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Just like that. We love it. Should I go first? The subject line of this email is, we found the murderino jackpot in our dresser.
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Hello, Karen, Georgia crew and pets. You are all wonderful. I'm a longtime listener from the pun title days and got my much younger sister into your podcast as well.
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Sorry, mom. That's what older sisters are for, right? Yes, that's true. So let's get to it.
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This week, my sister picked up a dresser from Facebook Marketplace. When she got it into her room and opened the drawer, two letters fell out.
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She scanned one and read a sentence about a gruesome crime scene. She checked the return addresses on the envelopes.
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One was from Oregon State Penitentiary and the other was from San Quentin. Your faces like started bright and slowly like sinking like.
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Oh, no. Yeah. She immediately brought the letters to my parents and they FaceTimed me, the family murderino.
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Nice. All caps, you guys, period. She was holding letters from Dennis Rader, who is BTK.
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From him. Okay. They wrote, covered in episode 82. Aw, do their homework for us.
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Yeah. And Keith Jesperson, the happy face killer, covered in episode 257. Holy shit.
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After some investigation on Facebook to figure out where this dresser had come from, we discovered the dresser belonged to the family of criminologist Laura Brand.
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Wow. She's written letters and interviewed over 50 serial killers to assess their personality traits, and she presented a research at CrimeCon in 2021.
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I've definitely seen her on documentaries. She's great. For sure. This made us breathe easier knowing the dresser didn't belong to a killer.
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Laura's mother had apparently forgotten to check the drawers before selling the dresser to my sister.
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That makes Laura sound like a high school investigator. Nancy Drew over here. I hope that Laura would be delighted to know these letters fell into the hands of Murderino Sisters.
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Our mom reached out to her mom on Facebook to tell her, hey, we found these letters in your dresser and they seem important.
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To which she replied, oh boy, I'm going to need those back for my daughter. Don't fucking tell my daughter.
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And then it says, of course, before returning the letters, we read them thoroughly.
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Yeah. Here are the highlights. Oh, wow. This is real inside inside tea. This is too much.
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Because I don't ever want to write to a fucking serial killer murderer. Ever, ever.
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But just be able to read some insider baseball stuff. Yes, what it might be like.
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And I like the way they broke this down, too. So it's, BJK had horrendous handwriting, and we only had pages three and four of a four-page letter.
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He mostly rambles about money for stamps and complains about how long the mail takes.
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But the letter was sent on Valentine's Day of 2020. Oh, my God. And he asks Laura if she's received a valentine from Bitteker.
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I had to look up this name. That's one of the two toolbox killers. Okay. Just like a whom's who of pieces of shit serial killers over here.
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Yes. We've never covered the toolbox killer because it is so disgusting and so insane.
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Yeah. It's truly one of the worst things I've ever read about. It's hopeless. It feels hopeless.
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Laura was doing research on them for her documentary, The Toolbox Killers, which was released on Peacock and Oxygen in 2021.
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So this is a real journalist, you know, like trying to get background information.
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Yeah. As opposed to like what everybody always loves to talk about, like the women at the Night Stalker case who were like, we want to marry him.
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Like fangirls. Yeah. Yeah, this is a journalist. Yeah. The documentary features personal accounts from survivors and family members,
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as well as Laura's relationship with Bitteker as she interviews him over the years.
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In this letter, BTK said he was familiar with Bitteker and he used to have a newspaper clipping of one of his crimes in his quote-unquote hidey hole.
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And then in parentheses it says, his hidey hole? Shivers. The letter from Keith was seven pages long and I must say he has decent handwriting though the content was disturbing For most of the letter he rants about someone who has written a book about his crimes but he pissed that they left out three of his murders
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Oh, my God. In my opinion, the juicy part is when he responds to a few of Laura's research questions that assess personality traits.
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His favorite book, The Old Man and the Sea. What would you do with an invisible cloak?
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Escape from prison. Favorite animal, squirrel. I'm not sure what to do with this information, but I knew I needed to share it with my fellow murderinos.
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Stay sexy and always check the drawers before selling your children's furniture, L and V.
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Holy shit. How chilling. We've said this on this podcast before, but I just am so not interested in their favorite animal.
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I don't want to know about their thinking any more than what we know about the crimes.
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And then like that idea where your personality. And maybe like how to get prevent or find other, you know, killers.
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But I guarantee squirrels not going to be one of the ways you're going to capture the next fucking serial killer.
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You know? Well, unless there's some sort of signal or sign. I mean, like they have to be holistic about it.
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I just don't want to have to be. Totally. Because it's not. It's just gross. I think we want to read the books, obviously.
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Right. But the journalists have to process so much horror and gross stuff to get their story.
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It's horrible. Okay, here is my first one. This is a Galentine's Day feel-good best friend story.
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Nice. Hi, all. Let's get to it. With Galentine's Day coming up, I'd like to share about the weird supernatural-like connection I have with Chrissy, my best friend of 23 years.
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And yes, that best friend shit is capitalized. We met when we were 10 years old and we were inseparable.
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We've always called our bond the best friend connection or just BFC for short. Anyway, the summer before my senior year in high school, I worked at our local subway and Chrissy would frequently drop in to visit me while I was working as best friends in high school or want to do.
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One day I was working and a state trooper came in. He just so happened to mention that he'd come from the scene of a car accident on Lemoore Road where a car had flipped over and my BFC senses immediately started to tingle.
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For reasons that I cannot explain to this day, I asked in a panic, was it a white Cavalier with black racing flags on the side?
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All the color drained out of his face and he said, I shouldn't really be telling you this, but yes, it was.
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How could you possibly know that? That's my best friend's car. I was starting to freak out.
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I need to know if she's okay. She went to the hospital, but I think she's going to be fine,
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the trooper replied, still looking completely weirded out by my unexplained outburst.
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I ripped my apron off, threw it down, looked at my manager on duty and said, I'm leaving.
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I booked out that door, jumped into my broke-ass 1986 Buick and floored it to my best friend's
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house. I pounded on the front door until it opened. Chrissy and her mom looked at me with
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utter disbelief as I burst in and asked, are you okay? What happened? Chrissy explained that she'd
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been on her way to see me and her brakes had given out on a sharp curve on the back road she was
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driving on. She'd rolled her car a couple times and completely totaled it. She was fine other than
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having a concussion and being pretty shaken up. That's crazy. Yeah. I would think that car would
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blow up on the first turn. Totally. And you're home the same day. That's insane. But how did you
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know I was in an accident? She asked, clearly looking puzzled as fuck. I explained that a
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straight trooper had come into Subway, described the accident. I had just known that it was her
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and that she'd been coming to see me. I have zero explanation as to how or why Christy and I have the BFC,
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but for the 23 years that we've been best friends, we've always known when one of us needs the other.
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This Valentine's slash Galentine's Day, remember that your soulmate doesn't have to be your lover.
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Your soulmate can be your best friend. Thanks for all y'all do. I love the podcast and I so appreciate
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how y'all are working to destigmatize getting help for mental health. It's so important.
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SSDGM, Maggie. Maggie. Maggie, you have the sixth sense. What an honor, too. Yeah.
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As the friend. Totally. To be like, oh my God, you knew when I was in trouble. Yeah, you knew I needed you.
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Jesus. Oh, that's really intense. What if really, though, every time a trooper had come in, she'd be like, was it a Cavalier?
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Was it a white Cavalier? And then she's like, one time out of 25, he was like, how did you know that?
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Or it's the same trooper and she's like, was it a Chevy minivan? Yes. And he's just having a total nervous breakdown.
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Hi, gang. My great-grandmother was a child during the Great Depression, so you can imagine how she scrimped and saved her entire life.
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She married very young and had three children. Sadly, her husband died young, and she struggled to raise her kids with very little money.
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My grandfather had to leave school early to get a job to help contribute to the household.
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The home she lived in and raised her children in was the same home she and her husband rented right after they married, having rented the home from the original owner, then his son, then his granddaughter.
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She believed her rent was still $35 per month, with my grandfather making up the difference without her knowing.
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They probably bought and paid for that house four times over. I hate it. Yeah. That's how it works.
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Yeah. Fast forward decades. We were moving from the tiny home to a nursing home and combing through her belongings.
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Horrible day. my brother about eight at the time ran into the kitchen with a silver dollar asking if he could
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keep it he had found it pasted to the bottom of the leg of a chair turns out it was a real silver
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dollar but how weird for it to be pasted to the bottom of the chair right could there be more my
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family began to really explore the nooks and crannies of this house to see if she had hoarded
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away other little treasures we found coins of various denominations sewn into curtains
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sewn into curtain corners and under the legs of chairs, bills of various denominations,
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pasted under wallpaper, and stacked between the countless butter tubs and cottage cheese tubs saved for decades.
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Oh, my God. Full-on treasure hunt. Yeah, it sounds amazing. We also found her hoard of the gummy orange slices she always gave us that were hard as raw.
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Still treasure. Judging by the open package in the pantry, we estimated she likely bought them in the 70s.
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Ew. Here's your old circus peanut. Oh, God. Go run outside. In the cellar, my dad noticed the walls and floor seemed uneven.
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Knowing the home was going to be demolished, we got permission from the owner to chip away at the walls and floor.
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All caps, dozens of jars of coins and bills were tucked away. Oh, my God. They fucking found that.
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I know. For real. My uncle brought over a metal detector and we searched the yard.
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There were hundreds of jars of various size full of money. How fun. Right? We tore the place apart, searching for her treasure, finding over, do you want to guess how much?
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$25,000. $83,000. Holy shit. So good. This woman lived like a pauper her whole life, taking half her prescribed meds so she could stretch the prescription further,
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paying $35 a month in rent, even though her rent was far more, refusing to pay for a home phone never buying a meal at a restaurant no luxuries whatsoever
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unless you consider two dollar boxed crayon red hair dye a luxury my grandma had like fake red
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hair oh my god i love it all while squirreling away 83k needless to say we were all blown away
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i wish she had taken care of herself a little bit more though i know but i think you get into
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that gear and it's hard to get out. I know. My grandma didn't. It's so World War II to sew coins
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into the corners of things. Totally. Because that's like, yeah. It just happened. Yeah. Like it just,
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it's such near history. Yeah. Okay. Stay sexy. And if you're ever cleaning out your grandparents'
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home, always check for squirreled away treasure. Oh, yeah. Lori. Okay. Here's the new thing. If you
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don't have a deathbed confession, then you need to hide treasures for everyone to find. Yeah. Like
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Make it a deathbed scavenger hunt. It's way better than a deathbed confession. And you don't have to have it.
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Yeah, like saying if you don't have the treasure. But when someone passes away, the orange slices they gave you from the 70s becomes the treasure.
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It could be like notes that you tuck in places that they find, like treasure hunt kind of stuff.
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It doesn't have to be money. No, it's like me getting the bell lady for Christmas and having a full nervous breakdown.
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It's like the bell lady probably costs $7. No, totally. But that's the idea. Treasure hunt.
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Treasure hunt. Deathbed treasure hunt. From grandma. Do you have a deathbed treasure hunt story?
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Tell us at MyFavoriteMurder at Gmail. We're trying to create our own reality. Okay, speaking of deathbed treasure hunt, confession-y type of thing, here is a family secret with gal pals Betty and Dottie.
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I'm a huge fan of the podcast, Y-U-G-E. I love that. Let's go. I wanted to write in about my paternal grandma who always loved spending time with the six of us grandkids She showered us with kisses and love She never missed a birthday She sent Valentine cards mailed separately to each of us She gave us the
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best Christmas gifts, always had cookies and pop for us when we visited, and she never left the
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house without her lipstick. She sent us seized candy boxes on Easter and Christmas, and when I
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was a teenager, she would call and ask me, how's your love life? Even in her 60s, Grandma Betty
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would ride all the scariest roller coasters and extreme water slides with us laughing the entire
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time. Even in her 60s. I know. When her whole body could have broken in half in her 60s.
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Starting to feel it. Okay. Her name was Elizabeth English. My mom and dad often asked her about her
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life as a child, but she was always quiet about it. She gave a name or two of her relatives,
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but would change the subject if we asked anything else. This was not acceptable for us,
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a large Mormon family who wanted to do our genealogy like good Mormons do. Really big on that.
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They love it. Somehow the answer to these questions about her past eluded us until her passing in the early 1990s.
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That's when we got a hold of a box of old photos that we didn't recognize. And after some
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investigating, her brother, dad's Uncle Bill, told us the truth. Grandma Betty's name was not Betty
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at all, nor was it English. It was Sarah Brownstein. Our family was shocked to find out that Grandma
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Betty, along with her best friend Dottie, had run away from her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
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to escape her strict Jewish parents. They collaborated on an escape to get as far away
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from home as they could, winding up in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Unbelievable. What a time.
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Somewhere along the way, Dottie swore that her friend was Elizabeth English and Grandma was able
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to get a new birth certificate and identity. What's safe to do is bring a friend and be like,
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back then, this is... No, I swear to God. That's who this is. It's Liz English. They rented a room together,
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got jobs as waitresses, and dated a lot of soldiers when the war ended. I can't help but think of Black Dahlia
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in Los Angeles at that time. Yeah. That's just crazy. And just the newness of women being out on their own.
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For the turn of the century and after. It's just like very few women did it. No.
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they each married and had families and always lived near each other they had barbecues on
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sundays their kids grew up like cousins it's like you and neither one ever told anyone including
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their husbands and kids about grandma's former identity so so that's a whole family that's
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finding out they are jewish because it goes down it's passed down through the mother and it's
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really surprising to me that she became mormon and not like just nothing you know right and
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non-denominational. It's like, just, it's huge. And then not to tell. I wonder if there was a danger element to her past where she's like, I'm going to go deep
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undercover. Totally. I'm sure, you know, any conservative religion is not one that you're
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stoked to be a woman in. Right. And easy to get away from. Exactly. Yeah. Of course, my dad wanted to talk to Uncle Bill for some more details about his
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mother's previous life. So many questions about his own heritage and why didn't Bill or anyone
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else go looking for her. Did she ever write home? Who else in the family is still alive?
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My dad and mom flew out to see Uncle Bill with their box of photographs, anxious to piece the
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story together and find out as many secrets as possible. As Bill was mowing the lawn at his home
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on the day my folks were set to visit, he collapsed and died of a heart attack hours before they
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arrived. Same day? Yes. That's horrible and so what? I know. Now here's an additional twist.
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My brother, who was 19 at the time Grandma Betty died, was preparing to go on a Mormon mission.
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You may know that missionaries do not get to choose where they serve. It's up to the higher-ups to send them basically anywhere in the world.
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My brother was sent to Donetsk, Ukraine, the very place where my great-grandfather Brownstein was a rabbi.
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What? My family is no longer Mormon, but I have to think that there was something that guided us to connect with our distant family in that way.
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my parents were able to fly to Ukraine to not only pick up my brother after he served his two-year mission,
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but also tour the village where the Bronstein family lived before fleeing to the U.S., Fiddler on the Roof style.
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Holy shit. I know. This is an epic fucking story. It's the power of Judaism drawing those Mormons in, saying, no, no, no, you're with us.
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And none of this could happen until, like, Grandma died because Grandma was, you know what I mean?
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It's like, open this whole Pandora's box. And she had the guts to start a new life.
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So it's like everyone was like, let her do it. Don't bust her. Don't do this. She left them a treasure hunt.
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Oh, she did. Didn't she? It's a theme. Just leave enough info that they can do some search.
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And it was the 90s. So it wasn't like you can go online and just put your fucking DNA up in there.
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Have your data farmed. And let AI fucking own you. Tell you how to live. Our dear friend Dottie passed away in 2020.
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and we got a chance to talk with her about her friendship with my grandma Betty before she died.
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With a twinkle in her eyes, she said Betty was the best friend that any person could ever have.
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After Dottie passed, it became known that she too was of Jewish descent, but told no one.
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I have to wonder what her name could have been before running off across the country with her
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best friend. Stay sexy and always vouch for your best friend. Joanne, she, her. It's so good.
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Isn't it good? Yes. They're like, fuck this shit. We're out of here. We're starting over.
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I'm not fucking marrying whoever my parents want me to marry. I'm fucking out. I'm out of here.
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And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go marry a six foot tall, toe headed blonde man.
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The opposite of anything I've ever seen before in my life. And not drink coffee.
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Right. And not smoke cigarettes. Yeah, that's rough. Wow. I know. It just makes me think of my grandmother who came to this country when she was 17 with
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her older sister and her younger sister. Yeah, my grandma is similar. Right. It's just how terrifying.
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So terrifying. Not speaking any English. Well, yours is like. Mine's different. But it's like.
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English in the same way. They were farm girls from, you know, the country in Ireland.
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It's like they came to New York City. Totally. And then went, fuck this place, we're going to San Francisco.
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There's a little bit more grandparent theme here in our Valentine's Day show. The subject line of this is the greatest goddamn love story you've ever heard for Valentine's.
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It says, hi, friends. My great-grandmother, a.k.a. Grams, was born three months prematurely in Hollywood, Texas in the early 1900s.
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No one thought she would live, so she wasn't issued a birth certificate. Three months back then.
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I mean, three months now is a very big deal. Three months then. Jesus. And then in parentheses, it says, this isn't super relevant, but I think it's funny, and it caused her problems later in life.
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My pops was born in Oklahoma around the same time. His mother died as a result of childbirth.
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And her family, the Studebakers, in parentheses, yes, like the car company, still salty at all those rich folks three generations later, disowned him.
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So they're from the Studebaker family, but they were like, you're out. Holy shit.
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His father left and he was raised by his paternal grandmother. She recognized his artistic talent at a young age and snuck him into adult art classes as a child.
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Anyway, my pops joined the army during World War II and became a pilot. He was a nut, and during his training, he would fly the planes under bridges doing barrel rolls.
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Honestly, I'm lucky that my lifeline didn't end there. On the boat on his way to Europe, my wild child of a pops moved up to the captain's quarters and drew caricatures of the officers.
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When roll was called in the section he was supposed to be in, he did not answer, and it was assumed he had died on the way over.
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Instead of clarifying the situation, my pops went AWOL and traveled around Europe going to different art museums.
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Oh, my God. Okay, Forrest Gump. We have a copy of a famous painting in my home, which he told my father, his first grandson, that he had illegally built a mold for when he visited the Louvre.
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Here comes the love story. When my pops came home, he went to someone and asked who the best dancer in town was.
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Best dancer? That's cute. He was told that the soda jerk down the road, Mary, was the best answer around.
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My grams didn want anything to do with him because he was a quote cocky hotshot So long story short that how the greatest partnership was born My Grams and Pops were a perfect pair She was the perfect grounding force to his artistic
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mind and his lifelong muse. He was an art professor at many colleges, and they brought his students
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into their home as though they were their own. They traveled the United States, they were staunch
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social advocates for the LGBTQ plus people, and introduced my father to his native culture.
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For every year on Valentine's Day, my pops built my grams a Valentine's sculpture.
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And when he had a museum collection, all 30-something of them were on display. Oh, my God.
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I was so lucky to know both of them and have such an amazing love story in my family tree.
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Thank you for this podcast. I'm writing this currently on the treadmill, trying to blow off steam from law school finals.
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This show has brought me joy in what seems to have been a very challenging journey with school.
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P.S. Law school sucks, but I'm excited to get into the world and do good work. Stay sexy and ask your family for family history.
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Siobhan, she, her. Wow. Sweet. Who's the best dancer in town? Who's the best dancer in town?
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I'm going to date her. I have one more short, cute love story. Great. A hot dog love story, actually.
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Okay. My first day as a college freshman, I met a cute guy at a social event with free hot dogs.
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We became friends, then more than friends, then dated, and eventually got engaged.
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One of our mutual best friends was a hot dogger, meaning drove the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile for a year right out of college.
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They're called hot doggers. And in addition to the amazing hot dog merch she shared with us, she really came through for us for our wedding rehearsal dinner a couple years later.
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Our hot dog love story had always been a huge part of our friend group's lore. And although she had retired from the Wiener life by this time, she still had some clout with the current regional hot doggers.
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she arranged for the wienermobile to pick me and my husband up from our wedding rehearsal location
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and drive us to our rehearsal dinner in the fucking wienermobile that's big it was so fucking funny
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and is still one of the best and most thoughtful surprises love you jenny just look at how happy
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our little goofy asses look in this pic our hot dog love story is going strong after eight years
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of marriage five pets and two precious little kids stay sexy and never say no to a free hot dog
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Well, I don't know. Use your best judgment, but you get the idea, Beth. Oh so cute How cute is that They also look like little babies don they Yes Oh they are so little They so young and cute It them posing outside the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile with little like cardboard cutouts of hot dogs over their like fancy clothes
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There's so many ways to express love, ladies and gentlemen. Truly. Hot dogs, old people, hidden money.
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Treasures. Treasures and staying sexy. And don't get murdered. Happy Valentine's Day.
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