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MFM Minisode 190

August 31, 2020 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features stories about survival, crime, and unexpected encounters. Key topics include a nurse's heroic act, a chilling encounter with Richard Ramirez, and a bizarre murder in Canberra.

The first story, shared by a nurse from Houston, recounts a survivor's escape from a brutal attack. The woman, after being held hostage, cleverly uses a toilet tank lid to knock out her attacker and escape. The twist is that both the survivor and her attacker end up in the same trauma bay, leading to a tense situation.

Another story involves a chilling encounter with Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker. A listener recounts how her grandmother and aunt felt an ominous presence from a man they later realized was Ramirez, who was terrorizing neighborhoods in Southern California.

Alyssa, a bartender from Canberra, shares a shocking incident where a hitman stabbed a man in a bar. The victim calmly removed the knife from his throat before collapsing outside, leading to chaos among patrons.

Finally, a humorous story about a neighborhood cat named Maui saving a dog from a bobcat showcases the lighter side of life amidst the darker themes of the episode.

TLDR

Nurse saves a survivor, chilling Ramirez encounter, bizarre Canberra murder, and a heroic cat story.

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Do you want to go first? Let's do it. The subject line of this is nurse slash badass story.
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Great. Hey, pandemic pals. A few episodes ago, you guys asked for nurse mom stories.
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And while I'm not a mom, I am a nurse. I work in a very busy ER in Houston. I have so many stories, but I thought you guys would appreciate this badass survivor story.
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Let's get into it. Early one morning, a woman was brought into the trauma bay after being held hostage, raped, and beat for almost two days.
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I can only imagine what this poor woman went through. On the second day, her attacker let her have some privacy and used the bathroom.
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While in the bathroom, the woman mustered up the courage to attempt to escape. She took the ceramic toilet tank lid and hid it behind her back.
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When her attacker opened the bathroom door, she hit him over the head with it, knocking him unconscious.
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Oh, my God. Starting out strong. Holy shit. Mad props to the woman for having the bravery and wits about her to use a toilet lid as a weapon.
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Hell yes. She ran for her dear life, flagged down help on a nearby road and was promptly brought to RER.
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are. A few hours later, another patient was brought into the trauma bay. This man had sustained
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numerous facial fractures after being hit on the head with, yep, you guessed it, a toilet lid.
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The attacker and the victim were in the same trauma bay and neither of them had any idea.
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What are the chances? Houston is the fourth biggest city in America and these two end up in
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the same ER in adjacent rooms. What the fuck? It literally says that next. Oh, good. That's correct.
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This same thing happened in the British series with the Hawkeye and Gillian Anderson.
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Oh, the blank. The blank. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So many people are screaming. It's called the Hawkeye and Gillian Anderson.
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The fall. The fall. Yes, Stephen. Stephen gets $5. Remember that that happened in the fall.
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I didn't see it. I didn't see it. He gets brought it. I'm pretty sure. And you see the victim watch him get rolled in.
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And I was like, never, that would never happen. Well, it did. I was wrong. Luckily,
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our charge nurse is amazing and put two and two together quickly. We were able to move the woman to a safe room in another part of the ER
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before she was further traumatized by seeing her attacker again. We obviously did not let her know that her attacker was in the same
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building. Can you imagine the sheer terror of escaping a brutal attack only to find out that your attacker is right down the hall?
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Thankfully, the woman was able to be discharged home later that day, and the man went to jail after we treated his injuries.
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Hope you guys like my survivor story as much as I do. Anyways, I love you guys. Your podcast has provided some much needed distraction during this pandemic.
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Wear your freaking masks, people. SSDGM, Tiff. Amazing, amazing. When would you not listen to a nurse?
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Okay. This one is called The Time My Grandma Saw the Devil. And I'm not going to read you the rest of it.
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But it's from our friend of the family, Celine Beth Calderon, the Ted Bundy documentary friend
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who was on the stage. She's awesome. She's great. She says hey y since there been a request for grandparent stories I finally got all the information about the time my aunt and grandmother saw El Diablo walking past their home in Monterey Park California In 1985
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a man was terrorizing neighborhoods across Southern California and seemed to frequent
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the East Los Angeles area. As Georgia mentioned in her Zoot Suit Riot story, this part of Los
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Angeles was heavily populated by Latinos. One afternoon, my aunt and grandmother were doing
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some work in the garage and noticed a man walking past their house. My grandma said she froze and could feel evil radiating off of him.
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My aunt then looked up and felt the same feeling. She also claims a crow then cod, but lol, I'm not sure on that one.
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But clearly the whole family has cinematic tendencies, so they know how to tell a good story.
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The crow was like, man, that guy is scary. He's creeping me out. I'm a girl. Right, guys?
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Well, hold on. While they could not figure out how and why this man could give us such a bad vibe, they
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continued on their work. The next morning on July 7th, one street over, Joyce Nelson, who was 61, was beaten to death
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in her home where she lived. This was the third murder in their neighborhood in under three months.
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A few months later, in my uncle's hometown of Boyle Heights, Richard Ramirez was captured
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by a mob of residents on August 31st, which is today. Oh, this is the anniversary of the citizens of Boyle Heights rising up together and running through the streets and tackling Richard Ramirez.
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That's right. And catching the Night Stalker themselves. On their own. Incredible.
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Happy anniversary, Boyle Heights. That's right. High five each other. Go high five a Boyle Heights resident.
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While my uncle wasn't part of the capture, he still remembers seeing people fleeing to the scene.
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I grew up always hearing the story of when my aunt and grandmother saw El Diablo, but I always thought it was actually the devil himself.
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Growing up Catholic, you know? Sure. I didn't find out it was Richard Ramirez until I told my family I would be starting a project on Ted Bundy.
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With blank stares and confusions, my mother responded, why would you pick him and not Richard Ramirez?
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We were all scared for our lives during that time. Come to find out, Ramirez killed in almost every single neighborhood that my family members lived in at the time, from Montebello to Mission Viejo, Whittier, Rosemead, Monterey Park, and finally ending his Spree and Boyle Heights.
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Then I was finally given the context of the Diablo story. And just recently, my aunt told me her version.
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So she always thought it was the devil. She didn't put it. I was picturing a guy walking with a really nice, maybe it's a bit werewolves of London of me, but in a really nice shark skin suit, but on little tiny hoof feet walking by.
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Kind of hot. My grandmother Esperanza passed away in 2005, so I was never able to hear the full story from her.
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But don't worry, she played a big role in my interest in true crime since she purchased those super graphic Latino magazines that would show the most obscene content on the cover.
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Like when Selena was murdered and there was a picture of her on the autopsy table showing the gunshot wound.
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No. And she says, oh, the joys of a Latinx childhood. Anyway, stay sexy and make sure to research your family's history with well-known serial killers before you research the wrong one.
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sending lots of hugs to you all during this friend of the pod, Celine Beth Calderon.
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Good one, right? Celine. Nice. Celine needs to make a documentary about Richard Ramirez now.
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That's right. Dedicated to Esperanza. That's right. Esperanza. What a great name.
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So good. Oh, man. That's I really I mean, I just love that story of just like they spotted him.
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They knew who it was. They were just like, get that guy. You're killing your neighbors.
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you know and terrorizing like old people i mean just a horror show okay this subject line is
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espresso martinis and a hometown hitman fun what's up guys as a murderino and a bartender
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the recent chat about espresso martinis finally gave me an excuse to email the general recipe has
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equal parts vodka coffee liqueur you were right georgia and a shot of espresso they combine all
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the fun of being drunk with the joy of having the caffeine jitters. They're super popular in
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Australia and New Zealand, so naturally the pretentious hipster bartenders think they're
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kind of trashy. On to my hometown. I'm from Canberra, a city with a nationwide reputation
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for being boring and small, but we have some pretty cool bars. There's a popular one in the
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middle of the city known for its fun tropical vibes. Think tiki drinks, palm leaves, and lots
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of hens parties. Recently, one of my friends was working there. And instead of the usual groups of
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young women in cocktail dresses, the bar was filled with big, burly, middle aged men. But hey,
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no judgment. Scary looking men are allowed to enjoy some sweet, sweet tiki drinks. Am I right?
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That's hell. Yeah, you're right. That's right. Now everyone has to go watch the kids in the hall sketch girl drink drunk, which is one of the
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funny. Dave Foley plays a girl drink drunk where you can't stop drinking like big blue things with
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pineapple sticking. It's the best. Okay. Later in the night, one of the men was standing in the bar
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when cool, calm and collectedly, another man walked up to him and stuck a knife in his throat.
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No scuffle, no provocation, just a straight up stabbing. The man who had been stabbed
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took a sip from his drink, pulled the knife out of his own throat. This is so Australian.
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and walked out into the street where he died in view of nearly every single person in Canberra
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trying to have a fun night out during COVID. Needless to say, Oh my God. So this just happened.
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Needless to say, all hell broke loose in the bar. Turns out turns out all these big burly men in the tiki bar were in fact two branches of a large well biker gang This says biker gang but I feel like Australian listeners please let us know if you call biker gangs biker gangs
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Or if they're in like a tricycle. What it's like, they call tricycles bikies. There are these big burly dudes in a tricycle gang.
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They're big burly fourth graders. The man who had very calmly cut the other man's throat was the hit man of the group.
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it's still a mystery as to why they went out drinking together just before a murder um
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so is why they chose to very publicly kill one of their members when usually they just
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quote-unquote disappear however what we have found out is that tiki bars are a great way for
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gangs to launder money oh tiki bars specifically i mean those are expensive drinks have you been
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Yeah, that's true. You're like, who's how did you how in God's name did you spend six hundred and eighty dollars at the Tiki Bar?
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Oh, Tiki Bar. Right. Yeah. All that pineapple. Thank you for all the quality entertainment over the years.
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As the only female bartender at my bar, the stories you've told have made me fiercely protective of my customers, particularly young women.
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If you ever see a Canberra bartender wearing an MFM logo pin, please know that you are in safe hands and I might even buy you a drink.
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Cheers, Alyssa. Oh, my God. Did that catch you? Yeah. I was neck at you in a good place.
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I know. It's very sweet. I love that idea. It's so good. And you know what? There's this podcast out right now about this woman whose father was in like Hell's Angels.
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Oh. And so I've been listening and like about a lot of biker stuff. It's really good.
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Hold on. Let me find out. It's a go bikey gang. It's called the bikey gang. Oh, no, it's called Relative Unknown.
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It's good. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That was great. You had two fucking hits so far. I mean, I wrote them.
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I'm just giving Alyssa and her friends credit. That was great. You ready for a pervert story?
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I mean, I'm long overdue. Okay, this one's called The Kirkwood Tickler. I'm sorry to laugh.
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It's not. No, obviously. My reaction is this nervous. It's like, it's just so bizarre.
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These stories do not disappoint in the bizarreness of the fact that there are these errant one-off people that are just weirdo.
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They're criminals, but with a big serving of weirdo. Normally, we don't kink shame unless you're a sexual assaulter.
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Yes, it has to be. Consensuality is the key to kink. You can't be a tickler, a one-sided tickler.
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It has to be consensual Swiss cheese. Otherwise. Which does not exist. I can't do it.
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Okay, sorry. Hi, y'all. Oh, boy, do I have a hometown for you. I grew up in a town outside of Boston and come from a big family of mass holes.
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My older sister attended Boston College, the Fighting Eagles, with their Jesuit agenda.
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And during her junior year, she decided to live off campus with some of her friends in an old house on Kirkwood Road.
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From 2011 to 2013, there had been several reported break-ins in the neighborhood, including many residential homes around BC's campus.
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Nothing was stolen. There were practically no traces left in any of the homes. However, in a few cases, it was reported that a dark figure was seen watching over men as they slept.
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Oh. In 2014, these break-ins escalated with up to five occurring in a night. With many BC students taking up residence on Kirkwood and the surrounding area, doors were frequently left unlocked.
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One night, many of the men living on Kirkwood, including some of my sister's neighbors and friends, reported similar break-ins, but with a twist.
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The shadowy figure instead stood over these men and, in some cases, tickled their feet.
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The criminal was then coined Kirkwood Tickler and continued to strike across campus, targeting the feet of young men.
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After my sister graduated, there were no other reported run-ins with the tickler.
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However, the hysteria of tickler culture shook my sister and the students living on Kirkwood.
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The tickler was never caught. Some say the ghost of the tickler still haunts the area.
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And some students report supernatural or not sightings of the tickler out of their bedroom window.
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Supernatural? It's actually supernatural. It couldn't be more real. It couldn't be more human.
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Stay sexy and lock your doors, Julia. Oh, my. For real. So that's that is like the sister perv to remember the Petaluma tickler that my friend Audrey Crandall wrote in.
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That's the same exact thing. But young girls. Yeah. If you haven't seen the 2016 documentary Tickled.
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Oh, yeah. Relates to this directly. I highly and I mean, I recommend it. It's a mind blowing documentary because it starts one spot.
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And Friends of the Fam, Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds are featured because they did this story on the dollop, which is a great.
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It's a bizarre history podcast. If you've never listened to it, it's very funny.
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Those guys are great. And it's, you know, and then the stories are real. So Dave finds the most insane historical stories and then just kind of walks you through them.
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But they are actually in this documentary because they covered this story. and this and this reporter who is either I think he was from New Zealand he went and started
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investigating it and unraveled a thing that was so much bigger than the original point of the story
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it's the I swear to you April Richardson and I went and watched this documentary
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um and when it was over it was at the remember the Sundance um movie theater in the on Crescent
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heights the sunset five no yes yes yeah yeah but it but then it later became yeah yeah so there was i would say all together there was like nine people in the theater to watch this documentary and when it was over we
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all turned to each other like the whole audience turned to each other and went what the fuck like
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we all started talking to each other because it was that mind-blowing and that like yeah so if you
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haven't seen tickled it's from 2016 highly recommend that documentary so good it's so funny
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Because I think we called out for, If you're a postal worker, tell us weird stuff.
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Yeah. Hey, I'm FM crew. I'm a postal worker and I thought I'd share a couple of stories from the processing side.
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Okay. First of all, we are the biggest shipper of drugs in the country. You're welcome.
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We all know those coffee beans and packages are hiding weed. Props to the ones that straight up send weed without any concealed scent.
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You've got some balls. My God. Oh, my. People just putting weed in a box and putting some tape on it and giving it to the mailman.
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Amazing. While I was a clerk, one of the funniest parts of my 12-hour day, six days a week, was when jail mail came through.
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Ladies, whoever is taking those pics of you is a good friend, and we've seen parts of you not meant for public viewing.
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Remember not to overstuff the envelope. It gets caught in the machines, and your bits and pieces are out there for the whole post office to see.
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Oh, no. so so people sending sending in it's like hey you know you need this is what you need when you're
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inside but then if if the envelope's too thick there's too many photos in there there's just
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too many angles pick three or your favorite yeah um one of the worst things to happen was when
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someone sent a fecal sample in an envelope and it jammed in my machine someone's shit was
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everywhere and I vomited in the trash can. What the fuck? Oh my God. Listen, if you're mailing in
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your ballot this election, mail early. Don't take chances. Your new voting date is October 20th,
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not November 3rd. Make sure your vote gets counted. We have election coordinators in every
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district in the country. We're working diligently to make sure ballots and election mail get clear
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every day. Go buy some sweet stamps or merch and clean off your porch, steps, sidewalk for your
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carrier. I never thought about that. That's right. There's mail carriers who have to run gauntlets of
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people's garbage and bullshit to get to deliver mail. I never thought about that. Stay sexy and
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don't forget to seal that envelope of naughty pics. B. B. Amazing. I love what we wanted. I love it.
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Good inside information. So good. Love the voting info as well. Yes. Thank you so much for that.
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That's hilarious. Yeah. Okay. My last one is Hero Cat saves the dog. Uh, sup y'all.
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A long time ago, you asked for hero cat stories and I finally worked up the ambition to actually
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send this in. My in-laws moved to a Rocky Mountains Foothill neighborhood outside of Albuquerque just over
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10 years ago. The house came with a cat flap, which they assumed was for a cat the previous owners
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had had. Nope. Turns out the flap was installed specifically for the common cat that nobody owned, but
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everyone took care of. He had toys, beds, food bowls, and a different name. Every house in the neighborhood.
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I love those cats. Neighborhood cats. Tabby, right? It's got to be, right? Must be.
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My in-laws called him meowy because he liked to talk a lot. It said meowy without the E.
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So, meowy. He liked to talk a lot. It took him all of one day to come in and climb all over my highly allergic father-in-law,
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who quickly became his favorite person. My in-laws took him to the vet and tried to make him an indoor cat, but he was having
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absolutely none of it. Instead, Maui came and went as he pleased, spending most of each week with my in-laws,
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made friends with their dog, Brady, and went for family walks in the foothills every single day,
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meowing the whole time. I love cats so much. And as he was meowing, what he was saying is, I love this.
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It's so great to get outside. You guys are fun. There's two other families that never leave the house.
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You guys get the good cat food. That's why I like you the best. I'm hanging out here.
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One day on their regular walk, Maui did something he had never, ever done before.
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He started growling. He crouched down with his hackles fully raised, staring intently at a bush about 10 feet away
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and made this terrifying, low growling hissing noise. Now, this is an off-leash area and Brady was wandering close to that bush.
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The way Maui was acting totally freaked my mother-in-law out and she called the dog back.
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The second the leash clicked on Brady's collar, Maui made the most blood-curdling,
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yowling noise and charged at the bush where a, and this is all caps, fully grown bobcat
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had been hiding. Whoa! Maui, a nine-pound semi house cat chased this 30 bobcat over 100 feet then came prancing back like the little king that he was Save the dog because he would have gotten the dog because he wasn
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Yeah, I would. Maui lived for another five years or so after this, getting spoiled with cans of wet food.
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The older he got, the more he stayed with my in-laws until he was basically an indoor
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cat at their place. He passed away peacefully in my father-in-law's favorite chair, which they still call the Maui
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chair. stay sexy and invite the neighborhood cat in for some wet food it might just save your dog
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rosie yes that is the cutest no can we please have pictures of that what if they send us a picture and it's a bobcat and we're like oh
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guys guys those were they were relatives they were having a family quarrel there was no
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now that's the best also i love those kind of cats that follow you when you walk and don't like
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flip out and don't go other places or whatever like that's that weird um i because cats aren't
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pack animals so when they do stuff like that it's like because they like you it's because they legit
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like you and they know that you're dipshits it'll walk right by a bobcat bush as if that's your right
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and privilege when it's not. Watch her back from Bobcats. What a good patch this week.
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What a good patch. The word is batch. Patches of batches. Real good ones. What's the word you guys said last night?
00:27:08
Your niece and I. What was it? Stranglers. She was trying to say stragglers. So she goes stranglers And I go no I think you mean what did I say Stranglers Oh no it is stranglers and then i was watching you guys talk about it and then i finally like waited for you to be done i was like it stragglers it me and this 13 year old and i telling her
00:27:33
the correct word and i'm totally wrong and then karen turns to us and goes and just tells us in
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the most straight voice it was very embarrassing yeah that story about those seventh grade girls
00:27:43
that you guys were talking about, they weren't stranglers. They were stragglers.
00:27:46
It was so in character for me. It was almost like, that wasn't a joke. We socially distanced hang.
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It was fun. Oh, it was nice. Yeah, because my family came down as global warming refugees
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because Northern California is on fire. And where they're from, they have fires above, below, and east of them.
00:28:10
So there was a smoke dome over Petaluma. And then the smoke dome fell when the fog came in.
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So Laura was like, we were just inhaling ash and bits of, they were just coughing and it was terrible.
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So they came down here to Los Angeles where the air is clear. It's so crazy. Bizarre.
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And hung out for a week. It was super fun. I love it. We had so much fun last night.
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Episode Highlights

  • Dr. Death the Cowboy
    A charming neurosurgeon deceives patients while leaving a trail of broken bodies.
    “This is a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice.”
    @ 00m 51s
    August 31, 2020
  • A Brave Escape
    A woman escapes her captor using a toilet lid as a weapon.
    “Mad props to the woman for having the bravery and wits about her to use a toilet lid as a weapon.”
    @ 03m 36s
    August 31, 2020
  • The Kirkwood Tickler
    A shadowy figure tickles men’s feet during break-ins, leaving a chilling legacy.
    “The tickler was never caught. Some say the ghost of the tickler still haunts the area.”
    @ 16m 14s
    August 31, 2020
  • Fecal Sample Mail Mishap
    A shocking story about a mail mishap involving a fecal sample that caused chaos.
    “Someone sent a fecal sample in an envelope and it jammed in my machine.”
    @ 22m 18s
    August 31, 2020
  • Stay Sexy and Seal That Envelope
    A humorous reminder about mailing ballots safely and securely.
    “Stay sexy and don't forget to seal that envelope of naughty pics.”
    @ 23m 08s
    August 31, 2020
  • Maui the Hero Cat
    A brave cat named Maui saves a dog from a bobcat attack during a walk.
    “Maui, a nine-pound semi house cat chased this 30 bobcat over 100 feet!”
    @ 25m 35s
    August 31, 2020

Episode Quotes

  • He promised to heal them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.
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  • Someone sent a fecal sample in an envelope and it jammed in my machine.
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  • Stay sexy and don't forget to seal that envelope of naughty pics.
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  • Maui, a nine-pound semi house cat chased this 30 bobcat over 100 feet!
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  • Stay sexy and invite the neighborhood cat in for some wet food.
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  • Why is it always chaos when we link up?
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Key Moments

  • Broken Bodies00:48
  • Brave Escape03:41
  • The Kirkwood Tickler16:05
  • Mail Mishap22:18
  • Voting Reminder22:31
  • Hero Cat23:22
  • Family Gathering27:56
  • Cat Behavior30:11

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