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🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | This podcast contains adult language and content. |
0:02.9 | If you have a story to share, send it to Let's Not Meet Stories at gmail.com. |
0:07.5 | Enjoy the show. I have described the bottom in my other stories, and this is yet another of my experiences there. |
0:33.7 | When this particular experience occurred, it was July of 1982 and I had just turned 13. |
0:41.2 | As part of my birthday celebration, my parents took me and several of my friends to see Conan the |
0:46.9 | Barbarian at the new walk-in theater and Liberty. This was quite a change from watching a movie |
0:53.4 | from the bed of the truck at the drive-in. |
0:56.1 | Instead of fighting off mosquitoes big enough to completely exsinguinate us and trying to be still |
1:01.3 | enough, so the big aluminum speaker didn't fall off the side rail of the truck bed. |
1:07.0 | We were able to sit in air conditioning no less and enjoy our popcorn and sodas without |
1:12.2 | welts and blood spatters. For several weeks after that, we all made swords out of anything |
1:17.7 | that we could find and beat, slashed, hacked, and stabbed the crap out of anything we thought |
1:23.0 | worthy of being a foe. Mostly this resulted in a bunch of decapitated weeds and flowers and a few |
1:29.6 | slaughtered spiders. One of my friends got his father's machete and we spent a happy afternoon |
1:34.7 | seeing which of us could chop a sapling tree down and a single hack. We almost had a fistfight over |
1:41.0 | who got to use it to kill a little snake when we found it. It disappeared |
1:45.9 | before we even had a chance, though. Conan was the hero of the day for that summer, right up until |
1:51.9 | we saw First Blood, just after Halloween. One day, we decided we needed to build our own temple |
1:58.6 | of set. We didn't have a Princess Valeria, of course, |
2:02.1 | but we thought it'd be cool to at least have a cave to stealthly invade. We had visions of |
2:08.2 | tunnels and caverns and underground rooms filled with treasure to steal. After much arguing |
2:14.2 | in discussion, we finally decided that the best location for our imaginary massacre |
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