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MFM Minisode 276

April 18, 2022 /

This mini-sode covers hometown stories involving the mob, a bank forgery incident, and personal experiences with childbirth and family history. Guests share unique and humorous anecdotes.

One story recounts a listener's boyfriend, Jake, who discovers that his grandfather was a mob leader after a drive-by shooting. The listener, Emma, highlights the shock of this revelation and its impact on their relationship.

Another story features a bank teller who encounters a forger attempting to cash a bad check on Halloween. The teller cleverly calls the police while maintaining a facade of assistance, leading to the forger's arrest.

Listeners also share personal stories, including a heartfelt account of a couple welcoming their baby, Georgia, and how the podcast helped during a challenging birth experience.

Lastly, a listener finds a letter from Stephen King addressed to her late father, sparking memories and excitement about their shared love for literature.

TLDR

Listeners share wild hometown stories about the mob, bank forgery, and personal family revelations.

Episode

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Hello. Hello. And welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. Hi. Welcome to it.
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What? We told you already. Are you ready for it, or are you just going to stand there with the AirPods in your ears
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like a fool? Oops. Should I go first? Yeah, go first. Okay. The subject line of this email is, the one time it really was the mob.
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And then in parentheses, it says, sorry, Karen. Hey, you two. I have been sitting on this one for a while, but with all the mafia talk and grandparents
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stories lately, I realized that this might finally be capital M, my capital M moment.
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That is what this, this mini-show is all about. It's your moment. It's all for you, Emma. Okay. In 2007, when I was 16, I was dating a guy I'd met at camp who
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all called Jake, in them parentheses, not his real name. During one particularly long,
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heartfelt phone call, in parentheses, on a landline, no less, Jake told me about his grandpa,
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who'd he been close to before he died a few weeks earlier, thinking cancer or a heart attack, maybe.
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Jake replies, oh, he was shot in his driveway. Now, this was an immediate red flag for me.
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Great. Smart girl. Even at 16. She's fucking got it. She's doing it. Jake told me that it had been a random case of mistaken identity and that they'd never caught the perpetrator.
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But really, how many elderly men living in the suburbs are victims of a random drive-by shooting?
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So I did what any burgeoning murderino would do and Googled that shit. It turns out Jake's grandpa really was killed in a drive-by shooting, but it definitely wasn't a case of mistaken identity.
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His grandpa had been the head of a faction of the Italian mob in an area north of Toronto renowned for mafia activity.
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He'd been killed by his second-in-command in an apparent power move. When I told Jake about what I'd read, he had absolutely no idea.
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Oh, no. Uh-huh. And in parentheses, it says, whoops. And was shocked to learn of his family's dealings.
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This is like if Meadow Soprano basically had some boyfriend that was like, guess what?
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Your dad's not a garbage man. Oh, my God. Which probably did happen in that show.
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OK. When he confronted his mom and uncle, his mom explained that she had kept it a secret to protect him and prevent his involvement in the, quote, family business.
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His uncle apparently emphasized that it was his, quote, bloodborne right if he wanted to get involved now that he knew the truth about his family.
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But Jake said he politely declined. When I told my mom, who has never underreacted to anything.
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That is such a great description of someone. So perfect. Who has never underreacted to anything.
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she freaked out and immediately started thinking our phones were being tapped oh my god sure and
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needless to say after dropping an enormous family bombshell on him that his beloved grandpa was
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actually a mafia kingpin mine and jake's relationship dwindled shortly thereafter
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oh i love her i just love it anyways i hope you enjoy this hometown which proves that sometimes
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it really just might be the mob after all stay sexy and always google your grandparents or have
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someone do it for you, Emma. That's so good. That's such a 16 year old thing to say. It's like,
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no stopping to be like, should I be saying this? No. Yes. Guess what? And then you learn. That's
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how you learn. That's how you learn to zip it. Yeah. Mind your business. Mind your business.
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Okay. This one's called you get what you pay for. Just starts. Let me take you back to Halloween
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in the early 90s. I was working at a bank in San Diego when a youngish man came in to cash a check.
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As an astute teller, I'm always on the lookout for fraudulent checks, not to protect the assets
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of my employer, but because they paid you $40 if you caught a bad check and $75 if you kept the
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check and the ID Yes That smart Oh my God There a bounty on bad check writers Which is like how you treat employees like do something awesome and you get fucking money for it You know what I mean That right Yeah My spidey sense was up when I first looked at the sky
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There was nothing over, just a weirdish vibe and a faded Hawaiian shirt. That's all you would need.
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The check was $150 and in the memo section was written loan, but spelled L-O-N-E.
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What are the two signs a check may be forged? misspellings and memos. I didn't know that. Did you like, if you write haircut, it's like
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suspicious. So smart. It makes perfect sense because if you're really like writing your bills,
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do you take your time to really get specific? No, but how many times have you written like
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butt stuff on your friends to check you write your friend? The fucking best. Not weed.
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Not weed, but stuff. Um, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Misspellings and memos. Now add to that
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an expired, sketchy military ID, and I knew my card payment was made for the month.
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Wow, tough. I put the check info into the computer. Yes, we had computers 30 years ago,
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and there were no red flags, but that is not what I told the guy in front of me.
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I'm sorry, sir. This check requires I verify it with the maker. And I walked away to a phone out
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of reach of his arms and ears. Now, most forgers realize they have been had and leave. Not this guy.
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I called the woman who owned the account. Her response was, I did not write that check.
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I had a party last night and he was there and stole a bunch of stuff from me. I am scared.
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Shit. I immediately put her on hold and called 911. By the way, remember I said it was Halloween?
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I had sewn a prom dress, taffeta, peach, puffy sleeves, and my dad's old suit together.
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Half my face was made up, big hair and full on makeup. and the other half had a fake mustache and the five o'clock shadow.
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That is a fucking classic Halloween costume. Why don't we see that anymore? It is so, remember that was the, you might be too young for this,
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but there used to be a lip syncing TV show that was syndicated and it was on, on the weekends, like Saturday and Sunday called putting on the hits.
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And they're the one that won, like when they finally had like a championship or whatever,
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the one that got the most votes was a person dressed like that, that was singing a duet.
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half. So they would turn. And they turn this way. It was like islands in the stream, half and half,
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you know, Dolly Parton and whoever. Talent, pure talent, genius, vision. So they're dressed like
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this as recalled in the cops. Yes. Okay. By this time, our felonious friend was getting a little
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anxious. I returned to him, leaving the check and ID by the phone that was out of reach because
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without them, I would not get paid. In my most reassuring and earnest voice, let him know that
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I really wanted to cash that check for him, but I was having a little trouble getting in touch with
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the account holder. Please have a seat and I will let him know when everything is okay.
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And even if I could not verify the check, I might be able to cash it anyways. I still had the woman on hold and checked back with her every few minutes. Eventually,
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the forger returned to my window to see what was happening. Sir, I reached the account holder. She
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does not remember writing this check and there's a police officer behind you who would like to talk
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to you. Fortunately, I assumed correctly that the man in uniform was legit and not someone dressed
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as a copper for Halloween. The guy was like, oh, I know it was Dave. He's like, I'm a stripper. I'm
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just trying to cash my paycheck from Chippendale. Right. The police questioned him and found the
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woman's property in his car. Before leaving, the officer came to me. The perpetrator claimed the
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check was for sexual services rendered. Not a lone L-O-N-E? No. Her response, the woman,
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whose check it was, was, yeah, I had sex with him, but it wasn't very good. And I definitely
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would not have paid for it. Stay sexy and beware of bank tellers who are way too helpful.
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P.S. I was picked for best costume and won a paid day off. Yes. No name. How are we going to celebrate you?
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See full terms at mintmobile.com. Okay I not going to read you the subject line It just starts hello all I sadly did not get to see our Santa Barbara show when y rolled in many moons ago before the Rona
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but my friends who went said you were amazing. Oh, that's nice. Anywho, I have a hometown story from when I attended college in Santa Barbara,
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and the scene is our return home from a drunken night out downtown near where y'all performed.
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The idea that you, people from Santa Barbara saying y'all is the funniest thing in the world.
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Maybe they were a Texan transplant. Okay. We had taken Bill's bus and then in parentheses, cue excited screams from past and current Santa Barbara drunk college students, which is a bus designed to take the college community downtown for a small round trip fee.
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You get a wristband and everyone knows that you are a badass bitches who put safety first.
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It's pretty magical. Anyway, we're going back to our student apartments after having a pretty fun girls night out.
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And we're all fairly drunk, but not driving, thanks to our friend Bill and his bus.
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We were running because it was winter and freezing and our jackets didn't match our cute outfits.
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Barefoot and in short dresses with our heels in hand. When one of my girlfriends called out laughing, hey, look, a dead guy.
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We all laughed with her thinking silly drunk girl and kept running. Then I noticed what she had saw, and I thought, wait.
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There was a man laying on the ground in the middle of a parking lot near our complex.
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He wasn't moving, but he was in an odd position. He was on his back crisscrossed with his hands crossed over his chest, like a super creepy yoga pose.
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We decided to go check on him, but we were still pretty drunk, so we mostly just poked him and yelled,
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Hey, dead guy, are you okay? He didn't respond, but we could tell he was breathing.
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And then in parentheses, it says sigh of relief. So we chose the most sober of our group to call the police.
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They asked us to stay with him and the EMT arrived shortly after. They couldn't wake him either.
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And we had gathered around and they hadn't shooed us away yet. We watched as one of the EMTs performed a, quote, sternum rub, which is a painful experience that will wake up almost anyone, no matter how deep their stupor.
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His eyes shot open and he gasped for breath and my girlfriends and I all shrieked.
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And one of them even yelled sorcery. And then we were politely asked to leave and talk to the police.
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We never found out what happened to the poor guy, but they hooked him up to some IVs and rushed him to the hospital when they realized he was so drunk he couldn't even recognize them or tell them his name.
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He was in good hands and probably went on to have a very successful college career.
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At least that's what I tell myself. Stay sexy and always check on the dead guy, SJ.
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I mean, they maybe saved his entire life. They absolutely could have if he was like.
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Could have choked on his vomit or like whatever. Yes. He was in a total blackout.
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Man, sternum rub. What is it? Oh, I don't want to Google that. You can party as much as you want, but please stop one drink before you get the sternum rub.
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I say. Get that tattooed on your finger. Please. Stop before the sternum rub. Use an index card if you must.
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Okay, this is called Baby Georgia and how you guys helped us become parents. And yes, this is a fucking pat on the back one, but it's cute.
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Hi, y'all. Not a hometown, but hopefully still worth a quick personal read. Oh, oops.
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I'm like, tell everyone. Simply put, I owe you both a massive thank you. My partner and I welcomed our baby, Georgia June, and then exclamation mark, exclamation
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mark, exclamation mark, into the world two weeks ago. The birth we planned and hoped for was not in the cards for us and proved to be a long, painful, emotional journey to becoming parents.
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About 20 hours in and more intense, painful back-to-back contractions, then it says shout out to all birthing people, than I could count.
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My partner bravely called for the epidural. As she got some relief and much-needed rest, I was buzzing in an anxiety level just below full meltdown.
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As we hadn't prepared for this birth story, I didn't even think to bring my anxiety meds to the hospital.
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So what does one do? First, send an emergency SOS to my psychiatrist. Second, do the only thing I knew just might work.
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I curled up on the not-the-comfiest hospital recliner, put a blanket over my head, AirPods in my ears, and turned on your voices.
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I'm not kidding. It was just like getting an Ativan drip straight to the soul. All in all, it was probably only five minutes before the midwife came back in the room and we all got back to the task at hand.
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But those minutes brought me back down to something resembling baseline and baseline meant being able to show up for my partner wholeheartedly.
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Fast forward, Georgia June was born in an unplanned C-section and is as healthy as could be.
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Thank you for being part of our birth story and bringing Georgia's namesake, Laugh, into the world.
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You both have a gift. Thank you for sharing it with the world. We appreciate you more than you could know.
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All our love, Iris, Mary, Georgia and Muzzy. Oh, are you proud to have a baby with your name?
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Well, you know, I know it's not for me, but I'm born in June, too. So Georgia June.
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So it is for you. I don't think so. I think it's just they like the name Georgia.
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The subject line is a little sinkhole story, lighthearted and short. Hello, Georgia, Karen, Pets, and our beautiful Stephen.
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I want to start off by saying how much I love you guys. I've been listening for about two years now, and I want to thank you.
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You guys started my passion for true crime and helped me get through the pandemic.
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Also, being 14 is not fun sometimes. So being able to listen to you guys rant about the judicial system or T.
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Steven always brightens my day. And then in parentheses, it says, yes, I started listening at 12.
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I'm totally fine. Don't worry. Oh, my Lord. Can I just also we say being 14 is hard most of the time.
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So we support you. Yes. everyone goes through it. Remember everyone else is having a horrible time too, not just you. It
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feels, it's very isolating and lonely and you feel like it's just you, but it's everybody.
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That's for any age, really. True. Okay. A little backstory. My family and I moved into a new house
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last year because I have six people in a four bedroom house. It's not ideal for two teens,
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a nine-year-old and an 11-year-old. Also shout out to my twin, Alex, who introduced me to you guys.
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She's awesome. What, Alex? About three months ago, my dad randomly mentioned that there was an article that he came across that Lex and I might find interesting.
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The article contained an account of a sinkhole opening in 1957. It turns out we live on the very edge of a repaired sinkhole.
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Bye. What a discovery. I remember me and my sister just started screaming. Teenage girls.
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We just started screaming. Since this is basically our dream, the full story is that in 1957, 120 foot wide and 60
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foot hole opened up in the ground. Can you imagine just rolling out of bed, going to brush your teeth and then looking out the
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window and there's just a fucking sinkhole out your window? Hey, watch your mouth, young lady.
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Hey. Anyway, this city discovered the reason for the sinkhole was because a really large sewer
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pipe broke and caused the road to just collapse. I am not a syncholologist, so I have no idea
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how that even happened. Miraculously, no one was killed or injured. About 10 houses had to
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be evacuated, though, and the repairs took two years. And then in parentheses, it says,
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hopefully they had insurance. No, you sue the fucking city. That's your insurance.
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If you have a house and you don't have insurance. Yeah. Also, a 14-year-old worrying about
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insurance is it's a lot precious it my smile is just getting bigger by the moment it only swallowed
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a light pole in a tree no cars or anything which is somewhat disappointing not that i wanted death
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just not as exciting love you ladies to death please never stop making this podcast y'all are
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awesome the next time you guys have a seattle live show hit me up i'm so fucking withly andy she her
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Oh, Andy. Andy and Lexi. The twins. Adorable. The twins have to come to our live Seattle show.
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That's right. But they have to have parent permission slips. Hit me up. Hit me up.
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Hey, Andy, it's Karen. I wanted to know if you'd come to our show. Hey, I'm a grown woman.
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Come to our show. Hey. My last one is called Not a Joke, Actual Stephen King Correspondence.
00:23:04
Ooh. Uh-huh. Karen, Georgia, and the MFM fam. Look, listen up, you two. I've done just about everything under the sun to try to get either one of you to acknowledge my existence in this true crime-ridden universe of ours.
00:23:16
From Twitter to Instagram, I've tried it all. If either of you were on the Cameo app, let's just say that I would have paid for my own personal birthday shout-out at this point in my life.
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But don't worry, because I've got some brand new shit to tell you about. Anyways, I recently escorted my own nosy ass into my dad's office in my childhood home to perform a long overdue and unwarranted search.
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From there, I proceeded to open any and every drawer in the room. I had remembered hearing tidbits from my not-so-quiet Portuguese nugget of a mother in the past that before I was born, my dad owned a handful of obscure bookstores in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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I even found a box of crispy brand new sorry, I mean new 40 years ago, plastic shopping bags with the name of one of his stores printed
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on them called Chapter One. It's a good name for a bookstore, right? Sure. At this point,
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I knew my mom wasn't making shit up. During my raid, I found a typewritten envelope addressed
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to my dad to one of his stores in Danvers, Massachusetts. In the upper left-hand corner
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of the envelope, there was one very familiar last name, hint from Maine, that every murderino knows
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and loves. My stomach dropped. It said King. That's right. All caps. Stephen King himself
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typed a letter to my dad and then proceeded to sign the fucking letter. Apparently my dad had
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written Mr. King a letter in 1981, personally inviting him to the Danvers stores grand opening
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in the coming months. Unfortunately, in the letter, he regrets to inform my dad that he will be on
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vacation with his family during the weekend of the event. So he'd be unable to attend. Like a true
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legend, he wished my dad well and stated that he would keep my dad's store in mind if he decided to
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go on a book tour for the release of any of his upcoming novels. This coming May of 2022 will be
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14 years since my dad passed away Out of nowhere in late 2007 doctors found that he had an aggressive tumor growing on a non part of his liver When they went to remove it they discovered that the tumor was inoperable
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I was 17 years old when it happened. I miss him terribly and think about him all the time.
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He was an extremely smart person and I'm so glad he decided to keep that letter stowed away in his office all of these years
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for his prying 31-year-old murdering a daughter to find one day and totally geek out over.
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Stay sexy and make sure you include a return address when you mail a letter to a world famous author, Megan.
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P.S. Obviously, I'm no handwriting expert, but preliminary Google research shows that the signature in the letter to my dad shows consistency with verified Stephen King autographs that I was able to find for purchase online.
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Verify. Verify. Trust but verify. Megan must verify at all times. That's really exciting.
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because also that's like it's a huge loss and then it's almost like a part of your dad's
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personal life that also is exciting to you too it's a shared interest and one of the great authors of our time
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This episode stands out for the following:

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Episode Highlights

  • Ryan Reynolds' Wireless Wisdom
    Ryan Reynolds urges everyone to stop overpaying for wireless services with Mint Mobile.
    “Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop.”
    @ 11m 29s
    April 18, 2022
  • A College Night to Remember
    A group of friends discovers a man lying still and calls for help, leading to a surprising outcome.
    “Stay sexy and always check on the dead guy, SJ.”
    @ 14m 41s
    April 18, 2022
  • A Birth Story with a Twist
    A listener shares how the podcast helped them cope during a challenging childbirth experience.
    “It was just like getting an Ativan drip straight to the soul.”
    @ 16m 27s
    April 18, 2022
  • The Sinkhole Discovery
    A listener discovers they live near a historic sinkhole, leading to excitement and screams.
    “Can you imagine just rolling out of bed and there's just a fucking sinkhole out your window?”
    @ 21m 28s
    April 18, 2022
  • Sinkhole Discovery
    A large sewer pipe broke, causing a sinkhole that led to evacuations but no injuries.
    “Miraculously, no one was killed or injured.”
    @ 21m 52s
    April 18, 2022
  • Stephen King's Letter
    A personal letter from Stephen King was found, revealing a connection to the narrator's father.
    “My stomach dropped. It said King.”
    @ 24m 28s
    April 18, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop.
    MFM Minisode 276
  • This might finally be capital M, my capital M moment.
    MFM Minisode 276
  • Stay sexy and always check on the dead guy, SJ.
    MFM Minisode 276
  • It was just like getting an Ativan drip straight to the soul.
    MFM Minisode 276
  • My stomach dropped. It said King.
    MFM Minisode 276

Key Moments

  • Ryan Reynolds' Advice11:29
  • College Night Incident14:41
  • Sinkhole Discovery21:28
  • Sinkhole Chaos21:33
  • Insurance Woes22:13
  • Stephen King Discovery24:28
  • Emotional Reflection25:23
  • Podcast Wrap-Up26:21

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