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In these times of quarantine and social and physical distancing and all that’s going on, I’m not going to lie, it’s been tough for myself and I’m sure for anyone who can’t be with the people they love most when a loved one passes. In our case, this is what happened when Crazy Larry also known as Dad, died last month on March 25. There’s been no funeral, no way to get together, other than on Zoom, no way to sit in a crowd and share funny stories and sing and listen to his favorite songs, no way to gather together at all and, frankly, it sucks.
If you’ve heard any of these stories before now, you know that Crazy Larry earned his name for a reason…we also called him Yosemite Sam and as much as we loved him and put up with him… he was a complicated person and a loose cannon… you just never knew who you were going to get with him, which kept us all on our toes. Since today would have been Crazy Larry’s 80th birthday and in honor of him, we’ve pulled together this collection of stories for your listening enjoyment. - Join us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/howinthehelldidIgethere/ - Follow us on Instagram @kimaflodin or @howinthehellpodcast - Share your love for the show with financial support! https://buymeacoffee/thecoloringbookcoach - Subscribe to my other podcast: How to Fall in Love with Yourself TOOLKIT - Thank you YouTube Free Music Audio Library & Silent Partner for our theme song, 7th Floor Tango and ad music, Blue Skies https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8qITGkBvXKsR1Byln-wA It’s been quite a week, right? We’ve got quarantines and Covid19 and working from home and it almost feels like we’re waking up in a different world every day. The day I recorded this intro, Wednesday March 25, 2020, I did wake up to a different world when I woke to the news that the man we call Dad, Crazy Larry or Yosemite Sam had died at home during the night. He had not been well for a long time and this wasn’t exactly unexpected, but it also wasn’t exactly expected either. Ironically today’s show was going to be a continuation of last week’s episode which was called Yosemite Sam’s Daughters Don’t Take No Guff. Enjoy some more about Crazy Larry, plus a story from Erin's husband Van about his son, Genius Boy #3. And RIP Dad, you had a helluva run. - Find your FREE 14-Day Writing Challenge and support our Sponsor when you visit the Happy Self Publisher https://happyselfpublisher.com - Join us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/howinthehelldidIgethere/ - Follow us on Instagram @kimaflodin or @howinthehellpodcast - Share your love for the show with financial support! https://buymeacoffee/thecoloringbookcoach - Subscribe to my other podcasts: How to Fall in Love with Yourself TOOLKIT & Tell Me Your Secret - Thank you YouTube Free Music Audio Library & Silent Partner for our theme song, 7th Floor Tango and ad music, Blue Skies https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8qITGkBvXKsR1Byln-wA
Happy Halloween! Today it’s all about tricks and treats! Our treat for you today is an AD-FREE show and if you’re up for treating us, we love cookies from ko-fi.com…It’s a super easy way to support the show and we rely on you to help us keep running…. So don’t be a trickster, be a treater and help us out at Kofi.com/howinthehell! And, we have a BONUS for you - be sure to listen all the way through to hear the November episode of How to Fall in Love... with Yourself Monthly Toolkit... the other podcast I release monthly!
We have a terrifying show for you today all about the house we grew up in. So, Jenny and Kari are here to share a collection of creepy tales that happened in our childhood home and some are being told here for the very first time!!!! Story 1: Growing up in a haunted house can make you feel like your losing your mind! There always seemed to be things happening that just didn’t quite make sense and all seven of us kids learned to cope by keeping our lips zipped and pretending that things were okay…Jenny shares two terrifying memories from when she was just a little kid! Story 2:The house we all grew up in was large, it was an old Victorian that was built in around 1880 and had a distinctly Gothic vibe especially after our mom painted it a shade of gray that was almost black, but it was still only a 3 bedroom 1 ½ bath house and we had 7 kids, 2 parents and an assortment of dogs, cats, birds, and more living there, we also had the most kids on the block, so our house was the headquarters for every kid in the neighborhood – it was also, as you’ve heard, haunted as hell. Kari tells a story of something that somehow moved in the night. Story 3: Our last story is all about the man in the house… and no, I’m not talking about Crazy Larry, also known as our dad… no there was another man and both Jenny and Kari had startling and scary encounters with him! -Join us on Facebook! bit.ly/FacebookHITH -Buy us a cookie or two! bit.ly/ko-fiHITH -Thanks to our Storytellers: Kim A. Flodin & Jenny Gardner -Thanks The Coloring Book Coach, grab your free coloring book: http://thecoloringbookcoach.com -Thank you YouTube Free Music Audio Library & Silent Partner for our theme song, 7th Floor Tango, ad music, Blue Skies, scary music, Slow Shock http://bit.ly/youtubeHITH Produced, edited, written and hosted by Kim A. Flodin, with editing help from Kari Flodin.
I'm really proud of this week's episode, which airs August 8, 2019, and hope you'll give a listen. It's a very special episode for a couple of reasons... first of all, August 8, 2019 is the day myself and my sisters chose as D- Day when we started the podcast as the date we would decide if we wanted to keep doing the podcast!
And, it would have been our (myself and Kari's) dad's 79th birthday on this airdate. He is a big reason I have had a life-long love of broadcasting and also a huge inspiration for me doing this podcast! He died when he was 28 and I was 6. But, he lived a very full and amazing life in those 28 years, this week's episode is a tribute to him and it would be an honor for me if you listen. Thank you! -Join us on Facebook! bit.ly/FacebookHITH -Become a Producer at Patreon bit.ly/HITHPatreon -Buy us a cookie! bit.ly/ko-fiHITH -Thanks to our Storytellers: Kim A. Flodin and Kari Flodin. -Thanks The Coloring Book Coach: Find your free coloring book: -Thank you YouTube Free Music Audio Library & Silent Partner for our theme song, 7th Floor Tango & ad music, Blue Skies bit.ly/youtubefpodcastmusic
Who doesn’t love getting a new car? Especially a BRAND NEW car? Jenny has that experience in today’s first story… but what she has to live through beforehand and afterwards is some true How in the hell did I get here craziness… thank goodness she’s also living on an idyllic hobby farm at this time and has some new and adorable baby goats to keep her mind off everything that is going on!
If you hear anyone else talking about Rocky 1 and Rocky 2, it’s safe to assume they’re talking about Sylvester Stallone’s classic films, however if you overhear a conversation between any one of the sisters, you realize pretty fast that is not Slyvester but something else.. in this case, a raccoon… actually 2 raccoons that lived as family pets, named Rocky 1 and then Rocky 2 (we were not generally so unimaginative in our pet naming) and were adored by our the man we life to refer to as Crazy Larry, or sometimes just Dad – if you’ve been listening you’ll remember him from the Fun Grandma story and also the time he shoots Jenny… be sure to listen to Pregnant Cat, Gunshot Wound, Christmas Present.
Quick note: Today’s episode includes swearing. And we apologize for the uneven sound quality this week… we had some technical difficulties.
We might not have been the most conventional family on the block... One of the things that happens in our family is a chronic under-reaction to crazy things that most people would most likely have somewhat of a bigger reaction to.. like, say, a gunshot wound, otherwise known as a GSW. In our family, we hardly bat an eye because it’s just one more crazy thing, right? Especially if no one dies or is seriously injured – maybe its because we come from such a large family – 7 kids, so there’s more possibility of crazy things happening more often OR maybe it’s because we’ve all become used to dealing with the man we call Crazy Larry, also known as our dad. Enjoy today’s episode featuring my sister Jenny – it’s all one story that we’re calling Pregnant Cat, Gunshot Wound, Christmas Present. This is Kim A. Flodin and Welcome to How in the Hell Did I Get Here? (Side note: It turns out the BB that came out of our brother Matt was put there by our brother, Kris… so Crazy Larry is off the hook on that one.) If you have a How in the Hell Did I Get Here story and would like the chance to be featured as a call-in story teller, give us a call right now at 323-488-3303 and leave us your story! That’s 323-488-3303 Today’s show was produced by Kim A. Flodin and features Jenny Gardner and Kari Flodin One more thing, I wanted to give a shout out to my friend, Nicole Rivera...if you’re a writer or want to be, check out her podcast Stop Writing Alone to find community and inspiration. It’s fantastic! Our theme song is 7th Floor Tango by Silent Partner and was downloaded from the YouTube Free Music Audio Library. (listen on YouTube) Listen on itunes Join us on Facebook Support us on Patreon
NOTE: Today's Episode is in honor of this badass, sassy, take no prisoners, party until she’s says stop, tough as nails and fun as hell grandma, who I’m sure is having a cold one, raising hell, and telling all her best dirty jokes right now.
RIP Grandma Pat: 1926-2019 Life truly is an an adventure and it’s probably no surprise that myself and my four sisters seem to have more adventures than normal! After all, the show’s not called How in the Hell did I get here for nothing! Today’s episode is in honor of our maternal grandmother, Grandma Pat, who is featured in our first story. She was truly remarkable… a mother of 8, a grandmother of many including three great, great, great grandchildren. Sadly we lost her in early February of 2019, less than 48 hours after this podcast went live and I like to think she hung around to see it happen. They broke the mold after Grandma was born, you’ll understand what I mean when you hear our first story which happened at a family party a long time ago. In our second story, I find myself divorced and ready to go on a vacation! So, I do the logical thing… find a women’s travel adventure company and book myself on an adventure to Cozumel (side note, have you noticed when I go to Mexico crazy things happen to me? Um yeah!) It turns out to be a great trip, but little did I know the adventure would start before I even got on the plane! Everyone loves a good garage sale, right? In our third story today, Erin decides to throw the Mother of all garage sales and the prep takes weeks! I’m there to help out and it’s going great... until the day she tells me that we have to set up seven teepees…. Let me repeat that: seven teepees…. On the lawn…. In 98 degree heat…. Welcome to How in the Hell did I get here? Thanks so much for tuning in! If you enjoyed today’s show, please rate us and leave an itunes review… shout out here to Lilac Amethyst and Hardware Kid for their recent reviews... and if you can share the show with a friend, we would really appreciate it. We’re an independent podcast and the only way for us to get found is with your help… so, thank you! Today’s show was produced by Kim A. Flodin and features myself, Kari Flodin and Erin Beach. Thanks to The Coloring Book Coach for supporting the show. Support us on Patreon for the option to listen Ad Free, receive discounts on Merch in our fun store, get cool color packs and a lot more! Come on over, subscriptions start at just $2 a month! Our theme song is 7th Floor Tango by Silent Partner and was downloaded from the YouTube Free Music Audio Library. (listen on YouTube) Listen on itunes Join us on Facebook Support us on Patreon |
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