Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: It is Karen and Georgia here to tell you about
Speaker 2: our newest limited series podcast from Blanchard House, Exactly Right
Speaker 2: Media and USG Audio.
Speaker 1: This is Royal Swindle.
Speaker 3: Royal Swindle tells the story of two fabulously wealthy Australian
Speaker 3: women who arrive in London in the nineteen nineties and
Speaker 3: quickly charm their way into British high society.
Speaker 2: Evelyn Burton and her lover Leila Andre infiltrate a rarefied
Speaker 2: world of horses, old money and exclusive investment opportunities, and
Speaker 2: before long the money starts rolling in.
Speaker 3: But behind the country houses, lavish promises and irresistible charm,
Speaker 3: this couple is hiding a dark past and some truly
Speaker 3: diabolical intentions.
Speaker 2: Host Becum Milligan tracks down one half of the duplicitous
Speaker 2: duo and guess her to tell all in this extraordinary
Speaker 2: true story of greed, lies and love.
Speaker 3: Episodes one and two of Royal Swindle premiere Thursday, July
Speaker 3: twenty third, with new episodes releasing weekly on Thursdays.
Speaker 2: You can follow Royal Swindle now on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, Hello and welcome my favorite murder.
Speaker 1: That is Georgia Hart start, that's Karen Kilgarat And we
Speaker 1: are on.
Speaker 2: The mic for a minisode, for a mini and this
Speaker 2: is the minisode.
Speaker 1: No, we'll get it one day, someday, we'll get it.
Speaker 3: I'll let you go first, okay. And it's a double pen,
Speaker 3: two pens. I'll have two pens in a paper clip.
Speaker 3: Please damn your official. That's right, a referee with a whistle.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I won't read you the subject line. It says, hi,
Speaker 2: Karen and Georgia. As World Cup season is upon us. Oh,
Speaker 2: did you get to watch any of the world to
Speaker 2: watch some Yeah, yeah, very exciting. The world is healing itself,
Speaker 2: one cup at a time, one big soccer game at
Speaker 2: a time. I guess it says. And I know you
Speaker 2: both like sports. I thought you might like a tale
Speaker 2: from my time as a football reporter.
Speaker 1: So here goes.
Speaker 2: As a young football reporter, soccer to you, gals, I
Speaker 2: was often sent alone on assignments across Europe to interview
Speaker 2: players and report on matches. Sounds glaremous right. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: On a trip to Prague, I was working on a
Speaker 2: game where the stadium was miles from the city center.
Speaker 2: These were pre uber days and I could see that
Speaker 2: this was going to be a nightmare of a place
Speaker 2: to get a taxi back from at midnight, long after
Speaker 2: the fans had all gone home, with a six am
Speaker 2: flight home to London the next day and a little
Speaker 2: time to spare. When my taxi driver dropped him off
Speaker 2: at the stadium, I told him I'd pay him double
Speaker 2: if he would come back after the match and return
Speaker 2: me to my hotel. He agreed, and I was delighted
Speaker 2: to see him waiting as arranged. As I was getting
Speaker 2: out of the car at my hotel, he gave me
Speaker 2: his card. I put it in my pocket but said
Speaker 2: I wouldn't need it as I was leaving in a
Speaker 2: matter of hours. He said he wasn't clocking off until
Speaker 2: nine and offered to return at four am to drive
Speaker 2: me to the airport.
Speaker 1: Wow. Perfect, I thought.
Speaker 2: This has been much easy then it should have been.
Speaker 2: And after just three hours of sleep and some very
Speaker 2: swift packing, Yeah, the worst turnover, yep. I got back
Speaker 2: into that car and shut my eyes to have a doze,
Speaker 2: and this is when things took a turn.
Speaker 1: Oh God, sinsing.
Speaker 2: The car had stopped I woke up and realized to
Speaker 2: my horror that we weren't at the International Departures terminal,
Speaker 2: but at the back of some garages at an unlit
Speaker 2: track in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: His engine was off and the driver was looking at
Speaker 2: me in the rear view mirror. His whole demeanor had changed,
Speaker 2: and I immediately knew I was in trouble.
Speaker 1: Oh my God.
Speaker 2: Knowing I had no idea where I was or which
Speaker 2: way I should run, I got out my cell phone
Speaker 2: and called my husband back in England. His handset would
Speaker 2: be on silent, but a call to the landline would
Speaker 2: ring loudly in our bedroom and wake him up. It did,
Speaker 2: and thank god, he picked up. Not knowing what to do,
Speaker 2: I began an overly cheerful chat about how great my
Speaker 2: trip had been, and despite being half asleep, my dear
Speaker 2: boy immediately clocked that I was in trouble. I told
Speaker 2: him all about my and he asked loads of questions,
Speaker 2: knowing he needed to stay on the line, and tried
Speaker 2: to get snippets of any information he could. I ran
Speaker 2: my hands through my hair to leave DNA in the car,
Speaker 2: and I could see the driver was getting increasingly agitated.
Speaker 2: The only thing I could think to do was pretend
Speaker 2: I hadn't noticed anything was off, and continued what seems
Speaker 2: like a casual chat with my husband.
Speaker 3: Fucking hoops, we have to jump through just to make
Speaker 3: sure we don't get murdered.
Speaker 1: Yep is or sauageous or assaulted is egregious for a
Speaker 1: cab driver.
Speaker 2: People who are licensed, any other licensed professional cab driver
Speaker 2: would be like, it's this is a affront that what
Speaker 2: we do.
Speaker 1: Think twice about because it's a cab driver.
Speaker 2: He's safe, he's just As I was telling him how
Speaker 2: brilliant and helpful the driver had been, I remembered the
Speaker 2: card in my pocket. I told him to take down
Speaker 2: to the number, as we should definitely use this driver
Speaker 2: again if we ever came back to Prague. Brilliant, right,
Speaker 2: Also having to be that smart under that immense.
Speaker 1: Amount of pressure wouldn't have to be.
Speaker 2: But maybe it helps, Maybe it turns you know, the
Speaker 2: adrenaline fires some parts.
Speaker 1: Of our brain. That's what this is all for.
Speaker 3: I think, is us feeling unsafe in the world and like,
Speaker 3: what's fantastic about it?
Speaker 2: Hey, congratulations, we made it. Once i'd read the number
Speaker 2: to my husband more times than required to make sure
Speaker 2: he had not taken it down wrong. The driver realized
Speaker 2: the jig was up, turned the car around and drove
Speaker 2: back up the track and took me to the airport.
Speaker 2: When I got out of that car, we both behaved
Speaker 2: as if nothing happened, so weird. I politely waited for
Speaker 2: him to get my suitcase out of the boot, thanked
Speaker 2: him and paid him with a hefty tip as I
Speaker 2: sure as hell wasn't hanging around for change, and walked
Speaker 2: into the terminal building without looking back. This was nearly
Speaker 2: thirty years ago now, but I still get shivers thinking
Speaker 2: about what might have happened that night. I'm still married
Speaker 2: to the man who took that call. We don't have
Speaker 2: a home phone anymore does anyone, but I'm one hundred
Speaker 2: percent sure that him picking up is the reason I
Speaker 2: made that flight. SS and think twice about putting your
Speaker 2: cell phone on silent. It might save someone from the
Speaker 2: DGM bit.
Speaker 1: Jane, Damn, Jane, Jane, that is harrowing. We're so glad
Speaker 1: you're okay.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, and also thanks for writing in, because really
Speaker 2: the point of all of this also is talk about it.
Speaker 2: Say what happened, Say what you thought of? Help other
Speaker 2: people total keep communicating about it.
Speaker 3: Let's discuss Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, taking a turn. Great.
Speaker 3: This is a follow up to the question how many
Speaker 3: kids is too many to keep track of?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that one? We asked that we were
Speaker 1: sincerely asking the parents of.
Speaker 3: Yes, or the children who experienced it.
Speaker 1: And that's what this is. Okay, it just starts.
Speaker 3: I just finished listening to a mini episode about a
Speaker 3: little girl being left behind at church, and you questioned,
Speaker 3: at what number of children you start losing track of them?
Speaker 3: And we got some good answers on that too. My
Speaker 3: vote is for and I say that as the middle
Speaker 3: of four kids who got lost or left behind several times.
Speaker 3: One time was a combination quote there are too many
Speaker 3: kids slash trash cousins story. We were traveling with some
Speaker 3: extended family, ten adults and fourteen kids in South Dakota
Speaker 3: and had plans to eat at a steakhouse and then
Speaker 3: go to a rodeo. My god, have you ever been
Speaker 3: to a rodeo?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, you have them in your in my town.
Speaker 2: And we used to have thee at the fair every year.
Speaker 2: We used to at the Santa Rosa fair where we
Speaker 2: would go show our sheep. One time we got to go.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a rodeo, but it was a trick rider.
Speaker 2: My dad would remember the name. I bet you a
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. And she was amazed. She literally she flipped
Speaker 2: all over this horse.
Speaker 1: She was running.
Speaker 2: She was racing in a circle. She was like a
Speaker 2: barrel racer. So she could go like on the side
Speaker 2: of the horse and like get down to the horses,
Speaker 2: like almost touching the ground, and she is almost touching
Speaker 2: the around and she would like turn around and sit.
Speaker 3: Backwards, and fucking Suburbia. We didn't have anything cool.
Speaker 1: I don't think we even were Suburbia. I think we
Speaker 1: were straight. You were Suburbia.
Speaker 3: We had nothing cool, but meth okay, South Dakota eating steakhouse,
Speaker 3: go to a rodeo. At the end of dinner, we
Speaker 3: kids were all sent to use the bathroom. When I finished,
Speaker 3: I went back to the table. After a few minutes,
Speaker 3: I noticed that nobody else was coming back. I figured
Speaker 3: they couldn't all be taking that long in the bathroom,
Speaker 3: so I went and checked to see that nobody was
Speaker 3: in the bathroom either. I ran outside to see, to
Speaker 3: my horror, that all of the vehicles were gone in
Speaker 3: South Dakota. You don't know where the fuck you are.
Speaker 3: You probably had a cracker barrel or something.
Speaker 2: And you're the last person at a restaurant where it's
Speaker 2: like you're surrounded by stranger.
Speaker 3: And a child in your job. I started to panic,
Speaker 3: After all, I was only nine years old and in
Speaker 3: South Dakota. But I also remembered the advice from the
Speaker 3: safety Kid's cassettes my parents.
Speaker 1: Would play for us. Let's hear this.
Speaker 3: They had songs about body boundaries, memorizing important information like
Speaker 3: phone numbers, fire safety, and more. One of the songs
Speaker 3: was about how when you're lost, you should quote look
Speaker 3: for a grandma or mother with children. Oh what about
Speaker 3: a goth grandma? Though, look for a goth grandma.
Speaker 2: Someday that will be the safest person anyone can actually
Speaker 2: truly age.
Speaker 1: To help you.
Speaker 3: And because it is South Dakota, there were several older
Speaker 3: people in rocking chairs on the porch of the restaurant.
Speaker 3: I was wary of the old men because the song
Speaker 3: didn't say anything about grandpa's.
Speaker 1: Don't go in near grandpa's.
Speaker 3: Just as a safety, just locking in on grandma's. But
Speaker 3: there were some grandmotherly looking ladies too. They offered to
Speaker 3: stay with me and drive me down to the rodeo
Speaker 3: of my parents were in back Soon. Not long after
Speaker 3: my parents, Manian flew into the parking lot. Apparently some
Speaker 3: cousins had decided to switch up which cars they wrote in,
Speaker 3: and my parents assumed I had done the same. Had
Speaker 3: a stoplight, my mom hopped out of the van and
Speaker 3: ran down the line of cars to make sure of
Speaker 3: where I was. Mother's intuition, she was like, she thinglt
Speaker 3: it right, Yeah, just hopping out of the car to
Speaker 3: stop light, Like, who does that?
Speaker 1: A mother's hand in one state? I wish I knew
Speaker 1: the goddess. Mysteries of the unknown.
Speaker 3: There's a twin's hand and one state tingles, a mother
Speaker 3: doing the dishes hats her hand with a knife, and
Speaker 3: a daughter in a different state feels it.
Speaker 1: I don't think the children know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: It they don't, but they don't look it up. But
Speaker 1: the fifties were great.
Speaker 3: Everybody we love where the grandma where the god Grandma's Essentially,
Speaker 3: no one had me and no one knew where I was.
Speaker 3: When she ran back to the van to share the
Speaker 3: bad news with my dad. My cousin who was writing
Speaker 3: in the vand with them laughed. Of course, she said
Speaker 3: she knew exact because like they didn't know where she was.
Speaker 3: It's not like we left her behind, It's like, where's
Speaker 3: our fucking child? She said, she knew exactly where I
Speaker 3: was back at the restaurant. This cousin is about ten
Speaker 3: years older than me, one hundred percent old enough to
Speaker 3: know better than to just leave a younger cousin behind
Speaker 3: like that. But I was found safe and I love
Speaker 3: to tease her about it to this day, especially now
Speaker 3: that she has daughters to watch out for. Damn, my
Speaker 3: husband and I decided one kid is plenty for us.
Speaker 3: Like all two year old he is impulsive, no control,
Speaker 3: and my blood pressure can't handle more. Stay sexy and
Speaker 3: introduce your kids to the Safety Kids music. Even if
Speaker 3: it's thirty plus years old now, the advice is still
Speaker 3: solid and you never know when they are going to
Speaker 3: come in handy so funny, Christina. Note from Kate Oh
Speaker 3: so Kate kay tell them back? Who sourced these? Made
Speaker 3: a note that you can find the Safety Kids song
Speaker 3: on YouTube, but our lawyer, Jim says we cannot play
Speaker 3: it on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Songs are tough, but everything is you know, everything's copywritten
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 3: Right, But go to YouTube and look up look for
Speaker 3: a grandma safety kids.
Speaker 1: It probably sounds a little something like this Grandma.
Speaker 2: It's like it sounds like a bank commercial. Bubby, Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to read you the subject line because
Speaker 2: it's one of the greatest.
Speaker 1: I'll read it to you at the end. I just
Speaker 1: thought of one mind that maybe laugh so hard.
Speaker 2: I like that an upcoming yeah in this one yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: It starts Hello, Karen, Georgia and Stephen. I'm a twenty
Speaker 2: one year old college student slash hockey player from Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I've been listening for about three years since I started college.
Speaker 2: Your podcast has basically been the soundtrack to every long
Speaker 2: drive between home and school. Anyway, onto my family's contribution
Speaker 2: to American history.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: My grandpa Ralph was a small town Minnesota farmer who
Speaker 2: grew crops and raised animals alike if it could be grown, raised,
Speaker 2: or judged at a state fair. Hey, he was involved
Speaker 2: and probably had strong opinions about it. But the crown
Speaker 2: jewel of his farming career was raising the largest bore
Speaker 2: in the entire state. Not a cute four each project pig,
Speaker 2: more like local legend, state fair celebrity. Someone should probably
Speaker 2: notify Guinness Big Whoa. Because of this extremely large pig,
Speaker 2: he was invited to appear on David Letterman.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is yeah of legend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my family still has the videotape, photos and the
Speaker 2: giant state Fair sign he won. That sign currently lives
Speaker 2: in my parents' garage because apparently once your pig archives
Speaker 2: national fame, it becomes a permanent household storage problem. The
Speaker 2: best part happened after filming in the studio at Letterman. Backstage,
Speaker 2: a man walked up, shook my grandpa's hand and introduced
Speaker 2: himself as Ringo Star. What Yes, that Ringo Star Beatles
Speaker 2: level cultural icon somehow still standing in front of you fame.
Speaker 2: Ringo had heard about my grandpa's prize winning boar and
Speaker 2: he wanted to see it, and, being the rural farmer
Speaker 2: that he was, of course, my grandpa had absolutely no
Speaker 2: idea who Ringo Star was, So instead of having a
Speaker 2: this is a beetle moment, my grandpa had a who
Speaker 2: is this guy? And why is he talking to me?
Speaker 2: Before I've had coffee moment and proceeded to critique his
Speaker 2: hair and piercings.
Speaker 3: What he said, okay, but especially now with a fucking beat.
Speaker 2: According to family lore, Ringo Star was excited to meet
Speaker 2: my grandpa and while my grandpa treated him like a
Speaker 2: neighbor kid who needed a haircut and some new overalls.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can tell you how photos of
Speaker 3: this and I'm losing my fucking mind.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's wild. I love that.
Speaker 2: Somewhere in history, a beadle asked to see a famous
Speaker 2: pig and a Minnesota farmer responded with fashion commentary. So,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure it's like the way my die would
Speaker 2: do it is like, how about you cut that hair right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll tar them with all those piercings.
Speaker 2: It's literally the fourth most famous person on the planet
Speaker 2: to many people. So while some families have stories about
Speaker 2: hidden treasure or distant connections to Royalty, mine is that
Speaker 2: my grandpa raised Minnesota's largest bore, went on David Letterman
Speaker 2: and accidentally became Rango Star's Midwest style consultant. Stay sexy
Speaker 2: and don't accept fashion advice from farmers unless you're prepared
Speaker 2: for honesty and signed Courtney Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Courtney Minnesota.
Speaker 2: But it is Courtney from Minnesota. Is I'm Courtney's last name?
Speaker 2: Because that's a great stage.
Speaker 1: Naw, didn't she say she's from Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I guess she did in the beginning, Yes, she did.
Speaker 3: It's Courtney Minnesota and Minnesota from here on out.
Speaker 1: Hilarious. Oh my god, sholl me pictures.
Speaker 2: There's a ps it says the pig was fifteen hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: Let's pick a lok. My god, show me everything. He
Speaker 1: won the title in nineteen ninety eight. Holy shit, that's
Speaker 1: an enormous pig. Behind that's the Ed Sullivan Theater where
Speaker 1: they tape Letterman.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm putting together that they had to
Speaker 2: put his slop on the ground right to like keep
Speaker 2: him on the stage.
Speaker 1: This is probably rehearsal.
Speaker 3: You guys can see this on Instagram and our socials,
Speaker 3: but you can also see us on Netflix and see
Speaker 3: this PHOTOA Okay.
Speaker 1: And then here's the grandpa out in front, just to
Speaker 1: prove that.
Speaker 3: He really was there in a stretch Limo.
Speaker 1: Brought him minute. They love a stretch limo in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what year is that? Do you think the pig was
Speaker 1: in the back in the hot tub in the back night.
Speaker 2: He won it in ninety eight, so I bet you
Speaker 2: he was on pretty soon after Letterman Loved Loved a
Speaker 2: big pig, he loved State Fair stuff.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Yeah, great job, right, yeah, so exciting. Thanks Christina Arizona.
Speaker 3: What the fuck is gon?
Speaker 2: Courtney Minnesota is absolutely my new stage name. That's Courtney Minnesota,
Speaker 2: bringing you God Grauna.
Speaker 3: Okay, this isn't the one yet, but this is confessions
Speaker 3: of a scream sneezer. Great, and I read a thing
Speaker 3: randomly today, read a thing that said that you could
Speaker 3: kill yourself with a sneeze, but your body knows how
Speaker 3: to expel it. Oh, so, like, if you didn't sneeze
Speaker 3: out aloud and proud, you could kill yourself.
Speaker 1: Right, you could give yourself an aneurysm.
Speaker 3: Right, So this is a I think this is an
Speaker 3: argument for So let's see how it goes.
Speaker 2: Okay, pretending there's no in between. Okay, here we go
Speaker 2: with this argument.
Speaker 3: As a scream yawner, I just have I have some
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Vince like in the middle of our trip,
Speaker 3: was like, what are you like? He knows I do that,
Speaker 3: but I just started not even noticing it do it.
Speaker 3: I thought we yelled that in kindergarten for yawning. Scream yawning.
Speaker 1: Is that how your family does it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I just like want to let you know,
Speaker 3: like here, this is.
Speaker 1: So tired, boring, and I.
Speaker 3: Thought, that's how you fucking yawned. Okay, Thanks Grandma, Hello,
Speaker 3: Karen and Georgia. I've been meeting to write in for
Speaker 3: a while, and you know how life goes, I'm just
Speaker 3: now getting around to it. I started listening around the
Speaker 3: pandemic times, and I think a lot of people were
Speaker 3: looking for outlets. Some made banana bread, others listened to
Speaker 3: YouTube talk about murder. Some did both at the same time.
Speaker 2: Also, sorry about those episodes, recording them and just being like,
Speaker 2: how are we getting this done?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: In one of your episodes, you talked about scream sneezing,
Speaker 3: and it later came up in a rewind and I
Speaker 3: knew I had to share.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, my dad scream.
Speaker 3: Sneezed so violently it would cure your hiccups from a
Speaker 3: mile away. It was mortifying. You'd be minding your own
Speaker 3: business and suddenly Mount Saint Helen's would erupt all over
Speaker 3: again right next to you on the couch, and then
Speaker 3: it says had to throw in a Pacific Northwest reference
Speaker 3: to where I'm from. I never understood why he had
Speaker 3: to be so loud and obnoxious about a natural body function.
Speaker 3: I even practiced holding my own sneezes in vowing that
Speaker 3: I would never be like that. Then I got older.
Speaker 3: I'm forty two now and a father to a four
Speaker 3: year old daughter. After years of treating my body like
Speaker 3: an amusement park, let's just say the bolts and screws
Speaker 3: don't hold together the way they used to, so now
Speaker 3: sneezing is genuinely painful if that pressure doesn't have a
Speaker 3: safety outlet. To my horror, I've become my father. I
Speaker 3: scream sneeze and those are capitalized with the best of them.
Speaker 3: The scream lets the energy escape through my vocal cords
Speaker 3: instead of herniating a disc. So my poor daughter is
Speaker 3: growing up with a father who sounds like a fighter
Speaker 3: jet doing a flyby at Mack two. My dad isn't
Speaker 3: with us anymore, but I'll pass the story on to
Speaker 3: her and apologize in advance. On the bright side, it's
Speaker 3: a hiccup free zone. And then ps the story of
Speaker 3: how you two started your show genuinely inspired me. I
Speaker 3: now have my own podcast called in the Static, where
Speaker 3: I talk to writers, artists and musicians about why we
Speaker 3: make things even when we don't have to. Oh, your
Speaker 3: network's own. Hannah Smith from The Knife podcast was the
Speaker 3: one who encouraged me to actually do it, and she
Speaker 3: agreed to be my first guest.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So thank you for building a community where people like
Speaker 3: me feel like they can step out of their shell
Speaker 3: and share their work. All the hot dogs, Brandon Keith Osborne,
Speaker 3: host of In the Static.
Speaker 1: Brandon lovely, so nice to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Now, let's get into this thing about the fact that
Speaker 2: it is not necessary to make the noise.
Speaker 3: But Karen harridly disagrees with Karen must attack you right
Speaker 3: on the neck. No, it's just I get it, I
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 1: It's just the front end. Yeah, just curb that part.
Speaker 2: Don't totally don't don't do because it is upsetting when
Speaker 2: people go like that is so weird and bad.
Speaker 3: My mom does a gap that the gas part is
Speaker 3: the one I don't Yes, a true part I don't
Speaker 3: care about, but right, yeah, and you're like what sapping.
Speaker 2: And sometimes like my old dreaminate. It was like where
Speaker 2: you're like, no, you're just literally screaming you go to therapy. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: this one now, this is this one's pretty epic. Okay,
Speaker 2: And I'm not going it's you ask for things that
Speaker 2: happened to us at work. Sure, it just starts. I
Speaker 2: literally love you guys so much. We got business to
Speaker 2: get into.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: I work in a small office in a big city
Speaker 2: in Texas. Last summer, we had a few new hires
Speaker 2: coming through and I was sitting at the front desk waiting.
Speaker 1: For them to arrive.
Speaker 2: As they slowly began to filter in, there was one
Speaker 2: gentleman in particular who stood out to me. He walked
Speaker 2: in with a huge smile on his face and introduced himself.
Speaker 2: I greeted him and walked him back to the conference room.
Speaker 2: All while I had this weird feeling that I just
Speaker 2: couldn't shake. The gentleman made it through training and settled
Speaker 2: into his part time status, being a regular face that
Speaker 2: I saw every day. I was cordial, but I was
Speaker 2: hesitant to hold any extended conversation. And because there was
Speaker 2: just something in his eyes that was almost uncanny, I
Speaker 2: couldn't put my finger on it. I was completely convinced
Speaker 2: this was a bad man. Then one day all of
Speaker 2: my nerves and hesitancies were completely validated.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Kind of.
Speaker 2: Another one of the new hires was up at the
Speaker 2: front desk chatting and said, did you guys know Chris
Speaker 2: was an actor? We paused, no, The young man continued, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's been on all this stuff when we did our orientation.
Speaker 2: That was the fun fact that he shared. I immediately
Speaker 2: jumped onto IMDb and there it was. The reason the
Speaker 2: guy gave me the creeps is because I had seen
Speaker 2: those eyes before when he Chris McGarry played Alec Murdoch
Speaker 2: in The Murdoch Murders, Oh twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: That's right, you guys.
Speaker 3: The creepy feeling I means he's a great actor.
Speaker 2: Seriously, the creepy feeling I was getting from the poor
Speaker 2: new man at work is because he played a literal murderer.
Speaker 2: Poor Chris, He's not a creep. He's just insanely fucking talented. Wow.
Speaker 2: After that, I decided it was time to stop avoiding
Speaker 2: eye contact and teach my brain that we are not
Speaker 2: in danger.
Speaker 1: Chris was a great guy.
Speaker 2: He ended up leaving because he got accepted into a
Speaker 2: collegiate theater program and he wanted to focus there. For
Speaker 2: his privacy, I'll spare any further detail. It's like you've told.
Speaker 3: Us to his entire life.
Speaker 2: We all follow him now on, We're all into this.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys for ten years of incredible work. Stay sexy, Samantha,
Speaker 2: And here he is. It's Chris McGarry starring in and
Speaker 2: Kate made this note that not to be mistaken with
Speaker 2: the Bill Pullman mini.
Speaker 1: Series about the Murdoch murders. Got it. This was the
Speaker 1: two B movie from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a menacing stare. Yeah, that's a great actor.
Speaker 3: Then great act like it stayed with her. Yeah, amazing,
Speaker 3: And that's the risk of acting.
Speaker 1: That's what you get. People are scared of you.
Speaker 3: I was thinking the guy who played odd book me,
Speaker 3: what's it called solotion on the back?
Speaker 2: Put so in the yeah who who went on to
Speaker 2: be He was the like the police lieutenant on Monk right,
Speaker 2: and my mom loved Monk so I'd watch it with
Speaker 2: her all the time.
Speaker 1: But I'd just be like, this is scary. The voice
Speaker 1: would come through.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is the last one, and it's so predictable,
Speaker 3: but the last part is just somewhere with it. Okay,
Speaker 3: the best restaurant story you may ever hear. I like
Speaker 3: that might not be qualify it. Salutations, BFFs. I write
Speaker 3: to you from your own backyard and beautiful Silver Lake
Speaker 3: to tell you about my favorite restaurant story from over
Speaker 3: twelve years in the service industry.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we asked for these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was not from my first hand account. I'm
Speaker 3: sad to say it was my favorite chef I have
Speaker 3: ever worked with who blessed me with the tale. So
Speaker 3: here it is my gift to you. He was working
Speaker 3: at a very posh restaurant in Los Gatos. Where's that
Speaker 3: Los Gatos?
Speaker 1: It's up in the East Bay, I believe, yeah, right
Speaker 1: East or South Bay, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: In his early career, it was common for people to
Speaker 3: celebrate birthdays and big life events here. One Saturday night,
Speaker 3: the restaurant was packed, per usual. The seven o'clock dinner
Speaker 3: rush is in full swing. The lobby is filled with
Speaker 3: people waiting to be seated, sipping on pre dinner cocktails.
Speaker 3: The kitchen printer is cranking out ticket after ticket to
Speaker 3: a hot and bustling kitchen servers are greeting guests, serving drinks,
Speaker 3: nursing a hangover with bitters and soda, flirting with the
Speaker 3: krusty tattooed sous chef, putting in orders, inevitably forgetting orders
Speaker 3: and blaming it on the kitchen. Wait, this isn't my story, Sorry,
Speaker 3: I was having clashbacks.
Speaker 1: Anyways.
Speaker 3: One server gets two parties at the same time that
Speaker 3: require two different cakes to be refrigerated and then presented
Speaker 3: at the end of the meal for a dessert. As
Speaker 3: dirty dinner dishes are being cleared, the server goes to
Speaker 3: the walk in to get the cakes ready. The first
Speaker 3: table to be ready for dessert is a large family
Speaker 3: celebrating the eightieth birthday of their dear sweet Nanah. The
Speaker 3: other party is a much more lively bunch of thirty somethings,
Speaker 3: all gathered to send their coworker off to their next
Speaker 3: job with a last supper situation. The busy and flustered
Speaker 3: server grabs a cake from the walk in and asks
Speaker 3: the server to help them bring the other cake to
Speaker 3: the group that was sending off their coworker. The first
Speaker 3: server walks the cake to the smiling family waiting to
Speaker 3: see Happy Birthday to Nana. Simultaneously, the second server approaches
Speaker 3: a confused looking group of professionals with the cake that
Speaker 3: says Happy Birthday, Nana. The first server presents the other
Speaker 3: cake and goes to leave when they hear a gasp.
Speaker 3: They turn to see Nana's face, which has fallen with
Speaker 3: eyes brimming with tears. The server looks down in horror
Speaker 3: at the cake. Swirly black frosting states, You're dead to.
Speaker 2: USA on trust from the family.
Speaker 3: You're done to us now you're eightieth Go fuck yourself, Nana.
Speaker 1: Oh you're dead to us because they were leaving their
Speaker 1: off the office. They're going read the cake before you
Speaker 1: drop it.
Speaker 3: The classic tale of the old switcheroom ending and lots
Speaker 3: of comped drinks for Nan and the fam. A forever
Speaker 3: traumatized server, and my favorite story to tell at parties.
Speaker 1: Love you both tons.
Speaker 3: You have inspired me to get my master's in social
Speaker 3: work and help the underserved here in La.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my God.
Speaker 3: Stay sexy and blame it on the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Maya Maya legendary, Oh, dead to.
Speaker 3: Us, dead to us, that's like the I curse you
Speaker 3: with my dying breast.
Speaker 2: Yes, no candles, black swirling, frosting dead.
Speaker 1: We hate you, Grandma.
Speaker 3: Do you have any switcheroo stories? Yeah, let us know it.
Speaker 3: My favorite murder at Gmail. Any kind of switcheroo, especially
Speaker 3: grandma based, yes, graandma based, Grandma.
Speaker 2: Based cake bace, waitress base.
Speaker 1: Yeah, et cetera, et cetera. Other than that, stay sexy
Speaker 1: and don't get murdered.
Speaker 4: Good Bye, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 5: Two as lesbian lovers touched down in nineteen nineties London
Speaker 5: and become the toast of British high society. They're rich,
Speaker 5: they're colorful.
Speaker 4: Red hair, masses and masses and masses of red hair.
Speaker 5: And they're outrageous.
Speaker 4: She would keep a stash at fifty pound notes down
Speaker 4: her bra.
Speaker 5: One of them starts touting an exclusive investment opportunity.
Speaker 2: That money, If you give it to me, I will
Speaker 2: turn it into mega money.
Speaker 5: And soon the money starts rolling in. Rich businessmen and
Speaker 5: England's horse loving elite fall under their seductive spell.
Speaker 3: It was intoxicating stuff.
Speaker 5: They even meet Queen Elizabeth. But the millionaire duo are
Speaker 5: concealing a dark past and dastardly intentions.
Speaker 3: My husband turned around and said we either get that
Speaker 3: money or we're going to expose you for what you are.
Speaker 5: I my mother saying to me that the ramifications of
Speaker 5: this were huge.
Speaker 1: I was terrified, absolutely terrified. Evil.
Speaker 3: They were bad, bad people, as bad as evil. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 5: Before long, a small town detective gets wind of the
Speaker 5: duo's exploits and vows to stop them.
Speaker 1: She was a thief. She was a thieving scumbag.
Speaker 5: Only problem is these two are exceedingly hard to catch.
Speaker 5: Decades later, one of them is finally ready to tell all.
Speaker 3: I've solved my soul to the devil.
Speaker 5: This is the story of Lilah Andre and Evelyn Burton.
Speaker 1: She was the love of my life, absolutely the love
Speaker 1: of my life.
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Speaker 5: is Royal Swindle.
Speaker 4: Oh look, I say, I'm very sorry, but whether I
Speaker 4: mean or not not, I don't know.
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