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This is exactly right. I'm Bailey Taylor, and this is it girl. This podcast is all about going deeper with the women shaping culture right now.
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Yes, we will talk about the style and the success, but we are also talking about the
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pressure, the expectations and the real work behind it all. As a woman in the industry, you're always underestimated.
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So you have to work extra hard in a way that doesn't compromise who you are and your integrity.
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You know, I like to say I was kind of like a silent ninja. Listen to It Girl with Bailey Taylor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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When you feel uncomfortable, what do you put on? Biggie. You put on Biggie when you feel uncomfortable?
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Because I want to get confident. This is DJ Hester Prince's Music is Therapy, a weekly podcast from me, a DJ and licensed therapist.
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It's Mental Health Month. Let's figure out what actually works. I didn't care about my life circumstance when I listened to that stuff.
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It didn't matter to me. This isn't just a podcast. It's unconventional therapy for you every day.
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Open your free iHeartRadio app, search DJ Hester Prince Music is Therapy and start listening now.
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I'm Anna Navarro and on my new podcast, Bleep with Anna Navarro, I'm talking to the people closest to the biggest issues
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happening in your community and around the world. Because I know deep down inside right now,
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we are all cursing and asking what the bleep is going on. Every week, I'm breaking down the biggest issues happening in our communities and around the world.
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I'm talking to people like Julie K. Brown, who broke the explosive story on Jeffrey Epstein in 2018.
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The Justice Department, through we counted four presidential administrations, failed these victims.
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Listen to Bleep with Anna Navarro on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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My favorite murder So don't try to take a fucking cut. Are you ready for the first email of my series of grandparents emails?
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I love it. By chance, not intentionally. By chance? Purely by chance. Okay. The first one is don't trust anyone, not even your own grandma.
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100%. Hello, all. Since we are now just talking about anything that might be funny.
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That might be funny. That's right. And lessons on trust. I thought I would take this time to tell you about my badass grandma,
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Bobby Jo. Bobby Jo. It literally makes my eyes water with tears of people talking about their
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grandma. Bobby Jo was my best friend. And yes, her name is actually Bobby Jo. Oklahoma,
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y'all. People used to ask if she was upset that we didn't call her by a normal grandma name to which she would reply.
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Don't care if they call me shit as long as they call me something. Oh my God. My dad would say,
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uh, just don't call me late for dinner. Classic. Don't. I love it. I have a story that I will try to make short
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that illustrates why Bobby is such a B-A-M-F. Badass motherfucker. I love it. And my total role model.
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When I was a small youth, thank God, not a giantess youth. Small youth. When I was a small youth,
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she took me to the park and tried to convince me to go down the slide, which might as well have been Mount Doom
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to my toddler self. She finally convinced me it would be okay by standing at the bottom with a promise to catch me with love and trust in my
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favorite person i overcame my fear for her to step out of the way i i overcame my fear only for her to
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step out of the way and let me eat an entire face full of dirt oh bobby joe after i stopped screaming
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bobby dusted me off gave me my most important life lesson this is a lesson regan don't trust
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anyone not even your own grandma what the fuck bobby joe harsh but really applicable to everyday
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life it's true it is you should touch your own grandma it's true it keeps you on your toes she
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also taught me that we only get one shot at life and then we have to constantly be looking out for
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our star player which is ourselves i like it i don't and an early lesson an early lesson of
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Fuck politeness. She shaped me into who I am and helps me SSDGM every day. Thanks, Regan.
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Regan. I love it. Regan. I love it. Sweetie baby angel. It's the best. She's right.
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She like, amen. I'm not arguing Bobby Joe. But in your lifetime, there's like going to be five people in like, let's say you live
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a hundred years that you should trust. True. One of them hopefully is your grandparent.
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If not, that's okay. There will be other people who you should. And I'm speaking from someone who trusts no one.
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Not one person. Yeah. And it hurts and is not healthy. But I will say this. And yes, maybe a toddler might have been too young of an age for that lesson.
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But I will say this. That eating a face full of dirt is going to happen at some point.
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And it's like Bobby Jo wanted to be there when it happened to her. So she could be like, all right, now pick yourself back up.
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That's how it goes. And I kind of like that. Is it pick yourself up or is it don't try ever again?
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No, no, no. It's just saying if you're going to do something, you can't expect people to stand there catching you and doing a bunch of shit.
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Like, be self-sufficient. But they egged you on. Come on. Come down. I guess I getting triggered a little because when my sweet baby nephew Joe was like a year and a half I was like I take him to the park It be great And I followed and like made sure everything was okay yeah and he went over to this slide which i now know was the big kid slide didn know but he walked over to it like it was his thing and he got on it
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and went down it and this fucking sweet man thank god was at the bottom of the slide and like one
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handed scooped him up before he fell face for like it was the big kids it was like the fight
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And I didn't know there was a difference between slides. Right. And you were just kind of standing on the side like, go for it.
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I was walking behind him and he was like, I'm going to go down this. I'm like, yay, great.
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Yeah. I didn't know. And then halfway down, I was like, oh, no, he's veering right off of this slide.
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Oh, he went over the side. He went over the side in this fucking lovely man. Thank you.
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Thank you. Fucking Jesus. And like, it was just like a little group of parents and they were all looking at me
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in horror. And I just went, I'm the aunt. And they're like, uh-huh. Yep. He left.
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But then my sister was like, it's really hard to break a kid. Yes. Thank God. You know, their teeth go up from their lips all the way up.
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And they get new ones. Yeah, that's right. I also, that happened to me one time.
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I took Nora to the park when she was two. And she was an early walker talker. So you would definitely trust her to like, you're just like, oh, you know how to do this.
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Don't do stupid shit. Yeah. And she did this thing where she ran up this ramp. And I was kind of walking next to her.
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but I was far enough away where I was like just watching her walk up the ramp. I was actually thinking of maybe taking a picture of her.
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And she got to a certain point on the incline and just fell backwards. And I somehow moved like six feet in an instant and caught her by the head and tilted her back up.
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And then she just kept going. And goodbye. She was just like the end. Parents, send us emails of stories of when you almost killed your kid.
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I know my mom dropped my brother in the very beginning and he like send us stories of almost like new parents sending like almost killing your kid.
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Oh, you mean like the time my mom tripped over my high chair and knocked it over and I went down face first and it cut my head open.
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That one. And I still that's that scar right there. Holy shit. And she thought she killed me.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Send us those. It's my turn. Oh, also. But also if it's some kind of please do not veer into weird child abuse.
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you know there's people who have been scarred for life because they work for america's funniest
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home videos and people send in things you're like this is funny right we put our kid in a thing and
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and yeah so we don't want to hear things where your family interprets hitting kids in the face
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differently than other people you know let's have some uh let's have some healthy parameters
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healthy accidents it's accidents that your parents would never want it's not a thing we're like we
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are going to teach you a lesson by putting you in a hot car none of that kind of stuff your parents
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did on accident like just those those funny stories of like oh i didn't know what parenting
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was like and then i did this thing and now i get it put that down let me read you a story
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it's my turn i'm here for you okay you look like you're about to go again because i've talked so
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much okay this is called my friend was stabbed 22 times and my dad protected timothy mcveigh
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whoa okay mfm fam long time listener first time writer tipsy at a bachelor party last weekend i
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finally had the nerve to ask my friend if he would mind if I wrote in to you all about his story.
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To my delight, he gave me the green light. Last summer, my friend Dan was living in a house with
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some friends in his college town in Oregon. He had two roommates with their very own, nope,
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with their own rooms, and him and his girlfriend that was staying over where we're in his room.
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Okay, we get it. I don't have to read it correctly. Do you get it? I get it. One very early Tuesday
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morning this crazy guy that had a thing for dan's then girlfriend attempted to set the house on fire
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with everyone in it when the guy couldn't get the house uh to set fire thank you oregon rain
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he decided to break in grab the biggest knife he could find in the kitchen and began his attack
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this psycho went from room to room attacking each of the roommates before dan and his girlfriend
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were woken up by the commotion and ran into the hall to see what was going on when they entered
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the hallway, they too were attacked. My friend said everyone was kind of frozen in shock, unsure what to do,
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but him being the badass he is began trying to fight this guy off. All in all, Dan was stabbed
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22 times and sent to the ICU. Luckily, he and all involved survived. Whoa! 22 minutes!
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Was this on and I survived? I'll let you finish. Maybe. Because that sounds really familiar. Excuse me.
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The piece of shit that attacked them had just been released from jail a day earlier
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on bond for robbery and drug charges. And then it says, seriously, what the fuck?
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I wasn't sure which story to send since I knew and went to high school with Morgan Harrington,
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i.e. the murders of Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington by Jesse Matthew Jr. I don't know that one.
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And my family has a long list of federal agents and military officials. As a U.S. Marshal, my dad was once in charge
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of protecting Timothy McVeigh at a safe house before his trial. Jesus. That's intense.
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According to dear old dad, McVeigh was a total military wannabe douche that kept a military type
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crew cut and always answered with yes and no, sir, as if there were some, as if he were some type of soldier.
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Can't wait to see you on Portland in October. SSDGM, Carrie. That is so scary. But you can survive that.
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You can survive it. And he fought, like he basically stopped and kept everyone else alive too.
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He fought and saved the day and also got stabbed 22 times, but like made it. So that's just this right now, me touching your hand.
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I'm stabbing you one, two, three, four, five. Just a light fingernail. I don't even have long fingernails.
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She's using a kitchen knife. I brought this from home. Move. Don't move. Isn that upsetting Like 22 The repetition of it That what I always think of when I watch I survived and people keep talking about like and it ends up they were stabbed you know anything over four that the worst part is like there also time between each so it like not one two three it
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like one two three four fighting fighting down the hallway seven eight nine punch kick yeah 20
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fucking two that's nuts oh yeah good job all involved i'm so glad you're still alive me
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So now on a lighter note, true love at the morgue. Dear Karen, Georgia, Fur Babies, and Steven, they gotta do it.
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It's an act of rebellion now. I'm a relatively new murderer, you know, yeah, we can tell.
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And I just joined the fan cult yesterday. Yay! She wrote that there, but then I acted it out with my own passion.
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Great. I swear this podcast has changed my whole world. With all the stress and anxiety I face on a daily basis,
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I can always turn to this podcast for sometimes creepy but hilarious relief. For more stress and anxiety.
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That's right. You're welcome. But a different kind. So it's a counterbalance. So speaking of creepy and hilarious, I thought y'all would get a kick out of how my parents met.
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It was June 2nd, 1985 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My mom, who is a registered nurse now, was working one of her first graveyard shifts at the hospital.
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My dad was an orderly at the same hospital. I already love this so much. Oh, yeah.
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working to pay his way through college. It was around 1 a.m. when my dad was told to bring
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a deceased female body down to the morgue. According to the law, a male is not allowed to bring
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a dead female body down to the morgue alone. Because he's going to fuck her. Yeah. That's it. That happened so
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much that they had to pass a law. Is that in the rule? Because he's going to fuck her?
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No. Your exact quote. Oh my god. Isn't that, that's how much it happened that they had to pass a lot like that.
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Jesus Christ. Okay. Anyway, that's good. At least it got passed. Happy to hear it.
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Thinking she was being hazed at her new job, my mother was told to accompany him on the,
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what seemed like mile walk to the morgue, my dad could sense my mom's discomfort.
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And began to try to crack jokes to make her laugh. Oh, dad. As you can probably tell, this did not work.
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once they got into the morgue my dad uh again trying to be funny started to introduce the body
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to the other bodies in the morgue after this bit he turned around and my mother was gone
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oh my god like if they had never talked again he would have just been this creepy fucking dude he
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would have been the creepiest the absolute i don't then i almost got killed yeah um after about two
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months of quote unquote platonic breakfast dates and persistent flirting my mom dumped her loser
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boyfriend and went on an official date with my dad on august 26 1985 31 years later they're still
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as happy as ever and i couldn't be more blessed to have such awesome parents so shout out to 86
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year old name redacted without your death to emphysema my parents would have never met and i
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wouldn't be here today i hope you were happily resting in peace sexy stay sexy ladies and
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remember that you can find love and friendship anywhere literally love ariana they knew the guy
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that makes you want to cry like he like he lived a full life he was 86 he died of emphysema he was
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a lady she enjoyed smoking yeah a lot lived it up and lived to 86 as a smoker that's the thing about
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a lot of old-timer smokers like they live to be older than non-smokers hell yeah and they ate meat
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and drink whiskey every day and night exactly and then and then as her final go fuck yourself
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she like unites this beautiful couple she's like how about you two get together i'm a ghost
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hanging over my that's all you want to do if you're like i want my i want it to be a thing
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oh that's beautiful i like that really makes me want to cry it's why i'm on the donor list it's
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like take my heart and like run with it don't run too like don't run but okay good night i'm
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Anna Navarro and on my new podcast, Bleep with Anna Navarro, I'm talking to the people closest
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to the biggest issues happening in your community and around the world. Because I know deep down
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inside right now, we are all cursing and asking what the bleep is going on. Every week I'm breaking
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down the biggest issues happening in our communities and around the world. I'm talking to people like
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Julie K. Brown, who broke the explosive story on Jeffrey Epstein in 2018. The Justice Department
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through, we counted four presidential administrations, failed these victims. Listen to Bleep with Anna Navarro on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I'm Bailey Taylor, and this is It Girl. This podcast is all about going deeper with the women shaping culture right now.
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Yes, we will talk about the style and the success, but we are also talking about the pressure,
00:16:52
the expectations, and the real work behind it all. As a woman in the industry, you're always underestimated.
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So you have to work extra hard in a way that doesn't compromise who you are and your integrity.
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You know, I like to say I was kind of like a silent ninja. Listen to It Girl with Bailey Taylor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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When you feel uncomfortable, what do you put on? Biggie. You put on Biggie when you feel uncomfortable?
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Because I want to get confident. This is DJ Hester Prynne's Music is Therapy, a weekly podcast from me, a DJ and licensed therapist.
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It's Mental Health Month. Let's figure out what actually works. I didn't care about my life circumstance when I listened to that stuff.
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It didn't matter to me. This isn't just a podcast. It's unconventional therapy for you every day.
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Open your free iHeartRadio app, search DJ Hester Prince Music is Therapy, and start listening now.
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This is called, There's a Shitload of Skeletons Under My House. Uh-oh. Here we go.
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It starts, Let's Talk About Some Bones. My name is Sammy I 28 and I live in Helena Montana MT is montana yes it is and i think it helena helena montana great i bought my house just after my 22nd birthday which is clearly a montana
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thing like it costs 20 i bought my house fuck you uh and the neighborhood in which i live was built
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on an old cemetery that information by itself probably isn't that weird but in our it is but
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in our case, there's still around 1,600 bodies buried under our homes. Shit. So it was
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$20, that house. That's fucking right. The cemetery was established in the mid-1800s
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by the Catholic Church. It was used until 1905 when the church opened what was then and still is called
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Resurrection Cemetery. Don't fucking name a cemetery Resurrection. That's asking for it, for sure.
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It's called Ghost Haunting's Cemetery. It's called Zombie Central cemetery. It's called Good Luck Sleeping,
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You Fucking Asshole Cemetery. It's called Walking Dead 3, the Helena Montana chapter.
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It's about three miles north of my house. Naturally, the old gravesites fell into disrepair over the next
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60-ish years. God, I love those places. I mean. Becoming overgrown, vandalized, and almost indistinguishable
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from the properties around it. Okay. I want to live near one of those. My friend Kate in
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Portland had her her view outside of her front window was just a fucking old cemetery.
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It's like my dream. That's kind of amazing. Can you imagine going to get a glass of water in the middle of the night and just looking outside?
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I, you know, every once in a while I wake up because I wake up almost every night at 3am.
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Like every once in a while I'll respond to a text of yours if you send it at 1130.
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Mine is 5am. I've already, I've always already fallen asleep. Every once in a while I'll get a glass of water and my, I live on a dead end street.
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Like it's kind of far away. It's not near much. several times give them the address so they google it google map this every once in a while i'll go
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i'll just kind of step out to the front room just because i'm like just walking around with a glass
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of water and there's just somebody standing in front of my house oh shit i just scared the shit
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out of all this i apologize and he's pissed what the fuck it's happened twice where one time it was
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like it looked like a young person walking away but it was i was like just standing there going
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like it's three in the morning what are you doing and then one guy was it just was a guy standing
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there do you like memorize what they're wearing in case the cops need to hear from you you know
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what i do is i trust that george yeah she senses if she's not barking there's everything she's
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still asleep so i'm like i'm gonna trust this is fine i just scared the ever-loving shit out of
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elvis elvis is settling back into his spot right now going like don't fucking touch me again okay
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let me finish this please they didn't tell him okay all right here we go it's 1969 a local high
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School Booster Club took it on a quote, Catholic cemetery, took on the Catholic cemetery as a project
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and just fucking removed all the headstones and hauled them off according to one of my
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neighbors. We're going to clean this place up. This is our new project. Losing dead bodies. Just get rid of
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anyone who mattered to anyone. They didn't tell anyone where they were taking them, real shysty-like,
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and then turned the cemetery into a neighborhood park. Fucking 1969. This is the plot of Poltergeist, by the way. Truly! The swimming pool! Apparently, they contacted family members of those with Mark Graves, advising them to relocate their loved ones' remains, but less than 5% of them even responded, because they're like, hey, this is Sarah from the Booster Club.
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Do you have a truck to move your great-grandpa's body? Remove your great-grandpa's body! Or suffer the consequences.
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How is that my job? How is that my job 96 years later? And I love it. Like, Booster Club, do something this year.
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And they're like, we're going to move all the graves and make everything haunted.
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And give everybody a to-do list that's so macabre and bizarre. And expensive. And also then what?
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You're shopping for a new cemetery. Yeah, for a park in fucking, where is this? Montana, where there's parks everywhere.
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All right. Great. So they just mowed over that shit and called it Robinson Park.
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Dang it. There's been lots of remains unearthed by backhoes and excavators during utility work since the 80s.
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I'll attach just a few of the articles available in the city's archives. Instagram, what's up?
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Including one about someone just stumbling upon all those headstones that were originally removed and dumped in a gravel pit in our North Valley.
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One of my favorites from 1991 quotes my neighbor, Richard, Richard, saying that the cemetery residents are great neighbors whom he's never had any problems with.
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Oh, Richard. What's up, dad joke? Seriously. Richard's standing there with his hands on his hips.
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I've never had a problem. They've been so quiet. Oh, I love Richard. He goes on to mention that his side of the cemetery is where they buried children.
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So there's definitely babies buried on his property. Also, that quote, the park is an asset much better than a dirty old cemetery.
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And I'm Catholic. And then it says, what the fuck, dick? Anyway, the most recent skeleton was discovered on May 30th, about four feet under the street
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next door by workers doing utility work for the brand new condos being built real quick i hate
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people but i can't fucking wait to casually tell the new residents while i'm pretending to do
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something in my yard i'm worried dick is gonna beat me to the punch though he will thanks for
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all the laughs sammy sammy i love you getting over your fear of people and hatred of people
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to tell them as you're doing bullshit yard work about their sammy sammy amen uh right now i'm
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writing a horror film um and it's it's called haunted condo and you're the fucking star i mean
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can because can you imagine so they're building like a development on top of baby cemetery a
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disturbed baby cemetery and scary old richard next door is gonna like is like the two of them
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are fucking dying to tell literally dying to tell oh my god um i love it All I wanted was in my childhood was to be on top of a cemetery.
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Like, not really, but something interesting to happen. Something interesting and creepy.
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Yes. Okay, well, here's something similar. Okay. This is called Hair Rollers and Rigamortis.
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Hey, Karen, Georgia, and co. Loving it. You guys are the best. Thank you. Perfect start.
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In one of your earlier podcasts, you guys talked about being curious about rigamortis.
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I am. And thought you might want my rigamortis story that involves my grandma. Great.
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It's not a story about rigamortis setting in on my grandma. Don't worry. This is her story she told me.
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So, okay. My grandma was a beautician in this tiny town outside Wichita, Kansas.
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Cute. We're doing full-on Midwest hardcore grandma stories. And she was super well-liked in this tiny town.
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Everyone knew her. And every lady went to her to get their hair done. well one of her clients well one of her regular clients died natural causes all good the husband
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really wanted her hair to be set the same way as it always was uh so shampoo set motherfucker yeah
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so he asked my grandma to come to the funeral home to do her hair she agreed and went to the
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funeral home she was putting the hair rollers in her hair when all of a sudden the muscles
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start contracting and the body sits straight up from the table. No. It took my grandma two seconds to run completely out of the funeral home.
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My dad always told me that she ran through a screen door, but my grandma never told me
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that. No, she did. She did. She ran through an actual wall and it was the shape of her body.
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Exactly. It was a cartoon. Oh, but, uh, but that story has always brought a smile to my face.
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I love to think that sweet Christian woman just trying to do hair and a dead body sits up on her.
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But anyways, you guys are amazing. Thank you for what you do. Stay sexy. Don't get murdered.
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Casey L. Oh, my God. Incredible. And I mean, talk about I would never stop screaming.
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I would never for the rest of your life. That girl who fucking just couldn't stop screaming.
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But you the good news is she knew the lady. It wasn't like she worked for the Morgan.
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It was just some stranger's dead body. So it'd be like, if someone sat up, then you'd be like, Elaine, what is it?
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Elaine's coming after me, which is fine because she always has like nice cookies.
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That's right. And really good gossip. Maybe she has one last bit of tea to spill.
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She wants that shampoo set done right. She doesn't want it flat in the back. My grandma used to have me spray.
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My grandma every week for like since I for like the last 40 years of her life went to
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the what we called the shooty bop. It wasn't the beauty shop. We called it the shooty bop and got a shampoo set.
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And in between during the week would make me spray it. and also pluck out her chin hairs.
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Yeah. You know what I mean? So, yeah. Thelma, come on. All right. So we started doing unboxing videos for the fan cult.
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So basically, we get sent these incredible, like, crafty, interesting gifts from listeners,
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and we're opening them on a camera. Like, that's all it is. Yeah, you know, unboxing videos.
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It's fun. It's rad. And then you can see all the shit we get because it's really fucking cool.
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And we were trying to be a little tabloidy about the last one. And so the last one, we didn't wear makeup because we were just like, we're tired.
00:27:14
We have to shoot this thing. Who cares? Let's just do it. So you can get one of those It looks like it the National Enquirer where someone caught us at the gas station with no makeup on I like oh my God they such hags Yeah Yeah But so this one we got and we wanted to read the letter from it because it so lovely
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So, OK, it goes, dear friends, two years ago, Dana Marie, that's like her name, two years ago, Dana Marie would never write a letter like this or send a box like this.
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anxiety has lied to me my entire life convinced me i had nothing to offer that my ideas weren't
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valid my hard work in vain and my success temporary flukes i'm sure you hear this all the time but it
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bears repeating you three have changed my life steven i think that's you and not even you're in
00:28:01
you're in you're in it in november 2016 my friend suddenly asked me do you like true crime stuff and
00:28:06
it just says in parentheses yes please she told me to check the show out and i binged the entire
00:28:12
available catalog in just two days. Jesus. Whoa. But that was 2016, so it's not that bad.
00:28:17
It was only four episodes. Yeah. Oh, my God. She listened to one and was like, I don't really like this.
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And three days later, I guess I'll keep. Finding my people meant the world to me.
00:28:26
There were huge lessons being taught between the stories. The cases were interesting.
00:28:30
But for me, it was everything else that really mattered. My dad and I were always the, quote, weird ones who bonded over the first 48 and forensic
00:28:38
files. He passed his copies of Stephen King to me as soon as he finished them. Quiet, measured, empathetic, inclusive, feminist, and animal loving.
00:28:49
He was the person I felt most got me in the entire world. I couldn't wait to go home in a few months and introduce him to the podcast.
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Because you know I'd need to do all the techie stuff for him because dad. So she couldn't just tell him about it.
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Of course. Right. In February 2017, he passed away suddenly, and among other things, I'm sorry I never got to share you with him, because I know he would have loved you too.
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In the terribly, impossibly difficult time since I've lost him, I've worked very hard to honor his legacy,
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picking up on his reoccurring monthly donations to Planned Parenthood, ACLU, and St. Jude's,
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living each day as fully as I can and making a difference, saying thank you and I love you,
00:29:31
and shining my light, helping others to do the same. In November 2017, a full year to the day that I started listening to the show,
00:29:38
I bought myself a single ticket to your show in Tampa. I was in town to run my first ever run Disney 5K in honor of my dad,
00:29:49
Disney World being another thing we shared a love of. That same morning and capping it off with an MFM show seemed necessary.
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It was a last-minute decision that I tried talking myself out of, but I needed to do it, and the stars aligned,
00:30:03
and I'd missed the Baltimore show, and I could hear my dad's voice telling me not to put off the things that bring me joy.
00:30:08
So I went by myself. And I sat next to the sweetest murderino who walked me back to my car
00:30:16
with her boyfriend after the show. Aw. All caps. Because active serial killer. Oh, that's right.
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When we were in Tampa. When we were in Tampa, there was an active serial killer there.
00:30:26
That's right. So on theme. Thank you, Florida. That day, no exaggeration, was a turning point in my life.
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Doing things I wanted and needed to do and telling anxiety to fuck the hell off.
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Yes. My dad birthday is next week and it will be the second one we had without him I know I will be a wreck and I have been looking for ways to pay it forward in advance Maybe I could create a cloud of happiness to pad the empty space
00:30:50
So I wanted to say I love you guys. I love the work you do and the people you elevate.
00:30:56
I love the incredibly transparent nature of your ongoing efforts with your mental health.
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I love how you support and appreciate. I love how supportive and appreciative you are of the community that has sprung up around you.
00:31:07
I love that you don't feel I don't feel alone anymore. Wow. I could never adequately express
00:31:12
my gratitude with words. But as an artist, I find it pretty easy to do visually. I hope you love
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everything. Apologies to George and Frank for invading their privacy. Thank you for everything
00:31:24
SSCGM love and light Dana Marie and her so she makes this art. The shit she made for us
00:31:32
is like next level, like for the rest of my life. I will fucking cherish this. It's these like, they look like,
00:31:40
what do you put on the praying candles? Like an altar? Like, you know, like, yeah, like we're saints,
00:31:47
but we all have our pets around us and they're really beautiful. So go to at MightyPigeon underscore art
00:31:53
on Instagram to see all this stuff. And also watch the unboxing video, join the fan cult and watch the unboxing video
00:31:58
so you can see what she sent us. And you can see us lose our minds. but it's such beautiful stuff uh dana marie fucking like i can't believe she you know she
00:32:08
needs this needs to be her art for the rest of her life she's so talented like so incredibly
00:32:13
talented well and the cool thing too is that story we hear that story so much in the vip line
00:32:19
when we get to meet people after shows when they say i had two tickets my friend dropped out i
00:32:25
wasn't gonna come i did it anyway i can't believe i'm here i met this person and that person we're
00:32:29
You wait in the VIP line and you end up talking to people and now we're friends and we actually work in the same industry or whatever the fuck.
00:32:36
Yes. Like people, because they're murderinos in their own town, they're meeting everybody basically.
00:32:41
And it's like this. It's like a, it's a, it's a con for, for those people in that town.
00:32:48
I see that like that and the sipping, what are they called? Sipping paint? Oh, the, the, the like, yeah, drinking paint, wine and paint nights.
00:32:59
Wine and paint nights. there's like a bunch but it's called wine and paint night yeah i was like sip and spin
00:33:03
but a lot of people have these like they'll organize these like wine drink and paint nights
00:33:09
and they'll paint and a thing from you know from the podcast and it's like just such a beautiful
00:33:13
community and raise money usually like they just did they just did it and raised like 200 bucks in
00:33:19
um they just tweeted it to us i can't remember what city it was do you remember steven for and
00:33:24
the backlog it's like really incredible and they may and then like it's fun and like as someone who
00:33:28
like can't just show up to a thing and like you're supposed to talk like the painting part is really
00:33:32
cool yeah you have a little job to do yeah they're like game nights at bars where they'll be like
00:33:36
we're playing my favorite murder bingo it's not just like you have to try to talk to people well
00:33:41
and the people that are there like what we get excited about because it's people telling us
00:33:45
about it and then we just pass on the word to the other people but it's you don't have to break ice
00:33:50
you don't have to introduce yourself you don't have to fucking do anything because you're walking
00:33:54
into a room full of people that are just like you in terms of anxiety, in terms of wanting
00:33:58
to be there despite what their brain is doing to them And that how we relate to that so much And it is so exciting because I can tell you how often my brain is like stay home lay down You the only one here who is uncomfortable And everyone thinks like can tell you uncomfortable Like that
00:34:14
not true. In fact, it's the exact opposite. Everyone's uncomfortable. Dana Marie saying my
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anxiety fucking lied to me. It's a hundred percent true. That's all it does. Anxiety is a liar.
00:34:23
And it wants to quote unquote, keep you safe, which is keep you alone and isolate you so that
00:34:29
you don't have anything happen to you because you don't try yeah as if as if something bad's
00:34:35
always going to happen to you and so when you can just just test that just do do some tests and
00:34:40
prove to yourself it's not true yeah and make some friends along the way i mean what the fuck
00:34:44
paint a fucking picture or whatever it was in a woodenville washington was the latest paint night
00:34:51
oh yeah it was all the elvises yeah yeah that's right skulls they had themselves a time i want
00:34:57
them to send them all to me and I want this see this blank wall in my fucking apartment no I don't
00:35:01
actually see a blank wall are you calling me a fucking shopaholic no I just love it you're like
00:35:08
you you want them to send them all to we should actually take a picture right now of what this
00:35:12
loft looks like and the kind of shit Georgia has here is that a blank wall it is but I mean
00:35:18
so you're saying you want to appear as insane as you possibly can hey look it's your house 100%
00:35:25
It's your house. All right. Well, send us your stories, your weird shit. How did you almost get killed by your mom or dad?
00:35:32
My favorite murder at Gmail. And thanks for all your gifts. And thanks for these, your lovely words and the way you guys all are there for each other.
00:35:40
It makes us look real good. And stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, want a cookie?
00:35:48
Why? Good boy. 10-10 shots fired in City Hall building. How could this ever happen in City Hall?
00:35:55
Somebody tell me that. A shocking public murder. This is one of the most dramatic events that really ever happened in New York City politics.
00:36:05
I screamed, get down, get down. Those are shots. A tragedy that's now forgotten and a mystery.
00:36:13
That may or may not have been political. That may have been about sex. Listen to Rorschach, Murder at City Hall on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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00:36:32
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00:36:38
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00:36:43
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00:37:00
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00:37:08
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