MFM Minisode 323

This week’s hometowns include a psychic kid named Maren and a hot dog story.

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello, and welcome my favorite murder the mini. So that's right,
we read you your many things right off the mini mail, tiny,
very small email, our little email inbox, straight to your
little ears. Are you ready for it? Too bad? We're starting? Okay,
I want to go for sure?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
This email simply begins your Majesty's Oh yeah, we go.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Finally.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I know how much you love stories about psychics and
weird kid stuff, so I had to tell you about
my daughter Maren. And then in parentheses it says, like
the amazing Maren mcglush and so us referencing our researcher
Maren is really.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Rubbed off on. Everybody love it.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
So it says, our Maren is named for my husband's
great great great grandmother, who we hope was cool since
we loved the name, but no one actually knows her.
First strangely intuitive moment happened when she was three and
our cousins texted us a picture of their new puppy.
After admiring the cuteness, I asked her what do you
think they should name him, to which she immediately replied Brody,

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completely out of nowhere. Moments later, they told us they
had named him body. Holy shit, right, kind of weird,
but I didn't rush out to buy her a crystal
ball or anything. A few weeks later, Marin woke up
in the middle of the night really upset. When I
went to her, she was crying hard, saying that she
had a bad dream, and through her tears, she said,

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and then.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Someone hit the car and it had to get towed.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, little did she know, I actually had been in
a car accident that night on my way home from work.
I was fine, but I got rear ended and the
car did have to be towed.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
And I purposely not called home to tell my husband
what happen so as not to freak out the kids.
But now I was the one who.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Was very freaked out. I didn't even think she knew
the phrase. Yeah, that's a good she's three. Yeah, it's
a question for the ages.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So now I'm pretty convinced that she is somehow connected
with the beyond, and the evidence is mounting. One day,
she turned to my sister and out of nowhere said, Kiki,
you're going to have a baby girl in April. Totally
unbeknownst to her. Keki was very newly pregnant and do
on April fifteenth, but Maren had no idea. Also, she
literally didn't know what April is.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, oh my god, she's saying shit.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
She is just saying aloud what the spirits are whispering
to her At the time, she didn't know what she
was having, but sure enough she had a girl. There
have been a few other odd instances that make me
think Maren definitely has a little bit of the shine,
especially when I consider how often she she brings up
my badass grandmother Ellen aka Nana, who had eleven kids

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who died a week before she was born. But those
are probably the most striking. Sorry if this was so long,
stay sexy and ask Baron for the lottery numbers. You
guys are the best.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Meg Oh. I love psycho kids stories or like those
ones that are weird dreams stories.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Who entirely it's so entertaining because it's it's real.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's like it's real, it's very weird.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
There's lots of people with stories like that, and it's
just so fascinating to be like, oh, you just got
to Earth, which means you remember some weird stuff from before,
or you're.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Still connected with it fucking semiverse. I don't know with
the afterlife. Yes, the semiverse.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
What are you writing for Marvel these days?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
The semi verse? Semi verse? I just is that a thing? Uh? Okay,
this one's called Trelio's urologist was my abuelo. Hello, ladies
and team. I will get right into it because I
don't want to waste your time. My dad is from
the Dominican Republic Santa Domingo to be s fith Civic,
So I spent my childhood living between a small town
in South Carolina and my abuela's house in the dr.

(04:13):
This person put a lot of phonetic spelling in this,
and I appreciate that that is really nice.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Growing up, I always heard stories about El Hefe and
his brutal reign. He was described as the devil by
my abuela grandmother, but my abuelo grandfather didn't always feel
comfortable talking about this terrible man. This is the story
that I did recently of the Mirabal sisters. Yeah, that
didn't make much sense to me until I learned that
my abuelo was one of Trechuilio's personal physicians. After my

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abuela went to med school at one of the few
universities in the country. He was recruited by Trechulio's people
to be part of his medical team. My Abuelo did
not want to be part of this terrible man's life,
but as you mentioned in the podcast, if Trechilio asked
you to do something, you did it or you died.
He was It's never very open with us grandkids about
his time with Rujuelio, but he was always willing to

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tell us the stories about the incredibly brave Mira Ball
sisters and how they were and always will be a
symbol of pride for the dr. My dad thinks that
my Abuelo was still paranoid that he could get in
trouble for speaking poorly about al Hafe. My Abuelo recently
passed away after battling Parkinson's, so I am thankful that
your podcast brought my time with him to the front

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of my mind. And currently in my first year of
law school, and the only reason that I'm here is
because of the bravery of Minerva Mirabal to stand up
for herself, her family, and her country. She and her
sisters have been the subjects of many school papers and
have been central role models to my life. Even though
I've never met them. Thank you for shining a light
on my people. We don't get many spotlights lol. And

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thank you for reminding me why I'm proud to be
Dominican grassiest Portodos. Thank you for everything, Elia.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Thank you Elia for teaching me literally five new words.
And I feel like now because of that email, I'm
allowed to call it the dr that's right by just
by knowing you you now we get to use that
shorthand as well. I'm not going to read you the
subject line, it just starts warm greetings to all who

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read and hopefully hear this.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Nice. That was classy, let's get into it.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Whilst building their dream home, my parents rented a quaint
little house on a small lake in Wisconsin, Powers Lake
to be exact. My three siblings and I, all under
the age of twelve at the time, had an absolute
blast swimming and fishing in the summer, as well as
ice fishing in the winter. Okay, the winter activities were
not at all fun, but hey, it was an experience.

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So one sunny summer morning, my brother and I awoke
from our cedar bunk beds to find our beloved pet
hamster's Charlotte dead in her cage. We were extremely surprised
and distraught, as dear Charlotte showed no signs of ailment
the day prior. As my mom and sisters comforted us
warmly in our moment of sorrow, we soon discovered my
sister's hamsters, gum Drop and Cream, had also passed away

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in the night. My mother was immediately confused because the
other hamsters were housed in a completely different room. She
quickly called my dad at work, who was alarmed and
hastily called our landlord. Mister landlord had zero concern and
only after much pressure, agreed to call someone to see
what the f was going on. This did not happen
for days. When the inspector person did show up gadget

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in hand, it took him only moments to turn to
my mom with literal fear on his face and say, calmly,
but firmly, you need to gather some things and leave
this house. Now you have five minutes. Turns out we
were slowly being poisoned by a natural gas leak.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Holy shit, one of my top fears. Oh my god, I.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Mean, here's the thing, and that is like what an
indicator if small animals are dying around you. Yeah, something's
going down. That's fascinating frantic. We abandoned ship per instructions
and stayed with my grandparents for the time being. We
were likely just a couple nights away from sharing the
same fate as our furry friends. My siblings and I

(08:06):
were really too young to understand what was happening other
than the pain of losing our sweet pets, Canaries in
the coal mine of sorts who actually saved our lives.
I recently talked about this with my dad to make
sure I got the story right, and was shocked to
learn mister landlord only felt compelled to replace our ten
dollars mall store hamsters as an apology. You heard and

(08:27):
read that right. He did not reduce the rent for
the days the home was uninhabitable because of you know,
poison sidebar. My dad added that when we moved out
months later, he accused us of stealing some fishing gear
that he later found in his attic. Major Dick, My
family may be here today on account of those life
saving hamsters and were so thankful for their sacrifice. Love

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you all and thanks for reading. Yay I did it,
Nick p You did it.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Amazing story. Nikki I love that their total life saving Hampson.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
And also being to be an adult looking back on
how you didn't know how close you were to something
insanely dangerous because your parents like had to put on
that parent face and be like, Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Grab your favorite things. You're gonna it's gonna be so fun.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Grandpa, Grandpa's now with your favorite things.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay. This one's called Twists and Turns with Badass Grandma.
It starts Hello. My grandma was a single mother of
five girls. She was a total badass. She raced cars
with the boys, always had a smile on her face,
and seemed to always have the answer to all my
teenage problems due to her time quote spent with the boys.

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All of her daughters were fathered by different men. Wow,
so we thought Grandma had a great way of keeping
track of who her daughters were fathered by by naming
her daughters after each of them. Names have a change
because my aunts are crazy and who knows what they
would do if they knew I had just shared the
family secret with the world of Murderinos Robin after Robert,

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Christina after Christopher, etc. So years go by and most
of his grandchildren have never met our grandfathers, but new
of them and where they lived. Flash forward to me
doing an ancestry DNA test and not seeing my grandfather's
last name appear. Oh well, I thought. Years go by,
and my cousin takes a twenty three and me test,
she gets assumed grandfather's last name appearing. What So we

(10:24):
start nancy drewing that stuff, and we had my sister
mother and one of our aunts take a twenty three
and me. Turns out my mom, who is almost sixty,
had thought her father was one person this whole time,
and he's not. Her biological father is a man that
my grandma had some fun times with at the track.
And my cousin's grandfather is the one who I thought
was my grandfather this whole time. So she just, like grandma,

(10:46):
just got confused.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Isn't this like the plot to Mom and Mia?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
What's happening? I don't know what his grandma had some
fun Yes she did. My aunt, who took the test
says the same father as my cousin's mother. Minds were blown,
New family members were found, and man, the sixties were
a crazy time. Hey, hey, my mother now has three
half sisters and she stays in touch with them. Her

(11:13):
biological father has suffered a few strokes and has dementia,
so he doesn't remember my grandma. But my mom looks
a lot like her sisters. I wish my grandma was
still alive so I could ask her what the heck grahams,
But she passed away a few years ago. I know
she's wherever she is, laughing her ass off at all
of this with a smile on her face. My husband
and I had a daughter four years ago and named

(11:34):
her Patricia after her. My grandma raised five daughters on
her own, and I am so thankful to have her
as my grandma pat See. Oh, what a beautiful tribute.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Also, I love the idea that there was a woman
out there literally doing exactly what she.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Wanted, totally racing cars and hooking up and just yeah
and and come with me.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
It's clearly she was like, I know men aren't going
to help me with this, so I'll just keep doing
what I want.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
And it sounds like.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Everyone was raised well and healthily and kind of like
you know, I don't know. I love that wild wild
you love your grandma pad enough to write in about her.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
She did it right. Totally fuck yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Here's a shorty as My last one subject line is
follow up. Was I on the other end of the
ferris wheel story? So this is a follow up from
Minnesota three nineteen. This is a note Alejandra left from me.
At the top of this someone tells the story of
being on a ferris wheel that went into freeze.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
They were the ride operator and the ferris wheel went
into a free spin after the operator had hit the
emergency stop button. That operator was a teenager. It was
kind of funny about why would they put a sixteen
year old in charge of that? Yes, this email just
says quick note. One of my first childhood memories was
writing a ferris wheel with my dad in Socow. After

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a long time on the ferris wheel, my dad noticed
something was off and every spin the way down felt
faster and faster. My dad started yelling at the operator
to let us off. The ferris wheel operator could not
let us off, and I was crying hysterically. Eventually, maybe
thirty to forty five minutes later, I was let off.
I was three or four, so maybe nineteen ninety seven. Look,

(13:15):
I'm not saying it was the same event, but I've
never been on a Ferris wheel since I fucking hate
ferris wheels, Kirsten.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, to forty five minutes on a fucking Ferris wheel
will make you hate them forever.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yet, no way are you ever getting on that stupid
shit again? Now?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
I mean, could it be like two reflections of life
every side of the mirror of life?

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Why not? I mean, there's so many murderinas, there's got
to be some crossovers going on, you know, love it.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
If you've ever been on the other side. Say you're
the father of one of Gramma Pat's children, we'd love
to hear from you.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Definitely. Okay. My last one's called hot dog story.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Sorry, I love a good hot dog short.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
No matter what, it doesn't it starts, Hey, blessedies? Is
that Christian best friend? I think it's blessed blessed best Friends?
I like that? Do you sounds pretty Christian to me?

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I'd watch your stuff if I was you.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh no, they're gonna secretly turn me into a Christian.
Oh my god, you said the magic words. Now you're
a Christian? All right? Manyso. Three seventeen, Karen jokingly asked
Georgia for a hot dog hometown story. Remember that. No,
I just I have been patiently waiting for my window
to get this hot dog story told. And it's now

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or never, baby. I grew up in the very rural,
very sleepy town of Earlysville, Virginia. Earlysville used to have
one grocery store in two thousand and eight. It has
none now it's very sleepy. Yeah. Oh, this rural grocery
store was known for its strange decorations and the best
slash worst one Harry the hot Dog, a six foot tall,

(15:02):
two hundred pounds anthropomorphic hot dog. You've seen this one
statue with arms and legs that was squirting ketchup and
mustard on itself and licking its lips like it was
getting ready to eat itself. We've all seen the statue, right, Yes,
that's right. Oh, it's Internet famous, Okay. Harry the hot
Dog sat right outside the entrance to the store. He
was something of a celebrity around those parts for his

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creepiness because there wasn't much else to talk about unless
you're super into cows and corn. Wait I am, yeah,
that's right. When you went to do your shopping, the
key was to not make eye contact with Harry because
you would immediately be turned off from buying or eating
any food. But one dark day, Harry the hot Dog disappeared.
He weighed two hundred pounds and someone had managed to

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kidnap him from the grocery store entrance without being caught.
A few days after his kidnapping, the owner of the
store bought a small two foot replica of Harry the
Hot Dog and placed it in the store with a
sign that said have you seen my daddy? Oh? The
store owner sounds really rad right? Yes? They named Harry's

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son little Frank. Little Frank was simultaneously very sad and
the funniest thing ever to someone like me with a
murderino sense of humor. The owner offered a reward for
Harry's safe return, but he was still missing for twenty
seven days until the police received an anonymous tip on
his whereabouts. He was found buried in a wooded area
outside of a trailer park. Oh my god, his arms,

(16:29):
ketchup and mustard bottles included were broken off and never
found why. He was completely battered and covered in during grime.
I don't know how so worpful. Despite Harry looking even
scarier than before, he was than before the kidnapping. The
owner of the grocery store proudly displayed the buried, alive, zombified,
limbless hot Dog next to his son, Little Frank. Little

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Frank had a new sign that said something like, I'm
so happy my daddy is back. Despite Harry's unfortunate new condition,
it was beautifully heartwarming to have the creepy family reunited.
The owner also pledged to rebuild Harry's limbs and turn
him into a quote by on a hot dog, Bigger, faster, stronger.
The police identified suspects and there were some amazing quotes

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about the investigation in the local paper, such as, quote
the alleged Wiener nappers can expect a tough grilling by police.
Boom end quote these people will be brought to justice
for their dogged ways, if I remember correctly. The police
did catch the perpetrators and they were brought to hot
dog justice. The store eventually closed, and I don't know

(17:36):
what happened to the hot dog father and son, but
I hope they're still out there somewhere. Keeping early is weird.
Thanks to everything you do, The world is better with
your podcast in it. Oh, stay sexy and don't kidnap
giant hot dog men away from their hot dog sons
in a town where the police have nothing better to do.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Love Rachel, Rachel, the idea that you just introduced the
concept of hot dog justice to my world is something
I will always be grateful to you him.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Some drunk kids, for sure, so stupid.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I know I've talked about this before, but Adrian, my
sister's thunder Adrian and I really love the concept of
hot dog Day and we talk about it a lot
because it was a thing at my school, and of
course we went to that school, and then Adrian's kids
went to that school, and then Adrian worked Talk Dog Day,
so she was on the other side of and so
we would talk about it all the time.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Is it just like a when hot dogs like we're
served in the cafeteria or is just.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, it was well no, so we didn't have a cafeteria.
We had a snack bar. So the only thing you
could buy at school, well, no brag. We got really
good sandwiches from the local deli, and then you could
buy chips and then like popsicles.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
But then once I think it was like every last
Friday of the month or something. It was hot dog day.
So the moms made the hot dogs and you if
you want yours with mustard. It was wrapped in yellow paper,
ketchup red paper, plain white paper. And then all the
moms made cupcakes.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
And then they would just be set out in little
bags along a table and you would slide down and
pick based on the cupcake of the overhead view of
what the cupcake looks like.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
You got a fucking Hogwarts or something. This is like amazing.
We never had like this.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
It was kind of like I think it was one
of the bonuses of Catholic school, like to counterbalance being
hit in the face by nuns and.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Stuff like, okay, that's a trade off, that's a good train.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
So I think, yeah, it was like you get you guys,
get a little special hot time so you forget about
all the fucking hand to face combat that was happening
in the in the grammar school classroom. My god, I
just think hot dogs are funny and fun to talk about.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
They are. You're right in every way. Send us your
hot dog stories at my favorite leader Gmail. Please we
need them.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Have you experienced talk justice We want to hear about it.
Please send in your emails and stay sexy and.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Don't get murdered. Gooybye, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
This has been an exactly right production. Our senior producer
is Hannah Kyle Crichton. Our producer is Alejandra Kek. This
episode was engineered and mixed by Stephen Ray Morris.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Our researchers are Maren mcclashen and Sarah Blair Jenkins.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Email your hometowns and fucking horays to My Favorite Murder
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Speaker 1 (20:39):
Gybbye