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A Contagious Smile Podcast
A Contagious Smile is a powerful platform dedicated to uplifting and empowering special needs families and survivors of domestic violence. Through heartfelt stories, we shine a light on the journeys of extraordinary individuals who have overcome unimaginable challenges. Their triumphs serve as a testament to resilience and strength, inspiring others to rediscover their own inner light. Each episode features candid interviews with survivors, advocates, and experts who provide valuable resources and insights to support those on their own paths to healing and empowerment. Join us as we celebrate the power of resilience, the beauty of shared stories, and the unstoppable spirit of those who turn adversity into hope. Let us guide you in rekindling your spirit, because every smile tells a story of courage and transformation.
A Contagious Smile Podcast
Resilience and Advocacy: Navigating Domestic Violence, Customer Service Challenges, and Questioning Societal Norms TRIGGER WARNING
Can your sense of security be restored after witnessing a threat firsthand? Join us as we reflect on our holiday season spent amongst family and our three golden retrievers, all while navigating the alarming incidents of domestic violence and terrorist attacks that have shaken our nation. As a former police officer, I recount a personal story of stepping in during a dire domestic violence situation, underscoring the need for proactive advocacy. We also touch on a frustrating encounter with Xfinity over a promotional offer, revealing the challenges faced by those with unique needs, such as being an amputee, in a world that often lacks understanding.
Our holiday season wouldn't be complete without some customer service chaos. From a FedEx delivery debacle to a puzzling interaction with Xfinity, we recount our challenges in dealing with customer service representatives who fail to accommodate specific needs. Despite the setbacks, we find humor and determination in these experiences, advocating against discriminatory practices and pushing for better accommodations for those facing disabilities. My husband adds his comic touch and admiration for my independence, emphasizing the importance of self-advocacy and resilience in overcoming life's obstacles.
Are video games really a gateway to violence, or are we overreacting to their impact? We explore this controversial topic, comparing classic games to modern, graphic content and questioning the societal shifts they've inspired. Our conversation extends to societal censorship, examining the logic behind banning classic Christmas songs while allowing more contentious modern music. Wrapping up, we share insights from my memoir "Who Kicked First," an empowering journey through trauma and survival. With unwavering support from my husband, we invite you to explore these narratives and find strength in standing up for others within our community.
Howdy y'all. Welcome to another episode of hey. Just smile unstoppable With a lovely and sexy red-headed Victoria.
Speaker 2:Seriously Seriously.
Speaker 1:You are sexy, you are Victoria and you are red-headed. I'm Michael redneck in the background. So Merry Christmas, happy New Year's, feliz Navidad you're pulling it, you're pulling you got this and all that.
Speaker 1:So I hope y'all have good holidays. Ours was homebody. That's what we are. We like to stay at home. We're very frugal. We don't like drama. So it was just the three, the six of us. Homebody, that's what we are. We like to stay at home. We're very frugal. We don't like drama. So it was just the three, the six of us. Myself, my wife, our lovely Faith and our three golden retrievers Stay here for Christmas. We stay here for New Year's. And my wife is just looking at me. This is how I look at you. So here's the wolf. See what we do here tonight.
Speaker 1:Seriously, so let's talk about how our country is going to hell in a handbasket, not when trump gets in, okay.
Speaker 2:Well, we got 19 more days for that. So last night, new year's eve, there is terrorist attack in new york. There is a an issue in new orleans. Something else happened in New Orleans. One of the incidences was somebody driving a truck with ISIS flag on the back and ran into and killing a bunch of people. Then on top of it unless there's been a third one a second person has been caught burned to death on the subway by somebody just putting him on fire. Lighting the person on fire. What the hell is going on Like this is just stupid. It's stupid Idiocracies of the people in this country, not all some blows my mind that these people just think, hey, I'm going to go kill innocent bystanders, they don't get it.
Speaker 2:It's not safe to enjoy anything. You hear people in Walmart are getting sued. You hear they're going on the subway. You're getting caught and burned alive. You know it's literally left, right and center. Everywhere you go. You have to be cautious, you have to be ready, and when we were younger we didn't have to worry about any of that. You don't watch the door when you're a teenager and wonder if someone's coming in with an automatic weapon to shoot up. You know, now you do. What have you got to say about that? Now you do, what have you got?
Speaker 1:to say about that. So let's put this in perspective, Since we advocate for official need to be a domestic violence survivor. On the domestic violence side, okay, I was a cop for 13 and a half years. Most of y'all know this and, yes, it was a job. It's also a calling. It's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1:Ok, you put yourself in harm's way when you're law enforcement, firefighter and when my wife and I watch some of these videos of these poor individuals, these victims being burnt alive on the subways. There are bystanders. You know you're going to have the idiots. They're filming, of course. Then you have cops or whatever the hell they call themselves there. Just watch it looking. You know they're all wearing jackets. Take off your jacket, man, Put it over the victim, Put it over the person. You can smother the flames victim themselves because they didn't act quick enough or because of their action. You know good Samaritan law should cover them. I just don't understand it. Just it blows my mind. I just don't understand. It blows my mind. One of the first things we did upon moving to this house, this home of ours, is we witnessed a domestic literally next door to us, and I mean we weren't here that long, it was within the first week Right, the first week and I immediately went over there and confronted the gentleman.
Speaker 2:Do you want to call him that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the individual, and I told him to leave the property. It was his property or he was renting. But you know, I made him leave Because I saw a handprint on his girlfriend's face or wife's face, I don't remember which one. But, yeah, guy, stand up and say something, you know. Don't let these ladies you know or men you know be taken advantage of like that, be abused. You see something, say something. You know Hell. If you see someone on fire, let them out. Okay, Drop, stop and roll. You know hell. If you see someone on fire, let them out. Okay, drop, stop and roll. You know, right, absolutely. I mean, that's a human being, that's someone. It was it two females?
Speaker 1:I don't the first one, I don't know I don't know um, that's somebody's daughter mother sister, yeah, child so just just be a human speaking of let's get really yes, let's just really get into this.
Speaker 2:And no filter, no, nothing, because we all know that we advocate for special needs, right? So I need my peeps for a minute because I'm going to blow a gasket. So last week, right before Christmas, like the 21st-ish, I get noticed that because we're an amazing customer of Xfinity, that we qualified for a free Apple Watch, right? So I get there, I talked to you know whomever, forever in a day, and I explained to him that my husband will not wear an Apple watch because he wears one that was custom made for him by his family, and then he wears one to work, that he can get banged up and whatever, not worry about. So he says, well, what about you, ma'am? Okay, well, let's, let's look at this moment and I say to him I am an amputee, how can I wear one? And he's like, oh, you just put it on your limb. We go through the whole thing, blah, blah, blah. Fine, I'll try it. So you have to pay the tax, which is like $21 or whatever. And Faith was excited because she was like I want to give it to you for Christmas, okay? They said, oh, it'll be here by FedEx, you'll get it in two days.
Speaker 2:So that time comes, I rearrange my entire day, which is Christmas Eve, sorry, you'll get it in two days. So that time comes, I rearrange my entire day, which is Christmas Eve, sorry, christmas Eve. And I wait and I wait and I wait and they never show. So I call them and they're like we don't know. We're really far behind and I'm seeing everywhere on social media that Everybody with FedEx is fed Because they are literally not getting their packages. So the next day I wait. And one thing then it's Christmas. Obviously they're not running. The next day, the 26th, they're going to be there between like 9 am and 11.30. Okay, redo my day Waiting, nothing. Show up at like 5 pm and they give me the package. I signed for it, not even 15, 20 minutes later I get on chat with xfinity and advise them that what they sent me was not what we discussed.
Speaker 2:I asked for specifically the band that Velcroed all the way around, and I explained because I'm an amputee, I cannot put the clasp on and do all the other stuff with the watch. The only way that this could possibly work is with the Velcro, and the only way that this could possibly work is with the vote, and they assured me that this would not be so. Then, long story short, this says no. This says no. This moron says oh, we were out of that band, we didn't even have any. Did you have any? When you told me I could have it and I agreed to this no, so we just sent you night and day different, like I asked for the black Velcro and I got a white van. So he says well, we can take it back and I will credit the account.
Speaker 2:Here's the problem you are now. You're getting it for free, but there is a $35 restocking. Hold the freaking door. You sent me the wrong item, the item to which I did not agree to purchase. I paid the tax. Then you send me the wrong item. I call you within 40 minutes of the delivery and you say to me if you would like to return it. There is a $35 restocking fee. Are you freaking, kidding me? So I asked for a supervision.
Speaker 2:I go through three different people Every time. They're like we need you to verify your account, verify your name. I've already done that. Why do I have to keep doing it Time and time and time and time again? I haven't called back in. So then I'm like I need to talk, to talk to a manager. Well then, we don't have one available. Uh, wrong. So I end up calling the next day so that I can physically like, have a conversation.
Speaker 2:I get switched to like four different faith is sitting. Oh, this is going to be good. I order a band on Amazon, which by now I've already gotten and I've put it on my nub and I am trying to make this work, but I'm on hold. Oh, let me get a supervisor. Please stand by. My husband comes in and he's like what's going on? Oh, please stay on the line. My husband hears this please stay on the line, supervisor, be with you in a minute. So I kind of just put my phone to the side. I'm working diligently and I'm waiting on a supervisor. My husband's like are you still on hold? Yes, I am faith like. I just want to witness this. Two hours, 55 minutes. I never get a surprise.
Speaker 2:However, while talking to the customer service personnel, I explained to them that I could not do this by myself. I couldn't get the watch programmed and do what I needed to do, being an amputee, and they said oh, oh well, the delivery driver can help you set this up, all of which I have recorded in chat. I said I cannot do this. I'm not asking some delivery driver to help set up the watch period. Well then, get somebody else to help you. I am an independent amputee and I am NOT going to ask somebody to take it off and on for me on a daily basis.
Speaker 2:When I asked for originally the product to which I could manage, so I said to him you are discriminatory against myself, which my husband will tell you. I never. How often have you heard me play that? And I said to said hoo-ha, you are being discriminatory against the handy. You hate the word and I really don't like the word handy.
Speaker 2:But I explained there's no way that I can do this. We'll have someone do it for you. Do you want me to have someone like answer it and work the thing for me as well? Are you offering your services? Because what you're doing at your job at Xfinity sits? And I was like Xfinity is showing extreme prejudicedness against those with challenges. And he was like that's not my problem, it's going to be a problem. It's going to be Because I advocate for this and for you to make some comment that, oh, just get Joe Blow to come over and assist you with this, then why the hell am I getting it?
Speaker 2:Why am I paying for it? You know you don't tell somebody who is an amputee oh, go run up a flight of stairs if they don't have prosthetics. Right, I don't have a hand, so how am I going to be able to do this the correct way? How am I going to be able to put the watch on like I'm supposed to? And these idiots did not care and showed no concern whatsoever why I claim it. My no concern whatsoever why I explained it. My husband's cracking. Why are you laughing?
Speaker 1:Because I love to see you fired up. Y'all. Don't hear me talk about my wife. Yeah, because I do. I hear me talk about her a lot. So she is. She says she's very independent. She does not ask for help a lot, so she is. She says she's very independent. She does not ask for help a lot. She works like 21 hours a day and she is missing her left arm below the elbow.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Those of y'all who think, oh shit, you can do everything. She's right-handed, she's dominant right hand. She you can do, you can still can do everything. She's right-handed, she's dominant right-hand, you can still do it. Okay, gentlemen, after the first month of her amputation, I bandaged my fist, my left hand, and then I wrapped my whole arm in an ace bandage and put it in a sling-like manner around my body, and I went through the entire day.
Speaker 2:Except for bathing.
Speaker 1:Except for the shower, trying to do everything one-handed in a support and empathy and sympathy for my wife. I want to know what she has to go through. You ain't nuts? We just started y'all. Okay, guys, try to button your britches, okay, uh-uh, it ain't happening. Okay, I think I might have cheated there.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But, ladies, you can't put on a bra. If you get it, he's shaving. Oh yeah, shit. How are you going to shave your right armpit? If you're missing a left hand, I do it, okay. So for those y'all uh saying that she's slacking off, that she could do this all one-handed, I tell you what she is doing it she tied her own dang shoe one-handed, okay, and a bow it's in a bow right.
Speaker 1:So you want to challenge, bandage up one of your arms and do everything one-handed and uh, that'll give you an inkling, just an inkling, what it's like. Okay, cook your food, put on your britches, take a shower all this hair on my head right drive. Put on your seat belt, open the door. Order food at the drive-thru.
Speaker 2:Drive-thru's the worst With your right hand only. Push a shopping cart full of food down the aisles with one hand.
Speaker 1:So she's not the one to complain, but when she runs into morons like this, it kind of gets her fired up and she's even more sexier. Oh, by the way, our website is back up and running, so get on a contagious smilecom and check out everything that's there, and don't forget to um, look at all the books, the material, everything that that we have to offer. There's classes, courses. Now Tell us about them. You tell us about them.
Speaker 2:No, you tell us about the UGC.
Speaker 1:No, you're going to tell us so here's.
Speaker 2:You know you're a royal pain in my ever-loving butt tonight. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1:But I'm the last royal pain in your butt.
Speaker 2:That's exit only. Just because you're prepping for your colonoscopy doesn't have nothing to do with me. And just think to get to February. You gotta get through January. So just saying, you have a big event in February, so you have to get your shit taken care of. Ah, ah, so you have to get your shit taken.
Speaker 2:So we are offering classes, all sorts of different things. Also, we are trying to bring awareness to mental health for teens as well. If you go to self e s e l l-Y and then put in a contagious smile, you can go and see all of our products. You type in the word welcome and you get 20% off, which is awesome. And we now also have an Etsy store, but it's under Victoria Curie, and we are offering journals and courses and classes and books, oh my, and all sorts of other things we're starting to work courses and classes and books, oh my, and all sorts of other things we're starting to work on and to do to help everybody, because it's hard. It's hard to be, whatever age you are at this point in time, we all need a little extra push and help every once in a while.
Speaker 2:My husband has picked up his phone. He is so you know. So I don't you know what I don't get. I really think and I'm gonna harp on this again because I really am so strongly about this I still hate video games. I'm adamant against video video games. I think that it is so bad. Um, like the video game my husband is playing downstairs I don't even remember what it's called my daughter's playing. I hate this game about the zombies. But here's the thing it's not funny, not funny. They're like going and acting like they're freddy krueger or uh jason from whatever movie that jason uh does beca. What's the movies jason does the friday the 13th? I haven't seen any of them. I don't like horror movies. But you go down there and he's like come sit with us, babe, come sit with us, babe. Okay, I see, I tried, I sat down there for a minute.
Speaker 2:I tried to sit down there for a minute I go down there and look and see, oh, I thought you were writing me um, and I literally trying to figure out what is going on with the stupid game. And then I see people, what? What rating is the game? Is it r? Is it like mc17? I don't think so. Probably g. And you literally watch my husband and now my child that he's roped into this, decapitate, uh, amputate like slaughter these people, zombie, whatever they are, like you know. It comes on and there's a huge machete in their eye. There is, oh, watch this, I'm gonna electrocute them and then cut their arm off. Hey, seriously. And you wonder why violence is so much control, why every why, because the parents are not teaching their kids.
Speaker 2:Because these kids are home playing this shit and nobody is saying to him no, well, the kids shouldn't have access to it. Why not? Because when we were growing up Frogger, pac-man, mrs Pac-Man, that makes a lot of sense, but you weren't amputating that. Donkey kong, none of these things were anywhere. Tetris, these games were not where you're walking up and amputating, decapitating you weren't doing any of these things. You were literally like whatever the game is, and then you know you're eating the ghost, okay, ooh, but like seriously, that's it no different than um, because you're not like watching somebody come run at you and you're showing these people how it's okay.
Speaker 2:And then our daughter comes down there and she's like that's wicked, and they take someone's head and they take an arm up and a leg and then you wonder, since all of these, okay, but she is in the minority when it comes to this? You know, you go back and look at the manifestos of the individuals who have gone into schools and shot up schools at work, on average as teenage boys. But we have had a couple of girls. They all were obsessed with these video games. All of them were obsessed with them. Okay.
Speaker 2:Some of them have been incarcerated for a while. Why are they even making this stuff? They have sex cells, but I'm not out there promoting prostitution. I'm saying that. I absolutely do not agree with it. I don't think it's right, I don't think it's fair. And let me ask you something People who are so against guns right, they're so anti-guns, they're anti-police, they're anti-police, they're anti-God.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's their right, that's what they think, that's how they feel. Whatever, who is the first person they call when somebody comes onto their property or puts them in distress? The police, but they hate them. Okay, you hate guns. Not my husband or myself, but a general person hates guns, and then yet they have them in their home. They say it's for self-defense or the cop comes.
Speaker 2:But it's like you don't want prayer in school, you don't want to do prayer of allegiance anymore, all of these things. It's like you know everything's offensive. Sit indian style. That's offensive. You're supposed to say cross applesauce. When the hell did applesauce start? Christmas? You can't say christmas party, you have to say holiday event or holiday, the holiday, or winter. Well, what doesn't winter offend somebody? Does winter offend somebody? What if somebody is acclimated to cold and found that to be offensive? Don't say winter, because now you're offending the cold people. I mean seriously, you're offending the anemic. That's so ridiculous.
Speaker 2:You know, the guy from Big and Rich was hilarious. I saw this. It's his video. Okay, totally his video.
Speaker 2:Somebody asked him about how do you feel if somebody said I identify as a cat. This cowboy legend guy said I would look at him or her and say I appreciate that you identify as a cat. I do. I totally appreciate it. More power to you. But if you want to come in my home or be in my life, I want to see your veterinarian. I want to know that you've had your rabies. I want to know if I have to serve you catnip and have a little box and if you don't have these, you need to go to the vet and get up to date on your vaccines. Now there is not a veterinarian in this country or in this world who is going to let joey bagadona walk in and say hi, I identify as a cat. Can you give me a rabies shot? Right, get the paperwork. Walk around and say, okay, right, the paperwork. Walk around and say, okay, I identify as a cat. So really, I mean I get it.
Speaker 2:But people spend more time in school, try not to offend and they're bringing cat litter into the bathrooms we need and we're wondering why Society is so blanked up. I mean, come on now, like I saw a dad on an interview. He said if you and you said the same thing, if my daughter goes into the bathroom in a public bathroom and I see somebody who says they're transitioning into being a woman, but they have a penis and they go in that bathroom and they go near my little girl, which is what a lot of pedophiles are saying, is that, oh, I identify as a woman so I can go in the women's bathroom, right? And he, the dad, was like I have no problem because I will walk in there and say I identify as a tooth fairy because I'm not your teeth on your going anywhere you kick.
Speaker 2:You wouldn't do the same thing. Why are you laughing at me? Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me you wouldn't do the same thing. Why are you laughing at me? Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me you wouldn't. If a man went in the bathroom with Faith, can you question? What would you do if a grown man went in the bathroom with Faith? I?
Speaker 1:would take him to left field, y'all.
Speaker 2:No, what would you?
Speaker 1:do what I would do the same thing.
Speaker 2:But how is that left field then?
Speaker 1:No, we started. Is that left field?
Speaker 2:in no. We started out how it's all corrupting into violence. It's not left field, we're still in the ballpark I love her y'all we are in the ballpark you just get going and going.
Speaker 1:I I assume that you'd be bringing up all the stuff that they just recently banned also.
Speaker 2:The Christmas song. Okay, see, now you did it. Now you did it. We're going to talk about that because you brought it up. Tell me why. Okay, I saw Santa kissing.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus claus. That's banned. Why? Because it it's exploding or exploring sexuality. I mean mom can't kiss santa. I mean Mom can't kiss Santa.
Speaker 2:Rudolph is banned because it makes fun of individuals with challenges. Well, I hope you don't work at Xfinity. That's all I'm saying, because Rudolph has been banned. I mean serious Like this doesn't even make any sense. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Bing Crosby is turning over in his grave because chestnuts are roasting on an open fire. Being crosby is turning over in his grave because chestnuts are roasting on an open fire.
Speaker 2:But we have that banned now because and it's bothersome to people and people find that offensive. What about the people who find cats in the bathroom offensive? What if I want to get to the bathroom and not worry about cat claws and the smell of cat litter? Is that offensive? Can I make a stand on that? I'm just saying, like you know, I support everybody and I help everybody the best way that I can.
Speaker 2:But when you're saying bean crosby is offensive in his singing of christmas songs, but our daughter will listen to what is that song that's always on repeat, I'm a monster. I'm a monster. I'm a month and that is okay. That's not bad, that's not bad. But the good christmas classic, those are banned. How is that even okay? And why are we not in arms for this? Because it makes no sense, why I I really and truly don't understand why people are becoming so cynical that we can't listen to the classics.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to look really quick at all the ones that have okay, they have banned. Let's see. I want to see what else they've banned. All I Want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey. I'd ban that no matter what, for whatever reason. I would ban that because I'm just not a fan of hers and I don't like her. You know, everybody has their own personal opinion. But all I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey is banned. I would ban that one. Babe Enough speaking, because it's Mariah Carey, can't stand her. So, baby, it's cold outside. This is a duet with his. It was even featured in the 1949 movie. It's cold outside. This is a duet with his. It was even featured in the 1949 movie Neptune's Daughter, but defensive. So it's on the boundaries. I don't understand. They argue that this shows a woman flirting in a way that is not okay for society. So that's Okay. I know my husband will say something about this one, the Hanukkah song by Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1:That Hanukkah song by Adam Sandler I probably heard it once.
Speaker 2:It's criticized for outing jewish celebrities who are not public about their identities, and labeling increases anti, uh, anti-settitism, so that song is banned. So I saw mommy kissing santa. Okay, somebody tell me why. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Is banned.
Speaker 1:Unbelievable.
Speaker 2:Because are you ready for this? This is why it's been banned, babe. It's been banned because there's a lyric in it about wanting a pistol that shoots, so that is why it's been banned. Wanting a pistol that shoots so that is why it's been banned. Because in the song it talks about that, a kid wants a pistol that shoots, so that's banned. Santa Baby has been banned Because it's mentioning all the fellas. I haven't pissed, so it's mentioning all the fellas. I haven't pissed, so it's banned.
Speaker 1:This is ridiculous, okay.
Speaker 2:No, no wait. White Christmas by Elvis Wesley was seen as inappropriate at the time and asked the radio stations not to play Holiday music, has been told that they cannot be played in public schools because you're celebrating religious music. So we can't do that. That's the big no-no too. Let's see. Jingle Bells is off the list. These are all just ridiculous. Oh, all I Want for Christmas this is the last one All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth. There's a little girl singing this tune. All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth. Right, she lost her baby teeth. She wants her big girl teeth. But it's offensive to those who don't have dental care or don't have teeth. So it's offensive to those people. Therefore, that song is so now we're out.
Speaker 1:Of left field is there any other topic you'd like to be discussed? Well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Oh, I think it's a little heated up. What? Who in the hell you know?
Speaker 1:number one lie of the year it's probably the liberals getting ready to go out of office.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. The number one lie of the year has been recorded as Trump saying those people ate the animal, the dog or whatever it was. The biggest lie of the year is not Trump, it's Biden. Because what did Biden say for Ed? I will not pardon, he will not pardon Hunter. And what does he do? He pardoned Hunter. He pardoned his son, who is a convicted felon, who has done drugs and sold secrets of the US, done all of these things allegedly, even though convicted. But Ed will get over, and that's not the lie of the year. That's not the lie of the year. Are you serious? Like what's that?
Speaker 2:Nobody, nobody, okay is mentioning anything God rest his soul about Jimmy Carter, who passed away. Most people don't even know Jimmy Carter passed away, right, he was a president, and you know you're supposed to show respect to the presidents. It's supposed to be a big deal when one of them has passed. You know there's all these rules that presidents are supposed to obey once they're out of the office, like they can't drive ever again on public roads, they have to, just all sorts of stuff. And of course, the only president out of office that ever had an assassination attempt, of course was trump. Go figure. And now here we have president jimmy, who people either love or hate. I'm not even saying how I feel about him. I'm saying he was a president. He did a lot. He went all over the world building homes for people who needed it, and he did do some shady stuff. He did great.
Speaker 2:The point is is that you don't hear media hung up on the fact he passed or his arrangements or anything like that, like that's like shoo-shooed to the side because we have to hear about all of this other that's so more important, like it was in the news that, like kim kardashian went out on new year's Eve without her boot on her foot and so she walked out without her foot boot and that made news. That was all over everything. But where is it about President Jimmy Carter? Right? Nowhere, nowhere, nowhere. And every time you see the Kardashians, who have like a plethora of children, right, they have like nine nannies for each of their kids. Mind blowing. It is mind blowing how they have all. They have more nannies than they have kids and they have kids. The rules are they have to be on call, they have to travel with them, they have to do all these other things with them Every time you see anything about the congression, unless it's holiday picture posing time. These they're all out doing their thing. The kids aren't there, right, seriously.
Speaker 2:I don't know how to follow up with that. You're not giving respect to a fallen president like seriously. You know she still has her food. So that's more important. That's more important. That's more important than Jimmy Carter. We wonder what's wrong with society.
Speaker 1:So thank y'all for listening to all that. Some of the guys are out there thinking that poor man.
Speaker 2:No, they're not. They're saying hell yeah, this woman is a woman that likes camo and things that shoot, not diamond and sparkly things.
Speaker 1:She is wearing plaid right now, Yolanda.
Speaker 2:Right. What would I rather have? Gun or diamond?
Speaker 1:Definitely a gun.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:With a laser. Hell yeah, that's the light.
Speaker 2:Now we're good. So, and I'm just saying that guys are like hell. Yeah, listen to this woman. I'm not sitting back on the couch eating bonbons, doing nothing, you know, watching the Kardashians and just.
Speaker 1:How do you even know about them if you're not watching?
Speaker 2:Do I have to answer this question? You, I'll answer it, because one night in band camp, when Faith was in the hospital and there was nothing on TV, I watched one episode and it was like 3 o'clock in the morning on one of those channels on television and I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a pitfall Because it was so awful and there was no plot and it was bleh, ble, bleh, bleh, bleh. It was so bad. And then you have great TV shows that get cancelled, but the Kardashians, they're like cockroaches, they just won't go away, and so that's how I saw them.
Speaker 2:And then I look on the news and I follow the news so I know what's going on in the world. And you see, oh, kim Kardashian is without her boot in New York City. Dun-da-da kardashian is without her boot in new york city. President, oh, if he's anywhere, he's in the bottom, like scroll, where no one does all the way down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. And then you see, oh, like person got a haircut and dyed it green or purple or whatever. It's above president carter, but like, just keep scrolling, okay then thank you for that.
Speaker 1:yeah, card, but like just keep scrolling, Okay then Thank you for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I knew them because their dad was one of the lawyers on If it Doesn't Fit, okay.
Speaker 1:But you could.
Speaker 2:Could. Who writes a book after the fact and said, if I did it, this is like what I would have done or would have?
Speaker 1:Speaking of books, you have written 41 books.
Speaker 2:I have so many more in the pipeline.
Speaker 1:We know, and for those of y'all who have not read my wife's book, Vicora Curate it is called who Kicked Fur. That's her very first book. It's a memoir the dramatic events leading up to her birth and the first stages of her losing her arm.
Speaker 2:No, that's not in there at all.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:Just a part of the injuries I am doing.
Speaker 1:So who kicked? First who kicked first is our first one. The follow-up is Nartnark. Who's there?
Speaker 2:Now in defense of my loving husband I agree to this is that he has not read Nartner. He has not read who Kicked First. Because of the fact that he was there with me during this period of time he went to court with me. He was my saving me during this period of time. He wrote the court with me. He was my saving grace during court. Um, and when he saw me black and blue and injured and it literally the first time he saw me like that I'll never forget it's the fact that he literally looked like the life just got taken out of him when he saw me like that and I told him if that's how we looked, he definitely shouldn't read this, because who kicked first is so graphic it is. It is extremely graphic, down to the detail.
Speaker 2:Everybody who's read it tells that I've spoken with, tells me that he feels if they're literally there watching it happen and unable to do anything. A lot of survivors said oh my god, you literally captured what I've been in and been involved in in your own way and told your story. Nartnark, he has read. That is where a lot of the information about my own room does come to light. But just in your defense, he just I don't. I do not believe he could stomach. Who kicked Bruce Because he did try to read a page of it and my strong masculine has been I didn't know it wasn't yeah, I broke down y'all.
Speaker 1:I could read it on air one night. So it's up to you, as the um listener out, yonder, go to amazon, buy her, get to her book. It. It's not going to break the bank but it is going to give you some insight on her life, our life, the survivor's life, and you know, it may help someone, it may help a friend of yours, it may help you. You know, if you're in that situation, my wife has a lot of good pointers on what to do and how to prepare an escape plan and setting things up for those survivors out there in those relationships. Okay, enough of that. So, amazon, who kicked? First Narc? Narc, who's there, and then you also have our daughter's books that are out there under Faith Curate.
Speaker 2:And look where we are compared to a year ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, If you follow this on Facebook. Our little girl was in a hospital and, you know, just went to death's door and stayed there for weeks. It was not good.
Speaker 2:Doctors actually told us they would keep us comfortable and let nature take course. And uh, needless to say, if you think I get riled up over this kind of stuff, just imagine how riled up I got so she's, she's in the room next here to our office and she's, she's doing amazing, she's doing 1000 better.
Speaker 1:Um, she's got some badass scars to show her her fight and her struggle and her will to live, to stay on this earth. And yeah, so, those of y'all who ask about her, thanks, thank y'all for keeping both my wife and my daughter in your place. My wife's over there yawning so I'm going to be boring her. Keep your eye out for the new website. Have you posted it yet?
Speaker 2:New website. Our old website back up the other one. Which other one?
Speaker 1:How many websites do we have?
Speaker 2:Well, the Southie is up, Etsie is up, etsy is up.
Speaker 1:It's another contagious small one.
Speaker 2:No, no, not yet I'm going to stay.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to let her take us out, nope.
Speaker 2:It's all my husband.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, babe, y'all. We thank you for listening and oh, oh, let me. Let me say y'all have listen, okay, as soon as y'all get done listening to this, I want you search for our good buddy dave.
Speaker 2:Okay, campbell, dave, campbell I'll be on show coming up.
Speaker 1:Does he have a handle or anything on Spotify? What's the name of his?
Speaker 2:Like Upcycle. You were on the dad podcast.
Speaker 1:He's a yank y'all. He's a Canadian.
Speaker 2:He's going to whoop you.
Speaker 1:You can't get no more yank than that. He's going to whoop you. Dave Campbell, y'all look him up yanked in that Dave Campbell. Y'all look him up. He's done thousands of recordings.
Speaker 2:He has seven shows.
Speaker 1:Seven different shows that he does. He's my Yoda. This was my wife's Yoda when we first started podcasting. He's my podcast husband. You did not need to say that on air.
Speaker 2:He said it we are not in Utah. Dave said it.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Dave, uh, you did not need to say that on air.
Speaker 2:He said it. We are not in utah. Dave said it. Okay. So dave campbell, y'all look him up please.
Speaker 1:He's, uh, really skinny white guy, kind of older. He's gonna look for you, but he had y'all. If y'all want to know how to start podcasting, that's your fella. Right there Now my wife teaches courses, but it's all because of Dave. So we want to give kudos to Dave. Y'all, get on his podcast, follow him, listen to his stuff. He sounds way better than I do. So, dave Campbell, we love you. Buddy, all right, thank y'all for listening to Contagious Smile Unstoppable with Victoria and Michael. Buddy. Alright, thank y'all for listening. Continue to smile unstoppable with Victoria and Michael. Bye y'all.
