The bench.

Dave and Frankie, the car guys from the dealership. There's this one story that stuck out to me.

It was about the time Tom drove the company car to get some Wendy's.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that moment too.

I said, where are you going?

David saw Tom heading out to his car and asked him where he was going. He told him he was going for lunch at Wendy's.

He liked that shitty chili.

Fucking chili. Forty five minutes later he got a call from Tom who was in a ditch on the side of the road.

The car was totaled.

He says, some fucking guy just rent, it's the only time I hear him swear, he never swore.

Some fucking guy come up on my left-hand side and run me off the road and I went down in the ditch and I'm in the ditch.

I said, are you okay?

Apparently Tom was more concerned about the spilled chili according to David who found this story

hilarious. And dad had like a scratch like no broken bones no black eyes from the

airbags and then what dad had told me afterwards is that he'd

actually had a small heart episode. The reason he drove off the road was because he was having a small

heart attack. And so the story he tells David is just a lie. I mean I guess it's like 40% true, but it's 60% not telling people the whole truth.

And I tell this to mom. And she's like, what are you talking about his heart? Over the years, Tom had been successful at shielding inconvenient truths from the people around him.

But it wasn't secrets from the distant past he was hiding anymore,

and he wouldn't be able to hide his health problems for long.

And once those came to light everything else would

too. From Neon Hum Media and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Smokescreen.

...