This is the 911 close podcast with the operator and his senior assistant, Jack Lona.

Oh, hi there, Lena. Hi there, operator. How are you today? Good, good, little down. I find, I find that I just, I'm just not a

fun or funny anymore. I don't know. I feel like I used to be like a lot more fun to be around before I started doing the true crime podcasting. I guess it's, it has a lot to do with the content and the stuff that I'm thinking about and doing all the time. But I've been thinking about that lately. I'm like, I need to get more exposure to different things.

Because really what I do is like I take care of my kids. I do the podcast. I live in a small town where not much is going on. And I was just trying to figure it out. I'm like, man, I used to have just so much more to talk about when I was poor, like super poor and working like in group homes and riding on a bus and, you know, and I was just just just thinking about, you know, how much, how much more fun I used to have when when there was less going on, you know.

And I like, for example, I used to live in this place just outside of like the city. Every day I would have to take the bus two hours in and two hours back just because I wanted to live in this nicer part of town. And we struggled so hard back then me and my girl, we struggled really hard when we first met like our rent was, I think $1,000 a month. I was making $1,800 a month.

And like our hydro was going to get cut off. I was stealing food from the group home. Like I would steal like frozen bags of milk and put them on my backpack and bring them home. She would give me a list of things to try to steal from the steel.

Like I would replace it later sometimes. But we were like going to like, what are they called when they have the free food food drives.

No, food. Yeah, that thing. Yeah. Like doing the dining dash thing, you know, just because of all the character of stuff that was happening, there was just always something to talk about, always something to joke about.

So I'm thinking about putting myself in more difficult situations lately. So I more, more to talk about. But I want to tell you a quick story.

When we were in that situation, I bought a car for $500 and we were driving it for a while. And there was a Honda Civic, a Black Honda Civic. It was my first car. I think at my license tell us 27 years old, just to show you what you know, I'm a

bus rider. Late bloomer. I was just riding the bus. Yeah, I just, I don't know, I left home. I just kept on riding buses. I never had a car. I just got into a job and I just

didn't have the money for it. I was just used to riding the bus. I used to ride a lot on the bus, think a lot on the bus. I read a lot. I read the whole dark tower series on a bus because of the long bus ride.

I just kind of enjoyed the interaction with people and I would get an argument and people are very rude on buses. But anyways, it was, it was something I was used to. Yeah. But then when I got a car. This 500 other car, it lasted a couple of months. And then the muffler started making like this noise. And then I'm driving home. Me and my girl are driving home the one day. And the tire falls off the ball joints.

And we get off to the side of the road. What did I die if we were on the highway? I was actually on the highway and I sped up because I was here. And I was like, oh, the faster I go, the less I'm hearing that. No, I saw going like 120. And that's kilometers an hour. And I get off the highway. And then it bus, as soon as I get off the highway, I'm on this dirt road. And we're about.

I don't know, 20 minutes away from home, but the walk is fairly long. So we have to walk. We walk back. Our car is busted. So the next day, I left some stuff in the vehicle. And I had to go back to the car. And I see this bike that's been beside our apartment for a long time.

So I steal the bike. So I figure it's a stolen bike anyways. Right. So I just take the bike. And I drive the bike all the way out there along this dirt road forever to go back to the car. And halfway there, the tire on the bike breaks.

And I go right over the top, skid my hands, side of my face and everything. And I'm standing there just like what? Like what? What is going on with my life? You know, but if that. So anyways, my point is, if all that kind of stuff was still happening in my life right now, can you imagine the stories I would have for the podcast instead, you know, what life's too good?

Now I agree. I hear you. I hear you. My my thought on it is this is if you like you just told a story from your past recently on an episode of True Crime Kent.

Having to do with an apartment you lived in with some some different individuals, I will say, and that they were requesting that you do a certain thing with a baby bottle. And here's all I'll say is if you said to me today, you're like, oh, guess what happened to me last Thursday. And then you told me that story.

Yeah, I would be like, oh, wow. What have I done with my life? Got an involved with who have I my wife would be like, who is the other the other half of this business?

Who? Who? The guy of the baby bottle? Right. So at some point, right? You got a bake your life and say, okay, that's a that's a whole set of stories.

But we're building stories now. Like remember like like we were we were, you know, we sent each other some racial some racial some racie picks the other day. That was nice. That was edgy.

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