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Because the food you love is better with Marikon. Hello. Hello. And welcome to my favorite murder. The mini-sode.
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There you go. There you are. And here we are. You asked for it. He begged. He begged. Pleaded. And now we had to relent and give you a mini.
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And we will. Do you want to go first? Dottie's sitting on my papers. Absolutely. Let her have a moment to herself.
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I'm on a poor dog. Please. That poor cat needs some rest. Okay. This one's kind of exciting for me.
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The title gives it away. Okay. Hi, MFM crew. Big fan. Heard you needed new hometowns, so I finally sat down to write mine out.
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All right. I'm from Petaluma. Oh. What? Oh. And I love every reference Karen makes about our hometown.
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Tuttle Drugs. Carrithers. The Old Longs. that's the thing that my cousin stevie's wife cam it drives her crazy because she didn't grow up
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there and we refer to everything as the thing it was when we were growing up and not the thing it
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currently is so total drugs is has been a restaurant like five times over but we still
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call it total let's go to total drugs for dinner yes i love that a little confusing sure sure
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but charming charming small town charm come on absolutely do you know that when i was a kid we
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We had a Sergeant Pepperoni's pizza place and it's now a totally different pizza place.
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So we could still call it Sergeant Pepperoni's. You got to like, hey, let's all get together.
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That's a hilarious name. It's so good. They had to change it because Ringo Starr sued the shit out of them.
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Did you know that? OK. After college, I lived near Seattle for a few years and I worked at a truck assembly
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plant that had a very infamous former employee. I was talking with some co-workers one day in Human Resources, which is exactly the right
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place to talk to coworkers. Human resources. Yeah. Chill. And they had been looking through
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old employee badges when one of them said, I half expected to find Gary Ridgway's badge in there,
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but I think they confiscated it. I assumed I heard them wrong and I asked her what she was
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talking about. So she responded, oh, the Green River Killer worked here. Oh my God.
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Chills, chills, chills, chills. My jaw hit the floor and I demanded to know more.
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Another co-worker spoke up because she worked there when he did and knew him. That was all in caps.
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She said there were rumors that he would leave jewelry in the women's restroom that he had stolen from his victims.
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You've heard this? Yeah, he definitely did that. That was one of his things. I just read the Anne Rule Green River Killer book, and that was totally one of his fucking things.
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So he, according to this email, he would leave jewelry in the women's restroom that he'd stolen from his victims in hopes of seeing his coworkers wearing his trophies around work.
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Oh, my God. Just horrifying. She also said by the time the cops were trying to nail him for these murders, they would come pick him up from the factory to bring him in for questioning.
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And people would joke to his face that he was the Green River Killer. but in all caps he was the green river killer oh my god jesus christ it's just that i'm sure those
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people were just like it can't be here it can't be someone i know it can't be yeah he can't be
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hiding in plain sight like this jokey joke and right to your face yeah he's just sitting there
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with his dead eyes and his weird mustache creepy eyes i remember hearing at some point in an episode
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Either Karen or Georgia mentioned the Green River Killer and said part of how he was caught
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was paint flecks that were so specific they were able to determine where he worked.
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I started listening to MFM after I moved to Seattle and the combo of learning I had a
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connection through work to one of the worst serial killers and listening to the podcast
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was when I realized I had a love for true crime Thank you for everything you do with the show and the community and for normalizing being fascinated by true crime despite having deep anxiety about anything and everything
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Stay sexy and don't wear jewelry you find in bathrooms. No name. Wow. Yeah. Green River Running Red, I think, is the Ann Rule book.
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I just listened to it over the summer and it's very victims oriented. You know, she tells every victim story.
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Yeah. Of course, and is very sensitive to their lives. It's a really good book. That guy is a fucking creep.
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Murders are always tragedies. In this instance, he got to go on and on and on because he chose people without a voice, without advocates, without people nearby that knew what was going on.
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Like he victimized the most vulnerable people. And yeah, it's the grossest. It's one of those tragic fucking stories of a monster.
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Yeah. Who gets away with it for years. Okay. This is my brother tried to murder me.
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Story. Oh. Hi, cult leaders. I'd like to start. Oh, lighthearted, by the way. I'd like to start this.
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It's kind of important. Sorry. Not like, it wasn't like a, yeah, you sounded really bummed and I was like, oh, no, no,
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no, no, no. Like a funny, it's like a funny little kid one. Yeah. That was information you had and that it was when that sentence came out.
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That's right. It was just like we go from one horrible murder to the next. No. This show is.
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Well, this could have been. OK. I'd like to start this off by saying I'm fine. Thank you.
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In February 1999, I was two weeks old laying in my parents bed, doing what I did best, screaming at the top of my lungs.
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Unfortunately for my four-year-old brother, my parents' room was the only place he could watch his cartoons, and I was louder than Spongebob.
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Our mom had taken our sister out for the day, and our dad was busy cleaning up the kitchen, so without an adult to consult, he devised his own plan to quiet me down.
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He gathered all the pillows he could find and placed them on top of my tiny infant body.
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Mm hmm. Finding that this was not enough to deafen my screams, he sat on top of his pillow pile.
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And voila, I was silenced for the first time in my short life and he was free to enjoy his show.
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Oh, no. My dad, who was washing the dishes at the sink, noticed that the house was suddenly much quieter and assumed I had finally tuckered myself out.
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He finished up his last dish and came to check on his two youngest little angels.
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When he came into the room, he saw my brother on his goose down throne and no baby in sight.
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He threw my brother onto the bed, tossed the pillows off and found me purple faced and not moving.
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Oh, no. Not one second later, I took in a deep breath and screamed twice as loud as before.
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Brother was less than thrilled. I was alive. Dad was relieved and big bro got a lesson about what death is.
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Oh, Jesus. Fast forward to February 2019. The family is at my brother's graduation from Navy boot camp and I reminded him of this story.
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We laugh. He gives me a big hug and says, I'm so glad I didn't kill you. That would really have fucked me up.
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For real. Yeah, it's all about you, dude. Yeah. Thank you for everything you do. And I'm glad you had time to recharge so you could keep up the good work. I'm thankful for my sister for introducing me to you and for my shit memory that allows me to listen to old episodes as if it were my first time hearing it. Stay sexy and don't get murdered by a four year old Haley. God. Yeah. I mean, it's lighthearted, but you almost killed a baby.
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It walks right down that edge. But it's like Haley knows the story that they're telling.
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So it's just like, I'm fine. We can all laugh. We're all laughing. Right, right.
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The subject line of this email is I saved my entire family by being a worry wart.
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Hi, Karen, Georgia, Stephen and animal babies. In 2005, my mom, dad, brother and I all went on a camping trip in the Cascades of Washington State.
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After setting up all the tents, we headed out of my stepdad's four-wheel drive Jeep for a bit of off-roading before dark.
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We took a series of trails barely wide enough for the car for a few miles up the nearby mountain, and everyone, including me, was having a great time.
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But as we got more and more away from the main road, I started to worry about breaking down and having to navigate back in the approaching dusk.
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I was 15, highly morbid, and deeply into true crime already. Woo-hoo! Yay! I had an escape route for every situation.
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Everyone was getting super loud and excited as the trails became more and more rough, knowing the Jeep could handle it.
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I, however, was getting nervous as fuck, or it says AF, but that's what they mean, as the quality of driving and navigation was getting sketchy.
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All of a sudden, we hit a clearing with a sizable hill in front of us. The hill was probably 200 feet to the top, and my mom and brother started to get super amped.
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no mom you're supposed to be safe she's full of mountain dew and she's ready to off-road
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code red mountain dew code red moms love it too mountain dew code red and vodka try it
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it's called mom's special weekend join her okay so the amped up part yelling and egging on my
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stepdad until he says I'm gonna gun it no I and then there's a a full online break separate so
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it's just a sentence standing alone and it says I cannot overstate how stoked everyone was
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I love the idea that like not only are you the worrywart everyone else is like fucking gung on shit it just makes you the weird one out I understand it completely I love the idea of like an off type of family And then this the goth sister who like guys we all going to die I love it
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Okay. When people talk about intuition, red flags and guardian fucking angels whispering in their
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ear. I know it's true because at this exact moment, I almost involuntarily opened my door
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and said, I'm going to check first. For some reason, every cell in my body needed to do this.
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They were saying things like, don't be a worrywart and the car will be fine. Didn't care.
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So I got out of the car and I started to walk in the middle of the path up the hill so they
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couldn't pass me without hitting me. About 10 feet from cresting the hill, my entire body starts buzzing and was in complete tunnel
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vision. I was standing dead still looking down into a 50 foot drop into large rocks and trees.
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I sat down right where I was until my family got out of the car, asked what was up, walked
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up and looked. We all would have died. If not from impact, from injuries and exposure, from being
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miles on the side of a mountain with no GPS and no one knowing, we decided to go off-roading.
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It was a quiet drive back to camp. Intuition is everything. Stay sexy, don't get murdered,
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and always know what's at the top of a hill. XOXO. Kira with two I's. Oh, my God.
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Isn't that good? Yes. I'm scared of everything. And it's OK because it's true. Because you're right.
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I'm right. You're right. Kira's right. Kira. We're all right. Goths know everything.
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Goths know. This is called classic. The 50s need to go to jail. It's a quick one, but I think it's really funny.
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Hello, Karen, Georgia et al. I'm such a huge fan of you both. and everything you've done with your platform is so impressive.
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As a longtime listener, it's been awesome to watch you achieve success and still be the coolest people.
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Thank you. Thank you. Now to the story. My mom told me this gem after you wanted more praise.
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A little bit. It feels so good. You're both beautiful and cool. And I think you both have nice nails and great hair.
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Georgie, you're not reading. I made it up. Now to the story. My mom told me this gem after I explained the premise of hometowns on your podcast and how they often have to do with funny stories about shit grandparents did that seem crazy inappropriate today.
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She goes, oh, yeah, like when my dad sent me on bank runs in the Bronx. And proceeds to tell me that my grandfather, Larry, appreciate the name, Adan, used to send her a four year old named Barbara.
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Then it says, take your moment to enjoy that. Yes. To the bank by herself. This involved walking a few blocks from the toy store my grandfather owned in Pelham, taking a bus, getting off the bus and walking a couple more blocks to the bank where she stood on her tippy toes and held up a note explaining her business, which my grandfather had written so my mother didn't need to speak at all.
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then she'd hand over the money yes she took a green zipped envelope containing whatever a full
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till in the 1950s was on the bus in the bronx as a four-year-old what how is this possible
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four do you know what four-year-olds are like yeah they're a lot like three-year-olds
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they're a lot like babies they're very young they're very young i was just like i just hung
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out with my nephew today who's six and like he can't even hold a cupcake without dropping it
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i watched him drop a cupcake okay okay this is the this is where that's saying it's like taking a
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a zipped leather bank pouch from a baby like can you imagine you just walk up to a four-year-old
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girl on the sidewalk and be like can you hand me that for a second i want to hold it for you
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excuse me i'm taking that and i love that the bank teller is like great here you go the bus
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driver's like well she had her fare there's nothing i can do that's right there's fair
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i know i didn't want to say i know you didn't i could hear it though so i stole it uh and
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apparently felt really proud of herself of course she did this you should this apparently stopped
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after my grandma found out so i guess one person so i guess one person in the 50s was paying
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attention but he was doing it behind his wife's back what do you mean she just what she takes it
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of the bank. I can't leave the counter. Yeah, there's never been an issue. But the rest of the 50s need to go to jail
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as Georgia might say. Thank you guys for everything you do and for being a source of comfort to so many.
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Much love, A. Oh my god. That's legendary. That's Yeah. Imagine, like imagine if you just had a
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time machine and you could go back to like 1951 and stand on the sidewalk and just watch the
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baby pedestrians going by doing their business. Yeah. Just smoking their cigars.
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Just carrying bags of money, smoking cigars. I mean, definitely we have a lot of babies in the 80s who went
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and bought cigarettes for their parents at the liquor store. That was a thing. Did it myself.
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Oh yeah. Here's what we need. We need our older listeners and the younger listeners with grandparents.
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We need you guys asking them like about these questions, because I feel like we get a lot of 80s and 90s of what your parents did that was fucked up.
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But we need the really fucked up 50s and 60s one. Jesus, where it's like, well, what?
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How old were you when you got your first job? Yeah, I was six. What was that? What was the first surgery you performed?
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I was 10. Yeah. Was the first time you had to drive one of your drunk parents home from the bar I drove them every time Okay Yeah it intense Send those I mean I used to well because we walked down to Aegis every day which was our corner
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store, which was like a half a mile away to get bags of candy. We did it constantly.
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And so we knew Jim and Frank and Chick and Topsy Aegis, who were the husband and wife
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brothers and their wives that ran this grocery store. And so I would, my mom would literally be like, I would give the note and be like, Benson and Hedges lights 100.
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I was going to ask what kind she's small. Those big, long 100s Benson and Hedges.
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The subject line of this one is, shh, don't tell my dad's cousin. And then in parentheses, a story of unexpected treasure.
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Karen, Georgia and company. That might be my favorite new one. I like it. And company.
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A while back, us listeners were tasked with sharing a time we found treasure. And boy, do I have a story that will truly blow your mind.
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When I was younger, my dad would often invite his cousins over for a cousin's day that would
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that would eventually turn into a large family dinner full of laughs and fun. My dad's one cousin would always bring me the same gift every time she came,
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a yellow box cake with chocolate frosting. This was and still is my go to dessert for birthdays and celebrations.
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I mean, can you go wrong with that combo? No, you can't. That's my pick for my birthday.
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Absolutely. Classic. Add some sprinkles and you're fucking home. You're good to go.
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You can you can stick spring like rainbow sprinkles on the top of that. You can just put you can put chocolate sprinkles on the top of that.
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Now you could stick one Rolo. You could do some like some nuts and some almonds maybe.
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No, that's gross. But it doesn't need anything. It doesn't. It doesn't. It's classic.
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Yeah. As long as your sponge is well made. I have another important question, though.
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Does it need to be room temperature or cold from the fridge? Vince likes cold from the fridge cake.
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Oh, that is good. But I feel like I'm spoiled and I'm used to people having just made the cake if it's your birthday.
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So it would almost still be a little warm. Melty. It's the way I like it. Yeah, I love it.
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Love it? Okay. But cold cake from the fridge is good, too. Yeah. I mean, look. Listen.
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Anyway, one time she came and decided that it would be really great to bring a gift for my sister.
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Her gift was a fake bracelet that she recently found in her new home. When moving into the home and cleaning a closet, she came across this piece of costume jewelry that she figured would be perfect for my preteen sister.
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My sister was instantly drawn to it and would wear it everywhere she went. A few months later, my sister and I were in the bathroom, either brushing our teeth together or washing our faces.
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oh the joys of a one bathroom home oh god for real standing behind people and trying to get
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stuff done oh my god the worst soon she began bothering me and since her new bracelet was
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within reach i grabbed it and threatened to break it by snapping sisters are doing it for themselves
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breaking treasure items oh fuck spite just don't you don't want to mess with a sister
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You just don't. They will. They'll fucking ruin your life. That's right. The spite is so deep, deeply embedded in your soul from the moment.
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Just shoot straight out of you. Usually about outfit stuff. Usually about clothing or accessories.
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That's right. The worst area to get into. She clearly wasn't having this and instantly started screaming for our mom who came into
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the bathroom, took the bracelet with her into the living room. Solved. Nobody gets.
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Yep. Now you both lose. We could never learn that lesson. It took forever. Now this was the first
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time my mom actually took a look at the bracelet and she noticed something interesting. The clasp
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of this bracelet was way too intricate. And she quickly showed it to my dad who confirmed
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that this was unusual for a piece of costume jewelry. They were legit shocked by it. Well,
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that was the day my sister lost her beloved bracelet. take things away from your children whenever you want that's the name of the game yeah you see my
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parents knew a jeweler and decided to get it checked out just in case the jeweler was astounded
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by the bracelet and soon offered my father upwards of fifteen thousand dollars right there on the spot
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holy shit which means it was worth 45 that's right yep the bracelet was not only real but
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it was worth a significant amount of money. Soon my mom took possession over the bracelet and would
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wear it to weddings and celebrations. That bitch. She should have sold it and taken them on a cruise.
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That's not fair. Sorry, I called your mom a bitch. That's how special and expensive this bracelet was. I'm calling bullshit on this. Like,
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this is not fair. Okay, go on. What's that called? It's like, it's the rule parenting where it's like
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anything you have is actually theirs. They bankrolled your life. Totally. But in this scenario, that really does suck.
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OK, eventually the bracelet was sold. But still to this day, my dad's cousin has no idea that the random piece of costume jewelry
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she gifted my sister was actually a real tennis bracelet worth a significant amount of money.
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Oh, my God. This is a secret we have been sworn to keep. But hey, why not share it with the whole world?
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Hopefully she's not listening right now. But if she is, sorry, girl. oh my god anyway stay sexy and always get your jewelry appraised Peter Peter that is good
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tell those family secrets Peter that is so fucked up and I love it it's hilarious all right uh this
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is a this is a long one but it's epic and I'm not going to read you the name title okay the name of
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it. An all-inclusive hello. It starts. Nice. Modern. Modern. About three years ago, I spent
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my Labor Day weekend at the beach with a couple of girlfriends, along with the rest of the greater
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Boston area. We fought to find a decent spot near the water, eager to spend the final beach weekend
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of the year, enjoying what was left of our always too short summer season. To put it lightly, the
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beach was packed. Though I don't remember my exact words, I think it was something along the lines
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of we need to move our towels. I don't want to be directly beside this family. Heard. Heard would
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have been a better description. There were easily 20 plus people huddling together under a wave of
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umbrellas. The adults and teens already sharing what appeared to be hard liquor at 10 a.m. Yes.
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That's a beach party. Those are the East Coast Kilgarra. The music coming from their Bluetooth speaker was loud enough to drown out the sound of the water near 10 feet in front of us And it was a country station which was arguably worse than the drunken
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chatter. I looked around the beach, hoping to spot a more vacant area, but I knew we weren't
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going anywhere. Everyone from New England seemed to be there. Towels touching as far as the eye
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could see, almost like area rugs. Oh, to be that close to strangers, right? I mean, that's the
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reason I don't go to most places is because I need to be even pre-COVID 15 feet away from people.
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I don't want to hear. If I'm near you, I will have to eavesdrop on your conversations. I'll
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judge you. I will be mad at your music, even though I do like some country music. But,
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you know, that's the kind of thing where that kind of invasion, I'm not an easy breezy person.
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No. And if I'm drinking, I'm going to interject too much to Vince's horror. Vince can tell what
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I'm about to turn and say something to like a table next to us. And he'll be like, don't, don't, don't.
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No, no, it's fun. It's fun. They like it. They like it. I have wine. With nowhere else for us to move, we stayed put.
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It was fine at first. My friends and I smiled and waved at the group, murmuring a friendly hello when some of the
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younger kids made eye contact for a beat too long. But after a few hours, the majority of the adults were hammered, stumbling into the water,
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slurring their words, lots of hugging. I finally caught a glimpse of the bottle being passed between them.
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Peppermint schnapps. Oh, on a fucking sunny, hot, warm beach day. It's warm. You know, it's a warm bottle.
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Good. Good night. Just straight from the bottle. It's so fucking gross. It's so gross.
00:28:55
Drink mouthwash then. Yeah. You're going to be like that. Well, hold on. Oh, there might be a reason.
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OK. It was hard. It was Santa Claus's family. They had one cup of hot cocoa and a thing of French schnapps.
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They were like, this Christmas is going to be different in Boston. It was hard not to watch what happened next.
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The music was turned off. The entire group gathered into a circle to hold hands.
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Imagine that scene in How the Grinch Stole Christmas when all the Who's stood around the town's tree and sang.
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Oh, that's sorry. That's peanuts. I don't know. I wouldn't know. Oh, yeah, you're right.
00:29:31
Oh, wait. didn't they sing something weird like that i've never seen it is that crazy i know i'm jewish
00:29:43
it's you would love it he stole christmas i don't give a shit he's still hanukkah what do i care it's none of my business selfish hanukkah celebrator
00:29:53
none of my things christmas cindy lou who had her whole fucking every gift stolen and the light bulb
00:29:59
you have to see it okay i'll try it's really funny okay i'll watch okay i feel like i just
00:30:06
made a really big confession just there that was kind of big i feel like a lot of people are going
00:30:10
to stop listening to this podcast okay you know what we had to stop at some point that's right
00:30:15
if this is what breaks us so be it i'm not mad i'm gonna get canceled for not watching this movie
00:30:20
it's like there's so many worse ways to get canceled yeah um and the majority of them then
00:30:26
began to cry I looked at my friends who were equally puzzled and uncomfortable and then said we need to stop staring We all agreed just as one of the many adults of the group began speaking And that when we realized we were accidentally attending a stranger memorial No Oh And then they write
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listen, there's no correct way to grieve. People handle death in whatever capacity works for them.
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And I am in no position to judge. If anything, I love the fact that this family wanted to
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celebrate the life of their loved one in such a non-traditional way. Maybe peppermint schnapps
00:31:01
was their favorite. Maybe they loved country music the most. Maybe the beach was their go-to place.
00:31:07
Whatever the case, my friends and I did our best to respect their space, even though we were
00:31:11
essentially back to back with them and tried and mostly failed to not listen to a eulogy
00:31:17
documenting what was very clearly an unexpected death. Oh, I know. At long last, the speech was
00:31:24
over and most of the little ones resumed their playing. I was about to breathe a sigh of relief
00:31:29
when suddenly the mother of the deceased stood up and began wading into the knee deep water.
00:31:35
I watched in horror knowing what was about to happen as she opened the small box in her hands.
00:31:41
The woman then emptied the box's contents, a strong breeze picking up at that very moment,
00:31:48
the ashes flying everywhere no my friends and i stared unable to move a witness to the cremains
00:31:55
landing gently behind her onto the many many unsuspecting strangers lounging on the sand
00:32:02
this is this is also like that scene from white lotus with jennifer coolidge oh yeah oh yeah
00:32:10
she's putting her mom into the water and just throwing handfuls in there oh no i'm unsure if
00:32:15
There are Massachusetts laws about releasing human cremains during peak beach visiting hours.
00:32:21
And I'm sure as shit not going to Google it. Regardless, I think of that family all the time and I truly hope they are healing and that they are happy.
00:32:29
Stay sexy and maybe wait for the breeze to die down before scattering ashes. CJ, she, her.
00:32:37
Wow, that's I love that story. I do, too. Because you know what? every everybody knows how it feels to lose someone suddenly or maybe not everybody but a lot of us do
00:32:50
and no matter what the extended look of that gathering is yeah judgment or traditions ways
00:32:58
yeah that all the different ways we all decide to judge each other yeah when it comes down to it
00:33:04
you we all have the same feeling when we lose someone and we all know what that feels like
00:33:09
Yeah. And we all need to do these things like, you know, funerals are one thing. But like you and I just went to a memorial last week for Neil Mahoney, everyone's friend. And yeah, you need laughter. You need some weird traditions. We all drank his favorite whiskey. You know, we all watched a memorial video. It's like you have to do what you have to do to heal.
00:33:28
Yes. And a funeral is fine, but sometimes it really does like sitting around and telling stories and having it be less formal and more what what that person would want.
00:33:43
Yeah Is I think a very nice way to help process those feelings Totally Like a celebration of their life Yeah What was really beautiful about Neil memorial is his uncle got up and talked about how helpful
00:33:57
and how lovely he found all of Neil's friends who did all of that stuff for him when he died
00:34:03
so suddenly. It was really, I mean, there were moments where his pin drops silent and everyone's just
00:34:08
crying. It was so moving. It was so sad to lose such a good person. It really was.
00:34:14
He was a very good one. Send us your stories at myfavoritemurder at Gmail. Send us anything you want at this point.
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I mean, that one was epic and beautiful. I love the peppermint schnapps family. Yeah, me too.
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Wishing them well. Yep. Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie?
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