Speaker 1: Very Christmas listeners, and welcome to this bonus episode of
Speaker 1: the Supernatural Current Studies podcast.
Speaker 2: So Festively Paranormal.
Speaker 1: That's right. I am Jason Knight, and with me as always.
Speaker 2: Is Oscar Spector bigudgingly doing a holiday.
Speaker 1: Episode producer extraordin there and podcast co hosts Bahumbug.
Speaker 2: That's right. I put the hum and Bahambug, sure do yeah,
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Well. It's Christmas Eve. It's magical. We wanted to wanted
Speaker 1: to bring something special to the way. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we're re listening this on Eve, right, Christmas Eve?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: So do you imagine, because we're really listening on Christmas
Speaker 2: Eve as a bonus episode, do you imagine people as
Speaker 2: a stocking stuffer? Is a recording of this episode for
Speaker 2: people to listen to us.
Speaker 1: Like they somehow put it onto physical media and put
Speaker 1: it into us. I hope so hope t work. Maybe
Speaker 1: some dedicated listeners out there will do that.
Speaker 2: I think that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Share the Supernatural Current Studies pod.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine people sitting around at some table somewhere
Speaker 2: or after they open presents and they listen to this, Ah, dude,
Speaker 2: I would love that. I mean, I don't think that's happening.
Speaker 2: But that's guess what. We talk about shit and we
Speaker 2: swear and you know, so maybe not but like maybe yes,
Speaker 2: not very holy. I'm not holy. I mean I have holes,
Speaker 2: but I'm not holy.
Speaker 1: I could get the snows falling. The fireplace is crackling,
Speaker 1: Christmas tree is lit.
Speaker 2: I don't have a fireplace.
Speaker 1: Little children are sleeping amongst the gift wrapping underneath the
Speaker 1: tree tucker from the day's events, and the parents just
Speaker 1: sit back and listen to the show.
Speaker 2: With a bottle of something. Absolutely, the bottle of something
Speaker 2: some calling that's great. Have you been drinking anything festive?
Speaker 2: By the way, do you drink anything festive for the season?
Speaker 2: Do I drink agnog starting November until Januy? That's right,
Speaker 2: you love eggnog. I did only only in November to
Speaker 2: generate though when I say so, I do like it.
Speaker 1: I don't go out and actively hunt it, like if
Speaker 1: I have to store, I'm like, oh ship, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I'll grab some.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But I do like the Jack Daniels egg nog.
Speaker 2: Do you ever get that? I do like that one.
Speaker 2: It's a good one. Yes, Sometimes I'm make in my own.
Speaker 2: It makes my own. But other times I buy pre
Speaker 2: made already, so I don't any worry. I also like coquito.
Speaker 2: You make it a perto Rican get over here. Sometimes No,
Speaker 2: that's or chatta that I make. Coquito is a Puerto
Speaker 2: Rican is spicy version of it, the creamy one. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're both similar. Maybe maybe I brought your maybe I
Speaker 2: did remember anyway, but coquito is typically a Puerto Rican thing.
Speaker 2: Not to say I can't make it because I'm not
Speaker 2: Puerto Rican, but I've had it from Puerto Rican families,
Speaker 2: like my sister in law's mother makes it every year.
Speaker 2: So I would put in a demand give it ten
Speaker 2: bucks and a bottle, and that's good. I like that.
Speaker 2: That is good, So I remember you. I did like it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: especially can put Awrican egnog.
Speaker 1: I know my daughter works at Starbucks, and she told
Speaker 1: me the egg drink is out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is out, so I have to go get that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then to spice it up. Of course, because I've
Speaker 2: never liked dignat by itself. I only like it with whiskey.
Speaker 2: With whiskey, yeah, bourbon whiskey.
Speaker 1: Speaking of we are drinking a Penelope architect or Penelope.
Speaker 1: This is a bourbon whiskey finished with oak. Staves, staves,
Speaker 1: stiovs stas state, it's good.
Speaker 2: Do you like it? I do like it.
Speaker 1: It's like what one hundred what is it? A one
Speaker 1: hundred and four proof.
Speaker 2: That's a good proof. It's good on its proof. Yes,
Speaker 2: I've also had penalope before. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: have this one before, but I've had it before and
Speaker 2: it's very good.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 1: Brant Howiday drinks? You got to cookito? My wife makes
Speaker 1: her apple pie.
Speaker 2: Yes, I still have I still have some. I mean say,
Speaker 2: I savor it. Yeah, did you bring home a jar?
Speaker 1: Did you give you a jar?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Last time put the Halloween Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sh is. That shit is like crack. She
Speaker 1: makes a caramel one of vanilla one and like a
Speaker 1: plain one.
Speaker 2: And personally I like I like the ol g More apple.
Speaker 1: Do you like the plain one? Well, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite. I like them all, but that's my favorite. Cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that shit will toast you quick man, because you
Speaker 1: don't taste the alcohol.
Speaker 2: No, it's so you'll you'll you'll get up from your
Speaker 2: seat like whoa right.
Speaker 1: And it warms you. And those cold winter nights that
Speaker 1: warm you up quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great for homeless people, yes, right, because they're
Speaker 2: cold outside, don't.
Speaker 1: We support the homeless here on the podcast, and the
Speaker 1: houseless give them. Oh yeah, you can't say homeless, Yeah
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: That mean the same thing. It'd be it'd be one
Speaker 2: thing if it was a different word. But it's the
Speaker 2: same word. We're using a synonym for home. It's house,
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, it's unhoused. It's like dorm undormed. It's like,
Speaker 2: come on, enough homeless is fine. Oh they don't care either.
Speaker 1: It is enough.
Speaker 2: Trust. I never got a homeless guy that gave a
Speaker 2: ship what we call it, you know, Jesus? Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: right enough. No, I'll get the political stuff in general,
Speaker 2: but that I think is too far. That's stumb in
Speaker 2: my opinion. Anyway, moving on, speaking of Christmas, I have
Speaker 2: this thing, funny thing I can do for you. So
Speaker 2: I have a friend for another show, Luke. He's never
Speaker 2: been on the show, I don't think, but he's been
Speaker 2: in a huge part of my other show that I do.
Speaker 2: What show is it, Let's called another movie podcast? Another
Speaker 2: movie podcast? Right, guess what we talk about? Do you
Speaker 2: talk about books and sewing? Yeah, anyway, couchang. And he
Speaker 2: has this thing where he's the he's the money bags
Speaker 2: in our friend group essentially because he's single and doesn't
Speaker 2: know a house, so like you know, and he makes
Speaker 2: really good money. He's manager area. And but one thing
Speaker 2: he's done year after year after year, well, he does
Speaker 2: two things. One is that he never waits. He hates waiting.
Speaker 2: When he buys a present for somebody, he gives it
Speaker 2: to him the next day. He gave me his already
Speaker 2: four days ago. He gave me two new video games. Wow,
Speaker 2: like like expensive because they're newer, they're expensive. Sixty dollars.
Speaker 2: And he gave me a trilogy pack of our Criterion
Speaker 2: collection Blu Rays set of Chris Lawski's Three Colors trilogy.
Speaker 2: People who know you know it's an expensive thing. Wow,
Speaker 2: sixty dollars at least there at least I don't know
Speaker 2: how much you spent. But he always does this. He
Speaker 2: always overspends and gives it to me way too fucking early.
Speaker 2: It's sweet. No, it's a competition. Jay I took it
Speaker 2: seriously this year, so I went out and I split
Speaker 2: it with my brother Rob because I can't afford it
Speaker 2: by myself. We bought him a three hundred dollars Blu
Speaker 2: Ray set of the West Anderson Collection, Holy shit, and
Speaker 2: Blu Ray the Criterion with all his movies. Well it's
Speaker 2: ten movies since that's a Criterion box. It's a huge box.
Speaker 2: I just got it in today. I wrapped in myself.
Speaker 2: Motherfucker is going down this year. This isn't what Christmas
Speaker 2: is supposed to be about. No, it's fun. It's all
Speaker 2: in the fun. Yes, of course I appreciate it, and
Speaker 2: it's all for I don't take it seriously, but that's
Speaker 2: how I that's the energy I'm coming in with.
Speaker 1: Wow, so amazing.
Speaker 2: So I did that. Yes, I'm like, nope, he's not
Speaker 2: winning this year. He's gonna most year's I'm really broke,
Speaker 2: but not this year he's not. He's not gonna win.
Speaker 2: What did he get you last year? Do you remember?
Speaker 2: He got me the NASA the NASA Space Shuttle lego,
Speaker 2: which is like a two hundred three hundred. I don't
Speaker 2: know how much. There's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Damn. I gotta settle up more than Luke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fucking me up. I was like, dude, I
Speaker 2: got you like shit, and I know it doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: and I know it doesn't matter, but I like to
Speaker 2: complete play, complete, compete with him anyway.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. So Luke's a good dude, always liked them.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, good?
Speaker 1: Uh? Any special plans for Christmas?
Speaker 2: You're going anywhere tonight Christmas Eve? No, there are a few.
Speaker 2: There's a rave by four, and there's a a rave
Speaker 2: a rave, and then there's a rave on New Year's Day,
Speaker 2: but not around Christmas itself. So no, just family, okay,
Speaker 2: but there is a Christmas Eve rave. There is a
Speaker 2: Christmas theme brave and I think next week or something.
Speaker 1: Said Christmas Eve, no to my bad.
Speaker 2: Okay, on pie, gonna watch a movie probably Avatar. I
Speaker 2: think comes out on Christmas. Oh fire and ash Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm I to that. I usually watch a movie on Christmas.
Speaker 2: What are you for us?
Speaker 1: Let me see working out. No, we're celebrating christ So
Speaker 1: my mom has this new position she's had for a
Speaker 1: little over a year now. She has to work all
Speaker 1: the holidays, so she works on Christmas, which is what sucks.
Speaker 1: So we're having our Christmas like a week before with
Speaker 1: my mom and family, just like we did for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: which we haven't talked about yet. No, we have not
Speaker 1: the magic of editing. So we're doing the same thing
Speaker 1: with Christmas. We're having that early. It'll just be us, me,
Speaker 1: my wife, the kids. On Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, we're
Speaker 1: going to my in laws and then we're heading to Florida.
Speaker 1: So I'll meet up with my mom and stuff when
Speaker 1: we go to Florida, and we probably have another Christmas
Speaker 1: after with some other family members. But jumping down to
Speaker 1: Florida again, it's our Christmas slash your ritual. I already
Speaker 1: got his uh Discovery Cove tickets swimming with the dolphins,
Speaker 1: were going to Animal Kingdom and Epcot and the beach,
Speaker 1: all that fun shit. So oh man, really looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. And I just got back from New Jersey
Speaker 1: like last night as of this recording.
Speaker 2: Oh damn, was that like an dare someone dare you to?
Speaker 2: It should be?
Speaker 1: It was for work, right And you know, of course
Speaker 1: listeners by now know me. I hate flying. I dread flying.
Speaker 1: So the month and a half leading up to this trip,
Speaker 1: I've just been a wreck like anxiety that long before.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's the word. The anticipation of the flight
Speaker 1: is the worst. Once I'm on the plane.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you ask your job to tell you, like
Speaker 2: three days before by way save yourself some heartache there.
Speaker 1: So you try to save money. But girly, you save money.
Speaker 2: That's why. Yeah, but it's it's probably better than being
Speaker 2: stressed for six weeks before, you know. No, they like
Speaker 2: it short. They don't give a ship. Just get there right,
Speaker 2: you're right, but you know, and the flights were fine.
Speaker 2: It was fine. How sure happened?
Speaker 1: You know? Taking off from New Jersey from Newark was
Speaker 1: really bad. Matter of fact, the flight attendant came and
Speaker 1: stood right next to me. I was on the aisle
Speaker 1: back of the plane on the aisle. She stood right
Speaker 1: next to me to make the announcement on how the
Speaker 1: takeoff from Newark was gonna be really rough, to make
Speaker 1: sure you're buckled in so you don't get hurt. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be rough. And I'm like what the fuck? I'm
Speaker 1: texting everybody like consistence, could you please said this? Whyn't
Speaker 1: they just cancel the flight because really windy?
Speaker 2: Right? Is that why I got a text me? It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: you've been a good friend.
Speaker 1: There's the code to my safe and sure it was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty rough taken off Okay, that fucking plane
Speaker 1: got up and then it made this hard right bank
Speaker 1: and that left wing went fucking up to the sky
Speaker 1: and I said, oh fuck. I screamed out, oh fuck,
Speaker 1: because it looked like you felt like it was gonna.
Speaker 2: Roll over like that movie flight.
Speaker 1: And then it just, you know, evened out. You got
Speaker 1: above the clouds and it was fine. So dude, it
Speaker 1: was bad, but we made it. And here we are recording.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Good good. So I have a great little story.
Speaker 2: It's not a long one today, right.
Speaker 1: You know, people got things to do. It's Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: they have family to see.
Speaker 2: Play this why you're roasting chestnuts, you know, port chet chestnuts.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is a little story. It's not not a
Speaker 1: long one, Okay, but uh it's great. I fell in
Speaker 1: love with this story, all right, I had me, so
Speaker 1: ask her. It's it's Christmas Eve, nineteen fourteen, and the
Speaker 1: world is drowning in war, a war so new, so
Speaker 1: enormous that no one alive has language for the horror
Speaker 1: that's unfolding. On a frozen battlefield in Belgium, men huddle
Speaker 1: in mud filled trenches, shivering, starving, waiting to die. That night,
Speaker 1: on one frozen strip of mud between France and Belgium,
Speaker 1: a proper no man's land of misery and death. Something
Speaker 1: impossible happened. The air grew unnaturally still, guns went silent.
Speaker 1: Men who had been killing each other for months stood up,
Speaker 1: stepped out of the trenches, and met face to face
Speaker 1: in the moonlight. Some call it a miracle, some call
Speaker 1: it mass hysteria. Others call it something else. Entirely because
Speaker 1: before the spontaneous truce, before the Carols, before the gifts,
Speaker 1: and before men walked into no man's land unarmed, the
Speaker 1: soldiers reported seeing things in the sky lights no one
Speaker 1: could explain, apparitions or verbs, shapes that moved in ways
Speaker 1: that artillery cannot, voices singing from nowhere. This is the
Speaker 1: story of the Christmas Truce of World War One and
Speaker 1: the eerie, ghostly phenomena that came before it. Soldiers swore
Speaker 1: that before the ceasefire, something supernatural moved across the battlefield.
Speaker 1: But what started it? What triggered the most impossible moment
Speaker 1: of World War One? So let's go back. It's December
Speaker 1: nineteen fourteen. The First World War is only five months old,
Speaker 1: but the horrors already feel eternal. The Western Front has
Speaker 1: become a graveyard. Trenches filled with waste, deep freezing mud,
Speaker 1: bodies half buried in the earth, staring with ice crusted eyes,
Speaker 1: rats feeding on the dead, frostbite eating men alive, and
Speaker 1: the onslaught of artillery. The smell of death, sulfur, unwashed bodies,
Speaker 1: and gun oil hung permanently in the air. This hell
Speaker 1: stretches four hundred miles. Young soldiers arrived at the front
Speaker 1: thinking that this war would last weeks, that they'd be
Speaker 1: home in time for Christmas. Instead, they found themselves trapped
Speaker 1: in a world of smoke and blood. A diary from
Speaker 1: a British soldier reads quote, hell cannot be worse than
Speaker 1: this place. The Germans feel the same, the Belgians, the French,
Speaker 1: all of them. Here. Christmas means nothing. There was no holiday,
Speaker 1: just survival. But as Christmas Eve approached, something strange began
Speaker 1: to unfold. The first report came just after sunset on
Speaker 1: December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve, along the quiet sector of
Speaker 1: the Western Front, near the Belgian town of Epra, British
Speaker 1: soldiers noticed something rising above the German trenches. At first
Speaker 1: they think its flares, but flares burned downward. These rose
Speaker 1: they moved sideways. They hovered and glowed in colors flares
Speaker 1: cannot produce, described by one soldier as orbs drifting like lanterns,
Speaker 1: but with no flame. The lights were also described as
Speaker 1: white spheres, bluish globes, and stars moving with purpose. A
Speaker 1: German officer later wrote that the orbs appeared on both sides,
Speaker 1: observing the opposing trenches from above, While one British private
Speaker 1: swore he saw three orbs forming a slowly rotating perfect triangle,
Speaker 1: another insisted they flickered and sink with a face humming sound,
Speaker 1: a sound no one could locate. At around seven pm
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve, the second strange event began. A sound
Speaker 1: drifted across No Man's Land, a melody, soft and beautiful,
Speaker 1: but eerie. British soldiers looked toward the German lines. German
Speaker 1: soldiers looked towards the British. No one was singing, yet
Speaker 1: the music continued. A private from the London Rifle Brigade
Speaker 1: later wrote the sound came from nowhere, from the air itself.
Speaker 1: Some described it as a hymn, others as a choir.
Speaker 1: A few claimed it didn't sound like human voices at all.
Speaker 1: Private Frederick Heath described it as voices without bodies, carried
Speaker 1: by no wind. Minutes later the real singing began. This
Speaker 1: time it clearly came from the German trenches still knocked,
Speaker 1: Heilig knocked or night in German letters from soldiers note
Speaker 1: a curious detail. The mysterious music with no identifiable source,
Speaker 1: stopped precisely when the Germans started singing, as though signaling
Speaker 1: them to begin. Then, at around eight thirty PM, something
Speaker 1: happened that should have been suicide. Inside that German trench.
Speaker 1: A single soldier stood up, He stepped onto the firing
Speaker 1: step and climbed out of the trench. And he wasn't
Speaker 1: holding a gun. Instead, he was holding a lantern, its
Speaker 1: glow flickering across frost covered mud. British rifles aimed instantly,
Speaker 1: Officers screamed to hold fire, and miraculously none of the
Speaker 1: British soldiers pulled that trigger, because at the same moment,
Speaker 1: one of the strange lights in the sky seemed to shift,
Speaker 1: as if turning its attention downward, like it was shining
Speaker 1: and watching the lone German soldier. Just then, the second
Speaker 1: German climbed out of the trench. Then a third, British
Speaker 1: troops remained frozen, but then a British soldier stepped up,
Speaker 1: and then another. Before long, dozens of men are standing
Speaker 1: above ground, unarmed. They walked towards each other, guns slung
Speaker 1: over backs, hands raised, voices calling greetings across the frozen night.
Speaker 1: They met right there, in the middle of the deadliest
Speaker 1: place on Earth, no Man's land, and what follows is real,
Speaker 1: verified by letters, diaries, military reports. British and German soldiers, enemies,
Speaker 1: greeted one another. They shook hands, They shared cigarettes and
Speaker 1: chocolate and brandy. They traded buttons and hats and photographs.
Speaker 1: They buried the dead lying between the trenches. Some played
Speaker 1: football or soccer, some saying Christmas carols, and many men
Speaker 1: prayed together. Many soldiers wrote about something else, something not
Speaker 1: mentioned in official records. They wrote that while all this
Speaker 1: was happening, the air felt charged, electrical and living, and
Speaker 1: that the sky glowed. A German corporal wrote, it felt
Speaker 1: as though a great present presence watched us, not God,
Speaker 1: something older. A British private wrote, I felt hands on
Speaker 1: my shoulders though none were there, while another soldier wrote
Speaker 1: it was as if the battlefield itself sighed Some thought
Speaker 1: these lights were souls of the dead, A few believed
Speaker 1: they were divine, some called them omens. Whatever they were,
Speaker 1: they marked the beginning and end of the most unexpected
Speaker 1: event of World War One. At dawn on December twenty sixth,
Speaker 1: nineteen fourteen, a German officer fired a single shot into
Speaker 1: the air, a signal the truce was over. Men shook
Speaker 1: hands for the last time, returned to their trenches, and
Speaker 1: continued killing each other. By ten, a m artillery roared
Speaker 1: once more, machine guns chattered. Men who hugged and prayed
Speaker 1: together the night before were killing each other once again.
Speaker 1: By the spring of nineteen fifteen, entire units who participated
Speaker 1: in the Strange Truce were completely wiped out. Many of
Speaker 1: the soldiers accounts, especially those mentioning the lights and ghostly music,
Speaker 1: were quietly suppressed by military command, but enough survived to
Speaker 1: reveal something extraordinary that soldiers on both sides described the
Speaker 1: same lights, the same strange music, and the same eerie
Speaker 1: stillness before that truce began. Whether the cause was supernatural, cyclical,
Speaker 1: or something else, the truth of the Christmas Truce of
Speaker 1: nineteen fourteen remain shrouded in mystery. Today. Historians celebrate the
Speaker 1: Christmas Truce as a moment of humanity in the middle
Speaker 1: of horror. But the soldiers who lived it, those who
Speaker 1: saw the strange lights, heard the unearthly singing, felt the
Speaker 1: impossible calm settle over no man's land, They left behind
Speaker 1: another story, a stranger one. Did shared trauma create a
Speaker 1: shared hallucination? Did the Aurora burialis drift too far south?
Speaker 1: Was it ball lightning? Or did something beyond explanation, something ancient, watching,
Speaker 1: benevolent intervene for just one night. Whatever the truth, the
Speaker 1: Truce of nineteen fourteen remains one of the most enduring
Speaker 1: mysteries of World War One. For one night, the battle
Speaker 1: field itself seemed to live with possibility, with friendship, and
Speaker 1: something somewhere wanted peace, if only for a moment. Merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: wherever you are. I like it.
Speaker 2: It's not too expensive.
Speaker 1: Is it a green monster? It's a no sugar one,
Speaker 1: but yes, no sugar green. Yeah, really, it's the only
Speaker 1: one drink. I don't drink sugar anymore.
Speaker 2: Man good.
Speaker 1: I never I'm like whoa because I like how green?
Speaker 1: I like to taste of green. But I only thought
Speaker 1: they made the blues and no sugar.
Speaker 2: That's funny. I've only seen well I'm sure I just
Speaker 2: don't pay attention to the blue. I have seen it
Speaker 2: and just forgot it. But I've only I've forgotten this.
Speaker 2: O't that white one if they don't have this one.
Speaker 2: I tried it. I was like, yeah, it's okay, it's
Speaker 2: just it's just okay. You're right. It's like going in
Speaker 2: a pinch. I'll get it, not like my staple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, when we go on the road trip, that's
Speaker 1: I will get those. I will look for those because
Speaker 1: the blues are okay, but.
Speaker 2: I don't like the blue. No, the green is better. Yeah, yes, no,
Speaker 2: you can try it if you want to try to
Speaker 2: make sure you like it.
Speaker 1: I've been sick, like I'm just getting over a cold.
Speaker 1: My new system is so I want to thank you,
Speaker 1: but I'm okay, I'm okay.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I don't get sick like I felt like.
Speaker 1: Shit this week in Jersey and I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 1: I hope my voice is okay.
Speaker 2: Well, their first mistake was going to Jersey. Cool, but
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I don't be surprised. It isn't much.
Speaker 1: That's okay. Yeah, I mean, if it's a regular Carol
Speaker 1: that you fuck with somehow to make it sound creepy
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I was just like, if I gave it somebro hypno
Speaker 2: and then fuck it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, dude, what this is so crazy? So
Speaker 1: Katie read this, where is this going matterfest?
Speaker 2: Since you said that.
Speaker 1: About a year year ago, maybe a little bit longer,
Speaker 1: two years even, maybe I was no, maybe a year ago.
Speaker 1: I was at I was at the pediatrician. I was
Speaker 1: with Nico.
Speaker 2: Your height, they thought you were a child stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, because I thought I was a child. And
Speaker 1: then they looked at all my vitals and said, oh no,
Speaker 1: you're forty eight. You smoked how much? No doubt. So
Speaker 1: we're sitting there. It was both the kids. Okay, dentist,
Speaker 1: That's what it was. We're at the dentist for the kids.
Speaker 1: Talia went in. Me and Nico were sitting. This guy
Speaker 1: comes walking in, this guy his little daughter. You know,
Speaker 1: he's waiting. I'm waiting. Talia comes out, Nico goes in,
Speaker 1: the daughter goes in, and this guy starts talking to us, right,
Speaker 1: and he's like, just killing time, Yeah, just killing time.
Speaker 1: White guy. I'm assuming looking Wisconsin, looking a little rough,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of dressed in like, you know, blue
Speaker 1: collar clothes sort of thing, you know, and we're talking.
Speaker 1: So he starts talking to Talia and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what school you go to, and you know,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? What are you thinking about?
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, I'm thinking about maybe forensics or something.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you know, she's really into those shows she's.
Speaker 1: So we strike up this conversation. She's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I know I know so and so on the police department.
Speaker 1: I know this person, that person I know captain this.
Speaker 1: And he's like, here, take my number down, all right.
Speaker 1: So I took his number down, We shook hands, we
Speaker 1: talked for a while, like we stayed talking for quite
Speaker 1: a while. So I come home and I tell Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's weird, it's crazy. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: while we were there, he wrote he typed an email
Speaker 1: to this sergeant with the police copied me, so I
Speaker 1: know he wasn't bullshitting. I got to copy the email
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, I know this girl, her name's Talia.
Speaker 1: She's looking to possibly do some ride alongs. Could you
Speaker 1: help him out?
Speaker 2: Things like that?
Speaker 1: So when I got home, I told, Okay, and I
Speaker 1: think I still have his I think I still have
Speaker 1: his number. And it's okay, I met this guy. I
Speaker 1: gave her a name. She's like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: know who that is. And somehow through the mom scene
Speaker 1: she knew him right like through back through an ex wife.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh yeah, he's always like.
Speaker 2: He's on Facebook. I've talked to him before.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh really, and again then I replied to
Speaker 1: the email reply all, so I copied this guy on it,
Speaker 1: and I replied to that chief or whatever the fuck.
Speaker 1: He was like, Hi, I'm Talia's father, you know. So
Speaker 1: and so this guy introduced us and anything to do
Speaker 1: to help, you know, she's really looking to get into
Speaker 1: the police force and things like that. Never heard back
Speaker 1: from any of them. Okay, So flash forward to just today. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's like looking at her phone and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's it gonna And she showed me
Speaker 1: the article. Sure enough, this guy was just busted for
Speaker 1: running a drug house and selling illegal arts.
Speaker 2: Right. He was cutting people's arms and selling them illegally.
Speaker 1: Guns, selling like illegal guns and all the like meth
Speaker 1: and shrooms and acid and GHB. That's what made me
Speaker 1: think of it when you said rufie GHB. And so
Speaker 1: this guy who was trying to hook me up was
Speaker 1: a fucking hardcore criminal the whole time. But how weird
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 2: That is weird?
Speaker 1: That is very strange. I may have even deleted his
Speaker 1: number because the cop never got back to me, so like.
Speaker 2: Fuck these people fake anyway, Probably it could have been, oh,
Speaker 2: he probably knows the mess like a criminal. I know
Speaker 2: it's too right, Yeah, I know that the guy so
Speaker 2: me writing him, the guy's probably like, well that guy
Speaker 2: is probably just like this guy, so guilty by association.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's funny, not funny, good, but funny.
Speaker 1: That's funny, no trying to It's really not important what
Speaker 1: his name is because he's a piece of ship apparently.
Speaker 2: But weird. It was just so weird. That is Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not good.
Speaker 1: So maybe I'm being watched now crazy.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I know you do do even if
Speaker 2: I told you not to do it, do you want
Speaker 2: to do it? You could do it? Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 2: that's not what I meant. I meant there's I don't
Speaker 2: want none of us doing it. You could be like
Speaker 2: what would you?
Speaker 1: How would you?
Speaker 2: I'm not doing no, no, I cannot perform on cue
Speaker 2: like that. How would spin? Is that when people ask
Speaker 2: me to squeak? Almost got it by you? Almost got
Speaker 2: it that the look? Oh no, my sensor went off.
Speaker 2: My sensor went off. My sense. That's funny.
Speaker 1: What were you?
Speaker 2: I don't know, because you're almost racism got me there? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. You're doing it, but I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't because I'm afraid.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid you're judging you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm always jugging you. I thought you were not already.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, stop stop whatever you're doing that. I'm
Speaker 1: not even looking at you. It's like you're peeing or something.
Speaker 2: Wait, all right, three two marry Christmas. I thought you
Speaker 2: were calling me a hope. All right, well we're starting.
Speaker 2: I thought we're going with okay.
Speaker 1: Should I don't want Does it sound stupid in you? Hoo?
Speaker 2: No, it's not stupid.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it doesn't sound it either.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I mean, do you want to
Speaker 2: sound like Santa? I think you're not gonna sound like
Speaker 2: sansa am I am?
Speaker 1: I set my expectations.
Speaker 2: I think you might be I mean, I thought the
Speaker 2: first one was good. That's the last one was good.
Speaker 2: But I don't measure ho hos