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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry, and this is a little leader where I read the stories that you send to me. Hey, if you have a story you'd like to share with the cult then send it on over to Spencer at Cult Leader.com.

Make sure you put a little leader somewhere in there, make sure you apologize for the length or its your world. I'm not here to tell you what to do, but also I am.

And you know, give it a little lifetime movie subject line you never know.

I'm reporting live from my sister's house where her husband is in another room zooming into corporate meetings and I'm here just doing whatever it is I do.

He's like, yeah, we have to strategize for Q2 ahead of time and I'm like, here's an email about a ghost. It's very similar. Very much the same. How are we all feeling? Read the holidays. Okay, we're on the border. We're almost through it. Is it crazy? Calm?

I feel like the end of the year always just flies by. After October, it's just kind of like game over. I'm still in sort of full moving mode.

Like we've gotten most of this stuff over to the house, most of this stuff out of my apartment. So I'm trying to get through all of that by Tuesday. So I can, you know, come back up here just a lot of back and forth this week.

But I'm looking at the chaos of moving as a secret blessing because it's distracted me from any potential holiday stress because I really can't think of anything else. Madison is house sitting for me at the moment, which is so nice, but also terrifying because she loves to rearrange furniture.

That's a thing about Madison is she is constantly moving things around whether it's her house or mine. So I don't know what I'm coming home to. We'll see.

Okay, back to business. I've taken your feedback. Read next year's little leaders and I think we're going to try and do some sort of mix of listener emails and also other stuff that you guys send me, which will be fun, exciting, brush.

I personally love the idea of just changing things up. I love New Year's in general because I feel like it's always a fresh start and always feels like a clean slate to me.

Just fresh 2022. We're coming in hot speaking up. Let's get into some emails because the subject line on this first one is leg burning little leader.

They wrote high Spencer and hot dog first time writer and relatively new cult babe. Welcome. I'm here from morbid and so grateful to be part of the cult. We're grateful to have you and we're grateful for morbid. Love those gals. As the people please are I am, I have to say I'm sorry for the long email.

Even though I don't even know if it would be considered long. There we go. It's tradition. I just listened to little leader episode 45 where you mentioned wanting to hear about cutting your arm off.

Whatever other cool party stories you have. So here I am. Please feel free to use my name.

Oh God. I love you guys. One of my favorite things to tell people about myself is how I set my leg on fire when I was three. The story goes as follows. When I was three, I was living in an apartment with my mom stepped out in my one year old little brother.

My mom told me it was bedtime and made me turn off the lights in my room, but I wasn't done playing with my Barbies. So after they went to bed, I snuck out in the living room to grab a match book and a candle.

At three years old, no fear with this child. I lit the candle and carefully placed it in my dollhouse. But as the not so smart three year old I was, I neglected to blow the fire out before placing they lit match in my pocket. No.

According to science, clothing is flammable according to science. Absolutely. That is the truth. After a good little flame forms, I must have let out a scream because in ran my mom.

My stepdad called 911 and they told him to place me in a bath as the black flakes from my skin rose to the toe. Oh my God. Poor baby. My mom literally passed out and hit her head on the sink.

After the fire was out, we rushed to the ER with my stepdad leading the charge since my mom had a head injury and all. As soon as we got to the hospital and my stepdad opened the door to get my brother's car seat out, the whole thing just rolled out.

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