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Hello and welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. Here you go. Can you believe it?
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Can you? That we read you your stuff? We read it right into your ear hole. And that's how this podcasting thing works.
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And that's what people come back for week after week. an ear hole massage from our vocal cords to your what are they called the little things inside your
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ear they're like the um uh there's like a horn and a harp or something there's little cones no
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rods and cones are in your eyes size look ear doctors are screaming it right now please ENTs
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rep rep hard with this one am i thinking of the bread basket on the operation game and i'm totally
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wrong about this i think there's something in our ear that's shaped like a thing it's definitely like
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a correct like a wishbone yeah steven any help on this or you steven has his head on the desk
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steven when you got your your your degree sickle and hammer oh that's oh that's in in russia you
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have that yeah yeah steven you don't moonlight as an ent steven you told us you said the last
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time you were looking in my ear with that little weird thing with the light in it you said oh karen
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i've been looking for this video to send you because our new thing our new pimple popping
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video thing is dogs getting the hair taken out of their ears it's fucking crazy there's like a
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on reddit there's like a subreddit called oddly satisfying that's like just fun to watch you know
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and there was this fucking poodle i can't find it and they just like pulled this and groomers pulled
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this and the dog you could tell the dog went oh like the dog yes chills and i can't find it so
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you should see my insane google search of poodle satisfied ears like the shit that's coming up is
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not right but poodle chills we'll get there poodle chills right now poodle chills okay you want to go for all day sure um the subject line of this is suppressed
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memories found 19 years later. Right. Hey, beauties. That's a great one. Thank you. I grew
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up in central Minnesota, essentially farm country. And now I live in northern Minnesota, lake country.
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Last weekend, I went home to see my parents and we decided to go out to a movie. On the drive,
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we were discussing how I've always had crazy good long term memory. Just fun stuff to pass the time.
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and what do you like about me well brag you can do that around your parents they'll just like
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they'll indulge yourself fucking your high self-worth that's right what's what's something
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about me that you find very impressive um why are you so proud of me being your child
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yeah why do you why do you get that look in your eye when you look over at me oh it's your memory
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almost entirely we talked about all different people and places from my childhood and my parents
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were shocked I knew any of the things I brought up, like the time I fell off a boat when I was
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two and almost died. One thing I always remembered was the farm accident that happened in our
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community. When I was around three or four years old, there was a family that lived probably five
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minutes from us. The dad was giving his kids a ride in the bucket of a bobcat when one of the
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little boys fell out and was run over. Yeah. And he did not survive. It was a story that we had all
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heard and feared. And once I got older, the other siblings and I rode the same bus. The older sister
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was always mean to me, but I always thought she was just bitter about her little brother's death.
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I'm sure it would be horrible for any child to grow up in that type of trauma. That poor dad, like the guilt. Okay, so after bringing up this memory, my parents looked at
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each other like they were about to break the worst news possible. My mom looked at me from
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the rearview mirror and said, Is that seriously all you remember? I said, Yeah, why? And my
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mom says to me honey he was your best friend you guys went to daycare together and you even talked
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about marrying each other you did everything together you were inseparable I was absolutely
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shocked I never not I never not remembered significant memories like that I even remember
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memories of that daycare from when I started there when I was only two I legitimately have poodle chills right now poodle chill yes for real Yeah Because it like that what little kids brains do It like nope not doing it I amazed I don even remember knowing him It like a
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missing puzzle piece was found, but I can't press it in to make it work. I think my subconscious
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has suppressed it so far down because a kid that young can't comprehend a trauma like that. Yep.
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Knowing what I know now, I can't help but think my relationship with the older sister was so bad
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because of my connection to her brother. Yeah. She may have been upset because I didn't remember him
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or that I just reminded her of him. Or maybe she was just a mean older kid. Who knows?
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All I know is that our subconscious is a fucked up black hole filled with fantasies and trauma.
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I think this was probably, that's true. I think this probably was my first true experience with death
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and maybe why I'm so interested in tragedy and the circumstances surrounding it.
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Anyways, I'll stop treating you like my therapist and go talk to my real one. I got her turned on to this podcast, by the way, LOL.
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Thank you for being you. SSDGM, Ashley from Minnesota. And then the PS is her inviting us to her wedding.
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Yes. Oh my God. That's so touching. Yeah, that's, I mean, isn't that fascinating?
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And like the reveal, those parents must have just been like, oh my God. Yeah. And to hear that and just have no memory of it,
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especially having such good memory to begin with. Yes, that'd be so creepy. This is called The Time I Solved My Family's Not-So-Cold Cold Case.
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Hi, ladies. Last week, my boyfriend and I were visiting my parents. Over dinner,
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my boyfriend made a remark about my murderino tendencies becoming our unofficial third wheel,
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to which my mother responded, well, if you want a case to solve, during the 1950s,
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your grandfather's brother, Houston, your great uncle, left to run errands one evening,
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but was found stabbed to death in a ditch the next morning. No one in the family knows who did it or
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why. And then all caps, excuse me, mother, the same woman who calls every morning to tell me
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exactly what she made for dinner the night before somehow left this detail out. Quote, well,
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you're good at the computer. I'm sure you could find something. She said, you're good at the computer honey that i was up for the challenge using the online sleuthing tools
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instilled in me by billy jensen as well as well as ancestry.com what's up uh newspaper archives
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and a glass of wine acting as my watson i sure locked the shit out of it and only to find out
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what my mom and her siblings had been told throughout the years was far from the truth
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for a reason there were no errands he ran there was no ditch he was found in and there was no
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longer a mystery of who killed Uncle Houston. On the evening of August 13, 1953 in Washington,
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D.C., Uncle Houston, 39, was managing a local restaurant when he was stabbed to death with a
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butcher knife in just one strike to the chest at the hands of Dorothy, the waitress, who was 28.
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At first, I assume this happened inside the restaurant. However, it happened in the basement
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of the restaurant, not just a basement, but the basement apartment they lived in together.
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Uh-oh. The fact that they were living together was my first red flag, as Houston had a wife and three children in Virginia at the time of his death.
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This also made sense as to why the story was possibly changed by family throughout the years.
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According to Dorothy, Houston got upset with her earlier in the day as he, quote,
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didn't like the way a customer touched her on the shoulder. So yes, they were definitely banging.
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This caused tension to build between them during the day, and when evening came, Houston's temper grew out of control.
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He struck her with his fists and threatened her with the same butcher knife she later killed him with.
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After the stabbing, Dorothy was held on a charge of homicide. From the research I did of my great uncle, I did notice that he had quite a trail of women.
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I'm sure for a reason. Personally, I'm team Dorothy on this one. Sorry, Uncle Houston, please don't haunt me.
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The old restaurant is now replaced with a bar and I have every intention of getting a free cocktail out of the,
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Hey, my great uncle was stabbed to death in your basement. Yes. stay sexy and get those skeletons out of your family's closet for them
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Laura. Wow. I know right? If he had a secret girlfriend live-in lover lady then he was probably the jealous type because he was the cheating type. Totally.
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Right? Yeah. So why wasn't that self-defense? If he was beating her up. And he threatened her with the knife
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too. Yeah. So it probably was. It didn't say if she got convicted or anything like that.
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I'm assuming that she probably would have hopefully gotten off from self-defense.
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But yeah, I hope so. Yeah. This one starts pandemic greetings. My little brother was born premature and spent much of his young life in and out of hospitals. Needless to say, I hated him.
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That's understood. Is a beautiful turn, a beautiful comedic turn right away. And I'm thinking of like a four year old. If it was a 16 year old, you'd be like, what the fuck is wrong with you? That's OK.
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Anytime my mom said she was taking him to the doctor, I would lie in front of the door and scream because that meant they weren't coming back for at least a couple days.
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He always needed something special. He always got more attention. You know, sibling shit.
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So for first grade, my brother transferred to my elementary school. Late in the year, his teacher got an injury on his face, which required a handful of stitches.
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To ease the kids' worries, the teacher talked about how he got the ouchie and how stitches work and so on.
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He then asked the kids if any of them had ever needed stitches. A few raised their hands, including my brother.
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When it was his turn, he raised his shirt and showed everyone the long raised horizontal scar that runs below his ribs from surgery meant to keep him from regurgitating everything he put in his stomach.
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When his teacher asked him how he got that scar, he looked him straight in the face and said, oh, my mom tried to kill me.
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Yes I was immediately summoned from my fourth grade classroom My parents were called to the school The police and the DCFS came
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Good. That's how it's supposed to go. Yes. Yeah. It all got sorted out. I don't think anyone thought my mom actually tried to kill him, but we were just enough
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into the nineties for them to take it very seriously. Yeah. That was the advent of that.
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Totally. But to my brother's credit, he may really have seen all his surgeries as my mom trying to kill him.
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But anyway, that's the story of the time my brother accused my mom of attempted murder.
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A worthy addendum. Though my mom didn't stab my brother, I did. With a fork on his third birthday.
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Right in the forearm while he was receiving happy birthday wishes on the phone. Oh my god.
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I told you I hated that kid. Stay sexy, don't stab your siblings, and wear your damn masks.
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Love you both more than is reasonable. Taylor Taylor that is fucking hilarious and it makes me feel a little bit better about my sister
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because she only punched me in the stomach but I was like 10 and probably deserved it
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look we all deserved everything and we all also were true victims to our older sisters who are
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the worst people on the planet there was nothing more upsetting we're we're no we're the victims
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of the worst people they were my sister they were yeah yeah not now we yes no we're you're right
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I see what you're doing. You're saying they were in case you said we were don't because they hate our guts and they don't care. They're not fans of ours. They never have been since day one.
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That's true. Oh, that was good. We always love what you did to your siblings or what your siblings did to you that now you look back and you're like, oh, you were trying to kill me. We love those stories. So send those in.
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Yeah. Yes. OK. My second one is called check your addicts before losing your virginity.
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who says everything yes this has oh hello long time fan cheers to college dropouts we're all
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just getting through let's cut to the chase so we all know virginity is a social construct
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designed to shame women a fucking man i love you already this is starting very strong but here's
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the story of how i lost mine my high school boyfriend lived in a very ritzy suburb of chicago
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in a house big enough to sneak girls. And then it says, hey, in and out without even having to
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whisper. But for our first time, we wanted to make sure no parents would be home just in case.
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We had a half day of school, went to his place, had not at all mind-blowing sex,
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and then went out to meet up with friends. So totally normal, right? Wrong. What he hadn't
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told me was that that morning, as he was getting ready, he noticed a guy in a van parked across
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the street. This was the kind of suburb in which no one ever parked on the street, not even
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landscapers or contractors. So this was already odd. But what made it weirder was this man was
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staring at my boyfriend's house. Being a teen about to have sex, my boyfriend didn't think
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about this whatsoever. Even as the guy watched him get into his car and drive off to school.
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Turns out this man had been in the middle of robbing his house when we came home.
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Oh, shit. Being the giddy fools we were, we just went straight up to my boyfriend's room and didn't notice anything else in the house. The robber was upstairs grabbing his mom's jewelry at the time. So when he heard us come in, he scurried up to the attic and hid out right above our room until we left hearing everything.
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Ew, ew, ew, ew. They thought they were alone and they were like making sure they were alone for it to be special. And there was a fucking burglar in their house at the time.
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who was jerking off to them doing it for the first time. Absolutely. Into old boxes of grandma's quilts.
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And then he was like, this isn't mind blowing, but I can still jerk off. He's like,
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oh, I can't believe I'm still a virgin. I'm so ashamed. Don't it hurts men to don't expect anything special.
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Okay. Let's see. The first time is the worst time. Just find someone who's not a piece of shit.
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For real. And then do like two, two to 17 more. time. So you'll work it out. Yeah. The cops said that the thief had hit the neighbor's house before
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my boyfriend. So maybe having to wait us out, save the rest of the block from being robbed to
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stay sexy and only fuck during robberies, Kate. And then she says, also, just some validation.
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In your last episode, you talked about journaling and writing poetry. And as a trained poet,
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that is exactly how most of us feel 95% of the time. Every metaphor is stupid and humiliating.
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and we're all idiots. Alas. Kate. Wow. Good one, Kate. No wonder Kate nailed this hometown.
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She is a poet. That's right. She's a trained poet. That's right. I'm more of a feral poet.
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You totally are. I tried to say that right as you were sipping that one. I almost spit this all over my computer.
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God, that is so... I want to hear his side of... Whoever you are, dance. Dan the robber we need you to write in immediately look I did this it was almost it started as a lark
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then I really liked my life and I look drugs are expensive and we need them sometimes it
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but Jesus then this one time what if he was just like oh this like sweet couple who like
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wanted to lose their virginity together and like it made me change my ways I didn't jerk
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well I jerked off during it but then I also went home to my girlfriend I was like let's
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let's do this. I want to marry you. Yeah, I was like, I jerked off. I felt a profound sense of self-love.
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Right. Not just literal, but also deeply inside. I realize I deserve love, too. Yes. And then crime wasn't
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the way. And heroin wasn't the way. He's like, he goes and hides in the attic and then three minutes later he like all right well we all done here It wasn like I was in there for 20 minutes It was literally three minutes Did not even break a sweat in that attic
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Okay. I'm not going to redo this subject line of this last one because the story is going to tell itself.
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Hi, ladies, staff and animals singing backup. Oh, perfect. Right? Literally. I'm a huge fan of the podcast. And when I heard your call for USPS stories, I begged my husband to tell his tale. Here it is. I've kept this postal story silent for over 25 years. Even now, it's hard to admit I was the culprit. The events I'm about to describe are embarrassing and might have gotten me into a lot of trouble at the time. Now that I'm retired and beyond the reach of postal justice, it's time to come clean. Here's my confession.
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Oh, my God. I'm so excited. So essentially, we started with one voice, but now we're in, I believe, to the husband's voice.
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OK, I think. OK, that's what it sounds like. OK. In the 90s, I worked as a letter carrier at the main post office in Novato, California.
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By the by, that literally is the town the south of Petaluma. Oh, it's the next town down. And half the kids that went to my high school lived in Novato and commuted up the freeway to our school.
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OK, so Novato is like, what's up? What's up, San Marin Boulevard? Like Novato, Novato, they have a Denny's.
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There's not a ton to say about it. And a lot of my family lives there to this day.
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OK, Novato, there's not a ton to say about it. Novato, it's fine to pass on the freeway.
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Novato, now they have a drive through Starbucks, I believe. OK, every carrier spends the first part of each day working in the office,
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sorting mail and preparing their route for street delivery. At the time, there were more than 60
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mail routes in Novato. Every carrier and clerk worked together in one large room about the size
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of a supermarket. We all worked in close proximity with almost nothing separating our workspaces.
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One morning I was sorting letters and feeling a little gassy. Not wanting to leave my workstation,
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I silently released a small fart. I'm ready. I'm ready for this. Usually I could get away with this.
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Perhaps it's my diet. Oh, sorry. I'm a child. Perhaps it's my diet. But very few of my farts have any noticeable smell.
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Oh, congratulations. You're kidding yourself, Fran. I know, right? This one was different.
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I don't remember what I had been eating, but when this fart hit the air, it was about the
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worst thing I'd ever smelled in my life. Oh, my God. When your own farts gross you out.
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Smells bad to you? Yeah. Eat some. You... You ate like a half a dead raccoon the night before.
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Something along those lines. The odor soon spread to my surrounding coworkers. There was an immediate reaction.
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People gagged their eyes. Oh, my God. As the odor spread more and more, the people stopped working and fled.
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I might have been found out immediately, but it didn't smell like anything that could have come from a human.
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No one even suspected it was a fart. People began speculating it must be some sort of chemical leak.
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Oh, my God. Was it dangerous? Management was called and the building was evacuated.
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Mail processing in Novato came to a halt. This was now costing the Postal Service thousands of dollars.
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Every carrier would be working overtime. Everyone in town would get their mail late.
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I never said a word. No. If I could just keep a straight pace and my mouth shut, this was all going to pass without anyone ever knowing the truth.
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Then we heard the sirens. Oh, no. No. The fire department arrived along with the hazmat team.
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Workers in full hazmat suits entered to inspect the building. Holy shit. Although they were unable to determine the source of the smell, the inspection revealed several significant health and safety code violations.
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In the end, more than $100,000 was spent bringing the building into compliance. Well, that's good.
00:25:32
Strangely, I felt a bit of pride. We were all safer as a result. And though we'll never know for sure, in the end, that fart may have saved lives.
00:25:42
And then it just says Erica in Anderson Springs. That is the most epic fart that has ever fucking happened.
00:25:49
and the guts to just stay quiet and be like is that a camp like just playing along with whatever
00:25:54
the person next to you says humiliation in your mind oh mortified like what's wrong with you
00:26:01
oh my god and then what's in there it's getting worse sirens that reminds me it's not the same
00:26:07
but there was like an office building like 10 years ago where like someone no one would fucking
00:26:13
clean the fridge out and someone finally opened it and there was toxic fumes and people like passed
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out and they had to get like hazmat people to clean out the fridge you know how no because it
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was just old old cream cheese and stuff and fucking disgusting and it like people got sick
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and had to go to the hospital yogurt with a post-it that said this is george's do not touch
00:26:35
stuff like that it was mine but but it was for four years ago oh my god bless so good the visual of people coming in and hazmat suits like it fucking the end of E But it because you farted at your workstation is like it might be the nightmare
00:26:53
I don't think I'm ever going to fart and not think of that again. And it happens a lot.
00:26:58
So I'm going to be thinking about that a lot in my life. You're like sirens, sirens, sirens.
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It's not that part. Oh, my God. I'm telling Vince about this. That's hilarious. OK, I have one more.
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OK, this says it's just starts. Hi, friends. I'll take that liberty. Maybe you're over Action Park stories. I hope not, because my mom has a story about how it ruined her chances of snagging a cute medical student.
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Oh, it was the 80s. And she told her father a classic laughing at my own jokes, dad, that she was going on a date to the place he so often referred to as Accident Park.
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again guys acts uh what is it called action park on hbo epic um the guy was a future doctor she was
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a young jewish woman from long island this was huge oh the date was going well when she decided
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to go on a water slide into a pool on a date a bathing suit date can you imagine what with a
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doctor they must she must have been young they must have been like young and fucking uh she
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remember some uninterested teenager waving people down the slide? Well, that dumb boy was sending
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far too many people down the slide after her too quickly, and they all log jammed midway down
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with my mom towards the bottom of the water slide. A huge wave came and pushed the crowd down the
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slide with my tiny mother at the helm. She was slammed to the bottom of the pool with everyone
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on top of her. She hit her head and with the massive limbs around her, she didn't even know
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which way was up to get air. But luckily, instead of panicking, she remembered what a lifeguard once
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told her at her local beach. If you can't tell which way is up, just release your muscles and
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your body will naturally float towards the surface. Yeah, that's amazing that she was able to do that.
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She's also same with release some bubbles and the bubbles go the right direction from screaming.
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She thought the worst was over when she broke through the surface and could breathe again.
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Spoiler alert. Nope. My mom tried to play it cool when she met up with her date.
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Definitely not like her life flashed before her eyes and pretended she was revving to
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go on another ride. But her date was like, let's just stroll around the park. Her face was throbbing.
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But again, she kept her focus on flirting. Hey, why don't we sit down? I'm getting kind of tired, he told her as she noticed her vision was getting blurry.
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Oh, they sat there for a while chatting when she heard a familiar noise. Wait, is that an ambulance?
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She asked him Yes he said very calmly Is it for me Yes Is it for me She trying to be kind of like cute and sexy
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Is the ambulance for me? And then he says, yes. Yes. Before she knew it, her entire left side of her face was a balloon and her eye was swollen completely shut.
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That push to the pool floor fractured her face. Jesus Christ. This is Action Park.
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This is one of the many stories. This is one of these stories. Her almost doctor date had seen the slide overpopulation and noticed the early signs of swelling in her face and put together that it could be a serious head injury.
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Rather than freak her out, he somehow subtly got someone to call an ambulance and kept her calm and how they were there.
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It should have been a beautiful start to a love story. But when he took my mom home, my art garfunkel looking grandfather brought them both into the house and made my mom stand for a full photo shoot of her nearly unrecognizable face.
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What? I've seen these photos and the features you can see looked pissed, which I can't believe you didn't fucking send them in with the story.
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I'm sorry, though. She goes on a first date with this guy, comes home and the dad's like, we need to take pictures.
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I think he was laughing at her. He's a fucking dad from the 80s. Okay, got it. You know, and he's laughing his ass off like prom photos.
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He thinks it's the best. Right. My shy mom was too embarrassed by the spectacle and the photography to see him again.
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So it probably also means she didn't like him that much. Oh, yeah. But either way, now my mom can always give me the loving reminder when I have bad dates
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that at least I didn't break my face. I don't know how to end this in a memorable way.
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So I'll just steal yours. stay sexy and don't make your daughter sit for a photo shoot when her face is literally broken
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madeline for real why wasn't she in the hospital for five days right right jesus christ also like
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picturing a person that would care enough yeah to distract you yeah and basically keep you calm
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how could she not that's marriage material i think more do you want in this world probably
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too embarrassed okay but yeah your your face fell off and he was still down so he walked he walked
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you into your house with your fucking weird dad with your he didn't drop you off and be like good
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luck with your face i gotta go back to the hospital oh i want him to write in and tell his side of the
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story his side of the story was he crushed that she never fucking responded has he never been married
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since and now she's divorced and this is the chance this was true love he watched her get
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he just watched her get like plowed down that fucking water slide and he was like she the one it i can tell maybe he felt too guilty about it to ask her out again because he felt responsible for bringing
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her there on a date they both went into shame spirals and if they could only have just reached
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out they could have my favorite murder bringing it together we're gonna bring this love together
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we're gonna bring action park love stories Ain't no ordinary love No ordinary love
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Action part Cause your face is broken You have a concussion You probably have Brain swelling
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That's kind of a dick Fluid on the brain That's right Another hit Another hit Wow this was a great
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Series of wonderful Communications everybody Yeah thank you guys For writing those in
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Please keep fucking doing it We love it Yes All day all night Love it Stay off the water slide at Action Park in 1982.
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