Discover
The Apple Seed
S8 E12: Petty Larceny - Stories for the Whole Family by Bil Lepp and Donna Washington
![S8 E12: Petty Larceny - Stories for the Whole Family by Bil Lepp and Donna Washington S8 E12: Petty Larceny - Stories for the Whole Family by Bil Lepp and Donna Washington](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts126/v4/5f/40/9a/5f409a08-1a78-175d-ba1d-736f41baa1b9/mza_11970015361191914938.jpg/400x400bb.jpg)
S8 E12: Petty Larceny - Stories for the Whole Family by Bil Lepp and Donna Washington
Update: 2025-01-09
Share
Description
Gather your family to listen to stories about a couple playful plots that both end in funerals...and a whole lot of fun.
(00:58 ) "Raised on Hose Water" - Bil Lepp tells his rip-roaring tale about water bars, stolen goats, and a veritable mine of brewing mischief.
(15:25 ) Sam Payne shares memories about his community park's drinking fountain.
(19:25 ) "Anansi and the Pot" - Donna Washington shares a West African story of Anansi, a precursor to Brer Rabbit, and his philosophy that a good bit of cleverness can get you anywhere.
Stories bring us together and the stories on The Apple Seed will spark memories that you can share with the people you love. The Apple Seed is a storytelling podcast by BYUradio and is hosted by Sam Payne.
Key words: Stories, storytelling, storyteller, family, larceny, stealing, theft, water, goats, guysers, mischief, comedy, anecdote, prank, plot, childhood, friends, folk tale, Africa, African folktale, Brer Rabbit, cleverness, pots, beans, scheme, funeral, trickster, tricks
(00:58 ) "Raised on Hose Water" - Bil Lepp tells his rip-roaring tale about water bars, stolen goats, and a veritable mine of brewing mischief.
(15:25 ) Sam Payne shares memories about his community park's drinking fountain.
(19:25 ) "Anansi and the Pot" - Donna Washington shares a West African story of Anansi, a precursor to Brer Rabbit, and his philosophy that a good bit of cleverness can get you anywhere.
Stories bring us together and the stories on The Apple Seed will spark memories that you can share with the people you love. The Apple Seed is a storytelling podcast by BYUradio and is hosted by Sam Payne.
Key words: Stories, storytelling, storyteller, family, larceny, stealing, theft, water, goats, guysers, mischief, comedy, anecdote, prank, plot, childhood, friends, folk tale, Africa, African folktale, Brer Rabbit, cleverness, pots, beans, scheme, funeral, trickster, tricks
Comments
Top Podcasts
The Best New Comedy Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best News Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New Business Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New Sports Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New True Crime Podcast Right Now – June 2024The Best New Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Right Now – June 20The Best New Dan Bongino Show Podcast Right Now – June 20The Best New Mark Levin Podcast – June 2024
In Channel
00:00
00:00
1.0x
0.5x
0.8x
1.0x
1.25x
1.5x
2.0x
3.0x
Sleep Timer
Off
End of Episode
5 Minutes
10 Minutes
15 Minutes
30 Minutes
45 Minutes
60 Minutes
120 Minutes
![](https://s3.castbox.fm/webstatic/images/volume.86474be8.png)
![](https://s3.castbox.fm/webstatic/images/transcript.6b0dd817.png)
Transcript
00:00:00
(upbeat music)
00:00:01
Welcome to the Apple Seed, the Storytelling Podcast from BYU Radio, where your family can gather for great stories from great storytellers in every episode.
00:00:11
Stories bring us together.
00:00:13
And we hope the stories on the show will spark memories and thoughts that you can share with the people you love.
00:00:19
I'm your host, Sam Payne, and today we're gonna bring you a folktale about announcing the spider, the trickster from West African folklore.
00:00:26
But first, a story from Bill Lepp, the tall tale teller from West Virginia.
00:00:32
It's a story about, well, about swiping garden hoses.
00:00:36
(laughs)
00:00:37
And while it's pretty outlandish, it might bring to mind thoughts for you about childhood adventures or maybe misadventures shared between you and your childhood battles.
00:00:46
The story's called Raised On Hose Water, and recorded live in the Apple Seed Studio.
00:00:52
Here's Bill Lepp to tell it.
00:00:54
(upbeat music)
00:00:57
(audience applauds)
00:01:00
- So my buddy, Skeeter and I, were in a water bar in New York City.
00:01:14
You heard me, I said a water bar.
00:01:18
This was a bar that served nothing but water.
00:01:22
And the way we got there is, you know, we were however old we are now.
00:01:26
I'm not saying 'cause you're gonna be playing this for decades.
00:01:29
And we were in New York City and we met up with some young 20s, 30s hipster New York people.
00:01:38
And they wanted to take us something to do something in New York that we couldn't do.
00:01:42
And our little town of half-doublessed, Virginia, they took us to a water bar.
00:01:46
Now this bar served nothing but waters from famous rivers and lakes.
00:01:51
And you could, or their kids were ordering things like heavy Norwegian fjords water with April Lake here on ice dusted with the snow's amount Kilimanjaro.
00:02:05
And one kid said that he wanted a re-vaporated jet-con trail.
00:02:11
(audience laughs)
00:02:13
From the wing of a 737 passing southbound over the Iberian Peninsula.
00:02:20
And then the waitress would ask follow-up questions like left-wing or right-wing.
00:02:25
(audience laughs)
00:02:26
'Cause everything's political these days.
00:02:28
And then she looked at me and she said, "What would you like?"
00:02:34
And I thought about saying something kind of smart-alike.
00:02:38
But then I thought to myself, you know what this lady, she didn't invent the water bar.
00:02:42
She just works here.
00:02:43
She's putting herself through school.
00:02:45
She's a mother.
00:02:46
She wants to be an actress on Broadway.
00:02:48
She doesn't need me to be a smart-alike.
00:02:51
So I said, "What would you recommend?"
00:02:54
And she said, "Maybe you would like some re-vaporated old faithful mist."
00:03:01
And I thought I would not.
00:03:04
(audience laughs)
00:03:06
So I said, "I'm from West Virginia.
00:03:08
Do you have any West Virginia waters?"
00:03:10
And she said, "We have water from the green software springs, the white software springs and the Berkeley springs."
00:03:14
Why didn't I want software water?
00:03:16
And I've had Berkeley springs water.
00:03:17
So I said, "No, let me ask you this.
00:03:20
Do you have any West Virginia geyser water?"
00:03:23
And she said, "Sir, I don't think there are geysers in West Virginia."
00:03:27
And I said, "Sure, there are."
00:03:28
And she said, "No, I don't think that the magma is close enough to the crust."
00:03:34
And I thought that is not the response that I had expected.
00:03:39
And I said, "As a matter of fact, we do have geysers in West Virginia.
00:03:43
It's got nothing to do with magma."
00:03:44
I said, "Just like under the great city of New York, there's a labyrinth of subway tunnels going back and forth in every direction."
00:03:52
I said, "Under the entire state of West Virginia, there's just a war on a coal mine."
00:03:56
And sometimes those coal mines catch on fire, and they're really hard to put out because they have literally tons and tons of fuel to burn.
00:04:02
And a lot of times they just seal the mine up and hope the fire goes out.
00:04:05
They call that a coal seam fire.
00:04:07
I said, "There have been coal seam fires going on all around the world, some of them for centuries."
00:04:11
And I could see those kids, those young people I was with, they were trying to be polite, but their thumbs were twitching 'cause they had right there in front of them what Andy offered everyone caused,
00:04:22
their verification machines.
00:04:24
And it's so much harder to lie these days, you know.
00:04:27
You gotta throw in some facts.
00:04:29
And I said, "No, I should go ahead, search engine it."
00:04:31
I said, "Check out Centrelia, Pennsylvania.
00:04:33
It's had a coal seam fire burning underneath of it since 1962 and boom, those kids won their phones and they were all tickity, tickity, tickity."
00:04:40
And finally, when I'm goes, there is such thing as coal seam fires.
00:04:43
And another kid goes, "There has been a fire underneath Centrelia, Pennsylvania since the 1960s.
00:04:49
They were burning some rubbish at the dump and a hole opened up in the ground and the burning rubbish fell into a coal mine they had to abandon the entire town."
00:04:59
And I felt vindicated.
00:05:01
(audience laughs)
00:05:02
And the waitress looked at me and said, "Well, it's still, they didn't say anything about West Virginia geysers."
00:05:09
And I said, "Yeah, that's because they're really hard to document."
00:05:11
I said, "Because what happens is we have these coal seam fires."
00:05:14
And sometimes it rains really, really hard.
00:05:16
And when it rains that hard, some of that water makes it all the way down to the mines and it drips into those burning mines.
00:05:22
And as soon as the water drips into those mines, it turns to steam.
00:05:25
And when that steam builds up enough in those mines, you'll just get an explosion, you'll just get a geyser out in the middle of nowhere.
00:05:31
It's not even gonna happen twice, but you know, people have seen.
00:05:34
And she said, "Well, we don't have any West Virginia geyser water."
00:05:39
And I said, "Then bring me whatever you think I'd like."
00:05:41
And she turned to sketer.
00:05:43
And I could tell she didn't want to ask him what he wanted.
00:05:47
She said, "What could I get you, sir?"
00:05:48
And he said, "You know what, what would you recommend?"
00:05:51
And she said, "How about a nice cocktail of Loch Ness Lake Pacal water with responsibly harvested Greenland Glacier ice infused with Persian rose water?"
00:06:04
And maybe sketer actually misunderstood her, or maybe sketer deliberately misunderstood her.
00:06:16
But what he said was, "Hose water."
00:06:19
[LAUGHTER]
00:06:22
He said, "Don't infuse it with hose water."
00:06:25
He said, "Bring me a whole glass of hose water."
00:06:29
And that poor young wager just went, "Wait."
00:06:32
And she said, "Sir, we don't serve hose water."
00:06:34
She said, "Hose water is dangerous, got toxins, chemicals, bromine, it can mess up your livers and kidneys."
00:06:40
And sketer looked at me and he said, "Man, this guy, we were raised on hose water."
00:06:44
[LAUGHTER]
00:06:48
And she said, "What are you talking about?"
00:06:49
And he said, "Well, listen, when we were like 12 years old, we got a fort off in the woods, maybe a mile off in the woods.
00:06:55
We had this fort.
00:06:56
And in case we robbed a bank or something, we needed to go hide out.
00:07:00
We built it with two by fours and a 10 roof.
00:07:02
Took a couch out there.
00:07:03
The only trouble was we didn't have any water because this was before you could carry water conveniently.
00:07:10
You had to have it running or you were going to die.
00:07:12
And so we needed a way to get water an entire mile.
00:07:16
So we went back to our house, the sketer said.
00:07:18
He said, "My family had a hose, but it wasn't a mile long.
00:07:21
But Bill's family had a hose, and we screwed the two of them together, and they still weren't a mile long."
00:07:27
But then we only lacked about 5,180 feet of hose.
00:07:33
And by this time, everybody in the bar was listening because sketer was talking loud, but also, you know, sound travels over water.
00:07:41
We'll edit that laugh in because that is a good joke.
00:07:50
So we decided we were going to do is we would just borrow some of the neighbor's hoses.
00:07:54
Now, operating under the principle that not everyone was going to be willing to loan us their hose for an indefinite period of time.
00:08:03
Sketer and I decided to borrow the hoses without asking.
00:08:08
So we went to all of our neighbors and we borrowed their hoses.
00:08:11
And then we had about 3/4 mile a hose.
00:08:13
And we connected it to a spigot behind a barn in Sketer's neighbor's yard.
00:08:17
And we started to haul 3/4 mile a hose out into the woods.
00:08:21
Now, it was heavy because that's a lot of lead.
00:08:24
And it was July.
00:08:28
So we were sweating and pretty soon we were thirsty.
00:08:31
And we finally got to the end of that 3/4 mile hose.
00:08:34
Now we were still 1/4 mile short, but that's better than a mile.
00:08:36
And we thought, man, it'd be good to have a drink.
00:08:38
And that's when we realized that we hadn't turned the hose on.
00:08:41
So we had to walk all the way back, turn the hose on, and then walk all the way back to get a drink.
00:08:46
And after that, we resolved we were never going to forget to turn that hose on.
00:08:49
But we didn't have like a nozzle to put at the end.
00:08:52
So when we were done, we just tied in a knot like that.
00:08:56
And it didn't slow the water completely, but it was just a trickle.
00:08:58
But that way, we always had water.
00:09:02
And skaters stopped talking.
00:09:04
And he looked at me like it was my turn.
00:09:08
And I thought a little scripture would be useful here.
00:09:13
So I said, "Proverbs 9/17.
00:09:16
Stolen water always tastes sweeter."
00:09:20
And skaters said, especially through a stolen hose.
00:09:25
[LAUGHTER]
00:09:28
And I said, we also had a goat out there.
00:09:33
I said, we had a goat.
00:09:33
Because we had a lot of bramb, a lot of like blackberry bushes, you know, a lot of thorns and stuff.
00:09:37
And those are hard to clear unless you have a goat.
00:09:39
Because goats will eat anything.
00:09:40
You put a goat out there clear in half a day.
00:09:42
I said, we borrowed the goat at night from Angus Fester.
00:09:50
Angus Fester was this mean old dairy farmer in town.
00:09:52
He loved cattle so much that he had named all of his children after different breeds of cattle.
00:09:58
So there was Angus, Jr.
00:10:00
There was Holstein, Hareford, Gernsey, and Jersey.
00:10:02
Hareford and Gernsey were the twins, which doesn't make any sense.
00:10:07
That's a geography joke.
00:10:08
Look it up later.
00:10:10
And then when Helen, as wife, finally had a daughter, she knew that Angus was going to name the poor girl after a breed of cow.
00:10:17
So she said, at least make it sound feminine.
00:10:19
And that's where Charley Fester got her name.
00:10:21
But anyway, I said, we borrowed that goat from Angus Fester.
00:10:27
And we took him out.
00:10:28
And he would just walk around and eat all the bramble.
00:10:31
And then when the goat got thirsty, he just walked over and drank out of the hose.
00:10:36
And those kids were like, you drank out of the same hose as the goat.
00:10:40
And I was like, the goat didn't mind.
00:10:42
And so I said, and then I said, once time, we got done out there.
00:10:52
And we went home.
00:10:54
And we were 12.
00:10:56
And when you're 12, what was very interesting yesterday is not interesting today.
00:11:03
And so it might have been more than a week since we'd been out to the woods.
00:11:08
And we were down there at the crossroads there and half dollar.
00:11:11
And we were listening to an argument going on between Sheriff Hasbro, who was the law in our community.
00:11:19
Sheriff Hasbro was the chief of police when he was 18 years old.
00:11:23
But at that time in West Virginia, you had to be 21 to buy bullets.
00:11:28
So his mom would have to go to the store with him to buy bullets.
00:11:33
Eventually, he became Sheriff, wonderful, wonderful man.
00:11:36
Sheriff Hasbro was arguing with Angus Fester.
00:11:38
And Angus Fester was saying, Sheriff Hasbro, somebody stole my goat.
00:11:43
And I don't think you're doing enough about it.
00:11:45
And Sheriff Hasbro said, Fester, how am I supposed to worry about one goat when there are 380 garden hoses?
00:11:53
Just gone missing.
00:11:59
And Angus Fester said, do you think the two crimes are connected?
00:12:04
And Sheriff Hasbro said, well, would a goat have to do a 3/4 mile garden hose?
00:12:10
And by that moment, Skeeter and I were kind of backing out of town.
00:12:14
But then we heard a whistling sound coming out of the sky, you know, like a bomb.
00:12:18
And we looked up and a goat was descending.
00:12:26
And it hit the ground with kind of a splat.
00:12:29
It gets worse.
00:12:33
And everybody turned and looked at me and Skeeter.
00:12:40
Now, young people especially, I don't want to tell you how to live your lives.
00:12:46
But I do want to tell you this.
00:12:48
But if you were standing somewhere, anywhere, and a goat falls out of the sky, and everybody just assumes that you had something to do with it,
00:12:58
you're living right.
00:13:00
So the goat fell out of the sky.
00:13:08
And after the autopsy, what didn't take long for Sheriff Hasbro to figure out what had happened?
00:13:18
And I just stopped talking.
00:13:21
And everybody looked at me because they wanted to know, but they didn't want to ask.
00:13:26
And the waitress, especially, didn't want to ask.
00:13:30
But then finally, magnanimously, on behalf of everyone else, she said, well, what did happen?
00:13:37
And I said, well, OK, first of all, the goat didn't really splat.
00:13:41
I may have underdescribed how the goat landed.
00:13:45
I said the goat landed in such a way that an autopsy was unnecessary, which is a fun thing to say to a bunch of New York 30-year-old vegans.
00:13:56
I said, we could see everything that had been in the goat.
00:14:03
And right there was about 18 inches of nodded garden hose.
00:14:10
And so Sheriff Hasbro went and started walking through backyards.
00:14:13
And pretty soon he came across that garden hose that was connected to the Spigot and Skeeter's neighbors yard.
00:14:19
And he followed the three-quarter miles out.
00:14:21
And I guess what had happened was that goat had gotten thirsty because we'd neglected him for a week.
00:14:26
And he'd finally just chewed off the end of that garden hose so he could drink whenever he wanted.
00:14:31
And while all that water running out of that hose, it seeped down into the ground underneath a burning coal mine that was just underneath that goat.
00:14:38
And when it exploded, it had sent that goat all the way to town.
00:14:41
And the waitress said, well, we still don't have any West Virginia guys or water.
00:14:50
And I said, you know what?
00:14:55
Just surprise us.
00:14:58
She came back a few minutes later, and she handed my drink, and she handed Skeeter his drink.
00:15:02
And he took a sip, and he said, oh, this is good.
00:15:04
He said, does this Persian rose water?
00:15:06
And she said, no, now, now.
00:15:09
That's New York City Public Restroom Dirty Mop Water.
00:15:13
[APPLAUSE]
00:15:16
Bill Lepp, with raised on hose water.
00:15:29
Bill's story rang a lot of bells for me.
00:15:32
For example, I had a pet goat when I was a kid.
00:15:35
We called him Goody.
00:15:37
I drink a lot of water out of the garden hose, too, when I was a kid.
00:15:40
And there was a certain technique to that.
00:15:42
Our favorite way was to point the hose straight up in the air.
00:15:47
And the water would form a kind of bubbler, and you'd suck water right off the top.
00:15:52
It was our favorite way, because that's just how the drinking fountain at the Northwest corner of the city park worked.
00:15:59
It was just a metal pipe rising up a few inches from a concrete housing, and water bubbled up vertically from it constantly.
00:16:08
There was no handle or anything to turn the water on or off, even.
00:16:12
It just ran all the time.
00:16:14
And it was set in what looked like a big square roadside monument made of red stones, the kind of monument on which you might see a historical plaque.
00:16:24
But on this monument, there was just a pipe bubbling up cool water.
00:16:28
And there's no detail so small that once you have it in your mind, can't unlock a host of memories.
00:16:36
That drinking fountain was the center place for trips across town to ride the gravel pit trails on our bikes or afternoons on the swings at the park,
00:16:47
nurturing our very earliest crushes in childlike conversation, or even once a year for the whole town to gather in town-wide waterfights sponsored by the fire department.
00:17:01
And those memories are just that, memories.
00:17:04
The experiences are long gone.
00:17:07
But memories feed us, tell us who we are and where we came from.
00:17:11
And bringing some of the best ones back is as simple as driving back through my hometown, driving up Main Street past the drinking fountain that's still there at the northwest corner of the city park,
00:17:24
or as simple as listening to a tale, however tall, from a storyteller like Bill Lepp.
00:17:30
And that's where Bill's story took me.
00:17:33
Where did it take you?
00:17:34
And who will you take a long?
00:17:37
(upbeat music)
00:17:39
♪ Simultaneously laughing ♪ ♪ We're all agreed that we love, love, love ♪ ♪ The apple seed ♪ There's a lot coming up, but I want to take just a moment to let you know about another show from among the BYU radio family of podcasts.
00:17:56
The podcast is called Constant Wonder and it's hosted by Marcus Smith.
00:18:01
In each episode, Marcus takes you on kind of a quest to find the awe and wonder in all nature, human or wild.
00:18:09
Not just interested in the natural world, interested in human nature as well.
00:18:14
Marcus's guests tell fascinating stories and talk about experiences that have left them all struck.
00:18:23
You'll love the podcast.
00:18:24
You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, all kinds of places to listen to Constant Wonder anytime you need a little dose of awe or wonder in your life.
00:18:35
Constant Wonder from BYU radio.
00:18:38
(upbeat music)
00:18:41
Oh, tell me some more, okay, I'll proceed with my story inspired by the apple seed.
00:18:50
It's a pleasure to be with you on the apple seed where we have one more story for you.
00:18:54
This one featuring Anancy the Spider, the trickster from West African folk stories and just as Bill and Skeeter pilfered garden hoses in the story we heard at the top of the episode,
00:19:06
Anancy does his share of pilfering from a miserly neighbor to teach him a lesson, of course.
00:19:12
Donna Washington is the storyteller, bringing us Anancy and the Pot recorded live in the Apple Seed studio.
00:19:20
(upbeat music)
00:19:23
(audience clapping)
00:19:27
So one of my absolute favorite characters is the spider from West Africa.
00:19:34
Does anyone know his name?
00:19:36
(audience laughing)
00:19:36
Anancy, of course you guys know his name.
00:19:38
You're a story audience.
00:19:40
So, let us start with an Anancy story, a very, very simple one.
00:19:45
It's called Anancy and the Pot.
00:19:47
Now Anancy lived in a village with Onini and Onini had a great big bean pot and they believed in this village in the philosophy of plenty.
00:19:57
That means everyone will have enough if we share.
00:20:02
Now, Onini never shared his bean pot.
00:20:04
He always wanted to be the one to have the biggest parties.
00:20:07
He always wanted to be in everyone's view.
00:20:10
He was Onini.
00:20:12
He would never lend out his bean pot.
00:20:14
Anancy thought he should take him down a peg or two.
00:20:16
And so he came over to Onini's house and he asked to borrow his bean pot.
00:20:20
And Onini said, "Absolutely not.
00:20:21
"You can't borrow my bean pot.
00:20:23
"I know how you are, Anancy, you'll break it."
00:20:25
No, no, no, no, I just want to borrow it.
00:20:27
No, you can't.
00:20:28
But Anancy is annoying.
00:20:32
How many of you know someone that just keeps at you and at you and at you and at you?
00:20:36
And finally, Onini couldn't take anymore.
00:20:38
She was like, "Okay, but you have to bring it back "in two days," Anancy said, no problem.
00:20:41
So that first night, Anancy has a big party.
00:20:44
He's sharing the beans.
00:20:46
They're having a great time.
00:20:48
And the next day, he does not bring Onini's pot back.
00:20:52
He brings back a little bitty pot.
00:20:54
Onini says, "What is this?"
00:20:57
Anancy said, "I'm sorry, but your bean pot had a baby."
00:21:00
(audience laughing)
00:21:03
Now, Onini had never seen his bean pot have a baby, but now he just took it 'cause now he has two pots.
00:21:09
Well, Anancy brought his pot back in next couple of days.
00:21:14
Well, about a month later, Anancy showed up at Onini's house and said, "Onini, I want to borrow your pot."
00:21:18
And at first, Onini said, "No, no, no."
00:21:20
But Anancy just kept at him, and at him, and at him, and at him, and at him, until finally, Onini agreed, and Anancy took the pot, and he had a big party, and everyone came, and they were eating beans.
00:21:30
Everyone was so happy.
00:21:31
And the next day, Anancy did not bring his pot back.
00:21:34
He brought back two little pots.
00:21:36
(audience laughing)
00:21:37
Onini says, "What is this?"
00:21:38
Anancy said, "Your bean pot had twins."
00:21:41
(audience laughing)
00:21:43
Onini kept both pots, and then of course, Anancy brought his bean pot back.
00:21:46
Well, a month later, Anancy was approaching Onini's house and Onini came out under the porch with the bean pot.
00:21:52
Here you go, do you want to borrow my bean pot?
00:21:53
Yes, I do.
00:21:54
You bring it back when you can, and Anancy took it home, and Onini waited.
00:21:58
First time, there was one.
00:22:00
Second time, there was two.
00:22:02
Maybe it'll have triplets next.
00:22:04
(audience cheering)
00:22:06
Well, a few days later, there was a big funeral procession in town.
00:22:09
Everybody was weeping and wailing, and Onini, who always has his thumb on everything that's in the town.
00:22:15
Realized he did not know who had died.
00:22:18
He was panicked about it.
00:22:19
He didn't want to look like he didn't know, so he put on his best clothes, and he went out enjoying the procession.
00:22:24
He was weeping and wailing with the rest of everybody, "Oh no, oh no."
00:22:28
He had no idea who had died.
00:22:29
Finally, the funeral was over, and everybody was leaving.
00:22:35
And Onini walked up to Anancy, and he said, "Anancy, "I don't know who died."
00:22:40
You don't know?
00:22:41
No, I don't know.
00:22:43
It was your bean pot!
00:22:46
Your bean pot died!
00:22:48
Onini said, "That's ridiculous.
00:22:51
"A bean pot cannot die."
00:22:53
Anancy said, "If it can have a baby, (audience laughing)
00:22:58
"It can die."
00:23:00
And he kept Onini's bean pot.
00:23:04
(audience laughing)
00:23:05
And that is the story of Anancy and the Pot.
00:23:08
(audience applauding)
00:23:10
(upbeat music)
00:23:13
Donna Washington, with her story, Anancy and the Pot.
00:23:20
What mischief might you have gotten up to with your childhood pals, where their consequences you can remember?
00:23:27
As a kid, where did you find a cool drink of water on a hot day?
00:23:32
You might have some fun stories to share.
00:23:35
We wanna thank Bill Lepp and Donna Washington for bringing us a smile today.
00:23:39
You've listened to their stories.
00:23:41
Now, it's time to share some of your own.
00:23:44
(upbeat music)
00:23:46
The Apple Seed is produced by me, Sam Payne, Wendy Folsom, Brian Tanner, and Kira Van Damme.
00:23:55
Our audio engineer is DJ Chromarty and the rest of the Apple Seed team is Tristan Chetzel, Kay Hendrix, and Nico Wetzel.
00:24:02
And if you like today's podcast, subscribe, rate us, leave us a review, and tell your friends, that's how the podcast grows.
00:24:09
We also love to receive emails, email us at theappleseed@byu.edu.
00:24:15
That's the apple seed, all one word, at bwiu.edu.
00:24:20
Your thoughts and comments help us shape the future of the apple seed.
00:24:24
We're pleased and proud to be among the many podcasts produced by the BYU radio family of shows.
00:24:28
If you want more great storytelling for the whole family, then search for our companion podcast, Kaboom, where you'll hear original audio adventures for the whole family.
00:24:37
You can find any episode of the apple seed or Kaboom on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, on the bwiu radio app, or at bwiuradio.org.
00:24:46
I'm Sam Payne, and we can't wait to be with you again on the apple seed.
00:24:50
(upbeat music)
00:24:53
(gentle music)
00:24:55
(gentle music)
00:25:05
(gentle music)
00:25:15