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- 0:00The tactics espoused in fundamentalist Christian child-waring books such as,
- 0:05"To train up a child, written by Michael and Debbie Pearl, are plastered all over the
- 0:11Internet if you care to look."
- 0:13However, if you find violence against children, even those too young to walk,
- 0:18upsetting, you do well to maybe steer clear.
- 0:23They are very detailed instructions for every stage of development,
- 0:28and very specific about the types and level of corporal punishment that should be issued to children.
- 0:36Damn, dude.
- 0:37Hi, Cassie.
- 0:40Hi, Caitlyn.
- 0:41Hi, creepy people.
- 0:43Oh, hello.
- 0:43If you're not watching us, we are on location.
- 0:48You almost said in location.
- 0:50In location.
- 0:51On the location.
- 0:52Bear is seeing.
- 0:54We are in a secret location in the PNW.
- 0:57If you can't tell by the trees.
- 0:58Yeah.
- 1:00Yep.
- 1:00Oh, by the way, this is PNW Haunts and Homicides.
- 1:06Where we chat about true crime, the paranormal, I don't know, occasionally some other stuff as well.
- 1:13In the Pacific Northwest.
- 1:15Also that.
- 1:16Or the PNW if you're nasty.
- 1:18If you're nasty.
- 1:19If you're nasty.
- 1:21Are you nasty?
- 1:22If you're nothing, get out of here.
- 1:24Yeah.
- 1:24Bye.
- 1:27You probably don't want to stay just ahead.
- 1:29Yeah, you should go.
- 1:30Spoiler alert.
- 1:31It's going to get real weird for you.
- 1:33What else do we do?
- 1:35We do a tarot reading at the end of every episode for a little deeper insight into our topic.
- 1:40I forget to say if you're nasty, you forget to tell the tarot thing.
- 1:44It's a yes.
- 1:45What we do here.
- 1:46Yeah.
- 1:46It's a little ebb and flow.
- 1:48Give and take.
- 1:49Oh, man.
- 1:52Okay.
- 1:52Are you ready for this?
- 1:54Yeah.
- 1:54Yeah.
- 1:55Yeah, one.
- 1:58I would recommend keeping it close.
- 2:01I'm prepared.
- 2:02Maybe I need a little puppy dog to snuggle me.
- 2:04Oh, she's off doing her own thing.
- 2:06This is um,
- 2:07this is a new one.
- 2:09It's good.
- 2:10Semiseko.
- 2:12Whatever that means.
- 2:13Semiseko.
- 2:16I'm more than semi approved.
- 2:18Easy loaded.
- 2:24We have fun here.
- 2:25It's a late reaction by me.
- 2:28Yeah.
- 2:28Well, that's all the fun we're about to have.
- 2:33Yeah, pretty much.
- 2:34Yeah.
- 2:34No, from here on out, it's going to be pretty bleak.
- 2:38So,
- 2:39I can't think of any business that we have that could possibly delay this.
- 2:46So, I guess we just get into it.
- 2:48Yeah, let's do it.
- 2:50Everything.
- 2:50I'm ready.
- 2:51All right.
- 2:51We're just going to go ahead and we're
- 2:53keeping an eye on our InstaCart order though as well.
- 2:57Three out of four items.
- 2:58Shopped.
- 2:58That's right.
- 2:59We InstaCarted four items.
- 3:01Four items.
- 3:02Because you know what?
- 3:04This relates because we have been drinking.
- 3:07So, we refuse to drive.
- 3:09Responsible.
- 3:11We talked about this recently.
- 3:13I was just going to say.
- 3:15Don't do that.
- 3:17Even if it's four items.
- 3:18InstaCart.
- 3:19That bitch.
- 3:19Yeah.
- 3:22I don't think the item number is what is of concern.
- 3:26But, but moving on.
- 3:29Larry and Carrie Williams,
- 3:31a seemingly happily married
- 3:33Cedro Wolley couple,
- 3:35lived with their family in the community known as
- 3:37the gateway to the Cascades.
- 3:40Oh, that sounds nice.
- 3:42Yeah.
- 3:42Quoting the official Cedro Wolley website,
- 3:47the city is located on the western edge
- 3:51of the majestic Cascade mountain range
- 3:54in Northwest Washington.
- 3:55Oh, we've talked about like a haunted hospital
- 3:59there before or something.
- 4:01Something haunted.
- 4:02I knew there was something we had talked about.
- 4:04Yeah.
- 4:04Okay.
- 4:05I remember having to look up how to pronounce that.
- 4:06Well, but did you know this?
- 4:11Fun fact.
- 4:12When it was incorporated,
- 4:13it combined the names of two neighboring towns.
- 4:16Cedro and Wolley.
- 4:18I don't think I knew that.
- 4:21Learned something new every day.
- 4:22There's a different thread.
- 4:23You got to pull every time you research something.
- 4:25Yeah.
- 4:27I was midway through my research when I was like,
- 4:31is there anything that, I don't know, maybe anything that just
- 4:35isn't a complete and total bummer?
- 4:38Oh.
- 4:40But you can look up.
- 4:41Yeah, there it is.
- 4:42Yeah.
- 4:43You found it.
- 4:44Thank you.
- 4:44The city is north of Seattle, south of Bellingham,
- 4:49and a hell of a long way from Ethiopia.
- 4:52Yeah.
- 4:54That's the African nation from which the couple would eventually adopt
- 4:58two children in 2008, Emanual and Hana.
- 5:02In the mid to late 2000s, as the couple was bringing up their own family,
- 5:08there was a conservative Christian,
- 5:10read as a K.A. fundamentalist, homeschooling trend.
- 5:17Particularly amongst larger families.
- 5:20Many of those already large families also went on to adopt more children,
- 5:26frequently from abroad.
- 5:29The African continent proved popular amongst adoptees.
- 5:34Adoption, especially from abroad, was seen as an extension of the ministry, ostensibly.
- 5:44That's the icky part that I'm making faces at a little bit.
- 5:48A little bit.
- 5:49It makes me think that the Spanish Inquisition meets just run of the mill, colonialism.
- 5:57Like, why can't you just adopt to give someone a better life and be
- 6:01who their own person?
- 6:03Like, what do your own person have the best life you can add to your own person
- 6:09without me putting all my beliefs on you?
- 6:11What a novel idea.
- 6:13I hate that there were these weird tangential things that felt like
- 6:20sort of these like touchstone type things that I was like, "Oh,
- 6:25that feels like directly tied to me somehow."
- 6:30But I'm not trying to make this about me, but it was like all of these things that like have
- 6:34a significance in some like former fashion.
- 6:37And I was like, "Oh, you just shatter over it."
- 6:40Oh, man.
- 6:41Oh, no.
- 6:42So here's the first one.
- 6:45Okay.
- 6:45Above rubies, you know, just casually, my birthstones.
- 6:50I was like, "Wait, no, rubies my birthstone. That's cancer."
- 6:56Oh, it's July.
- 6:58Right, July.
- 6:59That's right.
- 6:59I get it.
- 7:00I always get it confused.
- 7:01Yeah.
- 7:02It goes by month.
- 7:04Yes.
- 7:05Yeah, we have the same birthstone.
- 7:07How cute.
- 7:08Are we so cute?
- 7:10We're both rubies.
- 7:11This is also about me, you guys.
- 7:12Yes.
- 7:13I mean, isn't it always?
- 7:14Above rubies was a fundamentalist women's ministry.
- 7:20Actually, still appears to be.
- 7:22They have a website that has been said to have inspired not just carry
- 7:30Williams, but many others to seek out adoptions, notably specifically in Africa,
- 7:36from the African continent.
- 7:39I don't like that either.
- 7:41Any kid that needs help from anywhere.
- 7:45Why does it specifically need to be from Africa?
- 7:48Are you African, is that why?
- 7:50Or, no.
- 7:52Well, no, but how would anyone know that I adopted this child if they weren't
- 7:57so clearly different from me?
- 8:00I've adopted this accessory child.
- 8:03Right.
- 8:03Well, they're starving children in Africa.
- 8:06Yeah.
- 8:06That's the only place.
- 8:09It's the Birken bag of adopted babies.
- 8:11Hi.
- 8:12The group is anecdotally linked to a surge in adoptions, specifically from Liberia.
- 8:19More than a few with seemingly less than ideal, and in some cases, even disastrous consequences.
- 8:27I'm thinking of the family that adopted and like the car.
- 8:34Yes.
- 8:35The Hart family.
- 8:36Yes, thank you.
- 8:36I was like, I know I know the name, but
- 8:38yeah, I know, but it almost seems like
- 8:41it's kind of cruel irony that
- 8:45heart is the last name.
- 8:48No.
- 8:48But yeah, your head just doesn't want to go there, I think.
- 8:52Getting back to the Williams' in 2008, they decided to adopt
- 8:58and begin looking into adoption agencies.
- 9:01Of course, they might have had some reticence about the first one that crossed their path,
- 9:07because it was
- 9:08secular.
- 9:10What does that mean?
- 9:12Non-religious.
- 9:14Oh, okay.
- 9:15I've heard them term, but I...
- 9:17Yeah, you're like, I guess I just live my whole life not actually knowing what that is.
- 9:22Yeah.
- 9:25I am secular.
- 9:27Sectacular.
- 9:29I'm kind of here for that.
- 9:37Roughly a decade has passed since the A.A.I.
- 9:40adoption advocate's international was shuttered.
- 9:43I'm not going to dive deep on the organization for now at least, but given the time for additional
- 9:51research, I wouldn't say it's out of the question for the future.
- 9:55Put it on the shelf for now.
- 9:58We're not going to put a pin in it.
- 10:01No, have you ever heard this?
- 10:03Put it on the shelf.
- 10:04Put it on the shelf.
- 10:04This is a religious shelf.
- 10:06Oh, no.
- 10:08Why is that a religious thing?
- 10:10My understanding, because this is not something that I actually have been directly told in my
- 10:20upbringing, but whenever you have something that sort of makes you question your faith,
- 10:25that makes you question the teachings, they say, put it on the shelf.
- 10:30Like to think about later or just to like not ever think about it again.
- 10:34You forget.
- 10:35Yep, that one is kind of the idea, I think.
- 10:40You put it on the shelf.
- 10:41Any reservations that you might have, so that you can continue to observe your faith.
- 10:48Faithfully.
- 10:49Yeah, just don't think about it.
- 10:50It's fine.
- 10:50Yeah, I wouldn't think too hard.
- 10:52In 2008, it was thanks to the A.A.I.
- 10:56that the Williams is were matched with a deaf Ethiopian child in need of an adoptive family
- 11:03unstable home.
- 11:04It's a lot to take on.
- 11:06Certainly not for the faint of heart, but for the Williams'es, their faith implored them to move
- 11:12ahead.
- 11:12Or maybe it was the fact that prior to their marriage and the birth of their seven children since,
- 11:18Kerry had actually studied American Sign Language with plans of becoming a Sign Language interpreter.
- 11:26Okay, well, that seems very helpful.
- 11:28It seems like that would be a good skill set for
- 11:32that particular adoption.
- 11:34Well, it's sounding better.
- 11:36Yeah.
- 11:37It seems that once the couple started their family, however, that dream fell by the wayside,
- 11:43that being the dream of becoming an interpreter.
- 11:47Oh, okay.
- 11:48I mean, you know, once you have seven children,
- 11:51kids are hard to do.
- 11:52And though the couple have been gifted blessings aplenty, their union had indeed been quite
- 11:59fruitful. Carry had wanted more children.
- 12:02Unfortunately, the couple would learn that complications related to her previous pregnancies
- 12:08had left her unable to have additional biological children.
- 12:12I mean, that sucks, but I mean, at a certain point, I think that is certainly a risk you run.
- 12:19She had children or she did.
- 12:22I think the couple had seven children at their own.
- 12:25Yes.
- 12:26Quite a few.
- 12:27And I mean, my heart goes out to anybody that wants to have children or wants to have more children
- 12:32and they can't, but my goodness, you know, what are you trying to get a TLC show?
- 12:38I mean, maybe.
- 12:39Yeah, maybe.
- 12:40But you know, when they say, when God closes a door, He opens a window.
- 12:46I've heard that before.
- 12:47No.
- 12:48AI tells me that this saying when God closes the door, He opens a window,
- 12:54is a popular comforting phrase often used to suggest that even when things seem to go wrong,
- 13:01new opportunities and possibilities will emerge.
- 13:04This is considered an adage rather than a proverb because a proverb typically gives and I quote,
- 13:12practical advice on how to live and behave.
- 13:15Yeah.
- 13:16That's the, you know, the biblical thing.
- 13:19They've got the whole section about it.
- 13:21Yeah, yeah, proverbs.
- 13:22What if God closes a window and opens like a basement door or something like that?
- 13:28Yeah, it just pulls like the, you know, old uno-reverse.
- 13:33Yeah.
- 13:33The light doesn't work.
- 13:34Yeah.
- 13:35What then?
- 13:35Good question.
- 13:37Whereas an adage expresses accepted wisdom, but does not always come in the form of advice.
- 13:46So it's basically just like a thing that we say.
- 13:49That means nothing.
- 13:52Well, I was just going to say another famous example of an adage.
- 13:55One might use this love is blind.
- 13:58Many of us agree that's, you know, commonly accepted wisdom to some degree.
- 14:03It's one example.
- 14:06Okay.
- 14:06Love, lie.
- 14:07Use love, lie.
- 14:08Anybody watch that?
- 14:09Anybody watch that?
- 14:09Yeah.
- 14:09But, you know, the difference being that a proverb, it's, you know,
- 14:16by virtue, it's a little more preachy because it's actually giving specific advice.
- 14:22Okay.
- 14:23Anyways, I thought I just, I went, that was the other rabbit hole.
- 14:27Okay.
- 14:27That's the light in this dark tunnel.
- 14:30Each of these turns of phrase are likely to elicit a wide range of thoughts and emotions
- 14:37in the context of adopting a child, particularly one that might have a disability.
- 14:43Perhaps even more so when adopting not just the one, but two, in fact.
- 14:51As nearly any prospective adoptive couple would,
- 14:54Carrie and Larry jumped through the litany of necessary hoops with the adoption agency.
- 15:01The now former director of social services for A.A.I.
- 15:07stated that prospective adoptees would be disqualified
- 15:12for admitting their parenting practices included spanking.
- 15:16Okay.
- 15:18That's interesting.
- 15:19Yeah.
- 15:20How long ago was this dating back to 2007, 2008, roughly?
- 15:26Okay.
- 15:27I feel like that's almost about the time we're spanking became like, oh, y'all don't do that.
- 15:32I don't really.
- 15:34Makes sense.
- 15:35Yeah.
- 15:36I'm not saying that that's wrong, but yeah.
- 15:38But I guess it's fair to say that both Carrie and Larry likely omitted their own beliefs and
- 15:44practices from any application forms and conversations they held related to their adoption.
- 15:50Of Emmanuel and Hannah.
- 15:53Oh, so you're saying they were spankers, but they did not admit to it.
- 15:58As previously alluded to, Carrie and Larry held and practiced
- 16:03fundamentalist Christian beliefs.
- 16:05Every couple household and family should have the freedom to decide what ideology guides their lives,
- 16:12but when it comes to actual practice.
- 16:16Unfortunately, we step into some problematic territory.
- 16:20For argument's sake, let's say that you've set aside the fact that the guiding principles of
- 16:27fundamentalist sex of Christianity reduce women to objects.
- 16:32Let's just say that doesn't bother you somehow.
- 16:34Or, you know, if your rose-colored glasses are handy, more generously, one might view them as vessels
- 16:42created for the sole purpose of subjugation and obedience to first and foremost, of course, God.
- 16:48Swifferly followed by their fathers and then, of course, eventually later, their husbands.
- 16:55Also, other male relatives all along the way.
- 16:59Pretty much any man before your own self is in charge of you.
- 17:04Correct.
- 17:04Yes.
- 17:04Got it.
- 17:05Got it.
- 17:07The tactics espoused in fundamentalist Christian child-waring books such as
- 17:12"To train up a child, written by Michael and Debbie Pearl are plastered all over the internet if you
- 17:20care to look."
- 17:21However, if you find violence against children, even those too young to walk,
- 17:26upsetting, you do well to maybe steer clear.
- 17:32Oh.
- 17:33This is like instructions, like abusive instructions?
- 17:38Yes.
- 17:38They are very detailed instructions for every stage of development.
- 17:44And very specific about the types and level of corporal punishment that should be issued
- 17:53to children.
- 17:54Damn, dude.
- 17:55In subreddits discussing the couple, the book, and their ministry,
- 18:01you don't need to go beyond the first page of comments to feel your heart literally break inside.
- 18:06The BBC released a piece entitled "Child Training Book Triggers Back Clash,"
- 18:14which is not only fair to say, but perhaps a frontrunner for the understatement of 2013,
- 18:20the year in which it was published.
- 18:21Well, I'm glad it caused some sort of backlash and everyone wasn't just like, "Yeah, sure.
- 18:25Let's... yeah, that sounds good."
- 18:27Yeah.
- 18:28I think, unfortunately, the backlash is already being felt, being seen,
- 18:34heard in groups that would never enact these types of behaviors.
- 18:40Right.
- 18:41Sort of an echo chamber situation, but people are still like taking this and using it.
- 18:46I don't know that I have come across a super recent case, but anybody who
- 18:57doesn't have a complete utter aversion to hearing about investigating in terms of
- 19:04true crime against children has come across this book.
- 19:08Everyone, anyone, all of them, it feels like it's part of the canon.
- 19:13The pearls-owned children appear to stand behind the lifelong work of their parents and are
- 19:19themselves involved in the ministry.
- 19:22The nonprofit No Greater Joy Ministries employed 18 people dating back to 2006.
- 19:29Truth be told, however, the organization was David compared to Goliath-level Christian media companies,
- 19:37such as Big Idea Entertainment, formerly known as Big Idea Productions,
- 19:42and also the Media Production Company responsible for Veggie Tales.
- 19:47Oh, interesting.
- 19:50And now we get to the part of my research where I began to feel targeted.
- 19:55One of many times that I began to feel targeted.
- 20:01Do you want Veggie Tales?
- 20:02Oh, yeah.
- 20:03And they mentioned Carmen, and yes, I have consumed quite a bit of the Carmen media as a child.
- 20:13I don't know what that is.
- 20:14Yeah.
- 20:15I was not a Veggie Taylor.
- 20:19Yeah.
- 20:20There's like a brief moment in time where I went to church,
- 20:23like we listened to Veggie Tales on the way there, but that was it, and I was not.
- 20:28Apparently there was a Veggie Tales show up until about 2022.
- 20:34Oh, yeah.
- 20:34Doesn't appear to be currently running.
- 20:39Which, listen, you know, religious programming in and of itself, not necessarily problematic.
- 20:47Right. Veggie Tales, I spend years, obviously.
- 20:51I don't think that most of their programming was particularly problematic, but I don't quote me on that.
- 21:00I'm not.
- 21:00I don't know.
- 21:01I literally know, Clue.
- 21:03There could have been so much like messaging in their hidden.
- 21:07Like that we just--
- 21:08It's based on the Bible.
- 21:09Exactly.
- 21:10Yeah.
- 21:11Hopefully it was just wholesome, you know, for kids.
- 21:14I'm sure it was.
- 21:15Oh.
- 21:16Again, dating back to 2006, reportedly the pearls had sold or donated to churches,
- 21:24military families, and community groups, more than a million copies of their works in various formats.
- 21:31So we're talking about CDs, DVDs, books, all that.
- 21:36As well as other materials related to the Christian family.
- 21:42Their bi-monthly newsletter had 74,000 subscribers at the time.
- 21:47That's quite a few.
- 21:49Yeah.
- 21:49Just the year prior back in 2005, no greater joy ministries represented a mere fraction of the
- 21:567.3--
- 21:58My brain broke.
- 22:03Billion.
- 22:04Billion.
- 22:05Did you say billion with a B?
- 22:07Billion.
- 22:08Billion.
- 22:10Religious, publishing, and products market.
- 22:13And that was 20 years ago.
- 22:16Oh.
- 22:17Now that they just will let any old evangelist into the White House directly, I can only imagine.
- 22:23Anywho.
- 22:25All of this is to say that when it comes to power dynamics within our society and the money that
- 22:32there is to be made, even when it comes at the expense of others, some forces seem nearly
- 22:39unstoppable once they gain a foothold.
- 22:42Typical, fundamentalist Christian beliefs had more than just a foothold in the Williams household
- 22:48by this time.
- 22:49It wasn't long after they had decided to adopt a manual that the couple would be shown a video
- 22:55that would change their own lives and countless others.
- 22:58In the video, it said that Hannah was tearful but appeared healthy and the couple
- 23:05were moved to seek her out for adoption as well.
- 23:09Both Immanuel and Hannah came to the Williams family via an A.A.I.
- 23:14affiliated orphanage in Ethiopia called Kadeen Merrett.
- 23:18Both children were reportedly abandoned likely due to their health issues.
- 23:24Oh, I mean, that's so hard.
- 23:28If you can't take care of the health issues, you know, what do you?
- 23:32Yeah.
- 23:33What do you do?
- 23:35Yeah, I'm not sure what that looks like in other nations.
- 23:40I know that obviously we have like the firehouse laws where you can literally leave a
- 23:45a baby at a fire station, at a hospital and, you know, no questions asked.
- 23:53And as long as you surrender the child safely, that is a-okay in the eyes of the law.
- 24:00I don't know what that looks like in a lot of other countries.
- 24:04Yeah.
- 24:05I would assume that a lot of other countries have some
- 24:08former fashion of a similar practice.
- 24:11But it is really hard to hear about children that are being abandoned because presumably
- 24:19health issues or I mean really just hard to hear about kids being abandoned.
- 24:23Yeah.
- 24:23I would assume I hope that it was in the hopes of someone else can take care of her.
- 24:28Providing-
- 24:29I don't- I just like don't want to deal with it, you know?
- 24:32Yeah.
- 24:32Although-
- 24:33I mean to be fair, if you don't want to deal with it, please for the love of God,
- 24:37give that child to somebody who will take care of it.
- 24:40There's- I just feel as though there are so few excuses for
- 24:45not doing the best that you can for a child.
- 24:49I don't even like kids, you guys.
- 24:52And especially in the end, if you're like adopting a kid who needs help, like you take-
- 24:57like you're-
- 25:00the-
- 25:02I like you don't even know what to say, it's so obvious, but like fucking take care of it.
- 25:05Yeah.
- 25:05Yeah.
- 25:06It does seem really obvious.
- 25:09Yeah.
- 25:10Both children were flown to the United States, a company by an escort,
- 25:16though neither had ever met their adoptive parents.
- 25:20That's so hard.
- 25:22This practice is no longer allowed by the Ethiopian government.
- 25:26It seems like common sense that an adoption should not be allowed to move forward and finalize
- 25:32without the respective parties having met, but you know, I guess Hindsitis 2020.
- 25:37Listen, if kids have no other place to go-
- 25:41like if you are trying to place children in loving homes, I can understand how sometimes you are
- 25:46maybe not always operating in ideal circumstances, but my God.
- 25:53Can we just make sure they're going someplace better than, you know, wherever they were surrendered?
- 25:59It's like you're ordering a kid off Amazon or something, like just shows a beard or one day.
- 26:04Well, no home inspection, no.
- 26:07An A.A.I. social worker did visit.
- 26:10Oh, okay.
- 26:11So they do that to follow up with the children and the family as they adjusted to the new home
- 26:17and, you know, to integrating into the family.
- 26:20I think goodness for that.
- 26:22Yeah.
- 26:23So they did do that, which feels like sort of the bare minimum.
- 26:27You know, when you just basically expect someone to show up on a doorstep that they've never
- 26:34darkened before and oh boy.
- 26:37This was in the first six months following their placement with the Williams'es and included
- 26:43some review of their medical records at the time.
- 26:46While Hannah had been underweight at only 77 pounds upon her arrival, for contacts, she's about 13
- 26:54years old. So very, very little.
- 26:56Within those first six months, she had grown to 105 pounds, which I feel like is a very,
- 27:03you know, healthy weight for her, you know, a young teenage girl.
- 27:08I'm not totally clear on what her height was just going strictly from memory, but even if she
- 27:15was really short like me, 105 pounds would be, that's a good, healthy weight, I think at that age.
- 27:20She was also reading from a little house on the Prairie Book Series.
- 27:26Which I feel like that's considered a literature staple.
- 27:33Right.
- 27:33My many in the age group.
- 27:34I mean, hot tape?
- 27:37I mean, I didn't even know it was books.
- 27:40Oh.
- 27:41I mean, I knew of the show.
- 27:43I mean, I know pretty much if I thought about it, I would figure, okay, it's probably a book.
- 27:48Cause like everything is a book.
- 27:49Everything's a book.
- 27:50But yeah, I just, I heard of the show.
- 27:52So I never really thought about the books.
- 27:56Yeah.
- 27:56I feel like, I mean, it started out as books and so like kind of dependent, I mean, it's just like
- 28:03anything else.
- 28:04Whatever you were exposed to first is kind of the thing that wins out in general, but that's so
- 28:10funny. I'm like, I didn't know for a long time that there was a show.
- 28:14I'd read the books and I was like, oh, they made a show out of it.
- 28:18Cause my mom had the book.
- 28:20Oh.
- 28:21Oh, okay.
- 28:22Emanuel for his part was learning to sign in order to communicate with members of his new family.
- 28:30There were kind people in relative proximity to the family and the local community that made
- 28:36efforts to extend themselves, but found doing so wasn't meant with the warm regard they'd expected.
- 28:43A fellow parishioner that also happened to be deaf had tried to converse with Emanuel,
- 28:48but either Larry or Carrie would escort the boy from basically any situation where
- 28:54he might have been able to have a private conversation with anyone outside of their home.
- 28:59Oh, that's not, that's a red flag.
- 29:04It's funny you should say that my next sentence. This is an early red flag.
- 29:07You know, kind of a canary in the coal mine type of a, like the biggest,
- 29:13like, ah, this kid's in trouble.
- 29:17Yeah.
- 29:17Yeah.
- 29:18Why can't the kid have a private conversation?
- 29:22Why not?
- 29:22Yeah.
- 29:23It's weird.
- 29:25Why not?
- 29:26Weird.
- 29:28One day simultaneously in the not too distant future and somehow also not quite soon enough,
- 29:34however, his voice would be heard.
- 29:36Quart.
- 29:38Oh.
- 29:39After June 2009, there would be no further doctor's visits nor the oversight of the adoption
- 29:48agency completing additional follow-up visits, at least none that were documented.
- 29:57By this point, it seems the Williams'es would have been expected to assume responsibility for
- 30:02providing updates per the standard adoption agreement with the AAI.
- 30:07But the Williams'es never did.
- 30:10And while there certainly are some laws enacted to
- 30:15related to adoption, providing such updates to the agency was not compulsory.
- 30:22At least as far as the law was concerned.
- 30:26So legally, they have no obligation to provide any verification, any updates, no follow-up,
- 30:33nothing once the children are officially, you know, permanently placed in their care.
- 30:39Which makes sense in a way, in a way.
- 30:44But you would think there are people that are invested in these children that have been placed
- 30:52in your home. You would think you would care enough about letting them know like they did the right
- 30:58thing. They found this child a good home. And they're just like, "Nah, I don't feel like it."
- 31:04As stated by a former AAI employee, even if the updates do continue, there's no guarantee
- 31:12of accuracy as adoptive parents would be self-reporting by that stage.
- 31:17Right. Like, what does even the point?
- 31:19Yeah. What are they going to say? Like, "Ah, we're doing so terrible at this parenting thing."
- 31:24Well, yeah. I mean, exactly. I feel like the vast majority of people are, you know,
- 31:29a self-assessment is, yeah, you're only going to get so much honesty, so much transparency.
- 31:36Honor systems. Yeah.
- 31:39According to court testimony, though none of the Williams' biological children slept in a closet
- 31:45or took their meals outside in the cold. Hannah frequently did.
- 31:49None of the bio children were served their meals cold, but both in manual and Hannah were on many
- 31:58occasions. The adopted children were also physically disciplined far more than them, disciplined.
- 32:07In some cases, to the point of visible marks being left behind,
- 32:13by, and let's be clear here, what should accurately be characterized as abuse,
- 32:18disciplined with really heavy, bunny ears, yeah, into train a child. They talk about selecting the size,
- 32:27with length, and type of objects that, you know, you can use to physically discipline your children.
- 32:38They talk about, and this is quite literal, babies, so that, you know, you can get more chores done.
- 32:47You put them on a blanket, and whenever they try to crawl off the blanket, you hit them with,
- 32:55you know, you just hit them with the prescribed size and type of device.
- 33:05And that way they learn that they're not supposed to leave the blanket.
- 33:09It's not the point of raising a kid, so it leaves the blanket.
- 33:15Right, but that makes it really inconvenient when you're trying to do chores about your household.
- 33:19You want to just be able to set your baby on a blanket and know that it's not going to go anywhere.
- 33:23Because that's on the child. Yeah, no.
- 33:27I'm littered. We're talking about children that cannot walk.
- 33:33Because they're talking about babies crawling on a blanket that they're physically,
- 33:37the physical is literal, but disciplining. They're literally talking about hitting infants.
- 33:45That's ridiculous. What doesn't leave the blanket?
- 33:48Then it's never going to leave your house. What is now it's too scared to leave a blanket?
- 33:53I don't know. I think it might run away screaming the first chance that they get.
- 33:59Just to provide some context to that, I didn't want to read an entire chapter.
- 34:08Things.
- 34:10Not really my idea of worthwhile or award-winning literature, if you know what I mean.
- 34:20But it's the context that you need.
- 34:23Testimony continued to include details about the events of a particular date.
- 34:29Beyond just the broad strokes testimony about the overall home life.
- 34:34Said of that date, May 12, 2011, testimony provided was that Hannah was being kept outside.
- 34:44No desperately about the cold could move. Carry Williams.
- 34:49Quote, while Hana was getting cold,
- 34:53so mom told her to do jumping jacks, but she wouldn't do jumping jacks. This was later corroborated by
- 35:02the testimony of another child from within the home. She almost exclusively at a certain point
- 35:09started living out of doors. What the... like... in Northwest Washington. People live indoors.
- 35:20I don't even like people who leave their dog outside. Yep. Two of the older brothers on this date in
- 35:28particular and it sounds like possibly on other occasions, but on this day in particular,
- 35:37were also said to have exited the home. Hit Hana with a switch when she appeared to have given up
- 35:45on exercising for warmth. You may have guessed at this point that the court didn't become involved
- 35:53along with media just due to abuse in the Williams family home, which would be horrific
- 36:00in and of itself. And certainly worthy of creating concern and bringing that to light.
- 36:09Sadly, it was that day in May of 2011 that Hana passed away, face down, in the mud outside of
- 36:16family's rural home. The coroner testified that Hana's legs showed she could have recently been
- 36:22struck at least 14 times. With an implement like the plastic tubing, the Williams family was known
- 36:28to have used to discipline their children. It's very popular amongst the... to train a child,
- 36:34group, demographic, whatever you want to call them. I got a lot of things I want to call them.
- 36:39When Hana's body arrived at the corner in 2011, she was reportedly down to between 76 and 80 pounds.
- 36:50So right back to her pre-adoption weight. And she was older. She lost approximately 30 pounds. Holy
- 36:58shit. At the time of her death, she was lighter than 97% of girls in her age group.
- 37:06Photos taken at the time of her autopsy are said to all too adequately illustrate the devastation
- 37:13her body endured. Essentially, she was emaciated. And her ultimate cause of death was said to be
- 37:20hypothermia. Yeah, what the fuck did they expect? Like, how do you expect someone to live and
- 37:27survive outside on no food? Very little food, often cold food, being physically, these children
- 37:39were being beaten. Until like doing jumping jacks for warmth. But how do you have the energy to do
- 37:45jumping jacks even? Not that that's a good way to warm up a child who's outside being abused. But
- 37:51how do you expect them to do jumping jacks if they're not even fed? I don't think she
- 37:57and I say she, I do view in this case someone who was the full-time caregiver as, you know,
- 38:06essentially a stay-at-home mom. That person I view as being maybe disproportionately responsible
- 38:14compared to the father figure in the home. But one thing that I came across in research and I heard
- 38:24in red was that there were those that had said, "Carry told members of like prayer groups and other
- 38:33like women's groups that she was a part of associated with the church that, you know, she wouldn't
- 38:39wish this child on anyone." And I think they did not realize she looked very small. Also, I will
- 38:54show you some pictures that are available of Hana and she appeared much younger because of,
- 39:03I mean, she was just such, I mean, just diminutive compared to other children her age here in the
- 39:10States. I have to imagine. But when she arrived and it was clear that she was, you know, she's a teenager
- 39:19because she started to exhibit parts of puberty, like having a period.
- 39:26Carry didn't like that. But she was like that. I basically, I didn't adopt a child. I adopted,
- 39:36I adopted a woman. Now I just have this like inconvenience. Wow. Because kids don't grow up eventually, too.
- 39:46Yeah. Into women. And also it's still a fucking child. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm here.
- 39:52No, I mean, every and that goes in my mind that just goes to sort of the backwards thinking that
- 40:02is included in scripture about female bodies and about that like our development. And I was like,
- 40:13I don't know, I don't know what else to point to as being, how else does a grown-ass woman who has
- 40:22experienced these things for herself? How does she have so little care for a child? I mean, these
- 40:30are normal parts of development for an adolescent girl. And she has seven other kids, right?
- 40:37Yep. Did none of them grow up to have periods? They all just stayed six forever? Hard to say.
- 40:43I don't, and it's unclear to me how many boys versus girls that they had. And it doesn't,
- 40:51it doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter. You could have seven boys. And this would still be
- 41:00just wildly unacceptable behavior. Thankfully, Carrie and Larry were found guilty on almost all the
- 41:08charges brought against them. I really, I hope that nobody is offended that I did not go into
- 41:17greater detail about sort of the events that specifically on the day in question that led to
- 41:26Hannah's death because I, it's really rough. I feel like Carrie at one point is on the phone with
- 41:33her husband. She has not gotten in touch with emergency services. And he actually advises her to do so.
- 41:41And she's still hesitant to do so. Well, no shit, because she just killed a fucking child.
- 41:46Yeah. Yeah. There are just details of this that it's like, listen, what it boils down to is that
- 41:55these people are extremists and they are sick in the head. Maybe that has nothing to do with their
- 42:00religion and they would have done these horrible things to children, regardless. I don't know.
- 42:06But it boils down to that this child was neglected and abused to death.
- 42:12She came from a country where she had so little chance to survive and thrive,
- 42:19particularly in this era. And she lived here, state side for less than a handful of years
- 42:28and died horrifically, horrifically. She lived longer in the country where she came from.
- 42:36The jury's verdict was guilty on the following counts. First degree, assault of
- 42:44immanual manslaughter. This was of course in connection to Hana's death and additionally for
- 42:52Carrie homicide by abuse. They were sentenced on October 29th, 2013,
- 42:59Larry to almost 28 years and Carrie to almost 37. However, if you say it in months,
- 43:09like some people do for their kids well beyond the age of infancy, it almost sounds better.
- 43:14333 and 443, respectively. Wow. 333. That's been interesting. He double it in like, you know,
- 43:29660. Oh, fuck. For reference, sentencing is frequently far less, roughly half of the sentences
- 43:41that they received for similar crimes. So they actually kind of got nailed to the wall a little bit.
- 43:47And I don't feel bad about it at all. Do you know if they like got out earlier? Some shit. Not to
- 43:52my knowledge at this point. One judge was quoted as saying they likely still deserve more.
- 43:59And frankly, I'm inclined to agree. I agree. Can we give more? Can we just tack a little bit more?
- 44:06That would be great. And there is so much more, but you're going to have to get past the paywall,
- 44:12my friends. Hey, Trion, looks like you may have some bonus content coming your way.
- 44:18Because best believe I am so far from shutting the fuck up about this particular topic and this
- 44:25particular case, there's a lot for my research that I still kind of want to get into and discuss,
- 44:33but somebody's got to pay for my therapy after this. Patreon? This one really fucked me up a little bit.
- 44:45I mean, it took me so much longer to get through each of the stages with this case. It really,
- 44:51yeah, none of them are, I mean, God, there's nothing I talk about. It's, you know, sunshine and rainbows.
- 45:00But I must have been like feeling the Ick. Well, I guess I was probably feeling your Ick vibe because
- 45:07you were sitting here writing it like, uh, sucks. Uh, yeah, but I didn't even like the fact that carry
- 45:14a Larry rhyme. I didn't even like, oh, that's so cute. Normally, you would be like, oh, yeah,
- 45:20but you just knew, I don't even, I didn't know that as far as you knew they could have been the victims.
- 45:25Right. But you were like, I'm not getting that. I don't know. I don't remember. Maybe when we go back,
- 45:30I'll listen to the recording. Maybe I will say, oh, but I don't think I was. I don't think so. I was
- 45:36just picking up the vibe. No, because immediately I would have been like, oh, no, no, trust me. Not cute.
- 45:42Yeah. No, not cute. All right. All right. I think we're going to go do the thing that we normally do
- 45:52that we talked about at the beginning. And also, we'll probably have some snacks. Snack break and
- 46:00the next tarot. Indeed. They give her two middle names too. I really fucking hate that.
- 46:09What was her middle names? Hannah Aleemoo was her birth name. And I don't know. I don't know if this
- 46:17was ever changed like legally or if this is just tacked on. It really doesn't matter. Nobody calls
- 46:25her this. Nobody ever will. Hana Grace-Rose. And they hyphenated Grace-Rose. Grace-Rose.
- 46:33Huh. Interesting. I hate it. So they they referred to her as Hana Grace hyphen Rose Williams.
- 46:41It's not what her headstone says. Thank God. Okay. Because there were people that cared enough to make
- 46:52sure she had a proper burial. Good. And a real last headstone. Wow. I didn't really even think about
- 46:59it. Oh, visit her being like a thing. But oh my gosh. I'm glad that someone did that. Yeah.
- 47:05Is she buried in Washington? We're going to oh, trust. That's a big part of what I want to talk about
- 47:16in in the extended. The people that made sure that she had a proper burial. It's not necessarily a
- 47:24long, a long discussion. But I I feel like there are some some important details there. And I feel
- 47:33like it it made me feel so much sadder but also kind of better. That makes sense. Because it's like
- 47:41oh, you know, because they love her. And then I'm like, oh, but they love her. But all they
- 47:49are right. Let's go do terrible. Okay. Okay. Don't lick the cards because that was weird.
- 47:56Okay. We have the infamous snorter here. So if you hear pig sounds in the background that is the dog.
- 48:04Yeah. And also the dog is here. Yeah. You are you are the infamous snorter too.
- 48:13snorting already. I think we need a third mic. She's clearly got things to say.
- 48:24Kim and I do one more thinking about Hana. Ladies giving us all her energy.
- 48:39Oh, she's jumping down. You wanted to be up here. You here with this whole fit. I know. She's like,
- 48:44but it's boring. Yes, we're just doing tarot. I'm actively petting her by the way.
- 48:52Lady, at least get up here and show me your cute face before you leave. Oh, look at you face.
- 48:58I thought you wanted to do terror with us. You were even in a video. You were in a real.
- 49:08We'll see you the chords. Okay. Bye.
- 49:12Okay. That's like where I was going. Like, here is. Yeah. Or here is. Like in the middle of that ish.
- 49:23Okay. Two of cards. Okay. That's interesting. It's such a positive card. I think so. It's like what
- 49:34Carrie and Terry should have been. I feel like I've said that before. Larry. Oh, wait.
- 49:39Who the fuck cares? Larry and Carrie, right? Larry and Carrie. Yeah. I feel like that's like what they
- 49:50should have been. Like two loving bird parents who love all their adopted children. But
- 49:57I mean, I don't even think I need to read it, but I guess I will. Yeah. It's just, it's too
- 50:03positive. I mean, it is. And we drew it upright. I'm interested to see. Okay. Two of cups are keywords are
- 50:12partnership, harmony, creative exchange and cooperation. Who cooperation? No, I don't, I don't
- 50:21know about that word. Interesting in this context. I'll say that much. In many decks, the two of cups
- 50:29shows a man and woman holding chalices as if toasting each other. The card represents joining forces
- 50:38with someone either romantically or in a creative slash spiritual endeavor. It was spiritual too.
- 50:46Well, in joining forces, honestly, that makes me think of at least in this application. I don't think
- 50:56I ever would have thought of this being a connection, but you're joining together
- 51:01families. You're joining these other and it was too adopted children. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
- 51:09You share a common dream, interest or passion and can work together to bring it into being.
- 51:16This next part might actually be physically painful to say. Mutual respect and equality exist
- 51:23between you. Gonna beg to differ, but you know, and we'll move on. The upright too indicates a period
- 51:33of harmony when things go smoothly between you and another person. I think of this as the honeymoon card.
- 51:45Not in this case. Well, I think this feels representative of that honeymoon period. It's like six months
- 51:54where things, I mean, at least there was nothing that was representing as being sort of a red flag.
- 52:03Right. She like gained the weight and was like a normal kid and then. It seemed like both kids were
- 52:11beginning to adjust. I mean, it's all relative and nobody else was there in the home with
- 52:20that family, but when you have high hopes and experience a time of accord, optimism,
- 52:28inspiration and goodwill, interreading about money, the upright to suggest a financial
- 52:37partnership or merging your resources with someone else's for mutual gain. It can also mean
- 52:44financial support comes from a partner or a backer. It doesn't feel super applicable, but it does
- 52:52make me think of like, I think you said one of the kids got surrendered because of the disability.
- 53:00So actually in this case, it's believed that both children that were adopted by the Williams
- 53:08family were surrendered in no small part at least due to their medical condition. So one child
- 53:19being deaf and in Hannah's case, my understanding is that she was happy positive.
- 53:29Yeah, I think it just reminded me of our conversation like, well, did they were they just not able to
- 53:34like afford to take care of it? So I don't know, that just reminded me of that kind of like
- 53:40so much. So it's financial. Yeah, I mean, these days, how can anyone afford to raise a child
- 53:46period? Right. Yeah. I mean, particularly with a child that might have any sort of special need.
- 53:54I don't know. It's incredible. If the reading is about your job, this card describes a partnership
- 54:02that benefits both people. Do you think this ties into the authors of to train a child? I think
- 54:13this ties into the Pearl family. That's the vibe I'm picking up. And we have to record
- 54:24this for bonus for the Patreon because there's just a lot of stuff that I feel like really provides
- 54:31context that I didn't want to take the focus away from this particular family and this case
- 54:39and Hannah in particular, but my God. So bullet point number two, you inspire one another and enjoy
- 54:49working together. It can also represent cooperation and creative collaboration in your workplace.
- 54:57In a reading about love, the two upright symbolizes a happy relationship that's developing smoothly.
- 55:05You understand each other's needs and bring out the best in one another. This card shows
- 55:12harmony, balance and mutual respect between two parties. I feel like this is all a lot of this
- 55:20in the back half here is very representative of the Pearl family. Interesting. There's a lot of
- 55:30really interesting material. I should probably stop there. Okay. To be honest, I didn't really anticipate
- 55:39and I didn't want that to be such a major focus of this, but I feel like at the same time,
- 55:46sort of what I've been getting at is that people that sort of propagate these beliefs and
- 55:56like the practices that go along with them. It's like, I don't know, I have a hard time saying that
- 56:01you're blameless in situations like this where I mean, this is on the best day. I think a lot of
- 56:09the things that people abiding by these teachings, a lot of what they would be doing on the very best day.
- 56:18You'd have a hard time selling that that's healthy, that's natural, that's legal. Yeah.
- 56:27But in these cases, it's really hard to say that those people have remained blameless.
- 56:33Yeah. I'm not saying that it's anyone's fault, but the Williams, right. But also at the same time,
- 56:42there's co-evality. Right. How did you end up there? And what they were doing with the children.
- 56:49So, yeah, I just, I mean, you can't hold those, you can't hold the pearls or anyone else responsible
- 56:59for the crime aside from carrying Larry Williams. But I do think ultimately, when you find that
- 57:08there are certain ideologies that are truly irresponsible or that lead to harm,
- 57:15there has to be a way to adjust for that. I don't know what that is. I don't have all the answers, but
- 57:22you don't. What are we with this podcast? Boy, if I did, though. I'm just saying, you know,
- 57:30that's ugly. Yeah. Yeah. It's just a parent she should have had the one she deserved.
- 57:43I mean, she had two parents who were led by two parents who wrote an awful book about,
- 57:50but any two parents out there should reportedly be doing raising children. She was adopted as part of a pair.
- 58:01They are violet green swallows, which you can see on them. They are purple and green.
- 58:08Okay. I'm going to read this from the little book. It's the little poem. I don't know what you call it.
- 58:14It's a poem? No. What's the, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 58:21Well, we're googling. Yeah. No, this is going to bother me. Get the Google machine out.
- 58:26Allegory. Allegory. Yeah. Like all of these definitions are written like an allegory. It's okay.
- 58:34A story poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political
- 58:42one. So it's a poem. You said poem in your description there, but they're not really strictly speaking
- 58:50poem, right? But I wasn't wrong. I'm going to award you half a point. Okay. I'm going to read these,
- 58:57these allegory, the swallows paths crossed and everything changed for both of them.
- 59:03Had the wind not carried her a little farther than she had planned to go or had yesterday's storm,
- 59:11not forced him to land early, they would never have encountered one another. Oh my god. A child
- 59:19born in Ethiopia dies in Cedra, Wolley. That is true. Like everything has to align for you to get
- 59:27to this one specific area. Yeah. In this case, like, in not a good way. Had he not twittered loudly
- 59:36as he sun bathed, they would never have collected grass or twigs or feathers together. Had she not
- 59:43swooped past at precisely the right moment to catch his showy display, they would not later
- 59:49shape their collection into a cup in that hollow fur. Had her first return display to him,
- 59:56not complemented the choreography of his own, they would never have bonded or laid eggs or incubated
- 1:00:03them or hunted for insects to feed their brood. These birds are feeding their brood. Yeah. But all
- 1:00:10those things conspired to occur, whether through chance, serendipity or fate, their past and just
- 1:00:17cross, they converged. Same with like that couple who everything had to work out for them to get together
- 1:00:25to have all of these kids to I cannot believe this. Just that specific word choice. Converged.
- 1:00:33I don't think the tab is still open, but oh, I'm glad I read that then. I'm looking just to see. I
- 1:00:44don't think I left it open. I was like, I don't need this anymore. I know I closed it. At some point
- 1:00:50during this, it's just weird. I don't know. It's kind of one of those things where just like a word
- 1:00:56hits you a certain way. At some point, I don't even know that it was related to the case specifically, but I
- 1:01:06was looking up the term insufficient convergency. Oh, what does that mean?
- 1:01:14You're like, I don't know. I'm looking it up. Honestly, I feel like I'm not. That's not a word like,
- 1:01:25it's a word people use, obviously, but not really one that's like used in everyday language, you know?
- 1:01:31Oh, okay. Actually, this is going to explain a lot. It's insufficient convergence, not
- 1:01:40convergency, but in my defense, when I was researching this, I may or may not have had a head injury.
- 1:01:49It has to do with the visual disturbance that when I was describing to the Google machine,
- 1:01:59what I was experiencing, it was like, do you mean? And I was like, perhaps tell me more.
- 1:02:05So it wasn't about the case or anything else. I mean, they coincided. Oh, yeah.
- 1:02:13Yeah. I had tabs for both open in the same browser. They were converged.
- 1:02:20They sure converge. It does like, that word, though. It's weird.
- 1:02:28It is weird. It's one of those things that makes you think you're on the right path.
- 1:02:33Yeah, just sort of, I don't know, it's synchronicity.
- 1:02:38So happened to me the other day and I wrote it down just because I didn't think it was a huge deal,
- 1:02:43but now maybe I'll say what it was because I don't think I ever plan to say it.
- 1:02:47Oh, really? I think I even wrote it in my grocery time. I literally wrote it down in my groceries tab,
- 1:02:52because I was like, I'm just going to write this down real quick. I'm not even going to
- 1:02:57bother open a new note pad for this. Just for that. Oh, come on.
- 1:03:00And because I was like, I'll probably just delete this. But it was interesting. So I had sent a text
- 1:03:06in the sound like glitched. Like, you know, when it goes, it went like, but it was like glitchy.
- 1:03:14And I was like, Oh, that's weird. I have like, so I turned on a new pot. This was like, I don't know.
- 1:03:20I don't think it was directly after this happened, but it was like somewhere within
- 1:03:2510 minutes of this like glitch itself. It was like, you know, I was going to say like a few days.
- 1:03:30It was like, no, it's like the next thing I remember doing or whatever I turned on a podcast.
- 1:03:35Oh, and I like, you know, I skipped past the, you know, the ad.
- 1:03:38Yeah. Don't do that with our show because of what you want us to make money, you know?
- 1:03:43Yes, it was a podcast that makes a lot of money. I was making so much money.
- 1:03:47Yeah. Other podcasts, they make so much money.
- 1:03:49Listen to the yeah. So anyway, I was skipping the ads and I went,
- 1:03:53skip, skip, skip, and all of a sudden the, the host of it just says glitchy. And I was like,
- 1:03:59that was weird. Like who just weird? Because I like was in the middle of her sentence.
- 1:04:03And she just went glitchy. And that was the first word that I had like,
- 1:04:07stop the skip on. And I was like, Oh, that's weird. Because I just had like a weird glitch thing happen.
- 1:04:12But so as I was like typing this out though, and like the boop boop boop boop sounds were glitching.
- 1:04:19Not so it was just like three glitchy things in a row. Oh, that's freaky. And my phone has never
- 1:04:25made like this glitchy sound. I'm sure it was like an update thing or whatever. I don't know what it was.
- 1:04:29Oh, it's gotta be right. I'm sure. But like three like glitchy glitch go to glitch. Yeah.
- 1:04:35I mean, just say glitch three times. It was weird. Anyway, that's all weird.
- 1:04:41Remind me of that thing that I never thought I would tell anyone. I thought I was just going to
- 1:04:44bleed off my grocery list. But it just made me think, you know, just makes me think we're on the right.
- 1:04:51Yeah. Things like a lie enough like that. Yeah, it's just weird. Well, I told you,
- 1:04:57I, something had already come up for me that I was thinking about Little House on the Prairie.
- 1:05:05And then I, I came across that Hannah was reading Little House on the Prairie. And um,
- 1:05:12there was an adolescent inside of me. Oh, they just, I mean, that, that got me, that got me.
- 1:05:23And listen, I, uh, I'm not going to say that those books hold up in, uh, the year of our Lord 2025.
- 1:05:33Um, I'm not even sure when I read them that they weren't already probably super duper problematic.
- 1:05:42I mean, listen, they never were not problematic. It's just, uh, whether or not you were paying attention.
- 1:05:49Right. I think you have good memories with them. It doesn't like make it the fact that you
- 1:05:53would go to memories associated with it. Yeah. I think that's fair. But I mean, I did too.
- 1:05:59I know. Oh, I do. If anyone just deserves to have, you know, some small piece of joy in
- 1:06:10anything. Oh my god. So I am wearing the world's tiniest cross today. But if it's should we do the
- 1:06:19thing? Yeah, let's do the thing. I think so. It's probably time for some French onion dip.
- 1:06:26I do. Yeah. Let's do that in our white cloths for true leaves or whatever the fuck.
- 1:06:31Bubbly waters. She would like to consume more bookies.
- 1:06:37Oh, I got some right here. What am I talking about? I literally have one.
- 1:06:41Is she keeps forgetting that her glasses actually on this conveniently located table?
- 1:06:46That's where glasses go. You can easily access them. Correct. That, uh, typically, typically. Yeah.
- 1:06:55That for just me to be with them arms. Reach. Yeah. It's true. Even these little t-mails.
- 1:07:03Okay. Have a creepy ass day. We'll see you next Tuesday.
- 1:07:09And we may be coming to you from Who Knows Where? Who Knows God Knows Where?
- 1:07:15What do you think this is a catwalk? I do my little turn on the catwalk.
- 1:07:27Oh, the catwalk. It's a dogwalk. Lady. Come at the lights. Oh my god. Okay. Let's do this terror.
- 1:07:36I'm gonna show you. It's a terror sound. Our entire studio. We're getting relished. Yeah. Pnwhauntandhomicides.com