S2 E4 - Chaos Moved in Too

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Judy, we're about a third of the way through season two, talking about growing up in Minot, North Dakota, strange things that happened to us, strange field trips that we went on in school, the strange pets that we had, just strange experiences in general, all of our lives. And today I think we're gonna talk a little bit about some of the strange roommates that we had, and maybe have, depending on what our situation is. Sometimes those strange roommates was us.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

That's exactly right. And I know that's probably the case with you. If anybody watched episode eight, season one, they would definitely dial that to be you. Yeah, I'm just saying, it's interesting and funny that, Donnie, we got evicted from our very first apartments. I got evicted before I ever even moved in. What's just nuts about that is if we got evicted from our first apartments, how did we do interacting with people the first time as a roommate? So I lived by myself at first. I think you live with roommates, but my very first experience with a roommate was when I was going to college in Grand Forks and going to live in the dorm. So this is after I had been on my own. I had never had a roommate, I didn't know what to expect, just had no clue. So I made a list and I numbered them from the worst kind of person that could be my roommate to the best. Worst case scenario, best case scenario.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

Judy, I gotta jump in and ask you. Not gonna ask worst, but I do want to ask best, what was the best case scenario? What were you looking for?

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Best case scenario is somebody that single white female. Single white female, but they had to have kind of their own shit. So they weren't, and because our family wasn't big on sharing either. So it's a, I just didn't want to be kind of the, and I was older. So I was already gonna be two years older than the person that was gonna be my roommate. I was hoping for somebody that honestly wasn't like a freak. Needless to say, I go there, I have a car, which a lot of people that in the dorm do not have a car their first year. This person, and I brought my own TV, my own stuff. It was really nice. I get up to my room and my roommate's already there. And I'm like, oh no. I'm like, it's number one on the list. Number one on the worst list? On the worst. I'm like, are you kidding? Number one on the list. I call mom and dad, and I'm like, hey, I said I just because they knew about the list. I call them, I'm like, oh my God, it's number one on the list. And they're like, Judy, you gotta bring your TV to the police station. I'm like, I'm like, What? In case they steal it or they they don't get to watch it or whatever. But that was their reaction to that roommate. And then I have to say just one other thing, because I I said before, that's the only time our dad gave me money for college was that that weekend, $500. However, the other weird thing, five days go by. I'm already broke, but she says, Oh my god, I'm so happy. And I put a request in for a new roommate immediately. She's like, Oh my god, I'm so happy my dad's coming. Well, I said, That's cool, your dad's coming, blah, blah, blah. She's like, Yeah, he's bringing me a toothbrush.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

I haven't had one. Oh my God, I haven't had one.

unknown 2:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_02 2:58

Maybe she was using yours.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Okay. I didn't think of that. Gross. Yes. But I don't think so, because otherwise she wouldn't have been so excited.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Maybe she would have just kept using yours and said, hey, dad, don't bring a toothbrush. My roomie has one.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

And then in the same two-day span from that, she asked if she can borrow my car. Are you kidding? I'm looking at my calendar thinking, oh my God, I need the 10-day waiting period to be over so I can get my new roommate.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Did you get a new roommate? Did she end up being your roommate? What happened? I did get a new roommate, but she was still my sweetmate. It was not sweetheart, sweetmate.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Yeah, it's a suite because there was two rooms and a suite, so you shared a bathroom, whatever. And I'm just gonna say it was just crazy because I think like day eleven, she like pukes all over herself too.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

Wow, that's crazy. I could also ask, your second roommate that you got, was it a little bit better on the list that you made? Yes, it was.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Not a ton better, but it was a little bit better.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

I don't think our folks ever liked us living with somebody else because they were just always into us and our stuff. And I think they always kind of thought negatively about anybody else that they were gonna, in your situation, bring the TV to the police station. I've never heard of such a goofy thing. They always thought somebody was gonna like rip us off, steal from us, or eat our food. Just weird stuff like that. They never gave anybody the benefit of the doubt. We've got some stories that we're gonna share today from bad roommates that we had. And again, in some certain situations, we were the bad roommate. I got a real quick start in Minneapolis where I had five roommates because we were all living with Minnie in Minneapolis. We talked about her in a previous podcast. We're all students at Brown Institute in Minneapolis. Minnie was down on the first floor. I think she lived with her daughter, Minnie and Toyla. Upstairs on the second and third floor are six of us, future broadcasters. It was almost like the island of misfit toys because everybody was strange in their own right, probably including me. In fact, I gotta tell you real quick when mom and dad used to come visit me in Minneapolis when I stayed in this house, you know where they stayed?

SPEAKER_00 4:50

In the back of their pickup outside the place.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Yes. They wouldn't stay in a hotel. They were cool enough not to crash on my floor because I had a single room. They brought this big pickup that had a topper on it, and they'd put a mattress in the back and they'd sleep right outside my window. And it was kind of the way they did. Judy, I'd wake up, I'd look out the window, and I'd go, Good morning, mom and dad. Are you guys up yet? Yeah, they'd sleep out in the pickup. I thought it was the weirdest thing. And I don't think it was they couldn't afford to stay in a hotel. I think they just wanted to, since they were visiting me in Minneapolis, they just wanted to be nearby and sleeping out on the street, and their pickup was as close as they could get without actually being in the room. Again, real quick and I'll wrap up, but the island of misfit toys included this one guy. His name was Art. The only guy that had a telephone. Whenever I needed to call the folks or make a long-distance call to mom and dad, he was cool. I'd go up to the third floor, use his phone and whatnot. He was from Omaha and he was scared living in Minneapolis. And he didn't have a car. He would walk or take the bus everywhere he went. But what's kind of bizarre about that, Judy, is he would take on the bus with him and walking around Minneapolis, he'd carry a baseball bat. And I don't know if it was a defensive, if somebody looked at him and said, okay, let's not mess with this guy. He's carrying a weapon, a baseball bat, if you will. Or if he was ready to pounce in case something happened and he was going to start swinging, like a Billy Club, his baseball bat. He ended up working at WCCO TV in Minneapolis. Great guy. Strange, not strange roommate, but strange habit of carrying around a baseball bat wherever he went.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

I have to say, the other thing, when I was in Grant Forks, I met somebody else that would become my future roommate when I moved to Denver, which was kind of interesting because we became really, really good friends when I was, and he was from Minot. We grew up together, although I didn't know him. I mean, I knew of him in high school. I met him the day I was moving into the dorm. And he shouts my name and he's like, Judy, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh, uh, so-and-so or whatever. And he goes, You need some help uh carrying some stuff up. And I'm like, yeah, cool. And I said, but first I said, I have a one, you know, you always kind of have a little test to see if people are gonna be okay. And in this case, I said, I have a dead bird that's stuck in the front of my car. Would you mind picking that out? Can you get that bird out? Because that's I'm like, what am I gonna do? Anyway, yeah, he did. He totally picked the bird up. He became my roommate later on. And I'm gonna say, roommate that turned out to be also a roommate from hell later on. And it was kind of funny how that all happened. He moved in with us, and one, I'm like a kind of a clean freak about my shower and stuff like that. But I went by his bathroom and he had this just disgusting shower curtain.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Did he bring it with him? Or was this a result of just him living there and just never cleaning it?

SPEAKER_00 7:35

It's the latter. And so Dave, you gotta clean that. That's just disgusting. And it smells. So he's like, it's a windy day, which should tell you this isn't gonna end well. But he's out there trying to scrub this nasty furry thing, and big gust of wind comes and it ramps around him like a human burrito. He's out there screaming and wrapped up in this plastic. But he also wasn't good at paying his bills either. Because I remember our mom and dad would say, he would say to them, it's such a great country, the United States. You can live here, you can have a car, not make any car payments. And we would always be worried that his car was gonna get repo's. So anyway, we'll talk more about Dave.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

I got a visual of him wrapped up in the shower curtain running around in the yard with, again, just weird growth and nastiness on that shower curtain. And why would you not go buy a new shower curtain?

SPEAKER_00 8:29

They're two dollars. They're two dollars.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

That's bizarre. But Judy, I gotta tell you real quick about sharing. And I don't know if you had experiences with your roommates in Grant Forks or Dave. Sharing food and labeling food is always a weird thing. Not necessarily your roommate, but in Bismarck, yeah, the sportscaster, grumpy old dude. And this is back in the 80s, and this guy's probably already in his 60s or 70s. And we used to all put our food in the fridge, and it was kind of the honor system. You just assume that nobody would touch your food or whatnot. He was always under the impression that somebody was drinking his orange juice and stealing his orange juice. Not stealing the whole thing. He'd bring like in a jug of OJ. He'd come back in later, and it was like, Who's been eating my porridge? Well, was he like marking it? That's what I was wondering. Well, one night I see him, and this guy was just a nasty, grumpy dude. So one night he's at the radio station, and I'm talking to him for a minute in the kitchen, and he goes, Yeah, I got uh sounds like I'm doing the dad impersonation.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

I'm like creepy old man. Like creepy old man voice. So he goes, Yeah, he goes, Son of a bitch has been drinking my orange juice. He goes, but I got him. I got him good. Oh no. You know where this is going. I go, I go, really? How'd you get him? And he goes, I took a whiz. I'm urinated in my orange juice, so whoever's stealing it is drinking my piss.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

And all I can tell you is right now, not a big fan of OJ. Still don't like OJ. It was not me that was drinking his OJ.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

That is like totally nasty. Yuck. I have to say, kind of go into the sharing thing that you were talking about. So this is where many of the problems began with Dave. Just had graduated from school, had a good job. I could afford to buy things and have an apartment, but could have a nicer apartment because I shared it with Dave. When it was buying grocery time, we didn't split the bill. Which probably should be the case when people do it versus taking turns. And there should be a whole discussion and a class at some point that teaches you how to interact and live with people to avoid problems. Well, Dave, when it was his turn to buy groceries, bought everything totally generic. And every time he was talking with his mom on the phone, he'd say, Yeah, yeah, I'll tell her. Maybe she should get a second job to help out more. And I'm like, What? You got a five dollar an hour job. I at the time, by the way, this was a really good paying job. My job was like $17,000 a year. So that was like $1985. His mom is telling him to tell me to get a second job so we can afford to buy groceries.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

That is the weirdest thing. And and what was he doing? Was he working? Yeah, that's $5 an hour job.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

At apartment finders for five bucks an hour.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

And his mom couldn't tell him to go get his lazy butt off.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

But he I don't I think he lied to her. I think he said that he had something that was bigger than it was. But can you imagine? Just that was, and that was only the beginning of the problems.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

So what happened with that? Did you get a second job? Did you start working harder, not smarter?

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Yeah, that's it. No.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Right.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Wow. No, but I have to say one other thing about him too, and it's again, not only groceries and how to live and do all of that, but like how to pay bills. And I think I I'm not a big fan of, hey, you pay this, I'll pay this, whatever. Because as it turns out, he was supposed to pay the phone bill, so I would give him money for the phone bill. Well, needless to say, the phone gets disconnected, you know, and you know, my friends are like, okay, loser, can't pay your phone bill. I'm like, what are you talking about? And they're like, your phone's disconnected. And I'm like, are you kidding? Did you call him on it? I gotta tell you, I lost my mind. When the phone thing was kind of like the last straw, and I mean the last straw. And then he was talking to the leasing agent to see how he could get out of his lease and wasn't gonna tell me. And I was gonna get like totally screwed. But the leasing agent liked me a whole bunch because I'd hang out with her at the pool all the time. But anyway, she's like, Yeah, hey, your roommate's getting ready to screw you. And I'm like, Are you kidding? And so anyway, I'm waiting. It's Christmas. There's all these presents. I'm waiting for him at home. Wasn't like so many presents like when we were growing up. But you know, there was a lot of presents under the tree. He comes in the door, start looking at him, just lose my mind. F you, blah, blah, blah. Start taking his presents, hurling them off the balcony. Whether they were from his family, whoever, I'm like, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, but the presents are flying. It was like it was raining outside. You know?

SPEAKER_02 12:53

It's like a lifetime movie where there's the breakup, and then now all the presents are getting tossed from the balcony.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Yes, and he wasn't even one of the worst roommates.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Listen, I got to tell you about another roommate experience I had in Gillette, Wyoming, living in the trailer. This is after I had Millie. Minnie was Minneapolis, Millie was Gillette. Remember, the folks came down, ended up buying my own trailer. Well, I was gonna take this guy in as a roommate. His name's Jeff. He ended up being a little bit of a roommate from hell as well, and I'll tell you kind of what happened. I should have had a clue and known how this guy was and what he was all about. Because I went over to his apartment before he moved in with me, and he was living with some other dude. These guys start shooting off fireworks. Bottle rockets, black cats, firecracker. Judy, not outside, not on the balcony, in the apartment. Bottle rockets are flying everywhere, smoke is filling up the room, bottle rockets are bouncing off the wall. At the time, we might have been partaking in a little bit of illegal activity, smoking a little bit of weed, laughing our asses off. Fireworks are going off inside. Look at the light show. Super cool. Fast forward months later, I needed a roommate or wanted a roommate and thought, okay, this guy might be cool.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

You're like, hey, I want somebody that can help burn the house down.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

So anyway, he moves in with me. No fireworks. He ended up being an okay roommate in that regard, not ruining stuff or anything like that. But I'll tell you right now, this guy was super sensitive. And I think I made one comment to him one time about when you're in the kitchen cooking, can you clean up after yourself or put the dishes away? He got so butthurt over that that when I went to work that day, I was on the radio that afternoon, I came home at seven o'clock at night, and he had gotten a trailer, came over, and moved everything out. So when I got home from work that night, he was gone, all his stuff was gone, and end of the story, he didn't burn anything down, he left.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

That's actually funny. Can't take feedback. I have to say, in that same apartment complex where the landlady liked me, the one that I hung out with at the pool, I had another apartment. This one was bigger. And this one, I had a female roommate and a male roommate. And I'm like, can one roommate get worse than the next? How's that even possible? I had this roommate named Roger. Roger got a little behind and he had nothing. I mean, he had nothing. Just the clothes on his back. That was Roger. He got to come into like a fully furnished place. Everything was my stuff. I'm like, all right, you know, again, I don't mind sharing. Here you go. Roger's behind a little bit on his rent. Okay, no problem. Whatever. Just get caught up, go figure it out. I'm a pretty patient person, pretty trusting. So anyway, up until the point when a card comes in the mail. And the card was from U-Haul. And I'm like, U-Haul, confirming a 24-foot truck going from Denver to Myrtle Beach. Is this a mistake? Judy, being the best impersonator possible, calls Yu-Haul. Hi, this is Roger's wife. Just want to call and check on that U-Haul. And they're like, Yeah, we have moving blankets, we have all this kind of stuff. Roger was gonna clean us out. So we ought to get rid of Roger. So me and the other roommate, we're like, We gotta get rid of Roger. Yeah, we gotta get rid of Roger. So we're like, what are we gonna do? We're gonna we have a plan. We're gonna sneak in his room while he's sleeping, try to get his apartment key off his key ring while he's sleeping. Because we're not gonna let him in the house. So when he leaves, he comes back, he's out. All right. I'm like, you go get the key off the ring, and once you have it, then we'll confront him. That was the plan. My friend's over there trying to get the key ring off. Well, I couldn't contain myself because I was so pissed at what was gonna happen. So I'm like, Roger! And all of a sudden the key goes flying in the air. Boom! He wakes up and I lose my mind. I'm like, Roger, you gotta get out. Right now, I know what you're doing. You're gonna steal all of our stuff. Pack your crap. Get out. So I throw him out. He's outside in his boxers, locked out of the apartment, banging on the door. Neighbors call the cops. The cops are coming. So we have a civil assist trying to help him get a stuff out. But that was the end. That was the end of Roger.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

I thought you were gonna say to your other roommate, you get the key, I'll hide the body. That's where I that's where I thought you were going with. Let's get rid of Roger. That's you made it sound like it was Dexter.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

And then all of a sudden, Roger, whatever happened to Roger? We have no idea. Donnie, I was leaning right over him, and I could have had a pillow. Like, and but no, I didn't do any of that. Like, Roger. I just five inches from his face and I just yelled, Roger! It was just chaos.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

Back to Minneapolis for a quick second. One thing I forgot to tell you about that's actually quite funny with those roommates, the island of misfit toys, us living on the second and third floor of Minnie's place. We had a community mailbox right outside the door. We had a mailbox where all six of us, our mail would go in this mailbox. Well, my mail was getting stolen for some reason. Back then, you didn't have a lot of bills coming in the mail. It was usually cool stuff back when people still actually mailed. Mom and dad would mail me money. And, you know, not a lot, but 20 bucks is 20 bucks. They'd mail it to you. And then all of a sudden, you know, a week later, did you get the $20 I mailed you? And I'm like, no. And she's like, oh, oh, done, done. And then got dad, who's a cop, involved. And he's like, Really? You didn't get it? And I go, yeah. And at first they thought, okay, missed delivery went awry, something happened. Well, this was a pattern. And this happened a couple of times where my mail kept getting stolen. What does dad do when mail is missing in Minneapolis? He drives to Minneapolis and meets with the postal inspector. And they get like a trace or get some kind of investigation or something going to find out who's stealing my mail, which apparently is a federal crime. Are they going to go after a little mailbox in Minneapolis that had 20 bucks stolen out of it?

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Yeah, that's not that's a swell, that's a minnow.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

So what does dad do? Dad takes one of those dyes that they use in bank robberies and he actually puts it in the mail and mails it to me. So whoever's stealing my mail is gonna actually open it up and poof, the die goes everywhere. The level, again, of mom and dad watching out for us doing this is crazy because they ended up doing the die pack thing. End of the story, Judy, real quick is I forgot that that was happening. I'm getting the mail one day. And I'm like, oh, I got mail from the folks. Yay! Let me open it up. Judy, die explodes. I'm the one that got died mostly on my hands. And I'm gonna tell you right now, this stuff was like, it took days to get this stuff off my hands.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

You look like a bank robber.

unknown 19:16

I did.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

I'm like driving down the street that day with red hands, and people are like pointing at me.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

There he goes. You ought to try that with your own mail where you live now, because you seem to have the same problem.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

I right now have a massive mail delivery issue. It's been going on ever since COVID. So this is five or six years that this has been going on. And I literally had to tell people quit mailing me stuff because I don't get it. And one day I'm out at the mailbox and I meet the mail guy and I said, Are you, are you my mailman? And he goes, No, no, I'm not your mailman. I'm the backup mailman. I go, Oh, okay. I go, because my mailman sucks. And he goes, What do you mean? I go, Well, I go, half the time I don't get my mail. And you know what he ended up telling me? He goes, Yeah, your mailman's kind of weird. When he's not in the mood to deliver the mail, he takes it home. I said, What? He goes, Yeah, he drives home with the mail. And my question was then, well, what does he do with the mail? Does he throw it away? Does he keep it? Is this like Newman from Seinfeld? Newman, that's exactly. Newman. Totally. I even went to the post office and complained about him. The moral of the story is I had Newman as a mailman. This guy would go home. He'd take the mail home. Apparently he was overwhelmed with his job and the mail delivery. And if it just got too much, I think I'm going to go home.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

How weird is that? I have to tell you about one other roommate that I had. And this roommate wasn't kind of the bad roommate, but the roommate had a stalker. And the stalker, and I had again a female roommate and a male roommate at the time. And she moved in. I said, why don't you move in? Because she had this stalker, which I thought it would help if she kind of moved in with other people that could help pay attention to things. And the stalker, it wasn't like the stalker, I'm in love with you kind of stalker. It was an evil stalker. They put linseed oil in her car. So the car would quit running. The day she'd get her car out of the shop, linseed oil in the tank again. Like new when everything was happening. They would send magazine, like porn magazine subscriptions to her employer at work as a gift, like a gift subscription from her. From her. All kinds of crazy, crazy crap like that. So I'm like, why don't you move in with us? Nothing's gonna happen. It'll be safe, whatever. Like the first day that she moves in, there's a knock at the door. It's for me. It's the encyclopedia salesman delivering the encyclopedias that were ordered for me on my behalf. He knew all of this stuff and had everything totally planned out. Super evil. What was interesting is that's not where it ended. I said to her, why don't you get a new car? Because you have bad luck, that other one's cursed. Get a new car, you can put it in the garage. She gets a brand new Toyota Selica. Well, I come home from work one day. I opened the door and I had a dog, Brandy, but I don't see Brandy. And I'm like, huh. I'm like, those guys were pigs today. They totally trashed the house. Chairs knocked over, the back garage doors open. What the hell is going on? And then I look. Down to where my bedroom is, and I see my dresser, drawers open, shit thrown everywhere. And I'm like, what the f happened here today? I'm like, I'm gonna call and ask, what did you guys do? Then the phone is gone. What is going on? And then I find my dog in the shower. Oh my god, I've been robbed. I grab the dog, run out of the house, go to my neighbors, you had to call 911. I'm like, I don't know if the robbers are here, something's going on, it's crazy. The police come flying up, and all of a sudden, you know, they're checking out the house to clear the crime scene. And I said, just please tell me that the car, the brand new car is okay, that's in the garage. And they're like, What car? They loaded up the car with all the stuff from inside the house, my TV, my stereo. They filled it up, photo albums, all kinds of stuff. And then, I mean, that wasn't even the topper. You know what the guy did too? He's like making like 1976 babe calls and charging it to our credit cards while he's in the house. Was such a big story. It was actually on nine wants to know in Denver.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

Judy, I've got a robbery story as well. Living in Orlando with Diana, we have an apartment. I'm working radio, I'm working nights, she's working during the day. She should get home in the evening. This particular day, I cleaned the apartment up spectacularly. Got the apartment looking amazing. And we had this was around Christmas time up. We had Christmas tree and presents under the tree, lights up inside the apartment and outside. Well, outside, we had a little bit of an electrical issue where I couldn't get everything plugged in. So I had one of the string of lights coming in through a bedroom window. Just my mistake. Lights coming in through the bedroom window, screen is slightly ajar, window can't completely come down a lock. This particular night I'm at the radio stations, probably eight or nine o'clock at night. Diana calls me up and she goes, What's going on with the apartment? And I said, What do you mean? She goes, Everything. And I thought I was going to get kudos for cleaning it because you stud. You cleaned the apartment. No, it wasn't that. She said, Everything's in disarray. It didn't take long for me to connect the dots in my head. Like, oh my God, we got robbed. Call 911. She calls the cops. The radio station is right next to the apartment where we live. I'm looking out the window. I'm doing the seven to midnight show. I see police cars. I see them all driving by, going to my apartment. I, Judy, I can't leave. I gotta hang. I gotta hang at the radio station. Well, finally I got somebody to come in early so I could get home. Go over to the apartment, and there's five police cars. There's like five or six cops in the apartment. They're all walking around. Diana's in the apartment. She's upset. And I look over at our kitchen table and here's a bag of weed. A bag of weed sitting on the kitchen table. And my first thought was, wow, did Diana leave weed out? Have the cops seen this? Should I grab this and put it in my pocket, nonchalantly walk by and grab the weed and put it in my pocket? I got Diana alone in the bathroom for a minute while the cops are scouring the apartment, taking fingerprints. Got a full investigation, CSI, crime lab, everybody's in my apartment. I got Diana alone in the bathroom and I said, What's our weed doing on the table? And she goes, They asked for it. I go, they asked for it. She goes, Yeah, they asked where our weed was. And I go, and you gave it to them? And she goes, Yeah, I didn't know what to do. And I said, Oh my God. And what had happened was the burglar or the robbers or whoever was in the apartment was throwing stuff around and threw a pipe out, a marijuana pipe that we had and left it on the ground. So the cops see the pipe, naturally assumed we had weed, asked Diana for the weed. And rather than saying, we don't have any or you know, whatever you might kind of come up with to not give it up, she did. She's just like, oh yeah, here it is. Here's our weed. And then it's sitting there on the kitchen table. Well, now I got to deal with the cops. They're taking fingerprints, all this stuff's going on. At the end of the night, the cop goes, All right, listen, we've got enough of what we need. We're gonna get out of your hair. However, let's sit down for a minute at your kitchen table and talk about this marijuana. And I'm like, oh God, here we go. And again, back in the day, not legal, not legal anywhere. The cop says to me, I know where you get your weed from. It's probably a friend of yours or a buddy, and that guy's probably an okay guy. But I'm gonna tell you right now, and maybe the guy that he gets his weed from is an okay guy. But somewhere along the line, somebody's getting the weed from somebody that's not a good guy. Who are you getting your weed from?

SPEAKER_00 26:20

He asked.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

And I go, he yeah, he asked. And I said, I can't tell you. I'm just, you know, I'm not I'm not a narc. I can't tell you. And he goes, All right. He grabs the weed and leaves. Now we had gotten robbed. We're traumatized. It would be good to smoke a little bit of weed, kind of calm down, mellow out after we got robbed. Well, we don't have any now, because Diana gave it all up, and the cops took it. So it's like midnight or one o'clock in the morning. So I had to call one of my buddies and say, Hey, do you got any weed? I'm gonna come over and get something.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

El Chapo's on the way.

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Again, you know, the weed on the table was just the strangest thing. I'm like, oh my God, what's that doing sitting there?

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Just a reminder, too, for folks, real quick. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok. Share any photos that you have with us. We're always happy to have those.

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And again, we love getting pictures, whether or not they end up on the podcast or social media or a website. Great to get pictures from back in the day, my not, with us or without us. Send them in. Love to hear from you guys. One more story on my end about being a bad roommate, a bad person to live with. This is probably just more being a little bit tough to live with. It's when I had kids living in Highlands Ranch. And everybody knows I'm a huge Vikings fan, Minnesota Vikings fan for years. I got the helmet right back there. I know you got your KC helmet. You're actually wearing a KC shirt today. Watching a Vikings game in Highlands Ranch, and my middle daughter, Katarina, comes down. And she's kind of the athlete of the family. The other two daughters played sports, but Katerina, kind of like me, had some skills. Kidding. Katerina was the athletic one. So anyway, I'm watching a Vikings game and she's sitting there watching it with me. Well, somebody on the other team runs for an 80-yard touchdown. And that irritates me because I'm watching the Vikings cheering for the Vikings. Well, somebody on the other team runs for an 80-yard touchdown. What does Katerina say? She gets all excited. She's like, oh my gosh, wow, look at that guy. Look how fast he is. And I said, Yeah, Cat, that guy's pretty fast. I go, why don't you head up to your room and just hang out? I'm going to watch the rest of the game by myself. I don't need anybody cheering. And you're kind of the same way. Somebody's in your house and they're cheering against the Chiefs. They are not welcome.

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I usually ban people at my house on Football Sunday anyway. And everybody thinks it's, well, one, because I'm a Chiefs fan. That's exactly right, Donnie. I can't stand it if somebody's cheering. But I'm also, I do bet on sports quite a bit. And somebody over there is cheering for a fantasy football play. I'm like, I got a Hunter burger on that game. You know what I mean? Let's not cheer for that. So yeah, I'm the same way. I get pissed.

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One other story about the family. I'm in a survivor pool. I'm close to winning this thing. Jackpot's like $25,000. There's four of us left in the pool. Thursday night game, two people get knocked out. Pools down to two people on Sunday. First game of the afternoon goes my way. The person gets knocked out. I'm watching the second game, which is I think the Bears and the Buccaneers. And I have the Bears to beat the Bucs. This is back when Tampa Bay wasn't good. And I can win $25,000 if the Bears win this game. I was such a nervous wreck watching this game. And if I end up losing this, we're all out of the pool, and the final four go back in. And then we have to either split the money or play on. Or somebody's going to win it all. And I'm in a situation with the Bucs and the Bears where I can win it all. I'm a nervous wreck, kind of like the Vikings thing. Don't cheer, don't ask me questions. The kids are watching this and they know how much money's on the line, including Diana. And finally I notice I'm all by myself. Nobody's around, which is kind of cool, but I had to figure out where they were. They're all up hiding in one of the bedrooms. Hiding because they didn't want to be there if my team lost and I lost it or lost my mind. The game goes, ends up going to overtime and it goes back and forth. And finally, with like 30 seconds left, and if it ends in a tie, I'm out. And overtime can end in a tie. The Bears kicker at the end of the game, 30 seconds left, comes out, kicks a field goal. I win the pool. I win $25,000 six days before Christmas. The kids hear me screaming. At this point, it's okay and safe to come down and see Dad. So the kids come running downstairs. Diana comes downstairs. There's five of us group hugging and jumping up and down in our living room because I had just won $25,000 cash six days before Christmas. Guess what Christmas that was? Oh my gosh. It was a great Christmas. It was one of the best ever. But I think the moral of the story is you come to Donnie and Judy's house on football Sunday. Be prepared to cheer for the right team.

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I went to the Super Bowl a few years ago to watch the Chiefs and the 49ers when it was their first Super Bowl they won. Our mom and dad were hosting a Super Bowl party. They had the neighbors over whatever. And they were all told they better cheer for the Chiefs for that party, otherwise, they have to leave the house. And of the same thing, everybody has to be cheered for the right team. Weirdly, that Super Bowl, like episode nine, I was on NFL Network talking to Kyle Brandt. So live on TV, which was just kind of weird.

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Breaking news.

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Yep, breaking news. Us again. To wrap it up, I do want to say, please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Looking forward to our next episode. We are going to talk about some interesting things, including nothing good. Nothing good happens after midnight.