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Speaker 1: Say hello and welcome to my favorite murder the minis.

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Speaker 2: That's right, we read you your story, your stories.

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Speaker 1: I want you to go down like this is a play.

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Speaker 1: And I keep forgetting a line. You know those in

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Speaker 1: cartoons where there's a person in like a little halfshell

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Speaker 1: that's like whispering lines to people. That's to me what

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Speaker 1: that hand is where you're just.

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Speaker 2: Like like, not the normal, not the other, do this.

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Speaker 1: No, and then this is yeah, and then the end.

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Speaker 1: I think you go first on this one.

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Speaker 2: Regular on minisode, Let's do this dode okay, Sale by

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Speaker 2: a Salute Washington State Fairy Edition. Hello Karen Georgia and

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Speaker 2: all of my other MFM besties. When I heard episode

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Speaker 2: five twenty four about the to Concordia and how the

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Speaker 2: captain did the sale by salute to impress a woman

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Speaker 2: and then it says sir with this emoji, I immediately

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Speaker 2: thought of the Pacific Northwest version of this exact nonsense

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Speaker 2: and knew I had to share our much less tragic

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Speaker 2: story with you. I live way out on a tiny

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Speaker 2: island in Washington State's San Juan Islands, about ninety minutes

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Speaker 2: north of Seattle. God, it's so beautiful.

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Speaker 3: The most beautiful. Like, what a place, What a gift

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Speaker 3: to live there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a quiet, fairy dependent archipelagio. Yeah, it is where

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Speaker 2: nothing crazy ever happens except deer jumping fences to mow

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Speaker 2: down entire gardens or the occasional trespassing tourist, which is

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Speaker 2: why this story lives on in local legend. Back in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three, the Washington State ferry elwa was doing

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Speaker 2: a normal Sunday run through the islands. Think people heading

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Speaker 2: home cars packed with island essentials, and tourists scanning the

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Speaker 2: horizon of the Solish Sea for our beautiful resident Orcas.

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Speaker 1: I love an Orca. Okay, were they trying to kill billionaires?

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Speaker 1: Is that's why they were up.

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Speaker 2: There, beautiful resident Orcas. Meanwhile, the fifty seven year old

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Speaker 2: captain of the Elwah ferry invites a female passenger up

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Speaker 2: or so sailing.

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Speaker 3: Has a fairy captain ever invited you up into the wheelhouse.

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Speaker 1: I've been on a fucking ferry, fucking ship, and no,

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Speaker 1: we got to get you a ship.

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Speaker 2: Get me on a ship, you'd love it. I get

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Speaker 2: so sick.

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Speaker 3: Get your own After a while.

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Speaker 2: The captain began joking about taking a little detour in

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Speaker 2: order to sail by the lovely passenger's home as they

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Speaker 2: approached the mouth of the aptly named Grindstone Harbor on

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Speaker 2: Orca's Island, where she recited She's like, oh, I live

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Speaker 2: over there, and he was like, let's drive by and

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Speaker 1: Even though we're on a ferry where there's all these

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's called common sense, Karen. But I wonder

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Speaker 2: what's in his little flask. You know, at the time

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Speaker 2: the passenger thinks he's joking, such a detour would put

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Speaker 2: the l wah way off course. He is, in fact,

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Speaker 2: not joking, and when she realized he was serious, her

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Speaker 2: this man is steering an entire three hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: impressively flirtatious than would you like to see your home

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Speaker 2: from a dangerously questionable distance. Moments later, the el Wah

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Speaker 2: slammed into a submerged wreath in Grindstone Harbor. They hit

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Speaker 2: The fairy's hull ripped open, causing around two hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars in damages. That's over how much in

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Speaker 3: In today's money. This happened in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: This happened in eighty three, oh eighty three.

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Speaker 3: To say the number again, two hundred and two.

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Speaker 2: Hundred, two thousand, and thank you because Kelly put how

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Speaker 3: So it actually was such a strong fairy it kind

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Speaker 2: It was like, all good, let's just keep going, get

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Speaker 1: What about all the people on the faerry whose teeth

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Speaker 3: Fuck It's.

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Speaker 2: Thankfully no one was hurt except for that one lady

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Speaker 2: for the recently widowed passenger. The woman and longtime Orcas

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Speaker 1: Always the woman says siren, as if this woman was

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Speaker 2: Then there's some like music notes next, a little more

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Speaker 3: That's her song.

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Speaker 2: She thought this man was joking and then got stuck

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Speaker 3: It is victim. How is that happen every time?

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Speaker 1: It's like the same thing where it's like Pam Bondi

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Speaker 1: and Christy Nome are being brought up on charges.

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Speaker 3: Fucking the worst of the worst.

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Speaker 2: Names are there, and their emails that they sent are there.

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Speaker 1: It's yet there, and they're on the news babbling in coherence.

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Speaker 2: They don't even fucking they disclose the victims' names when

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Speaker 1: Literally illegal, literally and that's not what you're supposed to

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Speaker 2: And when they take the names out and they put

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Speaker 1: The Siren of the scenes is the headline under which

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Speaker 1: when this whole thing cracks like that fucking fairy because

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Speaker 1: enough already and everyone has their eyes on it, and

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Speaker 3: And oh Pam BONDI fuck goodbye, goodbye.

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Speaker 2: But let's go from the top instead of the fucking bottom.

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Speaker 2: Boys first started at the bottom. Boy said you're not

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Speaker 2: the captain lost his job after over thirty years with

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Speaker 2: by all accounts, the female passenger's family seems to be

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Speaker 1: I wonder if when Siren of the san Juans article

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Speaker 2: Probably and their name and address, like from the eighty eighties,

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Speaker 1: They Chris Pharabanks as a child had his name and

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Speaker 2: In their newspapers soccer star Chris Fairbanks and then the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, go visit them pervs.

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Speaker 2: Uh no, no, no, where are we? Goodbye? It's funny. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: Stay sexy and don't let a man blame you for

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Speaker 2: crashing a faery question mark xoxo and thank you eternally

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Speaker 2: for all you do. Kelly. Ps I celebrated my twenty

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Speaker 2: seventh year as a flight attendant on March fifteenth. You've

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Speaker 2: been asking for those stories lately, so fasten your seatbelts

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Speaker 2: and expect to hear from me again, Kelly. Please good,

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Speaker 2: that's only the first one.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Kelly for sparking and igniting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, our new show Sirens of San Juan.

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Speaker 1: The mcnail LAIRR News Hour. Okay, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: read you the subject line. It just says Dear Karen

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Speaker 1: and Georgia, longtime listener, devoted acolyte. You recently mentioned parts

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Speaker 1: of the Golden State killer timeline that snapped a thirty

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Speaker 1: year old memory into focus a little googling, and some

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Speaker 1: deeply unwelcome pattern recognition later, I'm fairly certain Joseph Dangelo

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Speaker 1: is in my bedroom closet in the fall of nineteen

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Speaker 2: Fuck. I fucking love these stories. Oh my, I mean

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Speaker 2: I hate them. But when you have that realization that, oh,

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Speaker 2: that thing happened. I found the rope that one time

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Speaker 2: but I couldn't figure out why.

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Speaker 1: Okay, please, sorry, no, no, that is I think of

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Speaker 1: the Golden State Killer's whole story. Him hiding shit in

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Speaker 1: the furniture to come back later is so upsetting mollicle

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Speaker 2: And then stealing one earring and you're like, where'd that

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Speaker 2: one earring go? That doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: It's mind fuckery. Like days before the right you're gonna

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna call the cops and be like, I

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Speaker 2: think someone was in here, yeah, because they what they do?

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Speaker 2: They you lost an ear Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: No, he just is starting to rip the seam of

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Speaker 1: yea your am I okay? Okay, well, okay, and perfect

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Speaker 1: point because listen to this. We had just moved to

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Speaker 1: green space. I was fifteen and yes, Karen, yes, I

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Speaker 1: was a latchkey kid.

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Speaker 3: Georgia was too.

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Speaker 1: One afternoon I came home to find that we'd been burglarized.

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Speaker 3: But it was a weird one. The expensive stereo still there,

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Speaker 3: valuables untouched. What was missing?

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Speaker 1: My dad's wedding band, my mom's diamond lists engagement ring,

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Speaker 1: which had lost its diamond long ago during a diaper change.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, okay, resale value zero, symbolism one hundred and

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Speaker 1: a single twenty dollars bill from my bedroom Q teenage fury.

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Speaker 1: Also missing, my dad's enormous, very sharp chef's knife. Oh

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't stolen. It was placed pointy and out

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Speaker 2: Goodbye, never going in there again. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just cemented. Over the time my parents assumed the

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Speaker 1: rings were taken for gold value. No one was publicly

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Speaker 1: and moved through suburban neighborhoods via freeway corridors. True to

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Speaker 1: his m we also received a series of hang up calls,

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Speaker 1: heavy breathing, then a click. I carelessly assumed it was

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Speaker 1: some random creep who kept redialing because I kept answering,

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Speaker 1: not someone from my closet. Today, Following standard MFM advice,

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Speaker 1: I called my dad. I laid out my case. There

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Speaker 1: was a long pause. It's like six oaths. Then he said, well,

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Speaker 1: it is true. There was a rash of similar break

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Speaker 1: ins all over the neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: At the time.

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Speaker 2: Jesus.

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Speaker 1: The Golden State Killer was documented in Ventura County in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one and Orange County in nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 2: Woodland Hills is right in the middle of it, right.

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Speaker 1: Woodland Hills sits neatly between them, with the one oh

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Speaker 1: one running straight True.

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Speaker 2: If you call Paul Holes and say, I bet they

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Speaker 2: have those two rings still in evidence, Oh yeah, right right.

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Speaker 3: Also, it's so creepy.

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Speaker 1: Just go into people's houses and touch the things that

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Speaker 1: are like, this means love, this means.

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Speaker 2: Just like I know the confusion and fear I'm going

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Speaker 2: to put in your mind.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, back in eighty three. My dad's response to

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Speaker 2: It's funny. Hello MFM, FAM, Karen, Georgia, Vince and Pets.

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Speaker 2: I think we did all of those things. One summer morning,

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Speaker 2: Does Greg have a fucking mop for of hair? No

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Speaker 3: Yes, we'll take care of it. Yeah, the second the

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Speaker 2: Uh. They were grounded whatever, probably walked to the wooden spoon,

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: My mom grew up to be an og murderino who

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Everything turned out great for these kids. I love them.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for all you do and encouraging people to

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Speaker 2: be wonderful. Ps Karen, my my mom's birthday is May

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Speaker 3: Hey, a week of cake.

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Speaker 2: Say sexy and don't tell children to shower at midnight, best, Marissa.

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Speaker 1: It's fucking weird about parents that are just like, uh

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Speaker 2: Like Greg like thought of a way to like control them,

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Speaker 1: No exactly, it was You're gonna be cold and irritated.

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Speaker 1: How many times did you try to like convince neighborhood

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Speaker 3: Yes, never listened to anything. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Greeting's murder, Mavens and all the furry critters, including Steven's mustache.

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Speaker 1: I've got a secret life hometown that culminates with a

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Speaker 1: When I met my now wife, her father was a

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Speaker 2: Dude took cocaine, beert.

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Speaker 1: He had never mentioned having a license or knowing how

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Speaker 1: To secretly discover Marty could fucking fly Sessa if you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, my stepdad John has some like cool secrets

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Speaker 3: Here's what I'm gonna guess what. He was a sniper

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Speaker 2: He wasn't he was in Vietnam.

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Speaker 1: John. My apologies, none of anybody's business, but thank you

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Speaker 1: This man's cool points tripled in that moment, and I

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Speaker 3: You can't be a bad guy.

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Speaker 2: You can't have done something in your use that you're

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Speaker 1: Right, But that's thank god that we fucked up as

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Speaker 3: I fucking love this guy. We always suspected he stashed cash.

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Speaker 2: Shit.

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Speaker 1: He also had a fear that every time he was

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Speaker 1: find his stashes. So we had three conflicting treasure maps

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Speaker 1: to work with. Oh, what a joyous gift to give

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm thinking, where do I send her?

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Speaker 3: Where could I?

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Speaker 1: We found envelopes of cash taped to the bottom of

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Speaker 1: It's like my mouth is watering just around the house.

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Speaker 2: I've seen the instagrammer of the guy who's just spending

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Speaker 3: Yes, I love him, and the shitt he's finding.

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Speaker 1: It makes me feel like that guy was a mudlarker.

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Speaker 1: Watched his mudlarking videos. It's like, I'll never get to

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Speaker 2: I love. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: There's like a little whatever you use is like a

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Speaker 1: Diamond today, No diamond today, Day thirty two, searching for

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Speaker 1: He and his wife burns is from nineteen seventy seven

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Speaker 1: of my junk doors look like. Is things I'm afraid

444
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Speaker 1: to throw away.

445
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Speaker 2: I hate it if I need it.

446
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,680
Speaker 3: A receipt for a prescription like stuff like that.

447
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 1: When they give you the thing that's all stapled and

448
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: there's all that information, I'm like, better keep it, okay.

449
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 3: So among those items was.

450
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Speaker 1: A folder that told the whole story of his misdeeds

451
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: during the time he ran a moderately successful typewriter ribbon

452
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 1: reinking company. We might they might as well put his

453
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: name in who else has that company? It's the most

454
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 1: specific job of all time, which provided a great cover,

455
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 1: oh my god, for all of his travel up and

456
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Speaker 1: down the East Coast. So a typewriter ribbon reinking company

457
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Speaker 1: is a cover for drug running.

458
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Speaker 2: Sure, I don't know. No one knows how that works,

459
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 2: so why wouldn't it.

460
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so specific.

461
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: It's like those independent vacuum cleaner stores on Bourbank Boulevard

462
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Speaker 1: where you're.

463
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Speaker 2: Like, what are you talking about? Six fucking vacuum post COVID.

464
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you still got a brick and Mortars.

465
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Speaker 2: Was nineteen eighty nine. If you fucking do this.

466
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Speaker 1: The good people at Mealy sending you thousands, hundreds of

467
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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars.

468
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Speaker 3: Okay, So.

469
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Speaker 1: Typewriter Ribbon Reinking company, providing a great cover for all

470
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Speaker 1: his travel up and down the East Coast. In reality,

471
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Speaker 1: he was a legit drug mule running cocaine from Florida

472
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Speaker 1: to Massachusetts. He kept a newspaper clipping from a trial

473
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Speaker 1: where he turned state's evidenced and testified to taping bags

474
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Speaker 1: of cocaine to his body, and then in parentheses it says,

475
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Speaker 1: you know, like you see in the movies. He hand

476
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Speaker 1: wrote his fine on the clipping. They got it wrong

477
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Speaker 1: in the article, so he was arrested and fined.

478
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, and he hand wrote. He was like,

479
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 2: they're wrong, it's just like I was.

480
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Speaker 1: Actually was sixteen thousand. He ended up doing a year

481
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Speaker 1: in prison. He sent my wife a handmade Christmas card

482
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Speaker 1: that year that was also in the folder, And then

483
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Speaker 1: we found the official letter from the Republic of the

484
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Speaker 1: Bahamas informing him he was no longer welcome in their

485
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Speaker 1: country ever.

486
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Speaker 2: We were just there. Yeah, good things.

487
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Speaker 1: Not a podcaster, I know, because it's gorgeous and their podcasting.

488
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 1: I really hate that he was embarrassed by this part

489
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Speaker 1: of his life, as I'm sure he had some wild

490
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Speaker 1: stories to tell. Yeah, I agree, Yeah, he should have

491
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Speaker 1: felt free and easy. He got through it.

492
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Speaker 2: But if you're a boomer and you're listening and you

493
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 2: have some crazy fucking story that you're ashamed of, we

494
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Speaker 2: are not ashamed of you. Please send it to us.

495
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Speaker 1: If this is a time that is very different than

496
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Speaker 1: pre Internet times where shame and keeping up with the

497
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: Jones is really controlled most people's lives. Not like that anymore.

498
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 2: We're fine with it.

499
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 3: And also, everybody loves an anti hero.

500
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't do drugs. I really did it. As

501
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 1: for my mother in law, it does explain why they

502
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: got divorced. We haven't told her that we discovered the

503
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: big family secret. I picture her as a Skylar White type,

504
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 1: enjoying the spoils but not wanting to know how they

505
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: could afford a corvette, stay sexy and don't let a

506
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Speaker 1: locked filing cabinet deter your treasure hunt tea.

507
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, tea.

508
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Speaker 3: Yeah that's so good.

509
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, a secret life is a cocaine runner is pretty incredible.

510
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: If your dad has a boring job or mom has

511
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Speaker 1: a boring job, ask them what they did. Ask them

512
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Speaker 1: to please finally be honest with you.

513
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 2: Ask them why they never want to go to the

514
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,360
Speaker 2: bombs anyway?

515
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: What do you mean why was that person at TSA

516
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: giving you that dirty look? Right? What don't mean you

517
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: can't go to Canada for everybody up there?

518
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 2: Okay, this is called finders keepers. This one's gross. Hello,

519
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 2: murder matriarchs and co thanks, blah blah, you know the rest.

520
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 2: I have a brother who is three years younger than me,

521
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 2: but by the time we were two and five, he

522
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 2: easily weighed as much as me and could hold his

523
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Speaker 2: own in any fight. When he was seven or so,

524
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: we thought he was partially deaf. My dad thought it

525
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: was selective hearing, but eventually my mom took him to

526
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Speaker 2: the doctor to get it checked out. The doctor comes

527
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Speaker 2: into the room and starts testing things and uses that

528
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Speaker 2: weird flashlight to look inside my little brother's ears.

529
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Speaker 1: I wanted one of those really bad the lights. The

530
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Speaker 1: little the thing that where they're like, how are you today?

531
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Speaker 2: This would hide it from me if I had chase.

532
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Speaker 3: It's in there, okay.

533
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 2: When he looks in my brother's right ear, he pauses,

534
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Speaker 2: keeps the flashlight in the ear, and grabs a pair

535
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Speaker 2: of long, thin tweezers. This is what hometowns have become,

536
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 2: and I'm so happy for it. It's that, and it's this,

537
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 2: and that's okay.

538
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: Secret parent, drug runners and shoven shit up your nose

539
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: or ear, sorry wherever.

540
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Speaker 2: Then he proceeds to slowly extract a wax covered bead

541
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Speaker 2: from my brother's ear, A bead. No diamond today?

542
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 3: He pulled down and said, no diamond.

543
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 2: Oh, the diamond was in the ring, but it wasn't.

544
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 2: My mom's jaw drops to the floor, and when my

545
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Speaker 2: brother sees it, he says, oh, I put that in

546
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 2: there to hide from Georgia, and it says me, because

547
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 2: I didn't want her to use it.

548
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 3: This person's name is Georgia. Yeah, Oh that's crazy.

549
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 2: I know. It had been in there for four fucking years.

550
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 3: And how old was this little brother?

551
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Speaker 1: Uh?

552
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 2: Seven? Nope, not deaf, just hiding shit from his siblings

553
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 2: using three year old logic, and also who what's a

554
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 2: three year old? I'll play with beads another bygone time

555
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 2: I would or not allowed to.

556
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: They truly liked a man looking for the diamond. That

557
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: little kid found that thing on the floor, thought it

558
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: was beautiful and was like mine, stay.

559
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 2: Sexy and check your children's orifices with some regularity, Georgia.

560
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: Such a trip to hear an email from Georgia, thank

561
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,239
Speaker 1: you for finally writing in. That's so hilarious and it

562
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: The reason I said shove it up your nose is

563
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: because there's an infamous family story where my mom looked

564
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: at me one day and I had green shit running

565
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: out of one nostril. I've told you this one, I think,

566
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: so I don't remember, and I had to go to

567
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: the emergency room and they just they pulled out a

568
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: big piece of foam.

569
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Speaker 2: Why do you put phone in there?

570
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 3: It's bored. They used to leave me alone all the time.

571
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,719
Speaker 3: What am I supposed to do? Not shove shit up

572
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 3: my nose?

573
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 2: But it was like that.

574
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 3: She was like, I think she's really sick.

575
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 1: It's like green snock coming in whatever action she goes,

576
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: he puts tweezers up there and then it's just like

577
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:56,479
Speaker 1: is this your child?

578
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 2: Send your email to my favorite murder at Gmail about

579
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 2: orifice origin stories.

580
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: Okay, above the belt or orifice origin stories.

581
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Speaker 3: Thank please, thank you. Family Friendly.

582
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Speaker 2: You know that one guy who they like, he was

583
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 2: dying and they opened up his body and they found

584
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Speaker 2: a little tree growing in his lung because he had

585
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 2: inhaled a seed. That's just one of those stories I

586
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: think about when I can't sleep at night.

587
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're like, what do I got in there? Okay,

588
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: boogin villa, I forgot about that. It was like a

589
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: sprout in his lung.

590
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, so crazy.

591
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 2: He was like couldn't breathe and was like dying and

592
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 2: then like drinking farah flu and like you know, like not,

593
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 2: actually it's a Christmas tree.

594
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 3: And you're a tree. You've become a tree tree.

595
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: Okay.

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00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: Subject line of this email quick one. I ran over

597
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: myself with my own car less than two minute reads

598
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: beautiful besties that I've never met. When I was sixteen,

599
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: I eagerly got my license like any other teenage girl.

600
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: The car I was handed down was a nineteen eighty

601
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Speaker 1: six Super U gl The car was only a year

602
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: younger than me, so you can guess the safety features

603
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: were non existent. I've only had my license for about

604
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: two weeks when I pulled into my driveway after a

605
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: party one night. My parents' house is up a semi

606
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: steep hill and off the.

607
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 3: Road a little bit.

608
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: I got out of the car and was standing between

609
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: my car door and the driver's side when the car

610
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: starts rolling backwards. For some reason, I thought that I

611
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: could stop the car by simply pushing against the doorframe,

612
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: but before I knew it, the door knocked me down

613
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: and one of the tires ran over.

614
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 3: My right leg.

615
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: Jesus, uh, I mean you could have died.

616
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: Don't drink and drive, It's what I was trying to

617
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: tell you. The car rolled into the yard and into

618
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Speaker 1: a tree. My border Collie mixed Cindy just simply looking

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Speaker 1: at me until the car crashed, then decided to bark

620
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: and alert my parents.

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Speaker 3: Cindy's a narc. What the hell happened?

622
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: You?

623
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Speaker 3: Ask?

624
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: I forgot to put the car into park, which I

625
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: still do to this day, but thank goodness for modern

626
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 1: safety features. When I showed up to school limping with

627
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: the gigantic bruise on my leg, I lied and told

628
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: my friends that something had been wrong. With the car

629
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: and that park had been stripped out of the gearshift.

630
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: So if any of my high school friends are murdery

631
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: knows and remember this happening, I lied to you out

632
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: of embarrassment. Sorry, I guess No, stay sexy and don't

633
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: forget to put your car in park, Megan.

634
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 2: I want to hear the best stories of people who

635
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: did a really dumb thing and then blamed it on

636
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: something totally like that had nothing to do.

637
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 3: With it, just covered and lie because it was so embarrassing.

638
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then maybe got caught.

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00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: We have family friends who the daughter went to take

640
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: her driving test and passed, and everyone thought she wasn't

641
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: going to get She was crazy smart, like became a surgeon,

642
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: I think, but was very like yeah, not there in

643
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Speaker 1: everything else in.

644
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 3: The other ways.

645
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: So she passed, pulled up in front of her house

646
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: and was so excited she jumped out of the car

647
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: to run in to tell her dad, and the car

648
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: kept going because it was not only not in park, it.

649
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 3: Was just she just got out.

650
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Speaker 2: Thank you? Is that is that's it?

651
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 3: I think that's it.

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00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening everyone, If you want to hear more,

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00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: we have one more bonus story on our fan cult.

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Speaker 2: If you feel like.

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Speaker 3: It, that's right.

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Speaker 1: You can join our fancults at my Favorite Murder dot

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Speaker 1: com dot com and then you can have all the

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Speaker 1: secret content that we won't just give it any old person.

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00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 3: This swings by who do you think you are?

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00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 2: Kick God? Damn Uh?

661
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 3: Stay sexy and don't get murdered.

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00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Elvis. Do you want to cookie?

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Speaker 3: This has been an exactly right production.

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Speaker 2: Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer

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Speaker 2: is Tessa Hughes.

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Speaker 3: Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.

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