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Ok, 8:30 let’s do this

Mmm actually 15 more minutes 

Ok, actually need to get up now

Let’s do… pancakes this morning 

Hm I want a smoothie too

Now let’s walk down to Green Lake because what else am I gonna do?

Audio Postcard Mixdown 1

TRANSCRIPT:

Isabella Sundy: Today I will be interviewing my sister, Olivia Beier on the day she gave birth to her first born child, Brooke, my niece. Olivia, I’m so excited to have you here today! Could you please tell me about how you prepared for this special day?

Olivia Beier: Yes, uh days before she was born it was definitely anxiousness. I had a planned cesarian scheduled so my circumstances were a little bit different than someone who was gonna be delivering naturally where you just kinda don’t know what day or time or when your water’s gonna break um but there’s that whole uncertainty. But for my situation, I had a date, I had a time, almost like checking into a hotel room.   

Isabella Sundy: So tell me about the c-section process.

Olivia Beier: Ya so you’re sitting on the edge of the bed the actual like OR table already and um they just wanted me to put my arms around the nurse and bend over so my back was kind of like in a curved shape and they said it was gonna feel like a little flick um which it actually did, it didn’t hurt. So that was pretty surprising but I was definitely like almost hyperventilating at that point from just all the emotions and the nerves. And then my doctor comes in which made me feel really comfortable and at ease just seeing a familiar face and then my husband came in. Um and then yeah my doctor just told me it was gonna be about thirty minutes total so that was pretty surprising and you don’t feel anything you’re just like totally numb from the waist down. Um and the next thing I know, I hear Brooke crying and that was just like oh my God and I just started crying. And then my - Mike got to hold her first, and it was just this big ball of emotions looking at how beautiful she was. And she was eight pounds thirteen ounces, big girl, healthy, beautiful. And then right after that they just stitched me up quicker than I could even remember and we were being wheeled back into my room.

One Day Mixdown

So what we’re looking for is vehicles lingering in areas commonly used by smugglers or drug dealers. People walking around with luggage or bags. And walking along the side of the road in Canada.

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Explainer Transcript

Isabella Sundy: So many people seem to be taking up new hobbies during the stay at home order. My friend Anna has recently picked up beading and even started her own jewelry business. Anna, tell us, what is your favorite pair of earrings to make?

Anna Dong: Ok so my favorite pair to make are the chili earrings because you start with a pile of red beads and you end up with something that looks so real and it looks so much like a chili! So how I do it is I start with my materials. So I start with a string and I measure the string by expanding my arms and I do about a full wingspan worth of fishing line. So I snip that off and then the next thing I have to do is collect my beads and for every fruit or object that I make um you choose your beads off of their size and their color so I use really small beads for the Chili's and their round beads that just have a hole right through the middle. Their diameter’s about four millimeters so they're very small. And so once I collect my beads and my string I thread a sewing needle through the string and this is kind of like a beading technique that I found online so I thread the sewing needle and to start out kind of the premise of making these three-dimensional objects out of beads is that you build a base for yourself and you build off of that bass in different ways depending on the shape that you want. So some things are more square-like but the chili is kind of more like a tube so you start with a circular base and build off of that base to end up with a tube that looks like a Chili. So like knitting or rope tying or macrame or any other skill that requires knotting a building a larger object you make one knot and you add more to that original knot to make it larger. So in the case of the beads, you make an original like loop of beads and you tie it off and then you can add on loops of beads to each one of those originals and as you can imagine the more that you do that the more it expands and turns into more of a three-dimensional object. So once I've added all the loops and I've kind of built my tube I tie it off I triple knot it. And then because I use a lot of these for earrings and accessories I add hardware to it at the end so just like any other bead I loop the string through the hardware that have kind of close loops in them and then I tie it off and then do you have a full chili earring. 

Order a pair via Instagram @annalearnsthings!

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Jack: Ok yeah it says its recording

Isabella: Ok, cool. So um you guys tell me what was it like when you first heard about coronavirus in New York. Like what were you guys doing and how'd you guys react what was the city like?

Jack: It was actually a little bit before Lily's birthday when your plan on going out because I wasn't going to be there for her birthday and so we kind of wanted to celebrate. But we were also kind of skeptical about going out because we knew that it … 

Lily: My birthday is also March 26th also just to give you param- you know

Isabella: Yeah

Jack: So we were trying to think of what to do and go out. And we were still kind of trying to social distance but it was kind before social distancing was a thing in the United States cuz we were still kinda like weary. But we ended up going to an arcade which probably wasn't the best choice um cus we had to like touch a bunch of stuff um but yeah it started to like feel really serious because after that there were starting to get lot line outside of grocery stores and people were frantically buying things and we are trying to find rubbing alcohol and just like Clorox wipes and there was not a single place that had any of those so that's when I felt like it starting to get kind of serious in New York.

Lily: Yeah, I definitely like heard about it especially because at my job like we had stores calling in canceling their orders of shipments probably in like the end of January and into February.

Isabella: yeah

Lily: That was kind of crazy because everyone in New York was like “oh it’s not gonna get that bad it'll be fine”. Especially with my family being in Seattle like them getting hit first I was like okay like this is probably getting a little more serious and then yeah I think like being away from my family by myself in the city definitely like changed how I thought about it because if I was living with my family like I wouldn't have been as worried probably. But like the thought of like being stuck quarantined alone in New York when I'd only live there for like two and a half months was intimidating for sure.

Isabella: But you had Jack there to quarantine with you!

Jack: Yes sir!

Isabella: What was that like?

Lily: Really fun I don't know I always love when he comes to visit it always like makes being in the city so much better and everything cuz yeah I don't know too many people actually just moved there and like I love him obviously. It like made everything better but yeah I knew I like I knew his family wanted him back in Ohio so at that point I just kind of a question of like am I gonna go to Seattle or back to Ohio with him or stay in New York and I remember like making that decision like I was just really conflicted of like what to do cuz obviously I want you to stay in New York and have everything be okay but I really wanted to be with Jack and everything so here I am in Ohio. 

Isabella: Here you are!