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This is the episode where we take you back to the early days of My Favorite Murder,
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and we recap our old episodes with new commentary and updates and insights. And in today's episode, we're recapping episode 43,
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which I'll never forget the name because I didn't know what the word meant. It was the first time I think I heard it.
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The episode is called In Arrears. In Arrears. In Arrears. That's right. In Arrears.
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In your ear. This episode came out on November 17th, 2016. In Arrears. RuPaul's birthday, Rachel McAdams' birthday, Danny DeVito's birthday.
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Three classic Scorpios. Gorgeous. I hope they celebrate together. What a great party that would make.
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So fun. But in the meantime, let's listen to the intro of episode 43. Let's start a punk band.
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Okay. Hey. What should the name of it be? Hardkill. Okay. All right. All right. Bye.
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Welcome to My Favorite Murder. My name's Karen Kilgariff. That's Georgia Hardstart.
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Hi. We're here to talk about true crime, murders, and how it feels to be alive in late 2016.
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Georgia, what are your thoughts? Oh, let's fucking get into... No, I don't know.
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Do you really want to ask me that question, dude? Let's go to the phones. When you say late 2016,
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it makes me think that someday this will be like a time capsule. someone in, hold on, I feel like I'm talking with my mouth. You know that like.
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You are talking with your mouth. The whole thing. No, I just ate a bite of something and I'm having that like weird.
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Chewed up food? Yeah. That weird chewed up food thing? That you get in your mouth when you eat things?
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Yeah. I get that sometimes. It's dinner. Breakfast sometimes. Sometimes. Lunch. I don't know.
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Snacks. time capsule hello to 2050 i mean seriously everything that you do that gets put on the
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internet is permanent i remember the internet goes down and everything i don't believe that
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that's very true unless the grid goes down i think all of society ends that's what i really
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think is i i actually don't feel that this is going to be a time capsule because it's all going
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to go down there's a really great book that i won't remember is it called it's all going to go
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down. Yeah, but I haven't written it yet. And it's not based on anything scientific or
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it's not like you're a computer person or anything. It's just kind of like... They're going to do a count in 2050 and the word dude is going to appear 4,000 times in my book.
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Dude, bro, dude. So then... I texted Georgia. Sorry, I went away for a second because I had to remember this, but...
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I don't know what you're going to say and I'm scared. I texted Georgia. No, it was just about something. But in the text, I called you dude. It was like
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something congratulatory. And I was like, way to go, dude. And you wrote back, that's so dude.
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I know. I saw that later. Did you do it on purpose? No. Okay. I couldn't figure out if you
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were being, it felt like you were like, thanks. Like it was like you going, yeah, thanks a lot.
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No, what I meant to write actually was thanks, dude. But instead I wrote, that's dude.
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That's so dude That's dude And I didn't I didn't notice it Till like hours later
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So I was like Well I'm not gonna bother her It was like It was like Nighttime on a Saturday
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I'm not gonna bother her Now So that's dude Like she's gotta know What I mean A little bit
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I looked at it I was just like She might be telling me To fuck off right now Although there really no reason to Anyway I would never if I telling you to fuck off that because I miswrote something
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Oh, because like you typed in it because you were trying to write. Thanks, dude.
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Yeah. And if I put an exclamation mark, it's friendly. Oh, okay. If I put a period,
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it's not so friendly. If there's no punctuation, you're driving. Yeah. You to hell.
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um are we do we have uh some corners i have a correction corner okay which i kind of love
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because it's i think it's hilarious but last week in our very in a very special episode yeah
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in the breakdown episode in the breakdown when everything went wrong when when the grid started
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to sizzle yeah and in the beginning and now it's fully aflame yeah and in 2050 when it's completely
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down this won't matter but uh i said that the moment i saw what i meant was the moment on tv
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on Tuesday night when I saw Rachel Maddow's face fall, I was like, oh, we're fucked.
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Yes. But instead I said, Ann Maddox, which is a girlfriend of mine who's like super sweet and not.
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It's someone you know in real life. Oh, totally. It's like a friend of mine who's a comedian.
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She's super funny. Like, she's great. But I was just like, and I saw Ann Maddox,
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and I was just like, when I saw Ann Maddox's face. That's really funny. I haven't seen her in a while.
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So that's not what happened. Somebody actually tweeted to us and it was just the,
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with the quotes around it of you saying, when you kept saying don't marrow. Oh, that's another correction.
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That's, I don't know if that's correction corner as much as it is like stroke corner.
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It's, we should have stroke out corner because it's, it happens constantly. And when you were doing it,
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it sounded right to me every time you said it. That scares me because A, I wasn't drinking, you know?
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That was your mistake. I can't fucking show. That was the problem. I said, I said, become a, I was meaning to say become a bone marrow donor, but twice in a row,
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I said, don't marrow. And I didn't, I would have kept going if you hadn't said, and you said don't marrow. And I was like, yeah, I would, I didn't even notice.
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It's, and those are the kinds of things I feel like such a, it makes me feel like an asshole,
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but I know that people listening are like, but that just happened. Like it would, it drives me
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crazy when I, when I listen to podcasts and something happens and then your brain explodes
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because nobody says anything about her. It feels like people don't notice. I want to be called out on my shit all the time.
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Okay. I want to be fucking imperfect and okay with it. Yes. Same here. Me too. Yeah.
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I mean, I think we're pretty good about that. About being imperfect? Well, being imperfect and mentioning it.
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We are. I think we do it. We do it well. Well, because I trust you. I know that when you mention it to me,
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you're just, it's not because you're trying to like, make me feel small. You're just like, here's what's actually happening.
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Good personalities. I know. that's why the other day when you told me you called me out on saying the word fucking all the
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time I didn't I know you didn't mean it like that oh okay I know you didn't if I did like
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but I no intention you know intention okay good it's very well that's good this is we're we're
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really building a bridge of love right we are it feels I mean we need it now now more times now
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I mean 2016 now more than ever now more than ever I have a this is a this is a very official
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corrections corner that I really like. Okay. And it's from Milo. I don't know if,
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I'm assuming Milo is a man. And it's, I love this. Okay. So it's misuse of the word psychotic.
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Oh, okay. Hello, Karen in Georgia. I'm a big fan of my favorite murder, but one thing that I have noticed
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is a misuse slash abuse of the word psychotic. This is all me. Because I love, my mom was a psychiatric nurse.
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Right. So I use a lot of the terminology that she used to throw around. but she knew what it meant and I don't.
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Well, when you say things, psychopath, he was, you know, he was a psycho, whatever.
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Right. Yeah, it's in our vernacular. But I like hearing this. Me too. Okay, so ready?
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Psychopathy, sociopathy, I don't know how you pronounce that one, is different from psychosis.
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People suffering from psychosis are actually less likely to commit violent crime
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than the general public and are actually more likely to have violent crime committed against them.
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That's so interesting. While there are those who have mood disorders or display psychotic behavior that do commit violent crime, like Richard Chase, Vincent Lee, who I don't know who that is and now must know.
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Yes. L.I. The ways we judge them should be different than the ways we judge people who have more awareness for the crimes that they commit.
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That's all I wanted to say. Thank you for your awesome podcast, Milo. Thanks, Milo.
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Milo, first of all, I hope that this is true and that you are some kind of... Psychopath?
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Milo, you are such a psychopath for understanding that. No, you know that you're qualified in some way,
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that you're telling us this from a place of education. I mean, look at it on Wikipedia. I'm sure it's correct.
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I guess we'll have to double check it. I like hearing that. Remember when it was like 25% of people are psychopaths.
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Psychopaths. And then you're like, corrections quarter. Yeah. It's only one quarter.
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Yes. Yeah, I get intimidated by numbers. But they're scary. But I love psychological terminology.
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Also, there was somebody that wrote to us that was offended by something. They were offended by something?
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They were offended by something. But it was a thing where it was almost just like a little, it's a note to be careful of how we are judgmental when people have mental illness.
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I was just going to say that because we just read a hometown story where they said that someone was found out that they were bipolar.
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And I immediately didn want to say what they were because that not an indication that you going to be a murderer or that you mentally ill Well you are mentally ill but that you you know dangerous or a criminal Yeah it just doesn need the stigma Yeah I know people who are bipolar and they very awesome people I don I hate unless it
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something extreme and clear, I don't want to say that that person has this mental illness.
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Yeah. And I think as being conversational and reading stories, and especially when we're talking about killers or serial killers, we can play it very fast and loose with judgments about them because we feel like, well, they're clearly a villain.
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Right. But the point that this person was making was a little bit more like, you know, just not everybody that has a mental disorder is a killer. And that makes people, if you hear the thing that you have, but it's as if like that's everybody. We never want to make anybody feel like that.
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No. Quite the opposite. Especially with mental illness and disorders, which we're very big on.
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Fucking everyone has them and some people treat them and some don't. And you shouldn't be scared to treat them
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because you found out that a fucking serial killer has it. I don't want to- Yeah, or like, it's just on this podcast,
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we're not judging you. No. And that's not what we are trying to do and we'll try to be careful about it.
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We're judging murderers. Yeah, we get to pick and choose who we judge and we'll adjust it weekly
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based on how much feedback we get on Twitter. Just always know we're good people.
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We're the best people. Always give us the benefit of the doubt, even if we're being insanely effective.
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You're probably wrong, not us. I just want to clear that up. Such an official corrections corner this week.
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Oh, so good. Ann Maddox, shout out. Ann Maddox, you're doing such a great job helping us through our political times.
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What else? Oh, shirt. There's new shirts up. Oh, yeah. I love that new shirt. Oh, yeah.
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Okay. Good. Fuck politeness. Fuck politeness. And then it says murderino underneath it.
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It says my favorite murder underneath it. Oh, my favorite murder. It just looks like,
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kind of looks like the murderino design. Sure. It's cool. We were talking about this earlier.
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Fuck politeness, but also in these very difficult times, be careful of the people around you.
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Be sensitive and try to connect on a human level in a way that you normally don't maybe.
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I think it's super important that people around you understand that you care about them.
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Yeah. And if you are the kind of person who doesn't care about people, do your thing.
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But I just want to underline that fuck politeness in our world means don't sacrifice yourself
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on the altar of politeness because that could be dangerous for you. But it also,
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it does not mean fuck the people around you in general, especially now. Especially now.
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Now's the time to be even more kind of caring and connected. Just don't like let people
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follow you to your car and shit. It's a word talking safety versus, you know, when you're talking
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to the person at Starbucks, be nicer than you normally would be because everyone's freaked out.
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But if you're being intimidated and you're scared of something, you know, it's a kind of
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a trust your gut type of saying. Yeah, you guys know what we're talking about, but I just felt like
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I should underline it. There's the Mr. Rogers quote of, you know, how his mom always said,
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look for the helpers in any bad situation, look for the helpers. Well, how about let's be helpers?
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Be helpers. Exactly. Speaking of being helpers, this is my favorite thing that's happened to me in a while.
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Okay. So I'm, no brag, in the Writers Guild of America. Look. Wait, what? I've been waiting to lord this over you for a while.
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This whole time I've been talking to a Writers Guild member? So in the Writers Guild,
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they have this thing where... No, I do think it's really cool though, by the way.
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I just want to say that. That I'm in the Writers Guild. Yeah, I mean, In the Writers Guild is a fucking cool thing.
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Oh, thanks. Now I'm glad I mentioned it. No, but they do this thing where normally in every other entertainment union,
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they send you a thing that says, oh, now your yearly dues are 160 or whatever. But because it's writers and most of us are freelance,
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they base your dues based on how much money you made that year, or per quarter, which is based on...
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It's so impossible. The second I start thinking about it, I shut down and like go and sit in front of the TV, like in, in protest. You big old, I can't.
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I can't. It's like math. It's all the things I hate. I get overwhelmed. Um, so I have been in
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arrears and my dues at the WGA. Been in what? In arrears. Yeah. You texted me that today and I
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don't know what that means. Oh, it just means you haven't paid your dues. And you can't,
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if you do it long enough, they suspend your, um, your membership and then you can't work.
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So that's how I can't, I, my sparklets membership is, I'm overdue on that. That's why you saw all
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those empty bottles when you walked up my staircase. Be very careful. You don't want
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to get into arrears with the sparklets guy. I'm in arrears with sparklets. He will kick you in the
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arrears. So such a dad joke. That was amazing. I love dad jokes. So I have a lot of these things
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in my life right now, but one of them is this, the do's that I don't know how to figure out how
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much I need to send. And I won't take the time like everybody else does to sit down and do it
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because I think I'm better than other people on special. Aren't you? A little bit. No. So it's
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a thing that's hanging over my head. I get a letter today and I'm like, you have to open this.
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You have to face this. So I read the letter and the letter tells me exactly how much I owe.
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And I'm like, oh, this is the letter. This is what I need. This is exactly it. And I read the rest of the letter and it's like, please send it in in a timely fashion.
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It's just a, it looks like a form letter except for it has my amount in it. And the sign off is stay sexy,
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don't get murdered. Fuck yeah. So my friend at the WGA who works in the dues department
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and who sends out these letters all the time. Your new bestie My new bestie helped me in a way that she will never know how much it helped me What if she actually just been using that sign off for decades And she going to sue us
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And this first time it actually hit someone who wasn't like, what the fuck? Finally, someone could appreciate it.
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Yeah, yeah. It was, you'll never know how much that helped me. It's such a little wink to you.
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It's such a compliment. I know. But then also it's like a person was like, I'll take care of that.
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This shit, this podcast, man. I mean, she's not paying my dues. No. Let's be. But.
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That's the real favor. She should. I mean. You're welcome. Thousands and thousands of dollars.
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This podcast. And I think after last week's episode that I, I feel really good about.
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Yeah. The post election episode. And all of our friends. And all of our friends who have been like,
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I needed that. And I think we, I think we did what we were supposed to do, which wasn't like a fucking overtly crazy political podcast,
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but I like, here's the general mood we're in and here's what we can do. Which was awesome.
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It just made me flash on though, our reviews for the sugar-free gummy bears. Yeah.
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And then for the banana slicer. It was amazing. Now people are posting other reviews.
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Yeah. And I read the one, I don't have the name, but it's for the vitamin D milk.
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No, I haven't seen it. And it is, it's called like Something Farms Vitamin D Milk.
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And they've posted it on the Facebook page, but it's, you can find it. It's Amazon reviews.
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It's the funniest fucking thing. It's like a jug of milk, right? It's a jug of milk.
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But people are writing it like, have you guys poured this over dry cereal? It's awesome.
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I mean, you have to read it. Some of them are really short. One lady wrote this big, long story.
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It's the funniest thing. I feel like what happened last week was what was supposed to happen.
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For sure. I'm really happy with it. And people have been so fucking kind and cool.
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I know not on your Twitter probably or our Twitter. Well, Twitter's different. We know it's a big garbage can.
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Of human waste. Of human waste. But on Instagram and everywhere else. I mean, that's the thing about this fucking podcast is like,
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it makes me want to cry. I might cry. Go ahead. This is me crying. Cry right to that mic.
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You're going to do a dry cry? That's basically what I do because I'm dead inside.
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But if I weren't, I'd be alive from murderinos. Oh, and also over the weekend, I went to Vince's, we went to this like charity event
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and they have these like free bracelets where you can, you pick a word and they stamp it
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into this medal. And it's like your word of, they said to me like, what's your word of intention that every
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day you want to look at, you know, like breathe or like, you know, it's like one of those like
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dream. I intend to breathe today. No, I will. You know those like rocks that you get at like fucking Bed Bath & Beyond that say like,
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dream, love, build, be happy, whatever the fuck. It sounded just now, it just sounded a little bit like you said, dream, blood.
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That's what I got with it. No, I was like, okay, can I get SSDGM? So I have one of these that says, stay sex, you don't get murdered initial.
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Right. And I want to give it to someone at the Chicago Podcast Festival, right? I need to give it to someone.
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Yeah. You mean pick someone? Yeah. You could throw it. You could pick someone. You could slip into their pocket and they never see.
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That's fun. That's a fun way, right? I just want to, and I know it's such a fucking trivial, stupid thing, but I just think it's
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fucking hilarious that she was like, okay, and like wrote it down and like didn't know
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what it was. Well, and it kind of seems like it's shorthand for some kind of sadomasochistic sexual situation,
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doesn't it? Yeah. SSBD. BD. BDL. I have this, I got my, this is, we can cut this because this is boring, but I'm still
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going to say it. I had my- Goodbye, Skippers. Goodbye. I had my DNA tested on 23andMe, which is like this crazy thing that you get your DNA tested.
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It tells you where you're from, what percentage, and it also tells you what DNA abnormalities
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you have. And the one I have, the initials basically look like motherfucker. Really?
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It's MTHFR or some shit. And it just looks like motherfucker. And it just means you're going to die in a year.
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It really basically means. It's that abnormality. You're really fucked. Like you can't.
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Motherfucker. It's totally fucked. That's hilarious. You should have had that on a bracelet.
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It's me, the one with MTHFR. Well, it's like when you, what's the like, do not resuscitate bracelet.
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Yeah. Motherfucker, do not resuscitate me. Just don't. Just leave it. It just says, I'm good.
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My do not resuscitate. You know what? If I'm down here, leave me here. My donor sticker on my license just says, just take it.
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I don't even care if I'm unconscious or not. You know what? You can have it. Someone else needs it more than I do.
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I don't need this liver. Like I really just sit around all day. So just fucking give it to someone.
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Just give it to someone with a degree in something important. Someone who's really trying.
00:23:12
And we are back. Did you have any idea that your friend Anne Maddox would go on to become such a reality TV superstar?
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That's right. So she was Tom Sandoval's assistant in Vanderpump Rules. Yeah. And she became Ariana Maddox's assistant.
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I don't think there's any relation there. Okay. But yeah, she's like a hit and I'm so happy for her.
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It's like she deserves all of it. She's the sweetest person. And I love that I fucking just randomly brought her up in 2016.
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And now it's like, yeah, everyone knows her. Yes, it's the best. Also, just the idea of you're mistaking her for Rachel Maddow is such one of those flips
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that I do where I'm like, it kind of sounds the same. I don't know. Yeah. And she does have a podcast, too.
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I should shout out called We Signed an NDA. Hilarious. All the assistance. right? Yeah. The celebrity assistant world. Such a good idea. Yeah. She's great. What do they do?
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Do they just, it's like celebrity one, two, and three? I'll listen to it. Yeah. Okay. So then we
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also talk about 23andMe, which I just deleted completely recently. You two? I was never on it.
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You were never on it. I'm one of those people that I never got Alexa or Siri. I don't, I am as
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paranoid and as kind of like stay away from me as possible. So any of that stuff when it first came
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out, I was like, I don't care who I'm related to. I'm literally the opposite. Or I was just like,
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take all of my information and tell me what's wrong with me, please. Oh, you want me to input
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my like blood work info into this so you can tell me how I can fix myself? Sure. But don't you think
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it is because I lived 10 years longer with no internet than you? It was not reality for me
00:24:50
until my early 20s. Right. That totally makes sense. So it's kind of just like, don't go into
00:24:56
that room. Yeah. Well, you're right, because 23andMe filed for bankruptcy back in March.
00:25:02
That's right. So after having a huge data breach. So now, yeah, take your info down. You can download
00:25:08
your info so you always have it. Yeah. Like your blood work and stuff, but then shut it down. But
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I mean, they still have it anyway. So they have it. Don't worry about it. That's going to be for
00:25:17
the future Blade Runner world where there's like a machine walking around with your skin on it or
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whatever. Sorry. I could be cloned so easily, but why would you? Like why? Nobody wants.
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You're going to find out. I mean, go ahead. She's going to be a mess. But then what if
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what if you got cloned and like they pick you as you're the future waitress of every restaurant or
00:25:41
whatever? I mean, what if you get picked? I'd eat there. She's a good waitress. She's funny and
00:25:46
sassy. Yeah, but like also she does her side work and she'll close and be efficient and sell you
00:25:52
coke. All the things you want from a waitress. That's right. Give you a little bump every now
00:25:57
and then when you need it. All right. Well, should we get into your story? Your first episode? Yeah,
00:26:03
let's do it. Yeah, this is I mean, when I was going back through this story, I was just like,
00:26:08
wow, I think it's one of the last child murder death of children. Like I know I did more in the
00:26:15
future, but it's that thing where it gave me that sense of like, if you could track the lack of
00:26:22
interest or the reduced interest when you get to a story like this where you're like, what happened?
00:26:26
That's crazy. And then when you actually hear it and the reality of what happened that day is so
00:26:32
tragic and dark and sad that it's like, oh, that's right. Like when you get to the end of many of
00:26:38
these stories, you're just like, this is such a heavy, horrible thing. An innocent child who had no choice in the matter.
00:26:46
And it's, yeah, I know you don't like to do those. I don't either, but I do them more than you do.
00:26:51
Yeah. Well, let's get into it. This is Karen's story about the International Dunes Hotel murder-suicide.
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All right, can I just do my murder? I hate it. Yeah. Go. Why do you want to? Skippers, keep skipping.
00:28:56
Just don't come back. Skip all the way over. No, I really like my murder, so get through this.
00:29:02
This will be great. This will be, I'll just skim this. I'll throw out some concepts.
00:29:06
um no this was here's here's the long and short of it I am doing the hometown murder that William
00:29:15
sent in that I balked on because I thought that was so unfair of me that someone I would have been
00:29:21
so livid if I was listening to this podcast gave a shit about it heard my name they started to do
00:29:27
it and they were just like no I'm not doing it and then they were like throwing children nope bye
00:29:32
Yeah. Because I want to know. So, William, first of all, my many and thorough apologies for jerking you around.
00:29:44
The thing is that once you get into it, it's not like anything saves it. It's not like it gets better.
00:29:49
It doesn't have a different ending or like there's not cool facts. So wait, you were correct.
00:29:54
I was correct but I going to power through it Good for you Sounds like life Right You just got to buckle down You correct but you just got to fucking
00:30:05
You just got to say the hideous facts. And the hideous facts are this, that basically it took place on August 4th of 1978.
00:30:18
So you set the tone. We're in Salt Lake City. It's 1978. So you got a lot of brown.
00:30:24
You got a lot of corduroy. A lot of blondes, actually. Do you think there are a lot of sideburns or no?
00:30:29
I think there are plenty of sideburns. I think there's blonde hair with brown sideburns,
00:30:34
which is a thing that only happened back then and doesn't happen anymore. Good. Remember Stephen?
00:30:39
Stephen was there. He knows. Stephen and Elvis were traveling band. So there was, now as many people know,
00:30:50
Salt Lake City is predominantly Mormon. I mean, the whole state is very Mormon. Salt Lake City more so.
00:30:58
And there was a man, this man is named Bruce Longo and he has been excommunicated
00:31:05
from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints because he's too rock and roll.
00:31:13
If you're too rock and roll for the fucking Church of Latter-day Saints. If your ideas are too big and bold
00:31:18
and you get excommunicated, something's going on. because those are people that like, they like a group.
00:31:24
They like their religion. They want people in it. Big and bold is their saying. I don't know.
00:31:31
What's their saying? Yeah, I think it's big and bold and read all over. Big and bold and a couple tablets.
00:31:39
That's us, the LDS. I can't wait to see that meme. So Bruce Longo, he got excommunicated.
00:31:50
and so he started his own cult essentially. That's what you do when you get kicked out of a thing.
00:31:57
Yes, that's right. You splinter off, you start your own, you grow a ponytail, you gain 200 pounds
00:32:03
and you fucking act like the cult leader that you are. He also changed his name to Emmanuel David,
00:32:13
which is a thoroughly religious sounding name. Yeah, it is. And I could never find a name of the cult that he started.
00:32:21
But what it was, was everybody in the cult had the last name David. So that's, it was like, they didn't put together, you know, 25 Davids or any kind of like catchy.
00:32:33
The 25 Davids. The 25 Davids. That's our band name. There it is. That's our punk band name.
00:32:38
Punk Brock. 25 Davids. But basically he got, it was mostly his family members. and a couple friends and they got into it.
00:32:49
And he apparently was like all cult leaders. He's charismatic. He's very engaging.
00:32:55
He has a ponytail. He has a ponytail. He's kind of large. And he gives people a reason.
00:33:02
He's like a guide. How great would that be to have that, to believe in a thing? Right now, if I could meet a 300 pound man
00:33:09
with a ponytail that told me what was what, goodbye. I would quit this podcast. I would fucking walk on you both
00:33:16
I'm trying so hard just to let you finish because I just want you to keep going I was just like
00:33:22
I was like please I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I will not interrupt this
00:33:26
you have to finish the sentence now email at Karen at uh no I'm also I like a bigger man
00:33:37
don't worry don't worry that I'm being sarcastic right now no for sure ponytail no fucking way
00:33:41
no gross what are you doing what are you gonna guana do Stop it, dude. Ew. Did you say, are you an iguana?
00:33:49
Dude, are you an iguana dude? You know the guys who hang out at coffee shops in the 90s with an iguana on their shoulders?
00:33:54
What the fuck? You're an iguana dude. Yes. Okay, got it. And they're everywhere.
00:33:59
All right. So essentially, they would travel all around. They were kind of nomadic
00:34:06
and they would live in hotels and they would stay in these hotels. And then when they would go to leave,
00:34:13
like a couple months later, they would just skip out on the bill. Before credit cards existed, I think.
00:34:19
Yeah. And that must have been it. Yeah, 78. I think there were credit cards. This was back when women weren't allowed
00:34:24
to have their own credit cards. Shut your fucking face. Yeah, I swear to God. I remember when my mom had credit cards
00:34:28
and when she'd go to a place, they had to look her name up in a fucking like yellow pages book.
00:34:33
Oh. Of like Visa. Oh, there's your name. To make sure it's legit? Just to like charge it.
00:34:39
It was so different back then. Maybe I'm misremembering. Are you thinking of the phone book?
00:34:45
They would look in a phone book. Then they'd call her and be like, is this your credit card?
00:34:49
This is like two weeks ago, so I'm probably wrong. I'm sorry, go on. So, you know, among the things that this group did
00:34:58
was they made a large sword for him, Emmanuel David. They made a large sword. You acted so casual about that.
00:35:09
Among the things is that they prayed to, you know, the different gods. Nope. No, they made a big sword.
00:35:14
Got it. And he believed, he was declaring now that he was God. He thought he was God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit all in one.
00:35:23
Hey, red flag. You can be one, maybe two. You can't be everything. It's like a breakfast burrito.
00:35:29
He's just like, I'm breakfast. I'm a burrito. Throw it in there. I'm everything.
00:35:33
Hey, how about some sour cream? Yeah, definitely. So with his sword, he promised to lop off the heads of thousands.
00:35:41
So we're not, this isn't a positive cult. This isn't like Sephora. This is bad news.
00:35:49
He didn't give free samples. No, not at all. He didn call you muffin when you went in there I love it That a true story It happened to me one time Okay so the police and the Mormon church were keeping an eye on Emmanuel David and his group because he would show up
00:36:07
with his followers at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. And they wouldn't be violent. There would
00:36:14
never be arrests. But he, you know, he was there to like tell everybody that he was the real deal.
00:36:19
He was a presence. Yeah. And of course, he probably brought that sword. and then he, what he would do is he would separate the men in the group from their wives and children,
00:36:31
send them off to different cities, give them some kind of a task. Like you, you know, you have to go
00:36:36
off and preach in Nebraska or whatever. And then he would keep all the women and children around
00:36:42
him. Cult leaders love that. That's their big thing is like, I'm everybody's daddy. So from 75 to 76,
00:36:52
he lived at the Red Lion Inn in Missoula, Montana while his followers were working elsewhere.
00:37:02
Working, air quotes. But then he had a vision. He decided that the followers he had sent away
00:37:09
were actually archangels. And he renamed them Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel. Emmanuel.
00:37:19
then he told them that he believed the federal government was about to collapse.
00:37:26
Well, was he wrong? I mean, he was early, that's all. And he promised that he was going to save the Republic
00:37:36
and become its new leader. Hey. Hey. So he told them to sell, now this is funny because I didn't set this up
00:37:45
because I'm reading from the middle of the page. He told them to sell their karate studio
00:37:50
Wait what? I forgot I skipped a paragraph And now I've misled everybody He did the thing that every cult leader does
00:37:57
And every religious He says sell your karate studio They always try to get you away from your karate studio
00:38:03
I'm sorry Chip chop karate studio will not be sold You've got to stand by that karate studio
00:38:09
Chip chop? Chip chop That was the first thing I'm going to say And you did karate hands while you said that
00:38:13
I did fucking chip chop Chip and a chop um basically steven's on the ground um so essentially he was basically saying you have
00:38:23
to dedicate your life to me you have these other you have there you have real jobs you're kind of
00:38:27
still trying to hold it down in normal society yeah break ties and give me the money go to work
00:38:33
in other cities and later days latter days come on i'm sorry i interrupted you but that was pretty
00:38:41
but first i thought later days then but then i was like latter days that's right later days
00:38:45
latter days. I see. And then you put them together. Do you see that? But first you held your finger up
00:38:50
like you had a great secret to tell me. Because I couldn't listen anymore until I said that.
00:38:56
Oh no. I can't listen. No, it was good. Look, okay. This is just all. A year later,
00:39:06
he gets the archangels to come back and he says that he has found the tablets that the Mormon
00:39:13
church founder Joseph Smith claimed to have found and read. That's Joseph Smith.
00:39:18
Happened upon them. Well, he says he found them. So once they get back to Salt Lake, he doesn't have tablets.
00:39:26
But when they all meet together, he says, I am the tablets. Now we're right now we're into
00:39:33
the bad. Imagine the feeling in your stomach. You're one of those archangels like you're in it.
00:39:37
You're loving it. And then suddenly it's like, dude, you're not tablets. That's not a thing.
00:39:42
This isn't good. You just like, you've crossed the line of things I can believe.
00:39:46
Yes. But not, but once you're in, you're in and you have to kind of keep on playing along
00:39:50
because you've already grown out your matching ponytail or whatever they had to do.
00:39:55
I can't find any information about this Gigi cult. You're just like, oh, I did this thing and I thought this was correct.
00:40:01
And so I have to keep going with it. Otherwise. Yes, exactly. Well, and a lot of them were his family members.
00:40:07
So they were like, we love him and he, we believe in all his promises. He's not a bad guy.
00:40:14
It's just his ponytail is bad. So, all right. The long and the short of it is the government is investigating this guy
00:40:22
because he is being investigated for wire fraud and other frauds, assorted frauds.
00:40:32
It's like a seized candy box of fraud. He's dark chocolate with almonds with no caramel.
00:40:38
No one wants that fraud. Why is this happening? This is the grossest fraud I could have gotten.
00:40:42
Grossest. Where's the Bordeaux bar? What's the one you can't have with the Seize candy box?
00:40:47
I don't like that one, but I also... Oh, the nougat. You don't like nougat? The white nougat with the...
00:40:54
With the chewing? With the chewing and the eating? Yes, I hate it. No, for real though.
00:40:59
It's too much chewing. It's a lot of chewing. Nougat. Fuck yourself, nougat. I disagree.
00:41:04
I'm as nougat's compatriot. That creamy Bordeaux one? I'm going to say you go fuck yourself.
00:41:09
Yes or no? Yes. Oh, okay. We're opposite. We should split. We are not opposite. We are made for each other.
00:41:16
We're made for each other. Honey. Except for I can't eat sugar anymore. One fact.
00:41:22
So in all of the ways he's broken the law, in all of the mint patty ways, in all of the molasses chip ways,
00:41:31
he's done it all. And so what he does, so they've been living in the International Dunes Hotel
00:41:40
in Salt Lake City for a year. This is a $90 a day hotel. They are living in a suite. It's
00:41:49
him and his wife Rebecca Yes or no When you were a kid that would have sounded amazing right Living in a hotel Yes I get to live in a hotel It still sounds amazing That my favorite Oh I been in hotels too many times and I just they make me sad
00:42:06
They make me so happy. I do love hotel. I run into the bathroom immediately because I want to see the bathroom set up.
00:42:13
Oh, okay. I thought you meant like, because you had to use it. I just run in there.
00:42:18
I have to pee from excitement. No, I guess you're right. Yeah, you're right. Well, my thing is they're usually very quiet.
00:42:23
Yeah. and the beds are cushy and you can just get into them and watch TV. That sounds like my house.
00:42:29
And you have the excuse. I know, but when I do that at my house, which I do a lot, I always feel bad.
00:42:34
Oh, I see. In a hotel, it's like... One, request a room that's not by the elevators.
00:42:40
There's a travel tip. Good tip. Come on, sorry. No, no. So they've been living in this big hotel
00:42:47
in Salt Lake City, the whole family. So he has, Emmanuel has a wife named Rachel and they have six children.
00:43:01
Rebecca, who's five. David, who's six. Joseph, who's eight. Deborah, who's nine.
00:43:08
Joshasha, who's 10. And Rachel. Nah, it's J-O-S-H-A-H-A. Like Joshaha. Aren't those names from a V.C. Andrews book?
00:43:22
Some book. It's a book that they're from. Kind of. It's a book that they're from.
00:43:27
V.C. Andrews. Rachel, who's 14, is the oldest. And then Elizabeth, who is 13. So they're all living in this hotel.
00:43:39
The government's circling. And so Emmanuel borrows his truck from one of the people,
00:43:46
whose last name is also David. He drives up to a canyon and commits suicide by putting a hose from the exhaust pipe into the truck cab.
00:43:56
What a fucking dick. I mean, it is quite selfish. Because this family that he has, by all reports of the people that worked at this hotel and people that were anywhere around this family, they completely depended on him.
00:44:11
And they were also a loner family. So they, aside from the rest of the cult, which was also their, mostly their family, they didn't talk to people.
00:44:19
They didn't interact. And the people that worked in this hotel said that the children were very quiet.
00:44:24
They didn't speak unless their father said they could speak. And they didn't use the pool.
00:44:29
They didn't like, they were not loud. They didn't giggle and they didn't go to school.
00:44:33
They were taught in the hotel room by the parents. So they didn't go to the Caribbean and get their groove back, I bet.
00:44:39
Nope. So there's going to be no grooves getting gotten back by the end of this. Quite the opposite.
00:44:47
So he kills himself because basically it's like the jig is up and you can't just,
00:44:52
I'm sorry, you just can't stay at hotels and then leave. Would he have been fine if he had paid the bill?
00:44:58
No, because there was other fraud. It's just that the articles, I was on Murderpedia for the most part on this.
00:45:04
Yeah. And everything is pretty vague. and it sounds like it's like, it's like he,
00:45:10
he was kind of a problem guy. But he left a trail. But he left this trail and it was basically like,
00:45:17
here's how we can get him. Okay. So it was just unpaid bills and wire fraud. Al Capone,
00:45:22
getting him on tax evasion. That's right. Okay. And also I think he, he really was ripping these people off
00:45:28
when they would join his cult. He was like, you know, it's like sell your karate studio,
00:45:32
give me the money and you go to Missoula, Montana to spread the word. So they're trying to get him.
00:45:37
It's the old chip chop. All right. So when Rachel finds out that her husband kills himself,
00:45:47
she tells the cops, well, we don't have any money. I don't have money to pay for the funeral.
00:45:54
They realize something's terribly wrong. And three days later, on the morning of August 4th,
00:46:02
they were staying at the suite on the 11th floor of the International Dunes Hotel.
00:46:07
And she walked her children out onto the patio and either through or pushed all of her children off of the 11th floor of this hotel.
00:46:18
No. So there were people standing on the street below and screaming at her. So one kid hits and they're like, oh my God.
00:46:30
And they think at first they think it's like an accident. And then it's six children.
00:46:35
So it just keeps happening. And they're all screaming at her. And I mean, that part-
00:46:43
Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah. This is why I didn't want to read it before. But I mean, it's that kind of,
00:46:47
all I can think of is those people who are, you know, there's pedestrians, there were guys that were like maintenance guys
00:46:54
that were fixing the road or something. There's a truck driver. PTSD fucking D. Oh yeah.
00:47:01
That's so traumatic. Yeah. Yeah. And she's throwing off the little kids and the older ones are doing it voluntarily.
00:47:12
So it is like a horror movie. Oh my God. And then at the end, they all start yelling for her to jump off. Like they go through so much seeing this and
00:47:22
witnessing it and freaking out that they get really angry. They can't feel good about that
00:47:27
too. You know, like they have PTSD, but they also have to live with that. And that's not who most of
00:47:33
us think we are. But I understand why at that point you're like, fuck you. Because they're also
00:47:39
down where the kids are hitting. And they can't do anything. Yes. They're completely powerless.
00:47:44
It's horrifying. Yeah. And the thing was, they didn't have to even yell that because that was
00:47:49
her plan anyway. And then she jumped off. Jesus Christ. All of her children died except for one.
00:47:57
And it was Elizabeth who was 13. and she had severe brain injury and she was in a hospital.
00:48:07
They thought she wasn't going to live, but then she did and she got better enough.
00:48:15
They put her in a foster home and then when she turned 18, she went back and lived with her uncle
00:48:21
who was still in the cult. So the Davids were still an existing religious group.
00:48:28
Jesus. And she lives with them now, still believes that her father is going to come back from the dead.
00:48:34
She still believes her father is God and believes that everything that happened was exactly what would have happened and says it's what they all wanted.
00:48:43
Let's go break her out right now. She wants to be there. No, let's set her free.
00:48:48
She will. No, I know. I know. I just am trying to help. It's a solution that won't work.
00:48:54
That's awful. But you're just trying to do something and I appreciate it. yeah, it's such a horrible story.
00:49:00
It's a terrible story. It's terrible. The craziest thing is now they changed the name to the Shiloh Inn.
00:49:07
The hotel is still there. You can go there. When we do a live show in Utah, guess what we're saying?
00:49:14
Not there. Not fucking there. People, there are people that go there and stay on the 11th floor intentionally.
00:49:21
Oh my God. And there have been reports of hearing laughter coming from the first floor pool
00:49:31
area when no one's around. But we know they weren't. They'd never swam. Right. But still, maybe
00:49:37
it's the idea of they get to have fun now. They're good ghosts. As well as a pinball machine
00:49:43
in the game room that spontaneously turns on and starts playing. Don't they do that, though?
00:49:49
To show you how to play. That's right. They go into demo mode. I don't believe in ghosts
00:49:56
but it's ghosts but it's actually ghosts this time but it's ghosts this one time
00:50:00
this one time and yeah people just hear voices and they a lot of people think that this place is haunted
00:50:08
what I think is pretty interesting is Danny Elfman has always been a frequent visitor
00:50:17
of this hotel Danny Elfman? mm-hmm it's he first started going in 1984. He was touring with Oingo Boingo, right?
00:50:26
Yep. He was touring with Oingo Boingo and he heard the story and stayed on the 11th floor.
00:50:32
He always stays on the 11th floor. What? He wrote Dead Man's Party inspired by that hotel.
00:50:41
They have a great old movie if you can find it called The Forbidden Zone made by Oingo Boingo in the 80s.
00:50:46
That's creepy and fucked up and I wonder if... Maybe it's connected or inspired by.
00:50:51
Sure. Also it's believed that he was so fond of his young friends Oh because he had ghost experiences when he was staying there
00:50:59
Dude So that's like he would go there intentionally I trust fucking Elfman You trust Elfman?
00:51:06
I mean he wrote The Simpsons theme Yeah Come on Yeah He would go to stay there And he stayed there while he composed the music and lyrics for The Nightmare Before Christmas
00:51:17
Fuck Yeah That's amazing you just dropped your paper I dropped it as if to say at least there was one good thing
00:51:26
in that story that? yeah there's that so William we owe this all to William this was his hometown
00:51:34
murder originally and it got kicked all the way up to a full grown too bad William stopped listening
00:51:41
and fucking went on a murder spree when you didn't finish his story he was so angry
00:51:46
he was so mad at me he was so pissed thanks William That was amazing. All right, we're back.
00:51:56
Karen, any case updates? No case updates, but definitely corrections, of course.
00:52:00
So there were altogether seven children, not six children. That was a copy-paste error for my, of course, very professional and extensive research that I did 45 minutes before we used to record.
00:52:13
And also one of the David children, I pronounced his name very strangely. It was actually Joshua.
00:52:19
So it was either like a misspelling or whatever. But also the name of the surviving daughter was not Elizabeth.
00:52:27
I'm not going to say her name. She is, it's unclear where she lives now. And she went through such a horrible thing, you know, like on a slightly brighter note,
00:52:38
Iguana Dudes of episode 163 is covered on MFM animated, obviously titled Iguanas and Samurai Swords.
00:52:46
so you can go watch that on the youtube page youtube.com slash exactly right media we just
00:52:53
love those iguana guys don't we we love to reference them they are you know they take up a
00:52:57
very large footprint in our culture because they're out on the sidewalk showing off their lizards
00:53:03
yeah and i want and is it just a 90s thing i don't know or 80s 90s this feels like a specific
00:53:08
90s thing for sure so yes it was a real before the internet and phones it was a great way to
00:53:15
break the ice when you were just kind of standing outside of a restaurant somewhere.
00:53:19
Right. Hey, man, I like your goatee and your iguana and your iguana's goatee. Yeah. Let's talk about all this facial hair.
00:53:25
There's so much to talk about. Also, I want to say, oh, during the original story,
00:53:29
I asked if the Church of Latter-day Saints has a catchphrase, like, just do it, or I'm loving it, which I can't believe I said that.
00:53:36
So funny. And it turns out, well, no organized religion has an official catchphrase.
00:53:41
Wait. But it's like, what? I thought Catholics was amen. Okay. Ours is like the chosen ones, bitches.
00:53:48
The LDS church commonly uses the phrase choose the right, especially with youth groups.
00:53:54
But I think later days latter days Way better Is maybe some of my best work ever I think you done some of your most brilliant comedy around the Church of Latter Saints wordplay
00:54:06
And I don't know why. But isn't that live it, love it, learn to levitate? Wasn't that off of some story we were telling about a Mormon?
00:54:13
No, I think it was my birthday. And you were like, what are you going to do this year, Georgia?
00:54:18
But there's some Mormon stuff going on for me, for sure. You know, I take it so lightly.
00:54:23
the Mormon religion. You really do. You'll regret that later in your 23andMe clone
00:54:30
has to work for all Mormons. I mean, where I grew up, literally, we were the only Jewish family
00:54:35
and there was one Mormon family and that was like it. So like, I don't have a lot of experience there.
00:54:40
Everyone else was bright orange Christian? Everyone else was wasps. Just a waspy.
00:54:47
I was going to say, we have, and it's such a, I think an indicator of what we do
00:54:52
and how we do it. One of the most horrible stories, of course, we've ever talked about. Truly, though, the sidebar jokes, some of the funniest we've been conversationally, I think. I was laughing out loud where I was like, oh, I get why people like us. I get it. I get it.
00:55:08
I also get why they were mad a little. The people who didn't like us were mad. I get that. But also they're wrong, so it's okay. But yeah, we were a lot more lighthearted during the stories back then than we are now.
00:55:19
Yes, we thought the room that we were in had two people in it and the room that we were in had at that time, I believe, 40 million people in it.
00:55:26
So we were going to get some detractors and some people who like touristed in and said, you have no right.
00:55:32
And they're right. They were right. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. They choose the right. They're like Mormons. Anyway.
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00:58:28
Okay. Which we're going to next week. Yay. In 1982, metropolitan area, which is such an 80s term, isn't it?
00:58:37
I don't know why. Metropolitan makes me think of 80s. The buildings are all staggered.
00:58:41
Yeah. Tall, short, tall, short, tall, short. And it's like it expands upon it, whatever the fuck.
00:58:47
This is the time before tamper-proof seals and pills were sold with just a cotton ball
00:58:53
tucked underneath the lid. So you went and bought aspirin or whatever the fuck and you just opened it
00:58:58
and maybe it had been opened before and maybe it hadn't. There was no child-proofing as you opened it
00:59:04
and there was no silver foil. None. you could open it and then do whatever you wanted and close it back up.
00:59:12
If you were a baby, if you were old. Babies could open it. Yeah. This is 82. So it's before there were like a child.
00:59:23
What are the things where they can't open the drawers and stuff? You have to childproof your home when you have a baby.
00:59:28
Childproofing, yeah. Yeah. This is before that. Yeah. When the 80s were like, just eat it all.
00:59:33
This was when they used to sell baby knives. Remember that? where there was just like,
00:59:38
you could get your baby a really cute knife that I could just hold. Yes, I remember that.
00:59:43
I still have mine. Do you? With your initials on it. And two ducks. Oh. Oh my God.
00:59:50
That is the cutest baby knife. I have to say my mom saved it. One of my diaper pins.
00:59:55
Oh yeah you had safety pins Safety pins on diapers Cloth diapers and safety pins Gross and dangerous The safety pin itself was humongous and so sharp
01:00:06
And cute. So the baby would be like, I want to play with that. What the fuck? How are we... How did we survive?
01:00:13
I mean... All right. So let's start with... I'm going to do kind of a timeline thing.
01:00:19
Because it's like one and a half days of fucking a shit show. Okay. So 1982, September 29th, the first thing to happen is that Mary Kellerman, who is a 12-year-old
01:00:30
from Elk Grove Village, Illinois, wakes up feeling sick. Her parents are like, you can stay home from
01:00:35
school. They give her some Tylenol to make her feel better. She goes in the bathroom to take it.
01:00:40
Moments later, she collapses on the floor. She's rushed to the hospital. I know.
01:00:47
Sorry, how old was she? She's 12. She's exactly the same age as me. Sorry. Because I was just thinking of like,
01:00:55
it's 82. I'm 12. Oh, I thought you meant right now you were pretending to be 12.
01:00:59
Oh my God, what the fuck? That's how old I am right now. I did get carted over the weekend.
01:01:06
Did you? And I was like, I know you're joking, but fuck you. We went to Button Mash
01:01:13
and the guy was carting everybody else and then he looked at me and I just shook my head no
01:01:16
and he started laughing and opened the door for me. Vince does that too. Yeah. He goes,
01:01:20
he like gestures like, come on, dude. Yeah. I'm not trying to. How good is their food there, by the way, but mash?
01:01:26
Oh, we didn't eat. Oh, it's good. Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry. No, the place is great.
01:01:31
She wakes up feeling sick. Sweet Mary is pronounced dead at 9.56 a.m. Next comes Adam Janis.
01:01:42
He's a 27-year-old poster worker in Arlington Heights. Takes a sick day, doesn't feel good.
01:01:48
He picks up his kids from school, stops on the way home at the Jewel, which I guess is a thing.
01:01:53
It's like their CVS. Yeah. And get some Tylenol. And he says to his wife, I'm going to take some Tylenol and lay down.
01:02:01
A couple minutes later, comes staggering into the kitchen and he dies at 3.15 p.m.
01:02:08
At 3.45 p.m., Mary, quote, Lynn Reiner, who's 27, is at home in Winfield. She had just given birth to her fourth child.
01:02:17
Oh, yeah. So she's home recuperating. She's not feeling good. So she takes some Tylenol that she had been given and brought home from the hospital after giving birth.
01:02:28
There's this weird shit. We'll talk about it later. She, yeah, so she takes those.
01:02:35
And then moving on to 5 p.m. So this woman named Nurse Helen Jensen, who is the badass motherfucker of the story.
01:02:47
she's a public health nurse for Arlington Heights and the Janice family remember earlier Adam who was the
01:02:58
poster worker had come in the whole family the whole Adam family oh shit Elvis is gonna vomit
01:03:06
okay welcome to my life it's gross right I mean I had cats that's all they do. I know. Okay. So, so the whole Janice family is there. Adam dies. And so they all
01:03:25
go back to his house to like, to figure out what they're going to do and start mourning
01:03:29
and planning the funeral. And Adam's younger brother, Stanley, he has chronic back pains.
01:03:36
His wife, Teresa, gets him some Tylenol. She comes, she gives him two Tylenol. She comes back
01:03:43
and took two Tylenol as well. She had a headache. They both go down. Oh my God. The brother, they go,
01:03:49
what are the chances? They go back to his house where he had fucking fallen. 6.30 PM in a store in Lombard, Illinois,
01:03:59
Mary McFarlane, a 31 year old resident of Elmhurst tells her coworker she has a headache.
01:04:06
She goes in the back room, takes a couple of Tylenol and within minutes she hits the floor.
01:04:13
8.15 p.m., Stanley Janis, who's Adam's brother from earlier, is pronounced dead.
01:04:20
3.15 a.m., Mary McFarland's pronounced dead. 9.30 in the morning, Mary Reiner's pronounced dead.
01:04:27
So everyone's fucking taking the shit and dying within hours. At 1.15, Teresa Janis, the wife of Stanley, dead.
01:04:35
So at five o'clock the next day, police discover the body of Paula Prince in her Old Town apartment.
01:04:44
Old Town is the town. The night before she, so she is a flight attendant. The night before she lands, she's a 35-year-old woman.
01:04:53
She stops at Walgreens because she has a headache to buy some Tylenol. There's a surveillance video of this and some photographs from it that you can see online.
01:05:03
she uh she's not heard from for a couple days so the cops get sent there the bottle of Tylenol
01:05:11
is sitting open on her vanity and like she's she steps away and collapsed so nurse Jensen who we
01:05:21
were talking about the badass motherfucker says I found a bottle of Tylenol and there were six
01:05:27
capsules missing and three people were dead in my mind it had to be something to do with the Tylenol
01:05:32
And of course, there was no protective ceiling on this or any over-the-counter drugs.
01:05:36
They just had cotton tucked in there. So I went back to the hospital and we took the bottle with us.
01:05:42
And I said, this is the cause. And of course, nobody would believe me. And I stamped my feet.
01:05:48
They said, oh no, it couldn't be. It couldn't be. Like they had not pieced these things together yet.
01:05:53
But I think once the brother and sister of one of the deceased died in the same home they realized something was going on Yeah
01:06:05
So the investigator named Pichos sees that the Tylenol bottles all have the same control numbers on them, meaning they're coming from the same plant.
01:06:15
He, let's see, medical examiner, no. and the deputy medical examiner named Donahue
01:06:22
tells him to smell the bottles and he smells inside of them and he smells that telltale sign of cyanide.
01:06:31
That's almond. What were you going to say? Bubble gum. Just kidding. Because you seemed so adamant,
01:06:40
you lifted your finger. No, I knew, but then I, but I wanted to have fun with it.
01:06:44
Go ahead. so cyanide has a strong smell of almonds or bubble gum because you know in stone fruit
01:06:53
any kind of pit in anything right there is a little bit of cyanide and if you eat enough
01:06:57
so yeah but you couldn't really ever eat enough because it's so hard to eat but digest and also
01:07:03
breaks down right yes but um i think it's because i had it you know i know this is i had um one of
01:07:09
those crazy blenders. What's it called? Vitamix. Where you can stick everything in it. Vitamix.
01:07:16
Yeah. Vitamix. And they're saying like an apple seeds or, you know, like that there's cyanide in
01:07:22
there. Totally. But it's, it's a tiny, tiny, tiny trace amount, but there's also tons of vitamins
01:07:26
in there. So that when you can throw everything into a blender, you get way more vitamins.
01:07:32
You know what else vitamins are in? Vitamins. Oh yeah. You can just take some vitamins.
01:07:37
Just fucking take some vitamins. Yeah. Not related, kind of related. I once, nevermind.
01:07:45
Okay. I once ate watermelon rind to make myself throw up so I didn't have to go to Hebrew school.
01:07:52
Oh, did it work? It did. Oh, good. Yeah. And here we are. If only you had studied your Hebrew better.
01:08:01
Really? I mean, what would have happened? I don't know. Married a nice Hebrew. Okay. I mean, we can go deep into this shit if we want. Let's not do it.
01:08:13
So he smells almonds and the medical examiner said that how lucky he was because only 50%
01:08:20
or half the population can actually smell the almonds and cyanide, which is terrifying and
01:08:26
amazing, right? And it turns out that the Tylenol pills were laced with potassium cyanide at a level
01:08:35
toxic enough to provide thousands of fatal doses. So each one had thousands. So the reason they
01:08:41
fucking hit the ground immediately is there was so much. It was like they were overdosed.
01:08:44
Way overdosed. Jesus. So at 3.15, Mary McFarland dies. 9.30 in the morning, Mary Reiner dies.
01:08:52
Did I already say that? I might've. And so the pills had all come from different plants,
01:08:57
supposedly, and had been bought at different Chicago stores. So the police thought that a
01:09:02
single person had bought all the pills at different places, tampered with them, and then
01:09:05
returned them to the different stores. So on Tuesday, October 5th, which is not shortly after,
01:09:11
Johnson & Johnson recalls all Tylenol products nationwide. I remember this. Do you remember this?
01:09:16
Oh, yeah. I was 12. It was on the news. It was the craziest thing in the world. In our house, I think my parents bought Bayer. Yeah, but they threw it all away.
01:09:26
They were like, it was just a whole, I mean, I remember standing in the living room and
01:09:32
watching it on the news. And these are, so everyone should know, these are the capsules that you get that you can
01:09:37
open up and there's powder inside of them. These are, that's what these are. So it's not like, you know, the like gel caps you get today or anything like anyone could
01:09:46
open them up, whatever they want in them. There's no seal on any of this. And there was also a very famous commercial at the time and maybe a little bit earlier
01:09:55
for contact cold medicine. Yeah. And in the commercial, some fingers pull apart a contact pill.
01:10:03
What? And all the little beads inside the pill fall out. And then it talks about all the benefits of this.
01:10:09
Holy shit. Of this medicine. It's like, here, look what you can do. I mean, it feels to me like that was,
01:10:15
it was in the consciousness. Yeah. If not exactly. Well, someone who is fucked up and evil,
01:10:21
see like some, one person puts that together, You know, like the majority of people who see that don't fucking think how easy it is to fucking poison people.
01:10:32
So Johnson & Johnson recalls all Tylenol products. People fucking lose their minds and panic.
01:10:41
31 million bottles valued at more than $100 million of Tylenol products are removed from shelves.
01:10:49
Nationwide. It's so crazy. Nationwide. and Chicago police go through the streets with loudspeakers warning residents of the dangers of
01:10:58
taking Tylenol. Oh my God. And the thing about this is Johnson and Johnson was totally on board
01:11:03
with this. They were the ones who fucking were like, yes, you know. Because this was back when
01:11:08
people cared about human beings. Right. When they were like, how much money is that going to make
01:11:11
me lose if I recall this car? We'll just pay the lawsuit. Yeah, it's not worth it. I don't need
01:11:17
another boat. No. And if the lawsuit happens, our insurance will just pay it. But also have you ever,
01:11:22
I don't know if there's anything else that's ever happened like this where it's like recalls on cars
01:11:27
or one thing where you're like, yeah, take your car in or whatever. Yeah. But like, I don't remember
01:11:32
anything like this ever happening. Like a panic of a thing that everyone has in their home.
01:11:37
And then no one used again for years and years and years. And they knew that was going to happen.
01:11:42
Yeah. So, all right. I wrote such an 80s thing that, oh, the driving through the streets with
01:11:52
loudspeakers. That was such an 80s thing. That's like Blues Brothers. Totally. Vote for mayor, whatever that is.
01:12:00
Yep. It's, yeah, Back to the Future. Yes. Goldie. Goldie. Goldie, Goldie. Mayor Goldie.
01:12:05
Yeah. I'm going to be mayor. Okay. So, all right. So I wrote this whole thing about the guy who they suspected was,
01:12:16
who they still, it's still suspected he's, no one was ever fucking arrested. Okay.
01:12:22
No one was ever arrested. A man writes a letter to Tylenol manufacturer in October 1982.
01:12:28
So like a month or two later. demanding one million dollars to, quote, stop the killings. The letters are traced back to
01:12:36
a tax consultant named James, whose name I don't want to say because he was never arrested and he
01:12:44
was never convicted and I'm scared of people. Well, and also if it's such a nightmare because
01:12:50
if just by chance it really wasn't him, but then everybody thinks it was and that's horrifying.
01:12:56
Totally. And I wrote all these things of like, it was clearly him, but then something happened
01:13:00
the moment you got to my apartment and I had a fucking study. So this guy, James had been charged
01:13:08
in 1978 in Kansas city of the murder of a murder after police found the remains of one of his
01:13:16
former clients in his attic. Ooh. Attic. Yeah. Attic. Sounds so wrong to me, but the charges
01:13:24
were dropped. It's at tick. Attic. There's no D. At tick. There you are. Attic. Did I say it right?
01:13:33
Now it makes no sense to me. We've said it too many times. Attic. Attic. Attic. I mean,
01:13:40
when you do it on the stage. Attic. No one says it like that, though. Attic. Up in the attic.
01:13:46
okay up in the attic no tea no i just can't uh charges are dropped after a judge
01:13:57
rules that the police search of his home was illegal so like motherfucker wait so they find
01:14:03
a body but it's still they vacate the yep they went in without a fucking search warrant
01:14:09
A judge is like, sorry. Yeah, you can't do that. So they trace this letter saying he wants a million back to this dude, James.
01:14:22
And James gives him a detailed account of how the killer might have operated and described how someone could buy medicine,
01:14:30
use a special method to add cyanide to the capsules, and return them to store shelves.
01:14:34
Like he tells them how it could be done. but he thinks he says he's innocent and what actually
01:14:41
he was doing was when he asked for the one million he gave the bank information for a former employer
01:14:47
and he wanted to embarrass that man and send the money to his bank account and like frame him
01:14:53
for it oh yeah but he is they don't think it's him but he's charged with extortion
01:15:00
and sentenced to 20 years in prison just for that fucking letter released in 95 Oh God, is this getting boring?
01:15:07
Okay. They reopened the investigation in February 2009. They searched his fucking house.
01:15:14
They don't think it's him. There's not enough evidence to charge him. Okay. But here's where this gets interesting
01:15:19
and where I fucking last left off. Two words for you, Ted Kaczynski. One more word, Unabomber.
01:15:29
So the Unabomber has some weird connections to this that I really fucking love. And it's so far-fetched and crazy.
01:15:35
but I love this shit. So I looked at a map of where all the locations were in Chicago
01:15:43
and the map that most made sense led back to where Ted Kaczynski's family is from.
01:15:50
It was within 20 minutes of the tampering sites at the epicenter of the fucking tampering sites.
01:16:00
It's where his family's from. Yeah, all the lines lead back to fucking the parents' house.
01:16:05
And in that year, 1982, Kaczynski's bombs were calculated to commit mass and indiscriminate murder.
01:16:16
He had let a bomb off in 1980 on an airline and a 1981 firebomb at the University of Utah.
01:16:24
And in 1982, a firebomb at UC Berkeley. So he was active as fuck at this time. and his family is from 20 minutes
01:16:32
of where all of these fucking places where they were bought. Yeah. And he had stated his motive was a desire
01:16:41
to destroy the public's faith in the technological industrial system. And in his manifesto,
01:16:47
he expressed a dislike for the manufacturer of drugs and pills. The Unabomber said that?
01:16:53
Yeah. Yeah. So we're done here. No, we're not. Okay, but want to hear something even cooler that I fucking love?
01:17:03
This is so cool. And I had to check a lot of fucking... I had to dig for this information and it didn't...
01:17:10
I mean, this was hours of research before I found this information. This is from unizod.com, U-N-A-Z-O-D.com,
01:17:19
which specifically highlights the link between the Unabomber and the Zodiac Killer.
01:17:24
Oh. I know, which is like, what? But it's also like, what? So the Unabomber has an obsession with Wood specifically.
01:17:36
I know. Two of his victims were Percy Wood and Leroy Wood Bearson. And the founders of Johnson & Johnson Company were named Robert Wood Johnson and James Wood Johnson.
01:17:52
I'm sorry. That crazy right Where am I being Okay All right So I don know I just think he did it
01:18:06
They think he's giving a clue to his location. This is a thing he does is like give weird clues
01:18:11
and like how the Zodiac Killer does as well. And then there was also a Tylenol murder
01:18:22
in Sheridan, Wyoming. And this was like 15 minutes from Kaczynski's house before all this happened.
01:18:32
Yeah, I don't know. It just fucking, it all adds up to this guy. To Ted Kaczynski?
01:18:37
To Todd Kaczynski. So wait, the other, but the other guy you believe was just trying to embarrass his boss?
01:18:44
He was definitely a crook and a con man. And initially I was like, clearly this is the guy.
01:18:48
But when I started reading more into this, It doesn't, it, it, there's no MO of the Tylenol murders that make sense unless they were focusing
01:18:57
on one specific victim and trying to hide it by killing a bunch of other people.
01:19:03
But that, but, but none of that adds up to the actual people who got killed. There's nobody that they can pinpoint.
01:19:09
Whereas Ted Kaczynski, clearly it's like, it's all kind of laid out there. Yeah, the motive is that he was a fucking anarchist, insane person who wanted to fuck companies and fuck the government.
01:19:23
And whoever got in the way and whatever the victims were, were just par for the course.
01:19:27
Well, because he was trying to seed like that panic and that like basically unrest.
01:19:32
Totally. And so there's a lot of weird, like weird similarities. and also I mean I know that the fucking
01:19:40
Zodiac Killer shit sounds weird but there's a lot of instances of when he was in the time and the place and there's
01:19:46
evidence of him in these places and times. Ted Kaczynski? Yeah when Zodiac was active.
01:19:53
Wow. I know. And that's when Georgia went crazy. You were on the internet for 12 hours and all of a sudden
01:20:01
you're like and the other thing is that Ted Kaczynski is also a Bigfoot which is
01:20:06
It's gonna sound weird when I first say it. Tell me more. But there is, so there's this photo of the woman who was,
01:20:12
the woman who was an airline, a stewardess. She picks up her Tylenol. She has a headache.
01:20:20
There's a man in the aisle on the surveillance camera looking at her directly. No.
01:20:25
And he has receding hairline and a beard, which both fucking, both dudes, Ted Kaczynski and this other guy,
01:20:33
both look like that. They both look like that. It looks more like Ted Kaczynski to me, honestly.
01:20:40
But he's someone who would claim responsibility for it. So it's kind of weird. Okay.
01:20:48
So in May 83, Congress approved. Bless you. Do you want some Tylenol? Are you okay?
01:20:57
I'm just going to lay down for a second. Here. X is for eyes. Button nose for eyes.
01:21:05
Okay, Congress enacts the fucking Tylenol bill. Everyone has to fucking... Was it called the Tylenol bill?
01:21:13
In 83, you have to pull shit off of your fucking pills before you take them. In 89, the FDA sets national requirements
01:21:20
for all over-the-counter products to be tamper resistant. So that's the why. That's the why.
01:21:27
You've always been looking for that why. Here it is. And here it is, the why. So, but there's nobody.
01:21:34
It's just a bunch of people got fucking killed from taking a fucking aspirin. And there's insufficient evidence to charge anyone.
01:21:43
And no new or promising leads as of 2015. I looked for everything. There's nothing new since then.
01:21:50
You know what's awful about that is the panic, how horrible, like those cops must have been going crazy.
01:21:56
And like those detectives, like it was, they had to be everywhere at once. It's like, it's not one victim in one place.
01:22:03
It's like, and basically in all these neighborhoods around the metropolitan Chicago, people are dropping.
01:22:09
So like clearly the person who did this is in this area and you can't find them.
01:22:14
And what I always think about is how awful it must be for those cops for weeks to go by.
01:22:18
And the more they keep taking people off the case and keep doing, and like suddenly there's five people
01:22:23
on this case when there used to be a hundred. Yeah. And what are they going to do?
01:22:28
Yeah, there's nothing they can do. And when your leads dry up, it's just like, oh, and there's no, it's not like people were like
01:22:37
doing something to a tamper-proof package. It's like they suddenly realize anyone could be doing
01:22:45
this at any time to any product. It could be any of the family members of the people who died.
01:22:50
It could be any of the coworkers of the people whose fucking relatives died. It could be some
01:22:57
Miranda, to me, it makes the most sense that it's some fucking anarchist. Fuck the government.
01:23:02
It makes a lot of sense. Dude, who sends in the mail bombs to blow up in people's faces.
01:23:09
Yeah. I know this sounds crazy, but the wood, he was obsessed with wood and all things wood.
01:23:15
And when I saw the Johnson and Johnson's middle name was wood, I lost my mind. But when you say, when you were saying he was obsessed with all things wood,
01:23:26
then you gave the example of the names. But was he also, was it like other things?
01:23:31
Yeah, there were a lot of weird, weird, like wood types and trees and like really weird.
01:23:37
Like he was really into like earth, wind and fire. Like in the same way the Zodiac had his, what's it called?
01:23:47
The letter? The lettering. Oh, the puzzle that he... The puzzles. Cryptogram or something Cryptogram Ted Kaczynski left a lot of clues in the things he did on purpose Oh okay To kind of fuck with people and he liked to see it And wood was one of his things
01:24:05
Oh my God. So they were in this- And he lived out in that weird cabin. Yeah, he did.
01:24:11
Yeah. And which is by 15 minutes from where the fucking first guy who died of a cyanide fucking poisoning
01:24:17
from Tylenol died. You know what? Case closed. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And I just want to go ahead
01:24:23
and again, give fucking shout outs to Unizard because these dudes, I mean, there's nothing in
01:24:33
any of the news reports that connect these things. There's also two cops who got poisoned the night
01:24:40
before any of this started because they found boxes of Tylenol from a manufacturer with powder
01:24:47
in the middle. They rubbed the powder on their fingers and they got sick, which makes it seem
01:24:52
like it didn't actually, the guy didn't just go into fucking drugstores and pull this.
01:24:57
Like he actually had a connection to the manufacturer. Right. Which of course Johnson & Johnson
01:25:02
wouldn't want to admit. I mean, and also what if you were the PR person for Johnson & Johnson
01:25:08
or for like that product specifically, your life is like now just constant living.
01:25:13
That is a, I mean, obviously an incredible tragedy and just like a random, awful,
01:25:20
people dropping dead is just the worst, obviously. Totally. But then on top of that,
01:25:25
you have to get out in front of like the worst PR nightmare kind of next to like the Exxon Valdez or something.
01:25:32
Where it's just like, oh, this is just massive tragedy. I just keep thinking about how many, you know,
01:25:38
how many people who are 30 and under who listen to this who don't know any of these fucking references we're making.
01:25:43
Well, they can look it up. I mean, what? We can't fucking carry the world on our goddamn backs.
01:25:49
We can't be everything for any millennial, every millennial. If they want to, they'll find out about it.
01:25:57
It's pretty fucking cool, right? It's great. You know what's super weird? I thought the Tylenol poisonings,
01:26:05
I remember reading something somewhere where it was a husband and wife. There was a woman who ended up shooting two people
01:26:12
who they suspected could be, she was in that area at the time. She was very mentally ill.
01:26:18
Oh, okay. And they looked into her and her husband. But the guy, the other guy I mentioned,
01:26:23
his wife also might have been, they suspected was complicit in it. But there was no,
01:26:29
there was never anything tying them back. And don't you wonder about like when they pulled those Tylenol bottles
01:26:34
from those fucking houses, like the fucking fingerprints that could have been on them
01:26:38
that then were ruined because everyone touched them. That's right. This nurse though, man.
01:26:45
They didn't know. She knew. Fucking high fives to her. High fives to nurses who are the ones that, you know, they're the brains behind it all.
01:26:54
They're the badass motherfuckers of the medical fucking world. Banff. I want you to get that put on the back of a leather vest and then just ride your motorcycle all around town.
01:27:06
Doing it. It's a moped. Is that okay? Okay. It's fake leather. Is that all right?
01:27:11
Yeah. As long as you gun the engine and stuff. This has been a wonderful episode.
01:27:16
Yeah. I mean in terms of tragedy I'm sweating Karen what's one good thing that happened to you this week
01:27:26
I know I like that we don't think about this because it has to be something boom boom boom
01:27:31
think about it what is it what's one good thing that's happened this week it's been a tough one
01:27:38
and it will continue to be I guess it has to be different than my anything I've said already. One good thing. Why don't you go first? You fucking asshole.
01:27:55
Oh no. Oh my God. Okay. Ow. Um, I guess Jesus Christ. Yeah. Right. It's all I can think about is food. Oh, well that's good. That's valid.
01:28:10
Oh, oh, Westworld. Uh-huh. That's a good show. Let's help me. Yep, okay. I see. There's nothing.
01:28:21
Westworld counts. Okay. What, did you think of another one? No. I mean, tattoos that people are getting of my favorite murder shit.
01:28:29
Oh, that's fun. Mine would be the show that I did last night at Largo. Ugh. That was really awesome.
01:28:36
and it was me, Blank Patch. It was Patton Oswalt's night. So it was Patton Oswalt and Friends.
01:28:44
Bobcat Goldthwait. And then Fred Armisen was just hanging out because he was in town.
01:28:48
So I had him come on stage. Oh, first of all, I should say this. My set started.
01:28:54
They introduced me. This one woman started screaming. No. And then as the applause died down,
01:28:59
she screamed Murderino so loudly. No. Like so loudly. I'm embarrassed. I was like, you've had seven beers.
01:29:08
Like it was one of those kind of things where it was like, she didn't know I was on the show
01:29:11
because they don't ever advertise who's doing it. Oh, that's cool. So I think she was just like so delighted.
01:29:17
I don't mean to accuse her of being drunk, but it seems like she was. It was me, Karen.
01:29:21
Oh my God, that was so supportive. I remember hearing that. It was really funny though.
01:29:26
She was really excited. But then as I told you at the end of my set, I had Fred come out and pretend he was my comedy coach.
01:29:35
And we just did a bit that we didn't even, it wasn't even like we made, we just said that's what we're going to do.
01:29:39
And then we just kind of improv'd it. And it was really funny. That's amazing. It made me feel much better.
01:29:44
I wish I'd been there. Next time. Next time you'll tell, I wish I knew about. Well,
01:29:49
you can't ever get into Largo shows. Like I can ever or other people can ever Oh well yeah I just never think of inviting people because it they always so I kidding I can get in to anything Well what I realize now is I can get you in
01:30:04
Oh, my murder right now. That's why I don't ask you to come anywhere. If you guys would go to iTunes
01:30:13
in your sadness and grief and just fucking leave us a review. That might help. It might make you feel better.
01:30:21
Maybe it'll make you feel better. Thank you guys for listening and being fucking cool people.
01:30:26
And you know what? Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Bye. Elvis want a cookie? You want a cookie?
01:30:34
Cookie? He said yes. Bye. Yeah. Okay. So horrible story. Do you have updates on the Tylenol poisonings?
01:30:50
It is such a horrible story. And of course, I love it even more because it still remains unsolved.
01:30:56
I feel so solvable to me. And I'm almost convinced it's Ted Kaczynski still. But there are a couple of recent developments.
01:31:04
In November 2024, there was a collaboration between law enforcement and a biotech firm in Texas.
01:31:08
And they have hope that access to new DNA technology could solve this case, which seems very likely to me.
01:31:14
Unless, of course, everyone takes it down. Takes their own. Never mind. This is the biotech that like people,
01:31:22
Well, it's like you want to know who your relatives are and you want to help solve cold cases.
01:31:25
But then BlackRock will sell your identity to the outer space or whatever. OK, well, in an alternative 2025 where things are OK, this is getting solved.
01:31:34
Yeah. So whoever's there right now, please send us a fucking telepathic message.
01:31:39
Please tell us it's going to be OK. James Lewis, one of the main suspects in the poisonings, died in July of 2023.
01:31:45
and the badass Helen Jensen, the now retired nurse who figured out it was the Tylenol that
01:31:52
was killing people, which is so incredible. And she did it so fast the same day. She prevented so
01:31:58
many people from dying. Yes, she did. She told the AP that she hoped that Lewis's death would be the
01:32:03
final coda to a tragedy that has haunted her and the victim's families, of course, for four decades.
01:32:08
She said, quote, his death is a conclusion, not necessarily the conclusion everyone wanted,
01:32:13
but it is an end. I'm 86 now and I'm glad I got to see the end before I die, end quote. So it seems
01:32:20
like she probably thinks that he did it. Right. It would be so horrible if he didn't though.
01:32:25
That, you know, that thing of just like, then just the name goes around and. Yeah, but he, I mean, he pointed at himself about it. I mean, who knows what's going on with that
01:32:32
guy. Right. There's also a documentary, a CNN original series documentary called How It Really
01:32:37
Happened, Tylenol Murders, that you can go check out that will tell you the whole story. If you
01:32:43
didn't think I did a great job of it, which is like, fine. I think you did a wonderful job.
01:32:48
Thank you. I think this was a wonderful episode. Originally entitled In Arrears, which was about
01:32:54
somebody working at the WGA who helped me with my union payments that I was in arrears on,
01:33:01
which means... Because in arrears means debt. You're in debt. Behind. Behind, got it. Yeah.
01:33:05
Never heard it. You owe some payments. You're in arrears. But if you were naming it today,
01:33:10
I do think it's a good one because it taught me that word and I appreciate that.
01:33:14
Yeah. Maybe today it should be, are you an iguana dude? One of the great lines of George's of all time.
01:33:20
Thank you. There's also dry cry because I can't cry. So you offered the suggestion that I dry cry, which I could totally do.
01:33:28
It's a great idea. Yeah. And just get your face going and then see what happens.
01:33:32
Also, 25 Davids is not a bad name either for this episode or for a band. I love it.
01:33:39
Oh my God. I told you this at least three times before, but there was graffiti on the highway overpass in Sacramento that I used to drive by all the time that said too many Daves.
01:33:47
And it was a band. That's so good. I think it was a punk band or like an alternative band in Sacramento.
01:33:53
Too many Daves. It's true. Especially in Sacramento. It's so true. God, there's so many Daves.
01:33:57
Oh, my God. Well, thank you guys for listening. Thank you, Daves, especially for listening.
01:34:01
Dave, thank you so much. And stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Goodbye.
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