Listener Stories: Vol. 116

Summary

And That's Why We Drink

Listener Stories: Vol. 116

Episode Date: June 1, 2026
Hosts: Christine Schiefer & Em Schulz
Theme: Birthday Stories (Murder, Paranormal, True Crime & the Uncanny)

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Episode Overview

This special birthday edition of Listener Stories weaves together laughter, astrology banter, family anecdotes, and, of course, chilling tales from the "And That's Why We Drink" fan community. Em and Christine celebrate turning 34 and 35, dig into the Gemini energy, and share both their own birthday escapades and a selection of listeners' strange, spooky, and true crime birthday tales. The theme: birthday stories with a creepy, weird, or dark twist.

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Opening Banter: Birthdays, Butterflies & Family Chaos

[03:02] Birthday Traditions & Getting Older

• Christine and Em discuss the rare day they share the same age.
• Running birthday jokes: Christine can’t call Em the “Crypt Keeper” for one day a year.
• Em jokes about age: "It's your birthday punishment." (03:44)

[04:43] Gemini Season & The Cazimi

• Astrology chat: the planetary kiss, cazimi, and its effect on “banter, communication, and creativity.”
• “We are elevated... it’s gonna fire us up.” – Christine

[05:36] Butterfly Freakouts

• Em reveals a new fixation on butterfly chrysalises (courtesy of parenthood).
• Christine remains terrified of butterflies: "Nothing horrifies me more than a butterfly."

[06:53] Naming Games & Kid Logic

• Christine’s daughter Leona names herself "Pretty" and doles out silly names for the family ("Honker" for Blaze).

[11:12] Upcoming Birthday Plans

• Christine to attend a Scorpio friend’s 6/6/26 wedding; Leona is flower girl.
• Em, after past “near death” outdoor birthday excursions planned by Allison, frets over new outdoor surprises.

[17:39] Pet Birthdays & The Bark Mitzvah

• Em’s dog is turning two; “Nice Jewish Boy” theme, complete with yarmulke, talus, dreidels, and dog park festivities.

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Key Listener Stories & Discussion

1. Birthday Deja Vu ([22:10])

Listener: Not named
Theme: Precognitive Dreams

• Listener recounts dreaming about being locked in a green-walled open-air market with their dad, only for it to unfold months later during a birthday trip to a nerd convention.
• “I stopped because I noticed that the market was the same one from my dream. Right down to the green walls.” (23:45)
• Family manages to escape before being locked in, exactly as the dream warned.
• Em and Christine muse over destiny versus coincidence: “I wonder if that was meant to be a warning… or was it just a weird glimpse?” (24:54)

2. I Got Sleep Paralysis for My Birthday ([27:34])

Listener: Meredith (she/her)
Theme: Sleep Paralysis Horror

• On Meredith’s 29th birthday, after a stressful workday, a nap with her cat June leads to a terrifying sleep paralysis episode.
• “June was still sleeping next to me, and it’s still my birthday, so I was like, just a few more minutes… That was a mistake.” (29:06)
• She becomes paralyzed, hallucinates her mother lying with her (“My mom’s various limbs seem to be in places that didn’t make sense.” [30:04]), and sees her cat with a distorted face.
• Escalates to hearing her family ring the doorbell but being unable to respond, culminating in panic and eventual release from paralysis.
• “That sounds absolutely horrible.” – Em ([34:06])

3. Paranormal Birthday Story ([38:10])

Listener: Brenna (she/her)
Theme: “Grandpa’s Dream Visit”

• Brenna shares how, after her grandpa’s death, he visited her in a vivid dream on her birthday, younger and as she remembered
• “He was a quintessential handyman… we were in his basement workshop like we used to. At the end, we walked up the stairs, a heavy, tearful goodbye.” (39:00)
• Christine (amused): “As the great Lizzie McGuire once said, ‘Well, that’s my life.’” ([40:00])

4. I Got Possessed by a Ghost at Your Live Show ([42:31])

Listener: Alexa (she/her)
Theme: Live Show Estes Method Possession

• Alexa and her friend visit a Cincinnati live show; during an Estes Method segment about the Whaley House, Alexa becomes overwhelmed by grief: “The energy… felt like it needed me to communicate something… My only thought was, he’s so sad.” ([46:24])
• Alexa blacked out, lost track of time, and only came to when the audience sang Happy Birthday to Christine's mom, Linda, being comforted by her friend.
• “We were the last to leave as I was trying to calm down, but don’t think that will deter me from another show!” ([49:30])
• Christine wonders: “Do you think it’s the same fan [as Brenna’s friend]?” A discussion follows about starting a support group for fans who have paranormal experiences at live shows.

5. Disney Birthday Gone Wrong ([52:54])

Listener: Lisa (she/her)
Theme: True Crime Birthday

• At age 5, Lisa visits a family friend near Disney—whose boyfriend turns out to be a criminal.
• Dee Dee, the family friend, is so high that she can't find Disney World (despite living four miles away), drives off with a gas pump, and generally creates chaos.
• As an adult, Lisa learns via her father that Dee’s boyfriend’s house was filled with “machine guns and heavy artillery”. He was eventually arrested for drug smuggling.
• “That is Lisa. I’m so sorry that happened to you. I’m glad you got a good story out of it—20 years later though.” ([58:18])

6. Short but Sweet Tale on How I Cursed Humanity ([59:51])

Listener: Grace (she/her)
Theme: (Un)intentional Global Curse

• Grace, celebrating her 30th at Disney in February 2020, gets miffed when a stranger steps on her toe and spills her beer.
• During her birthday wish, she (in "Dwight Schrute fashion") says, “We need a new plague.”
• Weeks later, COVID hits. “My bad. Sorry I wished so hard.” ([65:03])
• Christine deadpans: “Can you stop wishing for things, is the lesson here.” ([65:34])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Being the Same Age:
  “It's the day you can't call me the Crypt Keeper. Just for one day!” – Christine ([03:12])

• On Butterfly Metamorphosis:
  “They turn into goo in those little chrysalises. Nature is rock and roll.” – Christine ([06:41])

• On Birthday Wishes:
  “You can do whatever you want. It’s our birthday!” – Em ([05:18])

• On Listener Sleep Paralysis:
  “Her mom’s various limbs seem to be in places that didn’t make sense.” – Em ([30:04])

• On Dream Visitations:
  “He looked younger, just like you guys have mentioned.” – Brenna ([39:13])

• On Live Podcast Possessions:
  “The energy kept pressing at me, like it needed to communicate something, and it needed me to do it… He’s so sad.” – Alexa ([46:24])

  “Maybe we need a group therapy for people possessed at our shows.” – Christine ([43:46])

• On Disney Gone Wrong:
  “The kitchen cupboards had no food, but they were full of machine guns.” – Lisa ([56:39])

• On Cursing Humanity:
  “We need a new plague. What the [bleep] is wrong with you?” – Em ([64:19])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Birthday Banter / Astrology: 03:02–07:52
• Naming Games & Family Antics: 07:52–11:11
• Pet Bark Mitzvah: 17:39–20:05
• Listener Stories Begin: 22:00
• Precognitive Market Dream: 22:10–25:30
• Sleep Paralysis Birthday: 27:34–34:06
• Grandpa’s Birthday Dream Visit: 38:10–40:00
• Live Show Possession Tale: 42:31–49:30
• True Crime Disney Birthday: 52:54–58:18
• Reverse Birthday Curse (Pandemic wish): 59:51–66:47
• Closing Birthday Wishes & Call for “Possession” Stories: 66:47–End

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Episode Mood & Tone

• Playful, irreverent birthday energy
• Silly and self-aware, with lots of in-jokes (“Crypt Keeper,” “Pretty,” “Honker” etc.)
• Supportive of listeners—validating, warm, and sometimes sassy

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Listener Call to Action

• Send in stories related to future themes (watch social media for prompts!)
• If you’ve had a paranormal or breakdown-like experience at a live show, write in—they want to know!
• Share your “big three” astrological signs with story submissions in the future

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Summary

This birthday episode bursts with the hosts’ signature banter, odd birthday milestones, and a collection of listener stories that blend prophetic dreams, sleep paralysis, true crime, and unsettling synchronicities. From visions of green-walled markets to being (allegedly) part of a collective pandemic wish, the episode keeps the tone light but never shies away from the truly weird. It’s a celebration of life, the paranormal, and the true crime oddities that make you want to grab your wine (or milkshake) and say, “And that’s why we drink!”

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Transcript

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I came back last night from an. I guess not impromptu. A planned camping trip.

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Whoa. You know what?

[A]

That makes it worse because it was planned and Allison forgot. First of all, pillows. She also forgot. I mean typical. You know, I felt like I was sleeping directly on rocks all night long. It hurts so bad. And all I did in the wilderness was think about my Helix mattress.

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I It's really tragic when you're somewhere else. I've been there. Not on the floor. I was more at a hotel room, but I've been in that position. Thank God I had a pillow though.

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Every time I rolled over, everyone else at their campsites heard me go. Like I was in so much pain. Just gravel crushing underneath.

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That's helixleep.com drink for twenty percent off site wide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you helixleep.com drink. Happy birthday to us. Didn't know if we were gonna do the whole song.

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I Didn't know if we were doing, but last time we tried to do an ad lib, one word, alternating song. You know what happened? It went really bad. So disaster, disaster, disaster all the way around. Happy birthday, my friend.

[A]

Thank you. It's. Well, it's. Well, we'll see how it goes. I still have, like, two more days when this comes out, we'll see how.

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Two days left of your youth and you have three. That's right. How does it feel that for one singular, solitary day, we'll be the same age?

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I love it every time.

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It makes me laugh because it's the day you can't call me the Crypt Keeper for one day of the year.

[A]

For one, just one day.

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And that's your birthday gift, by the way. Happy birthday. Every year, that's your birthday gift.

[A]

I. I think it's your birthday gift that I don't get to call it that I don't call you a keeper.

[B]

Well, you know, I've had to take the. The, like, glass half full look from day one about all this. So, you know, what if I said,

[A]

like, keeper complimentary instead of like, oh, okay, you're right.

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It is my. Wait. Oh, yeah, you're. It's. You're right. It's your birthday punishment. That's right. It's your birthday punishment.

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I'm as old as Crypt.

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Right, right, right, right, right.

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It's a very. At this point, it's just tradition. I don't even know if I enjoy it. It's just. It's what you do in this house.

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It's just how it works.

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I. How. How does it feel to be coming up on 35?

[B]

35. Can you believe that?

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Isn't that crazy? We started the podcast at 25.

[B]

Wait, so are we gonna be the same age? So you are a year younger than me.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Why do I act like I don't know this every fucking year? Like, you literally call me, I'm 34

[A]

for a day while you're still 34.

[B]

Okay. We'll both be 34, then I turn 35. Okay. Wow. I don't know how time or math works.

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No.

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So I do want a quantum level, so if that helps.

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But, you know, someone has to.

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Someone has to. And it's sort of like everyone else seems to have this timeline figured out. This time.

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The rudimentary is not your privy. You don't.

[B]

Thank you so much. Like, it's. I'm above that pay grade, if that makes sense. Does that make sense? My pay grade is above that work.

[A]

You know, you Couldn't have been more clear.

[B]

Thank you so much. Yeah. It's Gemini season. Can you tell? We are elevated, by the way, M. Today or actually tomorrow, as we record this, there's going to be a cazimi, which is a special time in. In astrology, where the planets kind of align and kiss. Smooch. It's sun in Gemini, Uranus in Gemini. It's a beautiful thing. It's gonna fire us up. So look out, everybody. Yeah. We're gonna be in high flying spirits. It's the words, the banter, the communication. This is not an astrology podcast. But sometimes it's my birthday and I get to make it.

[A]

Yeah. Everyone shut up. It's our birthday. You can do whatever you want.

[B]

I can. You say shut up. So it's an exciting time, Em. It's gonna light up a lot of our creativity and social butterfly centers.

[A]

You know, I love a butterfly center. Except the real ones. I don't want to be anywhere near a real butterfly.

[B]

Oh, my God. I've got five. Five chrysalis downstairs.

[A]

Why? Because you have a child?

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Yep.

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Okay.

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You'll figure it out.

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There's only one reason.

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Although I did make it my entire personality. For, like, two days, I was, like, filming them. Not my entire personality, but my entire fixation. I was, like, filming the chrysalis. And then I had to record my podcast with my brother, so I had to take the camera back upstairs. On my way up, it fell.

[A]

Escaped.

[B]

Oh, the chrysalises escaped. On the way up, the camera fell, and now I have to spend $400 to repair. So, yeah, it was not. Oh, and then I came downstairs and Blaze said, guess what? One of the caterpillars turned into a chrysalis.

[A]

Didn't even catch it on camera, did you? That's crazy. That's crazy.

[B]

Well, it was three days. Three days I spent with that thing.

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Tell them you called them that thing.

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You know what? I'll send them after you, and so you better watch.

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Do not. Oh, my God. Nothing horrifies me more than a butterfly.

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I used to be so scared of them. Now I'm just, like, kind of fascinated because they turn into goo in those little chrysalises.

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I mean, it's incredible. Nature is rock and roll.

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It's rock and roll, okay?

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Nature's metal for sure.

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Twisted it's metal. It's sick as turn into gooing that

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I'm just this beautiful colored.

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Demolish my organs and then scare the out of you with all my beauty.

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You know, it's punk for Sure. I mean, I rock.

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Indeed.

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I am happy for you. I. It begs the question. Because of who we are, you've named

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them, I'm sure I haven't. I know.

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Wow. Yeah. That's your assignment for today.

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Here's my problem. They're a little too alive, I think, for me to get too attached.

[A]

Say that again.

[B]

What do you mean, they're a little too maybe alive?

[A]

Do they have to be inanimate objects? I got it. Okay.

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It's safer that way. When I.

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Right. Because if they get hurt, you don't want to get attached.

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If one of them eats the other one, I don't know what they do in there, what they get up to.

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Well, that one's named, like, Hannibal Lecter.

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Yeah. Right? So. But what if I call him Christine, and all of a sudden I have an existential crisis? You know what I'm trying to say? By the way, Leona has named everything in this house eight times. So, like, me naming something at this point is so absurd, because what name? It will not even be allowed. Or last, because I don't rule this house anymore.

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Do you have a favorite. Favorite name that she's picked out for something?

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Yeah. So she calls herself Pretty.

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You know what? And she. And she stood by that. By the way, she has always said

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that she literally calls herself Pretty, and she's the mom.

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You know what? Now that's rock and roll. That's.

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That's badass. And then I'm. And by the way, she doesn't give a. About this Chr. Is like. I mean, she's, like, interested, but she's like, my mom's so weird about this. She's clearly like, well, did you show, like, your.

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Like, your tattoo and everything and like, how, like, they can be.

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Well, yeah.

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Oh, it's a moth.

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It is a moth. But, you know, I was like, oh, a cocoon and a chrysalis. That's about as much. She's like, I already learned that at school. And I was like, oh, okay, you know more about this than I do.

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Pick up the pace.

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She's like, actually, I could teach you. And she's like, my name is Ms. Pretty. And I think my name was like, it changes every time or something. Hideouso.

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The terrible. Count Vomitus.

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My. My name. I forgot. Wait. Blaze's name. And it was so tragic because it was Mother's Day, so he had to go along with it, but she was the mom, and her name was Pretty. My name was Sparkles, and his name was Honker, and she wrote him a card that said, mommy loves you hunker, and left it. And I didn't know what was happening. She just kept saying, how do you spell mommy? And I was like, oh, like, cooking dinner? Like, oh, she's making me a card. She's like, how do you spell loves? And I'm like, oh, you know. And then she wrote. She's like, how do you spell.

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I certainly hope you call Blaze Honker in your personal life. Now I'm gonna.

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It just was like. And then Blake, she's, like, so stoic and was like, I don't know what to tell you.

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At least you both know it will change maybe five minutes later. So.

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Yeah, well, you know, that's so great because it's the only one that's really stuck, which is my favorite. It just makes me so happy. Yeah. So anyway, it's. I think yesterday I said. She said, what's your name? And I said, I'll be Corinne. And she said, I'll never remember that. And I said, but I'm your daughter. And she goes, I'll call you Chloe. And I went, what the fog? Like, I don't even get to name myself. When we.

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She was like, I threw you a bone to play along. And you didn't match my. You really didn't. I'm gonna rescind that invite.

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You gotta read the room. And now I'm the boss again. Because I'm pretty, remember? And I don't. She actually says. I actually am the boss of. She calls it the Tri State area. I forget what she calls it. Newport and. And Hamilton County. I don't know. She has a very specific way of staying pretty.

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Of the Tri State County. The Tri State area.

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Yeah. Look out, Ms. Ms. USA or whatever you're called.

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Do you know what Miss Pretty is doing for your B day? You have any idea what's coming up next week?

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You know, not even a one.

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Okay. Do you know what Honker's doing for you?

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So he better do something special because Mommy loves him. God, I hate my life.

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Terrible.

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It's terrible. Well, actually, one of my oldest friends is getting married the weekend of our birthdays. Yours and my birthdays. She's getting married on six. Six to six. And it's very intentional. She's a Scorpio. It's her whole thing. I'm so excited. It'll be really fun. Leona's a flower girl, so we're doing that that weekend. And then I will probably just, like. I don't know, like, last year we went to the Appalachian Festival. And I got really high and watched. Watched like a flute player. A Native American flute player.

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Oh, we remember.

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Oh, it's like it was yesterday. I think about it almost weekly. So if that occurs again at good old Coney Island, I might head over there, but we'll see.

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Very nice.

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What are you up to? This. Oh, that was Mother's Day. Never mind. That wasn't my birthday.

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They're always around the same time.

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Whatever. What, what are you up to this weekend or this week? Your birthday?

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I don't know what's happening on the day of. And apparently neither does Allison. Yikes.

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Is that good or bad? I wonder? Because if she was like, I have very specific plans, I'd also be a little afra.

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No, I'm, I'm not worried at all. She'll. She has it handled. Although we've recently as, as many know with, with minimal detail that there's been a ban for quite some time on anyone planning trips except me. And recently the ban has been lifted and Allison has gotten real excited about.

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She's flying a little close to the sun. Is that what you're saying?

[A]

What's that?

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Is she flying a little close to the sun? With her newfound power, she, she.

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I don't want. Not in a negative way, but in a I'm cautious way. Yes. She's. Because we. A few times back at the beginning of the relationship, we did a lot of outdoor things that she planned and they didn't go well. They were not. They ended up not being.

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I would argue they were more like near death experiences.

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They weren't. They. I, I say with love. And she meant very well. However, we certainly. It was the closest to, like having to come to terms with the end of my life. Not hyperbole. It was not.

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I can assure you, it's not everyone.

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And so I was like Elson. I think for the rest of the relationship, the planning is on me. You tell me where you want to go. We're gonna have a good time.

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We'll work together.

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We'll work together.

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But I did hear she forgot pillows.

[A]

But now this time around, we recently just went camping and she planned that. She also, she, she pretty much nailed it. Except she forgot pillows. That was the worst one for sure because that's a big sleep on the ground without a pillow. And I, I'm, you're, you know, I was gonna say I already blinked. What was I talking about? Pillows. Sorry, I haven't had my drinks yet.

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I, I, I went with you. So I'm just hold my hand and Bring me back. I go with you. That's the problem. People look at me like, where was I? I was like, I don't know. I went with you. What the hell do you want me to do? I didn't tether myself to anything in real.

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I. I was gonna say I sleep with, like, three to four pillows every single night in a very specific position.

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You have to have, like, the. Yeah.

[A]

And the fact that there was none. I mean, I thought I was in a coffin. It was.

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You were. I think so. I mean, technically, I was on the coffin. If you died, you would have just slowly made your own coffin.

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Just kept. Kept it moving. No, I. I had a. We had a very good time. It was very. It was like, in the middle of the week, so that way it wouldn't be too crowded, and the weather was really nice, and we'd sit up and had a fire. It was very sweet. So she nailed that. And I was like, okay, that sounds lovely. And all. I know. I don't know what's happening on the day of my birthday, but I know for my birthday, another trip is coming up, that she's also planning something. I know. I. I don't. I don't.

[B]

Maybe it'll be, like, a cozy cabin or something.

[A]

Maybe she's got to stop it with these. With these outdoor things, because she loves an outdoor. I still have a lot of trauma from the past. I'm like, why don't you just take me to a nice museum? You know what I mean?

[B]

Well, she's looking for some wood to make her beautiful jewelry. You know, she's out there working.

[A]

I was like, she's just. It's like when you use the business

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card, I'm like, expense it. And it's like, yeah.

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She's like, no, no, no. This is. This is romance, Em. As I. As I steal the scrap wood from

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the fire, goes in the back pocket.

[A]

No, I'm. I'm glad you said it, because I thought it. And I went, that is a sneaky little creative lady, by the way.

[B]

I know we talked about my heart glasses in the Zenni ad, which, like, not even an ad, because, well, it wasn't ad. This is not an ad, because I just love them. But my heart glasses. But I also wore yesterday my heart glasses and the necklace Allison made me. My, like, triangle necklace. And my therapist was like, oh, my gosh. I just love all of this together. It's such a good energy. And I was like, well, that's very sweet of you.

[A]

No, she's.

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Can you tell the name, the website.

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Yeah. So we're all very proud of Allison over here. She has broken free from the corporate chains.

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I am so proud out of her.

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And she is now making her own jewelry. We've already talked about before on the show, but just another shout out. It's called Foragers Craft and you can find it on Etsy. All of her stuff is, like, ethically sourced. Yes.

[B]

With M. Exactly.

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From a very specific campground I was just sleeping on.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Underneath M. Oh, my God. She should charge extra for those.

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That would be crazy.

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And use this as a pillow.

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I. Honestly, if she carved out a pillow with wood, I would like at least. Yeah, but no, it's. Everyone, please go check out Forge's craft support Local business. Woman owned. Queer owned.

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Yeah. Hell, yeah. And she posted this reel yesterday that was, like, proof that you're one YouTube video away from doing any job a man can do. And I was like. And then it was like, the woodworking tools. And I was like, oh, my God, she's such a badass.

[A]

A while ago, she would have been. What? What are they calling it? A girl boss.

[B]

That girl. I almost said that. I was like, o. Vomit.

[A]

No, our garage has. Originally, the thought was, oh, that'll be, like, my studio. Nope. Now it's a garage. But it's a. It's.

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Sorry. Act fast.

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You could look in there, you wouldn't know if a queer woman works in there or a big old man lumberjack. Yeah, it's a wood shop for sure.

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So I'm very proud of her.

[A]

But, yeah, that's all I got going on for my birthday. I know this is a long intro, but I will also say, out of selfishness, there's another birthday to celebrate. Tomorrow, someone. Today's my baby son's last day of being one.

[B]

Our resident Gemini pet. Our only Gemini pet. I think in this. In between Gemini. Oh, toxic. I know, dude. I love it.

[A]

Don't worry.

[B]

I have a boy, Scorpio, so I know.

[A]

You know, God, what a nightmare they would be if they met. I feel like it'd be either, like, enemies to lovers or lovers to enemies. And I don't.

[B]

It's gonna be a tornado is what it is.

[A]

Today I'm planning his Puppy Bee day. That's going to be at the dog park.

[B]

I mean, very big day over here. What's the theme?

[A]

If I told you, what'd you say?

[B]

Is there a theme?

[A]

Oh, yeah. His bark mitzvah. We've discussed.

[B]

Oh, we've discussed this. Sure.

[A]

I'll show you some of the stuff that's already come in. Also, everyone at the dog park is so nice. Everyone, like, just recycles their old stuff. So, like, this is, like, someone gave me, like, a tablecloth.

[B]

Oh. To, like, do the birthday. Oh, that's cute.

[A]

So this is his bandana tomorrow. Nice Jewish boy.

[B]

Oh, my word. Yeah.

[A]

Of course. Classic njb. And then, of course, you can't have a bark mitzvah without a yarmulke and a little talus.

[B]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[A]

I, I. We're bringing dreidel. Even though that's mainly, like, a Hanukkah thing.

[B]

You are out of your mind.

[A]

We. We have paint your own dreidel.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

You know what? And I'm very happy for him. He's technically 13. He's a man now.

[B]

A little preteen boy.

[A]

And I also, I have pinned the tail on the hankies, so we.

[B]

That's good.

[A]

Cut out a. Cut out a big Hank. And then I didn't. I thought those just gonna be, like, a party for, like, dog park people. But Allison's, like, inviting, like, our friends outside of the dog park to come

[B]

to, so it's a thing. One time in New York City, I. I witnessed a dog's birthday party, and, like, the amount of, like, pomp and circumstance and, like, people dressed up to the nines who attended this event, and I was like, like, this is living. This is. These people are living. And I just get to witness it.

[A]

I have. I. My version of that is I'm wearing pants with his face all over it tomorrow. And that's living. I'll tell you.

[B]

That is living. Oh, my God.

[A]

Anyway, that's. So this is my first real birthday with him because he turned one with us last time, but we had. We didn't know each other yet, so now he's getting all his favorite stuff. So be a big day, special boy. Yeah. Anyway, so I just needed to say it out loud because we woke up this morning and I was like, oh, it's your last day as a one year old.

[B]

Well, I love all this Gemini triplet energy we've got now.

[A]

I know. Truly, it's like, oh, just another person to, like, scream. We celebrate at.

[B]

We just can't stop ourselves. It's never enough.

[A]

Never could, never will, never should. Oh, man. Well, thank you for letting me take a moment to talk about the baby

[B]

boy forever and ever. It's June. It's time to go outside, and it's time to sit outside and be comfortable, though. Not like Em, when they go outside with Allison and like sleep in the gravel, you know, Wayfair is the perfect place to go get like something that fits your vibe. It's not like they've just got one aesthetic. My kind of patio vibe is like boho, whatever. Or maybe it's like more like chic Hampton. I don't know anything about style, but you know what I mean? Like, maybe you have a particular look. Eva, as an example, chimed in as we were discussing Wayfair and said, oh, I bought a gumball machine machine off Wayfair. And I was like, of course you did. And so, you know, they really do have a little something for everyone.

[A]

Pretty much everything outside, speaking of summer that we have or that I've updated since we moved in is at least something of it as wafer. Part of my outdoor furniture is Wayfair. We have a little fire pit that we got from.

[B]

Oh, the fire pit. Yes.

[A]

Wayfair really hooked me up. And they also have over 20 million five star reviews. So you hear from real customers before you buy. That was very helpful because I was like, am I just buying this off some, like, you know, whoopsie daisy Internet website? And I don't even sound like my grandma.

[B]

You know, that old whoopsie daisy Internet people post pictures of what it looks like in their space, which is always so helpful. They've even got grills. I mean, I guess that it's more exciting to have a fire pit, in my opinion, but if you're looking for a girl, they've got those too. Patio season is here and these deals won't last, so head to Wayfair.com right now to get your outdoor space ready for way less.

[A]

That's W a Y F a I R Wayfair.

[B]

Every style, every home.

[A]

Anyway, shall we get into some stories?

[B]

Let's do it. I'll go first. Okay.

[A]

By the way, the theme is birthday.

[B]

Yes, that's right. Of course it is. Because this isn't the end of us talking about ourselves. Haha, you thought wrong. Okay.

[A]

Thank you, Eva, by the way, for finding all these.

[B]

Yes, thank you, Eva. And thank you, Megan, for. For putting a call out and whatever. Whatever happened to get to make this happen. I know sometimes we ask for stories and when we do that, that it is for usually an upcoming episode on Social. So you can see that there if we have a theme coming up. Okay, so this is called Birthday Deja Vu. It's our first birthday themed story for this month. Hi, Em and Christine. Heard you were calling for Spooky birthday stories. So here's the one that happened to me a couple months ago. Ever since I was little, I would get weird dreams months or years in advance of places and situations I've never been to and never been in after waking. I would always say, just think weird, go about my business. And then the dream would happen later. In real life, my dad gets the same dreams and the rest of my family has learned to just kind of go with it when one of us brings it up. About a year and some change ago, I had a dream I was in this open air market with green walls with my dad. He kept going deeper into the market and we ended up getting locked in overnight. There were more details, but these are the important ones. Fast forward to this past March and I went on a trip for my birthday to a nerd convention and brought my parents along. Oh yeah, you and Allison are going to do next. Is that what she's playing?

[A]

You know what? Any day at this point, you're, you're

[B]

nerding out all day every day. Okay? Bought my. Brought my parents along on one of the days we were on this trip. We were down in a touristy area going through a bunch of little marketplaces. My dad veered my mom and I into this little warren of market fronts where they were getting ready to close. We went in a little bit before I stopped because I noticed that the market was the same one from my dream. Right down to the green walls.

[A]

I mean, maybe that's exciting to you, but to me I would always be so fucking nervous about, well, here we go. What's coming up?

[B]

But do you remember what happened in the dream?

[A]

Her dad kept going further and further

[B]

in and then they got locked in.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah. So she notices that, that it looks exactly the same, including the green shade of green of on the walls. I'm immediately like, we gotta go. My dad's still going deeper into the market. I'm making sure I'm in eye shot of the entrance so we don't get loc. And my mom calls for my dad and says she had a dream. We gotta go. We got out and they locked the market up behind us with the same kind of great. I remembered from my dream. The only thing missing though was the baseball card shop I had seen. I wonder if we would have found it if we had stuck around. Kind of glad we didn't. I don't remember, did we even talk about a baseball card shop? I don't think that was even brought up in here. I think we forgot that. Think so in the story. But either way, I wonder if that was meant to be, like, a warning, like, don't get locked in. Or I wonder if that was, like, just a weird thing that you accidentally got a glimpse of and then evaded.

[A]

I wonder if I. Obviously, I wouldn't know this, but I. I wonder if it. Had they been locked in, it would have been, like, so inconvenient and annoying to get out of there. And something in her brain went, when this happens, please get us out of here. Annoying.

[B]

So true. Like, future you, like, go save me from this. Yeah, true.

[A]

Like, it could have just been something as, like. Like, hopefully they weren't in danger or anything, but it was just like, with

[B]

your parents overnight in a shopping center. Forget it. Yeah, exactly.

[A]

The ripple effect would have been like, your day is gonna be horrible if

[B]

you don't get out of this and it's your birthday. Please save yourself.

[A]

Yeah, you're gonna miss that thing earlier, you know?

[B]

Yeah, that nerd convention.

[A]

I, you know, love a nerd convention. Actually, I think RJ's taking me to a. Essentially a nerd convention this weekend for.

[B]

Oh, fun.

[A]

My B day. So have you been to one before? Like, what? I don't think you go to conventions.

[B]

Not really. There's one, like, remember I went to that psychic convention in town that, like.

[A]

Yes, again, we remembered that.

[B]

That was fun. And then we talked about the pamphlet, and then I think, getting happy hour. And then we talked about the pamphlet for the furry convention that your family member went to. But I don't usually go to many conventions. That was more, I feel, like a West coast thing maybe. You know, I don't hear they have, like, tattoo conventions that, like, a lot of people I know went last weekend, and my. One of my friends was like, I spent. My husband and I spent almost two grand on tattoos. And I was like, whoa. So that's a whole thing.

[A]

A tattoo convention feels like a dangerous place to be if you're totally. If you're hanging.

[B]

I must avoid. I must avoid.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have an idea for a future tattoo?

[B]

I have so much. I mean, 11,000. Yeah.

[A]

What's the rules?

[B]

I still don't have my hot stuff, you know, so that would be number one. I really want my hot stuff guy.

[A]

Any other big pressing ones?

[B]

Yeah. I really want a morning dove, and I really want to get my Hum Hallelujah tattoo. Oh, my gosh. I need to get stars next to my little prince tattoo. I could go on forever.

[A]

Well, I bet, like, at a tattoo convention, you could break it up so quickly.

[B]

Oh, my God. Have, like, a little rubric and be like, okay, I need my ginkgo leaf. Who's gonna do that?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

8 o'.

[A]

Clock. Into the stars. My 9 o'. Clock.

[B]

That. I love that.

[A]

That actually sounds. I mean, it makes sense. Why.

[B]

Maybe next year I'll go, yeah, okay.

[A]

Because it was like, please, I shouldn't ever.

[B]

I think it was last weekend. So it is like birthday season. You know, maybe. Maybe I'll do that for birthday next year.

[A]

Once you're halfway through May until halfway through June, anything could be excused.

[B]

Anything's our day and everything's our day.

[A]

I. I know better than to expect other people to feel that way. But my brain operates that way.

[B]

That's right. And as it should.

[A]

All right, we've got another one from Meredith. Uses she. Her pronouns. Thank you for normalizing pronouns. And the subject line is, I got sleep paralysis for my birthday. Wow. Okay. Meredith says, hi, Eva, et al. Today is my 29th birthday, and her birthday is April 29th. So this is your golden year.

[B]

That's right. Happy B Day. Happy golden birthday.

[A]

I'm a Taurus, so I don't believe in any of that. And then says, like, with a smiley face, like, private problem.

[B]

Okay, Taurus. Yeah, I see you.

[A]

Like, we're just being stubborn for no reason.

[B]

I see you, Taurus.

[A]

And then. And then she says, but you didn't click on this for my astrology jokes.

[B]

Okay, listen, Taurus, you are Tour season's over.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Have you gotten the memo? Get the memo. As a mutable sign. Season. It's Gemini time.

[A]

As I just said, halfway through May is my time. Even though that's tourist season, it's mine. Take time. Okay. Give me it like a btfu. Back the up. You know what I'm saying?

[B]

Btfu? I do.

[A]

Okay. This isn't paranormal, really, but it was creepy as hell. And on my birthday, no less. Very rude of the universe. Well, I spent all morning trying to do damage control from the problem coworker. And about 2pm I decided I deserved a nap. That's right. So I walked from my office to my living room where one of my cats was being cute, sleeping on the sofa, and I snuggled up with her. I set an alarm for one hour, but when it went off, June, who I guess is the cat. And you have a June who's a cat.

[B]

That's right. It's a great name.

[A]

June was still sleeping next to me, and it's still my birthday. So I was like, just a few More minutes. And fell back asleep. Apparently that was a mistake. My parents are coming at 6 to pick me up for dinner. And the next thing I knew, I heard their voices in the house.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

And of course I thought I slept a whole two hours. And I tried to get up or say something, but nothing happened. Then I felt that I couldn't actually see, but I felt my mom somehow on the sofa next to me. This is not a sofa two adults can lie on. But she felt someone lying next to her anyway.

[B]

No, not. No. No.

[A]

She told me that they had just decided not to take me out for my birthday. Which made me very sad, but also confused because, like, why are you in my house then?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And my mom's various limbs. That alone needs to be.

[B]

What a weird way to say that.

[A]

Should have backspaced. Retype that one. Meredith.

[B]

No, I love it. Own it.

[A]

My mom's various limbs seem to be in places that didn't make sense.

[B]

I told you it needed to stay. It needed to stay.

[A]

I bet Meredith actually was like, this is the best way I. This is the nicest way.

[B]

Commit this to a story contest.

[A]

I started to think this might be a dream, but I still couldn't move or speak or wake myself up. Then suddenly my parents were gone and I was still frozen except for my toes, fingers and eyes. I was looking at June sleeping on the blanket in front of me, except her face was now on the back of her head. What the hey. And you can't move. I'd be like, hey, this is the exact moment I would like to move. Please.

[B]

Hey. My brain is now breaking in half.

[A]

I was now firmly convinced I was having sleep paralysis. Although I didn't. That didn't make what I was seeing any less disturbing. For what felt like hours. I keep trying to move, get up, anything. And sometimes I would think I'd done it, only to realize that it was. Was to an illusion.

[B]

Jesus.

[A]

For hours.

[B]

Nightmare.

[A]

Your parents better take you to like the finest steakhouse for this dinner.

[B]

You better show up with champagne after,

[A]

I don't know, forever. I heard my parents voices outside. And this time I thought they might really be there. I heard them ring the doorbell and start getting more concerned when I didn't answer. I mean, imagine literally hearing the doorbell and you can't get up.

[B]

Being frozen still. Like, how is this not waking your body up? I'm getting freaked out.

[A]

I'd be like, my soul is like barely attached to my body on vacation.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. I was worried they would look in the front window and see Me motionless on the couch and think I died.

[B]

And the cat's face on the wrong side of his head. Everything's just like fucking batshit crazy.

[A]

If they saw both those things, I would hope that they would come try to save you.

[B]

Good thing they'd be in sleep paralysis. It's just such a nightmare.

[A]

I. Oh my God. Hang on. My fingers panicked and now I don't know where I am. Oh, my God. I was worried they would look in the front window and see me motionless on the couch and think I died. We're an anxious family. I tried to yell for them, and when they had the same non results as always, I tried to just straight up scream. Which would have been much less scary than seeing their daughter napping on the couch, I'm sure.

[B]

Okay, I think they're being sarcastic.

[A]

Yeah, right.

[B]

Okay, Okay.

[A]

I. I couldn't do that either. The screaming. Yet I heard my own scream coming from what sounded like across the street.

[B]

What?

[A]

So now you're throwing your own voice

[B]

even though your soul is still having a slumber party across the street and it needs to get the home right now.

[A]

Or I wonder if you were trying to scream but the soul that's barely attached from you is across the street and was trying to get your attention, like saying, it's over there.

[B]

Oh my God, bring it back.

[A]

And then suddenly all the sounds stopped. My body felt normal and I cautiously moved my arms and legs. Everything worked and I couldn't hear any voices anymore, so I checked my watch. Only an hour since my alarm went off and the whole ordeal probably couldn't have been more than 10 minutes if that June was where I'd left her, looking totally unbothered with her face the right way this time. I like how she couldn't sense your peril.

[B]

I serious. Or could and just ignored it, which is what my Juniper would do.

[A]

I think my other cat, Wednesday, noticed something was off, though, because as I finally managed to sit up, she jumped on the couch and came over to me. I was still in panic mode, but there was nothing to panic about anymore. And then I thought. Thought, you know who would love this story?

[B]

We were the first people that came to mind. Oh, God.

[A]

And that's the end of the letter too, by the way.

[B]

I.

[A]

That. What a. What a. A tale she wove.

[B]

You know, Taurus. I mean, really, I'm. Wow. I really. I really am taken aback by this. Like, I think. I really hate. I really hate the idea of time stretching, like, feeling, like, really long. And I mean, thank God it wasn't actually hours. Right. But, like, that feeling of something's lasting so long is dreadful to me. And also, like, I wonder, did your. Did your parents show up or was that part of the dream too?

[A]

You know, my. My understanding is, like, now they're finally here.

[B]

They're here. It's been just like two hours. Yeah. Okay. Wow.

[A]

I. Yeah, that sounds absolutely horrible. Have you ever heard the concept. I don't even know what the right phrasing is, but, like, it's like I'm. It's somewhere on Reddit that, like, one day prisons will just be, like, mental prisons and you'll. You could be sentenced for, like, what feels like a thousand years.

[B]

I mean, I've seen the Black Mirror episode of that.

[A]

Okay, so maybe that's a Black Mirror episode then.

[B]

Scared the. Out of me for the. Like, I was literally petrified of that episode. Escape.

[A]

Like, you literally just. You don't actually lose any time at all. And maybe your sentence in real life,

[B]

it's like, punishment long. Yeah.

[A]

But you could be imprisoned for what

[B]

feels like thousand years. Feels like it's like hundreds of years there. Yeah. That was Blue Mirror or Blue mirror. Black. That was a blue moon, actually.

[A]

Like the. Like those blue light. Blue. Blue. Whatever. Stupid.

[B]

I don't know. I've. Let's. I'm moving on. Thank you so much. Sorry that. That was your birthday. I hope you at least got a good dinner. Like M. Said, you know, like, please,

[A]

can you imagine if. Then they're like, all right, Burger King. And I'm like, what?

[B]

They're like, actually, we're kind of like just thinking of you cooking for us. Like, absolutely not.

[A]

I was thinking leftover Friday. What do you think?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know what's so unfair about life is sometimes you drink responsibly and you follow all the rules, and then you wake up in the morning and you still feel like crap. I. How do I know? I've been there. But there's an exciting sponsor called Cheers that we have today. I'm always a little skeptical when it comes to things like this, but here's how Cheers works. You take it after your last drink or before bed, and then it works while you sleep. And their claim to fame is to feel 50 better or your money back. So you wake up feeling like you drank roughly half the amount. And, like, if you're following the rules, you're trying to do a good job, make yourself take care of yourself, but also have a good time. Cheers is gonna help you do that. I think taking it right before bed is the way to go because then I don't need to remember anything during the evening, in the morning, like, you know, just handle it and get some sleep.

[A]

Yeah. We're not 16 anymore, so you can't just drink things out of a mysterious bathtub and wake up and feel fine. So. But with this, it feels like you only drank a little bit of, of the bathtub.

[B]

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[A]

Cool.

[B]

Hi, Eva M. Christine. If you are feeling spicy sweet Baby G Hanky's Moonshine June, Leona Blaze, Allison and Petrified Fruit. Do we get everybody?

[A]

Just about.

[B]

Just about.

[A]

It's certainly a lot. It's a real cast.

[B]

Yeah. Baby G Hanky's Moonshine June. Yeah. I love your podcast. I've been a listener since 2020 and let me just say, I binge your show. Caught up in a year and got my friend hooked. We've been. Listen, we've been to see you twice and at one of your shows, my friend actually got possessed. What?

[A]

Speak on that. What do you mean?

[B]

She did a total 180 from her usual cheerful self to sobbing and saying some incredibly weird things. We're still not over it. Okay. Wow. Okay.

[A]

We're sorry.

[B]

I'm sorry about that. Oops.

[A]

Should have made you sign something.

[B]

Did I? Yeah. Oops. Yeah, don't sue me for that. I think I saw your call for Paranormal Birthday Stories and really wanted to share. My grandpa passed away in October about two years ago. It was incredibly hard time. He was my father figure. Watching him struggle with dementia was heartbreaking. He was a quintessential handyman, always helping me with my car or fixing things around the house. A month after he passed, it was my birthday. I'm a Sagittarius, not a Scorpio. M. So you're safe.

[A]

I sure am.

[B]

I live in Illinois now, but I grew up in Michigan. And since my birthday is always in the week of Thanksgiving, it's a twofer trip home. The morning of my birthday, he came to visit me in a dream. It wasn't my first visit from the other side, but it was easily the best. The best. We were back in my childhood home and he looked younger, just like you guys have mentioned, appearing in the form they felt best in. We were working in his basement workshop like we used to. Everything was so vivid at the end as we walked up the stairs. It was a heavy, tearful goodbye. I woke up sobbing. But I knew deep down he was there to say happy birthday and let me know he's still looking out for me. As the great Lizzie McGuire once said, well, that's my life. I hope you enjoyed. I know I did love your hair. Hate Your cat God, Sabra.

[A]

Well, that's a. The endings today are top tier.

[B]

They are like I, I need everyone in. In addition to your pronouns, I want you to put your top three. Your. Your big three. Astrology. Cuz I'm starting to sense some patterns here actually.

[A]

That's incredible.

[B]

Like at least whatever your Mercury is like your, your like communication style. Cuz it's, it's giving like some intensity and some like kind of cattiness in like a fun way.

[A]

You really should. For one of our, like upcoming episodes, you really should cover like. I would love to hear like an Astrology 101 from you. I know it's not.

[B]

Oh, well, thank you. I feel like I'm way too amateur for that. But you know, I could at least research it. Yeah, that could be.

[A]

I mean, I know it's not technically a crime, but it would be a crime if you're learning all this and don't get to talk about it.

[B]

Oh, wow. The way to get. Why? Why? Trying to butter me up? Yeah, I would love to talk astrology.

[A]

I mean, you may feel like you don't know what you're talking about, but it's. I know even less so. Like I would.

[B]

I did throw the word Kazimi out earlier and I know I did that.

[A]

I was like, is that sushi?

[B]

I did that. I know, right? I did that to Blaze yesterday. He went, what? Never mind.

[A]

You know, that's typical honker.

[B]

That's where we. Honker.

[A]

Classic honker.

[B]

You know, honker has a Pisces moon, which means he's psychic. Okay, we'll talk about him other time.

[A]

Well, okay. I don't know really what anything means, but when I hear Pisces, I immediately think like, like, like very, like in tune with their emotions. He's a very intelligent, emotionally intelligent man.

[B]

Well, he doesn't talk. He did, but he's so stoic. You know, it's like the Capricorn kind of overrides some. Some of it.

[A]

No, it's, it's. Everything's working in there for sure. I think he just. He is very wise about when to speak.

[B]

Oh, that's so deep.

[A]

But he's very.

[B]

Maybe, Maybe we should do a totally astrology episode. Maybe you should do your psychic half and I'll do the astrology.

[A]

Okay, I'll just guess what you're gonna say next

[B]

and I'll say it just to make it sound good.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay, this next one is. Oh, well, fun. It was sent to us at 222, which you know, I love that that's your lucky number. And this is Alexa. He was a she. Her pronouns. Thank you for normalizing pronouns. Is this your. Is this your friend? Who did you just. Who was Hillary Duff? What was that girl's name? Name. Brenna, I think this is Brenna's friend.

[B]

This is the one. I didn't read it. I didn't read it. It literally. There was one parentheses I didn't read. And I usually read the whole thing. It says she also wrote in about it after it happened, but I didn't, like, know whether to.

[A]

The subject is, I got possessed by a. Go see your live show.

[B]

Oh, my God. I should have said it, because it says she did. We're still not over it. She also wrote in about it, but I didn't want to say it in case, like.

[A]

Well, yeah. Why would you.

[B]

And now I'm like, oh, okay. Yep. She wrote in about it.

[A]

That feels like an Eva move. There's no way that we accidentally probably

[B]

found it, I think because Eva knows us well enough to go, what happened? And that will want to know. And that's a birthday gift. Thank you, Eva.

[A]

Well, happy birthday to us. Thank you, Eva. That was what a gift. Okay.

[B]

And we get to, like, play both friends. That's fun.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

You get to be the possessed one.

[A]

Remember when I said speak on that? Okay, well, then Alexa was like, holy.

[B]

You manifested it.

[A]

Alex was like, will do.

[B]

You're like, is this your friend? And I'm like, what the. I don't know. And also, because it's your Lizzie McGuire Friend.

[A]

Friend. What I will say. I. I don't see the word, the name Brenna anywhere. So there might be two people who've been possessed at a live show.

[B]

Well, that would be wild. Let's see this. Well, yeah, it doesn't say who. The name of the person, but, yeah, I'm assuming this is the same friend.

[A]

If not, this is bananas.

[B]

It's gonna be a different way that. That's gonna be. You guys have to link up at that point. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, my God. Maybe there should be, like, like, a. A. Either a. Like a discord or, like, group. Some sort of group therapy for everyone who's been possessed at our shows.

[B]

Yeah. We will not be paying for it. Just to clarify.

[A]

But I would like to hear the. The gossipiest mis.

[B]

But we want to be there.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Hello. And that's why I drink crew. Sorry for such a clickbaity headline, but it really is the most accurate way to describe My experience as I can think of nothing else to describe what happened.

[B]

Can you read the headline again? Because I already forget it.

[A]

Sure, sure. I surely can. I. Hang on. I got possessed by a ghost at your live show, and we want answers. My best friend and I both love your show, so we made a trip to Cincinnati for your live show. Oh, this happened in your hometown.

[B]

I like that. That was 10 minutes from where I

[A]

am right now this past April, and it was written in 2023, so. So April 2023. Cincinnati is a more exciting city than we thought it would be. And that's saying something, as we were both raised in Michigan.

[B]

Hey. What?

[A]

Parentheses, derogatory. I don't know you. Anyway, we both ended up with our own spooky things happening. Hers at the Airbnb and mine at the show. But this story is about me. Okay, girl? And. And she can write in her own story if she wants, but it definitely made our last night there especially creepy. Now onto the possession part. We were having a great time laughing and being scared along with the rest of the crowd. It was about the point in the show where you're showing a clip where Emma Christine was in a sort of trance. It was probably you doing the essence.

[B]

Oh, God, yes. It's so creepy.

[A]

It's hard to remember, as this is where I began to fade out of being aware of what was going on around me.

[B]

Whoa.

[A]

Alexa, it sounds like you fell asleep at our show. Actually.

[B]

Yes. Well, kind of up.

[A]

But you. You wrote in to tell us that. Wow.

[B]

Your many limbs didn't. Weren't in the right place, and your cat's face was on the wrong side of its head.

[A]

Okay. My friend and I looked at each other, and we both had chills. And to me, it felt like the energy had shifted, and my chills didn't go away. What happens next is a bit hard to describe, but I'll try my best. The energy around me began feeling a bit heavy, and it kept pressing at me, like it needed to say or communicate something, and it needed me to do it. It. I've never been overly attuned to spirits, so this was a first experience for me, and I was completely caught off guard. So this energy needed to communicate something. But before I even had the chance to think about what was happening, I thought, what do you need to say? At that point, an overwhelming sense of grief and sadness washed over me, and I basically blacked out over and over in my mind. My only thought was, he's so sad. Oh, my God.

[B]

Was that Whaley House?

[A]

In 2023. Yeah.

[B]

That was like, Mr. Like, one of the Whaleys. Maybe.

[A]

Maybe. Yeah. And that was the first time we ever did the Estes Method. And that was where, remember his daughter Violet died by suicide in the house. And he was the one who found her, I think, right?

[B]

Yes. Yes, he was, because he had offered her, like, a peach or something. She went outside the outhouse and shot herself. Yeah. Wow. Okay, so that. I mean, that's immediate. Immediately where my mind went. Because remember, when would that. When we did the S's Method, you guys were asking questions like. And they were saying, like, where is she? Like, yeah, by the well. Or like, outside. Check outside. Or. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[A]

I also have chills.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

That's all I remember during the entirety of the time I blacked out was just thinking, he's so sad. I don't remember what happened. The last bit of the show, I came to during the singing of Happy Birthday to My mom, to Linda, with my friend holding me close and rubbing my shoulders and speaking firm affirmations and grounding me. Oh, my God.

[B]

Whoa.

[A]

At least your friend clocked that. Like, I would have not even noticed that my friend was going through something. If I was watching a show, I'd been like.

[B]

I would have been like, you had too many white claws.

[A]

I'd be like, oh, you have some weird tunnel vision going on right now. I'd be like, why aren't you laughing? This is so funny.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd be like. And also, like, what a jarring way to wake up Linda. Dancing and.

[A]

Wow. Which, by the way, thank you, everyone, for always being so complimentary.

[B]

Oh, it's so fun.

[A]

Made my mom very happy to get to the show.

[B]

It makes it so special, Especially when it was in Cincinnati, like, we sang to her. I mean, she wasn't there, I guess,

[A]

but it was always an April show or whichever April show was closest to her birthday. We never did that for Renata. She wouldn't have cared.

[B]

Well, she has an August birthday, and she's usually in Europe. And, like, I feel like we don't usually tour in August. We're usually, like, finishing up something for the fall or.

[A]

Yeah, sure.

[B]

It's just the timing. I love you, Mom. I swear to God, she's a Leo, so, like, she does want the attention. It's not that.

[A]

We should have done one just on a random day and just had it.

[B]

We still. Can we have some time before August rolls around.

[A]

I don't remember what happened the last bit of the Show. I woke up to singing Happy Birthday to Linda with my friend holding me and grounding me. I was sobbing. Not just a few tears, but like full blown sobbing. And I was shaking and I couldn't catch my breath. Breath. And I was getting the weirdest looks from folks around me. I mean, you did look incredibly moved by the Happy Birthday song to other people.

[B]

Or terrified of it, which, like.

[A]

Or horrified.

[B]

Both are. And. And I feel like even if people are looking at you, I think a lot of times, like, it can feel. I can't speak on this, but knowing our listeners and viewership, I think a lot of times it's like, oh, should I do something to help? Rather than like, what the hell is wrong with you? You know what I mean? Like, I think there's a different. I'm hoping at least that you sense that it wasn't like a judgmental.

[A]

No, I would. Yeah, I would. Would bet a million dollars. Everyone was like, how do I help? Is she go, okay?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I was absolutely shaken after this, and I still can't describe exactly why or what happened. We. We were some of the last to leave the crowd as I was trying to calm down. But don't think for a moment that that will deter me from going to another show.

[B]

We will. I was like, okay, you will not be allowed. I will not allow it. I don't want you to go through that again. We'll put you in a special viewing booth. Okay?

[A]

Yeah, a special booth. Or we'll just. We'll just send you, like a video of us just telling you what's going on. We're both excitedly waiting for your next door. Thank you so much for the work and dedication. So hopefully you came to our poor decision store then.

[B]

Yes. And hopefully didn't have another Cris, like, terrible crisis. But I wonder, like, do you think it's the same fan now? Now I'm really weirded out. M. Because you're right. There's no. Oh, but it must be the same, right?

[A]

It must be. But I mean, how would we. There's no evidence. There's no know. When did. When did the. When did. I'm sorry, I lost her name again.

[B]

But when did she write it?

[A]

I mean, it doesn't really prove.

[B]

See you twice. I got my friend hooked. We've been to see you twice, and at one of your shows, my friend actually got possessed casual.

[A]

Okay, well, she. If they do know each other, it at least implies they did go back to another show.

[B]

Oh, true. And this was written like, in this may like a Week ago. So. Okay. Wow. Oh, wow. Okay. Wow. Wow. I love this. Eva, good job finding those.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

I wonder what Eva had to look on, like, in the mail. Just feel like your live show possessed. Yeah.

[B]

How many do you think came up? Because I hope one.

[A]

I don't know. But if there was ever at least five or six, that should be a whole different problem.

[B]

We need a red alert if that's going on.

[A]

100. And then Alexa signs it yours and bagel bites.

[B]

Oh, cute. Oh, my God. Okay, so we just opened the Quinn's ad and I just ducked out of frame because I had to get some. Something exciting, which are my slippers. Now, we've talked about these before because they're so affordable, but they're actually more comfortable than the name brand ones, which I will not be naming. But they're right here. But I've started, like, decorating them with little, like, beady charm, like bead charms and stuff.

[A]

Make it your own.

[B]

I love my slippers from Quinn, but it's sort of like everything is starting to morph.

[A]

Morph.

[B]

You know, it's like, oh, they sell beautiful curtains at an affordable price that look just. And feel even nicer than the ones I would have bought. So why wouldn't I buy them there? It's just we love quince in this household and I think in yours and I think in most people who discover

[A]

it, especially because everything in quince is price 50 to 80 less than similar brands. And quince works directly with ethical factories and cuts out the middlemen. So you're paying for quality, not brand markup. I know. I've talked about their linen, love their line and have on their blazers. Your. Can I see the slippers again?

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My beautiful beaded moccasin slippers.

[A]

I just know. I just know that's warm. Go check it out. We keep coming back to Quinn. They focus on high quality essentials. Just go check it out. Elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to quince.com drink for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too.

[B]

That's Q-U-I-N c e.com drink for free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com drink think. Okay, so I believe I'm up next. This is number five and it's from. Let me see here.

[A]

I was shaking my. My iced tea, but it feels like I was drum rolling you in.

[B]

Oh, it does sound like a drum roll.

[A]

Ready? And number five, the person who wrote

[B]

in is Lisa, she her, and it says M. Christine, Eva, and pets. I saw you were looking for birthday stories, and I have a good one. And this, by the way, the title is Disney Birthday gone wrong.

[A]

Oh, I hope the Haunted Mansion is involved.

[B]

Now that would be fun. You can use my first name. When I was five years old in 1980 for context, my dad took me to Florida for my birthday. The plan was to stay with his cousin who lived on the Gulf coast for a few days, then stay with my dad's friend Dee Dee in Orlando and visit Disney World for two days.

[A]

Cool.

[B]

Dee said her boyfriend lived only four miles from Disney. I'm already starting to feel this is a true crime story, and I'm, like, not loving it already. Okay, okay, okay. We arrived at De's boyfriend's house, and I was so excited. He was a lawyer, and the house was really fancy. It even had these weird toilets with no seats, which I found out later were urinals.

[A]

Good, good.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Could also be a bidet, but anyway, there was a lake out back with a little plane that landed on the water. Jeez. Okay, the next. No big deal. Happy birthday. The next morning, Dee was driving us to Disney in a big white cattle I black. One thing you should know about Dede. I think I know a lot about Dee Dee already.

[A]

I've learned more than I think you know, what you've said.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. She speaks for herself. Her reputation precedes her. One thing you should know about Dee Dee is that she was known at that time for her love of the devil's lettuce.

[A]

Okay, I really like. I mean, I have yet to hear a bad thing about Dee Dee.

[B]

I mean, Dee Dee sounds like a party. Okay. One thing you should know, she was known at the time for love of the devil's lettuce. I'm pretty sure she did awake and bake that day because she couldn't find Disney World. Oh, no. Oh, no?

[A]

What do you mean? Like, were you already there? And she. Is it like, like.

[B]

So they said they live form that her boyfriend lived four miles from Disney World. And now she's gonna drive Lisa to Disney World on her birthday and got lost, I guess, going to Disney World four miles away.

[A]

So one of the most famous scenes of Jersey Shore is when Snooki is on the beach and she's drunk and she goes, where's the beach? She can't find the beach. And the guy points at the sand and he's like, this is. It's right here. This is the beach where's the beach.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And she goes. She's going, where's the beach? Where's the beach? And then she gets arrested because she's, like, obviously so hammered she doesn't know where she is.

[B]

And she's one. Screaming in public.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, she. Anyway, it's the. This is kind of reminding me of that where, like, she's like, basically, you could see the castle, and she's like, where's Disney?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like, I can't find it. And, like, I mean, I know it's 1980, but I think even then, like, they had, like, Mickey Mouse, like, signs. I mean, maybe it's not as much as it is now, but I imagine they've tracked to show you where it is if you're only a couple miles away. But I don't know. Okay. So she did awaken bake that day. She couldn't find Disney. She stopped at a gas station for directions and pretended to get gas, but then after she got direction, she started driving off with the hose still in the gas tank. Oh, what is happening?

[A]

I don't think Dee was on the Devil's lettuce.

[B]

I think this feels like something. Something else, something else is happening. I know people like to say Devil's List, but, I mean, it sounds like maybe she's. She's. Anyway, eventually she dropped us off. Okay. And we had a fun day. The next day, I was devastated to learn that we were driving home, back to my dad's cousin's house. My dad insisted we were only ever going to Disney for one day, but I knew better. So basically, the trip got cut short. And the dad was saying, like, I always said that. And she's like, no, you didn't. Like, we were supposed to be here longer, I guess. Hmm. It wasn't until I was 25 when my dad told me the real story. Oh, gosh.

[A]

What? The Devil's snow or something?

[B]

I know. I'm like, what could it mean? What could it possibly mean? Okay. The day of our Disney adventure, I woke my dad up before Dede and her boyfriend were awake. He went into the kitchen and looked in the cupboards from for some cereal to feed me for breakfast. The kitchen cupboards had no food, but they were full of machine guns.

[A]

What the.

[B]

What the.

[A]

Yeah. That wouldn't just let us. That was. That was not Dee.

[B]

Dee is doing something much harder for much bigger happening. I don't know what the it is. They do say marijuana is a gateway drug.

[A]

This is like, Is this how Scarface Started.

[B]

I know. I'm like, if I. If I keep smoking, am I gonna go downstairs and find, like, artillery in the. In the cereal box? I mean, this is so upsetting. Okay, so, I mean, it is sad, and I think it's hard, like, especially as a kid. And I know parents, like, they don't always know how to handle things, but, like, sure, it's hard to hear that your dad is like, that your parents were like, oh, we're leaving, and that's it, and you don't get to go back, and.

[A]

And then they're the bad guy. But, like, you just don't know what's really going on.

[B]

Yeah. Like, that sucks. I know that feeling of, like, being, like, confused. Okay. So he went to the cupboards to look for cereal. Jesus. And found. Found cupboards full of no food, but full of machine guns and heavy artillery.

[A]

Just weapons of mass destruction.

[B]

I mean, this is literally Florida. Like, this is. And remember, it's a rich lawyer's house. So, like, what is he up to with this money? You know? Like, this is sketchy as. Okay. A few years later, Dee Dee's boyfriend was sent to prison for smuggling drugs. Least surprising thing I've ever heard, right? Dee Dee had left him by then, so she didn't get in trouble. In fact, she got her act together and got a degree in engineering and. Okay, hopefully figured out how to. To use a gas tank. No, just kidding.

[A]

And figured out where Disney was. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. And also found her way to Disney World. So that's the story of my Disney birthday gone wrong. Wow. Okay. That is. That is Lisa. I'm so sorry that happened to you. I'm glad you got a good story out of it. 20 years later, though.

[A]

Yeah. And good to know that Dee is. Is thriving.

[B]

Love. Love a. Love. A woman making her own way after getting wrapped up in something. Something.

[A]

Wow. Well, you know, I. I say it all the time, but it's. I. Like when we have listener stories that are true crime, I feel like it doesn't happen.

[B]

It doesn't happen often. And like, there's something ex. There's something kind of. Especially when it's, like, it wraps up at the end, you know?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Just feels very. I don't know.

[A]

They're. Well, I'll tell you. I'll tell you off camera. My mom has a similar. Similar story, but what. Yeah, I know. I'm leaving people hanging there. I was. I was thinking. I was like, should I say it? And I was like, I. I don't know how much I should say but she. She had a boyfriend who was into some stuff, let's just say.

[B]

Oh. Oh, yeah. I think all our moms did. At least back in the 80s. At least they tell. At least some of them do. Because my mother is like, oh. And she exaggerates. So I don't know how much of that is true. But, yeah, there's some weird stories from back then. I'm like, people just kind of were like, oh, well, yeah.

[A]

No, my. I think it's. I think it's one of my favorite stories of my mom. We've all heard that she has experienced a lot of ridiculousness in her life.

[B]

She's lived a life.

[A]

This one was. Was a doozy. Maybe I'll talk about it on a. Like a future Patreon or something.

[B]

Yeah, maybe we'll keep it for, like, private feed. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Well, okay. Well, thank you so much. That was Lisa.

[B]

Yeah, it was Lisa. Yes.

[A]

Okay, now we've got our. Our final for the B days. This is from. Oh, my God. Grace, who uses she. Her pronouns. Thank you for normalizing pronouns. And the subject line is short but sweet tale on how I cursed humanity. Grace, you're an icon, so you're the problem. I've been wondering if I'd ever run into you.

[B]

Here we are.

[A]

So Grace says, hello, all. OG listener, first time writer. I went to your show in Burlington, Vermont, and sat front row.

[B]

Do you remember that show? Wait, do I remember that show?

[A]

Well, we've. We've been to Burlington, Vermont, a few times.

[B]

Twice. So that one of them was the last show before COVID Right.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Because then we went. The next was supposed to be Seattle, and that was February, and that was canceled. And we went to. To Maine. Portland, Maine, and Burlington as our last two in 2020. Wow. Okay.

[A]

Memory. What the hell?

[B]

Because I remember thinking, wow, I've finally gone to Maine and then covet hit. So I remember, like, thinking, like, hey, at least I got to go to Maine before the world.

[A]

Lisa was with us for those.

[B]

Yes, yes. And there was, like, a hot tub. It was a whole thing.

[A]

I do remember the hot tub. It was good.

[B]

I just remember already the air. Like, things were getting weird about COVID and it was, like, very subtle, but, like, things were starting to get. People were chatting. But yeah, so, okay, so. But then we went back to Burlington, and that was also the week we had our car, our snowbank. Right. Or was that something different? No, that was New Hampshire.

[A]

That was the next time we were there. And we were driving through New Hampshire.

[B]

I don't know anything.

[A]

You shut up. You literally, for the last, like, two minutes, you seemed to just be a calendar, a human calendar.

[B]

I mean, I remember very vividly the last place I vacationed before COVID That was about it. That's about the extent of my under, my memory of that time.

[A]

I, I, I remember Burlington, Vermont, but I don't remember the. I, I don't have it broken up in my head chronologically, but they went to our show in Burlington, Vermont. Sat front row. Yes. This was the show where M gave us all a show with a hole in their pants.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I recall that.

[A]

I love that. That is the takeaway from the whole night that I, I gave you an

[B]

opportunity to say anything else, and you said nothing. And then we just fill it in with a hole in the page pants.

[A]

I really, for those who weren't there, I remember that hole in my pants. It was pretty.

[B]

We all do.

[A]

That's a tragic one, I think. I'm pretty sure I was flashing everyone the whole night and I just told people up front to just embrace what was happening.

[B]

It looks like they did.

[A]

Yeah. You know, thank you. I feel safe. So I have so many crazy stories to tell you. But as my first submission, let me tell you how I curse all humanity. Way to bring it home, girl.

[B]

Let's just start off, like, really low. Like, low ball it, you know, like, just start off easy.

[A]

Anything from yours, Downhill.

[B]

Jesus.

[A]

Let's set the scene. Vermont girl, born and raised to European immigrant parents, traveling in February to escape Vermont's icy tundra to Florida, the Sunshine State. It's February 2020. Okay. Well, luckily we have Christine here who remembers every single day. It's February 2020. My birthday, to be exact. And then I decide, let's sit through a three hour presentation on a Disney timeshare so we can get discounted tickets for Animal Kingdom. What could go wrong?

[B]

Bad birthday idea, but it's okay.

[A]

I. Logistically, you're making a lot of sense, but I don't think I could do that. Well, nothing went wrong. The presentation was just hella boring. However, I wanted to celebrate 30 surrounded by zebras, elephants, and other creatures that wouldn't dare venture to Vermont. Oh, fairies. My husband, two sons. And I absolutely had a blast when I was on my bazillionth beer because, hey, vacation. And you only turned 30 once. I bet your two sons were like, mom's having a great time.

[B]

She's on beer bazillion.

[A]

They were probably like, I can't wait till I Could be on beer.

[B]

Bazillion on 30. My 30th birthday. Yeah. Sounds like fun.

[A]

No judgment. I. I feel like if I. At any age, if I saw someone celebrating, I was like, they're having. Having the time.

[B]

Oh, hell yeah.

[A]

Good for them. We had an absolute blast. When I was on my bazillionth beer, a man stepped on my toe, and I spilled my beer. To say the least, I was miffed. I sat down to have some dessert, where my boys reminded me that I hadn't made my wish yet. A birthday wish. I closed my eyes and in Dwight Schrute fashion, opened my eyes and said, we need a new plague. What the is wrong with you?

[B]

Are you.

[A]

Flash forward to a few weeks later, and it's March 2020, and we get Covid. Girl, you. You better blame it on your bazillionth beer.

[B]

She's gone to Maine for the first time. You.

[A]

Why were you wishing for that? What was. What were. What the.

[B]

Is the matter with you? A birthday wish? Do you not have any respect for a birthday wish?

[A]

Because some guy stepped on your toe and you're like, we need a plate. You know what? That guy who stepped on your toe has no idea what butterfly effect he caused. You know when they say, like, the flap of a wing with a step of a toe, when all of a sudden, there's a fucking pandemic.

[B]

Oh, the magic of Disney. Really? Wow.

[A]

So March 2020 happens, and then we get Covid. My bad. Sorry I wished so hard. Yeah, girl, you should for sure. Since my bad, I could see, like, the hair being twirled when she said it.

[B]

Oops.

[A]

Like what? Like, manifesting is hard. Since then, I've tried repeating wishing hard for other things, but it must have been the magic of detainable.

[B]

Can you stop? Actually, can you stop wishing for anything is really what I'd rather have happen.

[A]

Like, did you once wish for it to be reversed? I wonder. Now that I wonder.

[B]

Yeah, interesting. I wonder, like, maybe stop wishing for things is the lesson here.

[A]

Well, that. Thanks for nothing, I guess. Grace.

[B]

Hey, that was a cool six years ago. Can you believe that? That.

[A]

You know what? And she's still paying for it.

[B]

That's amazing. Well, you know what? You went to a Disney timeshare presentation, and I think that was called karmic retribution.

[A]

For sure. I think for some reason, there's now an order. There's a balance to the order.

[B]

Totally. You've been re. Everything's been rebalanced. And I'm sorry that you were kind of the catalyst. And I'm not really going to forgive you, but that's okay. It's our birthday, so we're still going to have fun. And I just like to say happy birthday to everyone. Thank you for sending your birthday stories in. Even if we didn't get to them, Eva looked through them and we appreciate all of them. And if you ever want to follow what upcoming themes we have, if we have a call for them, sometimes we just decide on like a theme. You can check out our social media ATWD podcast and then the spot to submit is on our website. Right. And that's why drink dot com.

[A]

Yep. And maybe at a town near you, we'll eventually be putting out request for what your big three is on top of your story submission.

[B]

That's right, in a town near you. And also maybe if you've been possessed at our show and you're like, oh, I wasn't going to write in about this because I thought maybe it was just a weird panic attack or something, can you let us know? Because I now I'm curious if there were like certain parts of the show. Like, what if it were the. What if it was the same scene, you know, and, and like other people were getting. I, I'm, I'm. I'm needing to understand this from sort of a bird's eye view.

[A]

You. I mean, I would. Yeah, I would love to know if there. Do we need to arrange like a group. Not a group therapy, but like, should we, should we be getting these people in touch with each other so that way they at least the fact that your eyeball pokes exactly through the hole of that water bottle. Mike was like, you're a goddamn professor or something.

[B]

Like, I'm the Peanut. Mr. Peanut.

[A]

Anyway, tell. Tell Ms. Pretty that your new name is Mr. Peanut.

[B]

She's not gonna allow it. But I'm gonn.

[A]

Anyway, no thank you everybody. And I hope anyone else who has a June B day is having a happy birthday.

[B]

Happy birthday.

[A]

Dare we just try?

[B]

Oh, yeah. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

[A]

Happy. I know. Birthday dear.

[B]

The most beautiful, pretty and sparkles. And I forget all our names. Honker. No, it's not their birthday. It's our birthday. Happy birthday to us.

[A]

And that's what we drink.

[B]

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