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lure some men to their deaths i'm loren de young shulman i'm erin simpson and i'm rada an ingarbara

and we are here today dispersed.

Though actually you guys are in D.C. or D.C. area now. I'm out in Shenandoah.

But we have a D.C. relevant question, which will make more sense as we get further into the episode. My question for all of us is in the non-serious way, which I feel like I love how people are doing this on Blue Sky right now. It's like complimentary, non-serious. I find that helpful. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, it's not a lot. It's not a lotatory. What is the scariest thing you have seen in the District of Columbia?

So I have a great one. Let's hear it. So in 2011, I was living in LaDroit Park slash Shaw, which for D.C. residents is like, was certainly then not the, it was up and coming.

It had not up and come.

And I was working the Pentagon and I was commuting to work and I would walk to the metro really

early in the morning.

And I was important for this story, going through a phase in which I wrapped a scarf around

the handle of my bag. I don't know if folks

remember this phase of stylish bag related work. Anyway, I was in this phase. So I'm walking briskly

to work early in the morning to get an early metro to go into the Pentagon. I'm walking. There's a man,

and I can't even see the man just back behind me, like, saying things to me.

And I'm, like, increasing my pace, and I'm getting really nervous.

And I'm, like, walking faster and I'm going on the side streets.

Finally, he goes, ma'am, I come in peace, like as loud as he could.

I'm like, turn around as who the suit is.

And he's standing, like a teenage man,

clearly coming either to or from some kind of basketball or sports ball practice,

waving my very frilly scarf.

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