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Hello! And welcome. To My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. Hi. We were going to read you some of your emails.
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It started out as our idea, now it's your idea. Yeah, do whatever you want. We're just here to tell you about it.
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You want to go first? Yeah. I love this email. Okay. The subject line is pliers in the ignition, red flag.
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Dear Karen in Georgia, this story takes place back in 2019 when I was in college.
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And then in parentheses, it says, hopefully that's okay. Your definition of a hometown story seems pretty loose these days.
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How dare you? I had just moved into my freshman dorm and made the brave decision to fully come out as a gay guy.
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Unfortunately, this also came with what can only be described as a ho phase. God bless.
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I think that's what's supposed to happen. Yeah. You've been holding back for like fucking 18 years in your little hometown.
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Yes. Now you're allowed to fucking slut it up. You're at college. You've aligned with yourself and what you really want.
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And now you go get it. That's right. Okay. But then it says, fast forward into later that year.
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After a long night of drinking the four locos we had smuggled into our dorm, I decided to meet up with an internet stranger or more specifically have him pick me up and take me home.
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And then in parentheses, it says, I mean, hey, we all had that phrase of being young and feeling absolutely invincible, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. And it actually says, anyways, against the advice of my friends, I got into this dude's car.
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And when I got in, let me tell you, he looked much older than the picture. Yeah.
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He also had noticeable mannerisms that were a little unsettling, but I tried to ignore it.
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I attempted to break the ice and said, nice to meet you. Things still felt off. So I blurted a joke about his old beat up car smelling weird.
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He got kind of quiet and offended, then mentioned his ignition wasn't working. So he had to, in quotes, mess with it.
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I somehow had not even noticed the hot-wired ignition in this man's car. A pair of large pliers were sticking out of a completely butchered steering wheel ignition area with wires everywhere.
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The image is ingrained into my head to this day. It was really an oh-shit moment.
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We arrived at his creepy motel-esque apartment, and I immediately texted my friend my location.
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In brief words, I told her that this dude looks like he's on something and his car appears to be stolen.
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After weird small talk in his apartment, she arrives and without any goodbye, I bolted out into the safety of my friend's car.
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I hadn't heard your show at the time, but damn did I fuck politeness. Nice. I never saw him again and sometimes questioned if it actually happened.
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And how was I so naive? I'm thankful it did happen, though, because it taught me I am not invincible and gay people can be creepy car thieves, too.
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And then in parentheses, it says, yay, equality. Stay sexy and check for pliers.
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Anonymous. Oh, my God. Yeah. Pliers. Yeah. That's a red flag. That's a it's a real quick.
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Oh, oh, real quick. I have to run back in the house. Yeah, that's a real quick. I'm going to tuck and roll and open the door and just.
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Just look in one weird direction and say real quick in a weird voice. And then, yeah, hands on that.
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What's it called? A door handle? Ten and two. Creepy story of the beyond. It says, yes, you asked for this in Minnesota 317.
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And I am now rescinding this email weekly until you see this. That's all the title.
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Hi, all friends, furry or not, including forever, Stephen and the infamous Alejandra.
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Let's do this. The infamous Alejandra. Alejandra, what have you done? Forever Steven.
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I love that. Yeah. I'm a firm believer in spirits and ghosts. I've had too many creepy experiences not to be.
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This is not my experience, but my mom's and kind of my brother's that firmly rooted me
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further when it happened. My mom is a badass powerful woman who broke into the male silo of being an attorney when she was younger After being a stockbroker she has no chill She very good at her job and as a result was headhunted about 15 years ago from
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her old firm to her new firm. She had been at the previous for 12 years and was going through a
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horrible divorce with my piece of shit dad and had me 10 and my brother three. She was trying to talk
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herself out of it while on the phone with her late best friend, John, who I always say is my
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real dad and miss him terribly, discussing her options. It was about midnight on a Friday,
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and my then three-year-old brother, who had been asleep for hours, walked in, handed her a picture and said, in his little three-year-old voice, she says, don't be scared.
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He then walked out and went promptly back to bed. My mom was obviously shell-shocked,
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And she asked John, did you hear that? Followed by, he brought me Sally's picture.
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Backstory on Sally. My mom has 10 siblings and six are now living. My poor grandmother had to bury four of her children, including Sally.
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Sally was hit and killed by a drunk driver at the age of 14 when my mom was 10. We obviously never met her and my mom doesn't have too many memories with her and was not
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particularly close with her being four years apart. We only have one photo of her in the house.
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I learned of Sally when I was about seven or eight, but my brother had no idea who she was at three years old.
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Once the shock wore off, John said, well, okay, then I guess your decision has been made.
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Years later, we were on vacation talking about this book that claimed our house we stayed at was haunted.
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I then brought up, remember when Ryan did that creepy shit when he was three? He then proceeded to tell us in detail his recollection of her waking him up and asking him to follow her into the office, handed him the picture and told him to tell my mom her message.
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Oh, my God. He even pulled his detail down to what she was wearing the night she died.
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Her prominent cheekbones. Seriously, they're insane. And her sleek black hair that was long and wavy.
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And this is mind you in the picture. It's a horrible short bowl cut. 1973. What a time to be alive.
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He was 15 then and still holds true to his memories of that night. Now at 19. I have a recording on my phone from the original conversation in 2019 because it's truly unbelievable.
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Needless to say, she did take the job and has been there as chief finance chair and head legal counsel for real estate for 15 years.
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Wow. Stay sexy and listen to your three-year-old when he is channeling spirits. Kayla.
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She says, don't be scared. Don't be scared. The only photo of her deceased 14-year-old sister.
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And this is a child that can't say applesauce, but is actually communicating, like giving
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you a pep talk from your sister who has passed off. Isn't that wild? And also, usually in those stories, if a kid is like three years old, if he was 14, he'd
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be like, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. And instead, this kid's like, I'll tell you all about it.
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Karen's story in episode 410. It says, hi everybody, but specifically Karen, because this one's for you.
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In episode 410, you talk about how your dad let you and your sister ride on the running boards of the car
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and it being so exciting. It really was. My mom used to let me and my brother do the same at the time.
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It's so insane. Does everyone know what it means? Like the step that's outside of the door, like that you used to step up, right?
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Like to get in a truck or whatever. Yeah. In some cars, like ours was a Volkswagen.
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You see them on big SUVs a lot of the time. There's a little, like a lip, like a step and only kids' feet would fit onto it.
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So like you couldn't do it as an adult on a Volkswagen for sure. Right. But we'd be like four feet tall.
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My dad would roll the window up a little bit. holding on to the windowsill oh my god you just hold on to the window okay at the time of this
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story we were living on 10 plus acres in east texas so we had a super long driveway to our house
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it was customary for my mom to stop and let me and my brother get on each side of the car
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and hang on to the oh shit handles on the inside while we were standing on the running boards on
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the outside every single day when we got home from school we would do this cute though right
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Well, until it says my brother and I would be laughing with excitement at each other through the open windows on either side of the car.
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This specific day, my brother was on the driver's side by my mom and I was on the passenger side.
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My mom had just gotten the car washed and waxed the day before. So the running boards were a bit more slick than usual.
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All of a sudden, while looking at my brother and laughing, I see him fall. Then feel the car roll over him.
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immediately my mom presses on the brake and we both hop out of the car while my brother is
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screaming bloody murder my mom ran over my brother oh my god right lucky for him and her and also me
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it was only his leg and after a quick visit to urgent care he walked away with no injuries oh
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you ran over your son in the car that you let him hang like you can't explain that away you know
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like that urgent care. Well, how did this happen? How it happened isn't important. It's the fact
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that I didn't want it to happen. Right. That's the mom. So it says you can imagine that no one
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in the family ever let my mom live that down for Christmas that year. An uncle of mine got my
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brother a white shirt with tire marks going across it just to let everyone know we will always
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remember. I like that uncle. Yep. Thank you. I mean, it just like spread like gossip in their
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own family. It's hilarious. Thank you ladies for being such a big part of my life for the past five
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years. Y'all have gotten me through college, death of loved ones, the pandemic, and multiple failed
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attempts at finding a job I don't absolutely hate. Stay sexy and don't get run over by your mom,
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Addison, she, her. Good one, Addison. Sweet. Childhood hijinks. What's the thing that a
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family member in your family can't live down that everyone like fucking brings up every holiday?
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Is it you that did something? Like, what is it? Yeah, that's a great prompt. Because that is
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actually an easier way to think of something than like, tell us a great story. It's like,
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no, no, no. If your family thinks it's great, or your family thinks it's funny, then it's probably a great story. Yeah, yeah. I was just like, what's mine? And I'm like, oh,
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my cousin Mitch on prom night threw up in the limo and they had to pay $200. This is like in the
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80s. Had to pay like, he's never lived that down. The equivalent of $1,000, I bet. Yes, absolutely.
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Like crazy. From drinking, by the way, from drinking. Mine is that I walked away from my
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family in Disneyland on our big trip to Disneyland when I was five, because I was so scared on Pirates
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of the Caribbean. And then we got in line for the Jungle Cruise and I thought they were making me go
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on Pirates of the Caribbean again. So I just left. You're like, fuck this shit. I'm out.
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I'm gone. And then of course, it was a complete meltdown that like family vacation, everyone is
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all stoked. And suddenly it's like, Karen's missing. She's been stolen. Blah, blah, blah.
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Oh, God, a nightmare. Yeah. Okay. Summer Jam 73 story. And then it says a dad on fire, literally.
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Hello. I sent this in ages ago, but with the recent episode, and it's number 406, my husband's
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lovely wife. Thank you for pointing that out about Summer Jam at Watkins Glen. Remember the couple who went missing?
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I figured I'd give it a whirl again. This is my dad's time to shine. I could fill a book with stories from his wild hippie days, but in interest of time,
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and now relevancy, I'll share just my favorite. In the summer of 1973, my 20-year-old dad and his
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friends packed into a big van and drove to upstate New York for the festival. Upon arrival, my dad
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crashed in the back of the van while the others went out to get the party started. He woke up from
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his nap and stepped out of the van, stretching and yawning and still half asleep, only to be
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hit in the chest with a flaming can of gasoline that someone had thrown over their shoulder in a
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panic. What? I think they're like starting a bonfire and the hot fire, a gas can caught fire
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and he threw it. Yeah. But like who throws a fucking gas can like towards it's just. Yeah.
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Over their shoulder. Like, well, let's get rid of this. Yeah. As if there's just always nothing
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behind you. Right. It says stop, drop and roll immediately went out the window and my dad took
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off running on fire. He says the crowd parted before him like the Red Sea. I can only imagine
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the spectacle of a tall skinny long and flaming man bombing through a crowded campground LOLOL Oh no He kept going and all his friends who were chasing him finally caught up and tackled him to the ground putting out the fire but melting his clothes onto his skin
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Oh, shit. He still has the scars, but somehow, at the time, this didn't faze him.
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And it says, in parentheses, drugs. Drugs. That's the explanation for this entire story.
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Yeah, for real. The purest acid you have ever imagined. Yeah. I bet those people that threw the flaming gas can were just like, someone's going to love this.
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This will be great. Keep someone warm. Yeah. And he stayed at the festival for days, partying to sets from The Grateful Dead, The Who, and other legends.
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What? It just didn't even cross the blood brain barrier that he had fucking burns.
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But burnt skin. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. He's always talked about the Grateful Dead soundcheck from the night before the festival as being one of the best shows he ever saw and was totally vindicated when Far Out magazine wrote a story about that very set.
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So interesting, right? Far Out magazine. Yeah. Stay sexy and don't pour gasoline on an open flame. Carrie.
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Yeah, that's great advice. Jesus. Fucking hippies, man. Yeah. What a time. There's never going to be a time like that again.
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Because, you know, insurance and all the lessons that we've learned, I guess, along the way.
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And then you have to worry that someone's filming it for their fucking Instagram account, too.
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Yeah, you become like a hilarious viral video as your shirt's burning onto your skin.
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The subject line of this email is naughty pony. And then it says, hello, women who keep me company in the car so I don't need to hear my thoughts and various pets.
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You asked for bad dog stories, which I don't have, but I do have a naughty pony.
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Growing up, my mom worked in the horse industry. And then in parentheses, yes, that's a thing.
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So I was super, super lucky and had a rotating cast of ponies growing up. Most are on their way to finding a long-term home, but some of them stuck around.
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One in particular stood out as the naughtiest and funniest pony I've ever worked with.
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Toby was a fat, black pony with wild hair and questionable origins. He was low to the ground, sweet with kids, lazy, and had a mind that surpasses many of the adults I presently know.
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This pony would nab chocolate ice cream cones out of unsuspecting little hands. He ate an entire 12-inch Italian sub stolen from my sister.
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And yes, you're right. Ponies really shouldn't eat meat. No worries for Toby, though.
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He was indestructible. Anyway, Toby figured out how to open the gate to his paddock.
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Not content with just being loose on his own, however, he would wander over to the field
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with the big horses, open their gate, and then lead a merry parade into the barn where
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he would open the bin with the grain and they would all have a fabulous evening.
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My father busted him in the act, so naturally decided to change the snaps to close the gates and put a handle with one of the thumb things on the feed bin.
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This was no match for Toby, and within a week, he had mastered all of them and the mayhem resumed.
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He learned the new locks. Like locks. My father, unwilling to be outsmarted by an animal who didn't come up past his hip, installed a very low voltage electric fence around all of the paddocks, including a section that needed to be outsmarted.
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unhooked in front of the gate. And then in parentheses, it says, yes, my sister tricked me into shocking myself several times. She is an email unto herself.
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I love that. The electric fence is like, that's farm standard. And I will never forget the first
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time I grabbed an electric fence, the wire of an electric fence. And I was just like,
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I couldn't let go. And it's like, it hurts and everything, but it is the weirdest fucking feel.
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when you finally let go, you're just like, I'm never going to do that again. You feel it in your teeth almost, where it's your whole body. Yeah.
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It's like the cartoon where your skeleton lights up like a lamp. Like that's truly how it feels.
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I have the suburban equivalent of my sister telling me to stick a fork in the fucking outlet.
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Sure. My sister told me to. Hey, it was a great suggestion. question toby the pony looked that electric fence over said amateurs and unhooked it using the small
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plastic bit meant to keep the humans from getting shocked and had himself another grain happy hour
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we never figured out a way to contain him at our farm but happily he never went farther than the
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food toby lived well into his 30s what and was loved by many children i have many other toby and
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other silly horse stories, if that's of any interest. Thank you for all you do. You've kept
00:25:22
me company for years, and I'm especially grateful for how you've helped me come to terms with my
00:25:27
body dysmorphia, and that it's not that weird to always wonder how many bodies might be buried
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in that creepy guy's basement. Don't let the man contain you. SSDGM, Beth. Beth, I love it. That was a good one. I want to be friends with a horse, a smart horse.
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my cousin stevie had a pony name ponies are a different thing altogether and he had a pony
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named sugar babe and she was only he could ride her he would go you should ride sugar babe and
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we'd get on and she would buck us off immediately like she was the craziest little horse it's like
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it a whole kind of separate situation like they it so funny cats they remind me of cats a little bit I don know Like cats with big teeth that will bite you
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Right. Yeah. Yes. They are kind of like the cats of the farm world. Yeah. Like clever and then use it for good or evil.
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Yeah. Right. Okay. This one, my last one's called the Beast of Busco. What up ladies?
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This story is about a town in Indiana named Churubusco and why it is called Turtle Town,
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USA. I recently moved from a big city in Indiana. And let me tell you, the small town stories here are wild. This one I learned about from my husband who grew up in the
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area. Back in 1890, a farmer named Oscar claimed to have seen a giant turtle the size of a boat
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living in his pond. Then 70 years ago, two guys saw a turtle weighing almost 500 pounds while
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fishing in that same pond. Then two roofers saw it, tried to capture it, and it broke their 300
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became nationally famous. Thousands of people were coming onto the property to try to see it.
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planes flew overhead and this little town was clogged with traffic i mean can you imagine
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because everybody wants to see a gigantic turtle what else is there to do get over here the owner
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of the property vowed to try to capture it the media named the turtle oscar after the farmer who
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saw it first and others called it the beast of busco the city put together a turtle committee
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to oversee the monster's safe capture and hired skilled divers to search the lake
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professional turtle trappers from Tennessee. And it says, I mean, who knew that this was even a
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profession? Yeah, really? I mean, sorry, but I'm a professional turtle trapper. Exactly. You're certified? Are you certified? Yeah, I'm that fast.
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And even put a 200 pound female turtle into the lake to try to lure the massive turtle out with
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love. Nothing worked, not even love. So they finally drained the lake. Can't it just be a
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folklore yeah just like we got to find it and high five it otherwise yeah what are we done with our lives get it out here make it eat a head of cabbage we need this is we demand it
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so they finally drained the lake over a couple of months to see what was at the bottom
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literally nothing and the owner of the property finally gave up after running out of money
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someone had to fucking pay for this shit yeah but to this day the shops are all turtle themed
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as are the street names and murals. The town has a four-day celebration every year called Turtle Days.
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I want to go to fucking Turtle Days, don't you? Absolutely. It was just the one big turtle.
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It wasn't like a bunch of turtles. Nope. Just the one guy. Just the one guy made his fucking mark,
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even though he didn't exist, possibly. He never showed up. Yeah. They have turtle races,
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judge turtle sculptures, and carnival rides. but driving through it now feels a little like a ghost town.
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I guess it's basically Indiana's Loch Ness Monster, and some people still think they can find it.
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And that's the whole story. Maybe next time I'll tell you how my uncle managed to sneak into every movie he's ever seen,
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my career in axe throwing as a second grader, the time my dog saved us from carbon monoxide poisoning,
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my coworker getting chased out of his bedroom by a man carrying a machete, or how my sister used to tie me up and keep me in the dog kennel.
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