June 1, 2025 • 49 mins
Time to set sail for True Crime Madness!
Join us as we begin our journey towards the Palmyra Atoll Murders, aka 'the Sea Wind Murders.'
In part one, "Meet the Grahams" we lay the groundwork for four of the main characters in the series and do our absolute best to explain the critical importance of materials science and going to court in order to save your girlfriend from going to prison!!!
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00:00 Intro to Ep 133
03:57 Buck, Stephanie and the Iola's Backstory
05:27 Buck's Backstory
09:13 Fiberglass? or FiberA**?
11:35 The Launch of the Iola and Its Superstitions
19:40 The Catastrophic Launch of the Iola
21:20 Meet the Grahams - Mac and Muff
30:57 Mac and Muff's Plan
34:22 Knuck if You Buck
44:58 Muff Fears for the Worst
46:03 Closing Thoughts
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Inspired by a break in the severe weather, Sharon Jordan
decided to use this opportunity to take a calm straw along the
shoreline of Palmyra Atoll. The recent storms had been
fierce and debris had been washed up onto the beach, mostly
scraps of metal, parts of Old Shipwreck's trash to anyone
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unaware of the island's more disturbing history.
But as she walked along, poking through anything random that
caught her eye, she discovered alarge metal box.
She opened it and found human remains, a young woman who had
been shot in the head and whose face had been burned off with an
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Acetylene torch. I didn't see you there.
It all started early this morning.
From hunting ghosts to Bigfoot UFOs.
Cryptids, true crime, paranormal, and more I always
wanted to see. AUFO Oh, I was.
I was researching for your entertainment.
That's Bigfoot's guess. He basically wrote the book on
Monarch. We aren't really comedians.
What if Buddha did cocaine? The Addams family on meth.
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This is the Black Hat report. See you on the other side.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Black Cat Report, where
every week we try to make you slightly more unrelatable, even
amongst your strangest friends. My name is Gil and joining me
for episode 133, my favorite person with a pineapple allergy,
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Joey Lee. Do you know anybody else with
the pineapple allergy? No, they all died because I fed
them pineapples. You're the only ones who's
managed to dodge the poison. That's made me feel special
because I've had it many times. So while being allergic, while
finding out I was allergic because it happened to me when I
got turned 35 or something like that.
I don't know how bodies work. So how allergens work.
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But guilt. Before you get into this
episode, I just want to say, andI think we all want to say like
the audience as well. Thank you thank you for doing
these wonderful episodes. Thank you for taking the time to
do all the scripts, all the reading, all the stuff.
We know it takes time out of your life.
I don't know why I'm saying thisnow, but I just felt like I
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wanted to say it. So thank you.
You are the best and I think everybody is going to give you a
clap. You know, for a good job well
done on all these episodes. Thank you.
Good job I'm. Going to delay your next
pineapple poisoning a couple weeks for that one, but that was
nice. Thank you so much.
That's the. Reason I said it.
Joey, give me just 60 seconds. I've got 2 quick things to say
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before we dive in. All right, first, the next
episode of Beer, Booze and Boogeyman is coming up at
exactly one week on Saturday, June 7th at 7:30 PM Eastern,
where we'll be taking live callsand reading paranormal stories
from first responders. So if you are a cop, paramedic,
firefighter, or just quick on your feet during an emergency
and you've ever had an unexplainable experience while
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on call, we'd love to hear it. Please consider submitting your
story to the B3 website, which can be found at Ghost dot Beer.
That's GHOST dot BEER, or you can click the link found in this
episode show notes. Second, our main source for this
whole series will be the fantastically well written,
massively long book titled And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent
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Bugliosi. Now, with announcements out of
the way and only one shameless self promotion for our Patreon
embedded just a little later in this episode, let's set sail for
Palmyra Atoll. All right, It was about 60
seconds. That was about 6 seconds.
Good job. That was a good minute of my
life. I feel like well earned.
Good job. Take a breath.
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Yeah. It's like 80°.
Up where you are right now, 90°.It's it's so hot in this duty.
You can tell. Got the beach effect going.
Yeah, it looks like you just came from the beach.
Pretty much I'm going to be swimming by the end of this one.
An unmistakable cracking sound echoed off the walls in water
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around Malaya Bay as a salvage crane accidentally snapped the
mast of the Margaret while pulling her from a shallow shore
grave in the early 1970s. More destined for death than
reincarnation, the Margaret was a 30 foot long wooden sailboat
with a storied history of tempting the dreams of beginners
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and quickly sinking their hopes.As was the case when the
market's first post salvage owners, a young married couple
who sunk their blood, sweat and savings into their novice
attempts and making the Margaretseaworthy again.
After sitting on blocks near theharbour for two years, she was
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purchased by the couple for $400.00 and soon the makeover
began. The cabin was stripped and
refinished, while the wooden hall was given a new life when
they patched over cracks from bow to stern with fiberglass.
This was a rookie mistake, one that was perfectly overlooked by
the next owners of the Margaret,Dwayne Buck Walker and Stephanie
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Stearns, who after pulling together every ounce of their
savings, purchased the Margaret for $2260 in the year of our
murders, 1974. Just like the year of our Lord,
the year of our Lord and Savior Palmyra Atoll.
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An ex convict, Buck was on the fast track to get the hell out
of Hawaii and begin life as a fugitive on the high seas with
his flower child girlfriend Stephanie.
Time was of the essence, as Buckwas actively planning to skip
his upcoming court hearings for a drug charge, the paperwork of
which, once it made its way off the island and through the legal
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system, would eventually be flagged as a parole violation.
That would send him right back to federal prison in San
Quentin, a chain of events Buck would do anything to avoid.
And so, armed with a library card and a scheme, Buck set off
to work to repair the Margaret as quickly and cheaply as
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possible. Though having only had
experience building houseboats with his father some many years
earlier, to say Buck would even qualify as an amateur yachtsman
would be a huge overstatement. Which needs us briefly back to
the fiberglass. You know, I would say he how
many things you can do with a library card.
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Like, you know, like the librarycard in a dream should be a song
because it's literally all you need.
I'm not gonna disagree. Unfortunately, Buck didn't have
a buck. So this episode is brought to
you by your local library. Are you on the run?
Cuz you can sleep in the parkinglot.
See, while fiberglass stays firmin its shape and structure,
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making it an excellent shell forboats, wood, on the other hand,
tends to expand and contract vigorously as it rides through
environmental fluctuations such as heat, humidity, and constant
exposure to water and sun. Furthermore, wooden planks creak
and slide as they shift and settle naturally adapting to the
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hostile waves in the open sea. This is.
A huge incompatibility here. Well, it's crazy how many boats
back in the day were made of wood and I guess that's just the
only thing they had and, and youknow, they weren't treated so
they had to figure out ways to to make boats work, even if they
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could expanded and contracted. So it's amazing boats just
didn't sink. More well, they had pitch and
they had tar and they had all different sorts of oils and ways
of like aging and treating and curing wood for ships like
specifically for for sure for ships.
And they use the, you know, whenI mentioned the fact that the,
the planks kind of slide and creak and go back and forth,
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That's one of the reasons why onwooden ships you don't really
see them, especially like the old wooden ships, the ones that
had been used for thousands of years before the 1950s when
fiberglass hulls were invented or, you know, became popular.
They use like pitch and tar for patching between those because
that was flexible and it also changed consistency with the
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temperatures. The same with the wood, wood,
right? So but when you introduce
something that that is going to be expanding and contracting and
shifting and moving and you infuse it with something that is
rigid and hard and never changesmore or less that's going to
create issues immediately. Materials are so important when
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it comes to living that yacht lifestyle.
Jesus Christ, I learned way too much about material science and
boating. That's important.
Also, welcome to relationship advice from Black Cat Report.
If you're too rigid and stiff and can't bend, you're going to
have issues. Keep it sticky between the
cracks y'all. Now you see.
Don't have issues then I. Think I was saying so, as
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fiberglass hauls were a relatively new trend for
sailboats at this time in the early 70s.
Knowledge of this incompatibility was kind of in
the no man's land of common sense, being well understood in
the boating community but not yet widely written about in the
library books Buck and Stephaniehad been rushing through to
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study. Yeah, it's always behind.
Publishing didn't exactly happenas quick back then, and I don't
know how much the Honolulu library was getting in fresh
shipments from the mainland backthen.
You know Well, as such, when Buck began repairs, he started
by patching fiberglass cracks inthe Hall of the Margaret.
This means he was essentially patching patches, but this was
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par for the course along with the literal boatload of other
mistakes and quick fixes. Including when he created a
homemade mast by tying together 340 foot long 2 by sixes, then
bolting them under the deck. All while following a DIY book
on how to brace the mast and additional sails around the
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already duct tape boat exterior.This is the most rinky dink
looking ship you can imagine. Yeah, I want to imagine that
that thing busts off eventually.You remember from episode what
would it be 131 we talked about Palmyra told specifically how
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unbelievably difficult it is even for the most hardened
veterans, you know, skilled sailors, skilled sailors and
folks to like damn near impossible for them to even get
near get in two. It's a huge pain in the ass.
Notorious, notorious the world over, right and you know, as you
can tell from the title of this this series, that's where
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they're going to be sailing to. So keep this in mind well.
They'll pay a toll, I imagine. Long of a short of it.
I can literally just hear this boat as I'm reading through the
descriptions in the book. Just saying kill me, kill me,
put me out of my misery. It's boat doesn't want to live.
It's an old grandma with like, smoker's cough, you know, for 80
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years, 90 years. And it's just like, just kill
me. Well, in truth, the only forces
more powerful than Buck's ego and inexperience were reality
and luck, which teamed up and delivered a rude awakening soon
after he quote completed the Margaret just four months after
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its purchase. Another red flag.
There it was on April Fool's Day, April 1st, 1974, when
locals, shocked and skeptical, gathered around the dock to
watch the intended launching of Buck and Stephanie's boat.
An event that honestly was more of a spectacle than a
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celebration. A sentiment perfectly summed up
in the words of a salty old man,Charlie, who when the process
began, was overheard saying quote, Never thought I'd see the
day this old cow went back in the water.
That guy knows what's happening too.
He's just like, that thing is going to sink though.
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And the book brings up a good point, which there, you know,
this is a major Bay or like harbor in Hawaii.
Boat launchings were happening every 5 seconds.
This was like, that's normal. That's just normal.
This specific boat. Locals gathered around like oh
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shit, what is about to happen? You know that there's just a
bunch of kids. You know there's a bunch of kids
just like watching. Just be like that thing's gonna
sink. Hey, what you doing, man, Mr.
You know, like just, I don't know why they had like a old New
Jersey. They got a death wish, Mr.
Death. Wish you're gonna die out there,
Mr. You know, like just all these crazy kids.
Just tell them you suck. I'll put 10 on two days, yeah.
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They're betting those like gangster kids are betting from
like New York. I it's.
That's just how I envision it. They stop their marbles game to
bet on this bone ladders. People were in disbelief on so
many levels, partially because anyone was going to attempt to
sail the ocean with this notoriously unreliable ship, but
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also that the people who were going to sail the ship decided
to flagrantly break a well knownsuperstition when they renamed
the boat from the Margaret to the Iola, an action seen as a
direct assault against luck and known the world over as a bad
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idea. Never renamed.
Sailing is one of those industries that is so ripe with
superstition, which when you picture the kind of shit sailors
go through and how much they really they're praying more to
their boat than they are to God in these situations.
There's a lot of superstition wrapped up around this, and one
that it crosses cultures, crosses times, crosses
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everything. As you never, ever rename your
boat. Ever.
Whatever its name is, that's what it stays.
But they were hippies. Well, Stephanie was, and after a
long night of drinking and smoking pot, she suggested that
they renamed it the Iola, which in Hawaiian means to life.
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No, it's just no. Yeah.
No, never say that on never say that as a boat and never say as
a person First off to life because you immediately die
afterwards. I think that that's the whole
thing is that you immediately die and then you're like, hey,
let's do something against the most unpredictable thing we can
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go in besides space. If you want to compare space and
the ocean is very similar in that they're super
unpredictable. Things can happen, yeah, let's
say that to life, you know, cheers into that.
And then your boat capsized in ahurricane.
That's kind of how it. Happens we'll get into this
entirely in Part 2, but even thedogs, or at least one of the
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dogs was like only trained in Hawaiian for commands.
And I want to point out this, this is these are two like of
the most European looking motherfuckers you can imagine.
You know, strawberry blonde hair, light brown hair, constant
sunburn, just being like paka paka.
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Oh my God. Malay Malay, Paka Malay.
Yeah, it's just like, please stop saying that.
They they are the hippies that you're picturing right now.
Yeah, well, as I said, this was a bad idea renaming the ship, a
bad idea that would soon manifest in the form of a very
rookie mistake. Buck has secured the Iola to a
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boat winch with nylon rope, which at the moment of the big
launch quickly led to a dark comedy catastrophe.
As spectators looked on, Stephanie stood on the Iola's
deck, frowned, holding a huge bottle of champagne ready to
christen the ship, just beaming with joy, while Buck and that
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random salty old man Charlie slowly cranked and lowered the
Iola off her trailer and down a boat ramp.
It was a tedious process for a 30 foot wooden yacht, involving
placement of boards for support and precise adjustments to ropes
and pulleys. To carefully and slowly, you
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know, lower this and raise that a lot of terms, which, because I
live in the mountains, I don't care enough to study.
Nevertheless, while Charlie worked the winch and Buck ran
around making checks and changes, the nylon rope attached
to one side of the ship suddenlystretched like a rubber band,
causing the Iola to fall on its side and sending Stephanie
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through the air and into Buck's arms.
Which wouldn't have been a big deal if not for the fact that
during the process the boat landed directly on 2 steel
beams, critically puncturing itsalready multi patched hall.
Dude. Check.
I didn't even get it in the fucking walk.
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Check your tension when you're using rope.
When you're using any kind of thing to haul something, check
how much the tension can pull itbefore you do this.
And don't use nylon. Rope, well, you would use super
heavy, honestly. Well, for for this specific
situation, you know, there's a reason why if you go to harbors
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and you see those large ships and stuff that are kind of like,
you know, they're on those giantcables that are coming down from
the ships and they're set up there.
You only use stuff that doesn't stretch, right?
Because you don't want it to stretch and start pulling and
rocking because guess what? It's sitting in the water.
It's just going to be stretchingand rocking.
You need to be taught or snap one of the two, right?
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Well, again, a lot of material information, but this is this is
based around islands and boats. So I'm sorry I got to give you
all the little back story on it,but I think I've made my case
about where Stephanie and Buck are at as boaters.
They're really bad, so they're really bad and they are novice
and so it's going to be fun watching them.
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Yeah, Sail. It's.
Going to be a blast. Well, seeing what had happened,
Buck proceeded to flip the buck out on poor little old Charlie,
screaming in his face and squaring up to fight him, while
in the background hippie Jennifer tried to calm him down,
saying it wasn't that big of a deal and probably dropping lines
like it's what the universe wanted etcetera.
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Well, this one sided screaming match continued on for a moment
until Buck finally got into their car and speed off, leaving
Stephanie standing on the dock, still holding an unopened bottle
of champagne in front of a crowdof onlookers.
Stephanie. Now that make me feel bad for
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Stephanie. Now, and I, I don't know if this
is really legal for me to do, I might cut this out later, but I
did get the full list of names, the names of the the onlookers
that were there. And a few of the names sounded
really familiar. They were Bud, Tom Thomas,
Little Mystery Bob Betsubaye, Lucas, Tim D Max, Ian Morgan,
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Dragon Ball, Tim Miller, MarissaGavin, Rachelle, Eve, Jaden,
Jackie, Yellow Bear, Dwayne AKA Snatch Twat, Alyssa, Bree,
Michael, Extreme Christian from the Paranormal Girl Podcast
James, and most shocked of all, our sexiest producer.
Happy Kitty and happy, Happy birthday.
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Yeah. We love you.
Happy Kitty. Yeah.
Thank you all for on looking on this Boat episode.
Now listen, y'all, your secret'ssafe with us.
We won't tell anyone you were there when this crime went down
or that you're all beloved members of the Black Cat Report
Patreon, but moving on, moving on.
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I do picture Charlie there when all this went down, just in the
background is being like I should have never left the ice
wall. Just.
Yeah, he was there, Charlie. I mean, Charlie's always on the
boat, Charlie. I just picture this older guy
kind of with like you know to. Be a Charlie.
He's got to be a Charlie everywhere you go.
He just has a tank top, you know, with like some like surf
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company on it. They called him Red Face
Charlie. Yeah, yeah.
And he's just probably putting down a pint of schnapps every
other day, you know, probably every day.
Just like, damn, I'm getting tooold for this.
If I had my life all again, I would just, I would do it again,
actually. As a vampire, I'm getting too
young for this. Charlie is a vampire.
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Well, meanwhile in San Francisco, some 2000 miles away,
Mack and Muff Graham when their final weeks of preparation for
an extended trip through the Pacific.
Their ship the Sea Wind was everything the Iola wasn't and
its captain Mack was everything Buck wasn't.
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A competent sailor who had left his life as an engineer to
travel the world. Mack had been sailing since
before he was able to walk. It was a multi generational
passion and his family 1 he tookvery seriously and for those
that knew him all would agree hewas made for.
It had been 14 years since Mack had bought the Sea Wind and in
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that time he had carefully and painstakingly replaced or
customized every single inch of the stunning all wood 38 foot
long yacht. To say the Sea Wind was an
instant celebrity in any harbourit pulled into would be an
understatement. Fitted with only top of the line
equipment and maintain with the most high quality of materials,
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many would assume it was owned by a millionaire, though that
couldn't be farther from the truth.
In reality, Mack had worked his way up to becoming an engineer
at General Motors by the time hewas 28, but had been miserable
and desperately trying to get away from corporate life since
the day he had first stepped into the office.
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His fate would have it his uncle, whom he was very close
to, passed away and left him with an inheritance of $100,000.
Not a small sum, but not enough to retire on either.
And so the 28 year old Mack methodically moved this money
into secure investments and was able to make a small financial
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safety net that enabled him to quit his corporate job and begin
what would become a multi year long search for the perfect
sailboat. A quest that ended with the
$20,000 purchase of the Sea Wind.
Yachts. During this time and ever since,
whenever the fiscally cautious Mack deemed it necessary, he
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would work odd jobs in harbors where he wouldn't quickly be
hired and then often promoted upthrough any number of sailboat
related businesses. The scenario would play out
regularly, even though it was always well understood by his
employer that his stay would be temporary.
Simply put, boat shop owners loved Mac, not just for his
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reliability and incredible work ethic, but his unmatched skills
and talents when it came to building and maintaining
sailboats. These jaunts into regular
employment enabled Mac to gain access to professional
equipment, discounts on gear, and connections for deals the
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benefits of which he would lovingly put back into the
remodeling and maintenance of the Sea Wind.
So while the Sea Wind could proudly stand next to a
millionaire's yacht, in truth, it was the gem of a working
man's dreams and decades of dedication like.
Yeah, do what you love, you know, and you know, for all of
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you out there, if you're workingcorporate jobs, you know, get
through it, find something you love, dedicate time into it.
Even when you're working on yourcorporate job, dedicate time
into it. Like this guy and he found a way
to get to it. And that's amazing.
I imagine that him working at docs and stuff like that, they
probably don't care if like you're gone in two months
because that's kind of just the life, you know, if you're like a
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sea hand. This would be like shipbuilding
places, ship repair places for like millionaire's yachts.
And even though he'd be like, well, I only plan to be here for
four to six months, they'd be like, hey, we've seen what you
can do in a week. We want to make you manager.
Like it was like he was taking titles everywhere he went,
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moving up, because they were like, look, dude, even if you're
just here for a little while, we're going to learn so much
from you that it's worth the fact that we're going to have to
retrain somebody. He was coming in as like a day
laborer or grunt, and within a week or a month getting hired
into management. The dude was a badass.
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He knew exactly what he was doing, right?
Well, this passion was somethingthat Matt's wife, whom he
lovingly called Muff, short for Muffin, was all too aware of
when she married Matt. By 1974, the two of them had
been married for 13 years and byall accounts were still madly in
love with one another. They had travelled the world
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multiple times, fought off pirates, braved storms that
swallowed ships twice their size, and as a result became the
perfect sailing crew with unrivaled chemistry veterans who
were battle hearted by adventures on the open sea.
This was a power couple. Yeah, like 100% this.
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This couple was a badass. They experienced a lot, you
know, so that makes great teamwork.
You know, eventually you just figure out how to work a boat
together, and that's awesome. And they fought off freaking
pirates. I think yeah, like through the
Mediterranean, like multiple times.
Like there was like stories about them in the Red Sea, them
throughout the Mediterranean. They're like all travels through
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the Orient. Like it was just like there
could be a movie series just made off of this couple just
traveling. Like they just so much crazy
shit. I think they're, I didn't
include it, but their initial honeymoon was like a six year
cruise like our sailboat. Dang, that's cool though.
Jesus. Yeah, that's longer than most
modern folks's marriages. Like that's true.
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Yeah, six year honeymoon across the world.
I mean, it's definitely a specific type of person's life.
Like, you know, you have to lovebeing on the sea.
You have to love the idea of it because it's you're just out
there all the time and you're like, where?
Where are you in dry dock? Just maybe to fix a few holes
every once in a while. Well, even still, as the years
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passed, Muff began to occasionally express a desire to
settle down. She sometimes wish that they
would chill on all these world travels and just maybe pleasure
sale like so many others that they would meet as they would go
to these harbors and make friends with new people.
But it was a dream that she learned to deny When she saw the
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look in Mac's eyes, her beloved husband deep in his element, She
had to accept that the very reason she loved him so much
came from the passion still burning from Mac's first
marriage. The sea sailing and the sea
wind. That's very appreciative and
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beautiful, honestly, that she saw that and it sucks that she
that that sucks in in a way, butit is beautiful to appreciate
that of like, well, if I change that about that person, you
know, in either side of it, is that like, oh, then I would
that's what I would be the same person.
Yeah. Muffin just wanted the proof,
you know, a little Baker joke, if you guys know what I mean.
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There was some cute lines too oflike them.
Talking because she was always insecure.
You know, when they met, she waslike young, in her 20s,
hourglass figure, constantly used to being hit on by fucking
everybody. And she was, I think it was in
San Diego or San Francisco, but her car broke down one night.
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And of course, Mac showed up. He had been walking through,
like, downtown and was like, oh,you got carp troubles when
pushed. Her car got her car started,
like, literally just magically from scratch.
Like, I'm sure he took like, some paper clips and a pencil.
The dude is a mechanical genius.He's an engineer from GM.
So yeah, he probably knows exactly what's going on and he
became like a mid level engineerafter graduating college.
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So in like 4 years he was already like a mid level
engineer in General Motors. And this is like that close to
the like around heyday time of General Motors.
So like, that's fucking impressive.
Yeah. But anyways, you know, Max
showed up, he's only a couple years older than her, got the
car started and and as he's like, hey, well would you, would
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you like to go get a drink? She was so close to saying no,
like she was set because she hadgot hit on so fucking much.
But there was that spark and she's like, yeah, you know what?
I will, I'll, I'll, I'll go get a drink with you as a thank you
for fixing my yeah, yeah. And it was love.
Just immediately it was fucking love.
They they hit it off. So really, really fucking cute
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couple. And over the years, like I was
saying, she got self-conscious. And so she was always until
these different fad diets, like one that I laughed about from
family history, but she got intothe apple cider vinegar craze
and like the 70s trying to lose weight.
And so Muff had a little bit of a muffin top and Mac, even
though he kind of looked like anex marine, the guy was built,
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you know, he'd been doing sailboats and hard labor for
over however many years. I mean, to be like, I love every
curve and entrance. Wherever you baby, you're my
dream come true. Got.
Comfy. They were so cute.
They got comfy. That's.
That's so beautiful. Yeah, really fucking cute.
Love with Black Cat Report and. Then they were fucking murdered.
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There's going to be a lot of people in this story.
So This is why we're getting allthat.
We're getting the intro episodes, right?
Well, in four weeks, Mack and Moth would be leaving San Diego
and heading to Hawaii, where they would stay for a month
before sailing off to an obscureuninhabited island, Palmera
Toll. Once there, they plan to explore
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the island and live in the tropical paradise for somewhere
upwards of seven months. So they were going to go there
and basically set up a temporaryhome.
It was a dream Mack had cooked up in his never ending quest for
adventures. He had meticulously researched
the island and prepared for the trip with the same cautious
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intensity that so hallmarked every major move in his life,
during which time he had haunteddown and interviewed the rare
few who'd been Zapal. Myra, such as World War 2
veteran Al Horton, was stationedthere from 1942 to 1944.
Folks at Listen episode 131 might remember this well.
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Mack and Muff had dinner with Hal shortly before their
departure from San Diego. He had a lot to say about the
island, most critically how to safely navigate into Palmyra
through its notoriously narrow coral reef channel.
Most ominously, and much to the fears of Muff, Hal shared other,
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more disturbing memories from his time spent on Palmyra.
Quote. Once one of our patrol planes
went down near the island. We searched and searched, but
didn't find so much as a bolt orpiece of metal.
It was weird, like they dropped off the edge of the earth.
Another time, a plane took off from the runway, climbed to a
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couple 100 feet and turned in the wrong direction.
They were supposed to go north and they went S instead.
It was broad daylight. We could never figure it out.
There were two men aboard that plane.
We never saw them again. We had some very bad luck on
that island. Old Salts in the Pacific called
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it the Palmyra Curse. And that was just Tuesday.
The island is very small, you could fly over at 10,000 feet
and not see it if there were a few clouds in the sky.
Once we heard a plane overhead trying to find us, but he
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crashed in the drink before he could find the runway.
We didn't get to the poor guy fast enough.
Sharks found him first. End Quote.
Wait a minute, is that is that Charlie?
Oh, give me some snacks left. Peppermint snacks.
Like they fell off the edge of the earth.
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Wait a second. That's that's that's Charlie.
Yeah, Yeah. Captain Butler is.
That Butler, is that you? That's just Charlie.
I miss Captain Butler. Yeah.
Yeah, I miss Captain Butler. Such a character.
We need to check in on him. Yeah, we'll do a revisit one
day. I heard there were sequels of
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the books that are supposed to be historical.
I don't know how that works. Well, I guess time keeps on
slipping. History has sequels.
World War One, World War 2, the sequel.
That's what I believe. We're going to now refer to
World War 2 as the sequel. Back in Hawaii, Stephanie and
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Buck were sitting through fears and tensions during an awkward
dinner with Stephanie's mother and brother.
Who, and a last ditch effort, had flown in from the mainland
to try and convince her not to run away and become a fugitive
Makes sense. Spurred to action by a letter
they had received some time earlier, Stephanie's family read
through the flowery veil of hippie optimism and were
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planning to do whatever they could to pull her away from an
obviously bad decision. But the more that they talked,
the more fears they found. Stephanie had little to no
filter and even less tact for selling their plan with any tone
of common sense saying the two were going to head off to an
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undisclosed deserted island, laylow for a while, then eventually
return. At which point Buck would turn
himself in, and the judge would be so impressed by the fact that
Buck hadn't caused any trouble while he was a fugitive that he
would probably just let him go. You know, the old you're pretty
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chill defense. It's absolutely bulletproof.
They won't. Yeah, that's also, that's also,
if you believe it, that's also what Jesus did.
He went and laid low for three days and then he came back and
it's like, you know, I am prettychill.
You know, you disappeared. You all were pretty chill and
then disappeared for a while. Yeah, I'm going to make more
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random comparisons throughout these episodes that make.
Sense to to to buck and Jesus. Well, it was a plan as solid as
their ship, and much like the the ICER restart, well, it was a
plan as solid as their ship, andmuch like the Iola on launch
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day, it was at risk of being pierced by reality.
As it turns out, the family had only narrowly made it in time as
Buck was planning to skip going to his court hearing the next
day. And while they all knew Buck was
going to try and run from the law eventually, what they didn't
know, what they were just finding out at dinner, was that
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Stephanie had also been arrestedas an accomplice in Buck's most
recent crime. Yeah, her family looked on in
shock as she told them how Buck was arrested for selling MDA to
an undercover comp in the parking lot of AJC Penny and
that the police then proceeded to arrest her at a laundry mat
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right down the street. She raged about how unfair it
was to arrest Buck under false pretenses that he was entrapped
and that MDA, which I'll explainin just a moment, was more like
grass and not even that big of adeal.
Cows eat it when you're thinkingof MDA.
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Now when you're thinking of MDMAor MDA, think ecstasy or as we
called it in my day, Molly, which chemically is MDMA.
Whereas MDA, the drug Buck was busted selling to an undercover,
is chemically more like a close cousin to MDMA.
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Not quite as popular and obscureto come across these days, but
more widely known about during this very specific period of
time in the 70s, right. So it's kind of a, I wouldn't
say an early precursor. I think it came later, but it's
like really similar. I'm not.
Saying it's the Donnie. Wahlberg of delta, yeah, you
know, or the D8 versus, you know, just straight up THC.
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I like my comparison. D9D8 Yeah, it's the Danny
Wahlberg the. Donnie Wahlberg.
So the Donnie. Wahlberg and.
You know it's not as cool as Mark Wahlberg.
It's like if Danny DeVito was inlike was in Rush Hour instead of
Jackie Chan. That's basically what the drug
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is. Well, you want me to shoot
somebody? Yeah.
And then I started. Blasting.
Yes. I want you to shoot.
I don't know. That was good.
Chris Rock there. Starting blast there, Chris.
Thank you. Yeah, Chris Tucker.
Sorry, Chris Tucker, right? Chris Tucker.
Chris Tucker? Yeah, we'll delete that out.
He will come and beat your ass. He will.
He does. Well, do that.
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So anyways, while Stephanie madeher stump speech about how
unfair the cops were, she also told her family how if Buck goes
to court tomorrow and pleads guilty, the charges against her
would be dropped. Now to make this a little more
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clear, all Buck had to do was goto court, plead guilty and
leave. If he did that, he would be
given a court date and released that day, just free to go free
from all legal consequences until whenever he had to show
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back up. He wasn't going straight to
jail. Yeah, never take the easy way.
And his girlfriend Stephanie would forever be free and clear
of all this. Hearing this, her brother's jaw
dropped. But maintaining composure, he
managed to be a good bro and offered to accompany Buck to
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court the next day. Because if he didn't go, there
would be a bench warrant issued for Buck immediately and his
sister might go to jail for shitshe didn't do.
And if he did go, they would at the very very least have more
time to make their inevitable escape.
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Right, this is. Hey man, how about another month
or two instead of having to go on the run in eight hours?
Yeah. I.
You're you're already planning on dodging this dude.
I hope that that the Big Brotherwas just like a big buff guy and
just like was just like you're going, aw, see, there's where.
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There was 30 pages of the book talking about how he, like,
literally was having self deprecating moments about, like,
man, I'm so square, like, in hislife and how he was like a Nixon
kind of guy and just, like, veryconservative, very plain Dexter.
Yeah. And his sister was this like,
free loving hippie, Right. You know, So they were just,
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they could not be more opposites.
But he was still looking out forhis little sis.
He was like, hey, yeah. So hey, Buck.
Hey. Hey, buddy.
Hey. I know you've only grunted
during this entire dinner because that's what he did.
He was like, Yep, that's what I'm like.
The family's meeting him for thefirst time, like, so how'd you
get the name book? That's cool.
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Meanwhile, Stephanie's like, andyou would not believe, oh, what
I did to him at JC Penney. It was just attracting.
You know, we also don't hear enough good stuff about JC
Penney, you know? It doesn't exist anymore.
Yes, it does. JC Penney's exist.
It will always exist. I.
Thought JC Penney. Oh no, Sears.
Was it Sears that went under? Sears went under Sears and
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Roebuck. Yeah, no, wait, there's some
Sears. I feel like they all went on.
Every clothing company always will, like go for bankruptcy and
then they still exist. They just get bought out by
somebody. Else is gone though.
Big Lots. Oh, Big Lots is is completely
gone. Yeah, yeah, most of them go.
Now there's literally just Big Lots where they were.
Yeah, self fulfilling prophecy. Well, this could not have been a
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stupider decision is what I'm trying to really emphasize here.
And the fact that Buck was just like, I'm just not going to go
tomorrow. They're like, why?
There's literally no consequences and only benefits
and the person you love will be free.
He's like just. I wanna imagine that there's one
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piece of him that's like the most embarrassing part of the
plot in his like thing, and he'sjust like, I don't wanna, I
don't. Wanna.
I saved gems. I saved gems.
I saved gems. It's revealings of character as
the series goes on. So anyways, thankfully Buck did
agree and they went to court andby the next evening all was
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made. Right?
Kind of. Yeah.
Well, in one last Hail Mary attempt to bring Stephanie to
her senses, her mom and her brother invited her to come
alone to their hotel room, where, after some more pleading,
her brother pulled out the big guns Buck's rap sheet, something
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he'd managed to acquire after pulling some strings with old
friends. Long one, I imagine. 4 pages
long, it reads like the list of crimes I've committed playing
Grand Theft Auto starting at theage of 16 years old.
When Buck committed Grand Theft Auto soon after that, he went on
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to commit one count of robbery, 2 burglaries, and another armed
robbery, all by the time he was 18, the last of which landed him
in San Quentin for the first time.
Well, a few years later, just seven months after he had been
released on parole from that armed robbery conviction, he was
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arrested again for burglary. And to top it all off, only
seven years prior to this conversation with Stephanie, he
had been committed to a mental hospital for the criminally
insane. And that was just page one of
his rap sheet. Stephanie responded with the
laundry list of prepared explanations.
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It was unbelievably clear that she had been pre emptively
warped by Buck with excuses spoon fed to her slowly over the
past few years that they had been together.
Oh well, it wasn't that bad. It wasn't bad.
And yeah, she was in it right? Her mom, when seeing how far
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down the road from common sense that Buck had taken her, said
quote. Sweetheart, if you go out on the
ocean and then little boat, I don't think you'll ever come
back. To which Stephanie replied, I
love you for caring so much about me, Mom, but everything's
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going to be all right. It's like I don't even want to
come back. The next day, defeated, her
family flew back to the mainland.
Meanwhile, in San Diego, Muff unexpectedly knocked on the door
of one of her closest friends, Marie, with bags under her eyes.
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She also carried a large box of personal belongings, souvenirs
from her and Mac's world travels, and, most disturbingly,
close family heirlooms. After a long emotional
conversation, Muff revealed to Marie that she was convinced
something bad was going to happen and told her friend what
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to do with their belongings if her and Mack never returned.
A week later, Stephanie's mom received a letter with a
decorated envelope, a cute handmade quote drawing of a
sailboat skimming the sea, and the words today's cares sin
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vanish. End Quote.
And that's where we'll pick backup next week with Part 2.
The Palmyra. It's all murders.
Nook, if you Buck. Joey, what are your thoughts?
Oh my God, That's leaving it open-ended for sure.
If they're ready. Buck.
OK, first we're going to go withBuck.
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Buck is going is fucked. Buck is fucked, he's honestly
stupid and I can't believe he actually went to go to the
stupid court case that he had. I thought he was going to skip
it but he's probably still goingto be on the run.
Doesn't really matter so. Yeah dude, more schemes, more
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craziness. I I really wanted to save the
actual sailing that give it my evil laugh that needs yeah
pages. What happens when they hit what
when they hit the open seas. Let's just put it this way.
(47:05):
We won't even mention what happened to to Mac and to muff
on their way to Paul Meyer because everything went fine.
But the shit that happens to Stephanie and Buck and how much
character comes out is it's fantastic.
But so I imagine. That there's going to be some
crazy stuff. Yeah, there's going to be some
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crazy stuff. And I will also regale you with
tales of my own family's terrible boating experiences.
And so those will be next episode probably as they're
going through their bad experiences.
And I'll be able to be like, hey, I know that happened to my
aunt, that happened to my mom. It'll be or me.
It'll be 100% relatable, I'm sure.
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Inspired by a break in the severe weather, Sharon Jordan
decided to use this opportunity to take a calm straw along the
shoreline of Palmyra Atoll. The recent storms had been
fierce and debris had been washed up onto the beach, mostly
scraps of metal, parts of Old Shipwreck's trash to anyone
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unaware of the island's more disturbing history.
But as she walked along, poking through anything random that
caught her eye, she discovered alarge metal box.
She opened it and found human remains, a young woman who had
been shot in the head and whose face had been burned off with an
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Acetylene torch. I didn't see you there.
It all started early this morning.
From hunting ghosts to Bigfoot UFOs.
Cryptids, true crime, paranormal, and more I always
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I was researching for your entertainment.
That's Bigfoot's guess. He basically wrote the book on
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What if Buddha did cocaine? The Addams family on meth.
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This is the Black Hat report. See you on the other side.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Black Cat Report, where
every week we try to make you slightly more unrelatable, even
amongst your strangest friends. My name is Gil and joining me
for episode 133, my favorite person with a pineapple allergy,
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Joey Lee. Do you know anybody else with
the pineapple allergy? No, they all died because I fed
them pineapples. You're the only ones who's
managed to dodge the poison. That's made me feel special
because I've had it many times. So while being allergic, while
finding out I was allergic because it happened to me when I
got turned 35 or something like that.
I don't know how bodies work. So how allergens work.
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But guilt. Before you get into this
episode, I just want to say, andI think we all want to say like
the audience as well. Thank you thank you for doing
these wonderful episodes. Thank you for taking the time to
do all the scripts, all the reading, all the stuff.
We know it takes time out of your life.
I don't know why I'm saying thisnow, but I just felt like I
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wanted to say it. So thank you.
You are the best and I think everybody is going to give you a
clap. You know, for a good job well
done on all these episodes. Thank you.
Good job I'm. Going to delay your next
pineapple poisoning a couple weeks for that one, but that was
nice. Thank you so much.
That's the. Reason I said it.
Joey, give me just 60 seconds. I've got 2 quick things to say
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before we dive in. All right, first, the next
episode of Beer, Booze and Boogeyman is coming up at
exactly one week on Saturday, June 7th at 7:30 PM Eastern,
where we'll be taking live callsand reading paranormal stories
from first responders. So if you are a cop, paramedic,
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and you've ever had an unexplainable experience while
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That's GHOST dot BEER, or you can click the link found in this
episode show notes. Second, our main source for this
whole series will be the fantastically well written,
massively long book titled And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent
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Bugliosi. Now, with announcements out of
the way and only one shameless self promotion for our Patreon
embedded just a little later in this episode, let's set sail for
Palmyra Atoll. All right, It was about 60
seconds. That was about 6 seconds.
Good job. That was a good minute of my
life. I feel like well earned.
Good job. Take a breath.
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Yeah. It's like 80°.
Up where you are right now, 90°.It's it's so hot in this duty.
You can tell. Got the beach effect going.
Yeah, it looks like you just came from the beach.
Pretty much I'm going to be swimming by the end of this one.
An unmistakable cracking sound echoed off the walls in water
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around Malaya Bay as a salvage crane accidentally snapped the
mast of the Margaret while pulling her from a shallow shore
grave in the early 1970s. More destined for death than
reincarnation, the Margaret was a 30 foot long wooden sailboat
with a storied history of tempting the dreams of beginners
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and quickly sinking their hopes.As was the case when the
market's first post salvage owners, a young married couple
who sunk their blood, sweat and savings into their novice
attempts and making the Margaretseaworthy again.
After sitting on blocks near theharbour for two years, she was
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purchased by the couple for $400.00 and soon the makeover
began. The cabin was stripped and
refinished, while the wooden hall was given a new life when
they patched over cracks from bow to stern with fiberglass.
This was a rookie mistake, one that was perfectly overlooked by
the next owners of the Margaret,Dwayne Buck Walker and Stephanie
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Stearns, who after pulling together every ounce of their
savings, purchased the Margaret for $2260 in the year of our
murders, 1974. Just like the year of our Lord,
the year of our Lord and Savior Palmyra Atoll.
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An ex convict, Buck was on the fast track to get the hell out
of Hawaii and begin life as a fugitive on the high seas with
his flower child girlfriend Stephanie.
Time was of the essence, as Buckwas actively planning to skip
his upcoming court hearings for a drug charge, the paperwork of
which, once it made its way off the island and through the legal
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system, would eventually be flagged as a parole violation.
That would send him right back to federal prison in San
Quentin, a chain of events Buck would do anything to avoid.
And so, armed with a library card and a scheme, Buck set off
to work to repair the Margaret as quickly and cheaply as
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possible. Though having only had
experience building houseboats with his father some many years
earlier, to say Buck would even qualify as an amateur yachtsman
would be a huge overstatement. Which needs us briefly back to
the fiberglass. You know, I would say he how
many things you can do with a library card.
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Like, you know, like the librarycard in a dream should be a song
because it's literally all you need.
I'm not gonna disagree. Unfortunately, Buck didn't have
a buck. So this episode is brought to
you by your local library. Are you on the run?
Cuz you can sleep in the parkinglot.
See, while fiberglass stays firmin its shape and structure,
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making it an excellent shell forboats, wood, on the other hand,
tends to expand and contract vigorously as it rides through
environmental fluctuations such as heat, humidity, and constant
exposure to water and sun. Furthermore, wooden planks creak
and slide as they shift and settle naturally adapting to the
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hostile waves in the open sea. This is.
A huge incompatibility here. Well, it's crazy how many boats
back in the day were made of wood and I guess that's just the
only thing they had and, and youknow, they weren't treated so
they had to figure out ways to to make boats work, even if they
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could expanded and contracted. So it's amazing boats just
didn't sink. More well, they had pitch and
they had tar and they had all different sorts of oils and ways
of like aging and treating and curing wood for ships like
specifically for for sure for ships.
And they use the, you know, whenI mentioned the fact that the,
the planks kind of slide and creak and go back and forth,
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That's one of the reasons why onwooden ships you don't really
see them, especially like the old wooden ships, the ones that
had been used for thousands of years before the 1950s when
fiberglass hulls were invented or, you know, became popular.
They use like pitch and tar for patching between those because
that was flexible and it also changed consistency with the
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temperatures. The same with the wood, wood,
right? So but when you introduce
something that that is going to be expanding and contracting and
shifting and moving and you infuse it with something that is
rigid and hard and never changesmore or less that's going to
create issues immediately. Materials are so important when
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it comes to living that yacht lifestyle.
Jesus Christ, I learned way too much about material science and
boating. That's important.
Also, welcome to relationship advice from Black Cat Report.
If you're too rigid and stiff and can't bend, you're going to
have issues. Keep it sticky between the
cracks y'all. Now you see.
Don't have issues then I. Think I was saying so, as
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fiberglass hauls were a relatively new trend for
sailboats at this time in the early 70s.
Knowledge of this incompatibility was kind of in
the no man's land of common sense, being well understood in
the boating community but not yet widely written about in the
library books Buck and Stephaniehad been rushing through to
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study. Yeah, it's always behind.
Publishing didn't exactly happenas quick back then, and I don't
know how much the Honolulu library was getting in fresh
shipments from the mainland backthen.
You know Well, as such, when Buck began repairs, he started
by patching fiberglass cracks inthe Hall of the Margaret.
This means he was essentially patching patches, but this was
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par for the course along with the literal boatload of other
mistakes and quick fixes. Including when he created a
homemade mast by tying together 340 foot long 2 by sixes, then
bolting them under the deck. All while following a DIY book
on how to brace the mast and additional sails around the
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already duct tape boat exterior.This is the most rinky dink
looking ship you can imagine. Yeah, I want to imagine that
that thing busts off eventually.You remember from episode what
would it be 131 we talked about Palmyra told specifically how
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unbelievably difficult it is even for the most hardened
veterans, you know, skilled sailors, skilled sailors and
folks to like damn near impossible for them to even get
near get in two. It's a huge pain in the ass.
Notorious, notorious the world over, right and you know, as you
can tell from the title of this this series, that's where
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they're going to be sailing to. So keep this in mind well.
They'll pay a toll, I imagine. Long of a short of it.
I can literally just hear this boat as I'm reading through the
descriptions in the book. Just saying kill me, kill me,
put me out of my misery. It's boat doesn't want to live.
It's an old grandma with like, smoker's cough, you know, for 80
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years, 90 years. And it's just like, just kill
me. Well, in truth, the only forces
more powerful than Buck's ego and inexperience were reality
and luck, which teamed up and delivered a rude awakening soon
after he quote completed the Margaret just four months after
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its purchase. Another red flag.
There it was on April Fool's Day, April 1st, 1974, when
locals, shocked and skeptical, gathered around the dock to
watch the intended launching of Buck and Stephanie's boat.
An event that honestly was more of a spectacle than a
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celebration. A sentiment perfectly summed up
in the words of a salty old man,Charlie, who when the process
began, was overheard saying quote, Never thought I'd see the
day this old cow went back in the water.
That guy knows what's happening too.
He's just like, that thing is going to sink though.
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And the book brings up a good point, which there, you know,
this is a major Bay or like harbor in Hawaii.
Boat launchings were happening every 5 seconds.
This was like, that's normal. That's just normal.
This specific boat. Locals gathered around like oh
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shit, what is about to happen? You know that there's just a
bunch of kids. You know there's a bunch of kids
just like watching. Just be like that thing's gonna
sink. Hey, what you doing, man, Mr.
You know, like just, I don't know why they had like a old New
Jersey. They got a death wish, Mr.
Death. Wish you're gonna die out there,
Mr. You know, like just all these crazy kids.
Just tell them you suck. I'll put 10 on two days, yeah.
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They're betting those like gangster kids are betting from
like New York. I it's.
That's just how I envision it. They stop their marbles game to
bet on this bone ladders. People were in disbelief on so
many levels, partially because anyone was going to attempt to
sail the ocean with this notoriously unreliable ship, but
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also that the people who were going to sail the ship decided
to flagrantly break a well knownsuperstition when they renamed
the boat from the Margaret to the Iola, an action seen as a
direct assault against luck and known the world over as a bad
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idea. Never renamed.
Sailing is one of those industries that is so ripe with
superstition, which when you picture the kind of shit sailors
go through and how much they really they're praying more to
their boat than they are to God in these situations.
There's a lot of superstition wrapped up around this, and one
that it crosses cultures, crosses times, crosses
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everything. As you never, ever rename your
boat. Ever.
Whatever its name is, that's what it stays.
But they were hippies. Well, Stephanie was, and after a
long night of drinking and smoking pot, she suggested that
they renamed it the Iola, which in Hawaiian means to life.
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No, it's just no. Yeah.
No, never say that on never say that as a boat and never say as
a person First off to life because you immediately die
afterwards. I think that that's the whole
thing is that you immediately die and then you're like, hey,
let's do something against the most unpredictable thing we can
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go in besides space. If you want to compare space and
the ocean is very similar in that they're super
unpredictable. Things can happen, yeah, let's
say that to life, you know, cheers into that.
And then your boat capsized in ahurricane.
That's kind of how it. Happens we'll get into this
entirely in Part 2, but even thedogs, or at least one of the
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dogs was like only trained in Hawaiian for commands.
And I want to point out this, this is these are two like of
the most European looking motherfuckers you can imagine.
You know, strawberry blonde hair, light brown hair, constant
sunburn, just being like paka paka.
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Oh my God. Malay Malay, Paka Malay.
Yeah, it's just like, please stop saying that.
They they are the hippies that you're picturing right now.
Yeah, well, as I said, this was a bad idea renaming the ship, a
bad idea that would soon manifest in the form of a very
rookie mistake. Buck has secured the Iola to a
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boat winch with nylon rope, which at the moment of the big
launch quickly led to a dark comedy catastrophe.
As spectators looked on, Stephanie stood on the Iola's
deck, frowned, holding a huge bottle of champagne ready to
christen the ship, just beaming with joy, while Buck and that
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random salty old man Charlie slowly cranked and lowered the
Iola off her trailer and down a boat ramp.
It was a tedious process for a 30 foot wooden yacht, involving
placement of boards for support and precise adjustments to ropes
and pulleys. To carefully and slowly, you
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know, lower this and raise that a lot of terms, which, because I
live in the mountains, I don't care enough to study.
Nevertheless, while Charlie worked the winch and Buck ran
around making checks and changes, the nylon rope attached
to one side of the ship suddenlystretched like a rubber band,
causing the Iola to fall on its side and sending Stephanie
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through the air and into Buck's arms.
Which wouldn't have been a big deal if not for the fact that
during the process the boat landed directly on 2 steel
beams, critically puncturing itsalready multi patched hall.
Dude. Check.
I didn't even get it in the fucking walk.
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Check your tension when you're using rope.
When you're using any kind of thing to haul something, check
how much the tension can pull itbefore you do this.
And don't use nylon. Rope, well, you would use super
heavy, honestly. Well, for for this specific
situation, you know, there's a reason why if you go to harbors
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and you see those large ships and stuff that are kind of like,
you know, they're on those giantcables that are coming down from
the ships and they're set up there.
You only use stuff that doesn't stretch, right?
Because you don't want it to stretch and start pulling and
rocking because guess what? It's sitting in the water.
It's just going to be stretchingand rocking.
You need to be taught or snap one of the two, right?
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Well, again, a lot of material information, but this is this is
based around islands and boats. So I'm sorry I got to give you
all the little back story on it,but I think I've made my case
about where Stephanie and Buck are at as boaters.
They're really bad, so they're really bad and they are novice
and so it's going to be fun watching them.
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Yeah, Sail. It's.
Going to be a blast. Well, seeing what had happened,
Buck proceeded to flip the buck out on poor little old Charlie,
screaming in his face and squaring up to fight him, while
in the background hippie Jennifer tried to calm him down,
saying it wasn't that big of a deal and probably dropping lines
like it's what the universe wanted etcetera.
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Well, this one sided screaming match continued on for a moment
until Buck finally got into their car and speed off, leaving
Stephanie standing on the dock, still holding an unopened bottle
of champagne in front of a crowdof onlookers.
Stephanie. Now that make me feel bad for
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Stephanie. Now, and I, I don't know if this
is really legal for me to do, I might cut this out later, but I
did get the full list of names, the names of the the onlookers
that were there. And a few of the names sounded
really familiar. They were Bud, Tom Thomas,
Little Mystery Bob Betsubaye, Lucas, Tim D Max, Ian Morgan,
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Dragon Ball, Tim Miller, MarissaGavin, Rachelle, Eve, Jaden,
Jackie, Yellow Bear, Dwayne AKA Snatch Twat, Alyssa, Bree,
Michael, Extreme Christian from the Paranormal Girl Podcast
James, and most shocked of all, our sexiest producer.
Happy Kitty and happy, Happy birthday.
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Yeah. We love you.
Happy Kitty. Yeah.
Thank you all for on looking on this Boat episode.
Now listen, y'all, your secret'ssafe with us.
We won't tell anyone you were there when this crime went down
or that you're all beloved members of the Black Cat Report
Patreon, but moving on, moving on.
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I do picture Charlie there when all this went down, just in the
background is being like I should have never left the ice
wall. Just.
Yeah, he was there, Charlie. I mean, Charlie's always on the
boat, Charlie. I just picture this older guy
kind of with like you know to. Be a Charlie.
He's got to be a Charlie everywhere you go.
He just has a tank top, you know, with like some like surf
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company on it. They called him Red Face
Charlie. Yeah, yeah.
And he's just probably putting down a pint of schnapps every
other day, you know, probably every day.
Just like, damn, I'm getting tooold for this.
If I had my life all again, I would just, I would do it again,
actually. As a vampire, I'm getting too
young for this. Charlie is a vampire.
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Well, meanwhile in San Francisco, some 2000 miles away,
Mack and Muff Graham when their final weeks of preparation for
an extended trip through the Pacific.
Their ship the Sea Wind was everything the Iola wasn't and
its captain Mack was everything Buck wasn't.
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A competent sailor who had left his life as an engineer to
travel the world. Mack had been sailing since
before he was able to walk. It was a multi generational
passion and his family 1 he tookvery seriously and for those
that knew him all would agree hewas made for.
It had been 14 years since Mack had bought the Sea Wind and in
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that time he had carefully and painstakingly replaced or
customized every single inch of the stunning all wood 38 foot
long yacht. To say the Sea Wind was an
instant celebrity in any harbourit pulled into would be an
understatement. Fitted with only top of the line
equipment and maintain with the most high quality of materials,
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many would assume it was owned by a millionaire, though that
couldn't be farther from the truth.
In reality, Mack had worked his way up to becoming an engineer
at General Motors by the time hewas 28, but had been miserable
and desperately trying to get away from corporate life since
the day he had first stepped into the office.
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His fate would have it his uncle, whom he was very close
to, passed away and left him with an inheritance of $100,000.
Not a small sum, but not enough to retire on either.
And so the 28 year old Mack methodically moved this money
into secure investments and was able to make a small financial
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safety net that enabled him to quit his corporate job and begin
what would become a multi year long search for the perfect
sailboat. A quest that ended with the
$20,000 purchase of the Sea Wind.
Yachts. During this time and ever since,
whenever the fiscally cautious Mack deemed it necessary, he
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would work odd jobs in harbors where he wouldn't quickly be
hired and then often promoted upthrough any number of sailboat
related businesses. The scenario would play out
regularly, even though it was always well understood by his
employer that his stay would be temporary.
Simply put, boat shop owners loved Mac, not just for his
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reliability and incredible work ethic, but his unmatched skills
and talents when it came to building and maintaining
sailboats. These jaunts into regular
employment enabled Mac to gain access to professional
equipment, discounts on gear, and connections for deals the
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benefits of which he would lovingly put back into the
remodeling and maintenance of the Sea Wind.
So while the Sea Wind could proudly stand next to a
millionaire's yacht, in truth, it was the gem of a working
man's dreams and decades of dedication like.
Yeah, do what you love, you know, and you know, for all of
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you out there, if you're workingcorporate jobs, you know, get
through it, find something you love, dedicate time into it.
Even when you're working on yourcorporate job, dedicate time
into it. Like this guy and he found a way
to get to it. And that's amazing.
I imagine that him working at docs and stuff like that, they
probably don't care if like you're gone in two months
because that's kind of just the life, you know, if you're like a
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sea hand. This would be like shipbuilding
places, ship repair places for like millionaire's yachts.
And even though he'd be like, well, I only plan to be here for
four to six months, they'd be like, hey, we've seen what you
can do in a week. We want to make you manager.
Like it was like he was taking titles everywhere he went,
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moving up, because they were like, look, dude, even if you're
just here for a little while, we're going to learn so much
from you that it's worth the fact that we're going to have to
retrain somebody. He was coming in as like a day
laborer or grunt, and within a week or a month getting hired
into management. The dude was a badass.
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He knew exactly what he was doing, right?
Well, this passion was somethingthat Matt's wife, whom he
lovingly called Muff, short for Muffin, was all too aware of
when she married Matt. By 1974, the two of them had
been married for 13 years and byall accounts were still madly in
love with one another. They had travelled the world
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multiple times, fought off pirates, braved storms that
swallowed ships twice their size, and as a result became the
perfect sailing crew with unrivaled chemistry veterans who
were battle hearted by adventures on the open sea.
This was a power couple. Yeah, like 100% this.
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This couple was a badass. They experienced a lot, you
know, so that makes great teamwork.
You know, eventually you just figure out how to work a boat
together, and that's awesome. And they fought off freaking
pirates. I think yeah, like through the
Mediterranean, like multiple times.
Like there was like stories about them in the Red Sea, them
throughout the Mediterranean. They're like all travels through
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the Orient. Like it was just like there
could be a movie series just made off of this couple just
traveling. Like they just so much crazy
shit. I think they're, I didn't
include it, but their initial honeymoon was like a six year
cruise like our sailboat. Dang, that's cool though.
Jesus. Yeah, that's longer than most
modern folks's marriages. Like that's true.
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Yeah, six year honeymoon across the world.
I mean, it's definitely a specific type of person's life.
Like, you know, you have to lovebeing on the sea.
You have to love the idea of it because it's you're just out
there all the time and you're like, where?
Where are you in dry dock? Just maybe to fix a few holes
every once in a while. Well, even still, as the years
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passed, Muff began to occasionally express a desire to
settle down. She sometimes wish that they
would chill on all these world travels and just maybe pleasure
sale like so many others that they would meet as they would go
to these harbors and make friends with new people.
But it was a dream that she learned to deny When she saw the
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look in Mac's eyes, her beloved husband deep in his element, She
had to accept that the very reason she loved him so much
came from the passion still burning from Mac's first
marriage. The sea sailing and the sea
wind. That's very appreciative and
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beautiful, honestly, that she saw that and it sucks that she
that that sucks in in a way, butit is beautiful to appreciate
that of like, well, if I change that about that person, you
know, in either side of it, is that like, oh, then I would
that's what I would be the same person.
Yeah. Muffin just wanted the proof,
you know, a little Baker joke, if you guys know what I mean.
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There was some cute lines too oflike them.
Talking because she was always insecure.
You know, when they met, she waslike young, in her 20s,
hourglass figure, constantly used to being hit on by fucking
everybody. And she was, I think it was in
San Diego or San Francisco, but her car broke down one night.
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And of course, Mac showed up. He had been walking through,
like, downtown and was like, oh,you got carp troubles when
pushed. Her car got her car started,
like, literally just magically from scratch.
Like, I'm sure he took like, some paper clips and a pencil.
The dude is a mechanical genius.He's an engineer from GM.
So yeah, he probably knows exactly what's going on and he
became like a mid level engineerafter graduating college.
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So in like 4 years he was already like a mid level
engineer in General Motors. And this is like that close to
the like around heyday time of General Motors.
So like, that's fucking impressive.
Yeah. But anyways, you know, Max
showed up, he's only a couple years older than her, got the
car started and and as he's like, hey, well would you, would
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you like to go get a drink? She was so close to saying no,
like she was set because she hadgot hit on so fucking much.
But there was that spark and she's like, yeah, you know what?
I will, I'll, I'll, I'll go get a drink with you as a thank you
for fixing my yeah, yeah. And it was love.
Just immediately it was fucking love.
They they hit it off. So really, really fucking cute
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couple. And over the years, like I was
saying, she got self-conscious. And so she was always until
these different fad diets, like one that I laughed about from
family history, but she got intothe apple cider vinegar craze
and like the 70s trying to lose weight.
And so Muff had a little bit of a muffin top and Mac, even
though he kind of looked like anex marine, the guy was built,
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you know, he'd been doing sailboats and hard labor for
over however many years. I mean, to be like, I love every
curve and entrance. Wherever you baby, you're my
dream come true. Got.
Comfy. They were so cute.
They got comfy. That's.
That's so beautiful. Yeah, really fucking cute.
Love with Black Cat Report and. Then they were fucking murdered.
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There's going to be a lot of people in this story.
So This is why we're getting allthat.
We're getting the intro episodes, right?
Well, in four weeks, Mack and Moth would be leaving San Diego
and heading to Hawaii, where they would stay for a month
before sailing off to an obscureuninhabited island, Palmera
Toll. Once there, they plan to explore
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the island and live in the tropical paradise for somewhere
upwards of seven months. So they were going to go there
and basically set up a temporaryhome.
It was a dream Mack had cooked up in his never ending quest for
adventures. He had meticulously researched
the island and prepared for the trip with the same cautious
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intensity that so hallmarked every major move in his life,
during which time he had haunteddown and interviewed the rare
few who'd been Zapal. Myra, such as World War 2
veteran Al Horton, was stationedthere from 1942 to 1944.
Folks at Listen episode 131 might remember this well.
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Mack and Muff had dinner with Hal shortly before their
departure from San Diego. He had a lot to say about the
island, most critically how to safely navigate into Palmyra
through its notoriously narrow coral reef channel.
Most ominously, and much to the fears of Muff, Hal shared other,
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more disturbing memories from his time spent on Palmyra.
Quote. Once one of our patrol planes
went down near the island. We searched and searched, but
didn't find so much as a bolt orpiece of metal.
It was weird, like they dropped off the edge of the earth.
Another time, a plane took off from the runway, climbed to a
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couple 100 feet and turned in the wrong direction.
They were supposed to go north and they went S instead.
It was broad daylight. We could never figure it out.
There were two men aboard that plane.
We never saw them again. We had some very bad luck on
that island. Old Salts in the Pacific called
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it the Palmyra Curse. And that was just Tuesday.
The island is very small, you could fly over at 10,000 feet
and not see it if there were a few clouds in the sky.
Once we heard a plane overhead trying to find us, but he
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crashed in the drink before he could find the runway.
We didn't get to the poor guy fast enough.
Sharks found him first. End Quote.
Wait a minute, is that is that Charlie?
Oh, give me some snacks left. Peppermint snacks.
Like they fell off the edge of the earth.
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Wait a second. That's that's that's Charlie.
Yeah, Yeah. Captain Butler is.
That Butler, is that you? That's just Charlie.
I miss Captain Butler. Yeah.
Yeah, I miss Captain Butler. Such a character.
We need to check in on him. Yeah, we'll do a revisit one
day. I heard there were sequels of
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the books that are supposed to be historical.
I don't know how that works. Well, I guess time keeps on
slipping. History has sequels.
World War One, World War 2, the sequel.
That's what I believe. We're going to now refer to
World War 2 as the sequel. Back in Hawaii, Stephanie and
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Buck were sitting through fears and tensions during an awkward
dinner with Stephanie's mother and brother.
Who, and a last ditch effort, had flown in from the mainland
to try and convince her not to run away and become a fugitive
Makes sense. Spurred to action by a letter
they had received some time earlier, Stephanie's family read
through the flowery veil of hippie optimism and were
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planning to do whatever they could to pull her away from an
obviously bad decision. But the more that they talked,
the more fears they found. Stephanie had little to no
filter and even less tact for selling their plan with any tone
of common sense saying the two were going to head off to an
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undisclosed deserted island, laylow for a while, then eventually
return. At which point Buck would turn
himself in, and the judge would be so impressed by the fact that
Buck hadn't caused any trouble while he was a fugitive that he
would probably just let him go. You know, the old you're pretty
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chill defense. It's absolutely bulletproof.
They won't. Yeah, that's also, that's also,
if you believe it, that's also what Jesus did.
He went and laid low for three days and then he came back and
it's like, you know, I am prettychill.
You know, you disappeared. You all were pretty chill and
then disappeared for a while. Yeah, I'm going to make more
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random comparisons throughout these episodes that make.
Sense to to to buck and Jesus. Well, it was a plan as solid as
their ship, and much like the the ICER restart, well, it was a
plan as solid as their ship, andmuch like the Iola on launch
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day, it was at risk of being pierced by reality.
As it turns out, the family had only narrowly made it in time as
Buck was planning to skip going to his court hearing the next
day. And while they all knew Buck was
going to try and run from the law eventually, what they didn't
know, what they were just finding out at dinner, was that
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Stephanie had also been arrestedas an accomplice in Buck's most
recent crime. Yeah, her family looked on in
shock as she told them how Buck was arrested for selling MDA to
an undercover comp in the parking lot of AJC Penny and
that the police then proceeded to arrest her at a laundry mat
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right down the street. She raged about how unfair it
was to arrest Buck under false pretenses that he was entrapped
and that MDA, which I'll explainin just a moment, was more like
grass and not even that big of adeal.
Cows eat it when you're thinkingof MDA.
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Now when you're thinking of MDMAor MDA, think ecstasy or as we
called it in my day, Molly, which chemically is MDMA.
Whereas MDA, the drug Buck was busted selling to an undercover,
is chemically more like a close cousin to MDMA.
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Not quite as popular and obscureto come across these days, but
more widely known about during this very specific period of
time in the 70s, right. So it's kind of a, I wouldn't
say an early precursor. I think it came later, but it's
like really similar. I'm not.
Saying it's the Donnie. Wahlberg of delta, yeah, you
know, or the D8 versus, you know, just straight up THC.
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I like my comparison. D9D8 Yeah, it's the Danny
Wahlberg the. Donnie Wahlberg.
So the Donnie. Wahlberg and.
You know it's not as cool as Mark Wahlberg.
It's like if Danny DeVito was inlike was in Rush Hour instead of
Jackie Chan. That's basically what the drug
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is. Well, you want me to shoot
somebody? Yeah.
And then I started. Blasting.
Yes. I want you to shoot.
I don't know. That was good.
Chris Rock there. Starting blast there, Chris.
Thank you. Yeah, Chris Tucker.
Sorry, Chris Tucker, right? Chris Tucker.
Chris Tucker? Yeah, we'll delete that out.
He will come and beat your ass. He will.
He does. Well, do that.
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So anyways, while Stephanie madeher stump speech about how
unfair the cops were, she also told her family how if Buck goes
to court tomorrow and pleads guilty, the charges against her
would be dropped. Now to make this a little more
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clear, all Buck had to do was goto court, plead guilty and
leave. If he did that, he would be
given a court date and released that day, just free to go free
from all legal consequences until whenever he had to show
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back up. He wasn't going straight to
jail. Yeah, never take the easy way.
And his girlfriend Stephanie would forever be free and clear
of all this. Hearing this, her brother's jaw
dropped. But maintaining composure, he
managed to be a good bro and offered to accompany Buck to
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court the next day. Because if he didn't go, there
would be a bench warrant issued for Buck immediately and his
sister might go to jail for shitshe didn't do.
And if he did go, they would at the very very least have more
time to make their inevitable escape.
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Right, this is. Hey man, how about another month
or two instead of having to go on the run in eight hours?
Yeah. I.
You're you're already planning on dodging this dude.
I hope that that the Big Brotherwas just like a big buff guy and
just like was just like you're going, aw, see, there's where.
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There was 30 pages of the book talking about how he, like,
literally was having self deprecating moments about, like,
man, I'm so square, like, in hislife and how he was like a Nixon
kind of guy and just, like, veryconservative, very plain Dexter.
Yeah. And his sister was this like,
free loving hippie, Right. You know, So they were just,
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they could not be more opposites.
But he was still looking out forhis little sis.
He was like, hey, yeah. So hey, Buck.
Hey. Hey, buddy.
Hey. I know you've only grunted
during this entire dinner because that's what he did.
He was like, Yep, that's what I'm like.
The family's meeting him for thefirst time, like, so how'd you
get the name book? That's cool.
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Meanwhile, Stephanie's like, andyou would not believe, oh, what
I did to him at JC Penney. It was just attracting.
You know, we also don't hear enough good stuff about JC
Penney, you know? It doesn't exist anymore.
Yes, it does. JC Penney's exist.
It will always exist. I.
Thought JC Penney. Oh no, Sears.
Was it Sears that went under? Sears went under Sears and
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Roebuck. Yeah, no, wait, there's some
Sears. I feel like they all went on.
Every clothing company always will, like go for bankruptcy and
then they still exist. They just get bought out by
somebody. Else is gone though.
Big Lots. Oh, Big Lots is is completely
gone. Yeah, yeah, most of them go.
Now there's literally just Big Lots where they were.
Yeah, self fulfilling prophecy. Well, this could not have been a
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stupider decision is what I'm trying to really emphasize here.
And the fact that Buck was just like, I'm just not going to go
tomorrow. They're like, why?
There's literally no consequences and only benefits
and the person you love will be free.
He's like just. I wanna imagine that there's one
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piece of him that's like the most embarrassing part of the
plot in his like thing, and he'sjust like, I don't wanna, I
don't. Wanna.
I saved gems. I saved gems.
I saved gems. It's revealings of character as
the series goes on. So anyways, thankfully Buck did
agree and they went to court andby the next evening all was
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made. Right?
Kind of. Yeah.
Well, in one last Hail Mary attempt to bring Stephanie to
her senses, her mom and her brother invited her to come
alone to their hotel room, where, after some more pleading,
her brother pulled out the big guns Buck's rap sheet, something
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he'd managed to acquire after pulling some strings with old
friends. Long one, I imagine. 4 pages
long, it reads like the list of crimes I've committed playing
Grand Theft Auto starting at theage of 16 years old.
When Buck committed Grand Theft Auto soon after that, he went on
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to commit one count of robbery, 2 burglaries, and another armed
robbery, all by the time he was 18, the last of which landed him
in San Quentin for the first time.
Well, a few years later, just seven months after he had been
released on parole from that armed robbery conviction, he was
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arrested again for burglary. And to top it all off, only
seven years prior to this conversation with Stephanie, he
had been committed to a mental hospital for the criminally
insane. And that was just page one of
his rap sheet. Stephanie responded with the
laundry list of prepared explanations.
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It was unbelievably clear that she had been pre emptively
warped by Buck with excuses spoon fed to her slowly over the
past few years that they had been together.
Oh well, it wasn't that bad. It wasn't bad.
And yeah, she was in it right? Her mom, when seeing how far
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down the road from common sense that Buck had taken her, said
quote. Sweetheart, if you go out on the
ocean and then little boat, I don't think you'll ever come
back. To which Stephanie replied, I
love you for caring so much about me, Mom, but everything's
(44:54):
going to be all right. It's like I don't even want to
come back. The next day, defeated, her
family flew back to the mainland.
Meanwhile, in San Diego, Muff unexpectedly knocked on the door
of one of her closest friends, Marie, with bags under her eyes.
(45:15):
She also carried a large box of personal belongings, souvenirs
from her and Mac's world travels, and, most disturbingly,
close family heirlooms. After a long emotional
conversation, Muff revealed to Marie that she was convinced
something bad was going to happen and told her friend what
(45:39):
to do with their belongings if her and Mack never returned.
A week later, Stephanie's mom received a letter with a
decorated envelope, a cute handmade quote drawing of a
sailboat skimming the sea, and the words today's cares sin
(46:01):
vanish. End Quote.
And that's where we'll pick backup next week with Part 2.
The Palmyra. It's all murders.
Nook, if you Buck. Joey, what are your thoughts?
Oh my God, That's leaving it open-ended for sure.
If they're ready. Buck.
OK, first we're going to go withBuck.
(46:22):
Buck is going is fucked. Buck is fucked, he's honestly
stupid and I can't believe he actually went to go to the
stupid court case that he had. I thought he was going to skip
it but he's probably still goingto be on the run.
Doesn't really matter so. Yeah dude, more schemes, more
(46:44):
craziness. I I really wanted to save the
actual sailing that give it my evil laugh that needs yeah
pages. What happens when they hit what
when they hit the open seas. Let's just put it this way.
(47:05):
We won't even mention what happened to to Mac and to muff
on their way to Paul Meyer because everything went fine.
But the shit that happens to Stephanie and Buck and how much
character comes out is it's fantastic.
But so I imagine. That there's going to be some
crazy stuff. Yeah, there's going to be some
(47:27):
crazy stuff. And I will also regale you with
tales of my own family's terrible boating experiences.
And so those will be next episode probably as they're
going through their bad experiences.
And I'll be able to be like, hey, I know that happened to my
aunt, that happened to my mom. It'll be or me.
It'll be 100% relatable, I'm sure.
(47:48):
Yeah, yeah, 100%. Yeah, and you can find an exit.
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didn't even know. So there you go.
You can also find us next week in beer, Booze and boogeyman.
June 7th. Joey The.
Outra music's wrapping up and I got to get going on this next
week's script. So ready.
We love you all. We do.
(49:17):
We'll. Talk to you later and bye.
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