On this week's episode, Colleen's not wearing any underwear and the wind is being disrespectful. Before we go on our trips to Florida, we jump into the topic of the week... SURVIVAL STORIES. Bridget covers the heoric story of Kara Robinson surviving a serial killer and Colleen covers the insane story of Ricky Megee. Someone get the adderall because we are all OVER the place on this one. No stop dilly dallying and listen already!! #Chlamydia
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On this week's episode, Colleen's not wearing any underwear and the wind is being disrespectful. Before we go on our trips to Florida, we jump into the topic of the week... SURVIVAL STORIES. Bridget covers the heoric story of Kara Robinson surviving a serial killer and Colleen covers the insane story of Ricky Megee. Someone get the adderall because we are all OVER the place on this one. No stop dilly dallying and listen already!! #Chlamydia
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All of my emails are DoorDash emails, confirmations, or become a Dasher, I think you should become a Dasher. I feel like you should DoorDash your own food. Yeah, I legitimately, 636 at 639, DoorDash has an opportunity for you to be your own boss. It's like you order from us so often that you should just picket the fuck up yourself. Or it's like, something about like debt, it's like debt, National Debt Relief, I'm like leave me alone. I don't know. Stop reading my personal files. There could be a 20, 000 lending offer available. Leave me alone. I one time got an update from Pizzeria Regina of like, you're an all star. You know, like, cause I order from there all the time. If there was ever a place to be a gold member, it would be. But for Uber Eats to send it to you? Is, is rude. It's humbling and it's rude. But it's also an honor. It is also an honor, but it's also rude. It's not like I'm a member at Sweetgreen. It's Pizzeria Regina. You could be a member at Sweetgreen. I don't want to be. Fiona's convinced that there's something wrong with Sweetgreen. Why? Because she always gets, like, the meat sweats from there. From sweet green? Yeah, she gets, like, the unwellness from the sweet green. Fiona, I have some follow up questions. What are you getting? Like chicken. Like, fuckin chicken. And, like, lettuce. I don't know. You know what's so good there? What? Their spicy broccoli. Oh yeah. Spicy broccoli. Do you know what I love in Boston is Digg. Love Digg. There's no Digg close enough to me. So when I order it, it's like a 5 delivery charge, which is ridiculous. Oh, I would never. Oh my god. No, I would never pay that. When I worked for a living, uh, I mean, there was a dig nearby and I used to order it for lunch all the time. My fave. I've never had it. The, actually, the other day we had a conversation, myself, Erin Peon, and whenever I say we, like I'm literally talking to my extensions, we are literally so poor that we were like discussing what we should get for dinner or lunch, I think, I can't remember which one, and Erin said, I have a free dig because of my reward, so I'm legitimately going out of my way to go and drive to one to get it because it is free. I actually heard of a girl who signed up to be a doordasher and she would doordash her own food and it would somehow pay for itself. Interesting. So I don't think the email is trying to humble you. So she's living in like I think it's trying to make you an entrepreneur. Me? An entrepreneur? That shouldn't be in the same sentence. Who is she? Who is she? Oh my god, did you just hear the wind? The wind is wild. It's actually disrespectful. That just shook the whole room. I was wearing a dress with no underwear today at work. Pause for the motherfucking cause. What? I was feeling lazy this morning. I woke up and exited my room and went to go to the bathroom, like saw Fiona, we were just talking and she's like, Oh, so you're working from home today? And I'm like, so no, why? And like, she was like, what? You know traffic and like she was like walking out the door and I had just like just awoken So then I just really was I was just like diddly daddling. Is that is that the word dilly dallying diddly daddling? Yeah, that diddly is not the word you want to diddly squat Kitty did laugh. Yeah. Sorry. Anyways, so I was diddling No, stop. Stop saying that word. I was dillying dilly dallying. I love dilly bars What is happening? It's going off the rails. It was dillying. And I was running late for work, so I just threw on a dress. I wore a dress today, in case you want to know. Love that for you. Yeah. You actually were changed when you got here. Why? Cause I was like on the, I was ready to go. Like, you know. Oh, okay. I told you I had energy today. You have a lot of energy today. She's unhappy with my energy because the last two times I've been a slug. Now I have energy. Well no, she comes over and she sleeps and that's been totally fine because she's been getting up and going to the gym like the health queen that she is. Today, it was like jumping up and down, running around, then she wanted to like walk on my treadmill. I'm like, Colleen, we can just, just sit, just sit and hang with me, my girl. We don't need, she's like, what is this button? Can we turn it on? Why does this work? I'm like ADHD Colleen out in full motherfucking force I'm controlled. I have a controlled unit at the moment trapped in this chair. I need a straightjacket Padded room. Oh lord. but yeah, I do wear underwear today was the whole point of that spiel. I just forgot I just went to work and then it was breezing for sure. You were bushel and pecking it. Yes as we call in this podcast Was it a long dress, I hope? It was. It had a slit, though. Colleen! So she was super scandy. Oh my god! The Poussoir was for the wind. Was she cold today? Yeah, she was. She's got some bicycles on her? No, she was. But she keeps herself warm in ways. It's actually so disrespectful out right now. It's one of those days where you say to yourself, why do I live in New England? Yeah. I had some errands to run today and I looked at the weather and I said no thank you and I'm going to do them tomorrow. It's going to be nice tomorrow. It's going to be gorge tomorrow. I decided that I'm just like not going to work tomorrow. Oh. Like, I'm gonna, but I'm not gonna, you know? You're gonna look like you're going to? Yeah. Are you gonna do that at home or at the office? At home. Oh, perfect. That's what I do. Yeah. I thought you were gonna add to that. I meant to, and then I got distracted. Right now? Colleen, you need Adderall in a way that I can't describe anymore. What, how do we usually intro? I was, I was gonna like, in my head, like, take it away, and then I just, it's never my time. Hi everyone. Oh right, you do say that. Hi! And then I say Welcome to, no. Yeah? Okay, welcome to this week's episode of Sippin with the Shannons. We're cousins, and each week we sit down, we have some wine. No, is that it? We, we sip some wine, and we have a good giggle. Oh. We talk some shit. Oh, we talk some shit and we have a good giggle. I'm Bridgette Chanin. And I'm Colleen Chanin. Remix! Not that she hasn't heard me say that 80 times. Minimum. This is actually number 79. But if you include the times that we thought we were recording. No, 79 was the Monday episode. This is 80. 80 episodes. Right? More than that, but think about how many times we, uh, thought we were recording it. Recorded and lost. Yeah, that was a, that was a huge bummer. Too many times. Too many times to count. It's all a distant memory, but we're here now. Good job. Thanks. Anything else to share about the class? No, I mean, I just saw you, like, literally, like, 48 hours ago. No, like, 36. Yeah, that's true. So, like, I really don't have anything to say to you. Or the viewers. I'm very excited. Sorry. I don't have anything left to say. That's better. That sounds better. What are you doing this weekend? We never do a pre weekend. We always do a weekend recap. Oh, that's true. That's true. Tell the, why are we doing two episodes in one week? What's happening next week? Oh, we're both going to Florida. Yeah. But separately. Separately. Not together. We do have to go back and go together. Yes, this isn't a St. Pete's 2. 0, unfortunately. I was cracking up today because one of my travel besties, Rochelle, texted me. It was like, I'm on the episode where it's like, How is Rich? Like, we still, it still holds strong. No, it does. That line will live with us forever. It's like a tick in my brain, and I wonder where that woman is today. I so wonder if she's still an Uber driver. She must be. And if she has gotten veneers. We have a guy to introduce her to. The guy, the regular at your bar who shows up and leaves his They would be a match made in heaven. A match made in heaven. She could drive him. She could be his DD. Perfect. They could gummy out together. Don't worry, he drives anyways. Oh, Jizzy's been more concerning. Also, his ass crack is avidly out. I'm like, today's just not the day. Can you feel that though? Like, you can. I don't know because I, I can see parts of him. I don't know. I should be seeing. I just feel like, when you were in high school, and you bent over, you could feel when your ass, when low rise genes were a thing, which literally banned them from the earth. Shoot them into the sun. But you know what I mean? You can feel when your asshole is out. Yeah. Why, why, why are we out in public? I don't know. I have a hot take regarding jeans. Sure. What I mean by this when I say like high waisted jeans, like I am a short girl. Girl. So therefore, these high waisted jeans that people are like loving are up to my tits and also like I don't have a flat stomach. So I'm, it's giving. Like, I look like an apple. Like, I don't know how to explain it, like, I just look like This is how I would describe it. I look like this. Like, it's just She just put her arms out and just breathed. That's all that was. Sumo. Like, it's just It's not cute. Like, there's no need for my jeans to go up to my legit knockers. So where do you buy them? I get low waisted ones sometimes. You do not get low rise jeans. Yes, I do. I'm so short. Oh, you have teeny tiny legs. And I have tiny legs. No ass. So it's, it all works. It all works. I was gonna say, you are not buying Lowrise jeans that are lowrise fit on you. You are buying Lowrise jeans that are regular fit on you Correct. To clarify. So I am over this whole like, and I, jeggings worked for me like, like I loved a jegging, skinny jeans worked for me. Same love of skinny jeans. They made me feel skinny. Now I'm just like, can we get rid of the mom jeans? I don't have a butt or small legs. And you know what, I have a FPA people She's supposed to put. The FUPA! Where am I supposed to put these things? Where, where are they supposed to go? So that's my, that's my beef with stiff mom jeans. Bring back Yeah, the FUPA, if you don't, if you have a FUPA and you don't have a really nice ass, there are just certain jeans that you can't wear without feeling gross. Or just none of them. Yeah. Yeah, can I tell you something that happened recently? Not to me. I have a friend who went to the mall to buy some new clothes and was really not feeling great about herself Because she is more weight than she normally is and she was very frustrated and we've all been there We've all been in the dressing room. Jean shopping. Jean shopping at the mall So, with that disgusting lighting, where none of the sizes make sense, and you're one size at one store and a completely different size at another store, and this woman was helping her and she came out of the dressing room. Defeated. Very defeated. And the woman said, the least exciting and interesting thing about you is your jean size. I'm going to go get a larger size. Oh. And God bless people who work at the mall who make people feel better and know how horrifying I usually avoid when there's people. That's really nice. Isn't that really nice? I hate the mall. I don't even go anymore. No, I don't either, unless I'm feeling like I want to walk, you know? It's just, it's too busy. There are children screaming everywhere. Usually, the salespeople are on you the moment you walk in. For me, it's like I find the brands that I love and I know what size I am and then I just re order. And if I don't like it, I send it back. And I do that in the comfort of my own home, in front of the mirror that makes me look skinny. That's fair. But do you know what I mean? When you go and you're trying clothes on it gets hotter and hotter. And it's so hot and the lighting is so bad and they're like, How are you doing in there? And you're like, I'm going to murder you. Note that and then add your mother. Add your mother. You're welcome, gates of hell. Fiery pits of hell. Oh, go to hell. Already been there. It's called the Burlington Mall. I used to think the Burlington Mall was like, God's country. Yeah, it's where a Paul Blart mall cop was filmed So I had the thing is about my mom also hates them all So when I said like let's go to the mall when I was younger this bitch would bring me to the Brockton mall Hmm. Mm hmm. Let me tell you. I've never been to the Brockton Mall. I've been to the Brockton movie theater. So you see, there's a reason for that. I think you're thinking of Randolph. Randolph, yeah. That's a war zone. I have been to so many movies there that the, we've had to like evacuate in the middle of the movie. I cannot tell you, I think I've told this on the podcast and if I haven't, I don't know why. No, you have. You have. Where we went and saw Beyonce. Yes. What is the Beyonce movie? I don't know actually. Obsessed. Oh, yes, yes, yes. With Idris Elba And the woman was like, that's not how you hold the gun, and just kept yelling, don't go downstairs, Beyonce. She just started screwing up the screen the whole time. It was so fucking funny. The people aren't okay. Do people actually like, you know how in movies, people are like diddling at the movie theater? Do people actually do that? Okay. I hate that word. You've used it 16 times already. But this was the actual context I would use it in. So that's why I'm like Oh, okay, okay, okay. Do you, in movies, when people like, canoodle, sorry, canoodle at the movie theater, like, do people actually do that or is there like cameras? Because like, that could be fun. I think that you're in a public space. So just be very careful. Okay. I think some people do if you're like a teenager. Otherwise, it's Not really. Just like go to your house. Yeah. I'm just like, why do you need to be in public to do that? Don't gypsy rose in them. Yeah. Oh my god. In our bathroom. On the floor. Gypsy rose. No, definitely. There's definitely canoodling that's been had at the movie theater. I'm sure people who work at movie theaters have complete fucking horror stories, but it's just like sticky and gross. I guess. Do you know what I mean? But it could be like the brand everyone's cozy. I love going to the movie theater. Me and Paula went and saw Madam Web recently. I cannot fucking believe how bad that movie was. It's the worst movie I've ever seen. Do you like Sidney Sweeney? Do I like Sidney Sweeney? I have nothing against her, honestly. She doesn't, I'm not a massive, massive, massive fan and I don't dislike her either. I'm just indifferent to her. Why do you not like her? I'm in the same realm. Her voice really bothers me. I loved her on Euphoria. Euphoria. She was really good on Euphoria. Yeah, and her voice really, really affects me, I don't know why. Just, it irks me. And also, I just hate in every interview she's talking about how she, like, fixes cars, which is great. But it just, it's, it's starting to get pick me energy. For our non Gen Z ers, can you describe Pick Me Energy? I'm on TikTok, so I know what it is. anyone that like does things for attention, essentially. That's how I correlate it in my brain. Like a girl that's like drinks beers and like, I'm a guy's guy. Yes. I'm a girl's guy. Yeah, yeah. And like has a lot of guy friends and just like, I don't know how to explain it other than like, Pick Me Energy. Yeah. That's all. It's someone who is trying too hard. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, Cindy Sweeney who's like in my spare time. I like to like fix cars Like I actually a lot of people don't know this about me. Okay, I just don't Understand how obsessed people are with her boobs. Like have you never seen big boobs before? I just don't get it barbarians People lose their shit over her chest and I'm just like so boobs. They're legit balls of fat with areolas. Congrats good for you I think this started with us talking about going to Florida separately. So, why don't we go back to that for a second? But we went to Don't go to the mall and don't go to the movie theater. Unless you're diddling. No! Then don't do either of those things. Stay at home. You fucking creep. Sorry, stay at home and diddle. Sorry. Diddle on your own time. God, now I'm saying it. Colleen, we can stop. I'm so lonely. I'm jealous of Gypsy Rose. Stop, Pauline. I can't. You need to get the largest grip. Are you good? No. Who are you? What are you going to Florida for? Which? How is which? So I'm going to visit my friend Jill, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. I found a super cheap flight. Me, Jessie, and Oren are going to visit her for like five days. Gorgeous. Yeah, she has a beautiful house and so we're gonna go hang at her place, frolic, go to the beach. There's a pool. I'm just gonna lay. I'm gonna lay. As one does. Yeah. You lay your heart away. I'm really good at laying by a pool. I just want you to know. There are very few things I do better than floating and laying near and around a body of water. Oh my god. can I tell you that I have come to this conclusion. So I in total for Florida, because I was like, Oh, I can't really look at my bathing suits. Like I just don't want to. I tried a few on. Like some are actually a little bit too big, which like, cool, great. Love that for me. Bye. But, I ordered, like, nine more. Oh my god, nine? I just hate every single one, but it's, it's, at what point are we like, You're the problem. It's the body. You literally have been doing every single thing a human can do. I, I say, First of all, with bathing suits, you just wear what you're comfortable in. No, I agree, but it's just like, I was laughing at myself because I'm like, what the fuck's wrong with me? I literally ordered like nine of them, and they just keep coming in the mail, and I'm like, stop. Why did you order nine? Maybe we should test out two or three, and then, and then go from there. Mind you, I own some. Just a mental illness. Yeah, this isn't a whole new wardrobe of bathing suits. No. Mind you, I'm also going on a spirit flight, to which I refuse to pay for a bag for, so I'm literally taking a personal item and I'm wearing everything else on my person to get onto the plane. Colleen. Yeah, I can't fit one of my pairs of shoes. I think I'm gonna wear, like, their heels, and I'm gonna wear them on the plane. Oh my god. Not heels, but they're like Can you please send me a picture? If I can't fit them, they will have to go. How many days? it's a Wednesday, I get there Wednesday night. All day Thursday, all day Friday, all day Saturday. My flight's at Sunday morning, like, 4am. Colleen, was it just the cheapest one? Yeah, Aaron and I are just going from the bar to the airport. Yeah, you're gonna have to. Odds are we make this one slim to none. Oh lord. Sidebar. We booked it and not a day later. I like on Hopper had notifications of it just going down down Yeah, but it was fucking 100 cheaper like a week later. I know so annoying so Wednesday to Sunday Wednesday Sunday Yes, I'm going Monday to Saturday Nice. Yeah get some I mean, I just came from the sun, so I can't complain. But are you excited? Yeah, Alexa, play Soak Up The Sun. Bye. I don't even know who sings it. I'm gonna soak up the sun. I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up. Should we start an acapella group? Suck up the sun! Oh, ruined. Immediately ruined. Jesus Christ. It's giving me ghosts. What? There's only two now. Are you still talking about the rapper who got shot? Oh yeah. Why, did I talk about him recently? All the time. Do I? No, you know what? I'm not getting you said to me a week ago. R. I. P. Migos. Take off. And I was like, what? Oh no. R. I. P. Take off. Yeah, he was shot. Okay. The reason he's on the mind today, I have a valid point. Two out of three Migos, because, you know, he's dead, were at my work on this past Friday. Yeah. At the club. Sure. And I guess it was crazy. At the clurb. At the clurb. And I was talking to, like, one of the heads of security today, and he was saying, I don't know where he gets his information from, but he's like, I heard on the low, that he was That that, the, one of the other migos shot the, I go, their, I go, their cousins. It's not like they're like, like, they're all related. I don't think one of the migos shot the other migo. He goes, and also why would just, you know, this piece of information. Yeah. I was going to say, where does this man get off? So that's what we were talking about today. And he said it was like madness. It was packed. I'm like, yeah, I'm assuming it would be. Sardine style in the club, if Migos, as Migos were here, two of the Migos. Inhumane. Yeah, it would have been inhumane. We thought about going and then I was like, no, actually inhumane. R. I. P. Take off. Offset! That's all. Alright, you ready for the topic of the day? Yeah. We both did survival stories. Da da da da, I'm a survivor, I'm not gonna give up, I'm gonna go through, I don't know the rest of the words. We're gonna, how do you not know, you know what, we're not gonna get into that right now. Okay, I'm gonna go first, and I am gonna do the story of Escaping Captivity, the Kara Robinson story. Baddie. Ugh. She escapes a serial killer when she's 15 years old. You can watch the same documentary I watched, it's on a bunch of platforms. I watched it on Apple TV, and that's what's called Escaping Captivity, the Kara Robinson story. This is a fucking bummer. I'm not going to lie to you. It has a silver, I don't even want to say a silver lining. It has a happy ish ending. No, that still feels wrong. I hope people get what I mean. Yeah, they will by the end of it. There is a lighter ending, but it's brutal. So just trigger warning for all sorts of sexual violence, harm to children, murder, you know the drill. The children. So we're in South Carolina, right? Yeah. It's the morning of June 24th, 2002. So, 15 year old Kara Robinson. She's at her best friend Heather's house. Kara and Heather are best friends. They're very excited. Heather's family has a lake house. Okay. And Heather just got her license. So they're feeling, you know, that new sense of freedom. They're so excited. Kara's mom drops her off the night before. They have a slover, a little baby sleepover, and then they wake up and they're getting ready to go to the lake house. When Heather's mom, who is not home, I believe she was at work, says to Heather, you can go, but there is like X, Y, and Z chores you need to get done before you go. One of those chores is watering the flowers in the front yard and Heather has to shower. So Cara, being a good friend, is like, hey, you go jump in the shower. I'll go water the flowers. So that is where our story begins. And it was a very normal morning. Cara talked to her boyfriend. They were in a super cute high school relationship. She talked to her mom, like, totally normal morning. So, she's outside, she's watering the plants. She watches a car drive out of the neighborhood. And it's a green Trans Am. And she remembers it very specifically, because when it drove by, at the time, it was a really cool car. And she was like, wow, I want one of those. So she watches it leave the neighborhood and then she watches it come back and pull into the driveway of the house she's at, Heather's house. Guy gets out and he says to her, Hey, how you doing? How's it going? I have these magazines, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's like, are your parents home? And she says, no, this isn't my, this is my friend's house. And he says. or her parents home. And she says, her mom's not home right now. And so he says, can I give you the magazines instead? And she says yes. He leans into the car, In that moment, she felt a red flag deep inside of her and in that moment, the next thing she felt was a gun on the side of her neck. So he says to her, if you scream, I will shoot you. And you're gonna come with me now. And she has this moment of terror, but she went along with it because she just didn't want to die. So she was like, I'm just gonna go with what he tells me to do. When she looks in the backseat of the car, there is a giant storage container. It it takes up the whole backseat. And he tells her to get inside of the container. Now, picture the container. The container is like one of those tubs you use to help you pack for college. It's like a big, white tub. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yes. So she steps, 15 years old, one leg in at a time, gets down to the bottom, Rolls onto her back, and so she's in the fetal position. He puts the top on loosely, gets in the car, and drives out of the driveway. That's so uncomfortable. That's it. Gone. And so when Heather gets out of the shower, she walks outside, and the hose that Kara was using is on the ground and still running, but Kara's gone. And her purse is there, her shoes, clothes, everything is still there. Kara is missing. She's missing. She calls her mom immediately, who then calls it and reports it to the police. Someone calls Kara's mother. Heather is obviously a wreck because they all know she's not someone who would just like, up and run away, not tell anyone. She's just not that person. That's not her MO. No. In the car. So let's go back to the car. She's in the container. She realizes she will probably be assaulted or murdered. And so, she needs a game plan. She says in the documentary because she's the one telling her story as well as her family, quote, I knew that I had to be my own Victor and that I had to save myself. Crazy. Fifteen! Mm. What were you doing at fifteen? Not that. Not fucking that. I was like popping my pimples and like. Crying. Trying to figure out how to put a tampon in. Yes. Yeah. Like, while your mother sat outside the bathroom and tried to yell instructions in. Oh, no that never happened. No. My aunt tried to do that to me once. I was like, I don't get it! I don't even think I ever told my mom that I figured that out. So she knows that she needs to get as much info on her captor and the surroundings as much as possible. So one of the things that she does is she just starts cataloging everything around her and she, uh, The way she describes it is like visual snapshots. So when you're watching the doc, she'll be like, The next snapshot I remember. And she said the adrenaline was just helping her remember everything super clearly. And she realizes there is a serial number. on the container that she's on, she memorizes it. Smart girl. So, the container she's in, excuse me, he pulls off the road, he opens the container, and he tells her he's going to restrain her. So he puts a ball gag in her mouth, and he puts fuzzy handcuffs around her wrist, Ew. and ties her feet with rope. He gets back in the car, he drives a few more minutes, and this time, instead of coming out of the car and opening the container, the car comes to a full stop. He doesn't lift the lid, and she feels herself getting dragged across cement in the container. And the next thing she knows, she stops, and it's really quiet and still, and when he opens the lid, she's in his apartment. And he tells her she can't be loud, she cannot yell, she cannot scream. And if she doesn't do any of those things, he'll take the ball gag out. So, she's trying to be as Calm, cool, and collected. Yes, as she can. So she's not making any noise, so he takes it off. She looks at her surroundings, and this bitch clocks everything. she's in a living room. There is a wall of animals. guinea pigs, multiple birds, lizards, a fish tank. She follows him into a bedroom. And it's one of those bedrooms that has a blanket behind the back with like wolves howling at the moon on it. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yes, ew. She's just clocking all of these things. He then tells her that there will be a few rules while she's staying there. I love this Airbnb. Having rules. Yeah, for real. He will always have a gun nearby. Bye. She has to do everything that he says, or there will be consequences, and she has to call him Daddy. Ugh, I'm sick. And at the time, that's what she called her dad. And she, in the documentary, gets like a full body ick. Like, she does a chill. How could you not? She's like, every time I think about it, it's just like, ugh. Just the definition of the heebie jeebies. He starts asking her questions and writing down all the answers about her boyfriend, about her family, her best friend Heather. He even says to her at one point, do you think they miss you? Like, dick? Yeah, I do actually. So I will skim over some of the more horrific things. You can imagine where this goes, but if that makes you uncomfortable, just skip ahead. He violently sexually assaults her over and over and over again for the entire time she is there. At one point, they're just sitting on the couch, and she's like, we were chatting as if you met someone on the bus. Just casual. He's so gross. He's so fucking gross. So she basically says I have two options. I can be calm, do what I'm told, escape, and survive, or panic, fight, and probably die. So she keeps calm. She has these stupid conversations with him. At one point, he, After an assault, he forces her to shower and when she walks into the bathroom, she notices there are feminine products everywhere, like hairspray, tampons, a hairbrush with long, red, curly hair in it, and she realizes that he either has a roommate or he's married. Because this isn't just a woman who comes here from time to time, or, this is like someone who physically lives in this house. So again, catalogued. Put a pin in that. He tells her at one point she has to eat, and if she doesn't there'll be consequences, so she wants to be completely compliant, so she says to him, is there anything I can do while you make me dinner? Now, I think he made her, like, a TV dinner. It wasn't like he was cooking up, like, Ma's meatballs. It was like He comes back with, like, a fork. Yeah, for real. No, he does not. And so she ends up sweeping his kitchen floor while he cooks because she wants to look like she's She wants to prove it. Yeah, which is so smart. And what this allows her to do is get really close to the refrigerator to see all the magnets. And there is a dentist's office magnet And it has the name of the dentist's office and the number. She memorizes the number. Smart, smart girl. You can learn a lot about a person by their magnets on their fridge. You can. You absolutely can. Mine definitely tell a story. I mean, I know every, what you're doing every single day from your fridge. Well, that's also, my calendar's on there, but I just mean the magnets around it too. Like, they're my favorite cards, it's like all my favorite people, there's a lot of good things on my fridge. For sure. So, he makes her watch the news to see if anyone misses her, and she is not on the news. But she says, I knew without a shadow of a doubt my friends and family were looking for me. Speaking of that, her friends and family were looking for her. Her family knows something is up. Very incorrect. Now it's been a couple hours at this point. Okay. The police are involved. They case the neighborhood. There are no leads other than one lead, which is one neighbor who said, I saw her get into a green Trans Am with a man. No description of the man. There was no struggle because to him, he couldn't see a gun. He didn't see her get into a container. So she, he's like, she left in a green Trans Am. That's it. That's all they have. They have no fingerprints. She was there one second. She's gone the next, period. Her boyfriend and his friends are driving around the town just looking for her. Her mother and father had just gotten a divorce and her dad's out of town. They are a complete wreck. I mean, how could you not be? So that's all happening while she's at this apartment. They're actually not getting a ton from the police and they're getting very, very frustrated. at one point he goes to make a phone call and he makes her get back in the container and he closes the lid. And she has a moment of, I'm going to die right now. I think she has a panic attack because she feels like she's suffocating. How could you not? And when he comes in, he's like, why are you making so much noise? And she said, I think I'm going to die. I think I can't breathe. I'm going to suffocate. And he said, this is for your anxiety and gives her a pill. She does take it. More horrible things happened to her, which I will not go into, just use your imagination. And when it's time for bed, she said she actually went to bed pretty quickly because of whatever he gave her. It doesn't sound like it I don't know what it was. I'm sure he drugged her in some way. She didn't vomit or like Yeah, just like It, I, it, maybe it was for anxiety, maybe he has those on deck because he's a fucking monster, I don't know. But, she's in his t shirt, she has the handcuffs on, the fuzzy handcuffs, and he locks her to the bed. So, her arms aren't over her head, her wrists, based off of the documentary, are next to her together. Almost like when you're pretend sleeping and you put your hands under your head and you go, am I explaining that right? For people who can't see it, you're like in a ball on the side. Yeah, so her hands are next to her over one shoulder, almost. And then he takes a rope that comes from the back of his bed and he clamps it onto the chain of her handcuffs. Then he takes a restraint and he puts it on her leg and attaches it to the foot of the bed. So she's locked in. She falls asleep, like I said, pretty quickly. Another thing that I absolutely cannot even imagine how fucking terrifying this is, She has the understanding that this is not his first time. So outside of the horror that he's happening to her and what he's doing to her, She's also like, I'm not the only one. Yeah, he's too confident. And there are too many things, if you take out a rope from the back of your bed that clamps onto the handcuffs that I'm now wearing. You're prepped and ready. You're ready. This is, you're, this is not your first go. This ain't his first rodeo. Right. So she wakes up and it's dawn and there's like a sliver of morning light coming through the door and she just has this immediate feeling of it's time to go. So she looks over at him and he's breathing slow and steady, clearly asleep. And so the first thing she realized she has to do is get her hands free. And there's a little screw on the clamp to her handcuffs. So it won't free her hands from the cuffs, but it will free her from the rope on the back of the bed. Oh, that matters. So there's a tiny screw, but it's too tight in her fingers. She can't get her fingers around. So she brings it to her teeth, and she uses her teeth to unscrew it enough where then her fingers can, can go. So now we are freed from the bed for her hands, but we're still in handcuffs. Then she, of course, re leans down and unties her foot. Then she somehow gets, uh, she doesn't break a bone, which they say is also another option if you're stuck. Yeah. She is able to slide one hand out of the handcuffs. So now her legs are free, she has handcuffs on. on one hand and one arm free. So she tiptoes as quietly as she can. She puts her shorts on. I wouldn't even have done that. I would have just booked it. Right. She goes into the kitchen, like where the front door is. And she realizes there's a deadbolt locked. The door is actually locked on the handle. There is a metal accordion closet door set up blocking the door from opening. So standing there, trying to be quiet, she realizes that she's going to make a shit ton of noise and it has to happen all at once because he's going to wake up. Yeah. Can you? You have a point two seconds. Even imagine. No. The str like the spiciest pits. Like your armpits aren't just sweating. You have the spiciest pits. On planet Earth. Dude. She unlocks the door handle, then she unlocks the deadbolt, and all at once moves the metal accordion, flings open the door, now the whole time he has a gun next to his bed, so she has to be fast enough, so at one point, it's near her, and she almost kills him. And she, in her head, calculates, like, how they'd have to fight for it, and she'd lose the fight and decides not to. No, 100%. That makes sense. But. the stress. So she flings the door open and absolutely fucking books it. So now she's in midday light. She was held for 18 hours, tortured for 18 hours. She is running down the street barefoot after all that she's been through in his t shirt and her shorts. Also, she doesn't know what's out there. She has no idea where she is. She has no it's dawn. It So it's like the sun is in her eyeballs. She's running down the street. She said, I didn't even have peripheral vision. Yeah. It was just dead on. She somehow finds herself in a parking lot and she runs at a car with two men sitting in the front of the car and she runs at the car and she says, I've been kidnapped by the man in that apartment. And the guy goes, what do you want us to do? Now, I don't know. Which tone he said this in I hope it's what do you like? What do you need us to do and not like a what do you want us to do? I can assume I'm hoping it's the former. Okay. Yeah, what do you want us to do? And she says bring me to the police station. So on the morning of June 25th Officer Kevin Pate is working the day shift, day shift at the police station. Mining his fucking business. Mining his goddamn business, and he sees a girl run through the doors, and he says, Can I help you? In 5'4 15 year old Kara Robinson turns around, holds up her one Handcuff, armed. Fuzzy. Her fuzzy, handcuffed arm and says, My name is Kara Robinson, I was kidnapped and I escaped. Good morning! And how are you? And how's your morning going? Good morning! So, the police officer remembers her being very composed. She shares her story. She quite obviously has been through a lot. They call her mom. I cried when the mom explains. I will not do it again because I don't want to cry again. The cops ask, which I don't think they did the right thing here, but I also don't work for the police, so I don't know. The cops say to her, why don't we wait for your mom? Why don't we go pinpoint the apartment complex and the apartment so you can help us identify who it is? They did not tell her mother this. So I will just plot twist for you right now. The mother shows up at the police station and they're like, Kara's not here. And after 18 hours of your daughter being missing, I can't. We don't think we could have, like, given Them a moment. The mom to, like, give her a heads up. Now they obviously have to catch him right away. Yeah. But, We're just going to drive her right back to where she came. I don't know. I just feel like we could have done some things smoother here. We could have waited for mom or brought mom to the scene as well. 100%. So, badass Kara goes, let's go. She hops in the squad car and when they get to the apartment complex, every apartment looks exactly the same. She cannot figure out which one. She obviously ran out in a blaze. She's not looking at the house number. And while they're doing this and they're walking around, they see a maintenance guy in a golf cart. I'm sorry. And the maintenance guys know everything, obviously. She goes up to the maintenance guy, and in front of all the cops, this is what she says, I'm looking for a white man. He's in his 30 to 40s. He lives with a woman with long red hair. He has animals in his apartment, and he has, uh, like the wolf. She explains the blanket. And the maintenance guy was like, Yep, I know exactly what apartment number that is. And leads them right to it. Because she memorized everything. She even told the officers the serial number on the container and the dentist number. Call his fucking dentist. Call his motherfucking dentist! So, they send officers to the front office to see who's on the lease, obviously. And then they drive Kara back to finally reunite with her mother. Because her mother was ready to, like, light the place on fire when she got there and her 15 year old wasn't there. And her mom, sobs when she's talking about this. But she said, my daughter was in survival mode, and when she got out of that cop car, she was in one mode. And then when she looked at me, she became my 15-year-old child and broke down. I can't, so the cops surround the apartment, they knock, they tell'em to open up, that it's the police. No one answers. Obviously, they go in weapons drawn and they find every single detail that Kara mentioned, every single one. And. They end up bringing a photo lineup to Kara in the hospital because her mother takes her to the hospital to get an evaluation. And they take it. She picks him out immediately. She's like, yep, that's him. That tomboy slept next to me. Richard Mark Evonitz. That little fucker. I think that's how you say his last name and honestly, if I'm saying it wrong, I don't care because he's a piece of shit. He doesn't deserve it. Yeah. He was married to a woman with red hair and they get a search warrant and they find a locker in his apartment. And when they break the locker open, they find very disgusting pornographic videos that I will not talk about. What? All sorts of sexual paraphernalia, the fuzzy, you know, Handcuffs were just the tip of the iceberg and then they find newspaper clippings of young women Kara's age who had been abducted and killed in Virginia a few years ago. So I have to tell you this part. It's fucking awful though. High level. In Virginia, Sophia Silva, a 16 year old was abducted right off of her porch in 1996. She was found dead five weeks later. May 1st, 1997, two sisters, Katie. who were 12 and 15 years old, had gotten home from school. They normally call their dad. They didn't. Dad gets home, their backpacks are on the front lawn, he knows something's wrong. They were found five days later, also dead. And both of, all three girls were found in a river or a body of water. So they bring in the FBI to look into the similarity between the two cases. They all had similar carpet fibers on them. The girls were all found in a body of water, similar ages, neighboring counties, all suffered similar abuse. You get it. The math is mathing. So they form a task force to find out who this monster is. So when they find these newspaper clippings in this man's locker, they're immediately like, holy shit. But they don't know where he is. He's nowhere to be found. He's not in the apartment. He's nowhere. He knows where he's gotta go. So they figure he's gonna go to a family member's house. So they go to his mother's house, and they find out that the green Trans Am is hers. The car he used to kidnap Kara is his mother's. They get a hold of his wife, who knows nothing. She has No information. She's just a dumb bitch. To the point where the police were like, She can't help us anymore. We must move on. That's all they say. They're just like, She knew nothing. He kept all of this sadistic crap from her. She was useless for information. How? How? That is so scary. I don't know. He's either that good or she's just a legit stupid bitch. Or she knows. I, I mean, I don't know. So this man who turns out to have This very turbulent childhood. He's been doing creepy shit his whole ass life. And apparently she has no idea about any of it. Can we flag these people from a young age? For real. His sister was initially super reluctant to cooperate with the police, but as they continue to talk to her to talk about how, you know, the severity of the case, she finally tells him that He ran from his apartment. He called her while on the run, and he was like, I've done some really shitty things. And You think? Right? And he is now in a motel room. So, they all fly, the cops were like, we could not have gotten out there fast enough. We get there, they use a passkey to enter his room, and he's not in his room. But the type of car he has now is his wife's Ford Escort. So at this point, they're like, okay, we're following his trail and we know what car he's in, at the very least. They call his other sister. His other sister lives in Florida, she lives in Orlando, and apparently Richard had reached out to her, and they had plans to meet up. At an IHOP. Just going to get some fucking pancakes, everybody. You're telling me this is what's going to go down at an IHOP. Yep. Okay. Okay. Cool. So in Sarasota, Florida. I mean, that's the most Florida thing I've ever heard. Right? We started in South Carolina. No, I know. So this man is like, popping off. So the Sarasota police are ready when he drives up. They're ready to rumble. He gets a feeling that the cops are there, so he takes off in a blaze. They try to stop him in the parking lot, it doesn't work, they follow him, they get into a full high speed chase. At one point they were going at least 120 miles an hour. They're just trying to get this guy. The cops brilliantly figure out which road he's going on and he sounds like he's just doing a straight shot. So they take, they roll out the spikes. Oh, smart. And they wait for him to drive, and they blow out all four of his tires. So he's completely surrounded, they have a canine officer approach him from the front, and they let the dog loose on him. But the moment he starts to get bit and barked at, Richard took out a gun and takes his own life in front of all of the cops. Five days after Kara escaped. Kara's pissed. Obviously. The trauma, the aftermath, I mean. No one knew what to do with Kara. She didn't want to be hugged or kissed anymore. Her dad, who she always called Daddy, she doesn't call him that anymore and it breaks his heart. She was like this cuddly 15 year old and now she's this traumatized woman that they essentially want to smother and she doesn't want to be touched. Like it's, she pushes away her boyfriend, they end up breaking up. She has really bad survivor's guilt, so many things. The cops end up dusting the interior of all of the cars that Richard had used. For more UN videos visit www. un. org In the trunk of his green Ford Taurus comes up as a match to 15 year old Kristen Liske. And her finger, her fingerprints. So they run a background check on him as well, and they find out that at the time the three other girls in Virginia were killed, Richard owned a home in the area. So a couple months later. Kara went to Virginia. She met with the family of the three girls, and she said it was really important to her and really special to her to meet them. She actually became friends with the police officers, and she kept up that friendship. She was given the reward money, and, you know, Virginia was looking for him. They had a task force. It was 150, 000. Damn. And they were like, for all of your bravery, for all that you remembered, I mean, they literally wouldn't have caught him if it wasn't for her. And so she ends up going to college. She went through the South Carolina Police Academy and she ends up working for the sheriff's office. And she always loved kids and wanted to work as kids. So she was a school resource officer. She's now married. She has two boys. She just turned one of like the most horrific things that could happen to a person into this wonderful story. Or message. Let me say message. Because she's a baddie. She's a bad bitch. But I feel, I feel for her. She never got her day in court. those other families never get She didn't get that closure. They never, they never have closure. They know who did it, but they'll never have that closure. But through the years, Cara realized that she survived for a very specific reason. purpose, and that is to spread hope and encouragement to other survivors, to remind them that they're not alone, that they can heal, and they are stronger than what happened to them, that we are who we are because of what happened, but we are not defined by it. And that is from her website. She's now an advocate. She does a lot of public speaking engagements. She tells her story to a ton of different advocacy groups and she's super active on TikTok and Instagram and other social media and she's a badass. So if you want to follow her, she's Kara Robinson Chamberlain and her website is www. kararobinsonchamberlain. com. She helped Lifetime make a movie about her experience. Mm hmm. I have not watched that movie, the documentary. I cried so many times. I was like, I can't watch this Lifetime movie. I think I've seen the Lifetime one. Yeah, so she helped make that and she's actually really good friends with Elizabeth Smart who also has her own trauma and similar experience. So yeah, that is how Kara Robinson escaped a serial killer and lived to tell the tale. She is a baddie and not a saddie. I just can't get over the, like, memorizing the dentist phone number. How do you even get yourself to do that at that moment? The level of calm at that age. To clock that many things and then to be able to compose yourself to go back to the scene to tell the cops over and over and over again. I mean, she was very clearly meant to be in, in the police force in some capacity. Yeah. That's crazy. What do you got for us? Well, how am I going to follow that one? so we're gonna switch it up a little bit. Okay. I love that. We need to switch up. We're gonna take a trip down under. Oh, we're going to Australia? Crikey! Jesus Christ. Isn't that what they say? Crikey mate! Did I just make that up or am I just like totally going full crocodile hunter? No, that's that's real. Okay, cool. So that's where we're traveling to. I don't know if people actually say that, but that is where it comes from. Oh, okay. It's giving like, if we were making, not making fun of, but if we were impersonating like someone from the UK and we were like Crumpets and tea, you know. Exactly. Okay, cool. It's so funny. We were watching Love Island earlier. And Colleen just looks at me and goes, I don't have any idea what any of them are saying. They're having like a whole ass conversation. I followed every single word. No, I have, I was like, I have no idea what the fuck is going like this, uh huh, okay, sure. Yeah. So I'm going to tell you the wild story of this, this little lad named Ricky McGee. Ricky McGee. RICKY! Oh, pfft. so, Sir Ricky McGee was just your average, average Joe, average guy. He was born in 1970 in Gippsland, Victoria. Mm hmm. He, uh, there's literally nothing to say about his childhood. Like, it There are no details other than the fact that he just lived a normal happy one until his family moved to Melbourne and his father ended up killing himself and it kind of like fucked up the family a little bit. No, no details as to why, but it's just like a part of, his story that like, I guess in my opinion, plays a little part. It doesn't say that necessarily. It absolutely plays a part in the rest of your life. To the rest of it. Well, this, this particular story. Oh, got it. Got it. It has a little. We'll get there, don't worry. Okay. Sidebar! One of my many sidebars, always. Ricky, though, was a man of many skills. He worked a lot of different jobs. He was a carpet salesman, a fisherman, nightclub doorman, an electrician, and he eventually, his last job before the one we're about to talk about, he was a bailiff. So, yeah, man of many different skills. Yeah, jack of all trades. nothing Yeah. Nothing was permanent though. He just kind of bopped. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. It's giving lost in the sauce. It's fine. So eventually after, he's a bailiff at this point, uh, he then goes to jail after being involved in a fight, uh, in Perth, as well as he tackled on a few drug offenses too on top of that. So like, not great. Okay. So things are off to an interesting start. It's nothing too crazy. Like, he's not out here murdering people, but it's definitely like, mm, don't love that you're doing that. You know? He's not Clyde, but he is Not great either. It's like you're going down a bad path, brother. Yeah. So like no big deal. So in 2006 he was 35 years old and he was living in Queensland and he is just all over the place. In January, Ricky gets offered a job in a government department in this place called Port Headland Western Australia. And because like, what the fuck else does he have going on? Literally nothing. He accepts the job, and he sets off on a long ass drive, which he has made a few times before so he kinda knows, but it's still, nevertheless, long. It is 42 hours just through the Outback. Like just straight through the Outback. Damn. So yeah. Like 42 hours in here could get you to Florida. No, it could get you to Florida and back. Really? Florida is 24. Oh shit, nevermind. It could get you to California. I wonder? I bet it could. Yeah. Yeah. Like, that's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. Australia's very large. Australia is fucking massive. I don't really realize it in context, you know? Yeah. It's crazy. That's crazy. So, he's driving his 2001 Mitsubishi Challenger. Sick. Mitsubishis. Uh, from us to California is 46 hours. So, yeah. So, very similar. That's crazy. Yeah. he takes the Buntine Highway across the outback of the Northern Territory of Australia. Wow. And this is where the story begins. Oh my god, the wind just rocked this room. It'll blow your house down. He'll huff and he'll puff. And it'll blow their house down. Onium, onium. Sorry, please continue. The shop at the beginning always gave me nightmares. Really? I never liked it. Always gave me. With the tornado. Crippling stress. Whew, I just got the chills. So anyways, back to the highway. Somewhere along this journey, Ricky claims that he had picked up a hitchhiker, which we don't love that. Let's not do that, no matter what time of day it is. Day. Literally never. No matter what year it was, like, let's not. Never. I know that was like cool in the 70s. Let's just like not do that anymore. It's 2006. It ain't right. So he picks up this hitchhiker between the towns of Kalkaringi, okay, and Halls Creek. He believed that at some point in which he picked up the hitchhiker, That, that hitchhiker had drugged his drink. I think it was a Diet Coke. Which like Is he driving? Why would you drug your driver? So, he says that he normally obviously opened up his own drinks in his own car from his own refrigerator. Right. But, he had the passenger, like the hitchhiker, grab one out of the fridge and open it for him and hand it to him. Ah, to make it easier for him? Correct. So he claims that he had been drugged by the hitchhiker and you know, quote unquote, left for dead. What happened next is fuzzy for him. Drugs will do that to you. That'll happen, man. So man completely regains consciousness. He said he wakes up in a hole covered in black plastic, kind of like a tarp. And he had, like, rocks and dirt thrown all about him, like, okay, buried alive. It's giving. And he says that he was only awoken by attempts by dingoes that were trying to claw him out. This is what he claims, okay? Do you know the dingo ate my baby story? No. Ugh, damn. Okay, nevermind. Please continue. Imagine waking up and you're just like No. Full. Vampire in a tarp. And dingoes are just like, Quack, quack, quack, quack. Nope. Nope. Just trying to scratch you out. The animals? in Australia are terrifying. So many things can kill you. I'm on Australia talk. Of course you are. Why, why did I think you wouldn't be how silly of me? The, the kangaroo. Okay. I don't like kangaroos. Yeah, they can fuck some shit up. I don't like them. Why are they jacked? They're really cute when they're small. I don't care. I went to a zoo in Australia and I got to feed them and they're really, really cute. Koalas are too, but Don't they give you syphilis? I think they have a gonorrhea problem. You know how koalas do. Chlamydia! That's what it is. It's chlamydia. Not gonorrhea. Just going through the different Like, what other critical STDs? They have a chlamydia problem, yeah. I hate when that happens. Don't you hate when your koala gives you chlamydia? Yeah. I don't know. That's the worst. Same sauce. If my boyfriend came to me and was like, the koala gave me chlamydia. No, you shouldn't be rubbing a koala on your genitalia. On your poussoir. Stop diddling with koalas. No, I hate that you're rubbing off on me. Diddling. Diddling, diddling. Okay. oh, I was gonna say that kangaroos, their pouches, I don't like those. It's their fupa. No. Don't judge the kangaroos for their fupa. Have you ever seen the, have you seen the inside? Yeah. It's very fleshy. Yeah, it's part of their fucking body. It's disgusting. Okay. I thought it would be like, fur, and like cozy, like a note. No, it's their, no. It's disgusting. They should stop. Wow. Coming for the kangaroos. Kangaroos come for her. If you Find her. Take it out. Take thoughts out for two seconds. The idea of kangaroo is actually so creepy. Like they hop and they have a tail and they sit up. Like that's fucking crazy. I don't really know what to do with that information. Yeah, but rabbits are little and cute. But it's like they're like grown ass humans, but they're like not. Sick. And they stand. Like, it's just insane to me. Mind boggling. Whatever. Anyways, so he wakes up in this, makeshift ditch, I guess. With the dingoes. With the dingoes. Also, he's ass naked. No shoes. No. Ass naked. No. Yeah, Ricky. Ricky's in his birthday suit. Ricky's exposed. He's lost and insecure. He's literally naked and afraid. He seems to be naked and like a little unafraid for like whatever reason. I don't know. But he's just kind of like. He should be very afraid. So, no shoes, no, no nothing. He is stark naked. And let's talk about where he is right now, okay? He is balls deep in the Tanami Desert. Which, he is. Oh, it just reminds me of Saulburn. Anyway, go ahead. Oh, oh, oh, and it's hot as fuck, it's dry as fuck, it's desolate, there's hella animals, clearly he's being awoken by multiple dingoes, bugs, very little shrubs, there's not much happening. We got dunes as far as the eye can see. There's just, there's not a lot happening. It's the great Outback, not the Outback that we like. Not the Outback Steakhouse with the Bloomin Onions. Oh. Mm mm. We could fuck up a Bloomin Onion. You know what I was thinking we should do? A cheesy fry? Ugh. You know what I think we should do? I think we should go to like classic places like Outback, Chili's, Applebee's, and we should just like vlog it or something and like Rate them? Rate them. Okay. Like Uno's, like I'm down. Chili's though, Chili's is like fine dining. It is. Why? If you haven't taken one of their glorious chips and dipped it in salsa and then ranch, and then shoved it down your gullet, what are you doing? You haven't lived. No, you haven't. I am 100 percent for this. Actually, you're a sad sack of shit if you haven't done that. We have to add 99s to that list, though. Oh, yeah, of course. Of course. Alright. I am biased though, I think Applebee's, we call it Crapplebee's, it's the fucking worst. They're all terrible, that's why they're on this list. We need to make a rubric though, so it's They're all terrible, let's get real. No, I totally disagree. Well 99's different, 99's like not a terrible one. I don't think Chili's is bad. I don't think Outback is bad. No, I don't think Chelly's is bad. I think Uno's is trash. But most people do think Chelly's is bad. And I think that Applebee's is trash. Yes, correct. I wish we could go to the nightclub one in Florida. Oh my god, we have to add Texas Roadhouse. Yep, that too. What else? Okay, we'll make a chain list, and then we'll make a rubric, and then we'll begin. Maybe when you have a job and I have money. Which I don't know when that will be for me. Nor do I Maybe when you have a job and I have money. Period. I have two of them, still have no money. Eh. It's fine. Gang, we are Maybe next year. surviving, not thriving. Okay. Maybe episode 150. Sorry. Rolling it back. We can't get past the dingoes. Jesus Christ. So he's in this desolate area, like I mentioned before, and he's hella confused. He's like, am I dreaming? Where the fuck am I right now? And then he realizes, oh, Oh, this is very much real. Like, what the fuck am I supposed to I am fully awake, and I ate it here, and I'm naked, and I'm balls deep in the desert. He's like, what's a guy to do? Oh, we're so off our fucking rockers today. And then he said, oh, I know what I gotta do. We have just gotta Take off on foot and hope for the best. Like, what the fuck else is he supposed to do in that situation? Nude. Nude. Is it day or night? It's now, at this point, I believe, nighttime. Can you stop touching your boob when you're talking to me? That's not my boob, it's my, shoulder. Oh, okay. It looks like you're rubbing your own teat. My, uh, so gravity hit, my boob's down here. Oh, gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, so I'm up here. Okay, great. so he does take off on foot, as mentioned, uh, and he does that for ten days straight. Ten? Ten. No. I can't imagine walking ten minutes. Let alone ten days. When I was walking around the grocery store the other day my legs started to itch. You know when you haven't worked out in a while, and you move your body again, and you're like your thighs get like an itch. Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm talking about. I'm describing it wrong. An itch? An itch more of like a burn. It was a grocery store. I got that in the grocery store. So. So I guess we should like leave the house more often? Maybe we should walk for 10 days straight naked in the Australian desert and see what happens. Oh, after you hear what happens to him, we absolutely need to add it to our regimen. Why? How much weight does he lose? We'll get into it. So he's walking 10 days straight. He survives this 10 day period. Obviously it goes on for longer. Sure. He is eating Oh no. Leeches. Insects. Snakes. Ants! Lizards! And edible plants. Which, I don't know where he's finding these fucking plants, it's like, desolate land. Can I just tell you I'm more concerned about his skin? Like your ass must be so sunburned. Your literal ass, in this case. Like, my ass would be the most sunburnt. I feel like My teats, Betty and Boop, burnt to a crisp. Yeah, they would. The Poussoir would be. Oh my god. I'm just thinking of like when you go into a tanning bed and I literally was just about to say like the time you went into a tanning bed. Oh, I've done that like more than once. I know. And I just like forget that I didn't I just Took off my underwear. Like, why do I do that? And then all of a sudden I'm like, and I'm sizzling and not in a good way. That's why I ain't sizzling that way. I'm just kidding. Right? Okay. Back to the story. Sorry. He's eating leeches. He did get water. He drank water from water holes in like little Literally just holes of water. It's, it's also, I know it's really dry and desolate, but it's also a wet season. So like they just had just lucked out that there had been a significant amount of rain, so he could drink out of like potholes basically. Cool. It didn't dry up yet. And he only ate, he said that he only ate one meal a day, just enough to stay alive. So when the water was unavailable, he would drink his own pee. Yeah. You gotta do it. People do that. And he would, he was smart though, he, he would hold on to it, and I don't know how because he didn't have cups available, but it says he would hold on to it and chill it. How? Because it got cold, it got cold at night. So he would have himself a nice little urine martini. Urine ice? A little something to wet your whistle. Wet your whistle? A little dessert at the end of a cold or hard day? Yes, apparently so. It was really hot during the day and then it was really cold at night. So he's chilling his pee at night and then he would be hydrated in the morning. So he's baking during the day and he's freezing a fucking night. Oh god. He said, and I quote, I ate the leeches raw, straight out of the dam. Grasshoppers, I just ate them. But the only thing I really sort of had to cook was the frogs, which I slipped onto a bit of wire and stuck the wire on top of my humpy and let the sun dry them out a fair bit until they were a bit crispy. And then I ate them. Tastes like chicken. If you say so. And let me just tell you, all of these odd jobs he's had has really paid off because he has a wide variety of skills. It's insane. Right. He's bopped around for so long, lost in the sauce. He's cooking frogs on wires on his back. I'm just, I'm not grasping. Is that what he meant by humpy? I believe so. His humpback? Is that what we should start calling our humpbacks? My humpy? Mahump. Mahump, Mahump, Mahumpy. Check it out! He did create temporary shelters from the sun out of old branches that he found. He's like a really hunter and gatherer. Like, for real. That's just not a part of my He's giving Neanderthal. That's not a part of my Repertoire. ancestry that I want to tap into. It's that. It's that. part. No, we were meant for carrying hay on our backs in the famine and popping out babies. Dude, that sucks. I know. On his search though, when he's creating his shelter, he finds a decrepit old windmill. So he's like, cool, this will work. This will, we can create shop here. This could be my new home. So does he have clothes yet? No, he's still nude. He hasn't seen a human being like what's happening. He's not seeing anything. He's just walking. Yeah. The outback is. Desolate. So, he's experiencing, like we talked about, sun like never before. Quite literally where the sun don't shine. He is getting sun. And he is trying to, like, use whatever shade he can find to cover up his arse. So there's that. so he creates a little home out of a feed. Trow? I have no idea what the fuck that is. I think it has something to do with the windmill. And at some point And he gathers it, he drags it up to the top of like a dam of water, he flips it over and he like digs a hole and he just stays there for ten weeks and says this is my home. He has found a source of water, he's found a windmill, he's built a little nook, and there we have it. Got it. He stays there for the next 10 weeks. 10 weeks of just eating bugs. Nude. With his windmill? Like, what? He does go out every day to like, find more food and more water and more other 10 weeks? knick knacks, yeah. That's so long! He, uh, That's two and a half. Who's looking for him? No one. No, because they're like, they do realize because he's supposed to be at his new job. So they're like, Oh my God. Yeah. But no, no one comes looking for him. Don't worry. Oh, poor man. He becomes super weak. Obviously he's eating frogs, uh, to the extent where he, it gets difficult for him to be able to travel for his like expeditions, where he would like go out and find food and water. Yeah, he doesn't have the energy. Yeah, at one point, he suffers from an abscess on his tooth that Sorry. They have said that could have literally been fatal for him because he was so weak. I swear to God, Colleen, what are you about to say to me? He cut it out of his mouth with his car keys. An abscess on a tooth. What the fuck was it? I don't know, but it was infected and it, because he was so weak, like it normally probably would have killed him if he didn't cut it out. With his car keys. Oh my God. That's disgusting. Correct. But he was just like, yeah, no sweat off my back. Like this man's a savage. Other than the physical battle. That he was going through. Right. Like, cutting out in abscess with a car key. Uh, he was going through a little bit of mental unwellness as well. He, you know, was hopeless, he was lonely, he was like fighting his inner demons every day going out to find fucking sticks and water. He thought he was, he thought he was going insane as one does when you're naked. Yeah, I can't even imagine, not even seeing another human too, being so dehydrated, so I'm sure, yeah, wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Dark thoughts came and went, but he never acted on them. But it was still an option in the back of his brain the entire time. To suppress his boredom, he said that he watched The Simpsons in his head. The way I would be performing every musical known to man that I know. What would you be doing? Watching the Sopranos in your head? No, I'd probably, I wouldn't have made it this far. Which, I have a game at the end. Not a game, but like a little, yeah. So we'll get, we'll circle back to that. so he's hanging on by a thread, but he still has the thought like, I will be rescued and I want to be rescued. So I'm gonna keep on, keep on keeping on, yo. Love the human spirit. Yep. On April 5th, 2006, this is, again, he's been missing for about, 11 weeks now. Mm hmm. on April 5th, 2006, Ricky was eventually discovered about 31 miles from the Burundudu station, which is basically like a big fat cattle station, so very Yellowstone. Right. His rescuers were local station hands, and by now he was obviously starving, sunburnt, and suffering from intense malnutrition and exposure. It's giving Slender Man, it's not looking great. The station manager was this guy named Mark Clifford, and he described Ricky as just a walking skeleton when he was brought to the station by the hands. Oh my god. I'll show you a picture of him, actually. This is how he approached. Oh my god. What the fuck? And that was him before. Oh, wow. Also, like, could get it. Yeah, OG could get it. Handsome man. He, he probably lost, how much weight? he was originally 220, they found him at 130. Oh. My. Don't make that face. That is not goals. That is so unhealthy. I mean, yeah, we could throw in like a protein shake every once in a while though, but that regimen could get us somewhere. I'm just saying. Holy shit. So he's Skeletor. He's not well. And, the guy, the station manager that obviously works there, is familiar with the area, said that the place where he was found is one of the most isolated places in Australia. Yeah. So cool. Really great luck he had there. Yeah. Uh, they fly him out to Royal Darwin hospital where medical staff described him as emaciated, but also well hydrated question mark. Cause he's just like out here drinking his own pee and like finding puddles. So he did good with that. in the hospital, he was interviewed by Northern territory police who suggested that there was like a question of criminal activity in a situation, which like fair enough, like with his record, but also what happened to innocent until proven guilty. Well, that's in America. Oh. I thought that was like universal. No. Damn. A wuff. A wuff. No, but just look at him. I didn't even notice in my notes I put What happened to you? Innocent until proven guilty? Is that not a thing down under? No it's not, apparently not. And I know it's like a crazy story and it's very, I guess, suspicious, but like, you would see this man and not even question. I was gonna say, just look at him. Like, help a brother out, man. He's burned on his testes. But then also when he's like, I was drugged and dragged into a ditch, like, okay, a little sus. You know? I don't know, man. And they said, of course, that they had doubts about the story because his minor drug convictions in the past. Sure. But, at the end of the day, they said they weren't able to find any evidence of criminal vibes at all and he is discharged from the hospital. His car was never recovered. That was insane. They never found that guy ever again, did they? No, they never found the car. They never found anything. He, himself, like I said, lost his car. He was originally 220. He was 130. 90 pounds. That's crazy. That's sickening. 90 pounds in less than three months. What did I say? What did I say? And 220 is a decent sized guy, right? Like, that's a, that's a built man. That's not crazy. It's not like you're 400. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's a crazy it's like no sweat off your back, you know? Yeah. Wild. Here's the issue. Okay. I know the police were sus because of his past or whatever. Clearly, something happened to him, no matter what it is, and he tells the story and it's, they're like, okay, cool. You can do with this information whatever you want to. I have thoughts, I'll talk about them after. But, so this is all in 2006. Yes, 2006. And in 2010, he comes out with an autobiography. And in the autobiography, his story changes. What does he say? He says that he was driving through the Outback on his way to his new job, and there had been three men sitting on the roadside who had run out of gas, and that he had offered to give one of them a lift to a gas station. And he all of a sudden is like, brings up the idea that he could have been stabbed with a, uh, a drugged syringe during a struggle, he just like, throws that out there like, maybe. Okay. Okay. Like, in the Outback? Okay. Uh, either way, he sticks to the story that he woke up, feeling increasingly dazed and confused, and then he blacked out again, and then before he recovered consciousness hours later, he said that his attackers did not leave him. They overpowered him and like stunned him and he was like taken. Yeah. Okay. And instead of waking up in the ditch, he woke up at their camp is what he's claiming. Sure. He says they had a gun, but they never used it and they bring him a ton of water, which is maybe why he was so hydrated. But after an unknown period of time, he doesn't know how long it went. The carjackers, quote, unquote, they left the camp and they disappeared like piece of the fuck out by, and they stole his shoes, but they left him with 12 and 30 cents in his pocket. So. Why would they steal his shoes and not his money? Is this a burglary? Like I'm not, I'm not grasping what's going on. So that explains the whole missing vehicle thing, because they would have taken his vehicle, right? And maybe the missing clothes too. But how do you just hide a whole ass, like, car in the desert, you know what I mean? Like, so clearly someone took the car. I don't know. It's all very, I have thoughts. I think, The second part of the story is true, but he didn't want to admit that underlying aspect, like, there could have been something behind that, like, it wasn't Maybe he ran out of gas, maybe it was a drug deal going down, or I was gonna say, maybe he was trying to buy drugs. Yeah, and it just went awry, and he just didn't want to be Like, who, I would lie about that too, like, the fuck? Obviously. maybe he thought it would, like, affect his credibility, or how people would treat him, or I don't know, just like the police probably wouldn't have would have treated him differently if they had thought or knew that that was the instance. Right, but to the whole windmill situation where he's found, like, was the campsite that he's saying he was at, Where they found him? No. Was that all made up? No, he like doesn't know where it was. It's like, hmm. There's a lot of question marks. And as he's telling the story, like, it's losing credibility and it's not great. Uh, but at the same time, he was someone who didn't have the best upbringing, and he had a father that killed himself, and he was searching for a purpose all of his life before he was on his way to this new job. And like, maybe searching for some relevance. And now all these people are like reaching out to him to be like, Oh, this crazy thing happened to you. Like, let, let me interview you. Let me get you on this show. ABC is reaching out to him. He's like, Oh, I have something going for me. So maybe the first part of the story is true. And then he made up the second half to keep it going. Right. Well then help, help identify who those three guys are then. Yeah. I mean, either way, some shit happened to him. That is fucking crazy. Yeah, obviously. But why you're sh If it changed a little bit, that would make sense. That's a completely different narrative. And like, why lie? Why make it up? Right. Also, you clearly, four years later, are just gonna come out with a whole ass new story. Like, I'm just confused. Yeah, it's very strange. So, and it's never been confirmed, nor confirmed. Denied either one, but the doctor who treated him said that it was very difficult to also either deny or validate either story as he said that he responded so well to the treatment by all the doctors. So it was like, okay, like, I don't know. and then there was this guy whose name is Bush. He's Bush. His name is Bush. No, get out of here, Colleen. He's like considered to be an expert on outback survival. Whoa. Okay. Thank you. Whoa. Imagine that being like your thing? No. Simply no. Nope. He acknowledged that him surviving was not as surprising as it like would be thought to be. It was extremely possible for him to have survived for like probably up to years, especially with the water that he had. Because it is dry country, but like I said, the wet season had just ended, so he would've been fine for like a really long time, so, whatever. other experts say that Ricky survived due to just his own skills and his basic requirements of like water and food and shelter, like he knew how to get all those things and just like got them immediately. and he had a, like a survival mindset, like most people give up, like probably we would. so it's really nothing, it's not impossible, it's not as far fetched maybe. I don't know. Sus. All things to think about. But, what are your thoughts on it? It's just too, way too different of a story. I agree. But it's like, is it different for a reason? Like maybe you were just trying to like, hide something at the beginning, or do we think the beginning was true and now that you've had all this tension, maybe a couple years later the attention went away and you wanted to re spark it so you wrote the autobiography with a whole ass story. Yeah, I could totally see that. I could totally see that. I could see I mean the story in and of itself is so harrowing, you don't really need to spice it up. Yeah, that's true. So I'm surprised he would even change it if that were the truth. So the fact that he changed it to me says he wanted to make it spicy. I don't know. Yeah. That's very strange. It's way too different. I feel like he did have an interaction with these people and like maybe it was like, like you said, like a drug deal gone wrong kind of thing. He didn't want to take the blame for the drugs. Yeah, and maybe they stole his car and that was it. Like there could have been no I was drugged, I woke up, that whole story could be thrown out the window. He lost 90 pounds though, it's not like he lost 10. Well he would still be in the middle of fucking nowhere. Right. They could have just taken the car and gone. But do you know what I mean, he still clearly went through something. If he lost 10 pounds that would be one thing, he lost 90. Yeah. And there's a picture of him. He's an actual skeleton. Yeah. But I also like, I would just Do you think that part's made up? No. No, no, no, no. Okay. no. Like his doctors are even like, holy shit. I think like, even if at that point, if you're going to make that up because you were nervous about being judged for the real story of it being, say for example, drugs, like you could literally just say That I pulled over to help these people and they stole my clothes and my car like that could be it, right? What's with the camp and the gun? Left money in my pocket is very strange. It's all strange all very strange, but either way it happened He survived it and was fucking crazy, but he wrote the book It's called left for dead how I survived 71 days in the outback And then he moved to Dubai to work in construction and people still criticize and question his story but I Still fucking wild either way and he's popping off in Dubai. Yeah, he's I'm assuming he lost the job He was supposed to be at I'm assuming I'm gonna go on the limb here I think he went for a clout ride a little bit. Yeah, fair enough And that is a crazy story of Ricky McGee. Let me know what your I've never heard that story before that is fucking crazy Chris Chris now Reasons we wouldn't survive either one of those situations. Oh, wow Now it gets personal You would get angry I would be such a bitch. You would. You would also fall asleep. Immediately. The moment that car started moving, immediately asleep. I would not, sweet, sweet Kara Robinson waking up at dawn, not me, would be drooling, would be snoring. would not be quiet. I'm like a bull trying to chop. I can't be out here tiptoeing through a kitchen. Tiptoe through the window. You think I have the grace of someone who can unlock three mechanics and run before someone awakes? Please. I just feel like we don't run fast. Oh, I'm the slowest. On my softball team, they would have me hit and then would send in a runner for me because I'm so slow. That's crazy. You can do that? I'm so, yeah, a pinch runner. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Oh! You can do a pinch batter. That's cool. Yeah. Pinch hitter. yeah. No, I am, I am incredibly slow. And you would think because you have like long legs. No. Slow as fuck. That's crazy. And I walk fast. Do not run fast. Can't run. I just, I feel like my brain is like, yeah, you're, and you're, I'm just not moving as fast as I will say though, I have grit. I don't know if you have that. I don't know what that means. Like I have. I'm feisty when I want to be. Like, I don't have a flight, I have a fight. Oh, I don't know. I think mine's, I'm only, if someone's like choking, I'm flight. You're like, no, I don't want to. Like, what do we have to? the heat, no, I would just give up. Truly, I would just give up. Oh, the heat? Absolutely not. I love being without shoes, but I don't want to walk. Don't want to walk without shoes. Nope. I don't want to walk. Doesn't sound comfy. Period. Period. And that's, that's it. That's on that. period. If someone held a gun to me, I'd probably like it. So. I don't love that one, I'm not gonna lie. You know, like, you never seen like those TikToks that people are like, Oh, the person makes eye contact with you and it's just like, Oh, and like held you up against a wall. I'd be like, Oh, thank you. You know, you've never seen that before? No, I'm not on that side of TikTok. Well, just saying, I would probably like it. The duct tape over my mouth would make me break out and I would not like that. My face would also break out. I also don't ever shut the fuck up. That's true. So that would get That would get dicey. Well, I don't know, they might like it if you didn't stop talking. Like, you could be like a companion. You know? You, as Donkey, to my Shrek, would also Be in trouble. Cause you'd be like, Oh, what's over there? Oh, what does that do? Oh, what's that? What are these handcuffs for? Are you sure? What are you using these for? No. No. Stop it. That's crazy. You're lying. It's giving pick me energy. To the captor. I would be like, Are we fighting? Are you mad at me? Every two seconds. Let people please earn me. I'd be like, Oh, sorry, I'll move over. I'm so sorry. Sorry, am I heavy? Dragging my body. I'm like, sorry. Oh my god. Just kidding. I would simply let the dingo eat me. That's for sure. Yeah, same. I would just want to sit and have a snack. Like, I don't think any, if I couldn't have that, I don't think that's a place I would go. would want to be. I'm not trying to cook a frog on my humpy. That's for sure. Why not? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you saying you would? No, but again, not to make another TikTok reference, but have you seen the guy that it's like a wilderness guy and he'll just like be cooking meat on like a tree stump? Yeah. It's fucking crazy. Like, just get takeout. What, they don't have DoorDash where you live? Ew. What, do you live in the Outback? Oh, God. Colleen. And also, like, I have contacts. I don't think there's contact solution in the fuckin Outback. You're talking about your eyesight? That was, that's what you're worried about? I wouldn't be able to see my captor. They put him in a lineup, she's like, I don't know. Honestly, take my contacts out, maybe I'll be able to point them out then. Oh my god. I can't sleep in those. I can't wear them for more than a couple days. What am I going to do? I'm like thinking about it as if I'm like about to be in this situation and have to prepare. I will say I'm very calm under pressure. I think most people think because I'm a lunatic in real life that I would be a lunatic. I would lose my shit. I actually calm down. I don't think I'd be as smart as Kara Robinson or maybe now I will be because I've, I've seen her. story, well, I hope that neither of us nor you guys are ever in a situation where you need to find that out. How about that? I drink so much water too. I'd be like, I'm thirsty, every five seconds. Can you bring my Stanley cup to me? I did put that I would pee a lot, so like, that wouldn't be cool. Oh, you would be so at a long car ride? Can we stop? Can we stop? Can we stop? Your captor would be like, get out. Just get out. I just don't want you here anymore. Oh, God. I would need sunblock. Yeah, I wouldn't mind it. I you feel like your skin would just get used to it too soon. No, not our skin, honey. Okay. Mm mm. Mm mm. Also, wine. me captive, at least give me a Bev. I mean, if we're captive, yes. If we're in the Outback, no. I don't like warm wine. No, I don't want warm wine. Well, we couldn't help it. But if he's chilling his urine, you can chill a bottle of wine. That's true, but then we'd have to drink at dawn. Like, start your day with a Bev. Listen. What else do we have to do? You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning. That's what they say. Oh, God. No, that's true. I don't want a morning wine Bev. That's true. A mimo? A mimo! Do you have any mimoses? In there? Just wondering. Just wondering. What kind of Le process Spritz? Maybe? An Aperol, if you will? That windmill. That windmill. Can also double as a bar. Oh, good lord. Okay, you ready for some positive stories? Yeet. So I think I did something similar to this in the past, but I saw this article. We have to do it. Okay. Good News Network, Andy Korbely. Rinse and repeat. He's the best. They're in Pennsylvania. An entrepreneur left her six figure engineering job to volunteer at a mechanic shop around her area to learn how to fix cars and founded the Girls Auto Clinic. And while you get your car taken care of, you get a mani pedi. Best of both worlds. Yep. Patrice Banks was working at DuPont and decided to double her workload and enroll in Mechanics Night School where the 30 year old was the only girl in a class of 18 to 19 year old boys. She said, quote, I was tired of feeling helpless and having to go talk to a guy I was afraid I was going to be taken advantage of. Same girl. So she goes to school, she starts her own business, and she said that her and her girlfriend used to go to this very specific Jiffy Lube on their lunch break, and while they're getting their car taken care of, they would go to the nail salon next door and they would drop off their cars and then go chit chat. Brilliant. And she's like, I would hate it though. It was so annoying. So she started her own business called the Girls Auto Clinic. And you can go in, her clients get free Wi Fi, snacks, beverages, hundreds of books. I love that! The Clutch Beauty Clinic nails salon while they wait and not only told about the state of their vehicle when the work is finished, but Patrice also comes to that conclusion like what was I looking for? This is what I was hearing. This is what I found. So that when you leave you completely understand what was wrong, why it was wrong, and how it was fixed. And she is breeding a community of what she calls she canics. Batty. How fucking cool is that? She does it all, that's for sure. That's for sure. She's the best. Okay. This one made me feel some feels. Oh, come on. So, this woman posted on Twitter and said this. I was 12 years old when my mother lost the ability to parent me safely. I was taken from her and put into a huge, scary children's shelter. It took a long time, but they finally found someone who Would take in a deeply troubled rather wild child like me. Mama Essie was a black woman. I had a black foster sister too. A second one came later. She had three of us little hooligans in. Oh, what a hooligan. I was. I wasn't all that nice to her. I stole from her. I ran up her phone bill calling my boyfriend. When she put a lock on the dial up phone, I broke it. I was a mess and a handful. I eventually ran away and was put back in the shelter and never saw her again. I'm sure I broke her heart. And the foundation of everything I know about grace, about dignity, about fashion, makeup, hair care, I still use a pick, elegance, excellence, self care, patience, love, goodness, generosity, and fierceness in the face of pain came from my mama, Essie. She was one of the highest ranking civilians in the military in the U. S. Female and black, no less, in the 80s. She had severe eye issues, maybe even a glass eye. She single parented three hurting foster teens and she owned her own home. In the 80s, she took in a wild, ignorant white child. Y'all, it wasn't done thing in that area. Talk about badass. Whatever good there is about who I am, where I am, how I am, it is due to the foundation she laid. She showed me kindness wasn't. Bowled over by my sass and taught me things my own mother never did or could. I didn't know why she came to my mind today, but the tears are rolling, the heart is welling, and I so want to honor her today with this little public remembrance. I tried to find her and haven't yet. Mama Essie, if you're still with us or pairing through the windows of heaven. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I heard you. I saw you. You made a difference more than you'll ever know. So they found her. No. A today article written by rachel, Paula Abrahamson. the girl who posted his name is Hannah Smith. And it says, during a phone call with today. com on December 14th, less than 24 hours after her tweet went viral, Hannah Smith says she's shaking with happiness, quote did you see someone found her? Mama Essie is still living in Stockton. She's live. Have you seen the picture? She's beautiful. Oh, what about her? She's so cute! So they got to talk on the phone Hannah said about Mama Essie, I felt like I was in a family. I knew I was safe and secure and I knew nothing bad was going to happen to me. When I got sick in the middle of the night, Mama Essie brought me to the hospital and sat with me. She showed me that there was kindness in the world. I wouldn't be where I am today without her. And this is Hannah. Aww. And so they, Interviewed Mama Essie. She's in her 70s now. She's fostered children of all ages for nearly 30 years. The patience this woman must have. She said quote, I've heard from so many of the kids over the years, what I try to do is give them confidence and teach them coping skills. I tell them you're smart and you're gonna pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You can have a good life. Damn. So they ended up talking on the phone and Hannah said I felt like I've been pacing, wandering. I feel my soul stirring again. I know my story helps people. I feel inspired, infused. I'm here for it. Good things are coming. So, shout out to Mama Motherfucking Essie. I want to know a Mama Essie. Mama Essie. What an angel among us. The patience. The patience. A single woman with three teenagers in foster care. By herself. Nope. Simply no. Oh, man. Anywho. We hope we gave you some fun facts of how to escape if you are ever in a situation where you need to do so. Drink your own pee. Make it chilled. Memorize the dentist's phone number and every barcode and every single thing that you see. Stay calm. Be a baddie. Oh, that's a good one. I love that. Okay, great. Love you. Mean it. Love you. Mean it. Bye. Bye.
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