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

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be so fun fun the first one at

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: My god, this is going to set the precedent for

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Speaker 2: all minisodes to come. Oh shit, yeah, buddy, remember what

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Speaker 2: stories I picked? Okay, you go, We'll kick off big

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Speaker 2: and strong. The subject line of this email is babysitting

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Speaker 2: in a tornado. Hi, ladies, you ask for babysitney stories,

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Speaker 2: so I'm here to deliver. In two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 2: I was ten years old, and for some reason, the

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Speaker 2: adults in my life decided I was mature enough to

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Speaker 2: babysit a two month old infant and a three year old.

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Speaker 1: She was ten ten and no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: No ten.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: On this particular day, I was extra pumped because my

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Speaker 2: neighbor said she'd me five dollars an hour after school.

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Speaker 2: And by neighbor, I mean she lived five miles down

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Speaker 2: a rural road. Honey, that's how neighbors work out in

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Speaker 2: the country. I got dropped off by the school bus

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Speaker 2: and the mom basically sprinted out the door. She told

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Speaker 2: me to call if I needed anything, then offered zero

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Speaker 2: instructions on caring for an infant.

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Speaker 1: Infant like they're very droppable, especially by ten year olds.

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Speaker 2: Who are basically in third or fourth grade.

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Speaker 1: I think, right, yeah, my nephew Joe is ten. I

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Speaker 1: would not let him hold a baby.

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Speaker 2: Right bye, We'll see you in three hours.

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Speaker 1: Don't fucking kill the baby.

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Speaker 2: Don't you be fuck okay? In parentheses, it says I

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Speaker 2: did not know how to put on a diaper? Who

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Speaker 2: approved this plan?

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Speaker 1: Seriously?

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Speaker 2: About an hour in I noticed the sky starting to

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Anyone from tornado country knows that shade of green means

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Speaker 2: I put both kids in the bathroom.

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Speaker 1: Laid the fucking inf and down in the bath I

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Speaker 1: know you what you're supposed to do, but just like

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Speaker 2: Just the hardest area you can put them in. I

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Speaker 2: and panic called their mom from the landline. No answer,

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Speaker 1: Jesus. I picked up the.

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Speaker 2: Phone to call my own mom and boom, the electricity

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Speaker 1: Saw have you ever seen? I would that would be

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Speaker 1: so incredible.

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Speaker 2: I made my sister and Adrian and my cousin Stevie

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Speaker 2: one of those like we have the video of the

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Speaker 2: no idea, but one episode was dedicated to tornado stories

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Speaker 2: and those kinds of things where it's like people yelling

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Speaker 1: It's not even like yeah, it doesn't even cross, Like

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Speaker 1: Which way it's going. It's like it follows a thing. Oh,

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Speaker 1: like all crazy earthquakes. I love watching like tsunami flooding videos,

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Speaker 2: Okay. Saw the tornado touching down in the distance. Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, everyone's fucking crying. Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I asked if we could use the basement.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter care, No, it doesn't matter where it touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Visible, yes, is closed? Yes when these Midwesterners, yeah, they

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Speaker 2: are made of different material. All that dramatic sprinting for nothing?

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Speaker 1: No? What was now? Because you? Because anyway?

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Speaker 2: The mom came home, handed me fifteen dollars and asked

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Speaker 2: if I could babysit again next week. I immediately said yes.

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Speaker 2: I'm now a career nanny and can confidently change a diaper,

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Speaker 2: So I guess this experience didn't traumatize me that much.

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Speaker 2: Stay sexy and answer your phone. S, Holy shit.

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Speaker 1: I think my mom would have been like, that's not happening.

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Speaker 1: Like she would have come in and been like, you

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Speaker 1: can't babysit a fucking infant. Yes, like maybe a three

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Speaker 2: Was like, yeah, they do stuff, and then you don't

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Speaker 1: They shit their pants and then you're like, I don't

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Speaker 2: Okay, you're slack, You're good. I think S made the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, you were right. Okay, Hi, gals, thought

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed the story from nineteen seventy nine. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to share an event that happen on New Year's Eve

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. My older sister, Mary Beth, and I

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Speaker 1: the time. The Arkansas football team was in the Sugar

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Speaker 1: Bowl on New Year's Day nineteen eighty against Alabama, and

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Speaker 1: as outgoing, partying, fun loving people do, Mary Beth and

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Speaker 1: her roommate Jane, went out to Bourbon Street to ring

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Speaker 1: when mary Beth was knocked to the ground. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: imagine my mother's sheer terror hearing about Marybeth's injury. My

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Speaker 1: Beth was actually a forty five caliber bullet apparently fired

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Speaker 1: You can't shoot guns in the air, not over a

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Speaker 2: That's a huge hole.

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Speaker 1: Mary Beth had apparently gotten rather upset at the revelation

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Speaker 2: She thought she was going to get out of there

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Speaker 1: Be like, whoop hit me, since she was not allowed

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Speaker 1: there were six other gunshot victims brought into the Charity

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Speaker 1: She was discharged after a few days of observation. Mary

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Speaker 1: passed in nineteen ninety nine at age forty from something unrelated,

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Speaker 1: but she never forgot the time she survived being shot

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Speaker 1: in the head. Stay sexy, and don't let a little

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Speaker 1: old bullet ruin your New Year's Eve celebration. A beloved

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Speaker 1: fan of you both, Becky ps. So many more Mary

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Speaker 1: bethisms to share maybe in the future. She was a

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Speaker 1: unique and aspiring girl that I got to call my

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Speaker 1: big sister. I've missed her every day for the past

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Speaker 1: twenty five years, but boy was I lucky to have her.

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Speaker 2: I'd love a series of Marybeth stories.

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Speaker 1: Let's get more Marybeth stories.

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Speaker 2: Please just put in the subject line another Mary Best story.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Becky. Here's a Marybeth story. Yeah, because God

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Speaker 1: be your fucking head or a bullet.

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Speaker 2: It would change your life dramatically. Yeah, and your decision

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Speaker 2: making if you're like I survived basically being shot. Sure, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this email. I'm not going to read you the subject line.

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Speaker 2: This email starts hey, aunties and all caps, and then

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Speaker 2: in parentheses it says, Karen, is this an acceptable greeting?

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Speaker 1: Yes it is.

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Speaker 2: I've written in a few times, but I was recently

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Speaker 1: What the fuck?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bullshit. Although how drunk was she or did

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Speaker 1: They you know what I mean, like, yeah, you kind

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Speaker 1: That's what you're supposed to do. That is what you're

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Speaker 1: Of course?

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the pod. I've been listening since day

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Speaker 2: five ish. Wow, wow, I promise the advice about not

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Speaker 1: Calli. PS.

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Speaker 2: If this gets read on the podcast, I'd like to say,

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Speaker 2: fuck Trump, Fuck Ice, immigrants make America great.

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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, girl.

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Speaker 2: Callie, that's right.

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Speaker 1: God, that's just the thing about like we just did

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Speaker 2: Right exactly. And also you're so right. It's like there

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Speaker 2: And that's like me carrying on that idea where it's like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: because that's how people get roofied at these fucking bars

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Speaker 1: Alcohol, because we've all been there and we're just fucking lucky. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: this one doesn't have a subject. They're Karen in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: longtime listener, first time writing in Let's get started. Not

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Speaker 1: too long ago. You requested stories of crazy coincidences, and

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Speaker 1: I have one for you. When I was four years old,

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Speaker 2: We had a little girl with cystic fibrosis, who died,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Just weeks after this horrific loss, Angelina's family packed

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Speaker 1: We recognized each other instantly and finally had the chance

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Speaker 1: We sat there in disbelief, talking about our lives in

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Speaker 2: That's why.

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Speaker 1: Probably not even the same I don't know if the

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Speaker 1: I love you guys and all that you do with love. Emily.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy right next to her, not even like at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just like, oh, what's your ticket? Say, here's my ticket? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: the subject line it says hello MFM crew. So I

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Speaker 2: I was catching up on Miniso's recently and I heard

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Speaker 2: I credit a lot of that extreme honesty to something

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Speaker 2: my parents invented called the lie dot. According to them,

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Speaker 2: I can still remember when she told me, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Can just measure and going like no, mom, I didn't

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Speaker 1: And that's how I know.

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Speaker 2: It's so easy to manipulate children. Children are so stupid,

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Speaker 2: They are fan favorites of all of my friends and

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Speaker 2: have gotten invited to several of my friend's weddings. That

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Speaker 2: is a great sign of great parents. Totally stay sexy

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Speaker 2: and don't lie to your parents, Hayden.

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Speaker 1: A dot on the forehead. What's the biggest lie you've

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Speaker 1: said to your children or that your parents have said

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Speaker 1: to you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I want those.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like Adrian saying to her kids like she was scared,

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Speaker 2: be careful. The man's going to see you. That's right,

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Speaker 2: when they were misbehaving in public. The man's going to

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Speaker 2: see The man's gonna see you. Not technically a lie.

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Speaker 1: No, there is the man and he is going to

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Speaker 1: see you. That's right. Okay, here's my last one. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to read you the subject. What up, bitches,

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Speaker 1: Let's do this, ell easy, let's do this. About five

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Speaker 1: years ago, I went to a friend's place for a

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Speaker 1: lesbian poker night because the girls love to gamble and gossip.

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Speaker 2: When they say let's do this, they mean les do this.

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Speaker 1: When I arrived, I knew everyone except for one woman, Kelly,

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Speaker 1: a friend of the host from down the block. The

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Speaker 1: host excitedly greeted me and said for the game, I

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Speaker 1: sat you next to Kelly because she doesn't know anyone,

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Speaker 1: and you are a yakmouth who can talk to a

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Speaker 1: brick wall that would never happen to me. You that

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Speaker 1: being totally true. I felt lovingly seen and sat down

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Speaker 1: for the game. A couple of hands in. I had

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Speaker 1: lost plenty of money, but was really enjoying chatting it

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Speaker 1: up with Kelly. Midway through the night, she leans over

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Speaker 1: to me and says, so, I don't want to freak

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Speaker 1: you out, but I'm a medium and you're grond. My

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Speaker 1: mother Mary has been bugging me all night. She is

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Speaker 1: a very persistent woman. Holy shit. I grew up with

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Speaker 1: a lot of Italian superstition slash woo Wu slash Catholic

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Speaker 1: hocus pocus, but am a pragmatists at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, so I was cautiously intrigued. Kelly continued, she

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Speaker 1: wants you to know she is with your grandpa Joe.

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Speaker 1: They are together and happy, so you don't need to

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Speaker 1: worry about them. But your grandmother is very worried about

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Speaker 1: your brother's heart because of the way Grandpa Joe passed,

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Speaker 1: so he needs to go to the doctor. Holy I

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Speaker 1: would have just punched her in the face and run

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Speaker 1: like I don't even care if it wasn't true, just like.

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Speaker 2: Just freaking out Yeah.

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Speaker 1: My eyes widened and my mouth fell open. How the

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Speaker 1: fuck did this woman? No, my grandparents had both passed

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Speaker 1: their names, my grandfather's cardiac issue, and that I had

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Speaker 1: a brother. Yeah, all of it, all of it. The

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Speaker 1: next day I called my brother, who was twenty eight

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Speaker 1: at the time, and recounted the story. He said, well,

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I didn't think this was how the

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Speaker 1: call was going to go when I picked up the phone,

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Speaker 1: but I guess I'll make the appointment please. My brother

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Speaker 1: got a full run up and it was discovered his

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Speaker 1: blood pressure was dangerously high, especially for being so young.

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Speaker 1: The doctor put him on medication and instructed him to

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Speaker 1: have a blood pressure monitor in his home so they

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Speaker 1: could keep an eye on it. The doctor said, we

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Speaker 1: need to get this addressed immediately. So it's a really

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Speaker 1: good thing you came in today. We typically don't get

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Speaker 1: people your age coming in for this, so out of curiosity,

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Speaker 1: what made you come in? He simply shrugged and said,

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Speaker 1: my grandma told me to see you what you're eleven fifteen,

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn show, stay sexy and listen to your grandma, even

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Speaker 1: if it's from beyond the grave.

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Speaker 2: Jen, that was amazing, you know, my aunt Kathleen did that.

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Speaker 2: My sister Adrian's family got a psychic for like a holiday.

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Speaker 2: Hey yeah, and there was like one of them had

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Speaker 2: to drop out. So Adrian's like, do you want to come?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And the first thing he does is like Kathleen. Who

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Speaker 2: knows Kathleen and my aunt Kathleen had just died. So

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Speaker 2: everyone's like, it's Laura and she's like that. She's like,

511
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Speaker 2: your aunt Kathleen needs you to be careful of gluten, right,

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Speaker 2: And all she talked about was gluten and.

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Speaker 1: Such a random thing to pull, like to if you

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Speaker 1: were making it up. It's such a random thing to

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Speaker 1: make up.

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Speaker 2: And then it turns out Nora has cilias right, And

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Speaker 2: they find out like three or four years later, which

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Speaker 2: is just like you can say what you want. But

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, if it's a person who actually has

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Speaker 2: the gift.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we should we should do we should make like

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Speaker 1: we should get a psychic in to talk to us,

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Speaker 1: to sit there and hold our hands and read, show

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Speaker 1: us read our start.

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Speaker 2: That's a good idea.

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Speaker 1: It's our taro. I don't know how work.

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, it would be like a psychic would

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Speaker 2: be like what they're seeing and feeling about us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess. At the same time, though we've said

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Speaker 1: every single thing about ourselves on this podcast, like every

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Speaker 1: single fucking thing, they'd be like, it's your dad, ex boyfriend.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I wrote that in the book, So you

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Speaker 1: fucking knew that.

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Speaker 2: You're Like, Karen's told this Celiac psychic story literally four times.

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Speaker 2: So if you don't know it, you're not a real listener.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Oh, no, that we know that one. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: what's next.

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Speaker 2: We'd have to get somebody that's like from a foreign

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Speaker 2: country that doesn't. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: People from brown countries listen to this podcast. Do you

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Speaker 1: know that?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's true?

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Speaker 1: Not a lot.

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Speaker 2: We went to Sweden.

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Speaker 1: We did well. Thanks for listening. Happy twenty twenty six everyone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations you're here. It's the lesbian poker Night. Get

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Speaker 2: used to it and stay sexy and don't get murdered.

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Speaker 1: Good bye, bye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie?

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Speaker 2: This has been an exactly right production.

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Speaker 1: Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer

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Speaker 1: is Tessa Hughes.

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Speaker 2: Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.

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Speaker 1: This episode was mixed by Leona Squalocci.

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