Podcast Feedback Returns
Posted on August 21, 2007
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At long last, I am happy to announce the return of the Podcast Stuff/Feedback page. OK, so it’s really only been a couple of weeks, but faithful listeners have sent in some pretty amazing stuff since we’ve last updated, so without further ado …
First Up: Feedback from the 8/10/07 episode … Vacation Nightmares!
okay so my name is stephanie and im a nazarene and every 4 years we have Nazarene youth conference with every youth from canada and the us. well our district (dallas) chose to take charter buses to where it was being held which was in st. louis well when we got to our hotel they had lost our reservation and they had to split us all up. then the next day one of our buses broke down while we were @ the museum. That same day i got a call from my dad saying that my 19 yr old cousin had been run over by a jet ski and was probably going to die (shes now fine but then it was really scary) then when we went to see the arch the bus driver missed the turn and took us across the river to east st. louis and we got to see where they dump all the bodies. then to top it all off our hotel flooded one one floor and a lot of peoples things were ruined and we had to spend two hours outside the front of the hotel while the firemen fixed it. so yeah thats my vacation disaster but all in all i can say that i had the experience of a lifetime
- Stephanie B.
Where they dump all the bodies?!
OK, my story begins two years ago when i went to a Quarry in Shawnigan Lake. it was when we left that the disaster started… We were driving down the malahat, our two lane highway from the capital city to the rest of the island, and i started to feel that my legs were warm and i thought, “how nice, my step brother turned the heat on in a stripped 1969 ford astro van.” then my step brother James said, “something smells like campfire.” “well, we are driving by a camp ground right now!” thirty seconds later our buddy brent, lying down on the floor of the van, which happens to have holes in it says, ” hey guys, the vans on fire!” so we pull over to the side of the road and use a fishing spear to unlodge a couple hunks of oil-drenched paper from under the van. That’s when we realize, we were cleaning out the van earlier and kicked burger king wrappers, and old newspapers under the van. when we get back in the van, after having put the fire out what song should come on the radio but…AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”
Your Brother In Christ,
Jacob C.
Burger King wrappers, old newspapers, an Astro van and AC/DC are always a formula for a good time.
My worst vacation ever was when I was five. We live in Ontario, and we decided to take a vacation to Florida. However, we didn’t have enough money to take a plane, so we drove all the way to Florida. The five of us packed into my dad’s quad cab truck and we were off. One of the nights of the drive, we stopped at a motel, but there was no vacancy, so the five of us slept in the truck that night. So after three full days of driving, we finally arrive in Florida. After only a few days, I had a major asthma attack. For the rest of the trip, I stayed on the couch and watched tv in my grandma’s trailer while the rest of the family went out and had a grand old time. Several days later, my condition had only worsened so my parents decided to cut the trip short and head home a few days early. So the five of us packed back into the truck and headed back, driving though the night so we would get back quickly, with me sick the whole time. To this day, if my sisters need me to do something for them, they will pleasantly remind me that they came home from Florida early because of me.
Jon B.
At least your van didn’t catch on fire
Okay, my horrible vacation story happened a couple year ago in Hawaii, when my parents and sister went on a volcano hike with a delusional and hypochodratic women. She assured us everyone hiked on the volcano at night, but when we got there around 8pm everyone was headed back. The local-slightly crazy friend of my mother was wearing flip flops on the sharp volcano rock, and when her flip flops broke we all had to giver her our socks, but she insisted that we continue in the dark up the erupting volcano. We were well off any sort of path by now, and it was pitch black except for the glow of lava in the distance. When we eventually reached the lava, flowing in an ember looking stream beneath the rock it was very anticlimactic. We then had to begin the trek back over a lava field at midnight with no trail.
The crazy lady began to say she was going to have seizures as we went back, and had to rest every few minutes. We were lost on the lava field for most of the night and finally made it back to our car at about 4 in the morning. My sister and I seriously thought we were going to die during the night, as we were lost on a live volcano in the middle of the night. It was not a fun experience, and I do not want to see lava anytime soon. For the rest of the vacation in Hawaii. I was still super tired and sore from the hike. It took place the day before New Years eve, and so the next day, (New Years Eve) I was so tired I fell asleep at 7. So it was a near death experience and it ruined my New Years.
That was the worst, but thankfully I survived. Keep up the good work!
Regards,
Sarah G.
From our experience, dangerous lava fields on the sides of live volcanoes have always been fun outings! It’s shocking that this one went so terribly wrong.
So a few years ago my twin brother, my mom and I got to go to Spain with my dad for spring break. He had a conference all week, so we just did touristy crap and shopped all day. We did have a super swank hotel though…cause everything was on the expense account 
One afternoon I was in my parents room waiting for my mom to get ready, and I was sitting in her window seat. Across the street there was a construction site, with diggers and front end loaders. I don’t think I’m the only person fascinated by those, but nonetheless I got my mom’s binoculars and watched them going at it. A few minutes later all of the workers took off their shirts, which I thought was odd. Then it looked like one was staring straight at me, but there was no way he could see me, right? We were 8 floors up and across a major street, and they were digging a basement, which essentially made them 9 floors away.
I told all this to my mom and she was like ‘well wave and see’. Which I did. And they waved back!! I threw the binoculars down and got to the other side of the room as fast as I could. But we had to leave the hotel in a couple minutes, and the only door is straight across from the construction site… So you can imagine the combination of my embarrassment and their waving and yelling ‘Hola’…they thought i had been staring at THEM with the binoculars, not the front end loaders….that and the fact that I get embarrassed easily did not go well together. (actually I can just think about getting embarrassed
and I turn red, it’s awful)
Audrey
Ahhh, the mysterious intrigue of front-end loaders
Here’s a preview of next week’s feedback (which is already pouring in!) about weird fashion trends (and a rant about stilts): Ben Buysse’s poster for the chilling thriller “Stilts!” 
And what session of Podcast Feedback would be complete without several pictures of crazy squirrels? (Christopher Holmes) 
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Um, Jesse…I’m thinking the first “crazy squirrel picture” is not of squirrels at all. Maybe prairie dogs.
Just venturing a guess.
Great stuff, nonetheless.
Ahhh…it’s really nice to see the page up and running again. Thanks guys and girl.
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I love the “Stilts” poster. It has a creepy “Mothman Prophecies” look to it. I’d go see that movie.
the Stilts poster was great, but i’m wondering why it has the production crew, producer, director and actors (some of whom, btw, are no longer with us) as the original Superman movie.
personally, i found the worst-vacation-ever stories to be a bit anti-climatic.
wait, did she say, they dump all the bodies in east st. louis?
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Hey i went to NYC also and i had no sponser for two day, yall are right that we are illadiquatly sponsered but i came closer to Jesus…. later on in the week. Go Nazarenes woop! woop!
WES
hey stephanie id like to here about what you thought ofNYC in St. Louis. From one podcast listener to another. wez4prez.blogspot.com and send me a comment.
WES
i love squirrels but i cant spell squirrel. anyway these squirels are the awesomest squirrel pics ive ever seen
eerm would just like to add.. squirrels have tails …. not sure if its just me but these squirrels dont have tails.. love the picz tho there awesome xD