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Data accurate as of two 2026. That's a new dawn. It's a new day. Hello! And welcome to my favorite murder.
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Minya Sode. Minya Sode, where we read you your shit back to you. You guys have stories.
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You send them to us. We read them to you. We just told you. Yeah, you know how it goes.
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We like to explain it. Sometimes people forget, and we've been on vacation for so long.
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That's true. Truly a very long time. That's right. We took a break. We took a break.
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It was a break. Yeah. And we're back. It's refreshing. Yeah. How are you feeling about it?
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Different? Oh, I forgot like what it's like to stress about what murder I'm going to do next week.
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Yeah. I forgot how much I stress about it. Right. So I think I'm going to try to get a few in the can, like planned out already.
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Yeah. I feel like that's how other people do. They're planned and produced. Not day of frantic research and writing.
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Look, we've always done it the way we had to do it. Yeah. But now we have the room and time to do it a different new way.
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But we won't because we're not those kinds of women. Well, yeah, that's the thing.
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If I got my homework done like before Sunday night at 9 p.m., I would have gone to college and been doing something very different.
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And then either way, I'd be questioning myself like, should I even do this one? Is this one okay?
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I don't know if I like this one. Part of, I think, part of what it is, is just backing it right up to the deadline so that we just have to do it.
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And to know when to stop because I could research for fucking days and days. And like, there's always new shit to read about it.
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So, yeah. So like I have to stop by 2 p.m. or I'm going to come here looking disgusting.
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That's a nice thing to have. Okay. But this isn't that. This is where we don't have to do any fucking homework.
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This is the easy podcast. Oh, we love this part. Where you do our homework for us and we just get to have fun with it.
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And I get to do the thing that I've loved since I was seven years old, reading aloud.
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Why don't you go ahead and do that? Thank you. Right now. Here we go. I'm not going to read this subject line because it gives it away even though it's witty.
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Okay. I'll read it after. Okay. So it starts, Hello, all. I loved seeing you at the Seattle show way back in October.
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When Karen covered the Green River Killer, I knew that I'd write my story in immediately.
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Yeah. I don't know if they meant to do that on purpose, but that's really funny.
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In immediately. In immediately. And yet here I am in August because I'm a world-class procrastinator.
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Hey! Interesting. Welcome. We were just talking about you. I remember my mom telling me this story as a kid, and then again in 2001, when Gary, of course, he wore those wire-rimmed classic serial killer glasses, Ridgeway's face, that was all hyphenated.
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I love it. Was plastered all over the news. In her early adult days, my mom was a forester at a smallish timber company.
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She mostly sold firewood permits and other permits for accessing the private timberlands, like to hunters and foragers.
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Got it. What does a forager look like rolling up on that? Oh, he's got all that.
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He smells like mushrooms and he's got a mushroom truffle pig with him on a leash.
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A pet truffle pig? Uh-huh. He's just here to do some foraging, ma'am. Yep. Okay.
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She womaned the gates of different access roads along the Green River, tucked up in the Cascade foothills.
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In July of 83, she was nine months pregnant with my sister, selling firewood cutting permits out of her company truck to folks all day alone.
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No, no, no. Except when the occasional person came to cut wood. Cut to one particularly sweltering day when all of a sudden every hair on her body stood
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on end and she had a chill run through her like that someone is watching me feeling.
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She looked around called out hello is anyone there Several times Should I act it out Do it Hello Is anyone there No but being nine months pregnant when you do it Oh Hello
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Is anyone there? I would imagine. Yeah, I could imagine. Several times before hopping in the truck and locking all the doors, but had to stay
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put to lock the gate once everyone was out at dusk. No, no. So she just had to stay.
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A few days later, she's telling a friend about her recent experience, and the friend
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goes, you know, they found a body like 200 yards from that gate, right? It was, of course, one of
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Gary Ridgeway's victims. When they caught him and his face was all over the news, she swore she'd
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seen him before and specifically recalled that hot day locked in her truck. She thinks the feeling
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is from one of two reasons. He was either there stashing or visiting one of his victims, which he
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did often. That was my editorial. Or it was the spirit of the woman he'd murdered. Insert spooky
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woo sounds. Either way, she's nearly certain they crossed paths at some point since they ended up
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finding a few bodies in that specific area. And she was the main permit seller during that time.
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Holy shit. My mom is for sure a murderino, even if she doesn't know it. And because of her, I know how to SSDGM
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and always listen to that weird gut feeling telling me something is not quite right.
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Yay. Things I'm working to pass on to my two little girls, as well as the ability to fuck politeness in an age-appropriate way, of course.
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Thank you, ladies, for being you. Stay sexy and don't sell a body stashing permit to a serial killer, Megan.
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And that was her. The subject line was, that time my mom sold a body stashing permit to the Green River killer, probably.
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That's a good one. Yeah. Okay, this one I found when I was researching my topic from last week, Jacob Wetterling.
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And I just, it just feels like us. It feels like home. Because it's terrible. Yes.
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Hello, Georgia and Karen. A couple years ago, I was flying home from Houston to Minneapolis.
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And as I boarded the plane, I spotted the amazing Senator Elizabeth Warren sitting only a couple rows behind me.
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In coach, no less. Yes, of course she is. Hold on. I spent the whole flight trying to come up with a classy way to say hello and gush about how fantastic she is.
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But the opportunity didn't present itself until we landed in Minneapolis. And then blah, blah, blah.
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They're waiting for the luggage. I stood right next to her in the jetway and waited a minute before finally saying, I just want to let you know that I am such a fan.
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And as the words came out, I realized, holy fucking shit. This is not Elizabeth Warren.
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This is Patty Wetterling. Oh, my God. Jacob Wetterling. Oh, my God. His case was this big unsolved gaping wound in the heart of Minnesota for 27 years.
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Kids and even grownups were no longer allowed to go anywhere without an adult. And everyone started locking their doors at night.
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The loss this family experienced was experienced to a lesser degree by every Minnesotan.
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And Patty Wetterling came to represent everyone's mom. Yes. So there I was standing in front of our state's most beloved grieving mother telling her that I was a fan.
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And then it says, of what? Her horrible tragedy? Yeah, really. Oh, my God. Luckily, very uncharacteristically, I was able to pivot from I just want to let you know that I'm such a huge fan with after a weird pause of the child advocacy work you've been doing.
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Nice. Yeah. Yeah. She was very friendly and we chatted for less than a minute before she got her bag.
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But holy shit. Sincerely, Ursula. I mean, can you? But here. OK, here's why I love that so much.
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First of all, I really do love any kind of here's how I made a fool of myself. Oh, yeah.
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Because I do it all the time. It makes me feel better. But also, I love that because that's how much these stories about other people's horrors come into your life.
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Even if you don't know those people, even if you don't live in the same state, you do look at those people's faces.
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You know, you feel like you know that you put you feel the feeling, you know, you put yourself in that position.
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You you do sit with it in a real way. So it's so believable. You know, I mean, it's so like, yeah, understandable.
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But then the like mix up and like, you know, she probably didn't have a lot of friends she could tell this to that would like laugh about it.
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So I feel like we gave it a home that it needed. Also, the but here's the other thing.
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The energy that you would love both of those women with is very similar. It's true.
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You know what I mean? Yeah. They're heroes. You're like, you don't know me, but I want to hug you.
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Yes. Energy. And you and you've done you don't understand what you're doing for everybody.
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Yeah. Yeah. I love both of those women. Me too. I love all three. Yeah. Including the one who wrote it.
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Ursula. The sea witch. What if the sea witch wrote us an email? Oh, I'm sorry. I hated on you when I was eight.
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I've always been a fan. Okay. This subject line says my grandpa caught son of Sam.
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Sort of. Okay. Okay. Hi, Elvis. Joy. So much joy. And then parentheses and everyone else, but mostly Elvis.
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Oh, I love you. Love you and the show. Hope the book tour is going great. Now let's do this hometown thing.
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Okay. My grandpa, who I love very much, I'm sorry, who I love very, very much, despite never having met him, was a psychologist working at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
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Actually, he was a pretty impressive dude. He started the Torture Victims Unit at that hospital, which helps asylum seekers who have been subject to persecution for peaceful, political or social activities are suffering because of their ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation have been subjected to war trauma or forced from conflict torn communities.
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Needless to say, a badass. Oh, my God. He had some pretty incredible stories from his time as a shrink, both in and out of the Torture Victims Unit.
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Some are completely heartwarming some unbelievably strange and all break doctor patient confidentiality Yes My favorite of those include the time he spent at Attica as a consulting psychologist to work with Mark David Chapman
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Unfortunately, these have all been passed down to me through my mom. So many of the details of these stories have been lost, but it's still really fun to whip out.
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My grandpa was Mark David Chapman's shrink at parties. Of course. The real story I'm here to tell you is the one of one of my papas.
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However, it isn't about his patient. One day in the summer of 1977, amidst the panic of the son of Sam Killings, my grandpa is on his way to work at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
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He has a young daughter, my mom, who just turned eight, who has picked up on the murders herself and sometimes comes into his office at night to ask about the scary Killy man.
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A direct quote from my mom's retelling of the story. I guess I know where I get it from.
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That morning, as he rides the bus, he reads the paper Rich was running a large police sketch of Son of Sam.
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He looks up. Across from him is a man who looks, he thinks, exactly like the sketch.
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He has a small mouth, expressive eyebrows, and close-together eyes. My grandpa came into work, told his colleagues that he was almost certain he had seen the Son of Sam.
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He was met with laughter and assurances that it probably wasn't him because all the shootings were in the Bronx and outer boroughs.
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My grandma said the same thing when he told her at home. He was convinced and decided not to bring in the tip to the police.
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A few weeks later, the news of the arrest and confessions of Son of Sam made the papers.
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My grandpa saw the picture and realized that the man on the bus had been the scary, killy
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man himself, David Berkowitz. When he went to consult at Attica with Mark David Chapman, he never saw David Berkowitz,
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apparently bragged to friends that he basically could have caught the Son of Sam, but no one
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believed him. Thank you for everything you do with your scary killie podcast. It's made me make so many amazing friends.
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The number of times I've sat down to eat lunch with my friend Max and said, OK, I heard a really cool murder must be in the thousands by now.
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Congrats on the book. I love you all very much. Christopher. Nice. Nice. Don't ever listen to your friends.
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It's not the killer. It's of course it's not. Yes. You're riding the bus with a killer.
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Sir, you're you're a highly qualified psychologist at Bellevue Hospital. And you don't even trust your gut?
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You're the one that knows best. Trust your gut. I do love that hearing that story, though.
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That's very cool to hear about a nice story about somebody who put in time working at Bellevue.
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Yeah. Which is intense. Did you ever see that? There was an HBO, made for HBO documentary about like 48 hours at Bellevue or whatever.
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Oh, no. Is it old? It's from, yes. It's from like the late 90s, I think, or early 2000s.
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Was it the really depressing one? It's so good. Well, it's, I mean, a lot of stuff happens.
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Yeah. A lot of stuff happens. But it's just it's mind blowing. Like the the work those doctors do and those nurses do.
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It's so cool. Amazing. Well, that's what your mom did. That's right. That's amazing.
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Until she had to stop because someone broke a chair over her back. Jesus. They would never tell us.
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I would ask constantly. But can I just get this story behind? Was she laid up and shit?
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No, I mean, she had to go. But my parents were so good at keeping everything from us.
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So I know she went to physical therapy and stuff, but she didn't like it didn't injure her so that she was laid up.
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And I'm the host of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I'm sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook Project Hail Mary.
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Massive sci-fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from Earth.
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But there's places in this book that deeply emotionally affected me. And I left it on the mic.
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It's like, yeah, dude, me too. Listen to Ear Say the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts All right This is called Butterflies Near Kidnapping and White Hot Rage
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Hello, all. Listen to this wild story of the day I was nearly kidnapped and not coincidentally
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was the day my mom nearly murdered someone in the parking lot. Whoa. Okay, so I was nearly
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eight years old and I was at my brother's soccer game, which my mom and I regularly attended.
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I'm an artist so naturally I knew sports weren't my thing and still aren't so I got bored and wandered off
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I found an open field nearby and began chasing small white butterflies when suddenly
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a tall man with a beard and a woman presumably his wife approached me the man asked if I liked butterflies
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which of course my 8 year old self was like who the fuck doesn't like butterflies
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but I politely and excitedly told the man yes he then proceeded to tell me that he had a rare butterfly in his van
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no I, of course, not knowing the horrible reality of situations like this, started following the man and the woman into the parking lot.
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We only got a few steps into the lot when I heard a loud, booming voice. The loud, booming voice was, you guessed it, my five-foot-two, hot-headed Italian mother running towards us at full speed, screaming,
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I will kill you, motherfucker! Ah, yes! At the top of her lungs. no explanation needed when she noticed me walking towards the parking lot with a strange couple it
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was all action ask questions later yes side note my mom has two speeds slow and stopped
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seeing her run meant shit was really hitting the fan anyways fearful of my mom's white hot rage the
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couple immediately fled into their van sped off and were never seen again needless to say my mother
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nearly killed a man in a parking lot with her bare hands and also never let me wander off to
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If you ever read the story on your podcast, I just want it to be known that my mom is the bravest,
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most brazen woman ever. I hope to become at least half as badass as she is. Thank you for
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your amazing podcast ssdgm amanda amanda what's your mom's name oh my god seriously amanda you
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need to write in stat and tell us your mom's full fucking name yeah so we can give her cred unless
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maybe she wasn't maybe she killed someone with her hands like anonymity maybe she's a known felon seriously the fact that a woman did that it the it sounds like it was a
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while ago yeah i mean 90s yeah that she did the smartest best most clearly most perfect thing
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fucking ask questions later just start screaming kill you mother and those fuckers if they were
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had good intentions they wouldn't have sped off or run away no they wouldn't have been like sorry
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what no no no oh whatever no we're just talking to this child and taking her to a van the word van
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makes it all very clear what's happening yeah god bless it yeah you don't hesitate in that
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I mean, that's stuff moms know. Yeah. Moms know that. But they don't. But now we all get to talk about what moms know.
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Yeah. Now we can arm ourselves with mom knowledge. Yeah. We need you need mom knowledge when you're like eight years old.
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Yeah. Don't wait. Don't tell your kid now. Yeah. Like, especially because you're like, well, mom's always pretty chill and doesn't yell
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and stuff. So this one time when she freaks out, there's a reason. And then you'll take her seriously.
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Yeah. And it's that you were walking with like strangers to a van, which you didn't know
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wasn't the right thing to do. But now you fucking know. That's right. Maybe that along those lines with like adults don't need kids help.
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The other message that should go out is people don't keep animals in cars and vans.
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Steven just choked. Sorry, Steven. Steven's like, wait, Penny's in my car right now.
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What are you talking about? Steven, you're a pervert. Seriously. There's no butterfly in a van.
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There's never been a butterfly in a van. There's one, what's it called? The bug people going.
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Etymologist? There's one etymologist going, well, I keep mine in my van. It's not that weird.
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We just study the monarch migration. Okay. You're right. We're wrong. Now, would you please send us, if you have a picture of a custom van from the 70s with
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a butterfly, like air painted on the side. What do they call that? Brush, airbrush.
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Airbrushed. On the side? Do it. Airbrushed? Yes. That was great. Thank you. I mean I didn't do anything.
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I really love it. It was all Amanda. But you'll get a chance to do it one day. Thank you.
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Amanda, tell us what your mom's name is. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to go with Marie.
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Yeah. Because she's Italian? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean I always think the classic mom name is Judy.
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Judy. It's just the classic mom name. Linda. Linda's good. Carol with an E. Okay.
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The subject line of this one is finding a body while on acid. Oh, how are we? We have to end on this.
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Okay. I don't have another one. You don't? no did you okay do it greetings ladies gent and domesticated animals jumping right in god bless
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your soul yeah i grew up in portland oregon spent much of my youth outdoors and on acid
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on one late night high school excursion after taking acid with my best friend and our boyfriends
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guys really quick don't do drugs we're not laughing at doing drugs it's clearly we don't think doing drugs is funny we think you having a past life of being a fucking idiot is
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hilarious here's the thing if you're okay now yeah you get to get through it and then tell the story
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after but don't do the thing of like now this is my great idea because it isn't it isn't it isn't
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right anyhow moving on now that we've gotten that disclaimer uh okay on one late night high school
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excursion after taking acid with my best friend and our boyfriends let's call them tina john and
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will. We decided to go to Washington Park for our trip, quote unquote. Well, While walking a trail leading up to the Portland Rose Garden, the guys decided to run ahead, leaving Tina and I to follow at our leisure.
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After a few minutes, John ran back to us out of breath and panicking. He whisper yells that they found a dead guy.
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Now, we're all just about peeking on our acid trip. And we thought the guys were just fucking with us.
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Tina and I hurried up the trail, expecting to find Will pretending to be dead or to jump out and scare us on the path.
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we came to a clearing that opens up to the backside of the rose gardens and we see a man
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on his back laying on the grass at the bottom of a long set of stone stairs i look at my highest
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fuck friends and ask did anyone check to see if he's alive they all look at me like i'm crazy
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saying he must just be a homeless man sleeping but i notice he is well dressed and his body is
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twisted in a very unnatural way so i walk over to him while my friends just watch as i approach
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The stench of alcohol and vomit was so overwhelming, I nearly turned back, but then I saw him cough.
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Oh my god! Thinking to myself that he must be choking on his vomit, that's how many of our...
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That's how many of my favorite musicians died. This person's cool. And every drummer from Spinal Tap.
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This person's the coolest. I know I have to turn him on his side so his esophagus can clear.
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Yeah. Closer now. I see his skin is pale and pasty and he is covered in vomit. I pull him to his side. He's still coughing. I yell to my friends to call 911. Okay, so this wasn't the 70s because there's 911. Mind you, this is back before cell phones. Oh, okay. Why do I do that?
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Mind you, this is back before cell phones and we have to find a pay phone and we are out past curfew and we're tripping balls.
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So my friends are hesitant to call the police. And just then, as if the gods were watching, the star quarterback of my high school football team walks around the corner with his girlfriend.
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What are you talking about? This is like only on acid. Only when you're on acid do things like this happen.
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They drove up to the Rose Gardens on a date. I fill him in and I ask him to find the phone and he drives off to do so.
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Minutes later, the police come and shortly after an ambulance. We watched as the paramedics tended to the man and noticed that they took their time loading him into the ambulance and taking him away.
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After answering a few questions they informed me he was already dead What Thanked us for helping and let us all go Now there is nothing like finding a body and being questioned by the police to make one sober up real quick
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We continued our park adventure, talked about mortality and making the most of our young lives, such as young people do.
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A few days later, I saw a story about him in the paper. He was a 50-something-year-old man who had battled alcoholism his whole life, fell down the Rose Garden stairs completely blotto, broke his back, and suffocated on his vomit.
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I can't say that was the last time I took acid. Oh, my God. I can't say that was the last time I took acid, but I never have been much of a drinker.
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Wonder if this is why. Thank you for – okay, I'm baffled because they said he coughed.
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Yeah, but between them and the people coming, he must have passed. Oh, or this person was so high that they didn't really know what was going on.
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Thank you for many hours of murdery entertainment. I work as a medical laboratory technician.
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You allow me to plug in my earbuds and ignore my coworkers for this. I'm eternally grateful.
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Stay sexy and don't choke on your vomit. Cheers. Oh, my. There's no name. Okay, whoever wrote this, now we're starting like chain letter.
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Tell us your name. This is going to be the third podcast we start, which is like the sidebars of all of these.
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You don't have to tell us your name. Clearly, you don't want to. But please explain how you saw the man cough and then the already dead.
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Like what happened? Maybe an EMT out there can let us know the story behind. Or is it that thing of like when a corpse, like something happens and a corpse sits up or whatever and everyone freaks out?
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Oh, my God. That was crazy. Maybe I should do one more. Do it. Okay. That was ups, downs everywhere, all over the place.
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Okay. Let's do, okay. I'm going to do, I'm going to do one more. Peeping Tom versus the Mountain Man.
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Oh. Hi, Georgia, Karen, and company. During the summer between my freshman and sophomore year of college, I was living at home in a rural area of Oregon.
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One weekend, I drove to Portland to visit a friend from school on a Monday, and I drove four hours back home.
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It was the late 80s, so I was driving my VW square back with no AC and probably AM radio.
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Needless to say, after hours of driving in the heat, I was super tired and sweaty.
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So when I got home I basically walked into the house and jumped straight into the shower No one was home at the time In the shower I started washing my hair and whatnot And when I turned to look out the window our shower had a small window in it about shoulder height that looked into our fenced backyard I saw a face Initially I thought it was my own
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reflection. But after a brief moment, I realized that no, that's not me. That's some fucking pervert.
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I screamed, jumped out of the shower, grabbed a towel and ran to the living room.
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And almost the exact moment this went down, my dad happened to walk through the front door from work.
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I was running through the house like a crazy person, screaming and trying to tell him what had just happened.
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Somehow, I was able to communicate to him that there was a person looking in the bathroom window, and he jumped into action.
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An important side note here. My dad was really into mountain men reenactments. Look it up.
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What? Stephen. And had a selection of black powder rifles and the like proudly displayed in our living room.
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He really did think he was Grizzly Adams. Oh, okay. Okay. So he grabbed the fiercest looking weapon of the bunch and hightailed it out the back door.
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Meanwhile, the pervert was making his getaway. He had jumped the back fence and was running through the trees bordering our property when my dad yelled for him to get his ass back over the fence or he was going to shoot.
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Another important side note, the gun wasn't loaded. Surprisingly, the guy took this seriously and backtracked with his hands in the air.
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Meanwhile, I was on the phone to the police. My dad had the guy lay face down on our deck while we waited for the police.
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and I got dressed and was kind of watching all of this from a distance. When the police arrived, they took a statement and arrested the guy.
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Once he was at the station, they questioned him and he fessed up to stalking my sister.
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He had been calling the house and hanging up for most of the year I was away at college.
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Oh, shit. And also told the cops that he had been spying on our house for quite some time.
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They even found some video recording equipment and a gun and other things stashed under our house.
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Holy fuck. It was super creepy. sadly the guy was never charged slash convicted because when the arresting officer police officers
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took him in they failed to properly read him as a miranda rights and his lawyer was able to get
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him off on this technicality and to prove that no good deed goes unpunished when the local newspaper
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reported the incident in the police blotter it said my dad was the peeping tom oh no what the
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fuck at least we have something to laugh about stay sexy and don't bathe in showers with the
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window rachel oh god insult meet injury yeah for real dude that's horrifying oh steven's got the
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mountain man it looks like there just like world war one reenactors but for mountain men it looks like they like or war What did I say World War I No not that one
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Different outfit. Not that one. It's basically like that era or whatever. Mountain men.
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Mountain men reenactors. It looks like a new series on the History Channel. It looks like
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an old series on the History Channel. It's been around forever and we just don't know about it.
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