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We read you your stories. It's incredible how you send them to us. You just keep doing it.
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Do you want to go first? Sure. Okay. Oh, yeah. We're going to do a special New Year's one.
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Guys, 2025, wrapping up. How do you feel? You got your presents. You've eaten a bunch of food.
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Hopefully, you're grateful for some things. Hopefully you have hope. Hopefully there's stuff to work toward.
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Right. We're all trying here. Yeah. That's all you can do. That's right. Let's start with a fucking horrible one, shall we?
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A snow-covered churchyard and a hometown that changed the law. All right, ladies.
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I'm from a sleepy little town on the outskirts of Birmingham, England. It's as crime-free as anywhere can be and generally considered very safe.
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And then it says in parentheses, I mean, apart from the garden down the road that was recently dug up to discover a body
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and potentially solve a 32-year-old cold case. And a fantastic I Survive story about a woman eight months pregnant
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who was stabbed 24 times in our town center by her ex-partner and survived to testify and jail that motherfucker.
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But all those are stories for another day. What? So crime-free, except for... That's so British of that person to just dangle all of those unbelievable...
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They better write in that survival story. Yes, well, this is a good one too. Okay.
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I was 13 when on New Year's Day, the local news exploded with the discovery of the body of a 17-year-old girl from my school,
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Nicola Dixon. Nicola had been due to go away with family for New Year's, but stayed home as she had
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a driving test scheduled. She went to the local social club on New Year's Eve and left at about
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10 p.m. to meet friends in the town center, a 10-minute walk tops. She never made it to her
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friends. Instead, on New Year's Day, 1997, her body was found in the snow-covered grounds of
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the local church. From the analysis of the scene, police concluded that Nicola had almost escaped
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over a fence, but it had been dragged back by her attacker. She had been alive when he fled the scene
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and bruises on her knuckles indicated that Nicola put up one hell of a fight, but eventually died
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from the devastating injuries inflicted on her. The police conducted what was called by Nicola's
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father, a snowflake to snowflake search of the scene and launched what became a nationwide manhunt.
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They interviewed over 11,000 people during the investigation and took 6,000 statements and featured the case on a British TV show I'd imagine you guys would have loved had you grown up in the UK, Crime Watch.
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Oh, we've heard of Crime Watch. Oh, yeah. Despite their best efforts, they were unsuccessful in their attempts to find her killer until six years later when a local man, Colin Waite, was arrested after a road rage incident in Birmingham and routinely DNA tested.
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He was a perfect match for the hair and bodily fluids left at the scene of Nicola's murder.
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He protested his innocence, but it took the jury 30 minutes to sentence Colin to life imprisonment.
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Turns out Colin had been in prison since Nicola's murder for assaulting his partner.
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But due to a clerical error, his DNA was not able to be processed. And it was just incredibly lucky that he'd gotten all ragey that night that led to his arrest and the police were able to test him again.
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Wow. Just a fucking fluke. Well, but also a person that can't control themselves.
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So it's like it's going to happen again. Clearly. He and Nicola were complete strangers.
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She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nicola's lasting legacy is that due to her case, her parents fought for a change in the
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law that means DNA is taken from prisoners as standard practice and will hopefully prevent
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other families from going through the same agonizing way they had to. It's been over 20 years, but it's still all I can think about when passing that church.
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I'd like to get sentimental, but let's face it. It just makes us all uncomfortable.
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So I'll simply say thank you, Karen and Georgia. You've helped me in so many ways and never failed to make me laugh, even during the horror
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show that is this pandemic. Oh, man, that's an old one. Holy shit. SSDGM, Ellie.
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Wow. Yeah. Ellie. Real true crime one there. Yeah. You know what weird I started mine with a real true crime one too Oh shit Love that people still send these in and that that connection is the connection that people have with true crime stories Right I pass this yard and I think about this girl who all by herself going through this horrible thing
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And that's how people do it. Yeah, could be any of us. Or sometimes their mom's involved.
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Oh shit. Okay, so this says hometown story, dateline hometown. Hey kids, this is a longish one, but hang in there with me.
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Most of this story occurs in Muskegon County, Ohio. On New Year's Day 2012, my mom was taking the deposit to the bank for the clothing store she worked at.
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She pulled her car up to the curb and was waiting for her co-worker to come out and get in the car
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when she saw a guy in a ski mask start jogging up to the car. He struck her co-worker with his gun and pointed it at her.
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She hit the gas and pulled away. The man took the deposit bag and jumped a fence and was gone.
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Hell of a way to start the new year. Don't worry, the year got better when I birthed twin granddaughters for her.
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Holy shit. Let me help you out here. Thank God. I'll bring two human beings in the world and maybe that'll make things better.
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Fast forward to 2014. A 25-year-old mom, Brandy Daniels, is murdered in her parents' rural driveway on her way home from work late at night.
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She was in the midst of divorcing her abusive husband, who was in Alaska at the time.
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That husband, Josh Daniels, was my mom's co-worker that was hit with the gun when she got robbed.
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Holy shit. A lot of police work, phone records, and a couple battered ex-girlfriends willing to talk to police,
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and the connections between a string of robberies and four suspects became clearer.
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Sirius Underwood, one of the men who helped with the robberies, offered to murder Brandy.
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Brandy and Josh were having a contentious divorce, and custody of their five-year-old daughter was part of it.
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Daniels gave Underwood Brandy's movements after communicating with her under the guise of when she would be home to have a phone call with their daughter.
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Underwood shot Brandy three times in her parents' driveway. Brandy Daniels' murder was covered on season two, episode 24 of Dateline, the episodes entitled Out There in the Dark.
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My mom had several polygraphs and quite a stressful go of the robbery. When she was asked to be a grand jury witness, she went.
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She is a badass. us also we saw your show at the lyric in baltimore and really wished we could have told her hometown
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but we didn't want to break the rules stay sexy and don't let the bastards get you down julia oh
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my god so the co-worker was the ex-husband meaning he staged the whole thing yeah that robbery and
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him getting hit and everything it was like he knew the guy that robbed them he was in on that yeah he
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He was a criminal and he was also an abusive husband that had his wife, like, murder for hire murdered.
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That's so awful. Jesus. Well, this is the way to celebrate New Year's. We've gone and done it.
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I would have been flattened like a pancake. I thought nothing of it, said thank you, and went on with my decorating.
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Oh my God. I know. Fast forward to New Year's Day, and over 12 police cars were outside that same neighbor's house.
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He had reported his girlfriend missing two days prior. The police searched his house and found the girlfriend, Lisa Libetka,
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wrapped in a rug underneath her own child's bed. In this trial, it came out that he had smothered her with a pillow.
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So this took place on the very same day that my decoration flew across the road.
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That's right. My neighbor, Paul Hindle, saved my life the exact same day he took another.
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That doesn't make any sense. I know. Being an oblivious eight-year-old at the time, I watched him get handcuffed and loaded into a police car from my front window.
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I remember asking my mom why he was handcuffed. And she replied, oh, honey, everyone has to get handcuffed to go in the back of a police car.
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Just trying to, like, make it seem nice. Yeah, nice cover. And then she says, I guess she's not lying.
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Before the end of my Christmas break, my older brother explained to me that my neighbor was in fact charged with murder and not just going for a ride along with the police while being handcuffed.
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Still not grasping the concept, I remember going back to grade four after winter break and going around in a circle as a class saying the most exciting thing you did over the break.
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I said, my neighbor got murdered. I believe this is what got me into true crime at such a young age.
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It will always give me chills thinking about my neighbor picking me up. saving me from oncoming traffic with the same hands that he took life with soon after.
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Every kid on my street got therapy after this except me, probably because my parents thought I was too young to care about what happened.
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Oh, if only they knew of the little murderino I was. Good thing I just started seeing a therapist last week.
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Love, E, she, her. God. It's like... Unfathomable. You want to believe that you know the full constitution of a person who's going to murder their girlfriend.
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Right. Like that's a sociopath. That's a psychopath. That's a person that doesn't have feelings.
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It's like, yes, they do. Right. It just doesn't make any sense to us because we could never fathom that.
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Wow. Okay. This is still crime-based, but we're going to take a little turn into the normal mini-sode comedy that I enjoy so much.
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This is an incredible email. I'm not going to read you the subject line. It says, Hi, yous.
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I was raised in a very magical way. And then in parentheses, it says not for commercials.
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I don't know what that means. However, there is one experience that I have engraved in my mind that I think it ticks a lot of your requests.
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Drunk parents, crime and holidays. Right. Here we go. When I was 12 years old, my big Latino family had our usual New Year's party at my grandma's, which normally starts in New Year's Eve and ends around 7 or 8 a.m. New Year's Day.
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They party all night long. These parties are incredibly lively with a lot of dancing, eating and drinking.
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And usually we have a designated driver in our family that would drive everyone home, all 67 of us.
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Holy shit. And then a parentheses that says no one likes that job. No. That's so crazy.
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This particular year, after waiting for the designated driver for an hour or so,
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I felt old enough to suggest myself to drive us back home, and my parents were drunk enough to agree with me.
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Twelve years old. Oh, no, twelve. Twelve years old. After my dad stole the last two bottles of whiskey,
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one cheap and one, all caps, fancy, we left my grandma's place to our home. We live on the outskirts of our city on a farm.
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So I think it needs to be said here. As a farm child, not really, not the child of farmers, but grew up in a rural area.
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Kids start driving when they're like eight years old. Really? Yeah, you have to.
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Like regular cars? Regular cars. And like around the land kind of thing. So you jump in a truck to go feed the cows.
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Okay, because like from suburbia, like I never know. Yeah. I think that's the whole thing of like, this is the way things have to work on this farm.
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Right. It's like the kids are farm workers like everybody else. Yeah. So like we collected the eggs.
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we fed the chickens and the geese and the cows And driving from your house to the thing on the same land isn a big deal No And usually I mean like we didn do it as much It more like cattle ranchers kids
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Yeah. Or if they had to get up at 5 in the morning to go feed 100 cows, they're going to take a truck to do it.
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Okay. And they'll be fine doing that. Okay. And if they are there with their brother who's 12 and they're 8, all of that kind of stress.
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First of all, there's nothing to hit you or whatever. You can't hit cows. Right.
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They're easy to miss. Right. And then you just kind of start getting used to it.
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Anyway, I just want to put that out there. No, it's really fascinating to me because I have never experienced that coming from the suburbs.
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Yeah. You know. So after leaving the city and entering the county highway, I see a few transit police checkpoints.
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To be super clear, I don't have a driver's license. My family is cheap and they don't pay car insurance and our registration is expired.
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Yeah. So I'm panicking within reason. I asked my mom what to do, and she was in her drunk, sleepy place where no one can read.
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I have one of those. I turned to my dad, and he was in an incoherently loud state, hugging his whiskey bottles.
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It was too late to go back, so now I was driving through the checkpoint, praying not to be randomly picked to be asked for my papers.
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Oh, my God. Well, I was definitely picked. Of course. When the officer came to the car, I was actually very relaxed.
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And then in parentheses, it says my upbringing prepared me for this. I had my window already down and I start to notice that the officers in parentheses, all of them were very drunk themselves.
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What? I asked what I could help them with. What can I help you at 12? It's greater.
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I'm sitting on a fucking phone book. How can I help you? Like you have your wrist on the steering wheel.
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What can I help you with? Yeah, that's the problem, officer. So I asked what I could help him with, and he asked for my age.
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And I said, I'm 12, but sober, and I've been driving for four years. Okay. Fucking legend.
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He asked for the car's papers. I pass them to him, hoping he doesn't pay attention to the expiration dates.
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He doesn't, gives me the papers back, and finally asks who I was driving. I say, my parents, they're in no condition to drive, so we all thought we'd be safer with me driving.
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Wow. He looks at me and says, we might not take your car, but we could call child services.
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You're too young to be responsible for your parents, which is true. Yes. In general.
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Yes. If she had to do that all the time. Right. That's when that's true. Sure. Christmas.
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Come on. Okay. New Year's. New Year's. Come on. Christmas or New Year's. Which one?
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Take two. It's New Year's. Sorry. Okay. So it says, I'm freaking out. This possibility never crossed my mind.
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However, I did say I was prepared for this. I said, I can help you continue your party with your fellow officer friends with this whiskey bottle.
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How are you so brilliant at 12? Just fucking and handling shit. I think oldest daughter, I would guess.
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And I pull up the cheap whiskey bottle. The officer laughs and says, I'd be more inclined to let you leave if you give me that Johnny Walker blue label your dad is hugging.
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I turned around, looked at my dad in the backseat, hugging his bottle like he was holding his life and grab it.
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Oh, okay. He holds on tight and shouts, Mine! Oh my god. So I smoothly switch it with the cheap one,
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quickly give it to the officer, and say, Thank you and Happy New Year, and drive away as fast as possible.
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We arrive safely home. I open the windows of the car to let my parents sleep in it
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until they are well enough to come inside. Holy shit. We're laughing so hard, but this feels like childhood trauma.
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A little bit. It's trauma except for what a success. Yeah, it's funny. It's either trauma or it's the funny story that you tell at the holidays.
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The fine line. Yes. It's only happened once. It's a funny story. But it's like she didn't get home and then start getting yelled at by those same parents.
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Right. Or like beaten by, I mean, what do I know? But here's the assumption. The reason she was able to handle it the way she was is because her parents are smart and cool and treat her like a real person.
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Yeah. Okay. And empowered her to do it. Okay. Let's find out. Let's go with that.
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Let's believe what we want to believe. Yes, please. Okay. Until they're well enough to come inside on their own, I'm not going to carry them.
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Sorry for the length of the story. I do hope you enjoy it. Also, thank you for walking with me to and from university.
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I'm in my last year of my PhD in chemical engineering. Then they did a great job.
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They did a great job. She's fine. That's amazing. And for making me laugh every single time.
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Ta-ta for now. And stay sexy and always have a good bottle of liquor to bribe the officers.
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is cammy cammy yeah that's legendary yeah 12 year old that's like how can i help you tonight
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officer how about this how about i bargain with this no i'm like she starts low and goes high like
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so smart but also there's a tacit threat in her bargain which is right you're fucking drinking i
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know you're drunk i'm the only one in this whole group that isn't fucking drunk how about you don't
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That's Kachava, K-A-C-H-A-V-A dot com, code MFM. Goodbye. My last one is family superstitions Hello MFM gang My name is Hannah She her pronouns Yes you can use my name Okay Hannah Great Perfect I just listened to Minnesota 304 asking for superstitions
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I have two family superstitions slash traditions. One, my grandmother and mother have always told me never to wash clothes on New Year's
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Eve or day. I've heard that one. You have? It says washing your clothes is equivalent to washing away a loved one.
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I've never heard that before. Yeah. And then number two, the New Year's Day meal tradition.
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Your meal should include collard greens for money, black eyed peas for luck, and pork for prosperity.
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That sounds like a Southern tradition. These are two Southern superstitions. It might be more common than I thought.
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I'm from Georgia. I've binged the podcast from the beginning and have finally caught up.
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Thanks for making me laugh when I really need it. Stay sexy and please don't wash your clothes on New Year's, Hannah.
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That's a good one, Hannah. I didn't know that washing clothes thing at all. I heard about that. Well, it's a TikTok thing. When you're addicted to TikTok,
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you learn about all the traditions. I mean, it's not like I would have a problem. Like,
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I would be threatening to wash my clothes on New Year's because I'm hungover and I wouldn't
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have done it anyways. But yeah, that could be a thing where like a mom was like, no,
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no, we can't. No, we can't do laundry today. Or it's an, you know, and no yelling. Yeah,
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that's a TikTok thing. Okay. The subject line of this email is that time it actually was a mannequin,
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which kind of gives it away. Yeah. Hi, Karen and Georgia. Long time listener here. Love you both.
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love the show, etc., etc. This is the story of the time it actually was a mannequin. Back in 2018,
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or maybe 2019, my friends and I traveled to New Orleans for New Year's. I was the only one who'd
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ever lived there, so I was being kind of obnoxious about knowing my way around. Yeah, of course, you gotta.
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Oh, here's where the bagel shop used to be. Actually, this one is better than that one.
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This is a bar I don't recognize, but I'm picking this one instead. One night, we were walking through the French Quarter when I saw,
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out of the corner of my eye a naked woman's body half hidden in a shop window. She was totally naked,
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covered in bruises, fully visible from the street. The shop door was propped open and the lights were
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on I know what going to happen Fueled by a lot of liquid confidence I broke away from my friends to investigate Did I think to call the cops Of course not I was clearly the hero of the story I stepped inside and inched toward the body She was sprawled on checkered vinyl tiles limbs all wrong hair falling across her face
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in a way that was too perfect, too shiny, too something. It very slowly dawned on me it was a mannequin.
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I looked up and saw two very confused employees staring at me. What the fuck, y'all?
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I demanded. Why would you have this in your window? It's terrifying. They looked bewildered.
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One of them sighed and said, ma'am, this is a fucking Halloween store. Sure enough, rows of costumes bagged in cellophane, fake cobwebs, plastic severed limbs.
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I drunkenly stumbled into a year-round Halloween store convinced I was about to solve a murder.
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Anyway, that's the time it actually was a mannequin. Love you all. Emma from Maine.
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Emma from Maine. Oh, being a know-it-all when it fucking hits you right in the...
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You're being a know-it-all to people who are from there. Right. And who aren't drunk.
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Right. All the drunk people. Send us your drunk stories at MyFavoriteMurder at Gmail.
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We love them. We hate them. Send us your parents' ones, the ones that are funny, the ones that traumatized you.
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Yes. And that hilariously traumatized you. And hey, congratulations, because this year is almost over.
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Thank fucking God. And the freshness of... It won't be your laundry that's fresh, but the year will be fresh.
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And things will start again. And here's to 2026. That's right. Stay sexy. And don't get murdered.
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Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie? This has been an Exactly Right production.
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Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer is Tessa Hughes. Our editor is Aristotle Acevedo.
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