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My favorite murder Hello! And welcome to my favorite murder. The mini-sode. It's so cute and mini.
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And it's filled with your emails, which you love. Your stories, straight to your face.
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Do you want to go first? Sure. this one is called deathbed confession treasure and grandparents with their names yes yes yes
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this is a solid one sending this again via forward because when y'all said you didn't get enough
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deathbed confession emails i just about screamed this email has everything and then it says stefan
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voice so i did it georgia and karen i've submitted before but i trimmed the fat for y'all good my
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grandmother passed away in 2019. And as we went through her files and photos, we came across an
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article that tells of the murder of her parents. Oh, no. Tom, 22, and Joyce, 20, that's how young
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they were, of Greer, South Carolina, surprised a robber in their home. Tom was known to have a
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collection of silver coins that he kept in the house. My grandfather says they also kept stacks
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of money, but not sure if that's true. They died in a fire set by the robber, possibly after he
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shot them, but it's unclear exactly how they died. There was a gun fired twice recovered in the fire.
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The house was burned to the ground and there was so little left of them that they were buried in
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the same grave. This July, we found the only reminder of them that my grandmother had,
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two charred watches kept in her bedside table. My grandmother, Carol, who was three at the time,
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happened to be staying at her grandparents' house. It's weird to think if she hadn't been with her grandparents that day,
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I wouldn't have ever been born. Apparently, as my grandfather tells it, a man was convicted and hung for the murder and arson.
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But Tom's brother, the grandfather who was killed, on his deathbed confessed to his nurse that he had done it.
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not actually committed the crime, but had tipped off someone that there was money
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and was in on the robbery, not knowing how badly it would end. Oh, that's horrible.
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Imagine carrying that for your entire life. Also, it's like you just thought you could make a decision like that
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and then remain in control of the actual outcome of it. I mean, it's just so naive.
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I wonder if there's a part of him that like didn't want to get away with it. like when the guy was hung and he realized it would never come out, just kind of have this like
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guilt too, that you're never going to be punished for this thing, awful thing you did, you know?
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Yeah. But then he waited till his deathbed to confess. I mean, he just chose to live with it.
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Totally. It's kind of freaky how much they're able to say in the article. This is all in the
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article that she found. Oh, wow. Details that you wouldn't ever read in that kind of article today.
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My grandmother was the most loving and selfless woman and my pen pal. She worked at a home for
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the elderly most of her life, always giving of her time and love. I think she's a beautiful
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testament to the fact that people with tragedy in their lives don't have to go on to have hateful,
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twisted futures. Stay sexy and maybe use a bank? Question mark. Allison. Wow. Just kicking it off with a bang.
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Here we go. That's just so heavy to have a family history like that, but then your connection to it is
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of this kind of miracle child survivor. Totally. It's just such a, and sorry, did you say at the beginning that Allison and her family didn't know until they found that article?
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's so very, very old school of, oh, we'll take this burden ourselves and just never speak of it.
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Right. Keep it to ourselves. Oh. That's just, yeah, so sad. All right. The subject line of this email is my mafia princess grandma and her serial killer dad.
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Okay. We are, this is a heavy hitter. Boom. Hi, friends. Long-time listener, first-time writer. You all asked for mafia stories, and I'm sure I have the best one.
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So here's the story of my mafia princess grandma and her escape from the mafia slash feds.
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Wow. For the safety of my family, I'm going to change the names, very smart, of the people and leave out the cities, just in case the mob or the feds listen to your podcast.
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What if we have one of each? The feds do listen to our podcast Remember those FBI agents that came to our show in Maryland Thrilling Did you also know that Vince niece is in the FBI Whoa Yeah
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That's very cool. It's very cool. Oh, the feds. Okay. My grandmother, we'll call her Marie, grew up in a big city up north.
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Her parents had come straight from Italy to America in the 20s. Marie's dad, we'll call him Sal, worked on the docks.
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That's in quotes. But we would later find out that that meant he was taking people on long walks down short
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peers and giving them cement shoes. That's right. My great grandpa was a highly ranked hitman for
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the mob. My grandma tells stories of being showered in gifts and jewelry every birthday as a little
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girl. Jewelry for a little girl. Yeah, right. Riding in the fanciest cars and going to big
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parties with the same group of Italian families and having a big group of uncles. She said certain
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uncles and their families would suddenly stop showing up to events. She wasn't allowed to
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question it or she would get in trouble. When Marie was in her late teens, she met my grandpa
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Vinny. Fast forward to the seventies. They fell in love, had four kids and a house of their own.
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Vinny didn't get involved with the made men mainly because he was half Irish. If she's retelling us good fellows in a kind of a broken up way, it's like, God damn it.
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We have to remind the listener, please don't retell us famous Scorsese movies. okay but he was still engulfed in the lifestyle because they all lived in the same neighborhood
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grandpa tells the stories of the mafia don during his time and how he was one of the nicest guys
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the don would always keep a pocket full of candy so he could give a piece to the children when he
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saw them he was not to be fucked with but reigned peacefully for over two decades oh that's i guess
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good you're allowed to do that when you're like the boss right you don't have to be the mean guy
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You've got a bunch of people to do that for you. You can trick people into thinking you're reigning peacefully while people are down on the pier.
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Exactly. Well, why are we talking shit about the mafia? I don't know. What are we doing?
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I didn't mean that in a negative way. We don't have anything to say about the work or the jobs that you fellas do.
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You're good fellas. In the early 80s, the new generation of made men decided he was too nice and the Don was murdered during an uprising.
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That's how they always get them. There you go. It's like being a grammar school teacher.
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You can't start nice and get mean, as my sister says. This is where it all goes downhill for us.
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A new Don took over. We'll call him Polly. Let's call him Polly. Just blending between the Godfather, Goodfellas, and the Sopranos.
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A new Don took over and believe it or not, he lived right across the street from my grandparents.
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My mom doesn't remember much because she was only nine years old, but she did confirm this story.
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Polly had a short-lived reign because he was blown up by a bomb in his home. Holy shit.
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Now we're getting some Miller's Crossing in here a little bit. Yes, the home across the street from my family.
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My grandpa's old and usually drunk every time I see him. Oh my God. Let's not judge.
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My grandpa's old and usually drunk every time I see him, but he's told me this story a hundred times and I choose to believe it.
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Polly came home and placed his key in the door. The key triggered a bomb that caused the house to explode.
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The explosion was so strong, his belt buckle was lodged into my family's front door across the street.
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Holy shit. I'm not saying that this person is exaggerating, but that sounds like the kind of detail my father would add for fun after the fact, non-factually based.
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That's a good one, though. Like, you need to know how big it is, and so that's a great way to describe it.
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Within a few months, my great-grandpa Sal was murdered, and one of the long-term members began snitching on everyone.
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This part of the story isn't clear because my family doesn't talk about it too much.
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Well, then just go watch Goodfellas. It's very clear in that. All I know is Marie and Vinny backed up my mom and her siblings to move south.
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Now we're in my cousin Vinny territory. And now I'm an Italian Southern girl who can't wait to hear my grandparents' next story.
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My grandma always said Italians were made for the mafia because we perfected cleaning
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tomato sauce stains and it helped us to learn to clean up blood. Damn. Damn. Damn.
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Stay sexy and don't get involved with the mafia. Also, does this mean my great grandpa is considered a serial killer?
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Thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope it was as entertaining as my Christmas gatherings are.
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J, she, her. Okay, can I please come to your next family gathering? Could you imagine?
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Can you imagine? Bada bing, bada boom. Wish I was just a little Italian, you know?
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Just for those weddings. And also just for like gesture, the amount of hand gestures and passion in like talking about a parking spot.
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Like I love it's high level living, the best food, the loudest screaming, the best looking men.
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Here's a night out speaking. You know what? I'm not going to tell you. This is a night out.
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Okay. Hey, lovely ladies and the MFM team and four-legged friends. My name is Russell, he, him, and I'm a first-time submitter and about a year in listener.
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I've been following the podcast since my partner April got me into it when we first started dating,
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so shout out to her. She's a long-time listener compared to me. I just wanted to share a quick
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story about a night out I had whilst I was in Tokyo, Japan, about a decade ago. It was mentioned
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a few times on MFN Minisode for Mob Stories, so I guess this technically counts.
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Ooh, psychic theme. This took place around 2014 when I was in Japan. I was out in the evening exploring the nightlife in Ginza, Tokyo, when I stumbled down an alleyway with some great izakaya restaurants. I started from one place and ended up in another and so forth.
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When I got to the third izakaya restaurant, I was seated next to a few businessmen in suits that were drinking and having a great time together.
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They noticed that I was a foreigner and started to engage with me. My Japanese isn't the best, but it's enough to hold a conversation, but their English was 100% on point.
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So we continued the conversation in that language. We had a conversation about travel, Japan, food and drinking, which made the night so much more interesting.
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I thought they were such kind and lovely people to talk to that I wanted to get the tab at the end for our drinks and food, to which they decline and insisted on taking up the tab themselves.
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Classy. Once finished in one restaurant, we would move on to the next. And each time at the end, I insisted on paying, to which each time they declined.
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It was getting late into the night, so I decided to call it an early one and said sayonara and thank them for being such hospitable hosts.
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They thanked me, and as we were leaving the alleyway, we walked onto the main strip,
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and there it was, 10 black cars waiting for them. What? I was stunned at first, and then one of the businessmen said to me,
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you're a good kid, stay out of trouble. Put his hand on my face, gave it a few taps, and then proceeded to head for one of the cars.
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Each of the men had their own car and had what looked to be bodyguards open the door for them.
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Hot. In some cars, there were some women also waiting for them, inviting them in to keep the
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party going. Do we know where this is going? To a Yakuza party? Well, you wish. I do wish.
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At first, I thought nothing of it. But after sharing this story with one of my host family
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members, they immediately said, oh, those were some Yakuza men. Yes. You got it right. But
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there's no, unfortunately, there's no after party. Oh, okay. I think that the amount of
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time they spent with the Yakuza seemed like plenty. It does. It's enough. At which point I was shocked. I then started to play the night back
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in my head. And there were some red flags here and there as when I asked them what they did for work,
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they were hesitant to answer as well as not looking to share about their personal lives,
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which I thought was normal when meeting a stranger. It is when you're not in the mob.
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I like the idea that they just ran into some businessmen with really healthy boundaries where
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they're like, that's kind of none of your business right now. Let's just keep it to the food and
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drink. Right. Then when it was all adding up with the suits, the generosity of them picking up the
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bill, always the women, the black cars and bodyguards that it all pieced together. What an
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experience to have abroad and shout out to them for being gentlemen. Yeah. I hope you enjoyed this
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little story and thank you for your time. Love your work. Stay amazing and much love from Melbourne,
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Australia. Hey. Hope you visit us once again. All the best, Russell. Russell. Like, first of all,
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I have a hunch that Russell is a charmer because how did you figure out how to get 10 Yakuza to
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want to hang out with you? Yeah. I've seen the movies. These are not overly friendly people,
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unless all the movies are just like negative generalizations, but I wouldn't have imagined
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And any sort of mafia is like, let's open this party up to tourists. Not rude, but not super social.
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No, they're kind of elite. They're just like, we have a lot of money. We have a lot of power.
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I wonder if sometimes they're like, let's give a foreigner a story to take home.
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I would love to just meet some Yakuza. I'm sorry. I'd get on the back of a fucking Yakuza motorcycle.
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It seems as you started describing this, I was like, this is so sexy. Like Yakuza Friends That the new TV show Yakuza Friends Yakuza Friends You could be like roommates but then there also like there shootouts in the rain with neon lights
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Friends plus Yakuza. It's like a Friends fucking, what is it called? Spin off. Spin off. Thank you.
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Okay. Ready? Hmm. Am I ready is the question. Stop asking me questions. Okay. This one is a hometown reminder to lock your fucking doors.
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and then it says hi everyone at er media love it george clooney oh anthony anthony edwards
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everyone at er media i've been meaning to write this story in for several years now but i never
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got around to it i relate to that my family is from a suburb about 20 minutes outside of boston
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i'm the third of four daughters our parents had us in a five-year span i'm not really sure how they
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did it. I can give you one hint. They really, really liked each other. Our mom is an emergency
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room nurse practitioner and our dad is now a retired detective. Nice combo. Wow. You just,
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yeah. What a childhood. They'd rotate day and night shifts until our older sister, A,
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was about eight and deemed responsible enough to watch the rest of us. Eight. Have you seen these memes lately that are like, if you're the oldest sister,
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like congratulations on your first children, your siblings. It's like, yeah. All the different ways
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the oldest sister is fully traumatized and damaged and used it as coping skills and is now like
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getting her life. When my sisters and I were all slightly older, high school and college,
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our parents would take well-earned weekends to the Cape, leaving us to watch the house.
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A immediately took these opportunities to stay the weekend with her boyfriend. One of these weekends, my next oldest sister, H and I went to a party and our youngest sister,
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S being the sweet baby angel that she is picked us up as our designated driver. When we got home,
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she put H to bed in our parents' room at the top of the stairs. So there she went and got her drunk
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sisters. Got it. At the top of the stairs and tucked me in on the couch in the living room,
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right next to the slider that leads into the backyard. S then put herself to sleep in the
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put herself to sleep, put herself down in the spare bedroom off the living room,
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wanting to stay near me in case I got sick. And then in parentheses, it says she followed in our
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mom's footsteps and is an RN now. Right. In the morning, I woke up to the slider wide open and
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proceeded to wake my two sisters up asking if they'd accidentally left the door open. Both denied
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it and asked if I was feeling okay since I got sick in the night. I asked them what they meant
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because I hadn't gotten sick or even left the couch. This is when they both explained that in
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middle of the night s saw a figure who she assumed was me crawling up the stairs don't crawl please
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don't crawl oh oh please don't crawl okay go on go on this is a japanese horror movie for real
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h confirmed this because when the figure got to the top of the stairs our parents bedroom door
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was slowly opened h saw who she assumed was me on all fours at the entrance of the bedroom
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She asked if I was all right and said that I didn't respond and just slowly shut the door.
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Stop doing things slowly. Can we just like agree not to do things slowly? A thousand percent.
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Like a regular crawl up the stairs and you could kind of kick it in the face if it got up and you realized it wasn't a familiar body.
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But the slowness just freezes you into what is happening. Totally. Oh, my God. Okay.
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So in all caps with a period after each word, what the fuck? Agreed. panic, right? Panic ensued as it dawned on my sisters that I had not been crawling around the
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house the night before. Had H been the only one to witness this, I probably would have written it off
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as drunk hallucinations. But the fact that S was sober as a judge and saw this person too,
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confirmed that someone had been in our house. When our parents came home, we told them what
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happened. And my dad said something along the lines of, yeah, the Manson family used to do that.
00:22:01
They called it creepy crawling. Anyway, you need to remember to lock the doors. That's like the smartest way to scare your children into doing something.
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Scare them before you leave for the cape. Please. Scare them before they're alone.
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Creepy crawly. The creepy crawlies. I hate it. Thinking about it still creeps me out to this day, knowing someone opened the slider and
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walk crawled by me sleeping on the couch, passed S in the spare bedroom, made their
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way up to H just to watch us all sleep. Gives me chills. We're so lucky that this person did not physically harm us.
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stay sexy and lock your fucking doors and that's there's no name attached you know what it sounds
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like to me just maybe I make myself feel better when I go to bed tonight is that like like an
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adolescent boy who just like kind of was breaking into you know just like like to see how people
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lived let's say yeah like loved architecture loved interior decoration just wanted to get in there and
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inspect that carpet definitely definitely just wanted to make sure they were still breathing
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at night. Girls, good, good. You good. You need water. Creepy Crowley. There's no innocent
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crawling as an adult. Sorry. Maybe that's judgmental. No, that's true. These all sound
00:23:15
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Goodbye. Okay, here's my last one. Okay. Great Depression, Mountain Doctor, Meet Cute, and Old Timey Names.
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Hi, gals. I apologize for all the details, but I promise it's all worth it. It's a story.
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Details is a story. You got to. You gotta have them. Please. My great-grandfather, Lindsay Garrett Fitzpatrick, Lindsay, old-timey man's name. It's a good one.
00:25:14
Was born in 1917 in the hills of Virginia, where he was one of nine. His family struggled to find
00:25:21
work to feed the children and themselves and made the difficult decision to move to Michigan,
00:25:26
where there were more factory jobs. However, there was one catch. Only the five youngest children would be going,
00:25:34
leaving four of the oldest boys, my great-grandfather included, to survive on their own in Virginia.
00:25:39
He was nine years old. No. This is the fucking 20s, I think, 1920s. That's what you just did.
00:25:47
Do they say the age range of these four boys? He was one of nine, it just says. They're the four oldest.
00:25:52
Four oldest, but do we know if he's the youngest of those four or what? We don't. We don't.
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Please tell me it's not the oldest, is I guess what I'm looking for. Oh, my God.
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Lindsay and his brothers would steal chickens and vegetables from people's farms as they tried to make their way up to Michigan.
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They're like, well, I guess we'll make our own way. Via train cars. What? They would illegally jump onto.
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Not passenger trains, cargo trains. Another fucking movie. Yes. Here we go. That's like the boxcar children.
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It's a wonderful popular children's book series where it's almost this exact same thing.
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orphans taking care of themselves and living out of a train car. Yeah. Eventually they made their way to Kentucky.
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It sounds like they just stopped like Kentucky. That's as far as we're going. They like it too hard to make to migrate across America by ourselves When you nine Yeah My great grandmother Virginia Catherine was born in the hills of Kentucky where her mother remarried to a wonderful man who was a mountain doctor
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For a lot of residents in the hills, they were unable to get to proper medical care or
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able to afford it. So they would call her stepfather, where he accepted traditional payment and untraditional
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in the form of flour, rice, or handiwork. I mean, this is a story. Yeah. It's a good thing there's details.
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I'm what I'm loving in this story is the details. It really makes it. It really makes it.
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One day around 1930, my great grandfather, Lindsay, sliced his heel nearly clean off in
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Kentucky. It says, because of course he had no shoes. And where did his brothers carry him to?
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Across the river to my great grandmother's home. Cue the meet cute. Oh, we don't have many details of their first encounter, but we do know that they hit it
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and eventually got married and had four children, their youngest daughter being my grandmother.
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I was incredibly lucky to have 10 amazing years with my great-grandpa before he passed away in 2003.
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Wow. Unfortunately, my great-grandma passed before I was born, but everyone who knew her said she was an absolute treat.
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I have fond memories of my papa, as we called him, sitting on his front porch swing,
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chain-smoking his Marlboros, and then it says never inhaling though, as he would tell you.
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Anyways, thank you for bringing me company during some of the best and worst days.
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SSDGM, Marisa, she, her. Marisa, I loved that story. And I really want to know, like, detail beat by beat of, like, how did they get even out of the city limits, much less all the way to Kentucky?
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Yeah. And then what happened in Kentucky? Did they just raise themselves? Yeah. How did they stop?
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Or did some adult go, hey, hold on, you guys. How about you stay here instead? and like here's some farm work just like live here please god damn it stop being feral children
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please god damn it but also and i'm sorry because this is even more compelling to me
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show me the angle like that you're slicing your heel because you would hit like you would have to do it so specifically yeah it's like when you cut the tip of your thumb off
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and it's like yeah yeah yeah okay bring me a last story your last movie pitch this is my last movie
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pitch. I'm not going to read you the subject line. Hi folks, both on and behind the mics. Nice.
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Inclusive. Loving. In Minnesota 352, you spoke about those horrifying realizations you have
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when you realize everyone did completely nuts things back in the day and thought it was totally okay And that triggered a buried memory from when I was a kid in the 90s I was about six or seven so 93 or 94 and growing up in a town just outside Cambridge
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in the UK. It was around October and my mom, Jenny, and I were walking home from primary school.
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On the hill round the corner from home, I was extremely excited to find a lost wallet.
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My mom suggested that I should hand it into the police station. So we detoured into the town center and I handed the wallet over.
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We left our names and address. I suppose before there was always a risk that we stole something from the wallet before handing it in.
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And then went our merry way. Happy to have done a good deed. Cut to a few days later and a knock at the door just before dinner.
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I answered and looked up to see a complete stranger standing there in the dark with a smile on her face.
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It turns out the police actually told the woman whose wallet it was that it was a little girl who found it and gave her our names and address.
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Absolutely nuts in hindsight. But at the time, but at the time I was beyond excited because the lady brought me a, and in all caps, meter long bar of Cadbury's dairy milk chocolate to say thank you.
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Damn. Is a meter, Alejandra, is a meter three feet? Yeah, it's over three feet. Just over three feet.
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Over three feet. You got a third grader's height of chocolate. Oh my God. Legitimately one of the most exciting things to ever happen to me as a child. In addition to
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jumping at chances for longer walks outdoors, my mom, who I love dearly mine, was also not very keen
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on sweets in the house. Oh, so it was like, yes, it was a total jackpot. I had to make that thing
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last. When I remembered about this, I asked my mom to check. I wasn't imagining it. And she said,
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Oh yeah, in retrospect, that wasn't great, was it? Here's hoping the police aren't giving out
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children's names and addresses to strangers anymore. Thank you for all you do. Your commitment
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to growth, both professionally and personally, has been wonderful to listen to all these years.
00:31:22
That's really nice. And I think we all needed the laughs along the way too. I'm getting over a concussion right now and you're keeping me company while I try to avoid
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screens. And then it just says brains who'd have them. SSD GM Lucy. She heard. Lucy cute. I thought
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it was gonna be like she gave me $10. And even though that's like probably didn't cost $10.
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That's like way better for sure. So much better. It's like a cartoon version of chocolate. Like
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here you get all the chocolate in the world to you essentially Yeah Such a good Yeah So nice Amazing Great stories everyone You can see this was videoed for the fan cult if you want to see the things that are happening if you want to see
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the strangely flat one side of my hair can i show you the pink that matches my sweater yes george
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has got some like a magenta e stripe and then or even more that like a layer underneath but hidden
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tastefully matches her sweater. Get on there. See, I'm a cool grown-up. Check out Georgia's whole
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