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MFM Minisode 406

October 21, 2024 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features listener stories about near disasters, family dynamics, and unexpected connections. Topics include a Thanksgiving fire incident, a missing persons case, and humorous childhood memories.

One listener recounts a Thanksgiving night in 2009 in Ottawa, Canada, where a malfunctioning oven nearly caused a house fire. The listener woke up to thick smoke and was alerted by a dream about a high school acquaintance. The family dog also played a role in their escape.

Another story discusses the unsolved case of Nancy Lyons, who went missing in Carthage, Indiana, in 2002. The listener shares their childhood memory of seeing her missing poster and the ongoing impact on the community.

Listeners also share humorous anecdotes about childhood fears instilled by older siblings, including a story about a money machine experience that turned into a nightmare for a nine-year-old. The episode ends with a reflection on the past and the importance of safety.

Throughout the episode, hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark engage with the stories, adding their commentary and humor.

TLDR

Listeners share near disasters and humorous childhood stories, including a Thanksgiving fire and a missing persons case.

Episode

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My favorite murder Hello! And welcome to My Favorite Murder, the mini-sode. You ready for it? You want to go first?
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It's time to read your emails. All right. The subject line of this is glitch in the matrix, almost house fire, kind of hero dog. And it says, hi, longtime listener, third time email composer. I'll try to keep this short. It's Thanksgiving night 2009 in Ottawa, Canada, and I'm 19 years old. My mom had hosted some friends and family for dinner. And at around 11pm, I headed to bed and fully succumbed to my turkey coma.
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My sweet baby angle of a mother would always make delicious homemade turkey broth for soup with the bones by adding some water and putting it in the oven overnight.
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It sounds super sketchy, I know, but the oven was on the lowest setting for many, many hours, and she had done so for decades.
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Unbeknownst to the sleeping household, our old oven decided to take a shit in the middle of the night and crank it all the way up to, you guessed it, broil.
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the turkey went from gently simmering to catching fire inside the roaster while the fire was
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building i was fast asleep having a vivid dream about a guy i'd gone to high school with but
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wasn't terribly close to he was very urgently telling me in the dream that i needed to wake
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up because i was in danger oh my god yeah next thing i know i'm awake and all i can smell is
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smoke i open my bedroom door and in the glow of the hallway nightlight the upstairs is entirely
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filled with thick black smoke. Instead of remaining calm and thinking of our emergency fire escape
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plan, I start screaming at the top of my lungs that the house, and I quote, is on fucking fire.
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None of the five smoke detectors in that house went off. My mom, being the superhero she is,
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jumps down several flights of stairs and grabs the phone nearest to the kitchen and dials 911.
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Through the smoke, we see our sweet family yellow lab named Willow sitting next to the oven,
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trying her best to bark, but she had barked her throat raw and had smoke inhalation.
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We, dog included, made it outside and we were all totally fine, but the kitchen definitely wasn't.
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The firefighters reprimanded my mom and went on their way. The next morning I woke up and I had a Facebook message from the guy that was in my dream.
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Shut the fuck up. The message read, hey, I had a weird dream that you were in trouble or danger and I wanted to make sure you're okay.
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I know we don't know each other all that well, but I figured I'd reach out. Oh, my God.
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Right? I couldn't believe what I was reading and thought I was being pranked. After I filled him in, I felt incredibly grateful for whatever glitch in the matrix forced me awake to become the home's living smoke detectors.
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You're probably wondering if this was the start of a budding romance, but it wasn't.
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Of course we were. The only thing that could make it better. You know what would make it better, too?
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If he had been one of the firefighters who showed up. Oh, but he was also in the dream, but he was in the dream in plain clothes.
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Yeah. And then it was like, oh my God. And then he's on the fucking fire truck, shirtless for some reason.
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Right. I actually don't think we are friends on Facebook anymore, but I do remember him fondly.
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Needless to say, my mom now only makes her soup during awake hours. Thanks for all you do. Stay
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sexy and check the batteries in your smoke detectors, Steph. Wow. That's terrifying. Everyone check your smoke detectors. Jesus.
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And also, I'm just wondering, like, this guy that also got the vibe, like, they were on the astral plane together, clearly.
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They were. But, like, was, why was it that guy? Like, why was that the connection when they didn't know each other?
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There was no kind of, like, like, did he represent something in her mind? Or what was that?
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I don't know. Like, it makes you think about past lives. And maybe he was something in her past life.
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But it wasn't meant to be that deep in this one. It was just that. You know? Just a passing.
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Just a protector. Yeah. That's good. That's a cool response. Interesting. I love that.
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Okay, this one's a classic hometown. I'm not going to read you the whole thing. It's awful and then there's a happy PS.
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Hi you guys rock Let get to it July 2002 I remember riding in the car home and since I left my portable CD player at home I was just staring out the window As we were approaching my hometown of Carthage Indiana
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I saw a poster with a woman's face and the large word missing. Since I was only about 11 at the time, and Carthage is a town of like 1,000 people,
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I had never seen one before. I was also fairly sheltered slash naive for my age.
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No, you're not. 11 is not supposed to fucking understand that. Yeah, if you were sheltered, you would have never seen it.
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I asked my dad what the sign meant, and he just told me that a lady named Nancy Lyons went missing and no one is sure what happened to her.
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The murderino inside me awoke. I instantly went into interrogation mode. What do you think happened?
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Did you know her? He just kind of brushed me off at the time, understandably. I never really heard much more of it until I went searching the web years later.
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Turns out a man living in rural Rush County imagined corn and soybean fields forever.
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noticed a car idling on the road near his house one evening. He went out to see if he could help, thinking it was someone with a flat or lost,
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and saw a red Nissan car with the trunk open, full of recently purchased groceries.
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The driver's door was open and a purse was in the front seat, no sign of anyone.
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At that point, he called the police. They reported no signs of a struggle. Nothing had been taken from her purse.
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Nancy's sister reported her missing the following morning. Four months later, decomposed human remains were found in a field a few miles away from where her car had been, and they were soon identified as hers.
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The case continues to be cold 22 years later. No new leads. The family still holds a candlelight vigil every year in her honor.
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I'm still holding on to hope that they can get some answers eventually. Nancy's sister has reached out to private investigators and even the FBI, but no new information has been found.
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I wish there were more details to share. Anyway, stay sexy. A, she, her. God. There's a PS about a baked potato truck.
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Do you want to hear it? Yeah, that'd be nice, I guess. It says, recently, I don't know, within the last year, you guys talked about wanting to find a baked potato food truck.
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There's one in Durango, Colorado. I've lived in the area for several years now, and it's a gem of a town.
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Oh, just in case we drive through Durango and we'll know that there's one there.
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Yeah, I've actually been to Durango, weirdly enough. Oh, wow. How was it? It was lovely in the 80s.
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I don't know how it is now. I wonder how different it is. Also, just that because we had on the last episode, we had a missing persons one where it's just like, and just one day a person never comes back.
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Okay. So this one, the subject line is older sister lies and it just starts. So tangentially
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connected to Mount St. Helens question mark. I grew up near Vancouver and we always had a
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picturesque view of Mount St. Helens growing up. One of my very early memories is from a night where
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my parents made me sleep downstairs in my sister's room since they were going out. I was maybe five
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and that would make Sam 10. No need for a babysitter or anyone to check in. It was the 90s.
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That night she whispered from the top bunk that if I slept on my stomach, Mount St. Helens would
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Mount St. Helens would erupt and everyone would die because of me. I don't remember any logical thoughts on the matter being five, but an older sister's word is law at that age.
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It was something I didn't think about, but somehow was still stuck in my head. I had never dared question it until I was about 16 and had my what the fuck moment.
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Oh, my God. I never told anyone about it until I was in my 20s. It was so embarrassing to believe your evil older sister.
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she maintains she doesn't remember telling me this lie but whenever i bring it up she outright
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cackles it must be her favorite story now sam is not to be trusted as she also told my best friend
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that if she flushed the toilet with the door closed a clown oh no what a clown would come out
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of the drain and attack her that is so unnecessary that is wielding your big sister power like too much Well and it says here that girl ran from the bathroom for years So you flush it and run because the clown is coming A clown Sam was a legit menace to society
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and now is a nurse with the cutest daughter. I am a proud stomach sleeper these days. Lisa B.
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Oh my God. Yes, we need. I love those stories of like, this is how we did things at our house. So
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we didn't know it was weird, but this is what I did. And I didn't realize until I was older that
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I didn't need to. I love those stories. Right. And this is what I do because my older sister
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like scarred me into thinking I needed to run from the toilet or a clown would get me.
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Totally. Yeah. And if you're the older sister, you better fucking write those in too, because
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just write in like what your problem is. Right. This one's called Bank Robbery Gone Mild.
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Hey, gals and pals. Sure hope the statute of limitations has expired on this. Here goes nothing.
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Uh-oh. While going to college in a smallish hometown in the late 1900s. Oh, my God.
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Doesn't that hit hard? In the late 1900s. Oh. Oh. Not the early 1900s, which is the first thing I thought of.
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I graduated high school in the late 1900s. In the late 1900s. Oh, my God. I worked as a teller slash cashier along with five others in a silk-contained drive-through bank.
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One day, the vault count from the previous afternoon through the next morning shift was short $10,000.
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And then, her name's Beth, puts how much it is ITM, which is in today's money, which I don't know if you want to guess.
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Late 1900s, $10,000. $50,000? $21,000. Per protocol, we were all summarily marched across the street to the main branch where the FBI, several managers and the bank president were waiting to have a little chat.
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Guess who was interviewed first? That's right. Overly talkative when nervous, naive 20 year old me.
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While not technically arrested, did they offer me a lawyer, a phone call, the right to remain silent? No, no and no.
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After questioning me about my coworkers and our protocols, the last thing they said was,
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who do you think is responsible? My incredulous response, that's not my job. You're the FBI.
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That's your job. Nice. Unfortunately, the guilty party came in and confessed right after I was interviewed.
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Everyone now assumed I was a narc. Oh, they were right. I was a complete goody two shoes at the time.
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And these were grown up serious adults. In the end, the money was retrieved from the dumpster.
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it was thrown in and no one went to jail. What? I think whoever did it realized they were caught
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immediately and threw in the fucking dumpster. That's not a solution. I know. I mean, I guess
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it is because no one went to jail. God. Stay sexy, Beth, she, her. That's hilarious. But I mean,
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like also if you work at a bank, you can't steal $10,000 without them knowing. No, like on your
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shift? No. There's what, eight people to choose from max? Yeah. The biggest bank, like that's the
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wildest, dumbest, bad, but then sorry, dumbest, but clearly dumb because then you're like, oh no,
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I got caught. I'm going to go throw it away in the garbage. Yeah. Not bring it back. If you're
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going to do it, steal enough money to run away and live a new life and then do it immediately.
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Like don't, you know what I mean? Yeah. Or if you're truly sorry, just go ahead and put it back
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in the drawer. Like throwing it away doesn't make it go away. While the world watches the stars at
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the FIFA World Cup this summer, Hyundai has its eyes on the next generation of talent. The future
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soccer stars who are already turning heads at age 14. Making plays that end up on everyone's feed,
00:15:44
scoring from angles that don't make sense, rewriting record books that barely had time
00:15:48
to gather dust. Because next doesn't wait for an invitation and Hyundai doesn't either. Hyundai has
00:15:53
always move the future within reach. Hyundai did it by making advanced safety standard on every
00:15:57
vehicle. Hyundai did it by engineering EVs with ultra fast charging capability. And Hyundai
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continues doing it every day. From robotics that change how people live to young athletes changing
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This better fucking deliver. right? A lot of pressure. Okay. Karen, Georgia pets, salutations to you all. I didn't come here
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to brag but I been with you since the beginning I had a lot of challenges since I met you and I don know how I have managed without you two in my ear I feel silly for tearing up and I truly cannot tell you how much your voices reminded me
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I'm a person when I was forgetting. Now that I'm ugly crying, onward. Sweet. I won a chance on a
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money machine in front of thousands of people, and I hated every period, single period, second
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period of it period back in the 90s in Hershey Pennsylvania the sweetest place on earth and then
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in parentheses it says barf we had these semi-pro soccer games I'm sure our team was called the
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Wildcats during the height of money machines a big to-do was made of a money machine coming to town
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the news advertised it one lucky attendee would get the glory of being in the machine
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that game had record attendance and yeah i won obviously i was nine when they announced my name
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i know when they announced my name one of my little brothers bit my arm and my mom shook me
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i was in absolute despair that is fucking incredible to be the one person fucking picked
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yes you're nine years old and there's thousands of people at this game you have these tiny little
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hands and arms. What are you going to fucking do? You're not going to catch money. Oh my God. I'm
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so, I'm like sweating for this person. So it says I was in absolute despair. I had to walk down in
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front of everyone and then paw for money. Yes. There were rules for the money machine,
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no pushing cash against the walls. We were supposed to grab money out of the air. I was in
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shock. I didn't even realize I was in danger of such a nightmare. I didn't like soccer to this
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day, I don't even understand how it works as a sport. My mom tucked my last year's Old Navy
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4th of July red flag tee into the side of my overall shorts. And then in quotes, it says,
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shove the cash down your shirt and in your pocket, she shouted. Right. And then I was in
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absolute sensory hell with over a thousand strangers screaming and invested in my pawing
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for cash I didn't even want. Dash, but maybe I'm salty. No, you're totally, you are understood
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right now. When I got out, I only had $17. That's not that bad. Are we talking $1 bills here?
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Because that's $17 bills is a lot. Yeah. And also for a nine-year-old, you can dine out on $17 for
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weeks. That's a lot of candy. Okay. The entire audience was disappointed, but not half as much
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as my mom. Thank goodness the internet barely existed back then, or I'm sure the collective
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disappointed sigh of my mother and a thousand plus soccer lovers about my paltry $17 would have gone
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viral. They interviewed me for the news too, and I remember everyone felt bad. If I had better
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mental health and could tolerate watching, I'd have had the courage to send you the cringe-inducing
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footage. If you read this on the show, I'll try to find it for you. Yep, that's right. That's
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what's happening next. You're going to. Oh my God. Sorry, it's long. I know the thought of being in
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a money machine is so lovely for so many, and I hate to ruin that, but I cannot recommend.
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Anywho, thank you both so much. You bring me back from panic better than counting backwards from a
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hundred, reciting the Lord's prayer, the Hail Mary, Jabberwocky, the walrus and the carpenter,
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naming all the presidents in order, and the Hershey Park happy song combined. My OCD brain thanks you, XOXO, and well wishes, Kylie Shea.
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P.S. I used the money to buy a marionette at the Jersey Shore. Damn. Right? I named her Missy after my Pop Pop's nickname for me.
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He worked in the Hershey Chocolate Factory. Missy cost $19.99, but my Aunt Gilda made up the difference.
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Aww. I mean. And it was haunted. Come on. Exactly. Marionettes. Those were fucking haunted.
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Here's what I want to say to you, Kylie Shea. My friends and I have been going to a local drag bingo night, like just at a diner.
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That's super fun. It's like two hours. It's just basically playing a game with a bunch of strangers and everybody yelling and
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eating French fries, whatever. I dread winning bingo. I do not want to. I want to play the game.
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I want to enjoy. I want to yell all the comebacks from bingo, whatever. I do not want to get up and walk up there and get a prize at all.
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I am the opposite of you. I go to an all ladies bingo and I'm just like mad when I don't win.
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You know, I mean, well, yeah, that's logical. It makes sense. I think my thing is the first drag bingo I went to was at Hamburger Mary's.
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Oh, they're so I mean, both of these. I love drag bingo so much. It's such a delightful way to spend time.
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But at Hamburger Mary's, if you get bingo, you they make you run around the room.
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Yeah, that makes sense. You don't want the attention. It's the same thing with your magic mic story.
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Yes, I just don't. No, thanks. Can I please not? Can I please not? But also, can I play a game?
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Because I love a game. And then you hand it to your friend to go up. Yeah. Oh, my God.
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Kylie, that was amazing. Thank you. And thank you for the kind words. I will say that this is why you have two people.
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Let's call someone else up. It's the same thing you and I do at hometowns at live shows.
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That one was terrible because that person was drunk. We have another chance. Let's call someone up here.
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Sure. Do a second one. Do always give options in any career you have, any situation you might be in.
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Plan B, always a plan B. Always. Okay, my last one is called Things That Wouldn't Happen Today.
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As an early Gen Xer, I have many stories from childhood involving lack of supervision,
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kids where they do not belong, pollution, and lack of any concern for safety. This is one of my favorites.
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In the late 1970s, when I was 10, my 12-year-old brother and I were traveling from Indiana to
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California to visit our 27 year old sister. It was snowing. So by the time my mother had made the
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drive to the airport with us, we found out that our flight had been delayed. So we spent several
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hours in the airport until about midnight when the stewardess gave my brother and I our wing
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pins and we waved goodbye to my mother and got on the plane for our nonstop flight to Los Angeles.
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After we were served a soda and a bag of peanuts, the pilot came on the speaker and said that due
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to smog in LA, our flight was canceled and we would be landing in Las Vegas. Holy shit. It was so polluted they couldn't come to Los Angeles.
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I remember my mom saying back in the 70s, there were days where you just couldn't, they told you not to leave the house because of the smog.
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Jesus God. Yeah. It's insane. You like canceled school because of smog. When we landed, my brother and I dutifully followed instructions as they loaded all the passengers onto buses and took us to a hotel for the night.
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The Circus Circus Manor. When we got there, we had no luggage and we were starving.
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Unfortunately, we found out that due to the presence of slot machines and liquor, we were not allowed in any of the places other than the hotel lobby.
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So we went to our room to just sit and wait to see what would happen next. It was a 10 and 12 year old.
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No one was like, hey, you two are alone. Yeah, we should be doing something special for you as the airline that's responsible for you being here.
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Just keep an eye on you. In the meantime, my mother had heard from my sister that we had not arrived in L.A. and was making numerous calls to the airline trying to figure out where her children were.
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She was finally able to call us at the hotel. No cell phones then, of course. And we were able to confirm we were still alive Next morning we woke up and heard people milling about in the hallway When we opened the door we found out from the other passengers that we were loading back onto the buses to go back to the airport to be put on another flight to L
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No one knocked on the fucking door for these children to be like, don't miss the bus.
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I mean, that's why no one missed the bus back in the 70s. It was like, no one's going to help you.
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No one was ever going to help you with anything. On the flight, they announced due to the rescheduling of the flight, there would be no food or drink service.
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We finally landed approximately 24 hours after we left and were greeted by my sister.
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Luckily, she had booked a hotel room for the night before. She had planned to take us to Disney on our first day in California.
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So she had been able to sleep as many other families waiting for the flight spent the night in the airport as they could not find any available rooms.
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Oh, wow. She asked if we still wanted to go to Disneyland, but all we wanted to do was get the expletive out of there and get something to eat.
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We stopped at a Pizza Hut. And since the only thing we'd had during this entire ordeal was a soda and a bag of airline peanuts, it was the best pizza we had ever had.
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I bet. I bet there was that salad bar too. That Pizza Hut salad bar. Can I get a salad too?
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A side salad. Stay sexy and don't send your minor children to 1970s Las Vegas alone, even if the hotel name sounds like it should be kid-friendly.
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Sandy. I mean, that must mean that they, because now it is kid friendly at Circus Circus in a way.
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In a way. In a way. Yeah. But that means that they designed an entire hotel in Las Vegas that called Circus Circus that was bad for children That children couldn go in the restaurant without parents Just basic Yeah Basic shit
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That's crazy. Oh, it makes me hungry. Yeah, I know. Now I'm hungry too. Tell us here.
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I haven't eaten. We didn't eat for 24 hours because this crazy thing happened story.
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You know, there's got to be good ones. Any kind of story like that, that then leads you to the best blank you've ever had.
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Yes. yes we got mcdonald's once on the way home from camp that i was like this is the most i need to
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speak to the chef this is incredible camp food to mcdonald's is like yes so good well thanks for
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Episode Highlights

  • A Terrifying Kitchen Incident
    A listener shares a harrowing tale of a kitchen fire caused by a malfunctioning oven.
    “I start screaming at the top of my lungs that the house is on fucking fire.”
    @ 03m 23s
    October 21, 2024
  • The Mystery of Nancy Lyons
    A chilling account of a missing person case that remains unsolved after 22 years.
    “The case continues to be cold 22 years later.”
    @ 07m 31s
    October 21, 2024
  • A Money Machine Nightmare
    A listener recounts the awkward experience of being chosen for a money machine at a soccer game.
    “I was in absolute despair.”
    @ 18m 51s
    October 21, 2024
  • Bingo Night Antics
    A humorous take on the highs and lows of bingo night, from winning to the fear of attention.
    “I love drag bingo so much.”
    @ 22m 43s
    October 21, 2024
  • Childhood Travel Chaos
    A nostalgic recount of a chaotic childhood trip to California, filled with unexpected delays and smog.
    “Holy shit. It was so polluted they couldn't come to Los Angeles.”
    @ 24m 26s
    October 21, 2024
  • The Best Pizza Ever
    After a long ordeal, the siblings finally enjoy a Pizza Hut meal that feels like heaven.
    “It was the best pizza we had ever had.”
    @ 26m 28s
    October 21, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • I couldn't believe what I was reading and thought I was being pranked.
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  • Wow. That's terrifying. Everyone check your smoke detectors. Jesus.
    MFM Minisode 406
  • The future isn't some far-off concept. It's already here.
    MFM Minisode 406
  • I want to play the game.
    MFM Minisode 406
  • It's such a delightful way to spend time.
    MFM Minisode 406
  • We didn't eat for 24 hours because this crazy thing happened story.
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Key Moments

  • Kitchen Fire03:23
  • Dream Connection04:07
  • Missing Person Case07:31
  • Sibling Lies11:01
  • Money Machine18:51
  • Bingo Excitement22:43
  • Travel Delays24:00
  • Smog Revelation24:26

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