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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hell Lon, welcome my favorite murder.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The minisode.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's right, it's small. It's an episode, so we named
it a minisode.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Do you see the logic that we're using here? Are
you fighting us? Tooth and nail?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
What would you call it? We want to know? The maxisode,
the midisode. Isn't that a aren't like dresses? Midi now too?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The midisode?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
M hmm, that's also a choice. There's also the Maxi padisode.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Absolutely with wings, one of our greatest bits of all time,
the always Maxie pad bit.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Here we go. Okay, this is a classical town and
the subject line is classic hometown POV from my six
year old self. Great, Hi, ladies, I've been listening for
years thanks to my amazing brother who introduced me to
your pod. My boyfriend has suffered and that suffered some
quotes through hours of your show thanks to me. Thanks
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to me, myns too. We taught young women to decenter
men by centering us.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's pretty intense.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I'm holding space for that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Uh okay. It literally says okay to this story. I've
been wanting to share this story for months, and I'm
finally getting around to sending it in My classic hometown
story takes place in San Diego, po A in twenty ten.
I was only six years old at the time, but
I remember this story so clearly, and I've always had
a weird connection to the girl who died. Chelsea King
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was a sixteen year old track star from Poe High
School who left her home on the morning of February
twenty fifth to go for her regular run at the
Rancho Bernardino Community Park. When she hadn't returned by five
pm that evening, her family grew concerned and went to
the park looking for her. The next day, her face
was all over the local news and posters were plastered everywhere.
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A few days into the investigation, her underwear was found
at Lake Hodges, fourteen miles from where she went on
her run. Her DNA, as well as DNA from a
registered sex offender, John Gardner, was found on her underwear.
At that point, it was sadly clear that she would
not be found alive. John Gardner was arrested on suspicion
of first degree murder, and on March second, twenty ten,
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Chelsea's body was found in an isolated area of Lake Hodges.
When it came out that her body had been recovered.
I can remember the news playing at my house for hours.
She lived less than ten minutes from me. Being a
six year old girl, I obviously didn't know all the
details of her death, but I was old enough to
know that something really bad had happened to her. I
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remember mourning her death. When family members would talk about her,
they would always look at me and say the same thing.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You look just like her, Oh for a little for
a child, say that to a child of everyone, and
then it says that I always stuck with me, and
as a six year old, all I could see was myself.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Ten years later, when she would be on the TV
screen in my living room, I remember crying over her
death and having so many confusing thoughts. I wanted to
write her and her family letters. Obviously, those letters were
just a confusing rambling of words. It didn't make sense
because I was a first grader. But for whatever reason,
I felt heartbroken over her death. The reason is because
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you have empathy, and it's somebody in your community, and
it's you learning about bad things happen in the world.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Totally, it's so normal, and actually, you know it'd be
abnormal if you didn't do that, you know what I
mean exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Her family set up a foundation in her honor, and
my mom and I I participated in a five K
to fund college scholarships. Over a million dollars were raised
in her name. Wow. Her killer was convicted and was
linked to another murder that happened just the year before,
to a fourteen year old girl named Amber du Bois.
I remember this, Yeah. Her foundation helped raise awareness to
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the importance of keeping sexually violent predators away from areas
with children. I still think about her and her family
all these years later. Being told I looked just like
that girl really did a number on me and is
the reason I became the murder You know I am today.
Thank you for everything you guys do. This podcast isn't
just entertaining, but it's educational and inspiring. You give voices
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to those who lost theirs too soon. SSDGM Megan fourteen.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Sixteen, and I like that. Megan points out that what
it changed isn't that girls shouldn't be out alone. It's
that sexual assault offenders. That's what should change is the
sentencing law and you know how they're monitored, not what
we're doing. Going for a fucking jog in the afternoon.
You know, correct, it's just absurd.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's the very slow progress, but that is happening where
it is. This is we have to start looking at
the people responsible for what is happening and not talking
about the reaction to what is happening.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Totally, totally, Yeah, we don't need the curfew. It's the
fucking predators who need the curfew.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, thanks Megan. That was yeah, a vulnerable one, so
thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Totally. Okay, this one's a little more lighthearted.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
This is called When I Was a Trash Mom. Hello
to all the fabulous people and pets of MFM from
North Carolina in MINNISOD four oh eight. You asked us
to tell the stories of when we were the trash parents.
So here's the story of when I was a trash mom.
Back in the summer of twenty eighteen, my brother and
his wife came to visit our family, and our older
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brother came to see us. All too wanted to get
a beer in the evening after dinner at a local
bar slash restaurant. Our daughters, Carly and Julia were eleven
and five at the time, and we had just started
leaving them at home for Carly. The babysit for short
periods of time during the day, like a trip to
the grocery store. So the eleven year old is baby sing.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The five year old it's just roll those dice. Why not.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean, it's like you've got to start giving them
some you know, freedom, and you've got responsibilities. Yeah, that's scary,
but it's okay, it's okay, it's totally okay. But I
mean it's been done for millennia. But it's the same
feeling as like when when Nora got her like driver's permit,
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and then my sister was like, wait now she drives,
like no way, yeah, And I'm like, oh, yes, way,
I'll do it, like you have to letter. Now she
gets to choose wherever she gets to goh yeah, don't
do it, okay, And then it says about the grocery
store always paid, of course, because I was an unpaid
babysitter to my half sister when I was young. There
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you go. Yeah, we were just planning to be gone
for an hour or so back at home by eight
thirty and we were only going a few miles away.
Plans to drink never last an hour. It's never you're.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
No, no, no, unless you're none. Yeah, and even then
maybe not like the idea. The whole idea of drinking
is for more drinking.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Totally, that's what it does.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yes, that's a that's a very me statement, but it's
the truth. It's like, that's the whole deal. You break down.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That's why it's addictive. It's the point of it.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The better the more you have, the more you the more,
the better you get at it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
What's the one? Is too many? A thousand isn't enough?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Like, come on, same with donuts, okay, but da da
da da.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
We would be home before dark if they needed anything.
Carly had a device she could text us from, and
we still had a home phone. Everything's fine, great. I'm
a rather forgetful person and I'm always leaving things behind
my phone. I realized after we got to the restaurant
that I had left my phone at home, but my
husband had his, So no big deal, right, I mean,
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at this point you'd have the husband text the daughter
and be like, YO, text me if anything.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Comes up, right, Oh, that's a good plan.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, they didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
At this point, I was like, I'm gonna get baked
baked potato skins.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Potato skins, potato skins.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I'm so good. I'm just saying there's no parental skills
in me whatsoever. Where It's like, wait, here's how we
should take care of this problems. Here's how any like any?
Here's best practices for children watching children?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's like, where's my long Island iced tea? I don't
care about anything else.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I have one hour to party out of my way.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
We ordered some munchiese potato skins and had a couple
of rounds of drinks with my husband as designated driver.
We were all having fun and of course completely lost
track of time. Just before ten, my husband got a
text message from Carly asking when we were coming home.
He said we were on our way, and we rushed back.
We felt guilty about being gone so long, but it
got so much worse when I picked up my phone
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at home and saw a series of miscalls and texts
from her, like when are you coming home? Should I
put Julia to bed? I put Julia to bed? Are
you guys coming home?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
She sent all of these to me before she bothered
to text or call her dad.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Then Carly told us how she and Julia climbed into
Carly's bed to read some stories and there was a
spider in her bed. That might not sound like much
of a problem, but I have unfortunately passed my rechnophobia
to my daughter's, so that is a big deal. So
she had to kill a spider in her own bed,
no doubt, with five year old Julia screaming the whole time.
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Needless to say, I felt like the worst mom ever. Actually,
we felt so bad that after I overpaid her for babysitting,
both of my brothers paid her too. She made over
sixty dollars in those three traumatic hours. So it wasn't girl,
So it wasn't for nothing, That's right.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's all that matters of you. You get a little money.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
For the totally like I acknowledge my trauma monetarily, that's
all we're asking for.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's how we make up for it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
That's what suing people is. Our Carly, who just turned eighteen,
has never let us forget the time. Mom and dad
were only going to be gone an hour and just
abandon us. But both their girls have turned out pretty great.
Y'all are the best. I'm a year one listener and
really loving the MFM rewind episodes. I was a skipper
for the first few years, but I'm a skipper no more.
(10:30):
You always make me laugh. Please keep it coming in
twenty twenty five. We're definitely gonna need it. You are
not wrong? Did you say the thing that was?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Like?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I had my seven day free trial of twenty twenty
five and I'd like my money back please, and I'd
like to cancel my subscription please for real, God stay
sexy and don't forget your phone.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Laurie she her.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Ps, I got an Elvis. Do you want a cookie
toe bag for Christmas? That I love? Picked out by
Carly my third MFM toe bag. Maybe I have a problem, No,
you do not.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I have all the plate Yeah exactly, they rule and
uh we care a lot about them.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But also I love that that story comes full circle
by the two children in the story twenty years later
or whatever. Buying merch totally.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's like a merch plug at the end of the
I'm always like, do we have to do we want?
I'm always like, do people want more totes? Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You never don't need it? I have like fourteen and
how sorry? But how long were they gone, I missed it.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
It seems like three hours maybe, Oh yeah, fucking nothing,
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
How dare you?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Eleven? These days is like young though we were smoking
fucking cloves already.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But these days it's so young, and it's so not
at home by yourself with little kids now. Also, it
is that thing where it's like whether it's a spider
in your bed or just the idea that suddenly like
you look into the kitchen and everything looks it's kind
of sinister and sharp. Yeah, Like it's just like, it's
such a young it's the first time I'm to be like, oh,
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and if something goes down, it's on me.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And it's so quiet the first time you're like home alone, so.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Quiet, especially when you hear the scratching in the attic.
Right oof. I was home by myself, but I was
like twenty one or two and I heard something in
the attic and I had a cat that was just
staring at the attic. I was like, it was probably
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a possum.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But then when I was like so, I went into
my parents Like it's going to sound super fancy, but
they have a walk in closet that's the most low
key walking clothes of all time.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But yeah, it's like you can step inside.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, it's very like nineteen eighty seven version. But I
went to try the door and it felt like someone
was pressing back against the door and I ran. I
just ran, got into my car and drove out to
my old neighbor's house and I was like it was
like almost midnight. I was like, he's like, what are
you doing, And I'm like, you have to come back
with me. I think of my parents' house, and it
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made him come and like check the entire.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
House for you. I would have been like pretending that
didn't happen, and like because.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
The cat, the cat was the cat was like basically
pointing to the door. They will alert you and freak
you the fuck out. The subject line of this email
is run away child, Hi, lovely ladies. Longtime listener, fourth
or fifth time writer, I've lost count. When I was
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in second grade, they just go right into it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Mm hmm, just a little bit of a passive aggressive
hint hint, and then here we go. When I was
in second grade, my mom took a leave of absence
from work to stay home with my youngest brother, who
had just been born the year before. During this time,
she also watched two family friends after school to earn
some extra cash. I can only assume she was being compensated.
That was in parentheses. Brennan was my best friend at
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the time, and one day we decided that I was
going to go home with her. Her moms were inside talking.
I snuck into the back seat of her car. This
is my jam, this is KK all the way, age nine.
I just loved this shit. I loved doing this shit. Okay,
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this was just a normal four door car, not an
SUV with a hatchback. So I laid on the floor
behind her driver's seat and Brennan and her little sister
covered me with their backpacks and then in parentheses. For
some reason, I remember Foyle, but that seems like an
absurd thing for eight year olds to have on hand.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Maybe they had one of those like runners post runs, yes,
boil jackets, yeah, like blankets.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Some kind of a camping leftover camping equipment, or someone
did a ten K. How many k's is it five K?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's ten five K, ten K. I don't think you'd
need one for a five K, maybe not even a
ten K.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
How long was the last one you ran.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Honestly, I used to run five and ten k's when
I was like in elementary school with my mom. What
I know, I loved running as a kid. What I know, it's.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Weird, It's still fresh, Georgia. There's still stuff to learn
about each other. Look look at us, Look look at us.
Still discovery. We're still in her discovery.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Look at us. It's still you can still, there's still
time to go back. So I'm like, nether, fucking isn't it?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No? No, oh, please don't it. You'll immediately both your
hips will follow. Her mom got in the car and
started driving. I held my breath and tried to steady
my breathing. We made it to Brennan's house and they
all got out of the car. This is where the
plan faltered, as we didn't actually think i'd make it
to her house. Brennan was able to sneak back into
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the grouge and get me to the basement. At this point,
we had no idea what to do. Would my mom
freak out and call wondering where I was, No, would
Brennan's mom find me. No. After an hour or so,
we both went upstairs and told Brennan's mom what had happened.
She non too thrilled and called my mom to let
her know. I assumed at this point there'd be a
search happening, as we were going on two hours of
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an eight year old missing from home, but alas neither
my mom or dad knew I was gone.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
She went to pick her up at school and came
home without her. Where is the like, there's no how
do you miss that?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
She just because she was kind of chatting and just
like she got distracted. I'm sure my six year old
and one year old brothers were keeping them occupied. That's
what it is, the intense baby brain. Anyway, I don't
know how I got back home, but after that day,
Brennan's mom always checked the vaccine. Yeah. Thanks for all
you do to make the world a better place and
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for giving shout outs to teachers when talking about Karen's sister.
It can be rough out there, stay sexy, and are
you a runaway if no one notices Bailey?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh, it's not fair. It's not fair. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It's like they pay attention to you when you don't
want them to pay attention to you, and no one
pays attention when you're trying to do a show.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh, you see fucking everything when I'm trying to be
sneaky and then I'm trying to do a show. Yeah,
I'm not going to tell you the title of this one,
but you'll probably you'll probably get it, okay, Hi, everyone
that it just goes into Somewhere in the Midwest during
the eighties, my younger sister and I were dragged to
my grandpa's house so the family could go out back
and play cards, Like what would you give to fucking
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be there right now, right in the sixties, you said, eighties,
even in the Midwest, playing cards in the backyard, like.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I mean, just you know, there's cafe lights hung from
a tree to the back porch roof.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And speaking of Miller High Life, it fucking it's just
like bottles popping, right.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And if you're going to talk about cafe lights, you
better be talking about Miller High Life. Girl. That's our song,
that's our country song. We're about to write good get Ready.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
When we first arrived, everyone ate dinner, and then the
kids were promptly shoved into the spare room to quote play.
This bedroom was circa nineteen sixty with shag carpet, rock
hard bed. My grandma had this fucking room. Everything smelled musty,
and it had a small TV with a VCR in
the bottom to play Lassie for the hundredth time. Like
I am there. Yeah, you know. It was kid prison,
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which is one word. I'm about seven and the oldest
between all the kids. There are five of us bored
out of our minds, so naturally we need to do
something about that. Earlier, during dinner, I remembered seeing this
massive jar in the fridge filled with red stuff, and
before being shoved into kid prison, I got a sneak peek.
Now to the master plan. I convinced my cousin to
go with me to get the jar because it's a
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two man job. Plus I had another cousin being lookout.
We were sophisticated criminals. Then we managed to slowly carry
this massive jar of cherries to the kid prison, where
we all stood around and admired its glory is there's
nothing better in life when you're a child than Maraschino cherries.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm sorry to keep on talking about Nora, but to
this day, anytime we go out to eat lunch or dinner,
she's like can I get a showy temple and it's
like you're eighteen years old, but vibe. It's that, it
is magical. It will never not be mad. No.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I was seven, and I still remember the waiter at
the restaurant overhearing me say I did a million marshi
on cherries but I could, and he brought me a
fucking like shotglass.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Who of them?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I still it was like one of the best days
of my life.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's called customer service right.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
There, that's fucking right. I'm sure my dad's tipped like shit. Okay, okay, no, no, no, no,
da glory. We finally cracked it open all grabbed a
cherry and popped it in her mouth at the same time,
almost as quick we instantly spit it out. Ew gross.
These cherries don't taste right. And then we decided we
don't care and we went full in. I had a
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pink arm up to my bicep from grabbing cherries. We
were in heaven and then so that the title of
this one's called drunk Kids because it says fast forward
to parents finding drunk kids passed out everywhere with a
cherryless jar. Everyone was freaking out, kids were stumbling my
little sister puking. It's hilarious to hear the stories because
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I only remember the first part of that night. To
this day, my aunts and uncles can't agree what the
cherries were soaking in some same shine, same sagin other,
same moonshine. Yes, stay sexy and don't put your boozy
fruit on the bottom shelf.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Sus sus. Okay wait it was her brothers and sisters
and then like cousin cousins. Yeah, fuck that, there's something
really joyous. There was a moment post trying that, like
because it's so little kid to be like these taste terrible. Oh,
we're just going to keep eating them on them? Yeah,
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I want them and I have to have them. But
there must have been this glory moment between like the
last little kid eating their marachino cherry and some sort
of let's run on the couch, let's chase each other,
but on the couch type of thing, like some older
sister came up with a rad game for a bunch
of drunk moonshine drunk kids that probably only could be
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sustained for about four minutes, and then it was mayhem for.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
The moment glory.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It was true all kids. You know the Flora's Lava
style game joy Yeah, oh to go back, and you've.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Been searching for it ever since.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Andy'll never find Ye'll never find it. My last email
is a classic trash dad, and in parentheses that's what
the subject line is, and then it says four minute read.
So it says I've been listening since twenty eighteen and
I started with the episode where you covered the serial
killer in Hawaii, followed by Coincidence Island. The rest is history.
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You are truly the best slash my favorite. Thank you.
My parents divorced when I was an elementary school and
my dad moved out to the Pacific Northwest from the
Midwest to basically start over. That meant for two weeks
over Christmas and two months every summer, my sister and
I got to fly out and visit. We did lots
of fun activities in Washington, and my dad enjoyed the
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outdoors and encouraged us to do the same. Sometimes his
eagerness for us to have fun bordered on dangerous.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
So my favorite single dads, so much fun, Single Dad's
Riffin activities. Yep, how do I do this?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
What do I think is fun? They'll be fine, is
usually the mentality. One summer, when I was about fourteen,
my dad thought it would be very fun for me
and my fifteen year old sister and twelve year old
step brother to go on a canoe voyage. He had
a small canoe that we would utilize in small ponds,
mostly to putter around and go fishing. The plan dropped
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the three of us children off at a boat dock
on the Columbia River. In this section of the river,
it was a few hundred feet wide, very swift and
very deep, and a canoe in a canoe and the
Columbia River is fucking serious? Shit, is it?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Shit? The first thing I thought of was like, I'm
pretty sure we've done stories that involves the Columbia River. Yeah,
somewhere in my filing cabinet of yeah, my life. But
then also, they have their own clothing line, so you know,
it's not just like a low key river.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
There's no trickle for a clothing line.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
There's got to be like some rapids and shit. Okay,
could be wrong, though, Okay, we were armed with three paddles,
three life jackets, a safe train. Then it says in parentheses,
a safe trash ad and a cooler of water and snacks.
My sister had a small primitive cell phone circa twenty
ten that we put in a plastic bag in the cooler. Smart.
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I kid you not. He dropped us off and casually said,
I'll pick you up in a few hours down river.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
No, no, I'll pick you up in a few hours downriver.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Just make sure you don't go past the dock. I
need to get you at And thus our adventure began
like holy shit, Okay, we did not realize how massive
the river was until it was just us on our
tiny canoe. We stayed close to the edge so we
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wouldn't get out to water that was too deep. We
stopped for a lovely picnic lunch on a small sandbar.
Our chests puffed up at our false senses of accomplishment
at Lewis and clarking our way down this river. We
were almost to our pickup point when we snagged a
low hanging branch and tipped the canoe. I'm proud to
say that I saved this now cooler. And after getting
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the canoe to the bank and putting it back upright,
we journeyed on and even found the ore we lost
in the capsizing floating down the river slightly ahead of us.
That's pretty cool all in all, a great experience, minus
getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and tipping the canoe. My
dad was proud of for doing it by ourselves. I
see now that plopping three children in a massive river
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alone was not his best idea. He died when I
was eighteen, after a short and brutal cancer fight. Ugh.
That is one of the saddest sentences you can write, totally.
I wish he were here to teach my kids, the
grandkids he never got to meet, how to do all
the amazing things he taught me to do. I like
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to think that he sees me now and is proud,
stay sexy and hug your dad. Mallory, oh, Mallory. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Like once they got back, I was like, like safely.
I was like he really like gave them courage, and
like that was maybe the point is, like you can
make it here and back fucking do it.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, and maybe he was like secretly driving along somewhere
watching them. Although it doesn't feel like him, no, but no,
it is that kind of Somebody was talking about that.
I'm sure on TikTok. But it's that thing of like
we really did older generation that really was like we
were we had play based learning, we were outside all
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the time, we had to deal with we would create
issues and we had to solve those issues, like all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
My childhood mantra that my mom always said was fend
for yourself, and yeah, we fucking did it.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Okay, my last one, this is called serendipitous half sister.
It says approximately three minute forty five second read at
Georgia speed.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Are you fast or slow?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I've got to be fast according to my mom.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Okay, isn't it weird? Every once in a while you
just get that thing of like how we are being perceived,
like we are being perceived in the wildest, fucking weirdest
ways that like have nothing to do with who I
know myself to be.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
No, but I think after nine years it's got to
be pretty accurate, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Like, I know, I just don't like it. It's not
up to them, it's up to me. Okay, Well I
read so here we go and this is love it
right now. Happy New Year, y'all. A little late, but
I parted a bit too hard to say it on time.
You asked for crazy coincidence stories in your Last Hometown episode.
So this is the story of my father's long lost
half sister and how a random drunk GUYE from Texas
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got sober and reconnected the two of them. It seemed
like every vacation my family took, even states away, my
father would run into someone he knew from long ago,
be at a pool, campground, cracker barrel, or many times
at AA meetings. Dad was like a magnet for that
sort of thing. Maybe it had to do with the
fact that AA is often astonishingly full of people you
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used to know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, that's right true.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
He was a masterful storyteller. Dad never grew tired of
sharing stories about running wild with mischief as a little
boy in the streets of New York City during the
Great Depression. And then it's in front of these nineteen
thirties as if I also don't fucking know when I'm
like a little that's what you're talking about. I get
it here.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
That hurts.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That hurts, I know when that is.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Sorry, Just for future writers in if you have a
dad that grew up on the fucking literal streets of
New York City during the Depression, and you're going to
brag they as great stories and you don't share one
synopsized version with us a quickie before you get to
your main Come.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
On, I know it's already long, so they probably are like,
how am I going to get this?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Please write back in, cause right back in.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
We spent rainy days binge watching BHS tapes of Oliver
and Hardy, the Three Stooges and Little Rascals while imagining
his childhood as a soot covered scoundrel playing in black
and white.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oliver and Hardy? Is that what's written there? Oliver and Hardy? Yeah,
it's Laurel and Hardy, I know, right, but I think
maybe it's a I think one of their flast names
was all of it was like Stan, Laurel and somebody.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oliver probably and maybe Oliver Hardy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Wow. Well, well, I hate to correct, can go back
and also not know the truth, but that's kind of
that's how I really am.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm keeping it now that I understand what nostalgia looks like.
I can see it in memories of my father's face
as he recounted the details of his juvenescence, juvenile adolescence
like that, there is a guest so forward. There was
always a moment. Dad will recall his half sister, Dorothy,
who had left home as a teenager. I suppose she
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could not get along with my grandmother, who may have
had a heavy hand. Dad prayed to find her someday.
She was the only one who might still remain. Having
eventually moved away from New York, my family ended up
in South Carolina. I was about eleven years old when,
after an AA meeting, my father spoke with a visiting
Texan about his long lost sister Dorothy. The man's face
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twisted into amazement. He himself had met a woman years
before who had gone on in the same fashion about
her long lost brother. The strange Texan had met her
on a separate trip to New York years before becoming sober,
and apparently shared this very met conversation with her and
stayed in Christmas card contact her name Dottie shorthand for Dorothy.
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The stranger took our phone number and told my dad
when I get home, I'll just check and let you know.
Well it was her, all right, What the fuck?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
That's crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I know. It happened quickly and the two were soon
hollering on the phone. A few weeks later, Dad was
on a flight to meet her. He came back with
new photos of my grandfather and even of himself, many
he had never seen before, none of which I had
seen until then. Dad had only one remaining photo of
his father. They all only exist in photos now, and
I recount the past by these limited images I have.
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But this little serendipitous moment remains the story that connects
them to me in ways that is still so inexplicable.
I'm irish, blooded and long winded, so I'm afraid of
sending too long of an email. There you go, But
some other someday I'll tell you about my mother, who,
after spending fourteen years as a nun, fell in love
with my same magic called trash Dad, who was under
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indictment at the time. Yes, what, Yes, this is it,
it says, says GDM. And it's signed boop with an
exclamation mark and a fucking emoji smiley face boop.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's the person's name.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
That's how they signed it, boop boop. They are like,
I'm out, Yeah, I wasn't anonymous, basically.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Boo oh my god. That was delightful. Yeah, but I
feel like people need to understand the important parts of stories.
You don't have to hear the whole story about the
nun and the guy under indictment, just like the moments
that their hands first touched, Like, just give us a
little bit of that. What was the what was the
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pre to the breakthrough to the I am I am
going to break up with Jesus and get with you
like straight up criminals.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
It had to be hot as fuck to be like
that powerful. Praise praise the Lord.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, praise that Lord.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
You're not Oh my god, I want nun stories.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
But the nuns need to start writing in Why did
you accept the calling? Right? Why did you leave the
calling behind? Right?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Why did you change your name and get a new
fake social Security number? And yeah, coming on my favorite
murder at Gmail.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I think this is the first episode that's not an
old record since the fires.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh yeah, oh, this is the first Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And we are I guess. I was just going to
point out we're still in the middle of a natural disaster,
so we don't really like, please forgive everyone. I think
everyone is getting this on social media, where like no
one knows what the hell's going on and no one
everyone's afraid to say anything or we're all holding our
breath and waiting for this these next forty eight hours
(32:54):
to pass. Yeah, and it's really nice that people checked
in on us, and we're very happy to have been
able to tell you that we're okay and yeah, uh
yeah that everyone is okay here.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, thank you guys for checking in so much. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Very nice. And you know, until next time, stay sexy,
I don't get murdered.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Goodbye, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Our editor is Aristotle Osceveda.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Emailing your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
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Favorite Murder. Goodbye