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Own the dream. Hello. And welcome. To my favorite murder. The mini-sode. This is where we read you your stories.
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Back to you. Will it be you this week? Let's find out. Good question. Do you want to go first?
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Sure. The subject line of this first email is, my grandfather survived an F4 tornado.
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Oh, dear. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Tornado stories. Hello to all the beautiful people and pets of MFM.
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In episode 331, Karen told the story of the tri-state tornado of 1925, 1925, and I immediately knew I had to write in with this story about another tornado outbreak.
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On May 31st, 1985, there was a huge tornado outbreak across Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York,
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and Ontario. A total of 44 tornadoes touched down in a single day, and 89 people were killed. 65 of
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those were in Pennsylvania. One of those tornadoes was an F4, spinning at over 200 miles per hour,
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and estimated to be traveling at more than 100 miles per hour. Within a matter of seconds, it ripped through the very small town of Atlantic, Pennsylvania,
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where my grandparents live. My grandmother was working at the post office in the next town.
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My mom and her two older sisters no longer lived at home. My mom's younger sister was in her room getting ready for a date,
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and her date arrived to pick her up early. Unknowingly, this lucky timing saved her life,
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and she ended up marrying him about two years later. If she'd been home when the storm arrived, she would have almost certainly died as her room was completely gone.
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Only the inner wall and the floor remained. Holy shit. Punctuality for the win. Right?
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Being early. Yeah. So regal. But the most impressive survivor story of the day was my grandfather.
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He'd gotten in the car to head to the store and drove to the end of the driveway.
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He said he looked both ways before pulling into the road. To the left, he saw nothing, and to the right, he saw a tornado coming over the hill,
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headed directly toward him. The house was set back from the road, and the storm was moving quickly,
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so he knew he couldn't make it back to the house to take cover. Instead, he got out of the car and
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rolled underneath it. When the storm reached him, he was picked up and thrown about 300 feet.
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Miraculously, he was mostly unharmed. Aside from a giant cut down the length of his forearm,
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He still has a nasty scar. It seems crazy to have gotten out of the car, but it's a good thing he did
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because once they found the car, stuck in a tree down the road, there was a giant piece of broken
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wood lodged in the headrest. It would have killed him. I was born less than two years later, but I
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grew up hearing stories and seeing photos of the aftermath. As a result, I was terrified of tornadoes.
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I could never sleep during thunderstorms. I was convinced that a tornado would come in the middle
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of the night and destroy our house. I memorized all the warning signs, the same ones Karen mentioned
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in the episode. The sky turns green, the winds blow the leaves upside down. I don't think I
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mentioned that. What? That's a warning sign. The winds blow the leaves upside down. Birds stop
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singing and then you'll hear the sound of a freight train approaching. Luckily, we've never
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had a storm like that since. But to this day, everyone in the area is hypervigilant about storms
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and always prepared for the worst. So stay sexy, stay inside, and stay safe from tornadoes.
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Courtney, she, her. No, I don't ever want to be in a tornado, please. Yeah. Okay, this one's just called Hometown,
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and it starts Spirit Guides of the Donner Party-like Adventure that is 2020. So although we live in Virginia now,
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this one takes place just outside Seattle, along the picturesque Maple Valley Highway.
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The Cedar River runs along it where the salmon run. It's truly fucking gorgeous, although suburban as fuck in Microsoft and Amazon's backyard.
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So it's definitely heavily wooded and very shrubby and bushy. So this was maybe 10 years ago.
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And this local woman goes missing on her way home from a night shift at a Fred Meyer store, I believe.
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She left work then poof she disappeared So the husband tried to file a missing persons report but almost immediately once they began taking it seriously they zeroed in on the husband and decided he knew more
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At first, they thought she was a runaway. She's like a 30-something-year-old woman.
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Oh. So like day eight here, and they literally have the husband hooked up to the polygraph machine
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when they ping her cell phone after eight freaking days. I think there was some, quote, privacy issues.
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I'm not sure what the holdup was, but they finally do it. Lo and behold, they get a hit from it and find her alive, you guys.
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And I believe upside down, trapped in her vehicle down a 20-foot embankment. Oh my God.
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She'd gone off the road somehow in the early morning hours and the blackberry bushes and
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heavy shrubs had basically closed back up behind her. So it wasn't super obvious from the road
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that anything had happened at all. I remember I drove that same road back and forth to work,
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and I can see how easily this could have happened along there. I thought of her daily driving this road after this
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and can't imagine the outcome if they hadn't found her when they did. Her name is Tanya Ryder.
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If you want to Google the actual facts, she wrote about it herself. And she fucking survived eight days being trapped
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upside down in the wreckage of her car, surely thinking after a while that no one was going to come save her
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while her husband was being suspected of her disappearance right down the road. Anywho, I've been writing out 2020 in an apartment with a four and five-year-old and our beloved 14-year-old dog named Pig.
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I'm diabetic, so we're taking this shit rather seriously. And you two have saved me from the brink of sanity so many times, not being able to work, go in stores, or even hug my mom since March.
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God, I remember those days. Yes, God. I loved you with my whole huge black heart, even before all this.
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I first found you while healing from an abusive, shitty relationship. and you guys gave me my fight back after I forgot who the fuck I was for a minute or seven years.
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But you truly have been a lifeline and made me feel less alone every Monday and Thursday
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religiously. SSDGM, stay out of the forest, not even in your car. Don't let a ghost crash happen
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to you. Most sincerely, Star. Oh, Star. Yeah. I mean, so much there. So much going on.
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We're all hanging upside down in our vehicles with the shrubs closed behind us, aren't we?
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We really are waiting for someone to ping us and find us. No one can see that the tire marks are very subtle and the bushes are slightly askew.
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That's a great, great analogy. God, that's scary. I feel like I saw on some, I just remember watching a reenactment and the way they found,
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I don't know if, I think actually the person that happened to was a man, but a very, very
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similar story. And the way they found him was a psychic, kept dreaming of that stretch of road and couldn't, like was having, like being haunted by it.
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Oh my God. But see, this is my habit of just retelling old TV memories. But this chick was upside down, broken fucking ribs.
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Her arm was out of, like she almost had to get her leg amputated. It's so crazy, but she survived.
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Also surviving eight days with probably very little water, although she was on the season.
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Hey to my only favorite Californian ladies. Wow. Ouch. What's happening? What happened to you?
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I'm a huge fan that has listened since episode one. Oh, what? Thank you. And I'm fairly disappointed that I had to check out other podcasts while I wait for your
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news stories to come out. don't be disappointed there's so many good ones yeah i found a few i enjoy but still wish it was
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your voices i was listening to anyway i have a drunk kid story for y'all if you're interested
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i was 12 years old in sydney ohio spending the weekend at my uncle paul's with my mom cinda
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the only cinda i've met to this day the next day i was about to meet up with a friend to go
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snowboarding my mom and uncle went out for only 45 minutes and i saw this as the perfect opportunity
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to kick back and drink my uncle's famous Budweiser bottles, as you never saw him without one.
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You could be at home with my dad. Although he's cans, not bottles. I was on my third bottle.
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What? How old is this kid again? Twelve. I can't even drink three fucking bottles of beer without blacking out.
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Right. Well, she, first of all, had a task. She had a time limit. Sure. This is all kinds of at-home-alone hijinks that I'm getting that feeling in my stomach of like, now I want to do this too.
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I was on my third bottle when they returned, and only then did I realize I was in deep shit.
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I hid the evidence in the bathtub, and then in parentheses it says, so smart, I know, and tried to act natural on the couch.
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They suggested lunch at Perkins. And all I remember at this point is slugging my way to the car,
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falling all over the place while my uncle helped me into the restaurant to our table.
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They thought I was playing drunk and acting stupid. And then it's dot, dot, dot, which I have never done before.
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After I puked all the beer all over the entire table, it was then that my mom realized that I was wasted.
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She took me to the restroom and let me hug that nasty toilet till I stopped puking.
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The next morning, I was feeling great and begged my mom to let me go snowboarding.
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To my extreme surprise, she said yes. I now know that the bright snow and freezing cold weather is the opposite of what a hangover needs, and she knew that.
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I learned my lesson and honestly hate the taste of beer now. When at 12, I thought it tasted so good.
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I love you ladies, and thank you for all the work you both have put in, and especially for the various donations you've made to causes that mean something,
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and that the money goes where it's needed most. I cannot wait to be able to do the same.
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You're both truly inspirational. Stay sexy and keep doing what you're doing. Love, Laura.
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That's a nice little drunk 12-year-old congratulating us on what we do. These are so nice.
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So nice. Love a good drunk kid story. Hell yeah. Okay, this one's called A Story from a Swedish Six Flags.
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Hi, everyone. Thank you for a great podcast. Just listen to the latest Hometown episode
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where you ask for more amusement park stories. Here comes one from Stockholm, Sweden
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and our local roller coaster slash amusement park called Gronaland. Wow. And they didn't tell me how to say it.
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So I'm just, it looks like Gronaland. Okay. Something land. I went there on a school trip
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in maybe fifth grade 18 years ago. All the kids were super excited. Everyone was finally tall enough for all the rides
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and old enough for the haunted house. We had a great time. Someone puked from eating too much cotton candy.
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another lost their shoes in a roller coaster and another got shit shat on by a bird so far so good
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but something super crazy also happened that day as me and my few friends were standing in line for
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one of the roller coasters we suddenly noticed there was some sort of commotion going on over
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at the ferris wheel that's basically next to where we were standing turns out someone had panicked
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and gotten halfway out of their seat basket on the way to the top. The wheel had stopped but couldn't go back down for some reason,
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most likely because the person risked getting injured by moving parts. Eventually, the person was hanging out with their legs and entire upper body,
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only having their arms and head still in the basket. The others in the basket as the same person were not strong enough to pull them back in.
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It looked like the day would end in tragedy. Can you imagine? I am imagining, and I'm trying not to laugh. If it was you, it would be the most horrifying thing.
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And then if you saw it from the ground, how could you not laugh at that? I would be terrified. It's like the hang in there, baby cat, just kind of fucking
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I pictured it like they're somehow caught at the chin. Oh, no, no. I think they're holding on.
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Oh, well, that's really horrible. Suddenly people started pointing and gasping. I looked over to the left and saw that three
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monster acrobats from the haunted house were making their way over to the ferris wheel
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it was one tall skinny man dressed in a black and red bodysuit with his face painted in red
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like a hot couture devil a young girl or very tiny woman dressed as what i remember as a ghost lizard
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that can't be right and the third person dressed as a wolf man or similar They climbed up on the roof of a nearby shed,
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think parkour slash circus acrobat style movements, and made their way onto the Ferris wheel.
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They were incredibly limber and climbed through the construction like it was something they did every day.
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They reached the person hanging out of the basket and managed to get him back into the basket,
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saving the day and most likely the person's life. Oh my God. They made it into the newspapers the next day,
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but sadly I couldn't find any pictures of the saviors online. Thanks again for a great podcast You make me laugh out loud when I bike around in Stockholm getting bikers around me looking nervously over their shoulders What if I laughing at them Stay sexy and trust the devil
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Hannah. I absolutely adore that story, Hannah. That's such a good one. That was their moment to
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shine finally. For real. And also, it just made me think of if you've ever had a panic attack or
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you know that feeling where I'm sure that person got scared and got that rush of adrenaline and
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couldn't help but do what they did, which would be the unsafest thing. But like when you're freaking
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out, you're like, I got to get out of here. Yeah. And they thought they were lower. Maybe
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then they were and they were just going to jump out and then realize, oh my God.
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But then a big weird art student came and rescued them. A cavalry of art students who got paid minimum wage came and fucking risked their lives and
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saved the day. Wait, that reminds me of, do you remember, I feel like it happened in quarantine.
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There was a guy who crawled up the front of an apartment building because there was a baby
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hanging from the, remember that? Yes, there's video of it. Yes. And it was like parkour,
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like rock climbing guy. It was unbelievable. And he rescued that baby. He was like on his
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way to work and then fucking doop, doop, doop, up the, bananas. The baby got over and then was
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hanging. Yeah. Oh, that was crazy. Hooray for that guy. Yeah. I think we said hooray for that
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guy on this podcast. Sounds like us. I think it's good to remind people every five years
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when people climb things to rescue people. It's important. It is. Hello, beautiful. I'm Amy Eric, founder of Madison Reed, a hair color company I named
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Hey, everyone. It's Cal Penn, host of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club.
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This week on the podcast, I'm sitting down with Lily Chu, the author of the Audible original romantic comedy Just Kiss Already.
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It's a story about a forensic anthropologist who secretly writes mystery novels, an actress who adapts his book into a film,
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and what happens when a meme and a media tour collide with a slow burn romance. It's performed by Simu Liu and Philippa Su, and it is an absolute blast.
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When you actually hear the performance, you realize that other people are taking your words and what you thought was kind of a straightforward sentence like, the cat in the corner is black.
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In my head, it's the cat in the corner is black, not the dog, not the gerbil. But someone else might say it. The cat in the corner is black.
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That's always fascinating to me, how they just bring in all these different nuances and really make it fun and interesting and distinctive.
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Pets age zero to 10. OK, here's my last one. The subject line is, a ghost asked me very politely to move out of its way.
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Hello, everyone. When I was 20, I was working at a corner shop in Caroleon, a village.
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There's no way that's... No, there's just no way. There's so many E's in there. A village in the Welsh city of Newport.
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I was in a bit of a rough area, so we had a lot of alcoholics and drug addicts in.
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I've got a few good stories about my time there. One of our regulars was Dave, not his real name.
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He lived a few doors up from the shop, so he was in and out most days, sometimes multiple times a day for cigarettes and booze, and occasionally some bread and milk.
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He was always completely out of it. He drank a lot, and he did heroin, but he was always nice and polite.
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He would have a bit of a chat if he wasn't too far gone, and he was never aggressive or anything.
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I hadn't seen him for about a week and mentioned it to one of my colleagues who told me that he died.
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I was a bit gutted because, like I said, he was a nice guy, but ultimately not that surprised.
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I didn't really think anymore of it until about a year later. I was cleaning out one of the drinks fridges, so I was sat on the floor with my head in the
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fridge and the glass door propped. with my foot. And I heard someone say, excuse me, please, love. And when I looked up, I had the
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fright of my life. The slightly fuzzy ghost of Dave was stood in front of me with a bag of Doritos
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and four cans of Carling in his hand. We both stared at each other for a few seconds before I
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realized he wasn't a ghost, but a real life human man. And he only looked fuzzy because I was looking
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at him through the thick 90s glass of a fridge door. I stood up and let him pass and tried to
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get my heart rate back down from 500 BPM. It turns out my colleague was mistaken.
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It was someone else who had died and Dave had just been in jail. Stay sexy and always fact check your colleagues claims that customers have died. George and in
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parentheses, a girl. Oh, what's up, Georgia girl? That's so funny that the first assumption is ghost.
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I love that. Yes. Well, he was supposed to be dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. And then it's
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Like, oh, wait, that's not a ghost. It's a dirty glass. Dave. Dave doesn't understand how much he's loved.
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Just that whole experience that George went through right there. Here's my last one.
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It is one of my favorites. A glitch in the Matrix stories. We both have sleeping dogs on our parts.
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Mine's on my feet. I thought I'd try to fold her in a little bit to give the fan cult who gets to watch this on video a little something.
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Oh, that's right. Everyone can see a blossom right now if they want. Oh, sleeping.
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Sleeping. Okay. This is called hometowns. Well, gals, you're probably wondering why I called you all here,
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so let's get to it. Let's do it. I love that. A number of years ago, my parents were traveling around the country during the summer.
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It was common for my mom to call when they got to a stop and let me know where they were,
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tell me about their last argument on the road You going too fast too slow We are lost Why don you use the map There a glimpse into my childhood vacations for you but I digress One late afternoon the phone rang and I figured it was mom checking in
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I was surprised to hear my dad's voice and shook when he said, we've been in a pretty bad car accident.
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Mom and dad had been hit by a fully loaded logging truck. Dad was, quote, okay, aren't dads always.
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But mom was being airlifted to a large hospital with multiple serious injuries. After getting all the details, I booked my flight and got to Seattle as quick as I could.
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After 10 days, mom was released from the ICU, but still had a long road ahead before she would be
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stable enough to return to San Diego. Being a mom of four kids, I needed to get home after about two
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weeks. I felt so torn knowing my mom was in great medical hands and leaving my dad, who was injured
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himself. I was a mess when I got to the airport, wishing I could be in two places at once. I held
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it together until I sat down at my gate to wait for my flight. After a few minutes, a gentleman
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sat down next to me and said, going somewhere special? Well, that was all I needed to burst
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into tears as I told him why I had made the trip. He got a stunned look on his face and asked,
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may I ask where this accident happened? I told him the name of the small town in Northwest
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Washington and the highway. With a look of complete shock, he looked at me and said, honey,
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I was there. I was on my way to work. And since it's a two-lane highway, I was backed up in traffic.
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He went on to say that he was a local minister. And once he heard that the backup was due to a very bad accident involving a passenger truck and trailer and a logging truck,
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he abandoned his car and ran up to the accident scene to see if he could be any help.
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He then said, is your name Kathleen? I told him yes. And he said, I held your mom's hand while the helicopter was landing.
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And she said if I don make it please make sure someone tells Kathleen I love her Oh my God He began to hold me as we both cried He had heard that my mom had not survived and was so happy to hear she was getting stronger
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This man and his small community of friends ended up being a huge source of kindness and help
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providing very sweet care for my parents in my absence. To this day, I find so much comfort
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knowing things happen on our behalf that we may never know about. My parents and I had a difficult relationship over the years
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and this story helps remind me that they did love me in their own way. Stay sexy and maybe tell your senior parent
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to travel by plane. Love you to the moon and back, ladies. Kathleen, she, her. Oh, man.
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How wild is that? Well, I always like to compare them, but that seems to be one of the weirdest,
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most like, I was just there. We're complete strangers. There's no reason for this to happen at all.
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There's no reason. The details add up, yeah. Wild. Is that it? Everyone send us your stories, whether they have anything to do with what we just read or not.
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Yeah. I mean, at this point, we've demonstrated through other people's writing what a good story looks like.
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