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hey weirdos my name happens to be Ash and I'm Elena and this is [Music] morbid hey is yeah that's actually
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listener Tales um which is still under the morbid branch and it's brought to you by you for you from you and all
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about [Applause] you there's my garage featuring special guest the garage hey she's so hot right now come
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on down open up my there it opened I lost it you know what's fun about these listener Tales today they're
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from the 90s I picked up what you were putting down there I knew you did were you gonna
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do that I was that's why I was waiting I was like I didn't even see you like doing the Bop little thing but I was
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like was the '90s yeah I also just pisant toed in here and it smells so good it does we needed a cleanse in this
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not like a cleanse of our bodies but like a cleanse of our souls yeah it's been a crazy ass day what a day yeah
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it's been a Dizzle it's it's been a Dizz information overload truly but you know
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we cleansed yeah and it's 2024 and we're in a place of move on from all that [ __ ]
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we're in a place of just be cool don't all like uncool that's just our Vibe now it's also the countess's vibe and if you
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don't get that then I don't even know what you've been doing for the last six years the Countess the Countess we're
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going to see her I can't wait but you know what what let's talk some listener Tales from the '90s and I think we
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should start with one that I'm a little excited about cuz it looks horrifying oh
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um it's called the reason I hate camping I'm scared cuz I also don't like camping same so I'm very excited to hear
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this one I also love any kind of like summer camp horror like throw me in a summer camp yeah it's giving Friday the
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13th yeah I'm always for it m uh so this one says says hello beautiful spooky besties I'm sending this listener tale
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for the second time because the first time honestly sucked so I rewrote it and hope it's good enough this time it was
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great the first time I bet it was if so we're Our Own Worst critics you know if so I will be listening to the episode on
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my way to the store to get my new pants because I will have for sure [ __ ] well get in the car baby get some nice
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pants pentalon more of it is by far my favorite podcast and you said favorite in like the British way the OU and I
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love that and I have listened to every damn episode aside from catching up on listener Tales I explain that in my
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double space 14 P font puaa for your reading pleasure oh I'd tell you girls to cut out any parts you think suck but
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I know you [ __ ] won't so [ __ ] it read the whole damn thing my dudes we will I
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have attached a few photos of me and my sister I'm the younger one significantly
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shorter one who's also in the story we are younger in these photos than in the story as as it's all we have left after
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a house fire took everything from us when I was nine oh my God I'm so sad I'm so sorry but this picture is beautiful
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it is as well as a photo of us now I also attached a photo of my pup oh hell yeah my pup Kyle I love that come on
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Kyle Kyle and my cat named Goose oh my God I love the name Goose for any animal that is not a goose instead that is
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absolutely not a goose I love it sorry if all the quality sucks I'm sending this from my cell phone because my
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teenage son has kidnapped my laptop love Aaron no everything looks great to me looks phenomenal to me your cat is so
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beautiful I want a gray cat so badly but then I would have four cats and telling
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people that I have three cats is already enough looks for me I love your animals
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I love your you and your sister are so cute I love you and your sister I love Kyle and I love
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Goose so hello weirdo fellow weirdos excuse me please excuse the inevitable spelling and grammar mistakes as I'm
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writing this on a tiny little cell phone screen o ouch my name is Aaron and my sister's name is Cassandra we are both
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part of this spooky tale and you're welcome to use our real name should this be creepy enough to use for listener
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Tales this is a little long but worth it I promise it's actually not even long it's pretty damn short at least I think
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it is I I haven't finished writing it yet so [ __ ] it we'll see how long it is at the
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end you went back and forth to so many different places that Journey you just took yourself on was really fun you know
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you were like no actually it's [ __ ] medium how about that you were like you know what [ __ ] it it's as long as it is
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okay and it's not even that long yet cuz I haven't finished it yay I guess I did
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did space it far apart so it's easier to read I got you girls I'm no writer so sorry if this sucks actually I'm not
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[ __ ] it good for you don't apologize to anyone yeah 2024 I'm no amazing writer
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like you Elena oh thank you untrue you are the butcher in the ren was incredibly amazing and I can't wait for
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book two oh my goodness just you wait thank you so much it's heating up in these parts just you wait I hope you
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both realize what a light you bring to such terrible and spooky stories and what an amazing job you do bringing
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humor to your listeners and I love how much you speak on the family of victims and do what you can when you can to help
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wow that was really nice thank you I've been here since the panda sandwich that's probably the best one
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that I've heard the panda sandwich of 2020 and although I refuse to listen to The Listener Tales I've recently started
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binging them after I ran out of episodes to listen to and have come to truly enjoy them gotcha dare I say they are my
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favorite now I'm telling you I'm telling you the the girlies who get it get it and it's like whenever somebody's like I
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the amount of times we have read in a listener tale I used to avoid these like the plague and now they are my favorite
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give them a chance that's the thing you guys are the scariest and the funniest y
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so it's like I don't know why you guys don't want to listen to you I don't know because you guys rule so it's like these
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rule tals love scary and you should love them yeah glad that you do now I'm glad
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everybody's coming around here uh so it says I have a certificate in criminal psychology hell yeah
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and I'm fascinated by what makes these terrible [ __ ] waffles tick I liked that
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whole sentence what makes them do what they do I'm also an advocate for the legalization and monitoring of sex
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workings in CA in Canada in order to protect and help these women stuck in hard times and hard places in life
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you're lovely you are I spent half my life in BC and with the highway of Tears so close I feel like I we could do more
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to protect all these women in our country especially those who society and the police see as less important agreed
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you are bad ass and I wholeheartedly agree a little about me and my sister she goes by a cat we grew up in Ontario
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Canada and we're full-blown latchkey kids what whatever our parents my mom worked three jobs and dad was an abusive
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alcohol alcoholic I'm sorry who luckily was only part of my life for the first 10 years before my badass mom packed us
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up in the middle of the night and yeed us the [ __ ] away from him hell yeah Mama
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good for her it was a different time in the '90s you two babes know so we were very often and left unsupervised in my
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mom's defense I the baby of the family had three older siblings and my oldest sibling is 8 years older than me it was
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her understanding we all took care of each other because we led her to believe this but me and the cat often were left
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to do whatever the [ __ ] we wanted most of the time so anyways here my little story I know it isn't as crazy as a lot
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of the other stories you tell so maybe this one can be a bit of a pallet cleanser between some truly awful Tales
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nope we're starting off with it okay so here we go let's get in the way back machine all the way back to
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1999 even though it still feels like the '90s was just a few short years ago it really does things were different in the
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9s me and my family lived in a house in Kitchener Ontario Canada that was at the
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end of a double culdesac it looked like boobs from an aerial V Bes behind the houses was a large green belt I'm not
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sure what it that it's if it's called the same thing in the States but essentially it's a plot of protected
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land that can't be built on conservation land is what we call it that's what we call it yeah large field and at the back
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of the field on the other side of the green belt from my home there was a small area of trees with a tiny Creek
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that ran through it 99% of my time outside of school was spent here day in and day out building forts from sticks
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and mud with my sister and a few other neighborhood kids a the '90s so much fun a lot of the older kids in the area Ed
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this place to smoke and drink and Destroy every gosh darn Stick Fort we build some of these forts took weeks to
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build I wish I had photos they sound awesome we would go inside to eat sleep and that's about it damn damn do I miss
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the '90s same the summer before I turned eight and Cat turned 12 our birthdays are in September Virgo baby so innocent
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and dumb we decided it would be a [ __ ] Splendid idea to grab my parents' tiny Twan tent and Pitch it in the fields
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right up against the woods at the back of the green belt why good [ __ ] question kids be dumb yo our house was
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within ey shot so our mom let us do it because again '90s me and my sister along with two of our friends who were
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close to our age crammed ourselves into this tent made for two with snacks and flashlights and that's about it so
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prepared we did bring a small diary lock to lock the zipper because of course that will keep us safe and a gosh Dam I
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love how they a diary lock if anybody remembers those tiny tiny little locks and they were like this will stop them
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and you could also probably just like break it open with your sheer force you could literally just RI that open we
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told ghost stories ate junk and had no plans on sleeping that night here's where it gets [ __ ] and probably why to
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this day I hate I [ __ ] hate camping your girl's down with a camper so she's got four walls and locks but even that
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is pushing it yep funny thing is I Married an avid Outdoorsman and go abs and he absolutely loves camping but
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luckily our four-year-old daughter didn't fall far from the tree and is always down to go pamp oo I call it
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glamping this was before everyone aged six and up had a [ __ ] cell phone so we heard some movement outside our tent
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we were freaked we tried to stay quiet and pretend we were asleep bright ideal little dumb asses I didn't say that you
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did well imagine like you little [ __ ] idiots good idea you little [ __ ] idiots well then we started to hear
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ripping sounds think Nails on a chalkboard because that's what it sounded like in our terrorized State
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nobody wanted to move to see what was going on so I the youngest in the group peaked my sweet little head out of the
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blankets to see what was happening whoever this Maniac was because we never found out slipped a huge butcher knife
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Up Inside the Rain cover of the tent so we could see what he was using to terrorize a few little babies what the
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[ __ ] oh my God then he's you're telling me this isn't as [ __ ] up as some of our other Tales cly it certainly is then
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he started vigorously shaking the tent pulling the poles out of the ground and allowing the tent to drape over our tiny
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little bodies when I say we were freaked I can't even explain how scary this was
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the man I'm guessing man because the boy voice started whispering no here kitty kitty kitty no and poking us with the
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huge knife not hard enough to hurt just hard enough for us to feel it what the [ __ ] we stayed silent aside from our
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tiny whis whimpers that we just couldn't hold in this went on for a good 10 to 15
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minutes then it stopped it just stopped we laid there for what felt like eternity just to be sure the man was
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gone my sister slowly unzipped the tent and we all flew out of there like bats out of hell someone sure little fire
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under our asses and bolted back to the culdesac and to our respective houses Not Looking Back even once my God
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luckily our front door was unlocked '90s and me and my friend my sister ran to bed the same bed because [ __ ] no we were
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not sleeping alone after that no we never told anybody about this what we were afraid we wouldn't be able to camp
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out again our parents knew the you want to go camping again and she said but like what the [ __ ] kid you weren't going
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to camp out again after that anyway that's what I'm saying it very well could have been one of the neighborhood
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boys [ __ ] with us but none of the boys ever hinted towards their involvement or even mentioned it and
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also if that was one of the neighborhood boys [ __ ] with you they had psychological problems yeah they've been
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arrested for murder hop most of the time when the boys [ __ ] with us they were more than happy to brag about it now
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that I'm a grown adult with my own two kids I some sometimes wonder how we all survived growing up in the '90s I could
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never allow my young kids to camp out alone in a field no matter how close to our house it was hell I don't even like
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when they ask to camp out in the living room because it's further than my bedroom that from my bedroom than their
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bedrooms are and closer to the front door than my bedroom I feel you so hard on that yeah we had a lot of crazy times
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in this house like the time my school went on lockdown due to a man with a gun outside the school screaming and yelling
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telling a teacher in the school to come the [ __ ] out and meet their fate all because his kid was suspended for
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bullying apple tree you know and the school failed to call my mom and tell her what was going on so when she got
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home at 600 p.m. and no kids had been home yet she was freaking out oh my God your poor mom or the time me and cat ran
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away took a fairy to a little island near our home and spent the day there then getting home my dad was on the
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phone with the police reporting us missing '90s though they probably would have told him to wait 24 hours anyway I
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love that you all just went on the ferry together and we're like let's go to a little Island like see you later and
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telling my drunk ass Dad we followed a man onto the fery who we thought was him he was drunk he believed us Incredible
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or the time my oldest sister or the time my oldest sister did my makeup and hair
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and made me wear her clothing because she wanted to go to the fire hall a teen hangout spot where there was dancing and
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live music but you had to be 13 and I was only eight the [ __ ] it's just me little 8-year-old
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girlly at the fire hall fire hall I what did you do this weekend I would to the fire hall and the idiot kids there paid
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me money to say bad words here's $5 say [ __ ] say [ __ ] 10 bucks say [ __ ] I walked home alone because they
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that place is not my vibe of course not at 8 years old damn we were dumbass kids
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hope you need some good cash though anyway that's all keep it weird but not so weird that you decide to camp in the
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middle of field in the middle of the city with no protection and no ability to defend yourself against a creepy man
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in the dark with a knife love you [ __ ] XOXO eron love you too Aron I'm glad you made it I love you Aon forever
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very glad Aaron is still here with us everybody because they paid me to say that win why didn't you and your friends
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ever give me money to say [ __ ] what you're a bad sister I'm a bad sister I never brought you to the fire hall I
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know what the hell sorry never you never brought me anywhere Aon that was I don't
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know why you thought that that tail was going to be a paler I mean it was it was
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hilarious but also terrifying deeply deeply terrifying that was really funny though wow all right my next one is
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listener Tale the time the Lord and Savior broke into my house oh I got to hear this one hi my fellow weirdos I did
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all the good stuff in my double spaced 14o puaa so just read that it's a crazy listener tale for sure I also included
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the newspaper article from the story and a photo of me and my quotquot quote mom
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friends who just can't get enough of y'all also a photo of my husband and I and the kiddos and the pup I really want
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you to understand my vibe I suppose happy reading look you Vibe I love your Vibe your fourth of July pick is great
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what I'm assuming is Halloween is absolutely iconic oh my God the kids are so cute the puppy is incredible look at
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him just standing on his back feet like that he looks like there is a Victorian child locked in
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it I love that that does happen that for your puppy I love that for us I want to
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know your puppy's name but the the name tag is blurry but the way that they're standing is Iconic yeah it's pretty
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amazing and honestly I'm never going to get past this Halloween costume it's everything right in the world you and
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your husband by the way cuz you guys can't see this her husband and her were um the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella for
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Halloween and he was Cinderella it's pretty amazing obsess amazing love that a lot okay
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let's see we have hi my weirdo dudes Q the gushy I love you man stuff and that we should
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all totally be best friend stuff as you do love you guys in all capacities and with my within my group of mom friends
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drinking wine and saying oh [ __ ] Have you listened to the new episode of morbid yet is pretty much the highlight
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of our Suburban lives that's so cool I love that you can use my name and all names Associated within this tale
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because it happened a million years ago in 1993 I love 1900 I love it when I was
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eight wow um also by the way while we were reading that last one cuz that was 1999 that was 25 years ago yeah I hate
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that yeah I Googled it cuz I can't do mental math I also have to say I was also eight in 1993 hey that's cool so
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what's up girl I just want to say um I wasn't alive so let's all move past that real
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quick but I was on my way few years later you were not I was a star in the sky maybe PS
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psaps and perap I think I was going to say p eventually you were and perhaps I think they youed it thank you all right
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I also included the newspaper article from when this happened it is it is on the front page in my small town this was
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big news also included our a few photos at double space ptaa and the article since it serves as proof that this
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batchet story I'm about to tell you actually happened and it wasn't just a figment of my overactive 8-year-old
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imagination my name is Dany with an i and my father is Danny with a Y just to make things
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confusing I think it's iconic bit of a story I won't apologize for the length of this all because I know you will not
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accept it anyway let not no we won't I grew up in Boulder Creek California not Colorado like everybody usually assumes
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I would have I said Creek there is a creek attached to it not just Boulder it's in the Santa Cruz mountains or
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Santa Carla if you get nasty I said if you get nasty if you get nasty it's just if you're nasty are you going to get
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nasty h no I grew up a couple miles away from Big Bas in State Park which is home
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to some of the old oldest redwood trees on Earth it's beyond beautiful my family
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Homestead consisted of 11 and2 acres of forest on a hill with two houses on the property which my family owned one and
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my parents best friends own the otheres love this it was beautiful and Incredibly private we technically had
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neighbors but they were literally few and far between it was a long uh hoof up and up or down the mountain to go to a
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neighbor's house as Serene as all of this was it's also a wonderful area to be getting away with some [ __ ] and there
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were a handful of drugs shacks and meth labs up in our mountains sometimes we would play the game firework or meth lab
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explosion oh that old game I know I played that too no I actually haven't our house in the forest was an A-frame
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house I love those with a Gable pitched roof that had all glass windows in the front that surrounded our front door and
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20 foot ceilings D you're speaking my language it was built by an artist in 1979 and it was my hippie parents Dream
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Home it sounds G I hope it's still in your fan because that sounds iconic I everything about you is just iconic and
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I can't stop Danny with an i Danny with an i and Danny with a Y so hold on to your butts now guys I'm holding in the
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wee hours of the night on Thursday December 16th 1993 my little 8-year-old self lay asleep on the couch in the
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living room first mistake true looking out into the forest with all the windows I had been hom sick with the flu all
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week so the couch was where I had been posted up all of a sudden I was woken up to a tap tap tap on the glass and
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looking at me through the windows Bast in the light from the neon porch light was the most terrifying mountain man I
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had ever seen oh God long hair beard and old army fatigue jacket he Taps on the window again and we lock in a gaze he
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sees me and I see him he has the biggest blackest eyes I've seen to date oh then
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he waves as if he knows me and turns the handle on my front door it's unlocked because of course it is nice parents
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I didn't say that you did and he lets himself inside oh my God I'm so upset right now standing on the super70s
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hippie tile of our foyer is this man and I am paralyzed oh my God no he turns to me
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and outstretched his arms and says Don't Be Afraid child I am Jesus you must follow me I promise you he's not no he's
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definitely not I know I know this that's so scary I yelled for my dad as loud as
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I could which was only like a quivering whisper my dad Danny and my mom L hear me and came running down the stairs with
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our doation or as your youngest likes to say doation how cute is that isn't that
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so cute Max and t-shirts and zero pants on either on by either of them those are
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some parents right there hell yeah everyone in my house sleeps naked except for me and I still can't do and still to
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this day I can't like what if somebody walks in your house and saying they are Jesus I digress so my dad says who the
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[ __ ] are you and what do you want the man then informs him that he is in fact Jesus the follower and that we must
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follow him this is really scary this is the most upsetting thing ever my dad grabs a broom that's leaning against the
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wall in the hallway got do what you got to do and with Max grinning and burying his teeth at this mountain maniac my dad
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shoves the broom handle into the man's gut and tells him follow his ass back up the
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road I think it's important to remind you all that my father has no pants on full-blown Donald Duck in it fullblown
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Donald Duck in it just being like follow his ass up up the road this is amazing I have this memory
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for forever and now you will all have it too thank you so much for that gift I'm
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happy that's that's a good one Denny we didn't earn that gift I appreciate it though the way you just bestowed it upon
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us happy 2024 be be cool and and you're doing that yeah you are cool my sister now
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emerges from her room she was 21 but was still living at home at the time she's wrapped up in a sheet cuz she too sleeps
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naked and just screams get the [ __ ] out she has little to no idea that she was
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speaking to Jesus at the time so your family is so reckless and I love it so much just talking to Jesus like
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she comes out naked with a she like get the [ __ ] out like no one's fearing this they're
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just like so this dude listened to the broom man my sister and yeated himself out of
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my house as super pissed off Jesus my dad heard him ranting and raving all the way up the hill as he stood outside at
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2: a.m. with no pants on proudly defending his family I truly love my hippie dad and always will I always will
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as well so now what we call the cops and wait the near police police station is something like 10 miles away it's a long
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wait while we're waiting for the cops Jesus decides to take himself on a little adventure to our neighbor's house
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over the ridge it's probably about a 10-minute walk for any sane person but I don't really know how long it took for
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Jesus their house is locked properly like normal people so he breaks into their home and begins to ransack it he's
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pissed off and breaking and smashing everything in their home my neighbors that's so scary my neighbors are
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terrified at the noise and lock themselves in their rooms and scramble to get their gun it's the woods
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everybody has guns makes sense while they're locked in their bedroom he finds their car keys and Jesus Take the Wheel
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he steals their little blue Hond to CRX D just said Jesus Jesus Take the Wheel you're hilarious D Love D meanwhile the
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police arrive at our home they're taking our statements when they get the call about my neighbor's house and realize
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how close it is they call for backup and say they'll be back to finish our statement as soon as they check out
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what's going on across the ridge the officer drives over to their place he arrived so quickly that my neighbors
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thought it was still Jesus and they fired their gun oh my God in the air in the air out their bedroom window to try
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to scare whatever burglar man off of their property everyone was was okay but like [ __ ] chaos right right the cops
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announced themselves and had to calm down our neighbor who was apologizing profusely to the police as he told my
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dad about the whole thing the next day can you even imagine shooting at the cops and living to tell the tale I can't
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not many people can me either this [ __ ] was bananas I remember hearing the gunshots and thinking oh my God they
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killed the cops that wasn't the case but I have full-blown anxiety now as an adult and this may just be the night the
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night the seeds of my anxiety were planted you know what I'm going to go with you yes yes it was meanwhile
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where's Jesus he's taking the nice 5 mile drive down to Boulder Creek this is amazing to me because this guy was high
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as [ __ ] so high his pupils were the size of nickels that's why his eyes were the
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blackest you've seen today yeah that was his pupils the drive from my house to Boulder Creek is a narrow two-lane windy
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road and I'm shocked that he didn't end up driving into anything or anyone when he did make it to Boulder Creek he
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stopped the car in the middle of the two lanes down uh in sorry when he he Jes Jesus Christ when he did make it to that
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Jesus Christ that me not you and the star of the story when he did make it to Boulder
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Creek he stopped the car in the middle of the two lanes downtown strip he then decided it would be a good idea to pop
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into Joe's Bar for a beer in a game of absolutely Jesus can do as Jesus pleases he was spreading the word Joe's was not
00:26:18
open but the owner and bartender Virgil and the owner Karen were still inside closing up for the night Virgil and
00:26:23
Karen this is just right when the bartender tells him that they're closed behind the glass at the front door quote
00:26:29
unquote Jesus gets pissed he walks across the street uh into a restaurant at the time called the old basham's
00:26:36
house that had tons of antiques and decorations on the wall and a plethora of antique guns he then steals an
00:26:43
antique machine gun off the wall and he now gets back into my neighbor's wow I just got super back into my neighbors
00:26:51
that was wild I don't know what happened there back into my neighbors I don't know what kind of soul that was Honda
00:26:58
CRX gets into position and drives it through the glass front of Joe's Bar oh the only thing that stopped him from
00:27:06
going all the way through the back was the pool table he drove the 75 ft length of out of the bar he gets out dusts
00:27:13
himself off points the gun at the bartender who was ducking with the owner behind the bar and Demands a beer and
00:27:20
also a game of pool Oh my he throws an actual fit throwing glasses from the bar when they again tell him no which like
00:27:27
honestly if you're ever in this situation just give the [ __ ] man and be like go play po I'm actually leaving
00:27:33
for the night he says he's a millionaire and can pay for the damage right so Virgil being the sweetest
00:27:41
bartender ever he was also a family friend who has since passed RP Virgil RP he poured him a beer and he let him sit
00:27:47
and drink it honestly the safest thing to do in that situation for Virgil so now all the police backup has arrived at
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my house and the neighbor's house when all their radios go off all at once incident in downtown Boulder Creek the
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whole side of our Mountain was lit up in red and blue lights as all but one officer left to go to this new incident
00:28:06
as the last officer is talking to my father on the front porch my mom sister and I are all huddled on the couch with
00:28:11
the most what the actual [ __ ] looks on our faces I've ever seen we don't see much action on our quiet mountain and
00:28:19
this was a lot for anywhere this was a lot yeah my dad comes in after what seems
00:28:24
like my dad comes in after what seems like ever he has pants on now oh okay that's what made me laugh and he says he
00:28:31
has to go with this officer to possibly identify the person that they have in custody in downtown Boulder Creek my dad
00:28:37
gets there with the officer takes one look and was like yep that's Jesus that's him it turns out Jesus wandered
00:28:43
down from a secret meth lab in the woods to our house after a drug dealer and him
00:28:47
had gotten into a big fight man this just keeps on raveling you're also so lucky to be alive holy [ __ ] absolutely
00:28:53
like everybody in the sit everybody is we were just the first porch light he saw he was arrested and held on 10K bail
00:28:59
and the daylight broke I remember that all of us were just shooketh Karen and the own Karen the owner of Joe's was set
00:29:05
to have their annual Christmas spaghetti feed that Friday at the bar which she still had because the whole Community
00:29:11
came together to help clean up the damage the families that were in need that she adopted still got their gifts
00:29:17
that year too a bright spot in the story I did however get to enjoy my 15 minutes
00:29:22
of fame at school when I recovered from the flu because I had the tale that everyone wanted to hear oh yeah you did
00:29:27
Joe's Bar has since rebuilt and I've enjoyed a cocktail or two there in my adult years I highly recommend it if you
00:29:32
ever find yourself in Boulder Creek oh fun fact the video for fight song by Rachel platon was partially filmed in
00:29:38
Boulder Creek and the bar she's at in the video is Joe's oh I want to see it I do too still to this day they have a
00:29:44
sign in their bar that reads not a drive-through bar that's hilarious I love that good humor can get
00:29:50
you through anything I suppose it sure can oh yeah years later when I was 15 my mom and I were at the Boulder Creek Art
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and Wine Festival my mom points to a man and says do you know who that is my mom
00:30:01
was the local mail carrier and knew everybody so I was like no who usually the answer was oh that's so and so and
00:30:07
you know so and so's mom but this time my mom looked at me seriously and says that's
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Jesus she then yelled over over to him and forced oh my God this mom is a queen she then yelled over to him and forced
00:30:22
him to come over and apologize to tr for traumatizing me when I was and the apology was almost more
00:30:29
traumatic than him trying to turn me into one of his followers oh my God a he was drunk and crying and it was sad oh
00:30:36
so he's I mean you could tell this guy was going through it I mean he endangered a lot of people that night
00:30:43
that's not okay no but it's like if he was still going through it in this kind of vibe that long after it's like that
00:30:51
guy was struggling yeah definitely and it's sad that it doesn't sound like he got the help that he needed going to say
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it doesn't look like he got better no um it was honestly sad I forgave him that day he had a problem but the legend of
00:31:04
my anxiety will live on forever I now live in the damn suburbs and I lock my [ __ ] door at night I have now
00:31:11
unironic I have now un ironically a bearded husband an 8-year-old and a six-year-old boy and I don't think they
00:31:18
would be able to handle Mountain life LOL at least not the one I lived no I don't think many of us would I couldn't
00:31:24
I have many other stories like ones about trying to get onto the Lockheed Martin property that was just up the
00:31:30
road from us as a teenager and all the weird lights we used to see in the sky over it but that's for another day send
00:31:35
them on send it to us it's like a send it to Daryl thing but different but to us us so that's my
00:31:42
tale if you read this on the podcast I have some depend prepared for myself and my my three mom friends cuz they will
00:31:48
all excuse me we will all collectively [ __ ] our pants shout out Taran Michelle
00:31:51
and Amber Taran Michelle and Amber get some dep pens Taran Michelle Amber and Danny with an ey hell yeah thank you too
00:31:57
for all that you do and for my 40th and a couple years my gal Pals and I are planning a trip to Salem hell yeah to
00:32:03
pay our respect to our witchy freethinking sisters of yester year so you know come hang with us lots of love
00:32:09
to you guys and yours and keep it weird but not so weird that you tell your 8-year-old girl that you're Jesus in
00:32:15
their foyer at 2 a.m. all the love and less Sinister babe Vibes Danny oh my God I'm obsessed with you
00:32:23
also while you guys are in Salem if you haven't gone yet which you definitely have so never mind oh they yeah but
00:32:30
anybody else that goes to Salem go to the Black Veil uh shop of Dre and wonder or actually maybe not cuz she said
00:32:36
didn't Danny say a couple of years hold on and this was January what did you say
00:32:42
yeah I know you're right so maybe you haven't okay great so if you haven't it's going to be so much fun yeah go to
00:32:46
the Blackville shop and wonder go to Emporium tell we sent you is it Emporium 32 I always get the number wrong it is
00:32:52
32 32 y um oh go to housewitch oh yes it's like um like German house yep there's all
00:33:00
kinds of great things oh have dinner at Ledger oh my goodness yeah is the brussel sprout the Brussels sprout the
00:33:08
Brussels sprout and they make a mean espresso Martini the everything there was ideal it was so good so good also
00:33:14
nocturn that's another oh and nocturn yeah nocturn is awesome and there's probably some that we're forgetting you
00:33:19
know you've got a lot of a lot of places to hit and happy birthday in a couple years um all right so Danny you rule
00:33:26
your family rules that was hilarious and also uh horrifying and also sad but also
00:33:31
uh uplifting at times so thank you for all that it was all of the above um so let's talk about a local Boston listener
00:33:40
tale let's do it don't squeeze is this don't squeeze my charman like toilet paper don't squeeze my charman a
00:33:48
haunting uh let's see it says hold on I'm going to open the Pua do it hi Ash Elena my name is Amy no
00:33:58
need to change my name because there are probably 400 Amy in the Boston area so I'm not really outing myself I've
00:34:03
changed everyone else's name in the story though just for privacy's sake thank you both for being such great
00:34:08
storytellers and for giving people like me who reluctantly call themselves Believers in the Paranormal a platform
00:34:13
to share our Tales you're welcome thank you for sharing them with us I've pasted
00:34:17
my story below and attached it as a Pua P I've been meaning to share this story with you for a while but this summer two
00:34:23
things happened that made me finally get off my butt and do it one my former roomate from the story and I finally got
00:34:28
together for the first time in about 10 years reminiscing and laughing about the
00:34:32
absurdity of these events and two when the tea shut down this summer I had to drive to work in Harvard Square along
00:34:37
with half of Boston's North Shore oh God every day Wes would send me on a slightly different route through Medford
00:34:43
and Somerville to avoid traffic but no matter which street I started down I would somehow end up driving by the
00:34:49
house in this story the first time it felt like an odd coincidence by the third time it was creepy and weird and I
00:34:54
felt like the house was still trying to tell me something all these years later oh I want to know exactly where it is
00:34:59
this story takes place in what was once the most densely populated city in America Summerville Massachusetts
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Summerville we love a sumerville moment Somerville for my non- Bostonian Somerville is kind of Boston kind of not
00:35:13
it's not perfect way to describe it though kind of Boston kind of not everybody that's not from Boston will
00:35:18
tell you that they are in Boston when they're in Summerville but you are not but that's why it's kind of Boston but
00:35:23
kind of not it's the next city over from Cambridge in plus years ago when the story takes place it was still upand
00:35:29
coming as they say rents were fairly cheap and the streets were filled with a mix of local townies think Whitey bugia
00:35:35
beets Italian mafia oh and 20s something transplants looking for a decent place to live that was walkable to the tea
00:35:42
with bars and restaurants nearby uh my two roommate I was going to do this whole thing with like the fullon Boston
00:35:48
accent but I'm not going to assult your ears why my two I cuz I thought about it
00:35:52
when I said when I was like bars and restaurants I think you should do it my two roommates let's call them Caroline
00:35:57
and Jamie and I lived on the first floor of a fairly typical flaw the first flaw
00:36:02
of a fairly of a fairly typical free family house or as we massholes call it a triple Deca triple triple de kid by
00:36:10
fairly fairly typical I mean each floor had a separate apartment our apartment had three bedrooms mine was a converted
00:36:17
dining room a pink tiled bathroom from the 1920s I love it and a kitchen that was mostly a big open room the size of a
00:36:24
bedroom with just a table a free standing oven in fridge and a microwave on a cart against the um against the fir
00:36:30
wall it was connected to a vintage yellow and green tiled Butler's Pantry I'm loving this containing the sink and
00:36:37
all the kitchen cabinets there was a back door to the driveway in the corner of the kitchen that we used as our
00:36:42
primary entrance our landlord had added exciting enhancements like industrial jade green
00:36:49
Carpeting and metallic sponge painted walls oh I want to know who the [ __ ] said let's sponge sponge paint this wall
00:36:58
love a sponge paint oh I hate it I know it used to be the thing I know there were self-proclaimed ministers living on
00:37:06
the second floor who held regular religious services and sometimes let people live in our shared basement oh
00:37:11
that's fun it was quirky but the rent was cheap the ministers were nice and except for the one time she called the
00:37:16
bomb squad to diffuse a su suspicious package our third floor nebor neighbor kept to herself except at one huge time
00:37:23
this is very sumf it is honestly it was 199 99 and cell phones weren't really a thing among young and poor graduate
00:37:30
students so my roommates and I communicated to each other with notes left on a large think the size of an
00:37:35
average flat screen TV whiteboard that one of us had salvaged from the neighbor's trash we had propped this
00:37:41
monstrosity on top of the microwave and left each other basic sometimes passive aggressive notes about bills du or who
00:37:47
needed to get their old food out of the fridge Etc uh roommates I've never had a
00:37:52
roommate it's an experience yeah uh keep in mind that my roommates and I were fairly friendly acquaintances more than
00:37:59
friends oof that sounds like a [ __ ] nightmare my only roommates were like actual friends yeah um and that I was
00:38:06
the only link between the two of them Oo we got along and hung out sometime together sometimes but weren't
00:38:11
long-standing BFFs or anything maybe that awkward formality that comes from sharing a Liv living space with relative
00:38:18
strangers is the reason it took each of us so long to admit that our apartment was a spooky nightmare we'll never know
00:38:24
we moved in at the beginning of June I was working at a magazine for the summer and had started dating someone long
00:38:29
distance my roommates were living similar young 207 something lives and we often talk walk to Davis Square to grab
00:38:36
I love this I love it yeah I'm like we're all just like a we get donuts from there sometimes we do uh we often walked
00:38:43
to Davis Square to grab beers together or Bagels on weekend mornings life was good Caroline and I had just come from a
00:38:49
horrible living situation with another person the year before so I initially chocked up the odd feeling I'd get here
00:38:54
and there to in the apartment as leftover trauma from my previous living situation and the feeling of wooziness
00:39:00
in the front hall was attributed to that crazy metallic sponge paint on the walls
00:39:05
combined with old uneven floors making me feel like I was in a fun house I get it fast forward a few months the
00:39:10
longdistance boyfriend had stayed over for a weekend visit I took him to the airport around 5:00 a.m. the following
00:39:15
Monday before we left home he wrote a quick thank you to my roommates what what a we love a thankful King we do he
00:39:23
wrote a quick thank you to my roommates on that giant whiteboard in the kitchen I returned home less than an hour later
00:39:28
to a still quiet house everything was as I had left it except that the Whiteboard
00:39:33
was no longer propped up on the microwave it was laying face up about 8 ft across the room I could not for the
00:39:39
life of me understand how heavy particle board backed whiteboard could land face
00:39:43
up across the room but I told myself that writing the thank you note had made the board unstable and caused it to fall
00:39:49
you know something somehow that note was different from the other notes we wrote
00:39:53
to each other all the time it was Heavy with importance yeah you know um I went it was Heavy with gratefulness yeah with
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gratitude with appreciation I went about my day and tried to convince myself that
00:40:04
I was just being dramatic needless to say I never mentioned it to my roommates about a week or so later Caroline and I
00:40:10
were sitting in the living room watching TV while Jamie was eating her dinner at
00:40:14
the kitchen table we suddenly heard Jamie say oh followed by a few rapidly escalating O's and Oz and holy [ __ ] and
00:40:23
then a loud crash like what the [ __ ] happened Caroline and I ran down the hall to the kitchen only to find the
00:40:29
Whiteboard once again lying face up on the floor in the same location as before only this time Jamie had watched it
00:40:37
slowly Rock itself one corner at a time off the top of the microwave and then literally fly across the room that's
00:40:44
absolutely terrifying it was then that we all came clean to each other about the weird experiences we'd been having
00:40:49
in the house the feeling of someone standing over our shoulder in the bathroom the odd feeling in the front
00:40:54
hall in the front closet Caroline came to us a few days later to tell us that someone had just called her name in the
00:41:00
hallway goodbye some weeks after that when Jaime's boyfriend Curtis was was spending the night her printer turned on
00:41:06
at 2: a.m. and started printing only there was no paper in the printer they got into a fight over whether or not
00:41:13
they should put paper in to see what the messages would what messages would come
00:41:16
through Curtis won and no paper was ever added I would be team Curtis oh [ __ ] that I would have been like put paper in
00:41:22
that [ __ ] we know Jim's room would sometimes take on the odor of manure oh God while Caroline's room always smelled
00:41:29
like fresh flowers so they did not [ __ ] with Jamie no I was convinced that the
00:41:33
ghost was an old woman weeks passed Caroline got a job offer in Vermont and moved out Curtis moved in weird things
00:41:40
kept happening but nothing was too traumatizing and as I said in the beginning the rent was cheap and the
00:41:44
location was good heck we even had the rare luxury of off street parking oh wow see you don't give that up so one night
00:41:52
when Jaime's college roommate was visiting I was woken by a blood Cur curdling scream coming from the bathroom
00:41:58
oh gosh after a night of bar hopping in Boston the poor girl had come back to our apartment and was brushing her teeth
00:42:03
at the sink when the medicine cabinet door began repeatedly opening and closing on its own I get that that's
00:42:09
like pretty scary but like you don't need to scream about it like you're in my house don't be annoying I feel like
00:42:13
that was like too much that was Pik me behavior that was Pik me Behavior we're just like I don't know
00:42:22
Jamie's college roommate I don't know can you tell we grew up in a haunted house were like that's nothing get over
00:42:28
it Jamie consulted a friend of hers who had done some casual ghost hunting on the Southshore as a teen she's always
00:42:35
had an interesting mix of friends his advice was that we had to take the house take back our house and tell the ghosts
00:42:41
that we live there now and it had to leave us alone his exact words were you need to tell the ghost this is my house
00:42:47
leave me alone I think you have to say it nicer I feel like you should Curtis Jamie and I all agreed that we weren't
00:42:53
anywhere close to being ready to confront this spirit so we just went about our lives with the minor
00:42:58
inconvenience of feeling like we were sharing our home with a fourth unseen roommate I feel that one day I was
00:43:03
getting ready to meet friends at the local Second Run movie theater to see ironically the six cents remember when
00:43:09
there were second run theaters when you could see a cheap movie like 6 months after its initial release oh that shit's
00:43:15
awesome I didn't even know that was a thing yeah I think this particular movie was popular enough that it took more
00:43:20
like 10 months to get the cheap theater but I digress so there I was getting ready to go I changed my clothes was
00:43:26
brushed my teeth uneventfully and sat down on the toilet to go to the bathroom I was just finishing up my business and
00:43:31
was about to reach for the toilet paper when it happened so it is charman the freaking toilet paper roll
00:43:38
started unrolling on its own before I even had a chance to touch it it's kind of nice and no for your debunkers out
00:43:44
there this was not a single turn like maybe you just knocked it with your elbow situation the roll just kept
00:43:50
rotating until the paper hit the floor and started accordion folding in on itself see that's like nice because
00:43:56
they're like oh my gosh here you go I got you but also please don't be in the bathroom with me no and also I can I can
00:44:02
get my own toilet paper definitely and also like that's bad for the plumbing so like let's calm down exactly and also
00:44:08
toilet paper is expensive so can we not can't there's a lot here yeah at first I
00:44:13
just watched it unroll in disbelief I'm just picturing you sitting on a toilet just being like just watching it unroll
00:44:21
like just silence open mou gaze at it like a full minute of just watching this like accordion on itself like furrowed
00:44:27
brow and then for some reason I started getting pissed I mean seriously couldn't
00:44:33
I have some privacy on the toilet at least I've since had three kids and realized the answer to that rhetorical
00:44:39
question is actually no but I was young and naive then this was the last straw nobody was going to squeeze my charman I
00:44:47
mustered all the courage I could and channeled one my one summer of acting camp to confidently declare this is my
00:44:53
house leave my toilet paper Al alone the first attempt at taking I I love that that was your last stop that's my toilet
00:45:02
paper the first attempt at taking back my power SLB came out as more of a shaky squeak but then I said it again more
00:45:10
strongly and then yeed out of that house as fast as I could ionic unbelievably that really was the last spooky thing to
00:45:16
happen to me in that house maybe it's because the six sense transformed my feelings on the ghost a bit maybe they
00:45:22
really are just kind Souls that have unfinished business and I should have been more should be more empathetic
00:45:27
maybe it's because I had started dating my now Husband by then and was spending less and less time in the apartment or
00:45:32
maybe the ghost actually listen to me and started respecting boundaries a bit more maybe he went to therapy we all
00:45:38
moved out the following Summer and the house has since been renovated and turn into condos I've done some stocking on
00:45:44
Zillow it's currently on the market for nearly 1 million if anyone's looking for
00:45:48
a new place to live damn in Summerville either way after the odd driving routs this summer brought me face to face with
00:45:54
the house again and again I feel like maybe the ghost is still trying to send me a message so if anyone buys a first
00:46:00
floor condo in Somerville in the next few months that you end up discovering is haunted make sure you keep paper in
00:46:05
your printer or white board in your kitchen and maybe you can finally get to the bottom of this mystery thanks for
00:46:10
listening and I I'll as always keep it weird I loved that one I really loved that that was so much fun Amy you guys
00:46:19
are [ __ ] funny you are and you know what I I stand by it Jamie's college roommate needed to take it down a notch
00:46:26
yeah you know absolutely I think that girl Hest guest she was it was just Jamie's college roommate visiting oh
00:46:32
yeah exactly so like you can be honest with us was she a lot she was a pig me was she a lot absolutely she was a lot
00:46:38
she was I know it's okay it's all right I bet she's grown out of that when you're College friends come to visit or
00:46:43
like you know like when other people's College friends come to visit and you're just like G are getting weird I used to
00:46:49
get in so much trouble for expressing my feelings oh boy anyways anyways anyways my next one
00:46:57
is called listener tale neighborhood UFO summer of 1995 let's go it says hello there I am a
00:47:05
longtime listener and have wanted to share this story for quite some time but I am lazy so I never got a a goodbye I
00:47:12
never got around to writing it until now y for being sick with Co and being so bored locked isolated in my apartment
00:47:20
while we have an unusually warm fall attached you will find my story well not mine but my neighborhood story from a
00:47:27
strange summer in 1995 I hope that you enjoy it I save it as a putaa 14 font double spaced sorry if there are any
00:47:34
spelling or Grim errors Grim I know thanks so much and hope to hear from you lovely ladies also again Ash was not
00:47:43
born during this but I was on the way I think you were on the way right yeah well in the summer of 1995 I wasn't you
00:47:51
weren't but I was I was about to be on the way that's true I was 10 wow so that [ __ ] goes crazy that does go crazy
00:47:59
Caleb would say all right well the neighborhood UFO story I absolutely love the podcast thank you thanks and I
00:48:04
thought you would both enjoy hearing this account from the summer of 1995 from a little town in Michigan when
00:48:10
multiple neighbors all saw lights in the sky oh I love that my name is Billy you
00:48:14
can use my name and any other names my pronouns are he him thank you to quote this to quote Sophia from The Golden
00:48:20
Girls picture it Michigan 1995 I already love you bil I grew up at a very small town in
00:48:28
Michigan dirt roads lots of fields and farms at night the only light came from the moon and stars I kind of love that I
00:48:34
do too sounds kind of beautiful beautiful my direct neighbors were my aunt and uncle and three cousins to say
00:48:39
that the area was conservative is an understatement any mention of paranormal things were laughed at and shunned and
00:48:45
the same goes for anything queer related but I digressed and moved away the day after graduation good for you man love
00:48:50
that for you when the lights were first spotted it came from the neighbors the husband Joe and daughter were outside at
00:48:56
night bringing in groceries and they both saw three orange lights they were above their cornfield off in the
00:49:01
distance that's where I want to see spooky UFO lights above a cornfield always the lights just sat there not
00:49:07
moving there was not any sound the lights were about 100 fet or so above the corn I love that they're just like
00:49:13
hanging out over the corn they with knobs it has the juice it has the juice can imagine a more beautiful
00:49:22
thing it's cold I can't help about it are you leaving this out when I tried it with butter everything changed that's
00:49:32
the best part of it and yes I know all the words anyways they moved into the house and when Joe looked back outside
00:49:39
the lights were higher in the sky and moving away very slowly toward the South he got his wife and they watched them
00:49:44
until they were past the woods and out of sight Joe said that they were three lights in a triangular shape they always
00:49:50
are he did not see a craft or object that they were attached to but said they stayed in the same shape AP as they
00:49:56
hovered and then moved this of course made it into the neighborhood gossip and it was joked about but not taken very
00:50:01
seriously Joe Poor Joe about a week later my father and Uncle were returning from a quick trip to the store and they
00:50:08
saw three orange lights above the woods on what would be my uncle's Farm they stopped the truck and watched like the
00:50:13
previous time as Joe and his family had witnessed the lights just hovered they didn't move and there was no noise the
00:50:19
lights then quickly moved off and out of sight my uncle who was driving drove the
00:50:23
rest of the way to his house with my dad and when they pulled into the driveway the lights were hovering above my
00:50:28
uncle's Barn the barn sat back probably about 1,000 ft from the house oo I love this and I just picture a cow being
00:50:35
lifted up in a beam that was in a really good cow impression I was I was just going to let
00:50:42
it go and you know the sad thing was that I like really tried it's not always they're not always going to be hits no
00:50:48
Moo's got to be kind of deep it does it needs to be from within yeah you know what my dog Sydney is half cow I'm
00:50:54
pretty sure and she can do a sick cow impression she can it's actually pretty [ __ ] crazy it's wild but anyway they
00:51:00
both got out of the truck and stood there watching my dad said that he saw the lights were on a triangular object
00:51:05
the object was so dark that you could only tell it was there because it was darker than the night sky my uncle said
00:51:10
that the shape was quote like if three yellow school buses were in a triangle oo I had to put that in because it still
00:51:16
makes me laugh to think that that is how he came up with the size as I said before country folk I love that my uncle
00:51:24
and father went into the house to get my aunt and mother when they came out it was gone so my mom and aunt as well as
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me and my cousins made fun of them and asked how many beers they drank on the drive later that night the electricity
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in the neighborhood started acting very strange we had gone back home and the lights would get extremely bright and
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then darken the TV would go dark then come back on that happened occasionally it was the country and when it was
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really hot or storms were happening electricity would act weird my mom called my aunt and she said the same
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thing was happening there but that myt aunt and my uncle's phone kept ringing when they would pick it up it would be
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really loud static as my mom and aunt were talking another neighbor picked up we had party lines back then when the
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entire neighborhood was on a single phone line so you could have to pick up the phone and listen to see if other
00:52:10
people were already on a call before making your call Wa I didn't even know that was a thing that's wild the country
00:52:19
party lines party lines but she heard my mom she like oh hey Joe I need to use the phone excuse me this is important
00:52:26
that's so wild can you imagine having to like have a private conversation though
00:52:30
that's a real country and you just never know who's listening like I guess nobody
00:52:34
could like cook a scheme up if I was a kid I would just be listening to that party line 247 absolutely be harri at
00:52:41
the spying writing down everybody's gossip oh my God it would be so easy to do prank calls too that's fun oh man can
00:52:49
we time travel back to Michigan in 1995 we'll figure it out we will but but as my mom
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and my aunt were talking another neighbor picked up she heard my mom and aunt talking and asked if they were
00:53:00
having issues with the electricity you could just join into like hey like oh hey this from down the street I don't
00:53:07
really remember any resolve to it I think it was just the neighborhood woman talking but I do remember that my dad
00:53:12
seemed quite tense about it but he didn't say anything for the next two to 3 weeks multiple neighbors saw the
00:53:17
lights either moving through the sky or hovering in various spots my cousin who was 5 years older than me who was 19 at
00:53:23
the time said he saw the lights move across the field while he watched from his bedroom another neighbor said that
00:53:29
his cows I can't even do it I tried it again it got better this time did it so I feel
00:53:36
like you're on the right track oh hopefully he says cows again yeah cows you can just say it at the end another
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neighbor said that his cows and horses would start acting really strange and make lots of noise at night then he
00:53:47
would see the lights on Fridays all the neighbors would usually get together at someone's house for cards and
00:53:52
socializing I [ __ ] love this right I'm obsessed with this we kids would play and there would usually be a fire
00:53:58
everybody sat around I love how like like that's so kind and and nice the talk was soon of everyone seeing the
00:54:05
lights having electrical issues phone issues and barn animals and pets acting weird one neighbor said that his entire
00:54:11
family saw the lights over their barn and then the object craft whatever hit their house with what they said was the
00:54:17
brightest Spotlight that it was so bright you couldn't even see W then it just went off and the lights were gone
00:54:23
that's the only time I heard that happening I wish I could tell you something exciting like missing time
00:54:29
crop circles seeing Grays or the lights chasing people but really that was it it's still pretty exciting to me I love
00:54:35
it for about a month the lights appeared almost everyone in the neighborhood talked about seeing them and then as
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soon as it all started it just stopped I like to think that our neighborhood was
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just so boring that the aliens thought nope not intelligent life here and moved on but I digress in all of this my
00:54:50
mother and I never saw the lights man bummer I think the aliens were just like everything seems all right here so like
00:54:56
let's move on they're like you know what this is a chill individual they seem like they're getting along Town yeah
00:55:01
just move on today no one talks about that summer or the lights my father and Uncle have both passed away I'm sorry
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rest in peace they are the only two that ever continued to talk about it but they
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would never say UFO just the lights I like that better it's way more eerie I personally am a believer in the
00:55:17
Paranormal I lived in a very haunted house in my early 20s and my father and a few other relatives visit me in my
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dream I love that they're what I call check-ins from time time I love it I hope you enjoyed this and it would be
00:55:27
really cool if it made it on the Pod thanks again for all that you do and for creating a community that is safe
00:55:33
for all people of every background to share their experiences from Billy Billy Billy I'm so glad that everybody feels
00:55:40
that way and say cow again no okay that was a little lateral I feel where it's supposed to come from
00:55:49
but it's not it's not do it's hard you don't have like multiple stomachs don't cows have multiple stomachs no that's
00:55:55
definitely not where it's supposed to come from I think they have like a deep theirs is like very
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like but guys this was a great episode of listener Tales if I do say so myself and I can because this is all about you
00:56:07
guys so you created a great episode yeah brought to you by you for you from you and all about you and we are obsessed
00:56:13
with you love the '90s tales keep them coming cuz those are really fun and nostalgic yeah if you guys want to send
00:56:18
in a '90s tale just put it in the um in the in the title line subject line that's what it's called um and in the
00:56:25
meantime we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it we but not wor that you don't send us your 90s Tales because
00:56:31
I really want to hear them because I was only alive for like 3 years of the 9s and I don't remember any of it don't go
00:56:37
camping don't pretend you're Jesus breaking into people's houses don't take somebody's toilet paper and unravel it
00:56:42
and don't be strange lights that don't tell anybody what you're doing no be Str lights that don't tell people what
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you're doing but get a party line with your neighborhood maybe I don't know if we
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can suggest that do it like do it do it okay bye that was a good one to you