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pet cat Malik I say hi Malik

3:00

I I ne Susie Oh goody. She

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resident mouse. I once

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thought was my dad was the silly

3:08

me. Sadly, My

3:11

life. but. We. Have

3:13

shared some incredible

3:15

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3:17

physical. Anyway, today

3:19

we're going to write our twenty twenty four

3:22

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3:24

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here we go I

4:04

was in my early 20s. I

4:07

was looking for adventure. I

4:11

am a petroleum engineer. I

4:14

had the opportunity to go to the North Slope of Alaska.

4:18

I got on with a wireline crew. They

4:22

do kind of the day-to-day maintenance for

4:24

oil and gas wells. They

4:28

use these big trucks with winches in the back,

4:30

and they have this big spool of cable, and

4:32

they lower tools down into the oil wells, and

4:34

they can do pretty much anything you can think

4:36

of. They can fix it. They can take measurements.

4:39

They can survey it. They're

4:42

the handyman of the oil and gas industry. One

4:47

of the jobs that we did have was

4:49

in the Alaska

4:51

Petroleum Reserve, this

4:53

large, untamed tundra

4:56

area of the North Slope.

5:00

You can't move equipment out there in

5:02

the summer because the tundra is completely

5:04

melted. It

5:06

may be permafrost, but on top it's softened. You

5:08

just sink into it. So in

5:10

the winter, to get out to these

5:12

really remote areas, they'll build these really long

5:15

ice roads. The

5:17

particular well we were going to was about 60 miles

5:20

away from our main camp.

5:24

It takes a long time to get out there. The

5:26

speed limit on those things is 15, 20 miles an

5:28

hour because it's ice. You can't go very

5:30

fast. These

5:33

ice roads, they have guard shacks on either

5:35

side because there's no cell phone reception. We

5:38

do have radios that we can communicate with, but

5:40

they only work up to a certain mileage, maybe

5:42

five, 10 miles. So

5:44

when you get out into the middle of these ice roads, there's

5:47

no communication with the outside world. You're

5:49

on your own. So

5:52

these guard shacks you check in and then you

5:54

check out at an estimated time. If

5:57

you don't show up, the guards will radio each other

5:59

and then and they'll come looking for you because

6:01

if you get stuck on an ice road in

6:03

the middle of winter in Alaska, you

6:06

could very easily freeze to death. It

6:09

is remote. It is cold. It's

6:12

rugged terrain. What

6:16

we typically wear are

6:18

specially designed Arctic coats

6:20

and bibs and overalls and

6:22

boots. These things

6:25

are all rated for Arctic conditions, negative

6:28

50 degrees. If

6:31

you don't have it, you might lose

6:34

a toe. This

6:37

particular job we were on was

6:40

pretty uneventful. Started

6:42

to go home. We were all burned out

6:44

after 10 days doing this work. I

6:48

have three other guys in the pickup with me. Behind

6:52

us, we have our heavy equipment being driven

6:54

by a semi truck. We

6:57

start our way down the ice road. We

7:00

stop at the guard shack, check in.

7:03

It's 60 miles to the next guard shack, so we

7:05

say, hey, we're going to see you in three hours.

7:10

We're heading down the road, very uneventful.

7:13

This is the middle of January, so

7:15

the sun hasn't quite come up yet.

7:20

You can kind of get a little bit of light

7:22

from the stars, but it's dark. We're

7:25

going as slow as we can, so we're not slipping

7:27

on the ice. Out

7:31

of nowhere, in our

7:33

headlights, something kind

7:35

of pops up in the middle of the road. It's

7:39

a guy. It's

7:43

this guy just walking down

7:46

an ice road in the middle of the

7:48

tundra like a zombie

7:50

from a George Romero movie. He's

7:54

just shuffling. He's not

7:56

moving his arms. He's not swinging his arms. He's just

7:58

shuffling his feet. It's

8:00

20 degrees outside, 4 a.m.

8:03

in the morning. There's

8:07

no reason this guy should be out here. And

8:10

what's even weirder is the way he was dressed.

8:15

He was in jeans, sneakers,

8:18

and like a hoodie, almost

8:21

like you just teleported somebody off the street and just

8:23

dropped him into the middle of the tundra. Totally

8:27

not prepared for this kind of

8:30

environment. Totally

8:32

out of place. Immediately

8:37

set off alarm bells in my brain. He

8:40

had to have been walking for a long distance. There

8:43

were no other roads that connected onto

8:45

that. There were no other villages in

8:47

between it. I mean, it was pure

8:49

just tundra. There

8:52

was no obvious signs of an accident where his

8:54

snowmobile tipped over, where he'd actually walked onto the

8:56

ice road because, you know, with the snow, you

8:58

should be able to see tracks. This

9:02

is definitely strange. Why

9:05

is this guy here? The

9:08

first thing that comes to my brain

9:10

is he's probably a local Inuit that

9:12

has been out hunting. Maybe

9:15

his snowmobile is broken down and he's just trying to

9:17

get back to the guard shack. That

9:20

seemed like the most plausible explanation. It

9:24

wasn't too unnerving to see him, but we

9:27

were definitely concerned. You

9:29

don't just see people in the middle of

9:31

nowhere Alaska at this

9:33

kind of environment. He

9:37

didn't look cold. In

9:40

those kind of temperatures, you can tell that something looks

9:42

cold, you know, like there's a little bit of frost.

9:44

He looked like he just stepped out of a house

9:46

or something. He

9:48

didn't seem like he was cold. He didn't act like he

9:50

was cold. Like he just popped

9:52

out of nowhere in the middle of the tundra. As

9:56

we're rolling up on this guy, we're

9:59

going slow. He doesn't

10:01

acknowledge us adults. He's

10:04

just chef on a feet

10:06

forwards. his eyes are straight

10:08

ahead. He's

10:10

just completely ambivalence to

10:12

as being there. I

10:17

get up maybe about two or three feet away

10:19

from and roll my window down. The

10:22

first thing I noticed is that he's not anywhere.

10:26

He's caucasian. Is

10:29

definitely not a local Last Villager. See

10:33

could be and will self worth. or he could

10:35

be a tourist that has gotten lost. I don't

10:37

know how that would have ever possibly happened. It

10:42

definitely throw us off at that point that he was

10:44

not a local. So.

10:47

I get my window rolled down. I'm.

10:51

Asking him if he'd sell. Hey

10:54

are you okay. Are.

10:57

You alright? He

11:00

doesn't acknowledge as. He

11:03

just keeps us going forward,

11:05

doesn't turn his face, His

11:08

eyes are completely devoid of any

11:10

kind of thought or most him.

11:14

He's just walking forward is

11:16

to shuffling. The

11:19

guy in the passenger seat. my buddy. He's like,

11:21

well, you know, maybe he wasn't an accident. He's

11:23

in shock. He

11:25

didn't look injured, but he was

11:27

definitely in France or something. He

11:31

was just shuffling forward. If

11:34

he wasn't shuffling for he would have been catatonic. He

11:38

was dead to the outside world. We

11:43

continue to kind of role or truck alongside

11:45

him, and he's just trudging down the road.

11:49

We're just trying to work on getting his attention

11:51

or were just talking to him and trying to

11:53

get him to acknowledge that were there. why

11:58

are you here As

12:01

we're talking to him in this extreme cold,

12:03

I keep getting these whiffs of

12:05

a smell coming off him. It's really peculiar.

12:08

It smells kind of like acidic

12:10

garlic. It's

12:12

not like anything I've ever smelled before. And

12:16

that kind of made the tear on my

12:18

neck stand up just because he just smelled

12:20

so strange. In

12:23

that kind of cold, you don't really smell things anyway.

12:25

It was just kind

12:27

of very weird. We

12:31

keep trying to talk to this guy. We keep trying to get his

12:33

attention. Do

12:35

we jump out and do we just physically put

12:37

him in our truck to take him to the

12:40

guard shack? We

12:42

can't just leave this guy out here. Maybe

12:46

we should pull in front of him and see if we can stop him physically with the truck.

12:50

Maybe we should just get out and see if we can help him in any way. One

12:55

of my coworkers that was sitting behind me, he said he'd

12:58

had enough of this. He

13:01

rolled down his window and he reaches out of

13:03

the cab to grab the guy. And

13:07

what he wanted to do was shake his shoulder and

13:10

kind of see if he could wake him up out of his stupor. But

13:15

before my coworkers hand could

13:17

even reach this guy, this

13:20

guy just spins around and

13:22

latches onto my buddy's outstretched arm, just

13:24

grabs it right at the

13:27

wrist and just squeezes it. You

13:30

could hear tendons popping and stuff. That's

13:33

almost like he had eyes in the back of his head. He

13:36

knew exactly where his wrist was. He flipped

13:38

around, just grabbed right onto it. And

13:42

he's staring him dead in the eyes, just

13:45

glaring at my coworker. And

13:49

then he turns his gaze to me and it's the

13:51

same just hateful gaze looking at me. And

13:55

he's just clenching onto my crewmate's wrist

13:57

tighter and tighter and tighter. I

14:01

can hear my buddy like groaning like he's trying to

14:04

get his arm free from this guy and he just

14:06

he can't pull his arm away. And

14:10

then he just started screaming. It

14:13

was primal. Unearthly.

14:19

If emotions had a physical

14:21

temperature, this guy could have melted the

14:23

entire tundra that night. He

14:26

was just mad. There

14:29

was just so much hate and rage and anger

14:31

in the scream. It was absolutely terrifying. He's

14:34

just screaming in our faces. I

14:37

slammed on the gas of the truck. We

14:40

spun out on the ice for a second before

14:42

the wheels finally caught and shot us forward.

14:47

He's running alongside the truck. As

14:51

we're picking up speed and going faster, this guy still has

14:53

a hold of my buddy's arm and

14:55

he's trying to pull him out of the truck. It

14:59

took the other two guys in the truck holding on

15:01

to him to keep him inside that cab of the

15:03

truck. Eventually

15:07

he was able to kind of break free of this

15:09

guy's grasp and

15:12

we just hauled as fast as we

15:14

could all the way to the guard shack about another 30

15:16

miles down the road. One

15:20

of the guys suggested maybe we should go back

15:22

and double check on this guy, which was immediately

15:24

shut down. We were all like, no, there's no

15:26

way we're going back there. We

15:29

just kind of all sat in silence until we got

15:31

to the guard shack. It

15:35

should have taken us about an hour and a half. I

15:37

think it took us maybe 30 minutes. We

15:39

were going way too fast for those

15:41

road conditions, but we were scared out of our

15:44

mind. We

15:46

get to the guard shack. We

15:48

probably looked like pretty bad. We looked probably pretty scared.

15:51

I could say the guards were looking at us a

15:53

little weird because I'm sure they haven't seen a lot

15:55

of people like that come in and that

15:57

disheveled, I guess. There's

16:00

a guy out there we don't know. He

16:03

might be lost, he might be hurt. We

16:05

had to get out of there. We couldn't get him into the truck or we couldn't

16:07

help him. We're just reporting it. The

16:11

guards didn't take us seriously. They

16:14

were looking at us really skeptical, like we were pulling

16:16

a prank or something. My

16:19

buddy that had his hand grabbed, he pulls back

16:21

his coped sleeve and he's

16:23

just got the biggest black bruise around his

16:25

wrist in the shape of a hand. By

16:30

policy they have to go check this out. Whether

16:33

it's a prank or not, they have to go

16:35

make sure there's nobody out there. There

16:38

wasn't really much more we could do, so the

16:41

guards just sent us on our way. So we

16:43

went back to the main camp and got ready

16:45

to go home the next day. After

16:49

our break and we came back to work, I

16:52

ended up running into that same guard again

16:54

at the cafeteria. And

16:57

I was asking like, hey, did you guys ever look into

16:59

that guy that was out on the ice? And

17:03

he kind of laughed for a second. He

17:06

was like, yeah, that was a really good joke. You

17:08

guys had us going. I

17:10

took up a solid 12 hour shift just looking

17:13

for this guy going up and down this road.

17:16

We didn't find any tracks leading to or

17:18

from the road. We didn't find snowmobiles. We

17:20

didn't find any vehicles. We

17:23

didn't find anything. It

17:25

was good. I'm glad that you guys made me

17:27

waste a shift just driving around. It

17:31

wasn't a prank for us. There

17:34

was really somebody out there. And

17:37

I don't know who that guy was

17:39

if he was a guy. The

17:42

first couple of days after it happened, I

17:45

remember joking with the guys that were in the truck. I'm like, did

17:48

we just run into the devil? Did

17:51

we just run into like a demon or something?

17:55

The rational side of me, the only thing I

17:57

can think of is that he must have gotten

17:59

lost. from maybe some sort of work

18:01

camp that was out there, maybe another drilling

18:03

rig. There was only two

18:05

rigs running at that time. When

18:08

the guards checked everything and there were

18:10

no tracks leading to and from the

18:12

ice roads and there was nobody reported

18:14

missing from the camps, if

18:17

this guy had disappeared from one of those

18:19

construction sites, we would have known about

18:21

it within at least a shift. Nobody

18:24

was ever reported missing from them. It's

18:28

a total mystery to me, even to this day, and

18:30

nobody has been able to really pull all that together.

18:35

I consider myself naturally skeptical of a lot of stories

18:38

that people will tell, but

18:41

I will go to my grave wondering where

18:44

that guy came from, what that was all about. There's

18:48

no reason that guy should have been there. There's no reason we

18:50

should have come up on him. None

18:53

of it makes sense and I don't think it ever will. It's just

18:55

one of those mysteries I have in my life that is just going to haunt me forever. Ha

19:09

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we're back. OK, we've

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got a couple of New Year's resolutions here ready

20:33

to share. Malachi

20:36

doesn't have opposable thumbs, so I've written

20:38

his resolutions for him. Malachi's

20:40

resolutions are to get off the

20:43

stuff, meaning,

20:45

of course, his addiction to pumpkin spice lattes.

20:47

Good luck with that, Malachi. His

20:50

other resolution is to be nicer to Daddy. And

20:53

I'm looking forward to that. Thank

20:56

you very much. No,

20:59

that is your resolution, and I won't hear

21:01

otherwise. I don't care if

21:03

you didn't say that. You meant it. And

21:06

the other day, you peed on me. I'm

21:08

spied. Have

21:10

you ever smelled cat piss before? I

21:13

won't be having that kind of energy in 2024. OK,

21:16

so that's settled. Now, take

21:19

the resolution and cast it into the

21:21

void. Cast it away into the

21:23

void. Go on. Go on. Good

21:27

boy. And

21:29

the mouse's resolution is simply

21:32

crumbs. OK,

21:35

I don't think there's very much

21:37

going on up there. Godspeed,

21:39

mouse. I hope you achieve crumbs

21:42

in 2024. And

21:44

here it goes into the void. Well,

21:49

that leaves. Two of us will

21:52

noodle on these resolutions while you listen

21:54

to another story. Here we go.

21:56

Let's pop it in. I

22:06

wanted to really go and find

22:08

myself and maybe

22:10

finding myself meant not in

22:12

my hometown. So

22:14

I decided to look

22:17

at other places to

22:19

do my first full year of teaching. And

22:23

so I saw this opportunity to teach

22:25

in England. I

22:27

thought this is perfect. I'm going to figure out

22:29

what grade level I want to teach. I'm going

22:31

to figure out who I am as a teacher

22:33

and as a person. And I'm going to be

22:35

able to travel all over the world. The

22:39

company that recruited me recruits

22:42

mostly Canadians. I

22:44

was like, great. We're going to get you this

22:46

townhouse. Since

22:48

we have to get you home, we have to have roommates. One

22:52

was from Poland. One was

22:55

from New Jersey. And

22:57

then one from New York. I

23:01

thought, wonderful, they sounded like fun ladies that

23:03

I'd be interested in hanging out with. It's

23:06

going to be a great experience. Well

23:10

one of my roommates, Jerry from New Jersey, was

23:14

not the most stable person. Clearly

23:17

was having drinking issues, having

23:20

dudes in her house that we did not know.

23:24

It got to the point where I was just getting

23:26

really frustrated because all these strange men were coming into

23:28

my home. I

23:32

was stressed out. She was borrowing money

23:34

from me. And I was

23:36

just so frustrated. I

23:41

had used to go on trips with

23:43

her. She

23:45

had no money. She

23:47

still owed me money. She wasn't paying her

23:49

bills. It was not

23:51

a nice roommate situation. And

23:54

so I went off to Ireland without

23:56

her with my friends. that

24:00

I didn't invite her, but I didn't invite her

24:02

because she didn't have the cash because I knew

24:04

she owed me money still. If

24:06

you owe me money, I'm not going to invite you somewhere

24:08

where you have to spend money. When

24:13

I came home from Ireland, I

24:16

was greeted by two strange men, drunk

24:18

at my kitchen room table, and

24:21

I'm like, what are you doing here? And where

24:23

is Cherry? What's going on? They

24:27

were too drunk to even answer

24:29

me properly. She has

24:31

nowhere to be seen, and there's these two men in my house. They

24:37

let out like something, she's passed out

24:39

somewhere. So

24:42

I go upstairs to her room, I

24:45

knock on the door, open it, she is passed out in bed.

24:49

What are you doing? There's these two strange men here, you

24:51

got to get them out of the house. They're

24:54

down there wasted, and you're here sleeping, and you

24:56

knew I was coming home, you have to get

24:58

rid of these men. Are

25:00

you going to be paying attention to them? They're your guests, you

25:02

got to get rid of them. She

25:05

lost it on me, she screamed at me.

25:09

I said to her that she's too messy,

25:12

and I'm tired of cleaning up her messes and

25:14

taking care of her. I

25:17

was like, I'm done, like I'm going to find somewhere

25:19

else to live, like I can't be put in these

25:22

positions anymore. And it was

25:24

a full bad fallout. I

25:27

go downstairs and I lose it on these guys, I

25:29

said, you need to get out of this house right

25:31

now, like when she was passed out, you should have

25:33

left, get out of here, they

25:37

leave. The

25:40

week goes by and it's

25:42

awkward, we're avoiding each other. I'm

25:46

sitting in my nightie in my pajamas, I'm all in

25:48

bed and I'm cozied up and I have books just

25:51

all around me laid out by grade levels and

25:53

I'm marking them. So

25:55

I'm very focused. All

25:59

of a sudden. I feel

26:01

energy. It

26:05

was just so heavy. I

26:08

just look up. There's

26:11

this guy in a

26:13

blue polo shirt. And

26:16

he looks disheveled. And

26:19

he's standing there, staring at me. I

26:25

remember feeling annoyed. Cherry's

26:28

not here. This is the wrong room. I

26:32

was going back to Marking. And

26:35

I'm realizing he's not leaving.

26:38

And I'm getting mad. Cherry's

26:41

room is downstairs. You need

26:43

to go downstairs and leave me

26:45

alone. I'm busy. And

26:49

he looked me in the eyes. And

26:52

I was like, oh, I know this guy. I think

26:54

I know this guy. Do I know this guy?

26:59

I scanned down. And

27:02

that's when I see a knife and

27:05

a bottle of Prosecco. What

27:09

the hell is that? And

27:13

he just said, I didn't

27:15

come for Cherry. And

27:18

I knew what was about to happen. Is

27:22

this what every woman is prepared

27:25

for? That moment

27:27

where they're going to have to find their way

27:29

out of a bad situation like this? It

27:32

just got really real. I

27:36

was hyper aware of the little

27:38

amount of clothes I had on. That

27:40

I was in my room, in my

27:43

bed, completely vulnerable. I

27:47

was like, OK, I got to get my shit together here. This

27:51

guy has a knife. He's

27:53

either going to do some very

27:55

bad things to me and

27:57

then leave or leave.

28:00

He's going to do very bad things to me and

28:02

then I'm not going to be alive anymore. So

28:06

how do I get out of this situation? I

28:10

need to get out of bed. I need to get out

28:12

of this room and I need to get downstairs. I'm

28:17

panicking thinking, how am I going

28:19

to get downstairs without this man doing

28:22

all kinds of other things that could happen in this

28:24

situation? When

28:26

I'm looking him in the eyes, I'm seeing

28:29

that this guy's on drugs because

28:31

his eyes were black. So

28:33

maybe I can play to that. I

28:36

know that I got to keep him calm and if

28:38

he's on something, maybe I can convince him I'm into

28:40

it. So

28:43

I was like, well, what are you going to do

28:45

without Prosecco? He's like, I want to drink it.

28:48

We're going to party. We're having a good time. It's

28:52

like, okay, God, this is terrible. So

28:56

he uses like the knife to try

28:58

to awkwardly open it. And

29:00

he's going at it and

29:03

I'm like, I could go right now. But then

29:05

he has a knife at my head level. Once

29:08

he finally gets it open awkwardly, it starts

29:11

pouring onto the carpet. I

29:13

was like, oh my gosh, my clean

29:16

carpet. We can't ruin

29:18

my carpet. We got to clean that up. We got to

29:20

get downstairs. You want

29:22

to have a proper cheers, right? And

29:25

he just was like, oh, yeah, you're

29:28

a real proper bird. You're a real

29:30

proper fancy bird. You need to drink

29:32

out of a proper glass. Yeah,

29:36

we got to drink out of proper flute. Let's

29:39

go downstairs. Oh

29:41

my gosh, we're going downstairs. Okay, perfect.

29:44

I'm on the third floor. So I got to get down

29:46

three floors. Just

29:49

halfway past the first floor and I was like,

29:52

this is the longest walk down a set of

29:54

stairs in my entire life. He

29:57

is a group of my nightie in the back and

29:59

he. I

32:00

hear him running behind me. There's

32:03

a train station right across from

32:06

where I lived. Usually

32:08

people would walk down the trail and they'd walk past

32:10

their home. It was a pretty busy street during the

32:12

day. There's

32:15

these two guys, they're walking down

32:17

the path, walking towards me. So

32:21

I started running as soon as I slammed

32:23

the door open and was screaming for help.

32:27

All of a sudden there's this massive

32:30

force right under my rib cage.

32:34

And I just go flying over

32:36

the side of this brick railing.

32:40

I fall flat on my

32:42

face. I

32:45

have no idea what's going on because I'm

32:47

totally like caught off guard. One

32:51

lad comes to me, he helps me up, grabbed

32:53

me and asked me if I was okay. I

32:56

was like, oh my God, this guy, this

32:58

just happened. He

33:00

was like, well, he just booked her that way. My man's

33:02

gonna go look for him and see if he can get

33:04

like what he looks like, like we'll be witnesses for you,

33:06

but you need to get in the house. I'm gonna do

33:08

a scan. You

33:11

need to check all the windows and the doors, make

33:13

sure they're locked and you need to call the police.

33:17

Get back in the house, call the police,

33:20

lock the doors, make sure everything's locked.

33:22

What I'm gonna do is sweep around the house. I

33:27

get on the phone, I'm giving her

33:29

the information and I hear

33:32

this banging noise. And

33:35

I was like, the police are already here? No,

33:39

the police are not here. I

33:42

was like, what? And I

33:44

look out the third floor window and he

33:47

is screaming, you bitch, you let me

33:49

in that house, I'm not done with

33:51

you. Both

33:54

fists banging on the door and I

33:57

yelled, I called the police on you, man.

34:01

You need to get out of here. What are you doing? I

34:03

called the cops. Fuck

34:05

you, you stupid bitch. You

34:07

are nothing but a tease.

34:11

And I was so shocked. I

34:14

cannot believe he's back. I'm

34:17

freaking out. And

34:20

then that's when I heard the sirens. The

34:23

guy who heard the sirens, he went and booked her. One

34:26

of the officers went and chased after him. One

34:30

of the other lads stayed back and talked to

34:32

the police officer. They

34:35

take their evidence. They collect all the stuff that

34:37

they need to collect. I

34:40

get back into the house. The

34:43

police officer, he's like, do you have somewhere

34:45

to go tonight? The guy got

34:47

out of our grasp. I

34:49

said, yeah, I have some friends. I

34:53

did not sleep that night, but I was called at

34:55

five in the morning to go in. They

34:58

did eventually find him. They

35:01

put me in this tiny little room and

35:04

they showed me the evidence. They had pictures

35:06

that he had taken from my house prior

35:08

and collections of things that he

35:10

had gathered. He

35:13

had my underwear. He had some

35:16

socks. And he

35:18

had a picture of me and my brother together. I'm

35:20

assuming he thought my brother might have been a

35:22

past love interest or something. So he had his

35:24

face cut out. They

35:28

found out that this man had made

35:30

a nest essentially. There

35:33

was like a hill that looked down and my

35:36

dining room and living room,

35:38

the whole wall was essentially

35:40

a window. So

35:42

he had made a nest at the top

35:44

of the hill and was just casing our

35:47

place. And

35:49

they suspect that was a couple of months,

35:53

six months of him being interested in

35:55

me, but about

35:57

three months of like casing the place and making an

35:59

item. asked. That's

36:02

when he looked at me and he said, you know, other women have

36:04

not been as lucky as you have. When

36:08

you were describing the man, he said,

36:10

I had a fear that it

36:12

was this person that

36:15

you were describing. It sounded very similar

36:17

to a person we've had many run-ins

36:19

in the past. I'm

36:22

letting you know now, whatever

36:24

intuition you had that

36:27

made you play lost, you

36:29

got to count your blessings because

36:32

other women have not been so lucky.

36:37

This is not his first offense. This

36:40

will put him away, but he

36:43

is a known sexual assaulter. He

36:47

did say, well, it all started at a

36:50

night at the pub. I

36:53

had dropped my wallet when I was in

36:55

the process of buying a drink. I

36:58

went to go pick up my wallet. And

37:01

at the same time said, man,

37:03

he saw a drop. He's going to grab it for me. Our

37:07

hands touched. We

37:09

made eye contact. And

37:11

that was the love story that he had

37:14

created in his mind. Then

37:18

he orchestrated trying to talk to me. I

37:20

didn't talk to him back. When

37:24

he realized who my roommate was, then

37:26

he weaseled his way in with her. She

37:28

was just an easy target to get into the house. And

37:34

when she had passed out, that's when him and

37:36

his buddy went through our things. This

37:40

guy was stealing to gather information and he actually stole one

37:42

of our spare keys. That's how we got in the

37:45

house. I

37:50

just think I got really lucky. Yeah,

37:54

I had made a good plan with playing along,

37:56

but I Also think it was just.

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41:24

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41:26

what a relief. A loss.

41:29

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41:31

That is, we would all miss you

41:33

so much, Susie Q. And

41:36

every time I see a

41:39

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41:41

think of the good times we spent together. And

41:44

I hope you will come back and visit us in

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41:51

call first and I'll make sure I'm conveniently

41:54

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41:56

void it goes. Finally,

42:00

my 2024 resolution. I

42:03

resolved to consume more healthy fats

42:05

and omega-3 fatty acids, less processed

42:07

sugar. I

42:09

also resolved to begin writing my memoir, Pale

42:12

Carnation, or Terry,

42:14

Are You There? It's me, Terry,

42:18

or maybe a carnation for

42:20

Algernon, or

42:25

spare. Anyways, finally, I

42:28

promise to return in the spring with a

42:30

new box of tapes from my collection. And

42:33

I know you're all incredibly picky. Ain't

42:35

think I don't know, but I will

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do my very best to

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bring you even scarier stories

42:41

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42:44

And with that, I cast these resolutions written

42:46

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leg. Into the void.

42:52

Be gone, ye. Well,

42:55

my dearest admirers, have a happy

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holiday and a safe yet spooky

42:59

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43:01

see you all on the other side. Ha

43:04

ha ha ha. Terry

43:06

out. I

43:09

hope no one dies in 2024. Bye. Radio

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