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MFM Minisode 81

July 30, 2018 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features humorous and bizarre listener stories, including a pregnancy discovery linked to a podcast episode, a disturbing piano teacher tale, and a beef stroganoff mishap.

Listeners share their experiences, starting with Shay, who vomited in the bushes after a podcast episode about Typhoid Mary, only to later discover she was pregnant. The hosts, Karen and Georgia, humorously suggest naming the baby Typhoid Mary.

Another story involves a piano teacher who turned out to be a pedophile, revealed when contractors found a hidden camera in his home. The story highlights the importance of vigilance in seemingly innocent situations.

A particularly entertaining tale recounts a rehearsal dinner gone wrong when a great uncle's Cadillac was covered in beef stroganoff after he passed out. The family salvaged the situation by scraping the food back into the pot.

The episode combines humor with unsettling themes, showcasing the unique and often absurd experiences of the listeners.

TLDR

Listeners share bizarre and humorous stories, including a pregnancy discovery and a beef stroganoff disaster.

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Let's make podcasts magic. Bling. Hi. Hello and welcome. This is my favorite murder.
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The mini-sode. It's a mini episode. We read your emails. You fucking clap or roll your eyes.
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Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll go, why do I do this to myself? Sometimes you'll puke, which is a story.
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You want to get into it? Should I do that one first? Kick it off. I was going to do it last, but let's do it first.
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That's a nice, you just, you set yourself up with the perfect transition. And I never go first, so I was not expecting this.
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Yeah. I'm nervous. Oh, my God. It's so different. Okay. This is called Your Podcast Makes Me Sick.
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Surprise ending. Karen, Georgia, and gang, I love your podcast and everything about you, blah, blah, blah.
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The story takes place a few weeks back. I was still in my heavy binge listening phase, having only discovered the show in April.
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I hopped in my car to head to the dentist and put on an episode titled Proclensity.
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Yay. Still my favorite word I've ever made up. Georgia shares about Typhoid Mary, and I'm getting pretty grossed out.
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As I'm pulling into the parking lot, Karen says, I like to imagine Typhoid Mary sat in seclusion in her room on that island
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and fantasized about all the different things she'd like to put her hands in. Corn chowder, mashed potatoes.
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And the fantasy is both bare arms go up, go all the way in. Still love that. It's great.
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It's very fun to hear back things we've said. because we've done so much talking.
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That's a good feeling. Don't remember it. It sounds hilarious. And she said, that did me in.
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I promptly pulled into the nearest space, opened my door and vomited in the bushes.
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I had driven all the way though and had been looking forward to having my teeth cleaned.
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So I decided to just brush my teeth in the bathroom and hopefully not throw up anymore.
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As I sat in the waiting room, I began contemplating and decided I should probably ration myself to one episode a day.
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four to six is too many. The hygienist calls me back and we exchange nice how have you beens when
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she pulls out the x-ray vest. That's when it hits me. I gasp. I gasp so loud the guy in the next room
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asked what type of work I was having done and then inform the hygienist that I can't have x-rays
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because I think I'm pregnant. She says you think you're pregnant? I then explain how I threw open
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the bushes and they usually have a pretty strong stomach. She shrugs and we skip the x-rays.
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I call my husband as soon as I leave and tell him about it. He picks up a test on the way home, and you guessed it.
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Murderino Bambino on the way. Thank you for making me sick enough to figure out I was pregnant.
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Your friend in the bay, Shay. Shay, you have to name that baby Typhoid Mary. Or X-Ray.
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Typhoid Mary would be such a cute name. Oh, we saved that baby from X-Ray. That's right.
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X-Ray Rays. With our gross imagery. You're welcome. baby mary uh that's so touching i know because i thought i absolutely thought it was gonna go into
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i had food poisoning i did totally did too right and maybe part of me wanted it to be that maybe
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it'll be fun now let's tell food poisoning stories they're my favorite i do too because i've never
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had it you haven't i don't think i've i've gotten sick before from food but i don't think i've ever
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had like legit food poisoning i've only had it twice in the most recent time let me just be a
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little gross for one second so if you think you might be pregnant pull over because but it's not
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that gross what if people are just like i'm i might be pregnant but i'm not gonna they just
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pull over all these pregnant people it's just everyone off the freeway yeah um i was eating
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dinner at casitas del campo which is this awesome um mexican restaurant in la in uh on hyperion
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and they do amazing shows downstairs which is where and of course i've talked at length about it
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Golden Girls Live takes place. But upstairs is this old school Mexican restaurant.
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So I was sitting there with I believe it was Chip Pope my friend Chip Pope I can remember And in the middle of this dinner I start farting in a way that like it quiet and stuff
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Only I know it's happening. Oh, my God. But the first one, I almost laughed because I was like, wow, that was a lot.
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Like a public fart. But then it keeps happening for the rest of the dinner. Oh, my God.
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And it was, like, really long, drawn out, where I was like, I don't think I've ever experienced this before.
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It's like more farting than not farting. Oh my God. And then I went home and began the worst bout of food poisoning that I'd ever experienced
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to the point where I almost thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. I have to say that it wasn't from Casita del Campo.
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No, no, no, no. It takes like 24 to 48 hours for whatever you ate to give you food poisoning.
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And in fact, in doing that math, it is a business that's now shut down. Remember those fresh and easy grocery stores that used to be all over LA?
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Oh yeah. they're like weird shrimp salads and stuff yes i got a chinese chicken salad and when i did the
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math i was like it was that cabbage filled chinese chicken salad and i haven't been able to eat
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anything with cabbage in it since good because it was so horrible i wouldn't either i'm not going
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to either that was one of the grosser stories i could have told it was just a farting story but i
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mean those you know when you have food poisoning because the farting approach and style is unlike
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Like anything, like if you are sitting anywhere and the farting becomes long, long and powerful,
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get it, get indoors, get to a bathroom. I mean, if a fart ever surprises me of all fucking people, something is truly wrong with
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my gastrointestinal more so than it already is because, okay, go. We really kicked this one off.
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Well, here we go. Halo. It can only go uphill from here. Okay. Let's see. We'll start with this one.
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Hometown story, piano teacher nefariousness. Never trust a piano teacher. I mean, this one is.
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Dear Karen, Georgia, Stephen, Stephen. And that's Stephen spelled both ways. I grew up in a small town bordering the Jersey Shore.
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Parentheses. I apologize on behalf of all Italian Americans from New Jersey for anything annoying we have
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ever done ever. Close parentheses. When I was a kid, my mom brought me to music lessons, arts and crafts, and other extracurricular
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activities to encourage the creative side of my child brain. Unfortunately, one of these good
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hearted gestures was bringing me to a piano lesson with a creepy old pedophile. Oh no. For a while,
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I was taking piano and guitar lessons from a nice lady who lives as her father who also taught piano
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and oftentimes stopped in during the lesson and exchanged small talk with me or my mom.
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He was nice, but kind of strange. He had a wandering eye and would wear one of those ties
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that had piano keys all the way down it. Not saying these ties make you a pervert, but come on.
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they don't make you a pervert they're just so corny they're yeah there's a lot of corn one day
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while i was in my super oh well i was in my lesson sorry the father was chatting with my mom and
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showed her the series of superimposed photographs of children uh who were other students photoshopped
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into random scenes like a girl in the middle of a safari or a boy coming out of a shark's mouth
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my mom was like oh ha ha cool but in her head was like what the fuck She did not want to diss the old man.
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He probably worked very diligently on the computer. He then told my mother that he could make a cool edited pic of her daughter.
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I knew where this was going. Can I take a photo of your daughter? If she provided a photograph of then 12-year-old me.
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My mom kindly but firmly responded, no thank you, and he never asked again. Fast forward a couple months later, my piano teacher canceled our lessons out of nowhere
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due to a family emergency with her father. my mom sent her condolences and she assumed he just died or was very sick a week or so later on
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a warm summer day my mom was washing the dishes and watching the news when the old man's mugshot
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appeared on the tv my mom screamed so loud and for so long that my dad had to go shut the windows
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turns out contractors were renovating the piano teacher's bathroom and noticed some unusual wiring
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red flag called the cops and nearly had a heart attack oh and ripped out the walls and discovered
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a video camera recording system. My mother nearly had a heart attack as she realized both of us had for sure used that bathroom
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and all the students that were victims to his gross picture collages or home videos.
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The piano teacher later told my mom we might be called to testify, but we never were.
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Truly disturbing. Shout out to any contractors that see suspicious things and speak up.
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I can't imagine how many fucked up things they discovered during renovations. Because of them, this pervert will hopefully
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spend his last days in jail. Bye. thanks for making this amazing podcast i listen all the time for perspective and to remind myself
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of my mom saying don't trust anyone with two holes in their nose stay sexy and especially
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don't trust anyone with a piano tie alexandra oh my god the piano teacher thing or the like
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uh when you go to someone's house and they're someone lives with them yeah they're like you
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know what i mean yeah isn't that from the what was that show we love the family wasn't the pedophiles
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mom in it, a piano teacher. The family, which one is that? That was the one in the very beginning of the podcast we were really into where the son
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got kidnapped as a young kid and then came back. Oh, yes. But it turned out he wasn't really a pedophile.
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That was just, he was the one that had been accused of the murder of the son. And then when the son came back, he was...
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No, he was a pedophile in addition to that, though. It was Andrew McCarthy, right?
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Yes. Yes. He was a pedophile. He had gotten out of prison. So he was like innocent and guilty at the same time.
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Yeah. So they thought he had something to do. Yeah. It's a good show. That was a good show.
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That show. All right. Let's see here. I read that one already. This one. Okay. This one's called.
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This one's funny. Okay I not going to tell you the name of it until after it because it a clever name but it gives it away Okay Dear Georgia Karen and the MFM crew About 20 years ago the museum I worked at was offered some old coffins that had been unearthed during a street construction project
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This is a colonial era city with a long history of relocating old churchyards to make room for urban growth.
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But as many horror movies teach us, graves are often left behind in the process.
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That's right. Our city workers are so accustomed to finding historic burials, they sometimes just leave them in place and build over them.
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Where do you think this is? I'm not going there. These burials. They're about to explain the movie Poltergeist to us.
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Yeah, but that was the valley. So anyway, this family must enter a house. Colonial San Fernando Valley.
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Historic colonial. Okay. Yeah, this family is building a pool. The swimming pool.
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Craig T. Nelson's there. These burials were near the site of an old Civil War hospital.
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So a local historical society had them exhumed and moved to a university for further study.
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As it turns out, they were just regular folks, men, women, and a few children who were buried in a long forgotten cemetery from the 1830s.
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The curator and I viewed the remains, which which the archaeologists had placed in coffin sized cardboard boxes.
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Most were just jumbled bones with some broken wood, broken coffin wood mixed in.
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But two were fairly intact, including one with a full head of hair still covered by a woolen grave blanket.
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Ooh. So as I was looking at these remains, I kept noticing weird fluffy stuff mixed with these bones.
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It looked like plant roots or clumps of dried up grass or something. These clumps tended to be nestled near the middle of each body around the pelvis.
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I couldn't figure out what it was. Then I saw it. The most well-preserved body, right below the grave blanket covering her midsection,
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I saw the biggest, all caps, bush I had ever laid eyes on. Yes, I'm talking about pubic hair.
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on a skeleton. See, the fuffy clumps I'd seen in every coffin was pubic hair that had resisted decay
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for more than 150 years. Fun fact, they don't fucking, they don't teach you this shit.
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You never hear about this. Fun fact, all, after all the soft bits rot away, the harder bits, including cartilage nails
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and body hair can remain behind, stuck to the bones. Think about that next time you stroll in a cemetery.
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Now, I'm not a pubes, I'm not pubes shaming anybody here because waxing and trimming is a personal choice,
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and these 19th century people never heard of such things as a bikini wax. But there is something, and this is in Starz, asterisk,
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extremely unsettling about seeing giant, gnarly, and totally untamed bush on exhumed skeletons.
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Up to that point in the visit, I was feeling okay, but once I realized what I was looking at,
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I had a swoony moment where I couldn't decide whether I would vomit or faint. Fortunately, I didn't either.
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I also kept my mouth shut, figuring the curator didn't want to hear me freak out about dead people's pubes.
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Probably. The bodies I saw were eventually reburied respectfully in a beautiful historic cemetery in the city, pubes and all.
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But the museum never did take the coffin since they were too moldy and gross and filled with those loose pubes from long dead Irish immigrants.
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How dare you? You pointed right at me. I meant Irish immigrants. You know you and your hairy bush.
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We know how we are. That's part of our charm. I learned a few things from this experience. First, I'm far more squeamish than I thought I was. I love true crime stories with the sight of real dead bodies, especially skeletons with robust growths of pubic hair, disturb me deeply. Secondly, cremation seems so much better than lying around underground moldering away for decades. I love a cemetery stroll, but I really don't want to end up decaying in one. Finally, if you're into waxing or trimming, always make sure you look your best. You might end up on display in a university anthropology lab in 180 years. Will.
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it is like so i think that's the same thing with like when you see nails or teeth on us you know
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when you see like a skull and there's teeth in it and then you can see that they had braces or
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dentures like you can see what the human the person's face looked like with those teeth yeah
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and it makes it so much more real than without yeah i guess pubics like or like nails if you
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see like painted toenails on a skeleton you'd be like oh my god this person like did these things
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so they painted their nails so much it went down to the bone yeah that sort of thing yeah yeah no
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it makes it real well and also it's hilarious because i have never thought about this once
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and then as you were describing that probably because the you know irish immigrant stuff you're
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saying but i really did picture almost like a pink bush i don't know that it would get like
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that something would catch that person's eye and then just be like oh wait a minute now you have to
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rethink the whole movie the mummy yeah and you have to think about what kind of dye they use
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to make their bush pink guys we've got pubes we've got farts lots of vomit vomiting this is
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this is the last one i think this is it no you have two more uh i do have two more which means
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you have one more right i can do one more um or i could just do this one last one it's kind of long
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and the subject line is oh wait i have to tell you i'm sorry hold on this was called pubes from
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the crypt even though we never named the mini so this should be like the junior high special
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yeah okay uh let's see for this one the subject line is absolutely bonkers beef stroganoff story
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oh we talked about beef stroganoff in pockets okay um greetings mfm fam i've been tempted to
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write many a time one of my childhood friends murdered another a boy whose locker was near
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mine killed a woman in florida and i once spent a week at a conference with robert durst what the
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shit you better write back yeah but it is karen's mention of b stroganoff in minnesota 80 that
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finally compels me to write my dad only recently shared the story with me and i make him tell it
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to everyone because it just so beyond here it is yay love parent stories right uh also later life parent stories things they didn tell you It the late 60s My dad is 18 And the weekend of my aunt it the weekend of my aunt wedding My great uncle
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owned a nearby restaurant and offered to make the rehearsal dinner for the wedding party,
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their families and the priest up at our family summer house about 20 miles away. He made you
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guessed it bistro golf. Before I go any further, I need to tell you a little bit about my great
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uncle so that you can truly appreciate and picture what comes next. He was a great big man,
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400 pounds and he apparently had an even larger personality he wouldn't he couldn't go anywhere
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without being stopped he knew everyone and everyone loved him love it he was also a drinker who liked
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shiny things like the ginormous and not at all inconspicuous mint green cadillac that he bought
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just before all of this happened oh no oh you know that thing because it's uh the late 60s yeah so a
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mint green cadillac from the late 60s flashy hi is this is be stroganoff gonna end up all over it
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well let's find out okay and the next word in this is onward it's the night of the rehearsal
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and everyone is at the church my dad and the groom's father slipped out early and headed to
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the lake house to make sure everything was set for the dinner about halfway there they approached
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a church whose sign advertised a potluck supper and noticed cars lined up and down both sides of
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the road that in and of itself wasn't strange but the fact that they were all dinged and dented and
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scratched up with shiny mint green paint was. My dad and the groom's father knew exactly what had happened and hightailed it out of
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there. When they reached the house, their fears were confirmed. There was my great uncle's mint green Cadillac precariously parked sideways in front of the
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house with the engine still running. And in the house was my great uncle passed out and snoring on the couch.
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They ran into the kitchen where there was no beef stroganoff to be found and immediately
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realized what they were looking for in the wrong place. They went back down to the car, opened the door, and were greeted with a sight that can only be described as a crime scene of epic proportions.
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The entire white interior of his brand new Cadillac was, all caps, absolutely covered in beef stroganoff.
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It was in the glove box. It was dripping from the ceiling. It was everywhere. Oh, my God.
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And the guests were due to arrive any minute. So my dad and the groom's dad did the only thing they could to salvage the evening.
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they got spatulas and scraped the beef stroganoff back into the pot then they climbed into the cadillac and drove it up into the woods to hide it
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once the car was safely hidden away they calmly went back in the house cleaned themselves
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and my great uncle up waited for the guests to arrive and when they did they served them up that
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beef stroganoff like nothing happened xo and ssdgm kate oh my god i just love it like these are the
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days when you could be an alcoholic and be and it was hilarious that's not troubling now would be
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like every you know if he hit eight cars that's eight lawsuits yeah all the people that ate that
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scooped up food they would sue him too totally imagine just the little things that would be in
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that beef stroganoff from the car it was new it was new but just little fibers little fibers
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Fibers. Like picking stuff out of your teeth. Fibers. Maybe a random air or two.
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Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, Nate?
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Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. How do we actually come up with the name Hey Jonas, guys?
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I honestly don't remember. We were talking about a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey Jonas.
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And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.
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But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief.
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A nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history.
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Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Leppi.
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Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses.
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I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived it
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to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Letby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt.
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It'll cause so much harm at every single level if the British establishment of this is wrong.
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Listen to Doubt, The Case of Lucy Letby. You can binge all episodes now on iHeart Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Your husband is not who you think he is. Your body is not what you thought it was.
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Your identity is formed by a secret history. I'm Dani Shapiro, and these are 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 seats just kind of flew into the aisle.
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Each week, we dive headfirst into the complex power of secrecy, how it shapes our identities and relationships,
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and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves. My daughter, she's pretending she doesn't know,
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but is trying to cook and feed me and keep me alive because I wasn't eating anything.
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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
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him listen to season 14 of family secrets on the iHeartRadio app apple podcasts or wherever you get
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your podcasts should we do one more sure okay do you want to end on I have one I can do do it okay
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this is called respiratory therapy Hi, my mom is a registered respiratory therapist in Las Vegas.
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Hi, Brad. Look, hi. She went back to school at the age of 48 and got her degree while raising my sister and
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I on her own. She's kind of my hero. Anyways, after she earned her degree, we had to move from Las Vegas to a college town in
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the Midwest. The town only had about 10,000 people in it, excluding the large number of students.
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But I'm just trying to paint the picture of how fucking small this place was compared
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to Las Vegas, where I grew up. Okay. Fair enough. God. Since the city was so tiny, the hospital only had less than 175 beds.
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In a facility so small, everyone took care of all the patients. But one of the first nights my mom started working there, she had to do what is called, in medical terms, a terminal extubation.
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Or what we commonly know as pulling the plug. Extubation. Extubation, right. That sucks.
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That's horrible. A terminal extubation. I'd never heard that before. She had never taken someone off life support before, and she was understandably shaking.
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shaken. Reading about the procedure is different from doing it, you know? So she held back tears
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as she quickly and methodically disconnected the woman who was like 80 or something. I don't know,
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but she lived a full life and left the room so that the family could grieve the loss She went into a supply room and shut the door just in time to cry her eyes out It was the first time she had literally ended a life after about 10 minutes and regaining her composure for the rest of the work night my mom opened the door and all but tripped over the patient she had just
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disconnected from the ventilator in those 10 minutes that my mom had gone into supply room
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to be alone her patient started breathing on her own again and even regained consciousness for the
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first time in over a month what the they even had a conversation right there in the hall as the
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patient was being taken home by her family. What? My mom has since had to perform other
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terminal extubations, but her first is the one that she will never forget. I thought you would
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like this story now that we're talking about almost any crazy thing we think that you will
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all enjoy. That's true. Thank you for all the hard work that you put into this podcast. It gets me
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through my work days in a construction company, mostly consisting of men. They once even had a
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bet as to what I was listening to. They thought I was Katy Perry. And I had to admit to three
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grown men that no, I am not a firework. I am a murderino. Yay. Karen, thank you especially for
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talking about alcoholism. So candidly, it helps me talk to my dad about his own. Oh, we were just
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talking about that Wow Much love Brianna Oh my God Here what I love And I sure it collapse timeline But like well we better unplug her Goodbye Cry cry cry Pull the tube out Hey what up Are you awake
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All right, let's go. 10 minutes. She can go. She can get out of here. You know what?
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Pull a doctor into that decision-making process. Yeah, we thought this would last five minutes.
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You don't have any more time on the clock here. We only have 175 beds. They're like, we want to get her home.
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We want to celebrate. We're going to do Christmas in July. let's get this taken care of that's right um all right wow that was a great one we really dug in
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yeah um we got to the heart of the matter it was a lot of physical a lot of uh you know a lot of
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human experience yeah lots of gross stuff yeah you know which is the good stuff right right send
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us your weird gross stuff maybe we'll do another junior high episode at some point or whatever um
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Or just whatever. Yeah, thanks for, or my favorite murder Gmail is where you send it.
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Thanks for listening, you guys. And stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Nice.
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Oh, where's that guy? Elvis? Want a cookie? Good boy. Before NXIVM, Nancy Solzman wanted to help people.
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Being able to help somebody, it's probably the biggest motivator of my entire life.
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She trained in something called neuro-linguistic programming. People loved our training Then everything changed Yeah and they called it a cult How does a method designed to improve lives end up in a cult A knife in the hands of a surgeon is an amazing tool A knife in
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Episode Highlights

  • Nancy Salzman and NXIVM
    Exploring how Nancy Salzman's desire to help people led to NXIVM's cult-like reputation.
    “But now, there's a new and exciting way to start your journey toward a more joyful existence.”
    @ 00m 40s
    July 30, 2018
  • Joy 101 Podcast Launch
    Hoda Kotb introduces her new podcast, Joy 101, aimed at maximizing joy.
    “If you're craving inspiration to maximize your joy, tune in!”
    @ 00m 49s
    July 30, 2018
  • Pregnancy Discovery via Podcast
    A listener shares how a podcast episode led to her pregnancy discovery in a humorous way.
    “Thank you for making me sick enough to figure out I was pregnant.”
    @ 04m 32s
    July 30, 2018
  • Disturbing Piano Teacher Story
    A listener recounts a chilling experience with a piano teacher who turned out to be a predator.
    “Turns out contractors were renovating the piano teacher's bathroom and noticed some unusual wiring.”
    @ 10m 07s
    July 30, 2018
  • Beef Stroganoff Disaster
    A hilarious story about a rehearsal dinner gone wrong due to a beef stroganoff incident.
    “The entire white interior of his brand new Cadillac was absolutely covered in beef stroganoff.”
    @ 19m 56s
    July 30, 2018
  • The Case of Lucy Letby
    A nurse becomes the most prolific child killer in modern British history. But what if we didn't get the whole story?
    “But what if we didn't get the whole story?”
    @ 22m 13s
    July 30, 2018
  • Family Secrets Season 14
    Dani Shapiro explores stunning stories that reveal our truest selves, shaped by secrecy.
    “Your identity is formed by a secret history.”
    @ 22m 54s
    July 30, 2018
  • Terminal Extubation Experience
    A nurse's first experience with terminal extubation leads to an unexpected outcome.
    “What the?”
    @ 25m 39s
    July 30, 2018
  • Mind Games Podcast
    Exploring how a method designed to improve lives ended up in a cult.
    “How does a method designed to improve lives end up in a cult?”
    @ 28m 07s
    July 30, 2018
  • Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb
    A new podcast that inspires listeners to maximize their joy.
    “Joy is essential and it's also elusive.”
    @ 28m 52s
    July 30, 2018

Episode Quotes

  • How does a method designed to improve lives end up in a cult?
    MFM Minisode 81
  • Thank you for making me sick enough to figure out I was pregnant.
    MFM Minisode 81
  • Don't trust anyone with two holes in their nose.
    MFM Minisode 81
  • Your husband is not who you think he is.
    MFM Minisode 81
  • Your body is not what you thought it was.
    MFM Minisode 81
  • We want to celebrate. We're going to do Christmas in July.
    MFM Minisode 81

Key Moments

  • Pregnancy revelation04:32
  • Creepy piano teacher10:07
  • Podcast Launch21:23
  • Lucy Letby Verdict22:11
  • Secret History22:54
  • Terminal Extubation24:53
  • Unexpected Recovery25:39
  • Joy Exploration28:52

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