November 4, 2024 • 28 mins
This week’s hometowns include getting lost in the woods and a vacation gone wrong.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello, Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder a minis
Here we go. Are you ready to hear some emails?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Better go for a sure? Okay? My first one's called
lost in the Woods. Hey, MFM crew on minisod foura two.
Y'all shared some great stories about getting lost in the woods,
so I figured i'd share mine. A handful of years ago,
my father and some friends were hanging out in the
wilderness of Oregon when one of their dogs got away.
The group split up and began searching for the dog.
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One successful in the search, the crew all headed back
to their cars, loaded into three different vehicles, and took
off all of them except my father. He watched with
disbelief as the three cars pulled away and headed down
the mountain, with his backpack in one of the trunks,
chasing them furiously waving his arms. No one noticed. According
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to my father, at first, he was just annoyed and
figured they'd realize any minute and turn around. As hours
went by, he grew more and more frustrated and started
walking down the road. Nighttime came quickly, and in the dark,
he tripped and stumbled down a steep gully above a river.
He fought hard to get back up the slope. It
was so shaken up. When he got back up, he
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accidentally went in the wrong direction, so he's like doubling back.
Flash forward to the next evening. His friends first noticed
he was left behind. Assholes the next evening.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That's insane.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
They all lived on a compound together. So my jaw
dropped when I first learned this detail. It's not like
they all went to their own apartments and like didn't notice,
you know what I mean? Like that makes sense that
they weren't like in the room with him. He wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Did they say what year this was or era?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't know, but it sounds very high.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is as high as you can get.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
His friends didn't call search and rescue until almost a
full day after they had left him behind. Don't get
me started here, Yeah, I mean, for real, my father
was lost for three full days before he was found
by mushroom foragers. So even after they realized he was gone,
he was still fucking they still couldn't find him.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right, that's just the beginning of the problem. Right.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
He was freezing cold, his cotton clothing soaked through, and
he was surviving just on snow, and thoughts of getting
back to his family because they took his fucking backpack too. Yeah,
my dad describes this experience as the scariest in his life,
but he shares and needing to get back to my
nephew as what saved his life. Luckily, he survived with
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just a small bit of frostbite, but the PTSD from
this harrowing experience will remain forever. My biggest reason I
wanted to share this story is to share some tips
to keep yourself safe outdoors. Oh, my father's close call
does not deter me from being the outdoorsy woman I am,
and should it you if that's what you love, despite
what we always say.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But also, what if someone heard this email was like
I'm never going outside again.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Never, never, or I'd be like I'm never having friends again.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Exactly, I'm never carpooling again. Right.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Here are some tips. One, if you find that you
are turned around and unsure of which way is the
correct way to go, do not keep moving. The closer
you are to your last known location, the less complicated
it is for search and rescue to find you. They
always say that, but it's like the natural thing to be,
like I bet there's just down.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The street, like I've got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, stay where you are too. Bring a navigation tool
that has extended battery life, like a garment in reach,
a map and compass, and some type of emergency beacon
if you're going into particularly wild areas.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Wasn't his backpack in the car?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think she means if you're lucky enough to have
your possessions on you still, this is.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All an argument to stay home for real.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Crazy. I'm not taking any of this advice because I'm
not going anywhere. We invest in high quality clothing. Cotton
kills is a common saying in the outdoors world. It
saturates with water easily and becomes very cold. Wool layers,
synthetic fabrics, and rain clothes aren't necessary. Four, don't split
up unless it is totally necessary, and no one should
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be left behind. I live in Colorado and I often
hear groups leaving someone behind because they are holding the
group back. Always use the Boddy system. What I don't know,
grandma's fucking holding us down. Yeah, let's leave her. We
can really keep you at the top, Grandma. I think
it's like that idea though, Like Okay, buddy, what's gonna
meet at the top. Like that's a normal thing to think, right,
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Like someone's going slower.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Don't do that. You should test people before you're on
a mountain if they're like that in their personality, if
they're because that is so self serving and insane. Yeah,
to just be like, hey, look, I'm trying to hike faster.
I need to color faster. Yeah, go to hell.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Five, Always bring a headlamp.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Six.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Learn about the ten essentials and live.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
By them, the ones that we're just given. No, sure
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, different thing, stay sexy and hail mushroom foragers anonymous.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, let's hear it from mushroom forgers.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, well not who found the dad?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No, No, I know I've always heard that thing about
wool though. Wool is the best material for and it
seems like, oh it would be too hot. Yeah, it's
super breathable and it does good with moisture. What am
I talking about? I just have heard that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, you spill something on your couch.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah exactly, And then I'm like, oh, no, I'm trapped here.
What if I don't ever dry off and I get
couch rot? What are the ten essentials? Stay positive, don't
go on the fucking forest. Look up, look up at
the top of the tree line.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, wave it bears.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The thing that makes me crazy is people that talk
about north, south, east, and west like anybody has some
sort of you know, like it's taught somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm okay at it. If I'm in a city, like
a big city, except for New York, I can't fucking
dejection New York.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's New york'stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, but like New York, I mean la, I can
do it right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You go like where's the airport that's selling? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Or I go, where's the valley? I don't want to
go there. It's that way, you know what I mean as.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
A person who lives in the vale, right? How dare Okay?
Here's my first one and the subject line is celebrity
encounter lost on my clueless mum. Hello ladies. You know
when people say day one listener, do they mean they
discovered your podcast sometime in the last few years and
they went through and listened to the whole thing from
episode one or do they mean that they listened to
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episode one when there was only an episode one. I'm
the former, having discovered your podcast sometime in twenty twenty
one and taking probably a year to catch up on
all the old episodes. Wow, what would you what answer
would you give?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I think when I think Day one listeners identify as
people who started listening from the very first episode when
they found it in twenty sixteen, like when it came
out right. But I like that one too. I mean
that they let's think of a fucking they should call
themselves something. Yeah, they should call themselves obsessive, compulsive.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean I never think about that where it's like,
there are hundreds of these fucking episodes I see. So
if you like it, then you're like, oh, I'm here,
but I actually.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Uh, well, that's why we're doing rewind episodes.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, we're trying to make it easier for you because
we realize these are true problems in twenty twenty four
that are a real concern for everybody. Anyway, I like
when an email starts off with like, can I get
some stuff cleared up because I'm confused?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Maybe we'll name the second version after the person. Depending
on how this email goes, Bingers will name it Joe Deers.
But anyway, Hi, I'm writing to you from the north
of Denmark where I live with my Danish husband, but
I'm originally from the south of England. Those Vikings are
still stealing the English girls away is the best. Okay,
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here's my story. When I was a kid, I was
always at some sort of dancing, singing, drama or piano
lesson as my dancing friends. And I grew up, I
lost interest in parentheses because I discovered boys and thought
they wouldn't be interested in a dancer. And then it's
the emoji of the little guy rolling his uce, which
is like, it's so sad to me that girls do
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that to themselves, where it's like that's all they're interested in.
Why wouldn't you understand that you are the cream of
the crop.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But also like, how sad to give up something you
love because you think this boy is going to somehow
make your life better than the thing that you love.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, you think it's gonna up the odds of getting
picked by some fucking idiots doesn't matter. Yeah, But they
all went on to have great careers in the theater,
on cruise ships, touring the world, etc. One such girl
got her job as a chorus girl in the London
West End stage version of the producers. That's amazing my
mom and lots of the other dancing moms and went
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to watch her in her west End debut. That is
also for those moms. She made it. That's I mean
the west End in London, she made it. As my
mom was sat in the audience waiting for the show
to start, she got talking to the man next to her.
He had an American accent and asked my mom if
she had seen the show yet. She excitedly told him
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that she knew one of the chorus girls. Oh no.
She asked where he was from, and he said San Diego. Ooh,
I've been there, squealed my mom excitedly and tried to relax,
not for you, regaling the stranger with stories of her travels.
When the show started, my mom's friend poked my mom
in the ribs and whispered, isn't that Robin Williams you're
talking to you?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my god, I was going Nathan Lane, but wow, oh,
how do you not recognize Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
She's a mom. It turned out yes, it was indeed
Robin Williams, but my mom had no idea who he was.
That's hilarious. She'd never been good at staying awake during
films and didn't really watch them all that much, so
had somehow come to miss the entire career of the
comedy genius but one of the biggest stars of our time,
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of our time. I like to think that it was
probably refreshing for him to be anonymous for five minutes,
say that, like, not have to perform and be someone,
just have a conversation with a lady, with a British lady.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, who's not going to be like, guess who I talked.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I think it's funny that he said he was from
San Diego. Where's he from the Bay Area? That's weird. Yeah,
maybe he was like born in San Diego, or maybe
he was just like, don't worry about it, sure, Yeah,
like he's trying to keep the image. We're back in
the email now anyway. With Robin Williams in mind, it
seems appropriate to thank you for your openness around mental
health and all the wonderful donations you make to such
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worthy causes. Also for the laughs and education you have
given me over the years. Keep up the good work, ladies,
and love to the animals. Jody, she heard ah, Jody, Jody,
thanks you email, I mean Jody the top to bottom
just a delightful.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, like it was. It felt like a good conversation
that we just had with Jody, but it was just
one sided.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And Jody's in Denmark. Yeah, the chances of us being
able to have this conversation were so rare. Yeah, and
she made it happen. Also, can I just do a
quick brag that one time when I was in when
I lived in San Francisco, I was at Green Apple Books,
which is a bookstore. And now I can't remember what
neighborhood it's in, but it's very well known. I feel
like it's down near Fishman's Wharf, but I'm probably wrong. Okay,
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it doesn't matter anyhow. It's this real cool old bookstore
that kind of has like different levels and steps in
the floors wooden.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is it next to Visuvio?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, it's a North Beach.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, that's a North Beach. Yes, that that fucking amazing books.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well wait no, no, that's not Skylight, but that's the
city Lights. But that's City Lights Books. I think Green Apple.
It doesn't matter, It truly doesn't matter. No, keep it
up anyway, I'm walking there. I think I'm killing time
before meeting people before a show or something. And so
I just go in and I'm walking, and I'm so
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positive I'm going to trip and fall because of these
different little wooden steps that I'm just watching myself walk
to walk toward the back, and I walk and then
I walk until I see some feet in front of me,
and I realize, oh, someone is also walking toward me.
And I look up and it's Robin Williams and we
are truly a foot away from each other like that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know, the same thing happened to me in a
bookstore with Billy Bob Thornton. Right, No, like we walked
into each.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Other, same exact thing. Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And then I look over and Angelina and Jelly is
there with him.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Are you lacking? I swear to fucking doesn't that sound
like a lie? It dies.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's one of my stories from like when I was
like nineteen, when they were married.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes, when they were they were the most in love
people of all time. Wow, that's hilarious. Anything to you
he did a thing or I could because I just
was like, what like nineteen years old, finally living in
the big city, whatever, and so I just kind of
was like, I'm sure I had that look on his face,
and he just gave me the little like cute smile.
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But he was also like we were both kind of
like look down people. Yeah, so we both just kept
looking down and like kind of like kept passing. Cute.
Very sweet, very sweet. And he used to sometimes come
to comedy shows like the Fake Gallery, which was in
East Lay, and he would come if like he knew
someone in town and someone would be there, and so
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he would go and just go and sit in the audience,
so no one in the audience knew he was in
the audience. He would kind of get there secretly, maybe
back entrance or something and just watch the show. And
people would be like, someone get him to do a set,
and he didn't want to. He just wanted to watch. Wow,
which is very cool to me, so amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, this one's called lovable slash crazy neighbor. Story starts
all y'all, all, y'all, that's right. There's a saying in
the South, we don't hide our crazy. We parade it
out on the front porch and give it a cocktail.
Hell yeah, in that vein life gave us our elderly
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neighbor Camellia, a true Southern character. For their entire married lives.
Camellia and her husband Bill live like poppers at home,
then use the money they saved to travel the globe.
Growing up with that example right next door, my own
four kids are spending their twenties traveling and living all
over the world as well. Nice, amazing Camelia has no filter,
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never did. She will love you like nobody else and
flat put you in your place when you need it,
And at ninety now, if she wants to walk to
the mailbox in her underwear, she absolutely does.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Ah why not the Freedoms.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
My hands down favorite Camelia story was one day when
I arranged for a group of boys from the local
Baptist church to volunteer doing tours in her yard. The
boy showed up, as did their pastor and assistant pastor.
As the boys worked, we stood in the yard and
chatted with the pastors, and I asked Camellia for permission
to tell them the sweet story of how she and
Bill met. The story goes that they were both in
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Colorado skiing in the early seventies, her from Louisiana, him
from Florida. A big snowfell. Airports were closed and the
only way out was by bus, where the two of
them were seated together and talked for hours. When she
got back to Louisiana, Camellia called the bus line lied
and said that she'd sat next to a man named
Bill and their suitcases had gotten switched. It says it
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absolutely had not. She asked for his phone number to
call him and rectify the situation.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Wow, going for it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
This being the seventies, they didn't give it a second thought.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Sure, then yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
She called. They connected, started dating, got married, and were
absolute soulmates until Bill died in twenty eighteen. As I
retold this, charming, if a bit impish, tail Camelia added,
of course, we were both married to other people at
the time. Lady all bold, all caps? What right in
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front of the pastors too?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh that's right. Yeah, she's at church.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
No, they're in the front yard, but the boys doing
the work of the yard.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Sorry, that's a completely different story, and not when I
necessarily related to the local Baptist preachers. Classic Camellia, Though
I have no doubt she'd set up that little booby
trap and was just waiting to spring it on me.
She's like, go ahead, tell the story.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, sure, I'd love for you too.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Thanks for all you two lovelies, do not the lease
of which is offering me a way to connect with
my thirty something daughter. Oh and then her name is Mimi.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I know me, Me me me. Oh that's a great email.
That was cute. Right. Also, it's kind of like I
do like that, even though it sucks for those two people,
for the two people they were married to, right, But
it's almost like it feels like Camellia was like, this
is a once in a lifetime connection. This isn't nothing.
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I got to go after it. Yeah, and like, no.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
There's no sitting idly by when you're in love. I mean,
very cool.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm not sure there was someone else at the same time,
I mean them, but yeah, figure it out, you know, communicate, Listen,
be honest.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Divorces happen.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It does, all right, We're on the side of divorce.
The subject line of this ammil is Lake Powell Vacation
gone wrong. Hi, MFM family, all the pleasantries you know.
The drill in Minnesota three p. Fifty four. You made
a call for vacation's gone wrong, and I finally have
a story worthy of sharing. Yes, growing up we had
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a boat, which sounds bougie, but it was already old
at the time of the story. I love it. I
love that thing of like no, no, no, you don't
make no miss. My dad's an expert water skier, and
my brother and I loved riding on a tube. So
my mom had a great idea for a road trip
from Denver to Lake Powell, a twelve hour drive, towing
said boat and finding a camping spot somewhere along the
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lake shore, a similar trip to one my parents took
pre kids, with a then much newer boat and trailer.
And then in parentheses it says this will be important later.
I know my dad had dreams of my brother and
I learning to water ski and love being on the
lake as much as he did. Unfortunately, his dreams did
not become a reality on this trip. We loved road
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trips and had all of the Disney soundtrack cassettes ready
to go. That I literally that turns my stomach. The
idea of like you're trapped in a car singing bibbity
bobbity boo.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I agree, unless it's the Little Mermaid soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I've told you that a million times. But Nora used
to have when she was like three. She had this
little necklace and you touched the aerial and it went ah.
And my sister was like, that thing won't die. She's like,
she touches it all the time. It's been around forever.
She's like. She was like, found it when Nora was
like seven or eight and touched it and it was
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still working. Like, we're back. We got to the lake
and found a camping spot. Being the nineties, we had
no phone or internet to tell us the weather, but
it was summer, so I'm sure my parents assumed it
would be hot and dry and did not bother to
actually check. We'd barely gotten our tents set up when clouds, wind,
and rain rolled in. We had two tents, my brother
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and I sharing one of those. It rained so much
in a short time that a waterfall formed on the
cliff behind our tents and created a river in the
sand between where our two tents were set up. Oh
my god, the wind was blowing so hard that my
brother and I had to sit in the corners to
keep the tent from blowing away. Being preteen, kids. We
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were terrified that we were going to get blown away
or taken out to the lake, never to be seen again.
I'm sure my parents sat their own tent, calm like
only nineties parents could be. When it did stop raining,
everything that was not in the boat or a tent
was floating out on the lake, including all our food.
I guess we were able to save enough food because
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we camped the rest of the week, despite what I
am sure was a lot of complaining from my brother
and I if the rainstorm was not traumatic enough. On
the drive home, the brakes of the boat trailer caught fire,
and once again my chill dad put the fire out
with ice from a cooler.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I have no idea how we drove home with out
breaks on the trailer seems pretty important to have, Yet
once again, only a nineties dad could not be worried
about this. That was not the last camping trip my
mom planned for us, but thankfully none were as eventful
as this. I think we got rid of the boat
not long after this trip, as owning a boat in
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Colorado was pointless with so few lakes. Say sexy and
don't camp next to a waterfall? Andrea, Ah, Yeah, they
really did it. I love that idea of like here
we are summertime lake trip and immediately it's like hurricane.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I had something similar happened like a hurricane during a
camping trip, but it was a camping trip for the
rehab I had gone to at thirteen. They had like
a you know, like an AA event, and there was
like a hurricane. It was kind of cool though, because
it was like all these people who were like trying
to be self sufficient and they were able to like
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chase all it down, like make everything better and like
feel good about themselves instead of doing drugs.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, that's true. Great, it was like true challenge. And
then they had to let go and let God right
because God was sending hurricanes right.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
This last one's short. Okay, it's called vintage Treasure with
a ton of exclamation marks. Guess what what. I'm visiting
New Orleans this week for the first time, and today
I set out to find vintage clothing and thrift shops
my dream. I was listening to MFM walking from my
hotel well to my first destination. Not sure why I
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chose that shop, just a feeling. When I arrived, I
tried on a beautiful vintage gold beaded skirt and found
a fifty dollars bill in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Literally the first article of clothing I put my hand
on this morning and it says day mate.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yes mine too, that's the best.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Obviously. I bought it and designated it my lucky skirt. Yes,
I have been quite distracted the rest of today checking
every pocket in every store. Cheers to obsession, stay sexy,
and always follow your heart to treasure. Love shayey she.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Like, god, damn it, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I've never like, I've never stuck my hand in a
pocket like a vintage shop before.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, rifle through those kind of gross. It is a
little gross, but.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
A lot of crumbs, vintage crumbs.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You gotta get in there. You gotta get those old
weird limp balls to get your treasure. Also the perse section,
go oh, unzip those little pockets on the side.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, okay, everybody.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
There's been a couple tiktoks that I've seen with people
that go and they're like, this is the wallet I bought,
and then unzip it and pull out like a weird
old shopping list, or like.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh I love that. I've had that once I bought
it and brought it home, but not when I was
like trying stuff on for some reason.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah. Yeah, okay, So this last one is the subject
line is Halloween trash Mom, and then in parentheses it
says it's me hello to everyone's fingers and faces. Yeah,
we cut day one, and then it says happy spookky
Halloween best friends. Here are a couple of short stories
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about why I no longer go to haunted trails. We
went on a haunted trail many years ago and took
our children, who, in hindsight, were really too young. So sorry,
I don't know what a haunted trail is. This feels regional.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Is it like it's either like a haunted hay ride
where it's like set up for you, or it's like
a trail in like that a hiking trail that everyone
else is haunted. I'm gonna guess it's the first one.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
It's set up, Yeah, based on what this story is,
it's set up. But I just think it's fascinating because
I've never heard of this version of I've corn Maze.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yes, haunted hay ride, Yes, this one. You get to
fucking walk in it?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Now walk and then and then what and then what well,
we're about to find it, so their children are to you.
Our son was probably around five ish question Mark. At
the beginning of the hike, a clown ran out of
the woods with a chainsaw, as they do, and me,
being the mom of the year trash mom, question Mark,
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promptly shielded myself with my five year old. He was traumatized.
I was traumatized, but we are all okay. He's twenty
one now, and both our kids give.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Him a couple of years. His brain's not even done
for me. You don't know if he's going to be
okay twenty one please.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I love that. It's like, only now can she tell
this story? He's twenty one, he made it. It says
he's twenty one now, and both our kids remind me
of this to kick off Halloween seas off and then
it says thanks in parentheses. The second incident happened years later,
when our kids were a more appropriate age. Our group
knew we would have a long wait, so we brought
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various jello shots to sustain us adults. They were in
little cups with lids so we could stash them in
our pockets. This is important later, I promise our group
got separated and I was walking with the with only
one other friend. Suddenly I feel a presence behind me
and slowly turn around to see a guy in a
scream costume with a shaky voice and a terrified look
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on my face. I say, hey, want a jelous shot,
to which he promptly says cool and grabs the shot
and takes off.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, he just made his night.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yep, I may have given alcohol to a minor, but
I'll never know for sure. And then a parentheses that says,
I totally did. Thank you both for being my constant
companions and for all the wonderful lessons you've taught me,
especially about mental health. Finally started therapy, and she's a
murderin No.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yes, yes, my psychiatrist told me that she's gotten murderinos
in before.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Wow. Yeah that like that way that she just told
that made me feel very powerful.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It was just kind of like a nice compliment, A
nice compliment, and then like they're everywhere, It's amazing SSDGM Danelle,
and then it says like Janelle with a D she here.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I love that. I feel like we want like parents. Okay,
please tell us your story, your stories of your trash parenting. Yes,
And I know you can't tell everyone because you're embarrassed
of them or they like make you look bad, so
you can be anonymous. But you can tell us.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yes, and everybody and every other parent that thinks that
everything they're doing is terrible and damaging or whatever it's like,
especially somebody where it's like you do you hold your
child up as a human shield when they're five, report
back when they're twenty one and say, listen, it's okay, they're.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Okay, Now they're fine. What did you do as a
parent that like you're still you still cringe from My
mom always brings up dropping my brother as a bear,
tripping and falling like gotten to my brother as a baby.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yes, my mom did that too. She tripped on my
highschair and we both went down and I got it
cut on my still have it right there cut on
my head.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, and she.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Broke her arm. Oh Jesus, I know it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Send us those at my favorite murder at Gmail and Denel.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That was the most delightful email. Amazing, Thank you for
all of that, all of that vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I feel like we need to send like a present
or a trophy. But the people who write letters that
make us then ask for that theme. Yeah, they're that
good that we're like, yes, more of.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
This, I know. I feel like we should have done
a lot more work on this show. We've done en Look, sorry,
we here's a trophy from our mouth.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
We weren't fine when we were twenty one. No, no, yeah,
but we're still suffering from that. I'm happy for your son,
but this is all we have.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You should see the clown chainsaw shit. We've been held
up to.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
As much as we can do. We're doing our best.
Extenuating circumstances, Stay sexy, don't get murder, Goobe, Elvis, Do
you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Our editor is Aristotle Oscevedo.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Emailing your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And follow the show on Instagram and Facebook at my
Favorite Murder and on Twitter at my Fave Murder. Goodbye
Hello, Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder a minis
Here we go. Are you ready to hear some emails?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Better go for a sure? Okay? My first one's called
lost in the Woods. Hey, MFM crew on minisod foura two.
Y'all shared some great stories about getting lost in the woods,
so I figured i'd share mine. A handful of years ago,
my father and some friends were hanging out in the
wilderness of Oregon when one of their dogs got away.
The group split up and began searching for the dog.
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One successful in the search, the crew all headed back
to their cars, loaded into three different vehicles, and took
off all of them except my father. He watched with
disbelief as the three cars pulled away and headed down
the mountain, with his backpack in one of the trunks,
chasing them furiously waving his arms. No one noticed. According
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to my father, at first, he was just annoyed and
figured they'd realize any minute and turn around. As hours
went by, he grew more and more frustrated and started
walking down the road. Nighttime came quickly, and in the dark,
he tripped and stumbled down a steep gully above a river.
He fought hard to get back up the slope. It
was so shaken up. When he got back up, he
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accidentally went in the wrong direction, so he's like doubling back.
Flash forward to the next evening. His friends first noticed
he was left behind. Assholes the next evening.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That's insane.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
They all lived on a compound together. So my jaw
dropped when I first learned this detail. It's not like
they all went to their own apartments and like didn't notice,
you know what I mean? Like that makes sense that
they weren't like in the room with him. He wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Did they say what year this was or era?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't know, but it sounds very high.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is as high as you can get.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
His friends didn't call search and rescue until almost a
full day after they had left him behind. Don't get
me started here, Yeah, I mean, for real, my father
was lost for three full days before he was found
by mushroom foragers. So even after they realized he was gone,
he was still fucking they still couldn't find him.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right, that's just the beginning of the problem. Right.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
He was freezing cold, his cotton clothing soaked through, and
he was surviving just on snow, and thoughts of getting
back to his family because they took his fucking backpack too. Yeah,
my dad describes this experience as the scariest in his life,
but he shares and needing to get back to my
nephew as what saved his life. Luckily, he survived with
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just a small bit of frostbite, but the PTSD from
this harrowing experience will remain forever. My biggest reason I
wanted to share this story is to share some tips
to keep yourself safe outdoors. Oh, my father's close call
does not deter me from being the outdoorsy woman I am,
and should it you if that's what you love, despite
what we always say.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But also, what if someone heard this email was like
I'm never going outside again.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Never, never, or I'd be like I'm never having friends again.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Exactly, I'm never carpooling again. Right.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Here are some tips. One, if you find that you
are turned around and unsure of which way is the
correct way to go, do not keep moving. The closer
you are to your last known location, the less complicated
it is for search and rescue to find you. They
always say that, but it's like the natural thing to be,
like I bet there's just down.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The street, like I've got to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, stay where you are too. Bring a navigation tool
that has extended battery life, like a garment in reach,
a map and compass, and some type of emergency beacon
if you're going into particularly wild areas.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Wasn't his backpack in the car?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think she means if you're lucky enough to have
your possessions on you still, this is.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
All an argument to stay home for real.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Crazy. I'm not taking any of this advice because I'm
not going anywhere. We invest in high quality clothing. Cotton
kills is a common saying in the outdoors world. It
saturates with water easily and becomes very cold. Wool layers,
synthetic fabrics, and rain clothes aren't necessary. Four, don't split
up unless it is totally necessary, and no one should
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be left behind. I live in Colorado and I often
hear groups leaving someone behind because they are holding the
group back. Always use the Boddy system. What I don't know,
grandma's fucking holding us down. Yeah, let's leave her. We
can really keep you at the top, Grandma. I think
it's like that idea though, Like Okay, buddy, what's gonna
meet at the top. Like that's a normal thing to think, right,
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Like someone's going slower.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Don't do that. You should test people before you're on
a mountain if they're like that in their personality, if
they're because that is so self serving and insane. Yeah,
to just be like, hey, look, I'm trying to hike faster.
I need to color faster. Yeah, go to hell.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Five, Always bring a headlamp.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Six.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Learn about the ten essentials and live.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
By them, the ones that we're just given. No, sure
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, different thing, stay sexy and hail mushroom foragers anonymous.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, let's hear it from mushroom forgers.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, well not who found the dad?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No, No, I know I've always heard that thing about
wool though. Wool is the best material for and it
seems like, oh it would be too hot. Yeah, it's
super breathable and it does good with moisture. What am
I talking about? I just have heard that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, you spill something on your couch.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah exactly, And then I'm like, oh, no, I'm trapped here.
What if I don't ever dry off and I get
couch rot? What are the ten essentials? Stay positive, don't
go on the fucking forest. Look up, look up at
the top of the tree line.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, wave it bears.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The thing that makes me crazy is people that talk
about north, south, east, and west like anybody has some
sort of you know, like it's taught somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm okay at it. If I'm in a city, like
a big city, except for New York, I can't fucking
dejection New York.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's New york'stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, but like New York, I mean la, I can
do it right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You go like where's the airport that's selling? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Or I go, where's the valley? I don't want to
go there. It's that way, you know what I mean as.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
A person who lives in the vale, right? How dare Okay?
Here's my first one and the subject line is celebrity
encounter lost on my clueless mum. Hello ladies. You know
when people say day one listener, do they mean they
discovered your podcast sometime in the last few years and
they went through and listened to the whole thing from
episode one or do they mean that they listened to
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episode one when there was only an episode one. I'm
the former, having discovered your podcast sometime in twenty twenty
one and taking probably a year to catch up on
all the old episodes. Wow, what would you what answer
would you give?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I think when I think Day one listeners identify as
people who started listening from the very first episode when
they found it in twenty sixteen, like when it came
out right. But I like that one too. I mean
that they let's think of a fucking they should call
themselves something. Yeah, they should call themselves obsessive, compulsive.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean I never think about that where it's like,
there are hundreds of these fucking episodes I see. So
if you like it, then you're like, oh, I'm here,
but I actually.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Uh, well, that's why we're doing rewind episodes.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, we're trying to make it easier for you because
we realize these are true problems in twenty twenty four
that are a real concern for everybody. Anyway, I like
when an email starts off with like, can I get
some stuff cleared up because I'm confused?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Maybe we'll name the second version after the person. Depending
on how this email goes, Bingers will name it Joe Deers.
But anyway, Hi, I'm writing to you from the north
of Denmark where I live with my Danish husband, but
I'm originally from the south of England. Those Vikings are
still stealing the English girls away is the best. Okay,
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here's my story. When I was a kid, I was
always at some sort of dancing, singing, drama or piano
lesson as my dancing friends. And I grew up, I
lost interest in parentheses because I discovered boys and thought
they wouldn't be interested in a dancer. And then it's
the emoji of the little guy rolling his uce, which
is like, it's so sad to me that girls do
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that to themselves, where it's like that's all they're interested in.
Why wouldn't you understand that you are the cream of
the crop.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But also like, how sad to give up something you
love because you think this boy is going to somehow
make your life better than the thing that you love.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, you think it's gonna up the odds of getting
picked by some fucking idiots doesn't matter. Yeah, But they
all went on to have great careers in the theater,
on cruise ships, touring the world, etc. One such girl
got her job as a chorus girl in the London
West End stage version of the producers. That's amazing my
mom and lots of the other dancing moms and went
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to watch her in her west End debut. That is
also for those moms. She made it. That's I mean
the west End in London, she made it. As my
mom was sat in the audience waiting for the show
to start, she got talking to the man next to her.
He had an American accent and asked my mom if
she had seen the show yet. She excitedly told him
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that she knew one of the chorus girls. Oh no.
She asked where he was from, and he said San Diego. Ooh,
I've been there, squealed my mom excitedly and tried to relax,
not for you, regaling the stranger with stories of her travels.
When the show started, my mom's friend poked my mom
in the ribs and whispered, isn't that Robin Williams you're
talking to you?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my god, I was going Nathan Lane, but wow, oh,
how do you not recognize Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
She's a mom. It turned out yes, it was indeed
Robin Williams, but my mom had no idea who he was.
That's hilarious. She'd never been good at staying awake during
films and didn't really watch them all that much, so
had somehow come to miss the entire career of the
comedy genius but one of the biggest stars of our time,
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of our time. I like to think that it was
probably refreshing for him to be anonymous for five minutes,
say that, like, not have to perform and be someone,
just have a conversation with a lady, with a British lady.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, who's not going to be like, guess who I talked.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I think it's funny that he said he was from
San Diego. Where's he from the Bay Area? That's weird. Yeah,
maybe he was like born in San Diego, or maybe
he was just like, don't worry about it, sure, Yeah,
like he's trying to keep the image. We're back in
the email now anyway. With Robin Williams in mind, it
seems appropriate to thank you for your openness around mental
health and all the wonderful donations you make to such
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worthy causes. Also for the laughs and education you have
given me over the years. Keep up the good work, ladies,
and love to the animals. Jody, she heard ah, Jody, Jody,
thanks you email, I mean Jody the top to bottom
just a delightful.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, like it was. It felt like a good conversation
that we just had with Jody, but it was just
one sided.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And Jody's in Denmark. Yeah, the chances of us being
able to have this conversation were so rare. Yeah, and
she made it happen. Also, can I just do a
quick brag that one time when I was in when
I lived in San Francisco, I was at Green Apple Books,
which is a bookstore. And now I can't remember what
neighborhood it's in, but it's very well known. I feel
like it's down near Fishman's Wharf, but I'm probably wrong. Okay,
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it doesn't matter anyhow. It's this real cool old bookstore
that kind of has like different levels and steps in
the floors wooden.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is it next to Visuvio?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, it's a North Beach.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, that's a North Beach. Yes, that that fucking amazing books.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well wait no, no, that's not Skylight, but that's the
city Lights. But that's City Lights Books. I think Green Apple.
It doesn't matter, It truly doesn't matter. No, keep it
up anyway, I'm walking there. I think I'm killing time
before meeting people before a show or something. And so
I just go in and I'm walking, and I'm so
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positive I'm going to trip and fall because of these
different little wooden steps that I'm just watching myself walk
to walk toward the back, and I walk and then
I walk until I see some feet in front of me,
and I realize, oh, someone is also walking toward me.
And I look up and it's Robin Williams and we
are truly a foot away from each other like that.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know, the same thing happened to me in a
bookstore with Billy Bob Thornton. Right, No, like we walked
into each.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Other, same exact thing. Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And then I look over and Angelina and Jelly is
there with him.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Are you lacking? I swear to fucking doesn't that sound
like a lie? It dies.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's one of my stories from like when I was
like nineteen, when they were married.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes, when they were they were the most in love
people of all time. Wow, that's hilarious. Anything to you
he did a thing or I could because I just
was like, what like nineteen years old, finally living in
the big city, whatever, and so I just kind of
was like, I'm sure I had that look on his face,
and he just gave me the little like cute smile.
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But he was also like we were both kind of
like look down people. Yeah, so we both just kept
looking down and like kind of like kept passing. Cute.
Very sweet, very sweet. And he used to sometimes come
to comedy shows like the Fake Gallery, which was in
East Lay, and he would come if like he knew
someone in town and someone would be there, and so
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he would go and just go and sit in the audience,
so no one in the audience knew he was in
the audience. He would kind of get there secretly, maybe
back entrance or something and just watch the show. And
people would be like, someone get him to do a set,
and he didn't want to. He just wanted to watch. Wow,
which is very cool to me, so amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, this one's called lovable slash crazy neighbor. Story starts
all y'all, all, y'all, that's right. There's a saying in
the South, we don't hide our crazy. We parade it
out on the front porch and give it a cocktail.
Hell yeah, in that vein life gave us our elderly
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neighbor Camellia, a true Southern character. For their entire married lives.
Camellia and her husband Bill live like poppers at home,
then use the money they saved to travel the globe.
Growing up with that example right next door, my own
four kids are spending their twenties traveling and living all
over the world as well. Nice, amazing Camelia has no filter,
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never did. She will love you like nobody else and
flat put you in your place when you need it,
And at ninety now, if she wants to walk to
the mailbox in her underwear, she absolutely does.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Ah why not the Freedoms.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
My hands down favorite Camelia story was one day when
I arranged for a group of boys from the local
Baptist church to volunteer doing tours in her yard. The
boy showed up, as did their pastor and assistant pastor.
As the boys worked, we stood in the yard and
chatted with the pastors, and I asked Camellia for permission
to tell them the sweet story of how she and
Bill met. The story goes that they were both in
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Colorado skiing in the early seventies, her from Louisiana, him
from Florida. A big snowfell. Airports were closed and the
only way out was by bus, where the two of
them were seated together and talked for hours. When she
got back to Louisiana, Camellia called the bus line lied
and said that she'd sat next to a man named
Bill and their suitcases had gotten switched. It says it
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absolutely had not. She asked for his phone number to
call him and rectify the situation.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Wow, going for it.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
This being the seventies, they didn't give it a second thought.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Sure, then yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
She called. They connected, started dating, got married, and were
absolute soulmates until Bill died in twenty eighteen. As I
retold this, charming, if a bit impish, tail Camelia added,
of course, we were both married to other people at
the time. Lady all bold, all caps? What right in
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front of the pastors too?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh that's right. Yeah, she's at church.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
No, they're in the front yard, but the boys doing
the work of the yard.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Sorry, that's a completely different story, and not when I
necessarily related to the local Baptist preachers. Classic Camellia, Though
I have no doubt she'd set up that little booby
trap and was just waiting to spring it on me.
She's like, go ahead, tell the story.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, sure, I'd love for you too.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Thanks for all you two lovelies, do not the lease
of which is offering me a way to connect with
my thirty something daughter. Oh and then her name is Mimi.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I know me, Me me me. Oh that's a great email.
That was cute. Right. Also, it's kind of like I
do like that, even though it sucks for those two people,
for the two people they were married to, right, But
it's almost like it feels like Camellia was like, this
is a once in a lifetime connection. This isn't nothing.
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I got to go after it. Yeah, and like, no.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
There's no sitting idly by when you're in love. I mean,
very cool.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I'm not sure there was someone else at the same time,
I mean them, but yeah, figure it out, you know, communicate, Listen,
be honest.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Divorces happen.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It does, all right, We're on the side of divorce.
The subject line of this ammil is Lake Powell Vacation
gone wrong. Hi, MFM family, all the pleasantries you know.
The drill in Minnesota three p. Fifty four. You made
a call for vacation's gone wrong, and I finally have
a story worthy of sharing. Yes, growing up we had
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a boat, which sounds bougie, but it was already old
at the time of the story. I love it. I
love that thing of like no, no, no, you don't
make no miss. My dad's an expert water skier, and
my brother and I loved riding on a tube. So
my mom had a great idea for a road trip
from Denver to Lake Powell, a twelve hour drive, towing
said boat and finding a camping spot somewhere along the
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lake shore, a similar trip to one my parents took
pre kids, with a then much newer boat and trailer.
And then in parentheses it says this will be important later.
I know my dad had dreams of my brother and
I learning to water ski and love being on the
lake as much as he did. Unfortunately, his dreams did
not become a reality on this trip. We loved road
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trips and had all of the Disney soundtrack cassettes ready
to go. That I literally that turns my stomach. The
idea of like you're trapped in a car singing bibbity
bobbity boo.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I agree, unless it's the Little Mermaid soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I've told you that a million times. But Nora used
to have when she was like three. She had this
little necklace and you touched the aerial and it went ah.
And my sister was like, that thing won't die. She's like,
she touches it all the time. It's been around forever.
She's like. She was like, found it when Nora was
like seven or eight and touched it and it was
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still working. Like, we're back. We got to the lake
and found a camping spot. Being the nineties, we had
no phone or internet to tell us the weather, but
it was summer, so I'm sure my parents assumed it
would be hot and dry and did not bother to
actually check. We'd barely gotten our tents set up when clouds, wind,
and rain rolled in. We had two tents, my brother
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and I sharing one of those. It rained so much
in a short time that a waterfall formed on the
cliff behind our tents and created a river in the
sand between where our two tents were set up. Oh
my god, the wind was blowing so hard that my
brother and I had to sit in the corners to
keep the tent from blowing away. Being preteen, kids. We
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were terrified that we were going to get blown away
or taken out to the lake, never to be seen again.
I'm sure my parents sat their own tent, calm like
only nineties parents could be. When it did stop raining,
everything that was not in the boat or a tent
was floating out on the lake, including all our food.
I guess we were able to save enough food because
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we camped the rest of the week, despite what I
am sure was a lot of complaining from my brother
and I if the rainstorm was not traumatic enough. On
the drive home, the brakes of the boat trailer caught fire,
and once again my chill dad put the fire out
with ice from a cooler.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I have no idea how we drove home with out
breaks on the trailer seems pretty important to have, Yet
once again, only a nineties dad could not be worried
about this. That was not the last camping trip my
mom planned for us, but thankfully none were as eventful
as this. I think we got rid of the boat
not long after this trip, as owning a boat in
(20:52):
Colorado was pointless with so few lakes. Say sexy and
don't camp next to a waterfall? Andrea, Ah, Yeah, they
really did it. I love that idea of like here
we are summertime lake trip and immediately it's like hurricane.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I had something similar happened like a hurricane during a
camping trip, but it was a camping trip for the
rehab I had gone to at thirteen. They had like
a you know, like an AA event, and there was
like a hurricane. It was kind of cool though, because
it was like all these people who were like trying
to be self sufficient and they were able to like
(21:30):
chase all it down, like make everything better and like
feel good about themselves instead of doing drugs.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, that's true. Great, it was like true challenge. And
then they had to let go and let God right
because God was sending hurricanes right.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
This last one's short. Okay, it's called vintage Treasure with
a ton of exclamation marks. Guess what what. I'm visiting
New Orleans this week for the first time, and today
I set out to find vintage clothing and thrift shops
my dream. I was listening to MFM walking from my
hotel well to my first destination. Not sure why I
(22:03):
chose that shop, just a feeling. When I arrived, I
tried on a beautiful vintage gold beaded skirt and found
a fifty dollars bill in the pocket.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Literally the first article of clothing I put my hand
on this morning and it says day mate.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yes mine too, that's the best.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Obviously. I bought it and designated it my lucky skirt. Yes,
I have been quite distracted the rest of today checking
every pocket in every store. Cheers to obsession, stay sexy,
and always follow your heart to treasure. Love shayey she.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Like, god, damn it, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I've never like, I've never stuck my hand in a
pocket like a vintage shop before.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, rifle through those kind of gross. It is a
little gross, but.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
A lot of crumbs, vintage crumbs.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You gotta get in there. You gotta get those old
weird limp balls to get your treasure. Also the perse section,
go oh, unzip those little pockets on the side.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, okay, everybody.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
There's been a couple tiktoks that I've seen with people
that go and they're like, this is the wallet I bought,
and then unzip it and pull out like a weird
old shopping list, or like.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh I love that. I've had that once I bought
it and brought it home, but not when I was
like trying stuff on for some reason.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah. Yeah, okay, So this last one is the subject
line is Halloween trash Mom, and then in parentheses it
says it's me hello to everyone's fingers and faces. Yeah,
we cut day one, and then it says happy spookky
Halloween best friends. Here are a couple of short stories
(23:45):
about why I no longer go to haunted trails. We
went on a haunted trail many years ago and took
our children, who, in hindsight, were really too young. So sorry,
I don't know what a haunted trail is. This feels regional.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Is it like it's either like a haunted hay ride
where it's like set up for you, or it's like
a trail in like that a hiking trail that everyone
else is haunted. I'm gonna guess it's the first one.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
It's set up, Yeah, based on what this story is,
it's set up. But I just think it's fascinating because
I've never heard of this version of I've corn Maze.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yes, haunted hay ride, Yes, this one. You get to
fucking walk in it?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Now walk and then and then what and then what well,
we're about to find it, so their children are to you.
Our son was probably around five ish question Mark. At
the beginning of the hike, a clown ran out of
the woods with a chainsaw, as they do, and me,
being the mom of the year trash mom, question Mark,
(24:43):
promptly shielded myself with my five year old. He was traumatized.
I was traumatized, but we are all okay. He's twenty
one now, and both our kids give.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Him a couple of years. His brain's not even done
for me. You don't know if he's going to be
okay twenty one please.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I love that. It's like, only now can she tell
this story? He's twenty one, he made it. It says
he's twenty one now, and both our kids remind me
of this to kick off Halloween seas off and then
it says thanks in parentheses. The second incident happened years later,
when our kids were a more appropriate age. Our group
knew we would have a long wait, so we brought
(25:21):
various jello shots to sustain us adults. They were in
little cups with lids so we could stash them in
our pockets. This is important later, I promise our group
got separated and I was walking with the with only
one other friend. Suddenly I feel a presence behind me
and slowly turn around to see a guy in a
scream costume with a shaky voice and a terrified look
(25:42):
on my face. I say, hey, want a jelous shot,
to which he promptly says cool and grabs the shot
and takes off.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, he just made his night.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yep, I may have given alcohol to a minor, but
I'll never know for sure. And then a parentheses that says,
I totally did. Thank you both for being my constant
companions and for all the wonderful lessons you've taught me,
especially about mental health. Finally started therapy, and she's a
murderin No.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yes, yes, my psychiatrist told me that she's gotten murderinos
in before.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Wow. Yeah that like that way that she just told
that made me feel very powerful.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
It was just kind of like a nice compliment, A
nice compliment, and then like they're everywhere, It's amazing SSDGM Danelle,
and then it says like Janelle with a D she here.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I love that. I feel like we want like parents. Okay,
please tell us your story, your stories of your trash parenting. Yes,
And I know you can't tell everyone because you're embarrassed
of them or they like make you look bad, so
you can be anonymous. But you can tell us.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yes, and everybody and every other parent that thinks that
everything they're doing is terrible and damaging or whatever it's like,
especially somebody where it's like you do you hold your
child up as a human shield when they're five, report
back when they're twenty one and say, listen, it's okay, they're.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Okay, Now they're fine. What did you do as a
parent that like you're still you still cringe from My
mom always brings up dropping my brother as a bear,
tripping and falling like gotten to my brother as a baby.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yes, my mom did that too. She tripped on my
highschair and we both went down and I got it
cut on my still have it right there cut on
my head.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, and she.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Broke her arm. Oh Jesus, I know it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Send us those at my favorite murder at Gmail and Denel.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That was the most delightful email. Amazing, Thank you for
all of that, all of that vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I feel like we need to send like a present
or a trophy. But the people who write letters that
make us then ask for that theme. Yeah, they're that
good that we're like, yes, more of.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
This, I know. I feel like we should have done
a lot more work on this show. We've done en Look, sorry,
we here's a trophy from our mouth.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
We weren't fine when we were twenty one. No, no, yeah,
but we're still suffering from that. I'm happy for your son,
but this is all we have.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You should see the clown chainsaw shit. We've been held
up to.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
As much as we can do. We're doing our best.
Extenuating circumstances, Stay sexy, don't get murder, Goobe, Elvis, Do
you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Our editor is Aristotle Oscevedo.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Emailing your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And follow the show on Instagram and Facebook at my
Favorite Murder and on Twitter at my Fave Murder. Goodbye
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Georgia Hardstark
Karen Kilgariff
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