Hello, everyone. Welcome back to National Park after dark. We know it's Monday. It's a trail tails. Everyone's confused. No one knows what's going on. Surprise.

She's double jinxed. You owe me a coke. Do you even like coke? I've never seen you drink a coke in my whole life. No, I hate coke. It freaks me out that you can drink it and you can also put it on rest to get rid of it. I just don't want that in my intestines. It's valid. I am a sucker for a good like fountain coke.

Like I'll settle for a bottled one if I have to, but I usually do it when I'm like hungover. It's just like the carbonation that I really like. Well, I'm gonna make you throw up.

It helps me like burp it up. You know what I mean? My secret pleasure for soda is cream soda. We could not be any different. It is like I don't drink it often, but I will say like once a year, I'll go to a really good sandwich shop and get a really good sandwich with a cream soda.

It does sound delightful when you put it that way, but just like reaching for a cream. Like I don't even think I've seen a cream soda in a like where do you even get those? They come in the bottles. You get them in the old fat in the old fashioned bottles and you just drink a nice cold cream soda. It's a whole vibe. Okay. Well, I know what you're getting for Christmas.

Okay, I should get once a year. I do not want it for Christmas. It's like a delight that I have. Well, anyways, so yeah, we're doing trail tails today. We decided because the way that we're laying out the episodes for the like the couple weeks before this and after this, we just have like some cool guests on that we're doing for our usual Thursday trail tail slots.

And if we didn't do one today, you wouldn't hear one for like six weeks. I feel like and we know a lot of people. These are your favorites. Every time we do trail tails, people are like,

trail tails are my favorite. Thank you so much for doing it. So we just didn't want to skip out on an entire month without doing one. And this was the only thought that made sense.

Yeah. So we have some cool stories for you guys. And I think you've been going first a lot. So I think I'm going to get my toe in first. I have a really cool one though.

Well, it's good. You're going to share it. Oh, you could do it. Or do you want to flip it? No, no, go ahead. Go ahead. Flip it. But you have a coin.

I said that and I'm looking around. I don't have one. Okay. You were just staring. Go ahead. Go ahead. All right. Fine. Now I feel like under pressure. No, I want you to go. I want you to go because you want it to go.

You're like, I want you to want to do the dishes.

Okay. My first story is titled here, kitty, kitty. Hi, ladies. I'm a long time listener. First time trail tellers.

I heard that delayed. I think a little bit. So I'm going to start again.

I'm a long time listener. First time trail teller. And do I have a story for you? Oh, to you.

But to start some background as to how two of my girlfriends and I found ourselves in a national park after dark for the predicament.

I went to Hendrick's College in Central Arkansas, which is actually not too far from hot springs. My freshman year,

I joined the Hendrick's Women's Ultimate Frisbee team, aka the sugar gliders, where I met a great crew of ladies and long-time friends.

Fast forward 10 years to the fall of 2022. My fellow sugar glider, BFF Olivia, and I decided to organize an annual sugar glider alumni backpacking trip to keep the squirrel spirit alive.

And I, okay. That's the cutest name. Okay. Well, I'm just going to say like, so I go through not to put pressure, but like no one like addressed me directly when you're sending trail tails,

but I usually am going through them and like organizing them. And I was reading this one. And I did, obviously, we read them all.

And I was reading this one, but I think I was skimming it because I'm like, this is a sugar glider group. Like, for some reason, I thought people who

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