Speaker 1: Mm, hello and welcome to hashtag Storytime, the podcast filled
Speaker 1: with everyday stories from everyday people, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: insert funnymental name mc fadden. So I'm not sure if
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Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's right. It's not a comedy podcast. It's
Speaker 1: technically a documentary and it ranks, which is pretty damn
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Speaker 1: little thing about comedy. This is gonna be where everybody
Speaker 1: turns off the podcast or skips ahead, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter when I say. Also, just a reminder, this
Speaker 1: podcast is not for children. Comedy is all about surprise, Okay,
Speaker 1: It's about set up the expectation and then fake them out.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Watch here's an example duck duck,
Speaker 1: dildo boom, there it is. That's comedy. See, you thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna say goose, but instead I said gildo.
Speaker 1: Did it again that time? You thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: say dildo, but instead I said gildo. And I bet
Speaker 1: you didn't see that jizzing? Oh what what did I
Speaker 1: do there? That was a double entage. Also, the word
Speaker 1: jizzing is just a funny word. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: caddihampas or hullabaloo or murder. Got you again, didn't I?
Speaker 1: This is too easy. You see in comedy, you can't
Speaker 1: ever let the audience know what your next move is.
Speaker 1: You got to keep the audience on their nippies. Nippies
Speaker 1: rhymes with tippies tippy toes. That's a little Cockney rhyme
Speaker 1: slang off the dome. Okay, guys, this leads me to
Speaker 1: today's guests who are experts in the old art of
Speaker 1: the misdirect. And I'm talking about the Pointer Brothers, not sisters. See,
Speaker 1: even their name is a fake out. And if you've
Speaker 1: ever seen the never let them know your next move
Speaker 1: trend on TikTok that's the Pointer Brothers. They also do
Speaker 1: some of the most amazing elaborate handshakes i've ever seen. UM.
Speaker 1: You also may know them from their comedy podcast called Pointless.
Speaker 1: Great title, and I sat down with Henry and Mike
Speaker 1: and they told me a story that had to do
Speaker 1: with a pretty odd job. So I want to tell you,
Speaker 1: guys the story of how I found myself in a
Speaker 1: hoarder house cleaning out a hoarder house over the summer
Speaker 1: the year after graduated. Call so I can I can
Speaker 1: give you a little background on that. UM. I graduated
Speaker 1: uh umsk Amherston with a degree in finance, and I
Speaker 1: didn't really like finance. You know, you have all the
Speaker 1: investment bankers, everyone that wants to go in wall stre
Speaker 1: you do all that stuff. That wasn't me. But I
Speaker 1: got my degree in finance because I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a solid place to go. So I didn't have
Speaker 1: a job when I graduated, and I wasn't that worried.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, you know, I can pick up
Speaker 1: some od jobs, do some stuff while I'm doing a
Speaker 1: job search. UM. Through a friend, I got connected with
Speaker 1: this guy who flipped houses and he was in need
Speaker 1: of just some handyman, some some labor work, just you know, heay,
Speaker 1: clean up this house, maybe do a little bit of painting,
Speaker 1: you know, tear up some carpets, do some stuff for me,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever whatever's needed. Um, and that was going
Speaker 1: to find it death for a couple of you know,
Speaker 1: I was working a couple of months. We maybe you know,
Speaker 1: did four or five houses, and one day, uh, we
Speaker 1: we got a new a new job, a new location.
Speaker 1: He said, all right, you're gonna go to this town
Speaker 1: how house and it's it's a hoarder house. So you know,
Speaker 1: just be be ready to uh to get in there
Speaker 1: and your only job is to clean it. Just get
Speaker 1: everything out. And we're like, so it's me and this
Speaker 1: one other guy. I think he was probably about fifty,
Speaker 1: so he's been working there for a while. Um, like
Speaker 1: we said be ready, yeah, border house. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so so I've heard of the show Hoarders,
Speaker 1: like you're seeing like that's it. I'm like, that's the
Speaker 1: only thing that I know of when it comes to
Speaker 1: a horderhouse hoarding and all that stuff. Did you watch
Speaker 1: any episodes before? Just I I didn't do it. When
Speaker 1: I think of horders, yeah, I was remember this one
Speaker 1: vivid scene from an episode don't know, it sits in
Speaker 1: my mind. It's like they walk into another room and
Speaker 1: there's just like this old lady with just like her
Speaker 1: head popping out of like just trash, and she's just
Speaker 1: like totally like seen but like just like she's like, hey,
Speaker 1: like what do you how's it going or something. It's
Speaker 1: like this, all of these papers are very important to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got like an empty cup on the other side,
Speaker 1: say hey, no, no no, no, I'm gonna need I'm gonna
Speaker 1: need that. So I was I was real quick. I
Speaker 1: was watching Horders one time and it was one of
Speaker 1: the most disturbing episodes I've ever seen, and my dad
Speaker 1: walked in eating a sandwich and was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: know that girl Like I was like the Horder. He
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, yeah, she she did some work
Speaker 1: for me a couple of months ago. What's she what's
Speaker 1: she doing on TV? I was like, she's on Order.
Speaker 1: You don't want to know what she's doing, that's wild. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like I don't wanna. I don't wanna get
Speaker 1: this idea on my mom. I'm like, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be that bad Horder house whatever, like just kind of
Speaker 1: open mind as bad as a show or something. So
Speaker 1: we I'm trying to think we show. Yeah, so all
Speaker 1: we had to do was just clean the place out.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that seems like the easiest thing we've
Speaker 1: done yet. So we show up to this house and
Speaker 1: we there's hum like a garage door, right. We opened
Speaker 1: the garage door, and you can't see more than like
Speaker 1: a foot and a half in front of you, and
Speaker 1: you're immediately smacked in the face with this smell that
Speaker 1: I can't even describe. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's old food, if it's moldy something, if it's
Speaker 1: like a dead animal like you. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what this smell was, and neither one of us. We
Speaker 1: had no idea we're getting into it, and this was
Speaker 1: just the garage door, right. So first thing we did
Speaker 1: was we we hauled it to home depot. We got
Speaker 1: a ton of trash bags, and we got like these
Speaker 1: face mask respirators, which I wasn't I mean, kind of needed,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't stoked about it because it was the
Speaker 1: middle of the summer and it was hot as balls,
Speaker 1: Like it was like you you you put one of
Speaker 1: those things on and you're like immediately dripping sweat and
Speaker 1: like it was. It was a tough It was a
Speaker 1: tough time to be cleaned out a horrorhouse. You know.
Speaker 1: The the heat wasn't helping with the smell as well.
Speaker 1: It was like it was terribly like cooking it up,
Speaker 1: like it was making it amplified. It's brilliant, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's still in it for you. So it was so
Speaker 1: so we are job was to throw everything out, and
Speaker 1: we were like, okay, we'll get a dumb stir here,
Speaker 1: will pack all the stuff in bags or just toss
Speaker 1: most of the stuff in the dumpster whatever, no problem.
Speaker 1: Turns out that afternoon we we you know, once we
Speaker 1: started getting going trying to figure out what was what
Speaker 1: the dumpster was placed, and then someone at the apartment
Speaker 1: complex or condo complex was like, hey, that can't be here.
Speaker 1: It's against the homeowners association all this stuff. So someone
Speaker 1: they already got a problem with it. I um. So
Speaker 1: our only solution was to then rent a U haul
Speaker 1: and throw all the carbage, all the trash bags in
Speaker 1: that U haul and drive it two and a half
Speaker 1: or two hours to a different site that we were
Speaker 1: working on. So we were literally just packing this thing
Speaker 1: full driving it, driving backpacking it full drive, like it
Speaker 1: was like the most inefficient, Like it was a terrible
Speaker 1: like set you're You're like, I have a degree in
Speaker 1: find That's what I like, dude. I remember like I
Speaker 1: was literally like picking up just old food. At one
Speaker 1: point we went to this I turned into like the kitchen,
Speaker 1: I think at the time, and there was more Dunkin donuts,
Speaker 1: ice coffee cups in a pile that and then I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in my entire life, like I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: probably like up to my shoulders or something in the
Speaker 1: entire like this entire room. I want to say, like
Speaker 1: there's probably a two thousand of these cops I have,
Speaker 1: like I have photos, like we gotta try to find
Speaker 1: him and send him in something later. It was you
Speaker 1: have you truly have to see it to believe, like
Speaker 1: the amount of trash I was in here. Maybe they
Speaker 1: were a big fan of the Charlie and that's what
Speaker 1: I'm big. I think that was that was the first
Speaker 1: picture I got from Hank, like when I was just chilling.
Speaker 1: I was in Cape Cod with some buddy's and um,
Speaker 1: I think that was the first first picture well, I'm
Speaker 1: like having fun, you know, drinking beers, going to the beach,
Speaker 1: figuring out where we're gonna go for the night. Hag
Speaker 1: sending me a picture of his Duncan donut just infested.
Speaker 1: I'm just like all I could say, I'm like to
Speaker 1: having like that sucks. Bro, like that sucks. Dude like it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell You're like, what are you
Speaker 1: up to today? Dude? Like the chilling, It's like I'm
Speaker 1: literally nipples deep and duncanvillingh that was it was, It was.
Speaker 1: It was insane. I'm trying to think of like some
Speaker 1: of the weirdest ship we found there. But also one
Speaker 1: question is, so the owner of the house obviously didn't
Speaker 1: live there anymore. Very good point. I meant to get
Speaker 1: back to that. So the houses that we worked on,
Speaker 1: the guy, the guy that we worked for bought them
Speaker 1: all at foreclosure. So a lot of these houses hadn't
Speaker 1: been lived in for a long time, so you know,
Speaker 1: some needed different, you know, different types of work than others.
Speaker 1: This one had was foreclosed on. So the woman that
Speaker 1: lived there, I don't think had lived there for maybe
Speaker 1: a year or something. I don't know the exact time.
Speaker 1: Could have been it could have been like six months
Speaker 1: to a year, but she hadn't lived there. And I
Speaker 1: think that not having to like deal with her, work
Speaker 1: with her and like with all like what it made
Speaker 1: the experience, like you know, that much easier and quicker
Speaker 1: because it was literally just like you see something, put
Speaker 1: it in a bag and throw it out, like there
Speaker 1: was no if and or butts, Like there was no negotiating,
Speaker 1: no negoti a feeling if the lady was there or
Speaker 1: something like you would actually do it, nothing like it
Speaker 1: would That's when we would have brought in the camera
Speaker 1: crew and it would have been like I were getting
Speaker 1: this all on film, because like I thought you were
Speaker 1: going to say that you like turned a corner and
Speaker 1: then there she was like sitting in the bathroom here
Speaker 1: for years. But nope, she's just due. She's just hiding
Speaker 1: and you know, the documentary and bring it to Vice
Speaker 1: and just sell it. It was insane. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of some of the stuff that we found. I
Speaker 1: remember one of the one of the funniest things was
Speaker 1: like going into the kitchen. When we finally made it there,
Speaker 1: we kind of like you we so first attack was
Speaker 1: like get the stairs like clean off the stairs so
Speaker 1: we could get up to that first floor, and then
Speaker 1: from there was like kind of like kind of like
Speaker 1: picture yourself, like it just fresh snowfall and you're just
Speaker 1: like trying to like shovel a little spot out to
Speaker 1: like get to the mailbox and then like you can
Speaker 1: get back or like. So that was kind of what
Speaker 1: it felt like. I was like, let's just get like
Speaker 1: a little path to the kitchen, a path to like
Speaker 1: the bathroom, so we could just kind of move around
Speaker 1: in there. Um, we get to the kitchen and like
Speaker 1: and I'm like, the hell is going to be in
Speaker 1: this fridge? Like the fridge was still there plug So
Speaker 1: we opened up the fridge and I was kind of
Speaker 1: upset because there was nothing like crazy in there. I
Speaker 1: was hoping it would be like you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't even know what I was expecting to be there.
Speaker 1: But all of the food was like dated back in
Speaker 1: like two thousand eight so so so so it was
Speaker 1: an entire fridge full of like we are like cheese
Speaker 1: and like crackers and yogurts and like these had all
Speaker 1: the old logos on it too. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like I didn't know that, like yo play had that
Speaker 1: logo or something and like all this crazy stuff like
Speaker 1: vintage legit. I was like, yeah, a picture though, like
Speaker 1: a Mozzarella ball and it was like two seven eight,
Speaker 1: and I like I probably would have ate it. We
Speaker 1: found it. We found pretty good. A bottle of Jose
Speaker 1: queravel on top of the fridge that wasn't and and
Speaker 1: and the guy was working. I was like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: take that. That ship doesn't go bad. I was like, you, like,
Speaker 1: all means, grab it. As long as that seal is unbroken, right,
Speaker 1: it gets better with age, right, you never know if
Speaker 1: it was broken. Like so we found Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: like the most interesting thing because that was all like
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen years old. And then you know, we we
Speaker 1: were sifting through the trash and the dunks, cops and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and we'd see like like take out
Speaker 1: receipts from a couple of months ago, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like I'm like, okay, so like you you
Speaker 1: you had the you know, twelve year old balla Mazzarella,
Speaker 1: but you chose to order b K, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It was just like where do you think
Speaker 1: like they sleep like like they on this It was
Speaker 1: it was it was just crazy. I was like, no
Speaker 1: room to sleep, you know what I mean. Um, we found.
Speaker 1: One of the craziest things we found was was some
Speaker 1: old teeth. So we stumbled upon some teeth and I
Speaker 1: was like, we don't know if that that could have
Speaker 1: been not their teeth, don't know whose teeth that. We
Speaker 1: didn't ask any questions. It was like, oh, these are funny.
Speaker 1: Let me send a snapchat to my buddy. And in
Speaker 1: the simple like that was it. That was the process.
Speaker 1: And like we finally made it up to the second
Speaker 1: flooring your way through there with your machete, dude, we
Speaker 1: we it was. It was insane. We make it up
Speaker 1: to the second floor and we have the two bedrooms
Speaker 1: and um. One of the things was the guys working
Speaker 1: he's like cleaned out plenty of horder houses before, like
Speaker 1: he you know, he's been there, done that, and he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, like check all the pockets, you might find
Speaker 1: some money and some stuff. So I had this, like
Speaker 1: I had this idea in the back of my mind
Speaker 1: that like I was gonna strike rich, Like I was
Speaker 1: gonna like reach into like a you know, like a
Speaker 1: pocket or like find something. It was gonna be like
Speaker 1: you know, five bucks, are like, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: find like, you know, some money or something. Didn't end
Speaker 1: up doing that. So for for four four days straight,
Speaker 1: didn't find anything like the crown jewels, right, it was
Speaker 1: like the diamond from Titanic exactly, some vintage like baseball
Speaker 1: cards or something they just forgot. So you know, found
Speaker 1: all the all sorts of ship and like what was
Speaker 1: the did you find quarters? Like worth? Like we well
Speaker 1: we ended up like collecting all the change and stuff,
Speaker 1: and like they ended up with like a couple hundred
Speaker 1: two hundred bucks. Maybe we brought it to that that
Speaker 1: would out see. That was the that was the degree
Speaker 1: kicking in. Like I mean, you know, I see a
Speaker 1: couple of too three quarters. You're like, we gotta stack
Speaker 1: those together, you know what I mean? I should probably
Speaker 1: sell these teeth. Someone's looking for teeth somewhere, right, So
Speaker 1: we we we we get upstairs to the second floor
Speaker 1: and there's the two bedrooms and you can tell like
Speaker 1: one of them was was was like this older woman
Speaker 1: and the other one seemed to have been like a
Speaker 1: teenage boy. So I was like, the hell's going on
Speaker 1: in here? Sifted through all that stuff throughout all sorts
Speaker 1: of ship. But one thing we did find was a
Speaker 1: stack probably of like forty Playboy magazines and like all
Speaker 1: this other like like computer images like like this dude
Speaker 1: went on like went on Google Google like boobs and
Speaker 1: then like would copy paste that in a word document,
Speaker 1: printed it all out. And then so I just found
Speaker 1: all these like him printed just like naked pictures that.
Speaker 1: But it was just the funniest thing because I'm like
Speaker 1: the whole time, I'm trying to paint a picture like
Speaker 1: like oh, like these I wonder like who these people were,
Speaker 1: like what they do and all this stuff, and like
Speaker 1: it's weird because like going through all this stuff, like
Speaker 1: you do kind of paint a picture of who lived there,
Speaker 1: and like we're what they're up to and what they're doing,
Speaker 1: because that's where they lived and that was their home
Speaker 1: and like you know, they got four clothes on. It's
Speaker 1: not you know that you know, kind of not that
Speaker 1: excepting of a part of the story. But anyways, it
Speaker 1: was interesting, So I find all that fun stuff. Um well,
Speaker 1: the thing the thing with the you know, the the
Speaker 1: teenager collecting, you know, it's it's a fine line between
Speaker 1: collecting and hoarding. Like if you have vintage playboys. That's
Speaker 1: kind of cool, that's kind of interesting. But yeah, once
Speaker 1: you start printing out like pictures of Carmen Electra's boobs, yeah,
Speaker 1: those exist on the internet. Those are never going away,
Speaker 1: Like the Internet is not going to just delete all
Speaker 1: of those those boobs. They're gonna be there forever, like
Speaker 1: you don't need they're gonna need the hard copies. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was like there's gonna be an apocalypse and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be holding all the porn and maybe yeah he's
Speaker 1: literally CEO of boobs and now he can he makes
Speaker 1: money through that way. He's right, and n f T
Speaker 1: like he's somehow able to like take that and transflor
Speaker 1: it's a non fungible titty exactly nowadays. That's so, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what he could have done. Yeah, I mean, so
Speaker 1: the whole thing like that, like just the whole experience.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was like Monday through Friday,
Speaker 1: and it was like I drive to drive two hours
Speaker 1: to get there. We spent a lot of time in
Speaker 1: the car, a lot of time packing ship up, throwing
Speaker 1: it out the second floor, and just trying to get
Speaker 1: as close to that truck as possible. Before, you know,
Speaker 1: backbreaking labor. Yeah, it was, it was. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just something. Um one of the funniest parts, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: where it's like you're in the middle of doing this
Speaker 1: and you're like, dude, I have a finance degree. It's
Speaker 1: like once you also drive two hours away to dump
Speaker 1: that trash. You're hopping in the truck and it's just
Speaker 1: like a nice quiet ride back to do the same
Speaker 1: exact ship again and again. It's like, no, dude, four
Speaker 1: years of college. Dude, Yeah, this is great. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely like putting that degree to work. Right, It's not
Speaker 1: like a twenty minute ride to the dump. That's a
Speaker 1: road trip. Like you're sitting back and you're just like
Speaker 1: prepping yourself mentally, like how am I going to get
Speaker 1: through today? When is it gonna hit five pm? So
Speaker 1: I can just absolutely do that. That was in Yeah,
Speaker 1: that wasn't even the thing because we had to finish
Speaker 1: the projective hit. I mean, dude, I was trying to
Speaker 1: just just get the job done, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It was like at this point, I think one of
Speaker 1: the grossest pictures I received from Henry. I was on vacation,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm saying it was, yeah, this and
Speaker 1: you have it in your notes, but I saw is
Speaker 1: he sent a picture of the toilet. Oh dude, I
Speaker 1: forgot about the math. I don't even know. I think
Speaker 1: I'm probably have it on my phone. But it was disgusting.
Speaker 1: It looked like the toilet hadn't been flushed in years.
Speaker 1: It was we don't know what it was. I think
Speaker 1: it was what we thought it was, but I think
Speaker 1: she was brown, and like it wasn't just rus. Did
Speaker 1: can we show that? I mean I could, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could always share it. Um that Yeah, right, I think
Speaker 1: about this, but there it is. It was. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of a lot of fun cleaning that
Speaker 1: one out, and like we so well, we had to
Speaker 1: like once all the crap was cleared, we pretty much
Speaker 1: we had to like uninstall it, right and then like
Speaker 1: carry it downstairs and I'm like, they're still liquid in here, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like spill. If I spill this on myself,
Speaker 1: I've gone take my whole leg take out, just shop
Speaker 1: like both my legs off. I'm done. I don't want anything.
Speaker 1: I gotta do it. Leave the leg dude. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was out. That was That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And I guess kind of like the moral to this
Speaker 1: whole story, Like at the end of the day, after
Speaker 1: you know, long sleeves, jeans, boots, respirator mask, you know,
Speaker 1: cleaning out just pure garbage in this house two hours away. Um,
Speaker 1: I kind of just like had a moment where I
Speaker 1: sat down, we finished up, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, like I gotta I really gotta like
Speaker 1: kick this job search into gear, like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like paint like doing the painting on the
Speaker 1: other projects and you know, ripping up carpets, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's not that bad whatever. You do this for
Speaker 1: a little while longer until I find a job. Then
Speaker 1: you get hit with the Horderhouse and you're like that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm throwing the towel. I don't need any more of that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this degree to work. Yeah it was,
Speaker 1: I mean it was fun. Like I'll tell you, like,
Speaker 1: nothing will bring you closer to another person than like
Speaker 1: cleaning out of Horderhouse because like we went through that
Speaker 1: was me, me and Alex, Like we went through that
Speaker 1: one together and and and at the end of it
Speaker 1: was like, dude, can we just like share a beer?
Speaker 1: Or something like let's just go get a bite to
Speaker 1: eat and like just forget about that. You guys went
Speaker 1: to war together, went to the battle. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: what it is. It's like one of those like once
Speaker 1: it's over though, it's a story, right, I know it was.
Speaker 1: It was like a fun experience to like look back
Speaker 1: on it because because you have to see it, like
Speaker 1: to believe it some of this stuff. I mean, you
Speaker 1: watch the show and that gives honestly a pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good view of it. But well, I'm so intrigued
Speaker 1: to know what it all looked like once you guys
Speaker 1: were done, and then once the remodel happened, you didn't
Speaker 1: even be able to tell incredible, you have no idea,
Speaker 1: didn't smell at all. It literally looked incredible. And the
Speaker 1: thing is, there's such good like flip flips, fix and flips,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, it's not like
Speaker 1: a lot of wear and tear on the property. It's
Speaker 1: like on the on the foundation or on anything. Really,
Speaker 1: Like you get rid of the rugs and there's literally
Speaker 1: a path that one little path that was walked on
Speaker 1: and the rest of it just has like a couch
Speaker 1: sitting on it for twenty years, and a couple of
Speaker 1: boxes of shampoo that have been sitting there for twenty years.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. It's like a path like you see
Speaker 1: just like in the woods, a defined path, but it's
Speaker 1: like in someone's house. Literally, what if? What if the
Speaker 1: next family that moved in was also a hoarding family
Speaker 1: and just immediately put it right. I'll get a call
Speaker 1: and like I'll get a call in five years and
Speaker 1: be like, all right, like you've done that, We've done
Speaker 1: it once. We need you to do too. Let's go
Speaker 1: come in. This place is way too clean. If you
Speaker 1: start start they start picking up people's trash getting ready
Speaker 1: to pick up by the dump and they're just hello, hello,
Speaker 1: duncan donnuts needs. Uh yeah, I think that that was ridiculous. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you made it through fond memories, you know,
Speaker 1: needless to say. And and I will throw out there
Speaker 1: too that if you do have hoarding tendencies, if you
Speaker 1: are an obsessive compulsive hoarder, we'll we'll put a resource
Speaker 1: in the description to to seek help because it is
Speaker 1: a it is a legit really difficult situation for people
Speaker 1: out there. And uh, it's tough when you when you
Speaker 1: find yourself in that, and uh yeah, hopefully we can
Speaker 1: maybe help you find some help to to not to
Speaker 1: not end up in that kind of a situation. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you. I'm glad you made it through. And also,
Speaker 1: I think my favorite part of this story is that
Speaker 1: like you're just on vacation duds, like popping lines into
Speaker 1: coronas and like like jumping off a boat, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, I'm like busy whether I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out whether I'm gonna put like cape cod chips or
Speaker 1: deritos in between my ham and cheese sand which I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out whatever to do, and then Hank,
Speaker 1: I'm like getting sweat my eyes and like I want
Speaker 1: to like wipe it, and then I'm like I can't.
Speaker 1: I gotta take my glove off, and like like Mikey's, yeah,
Speaker 1: just enjoying the beach and I'll just living it up.
Speaker 1: And I would assume you'll probably never end up being
Speaker 1: a hoarder yourself. I hope not. I really hope not.
Speaker 1: I'll find a couple of little things piling up, and
Speaker 1: then you know how my flashbacks to that time that
Speaker 1: I was cleaning all out. We started like, does this
Speaker 1: spark joy? Now you see someone like hoarding like my rooms.
Speaker 1: A little messy hand comes in, you know, starts getting sweats,
Speaker 1: starts getting you know, falling down. The respirator goes on. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let me get it. Yeah, I'm just happy I wasn't
Speaker 1: there to experience. Yeah, I know, I know, I know
Speaker 1: you are welcome back, Fable babies. Do you know what
Speaker 1: time it is? It's time to let the robot in
Speaker 1: turn out of its cage. That's right, it's robot Reddit reads.
Speaker 1: You know, I just realized I've never really introduced the
Speaker 1: robot turn. That's what I call up. The robot is
Speaker 1: a robot in turn, robot turn um. But you know
Speaker 1: the reason why I did that is I didn't want
Speaker 1: you all to get attached to it only to then
Speaker 1: cancel this segment and then have to dump it in
Speaker 1: the river. But you seem to really love the segment
Speaker 1: on the Graham, so I think we'll keep it around
Speaker 1: for now. So, uh, robot Turn, why don't you go
Speaker 1: ahead and introduce yourself to all the Fable babies out there? Name,
Speaker 1: but you can call me Kyle. Okay, Kyle. Why don't
Speaker 1: you tell us a fun fact about yourself? Let me
Speaker 1: think I like guns. Wow, that was a really bad
Speaker 1: place to pause. But cool, I guess. So. Do you
Speaker 1: have a Reddit threat you want to share with us?
Speaker 1: Nothing would bring don't like that this time I started
Speaker 1: by us five. They asked your best I could just
Speaker 1: dodge a bullet. But a tactical new story. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a good prompt, Kyle, nice, fine, all right, hit me
Speaker 1: with the best responses. I was once the last person
Speaker 1: to cross the bridge before it fell. Looked in my
Speaker 1: rear view to see what the noise was. To see
Speaker 1: open air where there should have been road, and some
Speaker 1: white faced people who were just about to cross as well.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, terrifying. First question, was anyone on the bridge?
Speaker 1: Second follow up question, did you see the mothman? No
Speaker 1: further questions. I was about eleven and my dad wanted
Speaker 1: me to come along with him to pick up some
Speaker 1: furniture about thirty minutes away. I made a huge stink
Speaker 1: about it, basically being an annoying little male adolescent, turn
Speaker 1: saying how I wanted to stay at home and play.
Speaker 1: I'd be really good. It was boring, etcetera. He finally
Speaker 1: got fed up and stormed out and told me to
Speaker 1: stay put and he'd be back. About an hour later,
Speaker 1: he comes home in a police car, pretty shaken up,
Speaker 1: and just reached over and hugged me hard. Turns out
Speaker 1: that he was driving down the highway and traffic got
Speaker 1: busy ahead, and this semi truck in the lane over
Speaker 1: tried to stop too late, and jack night, it fell
Speaker 1: over on the passenger side of the car, right where
Speaker 1: I would have been if I had gone along with him.
Speaker 1: The car was totaled, obviously, with the entire passenger side
Speaker 1: crushed down flat. Actually, my dad was lucky he made
Speaker 1: it out alive. He never made another big deal about
Speaker 1: me coming along if I really said I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go. I can't believe being a stubborn, angsty preteen
Speaker 1: actually saved your life. All got me was mercilessly bullied.
Speaker 1: When I was fourteen, I went to my best friend's
Speaker 1: house for her birthday party. A thirty year old guy
Speaker 1: that worked for their parents asked her to tell me
Speaker 1: that he wanted to take me out on a date.
Speaker 1: I said I had a boyfriend. He seemed nice, but
Speaker 1: he started following us everywhere and just standing back staring
Speaker 1: at us. They had a huge farm. I got nervous
Speaker 1: and called mom to come get me. Months later, we
Speaker 1: saw his wanted poster at our grocery store. He was
Speaker 1: serial killer Rangel over Sundays, the railway Killer. Mom didn't
Speaker 1: believe me until it was on America's Most Wanted that
Speaker 1: night and they interviewed my friends foster parents. Then she freaked.
Speaker 1: Okay that one Wins literally dodged a bullet slash, large
Speaker 1: blunt object because that was the railway Killers. M oh,
Speaker 1: I wonder how close I've been to getting murdered. You think, okay,
Speaker 1: that's enough out of you. Kyle back in the cage.
Speaker 1: You're lucky. Hey, you keep that attitude up, You're gonna
Speaker 1: find yourself at the bottom of a river. Okay, bucko. Hey, everybody,
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Speaker 1: I am experiencing a number of sensations that I've never
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