Listen & Learn (or Not)

This episode was recorded 11/19 when the Rittenhouse verdict just came in. Claire, Laurie and Anna discuss the diverse reactions to the verdict. Warm 106.9 is celebrating Switchmas! Also, could it be that we get forgetful, not because of age, but because our brains are full? And like the old saying goes, the customer is ALWAYS right -- or not.

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[[This episode was recorded on 11/5]] Laurie, Claire and Anna wonder if a new vaccine rule is government overreach, or is the government simply doing its job? Also, what's happened that made us as a society so inflexible that we defy common sense? Aaron Rodgers claimed he got immunized only to reveal later he didn't mean the vaccine against covid. He meant - he raided a horse's medicine cabinet....or not. And since its launch, Laurie cannot get enough of the FB reels!

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The teacher shortage is real and growing -- same for school bus drivers, custodians, lunch ladies...and other important school staff. Also - news flash -- teachers have lives after the last bell rings (insert collective gasp here). What really goes on in the Teacher's Lounge? Why? Who wants to know? And did switching Darrins in "Bewitched" go unnoticed? Life Coach Laurie thinks so --- or not.

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Life Coach Laurie, Claire and Anna D talk about a self-defense training course Elizabeth Smart, a kidnap/rape survivor, had just launched. Also what is it that social media platforms do to lure people to read/watch something? Anna D shares her experience taking her son around her childhood hometown. The Annual Great Shake Out Drill happened, and Laurie was well-prepared for it -- or not.

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Claire, Coach Laurie and Anna D discuss how they've dealt w/ bullying in the past. Were they "bystanders" or "upstanders" -- or a little bit of both? Also, not everyone wants to go to Homecoming or Prom, and that's ok. And a beluga whale is swimming around Puget Sound - a rare sight in these here parts! We are both excited and concerned --- or not! (Er, all joking aside, we really *are* excited and concerned, that's no lie)

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Claire, Laurie and Anna are back w/ their thoughts on the big move from the #FreeBritney Movement, as well as the Brian Laundrie manhunt. They also discuss Nicki Minaj's vaccine claim coming from her best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend who heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw her cousin's friend's fiance at the 7-11 saying she called off her wedding because her fiance got the vaccine and became impotent last night. Guess it's pretty serious...or not.

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Coach Laurie can recite the entire “Jabberwocky” that she learned in her childhood, Anna D is actually applying the Trig and Calculus she learned in high school toward helping her kids, and Claire…well, her dogs eat cat poop. Join us this week to find out how all of that fits together. Plus, Laurie recaps her alone time with the grandkids and her son’s impending wedding and we learn about the Great Resignation and how side hustles are the new actual hustle. And if nothing else, at least listen to this episode to learn the words “Bandersnatch”, “Jabberwocky” and “Camila Cabello”. Or not.

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Do you have weird recurring dreams, like the one where it’s the last day of college and you realize you forgot to go to any of your classes? (No? Just us? Mmmmkay…) This week Coach Laurie, Anna D and Claire are back in true LALON form, running the gamut of topics from the first day of In Person High School to brand new ABBA music to the tragic devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida on the people of New York and New Jersey. At what point do you just turn off the alerts on your phone and stop watching the News? Is that hiding or is it healthy? And Coach Laurie has an amazing story about one of her students’ realization about the true meaning of “privilege.” Plus, next week we will all go out on tour as holograms! Or not.

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Travel to a foreign country in the middle of a pandemic? Why not? This week Coach Laurie, Anna D and Claire recap Claire’s trip to Italy, from her favorite version of Pasta Carbonara to the majesty of the Vatican to her plan if she failed her Covid test to get back home. (Spoiler Alert - she’s home). So what is it like to travel at this time? And how are peoples attitudes? And how close did she get to George Clooney? Or not..

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Claire is on a jet plane to Italy, and Laurie & Anna have decided to take a little break until her return....but in explaining this, they couldn't stop talking. Shocker. What should have been only a 5-minute schtick turned into a surprise half hour episode. Listen as they talk about the "Great Resignation" happening across the country, another result -- it seems -- of the Covid pandemic. They also talk about the willfully unvaccinated who don't have health issues preventing them from getting the vaccine -- does casting blame on antivaxxers help end the pandemic? Also, an update on the Covid-19 Delta variant surge in Washington and the reinstating of mask mandates. Lastly, please forgive all the singing and misheard lyrics in this podcast.

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