In this episode, Angie Austin hosts a packed dialogue full of varied and vibrant conversations. Discover the reality behind Disney World’s pricing strategies and whether the magic still lives up to the hype. Then, expand your knowledge on family vehicles with Kelley Blue Book’s expert Brian Moody who explains what makes some SUVs and minivans stand out. Finally, explore historical and cultural insights with Dr. Cheryl Lentz as they dive into the book, The Greek Way, uncovering how ancient philosophies influence modern perspectives.
Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here’s Angie.
SPEAKER 01 :
Hey there, friend. Angie Austin and Dr. Cheryl Lentz, the academic entrepreneur. About a 10-year radio friendship going here, and we chit-chat a little off the air. We text a lot, and like many of my good friends on the radio, we’ve never met in person, but, you know, we’re friends, and I just love our conversations. Welcome, Dr. Cheryl Lentz, academic entrepreneur.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, it’s always so cool. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years that we have never met. It’s just like, oh, my gosh. We’re going to have to
SPEAKER 01 :
correct that yes we tried and you know um and i couldn’t make it work with cousin gracie so yes for the doggies and i i can totally relate because right now i’ve got five and my mom actually came for fall break is that right no was it spring she’s been here now six months october november december yeah a little bit over she came for fall break to help me with the pets and and she hasn’t gone home yet yes because we’ve had i’ve got five trips in july literally back to back and so um as all we’re gonna run some best ofs this month and i’ll be joining people from on the road it’s oregon cincinnati so portland oregon cincinnati orlando florida uh kansas iowa near des moines kansas near kansas city and then we’re seeing five colleges on that trip you know up to iowa and visiting so that’ll be you know quite an excursion and then there’s somewhere oh Greeley I laugh because you know Greeley is where my dad grew up and I always remember the aroma because it is known for you know the cows and so along with the cattle goes the smell so anyway I yeah so all of those trips and it was 10 days in Florida but that that part’s over and I want to say just as an aside I know you’re probably not like a Disney gal but we’ve always been Disney people are you Okay, I just wrote a review and it was only one star this time because they’ve added on all these extra fees. So I figured out it came to about $3,000 for three of us for four days.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s not… You just want to visit the park, not own it.
SPEAKER 01 :
And that’s not the hotel, so throw in maybe another three. That’s not the flights because we had to get down there for something else, for tournaments.
SPEAKER 03 :
So it’s like $5,000 to go see Disney for four days?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, six, seven, eight… I’d say if we put everything in there for the tournaments and everything, and I’m just trying to show you how outrageous it is, let’s say 10, okay? But we weren’t going for Disney. Now, if we were going for Disney and we went for 10 days, it’d be probably a little bit more than that because I only went four days, and it was $3,000 for tickets, single-lane lightning passes, and genie passes. So they’ve added those on. So that added $150 a day for the lightning passes and the genie passes. So that’s an extra.
SPEAKER 03 :
What do they do?
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay, so that’s an extra $600 over your tickets, and your tickets are $1,500, right? At least. So then you add the extra $600, so you’re over $2,000 for three people for four days. That’s just tickets. Okay, the single lane lightning pass is this new scam they have where if you really want to get on the best ride. They have kind of like a lottery for it. They call it a virtual queue, and if you don’t make it, they offer you the option to pay for it. And I went on this one called Tron, and it was only about a minute long, but I have to admit, it was amazing. It’s like you’re on a motorcycle, and it’s like Space Mountain on a motorcycle, but faster and newer and smoother. So it was amazing, but that was approximately $25 a piece just to get that pass above and beyond your ticket. And then you could do just only one or two virtual like lanes per park. I think I did one a park where I’m sorry, the individual lightning lane that was an extra 25 per person. So 75 bucks extra for the day. Then the genie pass that is the old fast pass that used to be free. The genie pass is another 25 per person a day. So then that’s together. Those two things are an extra 150 above your Disney ticket so that you don’t have to wait in line. Well, If it’s 93 degrees and the feel like temperature with humidity is 100, I’m not waiting an hour, two hours, whatever, for some one minute long roller coaster. But what I found, Cheryl, that I found extremely disappointing is after all that money, we still couldn’t get on certain rides. It said that those fast passes, those genie passes, it’s very confusing now. were no longer available. That means other people, like if you stay in the hotels, you get first pick on these things, right? So you get to log in earlier than I do because I’m staying in a different hotel at the volleyball tournament. So then when I log in, some of these rides were like within moments, they were already filled and you couldn’t even get on them. So I’m like, well, then what am I spending the extra money for a genie pass for? To get on some crummy ride that no one wants to. Okay. So I got to get on, um, It’s a small world where I would have waited 10 minutes, but instead I got in right away and only waited like five minutes. Okay, is that worth me spending all that extra money? Then the crummy rides are left over that you can do the genie pass or what I used to always call the fast pass for. So if you don’t want to wait, after maybe an hour of being at the park, a lot of the good rides are gone and all you have are these crummy rides you’d hardly have to wait for anyway. So it was a lot of money for… A very hot, sweaty experience. And I could not believe how many elderly people were walking around in this heat. How many like really out of shape people, if you know what I mean, walking around in this heat. I was dying and we were walking about 16,000 steps a day, which is maybe eight miles, which usually we do even more at Disneyland. So what’s my point? My point is the payoff just wasn’t there this time for me.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow, and that’s sad because obviously Disney’s the happiest place on Earth. Apparently not so happy this time.
SPEAKER 01 :
It was my happy place. That’s why I’m kind of bummed. But I still have to admit, I’m still a fan of Disneyland. And here’s why. Because they’re so close. It’s super convenient to park hop and just to walk back and forth. Way more convenient than Disney World. I always liked Disney World better before because Disney World has the four worlds. And I’m like, ooh, so cool. The four worlds. Love that. But with that said… Um, it’s really hard to park hop. So I, I’m, I’m just sticking with Disneyland and the weather’s better at Disneyland, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. You are a Disney connoisseur. I’ve been to Disney Tokyo. Let me tell you, it was the funniest thing I’ve ever been through years ago. And your favorite Disney stuff. in Japanese.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s like, you know, funny. I don’t remember those lyrics that way, you know?
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh my gosh. That is so funny.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. And I, a friend of mine just got back from Disney Paris. And she said the weather was so crappy that it was hard to really evaluate it because they were so darn cold the whole time and rainy and wet and all the rest of it that they’re like, yeah, not the ideal time to see Paris Disney.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, my goodness. That is so crazy. Yeah, I would still – I would still – do Paris Disney or Paris Tokyo I would still give it another shot but yeah I’m done with Disney World for a while okay all right so let’s um start our topic and we may continue it in the next segment because I’ve got uh someone coming up that’s going to give us advice uh an automotive reporter on the best family car to get which you know I’m always in the market for that so what’s our topic today
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, we had this part of a, you know, I like to read and we do a lot of book reviews on this. And there’s a classic apparently book from the 1930s and I’m halfway through and I’m fascinated. You know, it’s the more that we are aware of history, the more doomed we are to repeat it. And I’m always amazed at how much all of the answers we seek are in history. We just don’t take the time to look. So I’m reading a book called The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton. It’s from the 1930s. They did this, again, reprinting in the 1960s. But I read some of this stuff, and I was amazed because they’re talking about the cultural differences between the Greeks and the Egyptians. And it is just amazing to see calling the Greeks the foundational, you know –
SPEAKER 01 :
ambassadors of all right hold that hold that thought uh brian just uh joined us so um so we’re going to change gears here and then i’ll have you in the next segment okay okay Well, if you’re just joining us, this is Angie Austin with the good news. Brian Moody is joining us now, and Brian is an executive editor for Kelley Blue Book. He’s been an automotive journalist for 20 years, and today he is talking to us about which vehicles are fit for your family. Welcome, Brian.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 01 :
You’re welcome. All right, so let’s just start with the most important features to consider when you’re choosing a family car.
SPEAKER 02 :
When it comes to family cars, the seating capacity is probably the first thing you’re going to look at. Unlike other cars that are less utilitarian, so say like a truck, you want the hauling capacity. For a sports car, you probably don’t care that it only has two seats. But for a family car, you want seating capacity, and then after that, probably safety features and crash test scores.
SPEAKER 01 :
All right. Sounds good. Yeah, that’s kind of what I look for. But and then it’s like weird because we’ve got a couple of SUVs and then I was getting an electric car and I looked at one for seven. But then I was like, well, I do have those other SUVs that seat eight. So, you know, maybe I can go with a smaller one for this one. So you have to like. But I agree with you on the safety features. That’s really way up there. Let’s talk about the top vehicles, in your opinion, or listed as this year’s best family cars.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right, so we factored into a lot of things such as safety, as we said, but also roominess and just functionality, but also resale value because resale value is important. That’s real money that’s going to go into or out of your pocket when you go to sell the car in five, six, seven years. So a high resale value car is more likely to make it onto our list because at the end of your ownership, even if the purchase price up front was more expensive… it’s going to put more money back in your pocket. And this could be thousands of dollars. So that’s why we have cars like the Honda CR-V, the Hyundai Ioniq 5, and the Subaru Outback for two-row SUVs. We’ve found that those do all of those things well. One of the questions people are always going to have to ask themselves when buying a family car is two-row or three-row? Do I need a three-row SUV? Because they’re typically more expensive than bigger cars and usually use more gas. So asking yourself that question, two-row or three-row, there’s some good two-rows. We just mentioned the Subaru Outback and Honda CR-V. But if you need a three-row, there’s a lot of choices when it comes to three-row. That’s what most people think of as a midsize SUV, like the Toyota Highlander or the Honda Pilot. There’s even big ones, like full-size SUVs, like the Ford Expedition, the big truck-based, fairly pricey, can tow quite a big load. For some people, that’s what they need. So there’s a variety of things. And then once you get to three row, the next question is going to be minivan or SUV. Most people say SUV, but I think minivans are actually kind of awesome.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, they’re so handy. It’s like when we travel, I want one of those because it reduces the fight factor because you can give them different rows.
SPEAKER 02 :
Right. Yeah. I don’t know if anybody has had this experience, but even when you have a three row SUV and say you only have like two or three kids, one kid, almost always immediately heads for the very back row. They don’t wanna be left alone. I mean, that’s part of the luxury of having a car that big. And then when you do need to have eight people, it can accommodate that too.
SPEAKER 01 :
So what’s your favorite? If you had to pick one or two, what would yours be?
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh, Kia Telluride, easy.
SPEAKER 01 :
The Kia Telluride?
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s just a car that like, it just looks cool. The interior seems like it’s engineered to a higher degree than others. I would say a close second is the Toyota Highlander. They’re both very, very good. There’s something about the driving dynamics and the look of the Kia that I really find myself always going back to wanting to rent one, wanting to borrow one. Whenever it’s at an auto show, I’m like, oh, I’m going to go sit in that one. There’s just something about it that I just – I don’t know. I can’t explain it exactly, but I think it’s probably – One of the best ones on the list.
SPEAKER 01 :
I like that Highlander, too. I think that’s similar, too. We’ve got a couple of those big Lexus GX, you know, SUVs and sounded great when we needed to tow our Jeep. And now that our teenagers are driving them, I added up the gas for last month and it was $800 for the two Lexus that the two of the teenagers drive. And we’ve got a third that’s got a permit right now. And I’m like, are you kidding me? Like, we thought it was a great idea like 20 years ago, but now… Not such a great idea. All right, Brian, where do people go for more info?
SPEAKER 02 :
For more information, you can go to kbb.com. That’s Kelley Blue Book’s website where you can find pricing and values. But for the information on what we were just talking about specifically, go to kbb.com slash awards, and you can see the list of cars right there at the top of the page.
SPEAKER 01 :
Excellent. Thanks, Brian. Have a great day.
SPEAKER 02 :
Thank you. You too.
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SPEAKER 01 :
Edgewater is tuned to the mighty 670 KLT. Hey there friend, Angie Austin and Dr. Cheryl Lentz, the academic entrepreneur, my radio friend. All right, reintroduce this book we’re going to talk about.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s called The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton. It’s from the 1930s, reprinted again in the 19, I think it was 64, 83, and again in 93. And it is just an amazing cultural affirmation, if you will, of the contributions the Greek and the Egyptians made. And one of them a very positive and the other one very negative. And I thought it was fascinating to look at our past which seems to be very indicative of the future and here’s what i’ve learned so far i’m about halfway through the book is how much the greeks were the positive the uplifting the everything’s coming up roses and optimism in their deal and how long they their lives lived better they had more joyables everything was about how almost like the millennial if i’m not enjoying it why am i doing it kind of philosophy mm-hmm where the Egyptians were always about everything in the afterlife, nothing in this life. And so they didn’t care about the suffering here. That’s why all the Egyptians and the pyramids was all about, let’s make sure that our next life is going to be fantastic. So we’re going to have all the gold and all our kids and all our stuff, but they didn’t know how to enjoy the present moment. And so I think it’s interesting that the Egyptians were stuck in the past and the future, meaning they weren’t living in the presence and the Greek were all about living in the present and, and having, and how much different that,
SPEAKER 01 :
just orientation is i find it fascinating all right so i was just talking to our buddy um jim stovall and it was about rear view mirrors and and uh the and windshields and how the windshields be because you’re supposed to look forward and the rear view mirror in life too is small because you’re not supposed to spend your time looking backwards you’re supposed to glance here and there and
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s really good. I like that.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah. And that, that glancing back is to learn a lesson or maybe to enjoy a memory, but it’s not to dwell on failures or to dwell on negativity or how you were wronged, et cetera. That, you know, that a lot of us don’t spend a lot of time in the present. Is that kind of the gist of it? Like explain what you learned.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I’ve never, I mean, all the history I’ve taught and all the history I’ve taken is I never heard that orientation being the focus of the lessons of thinking of a, well, the Greeks lived in the present and it was all about joy and happiness. And isn’t that amazing? Because that which you are seeking is seeking you versus the Egyptians who were so in poverty. And so everything was bad and it wasn’t a good time then. And everything was about death and dying and preparing for the next life as if this life was intended to be punishment. And they both lived in, At different times with different philosophies with very different ends.
SPEAKER 01 :
I’m like, wow. Well, what did you personally, how was it making you personally look at your life?
SPEAKER 03 :
I knew a lot. I had spent a lot of time looking back because one of my favorite times was in college. And, you know, particularly when you’ve been divorced and you looked at it. So I think a lot of us, the older we get. We look at what we perceive to be, hint, hint, hint, some of the best times in our life. And I wouldn’t doubt that my junior and senior year in college at the University of Illinois was the best. Oh, my gosh, would do it again in a heartbeat. Some of the other stuff, life happens. But it’s all about perspective. And it’s all about how I viewed it. So I could tell you all the good things that happened. I could tell you all the really awesome things happened. Or I could tell you about all the bad stuff that happened. But it’s amazing how I choose to remember it is all the parties and the fun tarts and the trips and the sorority girl and all of that stuff. And all the other stuff happened too. So it’s not that I’m not remembering it, but I choose to focus on all the good stuff. So isn’t it amazing? You and I have talked about this before. How many people live in their life? Nine out of 10 things go right, but we focus on the one out of 10. And it’s all a matter of same stuff happens, same history happened, but how we choose to focus and retell it. Isn’t that amazing? So do you glass half empty, glass half full, or do you fill the glass? Interesting.
SPEAKER 01 :
You know, I’m getting to that point where, you know, you and I have talked about, you know, like pets, how important they are to us. I’ve got my kids. You’ve had your – I really enjoyed having – foreign exchange students, that’s been a highlight for you. The divorce, of course, puts a shadow over a certain part of your life. And then college, like you said, the really fun part. College for me, I worked full time and went to school full time. So it’s kind of a blur to me because I was so overly busy. And so focused and driven in my 20s to everybody I run into from my teens and 20s is like, you were the hardest worker I’ve ever met. And I don’t feel that way at all anymore. But apparently I was. And I do see where they’re coming from because so many people have just been like, I never met anybody that worked as hard as you did. And it was amazing. And they’ll tell my kids that. And my kids are like, wow, she only works part time now. But I mean, it was until probably 35, maybe even 40, like over the top seven days a week. I’d do two jobs at a time. I’d go to school and work full time, go to school, college full time, got great grades. I mean, I just worked my tail off. But I would say that the time that I know that I’m probably going to miss is like with my kids because I don’t even want to go on a vacation without them. And now I’m planning fall break for next year. And my son’s fall break won’t coincide with ours because he’s in college now. And so just looking at like that cruise we took a while back, that was the one where I kind of knew that that might be our last big family, like hurrah for spring break where we were all together. And yes, I know we’ll have more and maybe even with grandkids and kids and all that, but it was the last one where they were all at home and together. And so as I’m going through memories now, like it just popped up the records that my kids set at the pool. Cause my daughter, um, uh is uh in the championships this summer one of them all three of them used to swim and their records are still up on the board from 2016 and she sent me screenshots you know at the pool where she is with the records listed and it’s just so cool but i don’t know just the memories of all of that how things have changed and the other three boys on that um record-breaking um relay team they were going to college on swim scholarships and my son was the best of them at the time And he decided to stop swimming. And, you know, just bittersweet memories where you’re like, oh, he could be going to, you know, school. And he was phenomenal. But the weirdest thing happened, Cheryl, is like they kept growing. And he hit that little like now he’s 6’3″. So he’s taller than all of them. But they grew and he was super tiny. Well, when you’re tall and swimming, like some of his friends started beating him. And he said he started getting bored by swimming. And that might have been part of it because it is kind of boring to swimming back and forth for two hours. But I think part of it was he’d always been the winner. And then he was coming in second and third. And that was a hard pill to swallow for him. But if he would have stuck it out, he would have reclaimed his one of the top spots, you know, because that height helps so much. And one of the boys is only 5’8″. Now Riley’s 6’3″. Well, that gives him a tremendous advantage. But you have to kind of like swim through those awkward years or the stunted growth years or whatever. But anyway, what’s my point? My point is, You and I have both have different highlights and I can see as I’m looking through memories because they pop up every day on my phone, which I super enjoy. Right. But there are, you know, things like when my Mr. Mr. Brains, my cat pops up or there’s a sad moment. And I know you feel the same way about Gracie, where those members are going to pop up and it’s going to take that scab off for a moment. But overall. So 99% of these memories are super pleasant for me, where I really enjoy them. But I’m coming to the realization that I am going to be going through that empty, nasty thing soon. And it is that whole thing people tell you that in a blink of an eye, these kids are grown, that the days are long, the years are short, that it goes by so quickly. And I don’t want to be one of these people that just focuses on those years. I want to be able to really enjoy the next phase and what that will be. Am I going to be a volunteer? Am I going to work with animals? Am I going to work with people who are developmentally disabled? Like what brings me joy, you know?
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly. And I’m doing some volunteer work and things in there. It’s just the only thing constant in life is change. And you’ve got to either roll with it or you can Sit home. It’s all a matter of life going to happen to you. Are you going to be a participant? And a lot of folks, that’s the whole point of this book is two different cultures and very different philosophies and very different interpretations of joy and happiness and love. And it’s all a matter of perspective as opposed to what happened. So I like that you choose to have a bit of more of a filter and intentional and purposeful of what you choose to remember and how you want to celebrate it.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, and I know I’ve told you before that, and I’m sure everybody’s sick of hearing about this, but my example of not doing it, the way that I don’t want to do it is my mom, and I have to say she’s gotten better because last time she lived with us, she’s been with us about seven months now. And over my 20-year marriage, she’s been with us a lot at that time. My husband teases her constantly. He’ll be like, you mean you can’t remember that, but you remember when you were three, when the blah, blah, blah happened? Because she has all these stories where she’s mad about something from her childhood. And he’s like, how can you not remember such and such from two years ago, but you remember this thing so vividly? But anyway, he’s constantly teasing her. She’ll start talking. He’s like, oh, is this another story? Cheryl, are we in for another treat, another long story?
SPEAKER 03 :
But that’s what’s imprinted and important to her, and that perspective is often shaped by your parents. Look at how much you have shaped the children of being able to, all right, we’re going to have a lesson. We’re going to learn from it. We’re not going to dwell on it. We’re going to learn to live and learn to be social and learn to be grateful and learn to be good sportsmen. I mean, there’s all kinds of lessons you choose to be able to focus their attention on in the present. where a lot of parents just don’t even notice some of those things, you know, so I think that’s amazing.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, we’ve, yeah, I told you when Riley was learning, and I’ve said this at least 10 times when he was learning vocabulary, he said, Oh, I know what a pessimist is. Grandma’s a pessimist, and mom’s an optimist. And of course, that made me happy that he saw me as an optimist. But I’m like, Oh, my gosh, they totally get it that my mom focuses on the negative. But that’s just one little aside that I definitely know the kids.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s a skill.
SPEAKER 01 :
And it
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s a choice, but people don’t see it as a choice. They just see that they’ve always been that way. They’ve always been wired that way.
SPEAKER 01 :
they choose to stay that way yeah I think we get in patterns right yeah we get in patterns where it’s really hard to you know break out of those patterns per se so yeah it’s um it’s definitely interesting all right so in terms of what you’re going to take forward from the book or you know how this has impacted you or what you want other people to learn from it let’s go there it’s
SPEAKER 03 :
really is how you choose to focus your lens as you’re talking about is how you choose to recall which memories and what perspective of those memories, you know, we can look at the bad things, or we can look at the quote, unquote, bad things that weren’t, maybe there were bad things at the time, because we didn’t see how they shaped us. And they turned out to be good things, right? It’s all a matter of perspective is I have students all the time that It may or may not be their favorite prof until about six months to 12 months later when they see the method of my wisdom that that impacts them. And now I become their favorite, but I wasn’t their favorite at the time. It’s all my teaching didn’t change. They’ve already been graduated for six months to a year. And yet they’re how they choose to remember we changed because of how their impact that I had going, wow, I really learned the most from her. So it’s all a matter of. How you choose to think, because I guarantee you, while they were in my class, some of them, not their favorite.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, that’s interesting. That’s interesting. I love it that you realize that, that you’re pretty tough, so you might not be the favorite, but that they might learn to love you in the future when they see how you positively impacted them.
SPEAKER 03 :
I just had a call yesterday from a student who’s been gone quite some time. And he’s like, Doc, see, I just got to tell you, you’re one of the best profs I’ve ever had. I’m like, yeah, but you didn’t think so at the time. He goes, no, I didn’t. And I think I owe you an apology.
SPEAKER 01 :
Wow.
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But I get that along and it’s all a matter of they’re seeing the, you know, eight week course that we’re doing. They’re seeing the finite outcome, the grades, the impact. When they graduate, they see the bigger picture. They see particularly when I’m a doctoral mentor. So part of the class is dovetails into how they earn their doctorate, whether with me or anyone else. And then they see going, oh, so that’s what you, oh, isn’t that the, oh, isn’t that, but they didn’t see it at the time. So you can’t see the forest for the trees. So that’s the hard part is how do you, and now I even tell my students like, listen, I mean, you may not be my biggest fan right now. And I understand you’re overwhelmed. You’re really caught up on all the minutia and all the details and all the things you don’t yet understand. I promise you in six months, your perspective is going to change because you will understand them. You will see the connection and you will see the wisdom of why I’m doing things the way I am. I just need you to hang with me long-term. They’re like, all right, that works. And by changing that perspective a little bit, I’m helping to manage their expectations and shift their orientation. I don’t want them to just focus on, oh, my God, she’s just the worst ever. And we got to do this. And, you know, the whininess in there. I’m like. All right, that’s true. But in the event you look at why am I doing this? Because you need this for your doctoral work. You need this for your publishing. You need this. And when they see that connection, they can say, oh, so it’s not just you being a hard-ass, so to speak. It’s you being purposeful and intentional and knowing the skills we need because you know where we need to be. I’m like, I’ve graduated over 110 grads. Not my first rodeo. I know what you need. The problem is you can’t know what you need, much like a child. You’re teaching them life lessons that they might not understand until they’re 30, but you’re teaching them when they’re 70. And they’re going to be like, oh, mom. Right. And then all of a sudden they’re 35. Like, mom, that was pretty good stuff. I remember when I was a kid. Thank you. And it’s gratitude in the rear view mirror.
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Yes, I love that. We’re out of time. Gratitude in the rear view mirror. Dr. Cheryl Lentz dot com. Thank you, friend.
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