June 15, 2026 • 27 mins
This week’s hometowns include rabies at church camp and two legendary trash dads.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello and welcome my favorite murder, the minisod. That's right, this.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is the minisode we tell you things about yourself that
you didn't even know you wanted to know.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are you ready for a little bit of self examination?
Can we do this finally get you to admit your
side of things? Go first? Okay, yes, I will go first.
Thank you. The subject line of this first email is
rabies at church camp, all your favorite topics, and it
starts what's up, hotties? Oh cute, no time to waste.
(00:50):
Gird your loins for a wild tale. When I was eleven,
like any good Christian child, I was sent to church camp. However,
I had developed a reputation for running into troubles.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Just the year before, troubles troubles multiple Just the year before,
I had been sent to the hospital with a back
injury after a pool game of playing in the swimming
pool of chicken gone wrong where I nearly drowned.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Holy shit, so true troubles. Yeah. The camp setting was
at a state park in the middle of the Tennessee Woods.
So the next year, when my mother got a phone
call from a park ranger, Oh so where that injury happened?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, in the middle of a state park in Tennessee.
Got it. So the next year, when my mother got
a phone call from a park ranger stating that I
had had an accident in the park pool, it felt
like deja vu. My mother firmly stated, you must be mistaken.
Did you find some old documents or something that accident
happened a year ago.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, we were going through some paperwork and I'm like, hey,
emergency call immediately.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Hold on, let me get this cobblob off. Call nine
one one. Sorry making fun of their mom, it says.
The calm ranger responded to my mother with, no, ma'am,
this morning at ten am, your daughter Sarah had an
incident in the pool involving an animal attack. What dun duh? Duh?
Cut to my eleven year old perspective. I was swimming,
(02:12):
I was like, first, it was a perfectly written email.
I was swimming in the pool, minding my business when
I heard someone yell, get it out, get it out.
I was curious and swim over to the growing crowd
surrounding a brown dot squirming in the water. I pushed
through the crowd and approached this creature. There's your problem
right there. Hanging back. Maybe get out of the pool,
(02:33):
run the opposite way. Yeah, you don't need to be
up in there, you're eleven. I pushed through the crowd
and approach this creature. I wasn't wearing my glasses.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh then why okay, I don't want to yell at
a child.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I mean, I just just eleven. So to my naked eyes,
it appeared simply to be a bird. In my mind,
I was an animal savior to all creatures great and small,
and animal savior child creatures great and small is italicized.
So into my hands it went. However, as I exited
the pool, I began to notice the features of this
(03:07):
creature were not that of a bird, but rather a
curved nose bat. No. The second my brain realized what
it was, it awoke from its post drowning nap and
began to bite me on my thumb. I panicked as
the pain surged from its teeth digging into me. I
(03:28):
looked around for help, but none came.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Because everyone knows not the touch of bat, but everyone
wears their glasses on.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
In the pool, everyone with good vision stayed in a
circle around the bat did not break through. I relate
to this person so much, stop breaking through. I looked
around for help, but none came. So my solution was
to rip it from my flesh and throw it across
the concrete pools.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh my god, which we get it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The rest is a blur. But a ranger came and
sured the bat and took it away. I didn't know
the procedures of such attacks, but what I did know
is that I was never allowed in the park pool again. Wow,
at age eleven. I don't know if that's her fault.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's like, do we have any adults present keeping an
eye on everything?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It sounds like I bet you there was a fifteen
year old up on that lifeguard stand right. It was
also just watching the kids circle up around a bat.
The worst part of this story is that my parents
got a fateful call from the park labs and were
told that they had less than seventy two hours to
get me to the hospital and get me vaccinated because
the bat tested positive for rabies.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's like a hard core treatment too, right, Oh yeah,
very painful.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yes, we had to call Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville,
Tennessee to make sure they even had the vaccine to
give me. Because it wasn't every day that they had
to administer Raby's shots. Oh it's real old fashioned. After
twenty three shots, Oh my god, I was in the
clear of dying from rabies to day. I always get
(05:00):
weird looks when people see my vaccine records. So yeah,
Batman doesn't have shit on me. They said crap, but
I changed it. Yeah, because it's funny here. Thank you
for being here and telling your stories. I'm a private
duty nurse and my patient and I love to listen
every morning and it makes our days better. A Hi, Hi,
stay sexy and stay out of the church camp pool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sarah, where was Jesus in that moment?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Not on that lifeguard stand watching over the lifeguard I
wasn't swimming next to you. Who watches the watchers? Okay,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
This is called Broadmoor Hospital celebrity spotting. Hi, Karen and Georgia,
Greetings from Kent, the Garden of England.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
What news from Kent?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I live in the county town Maidstone. You straight out
of Game of Thrones, which is a bit of a
shithole but doesn't sound like it, but does have a
prison where Reggie Cray was incarcerated for a spell, But
that's that's not the reason I'm writing the craze. The
craze were the crazy twin like.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Monsters mobsters or were they twins or woul They just
rather close in age.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, something like that, and they like terrorized.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That everybody, but also had a really great nightclub. Watched
Tom Hardy write in legend or Legendary right, he plays
both parts.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Okay, My sister Kate and I are avid Day one
listeners and have always wished we had a story for you.
When I heard the Shakespeare at Broadmoor episode episode five
thirty two, I realized that finally this is my time
to shine. Kate will be fuming I've beaten her to it.
If you read this out nice go to hello. We
love starting sibling foots. We come from a very large
(06:44):
family with a shall we say, colorful past. When I
was a kid, I was a keen, nerdy letter writer
and one of my favorite correspondents was my uncle Jeff.
But with the G Joff, Geoff Joff. When sober and medicated, Joff.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Was warm, It's not really nice.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Jeff was warm, kind company, prone to lavish gestures, and
possessed a dry, dark sense of humor. When he wasn't,
things were harder for him, and he spent many spells
at Her Majesty's pleasure, including some stints at Broadmore. I
don't know exactly how he came to be there, but
he was definitely nearer the June and Jennifer end of
the spectrum than the Hardcorengans, Rongans Rongins. Anyway, one day,
(07:24):
when I was about sixteen, I went with another of
my uncles to visit Jeff there in the central hall
where I think the Shakespeare performance must have been held.
It was great to see him, and he was calm,
genial company. He bought me flowers in a very expensive
bottle of perfume and says, I don't know how he
got a hold of it, but I do know that
I couldn't wait to crow about it to my pals.
The wording of this emails great.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Sorry if giving from within he had a touch traded
that like cigarettes or something like that. That's really nice, right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The whole thing was a young Murderino's daydream. At the races,
my other uncle and I were not the only visitors,
and the hall was pretty crowded. Just over the way
was Ronnie Cray and visiting associates, looking for all the
world like a twinkly grandpa with his smart zoot suit
and teddy boy brill creamed hair. It was nineteen ninety one,
(08:14):
so pretty anachronistic, but very dapper.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He still was like getting dressed up.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And people were still coming to see him. They were
power And then across the room, staring all caps right
at me was none other than Peter Sutcliffe aka the
Yorkshire Ripper. When I was growing up, he was the
absolute number one fear of young women in the UK.
And I am not joking when I say his dead
(08:40):
cold stare made my blood run absolutely icy. And the
kicker his visitor was a beautiful young woman.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What was she thinking?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Jeff struggled in the outside world and is long gone now,
but I like to think he was in the audience
of the play, and I know he would have found
it to be bomb.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
For his troubled soul.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Stay sexy and don't have lock eyes with the serial
killer Beck.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Wow, Like that would an experience of like going into
a place like that where you are there's somebody that
you're there for a real reason. Yeah, but you know
where you are and you know what you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I mean, how scary for the people that are there,
not because they've committed any crimes, but just right need
some help. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Interesting. Brodmore gets brought up a lot in this podcast. Yeah,
it does fascinating. Find someone that used to work there. Yeah,
bring them on or go there to a live show
my MFM. Brodmore. No, just kidding, just shut it down.
We just end up getting all of it shut down.
We are not the cramps. This is no, no, no, okay.
(09:49):
The subject line of this email is energy vampire teacher
I went to and it just gets right into it.
I went to a small high school, maybe one hundred
and fifty students in the Midwest. On the last day
of the school year, I confess to one of my
teachers that I hadn't completed my final project comparing a
historically important piece of literature to a modern version. So
he asked me a couple of questions. Did you read
(10:10):
the books? Yes? Did you learn something? Yes? Okay, then
you passed high school Anxiety procrastinations somehow won that day amazing.
Years later, while watching the intro to the first episode
of a new TV show, I had deposit in disbelief
when I saw and later learned that the very same teacher,
(10:31):
Mark Prochs was now the one and only our favorite
energy vampire, Colin Robinson of What We Do in the
Shadows he was a teacher. I love that fucking show
so much, and I love that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He's so funny, he is so good. All of them
are so good on that. To watch the TV show
What We Do in the Shadows, I feel I am
jealous of you that you get a start over.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You have seasons and seasons to binge if Matt Berry
to learn about and then enjoy for the first time.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh my god, Yes, and he's just still this guy's
I don't love his name, but that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Okay, I know, God, And it's very funny that he's
not a household name, but Colin Robinson I would have
been like a totally and I thought.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I would have known his name, and so I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I don't okay approach. I honestly hope that he doesn't
remember me now, because my anxiety brain still recalls with
too much clarity all the ways I embarrassed myself that
year and probably irked him in one way or another
in other chance meetings throughout the remainder of my teens.
I guess he has more important things to think about,
but the high schooler part of my brain will always
worry about what people thought of me. Twenty ish years ago,
(11:40):
I first began listening to my favorite murder right after
moving into a house in the woods. So sorry I
missed that little tidbit of advice to stay out of
the forest. Your voices have continued to keep me company
throughout the years, and yes, I am still in the forest,
and I am still knock on wood. Fine, And then
it just says, ay, ay, yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
He was a teacher. He was probably so over at
that point. He was like, did you read?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Did you learn? Then? That's an god bless I have
an audition, yeah for this show. He was an improv
guy for a long time. He was an improv guy
and he did this really amazing thing because my friends
ran the Found Footage festival. Oh yeah, so they got
the footage of him as a fake expert. I think
he was a fake yo yo expert on local news.
(12:25):
That's kind of where he first got discovered because he
was so he just ruined the morning news on purpose
and so realistically amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, so amazing, so good. Okay, I have to love
I'm not going to tell you the name of this one. Okay, Hi,
ladies and co.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, love y'all lots, thanks for being bad. Let's get
into it. My dad was raised and lived in the
suburbs of Chicago for his entire life. When my dad
was in his high school days in the seventies, he
and his friends decided to build and sell large speakers.
With this quote luke it of business in mind, the
group started to collect supplies. They needed a particular type
of foam to fill the speakers with, and they found
(13:06):
a local junkyard.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That would sell it to them for cheap.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
The owner said for twenty bucks, the boys could take
as much foam as they could carry. The owner called
his brother over and told the brother to show my
dad and his friends where the foam was located. They
started walking with the brother and the guys all got
strange vibes from him immediately, and he guess says, yet, uh, well, foam,
it wasn't nothing to do with foam.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, no hillside stranglers, no all, my and this is all,
it's in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
All my dad's friends were avoiding talking to the brother
because of how creepy.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
He was, but my thinking about what we do in
the shadows.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But my dad, being a smart and savvy businessman, knew
the more he got on this guy's good side, the
more opportunity they would have in the future to grow
their speaker business. And that was how easy it was
to make money back then. You just made a thing
out of nothing, out of trash, You.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Made something, and you were a nice man to another man. Yeah,
and then good luck with everything, right.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
My dad's schmoozing and kindness led to this guy eventually
softening a bit to my dad, but only my dad.
After they collected all the phone they could carry, my
dad thanked this man and said they would be back
again for more. After building one to do speakers and
being immediately bored of the project, the guys quit their
speaker of building business and therefore never returned to the junkyard.
Years later, my dad saw a news report about a
(14:27):
man suspected of domestic terrorism and murder. He recognizes the
man being fingered, but can't quite place him, and it
bothers him for months. Months maybe even close to a
year later, my dad realizes that the man was the
one who worked in the junkyard. The man was none
other than the unibomber ted Kaczynski.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I didn't realize. I thought he was he targeted professors.
But he was he himself, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes, he went to Harvard, Remember they did that. They
think that they did all these LSD experiments on and oh,
ok theme all. I remember his brother's the one who
turned him in.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Turned him in. Yeah, but I just never realized he
had like a junkyard phase. Same. No, that deep cut.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The factory yard they picked up the phone from was
owned by Kazinski's brother. He and his wife would later
turn Kazinsky into the authorities. This is just one of
the many stories my dad shared with me over the years.
My father was always into true crime and mysteries, later
going on to become a lawyer and pass his love
from mysteries on to me. My dad became a well
respected lawyer, working for the State's Attorney's Office for many years,
(15:32):
being on staff while cases like John Wayne Gacy and
other notorious Chicagoland area murders were being tried and sentenced.
So of course, he had many crazy stories and sometimes
insider info on Chicago land crimes.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Can we have that please? Uh no, actually you legally cannot,
all right.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He ended his career at our Country's courthouse, where he
worked for over a decade. He passed away in August
of twenty nineteen after a long battle with skin cancer.
Shortly after, one of the halls in our County's courthouse
was named after him in honor of his devoted heart
to seeing liberty and justice for all. He left a
forever impact on our county, our family, and the lives
of so many. I am proud to be part of
(16:10):
his legacy. Karen you sharing your Karen you sharing your
journey of losing your mother to a disease where you
don't recognize your family member has touched me and made
my journey of being a caretaker for a sick parent
feel a little less isolating. Thank you both for making
me laugh on tough days and being an escape from
reality when I needed one while taking care of him.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
For the last few years of his life.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Stay sexy, don't buy foam from serial killers, and most importantly,
get your yearly check up at your dermatologist.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Katie God, Katie, so many lessons to be learned from
this one, so many lessons, but also what an incredible
thing to have a dad that worked so well, didn't
just work hard, didn't just like yeah, devote himself for
whatever his reasons are, but like the point where they're like, oh,
we're going to give him a wing. We're gonna name
(17:02):
a wing after him.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And Ted Kaczynski, who famously hated everyone, Oh yeah, fucking
like you, only you you kissed.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Up to somebody that was unkiss uppable too.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Or like you were just like you treated to them
like a human being enough that they were like, this
guy's pretty cool. Yeah, wild, Thank you, Katie.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Good job, Katie. All right, here's my last one, so
in honor of Father's Day, talking about Champion Fathers right coming,
which is coming up. The subject line of this the
American version I couldn't read to you, but here's the
British version. The subject line is the ultimate cunt. Now
(17:42):
with do with that? Editor is what you will? Okay,
So it says hey to all the pets and people
at my favorite murder. Firstly, I'd like to say how
much your podcast has helped with some of the hardest
times in my life. I now listen while making ashes jewelry,
and then in parentheses it says, yep, like the cremations
of people and pets. Oh so you can have a
little permanent I want that. Yeah, you just look them.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Really, I didn't realize you were morbid as fuck.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, I was just like, Elvis has been gone for
too long, So you can't have just like ashes. Oh
do you really? Of course? Oh you didn't bury him?
Where am I gonna? I don't live anywhere long enough
to like up aforest lawn. Look, I'm not going to
fight with you on Mike about this, but you should
have buried him in a human He's on a shelf
that looks lovely. Well, now you can make it. We've
(18:36):
got a friend in the business. Okay. Sorry. My dad
was always doing something dodgy for quick cash. One of
his many great get rich quick schemes involved with my
brother and myself. He had decided that selling cigarettes he
had purchased in France, it would be his new money
making idea. Oh Dad, so this isn't just your average
(18:57):
I think that we've gotten a lot of trash Dad
stories where it's like he forgot to pick us up
from skating or whatever. And this is like, I think
this is where might go into a new level of
British trash. It's actually illegal at this point. Yard we're
getting into a legal territory. We're getting creative with how
we're going to be trashy okay. So it says the
(19:18):
only problem being that you could only bring a few
cartons without having to pay tax coming back to the UK.
That's when the baguette trip started. What would take us
both over on the car ferry to France, fill the
back of the car fully with creates of cigarettes, and
then place a blanket on top and tell me and
(19:39):
my brother to pretend to be asleep. When the customs
person would come and look in the car, my dad
would innocently say that his two young children were asleep
in the back and they would let us pass without
any search. And then in parentheses that says this was
the early nineties. Oh my god, this happened regularly for
a few years. Oh my god. What did me and
my brother get out of this trip? You guessed it?
(20:01):
A fresh baguette or I mean, come on, Unortho, get
some of that French butter. You're all set hell yeah.
I wonder what my teachers must have thought when they
asked what we did most weekends, and I answered with
we went to get the baguettes. It wasn't all that bad,
as on one of the bagette trips he surprised us
(20:21):
with a trip to Disneyland Paris. It was probably our
cut of the money from the cigarettes the operation we
had been crucial to carrying out. Not sure how or
why the trip stopped. He probably found his next big
idea and moved on. When my siblings and I laugh
about this stuff that happened in our childhood around normal folks,
we usually get the wide eyed horror you might need
(20:43):
therapy looks. But I wouldn't change my wild childhood for anything.
I mean the kind of dad that will cook up
a plan like that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's like innocent in a way, yes, And I'm dying
to know how much money he made.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Because he's just trying to get around like a tax
It's not he is not stealing money from other people now.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He's not putting the kids in harm's way in any way.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No, not really.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He's giving them bread, and he's giving them the best
bread in the world.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So you can argue that he's like he cares more
than other parents because he's delivering fresh French. Have you
ever had a French bag at? Fuck?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I mean my dad was a chain smoking, flat cap wearing,
cunt word loving man, British British cut. He passed away
three weeks ago from cancer, and listening to all his
friends and family tell the most unhinged stories about him
in his life has made me cry, laugh and be
so thankful for the colorful childhood I had. If you
(21:38):
need any more wild stories about trash dads, I could
probably write a thousand emails, like the time he turned
off someone's water and then cemented over the tap, oh
my god. Or I need to know who deserved that?
What did they do to deserve that? Or his fortieth
birthday where he wore a penis hat with forty on it.
(22:00):
Just tiny pants all day photo please? Oh, the list
is wild. His last wish, which he gave me the
pleasure of executing, was to have a flower arrangement with
his favorite word on it. Try organizing that with a
funeral director. Oh my god, ha ha ha. No. I
have an attached photo for you. Please feel free to share,
(22:23):
stay sexy and use your children to smuggle cigarettes or
maybe don't. Here's the picture.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It says it's there's like a beautiful flower arrangement in
the back of our hearse with the coffin and a
little red ribbon signs says cunt and that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But do you see what that flower arrangement is? It's
a cigarette. Oh my god, it's very subtle. I just
thought it was like kind of weird. But no, no
cigarette with the word cigarette with the work cunt.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's how do you?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That's how to go out? And I think if I'm
not mistaken, I could be. But that's on top of
the coffin that's in the back of the hearse. Yeah,
that's the coffin right there. Yeah, so that's all. Oh
my god, let's put a decoration on top. We'll put
it on social media. That's beautiful. Wow. Well, our condolences
to you about losing your father, especially so recently. I
(23:18):
love that they used this email to basically process some
memories because please please send more.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The trash dad stories or trash parent stories, trust, trash
sibling stories, A great a good anti one islcome yes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
My favorite murder at Gmail. What a way to celebrate
father's day. Yeah, is like a great dad that really
lived and lived and lived and then included his kids.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I was going to say that he could have gone
on his own and been gone all weekend, and no,
he was like, I need to spend time with my kids,
but I also need to make that money.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And I need to not get caught right, and I
love bread, and I can put those things all together.
Let's mix it in a big salad of legal childhood activity.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, I'll do one more trash or treasure Dad for
Father's Day. Great in honor of Father's Day, Hey, besties,
my parents divorced just before my second birthday, leaving my
dad to navigate life with two little girls.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Every other weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Think birthday dinners at Red Lobster with all my dad's
bachelor friends and backyard bondfuyers with those same guys, where
I got to play bartender and stay up late until
the dirty jokes started.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah tell yeah, and that basically the slightly drunk dad's like,
oh wait, you guys got to get a bed. I
don't tell your mother. I don't, you can't.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
My dad was also very frugal and taught me and
my sister to always be on the lookout for spare
change on the ground. I was excellent at this, spotting
a penny from feet away, oftentimes collecting several coins at
once before my sister even had the chance to look
at the ground. She was more of a head in
the clouds kind of girl. But not me. I had
my eyes on high alert for those precious bits of
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spare change. I had been doing this for as long
as I can remember, and pride myself on being pretty
good at finding things. While visiting my dad recently, I
was reminiscing about my childhood finds and saying that now
when I find change, I give it to my daughter
for her piggy bank. My dad smiled and said that's nice,
but he's surprised I'm still finding change on the ground.
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I assumed he meant because we've become a cashless society,
but no, he goes on to say that he used
to drop coins for us to find outside his car
before getting us out of our seats. Part of me
was in disbelief that my finding skills were based on
a lie, but a bigger part of.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Me has sound so much joy in this.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It's so cute, I know, and you used to still
all a change from your dad's Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Changes a big part of like childhood with your dad?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Totally my dad my dad and may have been a
typical nineties trash dad at times, but he also tried
so hard to make every moment of our limited time
with him special.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So maybe he is a treasured.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Dad after all he is is stay sexy and drop
change for your kids to find. You never know what
could turn into a core memory. Sally Forth, Sarah she her, thanks, Sarah.
If I had, if I had a switch to blip,
I'd be crying right now and I can feel it there,
but it's not happening. We got it.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Let's give it a couple of months, okay. I mean
that's beautiful. And also it truly is like the weirdest
surprise I didn't see coming. Yeah, I mean neither. He's
just like distraction.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Oh, you're so good at finding changed. I'm so good
at finding Like what a beautiful thing to good Yeah,
to bestow on your child?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I love, that's like, how are you still finding change?
I I threw that change? Are you never? I never
told you? And now it's like someone with an eagle eye.
It's like I paid my mortgage with that change, Dad,
Thank you well. Happy Father's Day every to everybody who
celebrates right dads and grabs that's try, and moms who
act like dads that's right, and dads who do it
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all and moms who do most of the things too
as well. And let's not forget the moms on Father's Day,
right please, Oh and stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye, Elvis,
Do you want a cookie? This has been an exactly
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right production.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer
is Tessa Hughes.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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Hello and welcome my favorite murder, the minisod. That's right, this.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Is the minisode we tell you things about yourself that
you didn't even know you wanted to know.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are you ready for a little bit of self examination?
Can we do this finally get you to admit your
side of things? Go first? Okay, yes, I will go first.
Thank you. The subject line of this first email is
rabies at church camp, all your favorite topics, and it
starts what's up, hotties? Oh cute, no time to waste.
(00:50):
Gird your loins for a wild tale. When I was eleven,
like any good Christian child, I was sent to church camp. However,
I had developed a reputation for running into troubles.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Just the year before, troubles troubles multiple Just the year before,
I had been sent to the hospital with a back
injury after a pool game of playing in the swimming
pool of chicken gone wrong where I nearly drowned.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Holy shit, so true troubles. Yeah. The camp setting was
at a state park in the middle of the Tennessee Woods.
So the next year, when my mother got a phone
call from a park ranger, Oh so where that injury happened?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, in the middle of a state park in Tennessee.
Got it. So the next year, when my mother got
a phone call from a park ranger stating that I
had had an accident in the park pool, it felt
like deja vu. My mother firmly stated, you must be mistaken.
Did you find some old documents or something that accident
happened a year ago.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, we were going through some paperwork and I'm like, hey,
emergency call immediately.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Hold on, let me get this cobblob off. Call nine
one one. Sorry making fun of their mom, it says.
The calm ranger responded to my mother with, no, ma'am,
this morning at ten am, your daughter Sarah had an
incident in the pool involving an animal attack. What dun duh? Duh?
Cut to my eleven year old perspective. I was swimming,
(02:12):
I was like, first, it was a perfectly written email.
I was swimming in the pool, minding my business when
I heard someone yell, get it out, get it out.
I was curious and swim over to the growing crowd
surrounding a brown dot squirming in the water. I pushed
through the crowd and approached this creature. There's your problem
right there. Hanging back. Maybe get out of the pool,
(02:33):
run the opposite way. Yeah, you don't need to be
up in there, you're eleven. I pushed through the crowd
and approach this creature. I wasn't wearing my glasses.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh then why okay, I don't want to yell at
a child.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I mean, I just just eleven. So to my naked eyes,
it appeared simply to be a bird. In my mind,
I was an animal savior to all creatures great and small,
and animal savior child creatures great and small is italicized.
So into my hands it went. However, as I exited
the pool, I began to notice the features of this
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creature were not that of a bird, but rather a
curved nose bat. No. The second my brain realized what
it was, it awoke from its post drowning nap and
began to bite me on my thumb. I panicked as
the pain surged from its teeth digging into me. I
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looked around for help, but none came.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Because everyone knows not the touch of bat, but everyone
wears their glasses on.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
In the pool, everyone with good vision stayed in a
circle around the bat did not break through. I relate
to this person so much, stop breaking through. I looked
around for help, but none came. So my solution was
to rip it from my flesh and throw it across
the concrete pools.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh my god, which we get it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
The rest is a blur. But a ranger came and
sured the bat and took it away. I didn't know
the procedures of such attacks, but what I did know
is that I was never allowed in the park pool again. Wow,
at age eleven. I don't know if that's her fault.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's like, do we have any adults present keeping an
eye on everything?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It sounds like I bet you there was a fifteen
year old up on that lifeguard stand right. It was
also just watching the kids circle up around a bat.
The worst part of this story is that my parents
got a fateful call from the park labs and were
told that they had less than seventy two hours to
get me to the hospital and get me vaccinated because
the bat tested positive for rabies.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's like a hard core treatment too, right, Oh yeah,
very painful.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yes, we had to call Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville,
Tennessee to make sure they even had the vaccine to
give me. Because it wasn't every day that they had
to administer Raby's shots. Oh it's real old fashioned. After
twenty three shots, Oh my god, I was in the
clear of dying from rabies to day. I always get
(05:00):
weird looks when people see my vaccine records. So yeah,
Batman doesn't have shit on me. They said crap, but
I changed it. Yeah, because it's funny here. Thank you
for being here and telling your stories. I'm a private
duty nurse and my patient and I love to listen
every morning and it makes our days better. A Hi, Hi,
stay sexy and stay out of the church camp pool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sarah, where was Jesus in that moment?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Not on that lifeguard stand watching over the lifeguard I
wasn't swimming next to you. Who watches the watchers? Okay,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
This is called Broadmoor Hospital celebrity spotting. Hi, Karen and Georgia,
Greetings from Kent, the Garden of England.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
What news from Kent?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I live in the county town Maidstone. You straight out
of Game of Thrones, which is a bit of a
shithole but doesn't sound like it, but does have a
prison where Reggie Cray was incarcerated for a spell, But
that's that's not the reason I'm writing the craze. The
craze were the crazy twin like.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Monsters mobsters or were they twins or woul They just
rather close in age.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, something like that, and they like terrorized.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That everybody, but also had a really great nightclub. Watched
Tom Hardy write in legend or Legendary right, he plays
both parts.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Okay, My sister Kate and I are avid Day one
listeners and have always wished we had a story for you.
When I heard the Shakespeare at Broadmoor episode episode five
thirty two, I realized that finally this is my time
to shine. Kate will be fuming I've beaten her to it.
If you read this out nice go to hello. We
love starting sibling foots. We come from a very large
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family with a shall we say, colorful past. When I
was a kid, I was a keen, nerdy letter writer
and one of my favorite correspondents was my uncle Jeff.
But with the G Joff, Geoff Joff. When sober and medicated, Joff.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Was warm, It's not really nice.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Jeff was warm, kind company, prone to lavish gestures, and
possessed a dry, dark sense of humor. When he wasn't,
things were harder for him, and he spent many spells
at Her Majesty's pleasure, including some stints at Broadmore. I
don't know exactly how he came to be there, but
he was definitely nearer the June and Jennifer end of
the spectrum than the Hardcorengans, Rongans Rongins. Anyway, one day,
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when I was about sixteen, I went with another of
my uncles to visit Jeff there in the central hall
where I think the Shakespeare performance must have been held.
It was great to see him, and he was calm,
genial company. He bought me flowers in a very expensive
bottle of perfume and says, I don't know how he
got a hold of it, but I do know that
I couldn't wait to crow about it to my pals.
The wording of this emails great.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Sorry if giving from within he had a touch traded
that like cigarettes or something like that. That's really nice, right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The whole thing was a young Murderino's daydream. At the races,
my other uncle and I were not the only visitors,
and the hall was pretty crowded. Just over the way
was Ronnie Cray and visiting associates, looking for all the
world like a twinkly grandpa with his smart zoot suit
and teddy boy brill creamed hair. It was nineteen ninety one,
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so pretty anachronistic, but very dapper.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He still was like getting dressed up.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And people were still coming to see him. They were
power And then across the room, staring all caps right
at me was none other than Peter Sutcliffe aka the
Yorkshire Ripper. When I was growing up, he was the
absolute number one fear of young women in the UK.
And I am not joking when I say his dead
(08:40):
cold stare made my blood run absolutely icy. And the
kicker his visitor was a beautiful young woman.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What was she thinking?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Jeff struggled in the outside world and is long gone now,
but I like to think he was in the audience
of the play, and I know he would have found
it to be bomb.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
For his troubled soul.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Stay sexy and don't have lock eyes with the serial
killer Beck.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Wow, Like that would an experience of like going into
a place like that where you are there's somebody that
you're there for a real reason. Yeah, but you know
where you are and you know what you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I mean, how scary for the people that are there,
not because they've committed any crimes, but just right need
some help. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Interesting. Brodmore gets brought up a lot in this podcast. Yeah,
it does fascinating. Find someone that used to work there. Yeah,
bring them on or go there to a live show
my MFM. Brodmore. No, just kidding, just shut it down.
We just end up getting all of it shut down.
We are not the cramps. This is no, no, no, okay.
(09:49):
The subject line of this email is energy vampire teacher
I went to and it just gets right into it.
I went to a small high school, maybe one hundred
and fifty students in the Midwest. On the last day
of the school year, I confess to one of my
teachers that I hadn't completed my final project comparing a
historically important piece of literature to a modern version. So
he asked me a couple of questions. Did you read
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the books? Yes? Did you learn something? Yes? Okay, then
you passed high school Anxiety procrastinations somehow won that day amazing.
Years later, while watching the intro to the first episode
of a new TV show, I had deposit in disbelief
when I saw and later learned that the very same teacher,
(10:31):
Mark Prochs was now the one and only our favorite
energy vampire, Colin Robinson of What We Do in the
Shadows he was a teacher. I love that fucking show
so much, and I love that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He's so funny, he is so good. All of them
are so good on that. To watch the TV show
What We Do in the Shadows, I feel I am
jealous of you that you get a start over.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You have seasons and seasons to binge if Matt Berry
to learn about and then enjoy for the first time.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh my god, Yes, and he's just still this guy's
I don't love his name, but that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Okay, I know, God, And it's very funny that he's
not a household name, but Colin Robinson I would have
been like a totally and I thought.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I would have known his name, and so I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I don't okay approach. I honestly hope that he doesn't
remember me now, because my anxiety brain still recalls with
too much clarity all the ways I embarrassed myself that
year and probably irked him in one way or another
in other chance meetings throughout the remainder of my teens.
I guess he has more important things to think about,
but the high schooler part of my brain will always
worry about what people thought of me. Twenty ish years ago,
(11:40):
I first began listening to my favorite murder right after
moving into a house in the woods. So sorry I
missed that little tidbit of advice to stay out of
the forest. Your voices have continued to keep me company
throughout the years, and yes, I am still in the forest,
and I am still knock on wood. Fine, And then
it just says, ay, ay, yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
He was a teacher. He was probably so over at
that point. He was like, did you read?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Did you learn? Then? That's an god bless I have
an audition, yeah for this show. He was an improv
guy for a long time. He was an improv guy
and he did this really amazing thing because my friends
ran the Found Footage festival. Oh yeah, so they got
the footage of him as a fake expert. I think
he was a fake yo yo expert on local news.
(12:25):
That's kind of where he first got discovered because he
was so he just ruined the morning news on purpose
and so realistically amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, so amazing, so good. Okay, I have to love
I'm not going to tell you the name of this one. Okay, Hi,
ladies and co.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, love y'all lots, thanks for being bad. Let's get
into it. My dad was raised and lived in the
suburbs of Chicago for his entire life. When my dad
was in his high school days in the seventies, he
and his friends decided to build and sell large speakers.
With this quote luke it of business in mind, the
group started to collect supplies. They needed a particular type
of foam to fill the speakers with, and they found
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a local junkyard.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That would sell it to them for cheap.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
The owner said for twenty bucks, the boys could take
as much foam as they could carry. The owner called
his brother over and told the brother to show my
dad and his friends where the foam was located. They
started walking with the brother and the guys all got
strange vibes from him immediately, and he guess says, yet, uh, well, foam,
it wasn't nothing to do with foam.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, no hillside stranglers, no all, my and this is all,
it's in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
All my dad's friends were avoiding talking to the brother
because of how creepy.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
He was, but my thinking about what we do in
the shadows.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But my dad, being a smart and savvy businessman, knew
the more he got on this guy's good side, the
more opportunity they would have in the future to grow
their speaker business. And that was how easy it was
to make money back then. You just made a thing
out of nothing, out of trash, You.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Made something, and you were a nice man to another man. Yeah,
and then good luck with everything, right.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
My dad's schmoozing and kindness led to this guy eventually
softening a bit to my dad, but only my dad.
After they collected all the phone they could carry, my
dad thanked this man and said they would be back
again for more. After building one to do speakers and
being immediately bored of the project, the guys quit their
speaker of building business and therefore never returned to the junkyard.
Years later, my dad saw a news report about a
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man suspected of domestic terrorism and murder. He recognizes the
man being fingered, but can't quite place him, and it
bothers him for months. Months maybe even close to a
year later, my dad realizes that the man was the
one who worked in the junkyard. The man was none
other than the unibomber ted Kaczynski.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I didn't realize. I thought he was he targeted professors.
But he was he himself, wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes, he went to Harvard, Remember they did that. They
think that they did all these LSD experiments on and oh,
ok theme all. I remember his brother's the one who
turned him in.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Turned him in. Yeah, but I just never realized he
had like a junkyard phase. Same. No, that deep cut.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The factory yard they picked up the phone from was
owned by Kazinski's brother. He and his wife would later
turn Kazinsky into the authorities. This is just one of
the many stories my dad shared with me over the years.
My father was always into true crime and mysteries, later
going on to become a lawyer and pass his love
from mysteries on to me. My dad became a well
respected lawyer, working for the State's Attorney's Office for many years,
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being on staff while cases like John Wayne Gacy and
other notorious Chicagoland area murders were being tried and sentenced.
So of course, he had many crazy stories and sometimes
insider info on Chicago land crimes.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Can we have that please? Uh no, actually you legally cannot,
all right.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He ended his career at our Country's courthouse, where he
worked for over a decade. He passed away in August
of twenty nineteen after a long battle with skin cancer.
Shortly after, one of the halls in our County's courthouse
was named after him in honor of his devoted heart
to seeing liberty and justice for all. He left a
forever impact on our county, our family, and the lives
of so many. I am proud to be part of
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his legacy. Karen you sharing your Karen you sharing your
journey of losing your mother to a disease where you
don't recognize your family member has touched me and made
my journey of being a caretaker for a sick parent
feel a little less isolating. Thank you both for making
me laugh on tough days and being an escape from
reality when I needed one while taking care of him.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
For the last few years of his life.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Stay sexy, don't buy foam from serial killers, and most importantly,
get your yearly check up at your dermatologist.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Katie God, Katie, so many lessons to be learned from
this one, so many lessons, but also what an incredible
thing to have a dad that worked so well, didn't
just work hard, didn't just like yeah, devote himself for
whatever his reasons are, but like the point where they're like, oh,
we're going to give him a wing. We're gonna name
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a wing after him.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And Ted Kaczynski, who famously hated everyone, Oh yeah, fucking
like you, only you you kissed.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Up to somebody that was unkiss uppable too.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Or like you were just like you treated to them
like a human being enough that they were like, this
guy's pretty cool. Yeah, wild, Thank you, Katie.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Good job, Katie. All right, here's my last one, so
in honor of Father's Day, talking about Champion Fathers right coming,
which is coming up. The subject line of this the
American version I couldn't read to you, but here's the
British version. The subject line is the ultimate cunt. Now
(17:42):
with do with that? Editor is what you will? Okay,
So it says hey to all the pets and people
at my favorite murder. Firstly, I'd like to say how
much your podcast has helped with some of the hardest
times in my life. I now listen while making ashes jewelry,
and then in parentheses it says, yep, like the cremations
of people and pets. Oh so you can have a
little permanent I want that. Yeah, you just look them.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Really, I didn't realize you were morbid as fuck.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, I was just like, Elvis has been gone for
too long, So you can't have just like ashes. Oh
do you really? Of course? Oh you didn't bury him?
Where am I gonna? I don't live anywhere long enough
to like up aforest lawn. Look, I'm not going to
fight with you on Mike about this, but you should
have buried him in a human He's on a shelf
that looks lovely. Well, now you can make it. We've
(18:36):
got a friend in the business. Okay. Sorry. My dad
was always doing something dodgy for quick cash. One of
his many great get rich quick schemes involved with my
brother and myself. He had decided that selling cigarettes he
had purchased in France, it would be his new money
making idea. Oh Dad, so this isn't just your average
(18:57):
I think that we've gotten a lot of trash Dad
stories where it's like he forgot to pick us up
from skating or whatever. And this is like, I think
this is where might go into a new level of
British trash. It's actually illegal at this point. Yard we're
getting into a legal territory. We're getting creative with how
we're going to be trashy okay. So it says the
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only problem being that you could only bring a few
cartons without having to pay tax coming back to the UK.
That's when the baguette trip started. What would take us
both over on the car ferry to France, fill the
back of the car fully with creates of cigarettes, and
then place a blanket on top and tell me and
(19:39):
my brother to pretend to be asleep. When the customs
person would come and look in the car, my dad
would innocently say that his two young children were asleep
in the back and they would let us pass without
any search. And then in parentheses that says this was
the early nineties. Oh my god, this happened regularly for
a few years. Oh my god. What did me and
my brother get out of this trip? You guessed it?
(20:01):
A fresh baguette or I mean, come on, Unortho, get
some of that French butter. You're all set hell yeah.
I wonder what my teachers must have thought when they
asked what we did most weekends, and I answered with
we went to get the baguettes. It wasn't all that bad,
as on one of the bagette trips he surprised us
(20:21):
with a trip to Disneyland Paris. It was probably our
cut of the money from the cigarettes the operation we
had been crucial to carrying out. Not sure how or
why the trip stopped. He probably found his next big
idea and moved on. When my siblings and I laugh
about this stuff that happened in our childhood around normal folks,
we usually get the wide eyed horror you might need
(20:43):
therapy looks. But I wouldn't change my wild childhood for anything.
I mean the kind of dad that will cook up
a plan like that.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's like innocent in a way, yes, And I'm dying
to know how much money he made.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Because he's just trying to get around like a tax
It's not he is not stealing money from other people now.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He's not putting the kids in harm's way in any way.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
No, not really.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He's giving them bread, and he's giving them the best
bread in the world.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So you can argue that he's like he cares more
than other parents because he's delivering fresh French. Have you
ever had a French bag at? Fuck?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I mean my dad was a chain smoking, flat cap wearing,
cunt word loving man, British British cut. He passed away
three weeks ago from cancer, and listening to all his
friends and family tell the most unhinged stories about him
in his life has made me cry, laugh and be
so thankful for the colorful childhood I had. If you
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need any more wild stories about trash dads, I could
probably write a thousand emails, like the time he turned
off someone's water and then cemented over the tap, oh
my god. Or I need to know who deserved that?
What did they do to deserve that? Or his fortieth
birthday where he wore a penis hat with forty on it.
(22:00):
Just tiny pants all day photo please? Oh, the list
is wild. His last wish, which he gave me the
pleasure of executing, was to have a flower arrangement with
his favorite word on it. Try organizing that with a
funeral director. Oh my god, ha ha ha. No. I
have an attached photo for you. Please feel free to share,
(22:23):
stay sexy and use your children to smuggle cigarettes or
maybe don't. Here's the picture.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It says it's there's like a beautiful flower arrangement in
the back of our hearse with the coffin and a
little red ribbon signs says cunt and that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But do you see what that flower arrangement is? It's
a cigarette. Oh my god, it's very subtle. I just
thought it was like kind of weird. But no, no
cigarette with the word cigarette with the work cunt.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's how do you?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
That's how to go out? And I think if I'm
not mistaken, I could be. But that's on top of
the coffin that's in the back of the hearse. Yeah,
that's the coffin right there. Yeah, so that's all. Oh
my god, let's put a decoration on top. We'll put
it on social media. That's beautiful. Wow. Well, our condolences
to you about losing your father, especially so recently. I
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love that they used this email to basically process some
memories because please please send more.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The trash dad stories or trash parent stories, trust, trash
sibling stories, A great a good anti one islcome yes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
My favorite murder at Gmail. What a way to celebrate
father's day. Yeah, is like a great dad that really
lived and lived and lived and then included his kids.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I was going to say that he could have gone
on his own and been gone all weekend, and no,
he was like, I need to spend time with my kids,
but I also need to make that money.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And I need to not get caught right, and I
love bread, and I can put those things all together.
Let's mix it in a big salad of legal childhood activity.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, I'll do one more trash or treasure Dad for
Father's Day. Great in honor of Father's Day, Hey, besties,
my parents divorced just before my second birthday, leaving my
dad to navigate life with two little girls.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Every other weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Think birthday dinners at Red Lobster with all my dad's
bachelor friends and backyard bondfuyers with those same guys, where
I got to play bartender and stay up late until
the dirty jokes started.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah tell yeah, and that basically the slightly drunk dad's like,
oh wait, you guys got to get a bed. I
don't tell your mother. I don't, you can't.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
My dad was also very frugal and taught me and
my sister to always be on the lookout for spare
change on the ground. I was excellent at this, spotting
a penny from feet away, oftentimes collecting several coins at
once before my sister even had the chance to look
at the ground. She was more of a head in
the clouds kind of girl. But not me. I had
my eyes on high alert for those precious bits of
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spare change. I had been doing this for as long
as I can remember, and pride myself on being pretty
good at finding things. While visiting my dad recently, I
was reminiscing about my childhood finds and saying that now
when I find change, I give it to my daughter
for her piggy bank. My dad smiled and said that's nice,
but he's surprised I'm still finding change on the ground.
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I assumed he meant because we've become a cashless society,
but no, he goes on to say that he used
to drop coins for us to find outside his car
before getting us out of our seats. Part of me
was in disbelief that my finding skills were based on
a lie, but a bigger part of.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Me has sound so much joy in this.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It's so cute, I know, and you used to still
all a change from your dad's Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Changes a big part of like childhood with your dad?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Totally my dad my dad and may have been a
typical nineties trash dad at times, but he also tried
so hard to make every moment of our limited time
with him special.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So maybe he is a treasured.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Dad after all he is is stay sexy and drop
change for your kids to find. You never know what
could turn into a core memory. Sally Forth, Sarah she her, thanks, Sarah.
If I had, if I had a switch to blip,
I'd be crying right now and I can feel it there,
but it's not happening. We got it.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Let's give it a couple of months, okay. I mean
that's beautiful. And also it truly is like the weirdest
surprise I didn't see coming. Yeah, I mean neither. He's
just like distraction.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Oh, you're so good at finding changed. I'm so good
at finding Like what a beautiful thing to good Yeah,
to bestow on your child?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I love, that's like, how are you still finding change?
I I threw that change? Are you never? I never
told you? And now it's like someone with an eagle eye.
It's like I paid my mortgage with that change, Dad,
Thank you well. Happy Father's Day every to everybody who
celebrates right dads and grabs that's try, and moms who
act like dads that's right, and dads who do it
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all and moms who do most of the things too
as well. And let's not forget the moms on Father's Day,
right please, Oh and stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye, Elvis,
Do you want a cookie? This has been an exactly
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right production.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Our senior producer is Molly Smith and our associate producer
is Tessa Hughes.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Our editor is Aristotle Ascevedo.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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Karen Kilgariff
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