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like emails with stories inside of them that's it yeah there's not a list that's literally it
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Would you like to go first this week? I wouldn't. Okay. I don't want to break tradition.
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Tradition? Yeah. What for? Okay. Then the subject line of this is, I won't read it.
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Great. Do you want me to go first so you can go last for once? Whatever you want.
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No, don't put it on me. I have a good lastie. Okay. Maybe. Do you have a good lastie?
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No. Not like specifically for, no. Yeah, no. Mine, I have a last, a feel good lastie that's about grandparents.
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I'm going first. Do it. Let's break tradition. Maybe we should have these conversations off mic.
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Guys, this is the kind of solid gold content you can expect from us. That's right.
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Week after week. Do you like decisions? Listen up. Do you like live decisions as they're being made?
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Hot breaking decisions? Hot breaking decisions. People discussing things. This is called my close encounter with a murder cult.
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Hi, guys. You guys are my favorite. I started listening after my girlfriend recommended your podcast.
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She also reminded me that I have an interesting story to share. So I thought I'd share.
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Great. I was born in Venezuela. When I was seven, my family had been making arrangements to move to the US.
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One day I was hanging out with my cousin who lived two or three miles from my grandparents'
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house in a rural town in the middle of nowhere, Venezuela. They wrote it like it.
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It was dark. My aunt reluctantly let me ride back to my grandma's house. This was a usually fun ride, just a dirt road with nothing but vegetation on either side.
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I was enjoying the night noises. God, being outside alone as a kid at night. The best.
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And if you're far away from the city, if you're in nowhere Venezuela, I bet the stars are pretty rad.
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I bet. Yeah. I was enjoying the night noises when all of a sudden there was complete silence.
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I could feel the tension in the air. I looked around me and noticed I was being surrounded by a group of people holding candles.
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What? They were chanting something I couldn't understand. When they got close enough to touch me, I rode as fast as I could all the way to my grandma's house.
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Once I got there, I jumped off my bike, ran to my grandma, held her tight, and just cried.
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She saw the fear in my eyes and just held me. That morning, a girl that was close to my same age was found dead in close proximity to where I had been that night.
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No! Next to her body, there were candles, black feathers, and animal blood. this was the first in a series of child murders that happened in similar fashion with candles and
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all the other items near the bodies no one was ever charged for these murders it still scares
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me to think of how close i was to being a sacrifice of a creepy cult that may still be
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in operation almost 20 years later holy shit i would ask you guys to avoid riding a bike at night
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in the middle of nowhere but let's be honest there's no way you do that you're too smart for
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that. So instead, stay sexy and don't get murdered. Thanks, Leo. Wow. I know. Oh, that's so creepy.
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It creepy and so sad And now I want to read all about it But I would like to say this Thank you Leo Because the important point of that it like when we talk about being aware of your surroundings Yeah You enjoying the night noises It means something when all the crickets stop making noises
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Like trust your weird little instincts. Yes. If the hair is going up on the back of your neck, it doesn't matter how normal people look.
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Yeah. Or how normal the situation is. Get the fuck out of there. Yeah. Even like, yeah, just trust it.
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Totally. Oh. Creepy. So close. Okay. So pretend this is new. I'm not going to tell you the subject line of this.
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Oh, okay. Great. Oh, yeah. Okay. It starts. After hearing the SWAT team story on a recent mini-sode, I decided y'all needed to hear
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this story. Okay, good. When I was 16, my mom asked me if I wanted to fly out to Arizona and Colorado to visit
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her side of the family, aunts, uncles, and cousins my same age, that we hardly ever saw.
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I was nervous but stoked because I was clearly an adult and traveling alone for the first
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time. Oh, shit. Mm-hmm. So I flew to Colorado, spent a week with my family, and then my aunt was taking me to
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the airport to fly to Arizona. to spend another week with my family there and then home.
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My aunt took me as far as she could in the airport, and then I told her I was fine.
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I grabbed a seat at my gate, took out my book, and put on my headphones. A random man, mid-40s looking, came to my empty gate
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and decided the seat he should take was the one directly next to me. Nope, nope, nope.
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Immediately, I was creeped out. I kept reading until he, of course, tapped me on the shoulder.
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Wait, how old is this person? 16. Oh, got it. She's 16. He's mid-40s. Got it, got it, got it.
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He started asking me about myself and where I was going. No. I was so sketched out, I started lying.
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Good. Made up a name, made up the school I went to, made up the town I was from.
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I was totally freaked. His questions felt so personal and unnecessary. They are.
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I kept putting my headphones back on, but he kept tapping my shoulder. No. Final straw, after about three attempts to ignore him, he pulls out his ticket and says,
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where are you sitting? I look at his ticket knowing my own seat number and start to absolutely panic.
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This dude is next to me on the plane. I tell him I have to get some food, get up and go straight to the airline desk.
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I tell them the whole thing that I'm super creeped out and tell them I will sit anywhere else.
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The airline says they cannot help me or move my seat. So I go to the pay phones.
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This was in 2001 and I didn't have a cell phone. Ha ha. And I called my aunt. She could tell I was scared but couldn't come back to the airport.
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She was headed to pick up her own kids from school. So she told me to go to the ladies room and stay there.
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So at least I didn't have to be near him until it was time for my flight. I went to the ladies room to hyperventilate for a bit and eventually decided I needed to leave and go back to my gate.
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Yeah. Oh, no. As I left, there were two men in police uniforms at the bathroom door.
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They asked if I was Tara and I said yes. They escorted me to my gate and we walked past the man being searched and his luggage emptied all over the airport floor.
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They took me to the gate where they told me I had a change seat and I'd be seated first in first class.
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Yeah, that's what I was hoping for. I asked what was going on and they said, your uncle dispatched us.
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Guys, my uncle was the chief of the Denver SWAT. How fucking yeah he was. This was a thing I knew, but being the first time seeing them in person in years and whatnot, I just hadn't put two and two together.
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Side note, my uncle was the first person in the library after Columbine. Oh, my God.
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She said that's a whole other story and a terrible downer, of course. Anyway, back to the airport.
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I was escorted to first class and sat at the window seat of my row while the SWAT team officer stood at the aisle seat until the entire plane was loaded.
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then I flew to Arizona where I was met with an escort from Phoenix SWAT to get me to my family
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for the record this guy may have just been may have a very different account of the story
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and I could have just been a hyper anxious 16 year old that humiliated a rando no whatever
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doesn't matter that's it stay sexy and always have your uncle send the entire SWAT team to
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protect you when you're creeped out in an airport Tara but here's the thing no no you're right yeah
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That man was talking, that 40-year-old man was talking to it, repeatedly talking to a young teenager, not a college-age girl, a high schooler.
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And why was he sitting next to her? Like that, I don't believe that he didn't know he was sitting next to her.
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That's very weird. It really freaks me out. No. And yeah, that's exactly it. And it's like, even if, maybe he was a nice guy and he's being polite.
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Don't fucking talk, men don't talk to women unless they invite you to. But here's the thing.
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Normal men know that. Right. Exactly. It's the thing of telling little kids, adults don't need your help.
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If an adult is asking for help, there's something wrong. Right. It's the exact same thing.
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And he's not reading fucking cues of her putting her fucking earphones back in her head.
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No one that taps you on the shoulder. There's a boundaries issue. There's an information issue.
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Totally. Anyone that walks up and starts asking your name, where you live, anything, that's a person
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with an agenda. Yes. Fuck that person outright. Totally. No way. And I love it's like and don't be if your uncle sent the entire SWAT and they were shooting up the ceiling.
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Totally. Good. Because that means you're safe on that plane and nothing happened to you.
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And like fucking shame on that airline representative who didn't. I thought that immediately she was going to like, I got you and put her in first.
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Yes. But no, they had to take it to the fucking SWAT. All the way to the SWAT. But I mean, like, that's yeah, I feel like she was saying this was 2001.
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It's probably different now. I don't think a teenage girl that would go to them and say, this is a problem, would be like, sorry, getting late.
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I just don't think that's the world we're living in anymore. Depends on the person, I feel like.
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I think because of Twitter and social media, they can't afford that shit anymore.
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Blow it. Blow it all up. Blow it all up. I'm so glad it worked out that way. Because one time, I'll just say this, and I'm still mad at myself, even though it's not even anywhere near it.
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I was at LAX one time waiting for a flight and a guy came up and sat in the seat right next to me and started trying to sell me tickets to a pancake breakfast And he was in my space and he was in my face and he wouldn leave me alone
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And the implicit message from him was, you have to buy these tickets for me to get away from you.
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And I did it. Well, you followed your instincts too, which is don't piss this guy.
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Like somewhere in your mind, it's don't. Yeah. I write it in the book, the fuck politeness chapter, where it's like, sometimes you can only fuck politeness to a certain level and feel safe.
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Yes. Sometimes you go along to get along and end the situation that's around you.
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But I'm still mad because... What if it had gone really poorly if you had told the fuck off?
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That's true. And also, how was a person like this wandering around an airport? It must have been pre-9-11.
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So how are the pancakes? They were so good. And I met such a great church community there.
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oh my god motherfucker everything fuck everybody talking to you oh god okay well here's a good story actually for this my almost murder in the stairwell hi karen torta
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steven and furry friends i work at an office building you would normally need a key card for
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access however our floor was undergoing construction so the security was lax and there
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was a number of extra people coming and going for a few weeks i should mention my mother has
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been embedding safety tips into my head since I was a teen. Don't take drinks from strangers.
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Be aware of your surroundings and parking lots. Don't wear a lanyard around your neck.
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Oh, just someone could grab it. I guess. Yeah. And keep your keys in between your knuckles, etc. Pay special attention to that last
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one. Anyway, I was leaving work one day and took the stairwell one because it was much faster than
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waiting on the elevator. And two, I sit at a desk all day and thought I should get a minute of
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exercise. And then she writes, ha. I walked the floor flights down and noticed a middle-aged man
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at the bottom. I said, hi, excuse me, and motioned for the door because he was blocking it.
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He looked up from his phone, gave me the most creepy look slash stare, and lunged forward
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towards me, putting his arms around me in a big bear hug. My instincts kicked in immediately. I
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need him in the balls as hard as humanly possible, and proceeded to stab him in the cheek with my
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fucking car key. He yelled, started crying like a little girl and yelled every obscenity possible
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at me. Fucking asshole. Yeah, you're yelling at her. As I ran back up the four flights of stairs
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in a panic, I got to the reception desk, told her to call security while I dialed 911. This was
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before I listened to the podcast. So my fuck politeness attitude was non existence. What are
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you talking about? Yeah, you beat the shit out of this guy. It was right there, baby. Don't you
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worry about your fuck politeness attitude. Well, then she says, looking back, my dainty, excuse me,
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was so stupid. I should have immediately turned around and went back upstairs when I saw someone
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I didn't recognize. But that's not true. I mean, no, you tried your best to be a human. It turns
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out this person wasn't. Yeah. And so you fucking defended yourself. Yeah, you're acting like how
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normal people are right with normal people. Right. And even if you had gotten attacked and raped and
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hadn't fought him off, it's not you didn't do anything wrong. I hate everyone. So side note,
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had I not taken my car to work that day, I would have only had a key fob on my key chain. But
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because I drove my husband's car to work, I had a nice chunky key to stab that motherfucker with.
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Yes. Anyway, stay sexy and don't get murdered. Please come back to Orlando soon. Love, Sarah
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from Florida. Oh, that's an amazing story. Also the presence of mind just to go right for the
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balls in that moment. Because I think a lot of times you just freeze up. I know I would. I'm
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sure I would. Or they would be prepared for the need. That's what I always fear is that they're
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going to be like i you know i imagine kicking someone in the dick daily oh and i always imagine
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that maybe they'll be prepared for it and block it be wearing a cup like from their jv baseball
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that's right or be a eunuch or you know then what are they doing what are they doing i live in narnia
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in my mind my imagination is insane don't forget you can gouge eyes also Ooh, that's something someone said recently because they said in they teach you this.
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Again, we have to do. Oh, my God. We have to do a self-defense class. But they say that you don't think of it because it's so extreme.
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Right. But if you have a free hand, go right for the eyes, nose, put a finger up the nose.
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So, yeah, poke someone in the eye, right? Like, bink. You get to the eye tissue.
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You get up the nose. You do whatever you can invasively. Don't be afraid to shove a key in an ear.
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I feel like a forehead to a nose bridge would be a great. Yes. Smack that motherfucker on the bridge of their nose.
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That's the Belfast good morning. What the fuck is that? I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
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I wish people greeted each other like that. Boom. In Narnia. Classic headbutt in Narnia.
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Okay. This. Mmm. Mmm. Okay. This is like choice. Italian pizza box. Italian chef finger kiss. Okay. I'm not going to read you the subject. Great. Hello, beautiful ladies,
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Steven and fur baby. I was listening to the mini so when you read the story about the girl trying
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to scare her grandmother, but instead it was someone trying to break in. And it reminded me
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of this story. Both my brother and his wife used to be cops. They both switch professions and are
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firefighters. Now they've always taught their kids what to do in emergency situations. One day,
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my niece who was about 10 years old at the time was at her friend's house. Well, while there,
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someone broke into her friend's house and threatened everyone inside. My niece was able to sneak away and head home.
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But instead of calling for help, she grabbed my brother's gun, loaded it, and went back to her friend's house.
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What? They lived next door. She walked in, aimed the gun at the man, and told him to get out of the house.
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Luckily this was enough to scare away the man and he left without harming anyone Holy shit Ten years old Needless to say my brother and his wife were both proud and horrified found out what happened and needless to say they moved their
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guns to a different location locked them up and had a long chat with their kids about the correct
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way to handle a situation yeah they were like telling them about how to how to defend yourself
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but didn't start with number one call the police yes you're not the police you're 10 you're in a
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fourth grade and you don't have to take this on. This is not, this is for yours. Yeah. Although
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you did. You did. Therefore you're the most bad-ass 10 year old of all time. And I will
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never stop smiling because I've heard your story. Stay sexy and teach your kids to call 911 instead
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of taking on a burglar by yourself. Sherry. Amazing. I, I love that 10 year old girl.
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Maybe I'll have one kid, just one. Maybe I'll have one 10 year old. I'll just have a 10 year old.
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I picture this little girl. This is when I first read this and I could not stop giggling.
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I pictured that it's like a terrible home invasion scene. And I picture a little girl with pigtails sliding backwards over the back of a couch,
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like when no one's looking. Like a slug. Yeah, just kind of sliding back. Maybe she's double jointed and just kind of puts all of her things at a joint.
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Very circus style. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's Cirque du Soleil backwards over the couch.
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She becomes liquid. She's liquids out the door, form of an ice cube shape of. But then it's pigtails kicking the door in with the gun going, get out of this motherfucking house.
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She's got braces. Please, motherfucker. Please, motherfucker. She takes out a retainer so she can say it really clearly.
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Oh, I just love it. Amen. Children do not touch guns. Don't lock up your guns, everyone.
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Don't call your child. Lock your guns. children never touch guns. It's not don't touch guns.
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We don't think it's cool. Also, don't listen to this podcast if you're a child. Get the fuck out of here.
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Worst and then in parentheses, best field trip ever. Hello, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and friends. I'm from
00:22:31
a very small town in South Carolina. So small that we actually shared a high school
00:22:35
with a neighboring town and my graduating class still had fewer than 400 people. It occurred to me while listening to a mini-send this morning
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that I have a gruesome slash delightful story to tell you from my time at this tiny, otherwise
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boring school. In early 2001, my 10th grade civics class went on a field trip to the county courthouse.
00:22:54
I'd say there were about 40 or so of us, plus our sweet little lady teacher and a couple of
00:22:58
chaperones who were being allowed to sit in on some small claims cases so that we could get an
00:23:03
idea of what really happens in courtrooms and how justice is served in podunk south carolina
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here's the thing the docket was changed between the time the field trip was planned and the morning
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we arrived in court yeah instead of watching folks get slapped with fines for parking violations and
00:23:18
other petty crimes of that nature we were treated to testimony for yep a grisly murder trial whoa
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for over an hour we got to hear some of the more unsavory details of a man who had murdered his
00:23:30
girlfriend, chopped her into a variety of pieces, tucked her away in an old chest freezer
00:23:36
and dumped her and dumped it in the woods where it was later found by hunters. Oh, no.
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I cannot begin to imagine, all caps, what the fuck they were thinking by not informing
00:23:46
the school district of the change or by letting us into that courtroom when we got there or
00:23:50
what was going on was going through our teachers minds when they decided we should stay for
00:23:55
the whole tour. Yeah, for real. I bet the teachers were scared because they were in court.
00:23:59
They didn't want to. get everyone up and move them all out during the proceedings.
00:24:03
Or they were into it. Or they loved it. The murder announced. I think we paid a whopping $10 per kid.
00:24:08
So clearly it would have been a tragic to let a penny of that go to waste, which is probably why the court didn't.
00:24:13
We weren't like, you shouldn't come today. Yeah, they were like, we need it. Yeah.
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And yes, they still took us to lunch afterward to a Quincy's buffet. I don't know what that is.
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I'm imagining it's like a buffet. It's a buffet based off of the 70s series. Quincy.
00:24:28
It's all about the coroner. It's all vintage. It's all vintage food. It's a buffet off of medical tables from the coroner's office.
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God, stop it. To be fair, I think only one of my classmates threw up. Stay sexy. Don't get murdered.
00:24:43
And for fuck's sake, verify the docket before taking a bunch of 15 year olds to sit in on a trial.
00:24:47
Sarah. Can you imagine? But it's like you're the teacher and you're just like now if so there's 30 kids.
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If we all get up at once, this is the amount of noise we're going to make. This is how mad that's the, you know, sheriff's deputy is going to be.
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Sure. Like, instead of being like, hi, I have 15 year olds and they shouldn't be here.
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What the fuck is wrong? We're leaving. Yeah. You need to pause for a hot second.
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Yeah. No, no, no. Don't interrupt. Have you been in a courtroom like that, though?
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No. It's really intimidating. Is it? I had to go in for, I was in a, like the middle car in a car somewhere.
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Somebody stopped and then someone hit me and I was so freaked out. And it was just the Burbank city hall or whatever.
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It's just so grandiose and intimidating. Yes. And it's like, you know, that person is the one that makes the decide one wrong move and they can send you to prison.
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I don't know. Can they do that I mean it felt like it Yeah And I was like oh I just here to say that I was in the middle Yeah And then they basically said this guy that got hit by me because the person hit me I stopped in time
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But then the person behind me hit me and rammed me into the car in front of me. Oh, my God.
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And the man, the old man in the car in front of me wanted all of us to buy him a new car, basically.
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Fuck you. And so I was just there to be like, here's my insurance and here's what happened and I don't know what else to tell you.
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And I got dismissed out of it because, like, it was basically between the car that hit me and the guy I hit.
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And so I got to leave mid-thing, and I was thrilled. You were the fucking middle of a sandwich of people.
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I was the lucky Pierre. Okay, read me the last one. I'm excited. Okay, this is good.
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Okay, great. My grandparents, the baby smugglers. Oh, shit. Uh-huh. Hi, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and significant others.
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Yes, you did it. My grandparents lived in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II.
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Whoa. Opa was both a part of the Dutch underground and high up in a shipping company in the north part of the country.
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One of the activities of the underground was to smuggle Jewish babies from the major cities to the north where they would be placed with families until they could hopefully be reunited with their families after the war.
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Babies would be placed in the holes of boats and ships. Oh, my God. And Opa and Oma would help to smuggle them out at the other end.
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Holy shit. I had chills. Chills. Babies used to arrive with labels on their identification details pinned to their backs.
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Oma used to tell the story that on one trip, the person placing the babies on the boat clearly didn't read the instructions and put the labels around the baby's wrists.
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And when the boat arrived in the north the babies had chewed off their identification tags meaning there was no way of knowing who they were Whilst I tempted to be super critical I have to remember that this person was risking their own life to try to save others
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Anyway, the Nazis ended up taking Opa for questioning three times, and he managed to
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talk his way out of it each time. On occasion, the family had to go into hiding.
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The neighbors would come in and take all of their furniture to protect them from looting.
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They would return, and then they would return it when things died down. Oh, my God.
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I have to say that I'm pretty proud of the fact that my grandparents did something when it would have been easier and safer to do nothing.
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Oh, it's so true. I clung to this when my Oma got older and used to drive me absolutely friggin nuts.
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Quote, you should wear your glasses more often. You look so ugly without them. Oh, grandma.
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Grandma. And she said the last line is saving babies gives you a lot of leeway. That's such a like from the past thing for a grandma to say.
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I love it. Stay sexy and remember to pay attention to the details when smuggling small children.
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Christy. Oh, my God. Isn't that awesome? Yes. That's a feel good World War II story.
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Anecdote. Yeah. So from now on, we'll say, do you have a good ending or do you have a good ending?
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And we'll decide based on that who goes first. Great. Yeah, I think we've done that before.
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Probably. And we were like, we're going to do that from now on. Yeah. And then we did it.
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