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Goodbye. my favorite murder hello and welcome to my favorite murder the mini sode oh my god so small so cute and tiny
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Just a travel size amount of podcasting for you to get you through your travels.
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It's like the podcast is a rat and the mini so it's a mouse. And you are a chef that needs help from the rat.
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Well, you want to go first? Sure. And actually, this is breaking news. It says, hi, friends.
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After listening to episode 435 about the maple syrup heist, I had to let you guys know this.
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My small town has a maple syrup festival. Okay. Okay. So we're totally off topic.
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This is the definition of the Minnesota. It's where it's supposed to be a hometown.
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That's what started eight years ago. We're literally breaking small town festival news on this podcast.
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I love it. I think it's our new way. Okay. My small town has a maple syrup festival, exclamation point.
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Elm Vale, population 1,750. Take me there. Right? It's about an hour and a half north of Toronto.
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And every April, we close down one of the main streets, cover the ice arena, and host a maple syrup festival.
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2025 will be our 57th year. This festival is older than me. That's really saying something.
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And you guys should totally come to make it even cooler. Events include pancake eating contest, log sawing contest, a variety show.
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Kill to be at that variety show. Loads of vendors, loads of maple syrup samples.
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And then a parentheses that says, did you know there are different grades and types of maple syrup?
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Light, amber, dark. I have done that fucking fast where you drink maple syrup. It has to be grade B with fucking Kanye Pepper back in the early 2000s.
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Did you just call it Kanye Pepper? I did. Is that your thing? That's what you call it?
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I used to do that accidentally for real, but now I just do that. You know what I mean?
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Now it just makes sense. Yeah. This next part, when I first read it, stopped me cold because of what I thought they meant.
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And then I realized I was wrong. A pancake house with live entertainment. Me thinking that they built a house of pancakes.
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They just mean a local restaurant that has live entertainment probably. And then in parentheses it says, it's usually several really old men singing very old music.
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And then it says, endearing. Close parentheses. And you can take a school bus out to tour two different local family-run sugar bushes.
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The sugar bushes will show you how they used to tap trees with a spile slash spigot and bucket versus how they now collect sap.
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The process to boil the sap into syrup with the ratio of 40 to 1 sap to syrup. And they let you sample their syrup.
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One of the local bushes is famous for their maple cotton candy. So I think sugar bush is a sugar farm.
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Yeah. Sounding like. Not to be confused with Nutbush, which is where Tina Turner's from.
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My great-grandparents used to make maple syrup on their farm, which was not in Elmvale, but actually near the Big Apple in Colborne, which is a genuine gigantic apple that used to...
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Sorry. Make no mistake, they're not talking about the Big Apple in New York City.
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No, no. Of course not. They're talking about a literal gigantic apple that used to house bees and is now just home to some really good apple pie.
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I am baffled as to what the fuck they're talking about right now. I think it's an apple-shaped structure.
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Okay. That used to house bees. Now I'm lost there. Yeah. No explanation for that.
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That throws you off because then that's when my brain went back to, no, they mean a real just probably oversized James and the Giant Peach version of an apple.
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That would be amazing. I mean, wouldn't we have heard of that already? Okay let me just get through this thing My grandma her name was Ruby Ugh So good Used to have stories about getting to sleep out in the sugar shack because someone had to make sure the fire boiling the sap didn go
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out overnight. And making maple taffy in the fresh snow was her reward for successfully keeping the
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fire lit. Oh, that's some Laura Ingalls Wilder stuff right there. Also, because there's no
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confederation in Ontario, the maple syrup you would buy at our festival is supporting local
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farmers and family-run sugar bushes. And then in all caps, oh, and you could try butter tarts,
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another famous delicacy from Ontario. Anyway, have you ever heard of a butter tart? No. Having
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been on a dessert television show? Butter tart, no. Sounds good. It does. Butter, anything. I love
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both of those things. Anyway, if anyone has read this, thank you. And please come to the
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Elmvale Maple Syrah Festival. And that's from Ashlyn Sheher. Oh, we're not coming. We're going to be the Grand Marshals this year.
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Yeah, that's right. We're going to be there. Amazing. Love the info. It just sounds like a great weekend anyway. I mean, I want to get into that Big Apple and
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see what exactly is happening. Hell yeah. Let's go straight from that lovely bit of not Americana
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to a deathbed confession. Great. It says humans and otherwise. When I was little,
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I had a great aunt who was such a raging bitch to me. It happens. I'd always just thought she
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needed a nap every single hour of her life and proceeded to go about my day playing mobster
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bookkeeper. They do the crimes. I do the books with my brothers, which I love that that's
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hilarious. Yeah. And trying my Barbies for witchcraft. Love it. Once I got older, my mom
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and I were on the horn chatting and I brought up this said aunt and how she was awful. Well,
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people react in all kinds of ways when they don't try to heal from the trauma of a murdered parent.
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My mom said, Oh my God, my jaw dropped all caps. What the fuck mom? This is prime family
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lore and I didn't know it. Flashback to like, I don't know, 800 years ago in the 1950s when said
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aunt was less old. She and her siblings had gone to school that day and later came home to a
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gruesome scene. Her father was hanging in the barn dead. The police had ruled it a suicide,
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but everyone who knew the man didn't think that seemed right. Most people brushed it off though,
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because it's hard to know what's going on in people's heads now. And it was hard then too.
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Time went on and that little girl grew up. Somewhere else in the state, dying in a hospital bed, was a man whose last words were her father's
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name, an accusation of an affair, and a murder confession, probably. This man had thought my aunt's father and his wife were having an affair and he decided
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to do something about it. That something resulted in a dead man. Is it true? Probably.
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Did he do it alone? Who's to say? Kyla. Wow, Kyla. Yeah. I mean, that's a lot of big feelings in that one email.
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Totally. Totally. So many questions. Also, it's just sad being a little kid and having someone be mean to you, especially like a relative.
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It doesn't really matter what the extenuating circumstances are. But then you hear that and then you go, oh, my God.
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Goodbye. Let's change it up with this. I'm not going to read you the subject line.
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It says, hey all, I've been wanting to write this story for a while, but after listening to Minisode 372, where you asked for funny stories that your family keeps retelling, I knew it was time.
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That's a good suggestion. Let's get right into it. I was 10 years old, the oldest of, at that time, four siblings. There's more coming. My brother was
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eight, and we were rushing to get to my baby sister's doctor's appointment. We were running
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late as usual when my brother let out a scream from the main floor bathroom. Somehow the door
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had jammed shut. We're still not sure what happened, as this door wasn't locked. My mom
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called a locksmith on her flip phone and, per his instructions, attempted to pick the bathroom door
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with a metal pick and then a credit card, all to no avail. My little brother, who tended to become
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dramatic in times of stress, was, to put it mildly, freaking out. He kept shrieking that he was going
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to quote stay in the bathroom forever and would never see our baby sister again end quote My mom frazzled as we were already late for the appointment and by my brother hysterics
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put down the lockpick and went into our garage and returned, I kid you not, with an axe.
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She calmly told my brother to stand on the toilet and face the wall and then, like the badass she is,
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chop a hole in the bathroom door. You gotta do it. Sometimes. She is. Holy shit.
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This is a woman with four children. Yeah. She doesn't have time for these. No. These antics.
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Grab an axe. Please do. We all stood there in shock as my mom set down the axe and then carefully lifted my brother through the jagged hole she made.
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Oh, my God. We then drove to the doctor's appointment. Oh, my God. When my dad got home from work that day, he stared at the hole in shock as my mom calmly recounted that day's events.
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To this day, we have never let her or my brother live it down good. My dad even made them pose for a picture.
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My brother in the bathroom, his head poking through the hole in the door, and my mom, the axe slung over her shoulder like a lumberjack.
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That is so cute. It's so cute. That's just one of the hysterical adventures we've gone through as a family, but it's definitely one of my favorites.
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Love to the podcast and shout out to Anne-Marie who recommended it to me a year ago.
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Thanks, Anne-Marie. Thank you. She's doing grassroots work like to this day, Anne-Marie.
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Appreciate you. Slowly making my way through the archive, mainly on my commutes to work and definitely not during work.
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Stay sexy and always keep an axe in the garage, A. We need an axe. Yeah. Yeah. Solves a lot of problems.
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You know what got me the most about that letter is someone listening to us. It just made me feel really old that an eight-year-old had a parent with a flip phone.
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I sometimes get those in a way where people are like, it was so long ago, 1997.
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Or I'm like, you know what? It's all relative. Time is a construct, you fucking asshole.
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My mom didn't have a cell phone until I was in my 20s. So that's just how old. I feel like my mom was against all technology right up until the end.
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I could see that. Yeah. As a nurse. Yeah. I don't know why. As a nurse, that doesn't make any fucking sense.
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Okay. This one's called A Car Ran Over My Lunch. Oh. Hello, fabulous ladies. I'm a day one listener and really enjoyed the first Rewind episode.
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Thank you. Thank you. In it, Georgia mentioned that she does not sit near windows at restaurants because a car could crash through it.
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It's true. She is not wrong. Here's my story. Oh, shit. Uh-huh. How's it satisfying to have someone come in and affirm your fear?
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Ugh. That's like the point of this podcast. Yeah, it kind of is. See? See? I love it.
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We told you. Yeah. I'm an accountant at a nonprofit in Madison, Wisconsin. In the summer of 2011, I was processing payroll and needed a break to clear my head.
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One of my favorite spots for a peaceful lunch was a sandwich shop that played classical music.
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I ordered a toasted cheese sandwich and a Diet Coke and headed to the side room with high tables along the windows.
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I hopped up on a stool with my side to the window. I was just getting started on my book and my sandwich when something caught my eye outside.
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There was a row of parking spots perpendicular to the building, and a car was driving towards the spot right outside the window.
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In a flash, I realized that they weren't slowing down, but were instead speeding up.
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I jumped off the stool and started running. The car crashed through the window, and the table I'd just been sitting at pushed into my back as I ran.
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Holy shit. Fucking like an action movie. Yes. The car hit the wall on the other side of the room and came to a stop.
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The driver still had their foot on the gas and the tires were burning on the tile floor, filling the restaurant with smoke.
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I ran into the main room and plopped into the first seat I came to. The man at the table said he had seen me running, but didn't know why.
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He said, quote, I thought you looked pretty stupid until that car crashed through the window.
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Thanks, sir. They just wrote nice. Okay. as the smoke started to clear the manager spotted me he had thought i was under the car and was
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completely freaking out oh because they would have been under the fucking car into the wall
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oh the idea that she was smart enough to run yeah like it doesn't matter if you look stupid
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sometimes you just gotta fucking go with your instincts especially with something where it's
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like what's the choice there yeah what's the outcome i'm gonna stay here and not be embarrassed
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and die or run. Come on. You got to run. Eventually, the car was turned off and the police arrived.
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The driver had hit the gas instead of the brakes and in their panic accelerated into
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the building. Thankfully, no one was injured. I was pretty shaken up by this incident and I didn't want to be afraid to get my favorite
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sandwich. So a few weeks later, I went into it. I went. That is the main concern here.
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I get it. Is that toasted cheese sandwich. That had to be good. What was that? Munster?
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Pepper Jack? What if toasted cheese and Diet Cokes are ruined for me forever? Because this fucking car.
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What if I had PTSD from toasted cheese sandwiches? I love this part of the story.
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They're going to fight back. They're going to fight for their right to toasted cheese.
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Well, she, Sarah, went in to order takeout. That was like her first step. Okay. The manager was at the register.
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And when he saw me, he flinched and knocked all the stacked paper cups off the counter onto the floor.
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He said he'd been having nightmares about me crushed by the car. Oh. I know. A few months later, I had lunch in the middle of the main room, away from the windows.
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I had hoped to eventually make it back to the side room where the accident occurred,
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but the shop closed for good before I was ready to give it a try. Thank you for your podcast.
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I love it more than I can explain. Stay sexy and always face the windows Sarah Sarah you so right But Sarah you have anonymity now You can sit next to any window for the rest of your life and you going to be fine because
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the chances of that happening twice to someone, anonymity is not the word, is it? Right. It is.
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I knew I was like, she's going to explain it. That's anonymous. Right. You mean like a free
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pass. Basically, you've beaten the odds, so there's no way it can happen again. But what's the word I was trying to say?
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Alejandra, do you know the word? Ben said immunity. Immunity. Yes. Ben got it. Yes.
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Thank you, Ben. It's immunity. There you go. But then she also, I thought you meant like she has the anonymity, like she can go sit
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by people who are sitting by windows and be like, you're very, you're very at risk right
00:18:42
now. Only I know. She's got something. You know what she got? she walks in a bubble of charmed air because that is coming so close that the table gets pushed into
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your mfing back like yeah are you kidding and the fact the foot's still on the gas pedal when it's
00:19:02
hit the wall like that to me is just so violent and scary yes that's amazing but i hate to
00:19:08
you know edit her story but it could have been really sweet if she had married that manager
00:19:14
the manager oh are they coming to business together she's toasty and as they build this
00:19:21
business she's like look me in the eyes your nightmares aren't true let's build a life together
00:19:26
oh my god 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
00:19:36
turning heads at age 14 making plays that end up on everyone's feed scoring from angles that don't
00:19:41
makes sense, rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust. Because Next doesn't wait
00:19:47
for an invitation, and Hyundai doesn't either. Hyundai has always moved the future within reach.
00:19:51
Hyundai did it by making advanced safety standard on every vehicle. Hyundai did it by engineering
00:19:56
EVs with ultra-fast charging capability. And Hyundai continues doing it every day. From robotics
00:20:02
that change how people live to young athletes changing the game, the future isn't some far-off
00:20:06
concept. It's already here. Next starts now. Hyundai, an official partner of FIFA. Goodbye.
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I won't read you this subject line. Well, I actually can. Grandparents who don't snitch.
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hello all i'm uncomfortable but you asked for stories about grandparents having your back
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so i'll get right to it hopefully it's decent enough to make it on the pod it is i'm the
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youngest of three to a single mom who worked at least three jobs most of my life if you think
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about i've worked two jobs oh my god and it almost killed me yeah working three jobs and having kids
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and people do it all the time in this country especially these days it's insane because we don't
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pay enough okay that's for another time when they could my grandparents norman and barbara
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took care of us otherwise we were left to our own devices okay so it's 2008 obama's running for
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presidential office i 15 learned to drive stick shift because my mom was convinced i would get
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stranded somewhere. And the only option for rescue or safety would be me needing to drive a standard
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vehicle. I love it. Yes. That's the level of anxiety I want as a parent. Yeah. Just let's do
00:22:06
preventative measures every possible where we can. Right. Luckily, this mom didn't know about
00:22:12
the story you just told where it's like, also, we weren't allowed to sit by windows. Okay. So that's
00:22:18
the mom's plan, but it was not going well. Anyway, I had to go to my friend's house and it had as
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all caps. Since no one would take me, and being the brat that I was, I grabbed the keys to the
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shared, beat-up 1996 Jetta and my learner's permit and headed out, grinding gears, stalling,
00:22:35
causing traffic, and in near tears, the whole walkable eight miles, which stopped me dead in
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my tracks, where I was like, are you out of your ever-loving mind? No, it's not. I arrived safely
00:22:47
at my destination. Taking a moment to collect myself, I flip open my razor to see a voicemail
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from my sister saying, mom reported the car stolen. And if I didn't get home right away,
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I would be arrested and put in jail. Adrenaline already high. This sent me into a full blown panic.
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So instead of going home or any other logical solution, I decided to drive an hour and over
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30 miles of winding mountain back roads and across state lines to my grandparents' house.
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It was the only other place I knew how to get to. And teen logic told me the police wouldn't
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look for me there. By some miracle, I arrived at my grandparents without incident. I walked through
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the front door, tears streaming down my cheeks and visibly shaking to my sweet grandparents
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sitting in their lazy boys watching the weather channel. And I just blurted out, I stole the jet
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and mom wants me in jail. My grandma jumped up to calm me down the way only grandmas can. As I told
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her exactly what I did and grandpa silently walked out to check the car. Graham got on the phone to
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call my mom. She lied to my mother, saying her and my grandpa picked me up to give me driving lessons,
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and she was sorry they didn't. Well, folks, my mom had no idea what she was talking about.
00:24:04
Better yet, she didn't even know I was gone. My sister just wanted to use the car.
00:24:10
Oh, my God. I mean, that part is such a showstopper. And so classically sister behavior.
00:24:21
So it says, I stayed the night and received real lessons the following morning from Gramps as they drove me home.
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Graham following behind to be a buffer from the honking. These are the best grandparents of all time.
00:24:32
That's so sweet. My sister and I both lost car privileges for a week. The sister goes down too for that.
00:24:41
Fuck yeah, she does. She should more so. She should get that. She caused that. My sister and I both lost car privileges for a week.
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But does that really matter when you're a latchkey kid? No, it actually doesn't.
00:24:53
My grandparents were truly incredible people. I hit the jackpot with them. I miss them both every second of every day.
00:25:00
Stay sexy and go to your grandma who won't hesitate to lie for you. Gigi, she, her.
00:25:06
Gigi's my grandma's nickname. It was my grandma's nickname. Full circle. That is so sweet.
00:25:13
I love that so much. I definitely cried in the beginning of learning how to drive stick.
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Oh, my God. With cars honking behind me, like on a hill. I'll never forget my sister learning to drive stick.
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me and my dad had volkswagons our whole life so he was he could like build them and fix them and
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stuff that was the whole point of like it's good to have a car like this because you can fix it
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yourself and i was in the back seat my sister's driving and doing it wrong so we're just going
00:25:41
back and forth like that like everyone's and my dad's screaming at her because he's just a
00:25:46
constant screamer right i am in the back seat laughing like i can't stop laughing and she
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starts crying because she and it's like well you just like you just have to pull the clutch out
00:25:56
slower like you're just doing it wrong it was mayhem and then by the time I was there I was
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just like I gonna be the best stick shift hell yeah of all time oh yeah yeah I was I was really good at it Yeah It a skill It a true skill It is Okay This one long
00:26:13
My last one. It's called Trash Dad. More like Treasure Dad. Aw. And it ends with some good grandparent names, too.
00:26:22
Nice. Okay. Hi, Karen in Georgia. I have been listening since the episode had number pun names.
00:26:28
Thanks for being my headphone friends for more than eight years. Headphone friends?
00:26:33
You asked for trash dad stories and here's mine, but I think by the end you'll agree that my dad is actually a treasure dad.
00:26:40
My classic trash dad drove a series of junkie looking pickup trucks that secretly had supercharged engines because he had a friend who built race car engines.
00:26:48
Hell yes. Fuck yeah. And kick and stereo systems. He smoked his Marlboros out the window and ashed in an empty can of his ever present diet Shasta.
00:26:59
And then it says, did I learn this the hard way? Like every kid sure as hell did.
00:27:02
Yep. Taking a big swig. Oh my God. She took a sip of it. Of course. Oh, I didn't get that at first.
00:27:10
And it says, I sure as hell did. He also rode a Harley and had tons of biker friends who he did the Toys for Tots run with every year.
00:27:17
He was a mechanic on European sports cars and then a typesetter when I was very little, which meant we had a DIY darkroom in the garage.
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And then it says, pause to insert an explanation to the youths and maybe to everyone of what a typesetter did if you would like.
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Sure. Another tough thing, we can do it. I thought typesetting had to do with like the newspaper and stuff.
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I don't know what it has to do with the darkroom. Yeah, me too. Please write back in if you have an explanation yourself that you want to give up.
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Tell us your weird typesetter story. And he had a Siamese cat who was named Cat.
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My grandma's Siamese cat from the same litter was naturally named Cat 2, like cat number two.
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Yeah. I was devastated when I was around six and Cat died of old age at 17. after a prosperous life of scaring the neighborhood kids
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and murdering the Blue Jays who tried to hassle her. So for Christmas, my dad got me a tabby kitten
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and I named her Snuggles. Several months later a wildfire hit my small California town and we had to evacuate My mom drove in my grandma house but we couldn find snuggles and the confusion of leaving And I was of course inconsolable
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When my dad got out of class across town, he talked to my mom and found out about the kitten and how sad I was.
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So my treasure dad got on his motorcycle and sped towards our home. When he got to the fire department barriers, he convinced the firefighters that he needed to get into the house because his daughter's kitten was in there.
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What if one of them was your dad? Right? No, you mean like my dad? Yeah, like Jim.
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Because it's a small California town. Oh, did they say anything else about? No, not about that.
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Anyway, they agreed because my shy dad can low key talk anyone into anything. Dad went into the house, scooped up my kitty, zipped her into his motorcycle jacket and rode the 15 or so miles to my grandma's house.
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There are so many great things about my dad. He got me into David Lynch through his love for Twin Peaks and getting me to watch Eraserhead at maybe age 11.
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No. He's always been into good music and great stereo equipment, and he wouldn't let me join the Girl Scouts because it seemed fascist.
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My dad was in Vietnam, and one of the few times I've seen him cry was at an Arlo Guthrie concert during When a Soldier Makes It Home.
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And he and my mom have been married for 48 years. Hell yes. My dad is turning 80 this year.
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I love him so much. And I'm so lucky to have a treasure dad as a role model for doing your own thing.
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And of course, being obsessed with cats. SSDGM, Anna. And then it says, P.S. Bonus grandma names.
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Mine were Undine and Mildred. Oh. I had to look up Undine. That's how it's Irish, right?
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Some like mythological or something. Oh, OK. Also, my dad's dad name was Lloyd. And in addition to a son also named Lloyd, he had a daughter named Lloydine.
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No, that's it. Yep. Lloydine. Lloydine, get over here. Lloydine, give me that Shasta.
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That's mine. Oh, that's not, there's nothing. I understand what they meant by the title but there nothing trashy about that dad No I get it but no I think that dad was of a time Totally It so like 70s 80s
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Yeah, you can smell it. It smells like exhaust and cigarettes and all the things.
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