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Hey, it's Kathy Ladman, and you're listening to Storyworthy.

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

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My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Sfini, and we're come to you from

Gipsonia, Pennsylvania. Tricked you, Christine. You thought we were going to come from my hometown, but we're coming from your hometown. Wow, that's amazing. It's true. I grew up in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. It's an unincorporated community. Is it really? I didn't know that. Yes, it is. Unincorporated. That's why you burned your trash. By law, you have to burn the trash in the backyard if you're unincorporated. And we had a septic system. So there you go. I didn't even know all this. Yeah. So it's really not even a place. It's very rural. There are no sidewalks in my neighborhood. There were no streetlights. It was very rural. I remember going to see my cousins in Peoria, and they lived in a neighborhood with no sidewalks. And I didn't know what the fuck was wrong with these people. I was like, how can there not be sidewalk? What is it wrong with you? Yard to yard to yard. Yard and that sort of thing, and you're walking in the street. and it they're pep going to get killed by a car no there's

that's the that's the thing that's how that's how they work it out they don't need sidewalks

there's very few people there all right so we're coming from gifsonia tonight because our guest

kathy ladman the one and only fantastic comedian kathy ladman brings forth the topic you can never

go home you can never go home

now you can't go home again which is a famous novel by Thomas Wolfe okay this is you can

never go home and I'll tell you something honest I hear her coming at this loud and clear first of all

I read the article that she's going to be referring to but But it is so true how you can never go home.

Well, no, we were, yeah, I mean, you know, we and I have discussed how you have no desire

to go home.

And yet you go home fairly often because you're still a family there.

I go home.

And you have your daughter that you have to take there.

I haven't been to Pittsburgh in two and a half years. And been to pittsburgh in two and a half years and my

daughter hasn't been there in four and a half years me who always waxes as you say poetic about Milwaukee and

how awesome it is i've been there in seven years because you only have one schizophrenic brother there and you

don't know anybody else in the town i've said before and i'll say again legally he's four people

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