Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the crime and coffee couple. My name's Allison.

Hey, my name's Mike. Hey, how are you? I'm doing fabulous. Yeah, you sound really good. A little nasally,

I'd say. Yeah. That's okay. Um, it was, I apologize because it's my fault. But, um, it was funny

because we headed up to Chicago for like five days.

It was not a trip for fun.

It was to help Mike's parents settle into their new house.

Yeah, moving from like my childhood home, downsizing to another place.

And my parents lived in a sizable home, you know, not like, I was not insane or anything.

Well, with the basement, it was pretty darn big.

Yeah.

I mean, the basement's big enough for somebody to live in, basically.

So they had a lot of crap accumulated through the years.

Let's just say close to 40 years worth of stuff.

Yeah.

I mean, we were going through 71970 stuff and whatever.

And it was, if they didn't have that amount of space to keep all their stuff, they definitely would be considered

like hoarders, I would say. Well, and it was funny too, because we were going through Mike's mom's

cosmetics. And I know she listens to this and I say this with love. I mean, to me, she's like my mom.

Mike and I have been together for 30 years. So I've basically known her most of my life.

You're very comfortable with her. Very comfortable. And, you know, I kept telling her, I'm doing this with respect. You know,

I don't want to come in here and bulldoze because I can have a strong personality. And I want to be

respectful because this is her home and her things, but she did fly us up there to help.

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