December 15, 2025 • 22 mins
This week’s hometowns include someone hiding in the ceiling and a celebrity stopping by a family barbecue.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hello and welcome my favorite murder the minisode where we
read you your stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Would you like to go first?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This one's I'm not going to tell you what it's called. Okay, Hi,
Karen and Georgia. I wrote this in twenty eighteen worth
another shot. Hey years ago, I lived in a beautiful
apartment in Chicago. A sweet old lady named Loretta owned
the building, and her hoarding son lived in a unit.
The guy was a miserable, scary old fuck who would
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randomly just scream out loud in his apartment a lot.
I like to hang out with my friends in the
communal yard, and he would always come out and yell
at us to be quiet. So I thought that maybe
if I befriended him, we would be able to party
in peace. And it seemed to work when you were young.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
And just trying to get partying done, hopeful and yeah,
all those things.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Whenever we are outside and he noticed, I would invite
him to hang out, and it felt as though he
enjoyed himself. He would bring his beer and just sort
of sit there sometimes for hours. Even my mom met him,
he stopped shiding, and I swear he appreciated the company.
At one point I went to his apartment to use
the bathroom. Why didn't I just go upstairs and use mine?
Stupid stupid twenty three year old, And you could barely
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move because of all his crap. There was black mold everywhere,
and the bathroom was what nightmares were made of, like
train spotting. Oh no, that thing of like I got
these bathroom, you can use mine, okay, Like you're just
twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Right, You're just trying to do the easiest thing to
get back outside, to have some more fun and.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Be like friendly and nice.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
And also I think the hoarders, I think it was
like the TV show is that may a lot of
people first understood what that was. Yeah, so it would
be like that wouldn't be a possibility in your mind
if you've never seen that before.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Right up, moving out.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And I hadn't thought about them in years until a
friend sent me an article of a murder suicide. That
terrible man stabbed his eighty four year old mother, my
old landlord to death in that terrifying apartment, and he
had a five hours stand off with police until he
shot and killed himself. I knew he was a greedy asshole,
but it never occurred to me that he could be
capable of killing at all, especially his mom, in.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Such a horrific way.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Rip Loretta, So stay sexy and don't invite murders to
drink beer with you in your backyard, love y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
JANAVII.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, I think there's so many signs of mental
health issues and untreated mental health issues there. We're just like, yeah,
you're doing your best to try to make someone like
in your mind happy, right, I think when actually what
they need is serious medication and they need professionals to
be talking to them and looking at them totally.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And then also, like, when we're that young, we're just
so naive as to like what people are capable.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Of, Right, how do we solve it?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Just do things our way without thinking about other people's
mine reality.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, all right, well here's a little upturn. Great,
it just starts with I'm terrible at thinking up witty openers,
so let's just get straight into it. In a not
so recent minisod, it took me a while to get
around to writing this. You asked for a third man
syndrome stories or similar, and while I'm not one hundred
percent sure, this totally fits the criteria. This is a
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story of my own weird psychic I heard a voice moment.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
When I was thirteen.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I woke up in the middle of the night in
my bed and there was a storm raging outside. Let
me preface this by saying that this is the same
bedroom I'd slipped in since I was six years old,
so I'd experienced many a stormy night with wild rain
and wind, and normally I'd fall straight back to sleep,
no worries.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But not this night.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
As I was drowsily listening to the weather outside, I
had a sudden thought pop into my brain, clear and
loud as anything, saying, the tree is about to fall
on your bedroom. I didn't even hesitate. I was up
and out of my bed in seconds, making for the door,
and the moment after I'd taken two steps away, the
huge tree that had been outside my bedroom for years
and years came crashing down, smashing the window and puncturing
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through the wall to land, glass spraying everywhere right atop
the bed.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I had just fatally shit.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
To this day, I have no idea how I knew
that tree was about to fall. There was absolutely nothing
different whatsoever about that night compared to any other stormy night.
Was I, for one brief moment psychic or was it
a ghostly intervention from a loved one. Whatever it was,
I'm just glad it spared me the damage of having
a big old tree and a bunch of glass fall
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on top of me. I wanted to thank you both
for providing me with so many years of entertainment and
keeping me company through the ups and downs of life.
I'm a Day One listener. Back when I was in
my mid twenties, depressed, incredibly lost, broken in the throes,
a pretty heavy reliance on alcohol. Now I'm in my thirties,
I just bought my first house. My God, in this
(05:00):
day and age, it's a miracle, incredible work. I'm three
years sober. My debut novel, a crime fiction, because of
course it is, came out last year, and my second
novel just came out two weeks ago. I couldn't have
done it without giving up alcohol. Much love to you both.
Shaden ps. If you're curious, the first novel is going you're.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like, God, plug your book. You gotta plug your book.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
The first novel is called Down the Rabbit Hole by
Shaden Berry, and the second is at Cafe sixty four,
but I think it's only available here in Australia.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh man, I'm ordering them, Shayden.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What a huge accomplishment. Enormous And also you lived through
that tree.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Thing you just too. I forgot about that part. Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Right, what a one two punch of success. Seriously amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's such a cool, cool letter, so good.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm not gonna tell you the name of this one. Okay, Okay,
Hello MFM Team Day one listener, first time writer. I've
been waiting for an opportunity to write in and when
I heard you ask for people hiding in ceiling stories,
I knew it was my.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Time to shine. I know people, Okay, I mean. Sure.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
To set the scene, I was twenty years old and
had come home from college for Thanksgiving. As a tradition,
I met up with all my old high school friends
at a local bar where the only form of ID
required was the ability to verbally confirm that you were
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Flash forward to a few hours and many drinks later,
when my old high school boyfriend caused a scene that
did not involve me that led to the police being called.
The bar was packed, which made it nearly impossible for
us to scatter their underage. Several of us were rounded up,
and I immediately started planning my escape. I asked the
officers if I could use the bathroom real quick, drunk
and me knew this was my only chance and I
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wasn't going to waste it. I went to the women's
room but saw no window or other way out. Then
I went into the men's room, and a state would
have it, there was a hole in the ceiling. This
sounds like Karen back in the day. Possibly listen, you
gotta do something. You look for Your escape had to
right push it to the very limits.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I promptly scaled the bathroom sink and crawled up into
the drop ceiling drunk.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But she was drunk, by the way.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, I probably should have stayed where I was, but
I figured that the cops would come looking for me.
I knew my only option was to continue crawling through
the ceiling until I found some sort of exterior event
that I could kick out and escape through the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
She's just running die hard in her mind.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
What ton go?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Great? Yeah, that is not how things went down. I
actually made it an impressive distance through this ceiling, held
up mostly by wires before I had a small missed
up and my foot came through one of the flimsy panels.
Unfortunately for me, this was directly over where the police
were standing in the bar.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
They immediately shone their flashlights through the hole. Just she's drunk,
I want to remind everyone. But that's my favorite part.
It's all musty and hot, right, but she also thinks
she's like brilliant and like doing it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And kind of has a little electric yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And my friends are gonna be so impressed. And then
last like, ma'am, can you get down from there?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And then you're like, is it bleeding? It feels like
it's bleeding.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
They shine their flashlight to the hole and ordered me
out of the ceiling. I asked how, and they said
back the way you came. So I had to crawl
the thirty or so feet back through the ceiling ik
so dirty to the bathroom, where I exited it was
promptly arrested, along with about twenty five other underage people
in the bar. She should got doubly arrested for being
so stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Or she should have been freed for being so genius.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
True.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Fortunately I was able to pay a fine for the
underage drinking and was in charge with destruction of property.
This story has become lore in my hometown, and I
had a few of my former teachers come up to
tell me that they heard it through the grapevine and
ask me if it really happened. Yes, yes, yes, this
was almost twenty years ago, and I'm happy to say
I haven't found myself in the back of a cop
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car since. Stay sexy and don't deploy a mission impossible
escape plan when you're three sheets to the wind.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Kate, Kate, also your underage.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So this is just you beginning your partying career, right,
This is an incredible start.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's so brave.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So rim does go for it? Just do it?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
If you have a chance to take it. It might
not work out the way you think it would.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Right, but you will have a story. You will and
even if it hurts, and even if you get arrested.
What are we saying, Oh, this is good.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Don't listen to our advice.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, don't listen to anything except for this next email.
And I'm not going to read you the subject line
in all caps. It starts It's my time to shine
Nott with a bunch of isaies, greetings and salutations. Growing
up on a small hobby farm in southeastern Wisconsin, just
north of Milwaukee had its advantages, one of them being
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that as a child, we would have an annual pig
roast on our farm and invite family, friends, and our
one neighbor, yes, the one neighbor who's property butted up
to our field. This neighbor also happened to be our
fifth grade teacher, a very kind older man who never
married and took care of his father, who lived in
a house next to his and shared a driveway with
one of our field access roads. He would walk to
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our home through the field to come to the annual
pig roast, often bringing his father as well. One year
he brought another gentleman about his age with him. He
was clad in avi at or sunglasses, a scruffy beard,
a Packers baseball cap, and a deep, gravelly voice. He
simply said his brother was in town and they thought
they would come over to enjoy some beers, a freshly
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slaughtered and roasted pig and good company. I know it's
so vegans, it's rough roasted like in the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Pig roastings were a thing that I saw a lot
as a child.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He did, that's like a thing on a farm.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
It's like a thing, and it's like it's like a
reason to have a barbecue.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But it's different.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Never in the suburbs, we don't usually dig a hole
in the astro turf.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
And well, I'm sorry about that because the pigs. No,
it's really rough, and pigs are so like us.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's very sad.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
He simply stated that this.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Was his old college roommate from Rippin College Ripo n
Assuming They roomed together freshman year and stayed in touch
ever since. He happened to be in town for the
EAA in Oshkosh, one of the world's largest gatherings of
airplane enthusiasts featuring vintage World War One and two airplanes,
the Blue Angels, and the other flying exhibitions. A few
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days later, our neighbor walked back through the field and
was chatting with my dad in the front yard. We
thought nothing of it, since he was a teacher and
had summers off. We thought maybe he needed some construction
work done at his house. Since my dad often did
little side jobs for people, Me and my brother scurried
over to say hello. As visitors in the summer were
few and far between. We came by just in time
to listen to our teacher tell my dad that the
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man he brought to our pig roast was none other
than Harrison Ford.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's I was like, Oh, it's his lover whoever?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
This is right, it's some sort of finally he gets
to be himself, yeah, or something.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
His boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
He's like, oh, my friend, my college friend, it's Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's Harrison Ford.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
And it's basically like, I'm a normal experience sherpa for
my old friend hair who now lives in the weirdest
world of all time, and all he wants to do
stand in a backyard and drink a beer.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And not yet recognized, and they did it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's okay, because Harrison Ford was a construction worker too,
Like the whole thing of him getting fucking discovered, yes,
by being the hottest fucking construction worker that's ever lived.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I mean, okay, wild, Okaya. Our teacher wanted to thank
my dad and our family for allowing him to just
be a guy and hang out without prying and making
a big deal about him being there. Since this teacher
had had me and my brothers in class in the nineties.
He knew we were all big fans of Star Wars
and Indiana Jones and was proud of us for not
making it a big deal. In reality, we had no clue.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
The man was, Yeah, when you're a kid, you don't
pay attention to adults, Like that's the most boring thing
in the world.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
But it sounds like they this like they were graduates
from high school.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, does sound like they're older, but.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
They're just kind of like, Oh, it's just a guy
and that's fine. And it literally is Harrison for it
standing around the pig.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Like we would have bothered him. Are you kidding me?
You get to bother Harrison. Sorry, you're Han Solo, dude.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You'r Han Solo. You're fucking Indiana Joe.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Indiana Joe.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Come on, okay, tell you more. I want I want
to know.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I just started thinking about watching Rader is the Lost
Ark for the first time in the Plaset Theater downtown Pedaloma,
and how I was.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Like, this is it's the best. It's the best.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's He's amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Our dumb little kid brains could have cared less who
our neighbor brought to the party since we were all
jacked up on soda ice cream and playing with friends
and cousins.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, that's the story.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Harrison Ford came to my house, stay sexy and may
the Force be with you. Natalie, Oh my god, Natalie
is so good.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh shit, that's one of the big ones.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And they didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I wonder if the parents, now I know the must have.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Or maybe the parents were just old enough to kind
of not be that familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They were like kind of hippies that were like.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Here's this guy, Yeah, fucking amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They were anti pop culture.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
What would you say if Harrison Ford was a drop
by at a party that you had or a side guest.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Okay, introduce yourself as Harrison Wort.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Hello, I'm Harrison for Oh hey.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Wow, nice to meet you, big fan.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That's it, perfect man, perfectly done with a little finger
to say we're done.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Now, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'm not going to freak out, but like I'm gonna
acknowledge that I know you're Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I'm drawing the line that I'm not freaking out right now.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Big fan. Well, I'm George hard Stark from My Favorite mar.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Oh wait a second, my daughter told me about that.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Okay, this last want me to do it? Okay again?
What would you do him? I'm him? It just screaming.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I love to scream rite into people's face, especially famous people.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They love it.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
This is a follow up to one of the stories
I did recently about the girl who her cat.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
She went out to the.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wharf to say goodbye with it and ended up throwing
it into the fucking water. And then she saw the
coastguard like, come grab her poor cat's body. Right. Remember
the cat's name was Jaffy. Yeah, so this is a
response to that. Dear Karen Georgia and MFM crew, including animals,
I speak for all murderinos when I say we love
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you and everything you do. You are the friends in
our ears throughout every phase of life.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I'm feeling a butt coming.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Today I was listening to minnesod for sixty three and
the story about Jaffy the cat's botched water burial.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, the story was humorous.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I found my heart breaking for her mom, the cat's mom,
especially with my own cap hurrying happily on my lap
as I listened. First, I want to discourage anyone from
making the same innocent mistake. For obvious reasons, finding unclaimed
animal remains can incite a whole fighting ring and or
animal abuse investigation.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Oh shit.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Second, as a veterinarian, I did want to offer Jaffe's
mom some solace. When domestic animals remains are found and unclaimed,
the police take them, but the local shelter where they
are cremated. So botched Viking attempt decide your baby was
still cremated, because remember she was like, they threw it
onto the fucking you know, the trash or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, no, that's great. Yeah, they took care of it.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I hope Jaffi's mom can rest a little easier knowing
that her baby was still cared for in the way
she wanted. And as a response to Karen and George's
plug for where have we been stories? Remember like, yeah,
where do you listening with? You have been in my
ears as I travel for work all over the world,
with the coolest place being field work in South Africa,
as myself and my collaborators work to investigate the impacts
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of infectious diseases on African lion populations. WHOA so yes,
by extension, you have worked with a few hundred lions.
She's a veterinarian.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Anyway, thanks for all that you do.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Love and hug to the MFM crew and especially the
Jaffe's mom, Heather.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Heather, that was really nice to support in that moment
as a professional, to step forward and say quiet down, everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Two things. Don't ever do that again. Yes, it's absolutely
a mistake, and here's why, and don't worry about Also,
you're forgiven and.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You kind of got what you wanted ultimately. Yes, Okay,
here's my last one. This is a trash parent story
to beat all trash parents to God. Okay, hello, ladies.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I love the pod.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I've been listening since twenty eighteen when my high school
ceramics teacher recommended your podcast. Thank you, Ms Warner. My
sister and I were the type of children that my
mom had to ask not to talk about dead things
before her friends came over. We still did, and still do.
I love this community anyway. The story I have for
you isn't morbid, but a trash mom story. I don't
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think my mom was a trash parent, but my sister
and I were the youngest after five older siplings.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh wow, Yeah, she has done at number three, and
I was like, she.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Went to seven.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Dang, So our complaints were not exactly taken seriously. Like
the second time I broke my leg on our trampoline.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh my god, my mom.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Didn't believe me.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
My mom didn't believe me and made me get off
the trampoline by myself and.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Walk it off off your broken leg.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
After taking one step and immediately collapsing. I was taken
to the hospital and then forbidden from ever touching the
trampoline again.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh my god, how many broken bones does seven children
bring you? Like, it's a tramp a week and every
week someone's breaking a fucking bone.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Oh, you're constantly in the er. Yeah, and you're not
scared anymore. It's like you've become like an er nurse yourself.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
That rule, of course, did not apply to my siblings,
so it's like victim blaming. So every summer for the
rest of my childhood, I got to sit on the
grass and watch them jump around happily without me no punished.
But this story isn't about me. Another accident happened on
the same backyard trampoline.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Those are so fucking dangerous, they really are.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I mean but they're also so fun.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah, but yes, well, but okay, my brother was jumping
while holding my sister and accidentally and then in parentheses
that says probably intentionally dropped her on her back. She
burst into tears and wouldn't move. My parents carried her
to the couch and told her to rest. Even though
she insisted something was wrong, they didn't believe her, and
life went on, even as she complained for years about
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back pain and limited mobility. What flashed forward to when
she was sixteen, she got into a sledding accident where
she flew off a jump and crashed hard. After a
couple hours of labored breathing, my mom finally called my
paramedic dad. Wait, okay, maybe he became one after all
of those hospitalizations. Okay, my mom called my paramedic dad,
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who told her to take my sister to the hospital immediately.
Finally there, they took scans and discovered she had broken
her sternum in the crash.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, and the crash, she broke her sternum, yes, okay,
Oh god, it's so bad.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I can't breathe. They can't take a breath.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Probably her knee had her chest and cracked it. That's intense.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
But when the doctor delivered the news, I thought you
said your daughter had never broken a bone before. My
mom replied, she hasn't. Well, the doctor said, in the
x rays we took, we found old fractures in her back.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
My sister broke her back at ten years old and
wasn't treated until she was sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
My parents are divorced, and my dad loves to bring
up all the injuries that happened on her watch. But
my sister complained to him too, and he also brushed
her off.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He was a fucking paramedic, so he should have known better.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And he was a paramedic.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
He still let them have a trampoline.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You don't go over and at least do one of
those like how does this feel?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Two? So you're fine? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Can you see this finger?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
No, my back is broken.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Finger. Can you fucking blame me?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Stay off the fucking trampoline. Cheers to my strong ass
sister whose side note walked up that snowy hill by
herself after she broke her sternum so my mom would
stop freaking out.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
No tears, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
And then it just says, anyway, be aware of trampolines ssdgm.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Aj AJ great email, everyone's send us you and your
siblings injuries like your childhood fucked up injuries that like
nobody paid attention to.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yes, I want those so bad.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
My sister fully broke her wrist and my mom was
like when she wouldn't stop crying. My mom was fine,
put a cold compress on it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
She was a nurse.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, Vince absolutely was chased through the sliding glass door
by his brother. His brother was chasing him like a
knife or something, of course, and like broke his arm,
and you know, I was.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Like, yeah, get over it.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
That happened in my My friend Christine got chased through
the sliding glass door and like it's that thing where
like everybody's fighting and you think this one thing has
happened and suddenly it's like holy shit.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And stops to be like where's the blood coming from?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yes, the kids have to like how do we make
it so mom doesn't find out we just broke the
exciting glass door.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
So hilarious childhood injuries, right is what we want.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
We need the people who they happened to to be
okay today.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yes, yes, that's for us.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yes, thanks guys, amazing, great job everyone, Thank you so
much for sending those in. If you have stories, please
send them to my Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's right, and stay sex and don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh I never say that part.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
That's oh yeah, I know it.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yes, she's all right, Gube, Bye, bye bye, Elvis.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer
is Tessa Hughes.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
This episode was mixed by Leona Scuolacci.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
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Hello and welcome my favorite murder the minisode where we
read you your stories.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Would you like to go first?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This one's I'm not going to tell you what it's called. Okay, Hi,
Karen and Georgia. I wrote this in twenty eighteen worth
another shot. Hey years ago, I lived in a beautiful
apartment in Chicago. A sweet old lady named Loretta owned
the building, and her hoarding son lived in a unit.
The guy was a miserable, scary old fuck who would
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randomly just scream out loud in his apartment a lot.
I like to hang out with my friends in the
communal yard, and he would always come out and yell
at us to be quiet. So I thought that maybe
if I befriended him, we would be able to party
in peace. And it seemed to work when you were young.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
And just trying to get partying done, hopeful and yeah,
all those things.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Whenever we are outside and he noticed, I would invite
him to hang out, and it felt as though he
enjoyed himself. He would bring his beer and just sort
of sit there sometimes for hours. Even my mom met him,
he stopped shiding, and I swear he appreciated the company.
At one point I went to his apartment to use
the bathroom. Why didn't I just go upstairs and use mine?
Stupid stupid twenty three year old, And you could barely
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move because of all his crap. There was black mold everywhere,
and the bathroom was what nightmares were made of, like
train spotting. Oh no, that thing of like I got
these bathroom, you can use mine, okay, Like you're just
twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Right, You're just trying to do the easiest thing to
get back outside, to have some more fun and.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Be like friendly and nice.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
And also I think the hoarders, I think it was
like the TV show is that may a lot of
people first understood what that was. Yeah, so it would
be like that wouldn't be a possibility in your mind
if you've never seen that before.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Right up, moving out.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And I hadn't thought about them in years until a
friend sent me an article of a murder suicide. That
terrible man stabbed his eighty four year old mother, my
old landlord to death in that terrifying apartment, and he
had a five hours stand off with police until he
shot and killed himself. I knew he was a greedy asshole,
but it never occurred to me that he could be
capable of killing at all, especially his mom, in.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Such a horrific way.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Rip Loretta, So stay sexy and don't invite murders to
drink beer with you in your backyard, love y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
JANAVII.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, I think there's so many signs of mental
health issues and untreated mental health issues there. We're just like, yeah,
you're doing your best to try to make someone like
in your mind happy, right, I think when actually what
they need is serious medication and they need professionals to
be talking to them and looking at them totally.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And then also, like, when we're that young, we're just
so naive as to like what people are capable.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Of, Right, how do we solve it?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Just do things our way without thinking about other people's
mine reality.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, all right, well here's a little upturn. Great,
it just starts with I'm terrible at thinking up witty openers,
so let's just get straight into it. In a not
so recent minisod, it took me a while to get
around to writing this. You asked for a third man
syndrome stories or similar, and while I'm not one hundred
percent sure, this totally fits the criteria. This is a
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story of my own weird psychic I heard a voice moment.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
When I was thirteen.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I woke up in the middle of the night in
my bed and there was a storm raging outside. Let
me preface this by saying that this is the same
bedroom I'd slipped in since I was six years old,
so I'd experienced many a stormy night with wild rain
and wind, and normally I'd fall straight back to sleep,
no worries.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But not this night.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
As I was drowsily listening to the weather outside, I
had a sudden thought pop into my brain, clear and
loud as anything, saying, the tree is about to fall
on your bedroom. I didn't even hesitate. I was up
and out of my bed in seconds, making for the door,
and the moment after I'd taken two steps away, the
huge tree that had been outside my bedroom for years
and years came crashing down, smashing the window and puncturing
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through the wall to land, glass spraying everywhere right atop
the bed.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I had just fatally shit.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
To this day, I have no idea how I knew
that tree was about to fall. There was absolutely nothing
different whatsoever about that night compared to any other stormy night.
Was I, for one brief moment psychic or was it
a ghostly intervention from a loved one. Whatever it was,
I'm just glad it spared me the damage of having
a big old tree and a bunch of glass fall
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on top of me. I wanted to thank you both
for providing me with so many years of entertainment and
keeping me company through the ups and downs of life.
I'm a Day One listener. Back when I was in
my mid twenties, depressed, incredibly lost, broken in the throes,
a pretty heavy reliance on alcohol. Now I'm in my thirties,
I just bought my first house. My God, in this
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day and age, it's a miracle, incredible work. I'm three
years sober. My debut novel, a crime fiction, because of
course it is, came out last year, and my second
novel just came out two weeks ago. I couldn't have
done it without giving up alcohol. Much love to you both.
Shaden ps. If you're curious, the first novel is going you're.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like, God, plug your book. You gotta plug your book.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
The first novel is called Down the Rabbit Hole by
Shaden Berry, and the second is at Cafe sixty four,
but I think it's only available here in Australia.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh man, I'm ordering them, Shayden.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What a huge accomplishment. Enormous And also you lived through
that tree.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Thing you just too. I forgot about that part. Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Right, what a one two punch of success. Seriously amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's such a cool, cool letter, so good.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm not gonna tell you the name of this one. Okay, Okay,
Hello MFM Team Day one listener, first time writer. I've
been waiting for an opportunity to write in and when
I heard you ask for people hiding in ceiling stories,
I knew it was my.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Time to shine. I know people, Okay, I mean. Sure.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
To set the scene, I was twenty years old and
had come home from college for Thanksgiving. As a tradition,
I met up with all my old high school friends
at a local bar where the only form of ID
required was the ability to verbally confirm that you were
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Flash forward to a few hours and many drinks later,
when my old high school boyfriend caused a scene that
did not involve me that led to the police being called.
The bar was packed, which made it nearly impossible for
us to scatter their underage. Several of us were rounded up,
and I immediately started planning my escape. I asked the
officers if I could use the bathroom real quick, drunk
and me knew this was my only chance and I
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wasn't going to waste it. I went to the women's
room but saw no window or other way out. Then
I went into the men's room, and a state would
have it, there was a hole in the ceiling. This
sounds like Karen back in the day. Possibly listen, you
gotta do something. You look for Your escape had to
right push it to the very limits.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I promptly scaled the bathroom sink and crawled up into
the drop ceiling drunk.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But she was drunk, by the way.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, I probably should have stayed where I was, but
I figured that the cops would come looking for me.
I knew my only option was to continue crawling through
the ceiling until I found some sort of exterior event
that I could kick out and escape through the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
She's just running die hard in her mind.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
What ton go?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Great? Yeah, that is not how things went down. I
actually made it an impressive distance through this ceiling, held
up mostly by wires before I had a small missed
up and my foot came through one of the flimsy panels.
Unfortunately for me, this was directly over where the police
were standing in the bar.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
They immediately shone their flashlights through the hole. Just she's drunk,
I want to remind everyone. But that's my favorite part.
It's all musty and hot, right, but she also thinks
she's like brilliant and like doing it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And kind of has a little electric yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And my friends are gonna be so impressed. And then
last like, ma'am, can you get down from there?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And then you're like, is it bleeding? It feels like
it's bleeding.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
They shine their flashlight to the hole and ordered me
out of the ceiling. I asked how, and they said
back the way you came. So I had to crawl
the thirty or so feet back through the ceiling ik
so dirty to the bathroom, where I exited it was
promptly arrested, along with about twenty five other underage people
in the bar. She should got doubly arrested for being
so stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Or she should have been freed for being so genius.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
True.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Fortunately I was able to pay a fine for the
underage drinking and was in charge with destruction of property.
This story has become lore in my hometown, and I
had a few of my former teachers come up to
tell me that they heard it through the grapevine and
ask me if it really happened. Yes, yes, yes, this
was almost twenty years ago, and I'm happy to say
I haven't found myself in the back of a cop
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car since. Stay sexy and don't deploy a mission impossible
escape plan when you're three sheets to the wind.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Kate, Kate, also your underage.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
So this is just you beginning your partying career, right,
This is an incredible start.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's so brave.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So rim does go for it? Just do it?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
If you have a chance to take it. It might
not work out the way you think it would.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Right, but you will have a story. You will and
even if it hurts, and even if you get arrested.
What are we saying, Oh, this is good.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Don't listen to our advice.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, don't listen to anything except for this next email.
And I'm not going to read you the subject line
in all caps. It starts It's my time to shine
Nott with a bunch of isaies, greetings and salutations. Growing
up on a small hobby farm in southeastern Wisconsin, just
north of Milwaukee had its advantages, one of them being
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that as a child, we would have an annual pig
roast on our farm and invite family, friends, and our
one neighbor, yes, the one neighbor who's property butted up
to our field. This neighbor also happened to be our
fifth grade teacher, a very kind older man who never
married and took care of his father, who lived in
a house next to his and shared a driveway with
one of our field access roads. He would walk to
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our home through the field to come to the annual
pig roast, often bringing his father as well. One year
he brought another gentleman about his age with him. He
was clad in avi at or sunglasses, a scruffy beard,
a Packers baseball cap, and a deep, gravelly voice. He
simply said his brother was in town and they thought
they would come over to enjoy some beers, a freshly
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slaughtered and roasted pig and good company. I know it's
so vegans, it's rough roasted like in the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Pig roastings were a thing that I saw a lot
as a child.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He did, that's like a thing on a farm.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
It's like a thing, and it's like it's like a
reason to have a barbecue.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But it's different.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Never in the suburbs, we don't usually dig a hole
in the astro turf.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
And well, I'm sorry about that because the pigs. No,
it's really rough, and pigs are so like us.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's very sad.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
He simply stated that this.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Was his old college roommate from Rippin College Ripo n
Assuming They roomed together freshman year and stayed in touch
ever since. He happened to be in town for the
EAA in Oshkosh, one of the world's largest gatherings of
airplane enthusiasts featuring vintage World War One and two airplanes,
the Blue Angels, and the other flying exhibitions. A few
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days later, our neighbor walked back through the field and
was chatting with my dad in the front yard. We
thought nothing of it, since he was a teacher and
had summers off. We thought maybe he needed some construction
work done at his house. Since my dad often did
little side jobs for people, Me and my brother scurried
over to say hello. As visitors in the summer were
few and far between. We came by just in time
to listen to our teacher tell my dad that the
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man he brought to our pig roast was none other
than Harrison Ford.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's I was like, Oh, it's his lover whoever?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
This is right, it's some sort of finally he gets
to be himself, yeah, or something.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
His boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
He's like, oh, my friend, my college friend, it's Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's Harrison Ford.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
And it's basically like, I'm a normal experience sherpa for
my old friend hair who now lives in the weirdest
world of all time, and all he wants to do
stand in a backyard and drink a beer.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And not yet recognized, and they did it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's okay, because Harrison Ford was a construction worker too,
Like the whole thing of him getting fucking discovered, yes,
by being the hottest fucking construction worker that's ever lived.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I mean, okay, wild, Okaya. Our teacher wanted to thank
my dad and our family for allowing him to just
be a guy and hang out without prying and making
a big deal about him being there. Since this teacher
had had me and my brothers in class in the nineties.
He knew we were all big fans of Star Wars
and Indiana Jones and was proud of us for not
making it a big deal. In reality, we had no clue.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
The man was, Yeah, when you're a kid, you don't
pay attention to adults, Like that's the most boring thing
in the world.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
But it sounds like they this like they were graduates
from high school.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, does sound like they're older, but.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
They're just kind of like, Oh, it's just a guy
and that's fine. And it literally is Harrison for it
standing around the pig.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Like we would have bothered him. Are you kidding me?
You get to bother Harrison. Sorry, you're Han Solo, dude.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You'r Han Solo. You're fucking Indiana Joe.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Indiana Joe.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Come on, okay, tell you more. I want I want
to know.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I just started thinking about watching Rader is the Lost
Ark for the first time in the Plaset Theater downtown Pedaloma,
and how I was.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Like, this is it's the best. It's the best.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's He's amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Our dumb little kid brains could have cared less who
our neighbor brought to the party since we were all
jacked up on soda ice cream and playing with friends
and cousins.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, that's the story.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Harrison Ford came to my house, stay sexy and may
the Force be with you. Natalie, Oh my god, Natalie
is so good.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh shit, that's one of the big ones.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And they didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I wonder if the parents, now I know the must have.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Or maybe the parents were just old enough to kind
of not be that familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They were like kind of hippies that were like.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Here's this guy, Yeah, fucking amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They were anti pop culture.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
What would you say if Harrison Ford was a drop
by at a party that you had or a side guest.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Okay, introduce yourself as Harrison Wort.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Hello, I'm Harrison for Oh hey.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Wow, nice to meet you, big fan.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
That's it, perfect man, perfectly done with a little finger
to say we're done.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Now, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'm not going to freak out, but like I'm gonna
acknowledge that I know you're Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I'm drawing the line that I'm not freaking out right now.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Big fan. Well, I'm George hard Stark from My Favorite mar.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Oh wait a second, my daughter told me about that.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Okay, this last want me to do it? Okay again?
What would you do him? I'm him? It just screaming.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I love to scream rite into people's face, especially famous people.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They love it.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
This is a follow up to one of the stories
I did recently about the girl who her cat.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
She went out to the.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Wharf to say goodbye with it and ended up throwing
it into the fucking water. And then she saw the
coastguard like, come grab her poor cat's body. Right. Remember
the cat's name was Jaffy. Yeah, so this is a
response to that. Dear Karen Georgia and MFM crew, including animals,
I speak for all murderinos when I say we love
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you and everything you do. You are the friends in
our ears throughout every phase of life.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I'm feeling a butt coming.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Today I was listening to minnesod for sixty three and
the story about Jaffy the cat's botched water burial.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, the story was humorous.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I found my heart breaking for her mom, the cat's mom,
especially with my own cap hurrying happily on my lap
as I listened. First, I want to discourage anyone from
making the same innocent mistake. For obvious reasons, finding unclaimed
animal remains can incite a whole fighting ring and or
animal abuse investigation.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Oh shit.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Second, as a veterinarian, I did want to offer Jaffe's
mom some solace. When domestic animals remains are found and unclaimed,
the police take them, but the local shelter where they
are cremated. So botched Viking attempt decide your baby was
still cremated, because remember she was like, they threw it
onto the fucking you know, the trash or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, no, that's great. Yeah, they took care of it.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I hope Jaffi's mom can rest a little easier knowing
that her baby was still cared for in the way
she wanted. And as a response to Karen and George's
plug for where have we been stories? Remember like, yeah,
where do you listening with? You have been in my
ears as I travel for work all over the world,
with the coolest place being field work in South Africa,
as myself and my collaborators work to investigate the impacts
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of infectious diseases on African lion populations. WHOA so yes,
by extension, you have worked with a few hundred lions.
She's a veterinarian.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Anyway, thanks for all that you do.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Love and hug to the MFM crew and especially the
Jaffe's mom, Heather.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Heather, that was really nice to support in that moment
as a professional, to step forward and say quiet down, everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Two things. Don't ever do that again. Yes, it's absolutely
a mistake, and here's why, and don't worry about Also,
you're forgiven and.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You kind of got what you wanted ultimately. Yes, Okay,
here's my last one. This is a trash parent story
to beat all trash parents to God. Okay, hello, ladies.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I love the pod.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I've been listening since twenty eighteen when my high school
ceramics teacher recommended your podcast. Thank you, Ms Warner. My
sister and I were the type of children that my
mom had to ask not to talk about dead things
before her friends came over. We still did, and still do.
I love this community anyway. The story I have for
you isn't morbid, but a trash mom story. I don't
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think my mom was a trash parent, but my sister
and I were the youngest after five older siplings.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Oh wow, Yeah, she has done at number three, and
I was like, she.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Went to seven.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Dang, So our complaints were not exactly taken seriously. Like
the second time I broke my leg on our trampoline.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh my god, my mom.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Didn't believe me.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
My mom didn't believe me and made me get off
the trampoline by myself and.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Walk it off off your broken leg.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
After taking one step and immediately collapsing. I was taken
to the hospital and then forbidden from ever touching the
trampoline again.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh my god, how many broken bones does seven children
bring you? Like, it's a tramp a week and every
week someone's breaking a fucking bone.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Oh, you're constantly in the er. Yeah, and you're not
scared anymore. It's like you've become like an er nurse yourself.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
That rule, of course, did not apply to my siblings,
so it's like victim blaming. So every summer for the
rest of my childhood, I got to sit on the
grass and watch them jump around happily without me no punished.
But this story isn't about me. Another accident happened on
the same backyard trampoline.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Those are so fucking dangerous, they really are.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I mean but they're also so fun.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah, but yes, well, but okay, my brother was jumping
while holding my sister and accidentally and then in parentheses
that says probably intentionally dropped her on her back. She
burst into tears and wouldn't move. My parents carried her
to the couch and told her to rest. Even though
she insisted something was wrong, they didn't believe her, and
life went on, even as she complained for years about
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back pain and limited mobility. What flashed forward to when
she was sixteen, she got into a sledding accident where
she flew off a jump and crashed hard. After a
couple hours of labored breathing, my mom finally called my
paramedic dad. Wait, okay, maybe he became one after all
of those hospitalizations. Okay, my mom called my paramedic dad,
(19:39):
who told her to take my sister to the hospital immediately.
Finally there, they took scans and discovered she had broken
her sternum in the crash.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, and the crash, she broke her sternum, yes, okay,
Oh god, it's so bad.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I can't breathe. They can't take a breath.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Probably her knee had her chest and cracked it. That's intense.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
But when the doctor delivered the news, I thought you
said your daughter had never broken a bone before. My
mom replied, she hasn't. Well, the doctor said, in the
x rays we took, we found old fractures in her back.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
My sister broke her back at ten years old and
wasn't treated until she was sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
My parents are divorced, and my dad loves to bring
up all the injuries that happened on her watch. But
my sister complained to him too, and he also brushed
her off.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He was a fucking paramedic, so he should have known better.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And he was a paramedic.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
He still let them have a trampoline.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You don't go over and at least do one of
those like how does this feel?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Two? So you're fine? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Can you see this finger?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
No, my back is broken.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Finger. Can you fucking blame me?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Stay off the fucking trampoline. Cheers to my strong ass
sister whose side note walked up that snowy hill by
herself after she broke her sternum so my mom would
stop freaking out.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
No tears, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
And then it just says, anyway, be aware of trampolines ssdgm.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Aj AJ great email, everyone's send us you and your
siblings injuries like your childhood fucked up injuries that like
nobody paid attention to.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yes, I want those so bad.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
My sister fully broke her wrist and my mom was
like when she wouldn't stop crying. My mom was fine,
put a cold compress on it.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
She was a nurse.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, Vince absolutely was chased through the sliding glass door
by his brother. His brother was chasing him like a
knife or something, of course, and like broke his arm,
and you know, I was.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Like, yeah, get over it.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
That happened in my My friend Christine got chased through
the sliding glass door and like it's that thing where
like everybody's fighting and you think this one thing has
happened and suddenly it's like holy shit.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And stops to be like where's the blood coming from?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yes, the kids have to like how do we make
it so mom doesn't find out we just broke the
exciting glass door.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
So hilarious childhood injuries, right is what we want.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
We need the people who they happened to to be
okay today.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yes, yes, that's for us.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yes, thanks guys, amazing, great job everyone, Thank you so
much for sending those in. If you have stories, please
send them to my Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's right, and stay sex and don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh I never say that part.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
That's oh yeah, I know it.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yes, she's all right, Gube, Bye, bye bye, Elvis.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer
is Tessa Hughes.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
This episode was mixed by Leona Scuolacci.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
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