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We read you your stuff. You send us emails. So we got to read them. You just keep doing it.
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Okay, you want to go first? Okay. All right. This one's called Request for Items Found in the Wall.
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And I have to show you a photo halfway through. Okay. Hey, Karen in Georgia, you guys asked for what did you find in the walls on the Rewind episode of 97?
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Yes. And I immediately knew I had one. A few years ago, I bought a house built in 1921, just south of Dallas, Texas.
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The man who owned it before me, Burl, such a great name, was basically a local legend.
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He started the Neighborhood Association and had lived in the house forever. When he and his wife sold it to me, he was 99 and she was 93, and they were still walking up and down the stairs every day.
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Yeah, they were. Honestly, I'm convinced the Fountain of Youth is hidden somewhere in that house.
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It's on those stairs. It's the stairs. Get the stairs going every day. The property itself is kind of wild.
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When the house was originally sold in the 1920s, it came with 120 acres. Now it's surrounded by neighborhoods, but it still feels like this tiny surviving piece of old South Dallas history.
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People would randomly stop by because Burl had lived there for so long. I'd be outside watering the plants or hauling construction debris, and people would look at me and go, you're not Burl.
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Anyway, I started renovating the house while also working on a construction job with insane hours.
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The entire place was torn apart. Plaster dust everywhere, walls open, exposed framing.
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So I was basically living in a haunted construction zone. One night I came home super late and noticed something sitting on the top shelf of my shoe rack.
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It was a doll, a baby doll with wild hair, one eye half open, one eye half closed, wearing a pink shirt and absolutely no pants.
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Apparently, my electrician had found her inside the walls earlier that day. We affectionately named her Trixie.
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Now, I can't just read the rest of this sheet because it sounds so normal. You have to see what this fucking doll looks like.
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So here's the picture of the doll. Oh, no. It is like no arms. Its face is just burnt to a crisp.
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it's just it looks sacrificial yeah right yeah it's not a chill little baby doll it is like
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well also it's a baby doll wearing no no clothes and no arms is a bad combination totally and then
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someone cut all the hair off and burned her face yeah she's which is pretty typical for like dolls
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and children whatever but yeah if i were the person and the electrician did that funny joke
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put that on my shoe rack, I'd be like, you'll never work in this town again. Well, from that point on, Trixie became part of the construction crew.
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Every day, somebody moved her to a new location to scare someone else. I'd hide her somewhere before leaving for work.
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Nathan, the electrician, would move her again later. You'd open a cabinet and Trixie would be there.
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And see, this isn't as scary without knowing what the fucking doll looks like, right?
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Right. Turn around in a dark hallway, Trixie. Sitting in a wheelbarrow, Trixie. Multiple contractors assured me the house was not cursed and that the spirits were happy here,
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which honestly felt like a very specific thing to hear from grown men covered in plaster dust.
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Like, why do you have to say, why do you, who I? How do you know about the spirits?
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Totally. Is this a thing you do all the time? At the very end of the renovation, we built out a new master bedroom.
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One day I realized I hadn't seen Trixie for a while. Turns out one of us had left her sitting on some framing lumber,
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and the framers unknowingly sealed her directly back into the walls of the house.
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Back where she fucking came from. So somewhere inside my beautiful restored 1921 home, Trixie is still there waiting patiently to absolutely terrorize another homeowner 60 or 70 years from now when they decide to renovate.
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Stay sexy. Don't get murdered. Buy the old house and spend way too much money restoring it.
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Laurel. I mean those framers need a good talking to because that a major decision to be like we putting her back into the wall Yeah But just the knowledge that she there for the rest of your time you go to bed
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Good night, Trixie. But like if everyone is insisting that the vibes were not bad, then I guess they weren't.
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If the vibes, the construction workers will tell you that weird shit keeps happening for sure.
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Yeah. Yes. So the vibes. Yeah. You would feel like they would be there going, oh, yeah.
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The ladder fell down. We work in a lot of houses. This one, I'm not coming back.
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Never seen a ladder fall like that before. It's so creepy. Okay. Well, it's tis the season, so I'm going to read you a graduation party story.
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Dads and grads. Fun. All month long. Okay. The subject line of this email is an unforgettable graduation party, and it says, hello, all.
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This story has everything. Snakes, things in walls, and drunk kids, sort of. It's all our stuff.
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To set the scene, my family went to a family friend's high school graduation party in 2006.
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We were some of the first people to arrive, only to find the mom pretty frantic.
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But not in the, I'm not quite ready to host this party type of way. You mean every single time I host a party.
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Jesus Christ. Why was she frantic, you ask? Because the family's pet snake, Mrs. Alligator, was missing.
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Mrs. Alligator is such a good name. And then the next paragraph starts, yes, the snake was named Mrs. Alligator.
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Oh, that's so good. That's what happens when you let an 8 to 10-year-old boy get a snake and name it.
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Oh. It's so funny. It was unknown how long Mrs. Alligator had been missing, but the lid was off her tank, and she was nowhere to be seen.
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We were told not to spread this news. Oh, my God. It's so good. Okay. It's the perfect little variable to mix in before this party.
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Here's how it starts. Is the snake in the punch bowl? Let's find out. Snake in the toilet.
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I know I've told you this, but we were driving down back Highway 1, me and my friend Dave, and I had to stop because, you know, there's nothing in between gas stations.
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We had to stop it, and I had to use one of those porta-potties that was just on an out look.
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Oh, my God. And so I went in. I was like, oh, this is the worst. I'm like, stand outside, you know, like, watch it for me or whatever.
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The door shuts. It's like almost pitch black in there. No. And I'm just squatting over.
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And then my friend Dave goes up to the crack of the door and goes, big black snake.
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He just whispered the phrase big black snake. And I started screaming. I've never forgiven him.
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I would have fucking squatted in the field. I mean, or just right out of the parking lot.
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Sure. Okay, so snake variable, worst case scenario. Don't spread it around, but keep an eye out for her during the party.
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So she didn't leave the house is what they were asked to do. I was never clear on what to do if I saw her because I was definitely not going to pick her up or go near her.
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Since the party was catered by a Mexican restaurant, there was also a frozen margarita machine set up for the adults.
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Oh my God. This is awesome. Well, my dad decided that there wasn't going to be any drunk kids on his watch.
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So he posted himself next to the margarita machine all night. Buzz kill. Let's just say it's a good thing my dad isn't in charge of any kind of security because not only were some kids able to sneak some margs, but my dad got so drunk that on the way home, my mom had to pull over on the interstate twice for him to be sick.
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Oh, God. So he was just like. Glug, glug. Jimmy Buffeting his ass. He's got his arms singing along with the margarita.
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You passed this test so good, and I'll tell you what. Congratulations. Have a margarita.
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Yeah, you know what? You get in here with me. Have a little sneaky sneaks. Because everyone loves a happy ending, Mrs. Alligator was found a day or two after the party, drumroll please, in the wall.
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In the wall? Meeting with Trixie. Technically, she was curled up in an air conditioning duct, but those are in walls.
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And then it's this little winky emoticon. Stay sexy and just let the kids get drunk, Jenny.
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I have so many questions. Like, what kind of snake was it? Could it have hurt someone at the party?
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I mean, I don't think that they let, like, 8 to 10-year-old boys keep poisonous snakes.
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Fair enough. That's for college guys that love metal. Yeah, that's true. Don't you think?
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Yes, but, like, I can imagine Vince at a party and, like, he would have screamed and ran.
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Oh, same. Like if a spider got out, I'd be like, I'm never coming to your house again.
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Goodbye. Okay, this one's called, It's Me. I'm the Vatican City listener. Hi! Oh my god! Buenasera. Buenas... Buenas... Buenas noches.
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No. No. That's Spanish. I told you we needed to be ready for this. Don't say chow. It's too casual. It could be the Pope.
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What if this email is from the Pope? Scusi. Scusi. Okay. Hi, Karen and Georgia. It's me. I'm the Vatican City listener, or at least one of them, and I'm so excited to write this email.
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Buongiorno. Buongiorno. I'm a 27-year-old American murderino living in Rome. I was literally getting ready to leave my apartment and go to the Vatican archives when I heard you two say you have listeners in Vatican City.
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I've been listening to you for years since I was an undergrad. I just completed a six-month internship in the Vatican Museums.
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This is exactly what we asked for. That was exactly what we wanted. And I used to listen to your podcast from my desk in the museum while I worked.
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I'm an art historian and a ceramic artist. I first came to Rome for a ceramics residency and met my boyfriend and fell in love with Rome and him.
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I came back to Rome and earned my master's degree in art history, and he and I are very happily living together.
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Smiley face. He is the absolute best and most supportive partner and a very talented jeweler.
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Oh, nice one. We have been through a lot, and your podcast has always brought me comfort, especially hearing your lovely American voices when my brain was extra tired from Italian.
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I'm back in Langdorch School now. Two years ago, I was in a near-death motor vehicle accident.
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Not something you'd expect, but God. I broke so many bones, both legs, a rib and my sacrum.
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I spent two months in the hospital. For the first month, I couldn't even sit up and I had to learn how to walk again.
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Oh, it helped. Wow, what a time. You brought me a little bit of normalcy and a lot of humor to an extraordinary period in my life.
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And that made a big difference. Heart emoji. And now I'm up and walking and wearing stilettos on cobblestones and researching the apostolic archives.
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Apostolic. Apostolic. Come on. I'm Jewish. We don't care. No excuse. You've been sitting across from me for 10 years.
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and how the floors quite literally dictate the movement of the viewer and their interaction with space.
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Think arrows on an airport floor, but Renaissance tiles and ancient marble. That is so fucking cool.
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That's incredible. Also, I'm sure you'll see them when you're there, but if you've ever seen pictures of those mosaics that the floors used to be in the ancient times.
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Right. Yeah, right. Right now I'm looking at receipts of payment for some historical tiles.
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And whenever I see the price of something I hear your voices in my head go so in today money receipts from ancient tiles from ancient receipts That crazy Save your receipts kids Save your receipts please No don touch them
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They're now full of toxic. Oh, yeah. It's different. If either of you are ever in Rome again soon, I would love to give you a free bootleg tour of the city or the Vatican museums or anywhere you'd like, really.
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I'm not an officially licensed tour guide, but I do have a master's degree in Roman art history and so many stories.
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We need to see your paperwork. It says, SSTGM and lots of love from Rome. Mac, she, her, Mackenzie. P.S. If anyone else writes
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to you from Vatican City, I'd love to meet them. Oh my God, make friends with your coworkers.
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Oh my God, that's how you meet people. Jesus, is that you? Hi. Hey, what's up? Thank you, Mackenzie.
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Mackenzie, what an honor to be in your ears while you are going through and experiencing such a rich life.
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Yeah, that brings us back to where the fuck are you listening to us from? Yeah, that's right.
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Also, not just where, I think what time in your life? Yeah, because we were like, what are you doing while we're listening?
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And we're just like, what's the season of your life look like while you're listening to us?
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Are you okay? Yeah. Are you better? Are you getting better? Can we do anything? Can we bring you some soup?
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We can bring you audio soup for the soul. it's not chicken noodle there you go because there's an ip play issue that was just such a
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full rich i was just like yeah yes totally very exciting goodbye okay so the subject line of this
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email is hero grandma and then in parentheses it says gold mine of cute old lady names and it says
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Hey, ladies, in honor of my mom, Karen's birthday, Karen with a C, I'm writing to tell you about the time my grandma Eva saved her family from a fire.
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In the winter of 1939, my great grandparents, Sid and Gladys, were busy running a sausage business and raising their nine children in a small wood frame house in rural Kentucky.
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Wow. That morning it was snowing, so great-grandpa Sid had adjusted the damper on the coal-burning stove to keep the house warm and instructed the kids to leave it alone for the day.
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He and Gladys packed up the horse and buggy and headed into town to sell their sausages, leaving my 15-year-old grandma, Eva May, in charge of her three younger sisters, Anna Lee, age 10, Mary Jane, age 3, and Ima Nell, age 2.
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Great names. I mean, the girls spread out to enjoy their morning, little ones playing in the bedroom and the older girls in the main room.
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It wasn't long before Eva smelled smoke. And just as she looked up, the ceiling erupted in flames.
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The coal stove had caught fire and the flames had traveled straight up the flue.
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Above them, the whole attic was already burning. And within minutes, the rest of the house was too.
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Oh, my God. Eva did what any older sister would do and used this opportunity to physically pick up 10-year-old Anna and throw her out the front door into the snow.
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Oh, she's been waiting. Finally. Finally. It's justified. Mary Jane got the same treatment and was efficiently ousted from the now smoke-filled house.
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But when Eva ran back into the bedroom for little Nell, she was nowhere to be found.
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She frantically searched Nell's usual hiding spots with no luck until through the smoke, she spotted two little feet under the bed.
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She dropped to the floor, yanked Nell out by the ankle and got out of the house just in time.
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Eva and Nell both sustained some burns, but they were all alive and together. Oh my God.
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She was like hiding under the bed. Yeah, trying to get away from the bed. She was so little.
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Meanwhile, in the buggy, Sid and Gladys were getting close to town when they passed a neighbor on the road.
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Sid waved and hollered a quick good morning, and the neighbor yelled back, Turn around, Sid. Your house is on fire.
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Someone in town must have had a telephone because the news of the fire had beat them there.
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I don't know what the land speed record is for horse and buggy, but I bet they would have come close to it that day,
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hightailing it back home, wondering all the time if they'd just lost their girls.
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They reunited and couldn't have cared less about the house, knowing how that day might have gone,
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and the community rallied around them to get them through that winter. Oh, my God.
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Oh, we lost Eva and my three other grandparents before I was born, but I've always loved the story of how she saved her sisters.
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I can't. The three amazing women who loved me like grandmothers in her place. Thank you.
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The idea of your sister picking you up and throwing you out the door to save your life.
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Totally overhand. It's so older, sister. I love it. Thank you for all you do. And happy birthday, mom.
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Stay sexy and always check under the bed. Kelsey. Oh, my God. What a like that story could have gone terribly.
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And she just fucking saved the day. Dabbing your tears. I could have sworn there was a box of Kleenex there.
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Can I have one? Yeah. Fully saving the day. Like, holy shit. Sorry we talk so much shit on big sisters.
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I know. You're pretty good sometimes. I know. I'm sure my sister saved my life a couple of times.
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a Pride Month story. Yes. Okay. Hello, ladies. Love you all. Love the podcast. Love the animals.
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Let get into it When I left college in Michigan to move to LA and live the big dream I found out the big dream was living on a couch a friend kindly put in his kitchen because another friend had already taken the one in the living room Like what a generous friend to be like I don have room in the living room but I do anything to help you
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Yeah, I'll go ahead and put a couch in this kitchen. That's the idea. It's just like help
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as many people as you can in LA. That's the advice I'd give. Help as many people as you can
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because you have no idea where anybody's going to go. Right. But also do it because you're a nice
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person, not just because you want to get somewhere. Oh, true, true. But you're not implying otherwise.
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So I don't need to say that. Well, yeah, just almost like you could be a nice person, but still
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be like, but I don't have enough couches. And it's like, but you do. Yes. Okay. I got a job at a
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warehouse nearby so I could walk to and from work. In a city like LA, if you don't have a car, you do
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a lot of walking. At night on my way home from work, I would often find myself walking past a
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woman walking alone. I'm a 6'2 black gay man, and I can see how that would be a bit intimidating,
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especially knowing how men treat women in this world. So I did the only thing I could think of
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to show her I was a good guy. I put on my best Naomi Campbell runway walk. I even tucked my
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non-existent hair behind my ear to really sell the I mean you no harm message, because who would
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ever hurt anyone if the sidewalk is their runway? Yes. Hopefully creepy men won't steal this idea
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and use this gay power for evil. But just in case, ladies, just be skeptical of all men walking alone at night.
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Anyways, I just had to share because I know I can't be the only one who's done this.
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I'm pretty sure this is common gay knowledge. I love you guys in this podcast so much.
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It's such a comforting part of my weekly routine. You guys are everything. Anyways, stay sexy and do the Naomi Campbell walk.
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Happy Pride, Kay. Kay. I love that just to be like, it's like, I'm not a threat. Let me show you my, my walk. Yeah, that's right. I love that.
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I saw someone say somewhere on social media, someone said they just start singing show to me.
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I mean, whatever you can do. Have you seen the one that were like, they're like,
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Hey, I love your dress. And the girl's like, fuck you. And he goes, no, no, I'm sorry. I meant,
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I love your dress. Oh, thank you. Oh my God. That's so nice. Oh, that's so funny. It must be
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very satisfying to suddenly just be like, yeah, throwing your hips. I just like, oh,
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okay. The subject line of this email is doppelganger grandpa. And it says, hello,
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Karen, Georgia and pets. Every Thanksgiving, my family would make the 10 hour drive from the
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middle of Wisconsin to Florence, Kentucky, to visit my paternal grandparents. My dad drove the
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entire way because that just how he is He would always leave Wednesday in the middle of the afternoon because he had to work Typically we would get there around 1 or 2 in the morning My grandparents lived in a cookie neighborhood where every other house looked exactly the same
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So when we pulled into the driveway with the outside light on, we didn't question it.
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We knew the routine after years of making the drive and started unpacking the car.
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My brother, who was 10, grabbed his suitcase and went right inside and down to the basement where us kids always slept.
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My grandpa came out in his pajamas and watched us unpacking the car top carrier.
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I remember thinking, Grandpa looks taller, but continued to grab suitcases and trash from the long journey.
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It wasn't until the man said in a thick southern accent, who are you people? We froze, baffled by our mistake, and started throwing shit back into the car, apologizing profusely.
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My dad hadn't even noticed this man was not his dad. At two in the morning, he looked identical to my grandpa, except for height, down to the way he stood, his sleepy expression, mustache, balding gray hair, big belly, and even that thick southern accent.
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Oh, my God. My sister whispered to my mom, Brett went inside. So good. My mom almost became a trash parent and told her to go get him, but remembered she was the adult.
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She walked up to the man, quickly explained, and went into the house. She whispered to him down the stairs to the basement,
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We are at the wrong house! And we heard the thuds of his suitcase quickly coming up the stairs.
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He was probably like standing down and everything like, What the? This is weird.
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It smells weird down here. We didn't even bother to buckle up as we backed out and drove over two doors to my grandparents.
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Oh my God. We laughed about it all Thanksgiving break. My grandparents told us later that those people were also expecting their family late that same night
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and had just moved in a few weeks ago. Oh, wow. We never talked to the people during the years
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we went to Kentucky for Thanksgiving until summer of 2024 when my grandpa passed away.
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We were at the entrance of the church greeting people at the funeral when an elderly gentleman introduced himself
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and his wife to us. We quickly learned that it was my grandpa's doppelganger. We exchanged the story from our different perspectives
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and learned that they too tell this story all the time. My best friend Katrina and I saw you
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at the second show in Chicago in November. We had an amazing time. Thank you for never failing to make us laugh.
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SSDGM, Sarah. Oh my God. That's hilarious. That is such a great legendary family story
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of like such a great example. And it's both directions. That's like the best part.
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It's like, how do they tell the story? Yes. So good. So good. Do you have a story from your perspective?
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