Armchair Anonymous: Camping

23:22So they were kind of doubting. And then about that time, the car is now in the campground. Police car is chasing it. My brother has fully stepped out of the tent at this time and is like watching it. And he's like, guys, we got to go down past the RVs. The police chase has ended now. Then we've got more deputies showing up. They've turned their tyrants off. There's lots of shouting. And it is at this time that it becomes very evident that we have a foot chase on our hands. Oh, wow. We don't know what this person has done. We just know that they've been chased directly down the way from us. So we decide that we need to get in the car and we need to get in the car quickly.

24:00And so we're trying to hurry, get our shoes on and everything. And about the time that all four of us are outside of the tent, you can hear splashing in the water. And this is the river that has been completely calm, just like a peaceful trip all night is suddenly splashing. And so we're like, oh, my gosh, he's in the water. He's just right there. He's in the water. And of course, you're not thinking that it's a drunk driver. You're thinking that this is a hardened, violent criminal. Fleeing a murder scene. Yes, absolutely. We are now really trying to get to the car and we all get in the previous and lock the doors.

24:33And my husband turns it on and hits the gas. It's an emasculating thing to hide in. And so you're already hiding, but you're also hiding in a Prius. All of a sudden, he's hanging off and nothing's happening. And so this is like exactly like a scary movie at this point. We're all completely screaming. The fog has set in. So the headlights are hitting fog. I don't know the science behind it, but the air outside is chilly. And there's four big, upset, heavy breathing individuals in the car. And so the windows are fogging on the inside. Oh, Jesus Christ. We can't see anything. Why is the car not working?

25:09It felt long, of course, but probably like 40 seconds of this, like he doesn't know what's wrong. He reaches down and he finds that the tripod from them being professional photographers the night before, he had put it in the car before he went to bed, put the camera and the tripod away. And it was on the floorboard of the driver's feet and it was up against the brake. Well, since this was a Toyota Prius, you're not hearing an engine revving and thinking oh something must be on the brake nothing's happening like the electric engine isn't engaging because the brake is fully pressed down you got to push the brake to turn it on maybe even too i think with the prius you got to like have your foot the brakes got to be depressed for the engine to turn on if we weren't in a panicked moment perhaps he noticed the tripod all along trying to put his feet down there but so after like 45 seconds finally he rips that thing And we decided like, okay, we just need to leave the campgrounds for now.

26:04And on our way out of like the gate, we tell the police, hey, because they set up like a checkpoint. And we think, hey, we think he was in the river, like right by our tent over there. And we just drive on up the switchbacks out of the mountain. On our way up, we pass a fire department truck that's pulling a boat on a trailer because they're about to start their water search. Oh, this is great. We have left our tent and our bags and all of our gear that's around the fire. We've left everything and driven back up to the nearest town, 15 minutes probably. Got some terrible motel and just woke up in disbelief the next morning and drove down there.

26:47There was no sign of anything. Everything looked peaceful and normal. and we packed up our stuff and drove on to St. Louis and had our weekend. It was a Sunday night concert. So I went to the concert. And then I think it was at some point on the drive back, or maybe like the day after we got back, we should look up and see like if there was a news story, figure out what actually happens. There was no sign of anything. And the guy was not a violent criminal. They apparently just refused to stop for a traffic stop earlier in the night. And then they crossed counties and you know how it is out there, you lose your jurisdiction.

27:27And so the one deputy had let him go. And then somebody else tried to stop him later in the night because they'd heard the call from earlier. And that's where that chase started. And they just had multiple traffic violations. I don't know why. I'm sure they were in a lot more trouble afterwards, but no reason to be running. Well, I would just think if he already has three DUIs and he's not supposed to be driving, you're looking at prison time. You're like, well, fuck, they don't catch me. They don't know who was driving the car. I mean, you make a lot of smart decisions in that moment. There's a lot of reasons.

27:57But point being, there was not really a crime listed other than resisting arrest. But he was found in an empty campsite under a tent wearing nothing but boxer shorts. Oh, my God. Wait, what? There's been a lot of debate through the years of like, was it under a tent? Was it under the cover of a tent? Does that mean that he was in our tent? Should we be concerned that he was in one of our sleeping bags? Or was he like clean the tarp and the ground? I feel like that. Like, I feel like he was under the entire tent. He just dove under. That's a good hiding spot, actually. Yeah, he must have not dug out enough or something.

28:36Somehow they found him. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's our camping story. Oh, man. Have you done much camping since then? I have three little kids, so I'm kind of in like a hiatus from camping. My husband does take our two older kids. Once the baby gets older, then I think I'll be back to camping. But yes, we continue to camp after that and even have had a couple of family camping trips. But I'm taking a break from it because it's too much chaos. Yeah, it's a lot to keep your eye on. It does make me crave camping, being next to a river, hearing it. Babbling brooks. Yeah. Some police sirens, maniac. Some peaceful police sirens.

29:17The guy with nothing to lose. Wow. That's wild. Yeah. Well, Callie, that's wonderful. I mean, not for you, but for us. Thank you guys for having me. And hopefully I'll get lots of good ones for this one. Yeah. Thank you so much. Hi, Kevin. Hi. How are you? I'm wonderful. How are you? I'm probably the most nervous I've ever been. Oh, my goodness. I've been inside house fires before, so that says a lot. Yeah. Wow, we're flattered, but you should not be nervous. No, there's nothing intimidating about Monaco or me. Well, I'm scary. It's definitely calming me down, so it's good. Where are you, Kevin?

29:52I live in Crete, Greece, the Mediterranean. You're lying. What? How does an American end up in Crete? I'm the safety director for a Navy base out here, for a U.S. Navy base. Oh, you are. Oh, my God, how cool. Have you guys been busier than normal? You know, I thought you were going to ask that, and business has picked up a little bit. We're doing good. We're staying safe out here. Okay, good. How long have you been in Crete? This is our second time living here, but I've been here recently for about two years. Before that, we were in Okinawa, Japan. We like to travel. We like to get out and move around.

30:24You're seeing it. And when you say we, you have a wife and some kids. Is that what's happening? Yeah, I've got a wife, and we've got six kids. Three of them are a little bit older. Oh, man. What a life you guys are living. This is awesome. Six kids. How are they liking that adventure? My 17-year-old son is kind of ready to be done with it. He's sick of moving his room around. The younger two that are with us now, they enjoy it. They get a lot of good opportunities, man. A lot of things that people normally don't get to see. Shaquille O 'Neal was discovered on a military base, if you recall that story, Monica.

30:59Yeah. Maybe he'll be discovered by a visiting coach. We'll see. My kids are very unathletic, so it's probably not going to happen. They need statisticians. Yeah, maybe it'll be a math coach or something that comes. It could, maybe. Biology, I think, is where we're going. Okay, great. And is your wife also enlisted? No, I'm actually a civilian. I'm not in the military, and she's got the hard job. She's been homeschooling these kids for the past 10 years. That's hard. She's living her best life out here in Crete, though. Oh, God. You have a camping story. Yes. So this takes place a long time ago, 2003.

31:34I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. I see you. Monica, Cedar Point. Kings Island, Cedar Point. You were very close to Kings Island, right? Let's get it out now. Very close. We got it out. Yeah. The Beast? The Beast, yeah, of course. The Beast. This whole thing will break your neck. So we would typically go down to Red River Gorge to go camping. Is that in Kentucky? Yes, probably like southeast of Lexington. Beautiful place. Lots of like old like sandstone arches everywhere. Lots of good hiking. So we'd probably been down there 10 times by this point. And there was a group of us. I want to say there was eight or nine of us.

32:09Good mixture of guys and girls. What age were you at this time? I was 22. My buddy Josh, he had just been dating this girl for, I think, two or three weeks. And she gracefully said, I'll go camping with you guys. None of us had really ever met her before. It's a lot because, by the way, I've been in this exact situation. She's joining a group that's already done this a million times, right? Yes. Good for her. That's tough. The first look we got of her, she did not look like she was an avid camper. Okay. Already she was a little out of place. So we get down there Friday. Everything's good. You know, it's usually cooler full of beer, fire, sit around, tell stories, get up Saturday morning and go on a hike, try to look for some new stuff.

32:48So we're out. We're all doing our thing, hiking, having a fun time. And we'd run into this other group of hikers and we start talking and they start telling us about this cave that they had just been to. We're like, this checks out. We'll go. So this is something, I believe they called it Moonshiners Cave. If that tells you anything, some stuff was going on there at some point. So we get on the trail, we find this place, and it's got this low opening, and we've got our flashlights with us. And the guy had told us that we can go all the way through it. There's an opening, go out the opening, and come back around the end.

33:20So we're going through, it's pretty dark, it's caving. Guys are trying to be macho, girls are not liking it, but they're putting up with it. But they're stuck, yeah. Yes, they're stuck. They don't want to go back. It's pretty dark.

33:49We get to this point. It's called like Fat Man's Misery, something like that. Oh my God. I hate it. No, no. Very narrow. You've just stumbled into one of my great fears. Which is claustrophobia. Yes. When I see spelunking, I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with you that you would enjoy that? I don't know. Some people love that stuff. Yeah, they do. They do. Good for them. Our group was half and half. Half of us liked it. The other half was not too happy. So we're all squeezing through this thing. We all make it through. Everybody's kind of happy. The new girlfriend, Molly, I think she was probably a little bit claustrophobic.

34:22So she's kind of getting a little bit nervous, a little bit antsy. And we start walking. We finally see sunlight. The problem was the sunlight was coming from above us. There's definitely an opening there, but it's like a sinkhole. What? So we're looking up probably 12 to 15 feet. Jagged sandstone all over it. And my buddy Joe's like, look, I think we can climb out of this thing. Oh, no, Joe. No, no, no. Joe was that guy, though. Joe was that guy. Everybody's got the friend Joe. He attempts to scale it first. He gets up. No issues. It looked like other people had done it before. She can kind of see where people were putting their hands.

34:59I went up. My buddy Pete goes up. And then two of the girls come up. No issues. Up at the top, it's kind of slippery. You got wet leaves, a little bit of mud and stuff. And it's Molly's turn to come up. No. Oh, Molly. Molly. I feel horrible for Molly. Has anyone considered, like, tying a bunch of shirts together or any kind of rope system to throw down? No. That wasn't even a thought. No. It was like, we're all just going to muscle through this, climb out. So she gets on there. We're kind of guiding her where to put her feet, where to put her hands. She gets up to the top. She comes up to me. I grab her hand and I say, you know, you're going to go behind me, but go to the left.

35:36Don't go to the right. It's slick. For whatever reason, she ignored it. She didn't hear it. She steps to the right and she slips. Have you guys ever seen those like nesty plunge commercials? No. They just fall backwards into the pool. Oh my God. She went straight down this hole. head first. Oh, fuck. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Doesn't hit the side miraculously. Oh. Lands on her back. Eyes roll back. We all freeze. It's dead silence. Everything's going through my head. I'm like, is this girl dead? Is she paralyzed? Yeah. Oh. How are we going to get EMS here? Like, this is kind of before cell phones. Also, climbing out of a shaft is much easier than climbing down a shaft.

36:20We still had a few people down there. Josh, her boyfriend, was down there. Okay. And I just remember screaming down, like, don't touch her. Don't move her. Let's give her a second. It felt like eternity. Her eyes open up and you hear.

36:35She had gotten the wind like severely knocked out of her. Yeah. And she laid there. After like 30 seconds, my beta block is kicking in. My mouth is getting all dry here.

36:49After about 30 seconds, she sits up. She starts feeling around. She was visibly terrified, but she stood up. We started checking her. Everything was good. And we're like, look, you got two options. We can go back through the cave to get out, to get back to the camp. Or bad option, climb again. Oh, boy. This girl was a trooper, though. She ended up climbing out. We got her out. Everybody got up safely. We're all kind of just like racking our brains like, what just happened? Go back to the campsite. Everybody kind of goes to their tents. People are cracking beers. She goes in there. and we start hearing like crying, like weeping.

37:26We're like, oh no, she's in a bad way. The shock has worn off. The trauma is setting in. The other girls go in there and she came out of the tent and she lifted up her shirt, her entire back. Everything was bruised. Like the worst bruising I've ever seen in my life. Oh God. We got out of there safely. Nobody was seriously injured. I doubt she ever went camping again. I don't think that relationship lasted too long. Right, it doesn't sound like a match to me. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. But we all dodged a bullet that day for sure. Yeah, big time. So there's photos. Yeah, take a look at those photos.

38:01So one of them is the entrance. Oh. Okay, the entrance doesn't look inviting at all for the listener. I'm never going in there. The entrance is like, I don't know, there's a three-foot gap at best to get in, and it's just miles of shale above you. This is horrible. Or like a sandstone. Oh, my God. And then the next photo is someone looking down into this hole. Fuck that. Also, what she landed on is just covered in fucking sharp rocks. It was a miracle. I wonder if she did break anything and she just ignored it. I'm surprised she didn't have internal bleeding. She probably did. And you guys just didn't do anything about it.

38:40Dax mentioned the whole shock aspect. She was probably in shock. She gets that flight or fight thing going on and she's not really feeling anything. and not to bore you, but I had this pretty horrific motorcycle accident in Santa Monica and I didn't have insurance. So I refused the ambulance. And then I actually rode the broken motorcycle 10 blocks home and I'm think I'm fine. And then I got in the shower and boy, once I got in the shower, I was like, oh boy, I think I have some broken things. It's crazy how long it can be delayed like that. Yeah. Well, it's a little bit of denial mentally. And then obviously you're like, I do not want to go to the hospital.

39:12That's just another ordeal. Can't afford it. I hope Molly is thriving. Oh, she is. In her big city job where she never has to go camping ever again. Probably an injury attorney somewhere. Wow. Well, Kevin, I don't know why you were nervous. You told that story like a pro. But let me ask you this. You have beta blockers on demand, which makes me think, do you do public speaking or something? When do you need them? Yeah, with my position, it's called the AFN, like the Armed Forces Network. we do have a radio show that I'll go on and promote different safety things. And then I've got to get up in front of the command a lot and just give speeches and talk about risk management, all that kind of fun stuff.

39:54Yeah. Wow. I've never, and I have a lot of friends that obviously take beta blockers because they're performers, but I've not heard the dry mouth thing. Like Kristen takes them before she sings. That's exactly what I thought. I was like, oh my God, that's a side effect. How is she doing that? Yeah. What if she got dry mouth right before a big thing? Guys, we're all different. Our bodies react differently. You're right. You're so right. You're right about that, Kevin. Hey, can I give a quick shout out? Yes. My beautiful wife, Tenille, it's one o 'clock in the morning here. She tried to stay up.

40:22She apologized. She wanted to come see you guys. No, we apologize that this is the timing. This is the best Zoom call I've ever been on. So I really appreciate it. Well, please send her our love. Yes. She is a true angel on earth if she is homeschooling all these children. We did it for whatever it was, two months during COVID, and it was almost family ending, you know? She's definitely the rock of this family. She keeps it all together. So much love to her. I wish she was here. Oh, lovely. Have fun in Greece. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to stay as long as we can. Lovely meeting you, Kevin. Take care.

40:59Kalinikta, kalinikta. Bye. Bye. It's not mean. It was definitely goodbye in Greece. Was it goodbye or love you? Or like, it could have been a lot of things. You guys are so hot. Hello. Are you in an RV? I am. Actually, it felt very sentient considering it's a camping story. Exactly. Sim. I'm actually packing to go camping this evening. Oh, my God. Ding, ding, ding. Are you in Canada? Yes, I'm definitely in Canada. You clearly picked up on that. Yeah. Are you in Ontario? I am in BC. I'm on Vancouver Island. Oh, the beautiful Vancouver Island. Are you in a motorhome or are you in a trailer? I'm in a trailer.

41:40So I guess it could be loosely considered camping, considering it's 30 feet long and has a number of very nice amenities. Well, don't you think that there is a trajectory for all of us campers, which is like you do a lot of tent time and then eventually as you get older, you get weaker, right? It's true. I did the sort of natural progression from tenting to the little camperette to a fifth wheel and now what feels like a very bougie trailer. trailer. Congratulations. Yeah, it's good living. We drive a bus around, but yeah, to be able to be in nature and then also come in and cook food is pretty damn nice.

42:13And hear the rain as opposed to experience it. Yeah, good distinction. So will you go camping somewhere on Vancouver Island? I'm in Couchin Valley and we do a load of camping at Couchin Lake. We are situated in a pristine location. We have rivers and oceans and Gulf Islands and lakes galore to visit, which we sort of rotate between. You also have brown bears. More black bears, cougars. I actually had a bear in my garbage can two nights ago, which the dog right through the ceiling and was a wonderful mess to clean up. Oh, my God. Okay, so you have a camping story. Tell us about it. When did it happen?

42:54I have many camping stories. I'll tell you the best. It happened three years ago, 2023. I scheduled a week-long trip to Couch and Lake. It's one of my favorite spots. You're out of cell service, beautiful swimming, et cetera. And a good sort of kickoff is the first week of July. So school's wrapped. I was really looking forward to, you know, a much-needed break from work. How many kids do you have? Two kids. The story is essentially about my son, Brenner. He was nine at the time. And I have my daughter, Ruby, who was five at the time, and my husband and our dog joining me. So my son's a big sports player.

43:26So he was on a number of baseball teams and the sports team scheduled a tournament over the same weekend. So we quickly realized we're going to have to commute from the campground. So for the first three days, we're going to have about three or four games that we'll travel to and from to play. And then I'll have the remainder of the week to relax. And so the first night, Friday night, we stayed in town for a game, drove up. I was very uneventful, got to our site, settled in. And I decided to call it a night. I wanted to get in early. It was a big week packing and doing all the things. And so I said I'd hang out with my daughter, Ruby, reading a book and having a glass of wine and finally, you know, I'm clenching my jaw.

44:07The boys have recognized some friends from town. They're camping next door. So they decided to join their campfire. So I'm hanging out and not too much later, I'd say 45 minutes to an hour, I hear a bit of a commotion outside of the trailer door and my husband and son kind of crash into the trailer and I immediately can tell something's gone wrong. And so I'm trying to get a bit of understanding. It's quite chaotic. I of note have experienced many, many emergent situations with my son at this point. We have had enough head wounds and poison control calls that I can now sort of kind of flag them as, okay, that's glue.

44:43Those are stitches. Here's where we're at. So I'm trying to remain calm and just kind of get scope of what's happened. And they tell me that He's burnt himself and he might have burnt his eye. And I go, what? And so he says they're next door, decide to do the standard camping thing and make some s'mores. And so he's handed this two prong metal roasting stick. As if you've made s'mores, you know, sometimes when you get it from the previous user, there's a little bit of marshmallow leftover. So he put it in the fire to burn it off. It fell off and he picked it back up and went to blow out whatever was still attached to it.

45:21And he dropped the hot metal poker onto his face and into his open eye. What? Oh, my God. This is like a torture scene in a kidnapping movie, right? Oh, my God. I can't think of anything worse than getting a hot poker to the eyeball. Was it the sharp part, too? Yeah, this is my understanding. This is what I'm told. I've dropped the hot poker onto my face. So I'm like, okay, what is happening? What have you guys done? There's two dads. They grab cell phone flashlights and are like, hold open your eye, let me see. And pour in some cold water from a bottle of water and just see, you know, are you sure you burnt your eye?

46:01My instinct is I'm like, how are you not on the ceiling screaming bloody murder right now if you've burnt your eyeball? I cannot imagine the intensity of that pain. And he's pretty cool. I'm looking at him immediately. There is a small pink mark at the highest point of his cheek. And as you know, burns, they don't really develop right away. But I noticed that, OK, there's enough visibly there. There's no mark near his eyelashes and these beautiful, long, dark lashes. So I think, well, surely they would have melted. His cheek being a little bit younger at nine or a little bit fuller. And so they stuck out further than there.

46:35So I'm just trying to play as much logic as I can. He's not letting me look in his eyeball. It's really bright. So I turn off all the lights and I kind of do the subtle side light. I look and I truly can't see anything. So at this point, I don't think he has perhaps. Maybe he just closed it in time. I give him Tylenol, Advil, and what's called rescue remedy. It's like a little homeopathic thing to sort of settle your nerves. And so I get him settled and I say, what do you want to do when he just wants to go to bed? And I'm like, okay, for sure. So I'm like, I'm going to sleep with you. If anything happens or you're not feeling good, let me know.

47:07And it's important to note the campground closes their gate at about, I think, 11 o 'clock, 10 or 11. And we are 40 minutes away from any sort of healthcare center as well. So I eventually fall asleep. I'm very surprised to see he goes to sleep quite quickly. He's barely cried. He was more than anything quite embarrassed because this was, you know, a friend and he was a little bit older. was probably going to be on his hockey team that fall. And so I get everybody settled. And in the morning, very first light, I look at him and I see that, okay, that burn on his cheek has developed. It's that dark purple.

47:38You can see it's a bit of a shell scab forming. I kind of gently check on him and I say, how you doing, buddy? Do you mind if I just double check your eye? I want to see. I just want to make sure you're okay. So I crack the blind a little bit and it's all filtered through the ferns and trees. It's low light and gentle. And he cracks his eye open And there's this white line right down the center of his eyeball. Oh, my God. The color, the pupil, everything. And he looks like this insane snake. Oh, my God. I was like, he's immediately blind. This is all happening. He's never going to explore it again.

48:12I almost throw up, but I have to shove every single part of that. Yeah, you don't want to freak him out. No, right? So I'm like, oh, OK, well, you know what? I think it might be worth a try this morning. Why don't we load up? We'll make it a thing. We'll grab breakfast. And I'm trying to be as calm as possible, making absolutely wild eye contact to my husband who's like asleep still. And I don't even know what time frame. I get everybody loaded into the car. I get him in the backseat, kind of reclined. I say, why don't you just keep a blanket overhead? You probably don't want light on you. I'm like whisper hissed what's actually happened and what I saw to my husband.

48:47And I'm like, get it together. So we are driving and I'm trying also not to drive at like 180 kilometers per hour like I want to. That'd be 104 miles an hour for our American listeners, just so everyone knows. I'm driving along and my husband in the front seat is just kind of seesawing between gagging and throwing up to like weeping. And I am karate chopping him being like, shut up. Oh, wow. He's really unraveling on you. Is he hung over? It could have been, although I'm sure the amount of adrenaline might have washed all that out. I've learned now, as I said, we've been through quite a few emergent moments.

49:24I thought for sure I would be the weaker one. I fainted with the first head wound and then realized, okay, no, I'm going to have to be the one who digs deep and deal with it later. And so I was like, you get your shit together. You keep your blanket on your head. And I just continued gentle coaching like, hey, buddy, we're just going to get it checked out. You never know if we want to keep camping for the week. Maybe we need a little medicine and whatever happens today, we're going to be fine. Yeah, you're paving the way to say, like, your life's going to change dramatically. And we've got to slowly start easing into that new reality.

49:56Well, you'll have no depth perception. Is he saying like, yeah, it hurts? At this point, no. Like, it hurt the night, but he was more mad about everything. And I think because it was so mishandled and he was just kind of overwhelmed. But on the drive, completely cool as a cucumber, just laying back, blanket on his head. put in my head, I'm like, okay, what's so cool when I nickname or maybe we'll never play any sports again. And maybe we'll never have depth perception or, oh my God, could I be a mom with a glass eye? Like, could I ever try to support that? That's going to be a 90 degree learning curve.

50:31We finally get there. I don't park. I just leave the door open, throw the keys to my husband. I'm like, take her home. I'll reach out later. I got to go. And thankfully, again, inside emergency, they triage him they recognize clearly this is a pretty legit injury they give him this kind of an eye cover which keeps air off of it wrap his head up and we are put back into the second portion we have a phenomenal group of staff members that provide exceptional care in a very small and dated hospital in our community so we were in essentially a supply closet with the lights out but with a stretcher.

51:07And so we had a nurse, very lovely man come in first. He provided some more pain management. And then it didn't take long at all for a doctor to come in who was able to do sort of a physical inspection, confirm, okay, obviously there's the burn on the cheek and confirmed, yeah, you have a shallow cornea burn. With that, the treatment plan, they were going to explore calling in an ophthalmologist. They sent out the notes, et cetera. She decided based on the description. It was shallow enough that a follow-up would be sufficient. So that was scheduled for two days later. We got freezing eye drops and antibiotic eye drops because your next risk, of course, is infection.

51:46And a nice handful of some eye patches to take with us and we were discharged. So we went home and I kind of got him settled. He ended up having a nap and he wakes up and he's just feeling fine and said, you know what? I still want to go cheer my team on because he knows he can't play the game now so i'm at the ball game with him he's in the dugout with this head wrap and eye patch on looks like he was attacked by a brown bear

52:15he's had two trophies now for sportsmanship he just really wanted to be there and cheer on his team they ended up winning we ended up going back camping we spent the night and then the next morning you know we were following all of the things and i guess it must be similar to a mouth but it healed so quickly and essentially just kind of sloughed off. That's rather gross. That same day, he ended up deciding he was fine. And we put a ton of sunscreen on the actual cheek burn and a hat and sunglasses. And he went out and he played the final game and scored an in-park home run. And the whole team won.

52:54And it was just most insane weekend ever. This is a movie. All right. I've got photos. Yeah. Okay, here's the championship team. There's the team. You can see his little white spot. And then we've got some of the actual injury. Here we go with his contraption over his face. And then his cute little burn on his cheek. What did he get on his ankle? What's going on with the ankle? I've actually written in a few times and everybody that are all arm cherries, thanks to me, immediately said, well, what story? And in that week alone. So I mentioned we went back camping and he finishes the game. The next day, I fell down the stairs and I absolutely annihilated this one leg.

53:36And then I thought, that's fine. Let's just keep on going. And then two days after that, that is my leg. I got bit by a dog. Oh, my God. That's bad for a dog bite. It's like in there. And I was so frustrated. I was like, I have gone to the hospital four times already this week. I only have five days off and I just taped it up. And I'm actually just not even addressing this at this point. Wow. Yeah, you guys need like a nickname, like the ouchies or something. Like the whole family is really vulnerable to injury. Yeah, accident prone. We're a bit of a chaos crew for sure. I see the snake. Yeah, yeah.

54:17It's cool, actually. Now that we know his eye stayed intact. Well, Anna, I burnt my cornea as well one time. Stop it. Yeah, Monica already knows the story. But I was in high school. I was a senior. I was in a girl's yard in her front yard. I was smoking a cigarette. And I jokingly, I don't even really know what I was thinking, but I was going to like ash my cigarette by flicking it. And I flicked it and it went straight up, flew up in the air and went straight into my eye. And I blinked at the worst time. Like it'd been better if I just didn't even blink. But when I blinked, it pinched the cherry end of the cigarette where I had to smack the cigarette out of my eyelids because it was pinched in there holding it.

54:55and then you had to go to the doctor. They said, you burnt your cornea. They gave me drops in a patch. How long did you wear the patch? A few hours. Did you score a home run? I did not. I wasn't on any championship teams. Yeah, I probably wouldn't smoke more cigarettes. Yeah. I am grateful at night it wasn't from a cigarette and only a smart one. Do you want to meet me? Oh, yeah. This is Dax and Monica, but you know them. Yeah. Brenner? Yeah. Yeah, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Are you a Blue Jays fan? Yeah. And you're still talking to us even though we're from Los Angeles. I appreciate it.

55:35How does your eye feel now? All better? Yeah, it's fine. It's like all better. Oh, good. You still playing baseball? Yeah. What position do you play? Pitcher, shortstop, and backcatcher. These are all the roles that pay the most money if you get into the major leagues. So keep at it. Good choices. well we're proud of you for going back to your game and that story it's really good big time thank you and you're about to go camping again are you going to make some marshmallows probably but not with the marshmallow stick okay we've learned our lesson there right have you ever made a s'more with a Reese's peanut butter cup instead of a Hershey's chocolate bar yeah we've probably done that before yeah that's where it's at that's where it's at thanks for chatting with us yeah yeah thank you yeah you can see in one of the photos he's got another scar right above the burn from the six stitches a day before kindergarten.

56:24Motorbike can see the fence. Whiskey throttle. You guys have been through it. Anna, nice meeting you. Such a lovely family. Thanks so much. Take care. Bye. Oh, cuties. I want to go camping now. I really do. Oh, you really do? Yes. I want to camp. All right. Love you. Love you. Do you want to sing a tune or something? I want to have a theme song. Okay, great. We don't have a thing song for this new show, so here I go, go, go. We're gonna ask some random questions, and with the help of our cherries, we'll get some suggestions. On the flyer, I'm Dish. On the flyer, I'm Dish. Enjoy.