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My favorite world. Hello. Hello and welcome to my favorite murder, the mini-sode, where we read you your stories.
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Do you want to go first? Sure. Mine were under a cat. Okay. This is called Drag Story Hour Murderino.
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Hi there. My name is Pickle and I'm a drag queen here in LA. Pickle's the best drag queen name.
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I need to take a look at Pickle right now. Oh, pickle. Yes. Drag laureate, the city of West Hollywood, drag story hour, Los Angeles.
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Pickle's killing it. Pickle is at pickle drag queen on Instagram. Following. Boom. Okay. I love
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the podcast and I always listen to you and it says and buried bones while I'm making my costumes.
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and then it says, which then I wear to read to kids. So that's a little sinister,
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but also very wholesome. It's not like I talk about murder at story hour. See, I mean, amen.
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We have our boundaries. We know what we're doing. Yeah. I'm actually not sure if you've covered the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
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Then Alejandra, let me know that we, I actually covered it in the second episode of this podcast.
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Did you really? Called My Second Best Murder. Why did we name it that? I don't know.
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Because we remember we were doing like my firstest murder, second best. And then we around 18 had to bail because we're like, how are we going to do this?
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Yeah. It's not like we thought we were going to do 400 fucking episodes of this podcast.
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Dude. What if we were still doing it? It's like my 400th. Yeah. Just quip upon quip.
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Okay. But that is my hometown. I'm from NLA. And when I was a young boy, nine or 10, circa 2005 or so.
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My God, he's a baby. I was making a cameo in an Elvis Costello music video called Monkey to Man.
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And it says my fellow cameo maker was Jenny Lewis. So that was cool. But I was nine.
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So I didn't know it was cool. And I just thought she had very chic hair. She does.
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We filmed the video at the Ambassador Hotel not too long before they tore it down.
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And one of the hotel staff took me to the kitchen where RFK was shot. It was super creepy.
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And he showed me the corner where the assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, jumped out and shot him.
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and the tiny X carved into the cement floor where he fell. Why would that hotel worker do that with a young child?
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That's a great question. Well, then it says, I do realize now that maybe I shouldn't have followed a random stranger to the kitchen
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where the senator got shot 40 years prior, but I spent the rest of the day searching the hotel for ghosts.
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But they never revealed themselves to me, so no luck there. I am not paranormally gifted.
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The hotel was demolished within a year, and so now the X is gone, but it is seared into my memory.
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What a weird fucking thing to show a nine or 10 year old. Or maybe it's a person that was like a murderino type that was like, I think this kid's going to like this.
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Yeah. This is making a murderino for sure. Thank you for all the great content and also for all the work you do.
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I am super inspired by your spirit and you always make me laugh when I'm sewing giant pink bows and gowns.
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Best pickle. Pickle. Pickle. Yay. So good. I know I've said this to you before, but drag comedy is kind of my favorite comedy because as a standup, watching drag queens perform like, you know, drag bingo or whatever, where it's like they're doing like performance art, improv, stand up and basically crowd work all together with essentially kind of holding a reality of their own, a new reality.
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Yeah. And like complete like evening wear from a fucking like Miss America pageant.
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Wearing like corset shit that like wigs. Literally, I get a stomachache. Yeah. I just, it's my favorite.
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And they are the funniest because they kind of have to be the funniest. So Pickle, I love Pickle's name, but I was never more excited than when Peaches Christ
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started following me on Twitter. I couldn't believe it. So if Peaches is listening hi Which is stolen from Alaska Right It says the onion pie murder historic hometown Hi ladies Whilst procrastinating at work I started reading up on our local prison in Lewis UK
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It looks like Luz, but then they put Lewis in parentheses. Whilst reading through the notable inmates, including Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones,
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I discovered that Sarah Ann French, the last inmate to be publicly hung at the prison,
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and also the first and only woman. On Christmas Eve 1851, Sarah Ann French served her husband, William French, his favorite meal,
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onion pie. When William French died days later of a supposed stomach upset, the superintendent didn't believe
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that it could be natural causes, and on closer inspection, it was discovered he died from
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arsenic poisoning. It was a classic would you marry me if my husband was out of the way story.
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Sarah Ann had fallen in love with someone else and wanted her husband out of the picture.
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Sarah Ann's public execution amassed a huge crowd of approximately 4,000 people.
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People used to go to public executions like as a day out with their family. Yeah, with kids and stuff.
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What the fuck? Well, it was before the internet. Which is mad considering that is about a quarter of the population today.
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The prison decided to stop public hangings after this event when they learned that Sarah Ann had been an attendee at the public hanging of another husband poisoner in nearby Hastings just three years earlier.
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The prison decided there was no beneficial impact on society by witnessing these hangings and instead could be influencing others to commit the same crimes.
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As someone who is incredibly intolerant to onions, this story stood out to me. Did you know that there are old graves that have like favorite recipes on them?
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Yes. There's someone going around making those recipes. Yes, I love that. Because it's like, if you had like a, say grandma, who made your favorite chocolate chip cookies in her certain way, and that's basically like anyone can have these now.
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Forever. I love that. So good. I love it. I do too. What would your grandma's recipe be?
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My grandmother had nine children. Okay, let's just say this. My grandmother was an immigrant when she was 17 years old.
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She had nine kids. She did her best. But she used to make, she made pot roast. Okay.
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And she had a pot roast on the stove in a big pot every single day. So you could go to her house at any time, day or night, and get a slice of pot roast if you wanted to.
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That is my dream. That was just like her jam. But then there was a joke that we literally, we never stopped doing after she died because
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she used to serve, if she had Thanksgiving at her house, she would serve iceberg lettuce
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salad that had a big square of Jell-O with a fruit cocktail in it and Thousand Island
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dressing on top of it. Oh, no, thank you. It is. So it's so funny to me because it's like we used to eat it when we were younger, like,
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I guess. So it's kind of crazy. But then like the older everybody got, we were like, why are we doing this?
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This is us hour talking about ourselves. Yeah, for real. Oh, wait, I didn't even finish this email.
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I know. As someone who's incredibly intolerant to onions, this story stood out to me.
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Thanks for the amazing podcast and all you do. Stay sexy and be suspicious of homemade pies.
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Chloe. That's a good one to hide arsenic in, I feel like, because onions are so overpowering.
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slash stephen king origin story hey emphasis mine okay hello karen georgia and the menagerie of pets
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which you can see in the video that we're making for the fan cult right now. There's Blossom and here's really unhappy Dottie.
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Not very happy Blossom either. Okay. I'm not much of a writer, but this has been sitting in my notes out for way too long.
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I was recently listening to throwback minisodes and heard some about Stephen King.
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So I wanted to write in about my dad and his Stephen King related dad lore. Dad lore is a good topic.
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Let's do dad lore. Dad lore is a great topic. Guys, send us your dad lore stories.
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My dad grew up in Maine. He was an original latchkey kid whose dad passed away when he was young.
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For most of his childhood, he was raising his younger brother and bouncing around the rural parts of Maine.
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He spent most of his time in Lisbon Falls, Maine, where he went to school with Stephen King.
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As with many baby boomer fathers, whenever he meets up with his buddies from high school and has a couple beers,
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it is common to hear many new shocking stories told in a very nonchalant manner.
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recently they were Stephen King related. He told me over the summer that Stephen King was from a nearby school district,
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but because it was so rural, they bused Stephen King and the other kids into his school.
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Apparently they did not have the budget for a bus. So they converted an old, all caps, funeral hearse.
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What? Into a school bus. So yes, Stephen King's origin story might be that he had to ride a school
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through the creepy dark backwoods of Maine in a hearse. converted like they cut the roof off and put seats in or like i don't know i think the roof
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could stay but they must have just put like a couple rows of seats in and then they didn't
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use seatbelts back then so they might just toss the kids in like willy-nilly they just made them
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get in the coffin area like please sit and put your hands in your lap and you know don't screw
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i don't know why i immediately took the roof off the earth that was pretty cool you were like yeah
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That was like your murdered out car at Bob's Big Boy on Friday nights. Yeah, exactly.
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That's my, I'd lower it. I'd tint the windows. There's also a small enough community in that area that my dad and his buddies know who most
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of the characters in his books are based on. Oh. Apparently, all caps, including my own father.
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Ooh. In true dad lore fashion, it slipped that, quote, the body and its screen adaptation,
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stand by me are based off him and his friends what when they were in middle school a boy their
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age went missing along the tracks in maine there was a reward offered for whoever found the body
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so naturally he and his friends all minimally supervised latchkey children decided that they
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would try and get that and it says this money so they set off to go find the body of the missing boy
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I mean. Wow. When they began their weekend long hike, they walked out to the train tracks where they were quickly confronted by an older group of guys, one of which was one of his friend's older brother.
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And more notably, one of the other older guys was Stephen King. Oh, shit. So Stephen King was not Will Wheaton in that situation.
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He was like Kiefer Sutherland. He was the Kiefer Sutherland group, which, by the way, Kiefer Sutherland, like, ugh, in that movie.
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No, not for me. will wheaton for you cory feldman too i love cory feldman oh no fucking river phoenix oh river
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phoenix yeah i didn't like the i like i didn't like him that pretty i was like i don't stand a
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chance i don't stand the chance with the gorgeous ones i'm gonna take the second or like the funny
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one you know what i mean yes ah confidence okay it's always been there yeah one of the older guys
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told my dad and friends they were dumb and threatened to beat them up if they went looking
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for the body. More importantly, they asked, what's your plan when you find this kid's body
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in the middle of the woods? My dad and his buddies quickly realized that their plan had a few minor
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holes. So unlike the book and the movie, that was as far as this group of poorly supervised preteens
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got. They immediately gave up on their body finding endeavors. I'm sure I will find out more Stephen
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King related dad lore next time his friends come to town and I will be sure to write in. Please do.
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Thank you for all you guys do. I began listening to you when I was in college. I was a D1 athlete
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and miserable spending all of my time at practice or on a bus going from competition to competition.
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You guys kept me company during countless bus rides and study halls. And now during my workday,
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I refer you lovingly as my murder friends to my girlfriend who does not like true crime or podcasts.
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That's cool. Yeah. I would love to give a, and it says S O, which I think for the young kids is
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shout out to a fellow Mortarino who got me through those tough times, my athletic trainer,
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Fafa. She truly cares about the physical and mental wellbeing of all her student athletes,
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which is kind of rare in the world of college sports. Best CJ, she, her. First of all, CJ, congratulations on being a D1 athlete because it takes
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a level of dedication from probably age eight, I would imagine. What does that mean? I don't, I'm like a D minus, whatever it is. Cause I don't even know.
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I think it just means you're competing on a college level, which in and of itself isn't easy to do.
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And I think it's like a certain level of a college level. So it's like, not just whatever.
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I'm not sure, but I've heard my sister and Nora talk about like, oh, she got picked by D1 school or whatever.
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And it is just, yeah, it's constant where I'm like, I think about that all the time.
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It's like that dedication. It's really something. But also then they the kind of people that are like when they a little bit older they like yeah I get up and go run in the morning because I know it actually feels really good Right Where I literally still like I just need to walk to the kitchen
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I just need to get to the coffee maker. That's okay. We're all here with you. Look, we can't all be D1 athletes.
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The subject line of this is hidden treasure. Hello. Back in 2018, my partner and I left our modest home in the mountains, we called it the cabin, to move in with and care for his dad who suffered from Lewy body dementia.
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He has since passed. He was kind, caring, intelligent, funny, and talented. He had a cupboard full of board games, which moved up to the cabin after we moved out of his house in 2020.
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Chess, backgammon, pente. I've never heard of that game. P-E-N-T-E. Pente. All the classics.
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And two sets of Scrabble. One deluxe with a fancy velvet pouch for the letter tiles and one regular.
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I love Scrabble and used to play it all the time when I was a cool young 20-something nerd.
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In parentheses it says in all caps, nerd. But I haven't played it in years because my partner's dyslexic and he does not enjoy Scrabble.
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Yeah. Fair enough. So for the last couple of years, Scrabble lay dormant. Fast forward to the spring, to this spring, 2023, when we sold the house.
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My partner considered leaving one of the Scrabble sets for the new owners because mountain houses deserve board games.
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He decided at the last minute to take them both and donate one. After bringing the last load to our new house, he was about to drop off some things to donate
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when the deluxe Scrabble box fell off the top of the tower of donation items onto the floor in the cab of the truck.
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Tiles spilled everywhere. Among the tiles in the fancy pouch out fell a Rolex. oh my god we had found some things hidden in odd places due to his dad's dementia
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but the rolex was by far the most surprising and to think we almost gave it away twice
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i have many fond and funny memories of his dad and i'm glad we could add another story to the
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collection even after he passed to oh no i'm gonna start crying to anyone out there caring
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for a loved one with dementia, hang in there. I know it's hard. Your patience is repeatedly tested
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and sometimes it fails. And you second guess every decision you make along the way,
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not knowing what right answers are. Those were the most challenging years of my life,
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but I'm grateful for all the beautiful moments that were sprinkled throughout the heartbreaking
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and frustrating ones. And even though at some point you can't really articulate it anymore,
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your loved one appreciates you. XO Sarah. Oh my God. That's beautiful. Why don't I read these
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emails all the way through? Well, it's not like you wouldn't have done it if you fucking
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like, fuck this one. Just throw it out entirely. No, that one is like, that was treasure,
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but then it's also like a beautiful story. And perfect. We just, in the last one we had that
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where there's really something kind of magical to that after a loved one dies discovery yeah it's
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like a message from beyond it's so cool completely and that's like that christmas that my sister found
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that little bell lady um yes that was on our mantle all our lives but like never no one ever
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talked about it or cared about it and right i opened a box and it was like just shows up
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the craziest it's the best oh my god that's beautiful i love it everyone check your grandpa
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My last one is kind of long also. Wild and dangerous school sponsored quote trip.
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You've wasted so much time already. When I was 16, I took a trip with my high school to Eastern Europe.
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There were 20 high schoolers and three chaperones and we went for 18 days. Hell yeah.
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That's a long time. And you can drink over there because there's the drinking. Oh, sorry.
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That's right. The chaperones didn't supervise whatsoever. And it felt more like spring break
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very old Soviet era train with bunk beds and a window that was permanently open. Wow. Oh,
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and a door that didn't lock. It was me, my best friend and two boys from our high school football
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team in my cab. Did I mention this was an overnight train and there was no food or water?
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We didn't know until I asked about water and the chaperone, who was the high school German teacher,
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told me the conductor was selling beer for one euro and that was our only option until morning
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when we got to Prague. Well then, if that's the only option, I'll have 17. Exactly. So naturally, me and my best friend trekked to the front of the train,
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straddled an open bar and it said you could see the tracks below. And a man who spoke zero English
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What did they expect? Here's where shit gets wild. At around 3 a.m., the train comes to a complete stop.
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To our horror, we are in the middle of the forest. picture fog, moonlight, and then insert lots of loud yelling in a foreign language.
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Our chaperones are asleep and we can't ask anyone what's happening. So we just watch in utter confusion as the train just idles.
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A few minutes later, we see flashlights and a man in a jumpsuit jump off the train,
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screaming and running away through the woods until he disappears. A few minutes later, the train restarts and we are all freaking out with no literal clue what's happening.
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We all sober up real quick. Fast forward to morning, we arrive in Prague. No one from my bunk has slept and our chaperones meet us outside the train so we can all head to breakfast as a group.
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When we ask the head chaperone if she knows what happened last night she simply laughs and says An escaped convict boarded our train And when they found him he jumped from the train and escaped Jesus Christ
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And just keeps going on about her breakfast. Through more chatter amongst the chaperones, we learn that this escaped prisoner was in
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our train car, probably just a few doors down. Oh my God. With no door locks. No door locks, a big open window.
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They're drunk off their asses. Exactly. I can just sum up the rest of the trip by saying this is about how wild and unsafe every day on this, quote, study abroad trip was.
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My mom still doesn't know how insane this trip was. And it's been 15 years. Anyway, stay sexy and maybe don't send your 16 year old daughter to Eastern Europe for an educational trip.
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And it's I'm Catherine. Catherine. That is I think it's time to tell your mom the story.
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If it's been 15 years, she's not going to be mad anymore. Just wait until like after a holiday dinner of some kind when she might have a couple on board.
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And then she's like, look, I finally got to tell you about this trip. And maybe she'll have some stories to tell you.
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And then you can write in another email about your mom's story. And put it in the subject line.
00:28:13
Hey, guys, Catherine here. Hey, it's Catherine. You told me to do this, but you've definitely forgotten.
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Okay, so this is my third one. I'm not going to read you the subject line. This is so not so.
00:28:24
Okay. and it just starts my dad would be what most would imagine as an all-american freedom-loving
00:28:30
flannel-wearing beer-drinking dad on top of that he also has some of the best dad lore around wait
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we must have we asked for dad lore we must have but okay we must have already done it i mean
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because they mentioned it in theirs in the one you read i think dad lore is a thing and we just
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asked for it. Dad lore. Okay. So on top of that, he also had some of the best dad lore around.
00:28:55
This man had survived stage four leukemia. He was nearly a hot air balloon pilot. Nearly.
00:29:04
An active member of the Bigfoot Hunting League of America. Yes. Oh my God. I love this man.
00:29:09
But I'm about to tell you my personal favorite story. So my dad started his own stone manufacturing
00:29:15
company from the ground up and has become extremely successful through hard work and
00:29:20
determination. In his success, he got to travel to many other countries. One of these trips was
00:29:26
to Italy to visit some mines and get to know some foreign partners. He luckily was traveling with a
00:29:31
good friend of ours from Italy called Adagio. Adagio was going to be my dad's guide and help
00:29:37
him around since my all-American dad wasn't about to learn foreign customs. Of course not. Why would
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you. You should have seen when he went to Vietnam and China, LOL. Adagio knew all the great places
00:29:50
and hidden gems to eat and drink wine at. My dad isn't all that fancy of a guy and could care less
00:29:56
about wine. My childhood was filled with campfire hot dogs and apple pies being fine cuisine.
00:30:02
It is fine cuisine I honestly think it was more for Adagio though he grew up with a very Italian mother so he was excited to try all of the meats and cheeses They went to a late night wine tasting in a hidden back alley restaurant that was accessible through many hidden doors
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And while they were eating, my dad said a guy kept looking at him and drawing on a notepad.
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This guy was at a table behind Adagio, so Adagio didn't see him at first. My dad being the wonderful but suspicious guy that he is was a bit put off by this and asked Adagio if the guy was into him or if this was just an Italian thing.
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Adagio laughed and turned around to say hello to the guy since he assumed he might have known him or could strike up a friendly conversation to get to know what he was doing.
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Though when Adagio turned around, he paused and nearly choked on his wine. He turned swiftly back around and looked at my dad with his jaw to the floor, astonished, asking if my dad had no clue who that guy was.
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My dad had absolutely no clue and was even more confused now. My poor dad, who, mind you, usually goes to bed at eight and was just trying to enjoy his meats and cheeses.
00:31:11
Adagio then whispers, that's Dolce from Dolce and Gabbana. Holy shit. My dad must have looked very interesting in his flannel shirt from Tractor Supply,
00:31:23
his blue jeans, cowboy boots, and leather belt, LOL. So American. I'm sure this is quite a sight to see in Italy.
00:31:30
My dad was confused why everyone was making such a big deal about this. He likes to say he inspired Dolce's flannel line, which I think he actually did.
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My dad is a wonderful man who has literally been through everything, seen everything, done everything, and inspired everyone around him.
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His efforts in finding a cure for leukemia and going through numerous painful experimental treatments saved so many lives.
00:31:55
And I know his influence and sacrifice has touched so many. If you guys read this on the podcast, I'll be sure to let him know.
00:32:03
Scott would love to hear it. Scott! Scott! That guy's straight up Forrest Gump. Like, this is just like, he goes and influences Dolce and Kavana.
00:32:14
He fucking saves people's lives. He's a fucking legend. Thank you so much, ladies. You've gotten me through high school,
00:32:21
childbirth and college. Whoa, hopefully not at all at once. And I couldn't thank you enough. Stay sexy and wear flannels in Italy. Izzy from Burton, Ohio.
00:32:31
Wow. Yes. Such good dad lore. I love the dad lore. Send us your dad lore or your mom lore.
00:32:39
Yes. I think part of dad lore is the fact that you're telling your dad's stories that he's now
00:32:44
telling you because he's in his, you know, older in life, right, where it is a comprehensive thing
00:32:50
where you can say, because that's what life is. Life is getting fucking leukemia. Life is building
00:32:55
your own business and fucking working your ass off and whatever. And like, yeah, it is all those
00:33:00
things. And then it is being your authentic self because you've already been through so much shit,
00:33:04
you know who cares Like yeah you should have seen me when I was trying to bring shoes to Italy Both Adrian and I were freaking out We like we can wear bad shoes in Italy And I love that Scott was like fuck you I wearing my car hearts and you
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be inspired by it. Right. Right. Oh my God. Okay. Send us your stories. My favorite murder at Gmail.
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