been in the spring um but I actually really liked the fall even though it's hurricane season so I know you do need to watch the weather but for me the temperature was just perfect it was it about 90 degrees the water felt wonderful and because I love being in the water and Alexis agrees we both really liked the fall even though I miss the Fall colors you know that we have in New England and Michigan we have beautiful fall colors but I really liked going that to my year because of the temperature the summer is very very hot and I haven't been the spring so it could be the actually Springs the best time to go and we just don't know so we haven't been there in the spring so we were actually just there a few weeks ago and it was high 70s low 80s to me I don't think you can get more perfect than that right so if you're just going and not going in the water winter is probably the best time to go because the yeah it's perfect temperature and that's a few weeks ago just for context recording this right now end of January mid January so that's yeah beginning of January yeah yeah we were in Florida right around the same time you were and I you couldn't have paid me to go snorkeling in that water I touched and I was like absolutely not way too cold I was like walking way away from it yeah and well I made myself go in the water I'm like I know I'm like we're here in the Florida Keys and like I need to get in the water but I was like okay I'm in the water there are a couple people with West suits but yeah not many yeah most people just we in their swimsuits Yeah you mentioned that drive to the Florida Keys was a drive you can't get anywhere else what did you mean by that well especially the seven mile bridge that is a very unique Drive you're literally driving over the ocean the views are awesome especially if you're driving near Sunset but I will say up in between kargo and Marathon you may not really feel like you're in the keys you really have to get south of marathon Marathon to Key West where you really are going from one little island to the next Little Island going over all these different Bridges um I think there's over 100 different bridges in the keys that you drive over you get more of a water view more frequently South America okay oh that's a good point now you obviously are traveling with your daughter and your dog most of the time so is that completely accessible I know you said she likes to go snorkeling with you but how do it go with the dog and her when you're down there oh yeah it's actually great there's Key West itself is super dog friendly tons of restaurants um are dog friendly and even the stores at first we were having somebody weit outside with the dogs while the other two P went into the shops and I started noticing I don't see any signs saying no pets allowed on many of the stores and so we started taking the dogs in and everyone the people that worked there were like oh they're so cute so even the stores like so most places you can take your dog in Key West Key West kind of anything goes anyway yeah key again it's that laid-back Vibe where you're just like you know even the mannequins Alexis noticed the mannequins in the store she goes mom their hair is really messed up I'm like it's because anything goes in Key West it doesn't matter if the mannequin is crazy hair that's nice that very relaxed Vibe so transitioning a little bit to um you guys are going to Key West you're probably bringing your Airstream right yeah have you ever flown from home to Florida and we actually recently just looked into it because our we're coming up on our 20th anniversary which is the emerald anniversary so we wanted to kind of do something with Emerald Waters and we were looking into flying directly to Key West and from in in January from Michigan to Key West is about 700 a person so you can fly to Key West you can fly into Marathon um but marathon's even more expensive than Key West so what a lot of people would do is fly into Miami is pretty low cost to do and then drive to the keys but Key West does have a I think a pretty large airport by you know Island standards um there's quite a bit of traffic in and out so if you have the budget for it you can fly directly there just not in our budget right yeah well we want to save the uh funds for those uh excursions and experiences right now when you fly into Miami how far is that drive you're probably looking around three hours because you just never know what kind of traffic you're going to get um even from Miami uh even you know Highway One going down through the keys you never know what you're going to because it's one way in one way out we haven't experienced any horrible traffic there but I know people have right well sounds like whatever your budget is however you want to have your transportation there's a lot of different options yeah you can even take a boat we've never done this but the Key West Express Key West Express leaves from Fort Meers and I think it's aadar that takes you directly to qf well that's arriving in style yeah exactly and it was pretty low cost from what I remember it wasn't a horrible price yeah it was a reasonable cost for you know getting you down to Key West now obviously in Key West there's going to be a ton of different boutique hotels and you know Cottage options when you guys bring your camper what are some of your favorite campgrounds we love state parks just in general Across America and the Florida Keys especially because they're pretty pricey um any you know unless you're in a state park so bah Honda Isa very favorite place to stay they have about 40 campsites total so it's a small Campground and maybe 15 of them are Waterfront so those were are very very nice obviously and we were lucky enough to get a couple of those a couple times ago uh they have cabins there that you can rent they do have cabins and tent camping but if you know I want to make it known that anywhere other than the state parks and anywhere in the Florida Keys you're $200 a night for a campsite or more usually if if you can find anything wow now I have heard that um from some fellow campers that we've come across they said it's very hard to get into those campgrounds that you have to be way ahead of time with booking so how how have you guys experienced that how far Advanced are you looking for your for your campsites it's it is it's it's like you said it's pretty stressful because honestly I would get on at 8 o' the day of that they would open up I did that for a whole month did not get any key sites and I would look at um bahah Honda Curry Hammock and John Penny Camp there's three different state parks I would look at all three of them I start always with theah Honda I couldn't do it it was like over a month I tried so he again he just keeps looking for cancellations and that's how we got we were able to get for nights at bonda and two at John Penny Camp so you really just have to keep on the cancellations because it's very hard to get into people are always cancelling I don't care what the campground is even small campgrounds like I said are only 40 sites at Honda people are always changing in their plans and you will find a cancellation if you can if you stay at it and even if you can get there for you know two nights the staff there like the Rangers are very they're very easy to work with like you just let them know hey we'd like to be here a little longer and just go into the ranger station every morning and check in with them if you only have two nights say hey were there any cancellations and we even um the one time we had one site for five nights but we really wanted a waterfront site because it was just it's so nice and we said for us it's worthwhile to move there for one night and go back to our site and they were actually able to find us a cancellation for a waterfront site we moved over there for the one night and we went back to our other site this that the Waterfront sites are just they're amazing oh like one of the best when you have that Waterfront site you you really don't want to go anywhere you just and bonda the other nice thing about that state park is you have like I love Sunrise I love Sunset and you have a Sunrise Beach and a Sunset Beach so in the mornings we would wake up we go see Sunrise you could do the walk around and then again the walks the beaches are not dog friendly on bajah Honda but you can still walk the whole Little Island there with your dogs so we would do our morning dog walk and um and loop around and yeah to me bah Honda is the best place to Camp so when you guys go just keep keep trying to get BAH Honda yeah it's worth it in terms of booking those campsites are you using websites those Campground websites or is there another website you're using for booking no this the Florida state parks website and we'll put links Below in the show notes for all the resources talked about in Today's Show Now obviously you know it's Key West so there's tons of restaurants there's a lot of bars like you've mentioned where you can hop in and out I'm sure it has a very Lively night life for um the bachelorette parties things like that but as far as families at times maybe not kid-friendly it was when we were there for around Halloween I can't remember the Fest is called but there's some sort of Fan Fest during Halloween where when you drive down dual Street people are not close and dval street is really the street that if you're worried about what your kids might see just don't go down dval street anywhere else is going to be normally okay so we turned onto dval Street and I didn't want to make a big reaction because then kids were gonna want to see everything so I'm like oh hey Alexis did you want to watch a show she's like yeah so we just gave her the iPad the headphones and we just and she she saw nothing well that's a good travel tip so as far as that is there anything else that maybe if you are a f traveling with you know small children that you should kind of avoid in the Key West area it's more just if there's a festival going on because like we walked down toal street just this last time and it was just F dur during the day it's okay you'll might see some things that you may not want your kids looking at and some of the windows but you might take the opportunity to distract them like Laura mentioned right when you see something just oh look at over here there's a chicken because there's tons of chicken CH are walking all over the place so there's always a way to distract them from seeing something you may not want them to see but during the day because everybody I think is sleeping still it's this a totally different vibe Walking Down the Wall Street but when the Sun goes down it changes yeah but again that's just the Wall Street right so the rest of the Key West is still very very kid-friendly for sure and like I said extremely dog friendly for sure awesome so what do you guys like to do at night when that sun goes down we're not really night lifers I'll admit we love to go see Sunset and then but the one night we were out a little bit later we went to Robbie's um to feed the tarpon and that was pretty fun too and then again I I'd read mixed reviews of dogs were allowed or not um but we brought our dogs and they let us go out on the decks to feed the tarpon but the Pelicans were just they were really aggressive bold it was hard to feed the tarpon you know and Alexis is trying to like you know shoe the Pelicans away and they're biting at her feet and everything ply wouldn't even bark at her no ply was hiding behind us we're like P do your job bark at them but one thing I would say about NTI and it never gets talked about the Nik at least not that I've heard is they have a a beautiful night sky yeah the stars there so if you're into you know you know nighttime photography or just stargazing especally at beah Honda it it was pretty nice pretty nice night sky so honestly like if you camp at bajah Honda you can really just stay there for your whole time because there's just there's so much even just right there like if you really just want to take a really late back you know vacation to the keys I mean yeah B Honda is where it's at well they have the snorkel tour there so you can you have an Excursion you can take right from the state park their their dive shop has a small restaurant in there they even sell key lime pie from there um so literally you you you have two or three different beaches there you can check out there's kayak rentals there so like Laura says there's a lot of opportunity just to stay put if you'd like to and it can help save money as well right but I wouldn't recommend that you got to at least go down to Key West you had mentioned there weren't a ton of beaches and going back to talking about the pet friendly activities and we're both frequenters of Honeymoon Island in Duneden which is a dog beach are there any dog friendly beaches in the keys yeah so in like I think it was the marathon area there's Sombrero Beach which is a really pretty nice Beach actually small but there's really pretty palm trees on the beach and yeah that's completely dog fry the dogs can go in the water there's a few others that we didn't go to there's one called an's Beach that's right off of the road that look kind of like a neat spot dogs are allowed there um um but one of our favorite beaches that dogs are kind of allowed at is the Fort Zachary Taylor State Park which is at the you know to of the Florida in Key West there dogs aren't allowed on the Sandy part of the beach are in the water but there's just this beautifully shaded palm tree Beach area that the dogs are allowed so like since Jason doesn't really want to be in the water anyway he would hang out with Polly in that beautiful Beach area shaded and Alexis and I would go in the water and you're really on the beach you you are I mean you you're sitting there looking at you know all the beautiful views that the beach offers and you're still sitting in sand but you may have a nice palm tree over the top of your head keeping you out of the sun right so yeah so it's and to us we feel like that was one of the most beautiful beaches we've ever seen it's one of the nicest beaches out there I think and it's nice too and then if you don't have your dog with you then um the fort Zachary Taylor is a very cool tour to take you can tour the whole Fort and there's just all these really cool little nooks and cranage I mean you could spend a couple hours over there just touring the fort they have historical reenactments sometimes so there just that was like one of our favorite places I think in in Q West was the for Zary Taylor State Park very cool history beaches nightlife dog friendly there's Little slice of everything for everybody cool good stuff transitioning a little bit and talking about food what are some of your favorite breakfast lunch spots or just spots you think you should definitely hit when you're in Key West or the keys area well we are huge key lime fans so we actually found Forbes Top 10 key lime pies we only made it through five of them because um some of them were just a little bit farther for us to drive and we didn't want to make the drive but each one was very very good um I will say Honestly though one of our favorite key lime pies is at Publix oh yeah really the grocery store the the grocery store wow but the one that we went to where was it the Key Lime Pie Bakery in Key West yes we feel according to our t bu is the best right and it said that it was the original key line place from like 1865 but of all the ones we've tried and that wasn't even on the top 10 list yeah some of those lists you wonder who put them together and but that one we really enjoyed it but you can't really get a bad piece of key pie anywhere in the keys um but surpr if you just in Florida you're not in the keys and you like key line pie just go to Publix pretty good Publix has a very good key line pie and then the other thing that's kind of neat too is that each place has her own take on key lime pie you know some will do whipped cream some do the mering some people drizzle it with raspberry chocolate covered um we actually found one we really liked um that was a coconut key lime pie that was probably one of our favorites as well so it's kind of neat so if you're a key lime pie lover just have at it from a restaurant standpoint in kargo we went to this restaurant called The Fish House for for dinner and it had a really nice you know being a sea type Vibe you know it felt like you're on a boat and uh they had really good food as well there and in Key West being airst streamers there's a restaurant called garos in Key West that has the food is cooked in an Airstream and it's all outside seating and they have live music there and then there's like a separate bar that's in like a old Cottage House that the drinks come out of there and the food comes out of the Airstream and really awesome Vibe and pretty reasonably priced for being in t West really good tacos yeah I got like the Fish Taco Trio I had the uh the burger I always from Burger man but uh those are two places that we can highly recommend and it was nice because it was super dog friendly because they had this big sign that says dogs preferred humans tolerated you always know that's going to be good you go in the bar and there was I think three golden retriever laying on the around in the bar by the bar area and yeah it was just yeah super dog friendly and then I know there's a whole list of restaurants that are dog friendly so and one we didn't eat at but we've heard good things about was Sloppy Joe's Sloppy Joe's Bar is a landmark a lot of celebrities are known to frequent that County chz just played a surprise concert there so that that's one that we could recommend there's there's just a lot of options for whatever your taste might be right and we haven't had a bad bad meal in in the Florida no robbes even robbes Robbie's where you feed the tarpon yeah and what was that uh Alam marada that's in Al marado so it's like halfway down the keys they have a good restaurant there we have their key lime pie um outdoor seating right on Waterfront so that's that's another place we'd recommend that place had a lot of neat stuff to check out other than just the restaurant again you can feed the tarpon the fish how was it five bucks for a right yeah for a bucket of fish or something very reasonably priced yeah so yeah I don't feel like can really go wrong because most of the food is you know fresh fish you know key lime pie can't go wrong with that well you guys are definitely making me hungry and now we have our nice list to follow when we get to uh the keys so if you haven't mentioned them already are there any nearby attractions that you want to mention well honestly the other thing too I know not this is not everybody's cup of tea but we went to the Key West Cemetery that was very interesting and very educational like in just the different kinds like the graves are all above um the ground because of the water level and just reading about some of the different people they had some really interesting gravestones like one was a big conch shell one was like a um a bookshelf with books on it of all her favorite books and I don't I I've always really enjoyed going to really old Cemetery like that I don't remember what the year what the year is on it but it's either somewhere in the 1800s I believe well Key West is Florida's first city right a lot of people don't know that but um cool places to check out is merer square uh oh yeah you definitely want to be there for Sunset that's a bucket listing we we just were able to do that this last trip there's three performers that perform right there there usually cruise ship import again it gives you that feeling that you are somewhere far away uh another cool place that we didn't go to that we want to may get to pretty soon as the dry to ugas National Park you have to take a a float plane out there or boat it's the only way to get there but that place is really awesome from what we've seen uh Hemingway houses there and so is the Key West Lighthouse there's a lot of different museums also in Key West for you know whatever your interests are you know there's there's just tons to do in Key like even just in Key West there's just tons to do awesome so you really could spend probably a couple weeks there and have just a bunch of different experience oh yeah and actually when I asked Alexis how long we needed to spend there she's like oh at least three weeks that was her that was her answer I'm convinced that you can spend as much time as you want in almost any place right because there's just there is so much it sounds like and it sounds like you guys just planned our entire 3-we trip down to the Key West and we'll definitely be listening to this podcast when we're making our trip down there cuz yeah this was really really informative yeah oh actually there's one more really cool thing that um you can take the you can actually walk or bike the old seven mile bridge to Pigeon key which you can only Access Pigeon Key by the old bridge now the interesting thing is dogs are allowed on the old bridge but they are not allowed on pigeon key except for one day a year there's sometime in January they do some Ser of a dog fundraiser so dogs are allowed on pigeon Key island but that looked like a really cool thing too it's like I think it's about two miles two miles of the old seven mile bridge like the original one that the train tracks were on um and just even the history of the Overseas Highway is really very interesting I think Modern Marvels Modern Marvels has a good episode about the Overseas Highway that I highly recommend anybody to check out if you're going to be headed down there because it's nice to know how it all came about and there is a hurricane Museum there as well because there was a huge hurricane in the 1930s killed a bunch of people and kind of impacted the Overseas Highway and there's I believe that museum is in is it Marathon or Isa marada I'm not sure which one but that that's there to check out as well the divers Museum divers Museum there's a lot there's a lot to do the list goes on and on yeah we could probably have a three-hour segment on what to do in in the keys the Florida Keys yeah we'll transition into the 321 countdown segment of the podcast the final three questions so what are three things to do around the Florida Keys area one thing we super duper recommend is the Robert Was Here Fruit Stand you heard that right Robert was here is the name it was called Robert was here for say I believe they've been operating for about 60 years it's in Homestead Florida it's just outside the Everglade so that's more of you're coming on the east side and they have just the most amazing variety of tropical and exotic fruits and not only that they have the best milkshake we have ever had hands down the best milkshake ever like I got um it's all made with fresh really fresh fruit um I got the coconut lime vanilla milkshake and Alexis is a huge fan of dragon fruit so she literally just got dragon fruit and ice in her smoothie um but the interesting thing too is that they have three turnovers as far as like different fruits so when we were down in October it was a whole different set of exotic fruit in January it was like a whole another set of exotic fruits it's kind of interesting we got to try these things called SEL and pomy and like all these really interesting C you know just very interesting names and very interesting flavors and then when I asked they said also June is another turnover so the big times are like summer winter and fall they have totally different fruits and you can actually just buy the fruit or you can put it into a smoothie or a milkshake but that is hands down a big recommendation and when we go because we're off we're Towing our Airstream either down or back from the keys there's RV parking there as well so don't feel like you can't go there if you're you're towing your rig right and not only that like we always just kind of stop get our fruit get our milkshakes and go but they have tons of stuff around there they have like a little petting zoo um they have different um like a I saw blacksmith little area so they've got a lot of things so it can be like a whole little stop if you want it to be couple other things though I mean you're right there at the Everglades National Park is literally right there and so is Big Cyprus just a little bit further north that's a really cool place if you want to see alligators there's tons of alligators all over the place you want to take an Al those uh swamp boat tours oh yeah you know those are right there check those out highly recommend doing that if you never done that before it's a really great experience so yeah basically is if you're coming down from the East side you know instead of taking the main Highway what's the road that 41 so 41 goes through the big Cyprus area and at every single little turn off that you can go on they have like a little Boardwalk you can see alligators like all over the place it's just it's really a cool kind of aspect of like getting down there and like we've talked about wanting to spend the night there we haven't yet but it's definitely a there's multiple there's multiple campgrounds along 41 between Naples and Homestead that you can you can spend time there if you'd like to and I highly would I highly recommend that like say we want to do that just for airb rides or if you want to hike Che ey alligators just a different vibe there oh yeah again it's a just that laid-back Vibe even in that at the national park there is super laidback and actually I talked to a lady at the visitor center I guess her and her husband don't sleep very well they said they were out kayaking at 2 the morning and they saw a cougar like just steering right Florida pan oh I'm sorry Florida panther yeah they have signs all over the place for Florida panther Crossing even when you're in Naples which is you know a high-end area they have signs everywhere Panther Crossing and the lights are flashing you know like you're gonna see one at any second so we we've watched we haven't seen any but I bet if you drove at night there's a slight chance you might see going across the road that's cool it's cool how informative this episode has been in terms of things you've done but at the same time you're talking about things you want to do so you've been here so many times you have so much experience here but there's still a ton of things left to do that's great so so in terms of three things around the park I have the Everglades National Park the Robert Was Here Fruit Stand and then the Big Cypress swamp why I got kind of one more so we can kind of combine those two but um kaying through the mang gr now you can do this at John Penny Camp State Park um I actually haven't gotten the opportunity to do it because the first time we were there there was eoli in the water which kind of brings up another point that very good at monitoring the water to make sure it's safe for people to go in they're constantly checking the you know bacteria levels um but there's also a lot of other independent places where you can kayak the mangr and even take your dog with you as well and I think that to me that's it's on my bucket list of of kayaking the mangr giant Penny Camp is another place that you that offers offshore snorkeling opportunities we weren't able to do that because of weather both times that we were there but they do have it and it's supposed to be really good and they have the glass bottom boat tours which is nice when you go through the state park it's only like $30 a person whereas if you go go to an independent you know person it's going to cost a little bit more so that's a pretty low cost activity to do what are two complaints somebody might have or not necessarily complaints but things they wish they prepared for before visiting the Florida Keys I think one of the the biggest thing preparations is a mental thing like sometimes you can research a place and all you see are the most beautiful things you know something that kind of happened with us at Glacier too where all we saw these all these amazing views and like it's not all amazing views there are just Woods which are beautiful but the same thing with the Florida Keys like when you you kind of expect that it's all going to be the seven mile bridge kind of look we're really driving from you know up until Marathon it kind of just looks like Florida does you know there's just you don't really see the water that much once you get to the seven mile bridge to Key West that section is you know that's that has that feel the Florida key you see the water you go to these little Islands but that was something that especially for Jason he was kind of like whoa this is the Florida Keys like it was kind of like a little bit of a shock to him because he was expecting seven mile bridge and like all these water views the whole time where it really is from Marathon to Key West is where you get those views so that was one and I think the other one which I know we touched on a little bit was the cost is that you know if you can get into a state park and utilize a state park it's great but the campgrounds are super expensive hotel are super expensive flying they're super expensive so you you can do it on a lowc cost budget but it can also be a very expensive thing to do yeah those are great tips it's planning ahead and then managing expectations in terms of getting into the Florida Keys yeah now we talked about a lot today and I mean a lot but if you were to leave the Florida Keys what is the one thing you cannot leave the Florida keys without doing and we we kind of had different answers on this I also agree with this his answer but for me you have to snorkel because part of like the Florida Keys is getting in the water that's part of the cool thing about the Florida Keys is that has all the coral reefs that are surrounding you know all the Florida Keys I know he had something that I also agree with but you can't go without going to Key West and you know visit the southernmost point um get to your picture by that it's a large like a buoy that's on land if you're not familiar with it there's always a line to take a picture so be prepared do that cross that off your bucket list go to m Square for the sunset and I think that'll complete the trip perfect now any you start talking about snorkeling any favorite snorkel spots in the Florida Keys well I found I know I gu you never got to do a boat tour because it just never worked out in our schedule so I hear that those really are the best if you can go to a boat tour but if you are just snorkeling um by yourself and you're just going to Beach Fort zre Taylor State Park they have four different little sections of rocks and when you when you s those rocks and we saw so many different fish we saw jellyfish we saw Alexa saw an octopus even at the one little section but to me that place was like just magical like you really like I said you felt like you were swimming in an aquarium it was absolutely beautiful and that was one place you can go that you don't have to take a snor boat tour or to now do you guys bring your own snorkel gear or do you know if there's a place you can rent them if you're just flying in for the weekend so John Penny Camp State Park and beia Honda offer all rentals and you can purchase things there as well and there's also tons other dive shops in the area as well yeah I would say like every every little section of shops you'll have you know scuba and snorkeling gear key lime pie and you know it's kind like you kind of see the same things like over and over so yeah there's tons of places to buy things or yeah the state parks rent them and I'm sure even other places rent them as well perfect yeah awesome wow yeah this was a ton of information here everything from from cruise ship location snorkeling spots restaurants dog places um yeah thank you guys a ton for coming on and and sharing your experience and your advice on planning a trip to the Florida Keys we definitely have a full itinerary for sure good good well we looking forward to seeing that video that's right awesome Jason and Laura thanks again for coming on the show and once again if you haven't heard the first episode episode 13 of the travel path podcast they talked about their 75-day road trip across the country how they did that with their daughter Alexis and all the cool things they saw out there so give that a listen and one more time Jason Laura where can my audience find out more about you guys so we are on YouTube as Adventures of Mom Dad girl and a little white dog we're also on Facebook with that same name and then on Instagram um as idesa Airstream but I will admit that I'm not a big social media person so you can find me best on YouTube I try to I try to answer my comments as much as I can Perfect all right we will link those channels below Jason and Laura thanks again thank you thank you

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In this episode, I take y'all for a snowy night time walk with me! I explain how this is a spiritual, intuitive exercise and how changing our surroundings every now and then can infuse our days with magic and fresh energy.

A married woman is sharing some advice following an embarrassing mishap as she and her father walked down the aisle.   AND   Tayeb Souami, a Powerball lottery winner, is counting his blessings. This loving husband went to the store to return orange juice for his wife and ended up winning millions.   To see videos and photos referenced in this episode, visit GodUpdates!   https://www.godupdates.com/embarrassing-wedding-moment-pants-fall-down/ https://www.godupdates.com/tayeb-souami-powerball-lottery-winner/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

This time of year seems to feel nostalgic for many including us here at TBP. Listen in as Victoria, Kiara, and Katalyn share some of the favorite holiday memories from years past.Do you have a favorite holiday mem that you want to share with us? Reach out to us - we would love to hear it!Please be sure to check for any trigger warnings you may have with the recommendations made.Please be sure to rate us and leave a review! It helps us across the platforms in more ways than you know!Want to reach out to us other than on social media? Send us an e-mail at tbp.staythirsty@gmail.comMake sure to check out our linktree!thirstybitchespodcast - Listen on YouTube, Spotify - LinktreeJoin us every Tasty Tuesday and Thirsty Thursday for a new episode and be sure to follow us on our socialsTiktok: thirstybitchespodcastInstagram: thirstybitchespodcastTwitter: TheThirstyCollective (thirsty_co) Or join the conversation in our discord!Intro/Outro License Code: TV2K4NHZREHTQFGJ

Bride, Brianna Seewald inspires all by finally walking down the aisle after a crash left her partially paralyzed.   AND   Adele Cries At Concert After Man Holds Up A Heartbreaking Photo   To see videos and photos referenced in this episode, visit GodUpdates!   https://www.godupdates.com/brianna-seewald-inspiring-recovery/ https://www.godupdates.com/adele-cries-at-concert-widower-photo/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Marvel announced that Jonathan Majors - once considered to be the future of the next phase of their extended movie universe - has been dropped by the studio.Actor Alec Baldwin angrily confronted at a pro-Palestine protest in Manhattan.Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes may one day be walking down the aisle.The defiant winner of Miss France said she is 'not just a haircut' after her stunning victory of the national beauty pageant.The Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards was inundated with well wishes from his loved ones on his 80th birthday on Monday.It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5949787/advertisement

A Broadway Theater Shook When the Audience Recognized Loretta Young Walking Down the AisleAudiobook available now on Audible! Behind the Door: the Real Story of Loretta Young https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Door-Story-Loretta-Trilogy/dp/B0B4VHX8QB/ref=sr_1_1 My website: https://edwardjfunk.wordpress.com/ Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Edward-Funk/e/B01AKG4WKM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/edwardjfunk YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZMWyRig3XH5h8i9zd8rqAw

Welcome to Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gamed, and our Pathfinder 2nd Edition podcast.  We are playing Wrath of the Righteous!  It is a Pathfinder adventure path from 1st edition which we will be converting into Pathfinder 2nd Edition.  Listen to us talk about what characters we are thinking of playing, as well as the work we already done to convert some of the player options.  Listen to us joke around, talk shop, laugh, and have fun as we get amped up for our new campaign.   Take a look at our Youtube channel for a review on the new GM CORE book HERE! Keep an eye out for more videos about the upcoming books and class dives!   Also, vote for us here at the https://www.bestoflongisland.com/ as we compete for the best podcast on Long Island, NY in the Arts and Entertainment section!   We left our heroes dealing with a magically sealed door with 5 levers, unable to be opened, and every time they tried to open it, the party was bombarded with elemental fury!  But soon, they defeated the magical lock, and tried to make their way to the heart of the volcano, to find the dragon, and possibly the end of Henny's  curse.  We discover a group of Dwarves excavating a tunnel into the volcano, and they are tinkering with a device.  Communication with these dwarves is difficult, as not all of the party can speak their language, and tensions are high due.   Can the party properly communicate with these dwarves and alert them to the dangers that their action can have? Find out in the next episode of Wrath of the Righteous!   With our Forever GM Jared leading the charge, Lets introduce our characters for this game, well, for as long as they survive! Fabio is playing the human Swashbuckler, Hennessy! Zach is playing the Human Psychic, Artura! Jeff is playing the hobgoblin Wizard, Sortok! Tina is playing the dwarf Inquisitor, Nell! A new homebrewed class from Atune-A-Wizard Press, where the rules can be purchased at Drive-Thru-RPG at Inquisitor  Steve is playing the human champion, Sir Ren!   Thanks to our sponsor Die Hard Dice you can use our discount code of SpicyNVNG that is good for 10% off your entire purchase!!!   You can also ask us questions for our cast to answer on our podcast by contacting us through our socials below or emailing us directly at nvngpodcast@gmail.com Check out our new website, and our Socials below: https://www.nvngpodcast.com/ Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram Twitch   You can also find us on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Podcasts, and Google Play. Music provided by StreamBeats Synthwave albums Ego, Lone Wolf, Renegade, Breaker, and Sunset by Harris Heller/Senpai Records. https://www.streambeats.com/   Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gamed LLC, uses trademarks and/or copyrights owned by Paizo Inc., which are used under Paizo's Community Use Policy. We are expressly prohibited from charging you to use or access this content. This stream/podcast is not published, endorsed, or specifically approved by Paizo Inc. For more information about Paizo's Community Use Policy, please visit paizo.com/communityuse. For more information about Paizo Inc. and Paizo products, please visit paizo.com.

More Dish about Mauricio and Kyle, while Lauren Manzo announces divorce. Then Angela Quintana and I enjoy smooth seas recapping BDM. The non-chaotic Orbison's bring the fun while Max seems like he's on the french chopping block. Now that Tumi and Nat are getting along we think that they will dethrone the boat gossip in the upcoming eps. For more Drama Darling subscribe to patreon.com/dramadarling Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back, on this episode I lay down the law!!! No please send me your voice messages all about happy memories of your Nan & Grandad. Talk as long as you want no limits. All I want though is 1 song that reminds you of them. Email it to everybodysgotonepodcast@gmail.com

We are BACK! Episode 4, with my guest Rax King, one of my favourite writers, a great podcaster with her show Low Culture Boil and one of the funniest people on the internet. You can follow Rax on Twitter and Instagram , subscribe to her PatreonYou can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week. 

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Gabe Norwood and Joe Devance link up in Los Angeles and reminisce about their younger days playing ball.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's special episode, Cait and I dive into our wedding recap after being married for 1 month. Hear all about the days leading up to our wedding and traveling, and where we're going on our honeymoon next year! ————— (00:25) Wedding Recap + Questions Answered (02:44) Our View on Having a Destination Wedding (03:07) Our Private Vows (04:19) Why We Didn't Have a Traditional Wedding Party (05:56) Doing Your Makeup (07:53) Unconventional Wedding Music Choices (09:54) Traveling with Wedding Dress + Suit (15:49) Best Day in Cabo (According to Our Families) (20:31) Vacation Stories (24:46) Wedding Day Experience (30:18) The Nervousness of First Look (32:58) Cait's Vows (34:07) Chad's Vows (39:48) Walking Down the Aisle (43:45) Hilarious Wedding Mishaps (49:11) The Reception (55:48) The Power of Being Present (59:50) Wedding Speeches and After Party (01:03:50) Dream Honeymoon in 2024 ————— ➡️ Subscribe to my Youtube Channel:  @the_fitceo   —————

Fox and Charlie dive into James Harden's latest drama and take a walk down memory lane discussing all of James Harden's best moments. Then, Ashley Foxworth brings the whole family with her for a special Roses and Thorns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fox and Charlie dive into James Harden's latest drama and take a walk down memory lane discussing all of James Harden's best moments. Then, Ashley Foxworth brings the whole family with her for a special Roses and Thorns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fox and Charlie dive into James Harden's latest drama and take a walk down memory lane discussing all of James Harden's best moments. Then, Ashley Foxworth brings the whole family with her for a special Roses and Thorns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fox and Charlie dive into James Harden's latest drama and take a walk down memory lane discussing all of James Harden's best moments. Then, Ashley Foxworth brings the whole family with her for a special Roses and Thorns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We sat down with the hilarious standup comedian, actress and writer Punkie Johnson! We had an amazing conversation about the early days in Punkie's career that ended with her sharing a story about a big comedy breakthrough she just had in Indiana. We also discuss a very specific Craigslist job interview and the science behind fake laughing. The biggest takeaway from this episode is that a giant brownie with two scoops of ice cream and hot fudge can still be a lil' snack' if you just believe it is. Please note, Funny Cuz It's True contains mature themes and may not be appropriate for all listeners.  Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.  Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.  Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors You can find all show transcripts on the Funny Cuz It's True page here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Wark is an 18 plus year stage IIIc Colon Cancer Thriver, patient advocate, best-selling author and speaker. After surgery, he opted out of chemotherapy and found hope in using nutrition and natural therapies to heal. Chris shares his story to empower and inspire others to think about health differently through his popular blog, chrisbeatcancer.com where research, expert interviews and survivor stories are available to all.Suzy Griswold is a 13 plus year Thyroid Cancer Thriver, and the Founder and President of HealingStrong. Suzy took a natural approach to healing and when she learned of other survivors, a true grassroots movement began. HealingStrong empowers, inspires and equips group participants and members to live more whole and hope filled lives through small community groups worldwide.In this episode, Chris and Suzy reflect on years past, HealingStrong's first conference, their friendship, their shared common mission, and how HealingStrong as an organization stands out above other support group communities.A special thank you to our Conference Sponsors:Chris Beat Cancer, Chris WarkTempleton Wellness Foundation, James TempletonHope4Cancer Treatment CentersHealingStrong Houston Group on behalf of Nigel RyderJourney U MinistriesHarvest Health CenterHealingStrong:Find a Free Support Group: healingstrong.org/groups2023 Conference Details: healingstrong.org/conference(discount code: CHRISBC2023)*Tickets while supplies lastFree Downloads: healingstrong.org/resourcesChris Wark:Blog & Resources: chrisbeatcancer.comSquare One Cancer Coaching Program Book referenced in interviewSupport HealingStrong and consider becoming a part of our Membership Program.You will receive additional resources like webinars, downloadables and more, as a bonus.To learn more, head to the HealingStrong Membership Program link below: Membership Program

Full show - Monday | Stuck | Taylor Swift rocked Denver | Steve wants to stay at T. Hack's house | OPP - Mom strike update | Where did Erin come from? | Walking down the aisle

Do you think it's outdated for a father to walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding?

This is an inspiring and insightful conversation about the power of nature, the importance of facing challenges head-on, and the beauty of finding purpose in life. Perry Gabbard is an avid hiker who completed the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) ~ a trail that runs from Mexico to Canada. He's the author of a newly released book Stepping Out on an Adventure of Faith: What I Learned About Trusting God While Hiking the PCT. Perry shares his incredible story of why he decided to hike the PCT, the challenges he faced, and the lessons learned along the way. * Perry reveals that he took on the trail to deal with a personal issue to find clarity and direction in his life. * Perry also talks about the physical and mental demands of the PCT, including the isolation, the harsh terrain, and the physical exhaustion. * The experience pushed Perry to his limits that helped him realize the importance of perseverance, self-reliance, and mental strength. Learn more about him at https://inspiretoseek.com

5 - 1-23 WALKING DOWN STAIRS AND WOMEN WITH BIG FEET by Maine's Coast 93.1

Jeffrey calls Duji out for her bad parking. Snitzer recaps the ceremony he went to for his son's completion of basic training. JLR's landlord calls into the show. Domestic violence charges against co-creator, Justin Roiland, have been dismissed. Afroman's home was raided by the cops and is now being sued because he made a music video about what happened. Rover talks about an emergency he had while walking down the street. The show gets an update about the kittens at Jeffrey's house.

Jeffrey calls Duji out for her bad parking. Snitzer recaps the ceremony he went to for his son's completion of basic training. JLR's landlord calls into the show. Domestic violence charges against co-creator, Justin Roiland, have been dismissed. Afroman's home was raided by the cops and is now being sued because he made a music video about what happened. Rover talks about an emergency he had while walking down the street. The show gets an update about the kittens at Jeffrey's house.