Small Town Stories

Every small town has stories, and this episode has plenty of them. 

In this episode, we hang out with our friend Justine who is one of the reasons The Mill’s Closet exists. You’ll hear about unforgettable first dates, family memories, paranormal encounters, and just the moments that make a community feel like home. 

This is a conversation full of laughter, honesty, and stories you won't soon forget. We laugh… a lot. 

Grab a coffee, pull up a seat, and get to know our friend Justine.

Transcript

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Alright, we do have to get going. Yeah, let's go. Just a little disturbed. Somebody had to have this at 10 o'clock today. Well, it's because of Nash. It's your kid and his eczema. And I gotta deliver groceries. Just gotta go spark. What? That was recording. Was it? It's because of Nash and his eczema. I want to get it figured out. I'm taking him to a nutritionist because they say it's a stomach thing if you have eczema. I had that as a child. I got bad egg. I got eggs on my arms. It's a movie line. Eggs on my arms. What? I got eggs on my arms. It's always an Adam Sandler movie line with this guy. It's good. I know a lot of them. Yeah. Yeah. Justine. Justine and I are on the same page. And Kayla. And Kayla. Kayla knows more movie lines than I do. Oh man, does anybody want to work today? You are feeling close to me. You tell me. You know. Tell me freely one. Welcome to Beans and Banter. My name is Nicole Fisher, and this is my husband, Keith Fisher. We're just going to hurry it along so we don't have these putsy moments installing because he has to figure out what his name is. This is our friend Justine. This is our friend, and and um so much more. So much more. So much more, Justinus. You're our first employee on here. I don't know. So you're a journey count, right? No, no. Journey was fired. Journey definitely doesn't count. Journey's lucky story. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. You're yeah, you're the first employee. Oh, really? Thanks for having me. Yeah, thank you. I know you don't want to be here. And I say that in a loving way because she's kind of shy. Like when she does those movies or our like commercials, that's what people call them, and I'm just gonna roll with that. Our commercials in the closet. Like you're kind of my microphone is always she's it's always a mic issue with her. Yep. All right. So Keith, any questions to start off? Oh, I have the wrong socks on today. I mean, why? It'll go. It's fine. Are they stripes? I like your pants. Not stripes. Oh, they're good. Are those the linen? They're not linen. They look like linen. No, they don't. They look like toxins. Yeah, you're right. They match. These are full of toxins. I've been on this linen kick in cotton, organic cotton, like just a freak. Speaking of her being a freak. Oh, okay. This is bowling salads really fast. Okay. Oh no. Oh, wait. Oh. No, we'll talk about that later. Okay. Okay. Um we're not in a closet. Okay. So keep it. PG 13. Try. What do you what are you trying to say? Say it. Nothing. Um Justine, do you believe in the aliens? Uh yeah. Yeah, she does. Justine. But does Scott? I know answers to these already are. So it's not a good thing. Yeah, well, we talk to Justine a lot. So we know she's a freak. Yeah. Scott does he thinks I'm crazy. Scott, he's gonna be embarrassed listening to this. He will be because he's like, stop talking crazy. Yeah. But he said he just doesn't give a well. He's like, I'm just not gonna think about that. You know? Yeah, but like, what else is there to think about? Right. How do you shut it off? I think I what what year did that movie Fire in the Sky come out? I don't know. Yeah, that sold me. I don't think I've seen that. We'll have to put that on our watch list. It was a movie about a guy getting abducted. Yeah. My grandma had me watch it. It was one of her favorites, so I did a lot with her. Oh, I know you did. I you I love that stuff. Can I add in a question? Yeah, I love when you talk. This is for Keith. Do you think you've ever been abducted? Oh and probed. Oh, you know, there's some times that I woke up and I'm like something happened. Were you experimenting? Or was it the aliens? There's little like candles everywhere, and like no a seance. One time that happened. No, uh I have I have weird, uh everybody has that, but like deja vu feelings. And then, but no, not anything that I would think that I was. I wouldn't be against it if they if they would volunteer. We know he would volunteer to travel with tribute. Yeah. Um I just think I'm really trying to shift my thinking in in life in general, and to think about more weird. And like I don't have to shift. Oh, I'm shifted. That's naughty. Um, but like I'm already crazy. Sometimes I get in a political rabbit hole, and then it just it's so dark. So now I prefer aliens. Because it's not like it's almost like such a neutral, yeah, crazy. Like there's crazies on both sides, and now that we know, like, yeah, it's real. Yeah, but do we now that the government said it's real? Now I'm like, now you're like, maybe not. What are the what are the Y files? Do you guys know what that is? Okay, so I listened to another podcast. Oh, do you? Yeah, this is what I do when I, you know, on Tuesday. He's cool. Okay, I don't like this. It almost gives you like a feeling of um, do you remember that show? What was that called? Quantum Leap. Okay, so no, I didn't watch it, but I know he started making the boys watch it. Okay. Uh right? Quantum Leap? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know Quantum Leap? I never watched it, no. Oh, well, it kind of like has that vibe of like um spacey conspiracy a little bit, but not really. Like it makes you question what he's saying, and then he'd like goes all deep into it and talks about it and usually debunks it if you watch the actual YouTube video. Do you watch the actual or do you just watch the clips on social media? No, I listen to live from the 715 and they talk about the Y files a lot. Let's let's do a plug-in for this live from 715. Let's get them out there. They're funny, you they are, but they they gotta come on Bruce and Bantu. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. So Justine's like said something about live and I started. I'm like, you he comes in all the time to the mail, and I'm like, You have a podcast? He's like, Yeah, since like way before it was a thing, yeah. And it's just kind of local. Oh, yeah. So we'll have to have them in as a guest. So Justine, let's talk about what you your new hobby of delivering groceries. No, because I I know you're laughing about it, but you make a lot of money. I do. Okay, yeah, you can make a lot of money, but you gotta hustle a little bit. I don't know. I just liked a vacation and you know, it's extra spending money, right? So that's why I do it. So I'll work. Explain it to me. Um, I know you don't want people to take your work away. Yeah, don't. Sean was full. Shadow's full. Oh, um, so I'll be at home like on a Tuesday because I don't come here Tuesdays usually. I come here on Wednesdays, so I plan that and I turn it on at like 5:30 in the morning. It's a little app on my phone and it's through Walmart, and it'll give me an offer, say like $30 to go shop for these groceries and put it at this person's doorstep. So I do, and that's when I listen to your podcast and the other podcasts, and I just drive around listening to podcasts all day or dateline. It's a good dateline. Yeah, we have to work on yeah. So there's restrictions though. You can't have a speeding ticket journey. Well, I I don't know, like I they wouldn't accept Gabby. I just figured it's because she's young. Oh, you know, there's not enough experience there. So yeah, but I enjoy it. You heard about this from a friend who also just does it as a side gig, and she made how much in a month? No, that she comes in here and shops. So she was a customer in the closet, and um she spent a lot of money that day. I said, Wow, when you go, you go hard, like you're buying a lot of clothes. She's well, I'm out. She good for her, she's lost a ton of weight, like she needed a new wardrobe. She goes, Well, I made $1,100 in my side hustle last week. I said, You what? Last week? Yeah. I said, You what? Don't you get any ideas, Candy? We're not losing you to this spark solid grocery rate. Sorry, guys, podcast is over. I'm getting groceries. So she she explained it to me, and I see her all the time. So we talk to each other, you know, our coffee clutch in the morning at Walmart now when we're sparkling. What kind of coffee are you drinking? Shh, it's probably shh. It's not my house to Shano. Okay. I know, I know. It's but it's not even like a mon pa one. It's like Susan coffee. Trashier. I'm being Susan about her coffee, that's for sure. I'm insulting. But anyway. Anyway, sorry. No, yeah, I like it. So I tried it, and yeah. And you're competitive. I don't know if people know that about you, but she's Justine is very okay. So we go away with it. So, like okay, how you are with your uh your organ testing. That's it's it's actually I know we don't know. I don't know if she's even gonna hear that. I know we don't want to bleep her right there. I don't, I know we don't want to talk about me at all, but it's I'll find a way to talk about you. You will not, you'll cut me off. But it's a huge compliment when you have your healthy. You're like your organs are working when you're healthy enough to donate an organ. And I'm old as and I smoked for a long time. They don't know how long I smoked. You lied about it. I lied about it, but like, do you know what I mean? Like, I lived, I mean, we lived through that time. We did, I live all smoked, and so then when you're like, okay, my body's still this good, damn. Yeah, I'll share it. The first time I did a gummy, I was like, it's not working, and then I did another one. No, and and then I would like I I might have done a half of another one, and then when it and it hit me, I was like, stupid. Like, I remember the first time I did one, not knowing, but we had Indica at home, and it was the day before Jackson's graduation. Indica, you know, in the couch, like you're not, it's a sleepy one, okay? Okay, so Jackson came home and the whole counter was full of food because I was halfway through making stuff for his party, and he came home, and I was just like, he's like, What's wrong with you? I said, I took a gummy and I can't move, like my legs don't work. How do people drive doing these? I said, fix this because Jackson is a pharmacist, okay, not street. Right, right. Um, so I'm like, Can you fix this? And the only way to fix it is like a huge quantity of CBD. We'll reverse it. I'm like, well, you've got to have that, you know. Get it. He couldn't. I sat there for like three hours. That is that just like broccoli cut up. So wait, that is that true. That's what he is that factual. Well, he he does read it a lot, so I feel like he's really funny. We'll have to add it because we're always doing doctor things and always giving advice on listen to this. Make sure. Um, so I my sister, when I was staying with her in California, um, I don't drink and but I I will do gummies. And she's like, hey, some that she used to date names. Oh, maybe we'll edit the name out. Oh, you mean Bob? Bob. Bob. Um, he had some gummies. She's like, Do you want some of his whatever? I'm like, sure. And then she came back in the kitchen. She's like, Nicole, you ate that whole thing. I'm like, yeah. She's like, it was like a hundred bombs. I don't even know what it was. And I'm like, yeah, why? And she's like, I crawled to her bed because I slept in her bed that night because I thought my legs were gonna break if I would stand on them. Like for whatever, I'm like, if I stand up, they're gonna they're gonna break, or I'm gonna step on my foot the wrong way. And then I'm like crawling, and she's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm going to bed. She's like, okay. And like she was like half asleep, didn't realize. I'm like, Malia, I crawled to your bed. Crawled. Because I'm like, my I don't have a broken leg in California. God knows what will happen there. So these are terrible experiences, but for the most part, if you microdose, and I'm not promoting drugs at all. I don't want, I don't want people to think that I'm like pro-drug. However, again, I'm gonna I'm gonna drop UW Health here. When they said, Do you do anything? I said, Well, I'll dabble with some gummies. They're like better than alcohol, especially when you're looking to donate an organ. They don't want my brain, because that fries your brain, right? Um, but I don't like how I feel when I drink alcohol. I get sick, like I get hung over while I'm drinking. Does that make sense? I feel nauseous while is it pretty quick? Like, do you get like feel it pretty quick? I would say one would say maybe I'm allergic to alcohol. But I think everyone's allergic. One would say. Like, I think I bet you if a doctor was like it's toxic. Yeah, like I like when maybe this shouldn't go in my body when when we were just at Alyssa's party and I had you got me that carbis, and then I had one mixed drink like hours later at um the Glen, I was I was hung over. And I always say, Don't get fancy and give me like a strong shot. I don't want any fanciness. Like just give me a shot and I get sick. I always have. But this is not about me, it's about Justine and her sparking and her sparkly personality. That's how to but you're you have a you've you kind of have a bum liver too, though. So you gotta take it easy. You're kind of see, I can't keep up with Justine. She can party. You can, you can handle your own. How does that equate to a bum liver? Yeah, that's a talk about talk. Um, but don't you have like something wrong with you? Well, I have I have an autoimmune disease, so it attacks your liver, but oh yeah, so she's one of those. So she's like Andy. So I gotta put it, yeah. Yeah, we got we'll probably be looking for a liver for her one day, too. So don't drink her dustine. No, you would really haven't because of that. But anyways, yeah, okay. I don't know if this is not what we're supposed to talk about. All right. Well, that was a whole lot of nothing. We're just gonna have to edit all that out. Sorry, Cammy. Here, let's just clap, start over. Would you would you go on a trip with an alien if they asked? Uh no. Wait, hold on. She listens to all these, so you need to. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude. I'm just you know you know there's aliens among us. Well, okay, so how many do you think you see at Walmart every day? Oh yeah. Like with no one, we had that that psychic here. That psychic solidified the fact that there's aliens. Did she know? Remember when she was here and she was talking to us about that, and she said she can take a picture and see it? I don't remember that. Maybe I was in the bathroom when she said that because that would be interesting. And she maybe thought that one of the people that was here that she couldn't read was an alien because she can't people that she can't read multiple times. She's like, So you mean the one that couldn't read Keith? The horse. The horse lady and his horse, yeah. So maybe that's why all she got was a horse. Maybe I'm an alien. Look at how cool he thinks he is now. What are you doing? What if she's just not good at her job? So that's I think that's probably it. I thought she was pretty good. Oh, I didn't guess right. Oh. Alien. Yeah, I'm always a skeptic. I think she did a good job, and so did the guy do a good job. Because I didn't know who he was talking about. You're not into like holistic stuff. Yeah, I didn't know what, and and some people there wasn't many people here, and yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Who are you waving at? Oh, Jordan. Um so yeah, this started with grocery shopping. I know, right? Yeah, how many aliens? Like, I have another, I have a real job, you guys. Yeah, so so how many aliens do you think are at Walmart at any given time? I don't know. Let's do an overunder. I mean, what are we talking about? I don't know why aliens would go to Walmart. Like, I don't go to Walmart and I and I have to go. I order pickup because I don't want to go in there. So why would an alien so intelligent want to go in? Just just scanning the crowd, probably. Just checking it out, you know? Probe in the probing the crowd. Are aliens actually intelligent? What if they're not? Oh, they are. Well, if you ask, like, if you ask Siri, we're just creeping up. If you ask Siri, like, hey Siri, did God are there aliens out there? They weren't in the Bible, right? But it literally says in the Bible, like, it doesn't say that there aren't other life forms. And some people believe that the aliens created the pyramids and all of that stuff. So I equate it to like we have Zeus. Every once in a while, somebody falls into the the bear exhibit, right? Like every once in a while. So every once in a while we have an alien air, whatever vessel crash into our into our bear exhibit. He always and we get little glimpses of them. We know they're there, we just don't know that they're watching us all the time. You know, does that make sense? Might have sounded so much. We're gonna lose so much. We're gonna lose. They're really appreciating the Milwaukee County zoo. Yeah, you ever you you hear of somebody falling into the bear exhibit once in a while, right? It's usually gorillas, I feel like some monkeys. It's a dangerous one, typically, right? We're like, so that's us getting little glimpses of our people falling into our exhibit. Maybe it's just natural selection. Could be doing its work, yeah. And typically that's the people that are falling into the exhibits, too, right? Well, it's usually alien natural selection as well. He's gonna be like, he's gonna fast forward all of this. Yeah, he's gonna be like, I'm done. That's yeah, these people are crazy. So, how I met Justine, I re I my first memory of Justine. Do you want to know that? Yeah, sure. Everybody, yeah, I'd love to. Uh, is when we were on a field trip together and you had the best fruit washed and like clean, huh? Maybe, and you had all these snacks for Gabby. And I was like, at that moment, I realized I am not mommy the way I should be because journey, I maybe had a granola bar, maybe for her. But like it's probably like uh um what are those lunch lunchables? No, I I don't think I bought I don't think I bought lunchables. I couldn't afford lunchables for the little food you get. I'm not saying it's a good deal, okay. But um, Justine had like a like a Tupperware with a bunch of things that Gabby liked, and I was like, God, she's a good mom. But then now, like for Journey's graduation party was here. I don't know, you you like handled everything. And Dela goes, she's a really good friend. Like everybody needs a Justine in their life, like she just takes care of shit. She'll come into the store and like flip things around. I don't there's a I remember I told you there's an official Emma Poppy. If you're listening to this, what is your official title for flipping a store around? Your she had a when she worked at Buckle. It's like it's a it's a name, it's a it's a title, it's a title because it's a thing. I'm like, I don't want to downplay that because you will move things in the boutique and it will sell. It could have been there for two months and then you put it in a different spot and they sell out. You do that too, though. Well, you do a better job, like she'll come in and like fit, like she'll fix things that I don't do. You do you're better at flipping stores, but anyways, um that's your first memory of her is her being a good mom on the school bus with Gabby, and I was like, she and then you um it was the bow era. What were those bows? Oh the Jojo Bow era, yeah. Yeah, right. So she had a bow on. Uh Gabby had the cutest bows. She always had a it was like, remember those huge bows? You and I just started meeting when Journey was doing the bows, and I would get her the knockoff ones, like a cheat bomb. Um, but so you so she does my hair, not this time. We're gonna move past that. Journey did that. Um, she did a great job. She did do a good job, she did do a good job. Um, she did what they told what the instructor told her to do. So yeah, like I I'm not gonna talk about that. No, um but so Justine does my hair. She came and did my wedding hair. She came to the um hotel, and every single adventure, I feel like I'll ask Justine. She's like, okay, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. She's in and I love that about you. And like we've never had a falling out. I never know what's coming, though. You never know what's coming. It's like I have an idea, and you're like, okay. All right, let's do it. Yeah, well, the whole boutique. If Justine wasn't like, let's do it, I would have not been able to do that. I'm not a fashionista. I know people probably don't know that about me. I think you're a fashionista in your own way. Okay, well, I'm not it's not like your daughter was in my chair and said, My mom's outfits are just banging all the time. They're just she said that yes, she complimented your she never complimented. She's not a word, she's not a words of affirmation, so thank you, Jarny. Um, but it was the September back in the day, September 2023. And I'm like, we need to have store front. Let me ask Justine if she's in on this. I'm like, Justine, I have an idea. And she's like, oh boy. I think you were in my chair. I think girl. Who is that? Hey Jaden, come on up here. Jaden, come on up here. Um she's so my niece takes her dog to the groomer all the way from Manoa. Yeah, that's how good our groomer is. I wish she brought that dog. Walter. Oh, not Walter. We're we're we're recording, so you want to sit over there? Sit right here. Did you get anything to drink? Okay, set your stuff down and get it. Um Kayla! I'm gonna catch her drink, okay? Don't charge Jaden. Don't charge my niece. She's so cute. Go get your drink and something to eat. No, you're not paying for it. Okay, you should tip her. Yeah, that's a good idea. Um, yeah, so I was sitting in getting my hair done by Justine, and I'm like, this is what we needed. Do you want to do you want to help me? Because I need your help. Okay. And then you had connections, and I don't know how it all unravels. I'm really not sure. So when people are like, this is a dream come true, isn't it? I'm always like, Yes. Yeah. Like, what question mark? Question mark? Like, yes, it is, but like, also, I wasn't like, I want a boutique one day. Like, that's my goal in life. Like, it's not, but like, it's what we wanted. Yeah. And now it's like your favorite part. I love I absolutely love working in the boutique. It's my favorite job here. I hate making coffee and I hate cooking. But if I'm back there, I can talk to people and it's not like high pressure. I can make them feel good about themselves. I can remind them that does not look good on them and do not buy that. I'll be honest. Yeah, you're honest too. Yeah, you can't just be BS and people, they're not gonna trust you. Someone's gonna be like, Who told you that was a good idea? Right. Um, but uh, you're a really loyal friend, and I like that about you. Keith likes you a lot too. We always talk about how lucky we are to have her. I know you're uncomfortable right now. Yeah, not a random, random Tuesday. I'll just send you a text message. You're like, I like my job. I'm like, no, like thank you. Like, really, thank you. What do you do? Just like thank her for everything that she does. I really wish we could have you full time and like find something for you here full time or like something more. Do you like to inhale still? I like my clients, yeah. But I don't really know what I want to do when I grow up yet. Me neither. What is your dream day? Sparking? I don't I don't know. I just need to be busy. No, you are she's a go. Yeah, not laying on the couch, that's for sure. Although I do do that sometimes. Well, when you get stuck in it because you take a gun. Right? That's I learned my lesson there. Yeah, you're not a sitter, you're uh you're very right now. I'd love to be in a greenhouse. I know I stopped at the greenhouse. It there's nothing blooming, and I so Nox and Ash are like, all these are are dying. I'm like, no, they're not, and but I couldn't process what it was gonna look like either because none of them are blooming. Right. I'm like, oh I left they're not listing their Amish. Yeah, I'm like, I left my cash and I didn't, but I I could not buy a hanging basket without seeing flowers. Yeah, you have to be able to see what they look like because nothing was flowered. Did it have a picture or anybody? I could look at the little tag, but I'm like, I I need more. I need more. And then Nox and Nash, like, you have cash. I'm like, shut up. Get in the car. We're lying to the Amish. I didn't want to say I can't buy things because I can't picture what it's gonna look like. Right because they're gonna be like, I think you should start being brutally honest because you're really close. Yeah, like you're pretty brutally honest to most people. Well, I accidentally I'm brutally honest. That's I don't think it's an accident. Sometimes I'm not rude though. That that would be would that be rude to be like you don't have flowers yet? I don't want to buy these because they don't have flowers. Yeah, I can't pick them up. I'll be back in a couple weeks when they actually are blossoming. And I was gonna tell you this week we should start doing outdoor pots, but it's too cold. It's too cold. Yeah, I don't even want to be outside right now. No, I gotta leave and flowers out there. Get everything before Mother's Day. Can we talk about your outfit? Oh, yeah, what about it? Where did you get that? I don't know that I I think I the only thing I'm wearing I paid for is my shoes today. So we went to an estate, so I paid for my shoes. And that was the funnest. You stole it, you stole everything. It might have been like 50 cents. But my neighbor Tanya gave me these pants. Come on. This is Judith. Look at that blouse. Judith. Her name is Judith, and she was a chance. Give her random names, like because she passed away. We don't know her name, but sometimes it's Alice, Judith, whatever. But today's Judah. Someone told us Pam did. She did? Oh, it's got shoulder pads. It looks in royal blue is her color. It's really cute. Yeah, I came with it. What about the belt? Show the belt. Oh, yeah, Gabby colored it with nail polish for me today. So it was cold. Really? You need like blue eyeshadow with that too. No. Do you maybe? So she got a royal blue jacket that looks just like that too. Wool. Like wool. I got a red one. We are gonna go out on town in the winter when Christmas tree hunt. Oh, yeah, for sure. Um, so we went to an estate sale. We shop a lot, she has a lot of good ideas. Um she's very good at staying within a budget. She's cheaper than me, and it's not even her money. So we'll be shopping. She oh god, that's expensive. Put that back. It's my money. Okay, I'll do it. Whatever, whatever. Wait till these are really on sale next week. We're going to Hobby Lobby, but don't get that because that's not on sale. Okay, so she's cheap. So Keith loves when I go shopping with Justine. She can bring Justine anytime. Yeah, very frugal. Tell me about Scott's heart attack. You don't want to? He died twice. He died. He's alive now, but he did die. Yeah, we're not asking her to talk about her dead husband. That would be mad at all. He's alive and well. Um, yeah, there were signs leading up to it. So he was 49. He's gonna wait, hold on. Yeah, last February. So um he went to work, but felt weird in the morning, just a little off. He had to grab the counter, like, ugh, don't feel good. Mind you, we were in Costa Rica two weeks before this. So, had this happen anywhere but where he was, he probably would not be here right now. So he went to work, everything was fine, but I don't know, it was probably he was feeling sick when I got the message from his friend. I think it was around 8:30, and him and his buddy joke around a lot. And I got a message saying, Hey, call me. So I called him and he's telling me, he's like, Hey, don't panic. But Scott just went to the hospital in an ambulance. He seemed fine when he left. I'm not sure what's going on, but maybe you should drive to the hospital. And I was like, shut up. I think you're lying. Let me what are you guys doing? Let me remind you. I had a hair appointment that day. Uh super rude. She called, yeah, she's like, hey, I got I have to cancel. I'm like, what? Scott's in the hospital. I'm like, rude. Yeah, I had like a 10-hour day full of colors that I just bad timing totally forgot about. But anyway, yeah, so I I don't know, I started speeding to the hospital. Like, I let the dogs out left, and I'm speeding, and you know, he's like, There's nothing, it's it's fine. I think he was good when he left, so I shouldn't be worrying. But for some reason, something told me I needed to get there fast. So I called my dad first, told him. Um, then I called his oldest son because his youngest was in Georgia working on the road. So I called Austin, who lived in Menasha close to the hospital. And like, hey, just go so he's not sitting there by himself because I can't, he's not texting or whatever. So Austin uh got in the car and I was talking to him, like, hey, let me know when you get there. So he got there and I hadn't heard from him. Meanwhile, when I was on the road, I got a call and it was somebody from Theta Care saying, Hey, when you get here, come to the emergency room, just ask for Andy. We have Scott in room one, um, and I'll meet you at the front desk. So I was like, okay. Well, then he called me again. So, hey, I think you cut out, which there's a lot of dead zones from here to Appleton. So I was like, Yeah, he's like, You're on your way. I'm like, yep. He's like, All right, don't speed, just get here safe. Uh, meet you at the front desk. So I'm running through the parking lot at the emergency room. I don't run a lot. I don't know if you'd know this about me, but I hate exercising. I really don't know when you do it. My watch tells me when you do it. Yeah, I do it, but I don't like to sweat. I don't like to be out of breath. Like, I don't like cardio, I'm not built for it. Okay. So I'm running and I'm getting I get in there and I think that they thought I needed something because I was so out of breath, and I was like, I need Andy. And so they're like, You what? I'm like, I need Andy as Scott, and blah, blah, blah. So Andy comes out and he's the chaplain. Well, things don't register to me, right? I'm like, okay, I just was told to ask for Andy. I've never been in this situation before. So Andy comes, he's like, hi, I'm the chaplain. Follow me, takes me into a small room where Austin is sitting down and crying. Oh my God. So you thought he was dead. No, I still don't, it's not registering. I it registered for me. I didn't get there, but I'm already there. I'm thinking Scott's dead. So we're sitting in this room, and he's like, Okay, so Scott was brought in. Um and on the wake here, he suffered a massive heart attack, and we lost him, and we are right now in the process of trying to get him back. Oh my gosh. So yeah, then I then I lost. I didn't know that. I didn't know he was dead when they were telling you this. Yeah, it was really not good. So um then I think it was uh the ER doctor came in and she's like, hey, she goes, so we got a pulse, um, but we need to put a stent in. And as soon as we got the pulse, we lost him again. So right now they're working on getting a pulse, and as soon as they got that pulse, they were gonna rush him in and put the stent in. Um, she's like, so we'll keep you posted. So at that point, he took us up to the ICU. We still didn't know what was gonna happen, right? They said, I think she might have said he's on his way to get the stent put in because we kept they kept losing him and getting him back, so they were just doing it as they took him. Um, but yeah, so then we were up in the little meeting room at the ICU where they take people to basically tell them that their loved one is gone and you know, do all that stuff. Uh, but no, we we were he was very lucky. Um it was a widow maker. Yes, it was times two. Yep, he was down for a total of 40 minutes. I think that he was so when you say down, you mean dead. Yes, and he has no long-term damage. No, no, I mean we'd like to pick it up, but it he doesn't. He'll say, you know, like the other day, so all of us our golf buddies bought him um a putter when he was in there, like, hey, let Scott know we're all going in and he's getting a new Scotty Cameron putter. So Gabby's looking at this putter, going, Oh my gosh, Aiden, her boyfriend really wants a Scotty Cameron, they're expensive. And I'm like, Scott had to die for that. And he goes, allegedly, you know, like we joke about it a little bit, but yeah, I man, that was the scary, that was a scary time. It was the scariest time in my life, yeah. But he's here. He said when he was out, because you asked, he thought he someone was shoving him in a bag in a garbage can. So imagine the compressions like of them trying to bring him back. So he thought they were shoving him in a garbage can. He said he felt like he felt like they were trying to stuff him in like yeah, like a garbage bin, and he kept like going, Hey, I'm still here, I'm alive. Why are you trying to kill me? Like, I'm alive, but it was the Lucas. They had the Lucas on him. What's the Lucas? That's the machine that does it for you. Like it it literally, like, so he just everything he just kept feeling, and he's like, and I could hear you screaming out there, going, like, save him, like you're gonna do it. Like, no, no, but he remembers like like yeah, he remembers bits and pieces, but he doesn't remember the movie. He's like, Yeah, I imagine she's saying this. She wants me to stick around. I hear her yelling, brought it back, though. Man, I I wish he needs to work on that story, and he needs to be like, I met Jesus and ghosts are real aliens. I went to a different planet. No, but that is like yeah, yeah. So definitely lost with that. Theatricare has done a lot like to talk about his story because it never happens, right? Seven percent, less than seven percent of people in his situation live. But he was so fortunate. I this again, not a doctor. But so fortunate to have somebody there as he had it. Yeah, yeah, his co-worker. So his co-worker has. Right. He had somebody there. They couldn't, they couldn't find one when he was at work. He was sitting up, like, and they tried to find a pulse, and he's like, guy, he's like the guy that called said, I couldn't find a pulse. Like you didn't, I couldn't find one. Probably fluttering, but yeah, just it's wild. So but didn't Scott go up to him and be like, something doesn't feel right, and the guy's like right away was like, Do not move. Yep, yep. I mean, if you would come up to me in the boutique and say something doesn't feel right, I'm like, we have to finish. Yeah, fold that table. I know you don't want to do the sweaters, but you're gonna do it, David. Quit it. We call each other Moira. Yeah, so we love Shits Creek, and I love Moira's character, like, right, Jaden? My niece is one of them. Yes, I like she's I laugh so hard at her character in that, and then knowing like that they didn't even know what her character was half the time, it makes it even better. And then so we were at Hobby Lobby, and she's like, Moira, I'm like, David. We're yelling throughout the story because we don't know each other where each other are, Moira, David, and then some lady's like, you don't look like a David to Justine. Don't judge, you're judging gender in Hobby Lobby, it's allowed, apparently. Yeah, it was funny. Um, but yeah, so she calls me, she got me a camera strap that says Moira and things that get addressed to me as Moira, but I'll own it. I love Moira, so yeah, that's sad. What has changed in his life since he died? Oh like is he different, a different person? Is there positive like a different outlook on life? Yeah, for sure. Um, but like we you really have to just watch, it's all about diet, but I worry every day, you know, because I'll say you don't eat those chips, so you'll look at me like like he calls me the food Nazi, it's fine. But no, it's kind of your fault because you're a good cook. So that's what I said to Keith. Basically, you kill them. I know. I said to Keith, I said to Keith, I said, aren't you happy I'm not just team and I'm baking and cooking all the time? Aren't you happy you don't get fed some nights? Right, you're not having a heart attack. Sometimes I fast, not because I want to. Well, you put that roast in. Oh, yeah, I didn't. That's what I was gonna do today. I didn't. Okay, go on. But yeah, his his cardiac interventionalist said um, with his his blockage, that that actually accrued over years. It wasn't something that just happened. Right. So when we were at Costa Rica, he was having signs of it already, like he was feeling nauseous and getting hot, but I just chalked it up to it's 95 degrees. You're dehydrated, we've been drinking, like we were on a walk on the beach, and he it went away. Isn't there a procedure you can just go in and get a calcium score? It's like 50 bucks. Yeah, out of it. Everybody should do it, honestly. And I haven't, so I shouldn't even talk. Yeah, you should do it. Yep. I just got my prostate numbers back. Oh, great. He's looking at getting testosterone. My my dad had prostate cancer, so they say that you should have them. So go on what your dad gave us. Oh, yeah, he had prostate cancer, and then um, so you should get checked, like at least so then they have a baseline of like your numbers progressing. And my numbers are low. So that's we're good for now. You're good right now. That's good. Um, yeah, I should do that though. Calcium score. Yeah, all of our friends have done it now. A girl from Manowa was in on Sunday and we were talking her brother or Saturday, her brother-in-law died on an all-inclusive vacation with them. Heart attack, but she said there were signs for the last two days. She's like, he was saying he was like really hot. She's like, but we're on vacation. Yep, he was nauseous. So, like, when you're saying this, she's like, but he was drinking, you know what I mean? Um he's true, like other things. She's like, Oh, then his arm was really sore. She's like, but he was tossing the kids in the pool. So he's like, Oh, my arm. And my arm, my arm, I don't know what arm. Um, and she's like, We never thought anything of it. She's like, he was like really pale, and they were doing water aerobics, and he was like winded. She's like, he was a big guy, but not like a big guy. And she's like, Come on, you can do it. And here he like didn't survive, had a heart attack. Wow. On and all inclusive. That's sad. That's super sad. So there's signs, but like also those signs can be anything, which makes it I feel like when you have something going on, likely you're just gonna try to justify why. Right, exactly. Yeah, you're not sick, yeah. Well, also like CPAP machines, like people need to get that checked too, because that causes heart attacks. If you don't have one if you don't have one, yeah. Like the last not having a CPAP machine, yeah. So did Scott have his let's say what you really call it. Sex mask. He did not have that before this, no. Okay, okay. So if he would have had his sex mask, yeah. And a lot of guys will not go in and and get that tested, they won't because they don't want to wear it. But it's not it can save your life. Because so what does that do? It breathes for you when you stop breathing. Yeah, and he wasn't even, he was a mild case when he went and got tested, but he still wears it every night and he doesn't sleep good if he doesn't have it on. But his only goes over his nose, so it's not a whole muffle. It's not a full sex mask. Yeah, it's not a full, it's not okay. You got ripped off on that. No, it's it's fine. Um, I wonder if you need a sex mask. You snore, then but like I don't ever hear him stop breathing. He's well, I never heard him either. I would sleep, I could fall asleep too. It was like my sound machine. Oh, I I I I'm like, stop snoring. It's so loud. See, I had sleep apnea when I was younger and I would stop breathing for like 45 seconds, but then I got my tonsils taken out, and I've never had a problem. Really? So it was. I feel like sometimes it's whatever is going on up here, but then also tonsils too. Like largeness. Um yes. Cammy's not large. The tonsils, that's what I meant. Not Cami. Um, we always say Pete, our dog Pete Pate, plug a picture of him. He's so cute. We say Pete has sleep apnea when he's awake because you look okay. So Scott, we talked about him. How old are you? Did he see the light? Sorry. Oh, he didn't see anything. Okay, that's why I said he's gotta make up a story. He's got it, yeah. Yeah, so he got abducted by definitely had enough time to see it, so yeah. Maybe he was going to hell. Maybe he's going to see Satan. That was the dumpster part. It's not funny. Sorry, Scott. That was Cammy. Um, um, she means well. She does mean well. How did you and Scott mean? You really want to this you want to do that? Okay. If we need to edit it out, we can. No, okay, it's not bad. But it's it's funny. It's really funny. So like it's kind of it's I'll try to shorten it. Um, I was at the school carnival with my children. Oh, yeah. Why was Scott there, Perv? With his kids. Oh, okay. Sorry. Single dad like took his own. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Excuse. Sorry about that, Scott. So Carter and Jackson are the same age. Yeah. Oh duh. Yeah. Well, he was walking out with a cake. And I was walking in with my kids, and he will say that I raped him with my eyes, but that didn't happen. Oh. Um, he's like, I was raped. He caught a vibe. With my cake about my should have said I liked the cake. Yeah, cake. Um, anyway, so then later that night I was out at a bar and his best friend he was at the carnival with was there. So I don't know. I was probably outside smoking a cigarette because that was cool back then. Yeah, still is. Is it okay? No, we don't do that. We do some friend groups. I don't, okay, but I I do not, we don't do that anymore. Um and his friend came up to me outside and said, Hey, you should call this guy. And I said, What? He's like, You should call this guy. He's the most eligible bachelor in Bonduel. And I was like, Oh, okay, like whatever, get him on the phone. And he goes, and when he answers, ask him what he's wearing. So kind of answers the phone. He's like, Hello. I'm like, Hey, what are you wearing? And he said, um, a t-shirt and sweatpants. Like you're like, sold, I'll take them. I was like, oh, okay. Um, Clint wanted me to call you. You can talk to him. And uh after that, I think it was the next Monday, it was. I was like, hey, what are you wearing? And he said, a smile, and I was like, oh, okay. So we continued to like text throughout the day. And that night I was going bullhead fishing with my dad and Cecil. So I was not dressed nicely, and he had golf. So he said, Yeah, you should come and meet me at the elbow room when you're done fishing. So I went to the elbow room and he was in there with one of his golf partners, and his golf buddy left him there, so I had to give him a ride home. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, that was so intentional. So I gave him a ride home. He's like, Well, you want to come in? I'm like, I guess. So I went in and we're in his kitchen, and he's like, Hey, you should step on that. And I was like, What? And there's this like this big, I didn't just this big thing sitting on the floor. I'm like, what? He's like, you should stand on that. I'm like, no. He's like, just get on there. I'm like, no. Well, here it was a wrestling scale. And I was like, what? He's like, well, see what I was getting myself into. What a sweetheart. I know. What a doll. That was love. So I left shortly after that. You mean that didn't seal the deal? It did not. Um, I can totally see him doing it to him. He kind of has a dry person at like funny, dry sense of humor. You know what I mean? Like, just gotta see what I'm getting myself into. That was, yeah, that's it's it's a good story. Yeah. So you guys got married after he died. You guys realize, like, because I felt like I was calling people, or not calling people, I was telling people that was your husband. Cause I'm like, it takes out credibility when you're like her boyfriend had a heart attack. You know, you're like, what boyfriend? You do right? Yeah. I mean, it's like 18 years now. So 18 years you were together. Yeah, that's a long time. I had um, yeah. Well, you know the movie Super Bad? Yeah, this is it. One of our first dates, too. Did I tell you about this? Um I think I know her. I think I know her. Maybe Keith doesn't know her. Keith doesn't know, I'll be great. So uh one of our first dates, the Lumber Yard had a brewer bus, and he asked if I wanted to go. Well, I'm broke, single mom, you know. No, I don't have any money. He's like, I'll pay for it. I'm like, okay. So we go on the brewer bus, and I was wearing like a denim skirt. So it had to be probably looking super cute in brewery. It was right, it was sunny. I mean, I had a whatever. So I'm wearing a skirt and we go to the brewery game, and we never even saw our seats. We went straight to TGI Fridays because you could smoke in there. Oh yeah. Everybody just threw in like a hundred bucks and had a kitty, and everybody drank at this TGI Fridays. So on the way home, everybody's, you know, having a good time, feeling good. Well, I got up to go to the bathroom and then I came back and somebody had spilt their beer in my seat. So I had to sit on Scott's lap the whole way through. Oh, I'm sure when oh yeah, Scott Scott was like this. Sorry, somebody somebody spelt their beer. So this is I I mean, I have no shames, so you guys will understand this. Like, I don't really care. But um, so I'm sitting on his leg and I was like, Oh, I really gotta pee again. And I went to stand up and I looked down and I had my period on his pants. So then I imagine my leg, I was like, Oh, I can't move. Like, okay. Did you tell him or did you just pretend that nothing moved? I was mortified. So I just sat there and I didn't know on his lap, his legs were probably numb. I didn't, yeah, on his lap the whole time. I couldn't move because he would have looked down when I got up and saw that there was blood on his pants. So he had to see it. Well, I strategically, when we pulled up to the lumber yard, I want to hear what you did. I was like, okay. I was waiting for everybody. I'm like, okay, and I made sure that we stood up at the exact same time so he wouldn't have a chance to look down at his legs. Listen up, ladies. And then I was like, we got off the bus and he's like, all right, well, let's go. And I'm like, nope, I'm going home. Like, I gotta go. It's late. I'm going home. So I left. So he he had no idea. He's like, to this day, he's like walking around with period pants. I'm like, you probably thought you got ketchup on your pants from a hot dog. You didn't even have a hot dog. So he never knew. No. So right now. Well, he knows. Oh no. Yeah, he's like, I still, nope, never knew. I can. Oh man, you pulled that off. Blood Brothers. So that is a great movie. Yeah, it is. It's funny. I'm like, that really happens. Really happens. Oh my God. How embarrassing. Yeah. I don't have a uterus anymore. I don't know if you guys know this. So that would not happen. Nope. Just kidding. Just can check that off my mystery. We don't, yeah, yeah. Possibility of things. It's not gonna be on your bingo card. That's always a worry of bingo. Pee, maybe, but I spilled what did I spill at church? My coffee. Yeah, and I said like four times. I'm like, if you have to go to the bathroom, just go. I wasn't amused. Why did you hold it so more? Grow up. Like I spilt my coffee on the pew. She totally peed on the pew. I did not pee on the pew. She peed on the pew. She pew peed. I don't know if you know this, but I can hold a lot of bladder. She's a water a lot of urine in my bladder. One of the biggest bladders you've ever seen. No, it's not true. You don't like that. Maybe that'll help you when you get rid of a kidney. Well, it's that's what they had to measure, and it's pretty damn good. Just gonna say, you wouldn't be surprised I birthed four kids with this bladder. Oh, I don't know if that makes a difference, but I think it just gets worse. Maybe, yeah. Yeah, I don't remember you really peeing your pants. Have you peed your pants? Um, I think I've peed my pants a few times sneezing. Like a little, you know what I mean? But it's like usually it's um Jill Olson. If you're listening to this, you're gonna confirm this. It's a caffeine intake. So if I would have a Bia, so like this morning I worked out. Oh, I had a pre-workout, a Bia accent. Yep. So then if I have like a lot of caffeine in a full bladder and sneeze, I have to crisscross. But it's it's gotten a lot better after an ash. Her husband, Brad, calls that the drippy pee pee. Well, because he went to the doctor for that. He did, he went to the doctor because he thought something was wrong with him with having a sorry Brad. He thought something was wrong with him for having like he would pee and then he would like leave, and then it would still like some would dribble out. But there's a and anyone that's listening to like, oh my god, that happens to me. It's your caffeine. How much is it? And if I just stand in there for hours waiting for it to be done. You done yet? No, not yet. Still a little more caffeine in there. You probably have a really good uh kidney. Yeah, probably. It's nothing to do with it. Here's us being doctors again. They're gonna sue, they're gonna sue. Not like they need any more money. Yeah, but judging by what they charge for parking. Jesus. They charge for parking at a hospital. Yeah, you gotta validate when you go in when you're a patient. Oh my god, that's such a rip up. I don't pay for things, I don't know. But um I I parked in a physician spot when I had a sob and a collector plate, and I went and saw Andy. I'm like, it was later. It definitely looks like a physician's car, though. Yes, it does. This is a quirky, weird dude. Like weirdly, yeah. Yeah, like and I I just parked in it so that the collector plate was sticking out because I lost my front one because somebody had a snow bank with it in our driveway. And it just never made its way back. Whatever. That's the reason your car fell apart. What's one of them? It's definitely in any science went back to it with a squat car. You're like, I can't even have nice I can't even have nice nice shit. Like, nothing, nothing can be nice. Anyway, so I used this parking spot and um on my rolling a dice, and I stayed there for quite a long time, probably like six, seven hours, and six to heaven, six to heaven, and then um, yeah, didn't have a ticket. So that's cool. Yeah, they bought it. Noted. So if you donate an organ, I made a funny joke, but it's like not funny too. Um and I ever need any, if I need any organ in the future, I get any organ I want first on the list. So that means after I if I can donate my kidney, I'm gonna start smoking, I'm gonna start drinking, I'm gonna do really bad heart things because I'm gonna get any bacon for every there. Yep, they owe me. It's like a voucher program. I'm like, you know what? I'm good. I did my my one good deed I've ever done in my life. Maybe I could use it for a friend. Maybe that'll be phone a friend, yeah. The next Mill story journey is Nicole destroying her life to get it more. Just she just wants it, one back. She's in her mind, she's like, I gave one, I need a back. No, but that is, I think that is good information to put out there, not to abuse your organs, but that that that you yeah, that if you donate, if you ever need anything in the future, you're at the top of the list for life. I don't think they want anything of mine. You might be surprised you might have a really good bladder. I'm just kidding. Do you have two? No. Oh, okay. So how old were you when you had your firstborn? Were you in high school? I yeah. You were well, I was graduated, so I met Jackson in August, so I was 18. How how was that? Tell that's such a 90s 2000 thing, like you don't see that anymore. No, not really. Yeah, well, there was two other girls pregnant in high school with me that I had no idea they were. So really I didn't tell, I told, you know, I couldn't believe it. Right, yeah, yeah. I mean, I was pretty big, but I don't know, it's good. He was an easy kid. He's such a good guy. Yeah, so her son, for the listeners that don't know, is our Boris Decayla's boyfriend, and he's such a gentleman. He's such I'm gonna compliment him to her all the time. Like he's just a good guy. Yeah, you did a really good job with him. Yeah, he's a good boy, he's so friendly and like well spoken. He DJs for weddings, he DJs for weddings and the Packer Games. What? Yeah, well, he's at Stadium View for all the Packer games. Well, that's huge. A lot of them, yeah. Yeah, he DJ'd at a wedding we were just at Olsen back to the leaky pee pee. Leaky peepy. Oh, yeah, leaky pee pee. His son. Yeah. Sorry, Brad. Leaky PP Jr. got married. You know, Jill won't give a shit. And Brad doesn't care either. We campaigned a whole summer for that guy. He owes us when he was running for sheriff. Knox and Ash still talk about the trauma of that. Remember, we were at every single parade, it was so hot. We had a walk so far. And then we got popsicles one time and they were orange and gross. Like it just, it's it was a miserable summer. It was a miserable summer. It wasn't that bad, but I mean for them. Um, it was cute though because we would we would dress them up as cops. Little, yeah, they had little cop uniforms. So when we were on the show, cut them into shorts, like on like Reno 911 for them. You gotta suffer like the cops do with their little long polyester. I cannot stand when cops wear shorts. It looks so dumb. There's a Shano cop that does that, and when I see him on a traffic shop, I want to throw a soda out at him and be like, put some pants on, get your together. Although when you're doing water patrol, it's understandable. And I didn't even do it then. When I did water patrol, I was like, I'm not wearing shorts. I did it in Shano County, like Chetski? No, we have boat. Oh, okay. Wapaka, I've never seen a boat out there. Yeah, Wapaka County. That's what I mean. Okay, not Shano. I never did Shano County. Full-time guys fight for those overtime shifts. They fight in Wapaka County, nobody wants them because they're dealing with all the yuppies on the chain. It's a different dynamic there. It's like, oh, we want all these laws enforced except for if it's us or our family. Then don't then you go to court and it like they drop it. It's so political. I I hated it. Hated it. And I can't swim either, so I probably shouldn't dip it on a boat. Like I can swim, but like she looks like Pete swimming. Pete's like lots of splashes. Pete's paws go straight up and he's in the air. And his head somehow stays above water, but it's just can Walter swim? Oh Walter's good at swimming? He must get that from his mom. Okay, so he probably just floats. He's chubby. Chubby shit. Pete's chubby. Pete's not as chubby as Walter. I think he's probably equal. Walter's bigger. Walter's huh? Walter's, I think that's 125. 125. That's a big dog. He's a big dog. Um, let's talk about it. He sat in the front seat of my SWAT car. He's sure. Like this. And it looks so uncomfortable. Can you tell the story that when you had Walter with arresting a guy and it was the best arrest he said he's ever had? You can talk about that. Yeah, it was fun. Um, it was probably my best day, my favorite day of working of all time. And I've had a lot of cool things experienced like in my career, but that was awesome. I stopped this car, it was like a stupid stop, but a good stop to like, you know, I would do like find little things to find big fish, like type thing. And this guy had the car wasn't registered to him, but I don't know what the reason was this the stop, but he had warrants. I don't remember all what happened, to be honest. I just remember that he was in the backseat and I had the window open, and he was cooperative and like cool with me and stuff. And he's like, Is this a canine? Like, yeah, he's awesome. Like, he's like one of the one of the best, like uh, like sniffing canines in the state. Like, he Walter's a burning doodle. Find anybody, like he's so good at finding drugs, and like I was just meanwhile, Walt, we have to p plug in a picture of Walter. Yeah, just he's got like this droopy face, and his eyes are droopy and they're super bloodshot, like he's just stoned out of his mind. And he like is just dopey and happy, and he's like sticking his head back like to the window, and the guy's like petting him. And I'm like, he's really friendly as long as you're cool with him. But if you're not cool, like he turns real quick, so be nice. Like, you gotta be slow movements, like all this. He's like, This is this is I'll tell you. I've been arrested a lot of times, and this is the best time that I've ever had after I got arrested. And I look at his name file because our software program has like all the list of contacts with somebody, and he has been arrested a lot of times, just in our county, so I'm sure there's plenty of others. He's probably telling all his buddies about it. You gotta get arrested in O'Connell Falls, man. They have the coolest canine, they have the coolest dog. I just brought my dog along for a ride. And then the bank ladies came out to see him. Oh, yeah. I brought him into the credit union, I brought him right in there, and he like went behind the teller's desk and was probably in the vault. I don't know. Like he was just hanging out with everybody. It was a good time. Walter's a good dog. Walter has gotten too much radio time. The mayor at the time did not like it when there were dogs at the police department. And didn't he come in and there was a water dish sitting there? And Brad's like, oh, the one of the canine guys must have Brad Prad. Like he pee pee brad. He was his chief. Brad come in the podcast. When he retires, he will. He might before, he but maybe be after. I feel like he'll do better if he's gonna be able to get it. He's gonna retire soon. So yeah. There's so many cops that want to come on, but they're like, Uh, I'm gonna get fired. Like, who cares? You're under a microscope. People look for anything and everything to like come down on cops for, like, oh, you said this. Like, shut up, right? So the reason I think I brought him to work was we were afraid of leaving him home with Carl, right? No, Keith, that's a lie. You loved you love Walter. Okay, but to justify what I'm saying. Oh, you want to lie on radio? Oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, there was like something cruel. Did you really think that was no, you hogged him? He was an awesome dog. Well, he still is an awesome dog, but he was really cool. Anyways, let's go back to Justine. Walter is taking up way too much of Justine's time. I have a question. Yeah. Uh, can you talk about the moment that you knew you wanted to be friends with Nicole and Keith? Or just Nicole? Did she just know she were both of you first? I was trying to figure out what's your first memory of her? Yeah, I was trying to figure out this morning and like, was it on the bus trip? I was like, but I remember just I feel like we would sit next to each other at sporting events too and judge people. Yeah. She was like, she had like single mom energy and I had single mom energy. Yeah. Um, I always saw the lone granola and was like friend. She's like, she needs help. And our daughters were friends, yeah. So it was just easy. They still are. Like that's one thing Scott always says like, even if Journey and Gabby fight, they'll always find each other. They always go back to each other. Yeah. Those little toxic. I know. We both have single mom trauma. Journey lost my favorite swimmy suit. Did she? She journey probably has it yet. She said it's in the bottom of the pond. So she must have taken it. She journey okay. Journey steals people's or when she gives it back. You know what I found? I did her laundry, and I don't do her laundry, which I should probably start doing. My um the mill sweatpants I've been looking for for months. After my hysterectomy remember, I'm like, I need my mill sweatpants. I got them a size bigger. Yeah, I got them a size up, so I went hurt on my incisions, couldn't find them. I'm moving her laundry, hanging her sweaters, moving it into the dryer, and all of a sudden I'm like, she stole my sweatpants. But she'll look you right in the eye and have no shame with it. I don't have them. That's what I said. I'm like, that's the and I'm sorry, Journey. But that's what I'm like, that's the problem, is like it'd be like, oh yeah, I have those. I took them. You know what I mean? So I'm not looking anymore. Otherwise, I'll like rip the house apart. She'll let you look for something that she threw away, and she'll have zero shame with it. She'll be like, Oh, wow, don't know where that is. So I I can relate to Gabby being mad about her swimsuit at the bottom of the lake. Because Gabby, Gabby was probably looking for it, and Journey is probably like, literally, don't have it. Because she's not lying, she literally doesn't have it. It's literally at the bottom of the lake. Um, yeah, but um, they always end up being friends. Yeah, I hate and I mean and I don't like mean to offend anybody, but they had I hate their class. I never liked Journey's class. Yeah, it was a rough senior year, it was a rough year. It just you know, like you get attached to your kids' class, Sawyer's class. We loved that group, the guys, like, and I was so like emotional when he was I was saying retiring, graduating because we loved them. The group of the guys and like the girls, yeah, but the even the group of girls. I mean, I guess we didn't deal with girl drama, like we weren't the moms of girls, so that might have might have gone on because girls are mean, but um SRO Roadie was actually just talking about this this morning. He's like, I'm really gonna miss this senior group this year because there's zero problems. Once in a while, you get a really good class, and he's like, All the other ones, they're just mean to each other, and it's like they got he's like, but for whatever reason, this senior class is just so good. So let's bummer. Last year's wasn't so no. I I and I said that to her. I'm like, I really am like happy you're graduating, and I'm like sad that you're done, but like I'm so happy you're done with you know let's move on. Yeah, let's move on. And it's not like one specific, it's just like the culture of a class sometimes just sucks. I'm gonna say it on the record. I thought that class sucked on the record. Tune in next Tuesday. Your class sucked. Just kidding. Um, okay, so oh, so your first memory. You don't have a first memory, she doesn't have a first memory. Yeah, I figured out I figured it was on a trip. I just didn't know which one. But then when she said that, I was like, oh, it was Madison. You sent a recent picture, well, an old picture recently you sent of my hair black. That was silky. It looked so good. It was highlights of something, but it was so it was like down to my butt. You just walked in me. Yeah, well, that's awesome. Well, I was thinking how long it was and it looked so healthy. Yeah. She does a good job. It was healthy, huh? I just had a memory of a field trip to Navarino Nature Center where Gibby and Journey were in the same group. Mm-hmm. Gibbs. They might work at the same salon. Yeah. They would like to. When did you go to hair school? Yeah, wing. 2003. So graduated. So yeah, I've been 23. This will be year 23. And did you know you wanted to do hair from I always liked it. You graduated in 02, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I thought we're going to go. So yeah, February of 04. So yeah. I just hit 22 years of doing hair. Where did you go for hair? Uh Wisconsin College of Cosmetology in Green Bay. Is that nice? It's gone. I think the owners went to jail. I think all hair schools are a scam on the record. I do. I think it's a scam. It really is. I think you have to hit uh check boxes and no one really gives a shit that's there. Yeah. Journey is good instructors. I'm not going to say they're bad, but like I feel like there's not much care. And all the hair people in my life, including Jaden, that's watching us right now. That's why I keep talking about her, but you can't see her. Um we'll say you learn the most out of school. You don't learn any, like you learn the fundamentals, but right there's zero like hands-on, like, hey, let's look at let's look at this. All right, let's let's get back to Justine. What is your goal? What do you what is your perfect day? You didn't answer it because you didn't answer me. Because I don't have one. I don't know. Like, what are you gonna do when you retire? Are you gonna have a Lanai and sit out there and eat cheesecake? In front of you. Probably go on the boat. Feed your ducks. Yeah, probably be on the boat. I don't know. We boat, we golf. I think I just asked you if you were gonna move somewhere warm. We yeah, I mean, we we might look at some houses in South Carolina next week. We don't know. Oh, yeah, but there that would be like in the future. You could technically do it anytime. You don't have little kids anymore. Yeah. Let's Scott's gonna work and retire there, probably. So does Scott carry the insurance? Yeah. So for what is your ideal, like perfect life look like? That's too, we don't have time for that. I don't think we need to drag Justine through all that. Well, it doesn't have to be long, it doesn't have to be a long story or a long life. That is cool. Okay. Um, I would say a perfect day. I get up, I have ambition to work out. Perfect day to nap in today. I hit the snooze. I'm like, you know what? We'll just shut that snooze off. I got another alarm set for like when I really have to be up. So I did that. Not so perfect, but there's always tomorrow, right? He's made it five minutes into the day. Yeah. Perfect. Uh got to sleep in. I don't know, like, not a whole lot of major problems throughout the day. Maybe have a little sex. Maybe some chicken. You think maybe you're gonna go golfing because that's for old people? It's a movie line. Wait, what does he what does he say about golf again? Like two years ago. Oh, for old people with goofy pants and a big ass. Yeah, yeah. The fat ass. The fat ass. And then last week we went golfing. He's like you should talk to my neighbor. I should talk to you, like, I should. How much is a membership here? Wow. Yeah, he's come a long way. Yeah, he golfs a lot. Well, our boys like to golf too. Yeah, so that's part of it. Yeah, and it's a good time to get them involved. It's a good fresh air hobby. Also, they can so Austin's class, for example, they're gonna be they're 29-ish. They all played baseball, and now they all love golf. If they would have golfed in high school, they could have gone to college for golf. Yep. That's kind of what I told Cubby because he said he's gonna do both next year. Yeah, yeah. Jim, Jim's like, I told him the story talking. He's like, why wouldn't he join the golf team? Then he gets the golf for free all summer long. Yep. And I'm like, I don't know. It's the parents that want their kids to do baseball because then they can see their friends too. You know, and then they get to get it. I don't want any more friends. I know. Yeah, I don't have time for the ones that I like. I would love to be my kid to be in golf that I don't have to talk to anybody. Just walk around, walk along and watch them, right? Yeah, we um definitely I think golf should be because it's like a life who plays baseball after high school, right? Realistically. Cubby was talking about how he wants to potentially, he's like, Well, all my friends are gonna be Broncos, but it would be pretty cool to be a mud hen. Cecil Mud Hen? He's like, they're not very good, are they? I'm like, no, that could change. So our little boys, Nox and it's a baseball team. Mudhens? Cecil Mud Hens. Yeah, it's a stupid. So it's an independent league, like old, it's basically land. I think that's right. It's like a bar league, but better. Better, yeah, it's better than bar league. Yes, but so Nox and Nash got mud hen hats and they get from from Leaky PP Jr. Okay, yeah, no, not no, they bought them at the in the dugout at one of Cubby's games. Leaky PP Jr. gave them t-shirts. No, gave Cubby a hat. Oh, yeah, yeah. Screw that up. Leaky P Jr. Do you ever see those reels that they say be careful? Because me and my sister or me and my friends will give you a nickname without you even knowing. Like, like yeah, that has like nothing to do with them. Like sled big Sally's here. I mean, like, you just give people a nickname. Um, anyways, so Nox and Nash will like wear those hats proud, and they'll be around in Bondowell area, and the people are like, take that hat off, and they're like Bronco territory, and they're like, Yeah, yeah, walking around with their their little mud hen hats that are too big because they're adult hats. Yeah, but they love them, yeah. They wore them in a practice last week. They get picked on for it, but it gives them character. Who's oh yeah, go ahead. No, keep going. No, no, no, you. I was just gonna say you should ask like one more question and probably start to wrap it up. Okay, what should we ask Justine? Justin, is there something that we should ask you that we don't know about you? I don't think so. Do you have any other aspirations? You're super talented, yeah. Like you could do anything. You could be a decorator. Somebody told me I'd open up a home decor store. You who told you that? She should. Also psychic. Yeah, like I think June is right around the corner, isn't it? What is gonna happen in June? That's what he said. Yeah, I don't know. I do like decorating. You're so good at it. Less and less at my house. Well, yeah, because you're here all the time. Well, who sees it but me? Right, yeah. I I can totally uh see you doing that. But you've also like shown me how to redo things, like old things are great. I I don't think I physically shown you that. I think you've helped me like get there, like blossom like a flower. Yeah, okay, I'll take that. You help me blossom, I'll help you. But yeah, so I don't know. I don't know. I like to cook. She's I could do that. She makes her soup. So if you've had our soup here, she's in the kitchen making our soup by scratch. She does such my what's a uh kibasa? Oh yeah, the kilbasa and potato. Oh my lord. We have it today. It is so good. Actually, when you're watching this, we don't have it today, but maybe in five weeks. Um, what will our latte of the day be with you? Kilbasa. Latte. Gross. Oh, just I like mocha. Mocha? Or what's that one that you uh I'm sure maybe it should be a sleep apnea drink. It could be or a heart attack drink. Oh, that's sweet. Oh, all we'd have to do is one. Yeah, with like candy bars on top of it. Yeah. Um, do you remember the lady at Sky Love You from Florida that hated our videos? Florida? She said grow up. Yeah. I think her words were grow up. Your videos are not funny. And it was the marijuana one. Do you have a sweater that looks like I'm probably in a subaru and I'm driving and I'm gonna go hiking and I maybe have marijuana under my seat? That was the video she was offended about. Yeah, granola, yeah, out of all of them, either she didn't like marijuana or she didn't like the Subaru joke. Or she's just jealous. So we had to research her, and I'm like, she's from Florida, yeah. Like, she doesn't even go here. Maybe you should have a CBD-infused drink. Oh my god. And then yeah. Well, I'm like not hardcore into drugs. It sounds like Justine's is drugging. I mean, it is better for my liver, but yeah, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. We'll think about it. Yeah, I think we're gonna have to have her back. You don't have to, it's fine. No, you did great. You were so nervous, like you didn't want to be here, and here you are, killing it. We'll have to talk about ghosts someday. Oh, yeah. Do you have ghost stories? Yeah, oh wait, we have time. Yeah, tell it. Oh this poor girl. Um my dad's house. Yes. So so the guy that the new one? The one we were at in Slab City. Okay. Well, number one, my grandma, my grandma and grandpa used to own they owned the morgue in Slab City, and that used to be a bordello. Way What's a Bardello? A bord a whorehouse. Oh way, way back. If do you know what? Yes, a brothel. Yes, but I didn't hear it called that word before. Yeah. Um, so the guy that had me call scattered. I would visit them like you. I haven't been to one in so long. Okay, back to your story, your brothel story. My dad's house was haunted. My brother's baptism had to be there. Yeah, Pastor Klein had to go and bless the house and the yard and come on. What would happen? I need a story. No, we would we went well when we were moving in, my dad kept getting locked out, but it was an eye hook. Like he kept getting locked out by an eye hook, or the attic lights would be on. Um well, there is a cemetery very close by. Well, so and the guy the the family that we bought it from was also the guy that had me call Scott that first night. His dad passed away from a heart attack at 38. So that was his house. Okay. And Willie loved cats, loved cats. Well, and I wasn't allowed to have pets in the house. So when I'd get astray, I would feed it. My mom one time said, Well, we'll just put the cat in the basement. It's gonna be cold tonight. So we put the cat in the basement. And when we woke up in the morning, I went into the living room and Willie used to sit in his recliner, and we had a great big wooden door because it's an old house with a full-length mirror on it, and Willie would sit there in his recliner all the time. That cat was on that recliner with it reclined. Yeah. It was Willie. Yeah, that's insane. My sister has seen him stuck in the wood stove in his blaze orange. Um, my dad's deer mounts, like the full deer mount, was taken off the wall and put on the couch. Yeah. Yeah. Did this stuff happen the whole time that your dad lived there? It stopped. Like my mom kind of can see that kind of stuff. She can sense it. So I think when she was there, it happened more. But I never really experienced much. But when my grandma had the more when they were still living, uh, she had cameras up in the room that we used to sleep in when I was little. And my mom went up there because my grandma would hear things happening. And when my mom walked up there, there was orbs all the way around her. Like my grandma could see orbs just like going crazy around my mom. Yeah. My uncle's bed would shake. Okay, we should have opened with us the period pants story. Yeah, that's the drink. Yeah. So my dad. Yeah. As much as my father probably colors are coming out now. Period, period pants, latte, cherry flavor. Okay, anything else? Uh I'll probably think of some, but I yeah. Okay, we should have booze and banter, but it's B-O-O. Yeah, like that. All about those stories. So my parents' home. You're just my parents' home um also was haunted. And it's not an old house. So that's just bizarre, but we have a ton of we have tons of stories from there. Um, I remember having a full-on conversation with my friend Allie. We had the couch pulled out in the basement, not like a basement basement, but like a basement, and it was like a couch bed. And I thought she was sitting up in the chair, awake, and she would wake up earlier. And I was talking to her, and then all of a sudden she came out and she's like, Who are you talking to? And then I looked back and it was gone. But I always had encounters there, but I don't want to steal this is like for a different day, but a lot of stories from there. Lindsay, when she comes on, she'll tell not Lindsay Johnson, not the good Lindsay. This is the naughty Lindsay that I was friends with. The peeper, the peeper, the peeper. Um, but yeah, I am all about ghost stories, and I I've actually stopped talking about the stories because it was to the point that I I know this sounds weird, but I felt like identities were like connected to me, and like I had to like cleanse myself and not invite that energy in and talking about it. So, like in our house, I've never had anything happen there, and I don't talk about ghost stuff there. Yeah, um, because I was always like, they say if you talk about it, then it's like inviting. And so I was I was super scared. We lived in this house in Iola Sawyer Journey and I. It was a cool old house, but it was haunted as hell, like super, super haunted. And the TV would turn on every night at a certain time. We would hear footsteps. Sawyer and Journey were scared deathly of the house. I always felt like I was being watched. Probably the darkest years of my life were when I lived there. And I felt my mom went to a psychic, his name is Paris Drake out of Nina, and he he told my mom that there was a D word connected to me. Oh, a demon. In case you didn't know what the D word was, it's a demon. You're not supposed to actually say it if you. So my mom, like, so if you don't, we'll we will have grandma barb on here one day. Chain's looking at me like, whoa. Um, because then you'll like understand this character. But so my mom was like, Nikki, I have something for you and you need to listen to it all the time. Like, what? So she didn't tell me, and then she started saging the house. I'm like, what are you doing? And saging me, and then bought me a sage candle, and I was like, You're insane. And the C the CD she gave me was a CD, it was like angelical, like anti possession stuff. She thought I was possessed. What does sage do? We have sage here. I've saged, um, so it's supposed it's like a Native American thing, too. It's supposed to cleanse the air and get out, but you have to have like good intentions, like opening doors. So, like, we had a lot of negative people in, like, I want to say last summer. I'm like, what is going on? Like, everyone was just a bunch of jerks. So I'm like, I'm saging, I'm saging this place. And I did. I like took the sage, lit on fire, and opened the doors and said negative energy out, like witchy stuff, but like maybe crazy, maybe I have a little grandma barb in me, but um uh I'm all I do that type of stuff, but in the name of Jesus, you know what I mean? Like just think like salad just waving salad, like leaps of salad. So I'm all about any ghost stories you have. Justine can be the booze and banter. She could be booze and banter. My mom would be great. Would she? I've never met your mom. She's interesting. I feel like all people come from interesting moms. Your mom's not your mom's interesting in a good way. I don't want to say your mom's not interesting. Your mom's a really good mom. Yeah. My mom was always like my best friend though, because she was 17. She was? Yeah. So when she had you? Yeah. So it's like we grew up together, you know. Do you feel that way with Jackson? Not really. No. Who's your favorite kid? It's this week? Yeah. Usually, usually it's it's well, now I have to work with Gabby. So it depends on what kind of mood she's in. So it switches. Jackson, I don't see him that often. He's not moody. No. And I've never heard that kid swear. So really? Never. Kayla said she only heard him yell one time. He's only been, yeah. She said I've seen him be frustrated maybe twice. But she said one time she heard him raise his voice and it was at a bully in school. That he was bullying, someone was bullying someone and he stood up for the bully. And oh Jackson, what a good kid. Yeah. But um, yeah, I mean, thanks for everything you do for us. We really like you a lot. I'm a huge fan of you. You guys have done enough for us too. So not really. I mean, we just at least like married us. Oh, yeah, he he did. That was my favorite wedding. Did so much for that I've ever been in. We didn't do anything, we didn't put him in the garbage can. That was the medical staff. We really appreciate it though. Yeah, we will do whatever for you guys. All right, all right. I can't give you a liver though, because my liver is not, can't be split. Yeah, it's too wussy. It's not wussy, it's complex, it's not too small, it's big. It's too wussy to share. All right, we'll see ya, we'll see you next to Dan. All right, thanks for being here. Bye. Appreciate you guys. See ya, bye. 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