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Goodbye. My favorite murder Hello and welcome to My Favorite Murder. The Minisode.
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That's right. That's right. This is the Minisode. We tell you things about yourself that you didn't even know you wanted to know.
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Are you ready for a little bit of self-examination? Can we do this? Finally get you to admit your side of things.
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Go first. Okay, yes, I will go first. Thank you. The subject line of this first email is rabies at church camp.
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All your favorite topics. And it starts, what's up, hotties? Oh, cute. No time to waste.
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Gird your loins for a wild tale. When I was 11, like any good Christian child, I was sent to church camp.
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However, I had developed a reputation for running into troubles just the year before.
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Troubles. Troubles. Multiple. Just the year before, I had been sent to the hospital with a back injury after a pool game of playing in the swimming pool of chicken gone wrong where I nearly drowned.
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Holy shit. So true troubles. Yeah. The camp setting was at a state park in the middle of the Tennessee woods.
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So the next year when my mother got a phone call from a park ranger. Oh, so where that injury happened.
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Oh, OK. It was in the middle of a state park in Tennessee. Got it. So the next year when my mother got a phone call from a park ranger stating that I had had an accident in the park pool, it felt like deja vu.
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My mother firmly stated, you must be mistaken. Did you find some old documents or something?
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That accident happened a year ago. Yeah, we were going through some paperwork and we're like, hey, emergency.
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Call 911. Call them immediately. Hold on, let me get this cobweb off. Call 911. Sorry, I'm making fun of their mom.
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It says, the calm ranger responded to my mother with, no, ma'am, this morning at 10 a.m., your daughter Sarah had an incident in the pool involving an animal attack.
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What? Dun, dun, dun. Cut to my 11-year-old perspective. I was swimming. I like this.
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This is a perfectly written email. I was swimming in the pool, minding my business, when I heard someone yell, get it out, get it out.
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I was curious and swam over to the growing crowd surrounding a brown dot squirming in the water.
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Oh, no. I pushed through the crowd and approached this creature. There's your problem right there.
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You've got to be involved. Hang back. Maybe get out of the pool. Run the opposite way.
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Yeah. You don't need to be up in there. You're 11. No. I pushed through the crowd and approached this creature.
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I wasn't wearing my glasses. Oh, then why? Okay. I don't want to yell at a child.
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I mean, I do, but I shouldn't. Just 11. So to my naked eyes, it appeared simply to be a bird.
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In my mind, I was an animal savior to all creatures great and small. An animal savior to all creatures great and small is italicized.
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So into my hands it went. However, as I exited the pool, I began to notice the features of this creature were not that of a bird, but rather a curved nose bat.
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No. Oh. The second my brain realized what it was, it awoke from its post-drowning nap and began to bite me on my thumb.
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I panicked as the pain surged from its teeth digging into me. I looked around for help, but none came.
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Because everyone knows not to touch a bat, but everyone wears their glasses on in the pool.
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Everyone with good vision stayed in a circle around the bat. That's right. It did not break through.
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I relate to this person so much. Stop breaking through. I looked around for help, but none came.
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So my solution was to rip it from my flesh and throw it across the concrete poolside.
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Oh, my God. Which we get it. Yeah, totally. It makes a lot of sense. The rest is a blur but a ranger came and captured the bat and took it away I didn know the procedures of such attacks but what I did know is that I was never allowed in the park pool again Wow Banned at age 11
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I don't know if that's her fault. It's like, do we have any adults present keeping an eye on everything?
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It sounds like I bet you there was a 15-year-old up on that lifeguard stand who was also just watching the kids circle up around the bat.
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The worst part of this story is that my parents got a fateful call from the park labs
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and were told that they had less than 72 hours to get me to the hospital and get me vaccinated
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because the bat tested positive for rabies. That's like a hardcore treatment too, right?
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Oh yeah, very painful. Yes. We had to call Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee,
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to make sure they even had the vaccine to give me because it wasn't every day that they had to administer rabies shots.
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Oh my God. It's real old-fashioned. After 23 shots. Oh my God. I was in the clear of dying from rabies.
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To this day, I always get weird looks when people see my vaccine records. So yeah, Batman doesn't have shit on me.
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They said crap, but I changed it because it's funnier. Thank you for being here and telling your stories.
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I'm a private duty nurse, and my patient and I love to listen every morning, and it makes our days better.
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Hi. Hi. Stay sexy and stay out of the church camp pool, Sarah. Where was Jesus in that moment?
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Not on that lifeguard stand, watching over the lifeguard. Who wasn't swimming next to you?
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Who watches the watchers? Okay, that's great. This is called Broadmoor Hospital Celebrity Spotting.
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Hi, Karen in Georgia. Greetings from Kent, the Garden of England. What news from Kent?
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I live in the county town Maidstone. You did it out of Game of Thrones, which is a bit of a shithole.
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Doesn't sound like it. But does have a prison where Reggie Cray was incarcerated for a spell.
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But that's not the reason I'm writing. The Crays. The Crays were the crazy twin, like, mobsters.
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Twin brothers. Mobsters. Or were they twins or were they just very close in age?
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Yeah. Something like that. And they, like, terrorized that area. Everybody. By being...
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But also had a really great nightclub. Yeah. Watch Tom Hardy. Right. In Legend or Legendary.
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Right. He plays both parts. Okay. My sister Kate and I are avid. day one listeners and have always wished we had a story for you. When I heard the Shakespeare at
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fuming. I've beaten her to it if you read this out. Nice. Go to hell, Kate. We love starting
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sibling fights. We come from a very large family with a, shall we say, colorful past. When I was a
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kid, I was a keen, nerdy letter writer, and one of my favorite correspondents was my uncle,
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Jeff, but with a G. Joff? G-off. Joff. When sober and medicated, Joff was warm. It's not really.
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I know. Jeff was warm, kind company, prone to lavish gestures and possessed a dry, dark sense of
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humor. When he wasn't, things were harder for him, and he spent many spells at Her Majesty's
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pleasure, including some stints at Broadmoor. Yeah. I don't know exactly how he came to be there, but he was definitely nearer the June and
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Jennifer end of the spectrum than the hardcore wrong-uns. Wrong-uns. Wrong-uns. Anyway, one day
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when I was about 16, I went with another of my uncles to visit Jeff there in the Central Hall
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where I think the Shakespeare performance must have been held. It was great to see him and he
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was calm, genial company. He bought me flowers and a very expensive bottle of perfume and says,
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I don't know how he got a hold of it, but I do know that I couldn't wait to crow about it to my
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pals. The wording of this email is great. Sorry, gift giving from within? He had a tap traded that
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like cigarettes or something like that. That's really nice. Right? Yeah. The whole thing was a
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young murderina's daydream at the races. My other uncle and I were not the only visitors and the
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hall was pretty crowded. Just over the way was Ronnie Cray and visiting associates looking for
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all the world like a twinkly grandpa with his smart zoot suit and teddy boy, Brill creamed hair.
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It was 1991. So pretty anachronistic, but very dapper. He still was like getting dressed up.
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And people were still coming to see him. They were. Power. And then across the room, staring all caps right at me was none other than Peter Sutcliffe,
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a.k.a. the Yorkshire Ripper. When I was growing up, he was the absolute number one fear of young women in the UK.
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and I am not joking when I say his dead cold stare made my blood run absolutely icy.
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And the kicker, his visitor was a beautiful young woman. What was she thinking? Jeff struggled in the outside world and is long gone now,
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but I like to think he was in the audience of the play, and I know he would have found it to be bomb for his troubled soul.
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Stay sexy and don't ever lock eyes with a serial killer, Beck. Wow. Oh, what an experience of like going into a place like that where you are, there's somebody that you're there for a real reason.
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Yeah. But you know where you are and you know what you're looking at. I mean, how scary for the people that are there, not because they've committed any crimes, but just need some help.
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Yeah. Interesting. Broadmoor gets brought up a lot in this podcast. Yeah, it does.
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Fascinating. Find someone that used to work there. Yeah. Bring them on. or go there.
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Do a live show. My MF him at Broadmoor. No, just kidding. Just shut it down. We just end up getting all of it shut down.
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Goodbye. Okay, the subject line of this email is energy vampire teacher. I went to, and it just gets right into it.
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I went to a small high school, maybe 150 students in the Midwest. On the last day of the school year, I confessed to one of my teachers that I hadn't completed my final project,
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Did you read the books? Yes. Did you learn something? Yes. Okay, then you passed.
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High school anxiety procrastination somehow won that day. Amazing. Years later, while watching the intro to the first episode of a new TV show, I had to pause it in disbelief when I saw and later learned that the very same teacher, Mark Proksh, was now the one and only, our favorite energy vampire, Colin Robinson of What We Do in the Shadows.
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He was a teacher? Yeah. I love that fucking show. I love him so much. And I love that guy.
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He's so funny. He is so good. All of them are so good on that show. If you haven't watched the TV show, What We Do in the Shadows, I feel I am jealous of you that you get to start over.
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You have seasons and seasons to binge. You have Matt Berry to learn about and then enjoy for the first time.
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Oh, my God. Yes. And he's just still this guy. I didn't know his name, but that's amazing.
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I know. God. And it's very funny that he's not a household name. But Colin Robinson, I would have been like absolutely.
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Totally. And I thought I would have known his name. And so I'm surprised. Yeah. Okay.
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Proksh. Proksh. I honestly hope that he doesn't remember me now because my anxiety brain still recalls with too much clarity all the ways I embarrassed myself that year and probably irked him in one way or another in other chance meetings throughout the remainder of my teens.
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I guess he has more important things to think about, but the high schooler part of my brain will always worry about what people thought of me 20-ish years ago.
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I first began listening to My Favorite Murder right after moving into a house in the woods, so sorry I missed that little tidbit of advice to stay out of the forest.
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Your voices have continued to keep me company throughout the years. And yes, I am still in the forest.
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And I am still, knock on wood, fine. And then it just says, A. A. She, her. Yep.
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That's so cool. He was a teacher. He was probably so over it at that point. He was like, did you read?
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Did you learn? Then that's enough. Then God bless. I have an audition. Yeah. For this show.
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He was an improv guy for a long time. He was an improv guy. And he did this really amazing thing because my friends ran the found footage festival.
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Amazing. Yeah. So amazing. So good. Okay. I have two left. I'm not going to tell you the name of this one.
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Okay. Hi, ladies and co. That's a good one. Yeah. Love y'all lots. Thanks for being rad.
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Let's get into it. My dad was raised and lived in the suburbs of Chicago for his entire life.
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carry the owner called his brother over and told the brother to show my dad and his friends where the foam was located they started walking with the brother
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and the guys all got strange vibes from him immediately any guesses yet well foam it is it nothing to do with foam well no hillside stranglers no Hillside Stranglers No And this is in Chicago Okay All my dad friends were avoiding talking to the brother because of how creepy he was
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I was thinking about what we do in the shadows. But my dad, being a smart and savvy businessman, knew the more he got on this guy's good side,
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the more opportunity they would have in the future to grow their speaker business.
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And that was how easy it was to make money back then. Yes. He just made a thing.
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Out of nothing, out of trash. You made something and then you were a nice man to another man.
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Yeah. And then good luck with everything. Right. My dad's schmoozing and kindness led to this guy eventually softening a bit to my dad, but only my dad.
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After they collected all the foam they could carry, my dad thanked this man and said they would be back again for more.
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After building one to two speakers and being immediately bored of the project, the guys quit their speaker building business and therefore never returned to the junkyard.
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Years later, my dad saw a news report about a man suspected of domestic terrorism and murder.
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He recognizes the man being fingered but can't quite place him, and it bothers him for months.
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Months, maybe even close to a year later, my dad realizes that the man was the one who worked in the junkyard.
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The man was none other than the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. I didn't realize. I thought he was, he targeted professors, but he was, he himself wasn't.
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Yes, he went to Harvard. Remember they did that? They think that they did all these LSD experiments on him and made them all.
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And remember his brother's the one who turned him in. Turned him in. But I just never realized he had like a junkyard phase.
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Same. No, that was. That's a deep cut. The factory yard they picked up the phone from was owned by Kaczynski's brother.
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He and his wife would later turn Kaczynski into the authorities. This is just one of the many stories my dad shared with me over the years.
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My father was always into true crime and mysteries, later going on to become a lawyer and pass his love for mysteries on to me.
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My dad became a well-respected lawyer, working for the state's attorney's office for many years, being on staff while cases like John Wayne Gacy and other notorious Chicagoland area murders were being tried and sentenced.
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So, of course, he had many crazy stories and sometimes insider info on Chicagoland crimes.
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Can we have that, please? No, actually. You legally cannot. He ended his career at our country's courthouse where he worked for over a decade.
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He passed away in August of 2019 after a long battle with skin cancer. Shortly after, one of the halls in our county's courthouse was named after him in honor of his devoted heart to seeing liberty and justice for all.
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He left a forever impact on our county, our family, and the lives of so many. I am proud to be part of his legacy.
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Karen, you sharing your journey of losing your mother to a disease where you don't recognize your family member has touched me and made my journey of being a caretaker for a sick parent feel a little less isolating.
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Thank you both for making me laugh on tough days and being an escape from reality when I needed one while taking care of him for the last few years of his life.
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Tough. Stay sexy. Don't buy foam from serial killers. And most importantly, get your yearly checkup at your dermatologist, Katie.
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God. Katie, so many lessons to be learned from this one. So many lessons, but also what an incredible thing to like have a dad that worked so well.
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Didn't just work hard. Yeah. Didn't just like devote himself for whatever his reasons are, but like to the point where they're like, oh, we're going to give him a wing.
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We're going to name a wing after him. And Ted Kaczynski, who famously hated everyone, fucking liked you.
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Liked you. Only you. You kissed up to somebody that was un-kiss-up-able to. Or you were just treated them like a human being enough that they were like, this guy's pretty cool.
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All right, here's my last one. So in honor of Father's Day, for talking about champion fathers, right?
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Which is coming up. The subject line of this, the American version I couldn't read to you,
00:24:21
but here's the British version. The subject line is the ultimate cunt. now do with do with that editors what you will okay so it says hey to all the pets and people
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at my favorite murder firstly i'd like to say how much your podcast has helped uh with some of the
00:24:37
hardest times in my life i now listen while making ashes jewelry and then in parentheses it says yep
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like the cremations of people and pets oh so you can have a little permanent i want that yeah
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Um, you just gave me the look of, really? I didn't realize you were morbid as fuck.
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Well, I was just like, Elvis has been gone for too long, so you can't have. I have his ashes.
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Oh, do you really? Of course. Oh, you didn't bury him? Where am I going to? I don't live anywhere long enough to like.
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Up at Forest Lawn. Look, I'm not going to fight with you on Mike about this, but you should have buried him in a human cemetery.
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He's on a shelf. It looks lovely. Well, now you can make a Julian. We've got a friend in the business.
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Okay, sorry. My dad was always doing something dodgy for quick cash. One of his many great get-rich-quick schemes involved my brother and myself.
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He had decided that selling cigarettes he had purchased in France would be his new money-making idea.
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Oh, dad. So this isn't just your average. I think that we've gotten a lot of trash dad stories where it's like he forgot to pick us up from skating or whatever.
00:25:48
And this is like, I think this might go into a new level of British trash. It's actually illegal at this point.
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We're getting into illegal territory. We're getting creative with how we're going to be trashy.
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Okay. So it says, the only problem being that you could only bring a few cartons without having to pay tax coming back to the UK.
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That's when the baguette trip started. What? He would take us both over on the car ferry to France, fill the back of the car fully with crates of cigarettes, and then place a blanket on top and tell me and my brother to pretend to be asleep when the customs person would come and look in the car.
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My dad would innocently say that his two young children were asleep in the back and they would let us pass without any search.
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And then in parentheses it says this was the early 90s. Oh my God. This happened regularly for a few years.
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Oh my God. What did me and my brother get out of this trip? You guessed it. A fresh baguette.
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Or, I mean. Come on. Kind of worth it. Get some of that French butter. You're all set.
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Hell yeah. I wonder what my teachers must have thought when they asked what we did most weekends.
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And I answered with, we went to get the baguettes. It wasn't all that bad. As on one of the baguette trips he surprised us with a trip to Disneyland Paris It was probably our cut of the money from the cigarette smoking operation we had been crucial to carrying out Not sure how or why the trip stopped He probably found his next big idea and
00:27:21
moved on. When my siblings and I laugh about the stuff that happened in our childhood around normal
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folks, we usually get the wide-eyed horror, you might need therapy looks. But I wouldn't change
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my wild childhood for anything. I mean, the kind of dad that would cook up a plan like that.
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It's like innocent in a way. Yes. And I'm dying to know how much money he made. Because he's just trying to get around like a tax.
00:27:43
Yeah. He is not stealing money from other people. No. He's not putting the kids in harm's way in any way.
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No. Not really. And he's giving them bread. And he's giving them the best bread in the world.
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So you could argue that he's like. He cares more than other parents. Right. Because he's delivering fresh French.
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Have you ever had a French baguette? Fuck yeah. I mean. My dad was a chain-smoking, flat-cap-wearing, cunt-word-loving man.
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And British. British cunt. He passed away three weeks ago from cancer, and listening to all his friends and family tell the most unhinged stories about him and his life has made me cry, laugh, and be so thankful for the colorful childhood I had.
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If you need any more wild stories about trash dads, I could probably write a thousand emails.
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Like the time he turned off someone's water and then cemented over the tap. Oh, my God.
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Or his—I need to know who deserved that. What did they do to deserve that? Or his 40th birthday where he wore a penis hat with 40 on it and just tiny pants all day.
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Photo, please. Oh, the list is wild. His last wish, which he gave me the pleasure of executing, was to have a flower arrangement with his favorite word on it.
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Try organizing that with a funeral director. Oh, my God. Ha, ha, ha. No. I have an attached photo for you.
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Please feel free to share. Stay sexy and use your children to smuggle cigarettes.
00:29:12
Or maybe don't. Here's the picture. It says, there's like a beautiful flower arrangement in the back of her hearse with the coffin and a little red ribbon sign that says cunt.
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But do you see what that flower arrangement is? It's a cigarette. Oh, my God. I didn't even realize.
00:29:32
It's very subtle. I just thought it was like kind of weird, but no. A cigarette with the word cunt on it.
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A cigarette with the word cunt. That's how to go out. And I think if I'm not mistaken, I could be.
00:29:44
But that's on top of the coffin. That's in the back of the hearse. Yeah, that's the coffin right there.
00:29:49
Yeah. So that's all. Oh, my God. That's the decoration on top. We'll put it on social media.
00:29:55
That's beautiful. Wow. Well, our condolences to you about losing your father, especially so recently.
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I love that they used this email to basically process some memories because please, please send more.
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The trash dad stories or trash parent stories, trash sibling stories, a good auntie one is welcome.
00:30:21
Yes. My favorite murder at Gmail What a way to celebrate Father Day though It like a great dad that really lived and lived and lived and then included his kids I was going to say that
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He could have gone on his own and been gone all weekend. And no, he was like, I need to spend time with my kids, but I also need to make that my me.
00:30:38
And I need to not get caught. Right. And I love bread. And I can put those things all together.
00:30:43
Let's mix it in a big salad of illegal childhood activity. Okay, well, I'll do one more trash or treasure, Dad, for Father's Day.
00:30:51
Great. In honor of Father's Day. Hey, besties. My parents divorced just before my second birthday, leaving my dad to navigate life with two little girls every other weekend.
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Think birthday dinners at Red Lobster with all my dad's bachelor friends and backyard bonfires with those same guys where I got to play bartender and stay up late until the dirty jokes started.
00:31:13
Yes. Hell yeah. And basically the slightly drunk dad's like, oh, wait, you guys ought to go to bed.
00:31:18
Don't tell your mother. You can't. My dad was also very frugal and taught me and my sister to always be on the lookout for spare change on the ground.
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I was excellent at this, spotting a penny from feet away, oftentimes collecting several coins at once before my sister even had the chance to look at the ground.
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She was more of a head in the clouds kind of girl, but not me. I had my eyes on high alert for those precious bits of spare change.
00:31:44
I had been doing this for as long as I can remember and pride myself on being pretty good at finding things.
00:31:49
While visiting my dad recently, I was reminiscing about my childhood finds and saying that now when I find change, I give it to my daughter for her piggy bank.
00:31:57
My dad smiled and said, that's nice, but he's surprised I'm still finding change on the ground.
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I assumed he meant because we've become a cashless society, but no. He goes on to say that he used to drop coins for us to find outside his car before getting us out of our seats.
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part of me was in disbelief that my finding skills were based on a lie but a bigger part of me has found so much joy in this it's so cute i know and you used to steal
00:32:26
all the change from your dad yeah change is a big part of like childhood with your dad totally yeah
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my dad my dad may have been a typical 90s trash dad at times but he also tried so hard to make
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every moment of our limited time with him special. So maybe he is a treasure dad after all.
00:32:45
He is, he is. Stay sexy and drop change for your kids to find. You never know what could turn into a core memory.
00:32:52
Sally Forth, Sarah, she, her. Thanks, Sarah. If I had a switch to flip, I'd be crying right now.
00:33:00
And I can feel it deep inside of me. It's in there. But it's not happening. We'll give it a couple months.
00:33:04
Okay. I mean, that's beautiful. and also it truly is like the weirdest surprise I didn't see coming.
00:33:10
Yeah, me neither. He's just like, distraction. Oh, you're so good at finding change.
00:33:15
I'm so good at finding, like, what a beautiful thing to bestow. This is what I'm good at.
00:33:20
Yeah, to bestow on your child. I love that. And he's like, how are you still finding change?
00:33:25
Wait. I threw that change out. I never told you? And now it's like someone with an eagle eye.
00:33:30
It's like, I paid my mortgage with that change, Dad. Thank you. Aw. Well happy Father Day to everybody who celebrates Right Dads and grads That right And moms who act like dads That right And dads who do it all And moms who do most of the things too
00:33:46
As well. And let's not forget the moms on Father's Day. Right. Please. Oh, and stay sexy.
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