July 27, 2021 • 37 mins
In the seventh episode of Truth Hounds, Kyle isn’t answering Anna’s calls and has a strange new voicemail greeting. Anna attempts to finish their investigation into why time flies by when you’re having fun. Is this going to be the case that … gets away? Is this the end of … sniff sniff?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of I Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for about a year now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle.
In middle school, I received the award most Enthusiastic to Learn,
so that makes me pretty special. And that is what
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makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are two friends
who love each other very much. But what we love
even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries. All mysteries, sure,
but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, no mystery is too small. No, no, no,
Why don't you trust me when I tell you we
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are ready to sniff around? We are a true hound.
You've reached Kyle's voicemail box. Please leave a message after
the beep, unless it's Anna. In that case it's not Kyle.
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Please do not leave your messages here. Thank you, have
a good day. Ah Hey, I'm sorry this message is
for Kyle. I don't know it's the same number. Thanks,
it is Anna, so I don't know if anyway, if
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if whoever this is is it can see Kyle or
talks whatever. Then I was just gonna ask if Kyle
wanted to meet at the beach, so um, just pass
on the message to her, I guess, and I'll see
her in a regular spot. H thanks. Do you think
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she's just not going to show up? H M? I
waited at the beach, no idea if Kyle would end
up showing up. It was me, the ocean and our
sound guy romany, right, Maybe that's no, that's not It
(02:22):
really is a beautiful day though. You can kind of
see like over there. I like looking over there because
the mountains. Usually it's like sky ocean, but there you
get mountains. And yeah. I tried to just carry on
business as usual, but it just wasn't the same. Are
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you busy after this? Yeah? Sometimes just Kyle and I
go get a smoothie or something after there's just h M.
Episode seven, Why does time fly by when you're having fun?
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Part um? Part three? I didn't know what to do,
so I went back to my home and I did
what I do best. I had a seat. First, Kyle
didn't answer my phone call. She had recorded a new
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greeting that seemed to be directed at me. Then she
didn't show up at the beach. I was left there,
bear asked and afraid. The task of moving the dirt
was only a day away, and I had no idea
where Kyle and I stood feelings aside we had taken
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on this task. This person, Hillary needed her dirt mood,
and I didn't want to let her down. You just
don't do that. And let's zoom out further. We hadn't
even finished our initial investigation. We had set out to
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find out why time flies by when you're having fun.
We definitely got sidetracked along the way. But this dirt task,
it was supposed to put us back on the path.
I'll be honest. I had high hopes for this task
that ultimately it would answer our initial question. We'd get
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there no matter how roundabout a way we did. But
how would I do any of it without Kyle? I
had one of those super anxious nights where you can't
get to sleep, but then the word you have not
getting to sleep keeps you up even more. But then
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something happened. I heard a weird noise around poor Ann.
I went to my door to investigate, you know, a
small investigation within the larger investigation. I approached the door.
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Excuse me, yes, there was definitely something out there. Um, hey,
how are you? I'm good? I guess I'm sorry, I've
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been kind of m I A. I was just painting
my house. You were painting your hand. Yeah, it's been
a really big project, and so that's why I haven't
really been able to call you back. But I came
back so we could keep the investigation going. It's like
four in the morning. Why, I know, I figured I
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could come over here and get some shut I and
then we could go do the task. Yeah, please come in.
It was a complete misunderstanding. She was just painting her
house and the fumes they probably made her phone key anyway,
fumes are not I had my friend back. Yeah, it
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was a complete misunderstanding. I was painting my house until
four am, and you know, the fumes. We would be
able to do the task after all and not let
Hillary down. By the time Kyle and I had finished
our heart to heart, it was definitely time to get
some shut eye. I got Kyle some pillows and blankets
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and set her up in the living room. I tucked
her in and tiptoed away. Then I gave her a call. Hey, Kyle, Yeah, Anna,
he's Anna, Um, I'm in the other room. I know.
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I just wanted to make sure you're a company and
I just wanted to say goodnight. Yeah, I'm comfy, good night, Okay,
good night. It was finally the day of the task,
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in which we would move the dirt while attempting to
have fun. This was big. It would be the culmination
of all our efforts, our research, our experiences, our hardships
are lessons. Well, we didn't tell you before was that
we had arranged to meet with a specialist. We hadn't
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mentioned this to you because you know we were going
through it. You see, pre Bill, the mean clown we
met with, we were feeling pretty good about doing the task.
We had armed ourselves with several ways of having fun.
The meeting with Bill made us take a step back. Honestly,
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his attitude tanked their confidence, both in our abilities to
have fun and in ourselves just to be safe. We
wanted to hire some extra muscle, someone who would ensure that,
no matter what happened, we would have fun and stay
on track. Remember in high school, you had one teacher
who was so strict and stern, but for some reason,
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it only made you want to get that a We
wanted someone like that. We woke up around noon, we
ate some brecky that's breakfast in Australia. I know things
are getting really good, but we have to take a
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break for some ads. And the ad break is over.
We got into my prius and headed over to Hillary's
where we would meet with our instructor for the day.
You know, the guy we were just talking about so close.
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It really is close. But you know what sucks is
that it's like not not enough. We've done, We've arrived.
Destination is in your right. Ah? Is this six one
three four? Kyle spotted him right away. Okay, there he is.
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You see him? Yeah, I think I see his leg
popping out. Oh my god, Oh my god, he's so
scared his legs. Look you see his legs as Okay, okay,
Hi are you Chad? I am Chad. Oh yeah, I
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guess we should introduce him. This is Chad. Hi. I'm Chad.
I'm a personal trainer and I'm also training to be
a life coach. I'm halfway through my certification with my
life coach. Typically right here we would describe the person
to you, but let me give you a little peek
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behind the radio making curtain. What you're hearing right now, me, Kyle, Hello,
it's me is written and recorded weeks after the actual event.
I know it sounds like this is all happening at
the same time, Like there we are with Chad, and
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then over to the side is a portable sound booth
where we are simultaneously describing what is happening, and Chad
just has to wait while we narrate what is going on.
We would love to be able to do that, but
that's just not how it works. Anyway, back to the point.
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We typically are able to give these amazing physical descriptions
of people once we've met them, spend time with them,
and thought about them in a cool way. But as
we approach Chad, our instructor for the day, he did
something totally unprecedented. He demanded that we physically describe them
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right then and there, within seconds of meeting him, before
any of the other stuff that Kyle had mentioned two
weeks the sound booth. Falling in love with this image
in a cool way. The point is he put us
on the spot roll the audio right. He want you
to take a look at me. Could you describe me
to your audience? Physically described me, muscles, just taking off
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my hoodie, just everyone knows, So just describe me for
a second. Um, you're wearing a little knitted cap, but
then you're also wearing a tank. Talk all right, what
you're doing is you're driving my outfit. What I'm asking
you to do is describe the work I've put in
too looking, so just describe. It's fine, this is what
I do for Let me describe my body. Darn, this
guy was really good. We didn't even know it, but
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our training had already started. Okay, it's someone someone's not
giving enough credit to their arms because they're bull drain
Like there's like a big watermelon in your arm. Both sides, Yeah,
both sides. Do you know how I did that? You know,
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by lifting dirt? Oh my god? What all right? You're Anna?
What I really didn't see coming is that he was
about to take it one step further. Anna, look at Kyle.
Three things that make you happy about Kyle. Go Chat
even made us describe each other to each other. I've
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never described Kyle to anyone that's private. Oh my god. Okay, okay.
I love your smile, I love your spirits, and I
love your height. I love that you're the same exact
height as me. So I'm looking directly at you, and
it's I don't have to look up, poor down. Those
are burned. Those are burnt. Okay, Kyle, you go an
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three things you love? Oh my god, I was hoping
he just forget about this little game after Anna had
described me. But he didn't. I gave it a go.
I love that you're carrying the box um. I like
that your hair is soft. I like that your your
your outfit makes you look like your UM explorer because
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it's like a little jacket and a turtleneck. Not so hard, right,
not so hard to find the positives we push ourselves.
That's what we're going to be looking at today. That
was hardcore. Like we said, this was within minutes of
meeting this guy, who was a complete stranger anyway. We
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were a little confused as to how this related to
the task at hand, but damn, there was no doubt
about it. He was really good at whatever that was.
We headed to Hillary's lead the way, you're the leaders
of your own journey. Here. I'll be in charge, but
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you're the leaders. Sorry before Okay, Hello, we're here to
get your dirt. We walked up to the house and
we're greeted by a gate. The mechanism of the gate
was a little confusing, I had never seen anything like it.
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I'm with Kyle and this one it was not a
standard gate. We looked around to each other with confusion
and then look to Chad. Maybe he could help with
opening the gate. Already looking for someone to solve your
proper Okay, let's go. Okay. So Chad ended up opening
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the gate for us, and it didn't feel good. Even worse,
Hillary's house had a lot of gates. We found ourselves
totally disoriented with yet another gate. What is this the
process of climbing your way to the top in Hollywood? Disgusting?
Should be un that way. There's a gate and you
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can just pull the string. Pull the string is clearly
a string right there. Okay, great, how you pulling it together?
But it doesn't one two three, Annah, that can't be
a one two series. Maybe you can handle the door
and pull the strain. Oh there you go. Oh okay,
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thank you job, thank you job. Yes, that was Chad
helping us get through gate number two. We met up
with Hillary, our taskmaster, in her backyard. We saw the
dirt right away. Let me be your eyes. It was
a pretty standard pile of dirt, brown all over, very
dirt like we asked Hillary to give us a breakdown
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of the job at hand. So is, um, this is
the pilot dirt right here. Um, so in your sort
of best world, what what do you want us to
do with the dirt? You want us to make it
so it's it's flat. I mean in my in my dreams,
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it's gone, all of it, all of it in any
But you don't have to do that. I know we
already described it, but this really was a big pile
of dirt. It was honestly hard to imagine getting rid
of all of it. Chad, not skipping a beat, stepped in.
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But I'd ask you, look at your leg and look
at my life. Could you imagine you're looking like my life? No?
Could you imagine your shoulders something like my shoulders? Absolutely not?
And yet here I am existing. Wow. Chad was saying
that if he had the ability to build that much
muscle in his arms and legs, that we could do anything,
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including moving the dirt. So I guess it's possible. I
suppose I'm gonna tell you this attitude already. It's like
you have to come into this wanting it. Okay, okay.
We picked up some shovels and started strategizing fantastically. Wait,
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so reflattening or reputting. We're putting in Latin. Okay, we're
trying to find it. We get it to a flat,
so you might want to flatten it a little bit
and then grab a little more to keep get playing
that joke. After shoveling for five minutes, it was go time.
By that, I mean it was time to start having fun.
We would employ the fun tactics that the focus group
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had provided us with. Obviously we couldn't do all of them.
In fact, we couldn't do most of them. It just
wasn't realistic to make an empanado while moving the dirt,
or take a road trip from Los Angeles to Tucson
with that cute guy Chris. So we just focused on
the ones that we were able to do, singing baroque
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music and telling one of the Harry Potter inside jokes,
which we had developed with a professional comedian. You might
be wondering, are you telling all three jokes? Well not exactly.
You see, only one of the comedians thought to send
us a transcript of the inside joe. But luckily for us,
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the joke we did have happened to be the longest,
and it also came from the comic with the most credits,
no offense to the other comics. Oh and if we
had time, we would also listen to the two thousand's
hit song Gotta Get Through This by Daniel Bettingfield. Did
you know that he's from New Zealand. First, we gave
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singing baroque music ago, or at least what we thought
was baroque music. I mean, I think we were thinking
about music from that movie Shakespeare Love, but I'm not sure.
Like a good instructor, Chad led the way, I'm not
exactly sure what baroque music is, but I imagine it's
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something like done bun fun dune done, done fun done,
something like that. Maybe. Okay, let's go don dune, dune dune. Okay, Okay,
that's enough of that, no comment, But we did have
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a little bit of fun. Neither Anna nor I had
ever moved dirt in our lives. We didn't really have
a process in mind. We just sort of started shoveling
the dirt into anything we could find. A large bin
that Hillary had left out for us in garbage bags,
we moved them off to the side where no one
would see As we were doing this, we moved on
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to late night comedian Emily Heller's Harry Potter inside Joke.
I gave it a go while Anna shoveled on like
I don't understand what's wrong with the actual post office,
but okay, I guess it's better descending nocturnal word to
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carry your message for you and just hope it doesn't
get distracted. I thought it was pretty good. Chad didn't
necessarily disagree, but he did have a suggestion, wells Harry
Potter stuff. I thought it was a missed opportunity personally
not to sort of play to the Potter fans somehow.
Now it was my turn to give the world tempo. Well, oh,
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so J's dead. Okay, now we were getting somewhere. Chad
encouraged Kyle to start talking like Harry Potter, my name
is Harry Potter. Chad really seemed to like that. He
encouraged Kyle to go in this direction and take more risks.
Where did you leave off? Yeah, Harry, it's like a man.
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I think that's it. Yeah, you're really good, bra Bral
But Da Vinci and Dona it was clear as day
to anyone who is sening that we were really starting
to have fun, even though, to be honest with you,
shoveling the dirt was actually not fun. In fact, it
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was really frustrating. We were pretty over it at this point.
Chad had us carry the dirt we had collected in
the trash bin. Who've got a very heavy trash I'm
guessing conservatively seventy five pounds of dirt, and I think
we do need to at least bring it down to
the main levels trash. Maybe smooth that out a little
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bit too, So one three, Sorry, okay, okay, all right,
will you maybe the handles handfuls? Eveink they're strong enough? Okay?
Cut cut, cut, cut cut. Chad had us make weird
noises so that we'd be having fun while we were
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moving the trash bin down the steps. It was weird,
and honestly, it's a story for another time, but I
think you can tell from the audio that we're pretty
over it at this point. Oh, there was no hiding
or suffering from Chad. Sounds objectively like we already mentioned.
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You know a few times we were over this task.
Our arms hurt, our backs hurt, we had dirt under
our nails. We brought the bin in bags of dirt
down to Hillary's trash area, you know where you would
dispose of the dirt. She had a classic spread trash, recycling,
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and compost, the big three. It seemed to make the
most sense to put the dirt in the compost bin,
so we went for it. I think those headed Oh
my god, Oh my god. I don't think a lot
of that camp. Unbeknownst to us, Hillary had deceived us.
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The bin she had provided us with actually had other
stuff in it, stuff that didn't belong in a compost bin.
I don't want to tell tales out of school, but
there was some things in there that no one should
have to see, let alone touch. I'm talking takeout boxes,
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I'm talking takeout plates, I'm talking poop bags. And let
me tell you I know what poop bags are because
I have a dog. And let me also just tell
you Hillary's dog was huge, and by the looks of it,
he was eating well. Chad intent on remaining rigid insistent
that we take these items out of the compost bin.
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When we showed him attitude and resistance, he recalled that
we had also planned on listening to the two thousand
Songs got to get through through this by that guy
from New Zealand, Daniel Beddingfield. That's why you hear us singing.
He made us do that. Oh and by the way,
did you know that Daniel Beddingfield is related to Natasha
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bedding Field of the Rest is Still and Written fame.
Pretty cool? Anyway back to it, Oh my god, a
bag of dirt literally fell on us. And that was it.
Enough was enough. We didn't sign up for this. My
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back hurts, I miss my family. I just want to
go home and eat a sandwich. Maybe you would tell
them so they take them at a certain point, you
and you have three reasonable problem. And then there it was.
It wasn't our problem. And now in ad braink okay,
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the ad break is over. It wasn't our problem. It's there.
They're a dirt yeah they yeah, it's like that's their problem. Yeah,
this is good attitude. It wasn't our problem. Even chat
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agreed that's the right side of bright side. So that
was that. You heard it yourself, folks, It wasn't our problem.
We confidently threw down our shovels and walked out. We
walked past the first gate and kicked our way out
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of the second gate. Oh, then it occurred to us
that we should probably let Hillary know, you know, what
was going on with us kind of clew her into
where we were at. So we turned around, went through
the second gate, which was still kicked over and no
problems there. Then we walked up to the first gate,
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which was the one with the string system, so we
did have to kind of pull on that for a
little while to figure that out, but eventually we did
figure it out, march through that and walked right up
to her door. We knocked on that door. It was
a confident knock. You could hear my knuckle hit the wood. Boom,
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boom boom. She didn't hear us, so we knocked again,
boom boo boo. We saw the knob twist open and
the door crack open. Ah, it was so slow. Ah.
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There she was like a witch in the woods. We
said to her, it's not our problem and left and
marched back out. So I know, Kyle said that she
was like a witch in the woods, but what she
left out was that she was like a gorgeous witch
in the woods, almost like a mermaid, but a witch.
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I don't know. You just have to see it to
believe it. Anyway, in the interest of full transparency, we
left out a few details. Basically, we told Hillary that
we did move a lot of the dirt and what
we couldn't move we flattened, but we wore ourselves out
dumping the dirt into the compost bin so effectively we
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didn't dispose all of the dirt. Plus we had accidentally
dumped trash into the compost bin, and well, we just
didn't feel like picking all of it out. She was
really cool about it, but she did ask us to
grab the one remaining bag of dirt that we didn't dispose,
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and she asked us to take it with us. I
felt too awkward to say no, and I was genuinely
thinking about eating a sandwich, so we agreed to take
the bag of dirt. We figured that for now we
would just put it in the back of my Prius.
We were getting ready to leave. We stood in the
street and listened to Chad reflect, I see a lot
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of smiles. I think we've worked super hard, and then
joy has followed us along the way. YouTube gained not
only a renewed sense of joy, but a new fan
in me. Hearing that was awesome, and the feeling was mutual.
We were fans of his unconditionally. It's amazing, thank you.
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That is all, of course, based on what you do next,
what you have a fan in me, depending on if
you take these lessons and apply them to your life.
It's unconditionally conditional. Right, So as far as right now
goes yes, as far as tomorrow goes both. Tomorrow. We've
got to walk to the car. Yes, yeah, So we
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walked to the car. Aren't Keith parked right here? Chad? Yes,
it wasn't for me. We set our goodbyes and parted ways. Me,
Anna and our bag of dirt, plus the lessons I
got ready to reflect on our investigations lessons plus, I
had an idea Kyle and I would probably meet at
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the beach to talk, because that's just what we did.
While we were there, we could dispose of the bag
of dirt. I didn't want it laying around Kyle's prius,
and I was sure she was probably itching to get
rid of it. But as I was waiting for Anna's
call where she asked me to meet at the beach
to talk, something occurred to me. Was it legal to
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just dump a bag of dirt somewhere? I honestly didn't know,
and I didn't want us to end up rotting away
behind bars. So I suggested Kyle reach out to her
lawyer friend. You see, many nights ago we were just
talking and laughing and sharing, and Kyle off handedly remarked
that growing up, her next door neighbor was a lawyer.
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This guy was like family to her, and by that
I mean he watched her grow up. It would be
awesome to get some legal advice on this dirt situation. Selfishly,
I was excited to get a peek inside Kyle's childhood.
I had some burning questions to ask. We gave my
lawyer friend, Paul a call, a Paull call, Ah, are
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you there? Can you hear out? This is Anna hid
call and it's very nice to meet you. First things first,
I just wanted to confirm that he was a lawyer. Wait,
so you you are a lawyer? Right? I am. Because
he was a practicing lawyer and a family friend, we
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wanted to make sure that his identity was protected. We
didn't want this to screw up his legacy, so we
gave him an alias. Well, we were thinking that to
protect your identity on the show, We're just going to
call you Paul Bastrami that that works for me as
long as as long as you as long as a
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huh interesting criteria. But okay, before we got into it,
there was something I had to ask. And you knew
Kyle as a kid, right, I've known Kyle today she
was born. Here was my big chance. Here I go,
wish me luck. Was she really balancing? Well? If she's
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probably a good a good descriptive bing. Okay, let's get
to the meat and potatoes. The reason why we had
given Paul Pastrami a call. Okay, So we went to
a person's yard and we shoveled up a bunch of
dirt into a bag. So we have a huge bag
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of dirt in the back of my car. Are you following? Yeah,
we wonder if it's legal for us to toss this
dirt anywhere, Okay, I mean where you may or may
not dot It depends on where at how we asked
for clarification. I mean we didn't understand this kind of stuff.
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I mean, I speak Russian, not legal. Les. If you
can't get to some public hig open space area and
you just got my budget dirt on top my mother dirt,
you're realistically doing no harm bingo anywhere. That meant we
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could just throw the dirt on the beach anywhere. Thank you. Okay,
I'll talk to you soon. By wait a minute, so
we could throw the dirt anywhere. M hmm. Gave me
a little idea. We headed to the beach, well almost
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we had done something profoundly boring and managed to have
a pretty good time. But then some stuff happened, and
ultimately we decided it wasn't our problem. But what did
this mean for our original overall question? Why does time
fly by when you're having fun? Obviously there was a
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lot to discuss. Thank you so much for meeting me here.
I know it's not our regular spot, but um yeah,
we're just sort of right outside the beach that we
usually mean now, why didn't we just I had Kyle
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meet me at the spot where we usually park our
cars before heading to the beach. We were about a
half a block away from the actual water. I don't know.
I wanted somewhere else to talk because I wanted to
kind of acknowledge that we've been on a pretty crazy
roller coaster. Yeah, it's been really crazy. Yeah, I mean,
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if you think about it, you know we I don't know.
We just we were went through trauma, we went through heartbreak,
we did this crazy investigation, and we ended up really
I don't know, kind of really trying to dive into
this why does time fly by when you're having fun?
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And ultimately landed at you know, it's not our problem.
It's not our problem. I don't know. I think that's
a pretty positive really think. I think if anyone listening
to this is like, well, so, what did you actually
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figure out how we would respond to that? Is it's
absolutely not our problem. It's not our problem, you know. Yeah,
I don't know. So what did you want me to
do with this dirt? Because it's been sitting in my
car and kind of been bouncing around in my back seat,
so it's kind of the dirt is kind of getting everywhere. Well,
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I'm glad you brought the dirt here today, and I
know we wanted to dispose of it and kind of
maybe symbolic or scenic way, but yeah, yeah, but ultimately
what I wanted to say is not yet, and look
at me, not yet. Okay, so not yet, not yet.
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Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of I Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for about a year now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle.
In middle school, I received the award most Enthusiastic to Learn,
so that makes me pretty special. And that is what
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makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are two friends
who love each other very much. But what we love
even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries. All mysteries, sure,
but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, no mystery is too small. No, no, no,
Why don't you trust me when I tell you we
(00:42):
are ready to sniff around? We are a true hound.
You've reached Kyle's voicemail box. Please leave a message after
the beep, unless it's Anna. In that case it's not Kyle.
(01:08):
Please do not leave your messages here. Thank you, have
a good day. Ah Hey, I'm sorry this message is
for Kyle. I don't know it's the same number. Thanks,
it is Anna, so I don't know if anyway, if
(01:30):
if whoever this is is it can see Kyle or
talks whatever. Then I was just gonna ask if Kyle
wanted to meet at the beach, so um, just pass
on the message to her, I guess, and I'll see
her in a regular spot. H thanks. Do you think
(01:54):
she's just not going to show up? H M? I
waited at the beach, no idea if Kyle would end
up showing up. It was me, the ocean and our
sound guy romany, right, Maybe that's no, that's not It
(02:22):
really is a beautiful day though. You can kind of
see like over there. I like looking over there because
the mountains. Usually it's like sky ocean, but there you
get mountains. And yeah. I tried to just carry on
business as usual, but it just wasn't the same. Are
(02:48):
you busy after this? Yeah? Sometimes just Kyle and I
go get a smoothie or something after there's just h M.
Episode seven, Why does time fly by when you're having fun?
(03:12):
Part um? Part three? I didn't know what to do,
so I went back to my home and I did
what I do best. I had a seat. First, Kyle
didn't answer my phone call. She had recorded a new
(03:35):
greeting that seemed to be directed at me. Then she
didn't show up at the beach. I was left there,
bear asked and afraid. The task of moving the dirt
was only a day away, and I had no idea
where Kyle and I stood feelings aside we had taken
(03:58):
on this task. This person, Hillary needed her dirt mood,
and I didn't want to let her down. You just
don't do that. And let's zoom out further. We hadn't
even finished our initial investigation. We had set out to
(04:21):
find out why time flies by when you're having fun.
We definitely got sidetracked along the way. But this dirt task,
it was supposed to put us back on the path.
I'll be honest. I had high hopes for this task
that ultimately it would answer our initial question. We'd get
(04:43):
there no matter how roundabout a way we did. But
how would I do any of it without Kyle? I
had one of those super anxious nights where you can't
get to sleep, but then the word you have not
getting to sleep keeps you up even more. But then
(05:05):
something happened. I heard a weird noise around poor Ann.
I went to my door to investigate, you know, a
small investigation within the larger investigation. I approached the door.
(05:27):
Excuse me, yes, there was definitely something out there. Um, hey,
how are you? I'm good? I guess I'm sorry, I've
(05:50):
been kind of m I A. I was just painting
my house. You were painting your hand. Yeah, it's been
a really big project, and so that's why I haven't
really been able to call you back. But I came
back so we could keep the investigation going. It's like
four in the morning. Why, I know, I figured I
(06:11):
could come over here and get some shut I and
then we could go do the task. Yeah, please come in.
It was a complete misunderstanding. She was just painting her
house and the fumes they probably made her phone key anyway,
fumes are not I had my friend back. Yeah, it
(06:35):
was a complete misunderstanding. I was painting my house until
four am, and you know, the fumes. We would be
able to do the task after all and not let
Hillary down. By the time Kyle and I had finished
our heart to heart, it was definitely time to get
some shut eye. I got Kyle some pillows and blankets
(06:59):
and set her up in the living room. I tucked
her in and tiptoed away. Then I gave her a call. Hey, Kyle, Yeah, Anna,
he's Anna, Um, I'm in the other room. I know.
(07:23):
I just wanted to make sure you're a company and
I just wanted to say goodnight. Yeah, I'm comfy, good night, Okay,
good night. It was finally the day of the task,
(07:43):
in which we would move the dirt while attempting to
have fun. This was big. It would be the culmination
of all our efforts, our research, our experiences, our hardships
are lessons. Well, we didn't tell you before was that
we had arranged to meet with a specialist. We hadn't
(08:04):
mentioned this to you because you know we were going
through it. You see, pre Bill, the mean clown we
met with, we were feeling pretty good about doing the task.
We had armed ourselves with several ways of having fun.
The meeting with Bill made us take a step back. Honestly,
(08:25):
his attitude tanked their confidence, both in our abilities to
have fun and in ourselves just to be safe. We
wanted to hire some extra muscle, someone who would ensure that,
no matter what happened, we would have fun and stay
on track. Remember in high school, you had one teacher
who was so strict and stern, but for some reason,
(08:48):
it only made you want to get that a We
wanted someone like that. We woke up around noon, we
ate some brecky that's breakfast in Australia. I know things
are getting really good, but we have to take a
(09:10):
break for some ads. And the ad break is over.
We got into my prius and headed over to Hillary's
where we would meet with our instructor for the day.
You know, the guy we were just talking about so close.
(09:33):
It really is close. But you know what sucks is
that it's like not not enough. We've done, We've arrived.
Destination is in your right. Ah? Is this six one
three four? Kyle spotted him right away. Okay, there he is.
(09:55):
You see him? Yeah, I think I see his leg
popping out. Oh my god, Oh my god, he's so
scared his legs. Look you see his legs as Okay, okay,
Hi are you Chad? I am Chad. Oh yeah, I
(10:18):
guess we should introduce him. This is Chad. Hi. I'm Chad.
I'm a personal trainer and I'm also training to be
a life coach. I'm halfway through my certification with my
life coach. Typically right here we would describe the person
to you, but let me give you a little peek
(10:38):
behind the radio making curtain. What you're hearing right now, me, Kyle, Hello,
it's me is written and recorded weeks after the actual event.
I know it sounds like this is all happening at
the same time, Like there we are with Chad, and
(11:00):
then over to the side is a portable sound booth
where we are simultaneously describing what is happening, and Chad
just has to wait while we narrate what is going on.
We would love to be able to do that, but
that's just not how it works. Anyway, back to the point.
(11:22):
We typically are able to give these amazing physical descriptions
of people once we've met them, spend time with them,
and thought about them in a cool way. But as
we approach Chad, our instructor for the day, he did
something totally unprecedented. He demanded that we physically describe them
(11:43):
right then and there, within seconds of meeting him, before
any of the other stuff that Kyle had mentioned two
weeks the sound booth. Falling in love with this image
in a cool way. The point is he put us
on the spot roll the audio right. He want you
to take a look at me. Could you describe me
to your audience? Physically described me, muscles, just taking off
(12:03):
my hoodie, just everyone knows, So just describe me for
a second. Um, you're wearing a little knitted cap, but
then you're also wearing a tank. Talk all right, what
you're doing is you're driving my outfit. What I'm asking
you to do is describe the work I've put in
too looking, so just describe. It's fine, this is what
I do for Let me describe my body. Darn, this
guy was really good. We didn't even know it, but
(12:26):
our training had already started. Okay, it's someone someone's not
giving enough credit to their arms because they're bull drain
Like there's like a big watermelon in your arm. Both sides, Yeah,
both sides. Do you know how I did that? You know,
(12:48):
by lifting dirt? Oh my god? What all right? You're Anna?
What I really didn't see coming is that he was
about to take it one step further. Anna, look at Kyle.
Three things that make you happy about Kyle. Go Chat
even made us describe each other to each other. I've
(13:10):
never described Kyle to anyone that's private. Oh my god. Okay, okay.
I love your smile, I love your spirits, and I
love your height. I love that you're the same exact
height as me. So I'm looking directly at you, and
it's I don't have to look up, poor down. Those
are burned. Those are burnt. Okay, Kyle, you go an
(13:32):
three things you love? Oh my god, I was hoping
he just forget about this little game after Anna had
described me. But he didn't. I gave it a go.
I love that you're carrying the box um. I like
that your hair is soft. I like that your your
your outfit makes you look like your UM explorer because
(13:56):
it's like a little jacket and a turtleneck. Not so hard, right,
not so hard to find the positives we push ourselves.
That's what we're going to be looking at today. That
was hardcore. Like we said, this was within minutes of
meeting this guy, who was a complete stranger anyway. We
(14:19):
were a little confused as to how this related to
the task at hand, but damn, there was no doubt
about it. He was really good at whatever that was.
We headed to Hillary's lead the way, you're the leaders
of your own journey. Here. I'll be in charge, but
(14:40):
you're the leaders. Sorry before Okay, Hello, we're here to
get your dirt. We walked up to the house and
we're greeted by a gate. The mechanism of the gate
was a little confusing, I had never seen anything like it.
(15:04):
I'm with Kyle and this one it was not a
standard gate. We looked around to each other with confusion
and then look to Chad. Maybe he could help with
opening the gate. Already looking for someone to solve your
proper Okay, let's go. Okay. So Chad ended up opening
(15:24):
the gate for us, and it didn't feel good. Even worse,
Hillary's house had a lot of gates. We found ourselves
totally disoriented with yet another gate. What is this the
process of climbing your way to the top in Hollywood? Disgusting?
Should be un that way. There's a gate and you
(15:45):
can just pull the string. Pull the string is clearly
a string right there. Okay, great, how you pulling it together?
But it doesn't one two three, Annah, that can't be
a one two series. Maybe you can handle the door
and pull the strain. Oh there you go. Oh okay,
(16:07):
thank you job, thank you job. Yes, that was Chad
helping us get through gate number two. We met up
with Hillary, our taskmaster, in her backyard. We saw the
dirt right away. Let me be your eyes. It was
a pretty standard pile of dirt, brown all over, very
dirt like we asked Hillary to give us a breakdown
(16:29):
of the job at hand. So is, um, this is
the pilot dirt right here. Um, so in your sort
of best world, what what do you want us to
do with the dirt? You want us to make it
so it's it's flat. I mean in my in my dreams,
(16:51):
it's gone, all of it, all of it in any
But you don't have to do that. I know we
already described it, but this really was a big pile
of dirt. It was honestly hard to imagine getting rid
of all of it. Chad, not skipping a beat, stepped in.
(17:12):
But I'd ask you, look at your leg and look
at my life. Could you imagine you're looking like my life? No?
Could you imagine your shoulders something like my shoulders? Absolutely not?
And yet here I am existing. Wow. Chad was saying
that if he had the ability to build that much
muscle in his arms and legs, that we could do anything,
(17:35):
including moving the dirt. So I guess it's possible. I
suppose I'm gonna tell you this attitude already. It's like
you have to come into this wanting it. Okay, okay.
We picked up some shovels and started strategizing fantastically. Wait,
(17:57):
so reflattening or reputting. We're putting in Latin. Okay, we're
trying to find it. We get it to a flat,
so you might want to flatten it a little bit
and then grab a little more to keep get playing
that joke. After shoveling for five minutes, it was go time.
By that, I mean it was time to start having fun.
We would employ the fun tactics that the focus group
(18:20):
had provided us with. Obviously we couldn't do all of them.
In fact, we couldn't do most of them. It just
wasn't realistic to make an empanado while moving the dirt,
or take a road trip from Los Angeles to Tucson
with that cute guy Chris. So we just focused on
the ones that we were able to do, singing baroque
(18:42):
music and telling one of the Harry Potter inside jokes,
which we had developed with a professional comedian. You might
be wondering, are you telling all three jokes? Well not exactly.
You see, only one of the comedians thought to send
us a transcript of the inside joe. But luckily for us,
(19:02):
the joke we did have happened to be the longest,
and it also came from the comic with the most credits,
no offense to the other comics. Oh and if we
had time, we would also listen to the two thousand's
hit song Gotta Get Through This by Daniel Bettingfield. Did
you know that he's from New Zealand. First, we gave
(19:24):
singing baroque music ago, or at least what we thought
was baroque music. I mean, I think we were thinking
about music from that movie Shakespeare Love, but I'm not sure.
Like a good instructor, Chad led the way, I'm not
exactly sure what baroque music is, but I imagine it's
(19:45):
something like done bun fun dune done, done fun done,
something like that. Maybe. Okay, let's go don dune, dune dune. Okay, Okay,
that's enough of that, no comment, But we did have
(20:11):
a little bit of fun. Neither Anna nor I had
ever moved dirt in our lives. We didn't really have
a process in mind. We just sort of started shoveling
the dirt into anything we could find. A large bin
that Hillary had left out for us in garbage bags,
we moved them off to the side where no one
would see As we were doing this, we moved on
(20:34):
to late night comedian Emily Heller's Harry Potter inside Joke.
I gave it a go while Anna shoveled on like
I don't understand what's wrong with the actual post office,
but okay, I guess it's better descending nocturnal word to
(20:55):
carry your message for you and just hope it doesn't
get distracted. I thought it was pretty good. Chad didn't
necessarily disagree, but he did have a suggestion, wells Harry
Potter stuff. I thought it was a missed opportunity personally
not to sort of play to the Potter fans somehow.
Now it was my turn to give the world tempo. Well, oh,
(21:20):
so J's dead. Okay, now we were getting somewhere. Chad
encouraged Kyle to start talking like Harry Potter, my name
is Harry Potter. Chad really seemed to like that. He
encouraged Kyle to go in this direction and take more risks.
Where did you leave off? Yeah, Harry, it's like a man.
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I think that's it. Yeah, you're really good, bra Bral
But Da Vinci and Dona it was clear as day
to anyone who is sening that we were really starting
to have fun, even though, to be honest with you,
shoveling the dirt was actually not fun. In fact, it
(22:13):
was really frustrating. We were pretty over it at this point.
Chad had us carry the dirt we had collected in
the trash bin. Who've got a very heavy trash I'm
guessing conservatively seventy five pounds of dirt, and I think
we do need to at least bring it down to
the main levels trash. Maybe smooth that out a little
(22:33):
bit too, So one three, Sorry, okay, okay, all right,
will you maybe the handles handfuls? Eveink they're strong enough? Okay?
Cut cut, cut, cut cut. Chad had us make weird
noises so that we'd be having fun while we were
(22:55):
moving the trash bin down the steps. It was weird,
and honestly, it's a story for another time, but I
think you can tell from the audio that we're pretty
over it at this point. Oh, there was no hiding
or suffering from Chad. Sounds objectively like we already mentioned.
(23:21):
You know a few times we were over this task.
Our arms hurt, our backs hurt, we had dirt under
our nails. We brought the bin in bags of dirt
down to Hillary's trash area, you know where you would
dispose of the dirt. She had a classic spread trash, recycling,
(23:42):
and compost, the big three. It seemed to make the
most sense to put the dirt in the compost bin,
so we went for it. I think those headed Oh
my god, Oh my god. I don't think a lot
of that camp. Unbeknownst to us, Hillary had deceived us.
(24:09):
The bin she had provided us with actually had other
stuff in it, stuff that didn't belong in a compost bin.
I don't want to tell tales out of school, but
there was some things in there that no one should
have to see, let alone touch. I'm talking takeout boxes,
(24:29):
I'm talking takeout plates, I'm talking poop bags. And let
me tell you I know what poop bags are because
I have a dog. And let me also just tell
you Hillary's dog was huge, and by the looks of it,
he was eating well. Chad intent on remaining rigid insistent
that we take these items out of the compost bin.
(24:51):
When we showed him attitude and resistance, he recalled that
we had also planned on listening to the two thousand
Songs got to get through through this by that guy
from New Zealand, Daniel Beddingfield. That's why you hear us singing.
He made us do that. Oh and by the way,
did you know that Daniel Beddingfield is related to Natasha
(25:12):
bedding Field of the Rest is Still and Written fame.
Pretty cool? Anyway back to it, Oh my god, a
bag of dirt literally fell on us. And that was it.
Enough was enough. We didn't sign up for this. My
(25:36):
back hurts, I miss my family. I just want to
go home and eat a sandwich. Maybe you would tell
them so they take them at a certain point, you
and you have three reasonable problem. And then there it was.
It wasn't our problem. And now in ad braink okay,
(26:01):
the ad break is over. It wasn't our problem. It's there.
They're a dirt yeah they yeah, it's like that's their problem. Yeah,
this is good attitude. It wasn't our problem. Even chat
(26:22):
agreed that's the right side of bright side. So that
was that. You heard it yourself, folks, It wasn't our problem.
We confidently threw down our shovels and walked out. We
walked past the first gate and kicked our way out
(26:43):
of the second gate. Oh, then it occurred to us
that we should probably let Hillary know, you know, what
was going on with us kind of clew her into
where we were at. So we turned around, went through
the second gate, which was still kicked over and no
problems there. Then we walked up to the first gate,
(27:04):
which was the one with the string system, so we
did have to kind of pull on that for a
little while to figure that out, but eventually we did
figure it out, march through that and walked right up
to her door. We knocked on that door. It was
a confident knock. You could hear my knuckle hit the wood. Boom,
(27:24):
boom boom. She didn't hear us, so we knocked again,
boom boo boo. We saw the knob twist open and
the door crack open. Ah, it was so slow. Ah.
(28:00):
There she was like a witch in the woods. We
said to her, it's not our problem and left and
marched back out. So I know, Kyle said that she
was like a witch in the woods, but what she
left out was that she was like a gorgeous witch
in the woods, almost like a mermaid, but a witch.
(28:23):
I don't know. You just have to see it to
believe it. Anyway, in the interest of full transparency, we
left out a few details. Basically, we told Hillary that
we did move a lot of the dirt and what
we couldn't move we flattened, but we wore ourselves out
dumping the dirt into the compost bin so effectively we
(28:45):
didn't dispose all of the dirt. Plus we had accidentally
dumped trash into the compost bin, and well, we just
didn't feel like picking all of it out. She was
really cool about it, but she did ask us to
grab the one remaining bag of dirt that we didn't dispose,
(29:05):
and she asked us to take it with us. I
felt too awkward to say no, and I was genuinely
thinking about eating a sandwich, so we agreed to take
the bag of dirt. We figured that for now we
would just put it in the back of my Prius.
We were getting ready to leave. We stood in the
street and listened to Chad reflect, I see a lot
(29:29):
of smiles. I think we've worked super hard, and then
joy has followed us along the way. YouTube gained not
only a renewed sense of joy, but a new fan
in me. Hearing that was awesome, and the feeling was mutual.
We were fans of his unconditionally. It's amazing, thank you.
(29:53):
That is all, of course, based on what you do next,
what you have a fan in me, depending on if
you take these lessons and apply them to your life.
It's unconditionally conditional. Right, So as far as right now
goes yes, as far as tomorrow goes both. Tomorrow. We've
got to walk to the car. Yes, yeah, So we
(30:19):
walked to the car. Aren't Keith parked right here? Chad? Yes,
it wasn't for me. We set our goodbyes and parted ways. Me,
Anna and our bag of dirt, plus the lessons I
got ready to reflect on our investigations lessons plus, I
had an idea Kyle and I would probably meet at
(30:44):
the beach to talk, because that's just what we did.
While we were there, we could dispose of the bag
of dirt. I didn't want it laying around Kyle's prius,
and I was sure she was probably itching to get
rid of it. But as I was waiting for Anna's
call where she asked me to meet at the beach
to talk, something occurred to me. Was it legal to
(31:05):
just dump a bag of dirt somewhere? I honestly didn't know,
and I didn't want us to end up rotting away
behind bars. So I suggested Kyle reach out to her
lawyer friend. You see, many nights ago we were just
talking and laughing and sharing, and Kyle off handedly remarked
that growing up, her next door neighbor was a lawyer.
(31:28):
This guy was like family to her, and by that
I mean he watched her grow up. It would be
awesome to get some legal advice on this dirt situation. Selfishly,
I was excited to get a peek inside Kyle's childhood.
I had some burning questions to ask. We gave my
lawyer friend, Paul a call, a Paull call, Ah, are
(31:55):
you there? Can you hear out? This is Anna hid
call and it's very nice to meet you. First things first,
I just wanted to confirm that he was a lawyer. Wait,
so you you are a lawyer? Right? I am. Because
he was a practicing lawyer and a family friend, we
(32:17):
wanted to make sure that his identity was protected. We
didn't want this to screw up his legacy, so we
gave him an alias. Well, we were thinking that to
protect your identity on the show, We're just going to
call you Paul Bastrami that that works for me as
long as as long as you as long as a
(32:38):
huh interesting criteria. But okay, before we got into it,
there was something I had to ask. And you knew
Kyle as a kid, right, I've known Kyle today she
was born. Here was my big chance. Here I go,
wish me luck. Was she really balancing? Well? If she's
(33:02):
probably a good a good descriptive bing. Okay, let's get
to the meat and potatoes. The reason why we had
given Paul Pastrami a call. Okay, So we went to
a person's yard and we shoveled up a bunch of
dirt into a bag. So we have a huge bag
(33:23):
of dirt in the back of my car. Are you following? Yeah,
we wonder if it's legal for us to toss this
dirt anywhere, Okay, I mean where you may or may
not dot It depends on where at how we asked
for clarification. I mean we didn't understand this kind of stuff.
(33:48):
I mean, I speak Russian, not legal. Les. If you
can't get to some public hig open space area and
you just got my budget dirt on top my mother dirt,
you're realistically doing no harm bingo anywhere. That meant we
(34:11):
could just throw the dirt on the beach anywhere. Thank you. Okay,
I'll talk to you soon. By wait a minute, so
we could throw the dirt anywhere. M hmm. Gave me
a little idea. We headed to the beach, well almost
(34:37):
we had done something profoundly boring and managed to have
a pretty good time. But then some stuff happened, and
ultimately we decided it wasn't our problem. But what did
this mean for our original overall question? Why does time
fly by when you're having fun? Obviously there was a
(35:01):
lot to discuss. Thank you so much for meeting me here.
I know it's not our regular spot, but um yeah,
we're just sort of right outside the beach that we
usually mean now, why didn't we just I had Kyle
(35:21):
meet me at the spot where we usually park our
cars before heading to the beach. We were about a
half a block away from the actual water. I don't know.
I wanted somewhere else to talk because I wanted to
kind of acknowledge that we've been on a pretty crazy
roller coaster. Yeah, it's been really crazy. Yeah, I mean,
(35:45):
if you think about it, you know we I don't know.
We just we were went through trauma, we went through heartbreak,
we did this crazy investigation, and we ended up really
I don't know, kind of really trying to dive into
this why does time fly by when you're having fun?
(36:05):
And ultimately landed at you know, it's not our problem.
It's not our problem. I don't know. I think that's
a pretty positive really think. I think if anyone listening
to this is like, well, so, what did you actually
(36:26):
figure out how we would respond to that? Is it's
absolutely not our problem. It's not our problem, you know. Yeah,
I don't know. So what did you want me to
do with this dirt? Because it's been sitting in my
car and kind of been bouncing around in my back seat,
so it's kind of the dirt is kind of getting everywhere. Well,
(36:48):
I'm glad you brought the dirt here today, and I
know we wanted to dispose of it and kind of
maybe symbolic or scenic way, but yeah, yeah, but ultimately
what I wanted to say is not yet, and look
at me, not yet. Okay, so not yet, not yet.
(37:19):
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