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MFM Minisode 83

August 13, 2018 /

This episode features Claressa Shields and Wanda Sykes discussing Shields' boxing career, Sykes' new movie Undercard, and the art of trash talk.

Claressa Shields, the undisputed boxing champion, shares her experiences in the ring and how she approaches competition. She emphasizes the importance of mental strength and preparation in her sport.

Wanda Sykes discusses her new film Undercard, which explores themes of identity and empowerment. She shares insights into her creative process and the challenges of being a comedian in today's world.

The conversation also touches on societal expectations of women in sports and entertainment, highlighting the need for authenticity and self-expression.

Listeners can expect a blend of humor and serious discussions as both guests reflect on their journeys and the importance of breaking stereotypes.

TLDR

Claressa Shields and Wanda Sykes discuss boxing, comedy, and breaking stereotypes in their careers.

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This is exactly right. Hard seltzer instead of beer. Would have hit a BOGO. Well, then you got it.
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Listen to Soccer Moms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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How much do you weigh, Wanda? Right now, I'm about 130. I'm at 183. We should race.
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No, I want to leave here with my original hips. On the podcast, The Matchup with L'Aleah, I pair prominent female athletes with unexpected guests.
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On a recent episode, I sat down with undisputed boxing champ, Claressa Shields, and comedian Wanda Sykes to talk about Wanda's new movie, Undercard, the art of trash talk, and what it really means to be ladylike.
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Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports Network. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast.
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This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime.
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The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything.
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I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hi. Welcome. Hello and welcome. It's the Minisoad. The mini-sode of the My Favorite Murder podcast.
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That's that podcast you listen to. You're listening to right now. It's a short version where we read your stories of your hometown murders and also a bevy of
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any other things we find interesting. Madness. Mayhem. Grandparents. Grandparents.
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We love a grandparent story. That's it. You want to go first or want me to go first?
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I love to go first. You do. Let's do it. It's a control issue. The subject line of this is my roomie, the moony.
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Okay. Awesome. Fun. Hello, Stephen, Karen, Georgia, and Assorted Pets. Great. I was listening to one of the old minisodes, and I heard you guys mention the Moonies.
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My first college roommate and her family were and are Moonies, or unificationists, as they
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prefer to be referred to. It's like a religion. It's like a culty religion. It's a fucking straight up cult.
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Okay, great. But I think that when you're in it, you're like, this is my religion.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure. I actually learned a lot about the church the first couple years of college, 2013 to 2015.
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So this is recent. Yeah. Because she was and still is one of my closest friends.
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Her parents got married because they were personally, quote unquote, matched together by the Revan Sung Young Moon.
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Her dad was Jewish, but ended up converting to unificationism. Must have been one of those spaghetti dinners, LOL.
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I remember that. And his parents regularly sent people to try to unbrainwash him for the first couple of years, but to no avail.
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I'm pretty sure they ended up disowning him. One of the big things in the church is that unmarried people were not allowed to date, but instead had to engage in a, quote, matching process.
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This meant you had to decide you wanted to get married and your parents, the church, would work together to find someone who also wanted to get married.
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and they would quote unquote match you and the two of you would quote unquote date i know it really
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does the two of you would date and with the expectation that you would get married within
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a year or so i mean shit dude like half the fucking ladies i know are like sign me the fuck
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and i'll eat spaghetti and get matched with someone that's all i have to do that's all i
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have to do but here's the thing all you want is your friends to like the best dating option is
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someone saying i have a friend you're really gonna like yes and not enough people fucking do that
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everyone get on that it's all I do I'm always wrong it's true but you try a lot I try hard
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you try with old old Miss Havisham over here where George is always like now have you ever thought about this
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what the hell where I'm like I don't think of anything anymore tell me your perfect person
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and they'll be like who do I know that's like that yeah no I'm there she also likes to run scenarios
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if I do have a crush on somebody and I'll just say a dumb thing oh then she'll be like
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here's what we're gonna do if he walked in okay here's what we're gonna do we're gonna have a party
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and then when he walks by I'm gonna shove you really hard you're going to clonk heads with him which at first here's my problem when we start to do that
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i laugh and think it's funny and then when the party starts right i begin a slow terrible panic
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and end up in the furthest back corner and i won't move and you can feel the heat coming off
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of karen because of her embarrassment it's when you mention it oh my god it's the best i can't
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i don't understand how people flirt genuinely and earnestly with other people i've never dated
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someone that I haven't like hit on when I met them cold turkey. I'm gonna have to take your
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class. You just gotta be you gotta act like pretend you have to like conjure someone.
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I conjured my mom because she's a fucking slutty flirt. I love Janet. And I'm just like, what's up?
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I'm hot and you know it. Like, let's talk. You have to do you have to conjure someone you know.
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I don't see the idea of it. I get because as we said a million times, my flirting technique is
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furrow my brows and act like either I didn't hear what they said to me or I didn't like what they said to me and turn around.
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Yes, walk away. I'm from the 90s. I bet it works. I bet so many guys have crushes on you because of that The problem is whether it works or not I never know i never fucking know when i been i fucking walked into our friend megan gans birthday party across the room shout out megan gans she also loves endeavor she the best walked across the
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room saw a fucking tog dude in a fucking uh ben sherman shirt and was like i'm gonna talk to that
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motherfucker tonight he and i made eye contact he doesn't remember and but he came over later
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was like hi i'm vince and we just fucking hit it off immediately like so you were you were given
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the old janet eye across the room so then he knew to come over yes yes and they saw me talking to
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our friends and was like came over yeah you gotta and then when you shake hands you just like give
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it this little look this like batty eyelash you're fucking jessica rabbit you're jessica rabbit no i
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am that's who you're conjuring oh god sorry cut all of this out i love it no no no i love it but
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I'm also now I'm sweating. I can feel your heat. I'm so you know what it is. Pretend you're someone
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else for a minute. It's true. You know what if I could wear sunglasses at night. Girl they're
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called bangs and they work just as well. Here's the thing you know what worked great for me for
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so long. Your giant tits. No. When Georgia just said your giant tits to me she also looked at me
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the way she was talking about looking at someone. You gave me a little downward eye.
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I looked at your tits. I'm sorry. It worked. I've had three wines. Listen. Look.
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Look and listen. I'll do both. Okay, this is turning into a... That makes me laugh so hard
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because being a blackout drunk for all the time where I should have been practicing
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all stuff like this, I think I was doing stuff like that. I just don't remember.
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Yeah, great. That's like better because remembering it the next day is a horror show.
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Right. So you already did it. You're already there. You're practiced. Yeah. Listen, you're Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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Darling. And then I slap them across the face. Slap them across the face. I'm going to start slapping cops and see if that works for me.
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Okay, sorry. Go on. We're in the middle of an email right now. I mean, this is being recorded.
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I love that this is being recorded and distributed. Steven, you do send these out, right?
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Okay, thank you. So what if... Okay, go on. Steven's our caretaker. Go on. We ended with the idea that basically you tell the head of your cult that you would also like to be married, like your 1000 friends match.
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So basically, so this other person would like to be married, you meet. And my point was, imagine the moment of like having to walk through that door where you're looking at this person.
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And any impression you have, you're also like, and I have to marry this person. Yeah.
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It's not even like, just go and have coffee. It's no big deal. Yeah. You have to marry them.
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Yeah. It's very high stakes. Very exciting. Pass. So next time you are in a bar, be like, well, at least I don't have to marry this person.
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I can go talk to whoever I want and I never have to speak to them again. It's not like it's the Moonies.
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That's what it is. There's no fucking stakes. There's no stakes. Thank you, Georgia.
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You're welcome. I'm good at this. Then you, okay. So then you had to go to a special mass ceremony.
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I've seen these on TV. In the 80s, they used to show it on the news like every six months.
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I'd be like, the Reverend Moon had a ceremony for this unification church. And it was a huge room with literally 1,000 or 2,000 people all wearing the same shit, all getting married at the same time.
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Romantic. So insane. So romantic. I mean, romantic. So then you'd have the mass ceremony to get married within the church.
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But afterward, you'd have to get a marriage license and get married in a courthouse to get those sweet, sweet tax breaks.
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Oh, because it wasn't legal? Okay. Well, it wasn't necessarily real until they got their certificate.
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Sure, sure, sure. They still had to do the government work is what this person was saying.
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Both my roommate and another one of her siblings were involved with something called Generation Peace Academy after high school.
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Good band name. Oh, my God. Right? Yes. Basically, they spent a year traveling around the country and raising money for the church, which means they were raising money so that Reverend Moon could buy guns and ammo.
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The magazine? and lived out of cars and had to learn to survive camping out in the wilderness.
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Pass. Hard pass. Fun. You lost me. Marry a stranger. I never knew all the fucked up shit that happened with the Moonies.
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I experienced them as regular people whose Christianity was just a little weirder than what I grew up with.
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That's really open. Yeah, it's true. My former roommate, well, because I bet her roommate was cool and she liked her.
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Totally. My former roommate and her siblings no longer believe in the teachings of Reverend Moon,
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but like her good sons and daughters, pretend to for their parents. Aw, don't do that.
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Though none of them are planning on getting matched. LOL. Stay sexy, and sometimes you can't call your dad because he's in the cult too.
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K. Amazing ending. Like, that was a great bring back around. That was a profesh letter.
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That was great. Thank you so much, letter K. Okay, I want to read this one because it's a corrections corner from a hometown.
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Oh, great. And I really appreciate this is from Beck. And I really appreciate Beck putting herself out here, out there and here and everywhere for us.
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And like, it's a safe fucking space. You can you can be wrong where we always are.
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Please. This is called. Oh, shit. Detective Dad was wrong about the dingo. Oh, OK.
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Karen and Georgia, all caps, exclamation mark. It's me, the daughter of the dingo ate my baby, detective.
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so remember two episodes ago i did the dingo baby and i was like there was even a like how it was so
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divided in australia whether the dingo did it or the mother did it um and even the head of the
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detective's like daughter wrote it and i was like we all know wink wink that she did it and i was
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like nobody knew well this is fucking this is her writing us great she says it's me i'd like to
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apologize for perpetuating the bullshit quote lindy did it theory i had no idea how wrong it was because I always been scared to look into it because since i was a kid the whole family had has been banned from talking about the case yeah my brothers were sent to their rooms for asking too many questions love you brothers
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and we promptly left a few dinner parties when a drunk aunt finally sipped enough courage to
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broach the subject anti-georgia what's up hey what's up whenever someone brought it up my dad
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would coldly say, I did better work elsewhere and nothing else. I always assumed
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my dad just thought that Lindy did it and didn't want to be questioned and being the scary, quiet
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father figure, I sure as shit did not want to question him on it. Absolutely. Now you guys have opened that door to that
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information and then parentheses and him being mostly deaf and unable to listen to this podcast.
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I realized that we were probably not We were probably not allowed to talk about it because dad knew he really fucked up.
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But instead of admitting it, he just inflicted a cone of silence on the family for over 30 years.
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Go, dad. Yeah. She wrote that. I didn't say that. But I support it. Yeah. It's very crazy to think the old man that enthusiastically plays peekaboo with my one-year-old nephew was doing some real shady shit in the 80s.
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Everybody was. I mean, thank you for all that you do. And also for teaching me that you never stop learning your parents are flawed humans.
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SSDGM Beck. And I just want to say how fucking impressed I am that you can like admitting that you fucked up and making light of it and being okay with it and wanting to learn more is the fucking most powerful thing you can do as a human being.
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It's the only thing you're supposed to be doing on the planet. And it's the way you make connections with other people.
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That's right. Right. And listen, it's a hard thing to do when your parental imprinting has been don't look at anything you may have done and never talk about it.
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So like I get that idea of just going, we know what the real story is. And hopefully she didn't feel attacked or called out or anything because that wasn't what we were trying to do.
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It's just almost like I didn't know. I didn't know either way. And so and there's no reason she should have been like questioning it from the beginning.
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You know, no. And it's the thing of like, you know, it's like one of the hardest things in life.
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And this happens earlier for some of us than others is realizing your parents are human beings that have biases that have biases and flaws.
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Yeah, it's really hard. And no one wants to question it or admit it because it kind of shakes your entire foundation.
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Yes. At whatever age you're at. Also, I think we've talked about this and I think everybody that's in a true crime knows this already.
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But the police have such a shitty fucking job. Yeah. Because basically they have to be hitting three pointers the entire time under incredibly high pressure.
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And if like and if they get into a thing where they're they get led down the primrose path of like, oh, we heard their seventh day Adventist.
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And nobody knows about that. and that is associated with the devil. And everyone wants this solved immediately
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and the quickest it can be done and we need to prove that we're taking care of our community.
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Like, let's just, you know. Yeah, you're just making the call that at that point you can make.
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You're doing the thing you can do. Yeah, like when police coerce a confession, they're not trying to just solve the case and get a confession.
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They think that the person who's confessing actually did it and they're getting a confession out of them
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because they're doing their hardest. They don't see it the same. I mean, whatever.
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Yeah, it's just, yeah, we get it. And way to go back. And it also makes me feel good
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that we've created this community where saying something like this is a safe space.
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And that's, I think it's supported and celebrated. And I think it's really being wrong is okay here.
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And so I appreciate her being part of that. It's, it means a lot to me. I'm so into being wrong.
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I do it all the time. I do it just so I can admit it later. Okay, so the subject line of this one is found in the wall.
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These never get old for me. Amazing. Go. Hi, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, felines and canines.
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Great. Oh, that's the first one of that. Never really thought about the fact that it kind of rhymes.
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First of all, I love the podcast. Second of all, I once found some fucked up shit in the wall of an old house.
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Here we go. Here we go. Several years ago, my dad was buying old Victorian houses and fixing them up and flipping them.
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Yes. Cool, dad. So cool. You know, before the whole housing bubble burst. Yes, I do know about that.
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Got it. Oh, I was underwater in my own home. One house he bought needed a bad gut job.
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The dining room was covered in this wonderful 1970s wood paneling, and every bedroom had a different, incredibly ostentatious wallpaper.
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Ugh, my dream. Please show me 17 pictures of that. I love wallpaper. I love wallpaper.
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I love it. Do you remember the store Wallpapers to Go? Oh, my God, yes. In the 80s, 70s, 80s?
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and you can go down there and they just had a it was like a store filled with wallpapers on the
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wall it was to go you'd order to go no but i do and wallpaper is making a comeback the secret is
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you get a really tacky crazy wallpaper but you only wallpaper one wall with it and you paint
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the rest of the walls like a light you know complementary color yeah everyone and it becomes
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your fascinator wall follow my design blog it's called wallpapers to go by georgia by georgia
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um the room i was living in was covered in gigantic blue and lime green flowers 100 on board hard to
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sleep while pulling down the wood panel aggressive yeah it's like yeah it's like when we all my
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sister and i got to pick our paint wall color um when we were in the house where i heard the dog
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outside my bedroom window uh i wanted it to be kind of a nice moss a light moss green it was
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fucking neon lime green. To the point where I feel like, you know, they do those studies where if you paint the wall
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a certain color has psychological effects I am 1000 sure that it made my experience as a 12 to 14 year old much more painful than it needed to be zap that brain of yours okay back to whatever this show is
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okay he's pulling down the fucking while pulling down the wood paneling in the dining room we
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discovered a hole in the wall my dad comments that it was so lazy of the previous owners to just
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put paneling over a hole in the drywall instead of repairing it. But I looked inside the hole and it,
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and found a very old manila envelope. It wasn't a million dollars inside, but it was two very old eight millimeter film rule rolls,
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reels, sorry, unmarked. Naturally, I assumed it was a snuff film. Sure. Wouldn't we all?
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So I called a friend that worked at a video production company and asked him, what to do with these film reels.
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Bring them down immediately. I have to know what's on them, he tells me. Love you.
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Love you. So the next day, I drove to his studio and cleaned the film with cotton and baby oil,
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trying to restore them. I think it was supposed to be he cleaned, whatever. My friend told me we'd only get one viewing out of them
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because the film was so deteriorated. Oh, my God. So I call a few more buddies, and we had a screening party.
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What was on the film? They're all dead now. What? You want to do a guess? What was on the film?
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Snuff film. Oh, you think it was a snuff film? Yeah. Steven, what do you think was on this film?
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Mustache porn? Just childhood memories? No, it was homemade porn. Oh! From the 1960s.
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Holy shit. Judging by the woman's plastic and unmovable gigantic hair and the man's...
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That's not what I thought you were saying. And the man's impressive mustache. and the room they were in had gigantic no floral wallpaper my bedroom
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amazing so good freaked out i returned home and talked to the elderly woman who lived across the
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street she'd been in her house for about 40 years at that point and i asked her if she remembers the
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people i described from the film and you know they had a giant bush she's like oh yeah yeah yeah i
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know her yeah oh sure she had a giant push god that thing was big um i uh she said that in the
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late 60s there was a pastor from the local church who lived there oh really he wasn't married so who
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was the mystery woman i still have the film reels but they're so badly damaged they can't really be
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viewed anymore anyway ssdgm and always watch mystery films found in walls annie annie fuck
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Annie amazing that was everything we need it to be I think I would prefer I mean obviously finding
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money is great bloody blah I think finding two film reels would make me go insane the thing of
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we'll only be able to watch this once yes almost it's like a it's like from a movie where you're
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like come on it's not a thing so everybody get down here yeah all everybody yeah and then it's
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exactly what you'd want it to be, which is fucking homemade vintage porn. Homemade porn. And if only
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that pastor knew that in 40 years, homemade porn would be a celebrated piece of the internet that everybody
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participated on. Everyone loves it. It's like not even real porn. Love it. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players
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and iHeart Podcast presents Soccer Moms. So I'm Leanne. This is my best friend, Janet. Hey.
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And we have been joined at the Hipsons High School. Absolutely. A redacted amount of years later. We're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips. This is a
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podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey
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with all the snacks and drinks. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a BOGO.
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Well, then you got them. Listen to Soccer Moms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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or wherever you get your podcasts. Your husband is not who you think he is. Your body is not what
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you saw it was. Your identity is formed by a secret history. I'm Dani Shapiro, and these are
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just a few of the stunning stories I'll be exploring on the 14th season of Family Secrets.
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And just then, we felt the plane turn in the air, so much so that the bags that were under people's
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seats just kind of flew into the aisle. Each week, we dive headfirst into the complex power of secrecy,
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how it shapes our identities and relationships and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves.
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My daughter, she's pretending she doesn't know but is trying to cook and feed me and keep me alive
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because I wasn't eating anything and me pretending like everything was fine. He kind of shoved me out of the way and said, move.
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And he went out the front door and he jumped in a car and drove off and that was the last time I saw him.
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Listen to season 14 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Joy is essential and it's also elusive. But now there's a new and exciting way to start your journey toward a more joyful existence.
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search Joy 101 and listen now. Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb is presented by CVS. All right, I'm going to skip to this one because so we're doing unboxing videos for the fan cult where we basically open presents that are sent to us from our fucking incredible, awesome, talented.
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Sometimes insane. Listeners like you, listener. And so this is from the one that's getting put up this week.
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That blew our fucking mind. It's going up. It's already. It's just. OK, so it went up Friday.
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Today's Monday. And so this is the letter that accompanied it. Hello, all. I am so thrilled to gift you my dad's original dare kit from 1994.
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And this harkens back to when I fucking told Karen about going to an estate sale.
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And on their website, one of the photos from the estate sale was the dare or like the drug kit that the cops would bring to the elementary school to show you all the dangers.
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and crazy scary drugs you could do in like this briefcase. This fucking chick sent hers to our, us.
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We have touched it. We have looked at it. It lives in my apartment. Yep. He was a DARE officer for 18 years and a cop for 26 years.
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Shout out to Officer Pete. It was collecting dust in his garage since he has now retired at the ripe age of 52.
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Goals, am I right? um so basically her dad let her send this to us as a gift thank you fucking steven walked in and
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uh had like packages from the p.o box and looked at us and like you just like hi how are you hugs
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whatever and he was like you're georgia you're gonna lose your fucking mind like he didn't even
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say hi steven said the f word oh i swear oh no um yeah i mean when i came i was like i can't it's
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like burning a hole in my pocket yeah i just wanted to see it too you know and i and we were
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all like let's record like that was our first uh no makeup recording because i was like just need
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to open we gotta do this yeah so first i wanted to thank you for creating this murderino community
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and for saving me from um hours of boredom at my desk job secondly here's a short hometown for you
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my above mentioned dad was the dare officer for a girl named christina long in danbury connecticut in 2002 she was in middle school and he said she seemed like a really
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happy kid. Unfortunately, she didn't have the greatest home life and that was around
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the time MySpace was getting popular. She used to meet up with a man later identified
00:26:02
as Saul Dos Rias. The police said that they had a few sexual encounters before the night
00:26:08
where he killed her She had been missing and they only found the body after he confessed But this case made national news because it was the first time that the internet had been used to meet someone that
00:26:20
resulted in their death. Wow. Oh my god. Lastly, my dad was also the one who started my true crime
00:26:27
obsession. I can clearly remember being in line at the grocery store at about 11 or 12 and seeing a
00:26:32
Who Killed JonBenet? People magazine cover. I turned to my dad and said, Do you know who killed
00:26:37
her? And he looked at me and said, yeah, everyone knows the brother did it. Whoa. It was just like
00:26:44
Karen's John Wayne Gacy bodies in the book experience. I had never even it had never even
00:26:49
occurred to me that people kill within their own families. I needed to know everything. Oh,
00:26:54
and also he told me that they actually still study the ransom note to show cops what deception looks
00:26:58
like. Wow. Things like the spacing, the amount of money that was asked for and the fact that it
00:27:05
sounded like it was being dictated, which I've never thought about that means it was fake as
00:27:10
fuck. My dad said he would be happy to call in to go over the dare kit and talk about police stuff
00:27:15
with you guys. I never like I just read this right now. I'm kind of scared for you guys to do that
00:27:21
because I know he will say something embarrassing about me. Fucking amen, girl. P.S. Due to a bad
00:27:27
fall off a horse in December 2017. New Year's actually. I had to have major spinal fusion
00:27:33
surgery and was in the hospital for a week and had to lay flat in bed for another three months
00:27:38
after. Yeah, your podcast absolutely was my escape and savior. Cannot thank you enough. The moment I
00:27:44
was conscious after surgery, I told my mom that I was not missing your live show. And I'm happy to
00:27:49
say that I made it to your Phoenix show. Whoa, that's where I live now with my mom back brace
00:27:54
and Walker all in tow. Wow. SSDGM Thea pronounced fee. And then it says stop here. Don't read my
00:28:03
contact info aloud but please feel free to reach out and then she put her thea thea i mean that
00:28:10
this is something i will carry with me for the rest of my life this is a straight fuck this drug
00:28:15
kit is a straight fucking in a fire grab your shit not just because it's something i've always
00:28:21
wanted but because you you asked your dad who this fucking probably celebrated cop to give it to a stranger and he said yes and you did it and i promise you it in good hands carry on i and steven will fucking take care of
00:28:34
it's never been in better hands pretty sure one of the fucking pills that they show is a pez
00:28:39
and another is a vitamin and that just brings me so much joy and one of them for uh all the oldies
00:28:45
out there like me one of them looks exactly like a contact cold medicine pill where it's it's like
00:28:51
red it's like a one of those things and it has tiny beads inside multi-colored beads and it's
00:28:57
just like this the action you know it just like explodes yeah and i was just like that's a cold
00:29:02
pill yeah but yeah tell us it's uppers downers or bennies or black beauties or whatever we'll
00:29:07
want to do them all yes um thank you tia like yeah that was great i'm i'm i can't tell you how
00:29:14
much this podcast means to me that someone would send that to us like that's just it's a dream it's
00:29:20
amazing yeah and so fun and guess what else is amazing this again we keep getting to tell you
00:29:27
cool exciting announcements and surprises right and this one is very cool because we
00:29:33
get to basically we're working with sony pictures on an upcoming film that is going to come out
00:29:41
and uh we're going to talk about that but um to do that we're going to dedicate a mini so to it
00:29:48
So we're going to, for you, we were going to ask from you to send us your stories of the reveal of somebody that you know that had a secret life.
00:29:59
Right. So next, this next, next Monday is going to be an episode dedicated to this movie called Searching.
00:30:06
And the, so we want stories of secret lives. And that's just a hint about what the movie is about.
00:30:12
We saw it. We fucking loved it. So send us your reveals of secret lives, whether it's someone found out about yours, you found out it was someone else's family members, fucking teachers, like this crazy reveal of a secret life.
00:30:23
And just remember that we want to we basically to get your your story read. Just think of it as you have to be in the top 10.
00:30:32
Yeah. So if you have a story where it's like, and it turned out that they were already married.
00:30:36
My cat was an outdoor cat and lived with six other people Actually that a good story Fucking tell us That sounds fun But we do want the craziest truest story of this And put in the subject line send it to myfavoritemurder at Gmail
00:30:51
and put secret life in the subject line, and then whatever else you want. Yeah, so Stephen can pull him easily.
00:30:57
We're very excited. It's going to be really fun, and be a part of it with us. Yes, we love it.
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Thank you guys for sending in your emails. Send whatever you want as well. Fucking yay.
00:31:07
Yay. Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis? Want a cookie? He said, I don't know.
00:31:20
Before NXIVM, Nancy Solzman wanted to help people. Being able to help somebody, it's probably the biggest motivator of my entire life.
00:31:28
She trained in something called neuro-linguistic programming. People loved our training.
00:31:33
Then, everything changed. Yeah, and they called it a cult. How does a method designed to improve lives end up in a cult?
00:31:41
A knife in the hands of a surgeon is an amazing tool. A knife in the hands of a murderer is a weapon.
00:31:48
Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:31:56
I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families.
00:32:05
Late one night, Bobby Gumpwright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything.
00:32:17
I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episode Quotes

  • It's a fucking straight up cult.
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  • Stay sexy, and sometimes you can't call your dad because he's in the cult too.
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  • It's the only thing you're supposed to be doing on the planet.
    MFM Minisode 83
  • You want to do a guess?
    MFM Minisode 83
  • Joy is essential and it's also elusive.
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  • It's like a knife in the hands of a murderer.
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Key Moments

  • Horrendous Lie01:13
  • Cult Discussion02:47
  • Film Discovery18:31
  • Unexpected Revelations19:39
  • Homemade vintage porn21:12
  • Joyful existence23:05
  • Unboxing DARE kit24:00
  • Secret lives reveal29:59

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