April 10, 2023 • 27 mins
This week’s hometowns include volunteering for a police lineup and helping your neighbors in a catastrophe.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Love, Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder diminisode.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's right, it's been a minute since we recorded one
of these. Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We got to get into our email mode. Yeah, here
we go are speaking and reading mode.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
We're representative of the listener this time.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's right. We are you you or we feel it,
feel us. You're gonna go first? Want me to go first?
You can go first?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Okay. My first one's called police lineups. Grandmothers and Banana Curls,
Karen Georgia and four Legged Friends. Ever wonder where cops
find random guys to fill their lineups? Sure, that's a
great question. Yeah, never did I until my dad told
me this now all time favorite story of his. Set
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the scene. It's the summer of nineteen eighty and Providence,
Rhode Island. My dad, fresh out of college, is working
at a UPS warehouse while determining what he wants to
do with the rest of his life. Dude, I almost
got a job at the UPS warehouse in Pedaluma after
I flunked out of college. I'd done like three sets
of stand up and I thought I was a failure.
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And I was just in Pedaluma going like I need
to get where do I do decent job?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And my Mom's like, UPS, you got to get over there.
They pay really well, and and then I was like,
I don't want to live, but shit, it's hard fucking
I mean, they pay well because it's hard work.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I had thought about that too, like working at the
post office might be kind of cool, like at the window,
you know that would be fun. I bet, yeah, tell
us if it is. Let's get some emails from UPS
and more post soworker.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, oh my god. They you know, they have the best. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Did you see the fucking UPS guy who or Amazon
guy I don't remember who, like walked through a fucking
standoff to deliver a packet?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
That was genius. The women narrating from a window, like
an amportment window above they're watching the stand Oh I haven't,
and then they start Yes, it's like they're kind of
giggling along because they're watching the standoff. And then here
comes the like whatever it was Amazon or UPS guy
just walking through. He's got a job to do, he
doesn't give a shit. I was like, is that guy
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high anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay? Fresh out of college?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
UPS warehouse Da da da da da One afternoon as
he's loading trucks. A police officer strolls in, takes the
manager aside, and then announces to the crew that he
needs a couple guys to help the extras in a
police lineup. He looks around the room and starts selecting men.
I'll take you and you. Oh, you'd be great, he says,
pointing straight at my dad standing there with his long,
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dark banana curls and thick eighties mustache.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What's banana curls?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I was going to ask you the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I as soon, just like thick curl big like.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think we might call them sausage curls. Yeah, okay,
should I ask mister goggles?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
While I tell you that, they say a young Tom
Selleck as my grandmother's friends used to all giggle.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh that's what he looked like, hot dad, banana curls.
What the fuck?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yep, it's essentially sausage curls. Okay, got it. In Rhode Island,
it's banana curls.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Excited for an opportunity to skip out of work early,
my dad and his friends piled into the back of
the police car and head towards the station on the
drive there. They pull up to a stoplight, and who
of all people happen to be in the car next
to them My grandmother, Margaret and my dad's older sister.
They turn to make eye contact, just in time for
my dad to smile and wave before the light turns
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green and the cop car takes off. Now, Nita, remind
you that this was pre cell phones. So my horrified
grandmother speeds off after the police car and ends up
at the station. She marches in and demands at the
front desk officer tell her what her son was being
held for. He looks at the reports and in sists
there's no record of my dad ever being there. While
Margaret argues with the officer, my dad has led into
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the building through the back door and directed straight into
the lineup. They do their thing, the purpose identified, and
then everyone else is sent on their way a typical
young man fashion. Rather than go home and let his
mom know he wasn't in any trouble, my dad and
the other guys decided to go grab a beer.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Meanwhile, poor Margaret frantically drives all over the state to
different police stations trying to find out what happened to
my dad. Oh no, and then they say, good thing,
we're talking about Rhode Island and not Texas. It wasn't
until several hours later that she finally got the call.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Turns out the real purp.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Was a serial flasher, So can't say Margaret was totally
relieved to hear her son put himself in a situation
where he could have been falsely identified. Yes, said, hey,
it's better than for murder, right, any who stay sexy.
And if you volunteer to stand in a police lineup,
don't forget to tell your LBQ.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
LBQ. First of all, you're one of our best presidents. Secondly,
what the fuck don't do? Don't volunteer to be in
a police let No, all.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I could think of how easily it could go bad.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I would have been turning to my co workers and
being like, okay, write this, take a picture, write this down,
Like what if I go and never fucking come back?
I mean, that's I think. Yeah, only people with banana
curls have the kind of freedom where they're like, I
don't have to worry about that. That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm going to match your police story with another police story.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Cool. The subject line of this one is I'm pretty
sure that's illegal. Hi to literally everyone. I love it.
I put on my TikTok profile, which I don't I
literally follow four people and it's my sister and Nora
and two other people. But on there I put it's
literally me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The real caring Curl Garrett is literally me.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
It's literally me. Okay, this starts, let's get into it.
I work for an art museum that is federally funded,
meaning we don't have shit, and we are closed for
two of the seven days of the week. Nice. I
could tell you stories about how I have to tell
people to stop licking the art, that their mini poodle
is not a service dog, and that just because it's
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water doesn't mean you can drink inside. Man. They should
do like YouTube classes for how to act in a museum,
because I absolutely would take it and need it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I love being early to work, so when my boss
told me that my shift was canceled, I was already there.
So I turned around again and began to drive home.
There's a lot of the same information in different orders.
We get it, okay. So at two red lights in
a row, a cop car next to me pulled up
and I noticed it said canine unit, so I kept
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looking in and tried to see the dog. The officer,
thinking I was probably insane, motioned to me to put
down my window, and me, trying to seem normal, I yelled,
I'm okay, I just wanted to see the dog.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I rolled my window back up because the light turned
green as mister five OH started merging into my lane
and followed me for fifteen minutes. Oh dear, I started
crying because I was so scared as I pulled into
a parking lot in a busy, well lit area because
it's my mission to SSDGM, And sure enough, the cop
pulls in next to me and asked me to get
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out of my vehicle.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh dear, I'm a hispanic and was fully expecting the
worst as I got out of my vehicle as he
opened his trunk and let the patrol dog run out
with his tail wagging.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I spoke to the officer as I was letting myself
get licked to death by the sweet angel of a
dog for thirty minutes before the officer hands me as number.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
OH.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I said thank you politely and booked it home very happy.
The next day, I told my coworker what happened, and
she looked at me with open mouthed horror before going
off on how it was an abusive power and asking
if I was okay. I was just excited to see
a dog. But after some googling, yes, what he did
was illegal. S THISTGM and if you ever get pulled over,
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pull into somewhere brightly lit, busy and well known Katie who.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Good lesson, good lesson.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And it's like, how easily we're still tricked by dogs?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, like a little kid's Yes, like dogs. Oh yay.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I want to be a friend to the dog.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And they must be safe. This person must be safe
that they have a dog that's friendly.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Exactly, you're attributing the qualities of the dog onto the
driver of the car. Right, that's a good lesson for everybody.
Just keep an eye peeled. Meet people in bars when
they don't have outfits on, and then you can make
your decisions freely and clearly.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I hope they have outfits on, but not uniforms. Not
uniform Sorry, I mean I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Don't know what kind of bar you're going to. Not
there's no shame here.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You don't know about the nudist bar. Downderneath the rock.
Can you sist bar? No?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Sticky everything sticky? Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
This is called swipe right. Feel good dad story? Oh
another dad one? Okay, Hello Georgia, Karen and rock Star Team.
In the interest of keeping things short, I will just
dive in.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
In high school at a job as a.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Swim instructor, I got to tan all summer and teach little.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Kids and sometimes adults.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It says you would be surprised how to swim because
we are in such high demand. There is usually a
waiting list, and when we have availabilities, someone is automatically
assigned to you, meaning you don't get to choose your instructor.
Side note to those wanting to make money in the summer,
this is a great gig. One day, I was teaching
a new little boy how to do something, probably survive
in the pool. After I went and introduced myself to
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the parents first and last name to be polite, I
was about to start my speel of what the boy
and I should work on throughout the summer when I
noticed the shock on the parents' faces. The dad of
the boy asked if I was related to and proceeded
to say my father's name I Gittaly said, yeah, he's
my dad, and then the man and woman started to
cry and explain. Thirty years ago, this man was near
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death for some condition I cannot remember. He had seen
every specialist who all told him he would not survive.
In a final ditch effort to save his life, he
went to see my father. My father was an internal
medicine specialist and lung doctor from the sixties till his
death in twenty nineteen. He served as a doctor in
the Air Force, was an ICU doctor before settling down
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with his own practice. He sat on multiple boards fighting
for the rights of women to choose, for the rights
of black people, and so much more. He was also
a collector of odd things. I promised this comes in handy.
So on this day when the nan sobbing in front
of me, went to see my father explaining his condition,
my father had an idea. In the nineteen fifties and sixties,
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iron lungs were used to treat people with multiple types
of conditions, but were not used anymore because of modern technology.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Think big iron tank. You basically lay in. We've seen the.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Pictures with just your head sticking out. Yeah, it's so scary.
It's so scary.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
However, my father, the hoarder and collector, had said object
in the basement. Oh my god, he suggested they try it,
And thirty years later, this man was watching the daughter
of the physician who saved his life teaching his son
to swim. Oh no, oh, that got me a son
and family that would never have existed had my father
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not thought out of the box.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We were all in tears by the end.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
See.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He was a brilliant man.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Who also battled bipolar disorder, but always said to me
to never stop asking questions or you won't find the
right answers and fight for your health. I have more
stories like this, and they fill me with joy when
I miss him. Twenty years later, after I met that man,
I now have a family and gave me my son
his name. Oh anyways, thanks for reading. H I love
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that story. I know what if they were like. Anyway,
your son is a terrible swimmer.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah that's nice, but guess.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What onto the business at hand? Here at the pool.
The subject line of this is kids are dumb, and
then in parentheses it says it's me. I'm the kid.
Just starts. Hey. First time writer, longtime listener, etc. You
guys are the best and got me through the long
days of quarantine with two little kids at home, while
also being pregnant and super nauseous all day every day
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with my third. Anyways, right, let's get into it. Yeah,
so scary, like so scary to be like, Oh, I'm
going to bring a new life into the world. What
the hell is going on? We're in quarantine, So scary. Anyways,
let's get into it. Somewhere along the way that's on
the email. I didn't say that. Somewhere along the way.
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You guys asked for stories of kids being dumb in
the nineties. I wish I had a good drunk kid story,
but all kids were unfortunately sober in this one. I
am a middle child with an older brother and a
younger brother who played every sport possible, so weekends growing
up were spent in any and all gymnasiums, either playing
or watching someone else play basketball. These basketball tournaments lasted
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all day Saturday and all day Sunday, and my mom
also volunteered to help with the concession stand if we
weren't playing that day, so basically we lived at the
gym for the winter. One of these weekends I was
bored and didn't want to watch my brother play what
seemed like his ninety fifth game of the day. So
I was exploring with some other friends I had to
bring around second grade at the time, and we were
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seeing what we could get into without our parents noticing
we weren't on the bleachers anymore. We found some payphones.
Oh dear, we found some payphones in the lobby, maybe
six of them in a row. And since we didn't
have any money to call an actual person, we have
the brilliant idea to dial different variations of nine one
one to see if any call would actually go through.
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I feel like children of today can't understand the feeling
of growing up before the Internet and before cell phones.
Where you when you were looking for fun, like this
person is talking about, you're literally like, maybe there'll be
a chair in the lobby, maybe there'll be a ladder,
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and if.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You will find like anything like office supplies that we
can play with, yes, of like.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
The flying cabinet we can get into and then lock
ourselves into accidentally, that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That's literally.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Meanwhile, today kids are like, I'm going to watch Frozen
on this screen, this screen and this screen. Okay, so
so they find payphones. Okay, my friends were dialing combinations
of numbers like nine one two one, nine one and
nine one oh and then hanging up. But no one
explained to me, but if you really dialed nine one one,
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the police would show up to where you were calling
from and check it out. Since I didn't know this
little detail, I thought to myself, why don't I just
call nine one one and if it goes through, I'll
hang up if someone answers the phone, and I'll be
cool story to tell my friends. So I called nine
one one. The operator picked up and asked what my
emergency was, and since I was a dumb, bored kid
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and it obviously wasn't an emergency, I hung up and
told my friends about it. It was only then that
they told me what would happen if you called nine
one one, and my stomach dropped. I started internally freaking
out that the police would come and arrest me. I
also didn't know what you really needed to do to
get arrested as an eight year old in the suburbs
of Detroit, So I went back to the bleachers and
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sat by my mom as if nothing had happened, hoping
that nothing else would happen. Oh my god, And that
sentence right there is little Karen's entire childhood just doing something.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I just did something.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I hope no one knows. I hope it doesn't get worse.
Then back in with the.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Crowd and hold your breath.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I bet you had the most obvious little kid face.
I bet your mom knew immediately, Like, what did Karen
do just now?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I think she did, But I think it's because early
on she told me she knew when I was lying,
which whether or not that's true, if you tell a
little kid that, then they're like then they're like, well,
I can't lie because she'll know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's so smart.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
That's so very very tricky wading.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Unfortunately, my friends were right, and the police did come
to the gym to check it out and make sure
everything was okay. When they couldn't see anything actually happening
that they would need to be called for. And this
is bolded, they proceeded to stop the basketball game, take
the microphone to center court and ask everyone who called
nine to one one from.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
The paper, Oh, I hope her friends aren't d Oh
my god, this they are busting balls.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Nightmare holy shit. Okay, the ultimate symbol of authority, and
you fucked with them.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, like an idiot.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Everyone's gonna know because you didn't have a dime. Okay.
They looked around and waited for someone to confess, while
explaining that this was a huge inconvenience for them and
a dangerous thing to do if there was no crime
to report. I was probably a dark shade of red
at that point, attempting to literally disappear from the bleachers
and also staring straight down hoping that none of my
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little friends would tell on me. Luckily they didn't. Nice no, nice,
sweet never rats. My mom never found out it was me,
and the ninety fifth basketball game of the day resumed.
Safe to say that I never called nine one one
from a payphone, car phone, or landline ever again after
that day, and neither did any of my friends.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Thanks for all you both do and for creating this
amazing community that we get to be a part of.
It is literally the best, stay sexy and only call
the police from a payphone if you actually want them
to show up. Marien, Mareene, Maureene, you nailed it. Isn't
that the fucking greatest?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm like kind of sweating a little bit from that
story where like I feel like I'm in trouble.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
This is just like when I got screamed at at
the science fair at my grammar school, because it starts
so innocently, and that's like the way that they're telling
the story where you're like, I'm bored, I'm gonna go
from this room to that room and just see what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And I only have eight years of information, so I
don't know how things fucking work yet, no or whatever.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
There's very little running scenarios and then going not that one,
not that one, not the right, and instead it's like, hey,
let's all go into this bathroom and see it's always that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I started running a girl's mousetrap like device at this
science fair. I just walked up and dropped the ball
and it went in this cool maze thing, and then
three kids came over and we're like what is that?
And I go watch this and then I started doing
it and I got this huge crowd around. Oh no,
the girl who built it was not there. I think
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she was sick that day, and so I was running
it like it was mine, and it was like this
show where I was let loving it, and then yeah,
missus Patterson came over and screamed like, how dare you
touch someone else's saying? And I was just like, wow, lady, wow, lady,
very awful.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's meant to be touch Yeah. Oh, my last one
made me cry. Okay, it's called four year old Murderino,
lighthearted with a twist. It just starts among the spooky,
slightly haunted things my four year old has said to
me this week. And then it says, quote, your grandma
is an angel, but she isn't dying yet, or quote
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I saw Bigfoot, but I can't see his eyes, et cetera. Today,
while driving, she told me, matter of factly, that girl
gave a goat a cookie.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
What girl? What goat?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm a single mom, so there are very few things
my daughter does in her little world that I am
not aware of. Needing to know what exactly she was
referring to, I followed up, calmly, is it something that
happened on YouTube?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Did this happened at the farm with Mimi and Papa. No,
maybe you.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Dreamt this last night after we had cookies for a dessert. No,
clearly she had seen and offered a treat to the Antichrist,
and then she said they was in your car. I
then realized that just a moment before a minnesota've been
playing quietly in the background, and while I wasn't paying attention,
she was. She was talking about you, Georgia and your
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pet quote goat, Elvis.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Oh your goat? Oh you little good? Do you want
to cook you? When it ended, and then he makes
that noise that does not sound like a cat. Oh
my god, I cried.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh sweet?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Is that? I'm literally this like the person I've cried
in six months. Although my small daughter is now one
of your biggest fans, I'm thinking it might be time
for me to stop listening with her. Thank you for everything,
just everything. See that is so delightful.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
The girl gave a go to cookie. You know it's
like that. He that's kind of yeah, it kind of
sounds like that. Okay, here's my last one. This is
pretty awesome because we just talked on the main episode,
I think a week or two ago about the crazy
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weather in LA. It's been raining pouring non stop, but
up in Crestline, like Arrowhead near Big Bear, they've had
like record breaking snow. So we got a story from there. Okay.
The subject line is I survived the twenty twenty three
Southern California blizzard and it just hello. I was out
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shoveling the ninety one inches of snow that we received
in Crestline over the past week while listening to your
podcast where you mentioned getting some snow in Los Angeles.
Crestline is a small community of about three thousand people
in the San Bernardino Mountains at five thousand feet elevation.
We typically get a couple snowstorms a year, and all
of us are prepared for one to three feet in
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a winter storm. This March twenty twenty three was the
first blizzard that ever occurred in southern California, and it
smacked right into our little town. We got ninety one
inches of snow and a neighboring town got one hundred
and twenty inches, and the county did not plow our
roads for almost a week, so by the time they
got around to it, it was a full blown crisis.
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There was six to eight feet of snow on all
the roads and buildings. Our grocery store and eight other
stores in town, a hardware store, tire store, etc. Collapsed
under the weight of the snow, a total of thirteen
people have been found dead in their homes so far.
Oh my god, I had no idea. I knew about
the snow, but I did not realize that that many
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people had been trapped and died in their homes. So
it goes on to say, however, as always, the helpers
come out of the community.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm definitely going to crider yees.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
However, as always, the helpers come out of the community
and make things happen, and there are lots of them
up here. I am blown away by all the friends
I have who are suffering with collapsing roofs and structural
damage to their homes, but are still organizing within a
day to get a helicopter drop of food after the
CHP closed off all roads into our town and got
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that food out to the residents who are homebound, plus
setting up coordinated online system to allow people to ask
for wellness checks, which were conducted by other residents. So essentially,
this community organized and then just went in and tried
to take care of their own wow, or did take
care of their own. They even coordinated to invite the
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World World's Central Kitchen up here to feed people without
power or natural gas and pass out produce. The people
I wanted to write you about, though, are two badass heroes,
Katie Curtis and Erica Griffith, both single moms who went
out of their way to help through this. Erica brought
her two young children to a remote ranch on an
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unplowed road on the outskirts of our town to live
in a small caretaker's house and care for the ill
homeowner and her horses through the storm. She shoveled, snow
fed horses, and kept up the property by herself through
the entire seven day blizzard before walking home with two
children and digging eight feet of snow off of her
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own house. Holy shit, My friend Katie found out that
a family on an unplowed road had a child who
needed to be on oxygen. The family had no power,
was running out of gas for their generator, and had
no way to get help quick enough. Katie put on
her snow shoes, found an old sled, and heiked a
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five gallon gas can five miles in the snow to
deliver the gas that the family needed, even though she
didn't know them and had kids of her own to
take care of. This is a single mother amazing. They
have to put on snowshoes because you can't walk in
that much snow. You're not just walking down the street
to help your neighbor. I mean, this is insane. I
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can't imagine it, says. I know these are all small
acts of bravery and the overall scheme of things. But
when Katie asked why she did it, she said, I'm
fortunate to have a healthy body and I'm able to
do hard things. That's an amazing quote. So that's my fucking
hooray through all of this. I survived the only blizzard
in southern California and have awesome tough mountain friends. Here's
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to doing the hard things when needed. From Sheila, Oh,
that's incredible. People are amazing, and people fucking care about
each other, and people will like risk their own asses
for their neighbor when given the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The helpers, you gotta look for the helpers.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, I just love that. It's so lovely and also
the idea that that I mean, we heard, like kind
of heard about it, but I didn't realize it was
I didn't realize thirteen people died. That's so horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Hey, write us your helper stories, like the stories that
you've heard and like catastrophes and stuff of the helpers.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We want to hear those great idea my God.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And send them to My Favorite Murder at gmail. Thank
you for listening and being here and helping.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And stay sexy and don't get murdered. Give by Elvis.
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Speaker 4 (26:54):
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Love, Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder diminisode.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's right, it's been a minute since we recorded one
of these. Huh.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We got to get into our email mode. Yeah, here
we go are speaking and reading mode.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
We're representative of the listener this time.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
That's right. We are you you or we feel it,
feel us. You're gonna go first? Want me to go first?
You can go first?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Okay. My first one's called police lineups. Grandmothers and Banana Curls,
Karen Georgia and four Legged Friends. Ever wonder where cops
find random guys to fill their lineups? Sure, that's a
great question. Yeah, never did I until my dad told
me this now all time favorite story of his. Set
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the scene. It's the summer of nineteen eighty and Providence,
Rhode Island. My dad, fresh out of college, is working
at a UPS warehouse while determining what he wants to
do with the rest of his life. Dude, I almost
got a job at the UPS warehouse in Pedaluma after
I flunked out of college. I'd done like three sets
of stand up and I thought I was a failure.
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And I was just in Pedaluma going like I need
to get where do I do decent job?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And my Mom's like, UPS, you got to get over there.
They pay really well, and and then I was like,
I don't want to live, but shit, it's hard fucking
I mean, they pay well because it's hard work.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I had thought about that too, like working at the
post office might be kind of cool, like at the window,
you know that would be fun. I bet, yeah, tell
us if it is. Let's get some emails from UPS
and more post soworker.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, oh my god. They you know, they have the best. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Did you see the fucking UPS guy who or Amazon
guy I don't remember who, like walked through a fucking
standoff to deliver a packet?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
That was genius. The women narrating from a window, like
an amportment window above they're watching the stand Oh I haven't,
and then they start Yes, it's like they're kind of
giggling along because they're watching the standoff. And then here
comes the like whatever it was Amazon or UPS guy
just walking through. He's got a job to do, he
doesn't give a shit. I was like, is that guy
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high anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay? Fresh out of college?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
UPS warehouse Da da da da da One afternoon as
he's loading trucks. A police officer strolls in, takes the
manager aside, and then announces to the crew that he
needs a couple guys to help the extras in a
police lineup. He looks around the room and starts selecting men.
I'll take you and you. Oh, you'd be great, he says,
pointing straight at my dad standing there with his long,
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dark banana curls and thick eighties mustache.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What's banana curls?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I was going to ask you the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I as soon, just like thick curl big like.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think we might call them sausage curls. Yeah, okay,
should I ask mister goggles?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
While I tell you that, they say a young Tom
Selleck as my grandmother's friends used to all giggle.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh that's what he looked like, hot dad, banana curls.
What the fuck?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yep, it's essentially sausage curls. Okay, got it. In Rhode Island,
it's banana curls.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Excited for an opportunity to skip out of work early,
my dad and his friends piled into the back of
the police car and head towards the station on the
drive there. They pull up to a stoplight, and who
of all people happen to be in the car next
to them My grandmother, Margaret and my dad's older sister.
They turn to make eye contact, just in time for
my dad to smile and wave before the light turns
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green and the cop car takes off. Now, Nita, remind
you that this was pre cell phones. So my horrified
grandmother speeds off after the police car and ends up
at the station. She marches in and demands at the
front desk officer tell her what her son was being
held for. He looks at the reports and in sists
there's no record of my dad ever being there. While
Margaret argues with the officer, my dad has led into
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the building through the back door and directed straight into
the lineup. They do their thing, the purpose identified, and
then everyone else is sent on their way a typical
young man fashion. Rather than go home and let his
mom know he wasn't in any trouble, my dad and
the other guys decided to go grab a beer.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Meanwhile, poor Margaret frantically drives all over the state to
different police stations trying to find out what happened to
my dad. Oh no, and then they say, good thing,
we're talking about Rhode Island and not Texas. It wasn't
until several hours later that she finally got the call.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Turns out the real purp.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Was a serial flasher, So can't say Margaret was totally
relieved to hear her son put himself in a situation
where he could have been falsely identified. Yes, said, hey,
it's better than for murder, right, any who stay sexy.
And if you volunteer to stand in a police lineup,
don't forget to tell your LBQ.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
LBQ. First of all, you're one of our best presidents. Secondly,
what the fuck don't do? Don't volunteer to be in
a police let No, all.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I could think of how easily it could go bad.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I would have been turning to my co workers and
being like, okay, write this, take a picture, write this down,
Like what if I go and never fucking come back?
I mean, that's I think. Yeah, only people with banana
curls have the kind of freedom where they're like, I
don't have to worry about that. That's true.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm going to match your police story with another police story.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Cool. The subject line of this one is I'm pretty
sure that's illegal. Hi to literally everyone. I love it.
I put on my TikTok profile, which I don't I
literally follow four people and it's my sister and Nora
and two other people. But on there I put it's
literally me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The real caring Curl Garrett is literally me.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
It's literally me. Okay, this starts, let's get into it.
I work for an art museum that is federally funded,
meaning we don't have shit, and we are closed for
two of the seven days of the week. Nice. I
could tell you stories about how I have to tell
people to stop licking the art, that their mini poodle
is not a service dog, and that just because it's
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water doesn't mean you can drink inside. Man. They should
do like YouTube classes for how to act in a museum,
because I absolutely would take it and need it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I love being early to work, so when my boss
told me that my shift was canceled, I was already there.
So I turned around again and began to drive home.
There's a lot of the same information in different orders.
We get it, okay. So at two red lights in
a row, a cop car next to me pulled up
and I noticed it said canine unit, so I kept
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looking in and tried to see the dog. The officer,
thinking I was probably insane, motioned to me to put
down my window, and me, trying to seem normal, I yelled,
I'm okay, I just wanted to see the dog.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I rolled my window back up because the light turned
green as mister five OH started merging into my lane
and followed me for fifteen minutes. Oh dear, I started
crying because I was so scared as I pulled into
a parking lot in a busy, well lit area because
it's my mission to SSDGM, And sure enough, the cop
pulls in next to me and asked me to get
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out of my vehicle.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh dear, I'm a hispanic and was fully expecting the
worst as I got out of my vehicle as he
opened his trunk and let the patrol dog run out
with his tail wagging.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I spoke to the officer as I was letting myself
get licked to death by the sweet angel of a
dog for thirty minutes before the officer hands me as number.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
OH.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I said thank you politely and booked it home very happy.
The next day, I told my coworker what happened, and
she looked at me with open mouthed horror before going
off on how it was an abusive power and asking
if I was okay. I was just excited to see
a dog. But after some googling, yes, what he did
was illegal. S THISTGM and if you ever get pulled over,
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pull into somewhere brightly lit, busy and well known Katie who.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Good lesson, good lesson.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And it's like, how easily we're still tricked by dogs?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, like a little kid's Yes, like dogs. Oh yay.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I want to be a friend to the dog.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And they must be safe. This person must be safe
that they have a dog that's friendly.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Exactly, you're attributing the qualities of the dog onto the
driver of the car. Right, that's a good lesson for everybody.
Just keep an eye peeled. Meet people in bars when
they don't have outfits on, and then you can make
your decisions freely and clearly.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I hope they have outfits on, but not uniforms. Not
uniform Sorry, I mean I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Don't know what kind of bar you're going to. Not
there's no shame here.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You don't know about the nudist bar. Downderneath the rock.
Can you sist bar? No?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Sticky everything sticky? Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
This is called swipe right. Feel good dad story? Oh
another dad one? Okay, Hello Georgia, Karen and rock Star Team.
In the interest of keeping things short, I will just
dive in.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
In high school at a job as a.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Swim instructor, I got to tan all summer and teach little.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Kids and sometimes adults.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It says you would be surprised how to swim because
we are in such high demand. There is usually a
waiting list, and when we have availabilities, someone is automatically
assigned to you, meaning you don't get to choose your instructor.
Side note to those wanting to make money in the summer,
this is a great gig. One day, I was teaching
a new little boy how to do something, probably survive
in the pool. After I went and introduced myself to
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the parents first and last name to be polite, I
was about to start my speel of what the boy
and I should work on throughout the summer when I
noticed the shock on the parents' faces. The dad of
the boy asked if I was related to and proceeded
to say my father's name I Gittaly said, yeah, he's
my dad, and then the man and woman started to
cry and explain. Thirty years ago, this man was near
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death for some condition I cannot remember. He had seen
every specialist who all told him he would not survive.
In a final ditch effort to save his life, he
went to see my father. My father was an internal
medicine specialist and lung doctor from the sixties till his
death in twenty nineteen. He served as a doctor in
the Air Force, was an ICU doctor before settling down
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with his own practice. He sat on multiple boards fighting
for the rights of women to choose, for the rights
of black people, and so much more. He was also
a collector of odd things. I promised this comes in handy.
So on this day when the nan sobbing in front
of me, went to see my father explaining his condition,
my father had an idea. In the nineteen fifties and sixties,
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iron lungs were used to treat people with multiple types
of conditions, but were not used anymore because of modern technology.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Think big iron tank. You basically lay in. We've seen the.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Pictures with just your head sticking out. Yeah, it's so scary.
It's so scary.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
However, my father, the hoarder and collector, had said object
in the basement. Oh my god, he suggested they try it,
And thirty years later, this man was watching the daughter
of the physician who saved his life teaching his son
to swim. Oh no, oh, that got me a son
and family that would never have existed had my father
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not thought out of the box.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
We were all in tears by the end.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
See.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He was a brilliant man.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Who also battled bipolar disorder, but always said to me
to never stop asking questions or you won't find the
right answers and fight for your health. I have more
stories like this, and they fill me with joy when
I miss him. Twenty years later, after I met that man,
I now have a family and gave me my son
his name. Oh anyways, thanks for reading. H I love
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that story. I know what if they were like. Anyway,
your son is a terrible swimmer.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah that's nice, but guess.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What onto the business at hand? Here at the pool.
The subject line of this is kids are dumb, and
then in parentheses it says it's me. I'm the kid.
Just starts. Hey. First time writer, longtime listener, etc. You
guys are the best and got me through the long
days of quarantine with two little kids at home, while
also being pregnant and super nauseous all day every day
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with my third. Anyways, right, let's get into it. Yeah,
so scary, like so scary to be like, Oh, I'm
going to bring a new life into the world. What
the hell is going on? We're in quarantine, So scary. Anyways,
let's get into it. Somewhere along the way that's on
the email. I didn't say that. Somewhere along the way.
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You guys asked for stories of kids being dumb in
the nineties. I wish I had a good drunk kid story,
but all kids were unfortunately sober in this one. I
am a middle child with an older brother and a
younger brother who played every sport possible, so weekends growing
up were spent in any and all gymnasiums, either playing
or watching someone else play basketball. These basketball tournaments lasted
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all day Saturday and all day Sunday, and my mom
also volunteered to help with the concession stand if we
weren't playing that day, so basically we lived at the
gym for the winter. One of these weekends I was
bored and didn't want to watch my brother play what
seemed like his ninety fifth game of the day. So
I was exploring with some other friends I had to
bring around second grade at the time, and we were
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seeing what we could get into without our parents noticing
we weren't on the bleachers anymore. We found some payphones.
Oh dear, we found some payphones in the lobby, maybe
six of them in a row. And since we didn't
have any money to call an actual person, we have
the brilliant idea to dial different variations of nine one
one to see if any call would actually go through.
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I feel like children of today can't understand the feeling
of growing up before the Internet and before cell phones.
Where you when you were looking for fun, like this
person is talking about, you're literally like, maybe there'll be
a chair in the lobby, maybe there'll be a ladder,
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and if.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You will find like anything like office supplies that we
can play with, yes, of like.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
The flying cabinet we can get into and then lock
ourselves into accidentally, that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That's literally.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Meanwhile, today kids are like, I'm going to watch Frozen
on this screen, this screen and this screen. Okay, so
so they find payphones. Okay, my friends were dialing combinations
of numbers like nine one two one, nine one and
nine one oh and then hanging up. But no one
explained to me, but if you really dialed nine one one,
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the police would show up to where you were calling
from and check it out. Since I didn't know this
little detail, I thought to myself, why don't I just
call nine one one and if it goes through, I'll
hang up if someone answers the phone, and I'll be
cool story to tell my friends. So I called nine
one one. The operator picked up and asked what my
emergency was, and since I was a dumb, bored kid
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and it obviously wasn't an emergency, I hung up and
told my friends about it. It was only then that
they told me what would happen if you called nine
one one, and my stomach dropped. I started internally freaking
out that the police would come and arrest me. I
also didn't know what you really needed to do to
get arrested as an eight year old in the suburbs
of Detroit, So I went back to the bleachers and
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sat by my mom as if nothing had happened, hoping
that nothing else would happen. Oh my god, And that
sentence right there is little Karen's entire childhood just doing something.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I just did something.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I hope no one knows. I hope it doesn't get worse.
Then back in with the.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Crowd and hold your breath.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I bet you had the most obvious little kid face.
I bet your mom knew immediately, Like, what did Karen
do just now?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I think she did, But I think it's because early
on she told me she knew when I was lying,
which whether or not that's true, if you tell a
little kid that, then they're like then they're like, well,
I can't lie because she'll know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's so smart.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
That's so very very tricky wading.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Unfortunately, my friends were right, and the police did come
to the gym to check it out and make sure
everything was okay. When they couldn't see anything actually happening
that they would need to be called for. And this
is bolded, they proceeded to stop the basketball game, take
the microphone to center court and ask everyone who called
nine to one one from.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
The paper, Oh, I hope her friends aren't d Oh
my god, this they are busting balls.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Nightmare holy shit. Okay, the ultimate symbol of authority, and
you fucked with them.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, like an idiot.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Everyone's gonna know because you didn't have a dime. Okay.
They looked around and waited for someone to confess, while
explaining that this was a huge inconvenience for them and
a dangerous thing to do if there was no crime
to report. I was probably a dark shade of red
at that point, attempting to literally disappear from the bleachers
and also staring straight down hoping that none of my
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little friends would tell on me. Luckily they didn't. Nice no, nice,
sweet never rats. My mom never found out it was me,
and the ninety fifth basketball game of the day resumed.
Safe to say that I never called nine one one
from a payphone, car phone, or landline ever again after
that day, and neither did any of my friends.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Thanks for all you both do and for creating this
amazing community that we get to be a part of.
It is literally the best, stay sexy and only call
the police from a payphone if you actually want them
to show up. Marien, Mareene, Maureene, you nailed it. Isn't
that the fucking greatest?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm like kind of sweating a little bit from that
story where like I feel like I'm in trouble.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
This is just like when I got screamed at at
the science fair at my grammar school, because it starts
so innocently, and that's like the way that they're telling
the story where you're like, I'm bored, I'm gonna go
from this room to that room and just see what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And I only have eight years of information, so I
don't know how things fucking work yet, no or whatever.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
There's very little running scenarios and then going not that one,
not that one, not the right, and instead it's like, hey,
let's all go into this bathroom and see it's always that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I started running a girl's mousetrap like device at this
science fair. I just walked up and dropped the ball
and it went in this cool maze thing, and then
three kids came over and we're like what is that?
And I go watch this and then I started doing
it and I got this huge crowd around. Oh no,
the girl who built it was not there. I think
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she was sick that day, and so I was running
it like it was mine, and it was like this
show where I was let loving it, and then yeah,
missus Patterson came over and screamed like, how dare you
touch someone else's saying? And I was just like, wow, lady, wow, lady,
very awful.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's meant to be touch Yeah. Oh, my last one
made me cry. Okay, it's called four year old Murderino,
lighthearted with a twist. It just starts among the spooky,
slightly haunted things my four year old has said to
me this week. And then it says, quote, your grandma
is an angel, but she isn't dying yet, or quote
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I saw Bigfoot, but I can't see his eyes, et cetera. Today,
while driving, she told me, matter of factly, that girl
gave a goat a cookie.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
What girl? What goat?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm a single mom, so there are very few things
my daughter does in her little world that I am
not aware of. Needing to know what exactly she was
referring to, I followed up, calmly, is it something that
happened on YouTube?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Did this happened at the farm with Mimi and Papa. No,
maybe you.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Dreamt this last night after we had cookies for a dessert. No,
clearly she had seen and offered a treat to the Antichrist,
and then she said they was in your car. I
then realized that just a moment before a minnesota've been
playing quietly in the background, and while I wasn't paying attention,
she was. She was talking about you, Georgia and your
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pet quote goat, Elvis.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Oh your goat? Oh you little good? Do you want
to cook you? When it ended, and then he makes
that noise that does not sound like a cat. Oh
my god, I cried.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh sweet?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Is that? I'm literally this like the person I've cried
in six months. Although my small daughter is now one
of your biggest fans, I'm thinking it might be time
for me to stop listening with her. Thank you for everything,
just everything. See that is so delightful.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
The girl gave a go to cookie. You know it's
like that. He that's kind of yeah, it kind of
sounds like that. Okay, here's my last one. This is
pretty awesome because we just talked on the main episode,
I think a week or two ago about the crazy
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weather in LA. It's been raining pouring non stop, but
up in Crestline, like Arrowhead near Big Bear, they've had
like record breaking snow. So we got a story from there. Okay.
The subject line is I survived the twenty twenty three
Southern California blizzard and it just hello. I was out
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shoveling the ninety one inches of snow that we received
in Crestline over the past week while listening to your
podcast where you mentioned getting some snow in Los Angeles.
Crestline is a small community of about three thousand people
in the San Bernardino Mountains at five thousand feet elevation.
We typically get a couple snowstorms a year, and all
of us are prepared for one to three feet in
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a winter storm. This March twenty twenty three was the
first blizzard that ever occurred in southern California, and it
smacked right into our little town. We got ninety one
inches of snow and a neighboring town got one hundred
and twenty inches, and the county did not plow our
roads for almost a week, so by the time they
got around to it, it was a full blown crisis.
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There was six to eight feet of snow on all
the roads and buildings. Our grocery store and eight other
stores in town, a hardware store, tire store, etc. Collapsed
under the weight of the snow, a total of thirteen
people have been found dead in their homes so far.
Oh my god, I had no idea. I knew about
the snow, but I did not realize that that many
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people had been trapped and died in their homes. So
it goes on to say, however, as always, the helpers
come out of the community.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm definitely going to crider yees.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
However, as always, the helpers come out of the community
and make things happen, and there are lots of them
up here. I am blown away by all the friends
I have who are suffering with collapsing roofs and structural
damage to their homes, but are still organizing within a
day to get a helicopter drop of food after the
CHP closed off all roads into our town and got
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that food out to the residents who are homebound, plus
setting up coordinated online system to allow people to ask
for wellness checks, which were conducted by other residents. So essentially,
this community organized and then just went in and tried
to take care of their own wow, or did take
care of their own. They even coordinated to invite the
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World World's Central Kitchen up here to feed people without
power or natural gas and pass out produce. The people
I wanted to write you about, though, are two badass heroes,
Katie Curtis and Erica Griffith, both single moms who went
out of their way to help through this. Erica brought
her two young children to a remote ranch on an
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unplowed road on the outskirts of our town to live
in a small caretaker's house and care for the ill
homeowner and her horses through the storm. She shoveled, snow
fed horses, and kept up the property by herself through
the entire seven day blizzard before walking home with two
children and digging eight feet of snow off of her
(24:42):
own house. Holy shit, My friend Katie found out that
a family on an unplowed road had a child who
needed to be on oxygen. The family had no power,
was running out of gas for their generator, and had
no way to get help quick enough. Katie put on
her snow shoes, found an old sled, and heiked a
(25:04):
five gallon gas can five miles in the snow to
deliver the gas that the family needed, even though she
didn't know them and had kids of her own to
take care of. This is a single mother amazing. They
have to put on snowshoes because you can't walk in
that much snow. You're not just walking down the street
to help your neighbor. I mean, this is insane. I
(25:27):
can't imagine it, says. I know these are all small
acts of bravery and the overall scheme of things. But
when Katie asked why she did it, she said, I'm
fortunate to have a healthy body and I'm able to
do hard things. That's an amazing quote. So that's my fucking
hooray through all of this. I survived the only blizzard
in southern California and have awesome tough mountain friends. Here's
(25:50):
to doing the hard things when needed. From Sheila, Oh,
that's incredible. People are amazing, and people fucking care about
each other, and people will like risk their own asses
for their neighbor when given the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The helpers, you gotta look for the helpers.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, I just love that. It's so lovely and also
the idea that that I mean, we heard, like kind
of heard about it, but I didn't realize it was
I didn't realize thirteen people died. That's so horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Hey, write us your helper stories, like the stories that
you've heard and like catastrophes and stuff of the helpers.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We want to hear those great idea my God.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And send them to My Favorite Murder at gmail. Thank
you for listening and being here and helping.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And stay sexy and don't get murdered. Give by Elvis.
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Speaker 4 (26:54):
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