June 17, 2025

The Unexplained Disappearance of Abby Roberts and Phillip Johnson - Swing Shift (FREE Bonus)

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This week on.

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Sins and Survivors, we covered the disappearances of Abby Roberts

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and Philip Johnson that have remained unsolved for more than

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thirteen years. Get ready as we put in a little

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overtime on Swingshift and go behind the scenes into what

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went into making the unsolved disappearance of Abby Roberts and

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Philip Johnson.

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Hello subscribers, Hello subscribers, Welcome back to another Swingshift episode.

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Welcome back, Maga subscribers.

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Thank you for being subscribers.

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Another another episode, another Swingshift.

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What day would this episode be being released? I don't

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even know what day would come out?

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June seventeenth, June.

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Seventeenth, though, I think okay.

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I think that's the day. All right, good times. Thank

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you for doing the research on this one.

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And please share Abby and Phillips missing posters. You were

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saying something about research.

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Yes, thank you for doing the research on this one,

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because I was doing a lot of editing, and I

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didn't get mine done in time, so we had to

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do this one a week earlier.

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Yeah, so yeah, you really busted through this one. You

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did a good job.

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Thank you. This one is really sad.

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Yeah, it really is a little confusing, and.

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And there are definitely some I feel like there are

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some obvious questions and theories that come up that I

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hesitate to even talk about in our swingshift episode.

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Yeah, and I think that's partly what makes ethical true

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crime the challenge, and when you don't want to speculate

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and you want to remember that these are real people.

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These are real people who live in our community.

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Yes, we definitely don't speculate. We don't use somebody of something.

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We mentioned it briefly in the episode where I kind

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of said it vaguely that you know, from our research,

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we could see that the family had lived in the

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community for a long time. I did find an obituary

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for I think your grandfather, but it might have actually

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have been a great grandfather, And just when it listed

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out the children and then the grandchildren and then the

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great grandchildren, I was and said that the person was

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the man had been a resident. I believe of Henderson,

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and I was like, wow, this family's lived here for

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a very long time, and there's a lot of them.

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It is a very large family. So there are neighbors,

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you know, very you know, not that I know, not

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that we know them personally, but not literally. Are not

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literally our neighbors, not to my knowledge. And then the

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fact that their children very likely are you know, in

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our community, and you know they're like teenagers, and you know,

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the kids know how to search up stuff on the Google.

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So you know, you just got to want to be

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cautious about We're always cautious about using the names of

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young people. But by that same token, Abby's been missing

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for thirteen years, Philip's been missing for thirteen years, and

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it's pastime. And like I said in the we said

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in this the episode. The detectives at the time, you know,

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in twenty fifteen, they were like, we're going to retire

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and we hope this gets solved, and you know, it's

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just it's just heartbreaking.

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This is a tough one, Yeah, it really was.

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It blows me away that they just seemingly disappeared into

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thin air, right Like this is one of those cases

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where you you know, like the police always say, you know,

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in the things we watch when they're interviewed, people don't

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just disappear. Human bodies do not just disappear like if

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you if you burn a human body. They are very

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difficult to get rid of unless you work at a crematorium.

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Even then there is.

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Debris.

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And it's not clear they had any enemies or no.

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I mean, there's no mention of any motive against them.

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Maybe the police have something in their files, but it

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seemed like they were they didn't have a lot of leads.

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There wasn't a lot in the in the press about

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about that, no description of any other individuals involved, or

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any other cars or any other locations. They were very

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clearly going through the couple's belongings and trying to trace

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where they had been. Like we talked about how they

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found a receipt for a storage facility, so they went

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and searched the storage facility to try and figure out

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maybe where they had gone. And then they found the

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receipt for a different storage facility, so they went into

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California again and searched and it's just it's it's becoming

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so creepy. The longer we've spent you know, really researching

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and and hearing more for true crime is starting to

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really creep me out. The more and more the the

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whole abandoned car thing like the car being found and

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they're just being no trace of the person. I feel

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like you've covered several several several cases of disappearances Stephen.

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Cocher, Stephen Bradley.

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Actually Stephen Bradley's car was abandoned in like Elsnore, and

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that's actually really close to Paris, California.

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Where the storage place was, Yeah.

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Which kind of gave me like creepy vibes too. I mean,

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California is huge, and like the LA area is just massive.

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It's like no coincidence. But just you know, the more

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we do the work, the more you start to like

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see the coincidences, and it's just, you know, they that

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we've actually know of probably many more cases that if

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we thought about it for longer, of young men disappearing

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in their cars being the thing that's left behind, and

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it's just just sad. And then I did have that

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part in there about Philip's mom. You know, he comes

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by the house, he has the kids. He says, hey,

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will you take care of the kids for me? She's like, hey,

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no problem. She had no idea that that would be

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the last time she saw him. She didn't think it

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was weird that Abby wasn't with him, Like why would

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she think that was weird? And like, you know, Abby's

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coworker was texting with her on October second, So I

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mean it's like, yes, the last time anybody saw them

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together was October twenty ninth. I couldn't find the specifics

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of how and when. I assume they drove together to

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work together. You know, that's probably what the last time

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anybody saw them was. Like they left for work that

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day on September twenty ninth. People saw them leave work together.

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And because they it was specifically said they were in

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their car together when they were seen, I'm just kind

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of guessing that but or somebody saw them leave for

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work together from their house. But you know, I don't

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it seems like Abby was you know, was around, was present,

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was chatting with people on October second, and he dropped

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the kids off on October third, So you know, maybe

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they did have Yeah, who knows, it's so unknowable. I

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don't think, and like we do have evidence that, you know,

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Philip went to the bank on the fourth and the fifth.

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Who knows what that was about.

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It feels like now that you say that, there are

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like a lot of parallels with the Stephen Bradley. I

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guess a lot of disappearances have parallels like that. M

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similar stories. We talked one time about you remember we

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had this conversation where I don't know where we were,

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but we were like, if we disappeared, this would be

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the fiction that people came up at.

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Why we disappeared? Where was that?

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Oh? It was when we had when our flight got

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canceled and we had to travel, Yes, and we had

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we did very odd things in order to get home.

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Oh my god, you want to tell a story.

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I feel like we told it on Swing Shift once before.

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Let's tell it again. It's a fun story.

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I don't see if I can if I can remember

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the specifics of it.

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It was the was it the trip to Tucson? Tucson, Okay.

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So we flew to Tucson and we our kid was

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looking at the University of Ours.

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And we rented a car to get around the city.

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Right, So we flew there on.

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That frontier Frontier and then you know, frontier flies from

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Las Vegas like once a week so or something. Yeah,

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and we rented a car while we were there, but

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we rented.

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It, oh, from the Tucson airport. No, No, we flew

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through Phoenix.

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We flew through Phoenix. So we flew into Phoenix. Then

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we'd rented a car there because it was much cheaper

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to flying in Phoenix. Because it was a big weekend

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in Tucson. Drove, we rented and we did this all

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through Expedia because we were like, we're gonna save a

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little money and were and drove Phoenix, drove Phoenix to

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Tucson and we went to Eg's.

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Yeah, this is okay, very bizarre story. But this is

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the second time this week that Eg's has come up

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in conversation, which is very weird.

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Really Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't be weird if you

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lived in It.

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Wouldn't be weird if we lived in Tucson. But it

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is weird that.

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Right, we don't. We don't have Egs here.

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Shout out to, Shout out to. So we drove down

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and we did the college stuff and then we went

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to the airport and we were like, all right, cool,

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we we're gonna home. Now we're going We're gonna go home,

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so we drove, We drove back to no.

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We were gonna what were we going to do?

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We woke up in the morning to drive back to

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Phoenix to go, and we found out our flight was

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counseled yes, So we were like, okay, what do we

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want to do?

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So we were like, well, the salt option was to

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just drive.

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Home, right, because we we both have work and we

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didn't want to spend another two I think we'd have

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to leave on Tuesday, and we didn't want to spend

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another two night or whatever, another night in Tucson or

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or Phoenix, or buy.

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Tickets and go to school.

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So we just decided, forget it, We'll take the credit.

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Because Frontier offered us full refund plus one hundred dollars.

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I think it was something outrageous, and I was like,

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I'm just gonna take.

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This from four flights on their airline front.

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Which funny enough ended up getting candled anyway, never again.

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But we uh so then we were like, okay, well

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we'll just drive home. We'll just we'll just convert this

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car rental, this one, this Tucson car rental to a

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one way rental, and we'll just drive.

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It so we could not do that. No, they would

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not let us change it because we rented on Expedia.

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We couldn't rent the car in Phoenix. We had to

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rent the car in Tucson.

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Maybe, yes, that's right. They wouldn't rent us a one

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way from Phoenix to Vegas. We had to do a

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one way from Tucson. So we had to rent a

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car from the Tucson Airport to take us one way.

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So I rented that car and me and our son

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got in that car. But we still had to return

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our regular rental car to the Phoenix airport. So we

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drove in tandem to the Phoenix Airport for you to

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drop off our original rental car, and then you got

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in the Tucson rental car and then we drove home.

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But we were like, if anything happens to us on

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this trip, everyone is going to have to like it's

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going to do like some forensic accounting and be like

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why did these dodos like rent these rent three what

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were they doing? Why did they rent these cars? Why

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did why did they go to two different egs? Why

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were they not together?

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We went to we had a miscommunication, ended.

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Up a two different we're not together. We were not

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together because we were doing too like you were going, Yeah,

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you had to go return the car. You were like

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just ahead of us because I think you had to

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fill it up with gas or whatever.

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I don't remember together in Phoenix, scouse.

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So then I took like the sky Harbor skytrain from

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the car rental.

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up short term.

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Park, and then it was a five hour drive to.

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Last days five hour drive to let's see.

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we did a similar thing from Indianapolis.

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use those flight credits to go to freaking Indianapolis, and

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they canceled our flight.

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They didn't do it until like ten pm, so then

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we had to like find a hotel, take an uber

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and be ready for like a five o'clock flight, which

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by the way, was a one way flight that we

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had to book on American to get to Phoenix because

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they wouldn't fly to So again we're in the renting

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a one way rent car. At least they rented us

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a one way car. Thank god. We don't do it

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through Expedia or anything. So we were in the same

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damn place again, doing a one way drive to Las Vegas,

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and I was having serious flashbacks, and we agreed at

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To never do that again.

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No more bargain basement airlines. I don't think. I think

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we're done with that. So that brings us to our

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next topic, which is the True Crime Podcast Festival coming

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up in Boston July eighteen through twentieth. Do you remember

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what airline we're flying to Boston.

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I think we were flying like Jet Blue. Oh yeah,

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we upgraded to the fancy pants.

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N I couldn't remember if it was Jet Blue. I sing, maybe, I.

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Think it's Blue. Are flying jet Blue.

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maybe if we're going to see my dad who lived

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in Boston.

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But if you are on the East Coast, if you're

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close to Boston, we really want to recommend that you

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come to the True Crime Podcast Festival because it is

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I don't know, it's just it's just such a great experience.

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You really get to spend time with the podcast creators

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at the tables or at the panels. I'm doing a

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panel again. You're it is actually about the idea of

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vigilante action. I guess i'll call it.

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It was also the topic Vigilante Devil Born Again season one.

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Yes, it is.

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I feel like you Wilson Fisk are on the same side.

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And Wilson Fisk have something to say about vigilantes. Luigi

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Mangioni have you heard of him? So, yeah, the panel

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is going to be on Luigi Mangioni and just kind

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of like the way we've been looking at the idea

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of vigilanti justice, how does that? How is that play out?

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For real?

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What is that?

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What does that mean? What does justice mean?

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What? I know?

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That's kind of like it seems like existential, right, That's

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like a very odd question. But yeah, well, families are

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seeking justice and some people are taking justice into their

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own hands, and it's just it's going to be about that.

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It's going to be about how people are looking at

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Luigi Mangioni and how some people feel that he is

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a hero, and how some people feel that he is

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a sex symbol, and how some people feel that he

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is a he is a murderer, and how we don't

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know what's going to happen when he goes on on trial.

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What might happen, what might be the fallout of a

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of a guilty verdict versus a non guilty verdict in

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our What does it say about our culture? What does

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it say about life in America? What does it say

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about our justice system? Those kinds of questions. How are

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people going to react if Luigi's found guilty? How are

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people going to react if he's found not guilty.

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Will this panel be recorded?

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I believe so, but I am still waiting for the

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organizers of TCPF to kind of confirm that.

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I think you should definitely push that.

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It's going to feature Amanda from the Wine and Crime

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podcast and Kristen from Murder. She told I don't know

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what day of the festival it's going to be, but

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I'm really looking forward to do.

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I think it's going to be really good.

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Great next topic, TCPF is great. It's great to be

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able to meet podcast fans and get to hang out

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in a you know, a smaller venue than some of

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the larger.

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Festivals that we could name.

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Yeah, you know you're not gonna You're not gonna wait

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in line and pay thirty bucks for a selfie with

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with your favorite creators. You'll be able to, like walk

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up to the tables and say lo and chat and

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spend time and have a beer with them if you wish,

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if beers, you're absolutely so. I love the smaller vibe.

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Like I I went to Comic Con in San Diego

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when I was a lad we lad in like twenty eleven,

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and I like La Comic Con better because it's smaller

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and more manageable.

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Oh yeah, I could say that's.

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Why I would pick. Yeah, that's one of the reasons

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I would pick the CPS. Also, only.

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People who consider themselves to be an ethical true crime

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will be there, which is nice.

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Yes, who's the keynote speaker this year?

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It's going to be Eric carter landin really Yes, he'll

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be talking about his other Jacob excellent.

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It's always great to have him.

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Yeah, it's always great. And I was I was talking

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to him earlier and we're gonna have dinner with him

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on Friday night.

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Nice. So Mark Callendar, Well, maybe we'll take a selfie

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with him as well. Maybe then give him a phone

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charger or something in compensation.

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Yes, phone charge. I wish you would hear this so you.

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Could say, I hope he listens to this and calls

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us that's funny.

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Give it up about the phone charger.

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Come on, and are you looking forward to going to

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your hometown, your old stomping grounds.

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I am.

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You want to take me to the ground round.

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Yeah, we'll go to the ground round. We'll crush up

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some peanuts and throw them right on the throw them

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on the ground.

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I don't think they do that anymore. Do you remember

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that about the ground round?

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I was talking about that with my sisters earlier.

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On the ground Well, that had to be the worst

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place in the universe to work.

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I was vaguely remembering that there was something on the

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ground and I was like, was it saw dust? Because

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I mean I was very I was very young. Yeah,

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and I I like googled it today and I was like, no,

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it was peanut shells. I was like, was it popcorn?

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Like I know they had free popcorns. It was it

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was peanut shells. Yeah, so strange, right, peanut allergies. Peanut allergies,

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you could never do that today.

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It was founded by Howard Johnson's in Massachusetts. Two hundred

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locations and at its peak it didn't make it.

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I'm surprised it didn't make it because I mean it's

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very similar to like a Bennegan's or apple Bee's, right similar.

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It's like a sports bar, right.

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It's casual family dining. It's like more like a Chili's.

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Yeah, Apple Bee's Chilies, Apple Bes Tgi Fridays.

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Yeah. I used to love this damn place.

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Do you remember how their promo was like for kids?

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You paid what your kids?

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Wait?

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Do you remember that?

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No?

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Yeah, you know there's still a ground Round in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

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They're not all gone.

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Yeah that I remember. I told you they just opened one.

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Is that the one they reopened?

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I think?

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So I want to go there so bad. Shrewsbury is

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not far from where we're gonna be. Maybe we'll take

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my dad there.

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Do you which your dad want to go?

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You imagine I I don't want to go to the

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ground Round.

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What is it nineteen seventy two? I really want to

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go there.

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I don't know if it will live up to the

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ground Round in my memory.

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You eat there?

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You, oh, my dad?

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Tuesday's penny per pound kid's meal is only one cent

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per pound? What did I just say with every adult entre.

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Here's the thing. This is very traumatizing. I was a

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fat child.

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Even so your parents were only going to pay like

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seventy three cents for your dinner, not my dinner.

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My dinner was ninety cents or.

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A buck buck fifty.

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Oh not a buck fifty, Give me break.

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Yeah I was, I was.

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I was what they would call a huskish.

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Not in a clever, not in a nice dog way either. Yeah.

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Oh my god. They do still do the penny per pound.

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They still do it.

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Yeah, yeah, I'm looking right at it.

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Oh I thought you were looking at some retro stuff.

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I mean it is very retro. But Thursday, kids pay

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what they weigh at the ground round penny per pound

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kids twelve and under. Why can't I do that? I'm

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like just in my fifties. Scale not scale, use not required.

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Oh so you could just estimate where your kids weigh.

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Kids like thirty pounds. Ridiculous ninety two recommended, eleven reviews.

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They have a Facebook page.

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Did they have anything vegetarian?

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Yeah, they have a whole vegetarian section.

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We'd be some of the things.

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Uh, we've really gone way off the rails.

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It's all right, you just edited out later or don't.

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I'm leaving in vegetarian soba noodles, Asian stir fry, medley

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of stir fry, vegetables, onions, peppers, mushrooms, broccoli, sweet so

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i glaze tossed with So what this is new ground round?

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Baby? What do they have in this brill tofu?

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What do they have in a a in a basket?

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What do they have in a deep fried basket?

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You can get anything you want in a basket. At

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the ground Round, they have the ground burger. You know,

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I am disappointed though they don't seem to have a have.

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A veggie burger and have some descriptions.

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Oh, they have a black bean burger, black bean burger.

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Like here with a black bean burger. It's twenty twenty five.

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What do you serving a black bean burger for?

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Like?

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Okay, if you want to serve a black bean burger,

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that's fine, that's fine. But or if you want to

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serve a like a goddamn mushroom and call it a burger,

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fine you do, you boo. But also impossible burgers and

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beyond burgers exist and you should offer those as well.

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Keep them in your freezer.

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Keep it in your freezer. They last a long time.

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But I'm like, like a black bean burnt, nobody wants

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a black bean burger else that's not no one. No

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one eats a black bean burger and goes this tastes

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just like a burger. It's never happened, or or a

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or like a portobello mushroom. I would I would rather

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eat a bug then eat a portobello mushroom.

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Hmmm.

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It's very disappointing. It's it's very disappointing.

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I'm almost as disappointed as I was about the South

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Point getting rid of their Beyond Burger. They do have

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fish and chips, though, which is nice.

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Good. So they do have something deep fried in a basket.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely in a basket. Yeah there's things

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we could eat. Okay, Penny Alla vodka shush really yeah.

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I'm sure it's stellar at the ground. That's where you

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go for a time.

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And pad tie.

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Listen. This is not a paid paid for motion.

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But listening.

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If you're listening, we will do host red ads.

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We will okay about your what was it called? They

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used to have something that I don't remember popcorn the popcorn.

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Do they still have that? I'm sure.

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I'm sure they have popcorn. All right. I think we

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can wrap it up here.

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I think so. I think we're hitting punchy because we

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recorded this one late.

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Yeah, it is late. We're going to walk the dogs,

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all right.

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Thank you for listening. We appreciate you for being a subscriber.

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Please go review us in a positive way. Andy, if

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you're listening, go leave us a review and remember what

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Oh sorry.

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I was gonna say the thing.

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