Speaker 1: I'm picturing a liger or like a griffin or something.
Speaker 1: I think so really, yeah, they're bread for speed and power.
Speaker 1: How do you know that? Look, I'm a big love.
Speaker 1: I have a liger tattooed on my back. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a dream where you keep waking
Speaker 1: up in the middle of it and you think it's over,
Speaker 1: but it turns out you're still in a dream? You know?
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like you're trying to beat a
Speaker 1: level in a video game and you keep dying and
Speaker 1: and and respawning, you know, and there's like a bunch
Speaker 1: of teddy bears and clowns and random Starbucks employees violently
Speaker 1: spinning around flinging milk with reckless abandon Or is that
Speaker 1: just me? Maybe I need to pump the brakes on
Speaker 1: the melotone and gummies, or probably need to stop watching
Speaker 1: Savannah Moss's TikTok's Before Bed Now. Savannah is a twenty
Speaker 1: two year old content creator from Phoenix, Arizona, who exploded
Speaker 1: on TikTok a few years ago with her trippy fever
Speaker 1: dream style content. She's got over ten and a half
Speaker 1: million followers on the platform now. Savannah and I sat
Speaker 1: down at VidCon last summer and she told me a
Speaker 1: harrowing tale about wandering in the desert one night. I'm
Speaker 1: Will Milk Spins McFadden, and this is hashtag Storytime, brought
Speaker 1: to you by iHeartRadio. Okay, so the story takes place
Speaker 1: in Arizona. Of course, that's where I'm from. Scary already,
Speaker 1: I know, it's very scary. And this one was about
Speaker 1: five years ago. Okay. So it was me and my
Speaker 1: three friends and it was about midnight. Just for context, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: set the scene, paint the pictures. Okay. So super dark midnight,
Speaker 1: Arizona in the summer. It's pretty hot, but not too
Speaker 1: hot at night. Okay. So we decide to get my
Speaker 1: friend's car and go kind of like explore wearing in
Speaker 1: the desert ish area. There's lots of that in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a great idea already, Oh yes, just way.
Speaker 1: So we drive to like this big open plane area
Speaker 1: where there's like nothing right. Basically there's a big drop
Speaker 1: off like a cliff yes, if you will, if you will,
Speaker 1: a small cliff rum and it was like behind a Walmart,
Speaker 1: but like it goes back really far, like you can
Speaker 1: you can't even see the end of it. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: so we decided to go like walk around, you know,
Speaker 1: which is going on? Walk about? Yeah, with our flashlights,
Speaker 1: you know, just just the four of us. So we
Speaker 1: go out there and everything was fine. We made it
Speaker 1: to the cliff, okay, and we're like looking at the
Speaker 1: moon like everything was so awesome. Yeah, I bet it
Speaker 1: was beautiful. Oh yeah, with the Walmart and the background
Speaker 1: and then the moon and the plane. Yeah, well the
Speaker 1: Walmart was kind of far. Yeah, and a little part
Speaker 1: I missed was the do not enter signs? Oh yet
Speaker 1: the front the whole trespassing right right right? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: usually ignore those two, right, Yeah, I just didn't see them.
Speaker 1: Sure that, Yeah, that's why do you tell the cops.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I couldn't be here. I can't read. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am very dyslexic. Yeah. I thought it said come in,
Speaker 1: please come in, you're well walk around food over there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so when we made it to the cliff, um,
Speaker 1: we it was kind of getting late. I mean it
Speaker 1: was already late, but were we talking like it's midnight
Speaker 1: or is this like two in the morning or where? No,
Speaker 1: it's about like twelve thirty. Now all right, we weren't
Speaker 1: out there for two twitching hour. Yes, um, So we
Speaker 1: were out there and we wanted to head back, and
Speaker 1: one of my friends was like, you know, let's turn
Speaker 1: off our flashlights and try to make it back. Bold choice.
Speaker 1: I think it would be a really good idea, right,
Speaker 1: Let's make this harder and more dangerous. Yeah. So we did,
Speaker 1: and it was pitch black except for like the moonlight,
Speaker 1: of course, but you can't really see anything, right. So
Speaker 1: we're walking back and all of a sudden, all of
Speaker 1: us stop in our tracks, like because we heard a noise. Okay,
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, this noise is these gariest
Speaker 1: noise I've ever heard in my life. Okay, I'm not joking.
Speaker 1: It was like like a dragon mixed with a lion.
Speaker 1: I wish I could have recorded it, Honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: even know how to describe it very well. But I
Speaker 1: heard this noise. It was a beast of some sort, Yes,
Speaker 1: a beast, a mythical or real beast? Like was this? No?
Speaker 1: It was real? It was a real animal. Yeah, okay, cool, No,
Speaker 1: you'll find out which animal it was, Okay, great, because
Speaker 1: I'm picturing like, yeah, I'm picturing a liger or like
Speaker 1: a griffin or something. Or liger is real, I think,
Speaker 1: so really Yeah, they're bread for speed and power. How
Speaker 1: do you know that? Look, I'm a big I love.
Speaker 1: I have a liger tattooed on my back. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they breathed lions and tigers together. I think bread for
Speaker 1: speed and power. Yeah right, yeah, I want to get
Speaker 1: that as a good tattoo anyway, I would be honored. Yes.
Speaker 1: So we heard the noise and I thought it was
Speaker 1: coming from someone's phone, right, I thought it was just
Speaker 1: like a video or something. So I was like, stop
Speaker 1: watching them, stop watching those liger videos. Come on. And
Speaker 1: we're all like, no, like, it wasn't me. It wasn't me.
Speaker 1: How to be you? Right? And then um, we turn
Speaker 1: on our flashlights of course, and we're like looking around,
Speaker 1: like scanning the area. There's like little sparse bushes here
Speaker 1: and there. Yeah, and we didn't really see anything, but
Speaker 1: the noise was coming from like right in front of us.
Speaker 1: So one of my friends threw a rock at the bush.
Speaker 1: Why I have no idea, right, but the animal started
Speaker 1: to come out right and we saw its eyes. It
Speaker 1: was a mountain lion. Oh god, it was a mountain lion.
Speaker 1: And I didn't even know what animal that was at first,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't, I didn't even know what it's like.
Speaker 1: So I to look it up after I thought, you're
Speaker 1: gonna say, so, I looked it up. Hold on, mountain lion,
Speaker 1: what are you be? Still for a moment? Hey, Siri?
Speaker 1: What is this sandimal? You know? I asked it its name,
Speaker 1: and it just like what it starts talking, Hey, what
Speaker 1: are you? I'm a mountain line. My name is Terry.
Speaker 1: Terry dragons sound oh my gosh. But yeah, basically we
Speaker 1: just started running back. I was going to ask, what
Speaker 1: are you supposed to do? Because like certain animals, you're
Speaker 1: like you're supposed to make yourself really big or like
Speaker 1: bang on pots and pans. I think a bear you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be, like whoa bear? Or you you play dead?
Speaker 1: I saw a TikTok video this I don't even know what. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so grizzly bears apparently you go fetal position and just
Speaker 1: play dead and just pray, just pray to whatever god
Speaker 1: you believe it. That's only grizzly bears, not like other bears.
Speaker 1: Mistake one and you're just like in a fetal position,
Speaker 1: like I'm a black are, so you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you idiot. Yeah. I think cougars you're
Speaker 1: probably like I feel like you're supposed to make yourself big.
Speaker 1: I heard that too. Yeah, but mountain minds, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I mean, I think you're supposed to just
Speaker 1: like not run cougars. You're supposed to buy them a
Speaker 1: shot of tequila. And then, oh, I get it, I do.
Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about real cougars. At first
Speaker 1: I was, and then I was like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a there's a double entendre here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go for it. But yes, mountain lions. Sure, is
Speaker 1: there a difference between a cougar and the mountain lion? Same?
Speaker 1: Is it the same thing? We have Mason our our
Speaker 1: wildlife expert. Yeah, he's like, if you run into an armadillo,
Speaker 1: also just don't step on them. Okay, okay, So you
Speaker 1: see the cougar, yes, the mountain lion, right, and you
Speaker 1: guys all run in different directions or to you know, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I wasn't even looking at them. I just kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like you're on your own, went for it, ran
Speaker 1: as fast as I could in the direction I feel
Speaker 1: like you're pretty fast too. Yeah, I would say I'm
Speaker 1: speed red for speed and power, red for speed and comedy. Right,
Speaker 1: I feel like I would be screwed because I feel
Speaker 1: like you if I were in your group of friends.
Speaker 1: And I mean it would be weird if like I
Speaker 1: was walking around in the desert with teenage girls, So
Speaker 1: it would be weird if I was there. But I
Speaker 1: feel like you would all outpace me and I would
Speaker 1: be last, like wait please and the go go god
Speaker 1: without me. Oh god, it's it's staring me to pieces.
Speaker 1: I bought her a shot of tequila. It's not working.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that was the end of will. But yeah, basically,
Speaker 1: we just ran as fast as we could back to
Speaker 1: the cars, got in and we're like, what the heck
Speaker 1: was that? And then we looked it up after the fact,
Speaker 1: like on our phone, like that noises too, like on
Speaker 1: YouTube the sound of sound effects. That is the exact
Speaker 1: sound exactly they're like on YouTube, it's labeled. It's like
Speaker 1: the sound of mountain lion makes before devouring its prey, right,
Speaker 1: sounds like a dragon liger griffin combo, Like, wow, that's close. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm also picturing you guys like running through the desert
Speaker 1: in the night and there's just a Walmart that you're like,
Speaker 1: gotta get back to the wall, gotta get back to
Speaker 1: the walmart. The walmart. Safe, Yeah, safe, all the all
Speaker 1: the oxen free at the walmart. Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys lived. Yeah. Are they like will
Speaker 1: they eat you? I think so? Really? Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: they're pretty. They're very dangerous. Oh yeah, well that's yeah,
Speaker 1: so moral the story. Moral story. Kids don't wander in
Speaker 1: the desert without flashlights. Yeah, in the night, not behind
Speaker 1: a walmart. Yeah, that's where they all hang out, is
Speaker 1: hanging out. Yeah, you're like, we got our coup lots
Speaker 1: and they're like, now we're gonna go hiding the bushes
Speaker 1: and yeah, wait for the kids to come out. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was a cougar in a cougar costume. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: You know this sounds like a like one of your
Speaker 1: videos where you're like here we are and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's a cougar. And then it's just
Speaker 1: like a like an attractive older woman and she's like, hey,
Speaker 1: do like the sound effect of like the cougar, and
Speaker 1: then you like turn over and it's just like the
Speaker 1: woman and she's like she's like hey young man, hello
Speaker 1: young man. Oh yeah, yeah, perfect, I want to buy
Speaker 1: me a drink. You're like level level past level completed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would that sounds like a good video. You have
Speaker 1: to write that down after this. Okay, we're making content, right, Um,
Speaker 1: what would you say the moral of the story? I
Speaker 1: would do What did you learn in that moment? Um?
Speaker 1: Don't turn off your flashlights if you're exploring the dark. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I always keep your flashlights on. I like that message.
Speaker 1: Always keep your flashlights on. Kids. I feel like in
Speaker 1: the movies they always run out of batteries the perfect
Speaker 1: time and then they're like hitting the flashlights like come
Speaker 1: on please, and then as soon as it turns back on,
Speaker 1: it like shows the jump scare. Yeah, these are their formulaic,
Speaker 1: these movies. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Okay, cool, that's a
Speaker 1: great story. I want to play a quick game with you.
Speaker 1: Um we call it first, last, best, worst, okay, and
Speaker 1: we pick a category and then we hear you're the
Speaker 1: first time that happened, the last time that happened, The
Speaker 1: best time in the worst time. All right, Um, we
Speaker 1: just did jobs with DeMarcus. But I am intrigued to
Speaker 1: know all about what you've had, right, Yeah, but um,
Speaker 1: we did concerts, So what about would you? What about dates?
Speaker 1: Is that the best one would be kind of hard
Speaker 1: to pick honestly, because there's not been a lot of
Speaker 1: good ones. Okay, let's do dates? Is that? Okay? Sure? Okay?
Speaker 1: So what was the first date you ever went on? Um? Hmm, okay,
Speaker 1: I think it was. I don't really know if this
Speaker 1: is considered a date. But it was in high school, okay,
Speaker 1: And it was with my like first crush, Like we
Speaker 1: had a thing going on, I guess is what people
Speaker 1: call it. But we went to one of the high
Speaker 1: school football games together and then we went on to
Speaker 1: eat afterward. Yeah that's a date. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he thought it was a date. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was fun. Um, I don't really remember
Speaker 1: much of it, so I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: the best did Where where did he take you to? Did?
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I can't even remember Walmart parking,
Speaker 1: probably the back of Walter in one of the trucks
Speaker 1: we just opened it up and got whatever food was it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was. It was a pretty forgettable date, the
Speaker 1: first date. Okay, this poor boy is probably listening like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I blew it. He's the one that ended
Speaker 1: it with me. What a fool? So yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so that was your first date. What about what's the
Speaker 1: last date that you've been on the most recent date?
Speaker 1: The most recent date? Um was to Top Golf? Actually cool,
Speaker 1: you guys know? Yeah yeah, Top Golf. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a golf bar. Yeah yeah, so it was fun. It's
Speaker 1: super hot though outside, but there's like the misters and stuff.
Speaker 1: I am not the best at golf. Okay, so it
Speaker 1: was funny to watch, Yeah for sure, Um, did you
Speaker 1: pick that location or did they? Did you want to
Speaker 1: go to Top Golf? I'm going to Top Golf anyway,
Speaker 1: So if you want to come with, just call it
Speaker 1: a date as basically how it went. Guys, if you're listening, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, unless the person you're going on a date
Speaker 1: with is into golf, maybe don't pick Top Golf. Yeah
Speaker 1: maybe not for the first yeah date. It's like, but
Speaker 1: you want to go hunting for a first date? Cougar
Speaker 1: hunting cougar hunting. Sure, I guess trying to think of
Speaker 1: what a terrible date ideas? I mean, top golf. It's
Speaker 1: fun for like I don't know. Yeah, yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1: You see. It seems like you made the most of it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, what about what about the best date you've
Speaker 1: ever been on? Okay? Um, the best date was actually
Speaker 1: like it was at his house, was the date? Okay,
Speaker 1: But so I had no idea. This was a surprise. Um,
Speaker 1: just like invited me over, said we're going to have dinner,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Like you can dress fancy if you want,
Speaker 1: just like do whatever you want. Yeah. So it's like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Like I showed up as doctor Strange exactly the mustache
Speaker 1: and everything. You said, whatever he wants. I would be
Speaker 1: literally hilarious. I need to try that on the next day.
Speaker 1: Like I showed up dressed as a mountain lion. Look
Speaker 1: it was you gave me options, so you're going to
Speaker 1: take it. Oh my gosh. Um. Yeah. So I walk
Speaker 1: in and there's like the classic rose petals like laid
Speaker 1: out in like the candles. Wow. I thought that only
Speaker 1: happened in like CW shows. So did I so that's
Speaker 1: why I was very shocked. Is the real life thing.
Speaker 1: I know it was done that for me, not yet, Okay,
Speaker 1: one day, one day, I'm gonna get home today and
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's gonna be like, yes, today's the day. Okay.
Speaker 1: So he had candles, he had rose petals. Was there
Speaker 1: like shod a playing or like some saxophone music. He
Speaker 1: playing saxophone at the like the end of the rose petals,
Speaker 1: he was in the corner playing the keyboard. Actually, oh
Speaker 1: my god, okay, I was gonna say I was clothes no, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah. Then he made like an Italian um like
Speaker 1: pasta dish outside and then we had some wine and
Speaker 1: like it was it was just it was really cute.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, I know, right see because there's effort. Ye,
Speaker 1: there's thought put into it. Yes, did he What kind
Speaker 1: of pasta did he make? Um? Two types? Actually, one
Speaker 1: was I know, overachiever. Yeah, it's on the comet down um.
Speaker 1: One was chicken alfredo and the other was like a
Speaker 1: red sauce like Marin. He was like, take a your pig.
Speaker 1: I'm just assuming he's Italian. No, he's like you. And
Speaker 1: we even had the bread on the side too. Wow.
Speaker 1: He did he make the bread. I highly doubt that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the flower. Yeah, he's like, I handmade the pasta today.
Speaker 1: I needed the dough. This guy. I want to date
Speaker 1: this guy. Okay, so that's the best date. That's hard
Speaker 1: to top. What's the worst date you've ever been on?
Speaker 1: Um it isn't. Actually, no, there's something worse. Um So,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I would consider this a
Speaker 1: date as well, but I'm still gonna share it anyway. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: um so, I was driving to go meet this guy
Speaker 1: for our like maybe it was like a second date
Speaker 1: or something, Okay, and um he called me when I
Speaker 1: was on my way. I was like, hey, can you
Speaker 1: pick up some food? I'm like yeah, sure, you know
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a super nice person, like I like love
Speaker 1: to make people happy. And I'm like I'm hungry too,
Speaker 1: so yeah, sure I'll get this food. So it's like
Speaker 1: pick up one hundred tacos literally and some gallons of
Speaker 1: milk on the side. That's three gallons of milk, one
Speaker 1: hundred tacos. Okay, sure I guess. Um So, I think
Speaker 1: I just picked up some sushi. I think is where
Speaker 1: I got all right for us that I show up
Speaker 1: and has he has his like gaming headphones on at
Speaker 1: like playing a video game and like did the classic
Speaker 1: like one ear off, like hey, yeah, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: just come on in. And I was like, oh great, cool, cool.
Speaker 1: So I sit on the bed. It's like I'm in
Speaker 1: the middle of a like really heated Call of Duty
Speaker 1: match right now. Like I don't even know what game
Speaker 1: he was playing, to be honest, some like like Crossing
Speaker 1: Roads or you know, it's like Animal Crossing. I'm really
Speaker 1: busy right now building this house and we're crossing or
Speaker 1: like Minecraft. Yeah, I don't even know. Um. Basically I
Speaker 1: ended up eating the food by myself, okay, while he
Speaker 1: just plays the game. And then I ended up leaving.
Speaker 1: Did he even notice like when you left or did
Speaker 1: you like tap him on the shoulder You're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm this is terrible. I think I did do
Speaker 1: the tap on the shoulders. Things just go. That was
Speaker 1: his idea of a date, right, And then you know
Speaker 1: what I did, which I wish I wouldn't have. I
Speaker 1: left the sushi. Oh yeah, you should have taken that
Speaker 1: the one that I bought. Yeah, you should have absolutely
Speaker 1: been like and I'm taking the caliph the spicy tuna
Speaker 1: red rock with the Hellepeno on me. It was really
Speaker 1: good too. Yeah, but yeah, so that was Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you left. I'm glad you walked out on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then there was never another date after that, right, okay? Good? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah that guy, that guy sucks. Yeah. Yeah. If you're
Speaker 1: listening right now wherever you are, he's probably playing games.
Speaker 1: It probably I wonder if he thought like, like, I'll
Speaker 1: just be like, it'll be cool if I'm like not
Speaker 1: really paying attention to her, and then she'll be like
Speaker 1: super into me, because I guy's brains are dumb sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, I don't. I don't know what he
Speaker 1: was thinking about. I don't think, yeah, what an idiot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I'm sorry. I feel bad though, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, guys are just so dumb. Well that's
Speaker 1: a great place to end. Guys are dumb. Don't be
Speaker 1: a dumb guy. That's the moral of the story, right,
Speaker 1: and then maybe like what I mean, you had the
Speaker 1: best date is I was gonna say, like, what would
Speaker 1: your dream date be? Ooh, that's a good question other
Speaker 1: than the rose petal Italian food, because that does seem
Speaker 1: pretty dreamy, right, yes. Um, that's a really good question.
Speaker 1: I would say not not seeing a movie. Okay, like
Speaker 1: doing something active, yeah, for like, um, like a first
Speaker 1: date is a super cool Yeah, because real like adventure
Speaker 1: kind of like go on an adventure. I would love
Speaker 1: to go on an adventure and for it to end
Speaker 1: in like seeing the stars at night. Okay, something would
Speaker 1: be super cool adventure. You heard it here first, Yes,
Speaker 1: So like, get some flashlights, you know, to keep them on. Yes,
Speaker 1: find a Walmart and just go explore the desert. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you guys didn't into like somebody cooking meth out there.
Speaker 1: You know, you could have just been like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: a Winnebago out here, like, let's see who's inside. Knock,
Speaker 1: it's just somebody's knocking on that. We didn't have the
Speaker 1: do not disturb sign enough. You're like the signs I
Speaker 1: thought they said, come on in. I'm dyslexic. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to read. I'm sorry. What a good date? Yeah? Great? Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being on the podcast. Just
Speaker 1: so much fun. Thank you for having me anytime. Until
Speaker 1: next time. Until next time. Well that about does it
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