Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder, the Miniso.
Speaker 2: That's right, you got it. It's the Miniso. The day
Speaker 2: before our vacation starts. So we are fucking faruh as shit.
Speaker 1: We're about to say the hottest takes in content Land.
Speaker 2: Can I go first? I love this one?
Speaker 1: Please do?
Speaker 2: Okay? Oh, I'm trying not to disappoint you or scare
Speaker 2: you or so loud that I upset people. Oh, this
Speaker 2: one's called Matthew Shepherd, Romayne Patterson, a fucking badass bitch. Hi,
Speaker 2: Karen Georgia and the entire adjacent animal Kingdom. First of all,
Speaker 2: I was at the Portland Live Show recently. You guys
Speaker 2: killed it. It's been so fun listening to recent episodes
Speaker 2: and catching the little stregs from that night. Don't remember
Speaker 2: a single thing we said.
Speaker 1: What are the Easter eggs like? Are they filled with? You?
Speaker 1: Tell us candy egg Calby. We hid fifty thousand dollars cash.
Speaker 2: In that theater.
Speaker 1: In the theater.
Speaker 2: I'm writing because of your recent episode on Matthew Shepherd.
Speaker 2: You did such a beautiful, respectful job with it. But
Speaker 2: there is a total badass in the story that I
Speaker 2: need to make sure is on your radar. Matthew's close
Speaker 2: friend Romayne Patterson. When the absolute garbage fire that is
Speaker 2: the Westboro Baptist's Church showed up to pick it Matthew's
Speaker 2: funeral with horrific signs, Romayne said, absolutely not. She mobilized
Speaker 2: the squad of people dressed in massive ten foot tall
Speaker 2: white angel costumes with giant wings. Oh she's crying already.
Speaker 1: No, it's the most brilliant. Yeah, it's the most brilliant
Speaker 1: way to fight. Just block it, yeah, yeah, block it
Speaker 1: with with angels totally.
Speaker 2: They stood in a line right in front of the protesters,
Speaker 2: silently blocking the hate with their wings.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: It must have enraged them so much because it's also
Speaker 2: like angels. Yeah, that's exactly what would happen. It was
Speaker 2: a brilliant, peaceful, visually stunning middle finger called Angel action,
Speaker 2: and there's photos of it. Look at that they made these.
Speaker 2: So they're these angel wings that have these like tent
Speaker 2: pole things sticking out of the shoulder, so that the
Speaker 2: wings are really high and large and blocking the hate.
Speaker 1: It's like five foot expanse on either side, so you
Speaker 1: just cannot see their terrible signs and their horrible faces.
Speaker 2: It's such a brilliant, quiet, peaceful way to protest monsters.
Speaker 2: Romayne wrote an incredible memoir about it called The Whole
Speaker 2: World Was Watching, and her activism and those giant angels
Speaker 2: became a huge part of the play The Laramie Project
Speaker 2: by Moyses Kaufman. She now hosts a podcast with her
Speaker 2: close friend and it's hilarious. It's called Derek and Romayne Amazing.
Speaker 2: This is where it gets personal for me. I actually
Speaker 2: got a b Romaine in The Laramie Project when I
Speaker 2: was in high school. Being a part of that play,
Speaker 2: feeling the weight of the story and seeing Romayne's fierce
Speaker 2: love for her friend was the exact catalyst that gave
Speaker 2: me the courage to come out as a pan woman.
Speaker 2: My high school theater teacher even had her sign a
Speaker 2: copy of her novel for me when I graduated high school.
Speaker 2: It is my most fond memory of high school. Now,
Speaker 2: I am a teacher in a tiny rural town in
Speaker 2: southern Oregon, so stories about young people standing up to
Speaker 2: hate and changing the world through creative resistance mean everything
Speaker 2: to me. Romayne is an absolute legend, and her legacy
Speaker 2: literally changed the trajectory of my life. Happy Pride, month,
Speaker 2: stay sexy and keep fighting the bigots. Carolyne MacArthur she her, Wow,
Speaker 2: I'm so glad she wrote that, because I definitely saw
Speaker 2: that when I was doing my research, and I for
Speaker 2: time had to.
Speaker 1: Just say, your Kate can'ts talk about it all.
Speaker 2: That's it's on story in itself.
Speaker 1: And it's beautiful because it's like people know the importance
Speaker 1: of romaine in that story, and so it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't tell it all.
Speaker 2: But it's an integral part of the story. And I'm
Speaker 2: so glad that email got it.
Speaker 1: Also, I love like that the desperation level to have
Speaker 1: to figure out a creative solution to that horrible protesting
Speaker 1: and that the horrible church. Yeah, and then what has
Speaker 1: evolved since that time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Where have you seen the ones where it's just like
Speaker 1: they'll be that those types of horrible protesters and then
Speaker 1: someone will just hold a sign next to them that's
Speaker 1: this guys.
Speaker 2: These guys are idiots or something like that, or like.
Speaker 1: Someone just look like there's it's so funny. They're all
Speaker 1: they all say all different things, or sometimes they just
Speaker 1: put them up in front and it just says something random. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's so funny. And it makes me think, like
Speaker 1: with stuff like this, and I know this seems like
Speaker 1: off topic, but it that's why it's really important for
Speaker 1: people to go into the arts, to know how to write,
Speaker 1: to know how to act, to know how to sing
Speaker 1: or dance or play an instrument, to see the beauty
Speaker 1: and that and that the Laramie project can get made
Speaker 1: by the people who want to make it because they're like,
Speaker 1: this can't be happening right more, and we're gonna do
Speaker 1: We're gonna not just let it sit as a news story, yeah,
Speaker 1: but then tell that story again and again in other ways.
Speaker 2: So incredible.
Speaker 1: And it's like if anybody's like, oh AI is going
Speaker 1: to take over that, it's no, no, no, it can't
Speaker 1: speak for people.
Speaker 2: The humanity in it is something that cannot be turned
Speaker 2: into AI. That's right.
Speaker 1: And on that same note, let me reach you my
Speaker 1: first email.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The subject line of this is big news from Petaluma.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: It says, Hey, they're Karen and Georgia. Day one listener
Speaker 1: writing in with hometown news to share with Karen and Georgia.
Speaker 1: For the past few months, there's been a great horned
Speaker 1: owl that has taken residence on the face of the
Speaker 1: circa eighteen eighty five building in downtown Pedaluma.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I.
Speaker 1: Heard nothing of this. My sister's in the like the
Speaker 1: last week of kindergarten before they go on summer break,
Speaker 1: so she's not paying attention. Yeah, I have no one
Speaker 1: on the ground.
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me everything. I love this.
Speaker 1: She is attracting visitors from near and far who are
Speaker 1: all concerned for her fledgling chicks. Last week of the
Speaker 1: chicks attempted flight, and since she's literally in the middle
Speaker 1: of downtown and there are no large tree branches near
Speaker 1: the nest, she glided to the sidewalk below see photo attached.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, God, wait, if you give me one second,
Speaker 2: I can figure out where the yah.
Speaker 1: That's how well I know I have you know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's it used to be a weird shoe store.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure that's just at the corner of
Speaker 1: Western Pard It's like a la boo boo. I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean she looks like over it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She was taken to the local Wildlife Rescue for rehabilitation
Speaker 1: and flight training, and the folks of downtown have been
Speaker 1: banding together to create a safe environment for the other
Speaker 1: baby to make her first trip out of the nest.
Speaker 1: And it says so pedalomma, which it is, yeah, or
Speaker 1: a town built on chickens, so we respect birds of
Speaker 1: all types. My sister and I own a small salon
Speaker 1: in the building that the owls have nested on, and
Speaker 1: it has been such a pleasure to have such majestic roommates.
Speaker 1: Even if I am terrified at birds, We've really enjoyed
Speaker 1: meeting folks from our town and remembering that community and
Speaker 1: joy is the most important thing in this fucked up world.
Speaker 1: Next time you're downtown, give us a wave. We're the
Speaker 1: ones with the groovy wallpaper. Stay sexy and talk to
Speaker 1: your neighbors. Maria and she works at Honeybee Color Collective
Speaker 1: in Pudloma.
Speaker 2: I want to live in a small town. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess my neighborhoods kind of small town ish, but
Speaker 2: like surrounded by Los Angeles, right, I want to live
Speaker 2: in a town like that.
Speaker 1: Well, I had no idea how the level of privilege
Speaker 1: of just like you know, the person that works in
Speaker 1: that store you were going. I told you the story
Speaker 1: of one time Nora was getting math tutoring and she
Speaker 1: heard math tutor who's like, it's him and his wife
Speaker 1: that run the place, and she was done with all
Speaker 1: her tests and she did really good. So he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you want to walk down, I'll go get you
Speaker 1: in ice cream. So the two of them are walking
Speaker 1: down pelam With Boulevard. She's probably a lot or twelve.
Speaker 1: My sister said she got no less than ten phone
Speaker 1: calls from all the different people.
Speaker 2: You're like, child is with a random not random, but
Speaker 2: a man.
Speaker 1: To them, it was random. Yeah, They're like, I just
Speaker 1: Laura just saw North. It was the funniest or just
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's really sweet. Nice. Oh wait, there's a
Speaker 1: PS two. Okay, it says PS. I was a model
Speaker 1: for the Biobottoms catalog in the early nineties. That's where
Speaker 1: I worked. It was the baby clothing catalog. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that polyclass's mom was my manager. Oh remember that? God? Yes,
Speaker 1: that was like I flunked out of Sack State, I
Speaker 1: moved home, got the job at Biobottoms, had to get
Speaker 1: be there at five point thirty every morning, and then
Speaker 1: I was off at one.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And that was this weird life I lived before I
Speaker 1: moved into the city. This person was a Biobottoms baby model.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: That's who we got the email from. That's Maria.
Speaker 2: Look at little Maria in the seaside shorts sop cotton Jersey.
Speaker 1: Oh my, hold on, Maria says I, I wonder if
Speaker 1: that was the time you worked for them as well,
Speaker 1: early nineties. It was, And then it says many of
Speaker 1: not all of us, were the children that the people
Speaker 1: who worked there. And my dad was a contractor for
Speaker 1: the offices at the time. Right.
Speaker 2: Oh, how cute?
Speaker 1: I mean Maria, that was like she just gave me
Speaker 1: a little Are you homesick?
Speaker 2: And oh that's so cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to give me like weekly pedal updates,
Speaker 1: do not be afraid to write it.
Speaker 2: We're going to say haircuts. But that's good. Pedal of
Speaker 2: my haircuts? What's a pedal in my haircut?
Speaker 1: Loo was real high in the back and in the
Speaker 1: front some streaks.
Speaker 2: Yeap, okay. This one's called another fake illness resulting in
Speaker 2: a hospital visit with a twist. Oh dearest ladies. I
Speaker 2: was recently listening to Minniesode four twenty three, where someone
Speaker 2: shared their story of how they faked blindness and had
Speaker 2: to go to the hospital when they were thirteen, and
Speaker 2: it brought back a memory of my own similar story
Speaker 2: where I took a fake illness way too far. I
Speaker 2: used to fake sick all the time to get out
Speaker 2: of school when I was a kid. I did it
Speaker 2: when I forgot to do my homework, had to give
Speaker 2: a presentation at school, had detention, or generally didn't feel
Speaker 2: like going same Looking back, this was probably a symptom
Speaker 2: of the anxiety that now runs my life as an adult.
Speaker 2: And then shrug emoji. There was one day when I
Speaker 2: was a young middle schooler that I knew I needed
Speaker 2: to really sell it. I had already faked being sick
Speaker 2: a couple times that week, and I knew my mom
Speaker 2: wasn't going to fall for at this time. So I
Speaker 2: had the idea to crush up some cheerios and drop
Speaker 2: some food coloring into the toilet to make it look
Speaker 2: like I had thrown up. Genius stay right. Thinking it
Speaker 2: looked perfect, I went out told my mom I had
Speaker 2: thrown up and showed her the evidence, thinking there was
Speaker 2: no way she could deny me my day off. My
Speaker 2: mom took one look at it and immediately put me
Speaker 2: in the car to go to the hospital because the
Speaker 2: food coloring made it look like I had thrown up blood.
Speaker 1: Oh the instinct to grab the little red dropper, right,
Speaker 1: little yellow be that good at getting out of school?
Speaker 2: And it says, well, shit. Also, I wonder if her
Speaker 2: mom was like, I know this is food coming. Let's
Speaker 2: see how first she'll take this, Like, at what point
Speaker 2: is she gonna.
Speaker 1: Let's scare the shit out of her? Yeah? Nothing?
Speaker 2: Not good? Okay, well shit. At the hospital, the doctors
Speaker 2: decided to X ray my esophagus with one of those
Speaker 2: tube things that they put on your throat by way
Speaker 2: of your mouth. The anxious kid I was. And then
Speaker 2: it says, am I said not a word to anyone
Speaker 2: that I was totally faking the entire time, and went
Speaker 2: through with it. They had to put me under for
Speaker 2: this procedure and I still said nothing. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: So my luck they found something. It turned out that
Speaker 2: I did have a tear in my esophagus. I remember,
Speaker 2: it was nothing major. I just had to take a
Speaker 2: very nasty tasting medicine the texture of thick milk. Mom
Speaker 2: in emoji, but if that was my punishment for getting
Speaker 2: away with lying, so be it.
Speaker 1: But she wasn't lying, or they weren't lying because there
Speaker 1: was something wrong. That's why she didn't want to go
Speaker 1: to school. Maybe she knew something there and just the
Speaker 1: messaging wasn't accurate. You're very generous, just saying sometimes we
Speaker 1: have anxiety for your body always just like, oh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I have this reaction and say, yeah, your body knows stuff.
Speaker 2: You have anxiety and tearing your esophagus.
Speaker 1: Your brain is trying to go something's wrong downstairs. And
Speaker 1: then you're just like, I'm so crazy.
Speaker 2: It's like the adults are supposed to catch it, but
Speaker 2: they really don't give a shit most of the time.
Speaker 1: How does one tear the one?
Speaker 2: I think coughing really hard? Maybe everyone let us know.
Speaker 2: How do you esophagus? Doctors? How do you tear an esophagus? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Over ACDC song Over two decades later, I have never
Speaker 2: told this story to anyone, but now that I know
Speaker 2: I'm not alone in this kind of stupidity, it feels
Speaker 2: like a good time to get it off my chest.
Speaker 2: You didn't tell your mom.
Speaker 1: I think that the fact that we're the first people
Speaker 1: that they've told, we should send them.
Speaker 2: Like a sweatshirt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's huge to admit something that you were like,
Speaker 1: you fucked up, you had surgery.
Speaker 2: Her name is be just the letter b B. I
Speaker 2: love you, ladies, dearly, stay sexy and stick to your story.
Speaker 2: You might just get away with it. B.
Speaker 1: How did you get away with it? You went under
Speaker 1: you had surgery?
Speaker 2: Just she kept yes, ending her own fucking like mistake.
Speaker 1: She's like, no matter what, as long as I'm not
Speaker 1: in school, right, it's fine. And yeah I could be
Speaker 1: having major surgery. Hey, I'd rather do that than be
Speaker 1: in school.
Speaker 2: Send us your years later confessions. I fucking love those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's genius at my favorite murder at Gmail years
Speaker 1: later confessions. Also because Bee's mom can't be mad because
Speaker 1: there was something to wear.
Speaker 2: Something wrong, and you're right, maybe it was like yes,
Speaker 2: six instincts, there was no ghost in he esophagus.
Speaker 1: It was she had a haunted throat. Okay, this one,
Speaker 1: the subject line is can't find a goth find a
Speaker 1: cost employee. Okay, Hey, hey, hey, I'm starting to write
Speaker 1: this as my sixth grade students are doing a short
Speaker 1: written response after watching a video about Hazel ying Lee.
Speaker 1: First heard on MFM episode five point thirty one. I
Speaker 1: live in Hood River, about forty five minutes outside of Portland.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Awesome local hero. When I was about sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: I was in Costco with my mom and friend. While
Speaker 1: working our way around the store, I felt that two
Speaker 1: men were very consistently behind us. I didn't give it
Speaker 1: much of a second thought because it was there's a
Speaker 1: certain flow to Costco, and maybe we started our journey
Speaker 1: at the same time. In place you're like, no one's
Speaker 1: no one needs a TV.
Speaker 2: Everyone go yeah, it's like a it's really slow, Like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's like a what are those lap lazy river? It's
Speaker 2: a lazy river.
Speaker 1: It's a shopping lazy river.
Speaker 2: Feels so good?
Speaker 1: Do you need a sweat your weekend? Amble over this way?
Speaker 2: This way?
Speaker 1: So mindless and nice. Okay, it's really nice. There's one
Speaker 1: very close to her, is there? Okay? However, my mom
Speaker 1: was an og murderino. I grew up watching and in parentheses,
Speaker 1: I grew up watching forty eight hours, Dateline, Snapped, et cetera.
Speaker 1: She and Brian Williams taught me how to determine if
Speaker 1: you're being followed after circling back, weaving through the baby clothes,
Speaker 1: granola bars and flowers, they were still behind me. I
Speaker 1: caught back up with my friend, who immediately grabbed my
Speaker 1: arm and said, those guys were looking for you, saying
Speaker 1: she's wearing a blue pokea dot dress. I indeed was
Speaker 1: wearing a blue poked dot dress. After a short meeting
Speaker 1: of the minds, now including my mom, Gina, Gina, Yes, Gina,
Speaker 1: is Gina allowed to have her own cigarette and Costco
Speaker 1: just because she's that special.
Speaker 2: Only she's a charredy.
Speaker 1: She's just like it's me, Jan's. I got a shop,
Speaker 1: I gotta get some stuff done.
Speaker 2: I got a smoke.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting this thing out. We decided we needed
Speaker 1: to keep them in our eyesight to ensure we weren't
Speaker 1: in theirs. Once we saw them go to the checkout,
Speaker 1: we were in the clear, or so we THEO. We
Speaker 1: got into the line, and as it is our turn,
Speaker 1: we see them waiting on the other side near the
Speaker 1: tire center, staring. I was creeped the fuck out, not
Speaker 1: wanting to be forced towards them, I informed the Costco
Speaker 1: employee scanning my items. He, understanding the assignment, casually looked
Speaker 1: over and said, whoa, that is so creepy. He did
Speaker 1: this a few more times, mentioning, Wow, they're just staring
Speaker 1: you down. He ultimately said he would walk us to
Speaker 1: our car. Then he said, I have a better idea,
Speaker 1: and then he came back with the single largest man
Speaker 1: I have ever seen in my life. I a giant.
Speaker 1: A giant at Costco. Have I died and gone to heaven?
Speaker 1: I mean he could have been the mountain in the
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. He was now our designated escort to
Speaker 1: the car. The original cashier went over to the men
Speaker 1: to distract them, talk with them, and he ended up
Speaker 1: walking them to their car while our gentle giant walked
Speaker 1: us to ours. He hit our license plate from view,
Speaker 1: packed all of our things into our cars, all while
Speaker 1: keeping one eye on those men again and repeatedly calling
Speaker 1: them creeps and instructing us to take back roads home
Speaker 1: and if it looks like we're being followed, called nine
Speaker 1: one one immediately and do not go home, just keep driving.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then separate line. Just another reason to add Costco
Speaker 1: as a safe space. And then it says, my true
Speaker 1: crime loving mom sadly passed away. Oh, Gina is gone. Gina,
Speaker 1: she sadly passed away in twenty eighteen from a rare
Speaker 1: autoimmune disease called sclarederma. She was a trusted adult for
Speaker 1: all of our friends, the sweetest lady who everyone loved,
Speaker 1: and she had the best timed that's what she said.
Speaker 2: Oh a, mom, that's what she said. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: That's the only person who can do it and not
Speaker 2: with her cigarette?
Speaker 1: Set me up?
Speaker 2: Hey that calm down, you're going too deep. That's what she.
Speaker 1: Said, Gina, Sorry, I wasn't ready to do it again.
Speaker 1: Got you just do it, that's what she said, because
Speaker 1: I think she'd be a little smart. Uh yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's what she said. That's what she said. Okay, she
Speaker 1: was my best friend. I miss her constantly. Stay sexy
Speaker 1: and find a costco worker if you can't find a goth. Sammy,
Speaker 1: so good, Sammy, amazing job.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, here's my last one. Okay, July fourth fishing pole.
Speaker 1: It's called Is it about to be the fourth fund?
Speaker 2: When this comes out, it's about to be the fourth
Speaker 2: fucking cry No Hi MFM team. My parents, Mark and
Speaker 2: Joy Christians live out in the country on a big
Speaker 2: plot of land with a beautiful pond. The pond is
Speaker 2: often a hive of activity with family friends and neighbors
Speaker 2: frequently dropping by to swim and fish. One evening, their
Speaker 2: neighbor Brian, was fishing at the pond with his grandson.
Speaker 2: Brian was using his late grandfather's pole, which obviously had
Speaker 2: a great deal of sentimental value. Brian briefly set down
Speaker 2: his own pole to help his grandson, and it was
Speaker 2: at that moment that a huge catfish grabbed Brian's hook,
Speaker 2: dragging the pole off the dock and into the water,
Speaker 2: where it quickly disappeared into the murky depths. The pole
Speaker 2: was gone. Several people took turns diving to the bottom
Speaker 2: of the pond to try to locate it, but to
Speaker 2: no avail. Brian was devastated. Two years past, but the
Speaker 2: pole is never found despite regular attempts. It's crazy to
Speaker 2: have a pole mean something to you. I get it.
Speaker 1: It's also just it's painting such a vivid picture of
Speaker 1: like people down at the pond, crashing and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: like it's an email from Mayberry. I love it. I
Speaker 1: want to hear all about did this catfish drag a
Speaker 1: pole around? For twenty five years?
Speaker 2: Twenty five years, twenty five years.
Speaker 1: I've been dragging this pool.
Speaker 2: It gets better. My catfish just smoking. Last year, my
Speaker 2: parents hosted a huge Independence Day party. More than two
Speaker 2: hundred people gathered at their home for a weekend of camping, grilling, games,
Speaker 2: and fireworks.
Speaker 1: That sounds amazing, it's because they have pond money. They're Christians.
Speaker 2: Ryan took this opportunity to offer one hundred dollars reward
Speaker 2: to anyone who could find his pole.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: This resulted in dozens of people spending hours searching over
Speaker 2: the course of the weekend.
Speaker 1: Can I say, I bet it was dozens of high
Speaker 1: school boys. Yeah, who's going to fucking get into a
Speaker 1: pond and be like diving down?
Speaker 2: Well, my dad even fashioned a dredging tool out of
Speaker 2: a metal rake. He tied the rake to a rope
Speaker 2: so you could throw the rake out into the pond
Speaker 2: and pull it back in by the rope, dragging the
Speaker 2: prongs along the bottom and hopes they would snag the pole.
Speaker 1: Smart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, still no luck. The pole was well and truly gone.
Speaker 2: The weekend after the party, my husband Jared and I
Speaker 2: were visiting my parents. We'd missed the party because we
Speaker 2: had COVID. We were standing on the pool's dock when
Speaker 2: my dad explained this whole saga and showed off his
Speaker 2: rake slash rope combo. Jared took the rake and half
Speaker 2: heartedly tossed it into the pond. My dad turned and
Speaker 2: started walking back to the house when he heard Jared say, uh,
Speaker 2: is this it? That's right? With just one attempt, my
Speaker 2: husband had found the long lost pole. Incredibly, one of
Speaker 2: the prongs of the rake had snagged in one of
Speaker 2: the tiny islets that run along the pole to hold
Speaker 2: the line in place. Jared returned the poll to Brian,
Speaker 2: who was speechless emotional and happily handed over the one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars reward. Stay sexy and try just one more time,
Speaker 2: Try try one more time.
Speaker 1: That's Jenny, Jenny, Jenny and Jared, Jenny and Jared solving
Speaker 1: problems at the pond.
Speaker 2: Christ does their lord, it's you.
Speaker 1: Know what, it's the old grandfather grandfather whoever passed that
Speaker 1: fisherman's pull down.
Speaker 2: Or the catfish's grandfather or.
Speaker 1: The cash's grandfather's in there. I've seen worse poles than that.
Speaker 1: Send it back. Well, here's my last one. I won't
Speaker 1: read to the subject line. Please don't stop it, It says,
Speaker 1: hey'all on your most recent episode, you ask for stories
Speaker 1: about winning contests. Well, this isn't my winning story, but
Speaker 1: I feel like it's wild enough that it needs to
Speaker 1: be shared. Back in the eighties and nineties, one of
Speaker 1: the local radio stations in my hometown had a radio
Speaker 1: contest giving away a free cemetery plot. Well, my father,
Speaker 1: who never wins anything one.
Speaker 2: I repeat, like bad luck, No.
Speaker 1: I repeat, My father won a burial plot from a
Speaker 1: radio station contest. He waited until my grandmother passed away
Speaker 1: a few years ago when I was in my mid
Speaker 1: thirties to tell me about this contest and showed me
Speaker 1: the deed for his plot.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I reached out to the cemetery and verified its validity,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, it's holy shit. Through a radio station
Speaker 1: tensive too, right about ten grand a minimum?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: All that shit is so fucking expensive?
Speaker 2: And may they make money off of people's worst experiences?
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly to be like, no, grandmother must go in
Speaker 1: her blue suit right into this silk limed casket, right.
Speaker 2: And what I mean, you're not going to have flowers?
Speaker 2: There has to be crazy.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget my mom's like, oh no, I need
Speaker 1: to get what's the other one? Remate it. Yeah, He's like,
Speaker 1: uh uh, creamy and me immediately don't don't where I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, so my father will be buried
Speaker 1: in a plot that he won off the radio.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: I hope this shocks you just like it did me.
Speaker 1: And as a reminder to all make your final wishes known. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's weird and hard, but it's harder on your loved
Speaker 1: ones when they don't know if they're doing what you'd
Speaker 1: really want. And that is an email from Crystal.
Speaker 2: Crystal.
Speaker 1: Crystal fucking wrote in They've been waiting for Crystal to
Speaker 1: write in hah fucking who's the last part? Oh?
Speaker 2: My best friends? Is his name? Crystal?
Speaker 1: I was about to say, last time you met a Crystal?
Speaker 1: And fucking Georgia's closest friend is named Crystal.
Speaker 2: Crystal thinks that her mom wanted them to be strippers
Speaker 2: or something, because her sister's name is also really unique.
Speaker 2: What is it, Phedra.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a very cool name.
Speaker 2: It's so like the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Speaker 2: Yes it is.
Speaker 1: What's funny to me is Crystal in my town or
Speaker 1: a certain way and your Crystal is not that way.
Speaker 1: So she's it's funny because she's very herself, so it
Speaker 1: makes sense she makes it her name. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: not like.
Speaker 2: It's not like the Crystal.
Speaker 1: It's not this right, just no, what if after all
Speaker 1: of that, it's your Crystal at home? Like it's fucking me.
Speaker 1: I've told you this story before.
Speaker 2: Oh what did she did? That'd be cute? All right?
Speaker 2: Sending your stories please about anything you want at any
Speaker 2: time of your life.
Speaker 1: Share in a human way, connections you have made in
Speaker 1: the past. Yeah, whether it's at a pond with someone
Speaker 1: named Crystal, or.
Speaker 2: A catfish, a smoking catfish.
Speaker 1: Or smoking cabbish. And until you do, stay sexy and
Speaker 1: don't get murdered.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
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Speaker 2: Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer
Speaker 2: is Tessa Hughes.
Speaker 1: Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.
Speaker 2: This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
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