Fireside #27

Debra, Diana, and Jesi read and discuss new listener submissions! Happy Halloween!
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Episode Transcript

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Wow, being around this crackling firesure makes me reminisce about fall and Halloween.
And it's just around the corner here. You know, Halloween the perfect
time of year for them, itreally is. I'm feeling warm, cozy,
Jesse. Did you bring some wienersor marshmallows this time today? I
brought vegan hot dogs. That's mykind of hot dog manner and already a

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wiener. God. I love thatmovie and it doesn't get enough praise.
True Beverrela Hills Everybody. If youhaven't seen it, do yourself a favor
and watch it. Yeah, it'ssome good stuff. You know what else
has some good stuff. We hadsome more writings, yes we did.
Am loving these and actually the onethat I have this week is true to

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the season. It's a spooky story. Oh I don't have a spooky story.
But um, we are the Ladiesof Spark my Interest podcast. I
am Diana, I'm Debra, I'mJesse. And this is a fireside Friday,
so it's not a real full fledgedepisode which usually takes place on Mondays.
But here we have some writings andI think we should just jump right
into them. Who wants to gofirst? I can go first, Okay,

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Jesse, let's hear it this may. I wouldn't say it's in the
spirit of Halloween, but it kindof fits a little bit. It's bizarre.
So this comes to us from Amberin Las Vegas. Hello, ladies,
she writes, I finally got somedowntime here waiting in line at the
DMV, so I'm writing to tellyou about something that happened a few weeks

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ago. I work in the hotelindustry as well, and I had the
joy of working the graveyard shift atthe front desk. I answer a call
from a guest at about one amwho tells me I think I'm going to
need a doctor. Oh man.I asked him if his need was life
threatening or if he just needed accessto a doctor or a nurse, and

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he said, um, I tookmy pants off too fast, asked and
a piercing. I have got caughtand ripped off of me and now I'm
bleeding into a towel a lot.Oh my god, he's got a does
he have Prince Albert? What aPrince Albert? What are we talking about?
A piercing? Piercing? Oh?Is that what it's called. I
had no idea. Yeah, Ilearned something every day. Guys sparked my

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interest. He also said, I'mdrunk, by the way, so I
hope I'm making sense. And Isaid, we'll send someone on staff up
to evaluate the situation. So Isend up our security guard who has trained
in CPR and first aid. Abouthalf an hour goes by, and the
security guard comes back down and says, the man has opted to take himself
to the er by taxi. Andthen now he can say he has helped
at least one person put a pieceof their penis on ice. Oh my

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howned. He I don't know ifI would let somebody into my taxi cab
bleeding from anywhere. But the crotchis particularly interesting. It had not it
couldn't have been that big of apiece, because I mean, they would
have called an ambulance, I wouldthink. But you know, people have
it for the freedom has to maketheir own medical decisions, and that's what
this guy opted to do. Butshe says, people can say what they

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want about Las Vegas, but onething is for sure, it's never boring.
So true, man, I wouldimagine can't speak from experience, but
you know, how like if youcut your face or whatever, and it's
just you're like, wow, isso much blood coming from my face or
like your hand. I would imaginethat it's fragile enough down there that it's
going to be the same kind oflike, how is there this much blood
there? I don't want to thinkabout it. Yeah, I mean maybe

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they put some ice on it andturn it kit. I don't know.
It's awful to think about. That'swhat I'm really. I'm upset. What's
awful? Yeah, And it's likeit makes me cross my legs, even
though I'm like, I don't gotone of those down there, but it's
like, oh man, yeah,I think one of the story is watching

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not imagine piercings needed a trigger warningthere. Yeah. Oh um, I
have something a little more light hearted, actually a lot more lighthearted. I
think I'll go next so that Deboracan save her spooky one for her last.
Okay, perfect, Okay, thisone. I liked it, says

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Ladies of SMI here goes nothing.When I was twelve, I'm thirty four
now. My mom and dad gotdivorced by fourteen. I was a child
pro at split custody, but myparents still felt like amateurs. They continued
to each do their best to bethe cool parent and allowed me to get

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my way constantly and showered me withgifts, anything to one up the other.
I was too young to really understandjust how sad that behavior was at
the time, and instead just reapthe benefits of their midlife crisis coping mechanisms.
I'm not proud of it, butthen again, I was fourteen anyway.

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In two thousand and four, Igot to go to the Bahamas with
my dad, and then a fewmonths later my mom took me to Cabo.
These trips gave me an idea,and years later, in two thousand
and seven, my dad took meto Turks and Cacos for graduation. I
told my mom I was going withfriends and suggested that she meet me there

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for an extended vacation. I saidit'd be a mother daughter time before college,
and it worked. The shock onmy parents' faces when they realized I
had scammed them into vacationing together eyikes. They weren't angry, but after
a few days something happened, andnext year they'll be celebrating twelve years of

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remarriage. You guys did a firesideepisode about doing people odd favors. This
one was mine. Thanks for thelovely show and for letting me share much
love, Kelly. And then shesays she's from Tampa Bay, Florida.
And then she writes, not aBucks and though I love my Dolphins,

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thanks for Tyreek. That's a jabat us because Tyreek Killy used to play
for the Chiefs and she knows wechair on the Chiefs and now he plays
for the Dolphins. Wow, andthey're poor quarterback. Yeah, she beat
the odds on that favor. Wow, that's amazing, I know, it
really is, Like wow. Yeah, huh. I wonder what are the

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statistics about people who get divorced andthen remarried get back together? Yeah?
Does it ever? I mean,apparently this is working out. But I
would feel like I've known some peoplein the past who have been married,
divorced, remarried to the same personand then like six months in they're like,
this is now, this was amistake. Like cool. It sounds

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like they had enough time off fromone another that I guess it just yeah,
daughter Nubiss. Anyway, thank you, Kelly. That was a great
writing. Yeah. So I justfound something on a quick Google search and
It's from Levi Divorce Lawyers dot Comand it says is it common for divorce
couples to get back together? Andthe statement here was, when you remarry
your ex spouse, your chances ofsuccess are higher than they would be if

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you remarried someone else. Really,he says, approximately sixty seven percent of
second marriages and seventy three percent ofthird marriages and in divorce, but seventy
two percent of reunited partners stay together, meaning only twenty percent of these remarriages
end in divorce. That's interesting,but I guess it would be like,
if you're going to remarry someone youdivorce, you'd be like, hey,

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remember those things that we discussed andwe didn't like it, so we got
divorce. Let's not do those again. Yeah, there'd be a line of
communication. You're signed, you knowwhat you're signing up for. You're like,
yeah, I didn't love this andyou didn't love this, let's compromise.
Maybe Kelly your stats and was like, okay, let's let's do this.
Mom and Dad, well I lovethat for Kelly. I don't love

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this for our next listener. Actually, okay, should we put some spooky
music on? Sure? Crank upthe wireless speakers, Jesse. So the
only thing is her name is Kayla. She wrote to us, but she
does not say where she's from oranything. I did write her back,
but never her back yet at least, so if I ever do, I'll

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let you know. Okay, fornow, she says, Hi, it's
October. Who doesn't love scary storiesin October? Right? Yeah? I
wanted to send this year way andhoping you can share it before Halloween.
I'm Kayla. In nineteen ninety four, I was eight years old and proclaiming
Halloween as my favorite holiday. Halloweenlanded on a Monday that year, which

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was an ideal, but I wasn'tabout to let it ruin anything for me.
Me and my three best friends metat my house and my oldest brother,
Jason, agreed to take us throughthe neighborhood for trick or treating.
He's a good brother. We leftat seven pm and we had to be
home by nine. We set outin costumes that no one would really be

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able to see because of our coats, but we didn't care. I remember
those days I dressed up as Iknow, I remember those days. She
must be from a northern climate exactlyexactly. I was always a ballerina.
Diana was a princess. A lotof times we'd always you all look like
a stapuff marshmallows inside a costume.Exactly, Yeah, and you always had

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that hope of like, I don'tknow, maybe I could do it this
year. Okay, so, shesays, she was dressed up as Alice
in Wonderland that year. The firsthour was great, lots of candy and
fun, and around eight pm therewas a truck parked on it called a
sack. We didn't think anyone wasin it, so we thought nothing of

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it. As soon as we startedto get closer to it, though,
it turned on its headlights on highbeans. It blinded us and kind of
free us out too. That honestly, car lighting in general, just coming
on, that's freaky. It's justfree, she says. We quickly walked
by it to head up to thenext house. The house it was parked

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on the curb in front of it. My brother had second thoughts, He
said, how about we just skippedthis one. I stopped, as did
two of my friends. But oneof my friends had already run up to
the door and rang the doorbell.An older woman answered quickly, and me
and my two friends who stayed behind, we looked to my brother to see

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what we should do. He justsort of whispered to us, just stay
there, so we did. Myfriend, who had gone up to the
door, got some candy and ranback to the rest of us. Her
I know, right, So weasked her, what'd you get snickers?
Dang, we missed out. Justthen, the car lights flicked on again,

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so she doesn't She doesn't note thatthey turned off when the door opened,
I guess, but they turned off, and then by the time they
are all to go to the nexthouse, the lights turned on again.
That's weird. Oh yeah, Soher brother says, come on, girls,
let's skip this block. We walkedback from the way. We came
illuminated by the car lights. Wereached the bottom of the cul de sac

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and the truck engine revved on.We all turned around to see it start
to creep closer to us. No, I don't like this guy, My
brother said, Let's just jog alittle. So there we are. The
five of us start jogging away fromthe truck, and the truck started going
faster, So we start running fasterand faster. We are long hauling it.

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We're just freaked out. The truckthen starts honking its horn and speeding
up. I'm crying, my friendsare crying, and my brother is yelling.
Rode up to the house. Rodeup to the house. Yeah,
I was wondering. I'm like,run up to any house and absolutely we're
going to be open for trick ortreaters. Absolutely, So we book it
over to a house that we havealready visited and ring the doorbell frantically.

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They answer, and we just bustour way into the house. I watched
from the safety of that doorway mybrother stand on the curb. As the
truck pulled up. The window crackedand there was an exchange of words.
Quickly, then the truck drove off. My brother marched up over to the

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house, over to my friend thathad gotten the candy from the house,
and he said, sorry, Ithink we're just going to need to get
rid of all of your snickers.What she proclaimed? It's the nickers for
crying out loud. He says,just do it. The guy in the
truck said, don't eat the candyand just drove off. That's all.

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He said. Let's not take anychances the police. I know, right
well, she says, So they'reon the floor of the entryway of strangers.
We took every single Snickers out andthrew them into the outside trash can.
None of them looked tampered with,but we just didn't know. We
still have no idea who that was. That's some crazy story. Yeah,

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I hope it's a trick Mass decidedto do, but who knows. Honestly,
I was wondering. I was like, is this gonna be like the
brother's way of just getting all thesnickers or something? But it didn't sound
like that's that was the case.Unless he was ready to go through the
trash that's a really mean thing todo. He seems like a cool brother.

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But yeah, what a messed upstory from Gala, It really was.
I don't have anything like that.I don't have scares from Halloween,
you like, you know, reallike real life scares. You know,
No, I don't either. Welooked out, you guys, because there's
some ship that goes down on Halloween. For sure, there there definitely is
you hear about like the car accidentsand whatnot that are just horrifying, But

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the true blue like little scary momentsof people being like, oh, I
found a the one we always heardwhen we were little. I was like,
oh, people will put razor bladesin candy? Is that real or
was that just a myth? Idon't know. I don't know anybody who
ever said oh, yeah, thathappened to me, you know. So,
yeah, it's a weird time.Be safe out there, but we

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appreciate the story from from Kayla andthen also from Kelly and Amber in Las
Vegas. Amber in Las Vegas.Yeah, what rips off in Vegas stays
in Vegas. I don't know,stays on ice, stays on ice in
Vegas. There you go. Goodluck to him. Well, I was

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a good one. I liked it. Yeah. So please send us here
questions, thoughts, and personal stories, either via message, email, voicemail,
whichever you prefer, and we'd loveto share them as we gather around
this figure to fire. Thanks usalways for listening, and join us next
week for another fireside Friday. Ohe