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(00:03):
Halloween is coming. I'm thinking itis my favorite holiday at this point,
and I feel very cliche because it'slike everybody's favorite holiday, that or Christmas,
right, people love them both.But I'm just gonna do that.
I'm just gonna let everybody know thatit's my favorite now. It's the best.
It really is the best. Andgathering around this campfire makes it feel
(00:24):
kind of spooky. It absolutely does. And it's raining in La so what
could be better? Right while werecord this, I don't necessarily know if
it's going to be raining on thetwenty eighth. Wishful thinking. Yeah,
I'm hoping it does. We needit. We need all the rain we
can get. It's true. Weare the Ladies of Spark my interest podcast.
My name is Diana, I'm Deborah, I'm Jesse, and this is
(00:46):
a fireside Friday for us. Ournormal episodes air every Monday, but on
Friday we have a little fun mine. It's not scary. I don't know
if you guys have scary ones,but I have a funny one. Mine's
not scary, but it's like pranky, so I feel like it goes with
like trick or eat, so itworks. Jesse mine's just sort of like
a weird twist of fate. Ilike twist of fate, me too.
Who wants to get the ball rolling? I can do it? Okay,
(01:08):
let's hear it, Jesse. Okay, I found this one quite amusing.
This is from Isaac in New YorkCity because of the way he writes,
he seems very I don't know,literary, if that makes sense. No,
okay, And I always get akick out of people who write with
bigger words than I tend to use. Makes you feel a little bits a
(01:29):
rarity that you will find somebody whouses bigger, more elaborate words than you,
because oftentimes you'll say things that I'mlike, I'm a moron. It
happens to me too, though thereare people out there I'm like, oh,
what does that word mean? Well, I'm ready to be blown away
and feel like a moron after youhear this one. So what's doing?
I'm ready for it? Okay,it says, greetings, hostesses of spark
(01:49):
my interest. I am a logof file looked it up, lover of
words and the lover of all bookswell written. Aside from your forgivable and
self will work over use of theword like, yes, we are self
aware. I feel like he wroteit an insult. He says, I
find your show compelling, whimsical,and tastefully cheeky. I like that,
(02:15):
fine, you got us with whimsicaland cheeky. In the spirit of kinship,
I shall relate an anecdote in amanner I believe consistent with yours,
he says. I am the epitomeof a bookworm, and I live in
New York City. A large portionof my daily commute consists of walking while
reading. I am genre agnostic providedthe pros is adequate, and I find
(02:37):
the optimal time for me to readis in transit. As I currently work
in graphic design. When my eyesare occupied with work, I often occupy
my ears with podcasts like yours.Well, thank you all right. My
story, however, takes place onan ordinary weeknight while I was on my
way home. I have become quiteadept at maneuvering through the streets using only
(02:58):
my peripheral vision, But on thisparticular day, a chance chain reaction occurred
on the street parallel a delivery vanswerve suddenly to avoid a stray dog,
forcing an adjacent cyclist into the crosswalkand up onto the sidewalk. The cyclist
startled the person next to me,who veered toward me. I in turn
vered left to avoid collision, andsubsequently fell book first into an open sidewalk
(03:21):
cellar door. What Wow, likea movie works, But okay, right
right, I think it's just basicallylike everybody shifts to the left basically,
and he's pushed into the cellar doorbecause he's not looking right, he's looking
at a book. Do you knowwhat these cellar doors are? I had
to look it up. If youthink about you probably see him one before
if you're in New York City orsome big city. Those little kind of
(03:42):
trapdoors on the ground that are kindof like metal grates and stuff that we
have a friend who refuses it towalk on them, Casey, she refuses
to walk on them. Well,some of them collapse. I saw a
video on this guy who fell throughone that was like old and rusty and
so all right kind of way,Yeah, what do you fall into?
(04:02):
Is it a sewer? It's justa seller like I think it depends on
the place and how they've set itup, whatever their sellers like. So
these cellar doors are not even acknowledgeshe goes. These cellar doors are an
unfortunate hazard for city dwellers. However, in a serendipitous turn of fate,
a young woman who was hauling alarge beanbag up the stairs below jumped aside,
(04:25):
dropped the bean bag just in timefor it to cushion my fall.
Following the impact, I rolled ontothe cellar floor, avoiding any personal injury.
Even my book was unharmed. Ido continue to read while commuting,
However, I do take the timeto glance at more often, and have
since memorized the location of every cellardoor on my commute. This is a
rom com. I know what happenedwith the girl? Did they know?
(04:49):
Oh? I think it's real life. You know, she was probably like
what the fuck? Ah? Areyou all right? And that's kind of
I know, but extent of theirrelationships. Storybook story here. It needs
to be a movie. Who's writingthis movie? One of us is writing
this. Let's call the movie sellerdoor. Do you call it beanbag?
You call it beanbag? Yeah,because you know what you call it cellar
(05:12):
door. And everyone's going to expectsomething scary, and then it turns out
to be a rom com and someonelike me goes to it and they're pissed.
Yeah. Okay, oh man,well, what a nice little chance
of savory right there. Yeah,that's awesome. What was his name again,
Isaac? Isaac? Thank you forwriting in a great name too,
name. Well, I go next. Okay, Okay, this is from
(05:39):
Sarah. She doesn't say from where. It's just Sarah. Oh she didn't
write back and tell you now.She says, when I was twelve,
my sister Mandy was ten, andthe two of us one night thought it
would be hilarious to tepee somebody's house. I know that some people in the
world don't say a tpe. Theysay toilet papering. That's what she's talking
(06:02):
about, throwing toilet paper in people'strees. Yeah. I think we all
grew up around tp yeah, Jesse, Yeah, okay. She says,
we knew our neighborhood well and knewthat this kid who lived down the block
from us with his parents had anolder teenage brother. Because he had an
older brother, we thought it wouldn'tbe shocking to anyone if they got tepeed.
(06:26):
My older brother was watching us.She has that in quotations, which
means he basically was just playing videogames and told us to shut up if
we got too loud for him.So sneaking out of the house was a
breeze and we grabbed it. Theywere quiet because they were gone, She
says. We grabbed a couple ofrolls of toilet paper, and then Mandy
said, hey, what about someeggs. I had heard of people egging
(06:50):
others homes before, and it soundedfun and harmless right right now? I
think it can pay Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can take
the paint off a car or ourhouse or whatever. So didn't do that
in this case, but a goodstory. Nonetheless, she says, it
sounds harmless, right. We eachgrabbed an egg from the fridge, and
(07:14):
we skipped out the door and didthe deed surprisingly better than either of us
had planned. It to be.Their front yard after we were finished looked
like a perfectly wrecked bathroom. Afterwe ran out of toilet paper, Mandy
held out the two eggs she hadtaken with her. She handed one to
me and said, you're you ready? Yep, I replied, I had
(07:36):
no arm. My egg quickly hitthe cement on the front porch steps.
No biggie. Mandy, however,nailed the front door. It was loud,
and we stood there in shock.It only took a second. The
dad at the house opened the doorand saw us. We booked it.
(07:58):
This dad chased us. He didnot hesitate. If we jumped a fence,
he jumped a fence, etc.We ran to a house about two
blocks away, into the backyard ofanother girl we went to school with.
Well. The dad chasing us thoughtwe had gone inside to that house.
So we were in the back andwe could listen to an argument that went
(08:22):
on between this girl's parents and thisman, accusing their shit head daughters for
t being his house and egging it. It went back and forth and lasted
for about thirty minutes, and resortedin the parents of the accused helping to
clean up the yard. Can youbelieve that, Oh my god? And
(08:46):
they just sat there in the backyardfor thirty minutes. She says. I
know, this isn't quite the impersonationexperience that you all explained and your previous
fireside. I can't remember what numberthat was, she said, but this
is what happened to us. Webasically were thought to be these two daughters,
and no one argued it. Itis still a secret to this day.
(09:09):
So does my daughter get in trouble? I have no idea. She
doesn't mention it here and she didn'twrite me back. But that is Sarah
from who knows where. I don'tknow if it's a real name, and
her sister Mandy if that's her name. But I find that hilarious. I
find it hilarious, great impersonation storyand a good throw out. We did
(09:30):
a lot of teeping in our day, but I don't think we ever Nobody
ever chased after us. No,no one ever chased after us. But
we also didn't egg anybody either.No, Oh, we knew better.
Yeah, it was a good one, but it happened in my town,
and I always felt a little tooguilty. I was like, I'm not
(09:52):
going to do it, but neverreally had anybody too teepe if that if
that makes sense. That was like, you're gonna get it. You know,
you are too nice, Jesse.I tped so many people, and
in turn we did get t be, probably more than our sisters did.
Okay, but there was two ofus, so yeah, it's got to
camp for something. Okay. Thisis from a girl named Megan and she's
(10:18):
from San Francisco. Although I believeshe's from the South Originally, she says,
I like her introduction ladies who sparkedall the interests. I can't believe
I'm finally writing in and definitely can'tbelieve I have the nerve to share my
most embarrassing story. Maybe it's allthe other writings you've shared that's giving me
(10:41):
confidence, or possibly it's the twoMargarita's I've just down today. Maybe it's
a combo of both. It's aday drinking. It's I thought so too,
But she says, but day drinkingon a Saturday is the best?
Am I right? You know what? I have to interrupt because I know
we've all been there and you livethrough a time where you can day drink.
(11:01):
I cannot cannot. I can't putthe only person right, No,
I can't do other day I did, and I did some day drinking that
purpose d you did, and Igot to experience it, and people were
like, WHOA, your sister's agood time. I'm like, uh huh,
yeah, we don't get into thatanymore. Yeah, at forty one,
(11:26):
I'm not. It's not a goodidea. And I can't bounce back.
I can't bounce back at all,oh, I felt like the hangover.
So this was around what two inthe afternoon. I felt the hangover
around eight o'clock that night, andyou got a hangover. I mean I
definitely had a headache. It wasbad. You should have been down in
water. It was bad. Anyway, Yeah, I says, haven't done
(11:48):
that in years. Anyway, storyTime Girls and a ad listener, she
says, So when I was nineteen, a freshman in college at a large
southern universe that I won't name,I had just attended my first Saturday football
game day in the stand and thestands were insane, so much fun,
(12:09):
especially since we won the game.To celebrate, the party moved from the
student section of the stadium to theoff campus apartments of the seniors. As
a mere freshman, I was bothflattered and nervous to be invited to continue
the party. My friends and Ientered the apartment and were immediately greeted by
a large dude dishing out an orangemystery punch from a trash can at the
(12:31):
door. That's every campus, theyall have the trash can punch. She
says. It tasted like high Sea, which I don't know if all of
our listeners would know what high Seais. Oh yeah, based a service
from McDonald It's like a box.Yeah, it's a box, especially for
international I don't know, like it'sa boxed juice drink that was like full
(12:52):
of sugar and had like a littlestraw that you poked at the top of
it. It was it was justlike it was like shitty fifty percent sugar
sugar. Yeah, like tang likeshittyer. It wasn't as good, yeah,
So she says, it tasted likeI see, only with a big
hit of cheap vodka and no straw. No. No, My nineteen year
(13:15):
old taste buds thought it was thegreatest alcoholic drink I had ever had.
Anyway, we proceeded to the kitchenarea, which was the heart of the
party. Everyone's eating chips, storebox cupcakes with too much frosting, and
some delicious checks mix that sat ina large bowl on the counter. My
friends, my post pandemic self wasjust like, oh oh god. So
(13:37):
she says, well, it's funnyyou should say that. So she says,
My friends and I dug in devouringour snacks and refilling our orange trash
drinks every time. A ladle ofit made its rounds to the kitchen,
well, at least with the trashdrink. It's like full of alcohol,
so it kind of kills off whateverit might be floating in there still.
But I could just see like theladle getting past right. We were drinking
(14:00):
off of it, like just justput it in my mouth and put in
my mouth. Song it was,yeah, I don't think I know it
anyway, put it in your mouthanyway, be off. She says.
It was awesome until it wasn't.Turns out there was paprika in the checks
(14:24):
mix, and I'm allergic to paprika. I'd never had checks mix with paprika.
Who does that? But after afew handfuls and twenty minutes later,
my skin starts to itch, andI turned my friends, and I turned
to one of my friends, Ariel, and asked if my neck is red
from the scratching. She looks atme and it's completely startled. She's like,
(14:46):
your face is all red and yourlips are huge. I knew right
then that the paprika was involved,So my friends and I try to scurry
out before anyone cool can take noticeof me, but that, of course
that's impossible. Everyone I passed waslike, whoa, somebody lipeodor lives,
which doesn't make sense, and shesays, by the time we walked,
(15:11):
he's like, fillery, suck itout, she goes. And by the
time we walked the twenty feet backto the front door to leave, everyone's
asking why Lisa Rinna and her friendsare leaving already. It's so bad.
It was. It was mortifying,And for the next four years my nickname
(15:31):
was Renna on campus. Even asnew students arrived, the story was retold
and I was a senior still goingby Renna by even the freshman I just
laughed it off, and even whenasked her for Halloween one year. But
ultimately I'm glad that time of mylife is done. No more Renna name
calling for me stands a few collegefriends who like to push my buttons.
(15:54):
Thanks for letting me share and stayaway from the checks Mix, Megan,
and it says Renna. I wasgonna say, yeah, we're gonna call
your Renna on this podcast. Wow, I actually really can get down with
some checks Mix, Like, Ido really like it. I don't want
the ride chips. I know Dianais obsessed with them, but I'm like
(16:14):
no, I'll let them get ridof that stuff. I want those checks.
I want all checks. Paprika thoughnever done that before. I've never
heard of it in there either,But I guess the thought of that coming
up though, is I don't wantto do that. I wreaking it up?
Is that what you're saying? Pukingup checks mix sounds vile. I
(16:37):
rank it right up there with liketuna. I don't know if she puked,
but she did have the rash andthe big lips. Yeah, Like
it's such a weird spice. Youdon't hear about paprika much except for in
like deviled eggs or like chicken popcaor something. Yeah. I don't never
think of it as like spicy.It's a little spicy, it's not.
(16:57):
I am actually curious. I'm curiouswhat it would taste like on a check
Space maybe. I mean, peoplesounded like they liked it. Yeah,
well that's that's a good one fromRenna. Yeah, and I appreciate Sarah
sending her teping story in. Andthen Jesse, what was Isaac? Isaac?
(17:18):
Yes? Yeah, these were great. These were great writings, you
guys. I loved him. Iso appreciate it. On this um eve
of the Eve of the Eve ofthe Eve of Halloween. Oh man,
I don't know if there's anything morethan puke and up vodka, though,
oh I can think of I pukedup something real bad ones. I'll save
(17:40):
it for another fireside. It's awhole puking stories. Tune in for that
one, you guys. Oh man. Amazing. Yeah. So, if
you guys have any questions, thoughts, or personal stories you'd like to share
with us as we gather on thisfigure to fire, we'd love to hear
them. Don't forget we can hearthem over our voicemail as well on our
website sparkmantraspodcast dot com. And thanksas always for listening and join us next
(18:04):
week for another fireside Friday.
Halloween is coming. I'm thinking itis my favorite holiday at this point,
and I feel very cliche because it'slike everybody's favorite holiday, that or Christmas,
right, people love them both.But I'm just gonna do that.
I'm just gonna let everybody know thatit's my favorite now. It's the best.
It really is the best. Andgathering around this campfire makes it feel
(00:24):
kind of spooky. It absolutely does. And it's raining in La so what
could be better? Right while werecord this, I don't necessarily know if
it's going to be raining on thetwenty eighth. Wishful thinking. Yeah,
I'm hoping it does. We needit. We need all the rain we
can get. It's true. Weare the Ladies of Spark my interest podcast.
My name is Diana, I'm Deborah, I'm Jesse, and this is
(00:46):
a fireside Friday for us. Ournormal episodes air every Monday, but on
Friday we have a little fun mine. It's not scary. I don't know
if you guys have scary ones,but I have a funny one. Mine's
not scary, but it's like pranky, so I feel like it goes with
like trick or eat, so itworks. Jesse mine's just sort of like
a weird twist of fate. Ilike twist of fate, me too.
Who wants to get the ball rolling? I can do it? Okay,
(01:08):
let's hear it, Jesse. Okay, I found this one quite amusing.
This is from Isaac in New YorkCity because of the way he writes,
he seems very I don't know,literary, if that makes sense. No,
okay, And I always get akick out of people who write with
bigger words than I tend to use. Makes you feel a little bits a
(01:29):
rarity that you will find somebody whouses bigger, more elaborate words than you,
because oftentimes you'll say things that I'mlike, I'm a moron. It
happens to me too, though thereare people out there I'm like, oh,
what does that word mean? Well, I'm ready to be blown away
and feel like a moron after youhear this one. So what's doing?
I'm ready for it? Okay,it says, greetings, hostesses of spark
(01:49):
my interest. I am a logof file looked it up, lover of
words and the lover of all bookswell written. Aside from your forgivable and
self will work over use of theword like, yes, we are self
aware. I feel like he wroteit an insult. He says, I
find your show compelling, whimsical,and tastefully cheeky. I like that,
(02:15):
fine, you got us with whimsicaland cheeky. In the spirit of kinship,
I shall relate an anecdote in amanner I believe consistent with yours,
he says. I am the epitomeof a bookworm, and I live in
New York City. A large portionof my daily commute consists of walking while
reading. I am genre agnostic providedthe pros is adequate, and I find
(02:37):
the optimal time for me to readis in transit. As I currently work
in graphic design. When my eyesare occupied with work, I often occupy
my ears with podcasts like yours.Well, thank you all right. My
story, however, takes place onan ordinary weeknight while I was on my
way home. I have become quiteadept at maneuvering through the streets using only
(02:58):
my peripheral vision, But on thisparticular day, a chance chain reaction occurred
on the street parallel a delivery vanswerve suddenly to avoid a stray dog,
forcing an adjacent cyclist into the crosswalkand up onto the sidewalk. The cyclist
startled the person next to me,who veered toward me. I in turn
vered left to avoid collision, andsubsequently fell book first into an open sidewalk
(03:21):
cellar door. What Wow, likea movie works, But okay, right
right, I think it's just basicallylike everybody shifts to the left basically,
and he's pushed into the cellar doorbecause he's not looking right, he's looking
at a book. Do you knowwhat these cellar doors are? I had
to look it up. If youthink about you probably see him one before
if you're in New York City orsome big city. Those little kind of
(03:42):
trapdoors on the ground that are kindof like metal grates and stuff that we
have a friend who refuses it towalk on them, Casey, she refuses
to walk on them. Well,some of them collapse. I saw a
video on this guy who fell throughone that was like old and rusty and
so all right kind of way,Yeah, what do you fall into?
(04:02):
Is it a sewer? It's justa seller like I think it depends on
the place and how they've set itup, whatever their sellers like. So
these cellar doors are not even acknowledgeshe goes. These cellar doors are an
unfortunate hazard for city dwellers. However, in a serendipitous turn of fate,
a young woman who was hauling alarge beanbag up the stairs below jumped aside,
(04:25):
dropped the bean bag just in timefor it to cushion my fall.
Following the impact, I rolled ontothe cellar floor, avoiding any personal injury.
Even my book was unharmed. Ido continue to read while commuting,
However, I do take the timeto glance at more often, and have
since memorized the location of every cellardoor on my commute. This is a
rom com. I know what happenedwith the girl? Did they know?
(04:49):
Oh? I think it's real life. You know, she was probably like
what the fuck? Ah? Areyou all right? And that's kind of
I know, but extent of theirrelationships. Storybook story here. It needs
to be a movie. Who's writingthis movie? One of us is writing
this. Let's call the movie sellerdoor. Do you call it beanbag?
You call it beanbag? Yeah,because you know what you call it cellar
(05:12):
door. And everyone's going to expectsomething scary, and then it turns out
to be a rom com and someonelike me goes to it and they're pissed.
Yeah. Okay, oh man,well, what a nice little chance
of savory right there. Yeah,that's awesome. What was his name again,
Isaac? Isaac? Thank you forwriting in a great name too,
name. Well, I go next. Okay, Okay, this is from
(05:39):
Sarah. She doesn't say from where. It's just Sarah. Oh she didn't
write back and tell you now.She says, when I was twelve,
my sister Mandy was ten, andthe two of us one night thought it
would be hilarious to tepee somebody's house. I know that some people in the
world don't say a tpe. Theysay toilet papering. That's what she's talking
(06:02):
about, throwing toilet paper in people'strees. Yeah. I think we all
grew up around tp yeah, Jesse, Yeah, okay. She says,
we knew our neighborhood well and knewthat this kid who lived down the block
from us with his parents had anolder teenage brother. Because he had an
older brother, we thought it wouldn'tbe shocking to anyone if they got tepeed.
(06:26):
My older brother was watching us.She has that in quotations, which
means he basically was just playing videogames and told us to shut up if
we got too loud for him.So sneaking out of the house was a
breeze and we grabbed it. Theywere quiet because they were gone, She
says. We grabbed a couple ofrolls of toilet paper, and then Mandy
said, hey, what about someeggs. I had heard of people egging
(06:50):
others homes before, and it soundedfun and harmless right right now? I
think it can pay Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can take
the paint off a car or ourhouse or whatever. So didn't do that
in this case, but a goodstory. Nonetheless, she says, it
sounds harmless, right. We eachgrabbed an egg from the fridge, and
(07:14):
we skipped out the door and didthe deed surprisingly better than either of us
had planned. It to be.Their front yard after we were finished looked
like a perfectly wrecked bathroom. Afterwe ran out of toilet paper, Mandy
held out the two eggs she hadtaken with her. She handed one to
me and said, you're you ready? Yep, I replied, I had
(07:36):
no arm. My egg quickly hitthe cement on the front porch steps.
No biggie. Mandy, however,nailed the front door. It was loud,
and we stood there in shock.It only took a second. The
dad at the house opened the doorand saw us. We booked it.
(07:58):
This dad chased us. He didnot hesitate. If we jumped a fence,
he jumped a fence, etc.We ran to a house about two
blocks away, into the backyard ofanother girl we went to school with.
Well. The dad chasing us thoughtwe had gone inside to that house.
So we were in the back andwe could listen to an argument that went
(08:22):
on between this girl's parents and thisman, accusing their shit head daughters for
t being his house and egging it. It went back and forth and lasted
for about thirty minutes, and resortedin the parents of the accused helping to
clean up the yard. Can youbelieve that, Oh my god? And
(08:46):
they just sat there in the backyardfor thirty minutes. She says. I
know, this isn't quite the impersonationexperience that you all explained and your previous
fireside. I can't remember what numberthat was, she said, but this
is what happened to us. Webasically were thought to be these two daughters,
and no one argued it. Itis still a secret to this day.
(09:09):
So does my daughter get in trouble? I have no idea. She
doesn't mention it here and she didn'twrite me back. But that is Sarah
from who knows where. I don'tknow if it's a real name, and
her sister Mandy if that's her name. But I find that hilarious. I
find it hilarious, great impersonation storyand a good throw out. We did
(09:30):
a lot of teeping in our day, but I don't think we ever Nobody
ever chased after us. No,no one ever chased after us. But
we also didn't egg anybody either.No, Oh, we knew better.
Yeah, it was a good one, but it happened in my town,
and I always felt a little tooguilty. I was like, I'm not
(09:52):
going to do it, but neverreally had anybody too teepe if that if
that makes sense. That was like, you're gonna get it. You know,
you are too nice, Jesse.I tped so many people, and
in turn we did get t be, probably more than our sisters did.
Okay, but there was two ofus, so yeah, it's got to
camp for something. Okay. Thisis from a girl named Megan and she's
(10:18):
from San Francisco. Although I believeshe's from the South Originally, she says,
I like her introduction ladies who sparkedall the interests. I can't believe
I'm finally writing in and definitely can'tbelieve I have the nerve to share my
most embarrassing story. Maybe it's allthe other writings you've shared that's giving me
(10:41):
confidence, or possibly it's the twoMargarita's I've just down today. Maybe it's
a combo of both. It's aday drinking. It's I thought so too,
But she says, but day drinkingon a Saturday is the best?
Am I right? You know what? I have to interrupt because I know
we've all been there and you livethrough a time where you can day drink.
(11:01):
I cannot cannot. I can't putthe only person right, No,
I can't do other day I did, and I did some day drinking that
purpose d you did, and Igot to experience it, and people were
like, WHOA, your sister's agood time. I'm like, uh huh,
yeah, we don't get into thatanymore. Yeah, at forty one,
(11:26):
I'm not. It's not a goodidea. And I can't bounce back.
I can't bounce back at all,oh, I felt like the hangover.
So this was around what two inthe afternoon. I felt the hangover
around eight o'clock that night, andyou got a hangover. I mean I
definitely had a headache. It wasbad. You should have been down in
water. It was bad. Anyway, Yeah, I says, haven't done
(11:48):
that in years. Anyway, storyTime Girls and a ad listener, she
says, So when I was nineteen, a freshman in college at a large
southern universe that I won't name,I had just attended my first Saturday football
game day in the stand and thestands were insane, so much fun,
(12:09):
especially since we won the game.To celebrate, the party moved from the
student section of the stadium to theoff campus apartments of the seniors. As
a mere freshman, I was bothflattered and nervous to be invited to continue
the party. My friends and Ientered the apartment and were immediately greeted by
a large dude dishing out an orangemystery punch from a trash can at the
(12:31):
door. That's every campus, theyall have the trash can punch. She
says. It tasted like high Sea, which I don't know if all of
our listeners would know what high Seais. Oh yeah, based a service
from McDonald It's like a box.Yeah, it's a box, especially for
international I don't know, like it'sa boxed juice drink that was like full
(12:52):
of sugar and had like a littlestraw that you poked at the top of
it. It was it was justlike it was like shitty fifty percent sugar
sugar. Yeah, like tang likeshittyer. It wasn't as good, yeah,
So she says, it tasted likeI see, only with a big
hit of cheap vodka and no straw. No. No, My nineteen year
(13:15):
old taste buds thought it was thegreatest alcoholic drink I had ever had.
Anyway, we proceeded to the kitchenarea, which was the heart of the
party. Everyone's eating chips, storebox cupcakes with too much frosting, and
some delicious checks mix that sat ina large bowl on the counter. My
friends, my post pandemic self wasjust like, oh oh god. So
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she says, well, it's funnyyou should say that. So she says,
My friends and I dug in devouringour snacks and refilling our orange trash
drinks every time. A ladle ofit made its rounds to the kitchen,
well, at least with the trashdrink. It's like full of alcohol,
so it kind of kills off whateverit might be floating in there still.
But I could just see like theladle getting past right. We were drinking
(14:00):
off of it, like just justput it in my mouth and put in
my mouth. Song it was,yeah, I don't think I know it
anyway, put it in your mouthanyway, be off. She says.
It was awesome until it wasn't.Turns out there was paprika in the checks
(14:24):
mix, and I'm allergic to paprika. I'd never had checks mix with paprika.
Who does that? But after afew handfuls and twenty minutes later,
my skin starts to itch, andI turned my friends, and I turned
to one of my friends, Ariel, and asked if my neck is red
from the scratching. She looks atme and it's completely startled. She's like,
(14:46):
your face is all red and yourlips are huge. I knew right
then that the paprika was involved,So my friends and I try to scurry
out before anyone cool can take noticeof me, but that, of course
that's impossible. Everyone I passed waslike, whoa, somebody lipeodor lives,
which doesn't make sense, and shesays, by the time we walked,
(15:11):
he's like, fillery, suck itout, she goes. And by the
time we walked the twenty feet backto the front door to leave, everyone's
asking why Lisa Rinna and her friendsare leaving already. It's so bad.
It was. It was mortifying,And for the next four years my nickname
(15:31):
was Renna on campus. Even asnew students arrived, the story was retold
and I was a senior still goingby Renna by even the freshman I just
laughed it off, and even whenasked her for Halloween one year. But
ultimately I'm glad that time of mylife is done. No more Renna name
calling for me stands a few collegefriends who like to push my buttons.
(15:54):
Thanks for letting me share and stayaway from the checks Mix, Megan,
and it says Renna. I wasgonna say, yeah, we're gonna call
your Renna on this podcast. Wow, I actually really can get down with
some checks Mix, Like, Ido really like it. I don't want
the ride chips. I know Dianais obsessed with them, but I'm like
(16:14):
no, I'll let them get ridof that stuff. I want those checks.
I want all checks. Paprika thoughnever done that before. I've never
heard of it in there either,But I guess the thought of that coming
up though, is I don't wantto do that. I wreaking it up?
Is that what you're saying? Pukingup checks mix sounds vile. I
(16:37):
rank it right up there with liketuna. I don't know if she puked,
but she did have the rash andthe big lips. Yeah, Like
it's such a weird spice. Youdon't hear about paprika much except for in
like deviled eggs or like chicken popcaor something. Yeah. I don't never
think of it as like spicy.It's a little spicy, it's not.
(16:57):
I am actually curious. I'm curiouswhat it would taste like on a check
Space maybe. I mean, peoplesounded like they liked it. Yeah,
well that's that's a good one fromRenna. Yeah, and I appreciate Sarah
sending her teping story in. Andthen Jesse, what was Isaac? Isaac?
(17:18):
Yes? Yeah, these were great. These were great writings, you
guys. I loved him. Iso appreciate it. On this um eve
of the Eve of the Eve ofthe Eve of Halloween. Oh man,
I don't know if there's anything morethan puke and up vodka, though,
oh I can think of I pukedup something real bad ones. I'll save
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it for another fireside. It's awhole puking stories. Tune in for that
one, you guys. Oh man. Amazing. Yeah. So, if
you guys have any questions, thoughts, or personal stories you'd like to share
with us as we gather on thisfigure to fire, we'd love to hear
them. Don't forget we can hearthem over our voicemail as well on our
website sparkmantraspodcast dot com. And thanksas always for listening and join us next
(18:04):
week for another fireside Friday.
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