Ep. 148: Love Thy Neighbor! (Ft. Melissa the Trailer Park Manager)

Folks, I am proud to say this episode is someone who I hoped I may someday get on a mobile-road-pod, but thank goodness she moble’d her way all the way home to TSS for a legendary episode I completely fumbled half of with a stupid camera error.  More learning by making massive mistakes, we love to see it!

My guest is Melissa, one of the community managers at the company I work for at my day-job. She manages a manufactured home community in the midwest, specifically in Lansing, MI. Melissa is hilarious, hard-working, and cares about her family above everything. 

She told me about growing up in Metro Detroit, what makes a ‘Good Michigander?’, Faygo & attending an Insane Clown Posse show, how she learned later in life that her dad was in the Hells Angels before she was born, not taking ‘NO’ for an answer & what it was like raising three kids as a single mother, and how she managed to set a good example for her younger sisters by living a bad-example lifestyle in her adolescence. 

I am thankful for Melissa sharing her perspective on the need for us all to meet our fellow Americans in the middle to share in our common values, instead of cutting family members out of your life because of who they voted for — whether on the right or the left. 

 

May her hilarity & wisdom be as enjoyable for you as it was for me during this shorter, but just as awesome as ever, episode of InTALLerable. 

 

P.S. // Yearly Newsletter to the board:

This past year our show has grown in unexpected ways, welcoming new & unexpectedly fascinating guests who bring our listeners authentic, human conversation in an unfiltered setting.  It’s our right, ain’t it!? — “Use it or lose it!” — I think Superman said that about his X-ray vision, if I’m not mistaken..  

If this is your first time finding us, welcome!  If you have listened before, thank you!  

I enjoy talking to guests that I probably wouldn’t otherwise talk to — about their life, their passions, their struggles — at least not in the free-world, sandbox-style that I do on this silly little satirical show. 

I am objectively young, and though my spine is fused..  I'm inexperienced, foolish, naive, riddled with poor decision making & attention seeking behavior, let me spare you continuing..  (Is this going anywhere??) 

As I reflect, I think I am “further along” (whatever that is supposed to mean for a 27 year old in the US in the year 2025), than I would be if I hadn’t dug into the resistance that comes with making this show.  Sending that first message, asking that guest who I think, “Oh, they’ll never come on..  They are busy with their life. Don’t bother them. Why even ask?”  

The process of engaging with people different from me in their life, their perspective, beliefs, knowledge, or their passions, has made me challenge myself in positive ways.  So before we roll over the new year, I want to say thank you for being part of that, whether you are a long-time listener, a guest of the show, a new-found-fan, or a future listener.  Thank you for being on this ride with me!  Let’s see what we can do in 2025.

FO & BW