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Hello! And welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. We read you your stories.
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Do you want to hear one? Let me go first. This is an 80s latchkey kid story, and it just goes right into it.
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It says, I just listened to Jillian's latchkey kid story, and I have one of my own.
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As a latchkey kid, I was always reminded to never answer the door for anyone. One day while my parents were out, one was at work, the other was car shopping.
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I was home alone when some men came to the door and started knocking. I looked out my curtain, saw a car I didn't recognize, and knew I shouldn't answer the door.
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The knocking grew louder and louder and became intense banging until they finally just broke the door down.
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I was, of course, terrified and not sure what to do. I could hear them downstairs rifling through things, and when I heard them start to come up the stairs, I quickly hid under the bed.
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One of them came in my room, and I don't really know why he came to my bedside, but I was sure the thunderous sound of my heart beating when that man's dirty steel-toed boots were standing inches from my face would give me away.
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He finally left my room, and my dumb brain said, you should try to see what he looks like for the police.
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So I crept onto my bed as he was going the opposite direction down the hall and rounded the corner to the stairs.
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How he did not see me, I don't know, and I wasn't able to get a good look at his facial features either.
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I crawled back under the bed and waited for them to leave. Finally, they left, and because call 911 in an emergency had not yet been drilled into my brain, I called the neighbor who then called the police.
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You would think this was bad enough, but upon my return to school, I got the dreaded take this to the office for me directive, and I knew full well that my classmates were being talked to about me and the incident.
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And then in parentheses, it just says, why did schools do this kind of bullshit anyway?
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That's weird. It says, thank you, Butte Creek Elementary School, for giving my tormentors the ammunition that made my life hell from that moment on.
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The next line says, I was 11. I struggled with intense nightmares for 20 plus years until I started letting my dog sleep with me.
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And you would be surprised by the number of grown ass adults who to this day fucking ask me about it as if we were discussing the weather.
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I'm 53 now and have lived my life in constant fear for my safety. And I tell everyone I know to please call first because an unexpected knock at the door throws my heart straight into my throat.
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Also, about 10 years ago, one of my biggest tormentors friended me on Facebook. I accepted trying to let bygones be bygones
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and then one day I was like, fuck that shit and I unfriended him. He still occasionally tried to friend me
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before blocking with something we thought about on the regular and that's my terrifying latchkey kid story.
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I'm just out here living my life, always on the edge but also trying to stay sexy and not get murdered.
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Elsa. Man, that stuff sticks with you. I mean, not to assume anything, Elsa, because I know that's not your whole life story.
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I hope you get into therapy. Yeah. That's something you should definitely talk to somebody about.
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Your body keeps the score and you can work it out. This is called Trash Cat Story.
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Hello, ladies. I finally thought of a good one. A must read, really. When I was 12 years old, my mom brought home two little kittens.
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They were roughly three months old and they quickly became my whole entire life.
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That's right. I became a full-blown cat lady at the age of 12. The years passed and we lost one of the kittens around age six.
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The remaining cat was the calmer of the two. Her name was Penny. She was small, tan, and gray, and very quiet. I took her to live with me when I
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was about 20 years old and she was eight. She stuck with me through the birth of three boys,
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adopting a beagle puppy, a shitty marriage, and divorce, and bringing home another stray kitten
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when Penny was around 16 years old. Having been the solo cat for the last 10 years of her life,
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she hated that kitten with every fiber of her being and often went into hiding in different
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parts of the house to escape him. Aw, Mimi. When Penny was 19 years old, I had just dropped the
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boys off with their father for his weekend and came back home to enjoy a quiet night. I had been
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home for around an hour when I went to the back of the house to start a load of laundry. Coming back
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into the living room I was suddenly hit with an eye nose wall smell that I thought was coming from the open windows in the kitchen I walked through the kitchen and when I got to the front of the house
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I realized the smell was coming from inside the house somewhere. Panicking, I scooped up the other cat, Albie, and the beagle, Rosie,
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and looked around for Penny. Not seeing her immediately, I took the two pets outside of my car and locked them in.
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I looked around the outside of the house and saw no smoke, but didn't dare go back inside yet.
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I called my mom to see if she would know what the smell was since she had lived there previously.
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She told me to call the gas company. The gas company shows up with a fire truck in tow.
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They use their magic gas sensing wands to look around the outside of the house. Nothing toxic.
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They go inside, nothing toxic. But they also smell the smell and want to stay to help identify
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where it could be coming from. So a team consisting of me, three firefighters, and two gas company men
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start looking in the front of the house where the smell is strongest. When out of nowhere,
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Penny pokes her little gray head out of the cabinet to see what all the fuss is about.
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I scoop her up when the smell hits me like a load of bricks. It was Penny. She gets sprayed by a skunk?
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Uh-uh. In an act of what I'm calling cat dementia, Penny walked across the counters when I was out of the kitchen
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and all caps set her tail on fire. With a candle I had lit on the counter when I got home.
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The smell was burnt hair and some streaks of burnt paint on the kitchen wall when she was running away from the fire.
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The singed part hadn't reached down to her skin and she was perfectly fine. I, on the other hand, had to explain to the five men in my house that it was my cat and there was no serious danger.
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I still can't totally look all the local firemen in the face when I see some of them in school drop-off line.
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Penny lived another two and a half years and passed away shortly before her 22nd birthday last November.
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She was truly a part of me that I had to learn how to live without. The joy and comfort she brought to me and my children, who had never known a life without her, is truly irreplaceable.
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Keep doing what you're doing. It has made a world of difference for people who once felt out of place for loving them a cop.
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Lots of love, Sarah. Aw. Kitty's tail on fire. I mean, it's very kind of like sweet.
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And of course, the shy cat gets her tail set on fire. But I would say you can go right up to those firemen in the pickup line because you just having some kind of cat problem is the best kind of call a fireman could go on.
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They love it. They think it's funny. It's something to talk about. who cares no one's hurt no one's jumping off a roof to escape yeah it's it's best case scenario
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okay i would say with the kinds of things that firemen see they're probably not judging the
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cat thing yeah i was afraid that cat was going to be dead somewhere and i was like this sucks
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i'm sad about fanny no okay this says historical hometown hello georgia karen and the erm team
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Greetings from Quincy, pronounced Quincy by the locals, Massachusetts, hometown of John and John Quincy Adams.
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I'm a third grade teacher in Quincy, and our social studies curriculum is all about Massachusetts history.
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My typical audience is the eight to nine year old non-Murderino market. So I'm hoping to share my historical knowledge with my fellow murderinos.
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Please do. You've discussed John Adams and John Quincy Adams, but I would be remiss not to acknowledge Abigail Adams.
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It says Abigail was husband to John, but we think they mean wife, obviously. Mother to John Quincy.
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And if we're talking founding fathers, we need to talk founding mothers. While the men of the revolution who've been extensively written about in our country's history, shocking, were fighting battles, writing declarations and signing constitutions, the women were making contributions of their own, although their stories aren't often told.
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Take Deborah Sampson, Massachusetts state heroine. When women were forbidden from fighting in battle, Deborah disguised herself as a man, fought and even dug a musket ball out of her leg with a knife to avoid medical attention that might out her identity.
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Total badass. I just read about that woman. Really? Yes. She was a soldier undercover the entire time and then finally had to go to the hospital.
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I believe that's when they were found out. There's Phyllis Wheatley. As a girl, Phyllis was taken from her family in Africa and sold as a slave.
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Her birth name is unknown. The name Phyllis Wheatley, quote unquote, was given to her. Phyllis was taught to read and write by the family that enslaved her, a rarity to say the least. And despite her horrific circumstances, she emerged as a prolific poet, penning works about the importance of freedom for all. Many of her works were published, making her the first published African-American poet.
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Wow. Circling back to Abigail, while John was traveling for America's independence, Abigail Adams was at home tending to the farm and her children alone under constant threat and danger of the British.
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During their time apart, she and John are well known for writing letters to one another, many in which Abigail offered advice and guidance to John during the revolution.
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Most famously, she encouraged him to remember the ladies, imploring him to support women too, and the need to provide education to both boys and girls.
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Many schools for girls opened after the revolution. Abigail Adams was an OG feminist.
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Hell yeah. I hope you enjoyed my often useless historical knowledge. I think it could be of great use to us here on this podcast.
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Thank you for being my companions on my long commute home while I decompress from the chaos that is teaching in America right now.
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God, stay strong, teachers. Keep fighting the good fight. You're doing amazing. Back at you from Georgia and I.
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Stay sexy and remember the ladies, Patricia. P.S. A quick marae to all the teachers.
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Oh, I didn't see that. This job has always been difficult, but it has become damn near impossible in recent years.
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Keep digging deep. Stay true to your authentic self and purpose. And don't forget to take care of you.
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Yeah, that's good advice. That was a great letter. Yeah. Good job. Third grade history teacher is going to come in and actually provide us something.
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Knowledge. We need it. Yeah. We'll take it. while the world watches the stars at the fifa world cup this summer hyundai has its eyes on the next generation of talent the future soccer stars who are already turning heads at age 14 Making plays that end up on everyone feed scoring from angles that don make sense
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rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust. Because Next doesn't wait for an invitation, and Hyundai doesn't either.
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Hyundai has always moved the future within reach. Hyundai did it by making advanced safety standard on every vehicle.
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Hyundai did it by engineering EVs with ultra-fast charging capability. And Hyundai continues doing it every day.
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From robotics that change how people live to young athletes changing the game, the future isn't some far off concept.
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It's already here. Next starts now. Hyundai, an official partner of FIFA. Goodbye.
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Goodbye. This is seven-year-old, three days, and a broken arm. Hello, queens of the macabre.
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That's weird that macabre is in both. That's the adjective of, I guess so. Our producer Molly is just writing all of these.
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She's like, Georgia will like this. It's about a cat named Penny. Yeah, exactly.
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It says, hello, queens of the macabre, cats of cookies and escape artist dogs. It was about this time of year when I was seven years old and riding my quad four wheeler to some people.
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Basically, it's a motorized four wheeled thing that a seven year old probably shouldn't have been riding on her own.
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But I was riding into my large backyard when my dad and younger sister got fishing poles ready to go up to a local pond for some after dinner fishing.
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When I did the only thing my dad told me not to do. He told me to go fast on straightaway and slow on turns.
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Well, I did not slow down on the turn and the quad ended up on two wheels and I fell off flipping the quad.
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I remember rolling out of the way to avoid getting crushed, but I was seven. So who the hell knows?
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I screamed. My dad came running, stopped the runaway quad and then helped me get up.
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My left arm hurt like which one cost twenty five hundred dollars. My arm hurt like hell.
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So he took me inside. My mom got me a water bottle for my arm and tried to calm me down because naturally I was crying and freaking out.
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My mom told me it would be sore for the next few days, but the next morning I couldn't lift it above my shoulder.
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My mom had to, all caps, force my arm above my head to put on my shirt and I was in tears.
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So like her shoulders dislocated and her mom's like, but we got to get this shirt on.
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Yeah, this is the only way to get a shirt on. Got to. It has to be in pull over the head shirt.
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I went to school, a all caps karate class that night, and then school the next day.
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When I came out of school Friday, it says the wreck happened on a Wednesday, my pants were not zipped up or buttoned, and I was dragging my rolling backpack trying to clutch my arm.
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Very pathetic. So pathetic. A doctor's office, a hospital, three hours later, and questions that I now realize I needed to answer because people thought a seven-year-old was being abused.
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and we found out I had a broken arm. Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. I am now 21 years old.
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And to this day, that is still the only bone I've ever broken. And I actually punch harder with that arm now.
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Bionic arm. In what scenario do you know that? I know. That's something we should all know.
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Which arm do you punch harder with? We should all know. And remember when you used to punch with that arm?
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Yeah. How different is it now when you're punching? Right, right. Maybe they've loaded her up with something.
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Titanium? Yeah. I also have this kick-ass story to freak my friends out. I would like to clarify that my parents are amazing people and very supportive,
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and I believe this incident has helped me to become a tougher human being overall.
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You have to say that to yourself, don't you? There's no other way. The other option is so sad.
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Thank you, ladies, for all you do. Stay sexy, and if your seven-year-old falls off her quad, get her to the hospital.
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Or don't, because it'll make her tougher. Right. Britt. Britt. Britt, you're probably as tough as nails.
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Yeah. Brit's like a positive, you know, cheery person who will also fight for you.
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She's like, Brit's like, get her done. She's like, look, put your arms up even when you have a dislocated shoulder.
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Put your ringer T-shirt on. Jam that arm up over your head. If it's really swollen and throbbing and it hurts to move at all, the answer's karate.
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Did you hear about the 13-year-old? A guy tried to grab her. It was in Carmel. and she fucking used jiu-jitsu on him and broke his ankle.
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Hell yeah. Yeah. He was like, hey, blah, blah, blah. And she was like, I don't need to be helping you.
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And then you reach out and grabbed her and she was just like, jiu-jitsu move, jiu-jitsu move.
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That's amazing. We all need to learn jiu-jitsu. Yeah. Wow. So good. We'll talk about it.
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That's crazy. Okay, here's my last one. It says fist fight at a first birthday party.
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And then in parentheses, it says spicy family drama. That's what we're looking for.
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Hello, Karen, Georgia, Kitties, Puppies, and the entire Exactly Right crew. Long-time listener, second-time writer, though this is a much better story,
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so I'm glad you guys never read the first one. See, we know. In Minisod 418, you asked for family drama stories.
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Boy, do I have a good story for you. Some context. My grandfather was not a good guy.
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He was a firefighter who faked an injury and went out on disability for the remainder of his career.
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He was also abusive towards my grandmother mother and uncles My grandma divorced him in the 70s and my mother a loud opinionated Brooklyn Italian stopped speaking to him when she was a teenager Suffice it to say
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we all had no relationship with the man, and I didn't know him at all. Fast forward to January
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2002, I am freshly four years old, and the family has gathered to celebrate my cousin Stephen's
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first birthday. My uncle Steve, Stephen's dad obviously, had an icy relationship with his father,
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but they're still on speaking terms at this point. Being that I was only four at the time,
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I have no memory of the following incident, but this is what I've been told happened.
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My grandfather's new wife was making a comment about something and was trying to use the word connoisseur.
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However, she mispronounced the word and instead said connoisseur, which is fine.
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That's a fun accent. My grandmother never wanted to hold her judgment or tongue when it's involving someone she does not have the highest opinion of,
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turns around and very loudly says, Conno sewer? This one silly comment led to my grandfather and grandmother
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exchanging some choice words. Things began to get a little heated, which led my Uncle Frank, grandma's brother,
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leaping across the table and punching my grandfather in the face. A fistfight between two men commenced.
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I don't know exactly what happened next. I'd imagine they were broken up and maybe the police were called.
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but I do know that this was the final nail in the coffin, effectively ending the relationship between Uncle Steve and my grandfather,
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which explains why my brother, cousins, and I never even knew the man. My mother will often say,
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I'm surprised you don't remember that. Ma'am, I was four. There are many more wild family moments connected to the story
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and the nonsense of my grandfather in general. Like whenever my cousins and I come across the word connoisseur,
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which surprisingly happens a lot more than you'd think, we always give each other a knowing look and exclaim,
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Conno Seward, like the assholes we are, or the time I was watching the old school game
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show Card Sharks with my grandma. I love that game. That sentence, I was watching Card Sharks with my grandma, is like the source of all
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great memories. Memories, yeah. Beautiful. It's such a good game. It is. The host introduces 10 married women and says, how many of these women claim that they've
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been in love with another man besides their husbands? Scandalous. My grandma says, I think I've been in love with three men.
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None of them are my husband. Ooh, Grandma Spicy. Stay sexy and don't get into a fistfight at a child's birthday party, Emily.
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There is nothing classier than a fistfight at a child's birthday party. How about a fistfight at a wedding?
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A wedding? Oh. My family did that a couple times. Oof. Sacramento. Okay. An emu tried to pants my grandma.
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Hello, MFM. Day one listener. Somethingeth time writer. The first time I heard your voices, I was in the back of a bush taxi in the middle of rural Burkina Faso,
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where I was serving with the Peace Corps. Since then, I've become an immigration attorney
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and I'm prepping for my wedding next month. You've been with me every step of the way.
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Thank you. Wow, thank you. While listening to George's excellent Emu Wars episode,
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I remember the time I very gallantly did not stand up to an emu. When I was 10 years old, my family moved to Australia.
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I was fascinated by all the animal interactions. Early on, I woke up for school and walked out into the dining room
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to just see my dad in his underwear leaping from wall to wall with a shoebox trying to catch the biggest huntsman spider I have ever seen.
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Have you seen those ones? And they're like hairy. Yeah. It's kind of tarantula-y if I'm not mistaken.
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Yeah. I purposely don't want to see it. I won't show you, but I'm going to look it up really quick.
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Show me. Show me. Okay. I should know. Because I wonder if I'm thinking of... Oh, there's one behind you right now.
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Behind you. The legs are long. The legs are so long. It's also actually... Well, I think maybe there's different ones, but this is not hairy.
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Yeah. it's like the tiny version gets in your bathroom all the time but it's literally that big but when
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you see it you go those legs are too long i can't fucking i can't do spiders i'm so sorry because
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that one was palm size literally palm size and then like really like especially long legs yes
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okay like you like how are these people putting them on their hands like long and skinny like
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look at my page right there that's how i gripped that's how hard i gripped my papers okay um no i
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I don't want to see you. No more. No more. And then it says, it's an image I will never forget.
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Me too. Me three. Around my 11th birthday, my grandparents, Anne and Bill, aka Grammy and Gramps, came to visit us and we set off on a number of adventures to show them our new home.
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One of the outings was to Tidbanilla National Preserve, an excellent nature preserve outside of Canberra, where we were living.
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We took a picnic and set up to eat after walking through the koala preserve. So minty.
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I'll take a koala in my house, not a fucking Hudson's Spider. Any day. Koala on the wall.
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They just have a little bit of herpes. That's okay. Oh, no, do they? Yeah. Oh, no.
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Yeah. They have a lot of STDs, apparently. Cool. Okay. We're learning a lot. I'm your Australian information you didn't want to know about Australia hookup.
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Yeah. Okay. As we were starting to eat a couple emus, not as we were starting to eat a couple emus.
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Digging into those emus. Right. As we were starting to eat, a couple of emus started to approach our table.
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We tried to play it cool, but one of them started to really focus on Grammy. But the emus just kept getting closer and closer until they were practically sitting at the table with us.
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Suddenly, one of the emus started pecking at Grammy's pants. She got up and started to back away and around the table, and the emu followed pecking incessantly.
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at the button of her pants. The rest of the family started yelling at the emu, trying to chase it away or trying to quickly pack up our lunch.
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Me, I ran as quickly as I could into the car and locked myself inside. That's right.
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And watched from afar as a giant emu chased my little Grammy around the picnic table, attempting to steal her pants.
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Why? In the end, the picnic was saved and Grammy's pants remained intact, all thanks to everyone but me.
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Coward. Also like locking the door like an emu is just going to open the door. Or if anyone else tries to come and get it, it's like, no, no.
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No, just me. You weren't fast enough. Stay sexy and don't let the emus steal your pants.
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Ruby. Ruby, why? Grandma. Was it like the color or shiny button? Probably. Because those are like, I would imagine emus are super cute 15 feet away.
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Yeah. And the second they're within five feet, you're scared shitless. I think just they're terrifying up close.
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Yeah. They've got the teeth and the calves and the muscles. Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs.
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Full on dinosaurs. Send us your stories about. Australia stories. Yeah. large spider on any continent stories. Sure, definitely. Of course, emu. Always emu. If
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you've got an emu story, if you've got an emu story. We'll take either. We like both.
00:25:10
While the world watches the stars at the FIFA World Cup this summer, Hyundai has its eyes on
00:25:14
the next generation of talent. The future soccer stars who are already turning heads at age 14.
00:25:19
Making plays that end up on everyone's feed, scoring from angles that don't make sense,
00:25:23
rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust. Because Next doesn't wait for an
00:25:28
invitation and Hyundai doesn't either. Hyundai has always moved the future within reach. Hyundai
00:25:32
did it by making advanced safety standard on every vehicle. Hyundai did it by engineering EVs with
00:25:38
ultra fast charging capability. And Hyundai continues doing it every day. From robotics
00:25:43
that change how people live to young athletes changing the game, the future isn't some far
00:25:47
off concept. It's already here. Next starts now. Hyundai, an official partner of FIFA. Goodbye.
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Okay, hi. We don't usually do hoorays at the end of minisodes, but this is a special occasion.
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So this is Honking Hoorays presented by Hyundai. All right, you want to go first?
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Sure, I'll go first. Tell me one. We also never read these off cards. We don't. It's all so exciting.
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I've never read anything with this much lipstick on before. Are you ready? The subject line of this hooray is, hooray, lighthouse in Maine edition.
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Great. After a devastating divorce in 2020. Starts off a little heavy. Starts off a little heavy.
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Are you all right? I'm good. Let's go. We're going to be fine. Let's go. We're in the car.
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After a devastating divorce in 2020, I started listening to MFM. In one of the podcasts, Karen stated that she wanted to, quote, live alone in a lighthouse
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in Maine, end quote. Remember that one? Yeah, that's great. Well, Karen, after four years of dreaming about what you said,
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I've moved to Maine from California, and I live about 20 minutes walking, four minutes driving from the Portland Head Lighthouse.
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Aw. It's beautiful. Hooray for bravery, for finding inspiration anywhere, or just doing what Karen says.
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Gratefully, Jill. Sweet. I mean, hooray for that. Hooray. I want to leave California, too.
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That sounds great. Right this second? Right this moment. Can you read a hooray before you go?
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Good thing I'm in a car. Okay. Okay. This is called, uh, no title. Okay. I have a hooray.
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My dog Ripken finished radiation treatments after six weeks of treatment for sarcoma.
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He was a very brave boy. And we listened to your voices on the entire one and a half hour drive each way to treatment.
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Oh, and that was from KK Fenwick three. KK. KK Brent. Okay. Yeah. Let's see. So wait,
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that dog's okay, right? Yeah. Okay. He finished radiation after six weeks, so he's good now.
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Full hooray. Full hooray. Gigantic hooray. Yeah. Okay. This one is written by none other than a Shelby.
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Are you ready? Oh, I love a Shelby. So the subject line of this is hooray. Okay.
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And it was an email. Okay. It says, this is Shelby here, but it is actually Dr. Shelby now.
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Ooh. I've been an RN since the 1900s, she says. I love that. I currently work as a nursing instructor teaching baby nurses how to not kill people.
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It's very important. Back in 2019, I was fired from an awesome job with shitty upper management, but nevertheless, this change forced me to look at my path, and with my husband's encouragement, I went back to school.
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I completed my BSN in the midst of the pandemic. How did you do anything in the pandemic?
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That's, can you imagine homework in the pandemic? No, absolutely not. And continued to get my master's as a nurse practitioner.
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Man. Fast forward to now, my 19 year old daughter is getting pinned graduating with an RN degree
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and she pushed me to get my doctorate in nursing so we could graduate together. I come from a family that has never been to college
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and now I have my doctorate with a daughter that is now an RN Unbelievable So a huge hurray to my badass daughter Megan being an RN at 19 and taking her first job in an emergency room My God
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Megan doesn't care. She's like, I'm here first in line to help people. I'm jumping in.
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You got a motorcycle? I'll be there. I'm Megan. I've listened since day one, and you ladies have helped me through studying and thesis.
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Can you believe that? No, we didn't. What does that even mean? Thanks for all your hours of entertainment.
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Hooray to you badass bitches. Shelby. Thanks, Shelby. Dr. Shelby. Dr. Shelby. Dr. Shelby, you did it.
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Amazing. Okay, this one is from YouTube. It says, my hooray is that I finally, for the first time ever, played D&D this week.
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See, there's big things, there's smaller things. It's all important. Hooray means something different to everyone.
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That's right. Yeah. I have been wanting the joy of magical role playing since realizing what D&D is only a year ago.
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And my beautiful co-workers from the school I work at, drama teachers baby, joined me and my son, Nine, and we made my dream come true.
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It was like disassociating in the most wonderful way possible and I can't wait to play again.
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So hooray for friends, fantasy, and pretending to be a delusional wingless dragon, the Jaynester.
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Wow, Jane. Jane? Jay. The Jaynester. The Jane... Janester. The Janester. The Janester.
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Yeah, Janester. Yeah, I love that. I do too. I always thought it'd be too late for me to play D&D, but I guess not.
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I always thought it wouldn't be believable because of the pretending. Sure. I'd be like, I guess I'm a troll.
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And yet you're in a car right now reading cue cards. This is only acting. This is about as fake as it gets.
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Okay, ready? Mm-hmm. This is also an email that says, hooray, but this has five exclamation points after, and
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it says, beautiful ladies. I've finally found a stable job since completing my BS, small c, BSC.
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Anyone with a college education? Bachelor of Science Communication. But then it says in International Wildlife Biology.
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Dang it. We didn't graduate college. We don't know these classes. So they did all that two years ago.
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And working in the hospitality industry for the past ten years, I've been craving some sense of stability
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this new job isn't much but it's providing me with routine, structure and an amazing work-life balance
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which I so desperately needed does this mean I'm getting old? maybe, but I'm here for it
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I can't wait to go to bed early Izzy from Wales and then it says P.S. be nice to your waiters
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they're dead inside that's true, and your podcasters pretty much everybody, be nice
00:32:51
this one is an email and it says Hello, exactly right folks, Karen in Georgia. My name is Erin.
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I've been listening to MFM since high school, along with my mom. Shout out, Margo.
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Margo. I'm graduating from law school as one of the top students in my class. Law school sucks but it in my past now To think that you guys have kept me sane and entertained since I was in high school and now I almost a lawyer is insane It is insane Hope it doesn make you feel too old It does
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And for a bonus, my cat Yuzu, who has survived law school with me, is basically a cat lawyer.
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Aww. Because the cat's just been there studying the whole time. Yeah, basically. Stay sexy and don't go to law school.
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Unless you really want to, then go and be a badass. Erin M. Erin. And amazing job.
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Yeah. You're a lawyer. You did it. Congratulations. We're glad we were in high school with you.
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Yeah. That's weird. We were popular in that high school, weren't we? We made it work.
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Is that it? Yes, I think that's it. Thank you, Hyundai, for sponsoring this wonderful segment.
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Yeah. Thanks, guys. Bye. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie? This has been an Exactly Right production.
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Goodbye!