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selling a persona of confidence and care, patients trusted him. He wore cowboy boots in the operating room
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and became sought after by patients. He promised to heal them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.
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This is a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice. Listen to Dr. Death the Cowboy wherever you get your podcasts
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Goodbye. Hello. And welcome. To my favorite murder. The mini-sode. It's Minnie. We read you your stories.
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Quick emails. You wrote us. We read back. Yeah. It could be that anything at this point.
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Truly. Kick it off. You want to? Sure. This is called the Titanic story you haven't heard.
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Oh, yes. Mm. Hi, murder friends. I've been waiting for one of my Halifax Mortarino companions to write in about this,
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but since I haven't heard any related stories on the mini-sode yet, I think it's safe to say no one has written in.
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Halifax is forever tied to the Titanic. Much of the wreckage from the Titanic washed up on the shores of Nova Scotia
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and now rests in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in downtown Halifax. I did not know that.
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I didn't either. That's interesting. There's also a cemetery here where 150 victims found their final resting place.
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I think that's the closest land, right, where they were all taken. Yeah, it seems like it.
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Yeah. But the story you really haven't heard is about the filming of the movie Titanic, which also took place in Halifax.
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On August 26, 1996, dozens of the cast and crew of Titanic wound up in the hospital after eating lobster chowder.
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It was presumed at the time to be food poisoning. Shortly after eating the chowder, diners, including director James Cameron and actor Bill Paxton, started feeling disoriented and unwell.
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Except it wasn't actually food poisoning. After an investigation, it was determined the chowder was laced with angel dust or PCP.
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Oh my God. Wait, what? I know. Lobster chowder of all things. And also that drug is so crazy awful.
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Like, it's such a terrible thing to do. It had to be an accident because we always say people don't share their drugs with strangers.
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Unless there was some local that was like pissed off about something. Yeah, that's true.
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I mean, anyway. Yeah. Apparently it was so delicious, people kept going back for more,
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making them even sicker than if they had had a small portion. Sorry. I know. I just don't like seafood, so it's all really gross to me.
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And then on top of that, it's like, oh, this is really good. And it's like, no, it's the drugs.
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No, I would eat pounds of that with or without the drugs. Yeah. Because it's fresh.
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I mean, like, it's like right there. I bet it's incredible. So it's no surprise to me people were going back for seconds.
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The East Coast of Canada has some of the best seafood in the world. Hey. There are a lot of theories about who may have had the motive and opportunity to spike the chowder.
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But to this day, no one knows who it was. Luckily, no one was seriously harmed in the incident.
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Stay sexy and be wary of the chowder, Sarah. I am. You know, here's a theory. What if it was a lobster avenging his family's murder for the chowder?
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That could be it. What about starting at the source? Maybe it was the lobster. They're vicious, vicious animals.
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Yeah. I think we all know that. Goes all the way to the top. The idea that you would suddenly be told, sorry, you're on angel dust.
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Yeah. It's like nightmare. It's so horrible. Yeah. Here's my first one. The subject line is Civil War muskets!
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Exclamation point. Hey, y'all. After hearing on Minnesota 307 that you wanted to hear about Civil War reenacting, I felt compelled to write in.
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From 2001 to about 2015, I was a Civil War reenactor who attended events in the Mid-Atlantic area on the East Coast.
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I was and still am a history nerd. And the hobby felt like a good way to get a better idea of what those soldiers went through in the 1860s.
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That makes sense. Yeah. Interesting. You asked about the muskets soldiers used then, and they were indeed very potent.
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The rifles that the North and South used were quite similar They were long maybe four and a half feet remarkably accurate and could quote reach out and touch someone several football fields away The bullets they
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used were more than half an inch in diameter and cone-shaped, so they flew straighter.
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Pretty remarkable for the technology of 150 years ago. Rifles today use much smaller bullets, but with much more energy. Older muskets used in the
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American Revolution used literal balls of lead, which were not nearly as accurate or long range.
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The Civil War has a popular reputation for battlefield amputations because of the bullets
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the muskets used. They were hefty and their mass could shatter bones upon impact. That's horrible.
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With no way to effectively heal bones and prevent infection due to the medical technology of the
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time, amputation was the only way to save a soldier's life. During reenactments, the two
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sides shoot at each other with just gunpowder, so it looks real enough. But the reenactors are
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very strict about safety during these events. People do use Civil War-style muskets to hunt
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with today. And no doubt the story you read about the reenactors using muskets to corner a fugitive
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would have been frightening for the man on the business end. I almost lost an eye due to a
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mishap with my own rifle during a reenactment, but that's a story for another day. Stay sexy
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and keep history alive, Neil. Wow, I would never have guessed that we had a Civil War reenacted listener, ever.
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I'm honored. I am too. And the fact that then Neil actually was good enough to give us some information.
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That's right. Is very generous. I'm sure you would rather have been reading some Civil War book.
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So thank you for taking the time to communicate. That's really fascinating because I also would have guessed
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the Civil War bullets were like the American Revolution bullets. Me too. And that's interesting.
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Yeah. We learn something new every day, don't we? This podcast. Thank God we have listeners who know stuff because we sure don't.
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We love a good follow-up, I'll say. Yes. Yes. For sure. While the world watches the stars at the FIFA World Cup this summer,
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Hyundai has its eyes on the next generation of talent. The future soccer stars who are already turning heads at age 14.
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And Hyundai continues doing it every day. 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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who is the ghost hunter couple, the female, in case everyone doesn't know, she's the like old school 70s ghost hunter couple that did like exorcisms and they were like famous for it.
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We've talked about them before, satanic panic, bullshit, all that stuff. You're thinking of Vera Farmiga's face, but she is simply the actor who plays Mrs. Warren.
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That's right. Good job. Hi, all. After your recent episode about the demon murder trial,
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I felt like I had to write in to tell you at the time I had dinner with Lorraine Warren.
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So nice. Back in 2009, I was a freshman attending college in Savannah, Georgia. I got a gig working as a ghost tour guide in the evenings,
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walking groups of tourists around the city and sharing its haunted history. On my tour route, there was one house that had been investigated by the Warrens.
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Being as this was pre-Conjuring franchise, this was my first introduction to them.
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That summer, when I was back home in New York City, I decided to do a little more research about the Warrens
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since I was really intrigued by what I knew about them from my tour guide spiel.
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I wound up on their very janky website and somehow wound up on the page where they were offering an experience
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where you could go to dinner with Lorraine and visit her Museum of the Occult in Connecticut.
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Mm-hmm. On a whim, I emailed them and got a prompt response back from her son-in-law saying
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that Lorraine would be happy to book a dinner and museum tour. They just had a 10-person minimum.
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I knew my friends and family would not be as interested in this adventure as I was.
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So I decided to book it as my birthday party that year so they would have no choice but to go along
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with. That's genius. Sneaky. I love it. Because also that would be a very difficult thing to think
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of for your friend Yeah Like you would have to know all that information to then book it So like I love that they just did it for themselves Hell yeah So one August evening we headed to Monroe
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Connecticut to celebrate my 20th birthday with Lorraine Warren. We were greeted by a very
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friendly Lorraine who had a wholesome grandmotherly vibe despite her long career investing the
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paranormal. She brought us down to her basement where she showed us an old VHS tape of her and
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Ed performing an exorcism. And that says, actually incredibly disturbing. Talked about
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reading auras and then got us ready to go to the Museum of the Occult, which turned
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out to be in her garage. Before going in, she very sternly told us to make sure we didn't
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touch anything while we were there. If we accidentally bumped into something, she told us to tell
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her immediately so she could get the local priest to come over and perform a blessing
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ASAP. I'd be like, I don't know. I don't want to go in your garage. No, thank you.
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We all very carefully stepped through the museum, which was brimming with all sorts of things she collected over the years.
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It was actually very difficult not to bump into anything. We even got to see the actual Annabelle doll that was later made famous in the movies.
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IRL, it was a Raggedy Ann doll in a bulletproof glass case. Because that doll has powers.
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That's right. Bulletproof, full of powers. Yep. The evening concluded with a trip to Ed's grave and dinner at a local Italian restaurant.
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The conversation was actually surprisingly normal and really just felt like we were hanging out with a charming old lady who mainly wanted to talk about her late husband and her love of animals.
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As we were leaving, though, Lorraine gave me a copy of her and Ed's book, The Demonologist.
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And as she was signing it to me, she said, I'm also going to write my phone number in here because you're going to need help one day.
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I still have that book and for years I was terrified that I would find myself frantically
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calling Lorraine Warren in the midst of some terrible paranormal episode. From my limited experience, it seemed like she truly believed in the work she was doing,
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but that it was heavily colored by her very devout Catholicism. Whatever the case may be, it was definitely a night to remember and I'm very lucky that
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I have such wonderful friends and family that are willing to indulge me on my birthday.
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Best, Isabel. Isabel, that was such a good idea. that your friends and family are lucky to be able to go to that birthday party.
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Because what an actual interesting... We can all go to Dave & Buster's. Sure. We can all go bowling.
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It's pretty standard. But to actually have an experience with somebody who's lived this life,
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whether the things are real or if they're... Sorry to do this, but whether they're conjuring all of it and it's all fake.
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Who knows? But clearly, that would be a fascinating kind of exchange. I don't agree with Lorraine Warren creeping her out that way where it's like,
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you're going to need it someday. That's horrifying. Yes. I bet she does that to a lot of people.
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I bet they kind of love having that little piece and she knows it, that little piece to take home.
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Yeah, I guess that's true. You know what I would do? What? Like if my car broke down, I would call her and be like,
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well, you have to come and get me. There's a ghost in my car. There's a ghost in my flat tire.
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Oh, good one. I like that one. Yeah, me too. I think especially post-COVID, I'm always like, what's something I actually want to do?
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And I can't ever think of anything. Oh, I have no idea. We'll talk about this on the main episode.
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I don't know what the fuck is happening. Yeah. It's like, what's interesting? Yeah.
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I don't know. The movie? What am I curious about? I forgot. Yeah. I don't know. Go outside.
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I have to say, I'm home right now at my dad's house. And I have had to go to the local hardware store several times.
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and Rex Hardware in Petaluma, California. I played on their softball team when I was seven.
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It is the most fun hardware store. I love a local hardware store. They have a stuffed polar bear in the front window,
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which is like, that's not hardware related in any way. No, no. The people that work there have worked there
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since probably the 60s. Yeah. They know where everything is. You could literally walk in with like a bolt
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and they'd be like, it's right over here. Yeah, I love that. It's the best. But so my dad only has a couple mugs.
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If he and I both drink coffee, it's like now there's no mugs. So I was like, oh, I'm going to get because we had to get other dumb stuff at the hardware store.
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Yeah. And so I was like, I'm going to get a coffee mug. And I went over to there.
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I knew this would happen. I went to their coffee mug session. I found a mug that has a picture of a cow and it says, live with gratitude.
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What? A photo of a cow's face staring. So it looks like a cow stuck its head over the fence to look at you.
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And then so the cow just kind of looks kind of dumb. And then it says live with gratitude.
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What does that even mean? I can't even begin to piece those two clues together. It's like something a lady at your work would have made herself like,
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oh, I got this mug making kit. It made me laugh so hard. I was like, oh, I have to get this one.
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There was also a pig that said like be kind, like a picture of a pig. Sure. Then there was one that was like freehand drawing of a gnome standing in a ring of mushrooms.
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And I'm like, yep, got to get the gnome mug. It was like, it's the best. I love it.
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Anyway, that's what I'm interested in, apparently. I'm going to have my next birthday there.
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You make everyone go to the hardware store with you. We all have to shop in the hardware store for an hour and then we'll go to get pizza.
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Okay. The subject line of this next email is the time our trash dad almost got us struck by lightning.
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Hi, ladies, pets, and friends of all sorts. I grew up in Western Colorado with my mom, but my dad lived in Denver.
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So every summer, my sister and I would go stay with him. In Colorado, the yearly rain average is something like four inches.
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It rarely rains, but when it does, it's usually a quick passing storm. For some reason, Denver gets particularly bad lightning storms when that does happen.
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So one summer day when I was about 12 years old, our dad decided to take us to the driving range to hit some golf balls He was a great golfer so we would frequently hang out with him at the golf course It was such a divorced dad thing
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My dad would take us to the local football field and just let us hit golf balls.
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It was a divorced dad. I don't know what to do with these kids. I don't have a lot of money.
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Just hit some fucking golf balls, you brats. Here, this is kind of interesting to me, so I'll watch you do it.
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It won't be like torture. When things were going well, he'd take us to the miniature golf course.
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But when things weren't, it'd just be fucking slamming balls at the local high school.
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Marty! Aim away from the windows, Marty. Okay. It was a normal sunny Colorado day, but quickly turned doom and gloom while we were hitting our balls.
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An announcement blared over the intercom saying that we all needed to evacuate the driving range due to the incoming storm.
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We packed up our stuff and headed out to the parking lot. Being a young child and never having much experience with storms, I asked my dad why we had to leave.
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He told us that the clubs act as a natural lightning rod, so it's not safe to be out golfing while there's any lightning.
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He then proceeded to be a huge smartass and stick his club in the air saying something like, here, God, hit me.
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We laughed and then started to pack everything in the car. The next thing I knew, I heard the loudest crack I had ever heard, and everything went white around me.
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Oh, my God. The only thing I could make out was the silhouette of a tree less than 40 feet away from me.
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The feeling of electricity jolted through my body and was unlike anything I'd ever felt before.
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Imagine getting electric shock, but from head to toe. My dad jumped about five feet in the air, and within a second, it was gone.
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We quickly realized what had happened, and my sister and I begged my dad to unlock the car.
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I think we all just sat in shock, and I'm pretty sure I was sobbing. We then went and got lunch at our favorite spot to go when we were visiting.
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To this day, it's the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I now live in Boston where it storms much more frequently, and you bet your ass I haven't been to a driving range since.
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Weirdly enough, a few years ago, a friend of a friend was golfing in Boulder and got struck by lightning and sadly ended up dying.
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Oh, my God. So tragic, but a good reminder not to fuck with nature because it is incredibly powerful.
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Stay sexy and don't go golfing during a storm, Erin. Wow. I think the lightning hit nearby, but didn't hit.
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I think it hit a tree, yeah. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, she saw the tree. When she said she saw the outline.
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Got it. but if it had happened a few minutes earlier, it would have hit his fucking golf club probably.
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Yeah. I mean, Jesus. That's why I don't golf. No, that's not true. And that's why I don't tempt the Lord.
00:20:51
Kind of boring. While the world watches the stars at the FIFA world cup this summer,
00:20:57
Hyundai has its eyes on the next generation of talent. The future soccer stars who are already turning heads at age 14,
00:21:03
making plays that end up on everyone's feed, scoring from angles that don't make sense, rewriting record books that barely had time to
00:21:10
gather dust. Because Next doesn't wait for an invitation, and Hyundai doesn't either. Hyundai
00:21:14
has always moved the future within reach. Hyundai did it by making advanced safety standard on every
00:21:19
vehicle. Hyundai did it by engineering EVs with ultra-fast charging capability. And Hyundai
00:21:24
continues doing it every day. From robotics that change how people live to young athletes changing
00:21:29
the game, the future isn't some far-off concept. It's already here. Next starts now. Hyundai,
00:21:35
an official partner of FIFA. Goodbye. Peace of mind can be hard to come by, especially at 2 a.m. when your house suddenly makes a weird noise. That's why so many people
00:21:44
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00:21:49
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Listen, Cookie is a really good watchdog, but she's not going to tell me what is actually
00:22:08
going on. If it's a raccoon or if it's a person looking through my windows, like you have to get this
00:22:13
level of safety if you want to feel as safe as possible. So you know what's going on.
00:22:18
So I just feel safer with actually having something like SimpliSafe around. There's a whole staff at SimpliSafe that's waiting to talk to you and help you out and
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tell you, no, you're fine. It's a raccoon. Right now you can get 50% off your new system by visiting simplisafe.com slash MFM.
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That's half off at simplisafe.com slash MFM. There's no safe like SimpliSafe. Goodbye.
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Terms and conditions apply. See Pandora.net for more details. Goodbye. This is my last one.
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A toddler, a ghost, and a Chinese buffet. Hello and welcome one and all. This is quite the tale.
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I like being told welcome to their email. Welcome. Welcome to my email. When I was about four years old, my family was going to a local family-owned Chinese buffet.
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We went there all the time and my dad actually used to work there off and on before my parents got married.
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Anyways, the family that owned the place had really taken a liking to me, especially the family matriarch who I called Nai Nai, which is grandma in Mandarin Chinese.
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She would give me small gifts and candy every time we ate there. So back to that day, we're in the car on the way to the restaurant when my mom asked,
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aren't you excited to see Nai Nai? And without missing a beat, and again, she's four, I said, no, Nai Nai's dead.
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This obviously shook my parents as they quickly tried to correct me to say things like,
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no, she's fine, she isn't dead. Well, when we get to the restaurant and walk in the door,
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We instantly noticed everyone's solemn faces. Nai Nai had in fact died. My parents' jaws hit the floor.
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There was no way I could have possibly known this. I was a closely watched only child and just a toddler.
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She wasn't closely watched. Did you make a phone call? How did you know that? Have you been calling Nai Nai?
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They could only assume I had been visited by her spirit before it left this earthly plane.
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We still talk about the story and how I knew she had passed away before either of them did.
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I hope she is happy wherever she is. Thank you for the stories and all the laughs.
00:24:38
SSDGM and don't be afraid of kind spirits. Alex, he, him. Oh, Alex, I love, I wonder if that's just some sort of like unexplainable human connection thing where children are much more aware and open to it.
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Yes. You know what I mean? I think children for sure are more like connected to the afterlife.
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Yeah. Ooh, can you imagine being in the front seat of that car when that child says that?
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Nine eyes dead. Nine eyes dead. I'm not excited to see her. Why don't you guys grow up?
00:25:11
What? Okay. Is that it? No, I have one more. Oh, okay. I kind of love it. The subject line is landfill meet cute.
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Hello, everybody. Five years ago, this upcoming January, I started work on a landfill just outside the Detroit airport.
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It's one of the biggest landfills in the company, taking in at its busiest time, like 20 tons of waste a day.
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It's not all trash. Much of it is demo, but I digress. I, at the time, had the grossest job on the landfill.
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My job was mostly dealing with landfill gas which if you can handle the smell and don inhale a whole bunch of it isn that bad of a gig Oh my God This is fascinating
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I know, right? It's when it comes to landfill liquids removal where my job starts to get gross, but that's for another day.
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Anyways, not long into my employment, one of the roll-off drivers, and in parentheses it says,
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think people who pick up the really, really large dumpsters from Walmart and such.
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pulled over and was trying to chat me up. But he had braces and rubber bands on his teeth,
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and I have ADHD, so I had no idea if he was cute or not as a result. Probably one of my favorite email lines of all time.
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Yeah, that's how you know that you don't know. You just can't know. The second time he pulled over to talk to me,
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if you can't tell, I am outside for 90% of my day working outside of a truck. I was able to tell if he was attractive. At the time, I was just talking to this other guy.
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So when this driver, who at this point in the story introduced himself as Marty,
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asked for my number, I said, sure. Well, within a couple of weeks, I started dating this other dude,
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and I told Marty I wasn't interested. From that point on, he never texted me again.
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But for the next two years, every single day, Marty would honk and wave at me every time he saw me out working on the hill.
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Then one day, I was parked on the road that actually goes up the hill, and he parks his truck next to me and hops out and runs to my truck to talk to me.
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He blocked the entire road though. And as previously stated in this, this is a really
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busy landfill. So this meant he backed up traffic really bad, like 20 trucks in each direction bad.
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I asked him what the fuck he was doing. And he said, asking you out. So I said, sure, fine, whatever, just move your truck. And he said, is your number still the same?
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I figured he had deleted it since he never texted me after I told him I wasn interested and I said still the same now get back in your truck and go already He smiled ran over to his truck and then honked one long excruciatingly embarrassing honk the entire way up the mountain
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Three days later, we went on our first date. Nearly three years later, he now likes to jump out from behind doors at me and cause me stress.
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No. But he is the sweetest, goofiest man I've ever met. And I love him dearly. Stay sexy and find love wherever you can.
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Sam, she, her. Isn't that the sweetest? He was persistent. I love it. But not like stalkery.
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He was like... No, he was like, he listened to her, but then also was like, that's fine.
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I'll just wait this out. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Dreamy. Dreamy. Landfill. I want to know more about working in the landfill.
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What do you find? What is it like? I'm dying to know. What's out there and what have you found that's unbelievable?
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And the smell, I can't even imagine. Yeah, that smells pretty rough. We used to have to go to the dump because we lived outside of
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city limits. So my dad had to dump it off and it's pretty rough. But now I think they're getting,
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that was the 70s. Now that they're doing recycling, I think they're getting it together.
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