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Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast. Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Svign.

Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Svaney, and we're coming to you from the Buddy Squirrel Nut and Candy Shop at Brookfield Square Mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

What is that? What is that candy shop?

It is a local nut and candy shop called Buddy Squirrel. There are four locations in the

Greater Milwaukee area. That is a fantastic name for a candy store. But see, I think they started with nuts,

hence the squirrel. But eventually they realized, oh, perhaps we want to take our dusty old nuts and cover

them in chocolate. Okay, that did not sound good. That took a nasty turn. All right, okay. But, yes. We're talking squirrels tonight because our guest, comedian Theo Vaughn, he brings forth the topic, killing squirrels with my father. Yes, I want to point out there are no dead squirrels at the buddy squirrel shop. Yeah, no, no dead squirrels here. He's talking about hunting. It's a different thing. Yeah. I assume. But when you say killing squirrels with the buddy squirrel shop yeah no no no this is he's talking about hunting it's a different thing

yeah i assume yeah but when you say killing squirrels with my father like that is you can see that

picture in your mind that you know that guy's not from brooklyn i know exactly the story he's going to tell

he's going to tell a story about going out with his father into the woods and killing a squirrel

yeah although maybe maybe i have no, and killing a squirrel. Yeah, although maybe, maybe.

I have no idea.

Was there a squirrel in the house? Did they have to get the squirrel out of the house? See, that could be a thing. You should say that because that's my squirrel story. Oh, tell me your squirrel story. No, no, no. I'm not going to go into it. I've told it actually on another show. But the bottom line is we had...

You know squirrels are podcast gold.

We hashtag squirrel is our number one... actually on another show. But the bottom line is we had... You know squirrels are podcast gold.

We hashtag squirrel is our number one driver of content.

Growing up in rural Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, we would find animals that were almost dead,

whether they got hit by a car or got maimed by a cat or whatever.

We would put those animals in a cardboard box, put a little bit of grass, a little bit of water, try to nurse them back to help. So one time we bring in this squirrel,

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