The intention of this audio-blog/podcast is to collect aural oddities-mainly from those who choose to call us and leave a message. We usually have a theme, but feel free to call in with any anecdote, joke, rant, rave, random thought or creative shout out that comes your way! Current themes:
1. Describe the strangest job or work experience you’ve ever had.
2. Describe your earliest childhood memory.
3. Write a haiku (or stack of haiku, or a poem of any sort) and read it!
4. What is something you learned the hard way?
5. Recount a bizarre experience.
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In this episode callers describe their earliest memories, which include secrets, cherries, toilets, birthday cakes, near drowning, hanging teddies, and going the wrong way up the slide. Enjoy!
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Bizarrely erroneous transcription courtesy of googlevoice.
Hi. This is Erin. I’m calling to talk about my earliest memory. I was 3 years old and my dad was the youth group leader and he was having a gathering of the senior I. D’s group at a park, for a picnic and One of the group’s high school kids took me to play on the playground and instead of sliding down the side of I, climbed up 5 and fell off the side of it, and scratched my nose open on a bunch of gravel And I remember the youth group kids taken back my parents and. 6. When They saw my face. They just started laughing because The entire whole front of my nose with scratched off and bleeding and full of gravel and all those 3 people, it looks Larry, If so, was, I guess I learnt from young age that getting hurt give you a lot of attention, and it’s also. Just. Something make life a. So, pain has never been a huge deal to me. Thanks to you that for Marie. Thanks, bye.
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Bizarrely erroneous transcription courtesy of googlevoice.
Yeah, I’m not sure which one king first, but I have two memories. Yeah, that might be my earliest memory. The first one is an uncle of mine, taking me and my grandparents backyard, yours one of those days when the sun is really hot on your skin. Yeah, but the breezes. Very cool. And And we were in the shade, yeah these cherry trees. Yolanda series of my grandparents at Bye. Your boy cherries all over the ground in all through the tree, and we had gallon bucket anyhow we have highlight several black cherries and he said I’m gonna show you the secret. 3 through one of the bucket, said one for the bucket. 8. The Next 171 for you. Yes, Yeah, so we made a wind of these trees, yeah, one for the market, one for me one for the bucket one for me and he was doing the same. Yeah difference being. Yeah, that’ll be 640 Paul in 210 pounds. Yeah, I was preschooler Yes, as we got down and good move. Yeah several gallon buckets wide study sheeting inputting to. In 3 in the market for everyone. I. Yes, letting the the trade. As far as I could. Yeah challenge me. Your may spend of the creek. Yeah, she’s about half a mile. Yeah about halfway that Creek. I discovered just how far preschool trial conformist cherries insurance juice. I remember thinking it was never going to be in the just kept coming out. Yeah, but Yeah, strangely enough I still remember the first part of the day as as a great experience. Yeah, the one that might be very earliest memory. Yeah, was waking up during my counselor to me. Yeah, no, remember is your, you have any fear. Yeah I do remember looking up at that giant my little bit before. The lamp and seeing where, i a call when it Yeah, possibly. Yes, I was just at the right angle. I’m hearing the surgeon, saying your, your listeners seems to be awake. Yeah someone like to help with that. Yeah, there’s no your work Payne with the memory. Yeah that Yes investor interested if you could be so call me. Well, somebody in the room is obviously deleting yo site. Yeah lavishly wasn’t awake enough to realize it was me. Yeah this helps. Yes. Peace.
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Ammusingly innacurate transcript:
So I found this card. If you have a victory watermelon last on the and on the back of it. It says just grab your earliest memories, so I’m going to I think that I was about 1 year old okay and It was my first birthday. In all honesty, and I remember they put a big job of kicked out in front of me and they were celebrate my birthday. And sure enough because I thought it was funny. I just put my face right down in that case okay. Remember everybody’s reaction was. They were just Well, either way, love the idea that I’m on my face. Sound like a but I just thought of the most. Larry things I could do at that time and I was. One Year Old of my first birthday. In fit. So, put that your podcast Smokeys So I have a great one yet.
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Amusingly inaccurate transcription:
One of my earliest memories. If not, my earliest memory is of My mother telling me, not tell my brother, he was 18 months older than me, so I was. I was young toddler and with a slightly older top 4 and memory with my name Mother was going to wash. My brothers favor teddy bear named petty He’s going to hang in there to dry on the closing line by his years and she needed this would be greatly upset him and I was instructed to not tell him that There and question was going to be dried on the clothes line of up by a years And I remember feeling. One Order, upset by the notion, of being hung up on that years and also to sort of realtor with the concept of keeping a secret.
Earliest memory. And his childhood memory. I have to be tasting root beer for the first time. I just. Hello, There is nothing like it. Alright, phone number where I was or anything like that. I just remember Tasting Group. You, i thought i was gonna be Chuckie, because the color, but it was, but I’d loved it and I still like it. But that’s the first thing I remember really. Please repeat.
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Pete and Andrea Connolly from the band Birds and Arrows call in to introduce and discuss a number of non-musical topics such as earliest memories, strange work experiences, and things learned the hard way. In addition to this we’re treated to some songs from their album “We’re Gonna Run” along with the stories that the songs were based on. DON’T MISS THE CD RELEASE PARTY ON FRIDAY MAY 7 at LOCAL 506 in CHAPEL HILL. If you don’t live in the area, please check out Birds and Arrows at birdsandarrows.com.
Also, please call in and share YOUR stories on any of the topics addressed, or with anything else you want to share. 919-886-4597.
And here is the (hopefully entertaining) inaccurate transcript.
No. When my earliest. If not, my very earliest. Work experience was delivering the Ernie a shopping news around my neighborhood, which was a mail or like. A Hey newspaper, but it was just basically coupons and I had the paper route. When I was 11, and I shared it with my brother and the first part of the job was getting all of the shopping news is, and all of the concerns and you have any manually answer calls like Coupon Type things inside the newspaper and then bundle, but just and then you would go out in the frigid Canadian winter and put them in the mailbox is of your neighbors and This is the part of this this memorable is that on the corner. With a house that had I think to possibly 3 Doberman Pinscher rooms full size adults, Doberman, pinschers and I was small, even for my age. At age 11 and it was. It was just weird like game to go up to see you have to do with the requirement of the job that you actually put the newspaper in the mailbox. You couldn’t just talked on the lawn or talk. But on their doorstep. You have to put it in the mailbox and so. I would creep up with seem like I’m very, very long, long to get to the front door with a mailbox was, and we do with this quietly as I possibly could. And I would, open up the the mailbox and is generally if I could, I would put the newspaper in the mailbox. But you know as soon as you close it and I was another part of the job you can just put in the mailbox and how to close the mailbox. Well, as soon as you heard that No, of the middle of the top of the mailbox. Getting close. That would like the signal for the doberman, pinschers take. I’m running with someone who you know me. The whomever was breaking into the house and I think that’s what the government’s were thinking so. You know I would be doing this lonely n quietly as I possibly could and then as soon as you heard, put in the mailbox. That’s with a dog start barking in running. So I got it to the point where I could. You know I would. I would braced myself and then I would, get myself until like a running position and I would. Close, the top of the mailbox and just run as fast as I could. All the way the lines of the front lawn because the government for whatever reason they were only protect their own one as soon as I was off the property. They didn’t really care of the if they didn’t have an invisible fence or anything like that. They just stopped.
