Hi everybody, this is Kimberly and this is Katie and you're listening to a date with date line. We are just going to jump right in because

This is our first dentist in such a long time. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back Kimberly. We missed you so so so much. Welcome back Dennis.

Where have you been all my life Dennis? What happened? Where have you been?

He's been in freaking Idaho and Colorado and everywhere where there's snow not on day line in Florida, but not on day line. Not on my television screen. Yeah, it's very frustrating. It's nice to have it back to see him back.

So this episode is called footprints in the snow and you know guys will usually skip episodes with children or if you don't know, we normally skip episodes with children and

SA a lot of SA stuff. We skip those as well, but this one is too crazy and we've also promoted the Wondery podcast several times about this. So I'm excited that we finally get to talk about because I was kind of waiting for date line to cover it because

They're awesome. So this season 31 episode 18 this aired on February 17th 2023. Dennis starts off poetic waxing poetic. The windswept

scruff of land, which I like scruff of land. It's good. And the nearby town was paralyzed in oh my god fear off to a great start. We missed you so with a bang. That was amazing.

We are at Christmas time 1984 taking it all the way back. Greeley, Colorado. If that sounds familiar to you as a dish to me, I had to give it a

Bing and it is where Manks podcast internal affairs takes place. Which is I'm going to go out bold and say it's their juiciest, craziest podcast.

Dateline is had. It is salacious with a cap. Yeah. So this Greeley at this time was very quiet place. Very safe. Gloria Matthews is taking a trip before

Christmas. Her family is at home. Husband Jim is taking care of the kids Jennifer 16, Genelle 12. Genelle was performing in the school on

her choir like holiday concert. They took me straight back. Doesn't it? Oh boy. Were you in choir? We had to do kind of choir and we

sang Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson. And people cried in the audience because it was like we are the future kind

of thing. You're going to make the change. Yeah. We're going to make the change. It's going to feel real good. Yeah. In hindsight, the whole thing is

achy. It's bad. The whole thing is bad. But at the time with the choreo that we had, which was just a lot of side stepping and snapping, I think.

Can you bring your camera down so I can see your body please? What are you doing? I think I'm just doing. Gonna make a change. So very soulful side to side stepping.

How many soloists? I don't know, but I wasn't one. Thank God. I love it. Yeah. So Genelle got a ride home with her friend. Wait for it. Diana Ross.

I have a lot of questions. Yeah. I have a lot of questions for the Ross family. And her dad, Russ Ross.

I wrote down Ron Ross because I thought for sure I had heard it wrong. And so I wrote, oh no, it's not Russ, Russ, Russ. I was like, it's Ron Ross. Yeah, Russ, Russ and Diana Ross. I love it. The grandparents, the Ross grandparents named their child Russell, Russell Simon Ross or Russell, Russell George Michael Ross. Yeah. Russell Michael Jackson Ross.

Exactly. And it's Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Exactly. So let's do a hand song together. Okay. Yeah, they did. They did. Live aid. There you go.

So they dropped her off and she flicked the light on and off. So they knew that she was okay. That was the signal that they had. Jim gets home an hour later and Genelle is not there. And he calls Russ Ross and says, did you drop her off?

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