Little Legends Lemonade Ep 04: When a Mother's Instinct Changed Everything

A kid goes from running everywhere to barely being able to walk, and the first answers don’t point to cancer at all. That is the gut punch at the center of our conversation with Kim and her son, Max, as they walk us through the real timeline from “maybe it’s a sports injury” to a leukemia diagnosis and two and a half years of treatment. If you’ve ever felt dismissed by “normal” tests while your instincts say something is wrong, you’ll hear exactly why persistence matters and how fast life can change for a family facing pediatric cancer.

We get specific about what treatment looked like: intense pain, bone damage, spinal taps, anesthesia choices, and the brutal personality shifts that can come with steroids. Max shares the kid view with surprising wisdom, including how he handled fear and why recording a quick video after a procedure helped his future self stay calm. We also talk about school dynamics, what it feels like when someone says something cruel, and the small acts of protection and friendship that can make a hospital season less isolating.

Then we turn that hard-earned perspective into action. We’re inviting you to Little Legends Lemonade at Tupelo Honey on Lane Avenue on August 2nd from 11 to 1 to raise money for Cancer Free Kids, because research funding is how we get more effective and gentler treatments for children with cancer. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people show up for families who need it.

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Meet The Family Behind The Stand

Keri Croft 1:47

Hey there, you beautiful badass. Welcome to the Carrie Croft Show. Hi, Max. Welcome to the Carrie Croft Show. Thank you. I feel like he's like, I think. Who is this? Who is this woman that is upon me? Hi, Penelope. Oh, wait a minute. All of a sudden we got a little bit quiet. But guess what? I have proof because this has been running for the last 15 minutes to see you. I think she'll she'll warm up. And Kim, welcome to the show. Thank you for having us. You know, I am just I am honored that you guys have taken time out of your day for little old moi. Yeah.

Planning Little Legends Lemonade

Keri Croft 2:30

Now, Max, do you know what we're doing for cancer-free kids in August? I'm gonna educate you. Okay. So Little Legends Lemonade is a lemonade stand that we've created. This is our third year that we've been doing this. So all the little kids get their shirts on, get their entrepreneurial hats on, they're giving hats, and they have fun, and we've done it in front of my house for the last two years. And now this place called Tupelo Honey on Lane has been kind enough to say, we would like to give you our entire patio on Lane Avenue to raise money for this amazing cause. Is that exciting?

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Yeah.

Keri Croft 3:04

So I'm gonna ask you this because you're cool. I'm gonna show this to you. Do you think I should get this? I'm going back and forth on whether or not I should buy this for the lemonade stand and have an adult. I I might have a couple of these, they're not very expensive.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

Oh can it be me?

Keri Croft 3:21

Could you would you do it?

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Yeah, you'd wear it?

Keri Croft 3:23

Can I be?

SPEAKER_02 3:23

I definitely do it.

Keri Croft 3:24

So these are like adult costumes. And so what we like to do is we wanna we wanna maximize the idea that we're on Lane Avenue, right? Because there's a lot of eyeballs, hearts, feet. There's people everywhere. And so the more signs we can create and the more ruckus we can create, and you know what that's called? It's called gorilla marketing. Oh. I'm gonna teach you a little business, little business here too. So the more we make a hot, you know, make a ruckus on Lane, the more somebody who's like driving home from Whole Foods with their organic produce, they'll say, Oh, wait, what is this lemonade stand you speak of? And we'll say, Well, we're raising five grand in two hours for cancer-free kids. Stop and give us some money. Give us some coins. Do you think that's too lofty of a goal?

SPEAKER_02 4:08

No.

Keri Croft 4:08

I think we can do it, don't you? We got an incredible, I mean, the community always shows up and shows out, right? And you're gonna you're gonna be a big part of right now helping, you know, helping to get people into their purses, if you will. So welcome. What'd you say?

SPEAKER_02 4:23

I can be a lemon, right?

Keri Croft 4:24

Uh you can be whatever you want that day. Are you gonna come?

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Yeah.

Keri Croft 4:27

Are you guys coming?

SPEAKER_05 4:27

Yeah. Good. Well, uh, my dad's birthday is the day after, so I wasn't, we're it's the 70th. Oh, yeah. But it might be the following weekend.

The Road To A Leukemia Diagnosis

Keri Croft 4:38

Tell us a little bit about your story.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Like, what about it though?

Keri Croft 4:44

Well, okay, Kim, do you want to tee it up? Yeah. We'll let your mom we'll let your mom tee it up, and then you can kind of add in, and then I think you'll get to flow after that.

SPEAKER_05 4:51

Well, do you want to start with how old you were? So it was right seven? Yeah, it was right before his eighth birthday. Um he was diagnosed with leukemia about two weeks before. But we were kind of had like a run-up of not feeling very well and body pain and trying to figure things out.

SPEAKER_02 5:10

Because of football.

SPEAKER_05 5:11

Yeah, because of football, we were kind of we kind of thought sports were the problem. But he was diagnosed with leukemia uh after a couple tests, thinking it was a bone infection, a bone marrow biopsy, and and all of that. So that kicked off two and a half years of treatment.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Some no, but before that, someone said it was just gas.

SPEAKER_05 5:39

Oh yeah. It was gas. It was it was a football injury. Right.

Keri Croft 5:44

Well, usually it's you know that you don't jump straight to cancer, you diagnose all the other things that possibly could be. But what were you feeling at the time? Were you just feeling tired? Like what was happening?

SPEAKER_02 5:55

Chill.

Keri Croft 5:56

Chill?

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Yeah, like laid back.

SPEAKER_05 5:59

Oh yeah. So you were but like sitting on the couch a lot, not really doing anything. Like he was a kid that normally like ran everywhere that he went, you know. You couldn't get him to just walk anywhere. He was jogging everywhere he went, and then he was he went from that to uh just sitting on the couch all day and watching TV. And well, he didn't start Fortnite until after you got sick, but yeah. So he just stopped moving around as much. And then uh and he was just tired. And we were trying to because he he they thought that he like pulled something in his hip. Go ahead, talk.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

Well, you have to finish your sentence.

SPEAKER_05 6:39

So he thought something that he pulled something.

Keri Croft 6:41

I'll tell you what, this age, I'll tell you, I've got a I've got a seven almost eight-year-old who's already starting this stuff with me. I'm gonna tell you something.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

I'm gonna tell you these kids. Yeah, yeah. That's uh he usually is like, Mom, tell dad what happened today. And I'm like, you tell him. And he's like, no, you tell him. So then I start. And then it's like, why can't I tell him? Yeah, he's like, Oh, you're not saying it right. Yeah, yeah. But uh they thought it was uh he like pulled a muscle, and then we got x-rays and imaging and blood tests, and the blood tests were all fine, um, which really made us not think that it was anything cancer related, and then uh just more pain, more pain.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

And then one morning he sneezed in the shower and just Oh yeah, but that happened again in when I was outside.

SPEAKER_05 7:28

Yeah, and just fell to his knees, like couldn't catch his breath. He was in so much pain. And then he uh didn't walk on his own after that for another two months because he was just in so much pain. He had a small fracture in his spine just from and from the leukemia cells um building up inside of his bones. Um, and his the inside of one side of his pelvis was like really um there's bits of bone in his marrow just from all of the cells kind of trying to break his bones from the inside.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

So thinking about when I sneezed and hurt my back, whenever I was in school, um like after that, I kept on saying banana so I wouldn't sneeze.

Keri Croft 8:04

Yeah. Did it work? Yeah, yeah, it does. So when you when you were diagnosed with cancer, did people were people at school like did they were they nice and kind and did they act like were you just feeling weird or were you feeling normal? Or how did that feel?

SPEAKER_02 8:19

Well, some of my friends were like protecting me, but then some of them were just like treating me like an average kid, and then um there was like this one kid name Oh you don't have to say his name.

SPEAKER_05 8:30

But we'll we'll edit his name.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Um well I just okay, it's just a kid. And um he called me um when I was gone in the hospital. He called me a little cancer freak because like he I got to skip school.

SPEAKER_04 8:47

That's not very good.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

He was jealous, and then um he got expelled and I didn't I never s I've never seen him again. Wow. Yeah, I haven't seen him since.

SPEAKER_05 8:55

But your friends kind of uh told him what was up, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

I don't know, I wasn't there. Yeah, I'd have been lying.

Keri Croft 9:04

Yeah, your your your crew handled it, put it that way. Yeah, yeah. So for you though, as a mom, when you the reality set in, and it's like it's not the 20 other things that we that we thought, and it's this, yeah, and I can't control this for my kid. Yeah. What I mean It was just devastating.

SPEAKER_05 9:22

Um I I had a cousin that had a kid that had uh leukemia as well, and I thought that was the last thing that could happen to us because how could it strike twice in one family? Um but it did, and I mean that was kind of naive of me to think that. But I just was grieving so much for his childhood, you know, just all of the stuff that the path that we thought we were on. He was uh playing football, he just joined a travel baseball team, and um I just knew that wasn't a possibility anymore. And he really loved to play those sports, and I just didn't know what his childhood would look like um in the beginning. But I think we have we've kind of we've come back.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

I'm now just remembering how like how much money we spent on like toys. Yeah,

Treatment, Fear, Bribes, And Siblings

SPEAKER_02 10:14

yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:14

So it was like try to find any kind of joy you can, but we were really limited on what we we couldn't go out and do things or you know, be in public very much because of his compromised immune system. Uh so you know, we were kind of correcting that um, you know, happiness is buying things.

Keri Croft 10:33

Well, you wanted to you you probably were trying to do everything you could to to take it away, right? You know, and just try to I I I can only imagine what I would be doing in that scenario.

SPEAKER_05 10:42

Yep, and you're just he's you know, you're so bored, and then you're and then you're why why us? Why is this happening? And then you're just trying to, yeah, just bring any joy you can into the family. And that meant buying things because it wasn't experiences really. So and then we also had to bribe him for treatment too.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

Oh yeah. Yeah, we had a whole pay whole pay structure. My dad said when I got um spinolaps, he'd give me a hundred dollars if I um didn't go under, and then somehow I got him to give me three hundred.

SPEAKER_05 11:15

Oh well, because you're on the table and they're telling you that you have to be still, and you're like, no, no, no, and you're negotiating. You're like, I'll do it for 200.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

No, I negotiated.

SPEAKER_05 11:23

That's a good that's actually you had a lot of leverage.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

I negotiated before I said 300, and then he said sure, and then I said 350, and then he said 300, and I was like, and then and I was like, okay.

Keri Croft 11:34

Yeah. Were you so were you so scared when you had to do that?

SPEAKER_02 11:38

After the first one, not really. Well, it was I equate the first one and then a few times after that. It wasn't like I wasn't really scared, but then after not doing it for a while, yeah. Kind of got Yeah, have you had a chunk of time in between?

SPEAKER_05 11:53

Yeah. Yeah, because you go in the beginning it's like once every week or every ten days. Um, but he was under anesthesia for those, and then once it was once a month or once every three months, then he was able to be awake for those just to reduce the amount of anesthesia events. Um, you know, because 20 in a couple of months was a lot. Uh, but I equate trying to talk him into uh getting a spinal tap just be to be ready for it, you know, because you can't be wiggling, they can't hold you down. Yeah, and you have to be in like a certain position.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Like a week before my mom always made me sleep, or like whenever I decided to lay down in like where the position I had to be in a spinal tap, which I didn't really understand.

SPEAKER_05 12:36

We were just practicing.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

Well, that doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_05 12:38

Holding your knees in. I mean, it might not make sense now, but it didn't, it didn't do anything. You don't think it helped? No We tried. I mean we do what we can, kid. We do what we can. I just I equated it to trying to convince him to just jump off a building. Like that's what you're you know, he is so nervous and scared. No, but that's what I mean. You were just so scared and nervous, and we're trying to calm you down and telling you to do this really scary thing.

Keri Croft 13:06

Note to everyone Max was not scared, okay?

SPEAKER_05 13:09

He was not scared at all. Nervous, more just nervous. They're putting a needle in your spine. Mom, you're cooked. It makes sense, yeah.

Keri Croft 13:16

It makes sense that you would be in your pride.

SPEAKER_05 13:19

Yeah. Okay.

Keri Croft 13:19

Hey Penelope, how did you feel when you found out all this out about your brother? You can talk.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

No, she thought, she th thought, um, well, it was hard for her because I was getting all the attention.

Keri Croft 13:34

Let's just come out with the real facts. Okay, I like that you're giving us the real facts here.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

And then she was kind of sad.

unknown 13:41

No.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

She didn't ever cry. Did she cry?

SPEAKER_05 13:43

Well, I think in the beginning, she took it. Yeah. You're like, you you just think Yeah, she wasn't she didn't get quite the weight of it, but she talked to her teachers a lot. She was in first grade and Max was in second. So she talked to her teachers a lot, and they uh would always comment just how well she coped with it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

Or no, not before? Didn't Luna die or something?

SPEAKER_05 14:14

Oh, that was that summer.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Yeah, we had a Did I beat cancer before?

SPEAKER_05 14:18

Before that, yeah, before that. Oh, okay. Yeah. Our dog. We had a dog that passed away. And it was Penelope's three Bestie. So yeah, she went through a lot.

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SPEAKER_02 15:43

She didn't get hit by a car.

SPEAKER_05 15:45

She did not. I know. Where did this that's not what we're here to talk about?

SPEAKER_02 15:49

You brought Ms. Clifford up because she gave no wait.

SPEAKER_05 15:53

Yeah. I'm confused. So, but uh we really try to keep Penelope close during everything. We had a lot of friends that, you know, they're like offered to have Penelope come stay with them. My family, you know, offered Aunt Sabrina.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

Yeah. She gave her the big seal thing.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

Yep. And my sister, you know, said that she could stay with her for a couple of weeks. But we thought it was really important to not let her feel like she was on the outside of all of it and just shipped off because we had this really hard thing to do. Um, and I know that can't work for everybody, but it really worked for us to just kind of my husband and I took turns in the hospital. Shush. Took turns in the hospital. You know, my husband would stay and I would be home with her, and then we'd uh switch.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

Oh, you always used to bring me a cheap. But it worked well for us.

SPEAKER_05 16:39

What is it?

SPEAKER_02 16:40

Mac and cheese and I I eat mac and cheese and then I put peas in them. Oh, that's uh yeah.

Keri Croft 16:45

Have you ever eaten mac and cheese with ketchup? Oh, it's delicious. You gotta get the box mac and cheese and macaroni because ketchup. Penelope, what do you eat with ketchup?

SPEAKER_02 16:59

Apples and pizza.

Why Cancer Free Kids Matters

Keri Croft 17:02

Oh yeah. So Kim, yes, now that you've gone through this and you understand what Cancer Free Kids does, you know, like maybe talking to someone out there who doesn't have, has never experienced this, yeah, but yet can you know, we would like to compel people not to scroll when they see the word cancer, like child cancer, stay in this, listen to the stories, and like what they're doing is so important because they're getting the early stage, you know, scientific, the this the smart people that are making shit happen. Oops, I said I said the S-word. You know, so it's so important, right? So, but from your perspective, why is it so important? I just think they're changing the game.

SPEAKER_02 17:43

I think the way to hook them is like it's to say your kid could get cancer.

SPEAKER_05 17:48

Well, that's well, we're not gonna deep. Yeah, we're not gonna not scare tactics, but I just think I think they're changing the game. I mean, they're making a lot of advances and giving a lot more kids a chance to go through treatment successfully and effectively and hopefully more gentler because it was pretty rough on you. Gentler?

SPEAKER_02 18:11

It is gentle ear.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

It's gentle ear.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Did you get pretty pretty much did you get pretty sick? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

But then I found a friend named Darius when I was up there.

SPEAKER_05 18:24

Mm-hmm. In the hospital. Yeah. That made it better? Yeah. A lot better. Did you guys hang out?

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Yeah, a lot. We hung out.

SPEAKER_05 18:31

And they played video games together a lot. He lived in West Virginia, so but he was being treated in children's.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

I couldn't. Um, I was watching. I used to watch um this like YouTubers member the the son and the son and the dad.

SPEAKER_05 18:44

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Undoing toys and like and if I laughed it hurt, so we had to turn it off. And then I couldn't laugh. And then I had to figure out how to laugh again.

SPEAKER_05 18:53

Yeah, you forgot. So steroids are just really they're a beast. I I think they're just as rough as chemo. Um and they're really hard. But they kind of just changed. Oh, that wasn't a steroid. That wasn't a steroid. That was a mover.

unknown 19:12

What?

SPEAKER_05 19:14

Don't say anything. Don't say anything more. Okay. But steroid, anyway, so they just like kind of changed his whole personality. They and he didn't laugh for uh like six weeks. And then when he seems fine, yeah, now yeah. But then when he got off steroids, he tried to laugh for the first time and he had to almost figure out how to do it again.

Keri Croft 19:37

Show us. So, Max, in all seriousness, first of all, what would you say to another child right now who's going through cancer, who's where you were, and maybe needs a little word of encouragement or two?

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Um I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 20:01

You don't know, you have nothing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Or um, oh, you know what um helped me with my um spinal taps? Is um I recorded a video of when it was over for my past self so when I could watch it in the future so I wouldn't be scared. Well, that's a really good idea. Did you think of that on your own?

unknown 20:22

No.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Not did you?

SPEAKER_05 20:25

I can't remember. I think because uh it's over, he's like, Oh, that wasn't so bad.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Yeah, and I wasn't so bad because I got like $300. Yeah.

Keri Croft 20:34

Well, that makes it a lot better. That makes it a lot better. So, how has you know having cancer so young, now that you're the ripe old age of 12?

SPEAKER_02 20:44

11.

Keri Croft 20:44

Eleven. How's it affected you? How are you different? Do you notice anything about yourself in terms of like do you have more perspective?

SPEAKER_02 20:53

Yes. Um, I can't run as fast as I used to. Um, I can't do a lot of things that I used to be able to do. Is yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:02

But how do you think that your experience of treat it like beating cancer changed kind of how you look at the world?

Keri Croft 21:09

Like mentally, do you feel like you have a little more wisdom, a little more perspective than your average 11-year-old?

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Yes.

Keri Croft 21:17

Like when you see kids whining and complaining about trifling trivial things, are you like kind of like being like that's just having a cold? People are allowed to have colds and be bummed about it. No. Miss Penelope, I think you're gonna be upset if you watch this back and you didn't say one word. You're gonna be like, why didn't I make a peep? I didn't say anything.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Panel say, just say, just say um just say I'm a peanut. No. What you said something? You said something.

Keri Croft 21:49

All right. Tell

After Cancer, Perspective, And The Rally

Keri Croft 21:50

me, okay, so let's move on to something more important. What's the what's what's hot with music? Like what do you listen to?

SPEAKER_02 21:58

My dad's songs.

Keri Croft 22:00

So what's the name of his Oh Echo Hawk?

SPEAKER_02 22:02

Oh god. We should play a song. It wouldn't be a copyright.

Keri Croft 22:04

Hold on. We're gonna play some. We're gonna look.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

How do you spell it, Penelope?

SPEAKER_05 22:08

Oh, it's E K K O Hawk. But he's in a rock band. He's a singer. Oh yeah, that's awesome. So Max really loves Max and Penelope. They both really love his band.

SPEAKER_02 22:19

He can make really funny voices. He can. He can do Chewbacca.

Keri Croft 22:23

Yeah. There's only one, it's only showing one.

SPEAKER_05 22:27

One song?

Keri Croft 22:28

Oh yeah, this is one.

SPEAKER_05 22:29

It's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Is this copyright?

unknown 22:35

No.

Keri Croft 22:36

I like these colors.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Yeah, he does. Is that Neance Guy's guys? He's a really good drawer.

SPEAKER_05 22:42

That's Neance Guys, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

He could draw a lion with wings very well right now. Wait, what was this song for?

SPEAKER_05 22:52

What song? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Walk-up song or something? His voice is in the thing. Yeah. It's like he does.

SPEAKER_05 23:02

Are you like a groupie? Yeah. My husband's a rock. When I first met him, uh definitely I listened to their album at the time over and over again. But they were, when I met him, they were He has a great voice. Yes. He does. What's his name? Brent.

Keri Croft 23:17

Brent. Come on in here. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:19

Well, yeah. His first name's Jeffrey, but he goes by Brent.

Keri Croft 23:22

Will he do like an acoustic like something?

SPEAKER_05 23:25

Well, he doesn't. Well, he, I mean, he can sort of play the guitar and other instruments, but they could do the four of I mean, you know, come on in. Or just him and like some acoustic.

Keri Croft 23:34

Like, yeah, I've done that before.

SPEAKER_05 23:36

They I'm sure they'd love it. Yeah. His uh best friend is a guitar player. They've been friends longer than we've known each other. Echo come to come in.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Like Josh. Yeah, Josh and Terry. Terry and Derek.

SPEAKER_05 23:48

They practice at our house, so the kids are they're buds. That's awesome.

Keri Croft 23:52

All with all of them. That's great. Yeah. So, Kim, final words for the mom out there going through it. Yeah. Feels alone. Why me?

SPEAKER_05 24:00

Yeah.

Keri Croft 24:01

Why my family?

SPEAKER_05 24:02

Yeah. Um, and it you will get to the other side and you will look back and wonder how in the world, how did you do it? I'm talking. Shh. Like, how how did you how'd you make it through? But you just, you just do it. You move forward because you have to. I just, you like my family would ask me, like, how are you, how are you doing it? How are you getting through it? And it's just because I have no other choice. You just you push through because you have to.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

Shh. Hold on. The really annoying part is when everybody in your family, like everybody else in your family, you're like, oh, they have good blood white blood cells, and they're like, or um, what is it, A and C. Yeah, like, and they're like, what is that?

SPEAKER_05 24:46

Oh yeah. Having to just kind of repeat what everything means over and over again. But you know, we're really close to it. And they're just they're kind of on the yeah, they're on the outside. And she does every once she always asks, he's still in remission, right? I'm like, Mom, yes, since like for the past year, yes, he's been in remission. Right. But why is he still getting treatment? I'm like, oh, you know. But but anyway, to answer your question, you just push through, you can get to the other side, and uh you know, just hope the best for your family while you're doing it.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

I think the best part of it is make a wish, definitely.

SPEAKER_05 25:22

Yeah. And be and just try to find as much joy as you possibly can. And because we have definitely had a lot of uh moments of joy through treatment, you know, uh just from the blue jackets and all of the experiences you've gotten with them. Uh make a wish.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

What else?

SPEAKER_05 25:40

You got to meet Mechie. What else? John Mechie and the Texans. You tell me, bro. What else? I mean, it is gonna be I think that there's been a lot of reasons to celebrate. Scot we went to Scotland while I was in treatment. That was a lot of joy.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

No, we got like a hundred jelly cats. Two five, three. Five. She got five. Three. No, I exactly remember.

SPEAKER_05 26:06

She can tell you exactly what ones she got there and where she got them. Yeah, which ones you get.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

So I got the pink lady in Scotland, and then the octopus, and the wiener dog I got in London.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

You got one more.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

No.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

You got one more. Buddy, she can go through all of her jelly cats and tell you where she got them. We got three in London, remember?

SPEAKER_05 26:25

She had two in London.

unknown 26:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 26:30

We got we're not ha we don't have to have conversation, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:34

And then we got one in Scotland, and then we got three in London.

SPEAKER_05 26:39

Okay. I mean, tomato tomato. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Right, yeah. It doesn't.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Three.

unknown 26:45

Four. Four.

Keri Croft 26:46

What about you? Are you? You're talking about Penelope. Are you a Swifty?

SPEAKER_01 26:50

What?

Keri Croft 26:50

Are you a Swifty?

SPEAKER_01 26:51

No.

Keri Croft 26:51

Oh. You wouldn't be, right? Because your dad's like a rock star. You're probably more into the.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Hey. Um, what are you? Um I am a human. So you're just you're just like um like Pink Pony and Sabrina Carpenter.

SPEAKER_05 27:05

She kind of pushes away labels. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Like if she is told to like something, then she kinda immediately turned off. Besides for pushine.

Keri Croft 27:17

Give me the aside from magazine. She's a good cat. She's not a fat cat. Aside from cooked, fried, toasted, what are all the other? I need some other before we close this out, I need cool words to use in the streets. Is mid cap no cap so no cap.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Yeah.

Keri Croft 27:35

Mid. Bet.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

Oh yeah. I use that word.

Keri Croft 27:40

Bet is still thing?

SPEAKER_02 27:41

Yeah.

Keri Croft 27:42

What else? What is it? Oh yeah. Buns? Buns. When do you say buns?

SPEAKER_02 27:48

When something's bad?

Keri Croft 27:50

Really? Yeah. That's buns?

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Yeah, I didn't like my food, so I called that's buns.

unknown 27:54

Yeah.

Keri Croft 27:55

That's great. That's a good one for my back pocket.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Yeah.

Keri Croft 27:58

Anything else?

SPEAKER_02 27:59

No. I got that W Riz.

Keri Croft 28:03

What is that? Yeah. Oh, you're aura farming too.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

Yeah, aura farming. Yeah.

Keri Croft 28:08

I'm always aura farming, just so you know. Can we? Okay, so as we wrap this up, let's let's tell people once again how important it is to come to Lemonade Stand August 2nd from 11 to 1, Tupelo Honey on Lane Avenue. Hopefully, Max will be there donned in a lemon costume. If not, we'll have to find somebody else to slap it on.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

You gotta definitely gotta go. You'll be seeing me breakdancing or something. Break dancing.

Keri Croft 28:30

Do you break dance?

unknown 28:31

No. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

I'll learn. I'll I'll learn to do it.

Keri Croft 28:34

Oh my god, Kim. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for having us. Thanks for just being. You know, thanks for being you and for all this content, gold.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

Yeah. Grumpy, say something to the viewers before we go.

Keri Croft 28:45

Viewers. Yes. Go ahead. You wave. You're such a okay. Are you done? Um are you done for sure? For real?

SPEAKER_02 28:53

I like to eat plants.

Keri Croft 28:54

Plants? And if you're still out there following your girl, follow me on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. And until next time, come to Lemonade Stand and keep moving, baby.