S1 E8 - Donny: A Lifetime of Accidental Mayhem

SPEAKER_00 0:00

I don't know about you, but for sure for me, when I watch something on TV like Breaking Bad or Ozark or whatever, I get so stressed out and nervous. I almost have a little PTSD because I would get worried about those people that they were always gonna get caught. And I guess the premise of all of that is or the PTSD comes from having grown up in the same house with you. And sadly, sadly, you got busted for almost everything. It was so stressful to be in the same house. And I all of those things come rushing back in when I watch some of those shows.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

I get that feeling as well. And the feeling back in the day, back in high school, was the worst feeling in the world for me was always Sunday night because school was the next day. Most of the time I did not have my homework ready to go. In fact, I had this weird thing going on in high school that all my homework was kept in my back pocket. So it was it was a piece of paper folded up, and then a teacher says, Where's your homework at? And I it was either in my pocket or it was not. But that feeling, Judy, on Sunday night still kind of persists occasionally, every once in a while, when you have something coming up or you don't have something done.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

Totally weird. You called me up just a few days ago and you were at our mom and dad's house, and you said, Judy, I have to tell you something about the folks from when I was at the house. And immediately I went into panic mode, thinking either you got in trouble for something or I got in trouble. And I'm like, how does that even happen? 60 years later.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

It's weird because those feelings we had, I can relate to that in regards to watching those TV shows because those guys all on the brink of getting caught. And I think because it's a Netflix show or a TV show, a lot of the times, unless the character is getting killed off, a lot of the time they end up getting away with it. In our scenario, a lot of the time we did not end up getting away with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

Especially you. You were probably the worst one.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Well, this is kind of our unlucky episode where we're gonna talk about just some bad things that happened. We mentioned it earlier that some of these things continued into adulthood. So I think we're gonna sprinkle in some current things every once in a while in regards to this. We have some stories, again, that are kind of unbelievable from back in the day where it just goes to the point of how the heck can that happen? And how the hell did that happen to me? And why did that always happen to me? And Judy, I'm gonna start with one story right away. I'm in high school, I'm living in Minot, and I'm gonna make a deposit at First Western Bank. I'm driving down Broadway in Minot, I'm in my car, and back in the day, I don't know if you remember, they had those little savings deposit books, and you would go to the bank, especially if you went through the drive-thru, you'd send in cash or a check or whatever, and you'd have your deposit book, you'd send it into the teller, the teller sends it back out, they'd, you know, put a note in there, they stamped it with a time and date stamp, and then you know, your deposit was handled. Well, one day, and I gotta preface this by saying, you know, back in the day I was uh partaking in a you know some illegal activities, just kind of leave it at that. Anyway, I'm going to the bank, I'm gonna make a deposit. You know, I don't know what it was, cash. So anyway, pull up to the first Western bank on Broadway window, the drive-thru window. I send in my book, sitting in my car, everything's cool, I'm chilling out, life is good. You know, whenever you make a deposit, you feel good. You know, bad got money going in the bank. It's a good day. Well, this was not a good day. I'm sitting there waiting for the transaction to go through, and all of a sudden the teller says, Is this yours? And I look over at the window, and she's holding up a tiny bag of marijuana that apparently had gotten tucked into my deposit book with the cash. I've got cash, weed, and a deposit book. I look like a drug dealer. So anyway, the teller's there. And you know, back in the day, weed illegal, especially still illegal in North Dakota. And dad's a cop. Here's cop's son going through the drive-thru. I don't know if the teller was the same name.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

You guys have the same name.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

Yes. So this can get dad in trouble, not only myself in trouble, but can you imagine the horror that I felt? Just the sick feeling I Judy, how do you answer that when the teller says, Is this yours? And then I'm like, I'm like, Yeah, that is. Go ahead and send that back out. And you know, and she did. She put it back in and it came the little machine came out. And also I grabbed my weed, and then like a couple minutes later, okay, here's your book. And I'm gonna just tell you right now, I never went to that pick again.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Yes, for sure. Because listen, those people kept their jobs forever, too, so they'd always be looking at you.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

And it wouldn't have been out of the question that somebody at some point down the road, when dad goes in there, says, Hey, your son was here a week ago trying to deposit weed. So I don't know. Luckily, nobody called the cops, took my weed, got my deposit, got my book back, went on my merry way.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

I have to say, I was so stressed being your little sister and watching everything kind of happen. It was stressful. Like I said, I know kind of we opened today's episode by talking about breaking bad and all of that, not that you were cooking math or doing anything like that, but you literally got ungrounded for having been grounded forever. And then, like some moronic person, I hate to say it, but it's like, did you just not even do a self-check sometimes before you walked in the door?

SPEAKER_01 5:22

No, I didn't. Apparently, self-awareness or I was like that guy in prison, and he's like a week away from getting released, and then something bad happens and it's like, oh, we're not letting you out. You're gonna have to stay in for another year because I went from one grounding to the other. And one day, I'm I think I had just gotten off grounding, like maybe literally day one. And I went out and I'm, you know, hanging out with friends, and you guys are hanging out at the house. It's in the middle of the day, broad daylight, and uh I come back from wherever I was coming out to talk to you guys, and you know, hadn't been drinking or anything goofy like that. It's just Donnie feels good, first day of ungrounding, life is good, and I'm standing there talking to you guys, and all of a sudden I'm getting this weird look from you.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

Feels like stink eye. I'm trying to give you the stink eye, and you're like missing it.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

Talking to mom and dad, going, Hey, yeah, you know, had a good day, went to the park, rode around, you know, on our bikes and did this and that. And all of a sudden, dad goes, What's that hanging out of your pocket? And I look down and I have a pack of Marlborough cigarettes that were in my front pocket. Well, not tucked in, not tucked in. They were kind of just half hanging out. So I went from immediately having, you know, one day of ungrounding to going right back to being grounded. I went from free and easy, down the road I go, one day only, and the next thing you know, back in back in the house. Well back in the big house.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

Yeah, you were grounded a lot. I wasn't anywhere near as much trouble. Of course, I didn't do all the things that you did either. I think you even ran away one time, and I I always make fun of it because it what you ran away for an hour.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

It was a little more than an hour, but it it wasn't much longer than that. So it might have been the three-hour runaway. But I ran away. Yeah, I was gonna run away and I was gonna hitch a ride to California. And you know, it was having this was like my junior year in high school, and things were just going south, and you know, I'm just grounded all the time. Wife is not good, and and uh I thought about running away, so I was gonna hitch a ride to California. Well, my plan was to get outside of town and just you know hang out for a night, and then the next day, when it was date, to go do what I was planning on doing. Well, it didn't work out that way. I get outside of town, there's an abandoned house, and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna spend the night in this abandoned house. And this is like October, November. No, I know, I know. This sounds like this is like the beginning of a Netflix movie that doesn't end well. Oh, the kid's running away and he's in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town. And it's like October, November. The weather's cold. Well, I'm gonna light a fire. So I light a fire and I'm sitting around my own campfire. This is like two hours into my three-hour runaway, and all of a sudden I start feeling like I'm getting sick. I'm like, oh my God, unlucky Donnie, who has all these things happen, can't even pull off a runaway without something happening and being sick. So I thought, okay, gotta pull the plug on this. I've gotta, I gotta go somehow go back. Weirdly, I'm walking back into town. Well, now it's dark out, and Judy, I run into a barbed wire fence and I cut my forehead. I have a cut forehead, I'm bleeding. I go into, I think it's called, what was that restaurant? Was it Trail West? Or that was kind of over there by Heisler's uh grocery store. There was a little restaurant over there called Trail West, and I went in there bleeding, and some guy called the cops, called 911, because you know, I'm coming in all disheveled and I'm I'm bleeding from my forehead. The cops come, and because I'm sick, everybody thinks that, you know, something weird's going down. And I actually, via ambulance, go to the hospital. Well, I'm in the emergency room at Trinity Hospital, and again, unlucky Donnie, three-hour runaway. Now I'm in a hospital, forehead's bleeding. Dad walks in. And you know what dad says? Cat, damn it! What are you doing? And I was like, thought I might get a little sympathy being injured and not feeling well. No, no, I did not. I got into massive trouble over that.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

That's not where I saw the story going, by the way. Um especially with you being unlucky. I actually thought maybe you burned the abandoned house down.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

Fire department comes up.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

And you're bleeding and you smell like smoke and out of breath or whatever. None of that happened. But what did happen in the 45 minutes you were gone, I know.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Wow, now we're down to 45 minutes. In a little bit, it's gonna be you were gone, Donnie, for 12 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

Yeah, you were gone 12 minutes and you ended up in the hospital in the few hours that you were gone. They hunted you down. They did go to your friend's house, and of course he lied for you like the good friend that he was. But my mom kind of threw the window, passenger side window, pops them right in the face with her big diamond ring, which I did not know about until I was at school the next day. And I hear about it at the lockers.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

I'm a junior in high school, and again, for all intents and purposes, that kind of ended, you know, any existence that I had because, well, first of all, I'm grounded all the time, so nobody sees me after school hours. Well, now there's stories circulating, you know, with kids showing up in school with a black eye and saying, Yeah, Tony's mom slap me or punched me. You know, and then all of a sudden I'm like, wow, okay, you know, my mom has to fight my fights. This is not a good thing. Judy, that even got brought up. I went to one of the reunions years later. No, somebody came up to me and said, Hey, and I had now ex-wife, but I had my wife with me at the reunion, and this two-fist comes up to me and says, Hey, did you tell her about running away and your mom popping that kit? And I'm like, No, no, why would I share that story with my wife? That's hidden away. That's only now being revealed to the world.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Funny now, you know, that you kind of had some bad luck with that. But that was just one of many kind of, I'm gonna say just crazy things that happen to you all the time.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Judy, we referenced it on our fast forward podcast about the week from hell. And I got to tell you real quick, the week from hell. We talked about a couple of things. I got in the accident, got rear-ended. Mom went to Trinity. I went to pick her up. I hit the girl on the bike. Again, if you missed the last podcast, she ended up being okay, but you know, ended up being traumatic. More from the city.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

And it wasn't a little girl, right? It was like a gross.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

Yeah. It was a yeah, I don't want you to think I didn't run over a five-year-old girl. This was like a like a 20-year-old riding a bike. Yeah. So anyway, she ended up being okay. But that was the week from hell. That was also the week that mom and I are gonna grill out a couple of steaks, and she sticks her head down into the grill to see why it's not lighting. And at that moment, I'm like, oh, let me, you know, and I hit the clicker, fireball, eyebrows gone, the whole nine yards. Dad's in Virginia at Quantico going to the FBI Academy. He's gone for a couple months. So I'm actually staying with mom, helping her out. God help her. Okay. In in words only, man of the house. So anyway, one of the days I'm there, I come out and dad has a Porsche, 9-11, really nice one. Got it in the garage. Well, like the first week he's gone in that week from hell. I go out and all of a sudden I look and I see something had leaked out of the Porsche and it's all over the garage. Then you got to call up dad in Virginia and say, hey, listen, nobody touched your car, but the fluid that's in there leaked out all over the garage. So, you know, not sure what happened to the Porsche. Later that day, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna edge, I'm gonna weed whack for mom. I'm using the weed whacker. Well, I'm like, you know, you bang the weed whacker to get extra string to come out or whatever, and then you can do the edging. I did the banging thing, the whole thing broke. So weed whacker, gone, broke that. That's completely gone. Car accident with mom, and then the bike accident a week later was a continuation of a little bit beyond the week from health, because Judy, that car accident where the guy rear-ended me on Central Avenue was one of three car accidents that I got into in three weeks. Three car accidents in three weeks. And that's not counting the girl on the bike. So that could be four. And to my credit, none of those accidents were my fault. None of them. So guy rear-ended me. Week later, I'm sitting in a gas station parking lot. A girl comes in driving, boom, side swipes me. And I'm like, and I knew the girl. And I come out and all of a sudden, I'm like, oh my God, you just ran into my car. So anyway, that was the second of three. The third one was I was at Penguins, which was a bar in mine, and I'm leaving there on highway two, and somebody freaking runs into me there and almost totals my car. So in three weeks, three car accidents, none of them my fault. Girl on a bike, not my fault. She got the ticket.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

Whatever you touched, sometimes nobody ever wanted to loan you a car, nobody ever wanted to have you do something, because sadly you were just really bad luck for a long time.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

Real quick, Judy, I gotta fast forward to years later, three broken windshields. Same thing, three broken windshields in three weeks. I'm in a bar working at a radio station here in Denver, working at a bar that night, doing an appearance or giving away prizes or whatever. I come out of the bar and I get to my car and I'm getting ready to open the door and I see all this crystal sparkly stuff on my car seat. I'm like, huh, that's odd. And then I look up and I see my front windshield is smashed. So don't think anybody knew it was my car. It was just a random act of violence. And somebody had taken a crowbar and smashed my window like four or five times. Just a random thing. So I'm like, okay, so I get a new windshield put in. A day or two later, I'm driving by the Air Force Academy, down by Colorado Springs, driving north, driving back to Denver, 65 miles an hour, coming over a little dip in the road. Boom! I hit a deer and almost totals my car, smashes my windshield. The deer basically flips along the side of my car. And actually, when the highway patrolman showed up, he goes, Did you roll this? That's how much damage I had in my car. Days later, so this is all within a three-week period, going to a Broncos football game. It's Denver and I think it was the Dolphins on a Sunday, mile high stadium, and it had just snowed the night before, like five or six inches. Then the next day, typical Denver weather, you'll get like a little mini storm. The next day, 60 degrees, gorgeous day. Driving my car, got my new windshield, and weirdly, a car driving the opposite way drives over a big puddle in the road, the water splashes up, hits my windshield, and because of the temperature difference or the temperature of the water or whatever it was, a big crack goes through my entire windshield. Second brand new windshield, ruined, a crack goes all the way through the windshield. So, Judy, that's unlucky, Donnie. Three car accidents in three weeks, none of them my fault. Three windshields in three weeks.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Those of you that know Donnie, if he ever wants to uh drive in your car or drive your car, the answer to the question is a hard no. It is a hard no. He wanted to, that Mazda that he referred to with the deer hair, he wanted to trade one night. We were living together, sharing a place in in Bismarck. And uh he's like, hey, I want to borrow your cougar. He's like, I want to borrow that car. Let's just trade cars. And he had the damaged uh Mazda RX7. I'm like, okay. Well, the next morning I feel somebody over me and he's like, Judy, Judy, something happened to your car. And I said, What? He's like, Yeah, he goes, something, something happened to your car. He goes, all of a sudden, the accelerator got stuck and the car was going like 140 miles an hour. And I'm thinking to myself, bullshit. The only way that the car goes 140 miles an hour, it doesn't just accelerate to 140. The the uh the thing did get stuck, but you had to have been going that speed, which you've never fessed up to. But anyway, then all of a sudden you thought you were like Mr. Handyman. And again, you see him with the screwdriver, no thanks. I got this. That's your answer if he asked you for anything. No, thank you. Just step aside, don't let him do anything. But he lifts the hood up on the car, which you would think, why? Why? What does he even know about cars? He knows nothing. So he's he's like, Judy, all of a sudden I had this wing nut in my hand. I was taking off the air filter thing, and he drops the wing nut down into some other part of the engine, which the carburetor. Yep, yep. And why you were even in there is still a mystery.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Well, I'm gonna fess up. That's exactly what happened. And I'm fessing up right now. I'm driving, I think it was Rosser Avenue or somewhere in Bismarck, and you're right, I gun it. The car accelerator does not get stuck down in that position without something triggering that. And the car had a great sound to it. When you gun the car, it would be like, and you know, it was cool to do that. So anyway, I'm driving your car that time and I gun it. And it's like and the gas pedal gets stuck down. I don't know if it's under the floor mat or where what happened, but all of a sudden, I am driving at a high rate of speed in a residential area. Judy, my life flashed before my eyes. I thought, oh my God, fireball, I'm gonna like run into a building or something. This is gonna end tragically. And I can't remember exactly what happened, but it got unstuck. Everything was okay, except for, yeah, the car was never the same after that. And I also, somebody told me that if you lift up that little plate that sits on top of the air filter, that it'll add a little more cool sound to it. So actually, what happened? It wasn't the wing nut. I put a couple of washers on top of the thing and then put the top back down and then put the wing nut on. And then that top of the air filter cover would lift up a little bit and it would add to the sound. Well, what happened is when I was doing that and trying to do all that, one of the washers, or maybe more, fell down into the carburetor. And, you know, I think for the next day or so it was okay, but it worked its way through the engine, blew the motor.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

This is the first time hearing the confession of what really happened, because he was a denying, lying dog for many years, afraid to tell me. Because that was our whole family's almost our favorite car because it was coveted. It had like a 351 Cleveland in it, but yeah, it was truth be told, you were an animal and lifting up the hood. And you said it was to fix. Now I know. All right, still pissed.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Yeah, if you have something nice, don't let Donnie use it because it's not going to be nice after the day.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

And that could be my stuff, but more kind of the unlucky aspect of that is that it's other people's stuff.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

Things that you have to, you know, just don't let them borrow anything. If he spills on himself while he's at your house, you just say take that home with you. Don't let him near any of your things because it will for sure get ruined. I, on the other hand, have had pretty good luck with a lot of stuff. I'm not unlucky like you. My unlucky things are pretty simple things. I remember I worked for a car dealer as soon as I kind of graduated from college, and I was working for a car dealer in North Dakota. And I I won't say the car dealer's name, but um he would always have me run and go get cars and stuff all over the place. And one time he's like, Hey, hey, Judy, can you go get our boat? And I'm like, you know, one, why? I I don't know anything about towing a boat or towing anything. And I do don't get the concept of the weight behind the vehicle, whatever. But my little things are nowhere near yours. I don't get caught in any way like you do, but I am hauling ass down Broadway in my nut with this boat doing like 60 to 70 miles an hour. Wow. I know, and it's not like a little boat, it is a big boat, like a lakes of Kakawiya kind of boat. It's a big, big boat. Anyway, so I guess who I passed was the owner of the car dealership, whose boat it was. I like that's the and then totally all of a sudden easy, somebody zoom and buy them. And uh that was me. Listen, my stories aren't anything quite like yours. Um, my bad luck came a little bit later, so with a few things. But one last thing I have to tell you is I worked for our rental place when I was in Bismarck, and I had to go to Fargo and pick up cars, which was kind of a fun job getting to go to these different places and pick up cars. So two of my friends and I, we each had to go pick up cutlasses. We each had one and we're driving down the road in these brand new cutlasses. Well, you know, North Dakota, wintertime, what happens? The roads ice up. And then the first car spins in the ditch, second car spins and goes in the ditch. There I am, spin. And it was like a hat trick all through. Three of us going in the ditch. That listen, I don't get grounded for my stuff. I just, you know, like I said, have different issues. Nothing like what you have.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

A lot of my bad luck was actually predicted by mom. Mom had these premonitions. Mom would say, hey, don't do this. And you almost got to the point where you didn't want mom to warn you about something because then that would literally happen. I'm going with a couple of buddies up to Lake Matagoshi. This is just a small window where I'm not grounded. I'm going up to Lake Matagoshi with a couple people. Mom and Dad are obviously concerned about me because when I'm not, you know, within their reign or within their eyesight, something bad might happen. Well, mom gives me all the warnings and says, you know, and I had just gotten a brand new pair of glasses. She's Donnie, don't make sure you don't lose your glasses. And I'm like, how can I lose my glasses? Okay, I'm not going to lose my glasses. Donnie, make sure when you're driving up there with your friends, you don't get a speeding ticket. I'm like, okay, yeah, I'm not going to plan on doing that. I'm going to hopefully drive the speed limit. You know, so these are the warnings from mom. So anyway, we're driving up to Lake Metagoshi. We get north of Minot or north of the Air Force Base. I can't remember what the highway is. Then you make the turn to get on the next highway over to Lake Metagoshi. And we're driving. I was like, get pulled over. Here's the speeding ticket. Mom was right. Premonition, prediction, is the exact same spot, too, that she told you to be careful, right? Yeah. Yeah. She knew. She knew where. And I think that, you know, she knew that there was uh coverage up there, that the state patrol would be sitting up there. Maybe she tipped him off and said, watch out for my son. So anyway, we're at Lake Metagoshi. We're having a good time. We're in a boat on the water. And I'm like, wow, this is just awesome and it's gorgeous out. Let me jump into the water. Judy, I jump into the water and I go under, and then I come back up out of the water. I'm like, uh-oh. And I realized that I had jumped into the water with my glasses. When I came out of the water, there's no glasses. I'm like, uh-oh, mom was right again. I just lost my glasses. Oh my God, I gotta find these. Let me dive down to see if I can find my glasses. No, this was like 20. I mean, I don't know how deep Lake Matagoshi is, but at this point, it's deeper than 10 or 12 feet. I mean, you can't just go down and say, there they are. Yeah. So the glasses are gone. Needless to say, when I got home, everything that mom had predicted, had a premonition about that she jinxed actually happened.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Did you knock yourself unconscious on that trip? Is that the one?

SPEAKER_01 24:28

I did. So I'm scared of bees. Dad's allergic to bees. Dad has these allergic reactions to bees. So I thought, maybe, maybe I have one. So again, same trip. We're at Lake Metagoshi, and all of a sudden I see a bee. And I panic, I turn around, I start running, ran into a tree, knock myself silly, you know, laying on the ground. My friends are going, what's going on? What's going on? I'm like, I saw a bee. And so, real quick, one other premonition, prediction, jinx, whatever you want to call it, state fair going on in mine. You know this story well. I do. Mom and dad, you know, especially mom's like, Daddy, go drive your bike to this fair. And dad's like, yeah, I can't tell you how many times we get reports of bikes stolen. And I'm like, I gotta lock. I'm gonna lock up my bike. You know, no big deal. State fair from where we live is on completely on the other side of town. Not gonna walk there. You know, I don't have friends that can drive you there. I'm gonna drive my bike there. This is my nice Sakai. So I'm driving my bike, I get over to the state fair. They have the chain link fence around that, kind of by the river, the chain link fence that goes around the fairgrounds, and I lock my bike up to the chain link fence. Locked up, safe and sound. Go into the fair, have fun a few hours, come back out, getting ready to go home, and I'm walking up and down the chain link fence, can't find my bike. It's gone. Judy within a couple of hours, and again it's locked up. Somebody must have had bolt cutters or something. The bike's gone. Stolen. Just to fast forward, eventually found out. Not exactly who stole the bike, but I heard about the bike being stolen. And you know where it ended up? In the river. In the river.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

Yeah, isn't that weird that they would throw the bikes in the river, they'd steal them and then just toss them in the river.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Again, just a random act of violence. This is like the broken windshield in Denver, somebody just being, you know, criminal. I'm gonna tell you, Judy, again, the unlucky aspect of that is guess what? There were still 20, 30 other bikes that were doing the same thing that I did that were all locked up in the chain link vents. Well, most of those other bikes, or maybe all of them, maybe, maybe all of them, are still sitting there. Donnie's bike is in the mouse river.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Listen, I have to say something. It's kind of funny, and it's not unlucky. I guess maybe it's unlucky. I don't know about you, but and it's probably more when you were in adulthood. But so I had this cat who people were always afraid of. But anyway, he the cat sure seemed to like you. And when I would go out of town, you would watch the cat. And one of the neighbors said to me, uh, hey, how come is the fire truck always at your house? And it was always when you were there. And I would be gone and you would be a good brother and come over and cat sit for me and do whatever. But I would get a call that something's wrong at the house, and I'd be like, you know, what's going on? And you're like, oh my God, there's some beeping sound coming out of your house. And this only happens when it's you at the house. Again, not anybody else. There's not a problem. But when you're over at the house, all of a sudden there's a beeping. And I'm like, what is the beeping? I said, Do you smell something? I said, Is it smell gas? You're like, I don't know. Let me go downstairs. So you go downstairs, you are like, I smell gas. And I'm like, oh my God, get out of the house. Get Archie, get the cat, get out of the house. And you're like, okay, I'm trying to call 911. Fire trucks come over to the house. There's a big commotion. And, you know, I'm camping in Pueblo. And so anyway, I say, you know, you're like, well, it was nothing. It was the water heater or whatever. And then I was dying to know. I said, well, what was the I'm lightheaded? And you said, Yeah, I might have done a shot, a yeager at the bar tonight.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

That's actually a true story. I'm in your basement and there's the beeping, and I thought I smelled gas. And, you know, the next thing you know, I'm like kind of lightheaded. I'm I'm calling you, and you just kind of say, grab the cat and get out.

unknown 28:28

I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

So I, you know, call 911, grab the cat, and got out. And then the fire department shows up. And, you know, they don't show up with like one or two firemen. They show up, there's like five or six firemen in the house. Everybody's checking everything out. And then the consensus is after, you know, kind of checking everything out, is that yeah, there's uh there's absolutely nothing wrong. You must have this must be a figment of your imagination. False alarm. And then I just kind of embarrassingly have to say, okay, thanks guys, thanks for coming over. You know, and then I then the back end of that is I have to update you and say, oh yeah, nothing.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Know for a fact that wasn't the last time that the fire trucks were at our house for some episode with you while we were there. So anyway, I just have to say, because I I think we're gonna have a whole other episode talking about kind of the continuation of some of your bad luck. And I do have a bad luck story too.