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Goodbye. Goodbye. Hello and welcome to My Favorite Murder. The Minisode 10-year anniversary edition.
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That's right. If you're listening to this on Monday, as you should be, as it comes out, this week is our 10-year anniversary week.
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We are going to be like those people who have their birthday all month long, where we're going to talk about it every single day.
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We're going to bring it up over and over. I mean, we got to 10 years in podcasting.
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Dude, that's a lifetime. It's like we're a 15-year-old dog. Yeah, we're basically.
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That's right. You're first. Oh, and because of that, Molly had the great idea of doing hometowns that are stories we've done in the past.
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So it's either follow-ups or it's your hometown, but we've covered it. So it's kind of fun.
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Yeah. I like it. Here's what we love. Self-referential stuff. Exactly. Here we go.
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Okay, this is my first story. I want to read you the subject line. It says, hi, Karen.
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Hi, Georgia. And hi to Steven. I want to share a story about my older sister with you.
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She's 10 years older than me. And when I was little, I always looked up to her. I thought she was so beautiful and so talented.
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Back in 1975, my sister Cindy was 18 years old. Cindy is such an 80s name. When's the last time you've heard of a Cindy?
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I have not seen a Cindy. Come back, Cindy. Cindy's, we need to hear from you. In 1975, my sister Cindy.
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Of course. I love that sitcom. Yeah. Was 18 years old, living in Visalia, California.
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She had just moved there from San Jose, California. One day she was shopping at Kmart. This is 1975. She was in the book aisle thumbing through a book and she had this sudden feeling she was being watched. She could feel the presence of something evil, dark and cold. Taking her gaze off the book, she looked up and made eye contact with a man who was staring at her through the book aisle shelving only about three to five feet from her face.
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Like on the other side of the aisle? Just like every horror movie where the book gets pulled away and a weird face is sitting there.
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He was that close to her. He was staring at her and through her soul. His cold steel blue eyes were studying her.
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You know how they say the eyes are the window to the soul? Well, she didn't see or feel the presence of any soul.
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Only evil. She could feel the hairs on her arms and neck stand up. She carefully set the book back on the shelf.
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What book do you think it was? Oh, I bet it was V.C. Andrews. My sweet Audrina. Goodbye.
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I'm not reading this today. Oh, that's okay. And decided to move away from him to another part of the store.
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She tried to look unafraid, but inside she was terrified. Just when she thought he was gone, he'd appear in the same fashion, staring at her from opposite side of the aisle through the shelves.
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Just like a lion stalking his prey through the tall grass. She was hoping he would grow tired of following her and leave.
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She kept moving around the store and he kept repeating the same creepy predatory behavior.
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There at the popcorn stamp. Remember the popcorn thing in the middle of Kmart? Yeah.
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Favorite. Some time had passed, about an hour or so, and she didn't see him anymore.
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She hurried to the checkout to pay and get the hell out of there. Making sure the coast was clear, she quickly exited the store.
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As she crossed the parking lot, he intercepted her with his truck. No. Undeterred, she walked around it and kept walking as fast as she could to get to her car.
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She jumped in her car, locked the doors, and anxiously fled the parking lot. She gunned it, but he followed in pursuit of her.
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No doubt he was trying to follow her home. She kept thinking to herself, I can't drive home.
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He'll see where I live. Her heart was beating out of her chest as she tried to lose him.
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At some point, she was pretty sure she'd lost him. She drove to her boyfriend's aunt's house, jumped out of the car, banged on their door for them to let her in.
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The door opened. She ran inside. She told him to lock the doors and explained what was happening.
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A couple hours later, they went with her to the police station. Oh my god. Oh my god. She filled out a report and went home. Shortly thereafter, she received a phone
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call from the police station asking her to come back in and do a photo ID. They wanted her to look
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through a book of photos and sketchings to see if any of these men was the man who was stalking her.
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Apparently her description matched that of a man they were looking for who they were calling the Visalia Ransacker Holy shit 43 years later in 2018 my sister received a phone call from the police department
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They were asking her questions about that terrifying day so long ago. They told her that they believed that they had found the man that had stalked her.
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They asked her if she would be willing to testify against him if they needed her to.
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And they told her to be prepared for that. She still had no idea who he was. 2018 breaking news they found him his face was plastered all over the news and it was him the
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soulless cold evil man that had stalked her 43 years ago and cindy had correctly identified him
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from a photo id sketch he was the visalia ransacker the night stalker aka the golden state killer so
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she fucking fingered him then yes way back then yes when they were like we had no idea who he was
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Yeah. But he was a cop. He was a cop, but not in Visalia. Right. That that was in Rose. It's above Sacramento. He was up there.
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But the thing, too, is that if he was a cop there, he would have gotten her at he could have been like, oh, this girl was stuck. That's her address. Like, I can find her through there.
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Yep. I'll go question her about the man that was stalking her. OK, here we go. This is the next paragraph. What I keep thinking is that he was a police officer.
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Yeah, great. I should have looked down. I'm so sorry to the person that wrote this.
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He could have gotten her information from her license plate. He could have gotten a copy of her police report.
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Who knows? I love that we just had that whole conversation. She's like, I'm saying that.
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No, it's good. Even to this day, as she recalls the story and tells it to me, she gets chills and goosebumps.
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So stay sexy. And if you have a bad feeling about someone, always trust your gut.
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Sherry. I bet. Sherry and Cindy. Sherry and Cindy. I wonder, though, too, like getting her address from the license from her car, maybe he would have done it if she hadn't.
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Because like someone stalking you, not everyone, especially back then, would have been like call the police, file a report.
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Right. So maybe he was like, oh, this is he did have her address, but he was like, she's too like she's got this all on paper.
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So I don't I'm not going to go after her. Yeah, they'll be able to track me. Yes, totally.
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And the bright blue eyes thing is like such a creepy tidbit because like not everyone besides you has that.
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And it's like so specific. Did she say that? Yes. She said his bright blue eyes.
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Oh. And he kept looking at her through the. So creepy. And his eyes. He had bright blue eyes.
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But I don't. Well, we'd have to look at the chronology. But I thought when he was in Varsali, he was younger.
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Because remember he was kind of heavy. Yes. And that's when he was like breaking into people's houses.
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Yeah, but he still had bright blue eyes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But not a cop. That's all I'm saying.
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Right, right, right. So he's a little before. Did we make clear that that's the Golden State Killer?
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Did we say Golden State Killer? The Visaley Ransacker is basically the Night Stalker, which is what they called him a little bit.
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Wow. Crazy. I mean, that's like. Yeah. And that's actually funny because that was your first case that you ever covered on this podcast, right?
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That's right. All right. So this one, I'm not going to read it to you, the subject line.
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Hi, I love you both. While listening to a news story about the recent doomsday cult in Kenya where 400 people died by mass suicide,
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My dad casually said, I interviewed a cult once. Then a few years later, I found out they all died by mass suicide in California.
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Friends, my pure-hearted, non-true crime dad was talking about the Heaven's Gate cult.
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Oh, wow. Yes, the one obsessed with UFOs and Nikes. In 1994, my dad was working as a reporter at the local newspaper in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
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when a small group of people dressed in baggy clothes and cropped haircuts showed up at his office,
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hoping to publicize an upcoming meeting they were holding in town. My dad interviewed the members of Heaven's Gate at the time they were called the Total Overcomers.
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I don't remember that. I don't either. And published a story about their movement and their upcoming meetings in Santa Fe and Taos.
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He didn't think much of it until almost three years later when someone sent him an article about the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide of 39 members in a San Diego mansion.
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Next thing he knew, he was getting calls from national news outlets to give interviews as an expert on the cult.
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He did all of these interviews while holding a baby, me, who you could hear crying in the background of his NBC News interview.
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Oh, my God. Isn't that wild? That's crazy. He recalled that when photos came out of the cult and its victims, he recognized the four members that he had interviewed.
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He said when he interviewed them, they didn't seem crazy or woo-woo. They seemed very friendly and funny.
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And then it says classic cult behavior. Am I right? And seemed pretty rooted in the real world.
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They acknowledged that their movement was not for everyone and that there would be other opportunities to advance for those who didn't choose to join them at the time.
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30 years later, my dad is a renowned journalist, but spends most of his time reporting on the cult of politics.
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Stay sexy and support local journalism. XOXO Genevieve. She sent the article. The link along.
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Oh, that's cool. It's called Strangers Come to Tell a Tale. And that is from episode 103, where I cover the Heaven's Gate cult live in San Diego.
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Wow. Yes. It's just such an interesting thing. Because having a parent as a journalist must be really incredible.
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Because they spend all their time having unbelievable experiences like that. And then, like, I didn't think anything of that interview.
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They were actually really friendly and normal. They were just like some computer nerds that were like, yeah, we just like to live this way.
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I thought the same thing in that documentary. Yeah. that the actual people and when they spoke and stuff, they just seemed like, yeah, this is what I prefer.
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Totally. Hmm. While the world watches the stars at the FIFA World Cup this summer, Hyundai has its eyes on the next generation of talent.
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The future soccer stars who are already turning heads at age 14. Making plays that end up on everyone feed scoring from angles that don make sense rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust Because Next doesn wait for an invitation and Hyundai doesn either Hyundai has always moved the future within reach Hyundai did it by making advanced safety standard on every vehicle
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This one's intense because, subject line, my dad survived the Sun Valley Mall disaster.
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Holy shit. Holy shit. Okay, so it says, hi diddly ho murderinos. Let's get into it.
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When I heard that Karen was covering the Sun Valley Mall plane crash in episode 447, I was beyond ecstatic.
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The Sun Valley Mall, only 10 minutes away from my hometown, was my dad's favorite place to do last minute Christmas shopping for my mom every year, including 1985.
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I must have been in second grade when my dad was walking with me in that very mall and he said, you know what, sweetie?
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One time I was here when a plane crashed through the ceiling. Thanks to a perfect concoction of forgetfulness, bad luck, and ADHD, I grew up hearing all about the fires he accidentally started and near-death experiences he had while working at the local refinery.
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A random plane crash just seemed on brand. It wasn't until later that I grasped the magnitude of this event.
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I started scraping the internet for more details and asking my dad about what happened.
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And here goes his tale. It started with this inadvertent annual tradition. After dedicating way too much time on meticulous Christmas decorating, he snuck away to the mall to get some gifts.
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And where would a desperate dad with five kids and less than 24 hours left to shop and no internet go to get a slam dunk of a present?
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The Macy's jewelry counter, of course, a.k.a. the epicenter of destruction. My sweet, terrified pops tossed his shopping bags behind the counter and braced himself for impact.
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As usual, he narrowly escaped death. When it seemed like he was in the clear, he walked out and saw the horrors.
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So he basically, the plane crashed, he jumped over a counter. And like waited it out and then walked out.
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And that's when he saw. Walked out. He saw the horrors, screaming, fire, and injury.
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His reaction to this storm of chaos perfectly encapsulates his truest self. As a former nerdy Boy Scout and fire team member at work, he felt like he should do something.
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And what was that heroic act of bravery, you might be wondering? Running back and forth with indecision and good intentions, likely with his hands resting on his head between short panic sprints. Finally, he knew where he needed to go. Mervyn's.
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It was here that my dad called my mom, who surely had seen the news and was filled with worry.
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I'm not sure if my dad ever got back to the Macy's jewelry counter that year. It's possible that relief was gift enough.
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This horrifying and surely traumatizing event was no hindrance to my dad's procrastination.
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He shopped at the same mall the same day every year until lockdown started and he discovered online shopping.
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Love you both immeasurably. Stay sexy and shop early. Bitsy. Oh, my God. I mean, he was there.
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He's a witness. He was in it. Yeah. How terrifying. I mean. Just to walk out and see how awful it actually was and you're fine.
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Yes. You know. And also that idea that I think everybody is like, oh, I would do this or here's how I would help.
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And it's like, you're one of the victims, too. And you're in shock. It's happening to you.
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Yeah. That's why there's like trained professionals to do that. God. Wow. This is from the episode 268 where I covered Cocaine Bear.
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The episode's called All Stars of Seventh Grade. It came out on April 1st, 2021.
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Hello, beautiful murder ladies, Stephen and pets. I've been binging your show for months now, and I just recently listened to the episode where you talked about Cocaine Bear.
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Short recap, if it's way back in the memory banks. Oh, we remember. It was the 1980s.
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Andrew Thornton was a former narcotics officer who was on the run. He was smuggling drugs and weapons, and eventually he jumped out of a plane and died.
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Then three months later, a dead black bear was found in the Chattahoochee National Forest,
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and he had overdosed on cocaine supposedly dropped from Thornton's plane. Okay, so he now lives in taxidermy glory as the mascot of Kentucky for Kentucky,
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who are friends of ours. I still wear my cocaine bear shirt that they sent us. I still have my y'all shirt, and I wear that.
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Love them. Yeah. Then there's a super rad clothing and goods store based in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky.
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Andrew Thornton was from Kentucky, and his story is pretty well known. So several years ago, the people at Kentucky for Kentucky fell down a rabbit hole trying to find out whatever happened to cocaine bear.
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The full story of how he became their mascot is on their website, but I've condensed it for you here.
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I'll try to make the long story as short as possible. So after the bear died, RIP, the animal medical examiner that checked him out and confirmed that he died from a cocaine overdose thought to himself,
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well the inside of this bear is all kinds of fucked but the outside is fine so we sent it to
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a friend to be stuffed because i guess you don't want to waste a perfectly good bear carcass
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for several years the bear was displayed in the national parks visitor center with a plaque that
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told all about his exciting party animal life and death then in the 90s an approaching wildfire caused the staff at the National Park to evacuate and the bear was put in a storage unit with many of the park other
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belongings. Many of those things, cocaine bear included, somehow disappeared from the storage
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unit only to be sold at a local pawn shop. And as it turns out, the owner of the pawn shop sold
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the bear to none other than country music legend Waylon Jennings. Does that ring a bear?
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Who does that ring a bear? Jennings thought the story was hilarious and he sent the bear to a Kentucky-born friend of his in Las Vegas.
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So then, for a while, Cocaine Bear lived in a very nice Las Vegas mansion. When that man died, his possessions were auctioned off and Cocaine Bear was bought by a man who ran a traditional Chinese medicine shop.
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I guess he thought a giant taxidermy black bear was the perfect decor? It doesn't make much sense.
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So when the people at Kentucky for Kentucky decided that they needed to find out what happened to Cocaine Bear, they tracked him all the way down from Georgia to this Chinese medicine shop.
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The owner had unfortunately passed away, but the wife still had Cocaine Bear in her possession.
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She had absolutely no idea that this bear had lived such a checkered and well-traveled life.
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And thankfully for them, she hated the bear and wanted it gone. So she offered to give it to them for just cost of shipping.
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That's amazing. I love that. That goddamn bear's been in this front room. Yes. So now he lives at the physical Kentucky for Kentucky shop in Lexington, and people can come and pay their respects to possibly the coolest bear to ever exist.
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Don't do drugs, everyone. There's also a line of cocaine bear shirts, hats, stickers, and even a snow globe that you can purchase on their website.
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Stay sexy and don't do drugs, or you'll end up dead and maybe stuffed like poor cocaine bear, Sarah.
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It really is epic, though, a stuffed bear, because they're such unbelievable creatures.
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There's a bar in downtown Petaluma called Gales that's had a stuffed bear in the front window our whole lives.
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And we used to just walk by it so we could look at the bear. Is it like malting or anything like that?
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I mean, yeah, it was really old. I'm sure if you went up and tried to brush it, it would be a negative experience.
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But it was just in a bar. Nobody in there cared. It's just like that kind of like, look, somebody did this.
00:20:11
It's a fucking bear. It's a bear. Yeah. While the world watches the stars at the FIFA World Cup this summer, Hyundai has its eyes on the next generation of talent.
00:20:20
The future soccer stars who are already turning heads at age 14. Making plays that end up on everyone's feed, scoring from angles that don't make sense, rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust.
00:20:31
Because Next doesn't wait for an invitation, and Hyundai doesn't either. Hyundai has always moved the future within reach.
00:20:37
Hyundai did it by making advanced safety standard on every vehicle. Hyundai did it by engineering EVs with ultra-fast charging capabilities.
00:20:44
And Hyundai continues doing it every day. From robotics that change how people live to young athletes changing the game,
00:20:51
the future isn't some far-off concept. It's already here. Next starts now. Hyundai, an official partner of FIFA.
00:20:57
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00:21:44
Goodbye. All right. That's my last story. I'm not going to read you the subject line.
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It says, I was in the middle of my daily ritual deleting the mountain of marketing emails
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I subscribed to in moments of financial optimism. 10% off feels worth it until it doesn't.
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Then I almost missed it. Something familiar and unexpectedly magical. It was from Build-A-Bear.
00:22:09
A quick backstory. I was just there with my one-year-old for his birthday. We got the $1 birthday bear, which somehow became $25 in tiny clothes and denim pants.
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I wish came in my size. The email featured the one, the only, Mothman. Oh. Yes, really.
00:22:27
A Mothman bear, glowing eyes and little wings, the softest harbinger of doom you've ever seen,
00:22:34
and not in a Halloween promo, just calmly existing in the general catalog as if he's always been there.
00:22:39
Limit two per guest, of course. And I couldn't stop smiling because somehow without really noticing it happen, true crime, folklore and women's voices in these stories have worked their way into the culture so deeply that now even Build-A-Bear is on it.
00:22:56
Oh, my God. I love that. This isn't just about a cryptid and plush form. It's about what you've helped build.
00:23:01
A space where curiosity, empathy and humor can coexist with darkness. where storytelling becomes a kind of activism,
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where people who were once dismissed as weird, morbid, or too sensitive are now a part of a smarter, sharper cultural conversation.
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I'm totally crying. Oh, my God. And occasionally that conversation shows up in your inbox disguised as spam.
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Thank you for what you do. Truly, stay sexy and keep telling stories that matter.
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MC. Oh, my God. Okay, I have to say, and I've said this to you before, But a lot of times I don't read the emails all the way through so that they're fun when I read them to you.
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So I did not know that I was about to compliment us. No, but it's really sweet because it's our 10-year anniversary.
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And that was like a perfect kind of like thing. Molly! I wouldn't have. It's a lovely compliment.
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Yeah. It's very sweet. Do you think we're the reason there's Mothman plushies at Build-A-Bear?
00:23:56
I don't know. That's a bit. I wish we could take credit for Mothman, but... We could take credit for the Mothman statue with his big cakes.
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Have you seen that thing? Yes, we talked about it. So good. Let's end on a positive note.
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Okay, this is based on me covering The Great Emu War. Yes. Episode 477 called The Greatest Depression, released on April 24th, 2025.
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Okay. Hi, day one listener, third time writer. So when I say I grew up on an emu farm, I don't mean like I remember growing up on an emu farm.
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I mean, I was a newborn surrounded by six foot tall prehistoric birds. Here's the backstory.
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My parents got married in 1993. And as a wedding gift, my grandparents, who were already deep in the emu game, like hundreds of birds deep, gifted my parents a pair of emus.
00:24:49
I mean. Congratulations. I guess give what you want as that's a gift giving strategy.
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Do you think that they didn't have the online registry yet? So they couldn't have known that it wasn't on their registry.
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What could they want for their wedding? I guess what would we want? Emus, of course.
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Four months later, I was born. So technically, my parents started their marriage and their family with me and two emus.
00:25:14
A power trio, really. At the time, emus were supposed to be the next big thing. Their meat was considered a delicacy.
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Their oil was trendy and people were investing like this was emu Bitcoin I don In the 90s Yeah In America I don think so Let see Is there a U in the Could be Australia Also anyone who from Australia we say it emu here okay I know
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it's emu in Australia. Emu would give me the XO bad if you just kept saying that. It's emu. Okay.
00:25:45
My dad was once offered $13,500 for the pair before they were even a year old. Wow. But he
00:25:52
held out because at the time yearlings were going for 20 grand. What? Which in today's money is
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probably fucking 50 something. I had no idea. I didn't either. Spoiler, he made zero dollars.
00:26:04
When the emus hit their first birthday, the emu bubble burst. My parents ended up just giving them
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away. Oh, it's like beanie babies. Yeah, that's right. It's all it's so valuable. Nothing.
00:26:19
Naturally, I asked about their personalities because Georgia mentioned that emus could be loving and kind.
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I don't remember that. And I wanted to believe I spent my babyhood with gentle giants.
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My dad said, eh, most are pretty docile. But then casually added, though a lot of them can get really aggressive.
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He told me once he had to give medication to one of my grandparents' emus and it straight up sliced his arm open with its talons.
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Emergency room stitches, the whole thing. So, yeah, kind of a toss up. Then I asked my mom if she was ever scared of them.
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She texted back and I quote, I wasn't scared of them, but I didn't fuck with them.
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End quote. Which honestly is probably the most honest way anyone has ever described coexisting with emus Yeah So yeah some people get china sets or blenders for their wedding My parents got angry warbirds and a baby
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Cindy. Cindy. No, another Cindy. C-Y-N-D-I-E. Still. It's like fancy. Oh, are you European, Cindy?
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It's very exciting. We are just thrilled. We are 10 years old. Stay sexy. And don't get murdered.
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