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My favorite murder Hello and welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. I saw your eyes search your brain real quick.
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Hey, is anyone in there? I asked and echoed and echoed. Hey, it's Monday. It's Monday, and we're recording some mini-sodes just for you.
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That's right. Okay, my first email. The subject line is, The drunkest, dumbest bank heist in Nova Scotia history.
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I love it. And then in parentheses it says, Featuring my great uncle Freckles. Fucking amazing.
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I'm ready. Are you ready? Yeah. Hi, Karen Georgia and the entire Exactly Right Universe.
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I always appreciate hearing Canadian tales on MFM. And since Karen actually knows Nova Scotia exists and shared the tale of the explosion, I have a lesser known piece of crime lore from my home province.
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It's 1932. Oh, my God. What? The name of this town is out of control. But then they gave the phonetic.
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Scared the shit out of me. I'm really sorry. It scared the shit out of me, too. It's 1932 in Shubenacadie.
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Wow. In Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Shubenacadie. Shubenacaddy, Nova Scotia. No, they made that up just to get you to say that.
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In Shubenacaddy, Nova Scotia. Do you want to go to Shubenacaddy to go to the Dairy Queen?
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I can't tonight have to go to Shubenacaddy. Because the Tim Hortons in Shubenacaddy.
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It is my favorite Tim Hortons. Okay. So it says it's 1932 in Shubenacaddy, Nova Scotia, which is honestly the most intimidating part of this story, which is the pronunciation.
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My great uncle Gerald Freckleton is this whole thing. It's just made up. A scam.
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Yeah. Known to friends and apparently the police, as Freckles, decides to rob a bank.
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Why? Because his brother-in-law, Sidney Refuse, got fired from the Royal Bank of Canada for financial irregularities.
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Instead of reflecting on his poor decisions, he says, let's rob the bank that fired me.
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And Freckles says, sure, why not? I mean, we're here in Shubanactony. There's nothing else to do.
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Kicking it. They recruit a getaway driver named Edson Boutillier, a small-time crook on parole.
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So an unsuccessful small-time crook. This was their plan. And in parentheses, it says, I'm being generous.
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Refuse would pretend to sell insurance, stay in the bank after closing, forcing the manager to unlock the door to let him out.
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Except Freckles and Edson would rush in, tie everyone up, and grab the cash and the bank's ledgers to, quote, negotiate a pardon.
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Freckles and Edson would escape and burn the getaway car. Don't worry, it's insured.
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And because this plan wasn't unhinged enough to escape, they would change into women's clothing to throw off the police.
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And then in parentheses it says, because of course law enforcement would see two drunk soot-covered men in dresses and crooked wigs and say,
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ah yes, two completely unrelated women who definitely did not set a car on fire.
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Shockingly, this plan falls apart even before it starts. After initially agreeing to the crime, Edson panics about going back to prison and decides to tell the Halifax police everything.
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Oh, come on. Just leave. You don't have to be a snitch. You don't have to snitch. But he was panicking.
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The police say, great, go through with it anyway. They give him a car and an unloaded gun, in parentheses, safety first.
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And they tell him they will stop them in the car on the way to the robbery, find the weapon and arrest them on criminal intent.
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The police, however, do not do that. Oh, Freckles and Edson travel together drinking on the way so Sidney could go alone and fill his role of victim.
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As they are busy drinking and driving and not being stopped by the police, Edson tries to avoid committing the crime by driving into a ditch.
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Oh, my God. So they're going along. He's pretending he's going to go. Yeah. But no one's stopping them.
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So he's panicking. Yeah. So he drives into another ditch. Another farmer pulls them out.
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In doing a good deed, the farmers of Nova Scotia are unwittingly helping these criminal masterminds reach their destination.
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However, the Halifax police, now accompanied by the RCMP, weren't trying to stop the robbery.
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They want the publicity of catching the robbers in the act. They are hiding inside the bank.
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Five grown men in a broom closet waiting Waiting for a long time All in that one broom closet Finally Freckles and Edson stumble into the bank
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drunk enough to miss the entire village on their first pass, and the police immediately open fire.
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Freckles is killed instantly. Jesus is turned quickly. Edson is shot in the shoulder, but manages to stagger outside yelling,
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you double-crossed me, like he fell straight out of a soap opera. A nearby doctor stops a police officer from finishing him off and later points out that the bullet holes in the bank don't match the police story that Freckles fired first.
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The police say shh. The newspapers say shh. The death certificate says shock from gunshot wounds inflicted by police.
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Justifiable homicide. Holy shit. Edson survives, heals up, and tells the press everything.
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He's never charged. Refuse, goes to jail for criminal intent. The five police officers involved are demoted or transferred.
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None of them lost their jobs. And in the most poetic twist of all, the victims of this crime, the bank manager and staff, are later fired for financial irregularities.
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So in the end, literally everyone involved was terrible at their jobs except the farmers.
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Holy shit. Stay sexy, vet your criminal accomplices, and avoid financial irregularities.
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Kelly. Wow. That was an epic tale. Isn't that so good? Why isn't that a movie? It should go much slower.
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And that actual drive time to the bank is your act one. Is the whole thing. And I want to see, you know who I want to see in it is, I'm not going to remember his name.
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Is it a Canadian? No. Yeah, I guess it has to be Canadian, huh? I mean, you don't have to, but it'd be nice.
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What the fuck is his name? Brendan Fraser. No, from Fargo. Martin Freeman? No, but I'm picturing Fargo in a lot of ways.
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in the same kind of vein. William? No. Steve Buscemi. Oh. He would be great in this. Right? Yeah. I think Freckles. Freckles for sure. Although he dies at
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the end. It's true. Nobody wants to see Steve Buscemi die at the end. They learn that in The
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Big Lebowski. Right. Oh, okay. My heart's still broken. Okay. Hi, ladies. I love you and you
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both rock. I honestly don't know if this is considered a long one or not, but hopefully
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it's worth it. I've written in a few stories about my mom and I have another for you. The time her
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dream prevented us from being robbed. One night, my mom had a super vivid dream that our house was
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on fire. So she gets up to check that everything is all right. She searches every room of our
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three-story house for hot outlets, Campbell's left burning, curtains too close to the heater,
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everything, and didn't find anything that was out of place. A little uneasy, but convinced the house
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As she's laying down, she hears the signature creak of the bottom most stair. You know,
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you know your house so well that you're like, that's the sound that it shouldn't be making
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right now. That's absolutely something. I love knowing a house that well. Yeah, that's a fun feeling. And then they say like, if you think there's someone in your house
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that shouldn't be there, don't turn the lights on because you know the fucking house
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and the plan better than they do. They're the ones having to sneak around. Yeah.
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That's a good idea. Just walk into your fucking couch and shit. You get up there and you pull a home alone.
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You start rolling out those marbles. That's right. Grab your tarantula. Get it going.
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You know that tarantula you love. Okay. She bolts down the hall to the stairs and sees a man in all black walking down them.
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She screams for my dad and says that the guy didn't even look at her, just calmly walked out the sliding back door.
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My dad comes running out in his underwear with the baseball bat that they keep next to their bed.
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It's the middle of winter in Minnesota, so he didn't chase the man outside, but we promptly called the police who showed up with search dogs.
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They followed his scent to the neighborhood over, but never ended up finding him.
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It's terrifying to think about my mom alone in the dark, walking through the house while this man was there.
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She's a badass and has no fear when it comes to protecting her family. The next night, she reclaimed her safety by sitting in the kitchen all night with the doors unlocked and the lights on, saying, come get us, motherfucker.
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Nice. She's like, I'm ready for you this time. She's like, I'm not going to be held captive by nighttime or like the similar circumstances.
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I'm going to like empower myself in it. The baseball bat. Stay sexy and listen to your dreams, Leah.
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Yeah. I think I've told you the story probably four to five times over the last 10 years.
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I have a bad memory. I'm in perimenopause. It's all new. My old college roommate, Mileva, had a friend because they lived out in Roseville, which is like the country up above Sacramento.
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And her friend was in her house one night by herself and went to walk down the hallway.
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the odds that this person might be on drugs are pretty good right so now i'm just gonna
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meet and greet kng asked me to write this in oh yay so when we are on the road and we meet people
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backstage and people have stories for us we always are like just write it in because we're gonna want
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we want to hear this. Yeah. So I'm not going to read the rest. It says, hi, Karen in Georgia and
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MFM ERM team. I was so overwhelmed and nervous at the meet and greet. I was barely able to talk to
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you, but knew I had to give you a little tidbit about my hometown. Sorry to hit and run. Here's
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the full story. So this was someone who started this story. And then basically we were like,
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wait, what? And then walked away. Okay. My favorite type of person. I lived in a small
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suburban town in Kansas with my single mother around 2003-2004. As we lived somewhat near my
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elementary school, my mom and I would walk there together most mornings. Almost every time we
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walked by this particular house, a man would stand on his porch and wave as we passed by.
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On a few occasions, he and my mom stopped to chat for a while as I waited impatiently at her side.
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Even at only 9 or 10, I always thought he was a creep and hated getting stuck there while they
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talked. As I said, it was a small town, so it didn't seem strange when we started running into
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him multiple times a week. We'd see him at the park while he was working. He had a city job,
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at the grocery store, at church events. He became friendlier with my mom at each meeting. And although
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I never felt any concern for her during these encounters, she told me privately after a
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particularly strange run-in near our home to never go anywhere near him ever. Cool.
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So mom, you and I are picking up the same thing this guy's putting down. I got the baby bad vibes
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and you've got some mommy bad vibes. The fully developed ones to affirm those. We eventually moved 30 minutes away
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and they didn't keep in touch, but it wasn't long before we saw him again because not a year or two later,
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he was plastered all over the news. Our neighbor, Dennis Rader. No! The infamous serial killer BTK
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had been arrested for his slew of murders in the Wichita area between 1974 and 1991.
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one. It was Dennis fucking Raider. She was getting eight-year-old bad vibes from BTK.
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Which is so creepy too because he did look like your normal neighbor. He didn't look creepy
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at all. I know that he was weird, but yeah, you're just walking by and there's a guy in his
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front yard. That guy, the dog catcher who also goes to our church. Yeah, but don't ever
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talk to him. Go nowhere near him. Oh my god, okay. It's just that thing of, it's almost
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like a scary rollercoaster or whatever where it's Like, could you, what would it feel like to have the hairs go up on the back of your neck for somebody to that level of danger?
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Yeah. Because that's a full psychopath. Yeah. What would that experience be like?
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I don't know. I have chills. Okay. As most of us murderinos know, his dumb ass was caught after sending letters in a floppy disk directly to the police.
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And then it just says eye roll. As an adult I had friends who worked at the prison in El Dorado They said he was overall a decent inmate but smug and annoying as fuck if you let him open his mouth long enough Stay sexy and don accidentally befriend a serial killer
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Morgan. I want to hear from the mom. Yeah. Like, what did they talk about? What was it the first
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time where she was just like, chills? That man was so craven and horrifying. Evil. Yeah. His
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daughter's book is really good. Oh, yeah. Do we know the name? My father's a serial killer. Probably
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not that. Georgia, is it a serial killer's daughter? Yes. Serial killer's daughter. Thank
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you, Molly. Nice. All right. Here we go. I'm not going to read you the subject line. Y'all.
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Hello, everyone. Love you all. I started listening sometime in fall of 2016. And at the time,
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I thought I was late to the game. LOL. I grew up in Texas and my mom is totally the reason I'm a
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Murderino. Throughout my childhood, she would watch forensic files to help her fall asleep
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because she found it soothing. Nowadays, she uses the news and my dad, siblings and I all agree that
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forensic files was the healthier choice. For real. Although we're glad it's CNN and not Fox News. My
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mom sent me a Fox News article today. Of course. I'm like, I don't open these links, mom.
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Why are you spamming me? Okay. I squealed and called my sister as soon as Georgia announced
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she was covering the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial because my parents now live in Park City, Utah,
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and my mom and her friends were sitting in court throughout most of the trial. Oh, my God.
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I was at home with a three-month-old glued to the TV, pointing to the screen and showing my daughter, look, there's honey.
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She's three now, and it would have been way more fun if she'd been old enough to know
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what on earth I was talking about. I got several texts from people who recognized my mom in the
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background of the trial, and it was entertaining to find out who else was tuned in. My mom even
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made t-shirts with Gwyneth's picture that said hashtag Gwynethcent. Oh my God. Oh my God.
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G-W-Y-N-N-O-C-E-N-D. Gwynethcent. How did she know? I don't know, but it's too good not to do it.
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I mean, it's a really good play on words, but also very strong stance. Yeah. To wear while the verdict
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was read. My favorite part of the whole ordeal was that she made it into the background of the
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photos of Gwyneth patting Terry Sanderson on the back and saying, I wish you well.
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Yes. She's in the photos. She's the zealot of this case. If you look for her, she has dark hair pulled back and is wearing a black t-shirt,
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coat and glasses. Amazing. You have to find her. I got such a kick out of the whole thing. My mom is so crazy,
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but in a fun way. This was the perfect entertainment at three months postpartum.
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Thanks for everything you do. I can't even begin to describe what this podcast has meant for me over the past 10 or technically like 9.5 years or to list all of the major life
00:20:48
events that y'all have experienced with me. But just know we all love and appreciate you too.
00:20:53
And everyone at ERM. XOXO Izzy Sheher. Thanks, Izzy. Also, that is a real fun mom where it's
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like, well, it's happening in our town. Let's go down there and see what's going on. Yeah.
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It says, thank you from the Twin Cities. Subject line. Hi, Karen in Georgia. I started listening when you only had about five episodes out, and I never stopped.
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There are lots of things I would thank you for, but today I felt compelled to write,
00:24:19
and thank you for talking about the situation here in Minnesota. When you first started to talk about everything, I considered skipping ahead for once
00:24:26
because I didn't want to hear yet more people talking about how awful things are here.
00:24:31
Thankfully, I didn't. It is extremely stressful here every single day. I work at a swim school with kids who are primarily 3 to 10 years old.
00:24:39
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We have a website saved on our phones that notifies us of ice sightings nearby. Every large window tinted vehicle is a potential threat.
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My friend hasn't been sleeping at their house for days because a man was shot by ice right outside and they don't feel safe anymore.
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A co-worker has witnessed someone being detained three different times on his way to work.
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The government tries to tell us that they are doing this for our own good and to prevent crime while targeting nurses, teachers, and families.
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If you asked anyone who actually lives here, they would tell you that these people make our cities more vibrant and stronger.
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They are some of the strongest, bravest, funniest people you will ever meet. It is absolutely heartbreaking and rage-inducing to watch them be targeted so aggressively just for trying to live their lives.
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Being in the middle of it all, it's hard to know how the rest of the country views what's happening here.
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Although our sense of community is strong, it feels like we're screaming into the void all alone.
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Normally, we're quick to offer aid and advice to those new to the cold. We're usually even willing to offer a ride to people we don't like that much just to keep them from being out in the cold.
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But right now one of the few things we take comfort in is watching ICE agents slip on ice or get stuck in the snow It might seem small and silly but choosing not to help is an act of resistance against these outside forces invading our lives So I wanted to thank
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you for recognizing our strength and kindness during these extremely traumatic times. Minnesota
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is not perfect, and sometimes Minnesota Nice is actually just being passive-aggressive.
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But every day... I love it. I love Minnesota Nice. Incredible self-awareness in the midst of this very powerful email.
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But every day we strive for Minnesota nice to mean being kind, resilient, and optimistic in the face of minus 17 degree weather that feels like minus 43 degree weather.
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And then in parentheses, the actual conditions outside as I write this. Oh, my God.
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Minus 43. Thank you for everything. They want us to feel helpless and scared. But even your little shout out helps keep me from giving in to the grief that threatens me daily.
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Thank you for reminding me that we aren't alone here and that what we say and do really matters.
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Thank you for seeing us. SSDGM, Kat. Oh, my God. That means so much to me. Yeah.
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Everyone, Twin Cities should know that us coastal elites out here in California are fucking cheering you on and are so impressed.
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And watching it the way that like, especially for me as being a TikTok addict, the way that people on TikTok are reporting the actions in the news and the way those communities are organizing at a level that like needs to be studied.
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And it's getting other communities here and all over the country. It's giving them it's showing us how to do it here, too.
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So we're like taking their direct experience and using it like in my neighborhood.
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There's apps and then there's like the text threads and stuff like that. Yeah, it's amazing.
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What the fuck is this country? Well, that's just it. I think we're starting to see what this country is.
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And the majority of this country are people who are like, hey, how about you go fuck yourself
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if you think you're going to come here and snatch people off the street? Totally.
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Totally. Yeah. Well, I have a total fucking 180. I'm not telling you the title. Hey, starting off with compliments.
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I am a huge fan of you both and have been listening from the start. This podcast has been a center point through high school graduation, two engineering degrees, and the transition into full-time work and adulthood.
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It's crazy how much has changed in 10 years, but you guys have always been a constant.
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Now on to the story. A few years ago, I matched with a guy on Hinge, and we immediately hit it off.
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He invited me out on a date to a local brewery where we met up and talked for hours about everything from loathing unnecessary road trip breaks to our love of animals.
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a necessary road trip break. That's actually a perfect match. If you're trying to really align with someone.
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It's like, are you going to be driven crazy by a person who's like, oh, wait, I need to
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get a Coke? Yeah. My dad wants to stop every like half an hour to stretch his legs.
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And you're just like, no. We have to get there. Like, get me my Lunchables and then let's fucking go.
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Yeah. I told him all about my dogs then began rambling about my childhood cat Harry A stray cat had kittens in our neighbor garage so my parents let my siblings pick one to rescue who was later named Harry because of One Direction
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He didn't adapt well to being stuck in the house, so he became our happy little indoor-outdoor cat.
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Harry is infamous on the local Facebook pages and is well-known in the neighborhood for soliciting belly rubs and begging for treats.
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It's like the neighborhood's cat. I love that. When Harry was 12, he started having trouble moving,
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and he was diagnosed with diabetes. Our neighbors regularly feeding him treats probably did not help.
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Now he has to have insulin injections twice a day, but is healthy enough to patrol the neighborhood
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again. My date gave me a weird look once I finished explaining, and I immediately regretted
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getting on the diabetic cat topic on your first date. He could sense my embarrassment and then
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smiled at me asking what my last name was. I hesitated when saying my last name because you
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can't trust anyone these days, SSTGM. Before he even reacted to my last name, I said, all caps,
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oh my God, are you Harry's pharmacist? I knew he was a pharmacist at a local pharmacy,
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but I hadn't put two and two together. We'd started dying laughing and he told me that he
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had most definitely met my dad because that's where you get your animal's medications from,
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pharmacy. I talked to my parents later on and my dad knew exactly who he was and only had great
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things to say. We started dating and a few months in, my dad started telling people,
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my daughter's sleeping with her cat's pharmacist. Dad, knock it on. I was mortified, but my then boyfriend thought it was hilarious. My dad didn't realize how weird it
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sounded and proceeded to keep telling people that throughout our relationship. We are now very
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happily married with our first baby on the way. They have to name it Harry. Harry Jr.
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Even if it's a girl. On the way, just hoping he will stop telling people I'm sleeping with our cat's pharmacist.
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The evidence is pretty damning now, though. Yeah. I hope you enjoyed this story now that I can laugh about it instead of dying of embarrassment.
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If you read this, I will be playing this in the car to see how long it takes for him to realize it's our story.
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Aww. You two truly are the best and have made such an impact on my sanity. Stay sexy and sleep with your child on a cat's pharmacist.
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C. C. How cute is that? It's so cute. Gives you hope. Well, yes, because in that moment where you're on a date, and this is very corny, but who
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fucking cares at this point in the world, the thing that makes you go, oh, no, I just
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ruined it. I just said the thing that ruined everything. Cat's diabetes? What are you fucking talking about?
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Right. And it's like, sure, maybe in the past, maybe that's happened to you before.
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But then here's the person that's supposed to hear it. Yeah. It's beautiful. I love it.
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It's a Sandra Bullock movie. We're wishing them well. I wish we had his name. I sleeping with my cat pharmacist the new vehicle for Sandra Bullock Get her in there Steve Buscemi co as the cat He the cat He dies at the end Well everybody That a minisode
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That's how it's done. All the feelings are here. All the peaks and valleys. We've got Gwyneth Paltrow. We've got
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fucking ice. Fuck ice. We've got fucking Fox News. It's just everything you could want.
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BTK. All the different things. And we're here for you. That's right. Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye.
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