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Nancy

Take the Long Way Home

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

All things just keep getting better.

Katie Schlechter is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City.

Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom with original composition and performance by Kyle Sanna. Theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tobin.

0:01.0

Kathy.

0:02.0

I'm going to tell you about my dad.

0:03.5

Ooh, a rare Kathy dad story.

0:06.3

Yeah, the thing I really enjoyed telling people about my dad is that his sense of self-preservation

0:11.6

is very strong.

0:13.2

Like for example, when I was, I want to say in high school, maybe middle school, I don't

0:17.7

remember.

0:19.0

We had an earthquake.

0:20.0

This is Southern California.

0:21.0

Earthquakes happen a lot, but usually they don't wake me up.

0:23.7

But this earthquake woke me up in the middle of the night.

0:26.4

It was like a gentle rocket.

0:27.4

It got me out of bed.

0:29.0

I walk out of my room and my mom is out, my sister's out, my brother's out.

0:33.7

And from where we are in the second floor, you can look out into our front door and our

0:37.4

front door is wide open because my dad has gotten up, ran downstairs, out the front door

0:44.3

to the front lawn and he was staring at us.

0:46.3

He was like, you idiots, get outside.

0:48.4

Wait, he didn't stop to get any of you?

0:52.0

He just went by himself.

0:54.0

He just ran for it.

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