MFM Minisode 219

This week’s hometowns include a home intruder and an animal rescue story.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hello, and welcome to my favorite Murder the minisode.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's Minny, that's Karen kil Kara.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Oh, that's Georgia Hartstar.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
We're about to read you your emails that you sent us.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm wrapping MFM by wearing our own merch.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
George is at home wearing merch, being a fan of herself,
practicing it self care and positivity.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I yesterday went for a walk and had them today
sexy No no, I asked this DGAM shirt and our
fanny pack. This is terrible, keep going. And then Vince's
we watched Rustling hat on when I was just like
at the concert with the ban tea and the open
ban teak's pretty.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Sweet and holding a big picket sign that says, please ask.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Me about my several podcasts.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I beg you a little embarrassed. You're just trying to
get back in the mix.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm just trying to get people to listen, you know.
I just like we thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
No, You're right, I shouldn't tease you. I should be
thank you for being our street team.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'm like cardboard signed girl. Do you want to go
first this week? Absolutely? It will be fun all right.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
This one's been in the news. It's important, this says Hi.
Karen and Georgia love your show and I've been listening
for years. You guys have helped me through long days
working from home during lockdown and fed my true crime
obsession in the best way. I wanted to write because
of a news story that's been huge here in the UK,
but I don't know if it's made its way to
the US. On March third, a thirty three year old

(01:46):
woman named Sarah Everard was walking home from a friend's
house just after nine pm. She was last seen wearing
brightly colored clothes and walking on a main road in
South London, and then she disappeared. It was unclear what
happened to her, and there was a desperate search for
her until today. Her remains were found in Kent, outside London,
and a police officer has been arrested on suspicion of

(02:08):
her kidnap and murder. It sparked a big controversy about
women feeling unsafe in our own streets. I live in
South London with my roommate, just a couple of streets
away from where this happened. It's a really popular part
of town. For young professionals to live sort of the
equivalent of the East Village Murray Hill area in New York.
It's really affected us and so many others. We don't

(02:30):
feel safe going on runs by ourself, or even walking
for five minutes to the grocery store alone if it's dark.
In the aftermath of Sarah's disappearance, police advise women not
to walk alone at night, and it just feels like,
yet again, the blame is being placed on women for
the actions of violent men. All we can think is
that you can do everything quote right as Sarah did,

(02:51):
wear bright clothes, tell your friends where you're going, keep
to busy streets when you walk home, and still be
the victim of terrible crimes like this. I just want
to let you know about this in case you hadn't heard.
There's still a lot of mystery as to exactly why
and how this happened, but for now, the whole of
UK and London in particular, are just reeling from this
tragic news and thinking of her family. SSDGM Kirsten, Yeah, Kirstin,

(03:16):
We have heard about this case here. Lots of people
have been talking about it, especially people that listen to
this podcast. And sharing articles about it, and I've seen
a bunch of like I assume their BBC news clips
of people being interviewed.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, it's horrible. It's horrible, and compounded.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
By the fact that if she was, if she was
murdered by a policeman, then it's that idea that you
think it's someone that you can.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Trust and that you're safe with. I don't think you can't.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, it's that thing of like you're giving the women
a curfew, as if we're at faulked again and time
and time again that happens and the men aren't punished
or inconvenienced at all, or what is you know, their actions, or.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Just that it's the first thought. The first thought is
it's your own responsibility. I would also like to point out, though,
and I bet you lots of women have realized this too,
that this kind of thing of having too, that idea
of going out thinking you're safe and the police become
a threat is something that women of color deal with
every single day, that people of men of actually men

(04:25):
of color percentage wise the most, but women of color
for sure.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
So along with the anger and the.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Fear, I hope there's also empathy and a realization that
you're actually just coming into a scenario that some people
have lived.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
In all their lives.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yes, yes, yeah, but I do think a lot of
people are talking about it.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I hope that they the women in London know that.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, that lots of people here are talking about it,
for sure, definitely. Okay, Well, I'm just gonna I'm gonna
switch it up with this email because it's just a
it's an email of terrible job stories.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh I got one too, let's do.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh really, Okay, I don't even remember us talking about
that or I was asking for it.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
It was because of the photo the photo.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Shop, yes, okay, being a being a photo like an
old school photo developer.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yes, and the okay pictures you'd find.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Okay, it's all a blur.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Okay, So this says, hello, all you requested unknown terrible
job stories, and I have some really good gems from
from when I worked as a lifeguard.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh that's yes issue.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
And I was like, oh, I didn't even think about
how fucked up that wastage.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yes, love my guard, Great, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I started guarding at age fifteen as a lifeguard because
you should always put teenagers in charge of people's lives.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
My got it so true. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
My first rescue was of a teenager who scalped himself
on the diving board. This happens more often than you
want to know. He refused all care and would not
let me touch him, even though he was bleeding profusely.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Of course, because you lead the most from your head, right.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Turns out he was in witness protection, a senor and
witness protection and being a city pool. Oh, being that
it was a city pool, all the rescue reports become
public records.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
O fuck.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
A few days later, too, official looking people showed up
at all the staff who had worked that incident had
to sign documents saying we would never speak of that inside. Well, great,
that that's being a pod your You signed some documents
and you have.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
It was. Do you think there's a like a twenty
year lapse on that? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (06:45):
All right.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
There was an ice cream sales guy who stood outside
after open swim who got surrounded by DEA agents one day.
Turns out, in addition to a popsicle, you could also
purchase large quantities of math poops. We also had an
old man who carried around a bag of kids goggles
to share with anyone who didn't have them. It turns
out he was allowing kids to borrow them as long

(07:09):
as they went under the water to look at his exposed.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Genitals for this teenager.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
For a teenager to deal with, Yeah, sir, sir, I
need you to get out of the water so you
can be arrested.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
This went on for years before it was discarsted.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
My final story is that we had a window in
our control nest, which is where the guards go when
we're not on the stand, that looked into the sauna
to make sure people weren't having sex in there or
overheating or both or both. We often had a creepy
man that would just stare in. So he's in the

(07:42):
sauna staring into my life gard big surprise that one
day he was caught masturbating while staring into that window.
Stay sexy and always remember that yellow and white swimsuits
go see through when wet Britney.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Excellent, excellent job, exactly what we were looking for. When
we forgot what we said we were.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Looking for, perfectly executed. Send them in. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
There's so many layers to that, but the most one
is why are fifteen year olds.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Even at a pool, even mostly at a pool where
it's like.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
It truly is children's lives.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's like I guess they care the most,
or they this is right when they still care about things, or.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, it's also like I don't know, I can't someone
one hundred pounds are over, how are you going to
save their lives?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I guess it's no technique.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think you get a big hook. I think these
are now there's a hook. Wait, can I just tell
you really quick, because I think my sister deserves credit
for this. You know, my sister, she has been a
grammar school teacher for thirty plus years, and they had
a end of the year swim party one time, and
she was standing there, of course, because she is not
a No one in our family is a swim and

(08:54):
bathing suit in front of people. I think none of
the teachers really, They were all just like, go swim,
and I don't want to be in there with you. Sure,
And as she's standing fully dressed in the side of
the pool talking to somebody else, she looks over and
she can see a kid at the bottom of the
pool dives directly in fully clothed and pulls him, pulls
him out at the bottom of the pool. Hero. Credit

(09:15):
to my sister, and if it was just, you know,
one of the many things she had to.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Do that day, selfless, right, selfless?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
This one's called my Mom's Spooky home intruder Story. Hey, y'all,
I don't think either of you asked for spooky home
intruder stories, but I have one, and now you do too,
seem this is a true story from my mother's childhood
that I've made her tell me over and over since
I was a kid. It's just creepy enough to give
me pretty bad nightmares back then, and at one point

(09:42):
my mother had to convince me she'd made the whole
thing up. I checked with her recently. It definitely happened.
Enjoy hold.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was kidding. I was kidding. There is a fantast
It was a lie. I was trying to scare you.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm taking us back to Waco, Texas in the sixties.
My mom, her two brothers, and anighborhood kids are all
playing outside completely unsupervised because the sixties it starts to
get pretty hot outside, and the neighborhood kids suggest everybody
come over to his house for a glass of water.
His parents are out running an errand, but the doors
are unlocked again the sixties, so that's not a problem.

(10:17):
All four kids head over to the house, walk into
the kitchen and immediately notice something odd. On the floor
are two or three plates smashed to pieces. As the
kids look around, they notice that's not the only weird
thing about the kitchen. Cabinets are ajar drawers have been
left open, various glasses in silverware.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Have been moved.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
The place is a mess, and because children know no fear,
they decided to split up and look through the house
for anything else that looks out of place.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
They're like, for.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Nancy Drew, you go that way, can the ad it's right?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, no.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
They check every room, open every door, look behind every curtain.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
After a while, the kids get bored with the house
and decide to run down the stree where my mom's
parents lived to tell them what happened on their way
to my grandparents' house. They're all exchanging stories of their
uneventful home search. When my uncle Bob mentioned something odd
earlier when everyone had split up just go about the house.
He'd opened the coat closet in the front hallway he

(11:17):
looked down at the pairs of shoes lining the floor
and noticed something strange in one pair of shoes. We're
a pair of legs. Did you see that coming? I
saw it coming, But it's still chilling.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
It doesn't matter, it still happens.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Scared shitless, I'm sure, but ever pragmatic, my uncle simply
shut the door on the coat closet and waited until
everyone was across the street to talk about it. Yes,
no one ever caught the guy, nobody was hurt, and
in the end it made for a really spooky story
that I'm sure my mother is tired of repeating over
and over. Stay sexy and don't actively seek out home intruders,

(11:55):
especially when you're ten years old and your friend's parents
aren't home. Emily from Dallas, Texas. Oh yeah, it's just classic.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
It's it's classic, and also sometimes it makes it. It
doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
What the people on the other side of the home
intruding are doing. It doesn't matter if they're just trying
to get some money. It doesn't matter because on the
other side of that, a person in your house is
the scariest thing. Oh, and you can only assume they're
there to murder, like you can only assume that.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
So it's just always the creepiest story.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
And then just the idea where you're just like, I
bet you right as that kid saw the legs, he
was just like.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Why are we looking for the intruder? Like it's just
a big mistake.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
But it's also there's also this thing about like, Okay,
there's an intruder who's like trying to steal like the
china or the silver, Like, but someone's smashing plates and
opening kitchen cabinets. That's like a different level of what
are you doing here and knocking things?

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh that's why? Why are you housewares berserking in our kitchen?
Are you just nut?

Speaker 1 (13:05):
So?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Like what's yeah? Are you mad? Burglar?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
You're like out for You're like an elephant burglar, you're
a man.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Maybe it was a cat in a china shop.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's not right, a bull in a china shop? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Cat, Okay, this shop would be cute. I'd be cute
and quiet. Nothing would happen this.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
The subject line of this is accidental parental neglect, todd
lo shenanigans.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
And a miraculous lack of disaster. Hi everyone.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
This week's Hometown about being accidentally abandoned at a Winery's
so good. Remember that one reminded me that that sentence
says it all if you didn't hear it reminded me
of the time my parents also nearly lost small me
due to momentary parenting failure. Until I was about seven,
my family only had one car on account of it

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being the early nineties and living in a small town.
So each morning everyone would get into the car and
we'd drop mum at work and my brother at school,
and Dad and I would go back home. When Mum
was done at work in the evening, she'd call and
Dad would get the keys and tell us it was
time to go pick up Mum, and then we'd all
go and bring her home. One day, I was about two,

(14:17):
and Dad was doing some boring adult thing that wasn't
focusing all his attention on me, like washing clothes or
cleaning the house.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Two year old me.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Decided that this was bullshit and it was time to
get another adult on the scene so I could get
the attention I so clearly deserved a lot of that,
And this is all in this is in title case.
Being a strong, independent toddler who didn't need no adult.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
I took matters into.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
My own hands, found Dad and announced I was going
to pick up mum.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
This is a fun kid.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Dad, thinking that the two year old was playing a
game of some sort, went okay, sure, have fun and
went back to whatever not me thing he was paying
attention to. Over grabbed a set of old keys from
the toy box and walked out at the front of
the house and wandered off in the general direction of
mom's office. Oh. Cut to about fifteen minutes later, when

(15:10):
Dad realizes things are suspiciously quiet, goes looking for me
and realizes I am not in the house. He remembers
telling me to have fun picking up Mom, freaks out
legs it to the police station. Fortunately, a lovely grandmotherly
type had found me walking down the side.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Of the old high oh my god, almost certainly not
wearing shoes, taken me home with.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Her, called the police, and then given me a glass
of cordial and some cream filled biscuit.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
A glass of liquor. No, no, no, that's not no.
Why would do you think she'd give the baby liquor?
She's a fun grandma.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I bet you this is from this looks like it
might be from whales.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
The name okay, so decidedly well prolly likes a sweet
joink of some sort.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, some verts may may maybe a strawberry milk.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Stephen, did you find it? Steven's looking it up. Yes, curiously.
It's to describe a tonic syrup or non alcoholic drink
that is often considered to be quite sweet.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, Shirley Temple. All right, my bad, Sorry to throw
that grandma onto the bus.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
They got this kid got double treats, Like can you
imagine your grandma giving you a Shirley Temple my cookies.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Something I've unsupervised. Children will get a coffee and a
espresso wan a puppy.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's the thing of like me, you can't have before
I send them home. Electical parrots.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Uh okay uh oh, And they say a glass of
cordial and some cream filled biscuits, neither of which we
had at home, and Dad.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Dad came to retrieve me shortly after.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Nearly thirty years later, he maintains this is one of
the scariest things that's ever happened to him. And I
have no clear memory of anything except the fact that
getting cordial and cookies at this same time.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Was really exciting.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh my god, stay sexy and maybe don't give the
toddler permission to walk down main roads unaccompanied carried Win.
That's amazing. This name is c E I R I
D W E N. And then they gave they gave
me the phonetic. Good for you, carrid Win.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
These have been some really lately, greatly written, wonderfully written hometowns.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, and this one tops the cake.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I just also the cake. You could top the cake
with some wonderful frosting.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
You can take sound writing too and have it with
a cordial take.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
It to the old lady down the street that saves
your children.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I just want to say this exact same thing happened
when my parents had my sister and she was I
think she must have been four because I was born.
Laura took off and we lived in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh my god, and they my mom.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
They didn't realize she was gone for a little while,
and then my mom had the full nervous breakdown of like,
oh my god, and found her three doors down at
the old lady's house, skiing cookies. And that's when my
parents decided to move to Pedaluma. My mom's like I
can't raise kids in missed city. She's not wrong, and
they went to the country.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wow, right, it's a theme.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I know.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
That was great.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, this is called David Lynch style small town secrets
and filthy, dirty tales from the dry cleaner. Hi, all,
this is in response to your recent minisod when a
listener dished the dirt on nineties photo processing labs. Yes,
this reminded me of the time I worked in one,
and yes we saw all the photos. In fact, the

(18:39):
manager healthfully kept a stash in his drawer of young
women posing and underwear, probably in case the owners lost
their copy right, although the majority of photos I saw
were of naked middle aged swingers standing in a field somewhere. Oh,
what is up with the field and swingers? Can someone
enlighten us?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
And maybe it's like they just feel free there better
than a living room.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Sure less smells the.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Air on your junk fall sack. Okay, but this also
reminded me of another dirty secretive profession. I worked in
the dry cleaner. I just hadn't crossed my mind how
nasty that must be.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
For real?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
I was eighteen when I worked there for the summer,
and being eighteen I really didn't think too much about
the job beyond the money, as there's no way you'd
get me to rifle through the stained clothes of strangers.
Now you are literally forced to confront every type of
bodily fluid produced by humans and then have a detailed
conversation with it secret about how best.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
To remove it. Screeter, I applaud you for that word. Wait,
that's it.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Ever, once taken something to the dry cleaner that I
had an embarrassing fluid on it, It's like, that's gone,
It's gone.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
And let me point out how disgusting I am.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Need I need this gone? See this made it?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Here, listen to this.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
And when it comes to secretions, there's one that causes
more mumbling, denial and lack of eye contact than all
the others. Say it with me, and.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Customers will point out this mystery stain on their trousers
even when there's no need, just so they can deny
its very existence, usually followed up by I'm not sure
what that is?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Can you do something about this? I don't know how
it got there. Lipstick where it shouldn't be. Is the
other stain that brings out the fear and denial in people.
I also think that I inadvertently helped to cover up
a murder when one day a shifty guy in sunglasses
came in and dropped off a sealed bag. On opening,
it contained a heavily bloodstained overalls. When I saw them,

(20:48):
I froze on the spot. I had such a strong
feeling that something was off, but my manager said, just
run them through the machine twice. Then it says goodbye DNA.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I always think that.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Homicide detectives to talk to dry cleaners, as they truly
do know everyone's dirty secrets. But that would probably make
for the world's worst detective.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Show, because those are the dumbest, dumbest murderers, Like, Yeah,
why in God's name would you not get rid of
incredibly bloody overall.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Don't give tips away, Karen, don't give tippy tricks.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
If you can afford dry cleaning, you can afford another
pair of Overlet's right.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
But then I also hope that because it's overalls, and
maybe he worked in like a butcher business or like
a farm slaughter business.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
He was in the farm slaughter business.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Probably, Yeah, gotta slaughter those farms when they got old,
put on to pasture.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
I would just prefer to work on a no farm
kill farm.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
That's my absolutely.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
They don't deserve to diet anyway. Thank you for all
you do, and please continue to do it as lots
of us rely on your humor, strength and warmth and
life lessons just to get by. Oh and support dry cleaners,
who are probably a dying trade as we're all wearing
sweatpants now. I love you both and Steven two x

(22:06):
ex Laura.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Wow, that's such a good one, Laura.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, guys, use these, that's inspiration. And tell us about
your most fucked up jobs. What's your most fucked up job?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
The gap it's who mine? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Or being a comedian, some of those some of those
clubs you've played.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Problems talk about bloody overalls, sticky Laura's and bloody overalls.
That's your memoir.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's all stand up actually is It's like trying to
tell jokes to eleven people is like six pairs of
bloody You know.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
What mine is?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
I worked?

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Do you remember there was on DeLong pri and Librea.
There was a thrift store on the corner there it
said time to shop like a vintage clock. I went
there five dollars an hour under the table and it
was the first day I worked there. The first hour,
someone took a shit in the changing room. No, yes,
what har got broken into in the back. It was

(22:57):
just it was so much close, like dirty old clothes.
They accepted anything, Yeah, they did, so people would come in.
I'd give away close to homeless people all the time.
It was just like people would like trade their clothes in,
like on the spot, go change.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
It was I'll give you this shirt for your shirt. Yeah, yeah,
it was. It was a real fun job, but.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
It drove my mother so crazy that I've shopped at
the rest stores. She got too because she would go,
you're gonna get lice, You're gonna get lice.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
I'm like, no, ma'am, it's cool, be cool.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I just didn't understand like coming out of the depression
and like needing to buy used clothes, being like, why
are you choosing to buy.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Use volunteering and you're like, because I want to wear
your clothes exactly because you didn't save your clothes.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Damn it.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, this last one is old timey pet hero Dear Georgia,
Karen Steven, Pets and listeners. Oh finally the listeners get
I know a tip of the hat, nice one. I'm
in love with your podcast and I really appreciate your
honest talk about mental health.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
You have helped me more than I can express. Now
on with my tail, Thank you, thank you. Now you
may go on.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
The story about the hero Rottweiler that you read on
Minneso two seventeen reminded me of a family story that
I discovered while doing genealogy research. Let me set the scene.
It's July tenth, eighteen twenty eight, and a ship called
the Dispatch was carrying two hundred Irish immigrants to Canada,

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and it is sunk off the coast of Newfoundland. A
seventeen year old girl named Anne Harvey was fishing with
her father off the tiny Isle O Moore which means
Death Island. When they noticed a keg and a straw
mattress floating in the waves.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
They knew that a ship.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Was in trouble and quickly retrieved Anne's brother and their
Newfoundland dog to assist in the search.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Have you seen a Newfoundland You know? Those dogs?

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Those big black ones are sometimes brown, I think, and
their their fur is really thick, and their heads they
almost kind of look like saint bernard Ish. But they're
a little more and they and they just all they
do is save people. They're all about It's like, we're
here for you.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
What do you need? Yeah, you keep doing.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
It's like a parent trying to constantly make sure their
child doesn't do things to die.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah like that.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
You're humans and you're constantly trying to do things to
kill yourselves. That's what I'm there for.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Fine, I'm here. I'll go into the ice cold water. Okay.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
So they discovered many survivors clinging to a tiny island
that would become known as Wreck Rock. The waves were
treacherous and they could not get their boat closer than
one hundred feet to the island due to the heavy seas.
The problem was solved by throwing a billet of wood
attached to a rope into the water, and they had
their dog.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
His name is hairy Man. That was the name of
the dog.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Hairy Man swim to the wood and to the survivors.
One person or a parent and child would grasp the
wood and harry Man would drag them to Anne's boat.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
I don't even know how to do it. I just
knew it. He just knew it. In his boats his
little dog boats.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
They did this over and over again from Sunday morning
until all the survivors were rescued on Tuesday morning.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Oh my gosh, so for two.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Full days they did it. They could not have accomplished
this without the help of their heroic Newfoundlander dog, harry Man.
I am related to the Smiley family that survived this wreck.
They had been immigrating with their two toddler daughters and
were to settle in Ontario. Another ship was sent to
rescue the survivors off Death Island and took them to Halifax,

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Nova Scotia. Upon arriving, my ancestor, Catherine Smiley, refused to
ever board another ship.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Hell, yes, yes, Katy, What did you say? What did
she say?

Speaker 2 (26:55):
How'd she say it?

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Ah, there's no way I'm getting on that thing again.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
They'll go die, say go down, thank you?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Any more smart dogs around like this other one were
locked out this time all right. She refused to ever
board another ship, and the family settled in Nova Scotia.
If it weren't for the quick reaction of Anne Harvey,
her family, and most importantly, hairy Man, my family would
not exist. It's amazing how the actions of a dog
made my life and that of my children possible. It

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makes me guilty for complaining about the constant dog hare
that falls off of my beloved Jack Russell terrier.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Milo.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Remember to stay sexy and always have a Newfoundland dog
with you when sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, and don't
get murdered.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
You're a loyal listener. A vow.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Oh that was a great story. Do you think our
dogs would do that? I think they would try. Frank
I think would be a hero.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
See past, can you say Frank there?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I can see Frank passed the fuck out on a
cushy mattress.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Frank has his own bed, and Frank might try.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Uh if there was like a bag of Dorito's attached
to your neck somehow, that's the only way.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Frank would help you. He'd dip his paw in the water,
like it's too cold? Where's it? Oh? I didn't try
to heat on this thing yet. He's like, yeah, i'd
love to. You know what's funny.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Because George will not go near water. Oh really, yeah,
Frank will do anything to you know what if everybody
had a bag of garbage, Frank would be on that island,
Like what do you need. I'm here for you. Just
let me tear into that garbage. That's his passion.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
If only we all have garbage attached to us, our
lives would be constantly saved by dogs. How cute would
that be if they were like, You're like, I'm not,
I'm just grocery shopping with my garbage of bags.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's fine. I like garbage.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Leave me alone. Send us those stories that are similar
but different. That's well, that's how it always has been,
that's how it always will be.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
This was a perfect episode with perfectly written emails. If
you've got one the same or better, you know that you.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Owe it to us to revise your email that you've
sent before. You know, maybe have your friends who's taken
lit classes jazz it up a little for you, go through.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Do some line cuts. The chances are we've never read it,
don't take it personally.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, so send it in again.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Fill up that Gmail box until we have to pay
a lot of money for our Google accounts.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
That's the new contest.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
See if you can fill the Gmail book until this
isn't really worth it anymore because we're just paying so
much for our Gmail account.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
And also, here's one more thing. We want you to
do stay sex and don't get murdered.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Good Bye, e Elvis.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Do you want a cookie?