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MFM Minisode 388

June 17, 2024 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features stories about personal experiences during Hurricane Michael, a runaway cow, and a bizarre bartending incident involving a banana costume. The hosts, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, read listener-submitted tales that highlight themes of friendship, community support, and unexpected humor in difficult situations.

Listener Sam shares her anxiety during Hurricane Michael when she couldn't reach her family. A friend helped by checking on them, revealing that while the house was damaged, everyone was safe. This story emphasizes the importance of community and support during crises.

Another listener recounts a humorous family story about a cow that blocked traffic on a bridge, leading to a police visit. The anecdote illustrates the quirks of small-town life and how family stories can become part of local lore.

A bartender shares a surreal Halloween experience where a regular customer dressed as a banana was involved in a violent incident. This story serves as a reminder that appearances can be deceiving, and even seemingly normal people can have dark sides.

The episode blends humor with serious themes, showcasing the hosts' chemistry and their ability to connect with listeners through shared experiences.

TLDR

Listeners share stories of community support, a runaway cow, and a bizarre bartending incident involving a banana costume.

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so. Okay, want me to go first? Yeah, you go first. Okay. My mom tried to make me lie for MFM
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mini-sos. Hi, I'm Sam. A while back, y'all asked for Helping Neighbor Stories. I wanted to share
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my experience in Hurricane Michael. I was attending college at the University of Florida when the
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panhandle where my family lived and did not evacuate since the hurricane wasn't expected
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to be as strong as it was, was hit by a gnarly hurricane. I was unable to reach my family because
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the hurricane knocked out cell service. I was incredibly worried and lived five hours away.
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I knew I couldn't drive up there to check on them because the roads would be flooded.
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I posted on my Snapchat story about how worried I was and that I hope my friends back home were all
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okay as well. Then one friend who lived about an hour away from my parents and still had cell
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service offered to go check in on my parents for me. I'd gone two days without speaking to them.
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And this message felt like it was sent by an angel. Can you imagine not knowing like horrifying,
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Like if there was an earthquake and we can't get a hold of our family for two days.
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And you're just sitting there waiting and running. Yeah. The worst scenario is possible.
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Yeah, no, that's so horrible. Awful. I'm not one to ask for favors as I'm very stubborn when it comes to help.
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Hello. Hello. But I immediately took him off on his offer. I teased him in the past for having a lifted truck that he didn't even go off-roading with.
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me they were okay the roof was damaged and parts of the house were flooded but them and all of the
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it on the podcast she's now a huge listener which was unexpected as she's a devout southern
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Baptist. We have to get her name. Come to the side. Please, please get in here with us.
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And even wears an MFM shirt around all the time. It says Disney World stopped her at the gates and
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had to get approval from higher up to let her in the park while wearing it. Oh, no. We've made it.
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Oh, no. And she was fighting for it. Hell yeah. Thank you. Thanks for the rad podcast. Laters,
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Sam. Sam's mom, we're so happy to have you. Shirley. It's got to be Shirley. Her name is
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Shirley. Shirley, Deborah. With an H. Deborah with an H. I've always been interested in this
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and the Lord. You can do both. You can combine them. It's more powerful that way. I wonder if
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we have, that's probably nothing close to her accent. Nope. I wonder if we have any more of the
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Stay Saved and Do God's Missions Christmas sweatshirts. That's right. We had to bring that back.
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Well, moms, Christian moms showing up. Christian moms saying lie. You should go lie.
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Lie and be more interesting. That so funny where it like I guess you can I mean I sure people do Okay Subject line PSA I love this trend If we start getting PSAs people actually come and tell us their real life experiences with like scammers so that you your family your grandparents will be aware of it in the future
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So it says this email starts. Hello to my two best friends. Following up on the PSA from Minnesota 383, my boyfriend's grandpa got a call from the local police station saying his grandson was arrested and gave this number to get him bailed out.
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I've totally heard of this one before. It's so fucked up. Yeah. They're messing with grandparents.
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Yeah. Like the love of a grandparent to want to cover for and bail out and help out a grandchild.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's a specific area of hell these people are going to. Right, Debra?
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Debra? Debra, we're the same that way. Tell Jesus. We would never. We would never.
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We would send this man. Okay. The scammer had my boyfriend's name, his grandparents' name, and said he was calling from the area we live in.
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Luckily, the scammer didn't know that grandpa is a total cheapskate. He told that scammer, well, you better call the next person on the list and hung up.
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Oh my fucking God. I thought he was, oh my God. That's why he didn't get scammed is because he's like, fuck you, rot in jail.
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Yep. He's like, you think I'm spending my money on that? My hard earned money? Grandma came in and asked what the call was about.
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And he just told her Zach was arrested and needed money for bail. She immediately called her daughter to ask what was going on,
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who promptly called my boyfriend just to figure out it was all a scam. Everyone still loves to poke fun at grandpa for caring more about money
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Even his grandson rotting in a jail cell. Unreal. Stay sexy and remember to be stingy sometimes, Rio.
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Oh, that is fucking. Perfection. Perfection. Epic. Like that's an epic grandpa move.
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It is. It's an epic grandpa move. If you have any of those, please write in. But also a true PSA that can help people where it's like, yeah, don't.
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That weird bail thing where they're like, you have to give us the money now. In what world does the local PD call out and be like, yeah, we arrested your son.
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i mean i think yeah it says i have a favorite myrna and i'm so glad you asked did we ask for
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myrna stories i bet we did we bet we did myrna is one of my grandmother's best friends and i want
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to tell you about their friendship buckle up for some real 1930s grandma names this crew is named
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Myrna, Velma, and Avaline. What? Spell that one. It O but it says pronounced Avaline Avaline I never heard that name Like Maybelline but Avaline Nice If those aren classic I like embroidery and have seen some shit in my day names I don know what are
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These ladies became friends when my grandma, Aveline, now 93, was in her late 60s.
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Velma and Myrna were a bit younger than Av, but they met through church and became fast
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friends. They golfed together, played cards together, hosted one another and their husbands for dinner
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parties, all of the things. Yes. They've seen each other through the death of each of their husbands, and their bond seems to grow tighter through each trial they passed together.
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You're going to make lifelong friends in your 60s. Yeah. Isn't that wild? That's right.
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You have no idea what's coming around the bend. Absolutely. My grandmother moved to the Raley, North Carolina area to be near our family about 10 years ago, moving away from her sweet Velma and Myrna.
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But that hasn't stopped a thing. Velma and Myrna pull a Thelma and Louise every couple of years, hopping in the car for a road
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trip to Rayleigh to hang out. I don't think that's what you mean. That's not what it is.
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That is not what you, that's not a, did you fall asleep every time Thelma and Louise was on and not
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finish it? They pulled a Thelma and Louise and they drive off a cliff because, because Myrna's
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not there. What are you doing? Yeah. I think this person fell asleep every time they watched
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Thelma and Louise. I think they're just like road trips in general are two women in a car
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means you're going to pull a Thelma and Louise. Yeah. Dana. It's from Dana. Dana.
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Dana, no. Watch the whole movie. Dana, watch the whole movie. Okay. So here are a couple
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things I've learned about friendship by observing these three over the last 30 years. One, just pick
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up where you left off. Love that. It's who you're with that matters more than what you're doing.
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Real friends know how to laugh and cry together. Take the road trip. See your girlfriend's life
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moves fast. Thanks for giving me a minute to gush about my grandma and her girlfriends. I hope to be
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93 with friends the way she is. Stay sexy and call your girlfriend today, Dana, she, her,
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Carrie, North Carolina. And then it says, P.S. I'm a listening since Georgia's apartment murderino.
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Yeah. And this podcast is one of my favorite little day in day out parts of my life.
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I feel like we've been through a lot together. Thanks for being there. Heart emoji.
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Dana, it was our pleasure. Dana. Dana, you were there for us, too. You were. We're going to drive out and see you.
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Not Thelma and Louise style. We're going to drive off a cliff to see you, Dana, in heaven.
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Dana, I can't wait to see you in heaven. Dana, I swear to you, God, when I see you, it's going to be wonderful.
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The day the pearly gates open up and we drive right through them. Crash, crash through them.
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We hold hands and drive. Two old ladies pulling a Thelma and Louise. Oh, my God.
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Okay. This says, a truly bananas bartending story. Ahoy, hoy. And then in parentheses, it says, a la Mr. Burns.
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Oh, we know. We know. Oh, I love that. These days, I'm working as an elementary special education teacher, but I started out my working life in the restaurant industry.
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I worked in restaurants for 16 years, and the majority of that time was spent behind the bar.
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I saw and experienced a lot of truly ridiculous shit during those years. Once there was like a 20-ish person street brawl that all started with someone being denied a Bud Light.
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That sounds like my family. Another time a man tried to light my hair on fire because I unfairly told him that he couldn't have a small torch out in the bar and he needed to get rid of it.
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the town i worked in also hosted the largest motorcycle rally on the west coast every year
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oh god yeah things could get wild and because the rally was so big we would end up having rival
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biker gangs in this in the bar at the same time somewhat surprisingly though these gang members
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ended up being the best behaved patrons we would have even helping us keep the peace in the bar
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when random people would get out of hand as the saying goes never look a gift horse in the mouth
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Wow. Out of all of it, though, this is probably the most surreal thing that I experienced while bartending. It sounds like a weird dream, but it really did happen. I was bartending on Halloween about nine-ish years ago, and we had the requisite DJ and costume contest. Things were going smoothly, and when it was time to close the bar, we turned up the lights and shoot everything out, out the door to their Ubers and parties and whatever.
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just before we locked up several police pulled up to talk to us about an incident that happened
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nearby a man had been walking to a friend's house and was randomly attacked by a stranger
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he had been stabbed several times in the torso and the attacker ran away leaving the man bleeding in
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the grass a short distance away the attacker peeled off his costume and left it in a heap
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covered in the man's blood it was a banana costume when the police spoke with our bouncer
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and describe the costume to him. He surprised the shit out of us by remembering checking the man's ID
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and recalling the man's full name and date of birth. Oh my God. Hot doorman action.
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The police came in to speak to everyone bartending and we were able to confirm that the same man our bouncer had ID'd
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had come in wearing a banana costume. The only problem was that there were three different bananas in the bar that night.
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I had to write a police statement saying it was not the peeled banana or the Chiquita banana, but the man wearing the unlabeled and unpeeled banana.
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What? Generic banana. Generic unpeeled. The most unsettling part of all this was that the dangerous banana man had become somewhat
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of a regular over the last few months. None of us ever got a weird vibe off of him, and he came in almost every day.
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Once on a really slow night, I was supposed to have a football game on the big screen,
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but it was just me and the guy in the bar, so I changed the channel to Bob's Burgers,
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and we shared a plate of nachos while I closed. Nobody noticed anything off about him at all
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until his mugshot was released the next day In that picture you could actually see the black dead psychopath eyes that people talk about It was chilling The man who was attacked ended up making a full recovery And thanks to our bouncer the attacker was arrested the same night
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Stay sexy and remember that no matter how normal they might seem, there still might be a big rotten banana hiding in the bunch.
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Lindsay, she, her. Wow, that's terrifying. Also, just that idea of like somebody that's a good time guy to that degree.
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He's like, I'll dress like a banana. I love having fun. I'm all about it. And then like just snaps and turns.
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I mean, the idea of like you're getting ready that night and you're like, I'm going to dress
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like a banana and I'm going to mug someone and stab them tonight. Like he had to know he was going to do both of those things.
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And that's crazy. Did he? Or he took a weird drug. I mean, or he had like a break, a psychotic break.
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I mean, what happened? There's like, that's like one quarter of the story. Yeah.
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Goodbye. Okay, this last one's really short. I guess we asked for, have you ever won anything?
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Oh, just in general? Just stories where you won something. Okay. So this is the only thing I've ever won.
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I love you both immensely. I'm going to keep this snappy. In 2011, I won a Twitter limerick contest sponsored by a condom company.
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The instructions, write a limerick about safe sex. The prize, a year's supply of condoms.
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This was my submission. There was once a beautiful lady met a gentleman who was quite shady.
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She used a rubber when meeting her lover, and now she's not having his baby. Maybe we asked about limericks.
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I doubt it. Yeah, winning stuff. They sent me 400 condoms in the mail. You deserve it.
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I'm allergic to latex. Thanks for the laughs and the tears and the comfort, Eleanor.
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Oh, Eleanor. Such is life. Wow. Eleanor is like, I thought I was going to get to pick that. Okay, that's fine. Here's my last one. The subject line says runaway cow. Then it says, hi, I feel like I need to start by announcing myself as a day one listener. And then it says trademark in parentheses, because you guys have the best reactions to those.
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I love that we should make merch that says day one listener for sure yeah then it says in the
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words of Roz Hernandez on with the show after getting my facts straight with my family I think
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this story takes place in 1972 my mom grew up on a small farm in New York's Hudson Valley with
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her extended family mostly immigrants from Italy her dad was tough and traditional he hated most
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technology and nothing made him madder than when the phone would ring during dinner
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my mom was like that too she'd always be like tell them we're eating dinner or it's like yeah
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i will what i know who's calling during dinner how would they know what time you eat dinner
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like yeah some people don't give a shit yeah it's not that big of a deal obviously this next part of the story is the phone ringing during dinner because
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and then it says foreshadowing because colon foreshadowing my eight-year-old mother is told
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to answer the phone and tell them not to call back. She does as she's told. So back then,
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her dad was like, you made the mistake of calling during dinner. Now you can never call here again.
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Yeah. Okay. Very intense Italians. She does as she's told, not letting the caller get a word in
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edgewise. This happens a few more times and my mother repeats the same steps. She lifts the
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receiver, sternly says to stop calling and quickly hangs up. A few minutes later, the police arrive.
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They explain that they've been trying to reach my grandfather, but a child hanging up on them. Apparently, one of my grandpa's cows had gotten loose and was blocking traffic in
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both directions on the Mid-Hudson Bridge. I'm glad it wasn't like a horrible thing, but wow.
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It was pretty disruptive. In the end, my grandfather was able to coax the cow off the
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bridge and small town culture ensured that the story would live on forever. When I was in high
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school, we had a local historian visit one of our classes and she was asking people their last names
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and talking about how those families were part of our local history. I told her mine, and she told me two things.
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One, I remember when your grandpa's cow blocked all the traffic on the bridge. And two, my great-grandparents were first cousins and had an arranged marriage
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because their parents wanted to keep the money in the family. And then in parentheses it says,
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I graduated high school 20 years ago, and my friends still talk about that one. Yeah. Oh, my God.
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P.S. Here's what I love. The P.S. comes before the end of the email. Okay. P I tried to get the name of the cow but no one can remember My aunt thinks her name was Dot My mom says our family would never name a cow Dot because they had an aunt Dot My aunt says that exactly the kind of thing our family would do Stay sexy and answer the phone sometimes
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My key, him. Oh, my God. That is so embarrassing to tell in front of your entire class that your grandparents or great grandparents were cousins.
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Oh, my God. Keep it to yourself. Also, you're a historian, but are you just the town gossip?
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because it's like, oh, so I'm supposed to say my last name so you can be like, oh, pretty much
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everyone's either been mentally ill or an alcoholic. Right. Guess what? Yeah, totally. You guys have
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been pretty serious losers around here for quite some time. Let me tell you about what happened before the internet.
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Okay. Was that it? I think that's it. Okay. If you guys want to hear one more story
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each, they're in the fan cult. And so is Georgia and I on video doing all of this, my face just slowly
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getting red for no reason. I can't tell. I think it's the laughing. Thanks for listening.
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Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis do you want a cookie This has been an Exactly Right production
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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 70
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  • 65
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  • 60
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  • 60
    Most unserious (in a good way)

Episode Highlights

  • A Trail of Broken Bodies
    A charming neurosurgeon leaves a shocking legacy of betrayal and greed.
    “He promised to heal them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.”
    @ 00m 48s
    June 17, 2024
  • Hurricane Michael Help
    A friend's heroic gesture during a hurricane brings relief to a worried college student.
    “That message felt like it was sent by an angel.”
    @ 03m 49s
    June 17, 2024
  • The Dangerous Banana Man
    A surreal bartending experience leads to a chilling revelation about a regular patron.
    “The man who was attacked ended up making a full recovery.”
    @ 18m 08s
    June 17, 2024
  • Winning a Limerick Contest
    In 2011, I won a Twitter limerick contest sponsored by a condom company.
    “The prize, a year's supply of condoms.”
    @ 21m 29s
    June 17, 2024
  • A Cow Blocks Traffic
    A childhood story about my grandfather's cow causing chaos on a bridge.
    “Apparently, one of my grandpa's cows had gotten loose and was blocking traffic.”
    @ 24m 00s
    June 17, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • It's already here.
    MFM Minisode 388
  • Next starts now.
    MFM Minisode 388
  • Goodbye.
    MFM Minisode 388
  • This is a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice.
    MFM Minisode 388
  • Can you imagine not knowing?
    MFM Minisode 388
  • That's an epic grandpa move.
    MFM Minisode 388

Key Moments

  • Greed and Betrayal00:51
  • Hurricane Worry03:49
  • Epic Grandpa Move07:58
  • Surreal Bartending Story18:14
  • Vacation Planning20:46
  • Limerick Contest21:29
  • Cow Incident24:00
  • Family History24:31

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