WEBVTT - MFM Minisode 418 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.720 Hello and welcome. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.480 My favorite murder, the mini minisode where we redo your 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.200 story is that you've so kindly written to us. 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.120 Over the years. Do you want to hear one? Now, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.800 let's do it. Why don't you go first? Okay? 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.360 The subject line of this which thrilled me when I 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.280 read it is money in Unexpected Places. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.360 We love those stories. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:44.400 Can't wait and it starts, howdy Hi, Hello, I'm listening 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.800 to Minniesoda four oh eight, story about finding fifty dollars 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:52.360 in a vintage skirt. And assume remember that one that's 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.280 still with me, It's still right in my heart. And 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.520 I assumed you either asked for money and unexpected places 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.400 or the writer had a good idea. Yeah, that I 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.400 am now stealing so I can tell my money an 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:07.000 unexpected places tail. We definitely want money and unexpected places. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.800 Stories always any amount of money, and the more unexpected 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:11.160 the better. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.800 I had a habit, and I explained this to Adrian 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.960 when we were on vacation in October, because we would 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.640 be in these weird places far away, like in an 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.000 island north of Sicily or whatever, and we would be 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.679 walking by like a cliff, the side of a cliff, 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.319 and then there would be like a little hole. And 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.399 then I go, that'd be a good place to hide money, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.000 and she kept paying. Sorry, why do you keep saying? 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.600 I'm like, that's just what I think all the time. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.280 Was like, or if you had a key, you had 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:38.960 a key, you didn't want anyone to find, put it 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:39.400 right there. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.800 Oh, hiding places? What are just hiding places? 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.400 Yeah? Yeah, send hiding places. It's just a list. People 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.760 are like a box. Okay. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.880 My husband and I used to be very into rock climbing, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.040 and he, being more a more experienced climber, took me 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.520 on many new adventures and taught me new types of climbing. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.360 One type he taught me is called crack climbing, where 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.760 you smoke a bunch of crack and go to use sebody. No, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.639 that's not what it says, and then says dot dot dot. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.000 Have you ever seen a big old rock face with 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.480 a thin seam running down it? We use those cracks 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:17.880 in the rock to go up. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.200 No, no, no, thank you? Have you seen that? Yeah? 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.400 They chalk their fingertips and they just hold on. It's 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.000 so any of that, so that's going to be enough. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:27.880 Thank you for me. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:33.080 My thing is with my commitment issues. I would get 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.760 like eighty feet. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.560 Up and I like, what the fuck we am? 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.959 I'm actually interested in doing like one of the indoor 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.959 wall climbing things. Oh yeah, that'd be kind of cool. Sure, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.120 but I don't think I could do it, like when 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.520 there's actual danger involved. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.200 Freestyle on yeah, yeah on half dome. Ag broke his 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.880 back recently, no, like a million years ago. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.480 Shit, I know it's I mean there is a lot 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.639 of risk, yeah, so much reward, Like how search I'll 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:04.560 tell you right now. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:05.239 Okay. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.160 I was nervous to crack climb, but he convinced me 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.880 to try it out because one particular climbing route was 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.280 just too fun, too incredible to pass up. He kept 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.360 saying that the last pitch, and then in parentheses it 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.399 says a portion of the climb was the money. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:21.760 Pitch because it was so great. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.000 He wouldn't stop saying the money pitch, so I wouldn't 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.239 stop making fun of him while we climbed, because who 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.760 describes things as money anymore? Well, lo and behold to 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.480 both of our shock. When we got to the top 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.520 of the climb, over one hundred feet off the ground, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.040 we discovered tucked right into the crack on this rock 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.040 a twenty. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.040 Dollars bill money. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.040 I guess it was the money pitch yep, Oh my god. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.000 And then it just says, stay sexy and pay it forward. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.840 So maybe one day the twenty dollars you hide somewhere 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.320 will end up as a story on MFM. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.560 Grace, I love that. I'm going to do that. I'm 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.120 going to high twenty dollars somewhere. Yeah, in a weird spot. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.600 Yeah yeah, maybe you could have hid twenty dollars on 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:07.400 a playground. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.240 Oh my god, handemonium right. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.800 And wait, there's a ps on this. It says, oh, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.880 hello Catherine Elizabeth, my best friend slash sister I never had, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.239 who introduced me to MFM during the Pits of twenty twenty. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.600 Oh hello, all. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:24.680 Right, money found story? 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:25.040 Love it? 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:31.560 Okay, this is called your classic Florida dad near kidnapping story. Hey, MFM. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.920 I've been making to write this in for so long, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.840 and finally I decided it was time. I grew up 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.120 in a small town in Florida with my two amazing 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.720 parents in the late nineties early two thousands. My parents 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.640 raised my sister and I like a classic seventies eighties 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.839 family think latchkeyp parenting with giant house parties on school nights. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.039 This included my dad taking me to his favorite local 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.479 bar for happy hour when my mom took my sister 0:04:55.520 --> 0:05:00.000 to her ballet classes on Friday night. On this particul 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.200 Friday night, my dad was drinking at the bar while 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.640 I sat by myself in the quote kid's corner in 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:10.600 the bar where they Yeah, but it's Florida, you know 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:11.080 what I mean? 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.640 Yep, and sorry, the eighties in Florida. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.680 This is the late ninety early two thousands, but everything 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:18.640 was aged. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:19.720 Yeah, I bet you know. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.680 But that idea, it's like, well, at Lisa, maybe the 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.880 trauma of that would be this lessened by just having 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.080 other kids with you. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.480 Right, Well, she's alone, and then she says where they 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.560 had an old, basically empty toy claw machine in a 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.880 race car game so the parents could ignore the kids. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.719 All they wanted. Just threw some shit in the corner 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.640 and they're like, that's a kid's corner. Yeah, I'm minding 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.279 my business driving race cars. When a tall, thin man 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.800 came up to me from the back door beside the 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.920 claw machine, he proceeded to tell me that my dad 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.320 was outside waiting for me and had asked him to 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.839 kindly come collect me to go home. I was probably 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.120 about six years old, and somehow my six year old 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.000 brain told me that this guy was full of I 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.120 looked over at the bar and saw my dad still 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.880 standing with his friends, completely unaware of what was happening. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.120 I told the man I needed to get my stuffed 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.120 animal at the bar and politely excuse myself to go. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.800 Ask my then quite drunk dad what was going on? 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:16.640 Oh shit? 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.200 When I told him, he grabbed the manager and drunkenly 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.680 told her to maybe check out this guy outside. Turns 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.359 out he had corralled another child with him and she 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.120 caught him outside just in time. As far as I know, 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.040 nothing ever came of this, and though I have tried 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.200 to research this many times, there's no record of a 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.120 near kidnapping at the local bar. My dad to this 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.360 day can only vaguely remember almost losing his daughter that 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.440 night and had never followed up about the man who 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.240 tried to take her. Classic Dad. My dad is an 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.400 incredible guy and continues to live life with a live fast, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.480 die young attitude at the ripe young age of seventy. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.919 As you can imagine, I have plenty more death secret 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.200 past life stories that I would have to write about 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.119 another day involving this legendary man. And with that, stay 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.360 sexy and don't let your husband take your six year 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.320 old to happy hour, or if you do, maybe sit 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.200 her on the bar like a normal parent. Emma she her. 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.320 Holy fucking shit, I'm a holy shit. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.320 You got to look at local kidnappings from that like 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.880 from that area and that time, because. 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.600 That guy was such a psycho that he he already 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.360 had a kid and he was getting another kid. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.840 Like, what in the loving fuck are we talking about? Yeah, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.160 why did nobody follow up? 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:37.520 Why? 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.880 Why? Because they're all drunk and it's that kind of thing. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.480 It's like, that's the I feel like, maybe to me 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.960 part of why I am as obsessed with true crime. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.120 There is a little bit of that the seventies parenting 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.120 where it's like, why is no one paying attention? Am 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.480 I the only one paying attention? Then it's like I 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.120 better fucking pay attention, and I bet I better pay 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.080 attention to all the day shit. So that like, because 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.520 if it's you know, if it's me by myself. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.000 It's paying attention, then yeah, you're on your fucking own. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.280 And six year old Emma, the badass who's just like 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:14.480 she first of all, how brilliant, She's like, not my dad, whatever, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.760 she goes, excuse me, I would like to go with you. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.000 That's a great idea. Let me get my stuffed animal 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.080 like a child would. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.480 Yeah, oh no, memento. Let me just go grab the 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.520 and then be like, dad, what is up with this guy? 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:25.760 She says that he knows. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.840 You should I go with this kidnapper? Or what do 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.640 you would you like to win? Or are you having too 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.040 much fun? Motherfucker? 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.760 Okay, drink your fucking seven and seven and like, let's 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:35.560 get the fuck out of here. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:41.200 Come, I mean, happier Yeah, no, rules, happier Jesus Christ, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.800 there is some active kidnapper in the building. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.400 Do you give a shit? Is really? Is the answer? 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:46.840 Really? No? 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:52.640 God, damn? Oh, I think you're gonna like this one. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.400 Okay, It says the power of the magic eight ball 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.720 family drama request and it says, hello, lady, I could 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.480 write a book about my family, but here's the story 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.760 of why my cousin and I no longer speak. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.520 Oh yeah, I love it already, right, Hell, that's why 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:11.720 family members don't speak. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.040 Please the most basic story is still going to be great. Yeah, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.320 it could be like we fought one time. It's like, 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.160 god damn, yeah, yeah, I can. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.440 Really, I don't have anyone like I'll never speak to again, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:22.840 so it's really nice to hear that I. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.120 Only have like eight or nine people like that. My 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.800 cousin and I were raised essentially as siblings, and so 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.200 when he got engaged, I offered to help with the 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.040 wedding planning, as I not only work at a wedding venue, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.199 but I've been a bridesmaid about ten times and have 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.240 friends in the industry. The first time I read this, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.760 I didn't read clearly that they're saying they work at 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.400 a wedding venue. So when they say I've been a 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.320 bridesmaid ten times and have friends in the industry, it 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.000 made me laugh so hard because I thought they were 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.280 just like bragging that they'd bend to that many weddings, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:54.680 that they're. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.840 Like friends with the caterer. I know they teach everything. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.360 Yeah, their wedding budget was approximately five dollars, so the 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.520 extended family was really trying to chip in to help. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.400 I was paying for the cake, my parents paid for 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.400 the ceremony venue, and another family member was paying for 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.000 the reception hall. I knew that the couple was stressed 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:15.880 due to money, so I really tried to make the 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.240 wedding planning meetings fun. And then in parentheses it says 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:25.040 champagne music, dance breaks, bride and groom sashes, etc. We 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.240 got an argument over family drama. And then in parentheses 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.199 it says his mom doesn't like the bride. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.920 Ooh, I got a question. This whole fucking wedding. Yeah, well, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.560 this whole marriage, yeah. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.280 Okay, So they got an argument about that, and my 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.800 involvement in the wedding stopped. I had tried to meet 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.320 with my cousin on several occasions, and I even wrote 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.120 him a letter, with no luck. The wedding was supposed 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.640 to be in June of twenty twenty three, so in April, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.200 my cousin called a fifteen person family meeting. If you 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.840 couldn't attend the meeting, then you were disinvited to the wedding. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:06.640 I love like a wedding monsters. These are great people 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.520 go crazy, You go crazy fucking crazy, Okay. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.920 And it's not just like Bridezilla. It's like what happens 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.880 is everyone goes crazy and the bride has to be 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.040 the like middleman for all of it, and then they 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:21.760 go crazy. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.760 I love when, like you see those people that like 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.920 pop up online where it's like this is the list 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.240 that the bride sent that you have, like the non 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.480 negotiables if you want to be if you want to 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.080 be invited, Like I love those, and they're like fucking 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:35.600 nightmares my favorite. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.719 Well so it's like the non negotables, all right, well 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.480 then I guess I'm out, like you're. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.360 Then I don't want to come there, fucking web. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.800 I can't imagine a world we're actually just on principle, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.120 I wouldn't like, well then, yeah, stand your ground, I'll 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:49.839 talk to you later. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.000 Yeah, have a great life, you dumb ass. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.120 Okay, So if you didn't come to this meeting, you 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.679 were just invited from the wedding. The meeting lasted two 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.440 hours and no one was allowed to speak unless you 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.720 were given the magic eight ball. However, no matter how 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.840 many times someone asked for the eight ball, my cousin 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.720 wouldn't give it to anyone. There ended up being physical 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:16.360 fights plural at this meeting and so much screaming. I'm 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.040 surprised the cops weren't called. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:19.520 Oh my God, the. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.720 Wedding ended up getting canceled just to find out that 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.200 my cousin legally got married a whole year in advance 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:27.560 and didn't tell anyone. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.880 So most of this drama was for nothing. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.600 Send us your stories about people being petty as fuck. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:39.720 That's hilarious. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.120 And also send us your stories about people who try 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.439 to get their entire family to pay for shit they're 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.400 doing when they already did it privately. Right, Stay sexy, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.760 and next time bring your own magic eight ball. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:51.400 Michelle. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.640 Oh, Michelle, I think you just kicked off a family 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.000 drama series that I hope everybody can come to because 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.560 truly doesn't take much for a family drama email to 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:04.000 be great. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.000 Tell us about your family drama, the pettier the better, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:12.080 and you're just sitting pretty within your fucking in your 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.280 non bullshit world. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.439 Yeah. Also, I think you could do a subset of 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.560 like family wedding drama, because that alone, for. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.560 Sure, that alone or just wedding drama. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.760 Yeah, My next one's. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:29.360 Called I Ran Away on the Appalachian Trail at twelve. Okay, guys, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.480 I love your stories and I'm not a day winner, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.920 but I heard you're getting lost in the woods. Stories 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.360 and have to tell you mine. I grew up in 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.800 West Virginia and have always been the one gal every 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:44.160 parent hates. So let's rewind to nineteen ninety six. I 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.800 think here goes. My mother got married to the most 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.120 annoying step dad any thirteen year old could imagine. He 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.280 was a know it all and was a man. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:54.760 Of the woods. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.800 He was a biologist and always trying to impress his 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:03.800 new wife with some woodsy excursion, irritating well. One particular day, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.800 he wanted to go on a hike to Rocky Run 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.199 Shelter and thought it would benefit me as a tween 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.080 to go on the hike. So clearly I asked my 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.680 best friend to go, and something snapped in my tiny 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.160 brain and I decided it would be fun for us. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:17.720 To run away. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.560 We hid in the woods until they couldn't see us, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.160 and then walked until we reached Rocky Run Shelter. Guys, 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.440 in our dumb little brains, we thought we would meet 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:32.040 hot hikers. Instead, we found an a frame shelter and 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.960 cold woods. As it was the middle of December and 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:39.320 we were freezing. Any old who after our fire burned 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.360 out and we had one sip of water and fifteen skittles. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.760 We decided to go to sleep. We heard what we 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.920 thought were farm dogs barking, but no, those were the 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.200 hound dogs. The whole park service people unleashed the hounds 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.400 and used helicopters to find us with infrared. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.920 Yeah, you're two twelve year olds out in the fucking woods. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.600 They would have to in December. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.840 These kind of men rescued us with foil blankets and 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.760 walked us out to the parking lot. I'm not sure 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.800 if you've ever been in as much trouble as I 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.280 was in that moment, despite a parking lot full of 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.840 fire trucks and ambulances and reporters. My parents knew I 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.120 did that on purpose, and their searing eyes and silence 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.240 said everything, you little shit lit sit. The next day 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.320 at school, I learned I was on the front page 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.440 of all our local papers, and the lunch ladies laughed 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:38.280 at me. I can send you the newspaper article to 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.280 prove it. Love you and don't be a dumb tween 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.600 and run away on the Appalachian Trail. The guys aren't 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:49.200 that hot, m am. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.720 You're a legend ho hiker. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.680 I think that's so funny and cool and yeah, don't 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:55.000 do it. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:55.720 Never do it. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:56.200 Don't do it. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.920 But what a fucking hilarious story to do something so 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.080 oh brady that you end up on the front page 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:02.640 of the paper. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:04.800 He's pretty legendary. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.200 And your parents aren't even worried about you because they're 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.760 like this little fucking brat. Yeah, I know she's faking. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:16.840 They know. Okay, here's my last one. The subject line says, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:21.359 I know you love cute old people stories slash missed millionaires, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.080 and it says hey MFM fan, new slightly obsessed listener here, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:32.680 and then there's a little winky sideways emoji thing punctuation emoji, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.840 my favorite type of emoji. Quick appreciation for you, both 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.320 as a fellow mental health advocate and fellow feeler of 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.520 all the fields. Thank you for your authenticity and for 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.360 simply talking about things that are so stigmatized in our 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.240 society today. One of my favorite things is hearing how 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.440 teared up you two and then a parentheses says, mostly Karen, 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.720 get over sweet old people. And after a recent binge 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.320 of MFM on my commune, I heard a request for 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.440 more stories. Short and sweet story for my very Short 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.000 and very Sweet ninety one and ninety year old grandparents 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.400 aka Nana and Grandpa. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.280 Wow, you're so lucky. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.280 I know they made it. Back in the day, Grandpa 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.600 was an architect. In fact, you can still find his buildings, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.040 homes and apartments in some suburbs of Chicago as well 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.919 as the Sarasota area. And then parentheses it says, sweet 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:31.720 random fact, my girl cousin Sary and I Cassandra have 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.120 a street named after us in one of those Chicago 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:38.280 suburb developments. Oh, the street is a combo of her 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.280 and my name's Sarandara. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.200 Oh my god, do you live on that street? Tell 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.040 us write us in. I bet someone listening right now 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.520 lives on the fucking street Sarandara Avenue. Yeah, in Oak 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:50.520 Park or some shit. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:51.080 Okay. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.840 A few years ago, when my family made it to 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.719 Tampa for a visit, Nana's filled the beans on a 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.439 little gem of Grandpa's architectural career. It turned out that 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.280 back in the day, think fifty sixties, when they were 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.639 living in Illinois and raising their family, Grandpa was approached 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.320 with the opportunity and this says it in all caps, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:18.959 to design the McDonald's arches. Oh what the company was 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.800 looking for? Something to set them apart in the burger world, 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.080 and they were searching for someone to make their arch 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:25.200 dreams a reality. 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:30.200 They asked Grandpa. Grandpa turned them down. No, he thought 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.480 the idea was stupid and not profitable. 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.840 Oh my god, you could tell in Nana's voice on 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.399 Grandpa's eye roll when she was telling the story that 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.399 the two of them have had more than a couple 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.159 conversations about the outcome of this career decision. This has 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.679 come up and every time they fight, and every time 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.800 they passed the McDonald's. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.040 And he refuses to eat a McDonald's and she fucking 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:55.640 loves it. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.359 I've my friend Peter Folks has a I can't remember 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.160 it's he nozguy was a relative of his who and 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.800 I'm probably I probably have told you the story in 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.640 these past nine years. In the seventies, it was a 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.640 contest from the new slogan for New York City, and 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.080 you know it's now I love New York like the 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.840 iHeart New York thing. His submission was, I like New York. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.240 The shrug is the best part. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.439 He's so close like he was like, oh, I have 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:25.760 a good slug and I like New. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.320 York and they're like, we'll go with I love New 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.320 York because it actually sees. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.040 I mean, I like New York fits the New York 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:33.480 vibe kind of better. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.920 Though it does, you know, and it is like you yeah, 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:37.320 a little doubt, a little shrug. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.280 I like to not to, don't make a fuss, no 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.760 big do. Oh Okay, here's the end of this email. 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.119 All the love and smooches to two of my favorite people, 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.520 and to Grandpa for sticking it to the man before 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.840 it was even a thing, and before he even knew 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.159 what he was doing. Stay sexy and maybe take a 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.040