September 5, 2022 • 26 mins
This week’s hometowns include a superglue mishap and an earthquake in Guatemala.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello, Hello, and welcome to My Favorite Murder. That's Georgia Hart.
Oh the miniso. Don't worry about it. It's relaxed and chill.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
No intros, no names calling.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, just video. If you want to watch in the
you know it's called fan cult. Go to My Favorite
Murder dot com and join the fan cult. It's a
fun place to be.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fan called. I didn't entirely blow dar my hair for you,
and that is disrespectful. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'll start. It's called the Mysterious Red substance. A Grandma
story says names included.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Please.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
If you're going to send us stories about your mom,
your dad, anyone in your family, especially if it's old
timey stuff, we want their names.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
First name. But we got it able to know. If
you tell us some story that's unbelievable about your grandma
and then you're like, she died eleven years ago today
and we can't, then go Grandma Marie, you did a
great job.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Please makes us sad, so includes your grandma's name, or
you're the cause of our problems exactly, or you've ruined
our fucking lives. Greeting's MFM family. I originally submitted this
story as a week New listener back in twenty eighteen,
but hundreds of episodes later, I'd like to think my
story drafting skills have improved, and maybe I'll be one
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of the lucky ones.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hey looks like you are. Guess what.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
M Anyway, I just listened to the story about the
museum thief who dripped blood all over a gilded mansion
while rummaging around for treasure minnieso. Two eighty eight. And
also thank you for including that. It's always good. Yeah,
and it reminded me of the story my grandmother told
me many years ago. The scene the early morning hours
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in a badass midscentury modern house, Dallas, Texas, nineteen fifty
seven eightish. A young couple my grandparents, Annie Louise and Dick,
aren't just waking up the story. It was a regular
morning in Dallas. Annie Louise, with her picture perfect beehive hairdo,
heard her young sons waking up down the hall. Laying
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in bed for a few more precious minutes, the housewife
and mom of three mentally prepared for the day ahead.
When she sat up in bed, Annie Louise was surprised
to find some kind of red substance at the end
of their bed. On closer inspections, she realized it was
red candle wax that had dripped in a puddle on
the blanket.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And I don't like where this is going. It's a witchcraft.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
She soon realized there were also drips of wax and
various places on the carpet of their bedroom. Annie Louise
woke up Dick, who easily slept through the sound of
his young children, and he helped his wife figure out
what the fuck was going on. It didn't take long
to realize they had been robbed, as Annie Luise's jewelry
box was not on the dresser where it normally was,
but rather dumped in the living room with most of
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her valuable pieces missing, which I take the whole fucking.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Box, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Like why dump it out like it's fucking like a puzzle, right.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Unless you don't have unless you're experienced, and you know
that like if if a standard jewelry box is going
to have a lot of costume jewelry and you only
want the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Or maybe it was one of the old timey ones
that were huge and like carrying it out of a
house would look obvious.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Maybe it was one of the ones that you open
and there was a ballerina and a song started that
They were like, this is too loud, there's too much risk.
I love ballet too much, truly.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Various other items were also taken, but Anny Louise really
focused on her jewelry when she relaid this story to me.
Annie Louise and Dick continued finding red candle wax dripped
all around their house, including in their young son's bedrooms
and inside my own mother's baby crib. So this fucking
person's walking around with a candle. The police later found
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a red taper candle in the back yard of the
house that had been burned down to only three to
four inches in length. It appeared that the burglars had
used red taper candles to illuminate the dark house while
they rummaged through various shit. The puddle at the end
of their bed cop said someone was likely standing over
them while they slept, making sure Annie Louise and Dick
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didn't wake up. Horrifying and arrest was never made in
the case, and when they asked how they'd broken into
the house, Andy Louise said they always left the back
door unlocked, so they just came in. Interestingly, they were
robbed at least two more times, during which Annie Louise
once again had the majority of her jewelry stolen. Maybe
home burglars were more common back then, question Mark. Maybe
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people knew Annie Louise didn't properly lock up her jewels.
Question Mark don't know. Luckily, Dick always managed to replace
what was stolen, so Anny Louise was never without her
iconic jewelry for long. Just before my feisty Grandma passed
away in twenty sixteen, Annie Louise told everyone that instead
of bequeathing any jewelry in her well, we'd all just
have to fight over it. She seemed to take great
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joy in this, and I miss her terribly When I
wear her huge ivory and gold elephant at the end
of a chunky gold chain, her statement necklace, and then
it says purchase before the ban on ivory sales, Sorry elephants.
Then it says stay sexy and save the elephants, and.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
She nice pivot right at the last second. I really did.
Oh wow, I'm in the candle. It's so creepy, deeply creepy.
And also like did they bring it themselves. Did they
just find a taper candle in the house?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Like it sounds like they brought it, so, like, why
not bring a fucking flashlight?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, and also a red candle. It did seem like witchcraft. Okay, yeah,
yeh yeah, okay, Okay, it's a giveaway subject line, so
I'll just start with good Evening, Murder Friends. I'm a
Day one listener, heard Karen on the Sclar's Pot podcast
and was sold. And I've sent in a couple emails
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in the past. I'm sure you'll get to I love
it so incredibly positive, so polite and positive. But I
just saw this one on my hometown's history Geeks facebook
page and it just screams Karen and Georgia. It's one
of those incidents where one event caused another caused another
caused a poisoning. In nineteen eighty nine, there was a
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nightclub in my hometown called the Peppermint Twist, which is
very cute, but this story is not Evidently. In September
that year, they had run out of dish soap at
their front bar for washing glasses by hand, and someone
had filled a five gallon jug with a dishwasher detergent
that was most certainly not meant for hand washing dishes.
That same evening, the club was selling one dollar watermelon shots,
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which sound delicious. The waitress serving that night went back
to the bar to refill her tray and took a
five gallon container from the fridge, believing it to be
watermelon shot mixture due to its red color. No, so
obviously it wasn't watermelon shots. It was Eco Klein dishwatcher detergent,
which is thirty percent lie. Oh no, Lie causes chemical
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burns on contact. The waitress filled her tray with poison
and sold it to guests of the nightclub, twelve of
whom were taken to the hospital that night. Oh my god.
Two of its victims, Cindy and her dad, John, sued
the nightclub in a huge suit and one with flying colors.
Cindy had not only suffered severe burns to her esophagus,
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preventing her from ever eating solid food again. Oh oh,
but it also burned her hand when she was throwing
up the poison. She likely would have died after running
to the bathroom to throw up, but her husband had
gotten concern and went after her and found her unresponsive.
On the bathroom floor. He performed the heimlick on her
and made her throw up the poison and saved her life.
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My god, John also suffered esfta burns, but for some
reason the court awarded Cindy two point five million and
John seven hundred and fifty thousand. I'm unsure why the
other ten victims didn't sue. It's a miracle no one
died that night, and honestly, it's so wild. I've never
heard of this incident until recently. Thanks for all your
hard work and just for being all around stand up gals,
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Stay sexy and don't drink poison, Amanda.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That is a perfect hometown of what we originally wanted
was the crazy fun I mean, we love all of them, obviously,
the Yama ones, the fucking Treasure ones, but the crazy
thing that happened in your town that you had never
heard of and you couldn't believe it or you grew
up knowing and it was legendary like.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That is that's it, Wil That's it's so. It's great job, Amanda,
And also a Day one listener, a rare bird, a
Day one listener that can put a solid email together
of a classic hometown, and also just a story like
that where it's the late eighties, right, and so there's
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all kinds of things that aren't checked, all kinds of
things that aren't regulated. It's just like the worst.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's so sam I honestly feel bad for the waitress too.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's like horrifying.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
She's probably has PTSD from having done.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That well, life changing, horrifying total for every single person,
I mean all of it. It's so sad.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Here's one called wedding and super glue. Oh what's up
MFM fam. Two minutes ago to my timeline, you mentioned
wedding horror stories.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I immediately cracked up. So here's mine.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Just two days ago, my sister was getting married up
in the mountains at a ski resort. It was a
nice start to the day with a lovely brunch. Since
we were in the mountains, I had horribly dry eyes
from pretty much everything. So while we waited to set up,
me and my boyfriend grabbed our room key and headed
up to the room. I packed in a hurry and
all my beauty products went into a plastic bag. I
had my glasses off, which was already a bad idea
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considering I have negative ten eyesight. I reached in the
bag for a small bottle, assuming it was my eye drops.
I couldn't have been more wrong or more panicked. As
I realized my eye wouldn't open, I looked down with
my last good eye and read super glue.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh no, this is almost like continuing from the last email,
like equal kind of nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yes, yes, I run to the bathroom will yelling at
my boyfriend, I.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Super glue in my eyeshot, please call my.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Mom, and a half hour before meeting up with the
ladies and my family to get ready, my boyfriend and
I debated if we should go to the er, but
also consider this would ruin the whole wedding and I
would miss her wedding, so we stayed that's a good sister.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well yeah, but Jesus Christ, like, that's that's taking a
hit to a degree that I don't know. Yeah, if
it's needed, it wouldn't ruin the wedding if you'd just
had to go to the hospital real quick and then
came back with an eyepatch.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I mean, it depends on the sister relationship here though,
you know what I mean? It could be like you
ruin my wedding or like, oh my god, are you okay?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
But can I just say that if your sister would
accuse you of ruining her wedding because you accidentally put
super glue in your own fucking eye, then she's looking
for a reason and she's a true bridezilla and fuck
your sister, right, But that didn't happen, so okay, sorry,
So you don't have to be mad at that.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You're not mad at her, so I would mister wedding,
so we stayed. I was also wondering if my eye
was now blind, since it would not open, and well,
I couldn't see if I was blind. I scrub and
scrub my eye with steaming hot hand towels until I
finally was able to open my eye. The only thing
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lost were some eyelashes, but not my vision.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
My eye is fine and it looked great in the pictures,
which is a major relief for my mom. Please shout
out my sister Ashley for her big day. She's also
a major MFM fan and my favorite person in the world.
Ashley Ashley, smiley face.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Sorry, we talked about you as hypothetically being a Bradzilla. Ashley,
You're so n We love you. You're the best sister.
Was that the whole thing?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No names, Wow, Ashley's sister, Ashley sister, that's right. The
subject line of this one is I survived an earthquake
in Guatemala. Hi, MFM team. I was listening to this
week's Minniesot where the English girl told her story of
surviving a tornado in Nola, and I thought I would
share with you my story of surviving an earthquake in Guatemala.
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The year was twenty fifteen. I was on my first
trip to Guatemala on a service and learning trip. On
our last day in the country, our group hiked to
a volcano where we picked up lava rocks and roasted marshallows.
Jesus Christ. Oh that's fun. I mean, it almost seems
like the perfect afternoon.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But wait, but wait, this is my favorite murder. But wait,
don't kids yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then in parentheses it says, I use I once
roasted marshmallows on a volcano in Guatemala as one of
my two truths and a lie. Perfect. That's good. It's
so detailed. I would say truth, but I also already
read the email. Okay, So after we finished our hike,
we headed to the city of Antigua for shopping and dinner.
We ated this fantastic local eatery shout out to Cafe
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Sky that has a second floor terrace with a beautiful
view of the surrounding volcanos. While the servers were taking
our order, suddenly everything began to shake. Minor earthquakes are
fairly common in Guatemala, so one of my fellow travelers
looked to the wait staff to gauge how worried we
should be, and sure enough, the looks on their faces
said this is not normal. The shaking lasted probably no
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more than ten seconds. While some of the other gringoes
at my table were a little freaked out, I was
a static to have a kick ass story to tell.
I immediately got on Facebook to alert all my friends
and family back home that we just lived through an
earthquake while out to dinner in Antigua. I have been
back to Guatemala on two other occasions, but I've yet
to experience another natural disaster. I'm hoping to visit again
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in December with my eleven year old son, So here's
hoping that the ground stays put while we're there, stay sexy,
and definitely visit Guatemala because it's a beautiful country with
a beautiful culture and amazing people. Ashley she her, Actually,
I want to go to Guatemala. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh yeah, I bet it's amazing, gorgeous. That sounds terrifying
and horrible. That's that reminds me of like when there's
turbulence on a plane. The secret is to look at
the flight attendant's flight Do they look like they're freaking out?
Are they in their seats buckled up like tightly holding
out of shit? That's how you know you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I really thought at the beginning of that email that
the earthquake was going to happen on the volcano and
so then it would just become the Rock movie. But
it wasn't that. It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, here's the story. My last one called Grandma and
the Buck. Hello all, I am on my second listen
through of the podcast and have just reheard your call
for grandparents stories. I thought I would take a moment
to share mine about my nana. Now, to preface, there
are a few things you need to know about my
maternal grandmother before we get into it.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Joyce was a really tough smart lady Yes Joyce Joyce.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
She was born to Jamaican immigrants in the twenties, went
to college as a black woman at fifteen Wow. She
went back again at eighty for fun, it says Hell
Yes worked for early activists like W. E. B. Dubois
Net Desmond Tutu, had three children at forty and helped
my mom raise myself and my siblings. She was fearless and,
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like many women in my life, pretty no nonsense. If
I had to pick a story that encapsulates her through it,
this would be the one. At the time, my family
lived in Connecticut in a house in the woods behind
a golf course and had a big yard that would
become the backdrop of many of my favorite childhood stories.
My brother was chased by a turkey, to which my
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nana looked out the back door on him and plainly stated,
if he's dumb enough to pedal wild animal, he's dumb
enough to get a bit. Because of the few crab
apple trees and growing in our front yard, we would
often see families of deer. They would come, take the
apples and be on their way.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
One winter, after my brothers and I came in from
playing in the snow. One buck became very curious about
our house. The stairs to our rooms was right by
the front door. We all came in and ran upstairs, carelessly,
leaving the front door wide open. And the short time
I attract dirt and snow into our house, shed all
of my layers off and went back to the top
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of the stairs. My nana was already standing at the
front door, face to face with it. A buck standing
in our foyer, staring into her eyes. The whole front
of its body was already through the door. In the
that buck is like what six fucking four feet tall?
I don't know what they're with the horns.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I mean, a buck is a young male deer, so
there's lots of size as it can be. But yeah,
I mean it would be because they definitely have antlers
usually that alone. If even if it was a three
foot deer, the antlers would just be like what in
the fuck is going on? That would be so upsetting.
And it's like, yeah, through the door, being like, what's up?
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Can I get some apples? And I would bet because
it's halfway through the door, I bet it was six
feet time. I bet it was a big one because
It's like, I'm not afraid of anything. What's going on
in here? Hey? What's up? You have central heating? Can
I get in on this? Do you? What? Do you
like my antlers?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
In the eyes of a nine year old, it was
truly something to behold a giant animal and my seventy
nine year old nana just standing there but like it
was nothing. She first quietly told him to shoe, and
when he didn't, she did the only thing that made sense,
grabbed it by the antlers and pushed it out the door.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yes, and she goes that was it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
She slammed the door, mumbled something about children and snow
under her breath, and went on her way. It's almost
been a decade now since she passed, and there is
not a day that I don't think of her. Even
when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia, she never
stopped being her tenacious and tough. She always shined to
me inside and out. Thank you again for the podcast.
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It's the podcast in the community around it has brought
me so much comfort during a time full of uncertainty
as a black queer woman. I feel like I have
found another home in my ever growing family I've written
before about my favorite hometown crime bankrobbers on bicycles, and
maybe I'll send it in and maybe I'll send it
in again one day. Please do stay sexy, and when
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faced with the challenge, know that if Nana can push
it out of the way, so can you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Ugh SJ they she SJ. I mean what a slice
of life, Joys look at. I have tears in my eyes.
When is that ever? Well, it's so good. Also because
we got the confirmation the buck was gigantic and she
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just like steered it out of the room, steered it
just like, I'm not doing with this with you today.
I have other stuff going on, Joyce.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I would love it if it was like she waltzed
waltzed it out by the we walked it backwards.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That's badass. Also, yeah, that buck was like got the
vibe from Joyce that this was not happy birthday as
my It's called Catholic wedding story. So now I'm looping
back to the other weddings theme. This it's crazy. Okay,
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it starts hey, hottie, Oh thank you. I needed that.
I'm currently listening to Minneso to eighty seven, where Georgia
called for wedding stories. Oh this must have just happened. Yeah, okay, okay,
Oh Karen brought up oh fainting at Catholic weddings, and
do I have a story for you. My twenty six
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year old parents were getting married after four years of
dating at Saint Clement Church in Chicago. The wedding was
around four pm and went swimmingly. My dad and mom
stood in front of a priest who preached for a while,
did some Catholic stuff, blessed the communion, and then had
my parents declare their love. All were moved. After the ceremony,
my parents exited the church into a tunnel of their
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closest friends and family. Think varsity basketball team and entering
for the big game. This good explained it is much
like a basketball game. And also this description goes longer.
Think varsity basketball team entering for the big game through
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a cheerleader tunnel in the crappiest teen movie you can
think of. As my mother gazed over the faces of
her loved one, she saw shoes, pointy black clothes toed
shoes aimed straight towards the sky. Attached to those shoes
was her unconscious eighty year old grandmother known to all
as Gigi.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
My grandma was Gigi two was she? If she became
great grandma Gig, they called her, oh Gig. According to
Catholic tradition, you're not supposed to consume anything before taking communion.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I think that's uh, come on, have some peanuts. I
also think that might be pre uh what the fox
it called? What they No, No, there was a They
basically kind of updated all of the rules in Catholicism
in the mid sixties, and so maybe this was right
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before that, because they I don't think that's.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
A rule, or maybe it was wasn't a rule anymore.
But she was old school and stuck with it. She's
old school.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh. It was called Vatican two and it was basically
like the Vatican got it together. Vatican two. Yeah, I'm
not it was called Vatican two. No, I just realized that. No,
but they got together and they were like, no, you
don't have to do Mass and lack Grandma, you don't
gotta have heeling over all the time. We gotta yeah,
we gotta, we gotta do with something that's better for
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the people. And then they you know, oh, religion, whether
or not that they did was is up to debate
Gigi's priest growing up, and even kicked an eight year
old boy out of his first communion for admitting he
accidentally swallowed a drop of water brushing his teeth that morning.
See Vatican two was needed because that kind of stuff
is insane. Man, it's crazy. And then in parentheses it
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says I heard this story frequently from my grandmother as
a guiltily eight cheerios before tenning a mass. Yeah, because
you're trying. You got to faint, Yes, because you need
to eat in the morning a typically a typically early sleeper.
I'm talking five PM. Elderly Gigi had starved herself for
upwards of twenty four hours in order to consume communion
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in a righteous state at her granddaughter's wedding. My mom,
obviously concerned with Gigi's condition, was quickly rushed by her
mother into the waiting limo to be escorted to the
reception venue. When she asked if Gigi was alive, she
received the answer probably, and then an immediate slam door.
Gigi was fine after a little juice. Unfortunately, I had
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yet to bless them with my presence, so this story
comes secondhand, but it is therefore ingrained with my nana's
incredible storytelling something I've come to value dearly four years
after her passing, and then in parentheses it says her
name was Judy with an ie Oh Judy, stay sexy
and please eat Caitlin.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh yeah, I dedication and so sweet.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah yeah. She thought it was like a gift. Wow,
those are right. It's not.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's we need it to survive and live. And like,
I'm sorry, but I'm going to go ahead and go
on a limb and guess that g This doesn't give
a shit if you have a bowl of cheerios before
whatever communion is and you've taken it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We'd like to think so here at Vatican two, the
panel at Vatican two and three, we'd like to go
ahead and say, now they should actually have a Vatican
three for these means.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
There should be a bad time three hundred and six
for all the things that could fucking change about it.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
But you know how I'm obsessed with TikTok.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I saw this amazing thing where this person was like,
you don't want to change the constitution. Sounds good. You
want to keep it exactly as it was. That means
you can only carry muskets, So have all the muskets
you want. But if we're going to keep it on
part there's so many smart people on there. It's crazy.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Did you see the one that's like, well, okay, if
getting pregnant is God's will, then you then men having
a rectile dysfunction is God's will too. And so we're
trying to ban viagra. That's right. Fucking love that, that's right. Yeah,
people aren't having it now. It's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Also, you know who's smart to people who are right
in to make mini so'd emails for us because they're
just amazing batches of wonderful personal stories and then some classics,
some real true crime stories and all the connection you
could ever want.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, and I think it makes people listening happy. It's
it's all about the listeners on this one. So thanks
for sending those in things. Keep sending I disagree anything
you want in. If you want to hear more, go
to the Join the fan called on my Favorite Murder
dot com send your stories and then my Favorite Murder
at gmailch.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That's right, that's the name of it. Yes, and I
also stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Good guy, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Our senior producer is Hannah Kyle Crichton. Our producer is
Alejandra Kak. This episode was engineered and mixed by Stephen
Ray Morris.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Our researchers are Maren mclashan and Jemma Harris.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
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Hello, Hello, and welcome to My Favorite Murder. That's Georgia Hart.
Oh the miniso. Don't worry about it. It's relaxed and chill.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
No intros, no names calling.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, just video. If you want to watch in the
you know it's called fan cult. Go to My Favorite
Murder dot com and join the fan cult. It's a
fun place to be.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fan called. I didn't entirely blow dar my hair for you,
and that is disrespectful. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'll start. It's called the Mysterious Red substance. A Grandma
story says names included.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Please.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
If you're going to send us stories about your mom,
your dad, anyone in your family, especially if it's old
timey stuff, we want their names.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
First name. But we got it able to know. If
you tell us some story that's unbelievable about your grandma
and then you're like, she died eleven years ago today
and we can't, then go Grandma Marie, you did a
great job.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Please makes us sad, so includes your grandma's name, or
you're the cause of our problems exactly, or you've ruined
our fucking lives. Greeting's MFM family. I originally submitted this
story as a week New listener back in twenty eighteen,
but hundreds of episodes later, I'd like to think my
story drafting skills have improved, and maybe I'll be one
(01:32):
of the lucky ones.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hey looks like you are. Guess what.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
M Anyway, I just listened to the story about the
museum thief who dripped blood all over a gilded mansion
while rummaging around for treasure minnieso. Two eighty eight. And
also thank you for including that. It's always good. Yeah,
and it reminded me of the story my grandmother told
me many years ago. The scene the early morning hours
(01:58):
in a badass midscentury modern house, Dallas, Texas, nineteen fifty
seven eightish. A young couple my grandparents, Annie Louise and Dick,
aren't just waking up the story. It was a regular
morning in Dallas. Annie Louise, with her picture perfect beehive hairdo,
heard her young sons waking up down the hall. Laying
(02:18):
in bed for a few more precious minutes, the housewife
and mom of three mentally prepared for the day ahead.
When she sat up in bed, Annie Louise was surprised
to find some kind of red substance at the end
of their bed. On closer inspections, she realized it was
red candle wax that had dripped in a puddle on
the blanket.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And I don't like where this is going. It's a witchcraft.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
She soon realized there were also drips of wax and
various places on the carpet of their bedroom. Annie Louise
woke up Dick, who easily slept through the sound of
his young children, and he helped his wife figure out
what the fuck was going on. It didn't take long
to realize they had been robbed, as Annie Luise's jewelry
box was not on the dresser where it normally was,
but rather dumped in the living room with most of
(03:01):
her valuable pieces missing, which I take the whole fucking.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Box, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Like why dump it out like it's fucking like a puzzle, right.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Unless you don't have unless you're experienced, and you know
that like if if a standard jewelry box is going
to have a lot of costume jewelry and you only
want the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Or maybe it was one of the old timey ones
that were huge and like carrying it out of a
house would look obvious.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Maybe it was one of the ones that you open
and there was a ballerina and a song started that
They were like, this is too loud, there's too much risk.
I love ballet too much, truly.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Various other items were also taken, but Anny Louise really
focused on her jewelry when she relaid this story to me.
Annie Louise and Dick continued finding red candle wax dripped
all around their house, including in their young son's bedrooms
and inside my own mother's baby crib. So this fucking
person's walking around with a candle. The police later found
(03:58):
a red taper candle in the back yard of the
house that had been burned down to only three to
four inches in length. It appeared that the burglars had
used red taper candles to illuminate the dark house while
they rummaged through various shit. The puddle at the end
of their bed cop said someone was likely standing over
them while they slept, making sure Annie Louise and Dick
(04:18):
didn't wake up. Horrifying and arrest was never made in
the case, and when they asked how they'd broken into
the house, Andy Louise said they always left the back
door unlocked, so they just came in. Interestingly, they were
robbed at least two more times, during which Annie Louise
once again had the majority of her jewelry stolen. Maybe
home burglars were more common back then, question Mark. Maybe
(04:41):
people knew Annie Louise didn't properly lock up her jewels.
Question Mark don't know. Luckily, Dick always managed to replace
what was stolen, so Anny Louise was never without her
iconic jewelry for long. Just before my feisty Grandma passed
away in twenty sixteen, Annie Louise told everyone that instead
of bequeathing any jewelry in her well, we'd all just
have to fight over it. She seemed to take great
(05:04):
joy in this, and I miss her terribly When I
wear her huge ivory and gold elephant at the end
of a chunky gold chain, her statement necklace, and then
it says purchase before the ban on ivory sales, Sorry elephants.
Then it says stay sexy and save the elephants, and.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
She nice pivot right at the last second. I really did.
Oh wow, I'm in the candle. It's so creepy, deeply creepy.
And also like did they bring it themselves. Did they
just find a taper candle in the house?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Like it sounds like they brought it, so, like, why
not bring a fucking flashlight?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yes, and also a red candle. It did seem like witchcraft. Okay, yeah,
yeh yeah, okay, Okay, it's a giveaway subject line, so
I'll just start with good Evening, Murder Friends. I'm a
Day one listener, heard Karen on the Sclar's Pot podcast
and was sold. And I've sent in a couple emails
(06:03):
in the past. I'm sure you'll get to I love
it so incredibly positive, so polite and positive. But I
just saw this one on my hometown's history Geeks facebook
page and it just screams Karen and Georgia. It's one
of those incidents where one event caused another caused another
caused a poisoning. In nineteen eighty nine, there was a
(06:24):
nightclub in my hometown called the Peppermint Twist, which is
very cute, but this story is not Evidently. In September
that year, they had run out of dish soap at
their front bar for washing glasses by hand, and someone
had filled a five gallon jug with a dishwasher detergent
that was most certainly not meant for hand washing dishes.
That same evening, the club was selling one dollar watermelon shots,
(06:47):
which sound delicious. The waitress serving that night went back
to the bar to refill her tray and took a
five gallon container from the fridge, believing it to be
watermelon shot mixture due to its red color. No, so
obviously it wasn't watermelon shots. It was Eco Klein dishwatcher detergent,
which is thirty percent lie. Oh no, Lie causes chemical
(07:12):
burns on contact. The waitress filled her tray with poison
and sold it to guests of the nightclub, twelve of
whom were taken to the hospital that night. Oh my god.
Two of its victims, Cindy and her dad, John, sued
the nightclub in a huge suit and one with flying colors.
Cindy had not only suffered severe burns to her esophagus,
(07:33):
preventing her from ever eating solid food again. Oh oh,
but it also burned her hand when she was throwing
up the poison. She likely would have died after running
to the bathroom to throw up, but her husband had
gotten concern and went after her and found her unresponsive.
On the bathroom floor. He performed the heimlick on her
and made her throw up the poison and saved her life.
(07:57):
My god, John also suffered esfta burns, but for some
reason the court awarded Cindy two point five million and
John seven hundred and fifty thousand. I'm unsure why the
other ten victims didn't sue. It's a miracle no one
died that night, and honestly, it's so wild. I've never
heard of this incident until recently. Thanks for all your
hard work and just for being all around stand up gals,
(08:20):
Stay sexy and don't drink poison, Amanda.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That is a perfect hometown of what we originally wanted
was the crazy fun I mean, we love all of them, obviously,
the Yama ones, the fucking Treasure ones, but the crazy
thing that happened in your town that you had never
heard of and you couldn't believe it or you grew
up knowing and it was legendary like.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That is that's it, Wil That's it's so. It's great job, Amanda,
And also a Day one listener, a rare bird, a
Day one listener that can put a solid email together
of a classic hometown, and also just a story like
that where it's the late eighties, right, and so there's
(09:02):
all kinds of things that aren't checked, all kinds of
things that aren't regulated. It's just like the worst.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's so sam I honestly feel bad for the waitress too.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's like horrifying.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
She's probably has PTSD from having done.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That well, life changing, horrifying total for every single person,
I mean all of it. It's so sad.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Here's one called wedding and super glue. Oh what's up
MFM fam. Two minutes ago to my timeline, you mentioned
wedding horror stories.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I immediately cracked up. So here's mine.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Just two days ago, my sister was getting married up
in the mountains at a ski resort. It was a
nice start to the day with a lovely brunch. Since
we were in the mountains, I had horribly dry eyes
from pretty much everything. So while we waited to set up,
me and my boyfriend grabbed our room key and headed
up to the room. I packed in a hurry and
all my beauty products went into a plastic bag. I
had my glasses off, which was already a bad idea
(10:01):
considering I have negative ten eyesight. I reached in the
bag for a small bottle, assuming it was my eye drops.
I couldn't have been more wrong or more panicked. As
I realized my eye wouldn't open, I looked down with
my last good eye and read super glue.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh no, this is almost like continuing from the last email,
like equal kind of nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yes, yes, I run to the bathroom will yelling at
my boyfriend, I.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Super glue in my eyeshot, please call my.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Mom, and a half hour before meeting up with the
ladies and my family to get ready, my boyfriend and
I debated if we should go to the er, but
also consider this would ruin the whole wedding and I
would miss her wedding, so we stayed that's a good sister.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well yeah, but Jesus Christ, like, that's that's taking a
hit to a degree that I don't know. Yeah, if
it's needed, it wouldn't ruin the wedding if you'd just
had to go to the hospital real quick and then
came back with an eyepatch.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I mean, it depends on the sister relationship here though,
you know what I mean? It could be like you
ruin my wedding or like, oh my god, are you okay?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
But can I just say that if your sister would
accuse you of ruining her wedding because you accidentally put
super glue in your own fucking eye, then she's looking
for a reason and she's a true bridezilla and fuck
your sister, right, But that didn't happen, so okay, sorry,
So you don't have to be mad at that.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You're not mad at her, so I would mister wedding,
so we stayed. I was also wondering if my eye
was now blind, since it would not open, and well,
I couldn't see if I was blind. I scrub and
scrub my eye with steaming hot hand towels until I
finally was able to open my eye. The only thing
(11:47):
lost were some eyelashes, but not my vision.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
My eye is fine and it looked great in the pictures,
which is a major relief for my mom. Please shout
out my sister Ashley for her big day. She's also
a major MFM fan and my favorite person in the world.
Ashley Ashley, smiley face.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Sorry, we talked about you as hypothetically being a Bradzilla. Ashley,
You're so n We love you. You're the best sister.
Was that the whole thing?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No names, Wow, Ashley's sister, Ashley sister, that's right. The
subject line of this one is I survived an earthquake
in Guatemala. Hi, MFM team. I was listening to this
week's Minniesot where the English girl told her story of
surviving a tornado in Nola, and I thought I would
share with you my story of surviving an earthquake in Guatemala.
(12:35):
The year was twenty fifteen. I was on my first
trip to Guatemala on a service and learning trip. On
our last day in the country, our group hiked to
a volcano where we picked up lava rocks and roasted marshallows.
Jesus Christ. Oh that's fun. I mean, it almost seems
like the perfect afternoon.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But wait, but wait, this is my favorite murder. But wait,
don't kids yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And then in parentheses it says, I use I once
roasted marshmallows on a volcano in Guatemala as one of
my two truths and a lie. Perfect. That's good. It's
so detailed. I would say truth, but I also already
read the email. Okay, So after we finished our hike,
we headed to the city of Antigua for shopping and dinner.
We ated this fantastic local eatery shout out to Cafe
(13:23):
Sky that has a second floor terrace with a beautiful
view of the surrounding volcanos. While the servers were taking
our order, suddenly everything began to shake. Minor earthquakes are
fairly common in Guatemala, so one of my fellow travelers
looked to the wait staff to gauge how worried we
should be, and sure enough, the looks on their faces
said this is not normal. The shaking lasted probably no
(13:45):
more than ten seconds. While some of the other gringoes
at my table were a little freaked out, I was
a static to have a kick ass story to tell.
I immediately got on Facebook to alert all my friends
and family back home that we just lived through an
earthquake while out to dinner in Antigua. I have been
back to Guatemala on two other occasions, but I've yet
to experience another natural disaster. I'm hoping to visit again
(14:07):
in December with my eleven year old son, So here's
hoping that the ground stays put while we're there, stay sexy,
and definitely visit Guatemala because it's a beautiful country with
a beautiful culture and amazing people. Ashley she her, Actually,
I want to go to Guatemala. Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh yeah, I bet it's amazing, gorgeous. That sounds terrifying
and horrible. That's that reminds me of like when there's
turbulence on a plane. The secret is to look at
the flight attendant's flight Do they look like they're freaking out?
Are they in their seats buckled up like tightly holding
out of shit? That's how you know you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I really thought at the beginning of that email that
the earthquake was going to happen on the volcano and
so then it would just become the Rock movie. But
it wasn't that. It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, here's the story. My last one called Grandma and
the Buck. Hello all, I am on my second listen
through of the podcast and have just reheard your call
for grandparents stories. I thought I would take a moment
to share mine about my nana. Now, to preface, there
are a few things you need to know about my
maternal grandmother before we get into it.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Joyce was a really tough smart lady Yes Joyce Joyce.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
She was born to Jamaican immigrants in the twenties, went
to college as a black woman at fifteen Wow. She
went back again at eighty for fun, it says Hell
Yes worked for early activists like W. E. B. Dubois
Net Desmond Tutu, had three children at forty and helped
my mom raise myself and my siblings. She was fearless and,
(15:43):
like many women in my life, pretty no nonsense. If
I had to pick a story that encapsulates her through it,
this would be the one. At the time, my family
lived in Connecticut in a house in the woods behind
a golf course and had a big yard that would
become the backdrop of many of my favorite childhood stories.
My brother was chased by a turkey, to which my
(16:03):
nana looked out the back door on him and plainly stated,
if he's dumb enough to pedal wild animal, he's dumb
enough to get a bit. Because of the few crab
apple trees and growing in our front yard, we would
often see families of deer. They would come, take the
apples and be on their way.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
One winter, after my brothers and I came in from
playing in the snow. One buck became very curious about
our house. The stairs to our rooms was right by
the front door. We all came in and ran upstairs, carelessly,
leaving the front door wide open. And the short time
I attract dirt and snow into our house, shed all
of my layers off and went back to the top
(16:40):
of the stairs. My nana was already standing at the
front door, face to face with it. A buck standing
in our foyer, staring into her eyes. The whole front
of its body was already through the door. In the
that buck is like what six fucking four feet tall?
I don't know what they're with the horns.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I mean, a buck is a young male deer, so
there's lots of size as it can be. But yeah,
I mean it would be because they definitely have antlers
usually that alone. If even if it was a three
foot deer, the antlers would just be like what in
the fuck is going on? That would be so upsetting.
And it's like, yeah, through the door, being like, what's up?
(17:21):
Can I get some apples? And I would bet because
it's halfway through the door, I bet it was six
feet time. I bet it was a big one because
It's like, I'm not afraid of anything. What's going on
in here? Hey? What's up? You have central heating? Can
I get in on this? Do you? What? Do you
like my antlers?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
In the eyes of a nine year old, it was
truly something to behold a giant animal and my seventy
nine year old nana just standing there but like it
was nothing. She first quietly told him to shoe, and
when he didn't, she did the only thing that made sense,
grabbed it by the antlers and pushed it out the door.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yes, and she goes that was it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
She slammed the door, mumbled something about children and snow
under her breath, and went on her way. It's almost
been a decade now since she passed, and there is
not a day that I don't think of her. Even
when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia, she never
stopped being her tenacious and tough. She always shined to
me inside and out. Thank you again for the podcast.
(18:26):
It's the podcast in the community around it has brought
me so much comfort during a time full of uncertainty
as a black queer woman. I feel like I have
found another home in my ever growing family I've written
before about my favorite hometown crime bankrobbers on bicycles, and
maybe I'll send it in and maybe I'll send it
in again one day. Please do stay sexy, and when
(18:47):
faced with the challenge, know that if Nana can push
it out of the way, so can you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Ugh SJ they she SJ. I mean what a slice
of life, Joys look at. I have tears in my eyes.
When is that ever? Well, it's so good. Also because
we got the confirmation the buck was gigantic and she
(19:13):
just like steered it out of the room, steered it
just like, I'm not doing with this with you today.
I have other stuff going on, Joyce.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I would love it if it was like she waltzed
waltzed it out by the we walked it backwards.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That's badass. Also, yeah, that buck was like got the
vibe from Joyce that this was not happy birthday as
my It's called Catholic wedding story. So now I'm looping
back to the other weddings theme. This it's crazy. Okay,
(19:48):
it starts hey, hottie, Oh thank you. I needed that.
I'm currently listening to Minneso to eighty seven, where Georgia
called for wedding stories. Oh this must have just happened. Yeah, okay, okay,
Oh Karen brought up oh fainting at Catholic weddings, and
do I have a story for you. My twenty six
(20:10):
year old parents were getting married after four years of
dating at Saint Clement Church in Chicago. The wedding was
around four pm and went swimmingly. My dad and mom
stood in front of a priest who preached for a while,
did some Catholic stuff, blessed the communion, and then had
my parents declare their love. All were moved. After the ceremony,
my parents exited the church into a tunnel of their
(20:32):
closest friends and family. Think varsity basketball team and entering
for the big game. This good explained it is much
like a basketball game. And also this description goes longer.
Think varsity basketball team entering for the big game through
(20:53):
a cheerleader tunnel in the crappiest teen movie you can
think of. As my mother gazed over the faces of
her loved one, she saw shoes, pointy black clothes toed
shoes aimed straight towards the sky. Attached to those shoes
was her unconscious eighty year old grandmother known to all
as Gigi.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
My grandma was Gigi two was she? If she became
great grandma Gig, they called her, oh Gig. According to
Catholic tradition, you're not supposed to consume anything before taking communion.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I think that's uh, come on, have some peanuts. I
also think that might be pre uh what the fox
it called? What they No, No, there was a They
basically kind of updated all of the rules in Catholicism
in the mid sixties, and so maybe this was right
(21:46):
before that, because they I don't think that's.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
A rule, or maybe it was wasn't a rule anymore.
But she was old school and stuck with it. She's
old school.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh. It was called Vatican two and it was basically
like the Vatican got it together. Vatican two. Yeah, I'm
not it was called Vatican two. No, I just realized that. No,
but they got together and they were like, no, you
don't have to do Mass and lack Grandma, you don't
gotta have heeling over all the time. We gotta yeah,
we gotta, we gotta do with something that's better for
(22:15):
the people. And then they you know, oh, religion, whether
or not that they did was is up to debate
Gigi's priest growing up, and even kicked an eight year
old boy out of his first communion for admitting he
accidentally swallowed a drop of water brushing his teeth that morning.
See Vatican two was needed because that kind of stuff
is insane. Man, it's crazy. And then in parentheses it
(22:37):
says I heard this story frequently from my grandmother as
a guiltily eight cheerios before tenning a mass. Yeah, because
you're trying. You got to faint, Yes, because you need
to eat in the morning a typically a typically early sleeper.
I'm talking five PM. Elderly Gigi had starved herself for
upwards of twenty four hours in order to consume communion
(22:57):
in a righteous state at her granddaughter's wedding. My mom,
obviously concerned with Gigi's condition, was quickly rushed by her
mother into the waiting limo to be escorted to the
reception venue. When she asked if Gigi was alive, she
received the answer probably, and then an immediate slam door.
Gigi was fine after a little juice. Unfortunately, I had
(23:17):
yet to bless them with my presence, so this story
comes secondhand, but it is therefore ingrained with my nana's
incredible storytelling something I've come to value dearly four years
after her passing, and then in parentheses it says her
name was Judy with an ie Oh Judy, stay sexy
and please eat Caitlin.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh yeah, I dedication and so sweet.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah yeah. She thought it was like a gift. Wow,
those are right. It's not.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It's we need it to survive and live. And like,
I'm sorry, but I'm going to go ahead and go
on a limb and guess that g This doesn't give
a shit if you have a bowl of cheerios before
whatever communion is and you've taken it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We'd like to think so here at Vatican two, the
panel at Vatican two and three, we'd like to go
ahead and say, now they should actually have a Vatican
three for these means.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
There should be a bad time three hundred and six
for all the things that could fucking change about it.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
But you know how I'm obsessed with TikTok.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I saw this amazing thing where this person was like,
you don't want to change the constitution. Sounds good. You
want to keep it exactly as it was. That means
you can only carry muskets, So have all the muskets
you want. But if we're going to keep it on
part there's so many smart people on there. It's crazy.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Did you see the one that's like, well, okay, if
getting pregnant is God's will, then you then men having
a rectile dysfunction is God's will too. And so we're
trying to ban viagra. That's right. Fucking love that, that's right. Yeah,
people aren't having it now. It's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Also, you know who's smart to people who are right
in to make mini so'd emails for us because they're
just amazing batches of wonderful personal stories and then some classics,
some real true crime stories and all the connection you
could ever want.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, and I think it makes people listening happy. It's
it's all about the listeners on this one. So thanks
for sending those in things. Keep sending I disagree anything
you want in. If you want to hear more, go
to the Join the fan called on my Favorite Murder
dot com send your stories and then my Favorite Murder
at gmailch.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That's right, that's the name of it. Yes, and I
also stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Good guy, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Our senior producer is Hannah Kyle Crichton. Our producer is
Alejandra Kak. This episode was engineered and mixed by Stephen
Ray Morris.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Our researchers are Maren mclashan and Jemma Harris.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Email your hometowns and fuckinghrays to My Favorite Murder at
gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Follow the show on Instagram and Facebook at my Favorite
Murder and Twitter at my favor Murder. Goodbye,
Hosts And Creators
Georgia Hardstark
Karen Kilgariff
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