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

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Speaker 2: We read you your stories. This one's a special edition.

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Speaker 3: This one is themed out.

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Speaker 1: We were getting a lot of emails that had this theme,

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Speaker 1: so Mollie and Allison started collecting them and it's basically

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Speaker 1: the or so we thought stories.

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Speaker 4: Fucking love this.

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Speaker 2: I could just do this for the rest of It's

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Speaker 2: so great in Kennedy, Yes, this is so good.

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Speaker 3: What better way to tell a story? Here's a classic version.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I won't read you the subject line it says, Hi,

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Speaker 1: Karen and Georgia, I love your show and thank you

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Speaker 1: for helping me know that my obsession with murder stories

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Speaker 1: is not weird and I am not a freak.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't it weird? Ten years later that people.

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Speaker 4: Thought that it's just like no, not where the normies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it says my mom was engaged to a man

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Speaker 1: that has two daughters that I went to high school with.

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Speaker 1: One daughter was engaged to her high school sweetheart and

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Speaker 1: he had the best family, or so he thought.

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Speaker 4: Starting off fucking strong.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, you just know exactly what we're talking

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Speaker 1: about now, something is wrong and also how often does

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Speaker 1: this happen? Where everybody in town compares themselves to this

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Speaker 1: perfect family, and then the other shoe.

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Speaker 4: Dromas, Okay, we've all watched Euphoria.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we know what's going on. So the boyfriend's name

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Speaker 1: is Scott and they called the parents the Cleavers.

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Speaker 3: They would host block parties.

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Speaker 1: The mom baked for everyone, and the dad was also

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Speaker 1: a local police officer. They had a family friend, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: that was also the ex wife of a fellow police officer,

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Speaker 1: and a personal trainer that helped rehabilitate Tom when he

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Speaker 1: was hurt during a big police chase.

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Speaker 4: Got it.

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Speaker 1: My mom mentioned a big family jetski day where Lisa

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Speaker 1: wore a thong and she thought it was odd. I

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Speaker 1: think the mom she thought it. I saw that Tom

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Speaker 1: and Lisa shared a jet ski.

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Speaker 2: A thong right off the bat is like red flag.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. But a

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Speaker 2: family holiday, at.

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Speaker 1: A family holiday when you are not family, but you're

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Speaker 1: not family, and you're also not young enough where it's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: guess what, high school, college, early twenties maybe, depending on

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Speaker 1: what's going on. But when you are like another mom

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Speaker 1: and you've got a thong on, you're basically saying I'm

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Speaker 1: going to express something through my bathing suit, right and

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Speaker 1: their kids around. I'm going to send a message that's

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Speaker 1: actually kind of a private message. I should actually be

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Speaker 1: sending it on a private.

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Speaker 4: I'm not, but I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, okay, which is also these days very common.

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Speaker 1: And also I was raised Catholic, so everything seems inappropriate

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 1: So the husband started working late on Tuesdays and the

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Speaker 1: their wedding anniversary. The mom was seen at Costco and

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Speaker 1: then never seen again. No, the husband let a search party.

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Speaker 1: The mother was on the news as a missing person.

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Speaker 1: The mother was found three days later, bound with duct

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Speaker 3: Her throat was slit.

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Speaker 4: Oh Man, our.

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Speaker 1: Family friend found her. He was in another precinct and

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Speaker 1: looking for her murderer, and then three days later the

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Speaker 1: husband went missing. What we thought, whoever took the mom

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Speaker 3: Through the back of his head. There was a huge double.

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Speaker 1: Funeral with a ton of police to honor their fallen partner,

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Speaker 1: and they were buried together with caskets on top of

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Speaker 1: each other. It all started to come out about the

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Speaker 3: The mom had leaves and dirt in her her hair

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Speaker 1: When all of this came out, the sun was so

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Speaker 4: Holy shit.

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Speaker 3: And then it says stay sexy and don't marry a cop, Brandy.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that is not what I thought was gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, or so we thought that was. Like, it's

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Speaker 1: not just a standard affair, which is bad, right, bad

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Speaker 2: Just everything who falls apart. All right, let's change the

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Speaker 2: tempo a little bit. My first one's called my mom

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Speaker 2: the pool locker room hero ladies, What can I say

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Speaker 2: other than you bring seemingly endless joy, laughter, and wisdom

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Speaker 2: to me weekly and in this economy, that's really all

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Speaker 3: In this economy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you and I will soak up every word from you,

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Speaker 2: two stars, for as long as you choose to fight

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Speaker 2: this good fight. My mom, among many other accolades, was

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Speaker 2: also a hero at her local swimming pool back in

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Speaker 2: let's call it the nineteen sixties. What do you think

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Speaker 2: her mom would say about that? Pancha was the nineties

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Speaker 2: would eventually send her to college by babysitting and life

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Speaker 2: guarding at her hometown pool in Akron, Ohio. One fateful,

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Speaker 2: the next staff member on duty. It had been a

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Speaker 2: head home for her next job, likely babysitting a neighborhood kid.

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Speaker 2: My mom headed into the empty locker room, thought undressed,

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Speaker 4: The pool, she called out to say, hey, who's out there?

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Speaker 2: When she didn't get a response. She called out again,

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Speaker 2: turned the shower off, grabbed her towel, and peeked around

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Speaker 2: became shockingly clear this was not a kid. Nope, instead,

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Speaker 2: it was a very short adult man who had just

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Speaker 2: Instead of just letting this person go, which would be

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Speaker 2: first time this offender had been snooping around the women's

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Speaker 2: he had to be taught this particular lesson. Never mess

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Speaker 2: with my mom because she's fast, bold, and isn't afraid

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Speaker 2: to drag men through an auditorium while only wearing a towel. Admittedly,

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Speaker 2: my mom said if she had known it was an

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Speaker 4: Fair mom.

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Speaker 2: My mom used to tell me the story and many

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Speaker 2: others during our many hours traveling to my youth sports

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Speaker 2: never got to meet her grandson, my son, who was

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Speaker 2: turning seven this month. I tell my son age appropriate

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Speaker 2: stories of his grandmother as often as possible so he

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Speaker 2: could be sure to pass along the badass lady power

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Speaker 2: spirit that lives on in everyone who knew her or

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Speaker 2: that keep the spirit alive and strong. SSDDM J from Vermont,

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Speaker 2: j from Vermont.

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Speaker 3: Our moms died the same year.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, twenty sixteen, Wow, seven years ago.

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Speaker 3: It was a bad one, isn't that weird?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I would have a seven year old child.

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Speaker 4: So weird? What would they be like?

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Speaker 3: A lot like this?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: High maintenance. That was a good one.

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Speaker 1: The idea of having to chase someone in a towel

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Speaker 1: so stressful and insane. And then that reveal of like,

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Speaker 1: it's not a child, it's just a short man.

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Speaker 4: You can fight back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but what a creed? Yeah, this one is crazy.

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

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Speaker 1: The subject line it says, hello, my name is Malachi

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Speaker 1: mal for short, and I'm a trans dude who grew

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Speaker 1: up primarily in Wyoming. However, due to a series of

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Speaker 1: horrible and traumatic life events. Who doesn't have those? My

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Speaker 1: my Mennonite uncle and aunt's farmland. Two days after settling in,

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Speaker 1: Usually rural Indiana community is full of the Amish and

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Speaker 1: Mennonites aren't chalk full of criminals, or so we thought

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Speaker 1: that I love it. According to my aunt, there was

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Speaker 1: an Amish run meth house just up the road and

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Speaker 1: it has had exploded.

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Speaker 4: What the Amish fucking grow math? Girl, math? You can't

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Speaker 3: No you can't. Well, they naturally grew it.

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Speaker 4: And they have the old recipe from back in the.

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Speaker 1: Day, and then they raised the barn style built a

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Speaker 1: the weirdest combination of ethosis and aesthetics totally. A few

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Speaker 1: days prior to us moving it onto my family's property,

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Speaker 1: police had arrived to a destroyed meth lab and one survivor.

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Speaker 1: All of the victims and the survivor were Amish, at

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Speaker 1: least supposedly. We were later told by members of the

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Speaker 1: community that the other two victims, the brother and the

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Speaker 1: wife of the survivor, were dead before the explosion even occurred.

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Speaker 4: Because like chemicals and shit.

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Speaker 1: Whether this was because of a meth induced rage or

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Speaker 1: because of familial issues, we never found out. In about

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Speaker 1: six months, we moved back to Wyoming. Shockingly, not because

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Speaker 1: of the exploded Amish meth house. After that, I finished

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Speaker 1: the rest of my high school life in Wyoming, which

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Speaker 1: is a relatively boring state SSDGM mal Wow.

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Speaker 4: Perfect. Perfect.

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Speaker 1: Just thinking that you're going to like get away and

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Speaker 1: like start a new life and just immediately a meth

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Speaker 1: house that's run by the Amish blows up.

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Speaker 4: You know they did that. I need more stories of

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Speaker 4: this everyone.

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Speaker 3: I feel like this is like we owe a serious.

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Speaker 1: Apology to the Amish and Mennonite community because we have encroached.

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Speaker 4: And not listening. Yeah, they're never gonna listen.

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Speaker 1: Can someone please run down the road, apologize, run down

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Speaker 2: You fall in love with an Amish man and you

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Speaker 4: Like, you're off TikTok forever.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Or so we thought, uncle story, Yes, hello MFM

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Speaker 2: I'll set the scene When my mom was little, her

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Speaker 1: And then in parentheses it says serial killer Jason Massey, unsolved,

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Speaker 1: when I saw it, tinly, mostly hairless blur hissing between

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Speaker 2: How about we put it on socials and then teachers

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Speaker 4: Love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so if you have a little extra to give,

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Speaker 4: Amazing.

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Speaker 4: I wish we were ending on that, but we're not.

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Speaker 3: We got to keep going.

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Speaker 2: I present to you my mother and I's finest moment.

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Speaker 4: You know that fake pet names don't ever make any

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Speaker 2: The days went by and Cleopatra still had not turned up.

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Speaker 2: or so we thought so we thought it since she

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Speaker 2: to let her get away. We slowly started approaching the cat.

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Speaker 2: The cat sees us moving towards it and bolts, and

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Speaker 2: we run after it. We chase this cat as it

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Speaker 2: runs toward a home that was just around the corner

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Speaker 2: from my own house, and we see the cat enter

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Speaker 2: through a side doggy door. We thought that Cleopatra must

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Speaker 2: have been surviving all this time by taking shelter in

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Speaker 2: this home that she just ran into.

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Speaker 4: How clever she is.

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Speaker 2: We knocked on the front door, No one answered, no

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Speaker 2: cars in the driveway. We sneak around the side of

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Speaker 2: one that we should have just chilled, and see cloak

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Speaker 2: close sitting in the laundry room up on a counter.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure who had the bright idea of trying

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Speaker 2: the back door knob, but one of us tried it.

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Speaker 2: And it was open.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I am also not sure which criminal mastermind scheme the

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Speaker 2: next steps of our plan, but it was decided that

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Speaker 2: I would enter the home, grab the cat, and then

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Speaker 2: book it back to my house.

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Speaker 4: Ug.

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Speaker 2: We entered this home, grabbing this cat and high tailed

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Speaker 2: it no pun intended back to my house. I ran

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Speaker 2: into my home and dropped this poor cat, thinking, oh,

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Speaker 2: how relieved Cleopatra will be to be home, and this

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Speaker 2: cat just starts flipping out, running around looking for an exit,

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Speaker 2: flying up and down the furniture. I think it was

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Speaker 2: at this point we realized, Shit, this is not my cat.

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Speaker 2: We fucking stole, with the best of intentions my neighbor's

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Speaker 2: cat all caps right out of their damn home.

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Speaker 3: Through the back door. Burglar yes, burglar.

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Speaker 4: Yes, okay. Phase two.

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Speaker 2: The cat calmed down a little bit and I was

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Speaker 2: able to pick the cat back up, and we put

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Speaker 2: our genius plan into reverse. We bolted back to my

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Speaker 2: neighbors and shoved that cat back into its docky door,

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Speaker 2: from which it came. Good news, Cleopatra returned from her

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Speaker 2: outing sixteen days after she left. Better news cats can't

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Speaker 2: talk her else. My mother and I may be serving

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Speaker 2: hard time, stay sexy and lock your fucking doors, or

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Speaker 2: your crazy neighbor and her mom may steal your cat

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Speaker 2: and then return it. E.

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Speaker 1: Thank god they didn't have to break back in and

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Speaker 1: put the cat in like that.

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Speaker 3: Like it's just through that cat door.

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Speaker 2: Like the person came home and just had no fucking

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Speaker 2: clue that someone was in their house. The cat was

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Speaker 2: just like you were not going to leave what happened

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Speaker 2: to me? But I can't tell you.

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Speaker 4: Cat's like all right, this is so fucking weird. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Also there's just like a you walk in, there's just

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Speaker 1: like a weird smell.

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Speaker 3: It's just like a someone's in here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Keep sending us share or so I thought, twist stories

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Speaker 2: and we can include them in the regular hometowns. I

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Speaker 2: fucking love them so much.

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Speaker 3: They're so good.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been misled or miscontruede a situation? Then

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Speaker 1: it led to some wonderful storytelling, right, let us know.

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Speaker 2: Please let us know my favorite murder at gmail dot

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Speaker 2: com and.

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Speaker 3: Stay sexy and don't get murdered.

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Speaker 4: Good goodbye, Elvis, do you want to cook?

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Speaker 1: He?

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