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315: Mariah is BACK!! Delivery Room Drama

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315: Mariah is BACK!! Delivery Room Drama

The group recounts their spontaneous trip to Sweden, triggered by a dart-throwing game that landed on the country. Despite initial misgivings about the long flight and extreme cold, the journey became a memorable adventure filled with snowmobiling, helicopter rides, and an ice plunge. Language barriers and unfamiliar products, like Thai inhalers, highlighted their reliance on tools like Google Translate. While the nightlife and food in Sweden were unremarkable, the cultural experience and shared bonding made it valuable. The trip took a profound turn when Zane’s new son, Tony, was born after a lengthy, unpredictable labor. The birth occurred without an epidural, and the process was emotionally intense, marked by confusion, delays, and hospital inefficiencies. The team emphasized the vulnerability and unpredictability of real-life events, contrasting with their usual preparedness. Moments of humor, like the sudden appearance of a Swedish friend or the baby’s blue color, added warmth. Ultimately, the experience—spanning travel, culture, and parenthood—revealed how life’s most significant decisions often unfold beyond plans, making them deeply personal and unforgettable.

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All right, all right. What did you do? What did you do? How are we ice cube in the grill? It is something man is saying in the hustles playing angthomes, you know what I'm saying? I think I think you got one word right, which is good because it won't get flagged. Exactly. That's a good thing about when I sing. We can never get flagged. It's awesome. Heath, I'm so excited right now, not because you're on, but the fact that you have an MTC next to you. I know. What does it mean? I don't know what doesn't mean. I have no idea for the people I know you're just going to have to wait and see and it's it's going to you guys. It's a hard guess. I mean, you're not going to get it. It's going to be special. Yeah. It's going to be super special. It's Tony. He's sitting there. He's already like sitting up. He's only been in this world for just like a couple of weeks and he's just like fully able to hold a mic. I'm sorry. Zane, do not disturb. Yo, guys, all right. This is I've had Apple, like so it says on my phone, like Apple card customer service, but first I thought it was a spam. Oh, because I answered it once and it was like this lady, those like, hey, sir, so when are you going to pay for your bill? And I've never heard of any brain, like any customer service, like ever call me and go talk to me, like, like it was my roommate. You're going to pay for like this month's rent or like she called me and asked me like that. And so I thought I was a weird spam call. She's like eating a sandwich. Just like, yeah, I'm sorry. Listen, we're just I'm just calling what you know called me. I'm not I'm not even exaggerating. They've called me 250 fucking times in the past like month. What have you not paid? I have. I think of paid my bill. I pay every month. This is your phone bill or like your phone bill, like you're paying off your phone. I'm paying off my phone. You know when you like buy an app and you like double click it and like, there's a part on your like Apple. Yes, you're it's it's that I'm like 50 50 on like if it's a real or not. I have part of me feels like it's real, but like why first of all, why are they calling me that much? I feel like not even the IRS calls me that much. Yeah, so I've just been buying a bunch of gift cards and giving them the gift cards. Yeah, anytime, like something that is financial and they're calling it. I don't trust it. Like I'm like contact me. Zane. Boogie, you good. Did you just spit in that cup? Yes, I'm like, I'm getting off a sickness. I'm just like day one of like recovery. I've been as sick as a dog for the past four days. It's been honestly the worst. Cold or flu. My life, I don't fucking know. I was I was in Australia. I'll talk. I'll I'll get into it, but like I was in Australia and it was our last day and I was going to come back home. And I was like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm just going to fly to the Philippines because I have a couple more days before we record. I was like, I'm just, you know, you know, I'm going to be spontaneous. I'm going to play by the way, it's a 12 hour detour from away from home. So I was like, I was really committing. I fly all the way to the Philippines. I land. And I get the biggest fucking sickness. I was so sick discussing. I get in the hotel and I'm bedridden. I didn't even get to see anything. I was in my bed for like 30 hours straight. And I like finally felt better. And I looked at my phone. I still we still had like a day and a half left there. I'm going home. Fuck it. I'm not saying you're any second longer. Like I was so frustrated. I hop on the plane and I fly back and I never got to see the Philippines. No way. But I was in the Philippines. Did you have any like Filipino medication? Like do they have like day quality? They don't have like so every all their medication in there. There's no pictures on that. You know how like when you go to the pharmacy here, you kind of see like you can see some days or passages. And you can guess you could. Yeah. Yeah. Even if it says like I said about a thing. And like it's all this crazy shit. You know what you're getting. Cause that has at least it gives you like context clues when you're by their shit was just all in a different language. Not only was it just text, but it was in their language. I couldn't fucking. So I didn't know what I was getting. And everybody that was asking there. They didn't really know English. And when I was like telling them like you know congestion. They're just like that's the word you picked. Just sick. What do you say congestion? Because I wanted specifically because there's different medications for different like say Google translate. Just say I'm feeling this in. You know what you know what the Matt I do always forget that that's a thing that you can use. I really I don't I didn't cross my mind. Google translate or one time when I was in Italy, I was trying to find a safety pin. You know like a safety pin. But it was like I was like safety pin. And then finally I just had to like just show them an image of what it was. And they knew it exactly. Even think to do that just images sometimes speak much louder than words. Yeah. How do you not? How does that not cross your mind? It's like our great. It's like our grandparents. They say something stupid. They're like wait, how do you do this? You're like it's literally right here grandma. This is how you do. I feel like I am turning into that for newer shit. Like Zane Zane likes the game of it though. He likes the puzzle that needs to get solved like Zane sees it as a game of charades when it comes to being another country. He's like acting it out trying to get him to guess it. I genuinely completely forgot about like translate Google translate. I wouldn't have thought. There's even an app where if you go on your camera and you go over the word, it will translate you immediately didn't think about that. Forgot about that. I literally didn't think about that until you fucking said it. Zane is using it in Australia. We're like. I speak English. I don't know. Zane to the Australians congestion made to like I'm saying what you're saying. You know, this isn't Philip Peens, but you know like Thailand those Thai inhalers. Have you ever seen them? It's the nose. It's not like a. It's a little. It's like a paper rub thing. It almost looks like smelling salts in the green. They have it there too. Did you smell it? Have you ever used it? I've been dying to try these the Thai inhalers. Yeah. And literally what does it smell like? It honestly just smells like essential oils like in a sense like or believe like very or believe the essential oil. Like every I mean, even in yeah, in Bangkok, everybody had one of these. I know. I know I just been dying to try them on this like side of like Thai inhaler TikTok. Yeah. And people are just hitting them. They should have them here too. But I think we have our own version in some way. But it's I don't think it says healthy. I think they're really good in like humid environments too. Like if it's just hot and humid, which it is a lot in Thailand, people just it just wakes them up and makes them feel we got some eucalyptus and menthol. Yes. A lot of other stuff. But yeah, no, do it last time last time we talked I was what do you call last time we talked I was about to go to Sweden. But I didn't I did I tell you I was going to Sweden. Yeah, but I don't know if we cut it out. You're like, I don't know if I can say. Oh, okay. Well, I didn't want to ruin the element of the fun surprise of me like throwing it. So I threw a door at a globe. Right. A lot of you guys seen this already. But I threw a door at a spinning globe, which was so fucking terrifying because we were like going to commit to wherever it was. In the middle of the ocean, it was either it was either Afghanistan. If it lands either in the ocean or like North Korea, we're like, okay, we're going to redo this start spin. But if it lands on land somewhere where we're a lot of democracy. We have to we're tomorrow. We then we have to like commit. We have even if it was like the middle of the fucking nowhere. Whoa. And which I was terrified. People gave me the job. That's a lot of power. But I also know I'm I'm pretty bad at throwing dark. Right. But I knew that I wanted to throw it at the top of the globe. Why I wanted it to be fun. Yeah. You know where it gets us. I didn't want like I wanted to go somewhere really cold. And I was like, Oh, that could be really fun. But like I for I didn't think about like what was up there. I was just kind of like, I'm going to throw it up and see where it lands. And I know there's like a lot of ocean up there too. So in my house, like, am I just laying in the ocean? Then I'll just throw somewhere. Yeah. But I throw it. And it fucking lands right in Sweden. I like could not I forgot Sweden was even up there. Because it landed there. And I was like, Oh, my God, like Greenland. And it was sweet and it was Sweden. I was like, Oh, my God. You know, I've always wanted to go to Sweden. But now I get to go because I threw a dart there. Um, and that's where we went. And we were all we flew all the way to Sweden. Wait, do we want to pause and run the intro? Do you hear more about it? Oh, good call. I just, I, if we're about to dive in, I think we should kick this off. Oh, are you okay? Watch your head. Oh, my gosh, you're bleeding. I've hit my head so many times in my life. All right. Let's go. I didn't go grab the alley pot. It's called toe, baby. Let's go. Oh my God. Welcome back to Zany Heath unfiltered. I'm Zane. I'm Heath. I'm Matt. And we are here. Come on now. And we are here for a good time. That's right. Um, but yeah. Okay. So what did I do? Where was I? The dart lands on Sweden. You're going to Sweden. How many is the whole gang go? I know it was like David Natalie. Everybody that went was everybody that was in the video, except for like Jonah, Jonah was supposed to go, but he like that. That was good. I think the only reason why the only way he would go is if we were going somewhere like like two hours away, if we landed like combo. I'll go, but like, I mean, I also was not too keen learning new words from Australia. I was in too keen, flying all the way to fucking Sweden because Sweden's like a 15 hour flight and we were only there for a while. So it was like, it was a lot of traveling for such a lot. And I'm sure you're used to this heat. I feel like you did this with Alton, all the fucking time you traveling for only for a couple days and you would leave. But yeah, it was like, really, really tiring. We went all the way to Sweden and it came all the way back. And the thick of winter too, like it's December. So we, so when we got to, we flew into Stockholm, it did, it looked, it did not look like how I was imagining it. I was imagining it to look like, what it looked like when we flew to, um, we flew north of Sweden to this really, really fucking sewing area and look like Russia out there. It's crazy. That's what I thought it was going to look like when we flew into Sweden. Yeah. But Stockholm was like, it was really beautiful. They like reminded me of like, um, of London. It was just really, it's very colorful, right? Like all the buildings, a lot of bunch of different colors and stuff. Yeah. The architecture with like, with all the buildings was really, really nice. It was my motherland. I mean, that's where my ancestors came from. Really? Yeah. On my mom's side of the family. What percentage are you? My mom's side is probably region two. My mom's, I think like half Swedish. So I'm like a quarter. I don't know. Which makes sense because everybody there and including the ladies, all tall, all tall, blonde blue. Yeah. I thought you had a nice little time with a Swedish lady. Yes, but she wasn't tall. She was short. What was her name? I don't want to say her name. I don't want to put her, I don't want to put her out like that. But we, we, I met her, uh, she messaged me on Raya when I was out there. We decided to meet up when we party. It was, it was awesome. It was really fun. What do you call it? We, what did we do out there? The first. It expensive. I heard like, it's Sweden or maybe it's somewhere else. Maybe it's Switzerland. Like is a beer like, it's like concert. It's a music festival prices on like everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was pretty, it was pretty pricey out there. Like a pint is like 14 bucks or something like that. It was definitely pricier than we expected. And when we, but when we went out to, um, uh, and when we went out to, uh, like the, uh, sorry, I, I, I think I'm going to say Karina. I'm just going to say Karina because it was like, it was sounded something like that. Karina Karina Karina. I'm like that. When we went to Karina, it was out there, even, even out there was expensive too. Like to go out in the snow to like do the helicopter ride to, yeah. We wanted to go somewhere snowy. So we went to Karina and we took a helicopter to the top of the mountain because we just thought we wanted to be on top of the mountain in the middle of nowhere. Just like for just for a shot. We get there and we decided with this one's not playing. We decided to look at our, um, our location and our location was exactly where we, uh, I threw the door. That's crazy. That's all around the same exact area. And it felt so good. And it was not planned at all. That was like one part where we're like, we did not play in this. This is actually really sick. How freezing was it? Was it super cold? Was it pretty, it was not. It wasn't as cold as it looked. It looked really cold. It looked really cold, but it wasn't that cold. But it was still like, like, oh, yeah, dude, Elliott, fucking we, dude, the ice plunge, that ice plunge in the lake. It was, it's in the lake, but they like block it off. I got scared when he jumped in. A lot of people. There's currents under there. You could get sucked under that ice hole, dude, when he went completely under my heart. No, he, he, they block it off. They, it's like a, um, it's in the case, but it's in a case like a shark. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, no, I don't think they would ever have that. There were just, but yeah, no, that's it terrifying. Oh my, what a fucking nightmare. Like going underwater and then you can't find your way back off. I would hate anyways. Yeah. But we, we did that. We went snowball, snowmobiling, which I'll never do again. That's a one, once in the lifetime thing that you do, it feels funny. I like it. I love snowmobiling. Okay. So I think the reason why I hated it was I didn't wear the, I was supposed to wear a covering like a bar and clava. Yeah. They didn't give one, they didn't give us one to wear or they didn't say like you really need to wear one, but we didn't wear one, right? Bro, we were riding out for maybe 20 minutes. Heath, I swear. I like, I ended up stopping the middle of the ride because I thought I was about to die. Like I thought I was about to get hyper. You couldn't breathe. Dude, I couldn't breathe. It was all in my face. Like there was ice calls forming in my brain. I thought I was going to pass away. I saw the video. Was your mouth and like face that frozen that you couldn't talk? My whole face was frozen. It was numb. It was, dude, numb frozen. I couldn't move my fucking face. I couldn't feel it. That's crazy. It was crazy. I could not move at all. The way I was talking was real. That was not exaggerating. Like never again, never fucking again. Were you guys like on a trail or were you guys like free ranging over like, they had somewhat of a trail, but it like, again, it felt like you're in the middle of nowhere. It was fucking wild. It was just like this family that kind of owned this like whole like cabin area and then we have like a tour guide that literally reminded me of my dad. He was fucking nuts. He was crazy, but he was great. And we did that. We went on the helicopter ride. We were going to go dog mobiling. Snow dog. Yes, snow. What's it called? I think it's called dog sledding. Dog idea. Yeah. But it's funny because you imagine it in your head. Exactly how you imagine it. Imagine dog sledding in your head. He did like a full. I did a rod. Yes, it's supposed to be a full. Like you, you see like eight dogs and you're on a sled. You're sitting. Yeah. It's so cool. It's supposed to look like the movies, but then when we looked out and saw one of them, bro, it was like two dogs and you were standing up on this thing. It looked janky. We're like, oh, fuck that. We're not doing that. I went dogs sledding, right? Yeah. We did in Montana. I think, yeah, it was we were with like Tyler Cameron and Todd. It was like some smear dog brand deal. I loved it. I thought it was really cozy. I think it was like Todd. We were like, wow. Yeah, we were, we were like tucked in just like in this little bucket leaning back. The dogs were moving. And then there was like solo dogs that would run alongside of us to like make sure they were in check. Oh, dude, it's crazy. Yeah. So even it didn't even look that cool. Like, there was only two dogs. They didn't have, they didn't have much. And those dogs are got it. It's just like when they're just like sitting there, they're like, all right. They're not like crazy cute dogs. They really, they're ready to go. My only thing I would just give a heads up about dog sledding at the poop because the dogs kind of like poop as they run. They're running. And so you're just starting to smell it and then you're sledding over dog shit. And it just, it just smells like dog poop the whole time. But you know what? You know what? They're, I mean, they're running. I know they are. You know, horses got a poop when they, you know, go around to horses poop in their running. Yeah. Or they are, they're more like, uh, they're more, uh, classier than that. I just, the dogs poop while they're running. And it just happens. Why was there never a horse sledding? I feel like because I feel like they would just slip on that. They wouldn't be up or no, no, no, nothing. I think you would need like a certain type of horse, like a Clydesdale horse that's like built for the snow. But imagine like eight horses in a line. Can you hear behind that? You know how fast you'd fucking go? What? You want to get somewhere? Do it that way. They wouldn't even be able to catch up with each other. They would just, oh, like half of them would just start sliding big or like, fucking, uh, yeah, horseshoe snowshoes. Yeah. Like, oh, I guess it does happen. It is possible horse can pull. But those are Clydesdale's. Oh, the ones that have the really hairy, um, uh, feet. Those are like ones built for snow like the Budweiser. Why the fuck have I never seen that in my childhood life? Like what? You know what I always wanted to do? The, uh, you know, the tennis racket shoes for walking on snow. I've always wanted to put a pair on. Yeah. Bring those back. That shit is so cool. That's for walking on, um, snow walking. Yeah. So you're not like fully sinking into the snow every time. It gives you like a bigger footprint. So you're not falling through. It makes it spreads it out. So we need that before we got on the helicopter. But we were like knees deep in trying to like catch after that. Did you have to buy like a bunch of clothes before to make sure you were good to go or did you? Oh, I was good for, I was good for sweet. I packed a lot for sweet and normally I'm like really bad with that, but I, I packed good. I was, I was prepared for that, but I was not prepared for my pants. I always forget something, right? Like I was really good for the top, but then like I had shorts. I have like, you didn't have like, uh, like a waterproof snowboard pant. No, yeah, I just like, I don't think about that type of shit. You know, I only think about, oh, I know how to dress for Florida. And that's how I dress for everywhere. I like, whatever I'm bringing to Florida, I just packed double Florida. So I can like two pairs of shorts. Yeah. Um, how is the night life? Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. Just like not a good vibe or everybody there also thinks that too. The people that live there, they all say, oh, terrible night life here. I'm like, oh, wow, that's, that's like, I'm surprised that everybody has mafia, right? You know, it's funny day. I actually ended up DMing David. They're like, oh, come by to the studio. But they have no way. So they just fully live out there. Yeah. Like that's, that's real. Yeah. That's real. They were, I mean, they were out there at the time. I don't know if they lived there or not, but they're definitely out there at the time. Because all the best pop songs are like written by like Swedish producers, like Max Martin, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of good pop is from there. What's really funny that happened was we, um, we went out to dinner and we, uh, there was, there was a fan that like was waiting for us outside of the restaurant. And we were about to, we leave. And he's like, hi, I saw you were here. So I came to stop by. Who's so sweet about, we're like, hey, how are you doing? He's like, hi, my name is Alessso, but not like the DJ. The general girl, Alessso, I'm like, oh, that's so funny. Hey, how are you doing? Not an hour later, we go out to a night club. Who's at the table? And Alessso. Alessso, the DJ was there literally an hour later. We're like, what? But we find out he's Swedish too. So it's like, it's not surprising that he was there, but like still, it was very crazy that that happened in our apartment. Sweden's where it's out of town. Like, but it's I think it's very like everybody knows everybody there. Like everybody's there. That is in Sweden. Swedish people are in Sweden. The Lego Like main headquarter in Sweden. I know Ikea is I know Ikea is, but I don't know why I thought Lego was too That's in Denmark, Denmark close. I mean, it's in the fjords. How was the food good meatballs? It was all right It was all right. Like I'll give it a minute. We also like I don't think we picked the best restaurants right it was kind of like We picked whatever was available or whatever was around which that's why I don't want to I don't want to judge too much on the food But we did go to Ikea because we're like they're me boss. I'll be the best. Yeah at the HQ Ikea. Same fucking thing We walked in and literally felt like we're If it just I dead ask you walk in Burbank Hey, at least you know they keep it the same everywhere. We're getting the genuine experience out here. Dude It was great exactly and dude. It's his fun. You're getting the genuine experience out here. Yeah That's just real. Yeah, I could not tell the difference. I if this was Burbank And we were inside everybody inside Taurus. Oh really? You think that everyone's in there is Sweden nobody nobody's in there. Just people who had the same idea Yeah, I thought they were gonna get something special exactly, but did I soon I think I watched a bit of the vlog But Alex got to like reunite with his Last white table snap as it's crazy. It's all these things that like mate like that went along with my dark throw right yeah Yeah, it is we're also says Swedish Swedish meant Abba. Oh, yeah, obviously isn't that so weird that it landed and fucking Sweden But like we have like the white table. Yeah, like dancing queen all of the whole David lore Yeah, it's like we kept throwing the dart until it hit Sweden. Yeah, it's like it's so wild how it worked out it meant to be always works out in David Like it always works out for me. It's so annoying. It's crazy, but like yeah, we thought that was really Cool how that like worked out. Oh, I remember on amazing race when they were in Sweden They went to the IKEA headquarters and the challenge was you either had to count a whole bunch of teddy bears Or you had a build a furniture set. What would you do? Give me the furniture. What would you do? Build a set. Give me the give me the furniture for sure Good, and that's the what you should do everyone in on the show a lot of them did the counting of the teddy bears because they thought that would be I would fuck off. No, yes, because they all started losing their minds counting And if you submitted the wrong number of the wrong count you had count and start all over again IKEA furniture is the easiest furniture to build Yeah, but when you're holding that little Allen key or that wrench you'd be dropping bolts and shit It's got to be like a buddy and you open it up because there's no written directions It's all visual which is pretty clever But there's always like another guy who's with it and you need someone else to set the furniture up with you can't do it like solo Yeah, depending on what it is yeah for sure, but what's it? Oh, it was like a whole set like it would be like a bed So I remember it looks kind of complicated where people were like that looks like it's going to take a lot of time Let's do the teddy bears. Give me the mom. I'll build that shit It's a good one. We've done it a few times, you know, you kind of Bro, that was my whole life for seven years mom mom mom All my furniture to go to mom go to my NAL. Oh trust me. I know how this girl. Everyone had a mom. This should be everybody's first bed I still have this red head this is yeah, I'm saying for sure affordable strong. I mean you can't definitely you build it once you can't but you can't but did you Did you opt for the glass top because I had that glass top with those little rubber little Sticky's on that on the end so it didn't slide off But you're supposed to he because like what you put a trick on there and fucking there's a ring of death on there You're fucked yeah, you need the glass. That's what you had budget. You need that budget when you're in the class I'm like, yeah, I'll do the glass top for each of them Who enjoyed out of the whole group who enjoyed Sweden the most or was anyone just like I actually love it here I think everybody I think everybody enjoyed it. Yeah together. Yeah, it was just like a I think I think also just the idea of How we got there. I think we all just enjoyed it more. We're just like it's so stupid that we're all here because of a dark Was it Christmassy there? You know, I feel like America we go very hard with Christmas decorations. Nothing like New York Okay, so it wasn't like Christmas trees and lights everywhere. They had lights everywhere, but it didn't feel like cozy cozy American Christmas When when you saw you're like, oh this feels like it looks like this all year round. Oh, I see it's that type of it didn't feel seasonal It just felt like if it's the setting it fit the setting exactly like if they didn't have the Christmas tree there It would have felt like oh, Sweden is lit very nicely, you know But you didn't get like say big fucking sand of reindeer's everywhere if I get like You didn't candy canes everywhere. Yeah, you didn't see all that they didn't have those were a giant reindeer so you said people were really tall With people also like really fit like Like did everyone like look very healthy, I guess not sweet dude and everybody was just tall and Sweden Australia you would feel like shit, bro everybody everybody is Max shredded you didn't see one person that did not that did not look like they all got to pull you know, like they it wasn't like Roided he's trying to it was like they eat really good out there. Wait. You know what before we get into Australia I think we have someone joining us right now. Should we have our special guest on yes, let's do it. All right. Give it give me one second. Give me one second Oh Oh my god, wow, she's back y'all back I'm sorry girl. Did you have a baby because you look fantastic? You look like you did not even Thank you. Thank you great. Maria and congratulations This is I'm I can't get used I'm talking to robots Welcome to the future. Do they know you got these stands. I told them So wild Doesn't it feel like we're in the room with them. Yeah, this is weird. Right when I said I was gonna come visit the Tony This is how I met That would be funny. We just keep zane on this. Yeah hilarious Bring up the laptop Lamarite how are you feeling? Good Matt. How are you? How's the cancer We're all getting sold that's how long it's been since she's recorded Tony's but Tony's what now two weeks three weeks old. He's three weeks old today three weeks old today Oh my god. Happy three weeks. It is flown by into wild has it been has it been tough has it been Has it been easy easier than you expected just like the waking up every night or just like the times you have to feed him and just like the Just everything. I don't it hasn't been easy. It's definitely challenging because we have to figure out He has to learn about us and we've to learn about him. Mm. So we have to kind of like figure out how to get on the same page and like get a groove And I feel like the groove is just beginning now. Yeah, yeah, like the past few days. We're like trying to get Like he's got here. He just got his no idea what's out there It's fun to be able to like if we could do whatever we want. Yeah, I think we're realizing we're very type B with him Just go with the flow you know what he's on the kitchen island. I'm like he likes it That you're doing with him like he's just on the table while we're eating dinner. Like it's just like I was very just laid back. You're doing exactly what you're doing with Dean. Yeah, I'm noticing It's really like My mom was getting annoyed because I kept come I was like I'm not comparing him to an animal But like I was like I know it's different, but everything we're doing with him we had to do with Dean Like we had to stimulate Dean to go to the bathroom. We have to wind up this kid's legs Let something out. Yeah, it's a burp him. We were burping Dean like I was like and it was a good warm-up. We had to feed Dean every one to two hours So that was even harder With him we're doing like every three hours or something like that. So are you feeding Tony like fancy feasts like you're doing the same thing with He likes taking cutlets Oh marido just like backpedal because I feel like we didn't even get to hear much from you throughout pregnancy itself How was it just being pregnant in general? Was it what you thought it would be was it tough? Was it hard? We were really moving while you were pregnant. Oh, yeah, cuz like yeah not like in you know Serious stage of pregnancy. So was it everything you thought it would be what did it saw? I wouldn't I wouldn't say I loved it. There's people that are like I loved being pregnant like it was This sounds a little sad, but I didn't feel like Like I don't think I touched my stomach my whole I wasn't I wasn't one of these Yeah, at all. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't I didn't think I was gonna be like that and I wasn't like that Like I wasn't taught I barely looked in the mirror. I was just in I think it's because I'm so active and like the dancing and everything and I like I'm just so used to being able to bounce around the house and like oh I forgot this let me run into this room when I started slowing down I was getting annoyed. I was just like this is I can't like have the energy that I'm so used to having. Even simple things just like if I'm leaning back just like this getting up now I could do it. Yeah. Getting up was a whole it was like because you couldn't engage your core at all. I couldn't engage my core. I'm so used to being able to like flex my muscles and to help me this I was like mother. It was like you had a suitcase. It got annoying very annoying towards the end like I was like I'm so over this. Yeah. But you know what I feel like like on the internet all we see is pregnant woman talking about how much they look like that I feel like that's all I see. But like you know I feel like a lot of women are just like you where you're just like can't even look at the mirror like you're just waiting for this thing to come out I feel like it's good to hear that side too because I feel like you know yeah it I'm very grateful I did have an easy pregnancy I will say I never got sick. Oh that's nice. Yeah I didn't feel that hormonally like I don't feel different right I didn't feel different I didn't go through like a depressed stage like I just you seemed like yourself. I was still myself just physically I was like oh god like because you know my stomach was like the best part of me like I'm so like insecure about everything else. I was like you know what my body's the one thing that I'm kind of like I feel good about and it's taken from me. But you know what right it's so good that you were fit because I actually looked it up because you were so fit and made the whole pregnancy like a lot easier for you and better. Yeah I hope that's the reason I hope that's the reason because I don't watch what I eat that's how how it's just delivery itself of like birthing a baby. Was that everything you thought it would be? Was it painful? Did you hate it? Like how so I so I did a close your thoughts. Yeah yeah I did a quick very very brief speed run for Zane in the last episode Matt I wish I could have like we had you on for that one. So we'll just rip through it again and just get everybody I just wanted this to come from a ride because it was such a fun fun experience. No yeah I had a blast. No it was like no there was over we just kept looking at each other like holy shit. Yeah we were like this is nuts right like how is this possible. We went through it and we still don't understand how it's possible. Yeah yeah yeah I I went through it and I'm like I don't know how people do that and I did it like it's it was crazy. Can you please can you please start with when you guys were I think this is the best time to start when you guys were watching TV and yeah you were like days before you're about to you're expecting and something happened. The due date was the 13th so I was anticipating two weeks before that because my sister delivered two weeks early so I'm like it could happen any day. So I'm making sure my nails are done. No I am prep. Hospital bag not ready but nails done every day I'm doing an everything shower like I am preparing after two weeks of doing that I'm like I'm freaking exhausted like nothing's happening and everyone I was asking like my mom my sister the doctor of course the doctor doctor was like the last resort. My supposed to be feeling anything is there anything like will I know and they're like you'll know everyone's at the same thing you'll know you'll know you'll know you'll know I'm like all right. So every day I'm like in my head I'm like oh is that a little something but I have like maybe like a little gas. Feel something. You're just thirsty bitch. So like you'll know you'll know because like I said I fortunately had a very good pregnancy. I didn't have any pain throughout my whole pregnancy. I didn't feel I didn't have any cramping like nothing so I didn't know they were like oh it's um different than a cramp and I was like well I haven't had a cramp so I don't know what I'm feeling for so I was making jokes but like underlining we kind of figured I was like I have a feeling I'm just gonna be home and it's just gonna like it happens while you're asleep because I'm not gonna know I'm in labor I just know it but everybody said I knew I would know so we're sitting there watching TV and something happened I didn't know what and I was like oh that was different so let me go to the bathroom I was like this is new like something new happened so I went to the bathroom came back out and at first I didn't say anything I was just still watching and then I leaned over and I said I think something happened and it goes really I'm just like yeah but we could finish like yeah we can keep watching um I was like I'll just wait and see if anything else happens and it didn't but I knew this was something new and I'm like maybe I'm googling and I'm thank on my sister was awake because this was really late and I told I explained to her she goes it could have been your water it could have been nothing and I was just like okay okay so I think it was my water breaking because it was something that's never happened before and it was more than what usually I don't want to but also supposedly it's like it was such a tiny amount it's not like it wasn't like a movie such a tiny amount I called the doctor because they said if you think you're going into labor call the doctor that's what they told me so I call this doctor sounds like I first I'd leave a message yeah two two messages they finally get back to me and it sounds like she just woke up because this is the on call yeah so you tell them what's happening and then they relay it to your midwife doctor whoever what time was it 10 is what it happened it broke and then you called maybe like 11ish okay okay so I call and I explain what happened and she's just like who's your doctor and I told her the name I said my midwife is blank and she goes okay well she what's the word oh fuck I provider provider she goes she's a provider and I'm like I don't know I was like this is okay this is just and then I said it again I said well my midwife told me this and she goes she's a provider and I'm like okay it doesn't matter let me know so she asks me questions about what happened and she goes well was it consistent and I said no and she goes then it was just urine I said it wasn't just urine it doesn't matter what she was asking she was asking questions and I was like no she goes okay it was definitely urine I said it definitely wasn't because I examined it yeah and she goes well call us back when if if it becomes consistent if it becomes consistent call us back and I'm like all right thanks goodnight so I hang up the phone and it happens again but it's not consistent it just something happens again for like a second and I'm like this is not normal I know my body this has never happened it's a broad term I don't think that's the right word yeah like everybody's body is different and I've looked up when your water breaks it can break in different ways it can like be consistent it could come in like trickle whatever yeah so I was like I'm not calling that bitch I was like I know so so I went to bed I said you know I'm gonna sleep on it so we went to bed I got up at 3 30 and I was texting my mom and my sister and I was like it happened a third time and they were like okay it's your water breaking but they're like me and they were just like you have time like you can labor at home for as long as you can handle it whatever so we did my sister labor at home until she was three to five minutes apart because her midwife she was on the phone with her midwife and she was just like you're still good to stay home if you want you're still good to stay home if you want and she was everything was fine that's crazy and three to five minutes apart is like contractions like you're feeling and what is what is that sensation like so I wasn't getting contractions yeah oh okay at this point I wasn't getting contractions and I'm like when the hell are these contract like when my water break are we good I could have been contracting and I wasn't feeling it and I was like this was my fear that I wasn't gonna feel the beginning of the contractions so finally I was like okay I feel a little crampy like something I'm feeling something sharp so I told Heath because they said start timing it and I was like just time whatever this thing is happening just time it and it was 10 minutes I think the first time I time that I think was like 13 or 15 minutes. and then we just kept going until at the 10 and then out of nowhere, it jumped from the three to five more. And I'm like, oh, shit. It happened quick. It happened quick. So I heard you were telling them that you went and did Adry. We got Starbucks. We were still so casual. Because I woke him up at four o'clock. And I said, I think we're probably going to go today. If you want to get up in shower, we'll just start the day and we'll just go with the flow and see what happens. So now I'm last minute packing the hospital bag. I don't know what I need. You're not what I need. Yeah. So he's showering. I'm clean in the house because I don't want to come home to a messy house. He goes, I gotta do the Adry's really quick. I'm like, go, go, go. So yeah, we got it all done. And then as soon as you were done with the ads, you got upstairs. And then one contraction started where I was like, oh, I could see why people can't talk through these. You gave me, you gave me a. Yeah, I was like one second. Okay. Okay. That was, I was like, that was crazy. So I was like, let's just, let's go. Meanwhile, if he and I had that feeling, if it just transferred on to us, I would have been at the hospital four days early. Something just isn't feeling right. Thank God your brother was at the house because I would have been more worried about Dean. So I was like, thank God, like Dean's going to get fed. This is awesome. So we get in the car. We go. Some about like it being dark out. Yeah, pitch black. Oh, just driving to the hospital. Like, what is going to happen in the car was when they really, it was like every four minutes, I think it was. I was like, this is so, this is bad. So we get there. And I walk up to the desk. Of course, we're in the wrong spot. We were told to, so okay, we were told to go to the emergency. What's it called? I almost said. Just like the emergency drop off. Yeah, the emergency. Yeah, with the big road. Yeah, patients get dropped off. Yeah. So that's it. Yeah, that's where we were told to get dropped off when we did our walkthrough. Yeah, months ago. So that's exactly where we go. I go to the desk. And I was like, I'm in labor. Whatever. I'm just like, no, no, I was like leaning on the desk. And the girl was like my age. I was like a chili's weighter. Things happened. I, I'm pretty sure I'm in labor. And they're like, okay, I'm doing labor right now. And I'm like, and then what a contraction came and I went. Oh, I had the only thing I walked in with was a bag of lemon slices. Because I was like, I mean my life. The guy, the guy there was like, I was like, are those lemon? So they were like asking her questions, like trying to get like the information that who she is, blah, blah, blah. And it got to the point where I couldn't answer. Like physically, you're not able to answer through the contraction. And he just immediately, like clocked it, stepped in, was answering everything for me. And I'm like, leaning on the desk. And all these nurses come out and they're high-fiving us. And I'm like, like, giving birth. And they're like, I'm in the first one. Congratulations. And they were like, you're in the wrong spot. But we'll take you there. So they're like, let's get our wheelchair. And I'm, I have my lemons. And I'm like, like, holy, this is bad. I'm like, I'm, I can't do this. I can't, I can't do this. Do these people think that you're in like the first phase when you're feeling like the night before? They probably thought it was like really early, not understanding that it was like contractions three minutes apart. Yeah. Yeah. Because they were having a blast. They were, they were, they were fighting over who's going to take us. You want them? You want somebody, somebody, please. So they took me in the wheelchair. They took me to a room, checked all my vitals, whatever, had me get changed. They checked how dilated I was. And they, I arrived there, seven centimeters. And if you don't know, it goes up to 10. So I was already, like in, and they go, oh, you did most of the work at home. Oh, my God. And I start getting nervous because I don't, I just don't like hospital. Like, I don't know the last time I was at the doctor. Sorry. Like, just not my thing. And as you know, I don't take any medication ever. I don't like putting anything other than water. Even water. Even water. Anything, even like minor like that, you don't like, yeah, like an ad bill, whatever. Yeah. The only thing that was hurting were the contractions. I was like, I could do this. Like, it's fine. And I planned on going as far as I could without an epidural. And I was like, let me, let me just see what, for the first kid, let me see. If you could do it. Yeah. If I could do it. Yeah. Let me also. It's also safer. Like, for the, like, isn't it safer in general? So it's, it's not. No, I think it's more natural and proper. Like, okay, yeah. It's just like a numbing agent. They inject into your spine. Yeah. So you like can't feel. I know that I just, I don't know why I thought I saw something that it was like better for the baby, but I didn't know there's something. Okay. I get into that first room. And they're like, are you planning on having the epidural? And with no hesitation, I'm like, just give it to me. I'm done in the town. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they send the signal to another doctor. Like, hey, we need an epidural in this room. So they have to like, whatever concoct it, whatever they're doing in another room. It's just, um, just making a cocktail. So they take us to the delivery room. And the second we get there, Heath comes in and drops our bags off and they go, you need to go downstairs and finish the paperwork. Um, they have a couple more questions. And he's like, all right. And they're, she was like, I'll keep an eye on her. So still like me in this situation. Like, I knew she was like, contracting. I knew it was like shorter and shorter. But all, like, all I heard was like, oh, I'm in labor for six hours. Oh, I was in labor for 12 hours. Right. You don't know. I'm like, you got all day. So when they told me I didn't even think twice. I said, all right, perfect. Yeah, I'll just run down finish the paperwork. Yeah. Just come back up. No matter how many experiences you hear about or how much advice you're given, everybody is so different. Yeah. You just can't, you can't like prep. Yeah. Perfectly for it. He's doing paperwork. You're in the room. He's doing paperwork downstairs. Very important. I'm on the bed. And I'm starting to, as soon as he leaves, like I said, the doctors, the lights, I'm like, do the lights need to be on? Because I'm not only am I in pain. I'm embarrassed. Because I'm like, it is not my thing. It is not my thing. I know their doctors. They've seen it all. It makes my body shut down. Yeah. To be that vulnerable and exposed to strangers. And the amount of doctors coming in and out haven't heard from my midwife. Oh, yeah. Because I called on the way to the hospital. I called again. I said, I got to call this pitch back. Called again. Had to leave another message. They never got back to me. Well, this is on them. My, my doctor. My doctor wasn't nowhere in sight. So it's all these doctors. I have no idea who they are. Right. This is the only person you are comfortable with seeing you the way they were. Actually, actually, no, Zane. No. No. I still was not. Yeah. Are you sweating? Are you like, are you sweating during this? Do you feel like? I don't know. I don't know. It's like, I don't, like, how is the body responding to the moment, I guess? I think I, I think I, the only thing I could feel was the pain of the contraction. So I have no idea what I was really like. Got it. So I was in the room. It was me and a nurse because she was checking my vital. She was hooking me up, like doing all the things. And I'm telling her, I'm just like, then I start like a tear comes out because it hurts so bad. And I'm like, this one's different. Like this contraction is really different. And I couldn't handle it. And I told her I was like, I need something. And she was just like, I know they're getting the epidural. It should be done in a couple of minutes. That was like the last thing I heard. She checks me because I am in so much pain. And I'm telling her like, no, like, this is really bad. Like, I don't wonder like, it's like embarrassing that I had to like scream for hell. You said, like, I feel him. I said, I feel him. Like, this is not, this is not like, I feel him. Like, I was like, I know this is him. So she was like, they're coming. They're coming. And then she checked me because I was in so much pain. And she immediately ran to the inner conversation. She was like, we need a doctor. It was like the movie. She like, we need a doctor. She's like, she's delivering. I'm like, I told you, I told you, I'm like on the phone with the other doctor. I told you it wasn't urine. So then, meanwhile, next thing. So he's down there. Say your point of view now. Wait, wait, wait, let me finish mine. And then like two point of view. So then tell him, "Hon, wait, let me finish." So then when she yells for the doctor, then is the moment I blinked and I was surrounded by doctors and Heath was suddenly back next to me. Like, it was like I blacked out for a second and like the scene was set. So, so I'm downstairs. Again, I'm not thinking anything of it. So the lady at the front desk, she asked you like my phone number and everything. I get a chile's weight or like really. So I said, I said, my number, she goes, "Oh, Fort Lauderdale." I was like, "Yeah. Born and raised plantation." She goes, "I worked at Plantation Hospital." And I was like, "No way. No world. So we're just going back and forth." And she was like, "We've got Mariah's dying." Asked about Mariah and everything. And they were like, "Is she working?" And I was like, "Yeah, she's up there working hard right now." And there she was like, "No, what does she do for work?" And I was like, "Oh, I'm like, yeah, she's up there working hard." And then we're just like talking and then she, she came, it felt like two minutes. I was down there. So we finished up. I get into the elevator to go back up. I get off on the floor. And they were like, "Are you here for room 12?" I was like, "Yeah, she's delivering now. Run." So I'm full sprint down the hallway trying to get to the room. I'm running. I bust through the door and she's full pushing everybody's around like, "Oh, shit, it's happening right now." So I ran over to her. I can't believe they sent you down there when I was seven centimeters. I had to be 10 by the time I got to the room and they still were like, "You need to go all the way downstairs." Why can't they just wait to do that type of shit? I don't know. We're not going anywhere. Just like a QR code pre-filled out information. No, I think that's how they get you though. They ask you all these questions when you're in pain. So you're just like, "Whatever, yes." She didn't even have her legs in stirrups yet. Oh, yeah. I was asking me to help lift her legs and put them into the little leg. And I was like, here, let me get your leg. She's like, it's impossible. The only thing she said the whole time getting worse. This is impossible. She's like, this is impossible. So keep in mind, no time for the epidural. Never showed up. Oh, did it. Never showed up. We got to do it. No. Because the last thing she said was it'll be done in a couple minutes. So I didn't even get that epidural. And I am like, this is impossible. There's no way this is about to happen. And then they were yelling at me. And as soon as you helped me, I was just like I have to push. Just push, yeah. It was like I have to push. Did I push in silence? There was this. There was no like scream. I was like, I can't scream right now. You were trying to get this. Like, you need to gather. I was like, what's the white chicks? That's what you looked like on the table. I was like, I am, is there another way to do this? There's so various. But as soon as we got your leg up, the lights, imagine, they imagine, imagine the lights spreading. Can you imagine people film this? There's people that don't film this and op. Oh, Matt, but there was no like, there was no sheet box. Yeah, that's how I want to visualize it. It was not no sheet box. It's not like pretty up under like a tent almost like nothing. Didn't have that. No, I was wide open. Did you have to request for something like that? I don't know. I'm sure other places are different. But this one just did it if you have more prep. Like this was just like, we got in the room. I think it just happened too fast. Got it, got it, yeah, yeah. Gave birth. Wow. In about, felt like 30 seconds. I pushed for like 30 seconds. Yeah, I pushed twice. One for the head, one for the body. One for the head. And I sighed for relief because I thought that was it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We took up more. And they go, you got to do it again. I'm like, what? Like that wasn't it. And I knew the shoulders were worse. I'm like, son of a bitch. So then I think I was just pissed off at that point. So I just like push. And they like immediately put him on my chest. My eyes were closed this whole time. The whole, it took me so long to look at anything. Because if I opened and saw how many people just saw that. Yeah, don't fucking look at me. I just, and I was just looking at Heath. I was just like, just look at Heath. Just look at Heath. It's crazy, like such a vulnerable moment. Like just because you never, nobody ever experienced anything like that. With that many people in a room like that. And you're experiencing it for the first time too. It's not like just going to the dentist or going to the doctor and getting a checkup. It's like you're doing. It's a very. And there's all the rehearsal too. You get like a rehearsal where like you have to sit in the bed and like, all right, this is what it's going to be like. Yeah. They just tell you where to be the day of it. They didn't even get the correct information before that. They give the baby right to. They give the baby to me. I'm holding him and they're all scrambling doing their thing. My midwife comes in. Congratulations. I'm like, hey girl, remember me? You get my message? I just missed it, huh? No, it's not her fault that she missed it. It was the people that were supposed to relay the information. Whatever. The reason is because when they were trying to relay it, they weren't finding her file. So I think they were like trying to have me go down to like get it fixed to be able to like make the call and get in connection. It was like it was, it had to do with the whole move thing because my name was different in California than here. The whole last name switch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like a motto on some paperwork. I'm who saw an other paperwork. So they were just like, they couldn't find me anywhere. Oh, all meanwhile, they lay the baby on her chest. I'm right in front and they're like, where's your phone? Where's your phone? And I'm like, what? They're like, give me your phone. The first thing, they're like, let me take a picture and he's like, they're like taking pictures. The baby still will go. When they first asked you and you were like, it's okay, it's okay. And they're like, no, give me your phone. That's actually insane. Yeah, it's crazy that they were like begging for his phone to take pictures. I think we deleted those pictures. I'm like, oh, he's like blue. And I'm like, yeah, like, oh, that's, that's so, that's really wild to me. I bet some people like think of that, though, as the first thing they hear it a lot, probably. You think they think of it or this is what they want? Like, I don't know. Oh, I wish we got the picture. It probably came from a nice place where they were trying to like document it because you're so focused on it. Yeah. But like, but he did say no. She was like, no, I insist. But no, like all of the nurses, everybody at the hospital was so nice. So nice and so helpful, except for one. We'll tell you about her. That's all right. But for the most part, such an easy, like, I'm like, it was a breeze. No, yeah, they were very, very helpful, very honest, very patient. Like, I didn't feel pressured into doing anything. Whatever. And then. Oh, they were like, are you ready to cut the umbilical cord? I was like, I'm okay. You're like, I'm gonna do it, do it. And I was like, okay, okay. So then they put the two clamps and then they give me these garden sheers. Just like, oh my gosh. They were like right between it. You did it. So I grabbed it and I cut. I wasn't expecting blood to squirt. So that threw me, I blood all over my white shirt, my hands. I'm like, oh my. It's kind of cute. There's a little like blood stain on his shirt now. Oh, great dude. Oh, great dude. Give it to your kid. So yeah, I don't bad because I didn't get all the way through in one cut. And I was like, oh my god. I don't know why I don't get it. Either one of you was gonna be feeling it. Oh no, I didn't. I remember that moment, but I wish I could, could have been more focused. They're just so fast with everything and on autopilot. And I couldn't process. I just remember you being like, all right, I'll do it. And then you did it. And then because at the same time, they're like figuring out if I need stitches, the placenta, which was the whole placenta thing. Like a lot of people scared me with that. That was not, I don't even remember that. That was nothing. Did you see it with your own eyes? No, I didn't. I didn't see anything with my own eyes. I don't even know how the placenta came out. It feels like they just yanked it out. Like I didn't push her. It comes out after the baby, right? After the ability. They just kind of like pulled it out. Yeah, they just like unplugged it. Look at the footage. They're like this. That's what I mean. It's hot. It's just like, it's a clown. It just keeps coming. It's like, yeah. They're like, well, this is a fun delivery doctor. It's like, all right, we're just pulling the rest out. Gotcha. Just kidding. Welcome to the world. Hoppata. Hoppata. And so how it must be a wild emotional moment, finally seeing this human that you've been carrying around inside of you, but you don't really know what it looks like. But I mean, you, you know, you see all the ultrasounds and stuff. You're like, wow, it's finally here. It has to be pretty old. Yeah. It was a really unexplainable unreal and so much hair too. He's so, he is like, just, he is a lot of hair. - So dark hair. - So dark. - Dark hair. - Full head hair. - Which everybody. Anybody keeps asking me the question, like you must have had a lot of heartburn because that's the thing. If your baby has a lot of hair, you get heartburn. And I was like, I didn't it. And they were just like, I never heard somebody not having heartburn. I was like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. You don't know, I don't know, I don't know. And that's the, that's the, that's what can I say? What can I say? It's called agita. And how, and, because I still don't know the time, how long was it between the, Tony coming out and you deciding his name? Like that. A day, two days, two days after deciding on the name, right? Yeah. It was the last thing we did before leaving the hot, they wouldn't let us go until we had a name. Oh, I don't know, I didn't know it was two days. I thought I was the same daddy. She had the baby seven in the morning. We spent the night, next morning came around and then we didn't leave until like six o'clock the next day. Yeah, I think so. Something like that. And now, and now the name, was it already like in the top three of what you were already kind of leaning on or did you kind of switch it up last minute going? Actually, let's do, let's go Antonio. Let's do it. So I've, Oh, Antonio's always been on my list. It's actually been a girl named Antonio. Oh, I love that. And then still call her Tony. So we do, we both liked Tony, but it was never like a top three, top two. It was just always on the list. Okay. I think like a lot of Italian names were always on the list. I was like, Tony's cute, like Antonio, but it never clicked. There was a moment, I think I don't know if you remember. There was a moment in my pregnancy where I was like, he kind of feels like a Tony. Like I kind, like sometimes I feel like calling him Tony, but that was like for a couple days and it went away. Oh, okay. And then he came up with the name in the shower that morning. Yeah. I don't know, when I was showering, when she woke me up, I, I don't know why I would just like, Nico Valentino sounded really cool to me. 'Cause those were, those were two names on our list and we were trying to think of which ones sound good together. And I was like, I like Nico Valentino. Like that's really cool. And then I was thinking Tony Rocco. And I'm like, Tony Rocco is really cool. Like I sound like fight. Like bums. Yeah, yeah. Nico Valentino. Tony Rocco. I love that. So those ended up being like the top two that morning. And I'm like, these are cool to like bounce around in whatever, but there was nothing that we were just like, we, that's it. Like that we didn't have that moment yet. It just wasn't set. Yeah, it wasn't set. So being in the hospital with him, we weren't even like thinking of the names either. We were just like not calling him anything. And then like hours later, we were like, we got to think of it. There was also so much going on. Like after they don't like you for real. Somebody, some sort of nurse or something was in the room every 10 minutes, like either slamming on her stomach. Like, oh yeah, there was a whole thing where they had to push on my stomach every hour because she had like blood clots and then you had to do like the catheter. It was just like always something that they were like doing. Yeah. Or they were coming and asking who's your pediatrician? I'm like, I don't know. I just like, what are what are we doing? They kept coming in and it was like a different nurse every time and then they would even be like, get, make sure you get some sleep. I'm like, how? When? When? Because then they would come in and they would have to take my blood pressure like all the time and like make sure everything was good. Yeah. Then this one nurse was coming in and she goes, we'll bring you the Tylenol and Advil. And I'm like, actually, no, like I'm good. I, when I tell you guys, genuinely, I swear on my life, I had no pain afterwards. Okay. It was just discomfort. It was, obviously, it's uncomfortable. Yeah. So I separate the two, like discomfort and pain are two different things. Yeah. I can sit through being uncomfortable. She comes in a second time and she goes, you share about that Tylenol and Advil and she's like giving me a look. And I'm just like, why would, what's the point of taking it? I don't have any pain. Like there's nothing to get rid of. She's just like, no, I'm good. Thank you, though. Yeah. So, yeah, I didn't say that. Yeah. So I look there, I said, what's the frickin' point? What's the point? So then the third time she comes in and she goes, I'm just gonna ask again, like, you're sure about this Tylenol and I'm like, damn, what happened to no means no? I didn't say that. She said, hey, good to see you. Everybody thought we'd get it, we'd get it. So I said, no, thank you. Like, I'm really okay. I got my limits. I was like, I'm really okay. And then she goes, just so you know, you don't get an award for not taking any pain killers. No. Oh my God. Oh my God. She did not. Is that was gagged? I was like, wait, what? I was like, did I do something wrong? Hearing that again, I cannot, I cannot believe that. Is that crazy? Is that crazy? That is like the last thing you want to hear. It's just some sass. Like, you don't get an award for not taking, it's like, excuse me? Like, crazy. It was so weird that she said that. That was probably like, did she say the only thing that was like, do you tell these eyes just like open up in that moment? And you know what? I'm sure you didn't go and tell anybody what she told you, but she's fucking lucky that you didn't. Like that one thing the same thing. And I laughed. I thought she was kidding. And she just like walked away. And I was like, and I looked at heat and I was, I thank God, you heard it too. Oh yeah. Cause I needed someone to roll my eyes with. Yeah. Cause I would have been like, if you told me, I'd have been like, oh, she had to have been kidding. That was crazy. She was not letting it go. And I was like, it's just Advil. Like, I'm, she's not like, I'm saying no to keeping the baby. When he told me that, I was like, do they get like a bonuses? Because I know they charge for everything that you take in the hospital. Like they charge you for all the Advil that gave you. And they'll, they'll fucking up it by like, fucking 10 times. Like a cost of a towel. No, they'll give you, they'll charge you like 300 bucks for that shit. So yeah, I really don't know her intentions for that. Like it was just like a weird thing to say. Yeah. So that was the only other than her, all the rest of the nurses and doctors were very helpful. We loved them. But she was strange. Mm. Emerald to face during like the lactation specialist coming in. It was. I didn't ask for it. Like why don't you have a lactation specialist? Like they don't ask you. She, they just come barging in and they start touching. And I'm like, and I can't focus on what she's saying. Because she's so in my space. And then she's telling Heath, get in her spit. Get in there. Get in there. And it was like, and the baby's crying and I'm like this poor thing. And she's like forcing him onto me and I'm like, I don't think he wants to be like put like, I don't know. It was just, it was a lot. It was very aggressive. Right. After it was just like a lot going on in this room. It was just so there was so much. I felt like I was in like, I don't even know how to explain like a factory. Yeah. Before doing so many different things, everything but natural. I feel like for you guys, for you, Mariah, like it, like what a natural, what a feel what is supposed to feel natural. I think all these lights and people and touching and it's like, and you know, I had the, I had friends on the TV. I'm like, let me make this as normal as possible. Yeah. That's good. Did was anyone else giving birth like that morning? Like. So I saw, I saw when I, I ended up going down to like the snack bar at one point. And as I was walking back, there was a lady in a wheelchair being wheeled out and a dad holding the baby in a carriage. Oh, cool. So like you can tell they just either the following day or whatever it was or the day before. So there was other people giving birth. And another question I have, because you see it in movies all the time. Yes. Yes. Hi. This is Matt King with the unfiltered. Hi. My question I have, do they ever take the baby away because you know what, like in movies, there's like the maternity ward and you're looking at the glass and there's a bunch of babies all the way up. Does that happen? That's an old school thing because I remember like when my little cousins were born, like you could go to the window and see all the babies and like read the names and stuff. They'll take them away for like, they do have a daycare. So if you want a break, they'll take them and take and feed the kid and do everything. So we just opted not to have the daycare. I said daycare, a nursery, and if you want them to have a bath, they'll take them, but we just told them just keep him in the room the whole time. Like we don't. I don't want to get. Take my eyes off him. You know? Yeah. We just stared. Yeah. We just stared at him the whole time. And he was a frickin animal. He had no experience with kids, babies and watching him, changing all the diapers, figuring every nurse that came in and swaddled, he took notes on like what he, because there's a, there's a method to the madness with it differently. Yeah. So he came up with his own concocted swaddle and he was like, I took my favorite notes that each of them did. And I was like, okay, I like that. I like that. He was losing sleep over getting that perfect swaddle. Well, it's like a burrito. We were. Yeah. You're watching the doctors with, with Tony or doctors, other, so they keep coming in and checking on them. One, they're coming, they're checking his peach, they're checking what they're doing. And like they undo it and then they reswaddle him to leave. Got it. Okay. So like, I got to watch him get reswaddle. A hundred times. Like they're, they don't leave the baby or us alone. Like they're checking his reflexes, they're checking my reflexes. They're pushing on things, they're checking inside like everything. So they didn't let any of us sleep. Yeah. they kept telling us make sure you get some sleep. you were good and healthy before you left. - So then the name, well, obviously we told my family when it happened, everything. My mom booked the next flight. She got there at like 2 a.m. - Yeah. - We're all sitting there the next day and they're grilling us on this name. - They're like, what's the name? What's the name? We got to fill out the birth certificate. We got to get the social security. - Do they do the footprints, like ink or like? - They did the footprint thing. - I know that's like a thing. - Okay. - It wasn't like, I thought they would like, I thought it was like a stamp or like they actually-- - Yeah, I thought it was fingerprint too. It wasn't. - Yeah. It was just-- - I think it was digital. I think they just like pushed it up. - I don't think it was digital. I think it looked like a black screen but it imprinted on it. - It looks like graphite paper, like that, yeah. - Or something like that. - It's just up the technology. 'Cause it definitely used to be in. - It's weird, like welcome to the world. Let's eat. - It's been very weird right on you. - Right, yeah. - Okay. - That makes sense. - Until your mom gets there. - Yeah, so my mom gets there and-- - Is she crying? - No, it's my mom. - Oh no, she's not a little emotional. - Yeah, she's like another one. - She didn't cry. - She just doesn't, she doesn't really cry. She was just so excited. - Yeah, just more happy, yeah. - And thank God she was there for, she stayed with us for a few days. She's just such, my mom is such a natural with, I mean, I know she had kids, but like even before that, like babies love her, she loves babies. I don't know, she has this like magic touch. - Magic touch to her. And I just like was able to shut off. And he was able to sleep and I was just like, - That's really nice. - So it felt really nice to have her there. So the next day, they're grilling us. They're talking about the birth certificate. They're bringing in surveys and they're like, did you feel at the survey? And I'm just like-- - What? - The survey. - And I'm reading the survey. - It was a, how was your experience? - Interfer a chance to win an-- - So we're going back and forth. And him and my mom, I feel like we're leaning towards Nico and I was like, kind of set on Tony. I'm like, oh, I like Tony, I like to. Antonio, we weren't even thinking about yet. - It was just gonna be Tony. - Yeah, I was like, I like Tony, I like Tony. Like I thought about it in my pregnancy. Like I think I just like Tony. And we also, like we were kind of set. We were like, oh, if we do have a girl, the chances are very high that she'll be a Tony. Like, whatever. We were going back and forth, we couldn't agree. And then my mom was like, it'll come, pray, pray about it, eat your lemon. (laughing) So then we were thinking, okay, we started brainstorming, we slept on it. - And then I was just like, I liked the idea of like family names. Like not just like something for animals. Like I liked something that has to do with a relative, right? - So I was like, my great grandfather, Antonio, worked his ass off, he would come to America, work and bring the money back to Italy to the family. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. - And I was like, Antonio's on the list. And I was like, I love Antonio. We can call him Tony. And I was like, it's my great grandfather. - Got it. - Or my mom said, she goes traditionally, if it's a boy, if you're first as a boy, the husband picks the name. And I was silent. I was like, I want to play a part, like I want to roll. He's already getting who's are. And I want to play a role. So Tony Hussar sounds really cool. - Yeah. - Like Antonio Hussar. So then the middle name. - I think I said Karlo. Like not even thinking about like, it was just like Tony Karlo sounds cool. - Yeah. - And then I was like, oh, my grandpa, like it would be cool if it was Karlo, but we call him like, Tony Karlo. - Yeah. - There was something like, I had a little flayer to it. That I loved about him being named after like both of our grandparents. And like when we said his name, we just put it into each other. - Antonio Karlo. And then the three of us were frozen for a second. And then me and him lost it. And my mom was like, oh, there you go. Like when she saw, like it was uncontrollable, we both just started sobbing. And I was like, that's gorgeous. - It was crazy. - And my mom was laughing. She was just like, that's your answer. Like you crying, is that validation? Like that thing. - Yeah. - Wow, that's beautiful. I love that. - That's so great guys. - That's crazy. - So we got a little Tony Karlo. - Oh, it's a great car driver. - And I love that you could call him like five different things. - It's correct. - Oh my gosh. Where do I begin? - Yeah. - Tony two times. - Yeah. - Tony Bloney. Tony two ounce. Cause he was, he was knocking that milk back. - Yeah. - Then it was Tony tree ounce. - Tony tree ounce. He graduated. - I told Matt about the carpet, the tiger carpet after Tony had a tiger. - Oh yeah. So in the nurse, it didn't hit me until a couple days into being home. But the nursery. - Well, we keep, we kept singing Tony the tiger. - Yeah. So he was, he, he was singing Tony the tiger to him, the theme song and what, hey Tony. Hey. I like the things. - He's down. He loved it. - He loved it. So we were calling him Tony the tiger. I'm like, this is so, but his name is so fun to give like nicknames to him. - Good. - Yeah. - My mom calls him Tony Walnut for a read first. - Tony what? - Tony Walnut. - Oh shit. I mean. - He was changing him in the hospital and my mom comes to check and she looks down. She goes, holy Walnut. He has an audible guess. - Yeah, it like took her back so she goes, Tony Walnut. - I was dying. - Tony Walnut. - He's just Tony Walnuts. - Exactly. - Fucking hilarious. - But this tiger print, er. - So, yeah. So when I was planning the nursery, I wanted just like a bunch of patterns, a bunch of, I wanted cars and animals like just, you just, it's a kid's room. Like I wanted a lot of color, a lot of fun going on. - Yeah. - So, I love leopard print and I'm like, I'm not going to do that to the kid. Like that, that would be for me. That would be for me. So I was like tiger print and zebra print is cool for like a boy's nursery. - Yeah. - So I don't know why I was so locked in for months and months and for like five months. I was locked in on getting tiger print curtains or a rug and I couldn't find it anywhere unless it was $10,000. - Like a good one, yeah. - I was like, everything's so expensive, but I really want this tiger rug. - Well, were you looking at, were you looking at like a, just a print or do you want it real tiger print? - No. - Please. - He's got the head on it. - He said 10,000 dollars. - He's looking for real tigers. - No, just like anything tiger print is hard to find. - Got it, got it. Okay. - Yeah, it's not a common print. - There's zebra and cheetah. Tiger's very hard to find. - Yeah. - The very first thing I bought for the nursery, this room was empty. I found one left, a tiger rug on Wayfair. One left is a perfect size and I was like, I got to jump on this right now. I got my tiger print rug. I have a picture of the empty room with just the rug and I'm like, we got one thing in this nursery. And that was the print. And then I realized when he was singing Tony the Tiger, I'm like, we have a tiger print rug. - This is why I needed this tiger print. It was so weird. - It was meant to be. - Yeah, it was meant to be. - I got to tell you another thing that I was like, oh my eye is going to fucking love this. In Sweden, we were at an ice hotel, right? So everything was ice. Like the room. - Right, right, right. - But Lobby, everything was ice. And the moment, because I've been waiting for the text from Heathamora. I was like, oh my god. - I was checking by my friend every day, seeing where you're at. - When is it going to happen? - I'm right now in the ice chapel in the hotel, right? It's a chapel. It looks like a church. - Uh-huh. - I'm in there and I'm just looking at it. It's beautiful. I'm sitting there and sitting there, bring, I get a text. He's coming. Like, he's, like, he's risen. He's coming. Jesus is coming. Tony's coming. And I saw that. And I look up. I was like, I got to love this. That's out. This is crazy. - Knowing that that was the text and the picture you showed me of where you were, it's stunning. - Matt, it looked like he was actually in heaven. - Yeah. I took a picture of it. I was like, I'm taking a picture of this moment. I was standing in the spot. I got the text. I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to want that. And I'm going to, I want to show you this picture because it, Heath, it looks like AI. - It looks like AI. - No, no. What you said when you saw, it was like, it's a bleed out place. It's a- - 10 out of 10 bleed out spot. - 10 out of 10 bleed out spot. Look at this Matt. - Whoa. - Isn't that crazy? - Whoa. Oh man. - So beautiful. - So Zayn played a huge role. - Oh, great job. Making about himself. - It was just like moments that I felt like just made sense. I was like, oh, oh, that's fun. That makes sense. - You know, you guys are fully tested. You have a home. You got to spend Christmas. Like all of it. - Yes. - It was quite eventful to be like entering the world and then it's just good family times and great vibes. - Yeah. - It was really special to have like the Christmas lights on like coming home to that. We did get- - Oh. - We did finally get our first tree. I know we got made fun of for that. - We got our first tree. - We got our first tree and it made it so much like- - You were looking forward to that. That's so great. - Yeah. - It was also our first time having like our Christmas together. So it was like- - Oh, yeah. - First time at Christmas. - Super special with him, like. - 'Cause we spent it with our families. This was our first time. We had no choice but to stay home. So this was the first time we didn't have to travel anywhere and we stayed home. - It's a core memory. - It was sad. It's on the mantle. I had our stockings and his didn't have it. It was blank. - Oh yeah. - It was me, Heath, and Dean, and his was blank. - Oh, I saw some where people didn't fucking believe you. They were like, "You had to name all the laws." Like, "No, I stitching in." - Yeah, I was like, "How about I got home and embroidered it when I got home?" - "Day we got home." She's like, "Where's my sewing kit?" - Yeah. (laughing) - I gotta fill this out. - You guys must not know Mariah if you didn't think that she had immediately sewed that name in there. - And what a weird thing to lie about. - Yeah. (laughing) - It's so funny. Oh my God. The whole store, everything from the beginning to the end is just so funny and beautiful. - It was amazing. - Like, what did we expect? - An unreal experience. - It's very hard to explain. I can't, there's not enough like adjectives to explain. You just have to live through it to understand. - Yeah. - But it was like, it brought us. Like, I feel like there was a point where we were talking to each other and we were just like, we feel this extra connection with us. - Oh my God. - Yeah. - Like watching her push him at, like. - And meanwhile, like, I'm so sorry. - I'm so embarrassing. - No, like, you just see them in a completely, not new light, 'cause the light, like, it's just like, it's an open door to a feeling that you've never felt before. And like, yeah, it's truly begun. It's just a whole new phase, a great new chapter. It gets, yeah, like emotionally and like, the love, love is like, not even like the word. Like, there is so much more to it. - You have news for us. I'm trying to move. I'm just doing an Irish, an Irish pregnancy, just like. - Irish pregnancy. - That's what it's called, right? You get pregnant, like, or Irish twins, I guess, yeah, yeah. - Yeah. - Oh, it's just like right after you finish one, they're pregnant again. - Yeah, they're born within the same year. - The three under three. Have you ever heard of that? - Yeah, it's two under two. - Four under four. - Oh, okay, I've never heard that term before. I saw it on the lady, brought her three kids on a flight. They were all under three. - Yeah. - And she was just like, something. - So you would tell people, like, they're, I have three under three. - Yeah, yeah. - I feel like you're gonna have three under three. - I know, I was like, we were already talking. I'm like, we're jumping the gun. I'm still in so much pain. But I was, we were like, how long should we wait for the next one? And I was just like, I'm definitely gonna need a couple of years. - Yeah. - Like, to forget what just happened. (laughing) - Forget what I said. (laughing) - Yeah, but it wasn't, I'm glad I was able to do it naturally. - Yeah. - Like, now I can, like, I feel so strong in that way. - Oh, sorry, and by the way, I'm so apologize. I just realized I asked a question that every girl hates to hear. - When's the next? - Yeah, when's the next? - When I, so what are we just about to say? - It's pretty, we're having now done it, does, if you do it again, if you choose to, does it seem like less scary? 'Cause you've done it, you've already done it. - Yeah, like now I know what to expect. Even though they say every pregnancy is different. - True, true, true. - So who knows if I'm, I'd probably give birth at home. - Yeah. (laughing) - At that point. - Honestly, Mariah, I feel like you probably would and should. - Like, I think me and Heath can handle it. I think like, we could do it at home. - I learned it's me and him, and then we'll just call 911. - Yeah, I watched everything. - Just take your mind. (laughing) - Yeah, I think, I think we could do it. - You kinda just have some more comfort vitals and stuff, and then you're good to go. - Yeah, no surveys. - But then like after just like being home with him, I don't know, it's just felt like a dream. - Yeah, we still got back from the hospital. It just feels like. - It hasn't really hit, I said it feels like I'm babysitting. - Yeah. - I don't know who's kid, but it's, it is crazy to look at him and like some days I'm like, whoa, like that's he. - Oh Matt, I ended up doing like two days ago the skin to skin, never again. (laughing) I was like, you know what, I'm in the buffer. - Bro, he, both hands, ripped chest hair out, and I'm looking at, he's got a fist full of my chest hair and I'm like that, that's very beautiful. I was like, all right, I tried it. - That said, this is good for the soul. - I'm like, I'm all right, that's good. - Mariah a few days ago, she sent a video of like, of Tony on heat, on he's chest like this, and I'm looking at it. - Oh yeah. - And I literally just, I DM Mariah, I'm like crazy. - Yeah. - Just crazy. - Like what's happening? - What's happening? - What is happening? That's like, how did we make that mean? - Miraculous, how it just, it's so bizarre. - It's wild. - It's really cool. It's really freaking sick. - I did not wait, I cannot wait to meet him. - Well, you guys are absolutely glowing. You guys already are in will be fantastic parents. - Yeah, you're looking to wait for Tony. - Thank you. - I'm so excited, I just watched this all unfold. - People still have to meet him. Like we still have that whole chapter. - Yeah. - It's gonna be cool. - Crazy. Matt, thank you for the blanket. He loved it. - Of course. - It was my favorite blanket I've ever made. I gotta say. - It is, I opened it up and I told Heath, I was like, this is a hard stitch. - It is. - It is. - It is. - That's a hard time. - That's crazy work. - I'm just very happy with it. - I remember I saw the corners. I'm like, this looks professional. I was like, no, it looks like you bought it from the store. - And now I'm thinking Tiger, if I get into sweaters. - Oh. - There you go. - Now it's some tight. - Oh my god. - 'Cause I really wanna get into like, tubeless sweaters. - How hard would that be? - Easier than making the blankets. Faster, I think, too. 'Cause the blankets, the yarn is just so thin and it just takes forever. Sweaters, you can have a little bit of thicker yarn to accomplish more distance, but I just wanna get into making some sweaters. - So out of state, too. - All right, all right, all right. Okay, well, all right, I think we're good here. Moriah, thank you so, so, so much for taking the time to come on. - Yeah, hey, thank you for having me. - Yeah, of course. I know you're real busy with Tony. - Anything you wanna appreciate. - I know you wanna plug. - I wish she was here for the intro though, 'cause here in I'm Zane, I'm Heath, I'm Matt, I'm Moriah. - Oh. - Yummy, yummy say I'm Moriah. - Yeah, let's do it again. All right, welcome back to Zane Heath, I'm filtered. I'm Zane. - I'm Heath. - I'm Matt. - I'm Moriah. - Whoa! Save it guys, save it. - Well, we need to have some follow up episodes, 'cause I gotta be here and more about just parenthood for you guys completely. - All right, every birthday. Every birthday, every year. - Every birthday, or what if maybe it's walking? Or what if it's a baby-start walking? I don't know. - What does a baby-start walking? - I don't know. - Do you guys know? - Try it for a year. - Oh. - No, a year. - A year. - Oh, it's a year. - Or close to a year. 10 months. - Oh, nine, 18 months. - Every kid's different, some kids don't walk till they're two, because I know. - I'm not gonna get that kid walking in two months. - I know, tomorrow. - He's doing some ourselves. - Who's gonna be doing tours in six months? - Wow. - Okay, well, we're all, thank you. - Big cheers, guys. - We love you. - Love you. - Love you guys. - All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning into another episode of basically unfiltered. - No. - As always. - As always, thank you. (laughing) - Thank you so much for tuning into another. It's a- (laughing) - Keith, can you do it please? - All right, guys, so that is it for another episode of unfiltered. Thank you so much for watching. If you want to check out the Patreon Patreon.com/zane and Heath, we keep these cameras rolling. You get an extended cut of every single podcast episode. We do a live Q&A. We do a bonus episode every month. Make sure to check it out. Patreon.com/zane and Heath. - And as always, we upload every- (laughing) And as always, we upload every- - Good. - Don't fuckin' look at it. As always, we upload every Monday audio format, all podcast platforms and every Tuesday for more YouTube.com/zaneanheath. Imagine me giving birth. (laughing) Hey, give my goods to my good time. My good time. My good time. (laughing) All the doctors are on one side. I was kind of happy Heath was standing on my goods. (laughing) - That's fucking funny. Funny, all right. Yeah, thank you so much. We love you. Unwinders, we'll see you in five seconds. Everybody say bye to Moriah. - Bye-bye. - Tudy. - Bye-bye. - Mama Sita.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The group used a dart-throwing game to land on Sweden, which unexpectedly became their travel destination.
  2. They flew to Sweden for a winter trip, surprising themselves with the journey’s length and the cold conditions.
  3. The experience was both fun and exhausting, with memorable activities like snowmobiling, helicopter rides, and an ice plunge.
  4. The group faced challenges with language barriers and unfamiliar products, such as Thai inhalers, and discovered the usefulness of Google Translate.
  5. Despite high expectations, the food and nightlife in Sweden were underwhelming, though the cultural experience and shared adventure were rewarding.
  6. A major highlight was the spontaneous birth of Tony, the new baby, which occurred after a long, unpredictable labor and hospital delays.
  7. The birth process was managed naturally without an epidural, and the team emphasized the emotional vulnerability and unpredictability of real-life childbirth.
  8. The experience underscored how personal and unpredictable life events—like travel or parenthood—can unfold in ways that defy preparation or planning.

Summary:

The group recounts their spontaneous trip to Sweden, triggered by a dart-throwing game that landed on the country. Despite initial misgivings about the long flight and extreme cold, the journey became a memorable adventure filled with snowmobiling, helicopter rides, and an ice plunge. Language barriers and unfamiliar products, like Thai inhalers, highlighted their reliance on tools like Google Translate.

While the nightlife and food in Sweden were unremarkable, the cultural experience and shared bonding made it valuable. The trip took a profound turn when Zane’s new son, Tony, was born after a lengthy, unpredictable labor. The birth occurred without an epidural, and the process was emotionally intense, marked by confusion, delays, and hospital inefficiencies.

The team emphasized the vulnerability and unpredictability of real-life events, contrasting with their usual preparedness. Moments of humor, like the sudden appearance of a Swedish friend or the baby’s blue color, added warmth. Ultimately, the experience—spanning travel, culture, and parenthood—revealed how life’s most significant decisions often unfold beyond plans, making them deeply personal and unforgettable.

FAQs

The dart landed in Sweden, which led the group to travel there for a trip. They were initially surprised because they didn't realize Sweden was at the top of the globe.

The trip was unexpectedly fun and memorable despite high costs and cold weather. The group enjoyed the vibrant architecture and met a Swedish woman they connected with during their stay.

Yes, they faced financial challenges due to high prices for food and activities, and health issues like cold weather and difficulty with winter activities such as snowmobiling and dog sledding.

They went on a helicopter ride to a mountain, tried snowmobiling and dog sledding, and visited IKEA headquarters. They also experienced a snowball fight and a night out in the city.

They were frightened by the experience, especially due to concerns about currents and getting sucked under, though they were reassured that the area was safe.

They discovered that Swedish people are tall and healthy, and that the country has strong cultural connections, such as the popularity of Abba and the widespread presence of Swedish producers in pop music.

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