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My favorite Myrna. I left out the D. Is this the spinoff podcast? My favorite Myrna?
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What could a Myrna be? My favorite Myrna, which is someone's grandmother named Myrna, and it's dedicated emails to just Myrna.
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Kind of. That's what it's become. Yeah. Okay. So if your grandmother's named Myrna and she's got a great story, please write it in.
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For real. This is your moment. Yes. You want to go first? Oh, sure. the subject line is my dad's run in with a member of the international most wanted list
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hi karen in georgia long-time listener first-time emailer love you guys i have so many stories that
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i could be telling you right now my family and i have this weird habit of falling ass backwards
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into the weirdest situations all of which make for great tales to trade for free drinks when i'm out
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oh that's smart yeah but one of my favorites actually happened to my dad when he was in grad
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school. Back in the 90s, her dad was in grad school in the 90s. Wow. I was so old. Back in the 90s,
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my dad was living with a bunch of male models. And then in parentheses, it says that's another
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story. And one of them had a female model friend who would come around a lot with her boyfriend
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who owned a shoe store. My dad didn't know this guy well, seeing as he was his roommate's friend's
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boyfriend, but they've all hung out together before and they got along well enough. The guy
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even lent my dad and his roommates a futon when they had a bunch of family staying for the holidays.
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Wow. I'm going to borrow my friend's boyfriend's futon for you, mom, and you can go ahead and sleep
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in the hallway. You can crash there. Unbeknownst to everyone, this guy was a low-level mobster and
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the shoe store was a front. He and his business partner, also a mobster, came up with this big
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insurance fraud scheme. He took out a massive life insurance plan on his business partner.
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Then they flew to another city, killed a random man, and turned the body in as the business partner.
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My dad comes home from class one day to find the FBI had raided the apartment, tore open the pillows, overturned bookshelves, the works. Apparently, in between committing the
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murder slash fraud and fleeing the country, the guy stopped by my dad's apartment to pick up the
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futon. What? He was fleeing with the futon. Oh my God. It was the last time he was seen in the U.S.
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The guy ended up on America's Most Wanted, then International Most Wanted, where he was finally
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recognized by a girlfriend somewhere in Greece. Like I said, ass backwards into weird situations.
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Hope you like the story. I have others, but this one was pretty long. amazing show of restraint stay sexy and don't accept futons from mobsters
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lily she her wow he went they went somewhere else killed a random dude how sad oh my god horrible
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and random the one of those kinds of crimes that are really hard to investigate and you know what
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i mean it's why they do it that way but then slow themselves down by getting a futon where they
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You're going to sorry. Are you shipping it overseas? Like, how does that work? I feel like you can buy one when you get there after that kind of criminal.
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Aren't they from overseas? Like America didn't. We're not the first in futons. We can't be.
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OK, mine's called Murder Mansion Tour Guide from the story I did recently about the Glensheen
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Mansion. Right. Right. Anna Little, who works at Exactly Right Media, also had a story today on our staff meeting.
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That's right. Everyone in Duluth, it's a national treasure. Greetings. I wasn't sure if I was qualified to
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call myself a longtime listener until I realized that it has actually been quite a few years of
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listening to you tell stories. Oh, time goes by so fast. So yes, I am indeed a longtime listener.
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I look forward to every episode and have had so much fun exploring the early episodes I missed.
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I can't imagine my commute or making dinner without you. But I have been waiting with
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fated breath for your episode covering the Glensheen murders, which by the way, I covered when we were in Minnesota it turns out So when you were like this sounds familiar And I was like no it doesn because I had covered it Well if it new to you then it should be new to me too
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Right? Sure. Okay. But a waiting braided breath. I went to college at the University of Minnesota Duluth and my side slash summer job was,
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drum roll, as a tour guide at Glensheen Mansion. Insider. I have been in each and every one of the 39 rooms and in almost every nook and cranny.
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I've been in the apartments above the carriage house and in the furnace room in the basement with a secret tunnel.
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I've even had the opportunity to give a tour to some descendants of the Cognon family.
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And that says I was kind of a big deal on the staff. And then there's the nail painting emoji.
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Which I love. Yeah, flex it. Flex it if you can. Glensheen is really stunning. It has nearly all the original furnishings.
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It's Gilded Age opulence, gold leaf ceiling, imported marble, colored glass fireplace tiles that would glow, endless hand-carved woodwork, and the list goes on and on.
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As a tour guide there, when I was working there in maybe 2007, we were taught not to make the tours about the murders, but about the history of the family and the estate.
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But if people asked about the murders, we had a few talking points and could answer questions respectfully.
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And we directed people to the books on the topic in the gift shop. Oh, nice. Smart.
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There you go. That's how you do it. But we also had a little freedom to read the room.
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If a tour group was acting foolish about it, I would shut it down. If people were respectfully asking questions and the vibe was right, I'd go into more detail.
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Things may have changed since I've been there, of course. The only actually remnant of the murder in the mansion is a large blood stain on the wall.
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They left it there? Yeah. At the top of the staircase where Velma Patia was bludgeoned with the candlestick.
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The walls weren't wallpaper. They were almost like a fine, high-quality burlap that was hand-painted with a design.
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It was like a tapestry and absorbed enough blood to permanently stain it. To clean it would destroy it.
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Few people know to look for the stain, but it's there. Wow. I know. There are all kinds of other cool mansion-y things about the home, though.
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Hidden cabinets and the wood paneling on the staircase. A writing desk with a secret drawer that can only be opened by pushing a hidden latch.
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Yes. The aforementioned basement tunnel. It had a central vacuuming system in 1908.
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Oh, shit. Yeah. What was that? Was it run by children? It's like little children in the basement.
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Oh, that's Oliver Twist getting all his hours in? The boys' rooms still had letters and journals.
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Closets had family photo albums. The cedar closets still had blankets and linens.
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It was wild how many of their things were still in the home. So, is it haunted? I can't say I experienced anything unusual at Glensheen.
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and I spent a lot of time there, but is it spooky as hell when you're locking up the estate at
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midnight after working a wedding? Yes. Can you believe you can get married at Glensheen mansion?
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How fucking cool would that be? Incredible. Yeah. It could be run up the stairs out of the basement
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before the demons get you level spooky. All in all, Glensheen is fabulous. And if you find
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yourself in Duluth, it is well worth the visit for the sheer beauty of the estate. Stay sexy.
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Brian from Queens, New York. Brian, thank you for that inside information. Now I'm like,
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I realize slowly but surely when we talk about stuff like this, all the different things I'm
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actually obsessed with and old houses with secret panels and latches and buttons and all that stuff.
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But I also have an idea for the current people. Maybe they've already done this. They should do
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a totally separate tour for people who are into true crime. Oh, yeah. Right. So that nobody has
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to talk about it if they don't want to in the tour at 11 and three. And then you get that
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late night spooky tour. Yeah. That's a great idea. I'll send them an email. Guys, everybody doesn't like true crime. Everybody doesn't want to talk about the
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Okay. This is okay. The subject line of this email is speaking of stories you didn't ask for.
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And then it just starts. How about the time I, as a five-year-old was forced to abandon my family
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and find a new home. And then in parentheses, it says lighthearted. And then it says, but first,
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love you. Anyway, I was in kindergarten when I experienced my first substitute bus driver.
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this guy's method of dropping us off involved reaching a stop and calling out anybody get off
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here oh my god see i never took i think i've talked about this i never took the bus to school
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yeah me either but because we went to catholic school our next door neighbor andy withington
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went to public school so he did the bus stopped right near our house but we never took it and it
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was like this exotic cool thing that like other people did so reading this email made me laugh
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really hard because I'm like, oh, I think I actually don't know how school buses really work.
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No, I don't even know, honestly, if we had one that might be really naive of me,
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but I was in such a small little community that we had to walk, like from kindergarten through high school, I walked to school.
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I know I still have heart attacks thinking about you as a kindergartner walking home alone from
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school. So insane. So insane. Meet you at home, nobody, because nobody was home.
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Let me get this key out from around my neck and let myself in. Exactly. If there's a problem there, I guess I'll handle it. I am six. Okay. So anybody got off here?
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We eventually reached my stop. And when he yelled out, anybody get off here? I grabbed my bag and
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stood up to start getting off. Maybe I was too small to see. Maybe I just wasn't fast enough,
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or maybe I missed the part where I'm supposed to answer verbally. Either way, he decided no one got
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off there and pulled away. Horrified and highly distressed, I sat back down and tried to process
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what had just happened. My home was long gone and now I had to figure out what to do. Obviously,
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I had to go home somewhere, even if the home that I knew was no longer an option. Despite losing
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everything I'd ever known, I knew I had to buckle down because I had a new task ahead of me,
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finding a new home. Oh my God. The logic is so sweet. I love it. And it's so dead on. Like,
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If you're left to your own devices when you're a child, you literally are going, okay, I guess I don't live there anymore.
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Yeah. This is a conclusion. It's why we need older people at least to help. Okay.
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This is bringing up a lot of stuff for me. Okay. I used all the focus my five-year-old brain could muster.
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Five years old. Same age as you. Oh, my God. Could muster to assess house after house, looking for one that appealed to me.
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I rejected houses that were too brown, too small, too dreary, and so on, until we finally pulled up to what appeared to be a mansion.
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It was straight out of a movie, sitting on a big green hill, shining white in the sun, and too perfect to be real.
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This was the one. I had my bag ready this time, and when the driver yelled out, anyone get off here, I made sure to use my big girl voice and yell, me, I do.
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I got off the bus and ran up the hill, fully convinced that the act of choosing this home meant my new family would be inside waiting for me.
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So I called out, Mom, Dad, I'm home. Oh, my God. You give up your old parents so easy.
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But what choice did she have? Her other home had disappeared because the bus driver didn't stop.
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Right, because it wasn't in her sight anymore. Her five-year-old brain. Object permanence is maybe not fully developed.
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Okay. I yelled out, Mom, Dad, I'm home. not understanding that life does not in fact work like the movies. When I got to the front door,
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two white ladies opened it with puzzled looks on their faces and asked how they could help me,
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a little black girl. This is when I realized that I had fucked up. I burst into tears and they rushed
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to bring me inside and console me. They brought me into an office, sat me down and gave me a mini
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can of Coca-Cola asking what was wrong. I sobbed. I lost a tooth at them, which while true was
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entirely irrelevant to the matter at hand. For some reason, they had Hallmark-style cards
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explicitly for congratulating kids on losing teeth, and they gave me one. Did she, like,
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happen upon a dentist's house? This was very cool and distracted me for a moment, but when they
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started asking questions to try to figure out where I belong, I remembered I was lost and alone
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in the world and broke down all over again. They asked where I went to school, to which I replayed,
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HK something, sobbing over my Coke and Tooth Fairy card. And apparently that was enough information.
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They made a phone call and not long after, my principal pulled up in his red pickup truck to take me home, looking pretty miffed.
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It wasn't my fault I'd become a tiny runaway, but I wasn't going to plead my case.
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I just quietly sipped my Coke. I don't remember anything that happened after getting home,
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but I still think about this story sometimes. Hope you enjoyed. stay sexy and maybe just let kindergartners be car riders all the best Karina and then it says
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pronounced Karina not doubting your abilities I just had a lot of people get it wrong over the years Amen I mean Oh let look after our five please
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I just feel like so much in common with Karina and five-year-old Karina trying to make executive decisions and fucking it up.
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And then it's like, and then you're going to get in trouble for handling that brand new situation incorrectly.
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The principal's mad at you because you inconvenienced him, a five-year-old. Because you hired a bus driver who didn't know not to yell anybody get off here.
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This one's called Parents Without Partners Saved My Dad's Life.
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Remember the Parents Without Partners from my Glenshin story as well? I do. Hey, MFM crew, longtime listener, longtime procrastinator.
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procrastinator. And trust me, with my little story collecting ADHD brain, I've had about 99
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reasons to write. What got me to sit down and do it? Fucking parents without partners, man.
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Buckle up. This is a crazy story. Okay. My dad grew up in a little town super close to Seattle.
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The houses were narrow and tall, with a staircase on the outside of the house leading to a small
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deck off the second floor kitchen. His mom was beating a rug on the little deck, and he watched
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as the entire staircase slash deck structure literally just fell off the house with his mom on it.
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That's so horrible. You know, those fucking, just like they just kind of stick them to the wall a little bit.
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I mean, I think you and I've talked about this. It happened one time in San Francisco when I lived there.
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I was in my 20s, but it was like a high school house party. You covered one once.
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Yeah. Oh, it's the, yeah. And we covered them. It's horrible. Nightmare. Nightmare.
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So the whole thing just kind of detached from the wall and fucking falls. And that's a child watching his mother.
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Yes. That's the worst. It gets worse even. It says she didn't die. Yay. But wouldn't you know, after coming home from the hospital, she was a completely different person.
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His once normal mom was suddenly violent, both in words and actions. She was always screaming at someone and got very good at hurling dishes across the room where they shattered against the wall, taking pieces of the plaster with them.
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I know what you're thinking. His mom had a traumatic brain injury from the fall. Totally. But this was 1958. So she was shipped off the local mental institution without a second thought. It says her story ends here, although she did find love in an institution with a guy named Rusty and the two of them broke out and enjoyed a several year long petty crime spree.
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Oh. That's an aside. Anyway, his dad was now a single father working two full-time jobs and trying to keep tabs
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on three kids who received no help from the trauma they had endured. Yeah. My dad's oldest sister was the first to go.
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At 16, she left town with some cowboy on the traveling rodeo circuit. Fun fact, her secret baby she gave up for adoption during this time actually just found
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us through 23andMe. Whoa. This story has a lot. This story has it all, actually.
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It does. His older brother killed himself via a high-speed car crash into a concrete pile on the Ballard Bridge.
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Oh, no. I know. My nine-year-old dad, the youngest, found a little crew of troublemakers,
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and they spent their time taking the bus to Seattle, stealing hubcaps, and taking the elevator to the top of the Smith Tower,
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then Seattle's tallest building at a whopping 38 stories. Whoa. Obviously, my grandpa was out of his depth.
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He was down to one kid and knew he wouldn't have him for long at the rate they were going.
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A coworker told him about parents without partners and desperate, he carved out some
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time and started going. And that's where he met Grandma Kay. Her husband had recently died and she had two teenage boys.
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At this point, my dad was 11 and Grandma Kay's boys were heading off to college.
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She had some extra time and used it to literally change the course of my dad's life.
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Oh, I'm going to start crying for sure. You are definitely going to cry. They moved a few towns over so my dad didn't have access to his little street crew.
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And Grandma Kay forced my dad to partake in her 1960s home economics teacher hobbies.
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Instead of stealing hubcaps, he was now attending garage sales, refinishing furniture, gardening, making jam, and cooking balanced meals.
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It says she made sure at least three different colors are on your plate. She had that kid doing fucking needlepoint so they could recover the seats on some dining chairs they got from a fancy downtown Seattle hotel that was being torn down.
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And here's the coolest part. He actually liked doing all that. She took a surly 11-year-old kid and taught him that hard work is rewarding.
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And actually, the cooking thing may have saved his life. He was drafted for the Vietnam War in 1968.
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When he was at the training camp, they found out he could cook and put him in the kitchen.
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He ended up serving time as a cook at the Army base instead of going to Vietnam.
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Like my dad, Marty. Right. Fucking wow. Yeah. Lucky. Uh-huh. Anyway, my dad still has a little bit of troublemaker running through his veins, but he's also managed to build a business for our family from the ground up because he has never stopped working.
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We were flipping houses for my dad to turn into rentals long before HGTV. Yeah. In fact, my favorite dad story is from one of these old houses.
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He was working on the very outdated knob and tube wiring. He needed to get into the electrical box, but was rightfully nervous.
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instead of deciding to hire a professional. And it says this was the 80s. He handed seven-year-old
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me a broomstick and said, if I get electrocuted, my hand is going to be stuck to the electrical
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box. I'm going to need you to use the broom to hit my hand away and then call 911 immediately.
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Uh-huh. It says, so anyway, stay sexy and don't knock parents without partners. He says, also, please hire a professional for your electrical needs.
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It's super expensive. But my dad failed to mention is that he would have for sure been dead when I knocked his hand away with a broomstick.
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Yes. The broomstick wasn't a solution to the electrocution. Just the stuck to the wall part.
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yeah holy shit jessica she or her oh my god jessica that email i mean we journeyed with
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your family that was beautiful and touching and yes like grandma k thank god her heart
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also i think like she came into jessica's dad's life what she was doing was pulling a little kid
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in and going you come with me because you still belong with me and you you know any kid's going
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to be interested in needlepoint if they're getting focused attention because it's like saying you and
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I are doing this thing and let's get this done together yeah and who doesn't have a garage sale
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00:24:54
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00:24:59
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00:25:09
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00:25:18
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Okay, here's my last D. And the subject line is an MFM meet cute in time for Valentine's Day.
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Hi. Hi, MFM crew. A while ago, you asked for listeners to send in their meet cute stories or any other story, bar none.
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I attribute my meet cute to MFM as well as a beautiful obsession to this podcast that you have created for both me and my best friend.
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Wonderful. I love that when we're in the story, too. It was the weekend of my 27th birthday and my best friend and I were out day drinking in Denver.
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Fucking luckies. We were contently tipsy off of margaritas. And we decided that we would take a Lyft back to my place to drink champagne and watch whatever murder documentary Netflix recommended.
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Perfect day. Perfect day. Just a dream. We got into the back of the Lyft and started talking about the latest episode of MFM.
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As we recanted the crazy details of episode 78, our driver chimed in, explaining that he was a paramedic with some very crazy stories and a true crime fan himself.
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He recommended that we watch The Voyeur, an interesting documentary about a guy who owned a motel here in Denver and would watch his guests from the vents.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. I remember that one. Yeah, I do too. Because it wasn't 100% true, right?
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Jesus, I don't remember that part. Wasn't there something where there was like, there was no way they could prove it because
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it was the man that wrote the book about it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But a great documentary. Either way, watch the documentary because whatever is the truth, it's like wild.
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Yeah. Amazing. Okay. Back to the email. We had a great conversation. And as I got out of the car, I told him to stay sexy and don't get murdered.
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Parentheses. Thanks to the liquid courage. Confident one-liners are not typically my MO.
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flash forward several hours and several bottles of champagne. Several bottles. My friend and I had taken his advice and watched the voyeur. And as I drunkenly complained that I
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would never find a good guy to date, but somehow this vent watching creep found a wife. That's what
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I say every time. My best friend goes, you should text the Lyft driver. You guys kind of hit it off.
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And with just enough drunken fervor, I thought that was a great idea. I went into my Lyft app and I reported that I'd left something in the car.
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Oh my God. Brilliant. Yes. Brilliant. So brilliant. My heart. My heart. Also so alcohol fueled.
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Oh, absolutely. In some ways, yes, please don't drive a car. But in other ways, watch as your brain serves up like this kind of cunning shit that you're like,
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the schemes come out. So I wrote him a note saying I hadn't really left anything in his car, but if he ever wanted to go out, he should call me.
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Now we're getting ready to celebrate our sixth anniversary. Oh, my God. I'm so glad I finally met the good man I was always looking for and fell in love with someone who shares my love of true crime.
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And I owe it all to your show and finally being able to talk about my true crime obsession in public, even in the back of a lift.
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Oh I love credit stay sexy and strike up a conversation with your lift driver You might just fall in love Katie When we tour again someday someday they got to come to our Denver show
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Oh, my God. Maybe he can propose on stage. Oh, my God. Maybe he already did. Oh, okay.
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Sixth anniversary. I don't know what that means. But maybe she could propose to him then.
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True. Love it. Loving it. Loving it. All right. Only in Wisconsin slash two bars, one house. Ladies, hope all is well this past week you asked
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for house bar stories, kinda, and I knew it was finally my chance. Yes. I grew up in Green Bay,
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Wisconsin in the 2000s and was lucky enough to have some badass great grandparents having not
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one but two bars in their home. My Avon selling great grandma, Marion, and prison guard slash
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World War II vet great-grandpa Joe, Joe and Marion, knew had a fucking party. Walking down
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into their basement was akin to walking into your favorite dive bar. Wood paneling on the walls,
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massive wood headboard behind the bar, and it says whatever the fuck those are called.
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I don't know, like a wall, I guess? I'd love to see a picture. Why can't people send in pictures?
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Yeah. A headboard. Massive mirror in the center and liquor shelves on each side.
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The bar was even complete with a kids section. It says, yes, a kids section. Where the bar top dipped down and three small stools stood where my mom and their cousins spent plenty of holidays and neighborhood get togethers.
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They gave them a seat at the bar. Hell yes. This is what we're talking about. Tiny stools.
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I love it. As my great grandparents got older, they built a sunroom on their house and added a second bar so they didn't have to hike everything up and down the stairs.
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So smart. So smart. Yes. Industrious. The bar was complete with vintage beer signs, not stupid vintage, but legit vintage, photos
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of my great grandma's childhood, and our personal favorite, a Dean Martin singing bobblehead.
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As kids, my brother and I would play behind the sunroom bar until we were old enough to
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tend bar for family, friends, and neighbors at the ripe old age of maybe eight. Sure.
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Little did I know this experience would serve me well as I bartended my way through college
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just 10 years later in a gay dive bar now owned by the iconic Trixie Mattel. Oh my God. I love
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Trixie Mattel. Absolutely. Some of my absolute best memories came from holidays, birthdays,
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and really any excuse to go to grandma's for a drink. Both of my great grandparents have been
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gone for a good handful of years now, but I feel so beyond lucky to have those unique memories.
00:33:40
Definitely. Currently I'm living in Ireland where there's obviously no shortage of house bars,
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but that's another story. Stay sexy and have a few drinks with your great grandparents if
00:33:49
they're still around. Alex, he, him. Alex, what an email. I love that story and I love that whole
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email. But the thing I'm talking about is an actual business, not just family. I know he was
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saying that you kind of asked for that. Not really because he knew that it was like that. But yeah,
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you're asking, you're talking about businesses where you businesses come over and yeah, I
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interpreted that as that's how we said it is kind of not really. So I thought we were being vague
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about what we were asking for. No, I think it was like any excuse to write in a hometown at this
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point is works. Got it. Well, we love it. Yeah. That was, that was perfect. And Hey, write yours
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in at my favorite murder at Gmail If you in the fan cult you can watch this whole thing You just listened to I guess we should say at the beginning because now they have to go But no one wants to listen to this again but in video form
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Yes, but if you do, you don't have to look at that. You can see how I have not dyed my roots in so long.
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Can I show you my little vintage sweater detail? Yes. It's a golf bag. Bag? You see it?
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That's gorgeous. It's a golf sweater. Do you golf with Vince? Absolutely not. I've never golfed in my life.
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Miniature golf. I just like that. Oh my God, that's so good. Well, thanks for listening, guys.
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Appreciate you. Just saying, these are some of the wonderful visual details that you could be picking up
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if you were over in the fan cult watching this video. Perks. Perks. Perks. Stay sexy.
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And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie? This has been an Exactly Right production.
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Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck. Our editor is Aristotle Acevedo. This episode was mixed by Liana Squalachi.
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