Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson - Reunited!

Episode Date: May 29, 2020

On this week's episode of "Sibling Revelry," Kate and Oliver finally reunite in person to record! They talk about bringing their family back together and the precautions they're still taking - including Kate's face visor. Oliver shares why he is over Zoom school, and they read some emails from listeners. Executive Producers: Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Sim SarnaProduced by Allison BresnickEditor: Josh WindischMusic by Mark HudsonThis show is brought to you by Cloud10 and powered by Simplecast.This episode is sponsored by Sakara and Helix.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And my name is Oliver Hudson. We wanted to do something that highlighted our relationship. And what it's like to be siblings. We are a sibling rivalry. No, no. Sibling rivalry. Don't do that with your mouth. Sibling, revelry.

That's good. Ollie, this is so fun. Well, we're reunited. Reunited and it feels so good. Reunited and I'm a little nervous. about this. Why? Because you're, you know, you're like a loose kind of freewheeling type of guy, you know?

I mean, you've taken this thing very seriously. That's just the perception of me, though. My whole family has this perception that I'm sort of like in the streets, like running around naked, like spitting on people, you know, I mean. Are you? Yes. But I'm not like that. Yes.

I'm laid back and I'm a bit freewheeling but I'm not like you know shaking hands and hugging and sort of going to dinner parties and stuff like some people we know I know all what we're talking about me no no no not you no oh some people we know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you know who you are so no but seriously we have finally said now that we're I mean our family I mean we haven't had like long, long conversations about it. Looking at you and talking. I know. It's crazy.

But we have had sort of an understanding that at some point our family needs to integrate. The kids do need to like feel like they can play together. We've all been really, really good. As things start opening up, we're still being very careful, but we're kind of opening up our family a little bit more. Yep. And being really transparent about the things that we're doing. But even within our connectedness, we're being mindful. mindful. Like, we're still not hugging and we're still wiping things. No, Aaron and I haven't had

our normal makeout session. No, no. You know, I haven't hugged mom yet. What? I have never hugged mom yet. I know. Mom almost tried to hug me yesterday. Yeah. And I was like, ooh-oh. Mommy is so tactile. This has been interesting because, you know, her instinct is to always touch and hug. So this has been really hard for all of us, I know. But, but no, we're starting to, like, we had our first family dinner last night. That was really. Fun. Yeah, it was so fun. Right back to normal.

I know. Nothing changed. It was so loud, though. I have to say, it was so loud that at one point, like, I forgot how loud our family is. And I was like, I can't hear anything. Like, I couldn't hear anything that was happening. But it was agreed, but it was great. It was like, oh, it was this sort of double edge of like, oh, wow, this feels like normalcy again.

But at the same time, it's like, can we kind of miss? Like quiet? Just being quiet. I mean, Paa comes in, he's looking at RVs, he's obsessed with RVs. So it's like the video, his RV video is playing. But it was so loud. It's so loud. And he's like, no one wants to, okay, fine.

He goes over the couch. Mom's like, honey, I've seen the RV a thousand times. But it was great. It was so great. It was really, really great. All the kids were together. And that's, I think, I think, and I think most families that are starting to like integrate cousins a little bit more with siblings and stuff, that's,

the hardest part is telling kids that they need to keep distance like you're always like a a little close there a little close but i you know look these are the steps we're taking right now and making and i feel good about it i do too yeah and i feel comfortable you know but is it's crazy though i mean it's crazy i feel great i feel great i feel super confident as she's putting on her visor. Kate got this, by the way, this thing is kind of awesome, really. Why don't you explain? I haven't had this all right.

Explain what it is. I also feel like if I have to go to the market, this is a visor, as you can hear, there's sort of like an echoing happening. It's a visor. It's like a welder's mask, really. It's a face visor. It's really meant for SPF for when you go to the beach.

So women's faces are completely, or mask. but they're completely covers you don't get any sun i bought one online because if i ever have to go to a market or a store i thought i'd get myself a face mask and so that for my eyes and for my every pore on my face um and i think it's great it looks cool i kind of want to make some they're good we should make some you need one that you can see better out of like you can see pretty good I like that you can't see me That's the thing that's really fun about this Okay, well let's talk about what

Let's talk about I can't wait for this whole Zoom school To be done with I'm so ready for it to be over I kind of like it I don't want to deal with it anymore Wilder and here's my thing with this Okay the essentials I agree with

The math, the science Even ancient civilization some history But when it comes to music and art And PE Wilder has to sing these songs till September ends, right? By Green Day. There's no reason for this right now. Yeah, but it's good for him to, you know, sing. Not really. We've got other things to deal with. Sing, sing a song. Sing out loud. Sing out loud. Sing it proud. I don't even know if that's

the lyric to the song. But I've been ignoring it. I've been ignoring it as a parent. I've I've been like, I'm like music, forget it, dude. P.E. Forget it, dude. I don't care. Okay, but these are actually, I disagree with you about these things. And here's why. But see, P.E. for you doesn't matter. Right. Like, that's what we do all day long. It's like P.E. all day. It's not like they're learning music history.

They're not learning about, you know, musicians. It's record, put headphones on, learn till September ends, and sing it. And then send it in. why for what reason how is this advancing well maybe anything okay well okay good question i'm going to play devil's advocate okay not because i disagree with you just for fun for the sake of our podcast if i was the teacher i would say that it would be if i was the music teacher i would say that it would be actively I mean, if I was the music teacher, it would be giving the child an opportunity to see

if they felt connected to what it is to learn and sing music. And so that would be kind of what that is. I know, but in this time, it doesn't make sense. Everyone's sort of trying to figure it out. You know what I mean? I would much prefer like hearing kids like write a song or something. That would be more interesting. You know, maybe if you could find an app and create a melody.

How about write a quarantine song? Yeah, or a poem that could be a song, a lyric. I'm down with that. Right, or everybody writes one lyric in the class. Great idea. You write a lyric and then it goes around and everybody's writing a lyric and then the teacher kind of creates the song and then you can learn it. Make some music to it. Right.

The whole class is written. in a quarantine song. Right. Beautiful. Great. I love this idea. And everybody sings their line. Right.

But now, after this podcast, I have to go with Wilder with headphones and be like, okay, okay, sing it. And he's like, wake me up until September ends. I'm like, why, what is this doing right now? Why are we doing this right now? Yeah, but what if he connects to Green Day and it like inspires his whole life? What if this one assignment inspires your son to become the next? incarnation of punk rock it's not gonna that's not a reality it's just not a reality i really like

billy joe he's cool guy but you know about this till september ends you know they're singing it for this sort of graduation they're putting in sort of making a compilation of some kind you know that song is about his father's death yeah i know i mean i don't know why they're singing yeah this especially because not to bring in this down but you know one of Wilder's classmates passed away this year suddenly which is just so gnarly that was a rough time and the parents were amazingly strong when they finally you know came and talked to everybody it was just incredible people really incredible people they they felt a responsibility to the class you know because they knew that everyone else was hurting and it was strange it was the first time we saw them

and they were the ones who were being strong for everyone else you know because people were just devastated. I mean, parents were devastated. Kids were devastated. Yeah, of course. You know, it was pretty crazy. You can't help it as a parent think about tragedy. And I mean, I know for me, like, I think about that all the time and try to like live with gratitude that just day by day, knowing that tragedy happens all over the world every day, we're living it right now all the time, you know. We're hearing about it all the time. It's actually one of the things that I was talking about with Oprah, all amazing people to mention, but I was saying, you know, I've never been so inundated in death, whether it be the tickers

on your phone, whether it be the news, we're constantly being shown all of this death, this constant reminder of our mortality, which of course is going to bring up high levels of anxiety and fear. And you realize that before we had technology, even though technology has it's amazing, there's amazing opportunities that come with technology, but the negative of constantly being reminded of these horrible things that are happening is that it's so globally recognized, meaning that even though these things have been happening all the time, all over the world, everywhere, we weren't being inundated with them. It wouldn't be, something that we would see every single day of our lives.

Turn up the news. I can't see it. I can't look at it. You look at like a time like now when we are, there's so much fear. I just talked to someone on the phone today handling like very depressed. Doesn't doesn't know how to find light in this situation at all. It's all darkness. And you realize like, oh, okay, like how do we, how do we, how do we?

we hold that person in a place so that they feel secure and feel better about, you know. It's hard. I mean, it's hard to change someone's mind, really. I mean, yeah. I mean, I just want to get away sometimes. Right. I'm tired of the monotony. I want to go into the mountains and just, like, sort of, like, forage.

I don't know what I'd be eating because I don't know what. You want to forage? I don't know what berries are poison or not. So it might last like three to five days. But at least it's a good three to five days. It's so funny when people say like, who would you go? It's like if I know I'm going to die in the woods, I'm going with you. Right?

Why not? Okay. If I know I could have a chance of survival, like I'm taking Wyatt. I don't know. I think I might make it over Wyatt. I'm better at providing food. Wyatt will like make a guitar if you want to listen to some nice music. I can do food. Yeah, but I need to do the fishing.

Yeah, but I, we can fish. No, you can't. Yeah, Wyatt and I, first of all, our poles would be beautiful. We'd make beautiful fishing poles. But it would take seven weeks and you'd be dead. No, it wouldn't take seven weeks. It would take like a week and we'd be like very zanned out. No.

No, you need me. for hunting. I'd be like, Oliver, it's okay. I could just see it where like it's raining. It's like torrential rain and you're just having a full panic attack. And I'm sitting out there and I'm holding you going, Oliver, we're going to make it. I think, no, we're not. My survival instinct might kick in.

I feel like if I'm in a city situation where I have to survive, that's when I'd lose my mind, you know? oh if I was you know like had to I'm a flight guy is what I'm saying I'm not a fight guy I think I'm a flight guy you know I'm gonna run okay I'm just gonna run I'm trying to think of what's what's gonna happen what attachment method that make what attachment I mean it's avoidant right I guess I'm just like like I don't want to go to the danger I'm gonna run from it you know it's like why am I going to go and get into danger I'm so funny I'm the opposite I'm gonna go I'm gonna go I'm just going to fucking run. I'm going to get my kids. Right. Do you know how I know that I'm the opposite? One time I was in a house alone and I heard something and I got so scared and I was so scared that I was so mad that I went nuts.

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much that we are aware of and that, you know, with something like COVID, clearly that we should be continuously aware of and understand. I'm more saying, like, layered on top of all of this, just there's so, it can be overwhelming. So it can lead to a lot of anxiety. It can lead to a lot of fear and people feeling out of body. And the question is, is how do we sort of feel a sense, some sense of calm how do we get ourselves to feel a little bit of ease so that we can honestly just be healthy so that our mental health is strong you touched upon it though too it's like changing the narrative as well yeah we're in this situation right you know we've been in it for a minute now but it is a time to maybe sort of open your mind up and change sort of how you're

thinking and feeling and maybe now we're able to go take a walk outside and look up you know I mean look at the birds look at the tree tops just change your perspective you know mom's doing this with the sort of the laugh challenge right too you know which is a fun I love that I love it too it's so great people do really respond to understanding that these things aren't about taking things lightly it's actually about how we wire our brain so just because you're laughing doesn't mean that this is light or that you're not you know don't you know that you're sort of ignoring the seriousness of these things. Actually,

creating laughter is a healing mechanism. It speaks to our brain. It brings the good stuff to our brain to allow our immune systems to build. So it's nice to be able to inform people that, you know, you can laugh and it will heal.

And it doesn't mean that there aren't going to be sad days or aren't going to be difficult days. It doesn't, you know, it's not minimizing the seriousness. Sure. of course not but but you say that I mean but I think that a lot of people especially those that are suffering will we'll feel that way and understandably so you know we're we're we are you know what is it 15% unemployment rate we're heading towards and is now probably I haven't looked today but but but we're heading towards a true economic crisis people are truly

suffering. And I think that there's a way that a lot of times when some people, especially celebrities or people, you know, that, you know, that people can look at that and kind of think that it's ignorant or think that it's minimizing. But when you really understand the things that we, the small things we can do and share with people that these aren't, it's not about not recognizing those things, that these things can be helpful to your mental health. maybe we'll bring a different focus on it you know there's a lot which I again I I think there's a responsibility to understanding this where there's a lot of people that go yeah well what would you know you know sure because you live a life of of luck and of privilege and that is correct right

but that that is not to say that there aren't things that you can utilize your platform for to share that would hopefully bring people some levity and a time like this or some knowledge and that that can maybe collectively help someone's mental state. Yeah. Well, it's true. And yes, luck and privilege. And that takes care of sort of the tangibles of your life. But that doesn't account for sort of emotional stability. It doesn't matter how much money or how much privilege you have. Your emotions are going to take you in different places just because someone might have a house and they're okay with their job and they've got money in the bank something like this an epidemic like this could mess with their minds with their

mental health yeah I mean mental health doesn't discriminate in any way but but but but but but there is a point which is you wouldn't know what it's like to live below the poverty line and to experience then when you're getting paid minimum wage when your children are out of school and now you cannot make your rent because you have been fired from your job. That is a level of hopelessness that you cannot relate to, that I cannot relate to, that is happening all across our country. So there is a responsibility. I feel this, to be sensitive and understand why a lot of times there's a lot of anger towards ideas of levity or let's just try to see the good in this

or the silver lining in this. I can understand how so many millions of people are like, fuck your silver lining. I'm trying to put food on my table. Which I'll survive. Right. Whatever I can do to educate to hopefully either, one thing I'm really interested in is feeding.

So like we're being the ambassador for the World Food Program. I'm like, we're about to go into a famine of biblical proportions. People don't even understand this. A quarter of a billion people will die of hunger because of COVID. Now, we were looking at globally. Globally. So all of these things, like everything we can do to kind of recognize the severity of it at the same time, support it, and then also support people's mental health, know that there's ways that we can kind of

hold each other and all feel connected in this in some way, but be sensitive to how we're doing it, you know? We all have this ability to use a platform to share with people, like your platform, for instance. Let's talk about what you do. No, right, but seriously, let's... It's a little different than yours. But it's a thing, like, you make people so happy.

Right. Because you're nuts. Right. And you're funny. and you're just like out there and you say ridiculous things and you just seemingly don't care even though I know you do deep down care about all kinds of things but you you you know

what you don't do it's interesting you don't really get out in front of the things that you care about so much I mean you have a deep passion for children the children's hospital oh yeah you have so many things right we come from a family that's like we don't I mean the self-serving aspect of charity work is something we try very hard not to publicize. Like we want to do good and aren't very interested in like publicizing that we're passionate about these things, right?

Almost sometimes to a fault because you could be utilizing your platform to share more about that goofy, crazy guy, like what you do to give children that feeling of like... I sprinkle it in. I'm just saying... No, but I know what you mean. I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You sleep on this.

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seems so down to earth and strict with her kids and every once in a while i hear your mom's laugh when she laughs. I watched laughing when I was little because those were the days you watched whatever your parents watched. And Oliver, you were so honest about your opinions when you talked about Kobe Bryant and just shared your honest feelings. Like what T, like WTF, this makes no sense. I also laugh when you ask siblings if they have a resentment to their sibling's success. And Kate always says, no, Ollie, it's just you. I think you're hilarious and you don't give yourself enough credit for your own successes. Oh. Everyone says, that. Yeah, because you're, but I know, but there's a self-deprecating part of me. Like, there is a,

it's, it's, it's, it's part stick as well. Like, I definitely am grateful for my successes. I know I've been extremely successful. I know I'm one of the more talented people in the world. I get, I know it all, but it's part of my schick, but I do, I, I do, I do. Okay. It's just all insecurity. Okay. All right. Hello. Let me finish. Anyway, I have decided to email because I haven't had time to listen these past few weeks. I'm a nurse at an oncology clinic. I'm still going to work. We're seeing more patients become COVID positive, which means they have to delay their chemotherapy because they cannot come to the clinic and they're too sick and it's too risky. I have two teenagers at home that are doing online schooling while schools are closed. My youngest,

Oh, girl. My youngest has high-functioning autism. You would never know if you saw her, but she has social anxiety, and she's loving the remote learning. My older daughter is a senior in high school. I feel so bad for her. So far, the prom graduation and the senior activities are postponed. End of senior is supposed to be so much fun, and she's stuck at home unable to be with her friends. She is pretty miserable, and her beautiful banana yellow prom dress is just hanging up.

My mother is 78 and lives alone. last week we drove by and had her stand out on her balcony so we could wave and say hi from the car. So as COVID lingers on, real life is still happening. I keep looking at the positives. Because of COVID, my mom learned how to FaceTime on an iPad. She never used before. My teens are forced to spend time with us, which has been nice. My siblings and cousins all meet up via Zoom, and it was quite comical.

Traffic has been next to nothing. The community is coming together to support for one another. and I feel like our governor is doing an amazing job. I'm temporarily going to take a second job to triage people with COVID symptoms to help them get the care they need. I want to help them more wherever I can. I am thankful for your podcast

because it gives me a laugh when I need it and also appreciate Kate and Oliver sharing their true feelings and opinions. Stay safe and keep being real with gratitude. Aaron, great name. It's my wife's name. That email makes me emotional. because, well, for a number of reasons.

One, clearly you, you know, healthcare workers love what they do. They feel this just need and desire to have to help. And I just find people like that to be really admirable. So I really admire that, Aaron. And then to be a mother and to be managing all of these things feels, I understand, you know, We all understand that, you know, but then to add on top of that what you're doing is just... It's a great well-rounded email. It's because it's funny.

And she's also, again, we talked about silver linings, but, you know, she's talking about how all the families coming together, how there are more of these Zoom calls. You know, there's a connectivity that's happening that we were talking about. I got very emotional with the yellow prom dress. Because you think about kids, especially at that age, you know, your teenage years, everything feels so immediate and like it's it's just the end of the world you know and it's a very hard time to be a teenager so i i feel that sort of that they're not being given their celebratory moments i know we can always say well you know what like there's a lot of worse things going on in the world and you can

skip your prom and graduation but it means a lot of these kids you know what i mean right yes i know that these things are horrible, but it's not selfish to sort of say and think, God, I can't believe I'm not going to have my prom. And it's a fucking bummer. Right. Yeah, that's, of course. I know. I'm not getting their celebratory. My prom was so fun. I know. Oh, my God. We had to buy the best time. You know in The Bachelor? You know in The Bachelor, there's moments where, like, girls would be like, I never had a prom. And I'm like, I forget what Bachelor it was, but then they, like, gave her a prom or something. He gave her a prom. Yeah. Maybe it wasn't the Bachelor. Anyway, But you see that a lot, like girls or guys who get to go to prom.

I know. And that'll be this generation of seniors. But by the way, for some people, prom, it's going to be like, oh, fuck, thank God, there's no prom. I mean, for real, there's going to be a whole group of kids who are like, holy shit, thank God. I didn't have a date anyway. I was too scared to ask her. Now I'm off the hook. I loved that email.

Thank you, Aaron. Here we go. Number two. Every sibling rivalry begins the exact moment you lose your position on the throne as being an only child. Most siblings grow out of it. Then there's our story. My brother and I are four years apart almost to the day, missing it by mere hours. So needless to say, my longstanding adoration was easily rocked by his presence the day before my birthday.

And that, my friends, is when the torch was lit, igniting our rivalry. I tried to be the proud big sister and probably had the T-shirt that said so, but in all actuality, I just really wanted a kitten for my birthday. So, since my parental units didn't get me one, I figured I would take it about myself to get my own, which meant at the ripe old age of four and a half, I decided to sell my parents' offspring to the next door neighbor for a quarter and a pack of juicy fruit.

When the neighbor girl came to collect the little tormentor, it was obvious that the mother figure wasn't about to let it go. So at that point, the only thing left to do was to shove the entire pack of juicy fruit in my mouth and hand back over the quarter. After figuring out that I couldn't sell him on the black market, I tried a different approach. Let's try, I don't know, maybe getting along what could go wrong.

We decided to join forces and act like normal siblings, but that was cut short when our mom came home early from work, found out that we were running a neighborhood gambling ring out of our garage at the ripe ages of 11 and 7. That little camaraderie cost us two weeks of house arrest during the summer. We decided it would be in our best interest to go back to our normal behavior with each other. Now, flashing forward because the Statue of Limitations is not up when it comes to our mom and there's a lot for us to be still grounded for during our high school and college years. But not to disappoint, our most famous sibling rivalry competition today.

As a prelude, our mom sent us to private Catholic schools our entire life, even down to an all-boys-and-all-girls Catholic high school. For the past 20-plus years, we have been entertaining friends and family with our yearly Christmas religious gag gifts, and so far it has been a very heated race, a very heated race with Pope on a rope, the Jesus Christ singing Hallelujah Wallet, nun bowling set with its own hell ball of fire, how to dance like Jesus book, and of course my favorite, the one I had specially made just to document our monumental occasion of being siblings. With all that being said, I truly enjoy your podcast, knowing that I'm not alone and secretly wanting to get back on that throne. Keep up the amazing work. Stay safe and healthy. From Amy, aka my mom's favorite child, no matter what she says.

Cute. Did you feel that Amy's submission was really relatable to you? Oh, yeah. I mean, extremely. I don't ever, I don't really ever remember feeling anger, you know, towards you. What? No, not really like feeling it, you know. You just got in my way. Oh, Jesus.

You just got in my way, you know. But all these pictures that I'm finding of us, I'm hugging you and loving you. So maybe I was better than I thought. Maybe you're just remembering all the bad things, you know? But the good things, there are more good things than bad things. But you're just remembering all the bad things. Okay, this is from Kathleen. I just wanted to say, I love your podcast, and I'm so grateful for you, too, for doing what you're doing.

I work in health care. I am an addictions therapist at a hospital in West Virginia. And while I didn't stockpile toilet paper, I did hoard your episodes. So I've been listening to them on my drive to and from work. I if I could give some acknowledgement to my to my patients addiction is such an isolating disease and people in recovery truly benefit from the social connection of others and they don't get to have that right now so I've been recommending my people's listen to your podcast because for me when I'm listening to it it feels like I'm a part of this intimate dialogue with family and I feel

connected to you so again I'm so grateful to you for who you are and what you do for others I just want to cry every time I literally like that's amazing we should do something on addiction we should do it yeah yeah especially because it's so I mean it's I mean when you when you work in the arts you're around so much you know and and I've lost a lot of friends to addiction and I've had a lot of friends that have recovered and suffered and recovered and um wow thank you thank you but i also it's why we're so pulled to this initially it was really about all over and i wanting to just do something fun and spend time together it's taken on a different life which has been so fun and if you can if we can sort of touch people

you know even whether it be addiction or isolation or anyone even bringing up hoffman you know people have been to hoffman now and i've gotten 12 to 15 letters from people at Hoffman, you know, because at the end, you write, you know, you have an opportunity to write a letter to whoever you want to. And I've gotten, I think, 15 of them. That's so cool. They've heard about it on the show from my experience. They went to Hoffman and, you know, they're like, this has changed my life. And so it's fucking amazing for me. I've been, I cry at each one I read. I'm like, this is so cool. I feel like, us telling stories playing characters is a blast right and you can reach people through characters every

once in a while there's a character that people really relate to right but when you can actually sort of talk to people about like the things that could make them feel good in their life and it actually has some kind of impact there's nothing more rewarding to me than like hearing her say that you know it just makes me so happy that it that's it I mean if it just touched Kathleen, then I'm, I feel so happy and grateful that we're doing this. It makes me want to keep doing these kinds of things. And I know we talked about it many, many podcasts ago. I was like, this is a New Year's Eve thing, but it was about just being more charitable

with my time, not necessarily my pocketbook, you know. It feels good. And it may be selfless. I don't know. It's both. I think it can work both ways. But when you get responses like this or when I read those letters from Hoffman, it makes me just want to keep doing more of that.

I know. Well, this was, we're going to wrap it up. This was so fun. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I know. This is a great, like, reunited. I can't believe.

Are you serious right now? Yeah, we got to wrap it up just like that. We did it. Great. Love it. I love you, Oliver Hudson. Sibling Revellerie is executive produced by Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, and Sim Sarno. Supervising producer is Alison Bresnick.

Editor is Josh Windish. Music by Mark Hudson, aka Uncle Mark. In early 1988, federal agents raced to track down the gang they suspect of importing millions of dollars worth of heroin into New York from Asia. Had 30 agents ready to go with shotguns and rifles and you know.

Five, six white people. Push me in the car. I'm going, what about that? Basically, your stay-at-home moms were picking up these large amounts of heroin. All you got to do is receive the package. Don't have to open it, just accept it. She was very upset, crying.

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