In the 1970's, Minneapolis was Funky Town. One night, Joanna's mom met a disco guy with a body-sized freezer who took her on the worst date she ever had.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
0:06.0 | Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries. It's a part of KCRW's program of Stories and Original Documentaries. |
0:14.0 | It's a part of KCRW's Independent Producer Project. |
0:17.7 | And today on the program, two stories about mothers and daughters. |
0:21.7 | But these are not the heartwarming Hallmark |
0:23.8 | home-cooked meal kind of mother stories, |
0:26.1 | because maybe the fondest memories of your mother |
0:28.4 | involve a secret sneak out and a run-in with the cops. |
0:31.9 | And sometimes you never really know your mom |
0:34.5 | until you've heard about the date she once took |
0:36.8 | with that seemingly normal guy in the Bee-G's outfit |
0:40.0 | and a human-sized freezer. |
0:42.2 | You could hardly open the front door because he had a chest freezer in there |
0:46.5 | and it was really huge. |
0:49.1 | An immense freezer never saw anything like that and it was the perfect size for a body. |
0:55.7 | This is an episode about those kind of mothers, Mom's Gone Wild, on this episode of Unfictional. |
1:06.0 | It's awkward to hear stories about your parents as young people before you were born. |
1:10.0 | It's just uncomfortable to imagine your mother is an available young woman hanging out in bars |
1:15.9 | And that's just what producer Joanna Solitarov thought when her mother told her a story about the worst date she ever had |
1:22.3 | It was awkward, embarrassing, and a little |
1:25.4 | icky. But if a mother can tell her daughter a story as weird as this one, she can tell |
1:31.0 | her anything. I should mention, by the way, that while this story doesn't exactly have anything explicit in it, |
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