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Gina's Minnesota Trip From October 6th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I spent the weekend in Minnesota. Sentence I never know,
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  Speaker 1: I knew I would say.
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  Speaker 2: Minesa.
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  Speaker 1: So my mom's family was having a family reunion. This
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  Speaker 1: is her dad's side of the family. What town Duluth,
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  Speaker 1: And so my mom's family comes from that part of
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  Speaker 1: the country. There was a contingent that moved west to
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  Speaker 1: seek their fame and fortune in California, and a contingent
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  Speaker 1: that moved east to seek their fame and fortune there.
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  Speaker 1: And a group that just stayed in like Iowa and Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: How many of them moved east? I remember hearing about
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  Speaker 3: your uncle, this uncle Bud, the pianist singer.
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  Speaker 1: He lived in He lived in New York. That was
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  Speaker 1: That was my mom's mom's side of the family. That
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  Speaker 1: was a different side of the family. This is her
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  Speaker 1: dad's side of the Russells. And we all convened at
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  Speaker 1: a cousin whose name is Hans. There is a German
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  Speaker 1: wing to this family tree, a German sprout to this
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  Speaker 1: family tree. But we stayed in this place called Larsmont
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  Speaker 1: Cottages on Lake Superior, which is just gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: On the shores.
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  Speaker 1: And what's it called Larsmont Cottages.
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  Speaker 2: Have you got pictures of that, or.
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  Speaker 1: I did not give those to key. But so the
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  Speaker 1: night first night we get there, there's a bonfire and
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  Speaker 1: we're just kind of getting reacquainted with each other and
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  Speaker 1: we're making plans for the next day and what should
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  Speaker 1: we do the next day? And somebody says, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: saw in the lobby where we checked in, there's a
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  Speaker 1: sign that says you shouldn't miss the sunrise over Lake Superior,
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  Speaker 1: So we should all wake up to watch the sunrise.
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  Speaker 1: And then somebody else said, well, we need coffee. Where
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  Speaker 1: are we going to get coffee? And this same person said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a sign in the lobby that said they'll deliver
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  Speaker 1: cappuccino to your cottage. We're like, fantastic, We'll have cappuccino
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  Speaker 1: delivered while we watched the sunrise. So I went to bed,
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  Speaker 1: and I, being the dutiful rule follower person that I am,
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  Speaker 1: figured out what time the sun was supposed to rise,
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  Speaker 1: and I set my alarm and I got up and
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  Speaker 1: I went outside. Yeah what, no, No, nobody, nobody else's to.
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  Speaker 2: Watch the utiful sunrise.
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  Speaker 3: These are individual cottages, and you're expecting people to come
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  Speaker 3: out on their front stoops their porches.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that, well, we were all going to reconvene at
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  Speaker 1: the same spot where we were the night before. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: my sister Carrie came out. She made it out, and
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  Speaker 1: then a cousin Mark. But there were supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: like twenty people coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Watch a family of liars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then somebody said, well, how do we get
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  Speaker 1: those cappuccinos delivered here so we can watch the sunrise?
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  Speaker 1: So my sister calls the front desk and she said,
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  Speaker 1: oh gosh, oh, you must have seen our satirical wall
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  Speaker 1: of signs.
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  Speaker 2: What we hat?
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, you have a satiric funny signs in the lobby.
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  Speaker 1: That's Oh, it's not we don't deliver cappuccino. That's a joke.
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  Speaker 1: It's a joke. What we also discovered was a joke
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  Speaker 1: is getting up in the morning to watch the sunrise
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  Speaker 1: because it's foggy and you can't see this.
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  Speaker 2: So we were tricked. They knew it would be foggy.
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  Speaker 1: They were trick.
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  Speaker 2: So this is that Minnesota sense of humor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's not funny, Bill, I wasn't laughing at all.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you just don't understand the Minnesota's sense of humor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's our satirical wall of signs. And there's no coffee,
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  Speaker 1: there's no sunrise. You're just standing out in the fog
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  Speaker 1: with no You fell for it, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: It's a knee slapper, that's what that is for this. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not from here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's foggy every morning.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get the reference.
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  Speaker 3: I would I would have I would have been you
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  Speaker 3: know what I would have said on the phone to
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  Speaker 3: the person.
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  Speaker 2: You know what. I don't like you people.
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  Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, how do you say the
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  Speaker 1: word s a U N A s a U.
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  Speaker 2: N A sauna? Sauna?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's a sauna. We all have a sauna here
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  Speaker 1: the Largemont Cottages. There there are multiple saunas for you
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  Speaker 1: available for use. I did not use the sauna.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't bring a bathing suit.
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  Speaker 2: You have to all.
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  Speaker 1: They have them for sale in the lobby. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to buy one, you can take a sound.
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  Speaker 3: It's our it's our wall of satirical bathing suits.
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  Speaker 1: But so then we went to.
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  Speaker 2: Cousin check out times at eleven a m. Is that
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  Speaker 2: is that satirical is.
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  Speaker 1: On a satirical wall or a different wall so we
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  Speaker 1: went to cousin Hans's farm for the reunion. Does he
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  Speaker 1: farm there, Well, it's it's just it's just land. It's
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't do anything with it. It's just trees. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a beautiful and in the trees. And this is
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  Speaker 1: one of the pictures I sent. Uh is a a
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  Speaker 1: shadowy figure in the trees. Oh area, it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: bigfoot that they had.
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  Speaker 2: They had a big X ninety six dot com slash live.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a big metal bigfoot stuck in the trees.
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  Speaker 2: That could be dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And there was there was there was lore saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he lives out.
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  Speaker 2: Here, maybe this is supposed to be something to lure
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  Speaker 2: him in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But but you're gonna get more Minnesota sense of
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  Speaker 1: humor in a minute. So so while so we decided
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  Speaker 1: to gather around with the elders of the family and
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  Speaker 1: hear stories about the Russell family. Okay, and uh, my
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  Speaker 1: mother's cousin, Mary Teresa Bridget, who is not a nun
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  Speaker 1: but somehow came upon a a nun's habit. If you
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  Speaker 1: go to x ninety six dot com slash lives dressed
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  Speaker 1: up like a nun. Okay, married Teresa Bridget.
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  Speaker 2: Because this is a bunch of Catholics, Bill, because it
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  Speaker 2: would be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And she decided to give a lesson in family
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  Speaker 1: history dressed up as a nun.
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  Speaker 2: Was it satirical?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Some parts?
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  Speaker 2: I won't wear this in the sauna.
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  Speaker 1: But as we are sitting there listening to Mary Teresa
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  Speaker 1: Bridget tell stories of the family, and I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a picture of this they had somebody went and put
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  Speaker 1: on a black gorilla suit.
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with these.
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  Speaker 1: And was poking through the trees.
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  Speaker 2: You could go very badly the guy. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Because so the whole time they were on the lookout
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  Speaker 1: for bigfoot, because you know they're bigfoot around these parts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeap plural for big big sasquatch, several big feet. But
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  Speaker 1: part of the stories we were telling, and I sort
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  Speaker 1: of mentioned this before I left. So Hans whose farm
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  Speaker 1: we were at, his grandfather was in World War Two
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  Speaker 1: and he flew thunderbolt planes in Italy during World War two.
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  Speaker 1: He was on a mission in Bologna. Back home was
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  Speaker 1: his pregnant wife.
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  Speaker 2: What a handsome young mat His name's.
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  Speaker 1: Lauren, hints. His pregnant wife and one year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: back home waiting for him to come home. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess you could get leave after you had done so
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  Speaker 1: many missions, which was like seventy five or something. And
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  Speaker 1: so he was signing up for all the missions he
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  Speaker 1: could sign up for so he could get home to
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  Speaker 1: his pregnant wife and baby. And on this day that
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  Speaker 1: he passed away, he had already flown a mission in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and he signed up for another mission that
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  Speaker 1: day and was his original plane wasn't available, so he
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  Speaker 1: took somebody else's plane to fly. This man he's just
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  Speaker 1: trying to rack up as many missions as he could,
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  Speaker 1: flying over this small town in Bologna where the Germans
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  Speaker 1: were on the ground shooting up at the plane. German
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  Speaker 1: shot through the plane, went through his back, and they're
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  Speaker 1: assuming this is what happened because they found an oxygen
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  Speaker 1: canister that had a bullet hole in it, and the
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  Speaker 1: oxygen canisters were on their back. They think he was
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  Speaker 1: shot in the air and then crashed into a field.
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  Speaker 1: The crash like augured in like twelve feet into the
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  Speaker 1: ground and it was.
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  Speaker 2: Never recovered for the wreckage.
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  Speaker 1: The wreckage was never recovered. This family was desperate to
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  Speaker 1: find him and give him a proper burial. And just
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago. This is a longer story than
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  Speaker 1: I have time to tell you right now. Maybe we
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  Speaker 1: can revisit it later about how they found him. But
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  Speaker 1: it's fascinating they did find him. They did find him.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a movie made about it called Finding Lauren.
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  Speaker 2: Has it been released?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Huh, it's been released. And yeah, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: time to tell you the whole story, just but so sad.
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  Speaker 1: This happened two days before the end of the war,
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  Speaker 1: just like that close that he could have been home
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  Speaker 1: to his fans. The people of Finland say sna they
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  Speaker 1: say sona. According to doctor Mike, and here's another Texter.
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  Speaker 1: I hate everything about all of this. Who the hell
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  Speaker 1: has a family reunion in October in the Midwest? Now
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  Speaker 1: I need to tell you more stories about the reunion.
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  Speaker 2: Was it was it held in October for a particular reason?
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  Speaker 2: I know, I mean, didn't have anything to do with
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  Speaker 2: the date of his death.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think it was just I'm not sure why
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  Speaker 1: that was. But I'm more to tell you about it.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe we have some time a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: to tell you about it.