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MFM Minisode 87

September 10, 2018 /

This mini-sode of My Favorite Murder features hometown murder stories, a corrections corner about Jimmy Somerville, and various listener anecdotes.

Hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark read stories submitted by listeners, including a tale from a 13-year-old named Addison about discovering a meth lab in her neighborhood in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Another listener shares a story about living next to an arms dealer while in college, highlighting the surprising nature of their neighbor's activities.

Additionally, a listener recounts a childhood experience of almost encountering a drug drop while sailing with her family, emphasizing the tension of the situation.

The episode concludes with a fun fact about Stephen King donating a library to a Maine prison, showcasing his commitment to literacy and community support.

TLDR

Listeners share creepy hometown stories, including a meth lab and an arms dealer neighbor.

Episode

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Hello. Hi. And welcome to my favorite murder. The mini-sode of a lifetime. Of the hour, of the lifetime, of your dreams, of your nightmares.
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This is the one where you email us your hometown murders, your creepy stories, things in walls, fascinating grandparents, whatever you need to tell us that you know we'll like, and we read it on the air.
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on air, live on the air live on the air no edits I actually have a very important corrections corner
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that I know we don't do that on minisodes but I'm going to do it on this one and then I'm going to do it
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on our Thursday show is it about a guy named Johnny? it's about a guy named Jimmy Somerville
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it's about a conversation George and I were having about pedophiles in England and because
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it was off of that and Georgia said what's the name of that guy and of course I always want to
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be the person that knows the name of the guy and I'm always so impressed with how you know every
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name so I mean it's like yes moving on yeah we did it and um Jimmy Somerville the name that I named
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is the lead singer uh or the singer from the communards and the bronski beat an amazing
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musician and performer and a lovely person according to all the tweets I've been getting
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about the mistake I made and how awesome he is, which actually there's a really good video of Jimmy Somerville.
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He walks by as a busker is singing his song and he stops and sings along with the guy.
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And somebody sent it to us. I've seen it on the internet. We'll put it on the Twitter page.
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Jimmy Savile was the horrifying pedophile that... BBC dude. Yes, weird presenter that was a super creep.
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So, sweet baby angel, by all accounts, Jimmy Somerville. One billion apologies to Jimmy Somerville.
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Please stop repeating that I said that. Don't ever tell him. This will be repeated on the main episode.
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Hilarious. It's just not fair. There's no fact checker. I was so right in that moment.
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I was so right. Oh, you're so good at this. Yes. Moving on. There's a vil in there.
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It sounded right to me. They were both S's, Vils, and Jimmy's. What do you want?
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That's as close as it's going to get on this podcast. Hey, let me read you a story.
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Please do. Let's change the subject. Good idea. Okay, this is called... Wait, I can't tell you what it's called, but I think you'll like it.
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Okay. Greetings, MFM crew. Great. My name is Addison, and I'm 13 years old. Uh-oh, Addison.
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Bad girl. And proud member of the fan cult. You guys have made my long car rides to soccer tournaments
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and flying, driving to see family so much easier. My mom got me hooked on you guys
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and now you're the only podcast I listen to. Addison. We're popular with the kids.
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We're popular. What generation is that? I think it's generation fuck now, isn't it?
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You brought my mom and I closer than ever. So thank you. Yes. The estrangement from being 12 to being 13.
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It is actually the worst time with your mom. I fucking hated my mom. junior high addison we're so with you in your junior high life uh we know how it feels hormones
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addison you don't even know that it's not even your fault it's please know it's not your fault
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it gets better you gorgeous uh i live in lethbridge a somewhat small town in southern alberta i live in a modern suburban neighborhood with a lot of playgrounds I know a child dream Uh Addison Sassy
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When I was around nine years old, when she was a kid, my sister and I were playing on one of the playgrounds.
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All of a sudden, two girls came up to us and asked if we wanted to play grounders with them.
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My sister and I said yes. That must be a Canadian thing. Sure. And we had a great time.
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Later that day, we found out that they lived right across the street. My sister didn't like them, but I did.
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I would go over to their house regularly. The first time I went to their house, I was told that I wasn't allowed in the basement,
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but being a nine-year-old, I just brushed it off. The parents of the two kids were pretty sketchy, but again, being a stupid nine-year-old,
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I just brushed it off. After hanging out with these girls for a while, we stopped hanging out until they got three kittens.
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I get it. Now, thinking back on it, it was kind of rude only hanging out with them because they had kittens,
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but hey, who wouldn't? That's right. Later that week, I was stupid and said something to hint to them that I was only hanging out with them to play with the kittens.
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The older sister got really mad and we stopped hanging out. About two years later, I was home alone and saw blue and red lights outside my window.
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The police being a crime obsessed 11 year old. I was too scared to go ask what was happening.
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So I just quietly sat and watched for my room. Later, I saw the mom and dad come out of the house in handcuffs.
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Curious of what happened. I went to my neighborhood group chat and asked what happened.
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no one knew. Later on the city news all was revealed why they had been so sketchy and why
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I wasn't allowed in the basement. And this is all caps. They had a goddamn meth lab in the basement.
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I was kind of shocked. Anyway, stay sexy and if people say you're not allowed in the basement, get the hell out of there.
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Addison. Yeah, Addison, that's right. Addison, you're smart. You're smart beyond your 13 years.
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And my 13 years at that age too. Jesus Christ. Addison, tell your mom we need to talk to her.
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really quick okay um i'm not going to read you the subject line of this it's okay the subject
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line was a meth lab across the street right yeah subject line yeah okay so hey karen georgia steven
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and associated furry friends uh when i was a naive college student in los angeles back in the 90s
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hey my roomies and i won the lottery to move to off-campus housing for our junior year i was
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particularly excited because i got to move in by myself over the summer because i had an internship
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in the university publications office. Feeling very grown up and independent, I settled in and selected the bedroom
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that didn't share a wall with the neighbor. Smart. He was in his 20s, didn't go to my school,
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enjoyed loud music, and seemed to sleep in the day and be up late at night. Sometimes people left packages at his doorstep,
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and it wasn't UPS. He was always friendly, though, and told me to let him know if his music ever bothered me.
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My roommates moved in just before school started and immediately started griping about all the music volume.
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Just tell him to move a stereo. He's a nice guy, I said. all three stared at me like I was insane. I'm not talking to him. He's a drug dealer.
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My roommate Tessie said, oh, my roommate Tessie said, well, Tessie could be pretty snap judgment
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dish. So I rolled my eyes and asked him to turn down the music myself. He was very nice and
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understanding. We had no other problem until a few weeks later. One night I was working on a late
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deadline in a student publications office when I got a phone call from Tessie who sounded seriously
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irritated, but it was something else that caught my attention. What are all those male voices? I
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asked curiously. Oh, that would be the SWAT team, Tessie said. You know that nice neighbor? Well,
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he had over 400 guns in his apartment. He's an arms dealer. Oh my God. I didn't think the timing
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was right to point out that I was right about the fact that he wasn't a drug dealer.
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My blood still runs cold when I consider that I had been there all summer by myself
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while my neighbor was merrily, merrily arming the neighborhood. Oh my God. Stay sexy and be
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Suspicious of accommodating neighbors who keep strange hours. Barbara. Oh, the arms dealers.
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The last thing I would have thought. Yeah. That seems like real risky to just keep guns in your house.
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400 of them. 400 guns. Those aren't like, you know, they're not compact. Well, maybe.
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I don't know. I don't. I mean, yeah, that's. He's really rolling the dice there.
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Yeah. And it didn't work out. Turns out it didn't. Turns out. Turns out crime does not pay for long.
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Okay. I'm not going to read you the name of this one. Right. Ready? Okay. Hello, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and pets.
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This is a story about the length my grandparents went for their growing family. My grandparents lived in the same house since they had gotten married in the early 50s.
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It started out as a two-bedroom house, which was fine for them and my dad. That was until my grandmother became pregnant with my aunt.
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My grandfather didn't know what to do since they lived off his salary as a construction worker.
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In comes his older brother, who worked in a local train yard and suggested that they steal from a lumber shipment that had just come in the day before.
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Sure. That's a great idea. His older brother worked at night shift, and my grandfather, quote, borrowed a flatbed truck from the job site.
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Along with his baby brother to help, the older brother opened the gate to the train yard in the late hours of the night.
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They loaded the truck with as much lumber as they could and then drove off without being seen.
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They split the loot three ways. The older brother used it to burn. The baby brother built a patio.
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And this sounds like a fairy tale. And my grandfather built a three bedroom addition along with a rec room.
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Oh, my God. This apparently happened before the 60s. And none of my aunts and uncles knew about it until after my grandfather had his stroke and his filter went away.
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He spilled the beans in 2016. And my grandmother confirmed it saying, I never thought he would let that one slip.
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we were all impressed with how long they kept that secret he said that he was so worried about
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getting caught that he built the addition really quickly that's why the ceilings in the upstairs
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bedrooms were so low the ceiling fan would hit me in the head and why some of the steps on the
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stairs were higher than others unfortunately my grandpa my grandmother passed away in september last year and my grandfather followed before christmas they were both wonderful people whose ill addition allowed them to grow their family and also become foster parents oh they gave back that right uh my girlfriend
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and i love your show and i hope to see you live if you ever come to ottawa or montreal ssdgm dennis
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amazing love it that actually reminds me of a story um my friend mick who was from the east end
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of London. His father was a tile worker. And he got a job retiling a bathroom in the in the
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Buckingham Palace. And so they were in there doing it. And every day that he would go in and work,
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he would take like 20 tiles of his own. And then he he retiled their bathroom in their apartment
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and on the east end. So they had they they had one bathroom they called the royal bathroom.
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because it was it was the exact same tile as the bathroom in the palace that's that's amazing don't
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tell anybody that we don't want to we don't want to bust those people yeah unless that's if that's
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traceable but that is my favorite fucking story because it's like so good they're the ones they're
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putting in the elbow grease i mean and they're not gonna be like what is it gonna be a couple
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i don't give a single shit please come on shit it's fine except for our arms guns our dealers
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Okay, again, let's just not read subject lines this time. Georgia, Karen, Stephen, and four-legged friends.
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I was listening to a few minisodes that mentioned a serial masturbator and something about Venice.
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no that's Swiss cheese I freaked out when I realized that I finally had something to send you guys
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in May of 2017 I was traveling through Europe alone at the ripe age of 20 unfortunately I hadn't found the
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MFM podcast yet which may have helped me be less of a dumbass in situations like these
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anywho I took a weekend trip to Venice and spent two days getting lost in the streets and eating a
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sickening amount of pasta it was one of the most magical places I'd ever visited. My train was scheduled to depart at 1pm. So I made my way to
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that side of the city early. So I didn't have to rush. I found this cute little park and felt like
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I was living my best life eating biscotti and reading a book on a bench in Venice. That sounds
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amazing. And don't forget you're 20. You're 20. Best time of your life. I took off my glasses,
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which I need if I want to see more than two feet in front of my face. I felt pretty safe because
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because there were families walking their dogs and other people sitting on benches in the park.
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As I'm sitting peacefully reading and minding my own damn business, I hear a rustling in the bushes.
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I figured it was some kind of rodent or birds or whatever, and I didn't bother putting on my glasses.
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But then I realized that the sound wasn't stopping and it was very consistent. I got an uneasy feeling and proceeded to put my glasses back on.
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Mistake. Maybe 20 feet in front of me, I see a man standing near a tree, staring at me in the eyes and furiously masturbating.
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naturally I freaked out and threw all my stuff in my backpack backpack and ran the fuck out of
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there you guys are the first people I've ever told this story because I think my friends would find
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it more horrifying than entertaining oh my god I don't get freaked out very easily so I just brushed
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it off in the moment thinking back on it now I really hope that dude didn scare some little girl who just trying to have a good time in the park I don know what else I could have done in the moment because my Italian is not good enough to have that kind of discussion with the police Well when in Rome I guess
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Thanks for making this dope podcast. Maybe I'll be ready the next time some old dude is being an asshole in public.
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Stay sexy and don't let old Venetian men use your use your for sexual gratification.
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Caroline. Oh, but I did. Eye looking in the eye. Directly in the eye, but also that he was old.
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Oh, God. I didn't really pick up on that until the very end. Yeah, that's not good.
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An old creepy masturbator. He's probably looking at her being like, that looks like the best.
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He's masturbating over the best day that she's having. He's so jealous that she gets to be 20.
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Oh, my God. You're, yeah, you're, you're high class lifestyles giving me a boner.
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Oh, what a creep. All right. I have one more. Addison, I hope you didn't hear that part.
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God damn it. Addison. Addison. Okay. Not going to read you the name of this one.
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hello ladies cats dogs and steven uh your recent episode about the boys on the tracks reminded me
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of when i was eight years old and found myself in the middle of a drug drop zone i thought you'd
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want to hear about it yes it was 1979 and me my mom stepdad and cat were living on a sailboat um
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that sounds amazing okay everyone's cat with a boat so much glamour on this minisode seriously
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my stepdad was a boat builder and quite the seafarer so so much so that we sailed our boat
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from Miami to the Bahamas. Wow. One day we were sailing from one island to another,
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just enjoying the sun and crystal clear water when, boom, we felt something hit the boat.
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You know what's really weird is I'm literally listening to a book that is about this is like the topic.
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Wait, let me see what the book is real quick so people can read it. Okay. It's Something in the Water
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by Catherine Steadman when they find something while they're like boating and it's similar.
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Amazing. Sorry. Go on. No, I'm reading. Okay. saw something at the boat knowing there was no rocks or other boats in sight we couldn't imagine
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what it was my stepdad leaned over the side of the hull and grabbed onto the huge wooden crate
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that was bobbing along in the water he pried the top off and the crate was full of weed
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what my stepdad estimated that was probably worth 25 000 uh my parents argued back and forth over
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whether to keep it or not my stepdad claiming that we could be sick and my mom's studying that
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someone will come looking for that. At eight years old, I had no idea what weed was,
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but judging by my parents' reaction, I assumed we had just won the lottery. I began fantasizing about all of Barbies and candy I would buy.
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And you'd want to buy, too. That's right. My mom won the argument, and my stepdad let go of the crate and grumbled.
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We'll never have another opportunity like that again in our lifetime. He barely got the words out before, boom!
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Another crate of weed hit our boat. again, again, the arguing ensued. And again, my mother won.
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I don't, that would be so hard to turn down, right? I don't know though, because that is, the mother's right.
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You're, you're inviting either. You're going to get put in jail because they, they think the drug drop, drug drop was for your boat.
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Right. Or there's going to be drug dealers. Well, they didn't know it was a drug drop.
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Hold on. I should finish this. Okay. About 10 minutes later, a speedboat came racing towards us from one of the islands.
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My parents thought for sure that it was the owner of the weed and that we were about to be in deep shit.
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Luckily, it was a sweet native man who warned us that we were in the middle of a drug zone or a drop zone and get the hell out of there because the drug runners were watching us with binoculars from the nearest island.
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Apparently, planes would drop the crates and the current would move them between the islands.
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We thanked the man, pulled our sail down, put the engines into high gear and hauled ass out of there.
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Stay sexy and keep out of drop zones. Can't wait to see you in San Francisco. Linda.
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yeah you know what that's the thing to think of is what if you're being watched yeah what if you're
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being watched by the worst case scenario person that could be watching you all i can think of now
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when i hear of someone finding shit like that like and the thing is when you're finding drugs
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it's different because then you have to sell them to make any money and it's like you don't do that
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there's all kinds of ways to get fucked up in this book something in the water they find something
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else and it's all I can think about is like remember in the movie where he finds the movie with
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Josh Brolin Josh Brolin he finds a bunch of money and there's like a tracker in the money
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of course there's a tracker that's all I can think of course there's a tracker of course there's someone watching from another island
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it's not like you found a suitcase of pot you found a crate of pot two thank god the mom is smart
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right thank god for moms okay here's our last one um i'm gonna save this subject line for you
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because you're gonna like this one a lot okay okay i'm so excited dear georgia karen steven
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and pets long time listener first time writer in her now that you guys um are just reading anything
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cool i thought i'd share this fun fact about steven king and a prison here in maine i'm a
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law student in my first year of school here in maine and i've lived for uh where i've lived for
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eight years. Stephen King grew up in Durham, the town next to my town, although he now has a
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residence up in Bangor. It's said that the town influenced the settings for the body, aka Stand
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By Me and It. And yeah, the influence is pretty obvious to those who've been there. Being a third
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year law student is, part of being a third year law student is that you can get sworn in to practice
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law if you have a supervising attorney who will let you practice under their bar number. I was
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lucky enough to land a job at our school's coveted legal aid clinic and for the past few months i've
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been making weekly trips to the local prison to assist prisoners with legal needs the prison has
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operated since 1919 and houses around 700 prisoners i have to wait for the guards to buzz me through
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about five gates on my journey through the sally port and the yard which always makes me feel
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exposed and uneasy until i get to my destination the prison library the prison library is a
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protected, quiet place that I can meet with my prisoner. It has its own real librarian, not a prisoner, walls of new magazines, and enough rows of books to resemble a shabbier, slightly more grim, independent hipster bookstore.
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And when you walk in, there's an unassuming plaque posted about waist high that declares the library to be a gift of Stephen and Tabitha King.
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Cell phones are not allowed in prisons under penalty of death or I'd send you a photo.
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Startled, I asked my supervising attorney about the plaque. A white-haired old-timer who knows everyone and everything, my supervisor told me that King donated the library because he wanted prisoners to practice literacy, not be bored.
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Hello, prison. And since the prison setting in Shawshank Redemption netted him so much, he wanted to give back to Maine prisons.
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The old Maine prison, which actually influenced King for Shawshank, closed in 2002.
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I tried to find out more information on the Internet about his motivations for the gift, but only found silence.
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The Kings do operate a foundation that awards grants for libraries around the state.
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However, I could not find any mention of the prison in their many proud press releases of grants to colleges, local libraries, medical centers, etc.
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It seems that the prison library is a little Easter egg that King planted, known only to those who pass inside the prison walls.
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Thanks for the podcast. I wish I could share more stories with you. And boy, oh boy, do I have some.
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But confidentiality privilege and professional ethics prevent me from doing so Keep up the great work And I hope someday that you do a show up here in maine jamie lynn oh my god isn that the fucking greatest that amazing steven and tabitha king
00:25:32
yes and on the heels of that we we should say this a bunch of people have been recommending
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this podcast i don't think we've talked about it um there's a new podcast called ear hustle
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and it is produced and hosted by guys that are in San Quentin. I didn't know this.
00:25:52
It's amazing. It's amazing. I listened to it a couple days ago, and it's just stories about guys that are in there,
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and the hosts are really interesting and funny, and obviously some of it's really sad and really upsetting,
00:26:06
but it's called Ear Hustle. You have to listen to it. Holy shit. It's a very, I think it's very fascinating the way like prison reform and stuff like all these things are coming up culturally right now that are so important.
00:26:20
And it's such a great idea. I have a feeling Phoebe Judge has something to do with this podcast.
00:26:26
I was going to say that sounds not unlike a criminal style. I think it might be from Radiotopia.
00:26:31
I could be wrong, but I think it is. And it's just so good. And the stories are so fascinating.
00:26:36
And some of them are heartbreaking. And you should listen to it. Ear Hustle. It's a good way to make to make the like prisoners who aren't there for, you know, violent offenses have kind of we see them as humans instead of just prisoners.
00:26:48
That exactly right And also the people who are there that should not be there Right Like we Oh my God Like we all everybody likes to think you know they like to it easy to just generalize
00:26:58
and then kind of put it out of your mind. And I think it's very humanizing and it's important and cool.
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Yeah. I love that. That's great. Yeah. And we love Stephen King. How badass is that?
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He's an angel baby. On top of the fact that he wrote all of Cujo Blackout Drunk.
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That's right. Which is the most amazing. That's one of Jesse Pop's jokes. Yes. That's right.
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it's in his uh jesse pop our friend who's a comedian has an album of comedy and it has a
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joke about stephen king writing kujo blackout drunk yeah and the only thing that jesse's ever
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Episode Highlights

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    HomeServe simplifies unexpected home repairs with just one call. Join millions of satisfied customers.
    “HomeServe is an easy way to handle unexpected home repairs.”
    @ 00m 43s
    September 10, 2018
  • Madison Reed: Revolutionizing Hair Color
    Madison Reed offers salon-quality hair color with ingredients that care for your hair.
    “The future of hair color is here at Madison Reed.”
    @ 02m 03s
    September 10, 2018
  • Addison's Creepy Playground Encounter
    A young girl's innocent playground fun turns into a shocking revelation about her neighbors.
    “They had a goddamn meth lab in the basement.”
    @ 07m 29s
    September 10, 2018
  • A Surprising Drug Drop Experience
    A family sailing trip turns into a moral dilemma over crates of weed.
    “We'll never have another opportunity like that again in our lifetime.”
    @ 20m 33s
    September 10, 2018
  • Drug Drop Zone Encounter
    A close call with drug runners leads to a warning from a native man.
    “Luckily, it was a sweet native man who warned us.”
    @ 21m 14s
    September 10, 2018
  • Stephen King's Prison Library
    A law student shares insights about a prison library donated by Stephen King.
    “The library is a gift of Stephen and Tabitha King.”
    @ 24m 10s
    September 10, 2018
  • Podcast Recommendation: Ear Hustle
    A new podcast from San Quentin shares fascinating stories from inside prison.
    “It's amazing. You should listen to it.”
    @ 25m 50s
    September 10, 2018

Episode Quotes

  • Forget everything you know about hair color.
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  • You're smart beyond your 13 years.
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  • Stay sexy and be suspicious of accommodating neighbors who keep strange hours.
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  • Stay sexy and keep out of drop zones.
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  • Thank god for moms.
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  • He's an angel baby.
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  • Unexpected Repairs00:36
  • Hair Color Revolution01:07
  • Creepy Encounter17:35
  • Drug Drop Dilemma20:03
  • Drug Drop Zone21:14
  • Stephen King's Gift24:10
  • Podcast Discovery25:50

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