1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: You don't know me confession I can't take back o arms. 2 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: Mouth Speaker, Texas, seventy eighty five nine, who says, my 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 2: seven year old daughter just annoyed me, so I signed 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: her birthday card best regards to learn. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure she's going to read into that one. 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 3: Yeah. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone knows seven year olds care so much about 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 2: what's written down on their birthday. 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, it sticks with them for the rest. 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: Of their lives. 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 4: But you know, it doesn't really matter what age you are. 12 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 2: We promise to care about the secrets that you share 13 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 2: with us here on the Mass Speaker, and today one 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 2: of our listeners wants to do a little sharing using 15 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 2: the fake name Taylor, so let's give her a warm 16 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 2: welcome to the show, Taylor, best regards. 17 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Okay, you feel okay with that one? 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 4: I like that? 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: I like that. 20 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, Taylor, voice changer is on. You are the mass Speaker. 21 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 2: Whenever you're ready, let's hear your confession. 22 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 5: When I was about ten or eleven, I was pretending 23 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 5: to be sick to avoid going to school. 24 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, especially like that age, right like fifth sixth grade, 25 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 3: You're like, oh, I can trick my parents. 26 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you definitely start to think you're smarter than exactly, 27 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 2: and I'm sure you were, Taylor. 28 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 5: Oh, I was just the smartest or so I thought. 29 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: What'd you go with? 30 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,559 Speaker 3: Did you go with, like, oh, my tummy hurts, because 31 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 3: that one they can't prove. 32 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: I always liked that one. 33 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 5: Yeah. I was always like my tummy, my throat, my 34 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 5: shroat was always red. 35 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: Luckily, I guess better than other colors. 36 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, oh absolutely why I knew I could always 37 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 5: be like, my throat hurts, and they would look and 38 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 5: be like, what does look a little red? 39 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: Yeah? 40 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. So that particular day, it wasn't the throat 41 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 5: saying it was like a cough. I was really shaking 42 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 5: at hard. I was. I was pulling out all the stuff. Yeah, 43 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 5: they weren't buying it, you know, they were like, okay, 44 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 5: well let's take your temperature. 45 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: And then you're thinking I'm screwed. Dang it. 46 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 3: I didn't want Mom to pull out the thermometer. 47 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 5: Exactly like it always says the truth. So I'm trying 48 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 5: to figure out a way to make this prove that 49 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 5: I'm sick, because I knew it was going to be 50 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 5: like ninety eight. But I came up with the really 51 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 5: brilliant idea. 52 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: Okay, are we using brilliant in air quotes because you're ten? 53 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: Are you still believing this is smart. 54 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 5: Air quotes? 55 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, what was your genius ten year old idea 56 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 2: to trick you? 57 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 5: Well, the brilliant idea is to put the thermometer in 58 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 5: my dad's hot coffee, because I was sitting right there 59 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 5: on the count. 60 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 4: Oh oh my god. 61 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, like you put it under like a 62 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 2: hot lamp or something. 63 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 3: Straight from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It puts 64 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 3: the up to a lamp. 65 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, like an easy bake oven, just. 66 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: Three hundred and fifty degrees. 67 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 4: What happens? 68 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 5: So I put the thermometer in my dad's coffee and 69 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 5: at the time, you know those old school thermometers, the 70 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 5: glass ones that had the mercury in it. 71 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: Okay, then, actually. 72 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 4: You can see the liquid move up and down. 73 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: Believe it or not, I don't, but I know what 74 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: you're talking about. 75 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 76 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, Actually they're. 77 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 5: Really fragile and temperamental. So I dip it into the 78 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 5: boiling hot coffee, and the thermometer instantly shattered. 79 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: No, oh yeah, mercury is like so poisonous. 80 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, way you killed your father. Well, I'm I'm ruining 81 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 4: the review. 82 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 5: That would be a really different concession. 83 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just kidding. 84 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 4: What did all the mercury go into his coffee? 85 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, the whole thing shattered, and I mean. 86 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: The broken glass. 87 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 5: Glass, mercury everywhere in the coffee. 88 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 4: Oh god, what would you do? 89 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: That's really honestly scary. 90 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, I freaked out. I mean I heard my parents 91 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 5: come in around the corner and about to come in 92 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 5: the kitchen, and I'm like, do I let my dad 93 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 5: just drink the coffee? Like, like, are they ever know? 94 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 5: I tricked to them? I was so scared. 95 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 4: Oh my god. 96 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 5: At the very last second, I just knocked the coffee 97 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 5: cup off the counter and it smashed to the floor. 98 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 4: So smart. 99 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 5: My parents' person they were furious. They're like, what's going on? 100 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 5: And I'm like, I'm just so sorry. 101 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 4: Oh I'm just clumsy and sick. 102 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. 103 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 5: I was like, I'm so sorry. I just was very good, 104 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 5: but like they were, they were beyond me being sick 105 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 5: at this point. 106 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: You know, yeah, yeah, good thing you didn't come out 107 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: with the truth. 108 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 5: It was ridiculous. My mom started cleaning up the giant mess, 109 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 5: and I'm crying and it's just chaos. My dad's yelling. 110 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 5: It was his favorite coffee cup. By the way, it 111 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 5: belonged to my grandpa before he passed away. Oh it 112 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 5: was it was really bad. 113 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 4: Maybe you should just let him drink it then. 114 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 5: Yeah. 115 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: Did you ever tell him the truth or did they 116 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: find out? No? 117 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 5: I just I honestly, it was just so chaotic and 118 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,239 Speaker 5: like I was freaking out, and they completely forgot about 119 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 5: how I was sick. I just got dressed and went 120 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 5: to the bus up, went about my day. But I 121 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 5: freaked out. I put the whole day. Oh my god, 122 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 5: I almost killed my dadgety. 123 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 4: Everybody thinks that at least once or twice in their life. 124 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 5: Of course, I doubt most of them have almost done 125 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 5: it with Mercury's places, That's true. 126 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 4: That's a pretty unique one. So have you ever told 127 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 4: them that story? 128 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 3: No? 129 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 5: Never, still to this day. 130 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: Oh he's still mad about that mug, isn't he. 131 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we've given another mugs, but yeah, no, 132 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 5: no mug is ever stilled that mugs place. 133 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 3: I actually haven't talked to him since that. 134 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 5: I also never I never fake sick ever again. 135 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't imagine. 136 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, text in seven, five, nine too. If you 137 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: have a confession that you've been holding on to, we 138 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 2: can hide your identity, mask your voice, and make you 139 00:05:58,080 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: our next mass speaker. 140 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 4: Your phone taps. Coming up next Brooke 141 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: And Jeffrey in the morning.