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**Break**: \[39:40\] |
**Taylor Troesh:** Hello. I am Taylor Troesh, from good old taylor.town. I'd like to tell the story of my first Strange Loop, many, many years ago. This is my sixth or seventh. So this had to be like 2012, or something like that. |
**Jerod Santo:** Okay. |
**Taylor Troesh:** \[39:53\] So I got this Airbnb out by the river... And it took me like an hour or two to find it in the middle of the night, because it was just this old, abandoned building. And I was very scared, and nobody was texting me back, and I had nowhere to go. I'm totally alone. And so finally, finally, th... |
**Jerod Santo:** Okay... |
**Taylor Troesh:** They look at me, and they're like "Do you want a drink? Here's a shot." He poured me a shot. I was like "What do you guys do?" He's like "I'm a regional manager for McDonald's." And the other guy's like "I own a car salesmen place", something like that. And so we're just chatting, and then a commotio... |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] Okay... |
**Taylor Troesh:** So they were on vacation in St. Louis, on a bachelorette party, and literally half an hour before, they all just found out that one of the people in the bride's party slept with the groom. |
**Jerod Santo:** Yikes! |
**Taylor Troesh:** So this was the situation. We have the Airbnb host passed out on the couch, we have these two guys that I'm talking to, and they're there kind of creepy... I'll get that in a bit. And then we have this bridesmaid party where they're literally punching each other in the face. That is when I make my mo... |
I wake up the next morning, because there was a motorcycle show outside... And so at 5am there was motorcycles lining up. Okay. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And they're loud. |
**Taylor Troesh:** Okay, so I want to come back to the next night. These guys... I come back from Strange Loop, and all the girls have made up at this point. The wedding's back on. |
**Jerod Santo:** Oh, wow. |
**Taylor Troesh:** These two guys that I was talking to, they went out into town and brought some girls back from the bar. And so I get back, and we're all chatting... And the girls are like "Oh yeah, these guys say that they work in investment banking." I was like "Oh, that's not what they told me." |
**Jerod Santo:** You outed them. |
**Taylor Troesh:** Well, I was thinking this... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** It was an internal thought. |
**Jerod Santo:** Oh, you were thinking that. You didn't say that. |
**Taylor Troesh:** Yeah, I'm thinking this. |
**Jerod Santo:** Okay. It's a big difference. |
**Taylor Troesh:** So then one of the girls pulls me aside and says "I'm uncomfortable. Can you escort me out?" |
**Adam Stacoviak:** The girl they brought back, you mean? |
**Taylor Troesh:** Yeah, the girls they brought back. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Oh, okay. |
**Taylor Troesh:** So I essentially had to -- so I left with them, helped them get an Uber and stuff, and kind of kept the... It was just such a weird situation, because you can't say no \[unintelligible 00:43:14.29\] |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And you took your stuff with you, or you had to go back and get your stuff? |
**Taylor Troesh:** No, that's the problem. This is urgent, and it's in the middle of the night... And so my stuff is at this Airbnb, with these guys, and I don't know what they're doing... And all they know is that I'm like trying to -- I'm in this weird position where they said "Hey, we're good..." But they didn't wan... |
**Jerod Santo:** Right. You took their girl and left... |
**Taylor Troesh:** So I escorted them out, and I had to leave my stuff at the Airbnb. Luckily, they didn't touch my stuff. I didn't see them again until the next day, in which I was like "Yo, what's the deal?" And they're like "Oh yeah, we just lie a lot." And that was it. |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] And that was it. |
**Taylor Troesh:** Like, that was such an unsatisfactory ending, but... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** It could have been so bad. |
**Taylor Troesh:** I think they were so drunk the night before, they didn't remember anything. |
**Jerod Santo:** "We just lie a lot. |
**Taylor Troesh:** So the moral of the story is, if you ever stay in St. Louis, the Grand Union Station Hotel is an amazing hotel to stay at. |
**Jerod Santo:** \[44:07\] Hopefully the conference was good... |
**Taylor Troesh:** Oh, the conference was amazing. \[laughter\] That's the story... |
**Jerod Santo:** That's the ending point right there. That's his ending right there. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** If you have to... |
**Taylor Troesh:** I do have one more from last year. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** See, he's got more. He's got more. |
**Taylor Troesh:** A Strange Loop memory from last year. I've been coming for a long time, but last year was a highlight, for sure. I am somebody who likes to give gifts out. I carry a little bag of trinkets. And I gave one to somebody, and he said "Oh, hey. Thank you. My daughter is gonna love this little hair clip. I... |
So I'm in the middle of a conversation with somebody the next day, and somebody taps me on the shoulder and says "Are you Taylor?" I'm like "Yeah." He's like "I've got some card tricks to show you." And so he started showing me card tricks. It was pretty good. And he's like "Yeah, I'm the magician that so-and-so sent a... |
**Jerod Santo:** What...? |
**Taylor Troesh:** ...like doing card tricks. And I think at this point they'd both exhausted their very comfortable tricks, and they keep on messing up. And it's just -- it's getting sloppier and sloppier, because they're going further into their repertoire in this magic-off... |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] |
**Taylor Troesh:** So I kind of am like "Hm... How do I get out of this?" Because I was stuck in the crossfire. So I said "So how long have you been into magic?" and he's like "Oh, I'm a microbiologist." \[laughter\] He's like "Magic is a new thing." I'm like "Oh, okay. This makes a lot more sense." |
**Jerod Santo:** Oh, man... |
**Taylor Troesh:** And that's another good \[unintelligible 00:46:04.19\] |
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