Tracy
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
We ended up once everything opened up, we took the kids shopping.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, okay. Maybe Irish sometimes.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Beautiful island on the east coast of the country.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, yes. The new flying dog. They're big. Big boys. Wow. That was fantastic.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, my head almost blew off my shoulder. When the kids were young, I used to always try to have Christmas Day at the house. Didn't want to disrupt them from their stuff. So my family would come over. So my older sister, my younger sister, we're all like little bit glam queens. And they showed up like just superstars. I'm still in an old T-shirt with mascara down my face. And they're like,
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
what the heck is going on with you? I said, you're never going to believe what happened. This is the worst day ever. Well, not the worst day. This was just the worst situation. We threw out Christmas. Every year for about 10 years after that, at 4.30, I would run and just look for the gifts. Just get my eyes on them. Because I knew that everything's closing in about an hour.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
If they're gone, I can hightail it to a Walmart or to a store and just buy something.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, thank you for having me. Can I get my husband to come in and say hello?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
No, it's not. My girlfriends were trying to blame him. I said, no, I threw those down the stairs and should have tucked them away. The green garbage bag at the time was the downfall of that evening. That's for sure. It's been a fun story for a long, long time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
You as well. Thanks so much, guys.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Nice to meet you both as well. Well, thanks for taking my story. When you guys started Armchair Anonymous, I was like, man, I got a story.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
So this is a Christmas story that happened about 20 years ago on Christmas Eve.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yeah, so our children at the time, Daniel, he would have been about 13 and Abby would have been about 8 years.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I will be 56 tomorrow. Nice! Also, happy birthday. Thank you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I'm having about 100 hot flashes now because I'm a bit nervous. Okay, that's all right. As the mom, the head shopper, my goal every Christmas when the kids were younger was to really have a great day. And it's not just about gifts, but a lot of it is about the gifts.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yeah. And it's not about the quantity. It's just about making sure that they're getting what they put on their Santa list. So I'm in sales and at Christmas time, I'm super busy. So I always try to get everything done before we get into December. And I think it was like December 3rd. I hauled everything out and was going through everything. And we have to have the same amount per kid.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
The Christmas spirit is happening in that bedroom as well as you get my drift here. So I'm making everything fits in the stockings appropriately and I'm making lists. Okay. Abby's done. Daniel needs a couple of things and it's getting late. It's 1230. So I tie everything up to make sure that I know where it is.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And went down two flights of stairs and we have this crawl space that no one goes in because we're frightened to death of the crawl space.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Oh, yeah. It's terrible. I threw them down over the stairs and I went, oh, no one's going down here tomorrow. I'll put it in the crawl space when the kids go to school. So let's go ahead to Christmas Eve that year. And we're having a great day, visiting family. And I'm having some wine. Sean's driving. Mom is partaking. Nothing serious, just having a couple of drinks.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And we said, okay, it's time to go home and get the kids straight away and read our stories and do our traditions. And myself and my husband, Sean, we sit on the couch. And it's actually an unbelievably beautiful evening. The snowflakes are coming down. We're just getting ready to have a cocktail.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
This is not the norm. Usually it's just a gong show. And I'm a stress bag. Is everything okay? I got to cook a turkey tomorrow. Is that out? He looked at me and said, you are doing so good. I said, I know. This is great. So it's getting late. It's about 10-ish. And I said, let's get everything organized for under the tree. So that's done. And then we can just relax for an hour before we go to bed.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
He said, all right, I'm going downstairs and getting everything organized. So I'm looking out the window and life is perfect and I'm just so happy with my family. I could hear him open up the crawl space. Then I heard him close the crawl space. Then he opened the other crawl space.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And when he opened the second crawl space and closed it and he went over to the third one, I just kind of like perked up. Yeah, yeah. And he called out, he said, Trace, where are the gifts? Yeah. And I was like, they're in the same place they always are. And I started to go downstairs.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And at that point, tent is thrown out, Coleman stoves, every piece of hockey equipment Daniel owned, every old toy that the kids had from growing up that you just throw in the back of that. Things are going everywhere. And I'm like, what the actual fuck? is going on here. Yeah. I said, it's right there. I know no one opens this door. The kids don't look there because they're terrified of it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
He's in the other crawl space. Then he's out in the garage and the garage door is opening and closing. We're not giving in to the panic, but it's just on the surface. And we start to go back to the night that I did all the gifts. And we realized when I threw them down over the stairs, the next day was garbage day. Oh.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
So now it is 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve. And I'm just like, oh, yeah, what's open? What's open? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? And at that point, he actually started to cry. And I was like, oh, no, no, no. He was like, I threw the mountain. I said, well, I threw the down over the stairs.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I'm thinking I have to get up in the morning and tell those two little children, one who is the big believer of the Christmas spirit, that their parents are idiots and there was no Santa.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yeah. Oh, my God. Listen, people have really bad shit going on in their lives. I'm going to tell you, this was the worst feeling I had in my life up to that point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a bit of a hangover starting on top of it. I got a headache. I'm crying. Sean's freaking out. We're just like, we are the worst parents. And then Abby wakes up and goes, what's going on?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
My Santa's here and you guys are awake. And I'm like, just go back to sleep. And there's no cell phone. So I'm not texting my girlfriend and going, help. It's getting late. I called my mom. My mom had just been recently retired. So she would like tinker around in stores and that little gift shops and secondhand stores. She said, okay, I'm on my way. And she brought this box.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I mean, I looked in it and there was comics from 1982. Oh my God. Okay, that'll do.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Sister and husband and two kids were living overseas in Qatar, and they were home for Christmas. And she's really super organized, so I knew she'd have some stuff in a tickle trunk somewhere. She said, I got some goodies. We're going to come over. I was getting so late, and we took all the stuff they had and started poking it in stockings and unwrapping stuff.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And there was gifts that Sean's family, they live in Calgary, they sent to us, and I started unwrapping those saying, could we use some of this?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Yeah. So now it's two o'clock in the morning. I am a broken, destroyed human.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
We just go to bed. Sean goes, I don't know. This is going to be bad. I'm like, we're idiots. Couple hours later, Abby wakes up and she's super excited. She has no idea what's going on. And she goes into Daniel's room and gets him up. The rules are you're not allowed to go downstairs. Mom and dad have to go down, get the video camera going. Like it's the old fashioned video camera.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
There's no phone. Me and Sean aren't even speaking to each other. We're just looking around going, this is so bad. Come downstairs and they start going through their stuff. And because Daniel, I still had to get him a couple of things. He did okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Sean's sister Trudy had a camera with an SD card. That was a gift he wanted. And at the time, this is when brand names like Nike and West 49, the skateboard clothes was good. And it was expensive. And he had asked for this specific sweatshirt. It wasn't there. Oh, no. Anyway, Abby's going through her stocking.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
So she's this little eight-year-old girl that the spirit of Christmas is alive and well inside of her. And she's digging her hands into everything. And everything she takes out, she looks at it with this little look on her face like, what did Santa bring me? And then smiles and lays it down. And she goes through everything. She takes out the comic books, covers off it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
I'm like, how did I put that one in there? 1979, I'm sure. And she's just like, oh, wow. I am just shell shocked.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
the bottom of the stocking she hauls out this little clear cylinder package and it's all filled with gold like gold chain i don't know what it is she goes mommy what is this i said let's just open this up so we open up i don't know what it is as it opens up it unfolds into like a cleopatra costume headdress oh fun that's great it's like a chain mail hat Absolutely. So I put it on her little face.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
Some of her teeth are adult teeth. Some are little baby teeth. She's got this weird old crooked smile. She puts this thing on. It goes over one eye and she looks at me and she goes, mommy, my princess. And I remember thinking that sweet little child does not care. Yeah. She doesn't know. Yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And I just remember looking at her and my heart just soared. And I went, baby, it is beautiful. You are Santa's little princess.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And just thinking, oh, my goodness, did we pull this? Anyway, I took Daniel aside. He was older. And I said, buddy, I am so sorry. He said, mom, I got everything I wanted. This is great. And we kind of just went, oh, my goodness, we pulled this off. Daniel knew, but he kind of just parked it in his memory.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
And quite a few years later, I've said to the kids, do you not remember that crazy Christmas? And they were, no, no idea. That's hard.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Holiday Nightmare II
It was the worst feeling ever. I thought I'm going to get up in the morning and tell that sweet little eight year old that there's no Santa. And that crushed me.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Pre-Block
I remember that feeling of, okay, this is how I die.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Pre-Block
I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Pre-Block
I remember that feeling of, okay, this is how I die.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: Pre-Block
I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it. So come and join our girl gang.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
I felt really bad about it because this happened in my neighborhood. I felt like it was my fault. Totally. And now, listening to this and his excuses, I don't care how much money it costs. That was really, really kind of creepy.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
You know, it's really, really weird, and I just think that you should have spent $250 maybe taking me on the date the next time because I would have said yes.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
Oh, see? Whatever it was, unfortunately, I think that this one's definitely a no-go.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
I remember that feeling of, okay, this is how I die.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
I remember that feeling of, okay, this is how I die. And turn that darkness into light. I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it. So come and join our girl gang.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
Yeah. Okay. Tracy. Why are you guys calling me?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
I should not be talking to him anymore. I don't know how much you know, but there are some really... really sketchy things that happened that night.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
That's not what I'm talking about. Oh. I just... I felt like I was lied to.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
I caught him in a lie.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
That's why I've not been calling him back. Okay. Oh. Does he know about this? He doesn't know that I know.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
Oh. No. He knows what he did, but he doesn't know that I know what he did.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
He left the next morning. Yeah. And a couple hours later, my apartment manager said he wanted to talk to me. And I was really confused because he's never wanted to talk to me about anything before. Like, I'm like, am I in trouble? Yeah. And... He told me that there was video surveillance of Justin slashing his own tire.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
He slashed his own tire so that he could come and stay with me.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
No, there was a streetlight right over the car, and you could see very clearly that it was him. Wow. The reason my apartment manager contacted me about it is because you could see Justin walk up to my door.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
That is so uncomfortable. He's on the other line, so he's heard what I said.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
Oh, no. I don't want to talk to him.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: After Date Double Trouble
Oh, my God. No, no, no. I had a great time. Hey, you had a great time. It's so disgusting. I can't believe that somebody would actually stoop to that level and slash their own tires.
Crook County
Inside Crook County: Behind the Mic with Kyle Tekiela
I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it.
Crook County
Inside Crook County: Behind the Mic with Kyle Tekiela
I remember that feeling of, okay, this is how I die.
Crook County
Inside Crook County: Behind the Mic with Kyle Tekiela
I want to take over the world and just leave this place better than I found it. So come and join our girl gang.
Serialously with Annie Elise
257: Nichol Kessinger, Lori’s Back & Jodi’s Not Guilty?
Things didn't work out between the two of us. And I was thinking... that I was giving my son a better chance at a full life. If I had known what, I just can't fathom. I have no words. There was a park that I was told Craig would actually take him for walks. I would park there and be there for hours just trying to see if I seen him. Never seen him.
Serialously with Annie Elise
257: Nichol Kessinger, Lori’s Back & Jodi’s Not Guilty?
Absolutely. High school yearbooks, I know I started there. Nothing in Waterbury, nothing in Wolcott. I didn't have any reason to worry because as far as I knew, he was with his parents, living his life. What were they doing? Were they waiting for him to actually die? What were they going to do then? I'm going to be there for my son. I'm going to be there for my brother.
Serialously with Annie Elise
257: Nichol Kessinger, Lori’s Back & Jodi’s Not Guilty?
I'm going to stare daggers through his skull.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
Hi, thank you for taking my call. I have a question. My dad passed away in March of 2023. My sister and I were originally, thank you, were originally co-executors. A month after my dad passed, things got really volatile and I removed myself.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
I had my attorney draw up a letter to remove me from my dad's estate, let my sister be, and I've had no contact with them since, just via a few texts, a few emails, very generic. I received an email on September 3rd from my sister's attorney, the probate attorney, asking me to sign a document regarding my dad's home had been on the market for over a year and had not sold.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
My siblings want to close out the estate and put a renter in there, which is not what my dad's will says, but because I'm an heir, I have to sign this document. My question to you is if I sign this document, am I removing all legal representation that my remaining three siblings are just going to you know, honor my dad's will and divide things up according to the will.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
Basically, my dad's will is very generic, was... sell all my assets, pay all my debts, divide everything by four. Nothing has been done correctly in my dad's will. Nothing has. And I've just let it happen. I mean, I stepped away, so I'm fine with that. But my fear, and my husband and I are in Baby Step 7. We're building a home for cash.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
We don't really need the money. Nope, nope, we don't. And that's kind of where we're at right now. If we sign the letter, we're... How much is the house worth? maybe once it sells and the debt that there was still a mortgage on it, we might be talking 200,000 profit. It's divided by four. We're talking 50,000 each or less or less each.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
There are some other assets that, you know, that's not accounted for and I don't even care. I just, is it worth it? Is it worth the fight?
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
So my position is, and which is what I told the probate attorney, I want the house left on the market and it's sold.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
That's it. That's what the will called for.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
Well, they already are because they dropped the house below. Right now, the house is left below appraisal or value because there's no more money to pay the mortgage, which is fine. I don't care, but I don't want it taken off the market. My other conflict, Dave, my sister is also the executor and the realtor, and this is one of our first house sales, which is another reason why.
The Ramsey Show
Financial Peace Starts With Clear Boundaries
Exactly. Okay, I just wanted to make sure, like, that's my thinking.