Fireside #25

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Episode Transcript

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You guys, Friday's here again,and I am ready for it. It's
been a week and I'm ready tohear some stories. And we actually got
quite a few of the men wedid, and Friday's hit differently in October.
It's just like, all right,what movie are we gonna watch?
Like we just said, awesome,spooky time. I love the weekends even
more. Yeah. Ober. So, if you're listening to us for the

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first time, we're actually the Ladiesof Spark my interest podcast. I'm Diana
on Deborah, I'm Jesse, andthis is what we call fireside Fridays,
where we short share our own personalstories of just crazy shit that's happened to
us or in today's instance, wegot listeners stories. So we're gonna be
sharing a couple of those. We'vegot three of those to share. A

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lot on the back burner, butkeep bringing them. We are loving getting
these stories in. They are hilariousand we're having them as so funny.
Oh, Mike, I'm really good. Yeah, I like this one.
I'm not gonna hype it, butI like it. Oh, okay,
you want to start, Jesse?Oh sure, okay. So this comes
to us from Sam and Sacramento.He talks about being from possibly somewhere else,

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and I think he is because Ikind of detect a little bit of
a drawl in the way he writes, So I don't I'm not going to
try it with the job. I'mjust gonna readistrate. He goes, Hello,
ladies, that sparked my interest.I finally decided to write in and
share an embarrassing story. My nameis common enough, so I don't think
anyone will link it back to me. I also did not give you my

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real location. WHOA Okay, whatis this guy gonna? Yeah? So
it all started when I was onmy first construction job. It was hot
and humid, and it was myjob to let a back cooperator know how
much room he had left before heran into this stone wall on the property.

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I didn't drink near enough water thatmorning, so my head started getting
a little foggy and I fell asleepon the job. As they say,
it was more like ass up inthe dirt, and the back cooperator luckily
didn't hit the wall, but hedid think I needed CPR and gave me
mouth to mouth in front of thewhole crew. They told me later that
the first time he breathed into myinto my mouth. My eyes shot open

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and I looked like I just putmy lips on a blow dryer. He
went in for another kiss of life, as y'all called it, and I
yelled out in my dizzy stupor,I can't I'm married. Oh my god.
Anyway, one of my work buddieswho was there, likes to tell
that story every time he thinks Ineed taking down a peg, so I

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might as well get some use outof it myself. Wow, could you
imagine your first day wait to jumpin there? You know, I feel
like I might give it a hotsecond before I put my mouth on somebody
else's, you know, right,Yeah, Yeah, but it's one of
those things where you're like, younever know how you're going to react in
in case of an emergency. Yeah, if somebody's not breathing, you think
they're you know, maybe they hada heart attack or something. You jump

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in because hot day, you know, construction guys, I guess maybe heart
attacks or more common. So theyjust kind of I wonder how old he
was, you know, Yeah,it doesn't say so. I mean,
I'm guessing he's kind of, youknow, probably not that old. If
it's his first construction job. Youdon't go late in life or wasn't any
like kicking other leg Come on,buddy, you know you're right, You're
right. None of that's boom.My sister Katie, she wants fainted at

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a Walmart just standing in line atthe checkout counter because she like, oh
my gosh, her blood pressure dropped. I think she'd locked her legs back
too long or something. But yeah, she was like they had to come
over and help her up and stuff. So I mean, I imagine with
in this case, maybe they thoughthe had a heart attack them who knows,
but uh, yeah, I can't. I'm married. Yeah, that's

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great. It's a good line.That's almost that could go into our movie
lines as well. Oh I'm married. That is a great movie one liner.
Love it. I bet his wifefeels pretty good with that story,
like yeah, yeah, yeah,it's kind of redeeming in that way.
Absolutely, it's a good one.What was his name in quotation marks Sam
and Sacramento. Okay, all right, well, thank you Sam in Sacramento.

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Thank you Sam in quotations in Sacramento. Yeah, I can go next
do it. And this actually comesfrom my cousin Sandra's husband, Colin in
Norway. Colin has written in beforehe has he's a fan of the pod.
He's a friend of the pod,you know. Yeah, so he
wrote this on We had this conversationand earlier September he had just listened to

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Fireside twenty three where we had talkedabout Deva and I had talked about being
mistaken as the Olsen twins for nofucking reason, which was so stupid.
He says, we do not looklike them. Hi, how's things?
I just heard Fireside twenty three andI had to laugh at someone thinking you

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were the Olsen twins. See,he even knows, he gets. He
says I have been mistaken for TomGreen, and then in brackets he writes
I was insulted an He writes,Terry Pratchett my favorite author. So that
was nice. But the weirdest onewas the one time in London when I

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was walking down the street when Ihear It's Quicksilver and a gaggle of crazy
females descended on me, convinced thatI was Evan Peters. Mister Peters,
while a good actor, is twentyyears younger, six inches shorter and blonder

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than I am the guy for themovies that like an X Men. Right,
yeah, So I actually wrote himback and I'm like, hah,
oh my gosh, those are great. How long ago was the Quicksilver Spotting?
And he says twenty sixteen? Ithink the film had just come out.
Oh, and I checked. He'seight inches shorter than me. So

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then I wrote him because this wasactually something that triggered her memory for me.
I said, that's hilarious, Deborah, and I also used to get
this one ice skater. What theheck was her name? It took me
a second, and then I'm like, Tara Leapinsky. Do you know Tara
Lensy? Okay, we look nothingthe fuck like her anyway, So I
said that always confused us a becausewe don't look like her, and b

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because she's not a twin. Andyet people would be like, are you
guys Tara Leapinsky? He just wroteback, too weird, But uh yeah,
I thought that was funny. Ihad totally forgotten the Tara Leapinsky thing
until he had written me. ButI love it that. I mean,
you don't realize what an actor reallylooks like until you can see them in

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person where you're like, oh,yeah, they're shorter than I thought or
whatever. So these people obviously thinkEvan Peters is a lot taller, a
lot taller. It's quicksilver. Ilove that. Tom Green either, I
don't. I don't see Tom Greenhim either. Uh wow, I love
it. I'm so glad that hewrote us. Um. We also have

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Jonathan from Illinois. He was tellingus he would this is his cub story.
This is his cub story. Ohoh, I'm so anxious to hear
this. Okay, so he wroteus. He says, hello, ladies
of spark my interests. So mystory goes. We moved into an old
historic house in Elgin, Illinois,and we worked for a month straight trying

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to get things done in all inorder. I was about eleven years old,
My brother was twelve when we movedin with my mom, her husband,
their kid, and a granddaughter.Now the granddaughter was about two years
old when they had moved in there. He said, so, since we

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worked so hard on the house andgetting it in order, my mom's best
friend's husband decided we should all havea guy's day so we can go out
and celebrate. So it was me, my brother, my uncle, and
my mom's husband. We decide forthe guy's day, we're going to go

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to a Cubs game. This ismy first game ever at a professional venue.
Additionally, it is my brother's firstbaseball game. I asked my mom
if she'll pick out our clothes.She's like, no, you're old enough
to pick out your own clothes.So he wears a regular T shirt.
Jonathan does and he says, mybrother wears a purple shirt. Oh no,

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a purple shirt. So they alltake the like the transit in It
takes thirty minutes to get over there, and they make fun of him the
whole time because they're like, you'renot wearing blue, Like, come on,
why do you wear this purple shirt? This is ridiculous. He's twelve
years old, lagoon, who's thisgun a purple shirt? So they get
off at the iconic Wrigley Field andusually on that sign that says Wrigley Field,

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Home of the Cubs, it'll showyou like who they're playing, what
time the game is at, etc. Etc. Well, today they're greeted
by the sign and the sign sayshappy Barney Day. That's right. They
are celebrating the big old purple dinosaurat the stadium. Oh my gosh.
So they immediately see this sign andthey just start giving him so much shit

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because he's wearing a purple shirt onBarney Day and he's twelve years old.
So when they walk in, they'regiving souvenirs out. They're giving Cubs souvenirs
out, but they also have theseBarney dolls that are wearing Cubs shirts that
they are handing out. So Joye, tell me you still have that Barney
doll. He doesn't actually say,but he does say that they none of

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them got the Barney doll. Butthey're like, oh yeah, this guy's
in the purple shirt, like,clearly he needs he's a fan, he
needs the Barney doll. And he'slike, I don't want this thing.
They're like, no, take it, take it. The granddaughter at homes
want this Barney doll. So hetakes the Barney doll. They keep making
fun of it, but after awhile they're like, Okay, we're done.
We're done with this. So it'stime for the first pitch, and

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you guessed it, mister Barney himselfgets to throw out the first pitch and
so we all this teasing starts allover again. The best part of it
is that he brought the dinosaur homeall the way on that train and on
that bus so he could give theBarney dob to that two year old granddaughter
that was living with them, andhe was such a good sport about it.

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And that is really his brother.So he wants to just say thank
you, Jesse to my brother.I love you for all the times that
we laughed together. Buddy. Thatis a that's a good brother. That's
a good brother, or a goodsport. Really, he's a good sport
as well, because twelve years old, I mean that is a you're definitely
in any time. Yeah, that'sit's that purple shirt. You'd be like,

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I don't like Barney. You know. It's like our poor fourteen year
old role who went to Disney Roldand they were like, you're nine.
Yeah, you're nine years old.Like you're wearing the purple Sure, you're
twelve. You're carrying around the dollslike people are just going to assume you're
younger than what you are. Ihope the game was good and I hope
we won. Yeah, those aremy follow up questions for Jonathan. Did

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we win? Who were we playing? We like to know where's that doll?
Where's that Barney doll? I knowthose are valuable now, yeah,
it could be collectors. Yeah yeah. So please send us your questions,
thoughts, and personal stories and voicemailsthat you'd like to share with us as
we gather around this figure to fire. Thanks again as always for listening,

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and join us next week for anotherfireside Friday