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Dirty Rush: What The Heck is a Sleeping Porch? · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The Secrets of the Sleeping Porch. My name is Caitlin.
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  Speaker 2: I went to school in Arizona and I had the
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  Speaker 2: pleasure of living in my sorority my sophomore year. It
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  Speaker 2: was a pretty good blend of like sophomore and junior girls,
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  Speaker 2: and I really became close with a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: girls living in. I think everyone should live in the
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  Speaker 2: sorority if they can. But we did have a sleeping
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  Speaker 2: porch there was. It was a front porch and a
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  Speaker 2: back porch, and in total this porch slept about fifty
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  Speaker 2: four of us, so there was fifty around, like I
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  Speaker 2: want to say, around fifty four girls living in the house.
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  Speaker 2: And then we had like our rooms where our clothes were,
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  Speaker 2: but in the porch, you know, those bunk beds are.
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  Speaker 1: Really close together.
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  Speaker 2: They're literally made out of metal, so like any type
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  Speaker 2: of movement, you could hear. And there was this one
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  Speaker 2: time I was not there for this, but it happened
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  Speaker 2: to one of my friends living in so she came
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  Speaker 2: back and like our group chat that.
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  Speaker 1: This had happened. But I believe it was like end.
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  Speaker 2: Of finals week, Christmas break about to start, could have
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  Speaker 2: been another break, but definitely, like thought, everyone was out
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  Speaker 2: of the house, like back home for the holidays type
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  Speaker 2: of thing, and our friend had brought a boy into
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  Speaker 2: the sleeping porch. Totally thought they were alone. They ended
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  Speaker 2: up hooking up with this boy in the sleeping porch
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  Speaker 2: and come to find out they are not alone. There
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  Speaker 2: is someone else either sleeping in the porch or just
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  Speaker 2: like relaxing in there. The lights were off, so you
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  Speaker 2: can't really see if anyone is in there, but they
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  Speaker 2: were not alone. And if you know sorority houses, they're
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  Speaker 2: like the boys can kind of hang out in like
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  Speaker 2: the downstairs space where there's like the couches or we
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  Speaker 2: eat dinner. They're really not supposed to go upstairs or
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  Speaker 2: like where the bedrooms are just for it to be
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  Speaker 2: like a safe space for all the girls, or if
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  Speaker 2: anyone you know, is coming from the shower, like walking
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  Speaker 2: in a towel to their bed room, it's just supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, that safe space for the girls.
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  Speaker 1: So boys are not supposed.
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  Speaker 2: To be up there. And this boy is literally in
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  Speaker 2: the actual sleeping porch hooking up with their friend. You
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  Speaker 2: can obviously probably hear it, you know, being the other
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  Speaker 2: person in the room, like with those small metal beds.
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  Speaker 1: You can probably hear something.
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  Speaker 2: Going on and this person just like gets up and
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  Speaker 2: leaves the room. I don't know if we ever found
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  Speaker 2: out like who that person was, or if that person
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  Speaker 2: found out who was hooking.
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  Speaker 1: Up with someone, but it was.
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  Speaker 2: Such a funny story, like no harm, no foul, no
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  Speaker 2: one gets hurt. So it's funny to look back at
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  Speaker 2: and think of some of those funny memories. There's definitely
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  Speaker 2: probably some other crazy stuff, but that's what first comes
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  Speaker 2: to mind. And I truly loved living in my sorority
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone should take the opportunity to do it. It
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  Speaker 2: is so worth it and you'll seriously have some of
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  Speaker 2: the most funniest epic memories with your friends there.
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  Speaker 3: I have so many memories from living in the sorority
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  Speaker 3: house and having to sleep in a sleeping porch. I
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  Speaker 3: don't even know where to begin. The first thing is
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  Speaker 3: when someone had to go to the bathroom, the person
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  Speaker 3: on the bottom bunk, which was me, would wake up
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  Speaker 3: because they would step on your moutress, your bunk bed
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  Speaker 3: would shake, the floor would make noises because the sorority
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  Speaker 3: house was super old, so you were constantly waking up
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  Speaker 3: and the noises were just insane. In the sleeping porch.
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  Speaker 3: There was snoring, there was people listening to music with
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  Speaker 3: their AirPods. In that you could still hear people watching Netflix,
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  Speaker 3: people sleep talking, people actually talking, people coming in and out,
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  Speaker 3: people drunk coming in and out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was.
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  Speaker 3: Like plugs wouldn't even help. And the one story I
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  Speaker 3: will never forget is I was going to bed one
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  Speaker 3: night and as I was pulling on my sheets getting
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  Speaker 3: into my bed.
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  Speaker 1: I felt something super like.
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  Speaker 3: Wet and slimy, and I could not figure out what
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  Speaker 3: it was because it was so dark in the sleeping porch.
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  Speaker 3: So I go on my phone and I turned my
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  Speaker 3: flash on and it's a freaking banana peel with like
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  Speaker 3: a little part of the banana still there. That's someone happy,
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  Speaker 3: And I was so grossed out.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: I had to quickly pull an extra blanket up and
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  Speaker 3: just sleep on top of it because it was already
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  Speaker 3: like two am since we were going out that night,
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  Speaker 3: and it was not a good time to change my
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  Speaker 3: sheets because that would have frustrated everyone around me. So
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  Speaker 3: the next morning I went downstairs for breakfast and I
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  Speaker 3: asked who was eating a banana?
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  Speaker 1: And how did it land and end up in my bed?
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  Speaker 3: And a girl who literally lives on the opposite side
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  Speaker 3: of the sleeping porch said she was really sorry. She
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  Speaker 3: was really drunk, but she was eating a banana because
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  Speaker 3: she had a really bad eye twitch that night, and
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  Speaker 3: she happened to throw the banana because she thought it
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  Speaker 3: was funny and just left it there and it landed
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  Speaker 3: on my bed. I mean, I don't even know how
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  Speaker 3: that's real. I'm not making this up. It was disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: And so from that for moving on, I always looked
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  Speaker 3: at my sheets and I always put layers and layers
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  Speaker 3: of blankets so nothing would get like inside my bed.
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  Speaker 3: It was I will just never forget that.
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  Speaker 1: It was so gross.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, my name is Emma, and I went to college
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  Speaker 4: in Los Angeles and I wanted to tell you a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about it. Particularly memorable experience I had living
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  Speaker 4: in my sororityes sleeping porch my sophomore year. So our
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  Speaker 4: sitting porch was like the big eight girl room in
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  Speaker 4: my sorority house, so it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: It was like this really big room with two sets
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  Speaker 4: of monk beds and four beds and this big vanity
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  Speaker 4: at the front, so we had a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: But with it being such a big.
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  Speaker 4: Room, we were definitely like the host of a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the pregames in the house, and most notorious of
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  Speaker 4: those was our pregame for our biggest state party that
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  Speaker 4: we threw in the spring. So a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: background about this date party. This was one where we
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  Speaker 4: would anonymously invite our dates and they would have no
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  Speaker 4: idea which member of the sorority had invited them, and
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  Speaker 4: they would arrive separate from all the girls to the venue,
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  Speaker 4: which was usually at like a big club in downtown LA.
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  Speaker 4: So it was always a lot of fun trying to
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  Speaker 4: figure out like who who's everyone's dates were. But because
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  Speaker 4: of that, we would have to have like a really
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  Speaker 4: big pregame of all the girls, and we would do
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  Speaker 4: that at the sority house in our sleeping porch. So
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  Speaker 4: this was a notoriously very drunk occasion and definitely was
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  Speaker 4: one of our wildest nights. But my year, I would
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  Speaker 4: say had a particularly heinous end. Basically, we would throw
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  Speaker 4: this big pregame where like we cover every surface in
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  Speaker 4: the room with like different drinks. Everyone's passing around handles
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  Speaker 4: the entire night and we had like beer bongs all
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  Speaker 4: over the room and wine bags hanging from the ceiling,
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  Speaker 4: which was so fun but definitely a little hectic, And
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  Speaker 4: when we got to the venue, one of my roommates
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  Speaker 4: had unfortunately fallen ill after the long bus ride, as
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  Speaker 4: was pretty classic for events like this, so all of
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  Speaker 4: us were helping her, like, you know, everyone's been there
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  Speaker 4: at some point, everyone's been pretty been down bad before.
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  Speaker 4: We're all helping her out, get her home, and like,
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  Speaker 4: definitely a couple other girls also had a similar fate
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  Speaker 4: after the evening's festivities, but again pretty characteristic for an
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  Speaker 4: event like this.
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  Speaker 1: However, the next day.
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  Speaker 4: We found out that it was not just a hangover
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  Speaker 4: but instead the stomach flow and all of us who
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  Speaker 4: had been helping a bunch of drunk girls around the
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  Speaker 4: entire night, passing around wine bags, sharing drinks the whole night,
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  Speaker 4: had caught ora virus and the entire sorority house, like
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  Speaker 4: all sixty of us girls came down with it in
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  Speaker 4: the span of twenty four hours, and it was literally
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  Speaker 4: unlike any experience I've ever had, Like every single bathroom
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  Speaker 4: install had girls curled up on the floor like texting
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  Speaker 4: each other, so heinous, and our chefs in the sorority
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  Speaker 4: house even changed the menu for the week just to
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  Speaker 4: like soup and ginger ale and crackers because everyone was
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  Speaker 4: so down bad, and even like a bunch of the
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  Speaker 4: other sororities on the road like got win that this
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  Speaker 4: was all happening, and we got like banned from Friday
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  Speaker 4: brunch that week, and they would like walk by screaming
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  Speaker 4: things into our windows about our sorority having the plague
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  Speaker 4: and various things, and all of the fraternities ended up
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  Speaker 4: getting this mystery stomach bug because of their attendance at
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  Speaker 4: the state party. So I can't say it's something we
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  Speaker 4: were necessarily proud of, but definitely a really funny memory
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  Speaker 4: that we all bonded over and brought a lot of
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  Speaker 4: us girls living in the house at the time a
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  Speaker 4: lot closer. So a lot of fun memories coming out
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  Speaker 4: of living in our sleeping porch. But I can't say
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  Speaker 4: that was the most fun, but definitely memorable.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So when I was in.
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  Speaker 5: Lived in my sworty house, I went to a large
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  Speaker 5: school in Los Angeles and I was in CAPA Alpha Beta,
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  Speaker 5: and we had an eight person sleeping porch or bunk
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  Speaker 5: beds or two sets of bunk beds and four other
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  Speaker 5: just standing beds. We had like a big closet area
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  Speaker 5: and this huge vanity. We would host pre games, We
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  Speaker 5: would host all sorts of different things. And when you
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  Speaker 5: live in a room with that many girls in college,
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  Speaker 5: you have to get kind of creative as far as
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  Speaker 5: what you're going to do if you're ever going to
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  Speaker 5: bring a boy home. And our house mom was pretty chill.
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  Speaker 5: She didn't really care for she kind of it was
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  Speaker 5: kind of a don't ask, don't tell situation if you
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  Speaker 5: were going to bring a guy back to the house.
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  Speaker 5: There weren't like very strict rules about it. And anyways,
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  Speaker 5: what me and the girls who lived in our sleeping
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  Speaker 5: porch would do is we had this big study room
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  Speaker 5: called the pit in the basement, and it had a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of desk, but it also had like a little
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  Speaker 5: couch seating area and you could like rent out the
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  Speaker 5: pit to hold study g or something, but otherwise it
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  Speaker 5: was like a.
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  Speaker 1: Silent study area.
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  Speaker 5: And what our girls would do if we slept, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all the girls you slept in porch, you would rent
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  Speaker 5: out pit, like the pit really late at night, so
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  Speaker 5: that in case we were ever going to bring like
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  Speaker 5: a guy back, that we would have a space to
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  Speaker 5: do it, because you can't do it in your bed
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  Speaker 5: obviously if you live in a room with eight other girls.
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  Speaker 5: So one night after a date party, I decided to
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  Speaker 5: bring my date down to the dungeon of pit so
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  Speaker 5: that we could make out on the couch. And there
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was like it has a study room
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  Speaker 5: that has like a row of desks, but in front
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  Speaker 5: of the desks, like on another wall are is like
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  Speaker 5: a seating area and with with like two couches, and
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  Speaker 5: I had thought nobody was in there. We were pretty
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  Speaker 5: drunk after the state party and it was like twelve thirty,
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  Speaker 5: but we also went to a very competitive school where
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  Speaker 5: people tended to stay up really late to study, and
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  Speaker 5: I thought no one was in there, and we were
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  Speaker 5: about ten minutes into her makeout and I realized that
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  Speaker 5: someone was on the other side of the wall like
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  Speaker 5: I've been studying, and I didn't realize it until I
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  Speaker 5: heard someone the door open and close and someone had
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  Speaker 5: like walked out, and I got up to look around
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  Speaker 5: to see, you know, who had been there or was
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  Speaker 5: someone still there?
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  Speaker 1: Did someone come in?
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  Speaker 5: Did someone walk out?
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  Speaker 1: And it happened that yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Someone had been in there and they left their computer
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  Speaker 5: their laptop open, and they had just left to let
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  Speaker 5: us finish our business, and we did and ended up
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  Speaker 5: walking upstairs. We lived in the house with sixty girls,
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  Speaker 5: but we were all really close.
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  Speaker 1: So after.
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  Speaker 5: We had been done making out in the pit, I
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  Speaker 5: texted our group chat said sorry to whoever was studying downstairs.
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  Speaker 5: The ghost is clear. You may return to your studying.
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  Speaker 5: And we all laugh about it now. And I'm still
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  Speaker 5: friends with those girls and I haven't seen that guy since.
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  Speaker 5: So just goes to show value sisterhood. But yeah, we
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  Speaker 5: had to get pretty creative when we were living in
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  Speaker 5: our sleeping porch, especially if you wanted to make out
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  Speaker 5: with a guy. So that's my advice to anyone listening,
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  Speaker 5: if you are currently in the sleeping porch, find alternative
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  Speaker 5: ways to get your makeout in.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks, bye. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: So I need to preface this by saying that our
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  Speaker 6: sorority house was built in nineteen twenty three, which means
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  Speaker 6: it has character, but it was obviously haunted. We had
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  Speaker 6: a sleeping porch, so we had a big room and
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  Speaker 6: we all would pile in and after night out.
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  Speaker 1: It was a total free for all. I mean there
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  Speaker 1: was like one girl fully sleeping on a pool float.
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  Speaker 6: But one night, during run Us, I'm on my cot stone, cold, sober,
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  Speaker 6: and I watch as a picture frame slowly slides off
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  Speaker 6: the wall, pauses midair for two full seconds, and then
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  Speaker 6: gently sets itself down on the floor, gently like it
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  Speaker 6: was considerate. I screamed my face off. Everyone told me
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  Speaker 6: I was crazy and seeing something and tired from rush,
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  Speaker 6: but I saw what I saw. The second thing that
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  Speaker 6: happened is one night it was thirsty Thirsty Thursday, and
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  Speaker 6: half the chapter was back on the porch, various states
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  Speaker 6: of drunkenness, and Casey falls asleep holding her dominoes. At
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  Speaker 6: two am, every single window slams open at the exact
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  Speaker 6: same moment, like wind rushing through, cups flying. Were all
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  Speaker 6: so freaked out there was no explanation. On another night,
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  Speaker 6: the lights started flickering and a voice came through the
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  Speaker 6: baby monitor that we use as an intercom don't judge.
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  Speaker 1: Us, and said, get out. I mean, we lost our minds.
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  Speaker 1: Someone was then like, it's just Lives.
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  Speaker 6: She's doing that to scare us, and then from across
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  Speaker 6: the room, Live goes that was not me, and we
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  Speaker 6: all screamed again. I mean, that place is haunted. I
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  Speaker 6: loved it so much. I'm actually going back this.
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  Speaker 7: Weekendl So, my sorority had what's known as a sleeping porch,
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  Speaker 7: and if you don't know what a sleeping porch is,
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  Speaker 7: it sounds misleading.
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  Speaker 1: We were not actually sleeping on the porch, but we.
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  Speaker 7: Were sleeping in this giant room that had I think
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  Speaker 7: about twenty five beds at my sorority house and they
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  Speaker 7: were all bunk beds, and a bunch of the girls
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  Speaker 7: would sleep in there. And I have to preface too,
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  Speaker 7: it was freezing in this room, so everyone had electric
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  Speaker 7: blankets like we would be cozy. I was sleeping in
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  Speaker 7: sweatshirts and sweatpants like it. It was rough in there,
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  Speaker 7: but for the most part, it was pretty fun, not
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  Speaker 7: too bad until one night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to go to sleep again.
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  Speaker 7: I'm under my electric blanket, I'm freezing but about to
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  Speaker 7: doze off, and I hear this like vibrating noise, and
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  Speaker 7: I was like, what is that? And I didn't want to,
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  Speaker 7: like obviously say anything out loud. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 7: wake up any of the girls. But I was like
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  Speaker 7: that's weird. I've never heard that before. Come to find out,
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  Speaker 7: someone was using a vibrator in this room where twenty
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  Speaker 7: five girls are sleeping, and I was mortified. I didn't
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  Speaker 7: know who it was. It sounded like it was near me.
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  Speaker 7: I obviously didn't want to, like again, ask who was
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  Speaker 7: using this, And I didn't even want to speculate because
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  Speaker 7: I was like, I don't think I want to even
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  Speaker 7: know who's doing this in their own time, in this room.
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  Speaker 1: Filled with girls.
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  Speaker 7: So that was a horror story my experience in a
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  Speaker 7: sleeping porch.
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  Speaker 1: I still to this day don't know who it was.
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  Speaker 7: I kind of speculate, but if you're in a sleeping
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  Speaker 7: where it's just don't do that in there.
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  Speaker 1: Very mortifying.