Built Different: FFA Kid, Foster Life & Comedy Chaos

In this heartfelt episode of Ladylike Rejects, Bree sits down with a very special guest — her daughter, Delaney McCarty.

Delaney is a junior in high school and a dedicated member of FFA and 4-H. She opens up about what it’s really like growing up in a home filled with foster siblings, constant change, and a mom who lives life out loud as both a comedian and podcast host.

Together, they explore family dynamics, resilience, and finding your own identity in a nontraditional household. Delaney also shares her deep passion for animals, especially her pack goats and lamb, and how they’ve shaped her responsibility, work ethic, and heart.

This episode also highlights our Reject of the Week, Emily Cabello, a Sumner High School Benefit Night nominee who is currently battling brain cancer. Her strength and the support of her community are nothing short of inspiring.

This is a raw, honest, and love-filled conversation you won’t want to miss.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to Ladylike Rejects, highlighting women who flip the script. I'm Brie Real, and around here, different isn't a flaw, it's a flex. Let's get this podcast started. What is up, everybody? Welcome to episode number four of Ladylike Rejects. We made it to number four. It was touch and go, but golly gee, golly, we got here. I am so excited to present to you one of my all-time favorite humans, only because I created them from my loins. She is a junior in high school, has a passion for animals, and sometimes passion for humans, also, as long as they don't talk to her. She is my daughter. Please welcome Delaney McCarty. Oops. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the podcast, Delaney. Oh, thank you. You're the first gutsy one to come out. We asked. Now, if you are not aware, uh Delaney is a twin. And her twin sister, Izzy, was not coming on this podcast. So she volunteered as tribute. Yeah. Yeah. How's it feel to have a mom that podcasts?

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Um, I honestly thought that Joey Neathan would do it before you. And why? Uh, because they're straight white men and it's what guys do, I guess. What kind of podcast are you listening to? It it uh I guess she doesn't.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

That's her answer for uh she doesn't listen to podcasts. No, I don't listen to podcasts. Oh. It's just through the grapevine, what I've heard. Oh, it's straight white cis males. Uh so Joey Nathan. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

unknown 2:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:08

Gotta get on the animal. Yeah, that's right. Uh, and like I mentioned before, you are have a great passion for animals. And uh do you want to go ahead and talk about what you've been working on recently?

SPEAKER_00 2:19

So I started out with FFA, which got me like obsessed with animals. Um, you I actually credit it to you because um I you told me about it and you were like, you should join. I was like, okay. Um and I got there and accidentally joined FCCLA instead, um, which was a little confusing. Had to explain. Well, what's FCCLA? It's about like a family and business. Where you like, so where do the animals exactly? And they were like, We're doing bracelet bracelet making. And I was like, I don't think this is where I'm supposed to be. But eventually got it. I got into FFA and did some livestock. And what's what's FFA? It's Future Farmers of America. So it's kids that are interested in agriculture, in agricultural issues, the environment, stuff like that. It's um teaching kids the proper way to take care of our world and our like agriculture before they get into adulthood and are doing stuff on their farm, like burning the field or something they're not supposed to be doing.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Okay, that's very cool. And what's the best thing that you have done through FFA? Because this is what year number three. Yeah. Yeah. So you started as a freshman and you're a junior now.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

Yeah. I've done so much stuff through FFA, but I think I just love like I've learned so much because we live in like suburbs like Puala, Bonnie Lake, like there's no farmland at all. And I've just learned to be more confident in myself through it and um to like work with animals, and I found my passion through it.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Very cool. Yeah, uh I have to say, I don't know if you remember, but when you growing up, you always loved uh animals to a point where I'll one never forget when I told you and your sister that you had to cut back on your stuffed animals. Oh, I remember that. And the tears that you shed. I hope that when I die, that you cry as hard as you did for those stuffed animals.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

I didn't want to hurt their feelings.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Stuffed animals, the feelings. Well, we embraced the toy story a little too much.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Uh, but I also remember when you were very young, um, that you were petitioning our family to paint our house red like a barn so that we can get farm animals. So it was a little bit more than just your freshman year that your passion for animals came along. What is the hardest thing about FFA?

SPEAKER_00 5:09

Um, I mean, there's a lot of commitment that you have to do because for at least for livestock, you have to show up every day, you have to put effort in, and um that commitment can get a little difficult with school and classes. You're missing a lot of class because of it. Um, and if you want to do really well, you gotta like put in the hours. It's not like a club where you just show up and then you get like awards or whatever, and you gotta like actually commit.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

So livestock, you didn't mention that before. Um, you are raising what?

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Um, I'm raising a lamb. His name is Bert because when I got him, I named him Lady Lamberty and picked him up and realized he wasn't a girl. Um, but I was set on that name, so I was like, mmm, your nickname's gonna be Bert.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

So So at the fair are you gonna have it as Labor Lambs?

SPEAKER_00 6:07

Lady Lamborghini.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Yeah, very nice.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

Because I stick to the theme.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Yeah, and uh so your first lamb, this is your third lamb.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Your first one was uh my first one was Sir Lambslot. That turned out to be a girl, so I just strike out with gender, I guess. Your second one was uh Lamborghini. Mm-hmm. And then this year was a girl. And then Lady Lambordy.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

Lady Lamborghini, yes. Yeah. So uh the fair is Um It's the 15th to the 17th. 15th to the 17th of April, and um you're gonna be showing your lamb. Um, and what what does that involve?

SPEAKER_00 6:45

So we have two different shows. There's the market, which is where we show off their muscle and how like because they're made to be eaten, which sucks, but it's like a way of life. Um and we sell the lambs uh there, and the judge grades us for how well their back muscles are and how well um they're just overall. Um, and then the second one is showmanship, and that's how well we do, because what we do is um we walk our lamb through the arena with um no halter, just holding their like face, and if they don't have any wool, we have to shave it all off. So if they go, they're gone. Like we just gotta hope for the best. So you they judge you on how well you hold your animal, how well you brace it, which is when you push back on um the lamb's body um to bring their legs back and engage their back muscles, because that's where um that that's where most of the meat is and that's where the like good stuff is. Um and we gotta show off like how well we can handle that animal. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Um my favorite uh part of that whole thing is when people lose control of their lambs because it can get pretty wild. Pretty wild. Those I actually we went and saw Bert and did some pictures, what, two days ago? And uh when Delaney was done working with him, she let go, and that Dagon lamb jumped so high. Yep, uh, I was looking eye to eye with that sucker. So that it's pretty impressive. I have to say though, you know, um, when you were younger, um you all well, even when we were moving and stuff, you'd be like, oh, this is so heavy. And I'd be like, you need to, you know, buck up, kid. And then when you said you wanted to to raise a lamb, I was like, okay, you can't even carry a box, but here we go. And I'll never forget that first time in the farm when you freaking woman beast uh what was it? Sir Lamb's a lot, and you just manhandled that freaking lamb. I was very impressed, and even more so every time we go to the uh farm, you are kicking ass and taking names. She doesn't mess around at all. It's very impressive. It definitely has taught a lot of uh life life lessons for you.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Yeah, I've become way more confident. Like I don't recognize like my old self. Like when I was in middle school in elementary school, I was very quiet. Like I had my what?

SPEAKER_02 9:31

Okay, at school you mean.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Okay. At school I was very quiet, not very like I wasn't very social, but then I joined FFA and I learned like you can I can take up space and I can um be my own self and not at the cost of anybody else's being themselves. Um, but I just love FFA, it's that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 9:57

It's amazing. It makes me very happy that you chose the right path and you found the right path. Um yeah, no, I oh and let's talk about also your raising a lamb. You're also going to be going to state in May for uh ag agriculture sale. Ag sales, sales. Ag sales, yes.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

Um so not only is FFA about like farming plants, animals, but there's also the um tools that you have to make to um like the tractors. You gotta have a welder for that, which is what we're selling that year or this year. Um you have to um sell your plants, you have to sell all these equipment, all these things. Um, and to do that, you need to be good at selling things. So what Ag Sales does is teaches us how to like present to like a um client and how to conduct ourselves and be respectful and like point A to point B, like from this client not knowing anything about our product to teaching them and getting them what the supplies they need. Um and I really like it and it's um it's a lot of fun. I when I first joined, I just wanted to go to state because that's like Disney. Well, it's like the fair or like um it's a really fun place to be. So I just was doing that to get a part like get a part of a team to go. But then I joined and I realized like it's so much fun just like talking with somebody. It's like having a conversation and connecting with someone within like 15 minutes. Like you learn about what they need, about what you can help people and um profit from it as well. And it's it really helped me um uh uh like grow and um start conversations, and I can use it for selling livestock, or maybe in the future if I want to breed lambs or if I want to breed goats, I can use what I learned from ag sales and take it to um my fut like past, use the um stuff I've learned for my future.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Yeah, absolutely. And this year you found out that you enjoy welding while doing it, right? Because you were doing Lincoln welding, correct?

SPEAKER_00 12:38

So every year we get this topic that we um have to or not a topic, but a product that we have to sell, and it's usually from a specific company, and this year it was Lincoln Electrics um and the welding stuff in Lincoln Electrics. Um so luckily enough, we our traptor, Sumner Um FFA, reached out to Central Welding Supply, which is their main um like the pe the people they buy from is Lincoln Welding, and they said, come on down, we'll teach you all about welding. And I had a passion for it.

SPEAKER_02 13:15

It's so much fun, so much fun with it, right? And they uh need female welders so bad. So yeah, yeah, that's so cool. I'm I'm jealous because I've always wanted to try to learn how to weld, but with my luck, I would weld myself to something, probably probably, unfortunately for both of us. Yeah, no, that's so cool. Um, besides working with animals um with FFA, you also have been super active with Tessa's farm, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And Tessa was on episode two, um, and we talked about Lacamas Valley Ranch, and we we had mentioned you in there and how active you have been. What is your favorite thing when you go to the ranch? I know that's that's a huge question.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Yeah, and I get I get asked by Tessa this question all the time, and it's always something new because like I'll go there and we'll do something new every day. I mean, there's like the basic stuff, like cleaning the stalls, feeding the animals, but sometimes we'll be riding horses barebacks, sometimes we'll be chasing a goat down the road because it got out. Um, but it's just new every day, and I love like it's a mix of structure and chaos. And like I get to learn in a controlled environment where like I trust and know the people. So if I mess up, they understand and that will help me grow.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

That's awesome. I enjoy it too, and we're getting up on baby season, which is so exciting with the baby goats. And uh Delaney did sucker me into falling in love with Doc and Cooper, our goats, um, that are frolicking and everything else. Uh, what else are you trying to get dad to let us get?

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Um, some ducks, hopefully, maybe some chickens.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Chickens. Yeah. We did talk about quails. Yes, we did. We did talk about getting some quails. Yeah. Would if we got quails, would you eat more eggs?

SPEAKER_00 15:14

I don't think I'd eat more eggs, but I would bake more. Because I did hear I hear that duck eggs are really good for um baking and stuff. So maybe we can get some gups. Gucks. We'll get some gux. We'll get some gux. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

We have to wait for dad to go on another uh work trip or something. That's because that's the only way that we actually can get his birthday. Yeah, yeah. Get him more animals. I am really proud of myself. Today I went to Tractor Supply and they had a ton of ducks, a ton of chickens, and an adoption thing with sunny sky adoption for dogs, and there were cute puppies that were puppy dog looking at me, and I walked out with no nothing with a heartbeat. Don't ask me how much I spent there, but nothing with a heartbeat. So I I call that as win. Yes. Absolutely. Thanks. Thanks. So, what is your all out goal now? You you've kind of found your passion, right? So, what do you want to do with that passion?

SPEAKER_00 16:20

So I got advice like a few years ago that I thought is very helpful and I really appreciated is when you're looking for a career, you can have like your dream goal. But it's important to cast a wide net because you could land on anything, but as long as it's close to that, like that should be what you're what you want in the future. Um, and above all of it, I really want to work with animals, like it's my passion, it's my dream. Um, so my goal in the future is hopefully to become a veterinarian and um go to college for that. But but since like college is expensive, I have thought about going into welding because that can get me into um they they pay a ton of money. So yeah, they pay a ton. Yeah. And um I want to, if I can't become a vet, I can um skip the debt and just go to animals immediately, and then one day go back to college and um become a vet through that. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

It's a great plan. And I think that it will save me lots of money, and that's what's the most important. Why did we get into the whole goat life?

SPEAKER_00 17:42

So I well, after I went to Nationals from um Indianapolis, because I was also in agrience, which is a whole thing. Got eighth and country eighth in the eh, eighth in the country, which is pretty cool. Um, but I came back and mom was like, Oh, do you want to go to Tessa's ranch? She's got this like foundation, Hope for Wild Hearts. And I was like, huh, that sounds kind of cool. And I got there and we were talking, and I was falling in love with the ranch, and then um they or Tessa mentioned 4-H, and one thing led to another, and I'm going to the first meeting, and I'm hanging out with these random kids, and it's just like so much fun. And yeah, I um I got to rent goats for a little bit. Um, their names were Annie and Firecracker, the sweetest goats. They're super sweet. Um, but I fell in love with that, and then one day Doc and Cooper were born, and we were there because it was like a photo shoot with the animals and stuff, and the photographer walks back to go look at the baby goats or the um mama goats who haven't had any babies, and there's two babies or three babies. Yeah, three babies on the ground.

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Yeah, they were so cute, and they are obsessed with Delaney, so that it's when the animals are obsessed with them. So they're they're so cool. They are. And and the nice thing about 4H compared to FFA, which it is important to understand that the animals, you know, the the circle of life and how they have to go for meat, these the goats do not go for meat. We keep them.

SPEAKER_00 19:31

Pretty nice. So, um my category sort of is um pack goats. So in like the mountains or when people are hiking, they can't really carry all their stuff with them. So what they do is they take goats and they throw a backpack on them that's specially designed for them, and they take them through the trails and stuff like that. And it's really nice, um, and they're super helpful, but when you're showing it, you can't really like create a hiking trail in like what like a normal arena. Yeah. Yeah. So what they do is they make this little obstacle course that you just walk around and they put up um like the blowy guys at car or the car sales areas and stuff like that. And it freaks them out.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

They they don't like it, but yeah, goats are goats are terrified of uh a lot of things. Yes. Um, people, things, things stuff blowing in the wind. The small like a yeah, a wrapper.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Mm-hmm. But you gotta det desensitize them and they'll eventually get used to it. And they're terrified of water. Yes, they are. They don't like it to get wet. So both goats and sheep uh cannot swim. Their bodies aren't made for it. Um, so it's like a natural instinct for them that like if they try to swim, they'll die. So they've learned that s water is scary unless it like unless you're drinking out of a bucket. So yeah. So um they don't like swimming, they don't like water, and that's one of the uh criteria that you had to bring them through water without them uh freaking out, and they had to have four feet in the water.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Yep. Kind of everybody thinks that goats eat everything. Is that actually true?

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Um, no, they are ruminant animals, which means they'll graze um around, but they can't eat everything because they were originally um not domesticated, but the goats eat like trees and stuff. They used to be super tall, and then we domesticated them to be super little. Um so they'll eat trees, they'll eat brush, stuff like that. But there are you can't eat them, can't give them like soda cans, can't give them wrappers, can't get they're not like they can't eat everything. They're not people, they're not pigs. Um, and there are some things that You can't uh like plants, um, rhododendron is their favorite treat, but if they get into it, they'll it'll kill them instantly.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

It's not a pretty show. Yeah, yeah. Very interesting. Look at all the things that everybody's learning about goats. I bet you everybody's gonna want a goat after we're done listing. Well, if you're looking for a goat, the babies are gonna be born. Lacamas Valley Ranch. That's right. Baby season. And uh I would like to mention too, and I'll keep a little link below, that um Tessa is getting more and more closer to her uh Patreon to go live for memberships. I know like the top membership will get you access into the farm.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

And um she even said that because it's baby season, you know, she can't have a whole lot of people on the farm, but um with the membership you will be uh able to have that opportunity to snuggle with little baby goats, little kids, you can love them and cuddle them and just squish them.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

If you wanted to. Yeah, I mean, it's just that's an opportunity for sure. They cute goats, yeah. So um, Delaney, foster care. What did you think? What do you think about foster care since you um have been a foster sibling?

SPEAKER_00 23:18

I I love it, honestly, because I mean it is sad when like my newest sister has to go to her uh family and stuff like that. But it it's given me a new look on like families, and like I personally now think that bloodlines aren't really that important. I know that's like uh important for some people and it's like well animals, it's important. Animals are important, but they still adopt uh kids sometimes they'll they'll take in orphans, but um yeah, I I think that it's like they're my brothers, like Joe or not Joey and Ethan. Joey and Ethan are your brothers, yeah. They are my brothers, but Carlos and Kai and Treviante and Craven and all the kids that we've taken in, they're my siblings. Like, I don't see any difference between them and Joey and Ethan or Izzy, like they're just my family.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

Yeah. Would you do it again if we had the opportunity? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

I might do in the future, honestly. I mean, you get to skip like the medical bills and like pregnancy and all that stuff, and you just get a brother or you get a kid, and that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

What's the hardest thing you think with foster care that we've had to endure?

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Um, or that you probably probably the like older kids go through a lot. Like they they'll remember it, they get affected by it. So seeing a kid like with matted hair or like just not like they're coming from a bad place, it's really hard. Yeah. And sometimes when they're going back to somewhere that's not great, it it doesn't feel great. It's not, yeah, it's always frustrated to me.

SPEAKER_02 25:26

Yeah, I could see that. What is probably the greatest thing that you can remember for foster care?

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Um I mean, like Craven got to go to his mom. Like, he Brandy is such an amazing like mother, and she's such an amazing friend, and like we would never have met her. We would have never met her if we didn't get Craven. Yeah. And that's like an amazing family tie that we have a bigger family because he be came into our world, and I think that's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Yeah, no, I completely agree. And Brandy is on episode one, so if you haven't watched or listened to episode one, I highly encourage you to do that because Brandy is a magical human. She also isn't a hu an amazing magical artist, and I'm just gonna see if I can make this go. Oh god, it's on Delaney. Oh okay, well, let's see. Uh you son of a biscuit eater. Go up camera. Well, I was trying to be cool, guys.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Well, you can kind of see.

SPEAKER_02 26:33

But the artwork behind me, yes, but behind us over here, is Brandy's amazing art. And she, um oh, now it's really stuck on you. It won't even come off. Come off. Oh uh. Oh no. What did I do?

SPEAKER_00 26:49

All good things, all good things. Oh, these are really cool. Yeah. How much are they? I might get one for myself.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

Well, those, if you go to brandylepointart.com, you can purchase one of these pieces and they can go home with you. And uh there's even more that is on there. So we like to support our brandy. What how do you feel about your mom doing comedy? I think it's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Um, yeah, like I'll be hanging out with my friends or something, or uh someone that doesn't know me very well, and I'll say, Yeah, my mom's in comedy, and they'll go, Oh my gosh, what? They always like they're always so entranced by it, and they always have like all these questions, and I love bragging about you. Oh, thanks.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

Now, do you think um uh were you kind of nervous when I first started doing it?

SPEAKER_00 27:41

Um, well, I wouldn't say nervous like you couldn't do it. I just I've never seen someone who started who started out in comedy, so I wasn't sure what it's like or how hard it is. I do hear about like the people that they're um just booed off the stage or something, and I was like, I don't really want my mom to be booed, but yeah, because you were the one that was like, Mom, I just want you to know that when you start comedy, I have heard where there's very famous comedians that they their very first time was terrible and nobody laughed.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

So it's okay if nobody laughs at you.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

I was just trying to support you, make sure your feelings weren't heard.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

It's fine, it's fine. I'm gonna stop this for a second. Okay. Uh so this is uh the other part of the show that isn't my favorite, and um Joey doesn't like it when I say, I don't know what I used to say. This is my favorite part. I don't know. He thought it was a induendo, but it was not. This is my favorite part of the story. Show you know what it is. Uh, this is where if you never get the chance to say, and I hope that I have ingrained in you kids that life is a gift and that you never know when it's gonna change. And so this is my chance to be able to tell you things that I uh may not have ever told you, but I always say I love you. Yeah, I and you know I love you. Yeah, yeah. Okay, just making sure. Okay, did you ever question that? Yeah, but I am absolutely so unbelievably proud of you. I love you with all of my heart, and I am so excited to see what life brings to you, and um, you've been a pretty amazing gift. And I remember when I was pregnant with your brother, and there was this cute little girl that had her hair all done up, and she was so cute, and I was like, I don't know how to do hair. I prayed that I would never get a little girl because I thought for sure that I would be a terrible mom uh for a little girl, and um then God laughed and gave me you and your sister. And um, even though I could never French braid your hair, uh I am so proud of how you and your sister have turned out. I love you. Um yeah, you're pretty much badasses in my eyes. So thank you for being my daughter.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Thank you. Okay, okay, it's fine.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

We're tough. Okay. Yeah. We're tough. Everything strong, tough. So tough. Okay. All right. And now is the light side of the show. We are in reject by fire. I am gonna read you two options, and you have to decide between which one you want to reject, and it will go to the fire. Do you understand?

SPEAKER_00 30:46

I I think I do.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Okay, so are you ready?

SPEAKER_00 30:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

Okay, now again, nobody has gone on here to give me ideas of this versus that, so we're gonna keep on keeping on here. So would you rather give up early mornings or late nights?

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Ooh, probably early mornings. I I stay up all night. Like I I shouldn't be telling you that, but uh coffee first or human interaction first? I'm not much of a coffee person. I think I take from you I'm more of a Red Bull person. Um I don't know if that's like caffeine first or yeah, I'll say caffeine.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

Living humor human interaction. Yeah. Uh are you more of a planner or chaos?

SPEAKER_00 31:32

Probably chaos. Because I forget to plan. I say I'm gonna do it, but I never do. So you're giving up chaos. Oh, wait, no, okay. I'm so I'm giving up planning. Okay. Yeah, there we go. Clean as you go or panic clean? Panic clean, yeah. I'll get like my entire room clean in like five minutes if I know someone's gonna go over. That's right. Podcast or music? I think I answered this one boy before. I'd get rid of podcast because like music is just, I mean, I'm in choir.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

I like choir, you like your reply immediately or think about it for three days.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

I think I'd like to get rid of the three days, but that's what I probably do more. Grocery pickup or wander the aisles? I think wander the aisles, because then you can pick up like the stuff that you like want to snack on or something like that, like a Red Bull or two.

SPEAKER_02 32:25

So you would give up wandering the aisles?

SPEAKER_00 32:27

Give up wandering the aisles. I gotta think about this.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

Uh grocery pickup. Oh gosh, I did that one. Shoes or barefoot at home.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Um, I feel like you would kill me if I wore shoes in the house. So probably get rid of the shoes.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

And uh alone time or background noise. Ooh, that depends on what I do.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

I think I get rid of background noise. Because depending on what it is, I can't. It's annoying. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

All right. Well, that concludes Reject by Fire. The reject of the week. This part of the show is where we acknowledge a true ladylike reject, a woman who's done things her own way, even when it doesn't fit the mold. This week's reject of the week was kind of a tough one. Um, but uh at the end of the day, Delaney and I kind of figured out which would be the greatest option. So we would like to acknowledge Emily Cabello. She um was actually recently nominated for the Benefit Night for Sumner High School that is on March 23rd.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Is that correct? Uh March 26th is Benefit Night, and then Bennett at the dinner is the 27th.

SPEAKER_02 34:01

Uh 20th. That was pushed back. Oh, my bad. Yes. Okay. So what she said.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

They scheduled it. Is that again? Uh it's the 26th. The 26th. They scheduled it during a uh child or like an elementary school concert, so they had to push back. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Okay, so it's Emily Cabello, who uh or Cabello, I might, I'm not sure if I'm saying it right, who was nominated by nominated by four staff members at Sumner High School. This past fall, Emily was diagnosed with brain tumor and had it surgically removed just this past December. Pathology results came back positive for cancer. Emily begins chemotherapy next month and faces significant associated medical costs. Emily Emily currently works as a veterinary clinic in Ording and has had a to miss quite a bit of work due to her diagnosis and treatment. This year's Benefit Night is intended to help support her and her medical expenses associated with this battle for her life. So, Ladylike Rejects would like to uh send $50 in support of Emily. And if you would like to help benefit Emily for Benefit Night, I will have a link below somewhere in this land of things that you can donate to. Um and that comes to the end of our episode. I had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun. You did great. Oh, thank you. Thanks for stepping up. Maybe we can talk Izzy into coming and doing hers because she is um on the Charlie Brown. Wait, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown. Okay, Charlie and the Chocolate. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory production for Sumner High School, where she is playing Grandpa George.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

Ooh, nice. Yes, yes. They're getting like a bunk bed and they pack. I don't know how they're gonna do that, but that's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

That's gonna be fun. And so she's really big into doing that kind of stuff. Hopefully, we can talk her into coming so it can promote the show. And um, good luck at fair. Thank you. If you would like to support Delaney and buy her lamb, or just come by and say hello, she will be at the spring fair along with all of her friends. So please stop by and say hello and pet Bert before he goes off to slaughter. Whoa. Okay, too soon. She's right. Too soon. Um, and let's see, what else? I don't think there's anything else that we have that's again. Uh, if you want to purchase some of these, this beautiful artwork back here, brandylepointart.com, which we will put also at the bottom of our little thing. And um, yeah. Oh, and you also have a plant sale coming up, right? Um, yes, I do. I don't know the specific dates of those right now. The 31st of April through the 2nd of May.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

So we're going to um state this year. So we to cut back on cost because it's kind of expensive. Um we sell plants that um the plant classes grow throughout the year. So yeah, we all volunteer and it's it's really cool.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

Yeah, and who doesn't love plants? I know, right? So and Izzy's also selling plants there too because she's also getting in slowly indoctrinating herself into um loving FFA. And uh a lot of work, but I did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been three years. I think by the fourth year, final year, she'll really get into it. Yep. Um, so that concludes our episode of Ladylike Rejects. We will see you next week where I will have another fun guest. And um, but until then, stay real, stay rejected. See you next time.