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I walk in and his mom was cleaning cucumbers in the bathtub.
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At first, I was trying to pass this as cream-colored caterpillars.
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Caterpillars become butterflies, right?
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So back in like 92, maybe 94, 96, when Match.com was first coming out, there were the gals from Great Falls, Montana.
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It's the Desolate Dating Podcast, hosted by Haley Shipp, the hottest girl I ever fumbled.
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And welcome back to Desolate Dating.
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So glad you are back with us, friends.
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It has been a couple of heavy episodes.
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And so I'm lightening the mood today.
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We are talking about some.
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Let's just say this.
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Even a bad date gives a good story.
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That's our positive spin on this today.
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But I have three different dating stories.
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One is my own, and two are listener submissions that I think you're going to enjoy.
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And so uh the title of today's show, Meggots, Missing Groceries, and Accidental Incest.
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With a title like that, I think you knew it was going to be Desolate Dating that you were listening to.
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Um, these listener submissions, they are tremendous.
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And when we can get another voice on the podcast, it is just pure gold.
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Uh break up the monotony of just my voice.
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And so if you have a story to tell about anything that you think might be something that uh gets covered on desolate dating, it can be a dating story, it can be a how you met your spouse story, whatever it might be, you can head to tinyurl.com slash desolate dating and then go ahead and uh submit that story.
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Again, maggots, missing groceries, and accidental incest.
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The first story here is mine, the maggot story.
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I will tell you this only happens to me, and I'm going to tell you why I say that, but uh before we do, cheers.
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I already poured myself some fireball.
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This is cheers to the ranchy houses that teach us that we can handle things that we never realized we could handle.
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So cheers to that.
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Fireball in the afternoon, not apple juice.
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I have a whole new experiment here I'm trying on the Desolate Dating Podcast and a bushlight to keep the story going.
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Okay.
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Maggot's in my kitchen.
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So I um had a date recently, and I don't dive super into the ins and outs of of my dating life on this podcast unless I think it's something that's like really, really useful.
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Um, we are removing all names to protect the innocent.
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I'm gonna back up a little bit and say that I a few years back lived in a house that I absolutely loved.
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The damn thing ended up being on top of a snake den.
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I do not love snakes.
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I do not like snakes at all.
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I promptly moved out of that house, started this whole like you know, domino effect of where I was living, this, that, and the other.
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And I ended up on the old ranch house on our ranch, kicking my dad out.
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Like he's a good dad.
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And uh now I live in this old ranch house.
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I um have done some remodeling, you know, it it it didn't need it, but aesthetically I wanted remodels.
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And um, I got new siding and the like.
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This summer I had another snake in this house, a huge bull snake in this house.
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So last time it was a bunch of uh racers under the house, one in the house, you know, some in the walls.
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This time it was just a snake in the dining room.
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I'm proud to say that I can finally now say it was just a snake in the dining room.
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I, if you would have asked me about that statement 10 years ago, I would have said burn the whole damn place down, but I am slowly getting a little bit thicker skin to this.
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So this house has had remodeling.
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It's got a new kitchen, it's got a new dining room, um, new electric throughout the kitchen, new siding, new windows, new canned lights.
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Canned lights in the ceiling, and the ceiling is beautiful tongue and groove.
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So I went on a date um last weekend.
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Very nice gentleman.
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He was at my house and we were making coffee and the like, and I noticed that there were a couple of cream-colored caterpillars in the kitchen.
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I've already told you the title, you know exactly what was going on, but at first I was trying to pass this as cream-colored caterpillars.
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Caterpillars become butterflies, right?
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Like they're not that gross.
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Um there got to be more of them.
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We're in the kitchen, and there's still more, and I'm like, where are these things coming from?
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Eventually, he said something along the lines of Haley, I think I know what these are, but you're not going to like it.
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And I knew.
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So I said, maggots.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, he agreed.
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I had maggots in my kitchen.
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So then we were trying to identify where they were coming from.
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So I haven't icked this guy out yet.
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Like he is looking for the source of the maggots in my kitchen with me, which is uh sometimes people are like, How are you still single?
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This, this right?
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This is how I'm still single.
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I have maggots in my kitchen.
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Um so he was sitting on next to the island and when landed on the island.
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So we start to surmise that they are actually falling out of the can lights in the ceiling into the kitchen, which explains why I was getting them on the floor and the countertop and the island.
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So apparently, I mean I couldn't smell any decomposition, nor could he.
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Um and my house is fairly tidy.
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I'm not going to say I'm the cleanest person, but I don't normally have dead things laying around.
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But what must have happened is that there must have been a mouse that died in the ceiling, and it's rural Montana.
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There are flies.
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Flies got up their laid eggs, and they were not cute little caterpillars.
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They were definitely maggots dropping from my ceiling.
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So I power rated the bitch a couple of times.
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I think I uh have eliminated the maggot problem.
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There have not been maggots for multiple days now.
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He has not asked me on another date.
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I'll let that be clear.
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But I did text him and I was like, I need your reaction to what, you know, what is your reaction?
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I actually texted Jolie Blue and I was like, oh my gosh, I think I gave this guy the ick.
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How could he have not gotten the ick?
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And Jolie said, the ick would have happened if you wouldn't have cared that there were maggots in your kitchen.
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But since you cared, that wasn't a big ick to him.
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And this guy seems to be kind of in the same same ballpark.
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He was like, obviously your house is clean.
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This was weird.
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Um, and he's like, I just wanted to help you figure out what was going on.
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So a winner in my book from that yet to be seen, if I did actually ick him and there's no other date, or yeah, we'll see.
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Okay.
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That's my maggot story.
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Gosh, I hope that the weird stuff in my house can just quit because that morning I also killed two crickets, countless maggots, um, a mouse, and like five wolf spiders, which I know let the stuff outside or whatever.
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No, I'm not that person.
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I'm kind of hippy-dippy, but once stuff gets into my house, nope, you're gone.
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You're expired.
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You don't have any more chances.
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Okay, next story is a listener's submission about missing groceries.
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But first, more info about our presenting partners.
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Breaking into talk about our presenting partners here on Desolate Dating.
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They are the Glasgow Dental Clinic as well as Arneson Contracting.
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They are the owners and the operators of the Moss Lodge.
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Hey, I'm gonna talk about that one first because this is a top 10% Airbnb listing.
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It is located in Glasgow, Montana.
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Folks, I had a couple evenings there earlier this year.
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It's phenomenal.
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You've got acreage to go walk around on.
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There is this incredible tree house, this incredible bathtub.
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But here's what I am saying this ask.
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This is a hunting getaway where if some of your hunting party does not like to actually go out and hunt, they can stay at the moss lodge and enjoy their day with all of the amenities and then, you know what, have a nice place to come back to for everybody else.
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So you can check it out in the show notes.
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I've got a direct link.
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And then Glasgow Dental Clinic, uh, Dr.
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Jolyn Capteville, I had a chipped tooth and she got me in so quickly.
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And the appointment itself to completely fix this whole chip that I had in one of my bottom teeth was under 20 minutes.
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She serves the region of Northeast Montana, located in Glasgow, just an incredible asset to our community.
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Again, thank you to those presenting partners.
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Okay, welcome back, everybody.
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Uh, thank you for just like listening through to what I'm talking about.
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I know that it's not always easy talking or hearing from one person on a podcast.
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And so our listener call here is about missing.
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Well, I'm just gonna let him tell you himself.
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So here is something that went down for somebody who hopped onto match.com when it was relatively new.
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We'll go ahead and and play his story.
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So back in like 92, maybe 94, 96, when match.com was first coming out, um, I went on to match.com.
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There was a gal from Great Falls, Montana.
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She was interested.
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She said she didn't have transportation, but was willing to ride the bus down.
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So she came down in like February, which we were busy calving.
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And anyways, I picked her up from the bus stop.
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She came home, I showed her around the place, I said I need to go check some heifers that were calvin, because we calve about 400 heifers, and she said she wanted to stay in the house.
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That night when I got finally got home, I asked her if she was hungry, and she said no, that she'd eaten before she'd come.
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Next day I got up whenever in the morning and asked her if she wanted breakfast, and she said no, she wasn't hungry.
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So this is bringing up a couple of things.
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Um there was a little gap in the audio here, and so I I don't know if there was more to this part of the story that I didn't get, but I think I I can fill it in, right?
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Like she said she wasn't hungry again.
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But it's bringing up two things for me.
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Number one is why is eating always so awkward?
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Like, is that just me?
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But like the act of eating in front of somebody, especially on a date where you're like face to face, but I mean eating in somebody's house, even if you don't have Megan's in your kitchen, like it's awkward.
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It's eating in front of people is awkward.
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And we're not even gonna talk about bathroom stuff because Joel Lee said we can't talk about bathroom stuff, but like it's also awkward when you first start, and these are just basic human functions, but they're just weird.
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And then the second part that he's bringing up here is that, and I brought it up with the Meggot story, like somebody's coming to see you.
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These are long distances, and so you have to have an overnight plan.
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Um, the this last guy that I'm talking about with me, very nice.
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He actually did get a hotel.
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Like he um he was ready for that.
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But, you know, you feel kind of rude sometimes.
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Like hotels are 160 bucks a night.
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Hey, take me out for dinner.
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Speaking from a woman who often gets their, you know, meal paid for and somebody takes care of, you know, the date, the evening, the drinks.
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And then you expect him to get$160 hotel, plus they drove to see you, massive amounts of money.
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So$160 for the hotel,$100 for the dinner, um, you know, probably$100 drinks once you start throwing stuff down.
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I just filled my pickup up today.
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It was six dollars plus for diesel.
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Like these are humongous investments just to go on a date that might not even work.
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But um, in the case of this listener, he actually had a couple other things that uh cost him some money.
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When I gorilla got the look of searching everything out, basically So I'm gonna stop that.
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So she obviously left.
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She left, didn't want breakfast, she left the place, and then he is back looking at you know what went down.
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When I gorilla got the looking of searching everything out, basically all my food was gone, but she'd put the packages back exactly how they were and killed them like the journal pizza boxes, but put where she'd opened them upside down in the freezer.
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So I was like totally out of groceries, middle of cabin, cold, and I had to drive an hour to go to town to get groceries.
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Which I admit this ain't as bad bad as Maggot's, but it's not delivery, it's de jour now.
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Ugh, so it apparently this gal stole his food.
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I I don't know, I might have to do a follow-up with him actually on the show where he joins me and talks about this story.
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He said that after that match.com was not, in fact, his jam.
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All right, we're gonna take another break.
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Uh, recognize some of the founding sponsors for Desolate Dating.
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Folks, one of the realities of podcasting is that there's a lot of podcasts out there that don't actually cash flow.
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A lot of hosts that are giving away their time, which is great.
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Uh, but that's not what works for me.
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I don't have extra time in my life to give away.
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And so when I started desolate dating, I knew there had to be a way in which I could involve businesses that wanted to reach the audience of this podcast.
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And boy, I have had some folks come in in spades, both to talk to you as well as to support me.
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And so with that, I do want to take a second here to thank our founding sponsors.
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We already talked about Glasgow Dental Clinic and Arneson contracting, home of that incredible Airbnb, the Moss Lodge.
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But we also have Ooh Shiny Fabrics, Cherry Creek Aesthetics, the Busted Knuckle Brewery, End of the Road Vacation Rental in Glasgow, Montana, Dr.
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Kristen Strom, she is a keynote speaker and a coach, and also Jay Whittle Construction, LLC.
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So excited to have them all on board.
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We'll talk more about them here as this first season continues.
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And if you would like to have your name on that list of founding sponsors, we are running that uh opening session, the opportunity to jump in through October 31st, and the contact details are just in the show notes if you would like more details.
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Alright, so we have covered Maggot's in the kitchen.
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We have covered the Great Food Heist.
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Now it is time for accidental incest.com slash desolate dating.
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All right, let's hear this one.
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Hi, Haley.
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So um to start off, we met in college.
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I had known his parents just from being in the community and um being in that like um customer service industry, I guess.
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And but I didn't know them all that well.
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Okay.
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I just knew him on a very high-bye, very lighthearted kind of way.
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And um, so I met him in college and we ended up starting we started dating.
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We were dating for a bit, maybe not not too long, maybe a month, I guess.
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And um he invited me to go back to his house from college, okay.
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And so I went up there to meet his parents, and I walk in, and his mom was cleaning cucumbers in the bathtub.
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And so if we walk into the bathroom, and um I am not a very nervous person, I guess, when it comes to meeting new people.
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And so just started visiting with her, and it was kind of like a catch-up session at first, and it was like, okay, now it's more than just a high vibe, like you know, let's let's visit a little bit.
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So I got down there with her and was scrubbing cucumbers in the bathtub, and then we ended up canning them together.
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It was a full day.
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Can them made dinner, all this, and we've just visiting the whole time and having a blast.
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It was it was so much fun.
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Um my boyfriend at the time was like, Well, what am I doing here?
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Like, um, so anyways, uh after dinner, his mom pulls out a book.
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The book happened to be a family album, and she just wanted to show me how cute her son was when he was a baby.
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And you know, I mean, we really hit it off, me and his his mom.
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And you know his mom, and you would be like, Oh, that is so her.
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Um, just wanting to show how proud of her kids she is, she's was such a wonderful woman, anyways.
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Um, so we're flipping through the book, and we get to a whole bunch of like family pictures, an extended family, and we're sitting there, and I'm like, Oh, this is so cute.
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And all of a sudden I flip the page and I'm like, Why are my cousins in your family album?
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And he goes, Mom, and she goes, Oh my gosh, they're his cousins too.
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So needless to say, the relationship didn't last.
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But um we discovered that he was related to one side of the fam of that family, and then I was related to the other side.
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So we discover that we're related through marriage, okay?
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So no blood involved, okay, just marriage.
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But either way, the joke then was for the rest of the weekend, because I mean, we drove together from college and we are at his parents' house for the entire weekend.
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So um, the whole joke was his dad was cracking jokes about how, oh, if you guys got married, we would save money on invitations because you guys have the same family members.
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It was like, oh no, this can't happen.
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Like, no, no, no.
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And we hadn't been dating that long.
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But I will say we had a very strong connection from the get-go.
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It was just one of those relationships that didn't take a lot, it just came natural and it was naturally easy.
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And um, yeah, so that was that.
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But we ended up breaking up now.
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The part I was gonna keep out, but I'm not going to, is you know, we spent we had to spend the rest of the weekend together.
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So we're like, well, we might as well enjoy the weekend and spend some extra time together, if you know what I mean.
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Before we go our separate ways.
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So that is my desolate dating story.
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Thank you for listening.
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I love this so much.
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Um, I blanked out the town name because it's really easy if I it's really easy in these small towns to know exactly what people are talking about.
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And uh the scholar submitted that completely anonymously, and I know exactly who she is.
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And uh, once she said the town name and that I would know the mother, I do.
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I know exactly who she's talking about.
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And isn't that just like the flavor of dating in small town America, small town Canada, whatever it might be?
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Okay, so a couple of things on this one.
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The cousins through marriage does not bother me at all.
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I mean, we're going to do a show later about how close of cousins is actually too close.
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And so um, by marriage, that's not even cousins, that's just by marriage.
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The washing the cucumbers in the bathtub.
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I'm not a gardener, but at first I was like, what is she doing?
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And then I'm painting this picture.
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So you're in the bathroom, and um, she said that this was a farm family, and so I'm assuming it's probably not this huge, you know, expansive restroom.
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So you're just like all snuggled up over this bathtub, somebody's on the toilet, somebody's I can just picture this thing, right?
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Uh beautiful.
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And yes, looking through that photo album and being like, oh, your cousins are also my cousins.
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But oh, that's sweet nature.
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I I have not gone home to meet somebody's parents in a very, very, very long time.
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And uh I am a little I'm not like this caller.
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She was very bold.
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She was like, I have no problem meeting new people.
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I I struggle, especially if it's somebody that you want to impress.
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It's so good.
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So good.
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Thank you.
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I almost said your name.
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Thank you for that call.
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Alright, folks, that is gonna do it for this episode of Desolate Dating.
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Like I said, these voice memos really are everything.
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And I'm going to work on uh doing some more solo episodes like this too.
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And so kind of just sprinkle those into the mix of what we're doing.
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If you have something you would like to submit for a listener story, please again go to that website, tinyurl.com/slash desolate dating.
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You've got five minutes is your limit now to tell your story.
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And once you do so, it is the property of Desolate Dating and Ranchy Media LLC, meaning that I might use it on the podcast, I might use it in print, I might use it in social media.
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Uh, but uh we'll keep it anonymous if you ask for it to stay so.
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All right, thanks for listening to Desolate Dating.
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We'll be back in again next week.
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Thanks for listening.
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If you enjoyed the show, give us a like, follow, and a five star review, and tell a friend.
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I walk in and his mom was cleaning cucumbers in the bathtub.
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At first, I was trying to pass this as cream-colored caterpillars.
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Caterpillars become butterflies, right?
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So back in like 92, maybe 94, 96, when Match.com was first coming out, there were the gals from Great Falls, Montana.
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It's the Desolate Dating Podcast, hosted by Haley Shipp, the hottest girl I ever fumbled.
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And welcome back to Desolate Dating.
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So glad you are back with us, friends.
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It has been a couple of heavy episodes.
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And so I'm lightening the mood today.
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We are talking about some.
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Let's just say this.
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Even a bad date gives a good story.
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That's our positive spin on this today.
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But I have three different dating stories.
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One is my own, and two are listener submissions that I think you're going to enjoy.
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And so uh the title of today's show, Meggots, Missing Groceries, and Accidental Incest.
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With a title like that, I think you knew it was going to be Desolate Dating that you were listening to.
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Um, these listener submissions, they are tremendous.
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And when we can get another voice on the podcast, it is just pure gold.
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Uh break up the monotony of just my voice.
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And so if you have a story to tell about anything that you think might be something that uh gets covered on desolate dating, it can be a dating story, it can be a how you met your spouse story, whatever it might be, you can head to tinyurl.com slash desolate dating and then go ahead and uh submit that story.
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Again, maggots, missing groceries, and accidental incest.
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The first story here is mine, the maggot story.
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I will tell you this only happens to me, and I'm going to tell you why I say that, but uh before we do, cheers.
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I already poured myself some fireball.
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This is cheers to the ranchy houses that teach us that we can handle things that we never realized we could handle.
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So cheers to that.
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Fireball in the afternoon, not apple juice.
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I have a whole new experiment here I'm trying on the Desolate Dating Podcast and a bushlight to keep the story going.
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Okay.
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Maggot's in my kitchen.
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So I um had a date recently, and I don't dive super into the ins and outs of of my dating life on this podcast unless I think it's something that's like really, really useful.
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Um, we are removing all names to protect the innocent.
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I'm gonna back up a little bit and say that I a few years back lived in a house that I absolutely loved.
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The damn thing ended up being on top of a snake den.
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I do not love snakes.
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I do not like snakes at all.
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I promptly moved out of that house, started this whole like you know, domino effect of where I was living, this, that, and the other.
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And I ended up on the old ranch house on our ranch, kicking my dad out.
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Like he's a good dad.
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And uh now I live in this old ranch house.
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I um have done some remodeling, you know, it it it didn't need it, but aesthetically I wanted remodels.
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And um, I got new siding and the like.
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This summer I had another snake in this house, a huge bull snake in this house.
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So last time it was a bunch of uh racers under the house, one in the house, you know, some in the walls.
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This time it was just a snake in the dining room.
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I'm proud to say that I can finally now say it was just a snake in the dining room.
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I, if you would have asked me about that statement 10 years ago, I would have said burn the whole damn place down, but I am slowly getting a little bit thicker skin to this.
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So this house has had remodeling.
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It's got a new kitchen, it's got a new dining room, um, new electric throughout the kitchen, new siding, new windows, new canned lights.
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Canned lights in the ceiling, and the ceiling is beautiful tongue and groove.
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So I went on a date um last weekend.
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Very nice gentleman.
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He was at my house and we were making coffee and the like, and I noticed that there were a couple of cream-colored caterpillars in the kitchen.
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I've already told you the title, you know exactly what was going on, but at first I was trying to pass this as cream-colored caterpillars.
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Caterpillars become butterflies, right?
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Like they're not that gross.
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Um there got to be more of them.
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We're in the kitchen, and there's still more, and I'm like, where are these things coming from?
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Eventually, he said something along the lines of Haley, I think I know what these are, but you're not going to like it.
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And I knew.
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So I said, maggots.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, he agreed.
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I had maggots in my kitchen.
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So then we were trying to identify where they were coming from.
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So I haven't icked this guy out yet.
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Like he is looking for the source of the maggots in my kitchen with me, which is uh sometimes people are like, How are you still single?
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This, this right?
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This is how I'm still single.
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I have maggots in my kitchen.
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Um so he was sitting on next to the island and when landed on the island.
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So we start to surmise that they are actually falling out of the can lights in the ceiling into the kitchen, which explains why I was getting them on the floor and the countertop and the island.
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So apparently, I mean I couldn't smell any decomposition, nor could he.
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Um and my house is fairly tidy.
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I'm not going to say I'm the cleanest person, but I don't normally have dead things laying around.
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But what must have happened is that there must have been a mouse that died in the ceiling, and it's rural Montana.
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There are flies.
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Flies got up their laid eggs, and they were not cute little caterpillars.
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They were definitely maggots dropping from my ceiling.
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So I power rated the bitch a couple of times.
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I think I uh have eliminated the maggot problem.
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There have not been maggots for multiple days now.
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He has not asked me on another date.
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I'll let that be clear.
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But I did text him and I was like, I need your reaction to what, you know, what is your reaction?
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I actually texted Jolie Blue and I was like, oh my gosh, I think I gave this guy the ick.
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How could he have not gotten the ick?
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And Jolie said, the ick would have happened if you wouldn't have cared that there were maggots in your kitchen.
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But since you cared, that wasn't a big ick to him.
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And this guy seems to be kind of in the same same ballpark.
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He was like, obviously your house is clean.
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This was weird.
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Um, and he's like, I just wanted to help you figure out what was going on.
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So a winner in my book from that yet to be seen, if I did actually ick him and there's no other date, or yeah, we'll see.
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Okay.
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That's my maggot story.
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Gosh, I hope that the weird stuff in my house can just quit because that morning I also killed two crickets, countless maggots, um, a mouse, and like five wolf spiders, which I know let the stuff outside or whatever.
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No, I'm not that person.
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I'm kind of hippy-dippy, but once stuff gets into my house, nope, you're gone.
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You're expired.
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You don't have any more chances.
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Okay, next story is a listener's submission about missing groceries.
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But first, more info about our presenting partners.
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Breaking into talk about our presenting partners here on Desolate Dating.
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They are the Glasgow Dental Clinic as well as Arneson Contracting.
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They are the owners and the operators of the Moss Lodge.
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Hey, I'm gonna talk about that one first because this is a top 10% Airbnb listing.
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It is located in Glasgow, Montana.
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Folks, I had a couple evenings there earlier this year.
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It's phenomenal.
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You've got acreage to go walk around on.
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There is this incredible tree house, this incredible bathtub.
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But here's what I am saying this ask.
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This is a hunting getaway where if some of your hunting party does not like to actually go out and hunt, they can stay at the moss lodge and enjoy their day with all of the amenities and then, you know what, have a nice place to come back to for everybody else.
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So you can check it out in the show notes.
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I've got a direct link.
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And then Glasgow Dental Clinic, uh, Dr.
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Jolyn Capteville, I had a chipped tooth and she got me in so quickly.
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And the appointment itself to completely fix this whole chip that I had in one of my bottom teeth was under 20 minutes.
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She serves the region of Northeast Montana, located in Glasgow, just an incredible asset to our community.
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Again, thank you to those presenting partners.
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Okay, welcome back, everybody.
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Uh, thank you for just like listening through to what I'm talking about.
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I know that it's not always easy talking or hearing from one person on a podcast.
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And so our listener call here is about missing.
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Well, I'm just gonna let him tell you himself.
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So here is something that went down for somebody who hopped onto match.com when it was relatively new.
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We'll go ahead and and play his story.
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So back in like 92, maybe 94, 96, when match.com was first coming out, um, I went on to match.com.
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There was a gal from Great Falls, Montana.
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She was interested.
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She said she didn't have transportation, but was willing to ride the bus down.
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So she came down in like February, which we were busy calving.
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And anyways, I picked her up from the bus stop.
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She came home, I showed her around the place, I said I need to go check some heifers that were calvin, because we calve about 400 heifers, and she said she wanted to stay in the house.
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That night when I got finally got home, I asked her if she was hungry, and she said no, that she'd eaten before she'd come.
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Next day I got up whenever in the morning and asked her if she wanted breakfast, and she said no, she wasn't hungry.
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So this is bringing up a couple of things.
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Um there was a little gap in the audio here, and so I I don't know if there was more to this part of the story that I didn't get, but I think I I can fill it in, right?
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Like she said she wasn't hungry again.
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But it's bringing up two things for me.
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Number one is why is eating always so awkward?
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Like, is that just me?
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But like the act of eating in front of somebody, especially on a date where you're like face to face, but I mean eating in somebody's house, even if you don't have Megan's in your kitchen, like it's awkward.
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It's eating in front of people is awkward.
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And we're not even gonna talk about bathroom stuff because Joel Lee said we can't talk about bathroom stuff, but like it's also awkward when you first start, and these are just basic human functions, but they're just weird.
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And then the second part that he's bringing up here is that, and I brought it up with the Meggot story, like somebody's coming to see you.
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These are long distances, and so you have to have an overnight plan.
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Um, the this last guy that I'm talking about with me, very nice.
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He actually did get a hotel.
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Like he um he was ready for that.
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But, you know, you feel kind of rude sometimes.
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Like hotels are 160 bucks a night.
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Hey, take me out for dinner.
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Speaking from a woman who often gets their, you know, meal paid for and somebody takes care of, you know, the date, the evening, the drinks.
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And then you expect him to get$160 hotel, plus they drove to see you, massive amounts of money.
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So$160 for the hotel,$100 for the dinner, um, you know, probably$100 drinks once you start throwing stuff down.
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I just filled my pickup up today.
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It was six dollars plus for diesel.
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Like these are humongous investments just to go on a date that might not even work.
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But um, in the case of this listener, he actually had a couple other things that uh cost him some money.
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When I gorilla got the look of searching everything out, basically So I'm gonna stop that.
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So she obviously left.
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She left, didn't want breakfast, she left the place, and then he is back looking at you know what went down.
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When I gorilla got the looking of searching everything out, basically all my food was gone, but she'd put the packages back exactly how they were and killed them like the journal pizza boxes, but put where she'd opened them upside down in the freezer.
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So I was like totally out of groceries, middle of cabin, cold, and I had to drive an hour to go to town to get groceries.
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Which I admit this ain't as bad bad as Maggot's, but it's not delivery, it's de jour now.
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Ugh, so it apparently this gal stole his food.
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I I don't know, I might have to do a follow-up with him actually on the show where he joins me and talks about this story.
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He said that after that match.com was not, in fact, his jam.
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All right, we're gonna take another break.
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Uh, recognize some of the founding sponsors for Desolate Dating.
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Folks, one of the realities of podcasting is that there's a lot of podcasts out there that don't actually cash flow.
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A lot of hosts that are giving away their time, which is great.
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Uh, but that's not what works for me.
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I don't have extra time in my life to give away.
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And so when I started desolate dating, I knew there had to be a way in which I could involve businesses that wanted to reach the audience of this podcast.
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And boy, I have had some folks come in in spades, both to talk to you as well as to support me.
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And so with that, I do want to take a second here to thank our founding sponsors.
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We already talked about Glasgow Dental Clinic and Arneson contracting, home of that incredible Airbnb, the Moss Lodge.
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But we also have Ooh Shiny Fabrics, Cherry Creek Aesthetics, the Busted Knuckle Brewery, End of the Road Vacation Rental in Glasgow, Montana, Dr.
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Kristen Strom, she is a keynote speaker and a coach, and also Jay Whittle Construction, LLC.
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So excited to have them all on board.
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We'll talk more about them here as this first season continues.
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And if you would like to have your name on that list of founding sponsors, we are running that uh opening session, the opportunity to jump in through October 31st, and the contact details are just in the show notes if you would like more details.
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Alright, so we have covered Maggot's in the kitchen.
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We have covered the Great Food Heist.
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Now it is time for accidental incest.com slash desolate dating.
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All right, let's hear this one.
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Hi, Haley.
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So um to start off, we met in college.
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I had known his parents just from being in the community and um being in that like um customer service industry, I guess.
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And but I didn't know them all that well.
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Okay.
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I just knew him on a very high-bye, very lighthearted kind of way.
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And um, so I met him in college and we ended up starting we started dating.
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We were dating for a bit, maybe not not too long, maybe a month, I guess.
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And um he invited me to go back to his house from college, okay.
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And so I went up there to meet his parents, and I walk in, and his mom was cleaning cucumbers in the bathtub.
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And so if we walk into the bathroom, and um I am not a very nervous person, I guess, when it comes to meeting new people.
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And so just started visiting with her, and it was kind of like a catch-up session at first, and it was like, okay, now it's more than just a high vibe, like you know, let's let's visit a little bit.
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So I got down there with her and was scrubbing cucumbers in the bathtub, and then we ended up canning them together.
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It was a full day.
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Can them made dinner, all this, and we've just visiting the whole time and having a blast.
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It was it was so much fun.
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Um my boyfriend at the time was like, Well, what am I doing here?
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Like, um, so anyways, uh after dinner, his mom pulls out a book.
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The book happened to be a family album, and she just wanted to show me how cute her son was when he was a baby.
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And you know, I mean, we really hit it off, me and his his mom.
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And you know his mom, and you would be like, Oh, that is so her.
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Um, just wanting to show how proud of her kids she is, she's was such a wonderful woman, anyways.
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Um, so we're flipping through the book, and we get to a whole bunch of like family pictures, an extended family, and we're sitting there, and I'm like, Oh, this is so cute.
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And all of a sudden I flip the page and I'm like, Why are my cousins in your family album?
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And he goes, Mom, and she goes, Oh my gosh, they're his cousins too.
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So needless to say, the relationship didn't last.
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But um we discovered that he was related to one side of the fam of that family, and then I was related to the other side.
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So we discover that we're related through marriage, okay?
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So no blood involved, okay, just marriage.
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But either way, the joke then was for the rest of the weekend, because I mean, we drove together from college and we are at his parents' house for the entire weekend.
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So um, the whole joke was his dad was cracking jokes about how, oh, if you guys got married, we would save money on invitations because you guys have the same family members.
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It was like, oh no, this can't happen.
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Like, no, no, no.
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And we hadn't been dating that long.
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But I will say we had a very strong connection from the get-go.
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It was just one of those relationships that didn't take a lot, it just came natural and it was naturally easy.
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And um, yeah, so that was that.
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But we ended up breaking up now.
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The part I was gonna keep out, but I'm not going to, is you know, we spent we had to spend the rest of the weekend together.
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So we're like, well, we might as well enjoy the weekend and spend some extra time together, if you know what I mean.
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Before we go our separate ways.
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So that is my desolate dating story.
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Thank you for listening.
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I love this so much.
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Um, I blanked out the town name because it's really easy if I it's really easy in these small towns to know exactly what people are talking about.
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And uh the scholar submitted that completely anonymously, and I know exactly who she is.
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And uh, once she said the town name and that I would know the mother, I do.
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I know exactly who she's talking about.
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And isn't that just like the flavor of dating in small town America, small town Canada, whatever it might be?
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Okay, so a couple of things on this one.
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The cousins through marriage does not bother me at all.
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I mean, we're going to do a show later about how close of cousins is actually too close.
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And so um, by marriage, that's not even cousins, that's just by marriage.
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The washing the cucumbers in the bathtub.
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I'm not a gardener, but at first I was like, what is she doing?
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And then I'm painting this picture.
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So you're in the bathroom, and um, she said that this was a farm family, and so I'm assuming it's probably not this huge, you know, expansive restroom.
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So you're just like all snuggled up over this bathtub, somebody's on the toilet, somebody's I can just picture this thing, right?
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Uh beautiful.
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And yes, looking through that photo album and being like, oh, your cousins are also my cousins.
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But oh, that's sweet nature.
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I I have not gone home to meet somebody's parents in a very, very, very long time.
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And uh I am a little I'm not like this caller.
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She was very bold.
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She was like, I have no problem meeting new people.
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I I struggle, especially if it's somebody that you want to impress.
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It's so good.
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So good.
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Thank you.
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I almost said your name.
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Thank you for that call.
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Alright, folks, that is gonna do it for this episode of Desolate Dating.
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Like I said, these voice memos really are everything.
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And I'm going to work on uh doing some more solo episodes like this too.
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And so kind of just sprinkle those into the mix of what we're doing.
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If you have something you would like to submit for a listener story, please again go to that website, tinyurl.com/slash desolate dating.
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You've got five minutes is your limit now to tell your story.
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And once you do so, it is the property of Desolate Dating and Ranchy Media LLC, meaning that I might use it on the podcast, I might use it in print, I might use it in social media.
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Uh, but uh we'll keep it anonymous if you ask for it to stay so.
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All right, thanks for listening to Desolate Dating.
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We'll be back in again next week.
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