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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder, the Miniso.

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Speaker 2: That's right, you got it. It's the Miniso. The day

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Speaker 2: before our vacation starts. So we are fucking faruh as shit.

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Speaker 1: We're about to say the hottest takes in content Land.

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Speaker 2: Can I go first? I love this one?

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Speaker 1: Please do?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Oh, I'm trying not to disappoint you or scare

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Speaker 2: you or so loud that I upset people. Oh, this

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Speaker 2: one's called Matthew Shepherd, Romayne Patterson, a fucking badass bitch. Hi,

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Speaker 2: Karen Georgia and the entire adjacent animal Kingdom. First of all,

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Speaker 2: I was at the Portland Live Show recently. You guys

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Speaker 2: killed it. It's been so fun listening to recent episodes

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Speaker 2: and catching the little stregs from that night. Don't remember

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Speaker 2: a single thing we said.

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Speaker 1: What are the Easter eggs like? Are they filled with? You?

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Speaker 1: Tell us candy egg Calby. We hid fifty thousand dollars cash.

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Speaker 2: In that theater.

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Speaker 1: In the theater.

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Speaker 2: I'm writing because of your recent episode on Matthew Shepherd.

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Speaker 2: You did such a beautiful, respectful job with it. But

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Speaker 2: there is a total badass in the story that I

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Speaker 2: need to make sure is on your radar. Matthew's close

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Speaker 2: friend Romayne Patterson. When the absolute garbage fire that is

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Speaker 2: the Westboro Baptist's Church showed up to pick it Matthew's

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Speaker 2: funeral with horrific signs, Romayne said, absolutely not. She mobilized

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Speaker 2: the squad of people dressed in massive ten foot tall

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Speaker 2: white angel costumes with giant wings. Oh she's crying already.

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Speaker 1: No, it's the most brilliant. Yeah, it's the most brilliant

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Speaker 1: way to fight. Just block it, yeah, yeah, block it

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Speaker 1: with with angels totally.

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Speaker 2: They stood in a line right in front of the protesters,

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Speaker 2: silently blocking the hate with their wings.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: It must have enraged them so much because it's also

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Speaker 2: like angels. Yeah, that's exactly what would happen. It was

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Speaker 2: a brilliant, peaceful, visually stunning middle finger called Angel action,

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Speaker 2: and there's photos of it. Look at that they made these.

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Speaker 2: So they're these angel wings that have these like tent

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Speaker 2: pole things sticking out of the shoulder, so that the

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Speaker 2: wings are really high and large and blocking the hate.

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Speaker 1: It's like five foot expanse on either side, so you

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Speaker 1: just cannot see their terrible signs and their horrible faces.

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Speaker 2: It's such a brilliant, quiet, peaceful way to protest monsters.

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Speaker 2: Romayne wrote an incredible memoir about it called The Whole

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Speaker 2: World Was Watching, and her activism and those giant angels

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Speaker 2: became a huge part of the play The Laramie Project

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Speaker 2: by Moyses Kaufman. She now hosts a podcast with her

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Speaker 2: close friend and it's hilarious. It's called Derek and Romayne Amazing.

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Speaker 2: This is where it gets personal for me. I actually

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Speaker 2: got a b Romaine in The Laramie Project when I

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Speaker 2: was in high school. Being a part of that play,

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Speaker 2: feeling the weight of the story and seeing Romayne's fierce

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Speaker 2: love for her friend was the exact catalyst that gave

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Speaker 2: me the courage to come out as a pan woman.

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Speaker 2: My high school theater teacher even had her sign a

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Speaker 2: copy of her novel for me when I graduated high school.

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Speaker 2: It is my most fond memory of high school. Now,

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Speaker 2: I am a teacher in a tiny rural town in

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Speaker 2: to me. Romayne is an absolute legend, and her legacy

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Speaker 2: literally changed the trajectory of my life. Happy Pride, month,

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Speaker 2: stay sexy and keep fighting the bigots. Carolyne MacArthur she her, Wow,

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad she wrote that, because I definitely saw

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Speaker 2: that when I was doing my research, and I for

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Speaker 2: time had to.

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Speaker 1: Just say, your Kate can'ts talk about it all.

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Speaker 2: That's it's on story in itself.

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Speaker 1: And it's beautiful because it's like people know the importance

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Speaker 2: But it's an integral part of the story. And I'm

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Speaker 1: Also, I love like that the desperation level to have

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Speaker 1: Where have you seen the ones where it's just like

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Speaker 2: These guys are idiots or something like that, or like.

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Speaker 1: Someone just look like there's it's so funny. They're all

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Speaker 1: this can't be happening right more, and we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: We're gonna not just let it sit as a news story, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but then tell that story again and again in other ways.

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Speaker 1: And it's like if anybody's like, oh AI is going

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Speaker 1: speak for people.

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Speaker 2: The humanity in it is something that cannot be turned

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Speaker 1: And on that same note, let me reach you my

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Speaker 1: first email.

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Speaker 1: The subject line of this is big news from Petaluma.

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Speaker 1: It says, Hey, they're Karen and Georgia. Day one listener

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Speaker 1: writing in with hometown news to share with Karen and Georgia.

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Speaker 1: For the past few months, there's been a great horned

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Speaker 1: owl that has taken residence on the face of the

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Speaker 1: circa eighteen eighty five building in downtown Pedaluma.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I.

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Speaker 1: Heard nothing of this. My sister's in the like the

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Speaker 1: She is attracting visitors from near and far who are

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Speaker 1: all concerned for her fledgling chicks. Last week of the

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Speaker 1: chicks attempted flight, and since she's literally in the middle

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Speaker 2: I can figure out where the yah.

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Speaker 1: That's how well I know I have you know what

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Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure that's just at the corner of

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Speaker 1: Western Pard It's like a la boo boo. I love it.

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Speaker 1: She was taken to the local Wildlife Rescue for rehabilitation

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Speaker 1: and flight training, and the folks of downtown have been

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Speaker 1: And it says so pedalomma, which it is, yeah, or

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Speaker 1: a town built on chickens, so we respect birds of

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Speaker 1: in the building that the owls have nested on, and

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Speaker 1: it has been such a pleasure to have such majestic roommates.

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Speaker 1: Even if I am terrified at birds, We've really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: meeting folks from our town and remembering that community and

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Speaker 1: joy is the most important thing in this fucked up world.

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Speaker 1: Next time you're downtown, give us a wave. We're the

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Speaker 1: ones with the groovy wallpaper. Stay sexy and talk to

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Speaker 2: I want to live in a small town. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I guess my neighborhoods kind of small town ish, but

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Speaker 2: like surrounded by Los Angeles, right, I want to live

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Speaker 1: Well, I had no idea how the level of privilege

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Speaker 2: You're like, child is with a random not random, but

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Speaker 1: PS two. Okay, it says PS. I was a model

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Speaker 1: that was like I flunked out of Sack State, I

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Speaker 1: And that was this weird life I lived before I

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Speaker 1: That's who we got the email from. That's Maria.

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Speaker 2: Look at little Maria in the seaside shorts sop cotton Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, hold on, Maria says I, I wonder if

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Speaker 1: I mean Maria, that was like she just gave me

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Speaker 2: And oh that's so cute.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to give me like weekly pedal updates,

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Speaker 1: do not be afraid to write it.

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Speaker 2: We're going to say haircuts. But that's good. Pedal of

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Speaker 2: Yeap, okay. This one's called another fake illness resulting in

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Speaker 2: a hospital visit with a twist. Oh dearest ladies. I

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Speaker 2: was recently listening to Minniesode four twenty three, where someone

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Speaker 2: it brought back a memory of my own similar story

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Speaker 1: Awesome local hero. When I was about sixteen years old,

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Speaker 1: Do you need a sweat your weekend? Amble over this way?

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Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. He was now our designated escort to

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Speaker 1: And then separate line. Just another reason to add Costco

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Speaker 2: That's the only person who can do it and not

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Speaker 2: Hey that calm down, you're going too deep. That's what she.

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Speaker 1: and find a costco worker if you can't find a goth. Sammy,

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Speaker 1: It's called Is it about to be the fourth fund?

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Speaker 1: want to hear all about did this catfish drag a

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Speaker 1: I've been dragging this pool.

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Speaker 2: It gets better. My catfish just smoking. Last year, my

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Speaker 1: That sounds amazing, it's because they have pond money. They're Christians.

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Speaker 2: Ryan took this opportunity to offer one hundred dollars reward

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Speaker 2: This resulted in dozens of people spending hours searching over

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Speaker 2: Well, my dad even fashioned a dredging tool out of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, still no luck. The pole was well and truly gone.

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Speaker 2: The weekend after the party, my husband Jared and I

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Speaker 2: Try try one more time.

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Speaker 1: That's Jenny, Jenny, Jenny and Jared, Jenny and Jared solving

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Speaker 1: problems at the pond.

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Speaker 2: Christ does their lord, it's you.

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Speaker 1: Know what, it's the old grandfather grandfather whoever passed that

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Speaker 1: fisherman's pull down.

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Speaker 2: Or the catfish's grandfather or.

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Speaker 1: The cash's grandfather's in there. I've seen worse poles than that.

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Speaker 1: Send it back. Well, here's my last one. I won't

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Speaker 1: read to the subject line. Please don't stop it, It says,

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Speaker 1: hey'all on your most recent episode, you ask for stories

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Speaker 1: about winning contests. Well, this isn't my winning story, but

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's wild enough that it needs to

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Speaker 1: be shared. Back in the eighties and nineties, one of

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Speaker 1: the local radio stations in my hometown had a radio

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Speaker 1: contest giving away a free cemetery plot. Well, my father,

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Speaker 1: who never wins anything one.

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Speaker 2: I repeat, like bad luck, No.

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Speaker 1: I repeat, My father won a burial plot from a

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Speaker 1: radio station contest. He waited until my grandmother passed away

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Speaker 1: a few years ago when I was in my mid

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Speaker 1: thirties to tell me about this contest and showed me

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Speaker 1: the deed for his plot.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: I reached out to the cemetery and verified its validity,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, it's holy shit. Through a radio station

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Speaker 1: tensive too, right about ten grand a minimum?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: All that shit is so fucking expensive?

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Speaker 2: And may they make money off of people's worst experiences?

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly to be like, no, grandmother must go in

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Speaker 1: her blue suit right into this silk limed casket, right.

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Speaker 2: And what I mean, you're not going to have flowers?

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Speaker 2: There has to be crazy.

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget my mom's like, oh no, I need

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Speaker 1: to get what's the other one? Remate it. Yeah, He's like,

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Speaker 1: uh uh, creamy and me immediately don't don't where I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, so my father will be buried

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Speaker 1: in a plot that he won off the radio.

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Speaker 2: Love it.

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Speaker 1: I hope this shocks you just like it did me.

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Speaker 1: And as a reminder to all make your final wishes known. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's weird and hard, but it's harder on your loved

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Speaker 1: ones when they don't know if they're doing what you'd

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Speaker 1: really want. And that is an email from Crystal.

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Speaker 2: Crystal.

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Speaker 1: Crystal fucking wrote in They've been waiting for Crystal to

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Speaker 1: write in hah fucking who's the last part? Oh?

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Speaker 2: My best friends? Is his name? Crystal?

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Speaker 1: I was about to say, last time you met a Crystal?

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Speaker 1: And fucking Georgia's closest friend is named Crystal.

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Speaker 2: Crystal thinks that her mom wanted them to be strippers

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Speaker 2: or something, because her sister's name is also really unique.

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Speaker 2: What is it, Phedra.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a very cool name.

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Speaker 2: It's so like the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

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Speaker 2: Yes it is.

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Speaker 1: What's funny to me is Crystal in my town or

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Speaker 1: a certain way and your Crystal is not that way.

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Speaker 1: So she's it's funny because she's very herself, so it

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Speaker 1: makes sense she makes it her name. Yeah, but it's

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Speaker 1: not like.

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Speaker 2: It's not like the Crystal.

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Speaker 1: It's not this right, just no, what if after all

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Speaker 1: of that, it's your Crystal at home? Like it's fucking me.

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Speaker 1: I've told you this story before.

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Speaker 2: Oh what did she did? That'd be cute? All right?

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Speaker 2: Sending your stories please about anything you want at any

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Speaker 2: time of your life.

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Speaker 1: Share in a human way, connections you have made in

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Speaker 1: the past. Yeah, whether it's at a pond with someone

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Speaker 1: named Crystal, or.

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Speaker 2: A catfish, a smoking catfish.

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Speaker 1: Or smoking cabbish. And until you do, stay sexy and

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Speaker 1: don't get murdered.

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Speaker 2: Goodbye, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?

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Speaker 1: This has been an exactly right production.

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Speaker 2: Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer

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Speaker 2: is Tessa Hughes.

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Speaker 1: Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.

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Speaker 2: This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.

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