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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder the minisod.

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Speaker 2: We read you your stories and now we update you

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Speaker 2: about your stories and their responses.

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Speaker 1: That's right. When we do a minisode that is so

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Speaker 1: compelling that Nick Terry doesn't animated about it.

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Speaker 3: Go to the exactly right media YouTube to watch.

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Speaker 1: To watch, and then go ahead and read those comments

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Speaker 1: under the bab Boon animated We did and there's a

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Speaker 1: lot happening. Do you want to just kind of like

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Speaker 1: tell people the story if they don't know it? Just

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Speaker 1: ra boom real quick.

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Speaker 2: Basically, the MFM animated that was a hometown was a

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Speaker 2: little girl who they went into like a Safari drive through,

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Speaker 2: and the mother made the little girl get out and

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Speaker 2: face down the bab Boon to get their side mirror back.

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Speaker 1: How was that? That was perfect? And then the people spoke,

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Speaker 1: and not only did the people speak in these YouTube comments,

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Speaker 1: Diane's daughter came to defend her honor.

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Speaker 2: The mother of the daughter who was the little girl

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Speaker 2: was with and wasn't her kids she kicked someone else's

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Speaker 2: kid out of the car yes, to square off with Brabboons.

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Speaker 1: Diane was like, hey, Emily, you get out and go

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Speaker 1: get that mirror. But that's Emily's side of the story.

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Speaker 2: The plot thickens because Diane's daughter showed up to say

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Speaker 2: Emily didn't really tell that story accurately. I'm sorry. She

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Speaker 2: came around to say.

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Speaker 1: Hot tea coming in really quick? Should we say this?

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Speaker 1: Shit people were saying in the comments were like peak

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Speaker 1: nineties parenting there. Yeah, all kids were safe, No, thanks

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Speaker 1: to Diane. You know, Diane didn't watch the Omen question

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Speaker 1: mark right. There was a lot of Diane shit talking.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so here's a comment from Diane's literal daughter. Hi, all,

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Speaker 2: Diane's daughter here, I need to make some corrections to

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Speaker 2: the story as to vindicate Diane. I have taken this

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Speaker 2: recording to my sister and mother, and we all agree

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Speaker 2: that Emily has misremembered a few key facts here. The

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Speaker 2: first and most important is that my mom asked me,

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Speaker 2: her daughter, to open the door and retrieve the mirror

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Speaker 2: that was sitting directly next to the car door on

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Speaker 2: the ground. That's another little It wasn't that far away. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I refused, as we were being swarmed and attacked by baboons.

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Speaker 1: Boo.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we know that.

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Speaker 2: Secondly, Emily absolutely volunteered to slither out the door to

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Speaker 2: grab it. The babboons did charge and Emily did not

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Speaker 2: get the mirror. Diane eventually drove to the end of

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Speaker 2: the safari and a ranger did grab one mirror that

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Speaker 2: was duc tiped to the car for the ride home

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Speaker 2: to PA. Despite the fact that my mom did ask

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Speaker 2: a literal child to fight for the mirror, she asked

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Speaker 2: her child to do so, she sacrificed her own child. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: whose side are you on?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Are you on the initial daughter or the main

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Speaker 1: girl Emily who did the slythering, who was not the

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Speaker 1: daughter who told a story like she was sent out

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Speaker 1: into a safari park as a child.

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Speaker 2: Well, clearly we need Diane's side of the story, so

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Speaker 2: she needs to write in.

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Speaker 1: Diane, if you could send a video in, we would

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Speaker 1: love to be able to throw to you. And then

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Speaker 1: that's right. Maybe we've talked to you live all right.

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Speaker 3: So that's the update on a hometown.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Send us your updates for hometown or your side of

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Speaker 3: the story. We want to know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if your hometown has gotten all the way

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Speaker 1: to nick Terry level and you would like to make

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Speaker 1: a correction or talk about what's real We're here to

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Speaker 1: entertain any version of reality.

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Speaker 2: That's sure, that's what we do. Okay, let's do hometowns.

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Speaker 2: You want to go first.

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Speaker 1: Sure. The subject line of this email is God the

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Speaker 1: Mother Almost got me. Hi, Karen Georgia and fellow Murderinos.

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Speaker 1: I've been a listener since day one. My little sister

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Speaker 1: introduced me to my favorite murder back when we were

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Speaker 1: both working in a plastic factory trying to save up

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Speaker 1: for college tuition. That's about as American as you can get.

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Speaker 1: I'm so proud in nineteen thirties. I mean, hell, yes,

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Speaker 1: did you have to wear those things on your hair?

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Speaker 1: Did you have to wear protective goggles?

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Speaker 2: I hope you wear a mask because breathing in those

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Speaker 2: particles can't be good for you.

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Speaker 1: No. And also, were you as something like a little toy? Okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: right back in and answer all those questions. Your podcast

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Speaker 1: got me through long shifts and hard days, and I've

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Speaker 1: been hooked ever since. After listening to episode four ninety,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to share a story that still gives me chills.

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Speaker 1: The time I was almost recruited by a cult known

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Speaker 1: as God the Mother.

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Speaker 3: I remember that documentary picture this.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty eighteen. I'm a senior at the University of

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Speaker 1: San Diego trying to survive my core curriculum. So that

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Speaker 1: means that she made it to college. She got that

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Speaker 1: plastic money and she got her college tuition. Amazing, good job.

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Speaker 1: One requirement was to take three theology or religion course.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot what the fuck the Jesuits will get you.

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Speaker 1: Growing up culturally Catholic didn't exactly prepare me for what

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Speaker 1: those professors were throwing at us. And I was desperate

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Speaker 1: to form a study group so I wouldn't totally bomb

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Speaker 1: the class. I was walking alone one evening after dance practice,

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Speaker 1: trying to get home, when a girl about my age

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Speaker 1: smiled and waved me over. She asked, have you heard

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Speaker 1: of God the Mother? At first I was curious, even

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Speaker 1: a little relieved. I'd been actively looking for a group

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Speaker 1: of study buddies to help me survive this class, and

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Speaker 1: this sounded promising. She explained that the group of mostly

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Speaker 1: women met off campus to discuss matriarchal themes in religion.

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Speaker 1: All right, sounded kind of cool, right, but something felt

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Speaker 3: They smiled, plaster to your face.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to hear about God the Mother, God

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Speaker 1: the Mother. Not try to smile, but not use your eyes.

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Speaker 1: Have you met God the Mother can't do it. The

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Speaker 1: more she spoke, the more uneasy I became. The vibe

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Speaker 1: turned from friendly to weirdly intense. I tried to excuse myself,

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Speaker 1: but she started following me around campus. Oh no, That's

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Speaker 1: when I decided to fuck politeness and embarrassment. I spotted

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Speaker 1: than I do. Thankfully, he caught on immediately and played along.

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Speaker 1: The girl eventually backed off, and he stayed with me

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Speaker 1: and how campus police arrived and gave me a ride home.

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Speaker 2: Man, that is how you hit on someone that's so good.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if there's no one following you, Hey, sir, right,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god?

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Speaker 3: If someone following me, can you protect me?

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Speaker 1: Hey? Will you shop with me at this Marshal's.

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Speaker 2: There's someone following me through this marshals card.

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Speaker 1: I stuffed a shirt in my purse Earlier. The next

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Speaker 1: day in class, everyone was talking about the news. Apparently

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Speaker 1: this God the Mother group, as seen on usd's campus,

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Speaker 1: had ties to human trafficking. Oh fuck. They were targeting

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Speaker 1: local college students, especially women, through those supposed study groups

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Speaker 1: that were actually fronts for kidnapping. Holy shit. To this day,

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Speaker 1: I think about how close I might have come to

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Speaker 1: becoming one of those stories we all talk about. I've

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Speaker 1: feeling that told me something was wrong.

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Speaker 2: What if it had been him who was the problem

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Speaker 2: and she.

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Speaker 3: Got his carb.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, but you just can't keep trying anyone. He's like,

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Speaker 1: I'll help you girl. I am God. I'm also got

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Speaker 1: the Mother Jesus, and if something seems too good to

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Speaker 1: be true, it probably is. Xoxo Debbie Nice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good. Good escape. I'm not going to reach it.

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Speaker 2: The title of this one, okay, it just starts. Hi,

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Speaker 2: big fan, my incredible grandma who passed.

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but we didn't explain why we're so

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Speaker 1: glammed up right now.

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Speaker 2: If you're gonna watch us on YouTube, like, now's the

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Speaker 2: time to start, because we look fucking glam and flawless.

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Speaker 1: I'm wearing fake eyelashes. I am too.

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Speaker 2: We had a photo shoot just now and we were like,

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Speaker 2: let's film now because we're never going to look better.

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Speaker 1: I thought that'd be a little breadcrumbing for people to

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Speaker 1: come over to the video.

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Speaker 3: Part to the exactly right media, my favorite murder YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Join the van goal, We're in the fan call whatever,

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Speaker 1: Get your tour tickets.

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Speaker 2: My incredible grandma, who passed away in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: had the most incredible stories. As she got older, she

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Speaker 2: lost her filter and got progressively sassi er hi. She

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Speaker 3: Doctors that she liked. Okay, we're set up.

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Speaker 2: After years of looking, she finally found someone that she

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Speaker 3: What do you think?

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Speaker 1: She was like, I mean, how long are you in

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Speaker 2: Immediately he took her arthritis seriously and she finally felt

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Speaker 2: no longer available, not on the clinic website, canceled appointments,

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Speaker 2: and no one at the clinic would talk about him. Finally,

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Speaker 2: my mom, who was accompanying my grandma to all her appointments,

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Speaker 2: decided to google him, and she found that he had

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Speaker 2: lost his license for all caps. Experimenting with animal grade

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Speaker 1: No, what, who are you mad at? In this story?

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Speaker 1: They did it to themselves anyway.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that my grandma ever really trusted another

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Speaker 2: the arsenal of incredible stories from my grandparents, unseating the

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Speaker 2: time my grandpa got kicked out of McDonald's because one

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Speaker 2: tried to throw a chair at one of the other friends.

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Speaker 1: Oh shit, Oh they were like the old man coffee

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Speaker 3: Aren't there chairs bolted to the ground for that reason?

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Speaker 1: Probably? Yeah, we're are there loose chairs at McDonald's.

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Speaker 3: This is a questionable story.

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Speaker 1: Your grandpa lies.

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Speaker 3: My grandparents were the coolest.

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Speaker 1: Hannah, Hannah, I'm so sorry what I said about your grandpa.

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Speaker 1: I was lying. I'm the liar. Here.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I love photos and in your face, in your

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Speaker 2: mom's face.

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Speaker 1: Just get little whiskers? Can I have it here? Here, here,

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Speaker 1: and here and in my pupils. The subject line of

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Speaker 1: this email is horse camp run by drug dealers.

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Speaker 3: Perfect.

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Speaker 1: So it just starts so period, I'm a city girl

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Speaker 1: from Queens, New York, who would spend summers in the Catskills,

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Speaker 1: visiting my mom's family and generally annoying my father by

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Speaker 1: fighting with my sister, our usual sibling bonding, but with

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Speaker 1: a forest aesthetic. My sister was obsessed with horses, and

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Speaker 1: I was still undecided with them at that point. My

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Speaker 1: dad would take us to a place that claimed to

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Speaker 1: be a ranch when and it really was a bar

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Speaker 2: I want to go there, lying the kids, just to

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Speaker 2: get them to a bar.

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Speaker 1: You love it here, Go over there, dad, it's a

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Speaker 1: parking lot. I'm sure this was his place of choice

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Speaker 1: because it was cheap. This summer I was ten, we

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Speaker 3: True, very true, like worse than cats.

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Speaker 2: A bad way, like good for them, but like what

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Speaker 1: Well? And also bad for nine year old girls who

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Speaker 3: No, horses don't can play that way.

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Speaker 1: And then they put their head back and they show

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Speaker 1: Cool I've told you that story of my cousin Stevie

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Speaker 3: Y see you on the flip, motherfucker.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm going to rafting camp. Once I got home,

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Speaker 3: That's a great story. Yeah, that was great.

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Speaker 1: And also I'll never get on a horse.

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Speaker 2: I'm personally like, I have a healthy fear of horses,

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Speaker 2: Like it takes one gardener, snake to fucking spook a horse.

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Speaker 1: The problem is with us farm people. We fucking love

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Speaker 2: Book camp. I'm booking cat camp sounds cool. We must

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Speaker 2: have that im.

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Speaker 1: That's called the public library. Okay, get a library, Karma's house,

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Speaker 1: get a good library.

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Speaker 3: Car library card.

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Speaker 2: Here is a thirty plus year old summer ghost story.

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Speaker 2: Ooh hey Karen and Georgia. Not a Day one listener,

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Speaker 2: but so glad I found you when I did the

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Speaker 2: sound of your voices keeps me sane on a daily

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Speaker 2: basis and escape from the shit show we call reality.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five book Yeah, baby, stay sane.

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Speaker 2: Today I was listening to MINNISO four for one and

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Speaker 2: you asked for summer ghost stories. Write yes, because we're like,

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Speaker 2: anyone could tell a winter ghost story?

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Speaker 1: Is it? We're like, is Arizona haunted?

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Speaker 3: Because it's hot.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, so there must not be a ghostar Do

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Speaker 2: you have a like summer we did that. I thought

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Speaker 2: about sending this story in several times before, but your

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Speaker 2: down finally. Every summer as a kid, we would do

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Speaker 2: a two week family vacation on Cape Cod.

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Speaker 3: Sounds amazing rich rented.

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Speaker 2: We rented various houses over the years, but there was

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Speaker 2: space with a few flimsy half walls added into create

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Speaker 1: The worst because if those walls don't go all the

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Speaker 1: way up to the ceiling, you can hear your parents

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Speaker 1: fucking I mean, or just anybody farting. I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: Above the living space was the kind of attic that

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Speaker 2: just gives you the chills the moment you put your

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Speaker 2: foot on the stairs. Yeah, Cape Cod's probably so haunted,

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Speaker 2: so it's all those sailors, Yes, pirates. The attic was

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Speaker 2: set up as an artist studio. From what I understood,

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Speaker 2: remain completely untouched. Paint brushes and canvases were still laid

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Speaker 2: out as if he would return at any moment. Most nights,

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Speaker 2: my sister and I would hear noises coming from the attic.

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Speaker 2: It sounded like heavy foots and creaking floorboards. I tried

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Speaker 2: the first terrifying creek.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to rush off to sleep.

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Speaker 2: You're like ambient, AMBIENTE, get me out of here, got

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Speaker 2: to go. Sometimes the footsteps would wake me up at midnight.

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Speaker 2: My sister and I would often run to each other's beds,

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Speaker 2: and she's seven years older than I am, so I

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Speaker 2: always explain it away as probably.

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Speaker 3: A squirrel in the walls.

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Speaker 2: They never heard a thing, and I don't think they

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Speaker 2: believe us to this day. I've thought of the house

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Speaker 2: often since then. Last December, after a visit with my parents,

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Speaker 2: who eventually bought a house, not that one, thank god,

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Speaker 2: maps and online historical archives, so satisfying. In nineteen twenty five,

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Speaker 2: an artist named see Arnold Slade purchased the abandoned eighteen

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Speaker 2: reconstructed on Savage Point, the blustery hilltop location of his

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Speaker 1: He took basically a Methodist church and moved it and

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Speaker 3: To back up, Yeah, that's like begging to be haunted.

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Speaker 2: The church was turned into a studio and exhibition space

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Speaker 2: where Slade displayed copies of his iconic war paintings, as

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Speaker 2: well as his current portraits and new England landscapes. Slade's

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Speaker 2: When Slade died in nineteen sixty one, his wife sold

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Speaker 2: Do you want to guess what year? Yep, you guessed it.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety one, the summer we started renting there. So

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Speaker 2: the second artist died the year they started, and then

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Speaker 2: they were like, let's bring in this.

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Speaker 1: Family for AKA. They were the next ones in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I need ee there.

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Speaker 2: He died young, only fifty seven years old, and all

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Speaker 2: of my internet thing has brought zero answers about how

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Speaker 2: at least one, if not two, spirits inhabiting the space

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Speaker 2: above us. All those nights plus churches in Massachusetts in

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Speaker 2: the eighteen twenties, probably lots more spooky shit there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Sure, stay sexy and don't vacation in super haunted abandoned

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Speaker 2: Ilona she her.

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Speaker 1: It's really creepy that only the kids heard it. Oh

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Speaker 1: for sure. That's like, well now we know where it goes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The subject line of my last email is welcome to Squirreltown, USSA,

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Speaker 1: Hi friends. Is that too presumptuous?

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Speaker 3: It feels right?

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Speaker 1: That's in parentheses and then it says only in New

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Speaker 1: York is about one point five hours south of Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: and for some reason believes it has the most squirrels

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Speaker 1: in the world. There's absolutely no way they could know this.

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Speaker 2: But I think one squirrel running these dis every where

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's absolutely no way that they could know this,

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Speaker 1: but I think they needed something to cling onto so

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Speaker 2: We all need something, yeah, and squirrels work.

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Speaker 1: This got extremely out of hand when one day I

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Speaker 1: that someone had planted twenty eight four foot tall concrete

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Speaker 1: statues of squirrels around the city and then all caps

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. Each was painted differently to represent either where

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Speaker 1: one outside of McDonald's, a Ronald McDonald's squirrel. There was

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Speaker 1: sack of money it was holding, and then they had

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Speaker 1: to move it inside. A starry night one for shits

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Speaker 1: and gigs Oh's bank, Oh storry night squirrel. A Wizard

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Speaker 1: of oz one and one just titled hey mom, guess

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Speaker 1: what that's dead? Catered to the troops.

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Speaker 2: That might be a reference, that might be personal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: True.

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Speaker 1: Our Chamber of Commerce had everything when it came to

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Speaker 1: squirrel swag, including T shirts that said peace, Love squirrels, ornaments,

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Speaker 1: card games, maps on where you find all of them?

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Speaker 1: And you guessed it a squirrel calendar.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Since it's a small town and people got bored, a

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Speaker 1: lot of these have been vandalized or stolen. Of course.

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Speaker 3: Do you love an artist splitz?

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Speaker 2: Can we get artist splitz emails in your small town?

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Speaker 1: Yea?

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Speaker 3: Just fucking do a thing overnight and.

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Speaker 1: You're like that felt like it was like city hall commissioned,

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Speaker 1: like they've kind of forced it.

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Speaker 2: I hope they asked for the public to vote on

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Speaker 2: the month.

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Speaker 3: How much did that cost? Okay, go on, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd like a full cost report please immediately. So lostters, stolen,

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Speaker 1: vandalized or stolen, which honestly, good for them for running

450
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Speaker 1: off with those because they probably were heavy as fuck.

451
00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 1: But we definitely still have enough to live up to

452
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Speaker 1: our name to this day. I have no idea who

453
00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: Green lent this project or if they're now gallivanting around

454
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Speaker 1: to other towns pitching these ideas. I escaped squirrel Hell,

455
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Speaker 1: USA and now live in Denver with my husband and dog,

456
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Speaker 1: butter Man. I turned my husband into a murder, you know,

457
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Speaker 1: early on, and now almost every time we're in the car,

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Speaker 1: he says, can we listen to murder? And I turn

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Speaker 1: on the most recent episode of MFM. Oh beautiful, the

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Speaker 1: drag along, stay sexy, and don't steal concrete money from

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Speaker 1: a squirrel. Taylor, Wow, she did it, she did it.

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Speaker 1: I love that report also because that's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of like it feels like the Circleville Pumpkin Festival.

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Speaker 3: Vibe that, yeah for sure, or the Cocaine Bear.

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Speaker 1: And you know what I yeah, we want to know

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Speaker 1: what's going on in your town. This is our thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we love it.

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Speaker 2: Leave us alone or come by and say hi, oh,

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Speaker 2: come by. My last one is a trash siblings story.

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Speaker 2: But it's so so funny.

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 2: I just listened to minnesod for four three about the

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Speaker 2: snake in the bathroom. Remember the little kid put the

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Speaker 2: snake in his sister's bathroom. Yeah, when she was in

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Speaker 2: bath And remember that, I too, have experienced a snake

476
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Speaker 2: in the bathroom. But that's not what this story is about.

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00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 2: Because when the writer said that her four year old

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Speaker 2: brother put the snake in the bathroom, I immediately murmured

479
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 2: trash siblings. And it's the quotes are like this were

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Speaker 2: ones up, you know, trash siblings. Sure to myself, and

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Speaker 2: it unlocked a long forgotten memory like open sesame.

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Speaker 3: So here we go.

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Speaker 1: This is such a good idea, trash siblings. I just

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Speaker 1: want to say this, and my sister loves to tell

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Speaker 1: the story. I used to have this magical gift. When

486
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Speaker 1: I was like around five or six, of my parents

487
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,959
Speaker 1: would be like at a restaurant with their friends, and

488
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Speaker 1: we had to entertain ourselves in basically like an old

489
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Speaker 1: Italian dark yeah, in the entryway, play with the cigarette machine.

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Speaker 1: Every time I pulled, I would get a pack of

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Speaker 1: cigarettes every single time. That to me is a good

492
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Speaker 1: trash sibling story where my sister had to take me

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Speaker 1: to the bathroom. It's like, well, take you by to

494
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Speaker 1: play the cigarette machine and see what happened.

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Speaker 2: You scored big on the cigarette machine, So here we go.

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Speaker 2: I am the youngest of five siblings, all born three

497
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Speaker 2: years apart in the seventies and eighties. You can make

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Speaker 2: your own assumptions about my parents' parenting style. Was I

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Speaker 2: forgotten at the grocery store more once? Absolutely? Did I

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Speaker 2: sit in the way way back at the station wagon

501
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Speaker 2: without a seatbelt?

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Speaker 1: Sure did. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: As the youngest of five, I was generally expected to

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Speaker 2: tag along and try not to get myself killed. So

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Speaker 2: when I woke up one morning and told my family

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Speaker 2: that a bat attacked me in my sleep, they immediately

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Speaker 2: brushed it off. When I insisted that all caps, a

508
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 2: bat was in my room, it flew down, landed on

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Speaker 2: my head, and flew away, they simply gas lipped me

510
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Speaker 2: and told me that I was dreaming. This went on

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Speaker 2: for weeks, and not a single sibling believed me. Trash

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Speaker 2: exclamation mark. Well, what do you know? A few weeks later,

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Speaker 2: while we were all in the family room watching a movie,

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Speaker 2: a fucking bat flew in Hell Like, finally he's making

515
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Speaker 2: his fucking entrance, letting everyone know he's not a ghost bat,

516
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Speaker 2: and I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's like everybody else is going to

518
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Speaker 1: have their bat reaction, right, and they're just like, oh,

519
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Speaker 1: we're friends already. This whole thing that you said didn't exist. Danny.

520
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 1: He and I are friends. Yeah, and you guys are

521
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Speaker 1: so scared.

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Speaker 2: Danny the bat and I go way back, and I

523
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Speaker 2: literally been telling you about it.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: No, no, you're dreaming. I wish I had a better

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Speaker 1: name than Danny.

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Speaker 2: I won't just try it again. What about like Herbert?

528
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 2: Herbert the bats? Also because Bert the Bat, you see

529
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Speaker 2: it just puts it right up there for the bat.

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Speaker 3: There we go, We did it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I liked that we were talking like that, like

532
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Speaker 1: it's gonna get cut out or something. Never, Okay, a

533
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:21,959
Speaker 1: fucking bate fluid.

534
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Speaker 2: My dad immediately tried to catch it while we all squealed,

535
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Speaker 2: and my mom looked for something to put it in

536
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Speaker 2: if my dad in fact did catch it, and me

537
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Speaker 2: I just sat there like the smug little kid I

538
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: was because I fucking told you so. Yes, we never

539
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 2: did catch the bat and assumed it eventually died in

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Speaker 2: the attic or flew out one of the windows.

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Speaker 3: Gross.

542
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Speaker 2: To this day, my siblings still say that there was

543
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Speaker 2: never a bat, even though they saw it with their

544
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Speaker 2: own eyes.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I'm now in my late thirties and what I would

547
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Speaker 2: consider to be a full grown adult but to my siblings,

548
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Speaker 2: I will always be the baby sigh. Thank you for

549
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 2: being the soundtrack to my life. I've been listening since

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Speaker 2: the very beginning, and I'm so grateful to have your

551
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Speaker 2: steady voices in my life. Stay and just accept being

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Speaker 2: the youngest.

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Speaker 1: We can't.

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Speaker 2: Emily High from Germany. Ps. The snake in my bathroom

555
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Speaker 2: was a water moccasin. Pretty dangerous and scary. Weeks of

556
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Speaker 2: sleep was lost until the snake was found by a

557
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Speaker 2: drunken friend who grabbed it and threw it in the pillowcase.

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Speaker 2: Oh to be young and dumb. So we got snakes,

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Speaker 2: we got bats.

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Speaker 1: That a whole bad story. And then they just touch

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Speaker 1: a water moccasin story and leave.

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Speaker 3: Are they back? I don't know water Mexicans.

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Speaker 1: Oh they're completely poisonous. They kill you. Yeah, those are

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Speaker 1: bad ones. Jesus, Emily Well Victory would have what a

565
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: victorious email that was.

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Speaker 2: And that's your trash sibling stories. Whatever you think that means,

567
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Speaker 2: whatever means to your heart and to your soul.

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Speaker 1: And I think the burden of being the youngest sibling

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Speaker 1: stories can go on forever you need them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got used to being like tied up in a

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Speaker 1: sleeping bag to be tortured. But I was like, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna like it, and I just sit in the sleeping

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Speaker 1: bag in the dark like I can breathe.

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Speaker 2: I never thought of that twist aoo of like I'm

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Speaker 2: into myself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the only way you can get them.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for enjoying yourself. Everyone for listening. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: stay sexy, don't get murdered.

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Speaker 1: Goodbye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie? This has been

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Speaker 1: an exactly right production.

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Speaker 2: Our senior producers are alle Hundra Keck and Molly Smith.

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Speaker 1: Our editor is Aristotle las Veda.

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Speaker 3: This episode was mixed by Leoni Squillacci.

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Speaker 1: Email your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.

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