September 9, 2024 • 23 mins
This week’s hometowns include long-lost snacks and a forged birth certificate.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Llo, and welcome to my favorite murder the minisode, the
four hundredth fucking minisode. I mean, we've done this so
many times?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Is that possible?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And listen, we couldn't have done it without you, literally,
because we're literally reading you your stories. So it's thank
you to everyone has contributed, whether or not you've gotten on.
There's four hundred more to go.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And what an incredible thing this has developed into where
our listeners can tell us not just the horrifying crime
stories that they grew up with or near, but now
at this point kind of anything. Yeah, we're just talking
about stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's become really special and a really cool place for
like stories. So thank you guys for enjoying that, and
thank you for contributing or just enjoying. Here's number four hundred.
You want to go first? Sure?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The subject line is a hard to beat vacation disaster
story two point five to three minute read perfect, and
then it just says, to the gorgeous and wonderful MFM team,
I've been listening to your lovely voices since twenty eighteen,
and I'm forever grateful for this podcast. Y'all have been
keeping me company. During the twelve hour days I spent
(01:31):
working as a geologist at a structural engineering firm, and
the countless hours I've spent mowing my twenty seven acres
of land, Like shit, can I have some of what
you take every morning? Because Jesus, this person loves land.
But enough about me, let's get to the juicy stuff.
In Minnisode three point fifty four, It's crazy, y'all asked
(01:55):
for vacation disaster stories. I immediately procrastinated by writing this
email and letting it sit on my desktop for weeks.
But now that I have nothing to do until the
fire academy starts, I figured the time is now. I
grew up in southern New Jersey and was extremely fortunate
enough to be able to go on vacations with my
parents to the Caribbean almost every summer when I was
(02:15):
a kid. Well, the Caribbean in the summer might not
seem strange. It should raise red flags for the people
in the South who know full well that Atlantic hurricane
season is from June first to November thirty. No, yeah,
I didn't know that. So if you guessed that I've
experienced a storm on vacation, let alone three category five hurricanes,
(02:38):
you'd be correct. Bonus points for guessing that one of
those storms was Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And the super bonus, well, that goes to the ones
who may have guessed I was on a cruise ship.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh my god, a lot of guessing.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Who out there guessed all those rights? One got it,
someone got it, And then it says, yes, you read
that correctly. I was on fucking cruise ship in the
Gulf of Mexico with Hurricane Katrina. Of course, this was
almost twenty years ago, but I vividly remember a few things.
Number One, my dad excitedly told us to get up
to see the pool water slashing to the deck above
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it when he ran back to our room to get
the video camera. When we'd returned with him, they'd already
drained the pool. Number Two, because the ship was rocking
so hard, they had to pull most of the shade
shut in the dining room to help the unfortunate souls
with sea sickness. However, if you were daring enough, you
could see the waves and the water level all the
(03:35):
way up to the fifth deck of the ship. Now
I'm not a shipbuilder, but if we use the average
height of a building story that's about fifty feet. Number three,
I was obsessed with a kid's version of Chex mix
that was in a green bag and had Captain Crunch
in it. I haven't found it since then, and I
wistfully think about it from time to time.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They make it special for that cruise line.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I love it, but that idea that's we're in the
middle of a hurricane story and it's like, I also
loved this checksment so much. There was this snack and
then it says, was I terrified?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Do I believe that my life since then has been
a simulation and that my body has been at the
bottom of the gulf since two thousand and five? Of
course I love it. Did I have the best sleep
of my life that night? Damn right? Wow, because the
whole boat was rocking them to sleep. Thank you for
everything you continue to do for the community and everyone.
Please make sure you're registered to vote. Let's finally vote
(04:35):
a woman into office this November. Kelsey she her, Hell yeah, Kelsey,
nice one, Kelsey, Oh my god, that was great.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Let's do forgotten snacks of our childhoods that like or
like not even that you know existed, but like like
I know, for a very short time there were Sobby
flavored funions and they don't exist anymore. It's been over
a decade, but I can't stop thinking about that them.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, that's a good one. There was a lot of
candy that we used to get that was like the
late seventies early eighties, like the super Big They were
like sweet tarts that were huge. Oh yeah, and they
would I think they came three or four in a
pack and like all different flavors, and you would pick.
The flavors were random, so you would be like that
(05:21):
one has two grapes and no lemon. I'm not getting that.
You'd be standing there trying to get it. They don't
make those anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What were they called? You remember?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'm gonna text my sister and see if by the
end of this episode she can give us that answer because.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
She now a special four hundredth episode text from your sister, Laura.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The only way my sister would participate in this podcast
is through text. So let's see.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, My first one's called third Times a Charm Past
Live story. Hello Karen and Georgia, longtime listener, multiple time writer,
inner and brand new fan cult number.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Thank you thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You were all amazing and you know it. So let's
get into it. You asked her past live stories, Well,
here is mine. When I was fifteen, my mom took
me to see a psychic who specialized in past life readings.
She told me a few stories, but two of them
stuck with me the most. Of all the stories, she
told me I was a female merchant living in you
guessed it Atlantis. As fascinating as it sounded to my
(06:19):
fifteen year old mind, the story took a dark turn quickly.
She proceeded to tell me I died after being brutally
raped and beaten in front of my son, who happens
to me my brother in real in this life. No
the fuck tells a to that. No, that's not no
Ry and it's your brother. What now? HI? No I know.
(06:43):
In the other story, she proclaimed I was a male
Asian fisherman with the ability to communicate with fish. She
claimed she had seen me teaching my son how to
ask the fish for permission to be caught and thank
them for the sacrifice. Is that a children's book?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Maybe? Well? Maybe at least that that sounds just a
slightly lighter and more fanciful. Something to think about as
opposed to like, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
After the session, I found myself leaning towards believing these
fantastical stories. However, I couldn't help but chuckle at the
thought of what might be going on in her mind
if she was just coming up with them on the spot.
She was stay sexy and take your child to a
psychic so they understand their past life trauma. Katie. She
her ps. Shout out to my friends Rachel and Kayla
(07:27):
for introducing me to your podcast and book. We can't
wait to see you live in Arizona. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.
I got enough trauma in this fucking life to deal with.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
See exactly past life trauma. No, you got out, you
got away. That's that life's over.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Her brother's still kind of a dick, like, just.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Go with it, don't don't. You don't have to. The
subject line of this email is a badass woman of history,
and it says long but worth it, not too long.
Good day all. Here's another email from the random shit pile.
It's a bit long, so let's get into it. My
great aunt Gertrude Lattery Savage was truly a badass bitch.
(08:07):
She was born in nineteen eleven as one of thirteen
children in a small town in Alberta, Canada, and lived
quite the life from then on. She grew up helping
her dad do chores around the farm rather than helping
her mother with household duties. In high school, Gertie decided
she wanted to get into boxing and quickly went undefeated,
(08:27):
becoming a local champ. A top female boxer from nearby
Edmonton challenged her to a fight, and, in Gerty's words,
didn't last around. Her fighting expertise came in handy when
a fellow got a bit too rowdy at her house
and wouldn't leave. He did eventually leave with a broken jaw.
She entered into steer riding events at the rodeo when
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women weren't allowed to compete, so she dressed like a
man and competed anyway. Damn. She then became a winning jockey,
but quit because she couldn't stand the way the horses
were treated. After her many adventures, she started a family
and a farm of her own until the nineteen eighties
when she downsized to a smaller home where she would
(09:09):
stay doing yard work and tending to her garden every
day until her death. In twenty fifteen, at the age
of one hundred and four.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Fuck yes, I love her.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Gerdy always attributed her long life to quote being too
goddamn busy to get old, and said of her life, quote,
I lived my life as I wanted independent. Thanks so
much for reading this, and thank you for keeping me
occupied while I work every day as an electrician. Stay
sexy and don't get old.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Rob Oh my god, I love that. Love Gurdy a
boxer that's so bad ass. So that's probably the nineteen twenties.
She became a female boxer.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Like that, where like women weren't allowed to wear pants, yeah,
I mean, or like it was looked down upon, you know, yeah, God,
damn hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Gerdie hell yeah. Okay, here's my grandma's forged birth certificate
and then it says in parentheses Italian Mafia. Just to
sweeten the pot a little bit. Hello, ladies. I'm a
Day one listener and I love the way you tell
true crime stories. This is truly my favorite podcast, and
I can't listen to other true crime podcasts because they
just don't compare. Thank you for fucking wow saying it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Anyways, let's get into it. There are a lot of
good true crime podcasts who should listen to. My grandmother
was born in nineteen twenty four Chicago, specifically Little Italy.
Growing up, she said, the Italian Mob was a normal
and everyday part of their lives. In her neighborhood, every
few blocks there would be a house owned by the mob,
and that was who you'd pay your dues to your dues,
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she said, as long as you paid your fee, you
were safe, protected and had nothing to worry about. Anyways.
When she was fifteen, she went to apply for her
first job. After learning she'd need her birth certificate to
prove citizenships, she went home and found that it was missing.
When she asked her mom, she said, oh, you don't
have a birth certificate, but don't worry. We'll just ask
our man on the corner. So my grandmother and great
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grandmother walked to the house on the corner of their street,
knocked on the door, and waited for the mob to answer.
When he answered, my grandmother explained her situation and politely
asked if he could get her a birth certificate. He said,
no problem, sweetie, you'll have one by the end of
the week. A week goes by, and sure enough he
knocks on their front door, hands her a sealed envelope,
and went on his way until she died at the
(11:30):
age of ninety five. This was the only birth certificate
she ever had. Mm hmm. Unfortunately she didn't end up
getting the job, but she said it was because of
the prejudice against Italians, not because of hersketchy birth certificate.
Stay sexy and don't lose your birth certificate. Ge. She
kept it the whole time.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, that's well, it was as real as any government
or worked. To her, that's just like, that's the one
I got.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean conceptually, conceptually the mafia can be a good idea,
but that mafia hoas it is all the same. But
then it gets corrupted and people love power totally and
then it's like not what they promise, No.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Such as life.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, here's my last one, and the subject line is
laughing while my sister cried zipper ride related. Hi ladies.
I've lost count of how many submissions I've sent in,
but I find it therapeutic, even if they're not read.
And then in parentheses but all caps, it says, don't
give up everyone, which is my favorite phrase I think
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right now, don't give up, everyone, God everyone, Karen mentioning
dying laughing from the back seat while Laura learned to
drive in the most recent minniesode reminded me of a
similarly hilarious memory with my sister Danica. My dad traveled
a lot when we were little, so when he was home,
he would find any excuse to take us out of
school and to local events like hot air balloon festivals,
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petting zoos, and, in this story's case, are Central Texas
County fair cute. My memory leading up to this core
memory is fuzzy. I just remember my sister and I,
who were both under ten years old at the time,
getting strapped into a seat that was oddly positioned at
an angle with a metal lap bar, and then locked
into a rickety metal cage fucking rocket. That's right. As
(13:26):
Karen may have guessed from her own experience with the ride,
my father had let us go on the sketchiest carnival
ride of all time, the Zipper. The ride started well enough.
It was a small metal cage going around with the
other cages in a ferris wheel formation, but before we
knew it, the cage itself began to spin and my
older sister lost her shit. She immediately began sobbing, and
(13:50):
when that didn't work to stop the nightmare, she began
singing Jesus Loves Me at the top of her lungs.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Can I just say, that's a little sister. How scary
is it when your big sister is freaking out? Because
you're like, it's like when you look at the flight
attendant and they're freaking out, You're like, oh, no.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Completely, yes, that's the person you're just supposed to be
moving into their wake and following whatever they do, and
when they don't know what to do, you're like, well,
then no one knows what to do.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It feels better to get made fun of by your
older sibling than for them to be freaking out A
thousand percent.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Completely Okay, So she's maybe younger than ten year old,
just turning to the Lord to be saved from this
carnival ride. Then it says we went to a Lutheran school,
and I imagine this was the only thing her poor
little adolescent brain could think of to soothe her from
this traumatic experience. I found the entire situation not only
hilarious but fun, and I couldn't help but laugh the
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entire time. I will never forget how funny it was
to have my sister on one side preparing to meet her maker,
while at the same time seeing my tall, handsome Midwestern
dad smiling and waving to us anytime this death trap
offered us a glimpse of him. Danica doesn't listen to
MFM regularly because she's still a little bitch. Just kidding, Danica,
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if you do hear this, I love you. And the
last thing, thank you Karen and Georgia for being surrogate
older sisters to me. Normalizing mental health is the reason
that I was able to get through struggles with infertility
and postpartum disorders. I definitely wouldn't be where I am
today without you two. All the love in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Jocelyn, Oh my god, that's so touching.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's not just Danica, it's us too, for older sisters too.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And Danica, okay, but we'll be calm when we get
on that crazy ass ride.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I will never fucking get on that right again.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, what was the one where you'd stand against a wall.
It was like this one that's went around and around
and you got pushed by gravity to the side, but
you could like yet go upside down.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think the one at Art Fair was like the Gravitron. Yes,
I think it had the word gravity in the tide. Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I went on that multiple times, and then you can
see photos of it from back then and it's like,
here's what would never happen again today. Never.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But it was fun because you could tell gravity was
gonna help you. In the zipper. That metal bar had
fucking dentse in it. It felt more aluminum than any
other metal like, it felt so unsafe. And if you
got a bad carnie, which I'm sure not allowed to
call them anymore, but it's what we called them in
the eighties, if you got a mean one, if you
were screaming like crazy, yeah, when you passed by, they
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would spin your fucking day.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Fuck that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So you're already going around and then you'd be like triple.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Going, oh my god, no, please don't ever make me
be a kid again.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I spent so much fucking time at the fair. It's
really it really sucks.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay, My last one's kind of long. It's called Blockbuster
beat Down. What's up you, beautiful bitches. The number of
times that I've been driving and listening to MFM wanting
to write and submit. This hometown is more than I
can count. And look here we are. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
On the four hundredth episode. You made it the best one.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
My family spent a few years in Yorktown, Saskatchewan when
I was under the age of five, So forgive my
hazy memory and reliance on family lore. Every weekend, a
routine was a symphony of nostalgia. Subway sandwiches, ripple chips,
chocolate milk and it says, a meal that sounds as
disgusting as it is memorable, and of course, a trip
to Blockbuster. This ritual kept my parents saying while wrangling
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four kids under eight, ooh. One Friday, my dad packed
us all indoor astra van and we made our way
to Subway and the convenience store. Everything seemed routine until
my dad noticed two men going into the Blockbuster with
ski masks over their faces. Oh. Being that it was
a small town, he knew that it was a young
girl in her twenties who always worked on Friday nights,
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and so he sprang into action like he was auditioning
for a hero role in a low budget action film.
He quietly snuck into the blockbuster and was able to
overpower one guy who turned out to be an older teenager,
while the other one ran out the front and ditched
his friend. Holy shit, my dad may or may not
have exchanged a few punches with the kids. He was
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in a sche mask and robbing a blockbuster. I think
a few punches were warranted until the kid ran off
after realizing he messed with the wrong blockbuster. The worker
was grateful, and I'm sure we got a few free
rentals out of the whole ordeal. I hope it says
no wonder they went out of business. My dad came
back into the van and we returned home. My mom
was met with four kids raving about what dad did,
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and she didn't seem it all that impressed. And it
says they divorced a few years later. Four kids can
do that to a marriage.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
At this point, this man is a true superhero out
in the world, and she's like, whatever, but it's not
solving any.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Of our products. This story is one of my favorites
to talk about my dad. He was always willing to
stick up for people deserving of it and took care
of those around him. He took on so many different ventures,
often calling himself a jack of all trades and a
master of none, and he always showed us unconditional love. Sadly,
my dad was killed by a distracts to driver while
he was on a motorcycle trip with his friends in
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September of twenty nineteen. It's approaching five years since the
worst day of my life, but I remember with fawdness
all of the times he was a badass. After he passed,
I had a message request from someone I didn't recognize.
I opened it and was from the Blockbuster employee that
he defended. Oh. She told me she always had a
huge crush on my dad after that, and she was
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always appreciative of him for the day he saved her. Oh.
She wasn't the only one to confess her admiration for
my dad after he died. Several women did. He resembled
Tom Selleck, and apparently that got the ladies going even posthumously.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That's why the mom was just like, uh huh, yeah,
oh did you?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh did you? While losing my dad was the hardest
thing I've ever had to endure, it opened my eyes
to a whole new world. Shortly after he was killed,
I started the process of suing for wrongful death, I
was exposed to various aspects of the justice system and
ended up finding a love for it. In June of
twenty twenty five, before I graduated with a Juris Doctorate
law degree and moved to Edmonton, Alberta to start my
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career and to provide legal services to those who need
it most. Losing my dad and all the legalities that
came with it turned out to be a pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, and I'm thankful
for my ability to work hard through my grief. Very
shortly after my dad died, I found her podcast. It
felt good to laugh again and truly felt like I
had two friends constantly joking around while I just listened.
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I struggled with immense anxiety for years following his death,
but I always felt a sense of relief when I
put my AirPods in and could hear the familiar hellos
from the both of you. Thank you for always being
a support to me, even though you didn't realize it.
You got me through a lot and continue to bring
a smile to my face when I listened to each episode.
Recognizing both of your growth as individuals has also been
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something that I've enjoyed and commend you both on stay
sexy and watch out for motorcyclists and always be willing
to participate in a blockbuster beat down. Cheers bitches, Teagan.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Teagan Throat. Yeah, that was beautiful. Also perfect, perfect last
email for the four hundredth episode of Like First of all,
of course, always horrible to lose a parent, especially like
that where it's like accidental and feels like it shouldn't
have happened. But on top of that, you know, there
are a lot of mediocre dads out there. There's a
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lot of bad dads out there. It's rare when you
get a dad that truly is like the kind of
person that would be like something's happening and I'm going
to do something, totally brave, strong, obviously good looking. I mean, like,
you know, Teagan, you had a dad that people miss
and would miss Antigan.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I bet he's fucking proud of you.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah we are. Yeah, good job you become a Loyer,
Like what about how did you remember all those laws?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The many Jesus, Oh my god. Hey, we're proud of
all of you. We've been here four hundred episodes. Thank you,
guys so freaking much. Like, honestly, this is such a
little special part of this podcast that every time I
see it on my schedule to record, I'm like, yay,
this is going to be fun because we're all just talking.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Always fun, you know, I love it, always fun. So great. Yeah,
thanks you guys, four hundred insane. Oh and here's a
text for my sister in classic Laura Cogara formation. It's
just a picture of the candy. I guess they do
still make it, and they were sweet tarts, giant chewy,
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oh chewy. So they're like a sweet tart, but that big,
like a silver.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Dollar, like a size of a quarter, a.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Bigger yeaheah, pretty big and then not super hard. So
you can kind of like get in.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There a little bit when we do we're our candy salad.
You can bring those.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh yeah, good idea that those will act as the
kind of tomato slices on our candy salad.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, well, stay sexy and don't get murdered. A good
buy Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Our editor is Aristotle Oscevedo.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Emailing your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot
com and.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Follow a show on Instagram and Facebook at my Favorite
Murder and on Twitter at my Fave Murder. Goodbye,
Llo, and welcome to my favorite murder the minisode, the
four hundredth fucking minisode. I mean, we've done this so
many times?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Is that possible?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And listen, we couldn't have done it without you, literally,
because we're literally reading you your stories. So it's thank
you to everyone has contributed, whether or not you've gotten on.
There's four hundred more to go.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And what an incredible thing this has developed into where
our listeners can tell us not just the horrifying crime
stories that they grew up with or near, but now
at this point kind of anything. Yeah, we're just talking
about stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's become really special and a really cool place for
like stories. So thank you guys for enjoying that, and
thank you for contributing or just enjoying. Here's number four hundred.
You want to go first? Sure?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The subject line is a hard to beat vacation disaster
story two point five to three minute read perfect, and
then it just says, to the gorgeous and wonderful MFM team,
I've been listening to your lovely voices since twenty eighteen,
and I'm forever grateful for this podcast. Y'all have been
keeping me company. During the twelve hour days I spent
(01:31):
working as a geologist at a structural engineering firm, and
the countless hours I've spent mowing my twenty seven acres
of land, Like shit, can I have some of what
you take every morning? Because Jesus, this person loves land.
But enough about me, let's get to the juicy stuff.
In Minnisode three point fifty four, It's crazy, y'all asked
(01:55):
for vacation disaster stories. I immediately procrastinated by writing this
email and letting it sit on my desktop for weeks.
But now that I have nothing to do until the
fire academy starts, I figured the time is now. I
grew up in southern New Jersey and was extremely fortunate
enough to be able to go on vacations with my
parents to the Caribbean almost every summer when I was
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a kid. Well, the Caribbean in the summer might not
seem strange. It should raise red flags for the people
in the South who know full well that Atlantic hurricane
season is from June first to November thirty. No, yeah,
I didn't know that. So if you guessed that I've
experienced a storm on vacation, let alone three category five hurricanes,
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you'd be correct. Bonus points for guessing that one of
those storms was Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Holy shit.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And the super bonus, well, that goes to the ones
who may have guessed I was on a cruise ship.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh my god, a lot of guessing.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Who out there guessed all those rights? One got it,
someone got it, And then it says, yes, you read
that correctly. I was on fucking cruise ship in the
Gulf of Mexico with Hurricane Katrina. Of course, this was
almost twenty years ago, but I vividly remember a few things.
Number One, my dad excitedly told us to get up
to see the pool water slashing to the deck above
(03:13):
it when he ran back to our room to get
the video camera. When we'd returned with him, they'd already
drained the pool. Number Two, because the ship was rocking
so hard, they had to pull most of the shade
shut in the dining room to help the unfortunate souls
with sea sickness. However, if you were daring enough, you
could see the waves and the water level all the
(03:35):
way up to the fifth deck of the ship. Now
I'm not a shipbuilder, but if we use the average
height of a building story that's about fifty feet. Number three,
I was obsessed with a kid's version of Chex mix
that was in a green bag and had Captain Crunch
in it. I haven't found it since then, and I
wistfully think about it from time to time.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
They make it special for that cruise line.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I love it, but that idea that's we're in the
middle of a hurricane story and it's like, I also
loved this checksment so much. There was this snack and
then it says, was I terrified?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Do I believe that my life since then has been
a simulation and that my body has been at the
bottom of the gulf since two thousand and five? Of
course I love it. Did I have the best sleep
of my life that night? Damn right? Wow, because the
whole boat was rocking them to sleep. Thank you for
everything you continue to do for the community and everyone.
Please make sure you're registered to vote. Let's finally vote
(04:35):
a woman into office this November. Kelsey she her, Hell yeah, Kelsey,
nice one, Kelsey, Oh my god, that was great.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Let's do forgotten snacks of our childhoods that like or
like not even that you know existed, but like like
I know, for a very short time there were Sobby
flavored funions and they don't exist anymore. It's been over
a decade, but I can't stop thinking about that them.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, that's a good one. There was a lot of
candy that we used to get that was like the
late seventies early eighties, like the super Big They were
like sweet tarts that were huge. Oh yeah, and they
would I think they came three or four in a
pack and like all different flavors, and you would pick.
The flavors were random, so you would be like that
(05:21):
one has two grapes and no lemon. I'm not getting that.
You'd be standing there trying to get it. They don't
make those anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What were they called? You remember?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'm gonna text my sister and see if by the
end of this episode she can give us that answer because.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
She now a special four hundredth episode text from your sister, Laura.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The only way my sister would participate in this podcast
is through text. So let's see.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, My first one's called third Times a Charm Past
Live story. Hello Karen and Georgia, longtime listener, multiple time writer,
inner and brand new fan cult number.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Thank you thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You were all amazing and you know it. So let's
get into it. You asked her past live stories, Well,
here is mine. When I was fifteen, my mom took
me to see a psychic who specialized in past life readings.
She told me a few stories, but two of them
stuck with me the most. Of all the stories, she
told me I was a female merchant living in you
guessed it Atlantis. As fascinating as it sounded to my
(06:19):
fifteen year old mind, the story took a dark turn quickly.
She proceeded to tell me I died after being brutally
raped and beaten in front of my son, who happens
to me my brother in real in this life. No
the fuck tells a to that. No, that's not no
Ry and it's your brother. What now? HI? No I know.
(06:43):
In the other story, she proclaimed I was a male
Asian fisherman with the ability to communicate with fish. She
claimed she had seen me teaching my son how to
ask the fish for permission to be caught and thank
them for the sacrifice. Is that a children's book?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Maybe? Well? Maybe at least that that sounds just a
slightly lighter and more fanciful. Something to think about as
opposed to like, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
After the session, I found myself leaning towards believing these
fantastical stories. However, I couldn't help but chuckle at the
thought of what might be going on in her mind
if she was just coming up with them on the spot.
She was stay sexy and take your child to a
psychic so they understand their past life trauma. Katie. She
her ps. Shout out to my friends Rachel and Kayla
(07:27):
for introducing me to your podcast and book. We can't
wait to see you live in Arizona. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.
I got enough trauma in this fucking life to deal with.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
See exactly past life trauma. No, you got out, you
got away. That's that life's over.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Her brother's still kind of a dick, like, just.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Go with it, don't don't. You don't have to. The
subject line of this email is a badass woman of history,
and it says long but worth it, not too long.
Good day all. Here's another email from the random shit pile.
It's a bit long, so let's get into it. My
great aunt Gertrude Lattery Savage was truly a badass bitch.
(08:07):
She was born in nineteen eleven as one of thirteen
children in a small town in Alberta, Canada, and lived
quite the life from then on. She grew up helping
her dad do chores around the farm rather than helping
her mother with household duties. In high school, Gertie decided
she wanted to get into boxing and quickly went undefeated,
(08:27):
becoming a local champ. A top female boxer from nearby
Edmonton challenged her to a fight, and, in Gerty's words,
didn't last around. Her fighting expertise came in handy when
a fellow got a bit too rowdy at her house
and wouldn't leave. He did eventually leave with a broken jaw.
She entered into steer riding events at the rodeo when
(08:48):
women weren't allowed to compete, so she dressed like a
man and competed anyway. Damn. She then became a winning jockey,
but quit because she couldn't stand the way the horses
were treated. After her many adventures, she started a family
and a farm of her own until the nineteen eighties
when she downsized to a smaller home where she would
(09:09):
stay doing yard work and tending to her garden every
day until her death. In twenty fifteen, at the age
of one hundred and four.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Fuck yes, I love her.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Gerdy always attributed her long life to quote being too
goddamn busy to get old, and said of her life, quote,
I lived my life as I wanted independent. Thanks so
much for reading this, and thank you for keeping me
occupied while I work every day as an electrician. Stay
sexy and don't get old.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Rob Oh my god, I love that. Love Gurdy a
boxer that's so bad ass. So that's probably the nineteen twenties.
She became a female boxer.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Like that, where like women weren't allowed to wear pants, yeah,
I mean, or like it was looked down upon, you know, yeah, God,
damn hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Gerdie hell yeah. Okay, here's my grandma's forged birth certificate
and then it says in parentheses Italian Mafia. Just to
sweeten the pot a little bit. Hello, ladies. I'm a
Day one listener and I love the way you tell
true crime stories. This is truly my favorite podcast, and
I can't listen to other true crime podcasts because they
just don't compare. Thank you for fucking wow saying it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Anyways, let's get into it. There are a lot of
good true crime podcasts who should listen to. My grandmother
was born in nineteen twenty four Chicago, specifically Little Italy.
Growing up, she said, the Italian Mob was a normal
and everyday part of their lives. In her neighborhood, every
few blocks there would be a house owned by the mob,
and that was who you'd pay your dues to your dues,
(10:46):
she said, as long as you paid your fee, you
were safe, protected and had nothing to worry about. Anyways.
When she was fifteen, she went to apply for her
first job. After learning she'd need her birth certificate to
prove citizenships, she went home and found that it was missing.
When she asked her mom, she said, oh, you don't
have a birth certificate, but don't worry. We'll just ask
our man on the corner. So my grandmother and great
(11:08):
grandmother walked to the house on the corner of their street,
knocked on the door, and waited for the mob to answer.
When he answered, my grandmother explained her situation and politely
asked if he could get her a birth certificate. He said,
no problem, sweetie, you'll have one by the end of
the week. A week goes by, and sure enough he
knocks on their front door, hands her a sealed envelope,
and went on his way until she died at the
(11:30):
age of ninety five. This was the only birth certificate
she ever had. Mm hmm. Unfortunately she didn't end up
getting the job, but she said it was because of
the prejudice against Italians, not because of hersketchy birth certificate.
Stay sexy and don't lose your birth certificate. Ge. She
kept it the whole time.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, that's well, it was as real as any government
or worked. To her, that's just like, that's the one
I got.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean conceptually, conceptually the mafia can be a good idea,
but that mafia hoas it is all the same. But
then it gets corrupted and people love power totally and
then it's like not what they promise, No.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Such as life.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, here's my last one, and the subject line is
laughing while my sister cried zipper ride related. Hi ladies.
I've lost count of how many submissions I've sent in,
but I find it therapeutic, even if they're not read.
And then in parentheses but all caps, it says, don't
give up everyone, which is my favorite phrase I think
(12:39):
right now, don't give up, everyone, God everyone, Karen mentioning
dying laughing from the back seat while Laura learned to
drive in the most recent minniesode reminded me of a
similarly hilarious memory with my sister Danica. My dad traveled
a lot when we were little, so when he was home,
he would find any excuse to take us out of
school and to local events like hot air balloon festivals,
(13:02):
petting zoos, and, in this story's case, are Central Texas
County fair cute. My memory leading up to this core
memory is fuzzy. I just remember my sister and I,
who were both under ten years old at the time,
getting strapped into a seat that was oddly positioned at
an angle with a metal lap bar, and then locked
into a rickety metal cage fucking rocket. That's right. As
(13:26):
Karen may have guessed from her own experience with the ride,
my father had let us go on the sketchiest carnival
ride of all time, the Zipper. The ride started well enough.
It was a small metal cage going around with the
other cages in a ferris wheel formation, but before we
knew it, the cage itself began to spin and my
older sister lost her shit. She immediately began sobbing, and
(13:50):
when that didn't work to stop the nightmare, she began
singing Jesus Loves Me at the top of her lungs.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Can I just say, that's a little sister. How scary
is it when your big sister is freaking out? Because
you're like, it's like when you look at the flight
attendant and they're freaking out, You're like, oh, no.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Completely, yes, that's the person you're just supposed to be
moving into their wake and following whatever they do, and
when they don't know what to do, you're like, well,
then no one knows what to do.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It feels better to get made fun of by your
older sibling than for them to be freaking out A
thousand percent.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Completely Okay, So she's maybe younger than ten year old,
just turning to the Lord to be saved from this
carnival ride. Then it says we went to a Lutheran school,
and I imagine this was the only thing her poor
little adolescent brain could think of to soothe her from
this traumatic experience. I found the entire situation not only
hilarious but fun, and I couldn't help but laugh the
(14:45):
entire time. I will never forget how funny it was
to have my sister on one side preparing to meet her maker,
while at the same time seeing my tall, handsome Midwestern
dad smiling and waving to us anytime this death trap
offered us a glimpse of him. Danica doesn't listen to
MFM regularly because she's still a little bitch. Just kidding, Danica,
(15:06):
if you do hear this, I love you. And the
last thing, thank you Karen and Georgia for being surrogate
older sisters to me. Normalizing mental health is the reason
that I was able to get through struggles with infertility
and postpartum disorders. I definitely wouldn't be where I am
today without you two. All the love in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Jocelyn, Oh my god, that's so touching.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's not just Danica, it's us too, for older sisters too.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And Danica, okay, but we'll be calm when we get
on that crazy ass ride.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I will never fucking get on that right again.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, what was the one where you'd stand against a wall.
It was like this one that's went around and around
and you got pushed by gravity to the side, but
you could like yet go upside down.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I think the one at Art Fair was like the Gravitron. Yes,
I think it had the word gravity in the tide. Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I went on that multiple times, and then you can
see photos of it from back then and it's like,
here's what would never happen again today. Never.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But it was fun because you could tell gravity was
gonna help you. In the zipper. That metal bar had
fucking dentse in it. It felt more aluminum than any
other metal like, it felt so unsafe. And if you
got a bad carnie, which I'm sure not allowed to
call them anymore, but it's what we called them in
the eighties, if you got a mean one, if you
were screaming like crazy, yeah, when you passed by, they
(16:25):
would spin your fucking day.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Fuck that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So you're already going around and then you'd be like triple.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Going, oh my god, no, please don't ever make me
be a kid again.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I spent so much fucking time at the fair. It's
really it really sucks.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay, My last one's kind of long. It's called Blockbuster
beat Down. What's up you, beautiful bitches. The number of
times that I've been driving and listening to MFM wanting
to write and submit. This hometown is more than I
can count. And look here we are. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
On the four hundredth episode. You made it the best one.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
My family spent a few years in Yorktown, Saskatchewan when
I was under the age of five, So forgive my
hazy memory and reliance on family lore. Every weekend, a
routine was a symphony of nostalgia. Subway sandwiches, ripple chips,
chocolate milk and it says, a meal that sounds as
disgusting as it is memorable, and of course, a trip
to Blockbuster. This ritual kept my parents saying while wrangling
(17:24):
four kids under eight, ooh. One Friday, my dad packed
us all indoor astra van and we made our way
to Subway and the convenience store. Everything seemed routine until
my dad noticed two men going into the Blockbuster with
ski masks over their faces. Oh. Being that it was
a small town, he knew that it was a young
girl in her twenties who always worked on Friday nights,
(17:46):
and so he sprang into action like he was auditioning
for a hero role in a low budget action film.
He quietly snuck into the blockbuster and was able to
overpower one guy who turned out to be an older teenager,
while the other one ran out the front and ditched
his friend. Holy shit, my dad may or may not
have exchanged a few punches with the kids. He was
(18:06):
in a sche mask and robbing a blockbuster. I think
a few punches were warranted until the kid ran off
after realizing he messed with the wrong blockbuster. The worker
was grateful, and I'm sure we got a few free
rentals out of the whole ordeal. I hope it says
no wonder they went out of business. My dad came
back into the van and we returned home. My mom
was met with four kids raving about what dad did,
(18:28):
and she didn't seem it all that impressed. And it
says they divorced a few years later. Four kids can
do that to a marriage.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
At this point, this man is a true superhero out
in the world, and she's like, whatever, but it's not
solving any.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Of our products. This story is one of my favorites
to talk about my dad. He was always willing to
stick up for people deserving of it and took care
of those around him. He took on so many different ventures,
often calling himself a jack of all trades and a
master of none, and he always showed us unconditional love. Sadly,
my dad was killed by a distracts to driver while
he was on a motorcycle trip with his friends in
(19:03):
September of twenty nineteen. It's approaching five years since the
worst day of my life, but I remember with fawdness
all of the times he was a badass. After he passed,
I had a message request from someone I didn't recognize.
I opened it and was from the Blockbuster employee that
he defended. Oh. She told me she always had a
huge crush on my dad after that, and she was
(19:23):
always appreciative of him for the day he saved her. Oh.
She wasn't the only one to confess her admiration for
my dad after he died. Several women did. He resembled
Tom Selleck, and apparently that got the ladies going even posthumously.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That's why the mom was just like, uh huh, yeah,
oh did you?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh did you? While losing my dad was the hardest
thing I've ever had to endure, it opened my eyes
to a whole new world. Shortly after he was killed,
I started the process of suing for wrongful death, I
was exposed to various aspects of the justice system and
ended up finding a love for it. In June of
twenty twenty five, before I graduated with a Juris Doctorate
law degree and moved to Edmonton, Alberta to start my
(20:05):
career and to provide legal services to those who need
it most. Losing my dad and all the legalities that
came with it turned out to be a pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, and I'm thankful
for my ability to work hard through my grief. Very
shortly after my dad died, I found her podcast. It
felt good to laugh again and truly felt like I
had two friends constantly joking around while I just listened.
(20:27):
I struggled with immense anxiety for years following his death,
but I always felt a sense of relief when I
put my AirPods in and could hear the familiar hellos
from the both of you. Thank you for always being
a support to me, even though you didn't realize it.
You got me through a lot and continue to bring
a smile to my face when I listened to each episode.
Recognizing both of your growth as individuals has also been
(20:47):
something that I've enjoyed and commend you both on stay
sexy and watch out for motorcyclists and always be willing
to participate in a blockbuster beat down. Cheers bitches, Teagan.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Teagan Throat. Yeah, that was beautiful. Also perfect, perfect last
email for the four hundredth episode of Like First of all,
of course, always horrible to lose a parent, especially like
that where it's like accidental and feels like it shouldn't
have happened. But on top of that, you know, there
are a lot of mediocre dads out there. There's a
(21:22):
lot of bad dads out there. It's rare when you
get a dad that truly is like the kind of
person that would be like something's happening and I'm going
to do something, totally brave, strong, obviously good looking. I mean, like,
you know, Teagan, you had a dad that people miss
and would miss Antigan.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I bet he's fucking proud of you.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah we are. Yeah, good job you become a Loyer,
Like what about how did you remember all those laws?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The many Jesus, Oh my god. Hey, we're proud of
all of you. We've been here four hundred episodes. Thank you,
guys so freaking much. Like, honestly, this is such a
little special part of this podcast that every time I
see it on my schedule to record, I'm like, yay,
this is going to be fun because we're all just talking.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Always fun, you know, I love it, always fun. So great. Yeah,
thanks you guys, four hundred insane. Oh and here's a
text for my sister in classic Laura Cogara formation. It's
just a picture of the candy. I guess they do
still make it, and they were sweet tarts, giant chewy,
(22:30):
oh chewy. So they're like a sweet tart, but that big,
like a silver.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Dollar, like a size of a quarter, a.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Bigger yeaheah, pretty big and then not super hard. So
you can kind of like get in.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There a little bit when we do we're our candy salad.
You can bring those.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh yeah, good idea that those will act as the
kind of tomato slices on our candy salad.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, well, stay sexy and don't get murdered. A good
buy Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Our editor is Aristotle Oscevedo.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Emailing your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot
com and.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Follow a show on Instagram and Facebook at my Favorite
Murder and on Twitter at my Fave Murder. Goodbye,
Hosts And Creators
Georgia Hardstark
Karen Kilgariff
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