Armchair Anonymous: Wild Card IX
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What is the premise of Armchair Anonymous?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman. Hi. Our favorite promo, well, that's not entirely true. We like. Evacuation's our favorite. Yeah, we love that. But second to that is Wild Card. Mm-hmm. And we're often blessed with an evacuation story within Wildcard. That's right. Yes. Yeah, this spans the whole map of different possibilities. So love Wildcard. Keep them coming. Keep submitting Wildcards. Yes, we have that prompt up all the time. So feel free to submit at any time.
Yes. Please enjoy Wildcard number nine. Ooh. Hard times come and go. Hello. Hi. Normally I would say, hi, blank. Nice to meet you. But of course, we're going to use a fake name. So have you picked one? I have not. Do you have a fake name? I do because I'm looking at my Nicorette spray and I'm going to say your name is Nikki. I'll take it. Nikki's fun. Okay. So Nikki, where are you? I am in the Rocky Mountain West. Okay. Okay. I like to find patterns and sometimes they're really not there, but I do think of the many people that remained anonymous. It's tends to be in that Rocky Mountain area. I'm having like a few other memories. Pack Northwest and Rocky Mountains, people like to keep it a little quiet. I like that theory.
My track.
What is a Wild Card story in the context of the podcast?
Okay, so you have a wild card story, which is always our favorite because we have no clue what you're going to tell us about. I will say I did put it in for another prompt and it didn't work out. So I'm glad it's in the wildcard now, but I'm not going to give any clues on the other prompt. Okay. Okay, good, good, good. Keep us in the dark. This happened in North Idaho, summer of 2007. I am freshly 18. So I decide with a couple of my guy friends that we're going to bike downtown to the lake and we are going to take our slackline. Do you know what a slackline is? Is that the thing you balance on? You tie it to a couple tree trunks and try to walk across it? Exactly. It's like an inch and a half piece of webbing.
You do little circus activities. You've seen that, right, Monty? I think so. Yeah, it looks very hard. It was very much a vibe in 2007. There was kookas and hemp necklaces involved and you hang out and you're very cool. Yeah, it felt like it was adjacent to the hacky sack. Oh, sure. We get our bikes, we get our slackline, and we go downtown. And we're going to go down to a boat slip down on the docks and tie the slackline up between two pillars. Genius. So you'll fall into the water? Yep. We pedal down there and Iron Man is going on. So downtown is absolutely swamped. Every parking lot is filled. There's bicyclists. There's all these ripped ultra athletes wandering around. There's tents. There's speakers. We're like, okay.
so we shimmy through all of this we still go down to the boat launch we hook our slack line up cinch it down and the guys are like you can hop up first so i hop up make it about halfway across the line I fall and the line snaps me pretty hard right between the legs and I fall into the water. When you say in between? 100% contact on my vagina. I fall into the water, completely have my breath taken away, come out gasping, doggy paddle to the edge of the dock. And I'm like, oh, this is bad. Something is not good here. So I get up out of the water. Oh, what if you saw your vagina floating? And then you go, catch that vagina! Like when you see your bathing suit bottoms floating and it's like, oh! I stand up and blood is just pouring out of me.
Ow, ow! There's a puddle of blood and these two guys are staring at me just panicked. and one of them says get back in the water and I'm like oh okay so I hop back in the water now I can't see the blood pouring out of me I'm face to face of the pool of blood in front of me and I'm looking around and the water's all shiny and glistening and there's just gasoline and oil from the boats and All over. And I'm like, there's definitely an open wound.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of Armchair Anonymous?
0:00–1:52
2
What is a Wild Card story in the context of the podcast?
1:52–5:15
3
What happened during the wild card story in North Idaho?
5:15–9:40
4
How did the slacklining incident lead to an unexpected injury?
9:40–11:57
5
What was the reaction of friends during the injury incident?
11:57–14:54
6
How did the situation escalate to a call for help?
14:54–18:31
7
What were the consequences of the wild card story?
18:31–21:41
8
What lessons were learned from the experience shared in the episode?
21:41–49:18