Episode 477: The Fall On The Berlin Wall

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Stories are great. Who doesn’t love a good story. We have been telling them passing them around spreading them for as long as humans have been around. The best way to spread a story, so it can reach thousands even millions of people is through the internet. The internet may be one of the best inventions so far. You can buy 1,500 live lady bugs on Amazon and get it the next day, if you forgot to watch the latest episode of Scandal on ABC 7 you can illegally watch it online a few hours later, you can use the internet to find research and write a 5,000 word essay on The Fall On The Berlin Wall, so to say the internet is pretty useful. You can either use the internet for that purpose or use it to hear 20 years worth of great stories that are posted …show more content…
Sure they were interesting but they didn't appeal to me the most, yet the one that stood out to me was Act One: Take Your Kid To Work Day, It’s about how this boy joins his mom on a road trip from Texas to Mexico to clear the way for his father who is trying to smuggle drugs into the country in a trailer truck with his other son next to him, you may think that crazy but that is how the father earns money for his family. Anyways the mom and younger son are crossing the border to see if its open or closed, if its closed and no one is there it's perfect for them they'll smuggle the drugs with no hassle, or if it's open they'll have to pray and see if they don't get pulled over for being suspicious and end up in jail for like 30 years. (this was in the 80’s btw) The mom and son see that the border is open they're nervous about it they're ahead if the father, when they cross the mom is extremely anxious she tries to settle down before she meets with the border patrol agent. he doesn't question it, they pass. Now they just wait on them to pass through the border. The dad clueless about the agent there goes along till he gets to the border, he is 100x more anxious to see him since he actually has the drugs less than 5 feet from him. Next thing you know they're next in line. they pull up the agent he ask where they're going and if they are citizens, the father says yes, and guess what they get let into the country. Talk about the things a father would do to provide for his wife and

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