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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome my favorite Murder the minisode.

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Speaker 2: Will we read you your stories?

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Speaker 3: It's email time you want to start?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 1: Okay one of our fakest introts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just trying to get it done.

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Speaker 2: We are and we we are and we will and

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Speaker 2: we have oka. I'm not going to red you the title.

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Speaker 2: Hi all, My sister introduced me to your podcast just

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Speaker 2: after I'd had a baby who was now a whole

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Speaker 2: second grader. Oh shit, so thank you for keeping me

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Speaker 2: entertained through endless stroller walks. I usually listen with headphones.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I didn't want her first word to be murder.

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Speaker 2: I recently heard the hometown story about the girl who

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Speaker 2: worked at a spirit Halloween and found a squatter's apartment

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Speaker 2: in the building. No, it's good, let's get it back.

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Speaker 2: Holy shit, and it reminded me that I actually have

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Speaker 2: my own story to share. One summer during college, I

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Speaker 2: worked in the dorms at Oregon State University doing maintenance, cleaning,

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Speaker 2: small repairs, and linen changes for conference groups using the

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Speaker 2: dorms as hotels. There was an old dorm just off

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Speaker 2: campus called the College In built in nineteen sixty six

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Speaker 2: and closed in two thousand and two. This story takes

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Speaker 2: place in two thousand and three. They planned to tear

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Speaker 2: it down and build new apartments, but at the meantime

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Speaker 2: it was abandoned. Our maintenance crew was told to go

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Speaker 2: inside to retrieve trash cans, because obviously that was more

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Speaker 2: important than our safety. So like, it's abandoned, it's dilapidated,

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Speaker 2: getting torn down, and they're like going there.

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Speaker 1: And we need those old rubber trash cans, right, they're expensive.

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Speaker 2: The building was deteriorating, creepy, and fascinating all at once.

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Speaker 2: The big sixty style lobby was full of leaves and

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Speaker 2: broken glass, and most of the rooms had been trashed

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Speaker 2: by squatters. I fucking love abandonment porn. It's my favorite.

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Speaker 2: Some had graffiti or strange stories written on the walls.

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Speaker 2: Others still had belonging left behind, like a sleeping bag

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Speaker 2: Apparently someone was just having a chaotic good time. As

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Speaker 2: It said Welcome to the Ninja Cafe. Underneath there was

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Speaker 2: donate tea and coffee. That's when it hit me all

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Speaker 2: the furniture we'd found in the lounge had probably been

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Speaker 2: part of a rooftop hangout, a squatter cafe. We finished

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Speaker 2: Turns out someone was in the building with us the

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Speaker 2: and don't talk about the Ninja Cafe Chantal but oh shit,

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Speaker 2: I just love abandoned building stories so much. And there

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Speaker 1: here's my first one.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to read you.

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Speaker 1: The subject line it says, Hi, Karen Georgia and the

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Speaker 1: Stellar MFM team, I'm currently listening to episode four seventy five,

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Speaker 1: and then in parentheses it says, yes, I know I'm behind,

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Speaker 1: but I'm in being the day one listener who started

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Speaker 1: late and is still catching up. You were talking about

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Speaker 1: working the till and having it come up and correct

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Speaker 1: at the end of the night, and I just had

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Speaker 1: to write. In My first job, many years ago, was

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Speaker 1: at the local Hallmark store think Beanie Baby Fights and

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Speaker 1: Precious Moments and Willow Tree Angel Collectible's Madness. One night

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: A man came in and made a purchase, which he

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Speaker 1: The one hundred dollar bill was legit, but he asked

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Speaker 2: That happens for any teenager or early twenties. If you

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Speaker 2: have a till job, Yeah, you get scammed because you're

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Speaker 3: And those people are slick as hell.

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Speaker 1: Hell, you just do not They're so nice to you,

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Speaker 1: anything happening. Okay, So cut to the end of the night,

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Speaker 1: as we were closing up, the till was short. Somewhere

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Speaker 1: If you keep doing it, you just kept doing Oh no, well,

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Speaker 1: not much money for a Hallmark at the time. Two

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Speaker 1: in today's money, Karen Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Tell me two hundred and fifty in the year two

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Speaker 1: I'm screwed. I'm fired from my first job at the

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Speaker 2: For me, You never it never happens to you twice.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, because it's so obvious, like you feel so stupid. Thankfully,

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Speaker 1: it hasn't impacted any career moves like I was convinced

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Speaker 1: it was going to stay sexy and count the change. Melissa,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, keep your eye peeled for those can you

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Speaker 3: Hold on, wait, it's them, they start changing.

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Speaker 2: You know what, give me you know, give me back

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Speaker 2: Okay, klepto cats have feelings too. Hi, new listener here,

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Speaker 2: and I wish I'd discovered you long ago the minisodes

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Speaker 2: give Me Life. After the first one I listened to,

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Speaker 2: I knew I had dust the story for you. AnyWho.

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Speaker 2: When I was younger, my family had a cat named

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Speaker 2: This was a repeat occurrence. He was also afraid of birds.

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Speaker 2: Where we're all from? Bo Diddles did have a secret

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Speaker 2: This thievery went on for years. One Christmas, my grandparents

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Speaker 2: Sitting calmly on my grandma's belly and looking straight into

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Speaker 2: we good. It was a peace offering. We think. In

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Speaker 2: The night's the night I'm going to give it back.

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Speaker 2: She spent the entire night back and forth leaving the

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Speaker 3: Feel like, oh, where where was it hidden?

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Speaker 2: That remains a mystery to this day. Bo Diddles was

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Speaker 1: Franny, Franny, what type of cat did you picture bo

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Speaker 1: Because I feel like those guys love to carry stuff

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Speaker 1: Then but smart enough to get a real good heightened totally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Okay, I would have loved to see

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Speaker 2: that pile. Yeah, so good.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it says family treasure. Hi, Karen and Georgia. I

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Speaker 3: hope you're well.

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Speaker 1: I'm a longtime listener, second time writer, hoping now we've

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Speaker 1: opened the floor to stories you get asked to tell,

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Speaker 1: or similar that this story can now be a vile submission.

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Speaker 1: So we opened the floor to stories you get.

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Speaker 3: Asked to tell.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that sounds familiar where it's like

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Speaker 2: Sounds right sure the story. My friend Emily and I

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Speaker 3: We're here for Katie with the Sea.

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Speaker 2: Hi is Katie of the Sea? Here, give us everything.

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Speaker 1: The next year, a teacher reached out to let me

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Speaker 1: Miss them all every day in the grown up, corporate

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Speaker 1: Stay sexy and prank those kids, sam aka Miss b.

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Speaker 1: I would love that if you're listening and Miss B

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Speaker 3: Because she was such a successful and model.

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Speaker 2: Like I, just someone has done that, though someone's made

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Speaker 3: So good, it's so good, it's so funny.

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Speaker 2: and stay sexy and don't get murdered. Get bag, Elvis,

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