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Does your family have and whether it'syour immediate family or a little bit of
an extended family, does your familyhave any like deep dark secret that just
doesn't get discussed. Uh No,our family does not have a super small
family. So everything is pretty open. Because I'll tell you some of these
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are so good. Some of themare great, and some of them are
like some of them aren't as asas like some are some are bad right
yeah, and then some are justkind of like it's really like, what's
what's the what's the word that I'mlooking for? Bad, like a scandal
yeah, bad, like the lawshould be involved. Both Some are scandalous
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juicy, yeah, juicy, andthen some are like broke the law And
those were fun to read the littlebit I mean, not that bad.
That's yeah, not that bad.But that would be dark family secrets to
an extra generation from now that willget that will get discussed. No,
no, But like for example,I'll give you a juicy one and then
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I will give you a legal one. Hold on, I just got to
fix something on the computer. Here, bear with me, Here we go.
I got it fixed there I am. So I'll give you a juicy
one and then I'll give you likelike a real, like legal one,
right, okay, juicy one.My dad married the woman who was supposed
to get married to my brother.Would that be out in the open though,
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the say, again, well,I don't know that. You tell
everybody this is my dad's wife.By the way, she was supposed to
marry my brother. Okay, SoI get it. So it's something everyone
in the family knows. We justdon't We just don't advertise. Okay,
Okay, we don't advertise that.But yes, people would know that he
married this assuming younger woman, butnot everybody knows that originally that woman was
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supposed to marry this person's brother.So yes, it's known, but it's
not known. Like. That's agood juicy one. I like that.
Now you want a legal one.Okay. My wife's cousin was the Boston
strangler. We don't talk about him. That's huge. Did I go too
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deep? Right out the gate?Did I go too deep? Albert DeSalvo
was my wife's cousin. That's amazing. Now again, it's not amazing what
he did, But that is yourfamily connected to that huge story? Yes?
Yes, and by the way,I mean think about it. Every
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notorious person you know has a family. Yeah, somebody else has got that
going on. But here's the differencebetween that family and you. When that
movie came out on Hulu that youwere going to watch, and did you
I think you may have. Idid, Kiera Knightley, Yeah, you
would have started to tell everybody.Oh I yeah, no, that I
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would not keep the family secret.As a matter of fact, I can't
think of and because again it's notI didn't do anything wrong. I'm just
a cousin of the guy, right, So yeah, I would tell everybody.
I can't think of anybody that Iwouldn't like start yapping about unless you
were implicated somehow in the illegal activity. Well, either in the illegal activity
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or like I was like really friendlywith them. You'll go to jail for
a source and a cousin. Butlike if Albert DeSalvo and I were the
same age growing up and he wasmy cousin and we used to play like
when we were eight or nine,you didn't do anything wrong, no,
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and I wouldn't. I wouldn't notbe friends with somebody like if for example,
let's say let's say you meet somebody. One of the girls in the
pit comes in and goes, Ohmy god, how weird is that?
My is whatever? Yeah, JohnWayne Gacy. It's not like I'm not
going to be friends with them becausetheir cousin is a notorious killer. No,
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but you do almost get disappointed whenthat's where the story for them,
ends, right, so like youknew them? Well no, not really,
but that would be, that wouldbe I'd be into it. Oh
my god, we were just sentone. Oh really, hey, Mark,
hold on one second. Enjoy yourcash, all right, my friend,
thank you? You got it?Oh all right, you go first,
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because then I got one online one. This is I mean, now
do it? Do it? So? Just no, no, no judgment,
no names. Okay, it's onX. No, you can definitely
judge this person. Okay. Well, they didn't do anything in the family,
Sam. Remember they're about to tellus a story about my uncle solicited
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miners on the internet. He wouldmeet up with teenage boys late at night
and do god knows what. Anundercover cop who was pretending to be a
miner was able to catch him andtake him to jail. I've never looked
at him the same again, andrightfully so rightfully, so, my goodness,
that's a good one. You knowwhat I mean. Did they say
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who the guy is? Like,if it's an infamous person, you mean,
yeah, like Uncle Addy. Theydon't. Uncle Addy was famous in
Philly. But since she's posted thaton x it must not be that much
of a secret. It's just somethingthat upsets the family to be associated,
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understandably with that's very public sharing.A relative hired a hit man to kill
his wife. Hit man killed thewrong person. Same relative hired a hit
man to kill my father, nevergot the chance, was spooked by law
enforcement. Relative died a few yearsafter that. Kristen wrote all of that
in the call screener. No,no, no, I haven't gone the
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line one yet, Oh line one. Hi, Jellie in the morning.
Hey morning Elliott. Hey, who'sthis? Hey? This is a mitch.
First off, you're making me follow, You're making me follow Uncle Eddie?
Thank you? Yes? What canI do for you? All Right?
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So I kind of had this unspokenthing with my dad when he was
like twelve, he was shot inthe head and we've never talked about it.
Wait, I don't your dad gotwhen he was twelve years old.
Your father got shot in the head. But you guys, don't you don't
discuss it. Did you do itby accident? Right? Yeah? He
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shot himself in the head by accidentwith a rifle. So he was in
his bedroom and saw a rabbit outsideand this isn't Annapolis, so it's nothing
like rural and he was like,oh, I'm going to go kill it,
and as he ran out the room, the butt of the gun hit
like the bedpost and went off andplanted him and put him in a coma
for three months. And now he'sgot to steal plate in his head?
Oh my god, talk about it? Yeah, what is the It's interesting
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to me that we've chosen we don'tdiscuss it, though, I don't know
how to bring it up. Howabout how's that plate in your head?
I mean, the only reason,the only reason I know about it is
because my mom told me, andshe learned about it from his mom.
Apparently he woke up speaking Spanish andhe does not know what lock of Spanish.
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Oh that's awesome. How do younot talk about that? Oh?
I don't know. It's just it'snever come up, and I'm always just
like, I'm just gonna let thisone go. Is he still with us?
Yeah, he's seventy four and livesin South Carolina. Should we conference
him in, I'll do it rightnow. He won't he won't be awake,
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but we could cry. I mean, what's the worst he would say?
So? Yeah, yeah, Imean, I don't know. He
would probably be fairly confused, beingthis is how he wakes up and he's
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in his mid seventies. You know, it takes him a little while to
get that brain going. I almostwant to try it. Let's not.
Ah, damn it all right,dude, I appreciate it. Thank you.
My friend. Wasn't the cane usingcomment enough for a seventy year old?
This morning? Apparently my great auntadmitted to killing three of her husbands
while on her deathbed. What whatthese are rough to hear? Oh?
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I'm sorry you wanted more of thefamily secrets of without us knowing my uncle
painted the living room. I justlike the ones that maybe the family's embarrassed
by, not be like being relatedto the Boston strangler. No, no,
because there's there's death root, we'reinvolved in that, and there's more
to that. I just need onesthat are like, something significant happen,
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but it makes our family look oneway, So we don't want to come
off as dumb. We just wantto move. My half siblings and I
are also cousins. Our father wasmarried five times. Wives number two and
four were sisters. Better I mean, okay, there was no death.
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My wife's cousin was the Boston Strangler. Where am I going? Line four?
A lot of listeners had family membersin the kkk Oh god, oh
my god. But you know what, that's a perfect one. But one
is too many. Yes, butwell it's not like they said, let's
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all cheer him. No, I'mjust saying we've had three people say that
that they have family members in theku Klux Klan. Yes, m h
wow, but you know what that'sthat's but that's exactly what we're talking They
keep it a secret for a reason. R Hily in the morning, aod
morning, guys. Yes, sir, My grandmother's father, my great grandfather,
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was very successful in business, andapparently his brother was extremely jealous.
So his brother hired a hitman tokill my great grandfather's wife. He arrived
at the house at the wrong timeand accidentally instead killed the maid on the
front lawn. Oh No, onewas arrested, Hey, Tyler, this
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happened in short Hills, New Jersey. How long are you? Oh?
The mean streets of Short Hills,Tyler, You and I are about the
same age. This happened when mymom was a child, so fifty sixty
years ago. My stepdad grew upthere. Off to see story. Dude,
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that's name out on the radio.Yeah, but that gets around the
neighborhood. If there's a dead maidlaying in somebody's yard, somebody knows.
That's a great one. By Yeah, this this was not quiet, but
nobody got arrested. No one knowswhy. Wait, so so there was
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never it just went away. Yep. Was that is that up near Deerfield
Elementary School? I'm not sure itwas a Sylvan wife, not far from
the old Dons. Oh, McDonald'sall right, very good, thank you,
my friend. No, no,no, no, McDonald's not McDonald's,
the restaurant Donalds. Thes. Igo to McDonald's, but I call
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it Don's. All right, verygood, thank you, sir, difference,
Thank you, my friend. Ohmy god, that's a good one.
That's a good one. Maybe Bob'slistening line eight. I hope he
wasn't earlier. Hi, Elliot inthe morning. Yeah, Hi, who's
this. Hi, I'm Milli.Yeah, Millie, what you got.
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So one of my aunts was involvedin the murder of her sister. So
one my other dude it involved inwhat way? So my aunt who passed
away, what was murdered? Shehad let her boyfriend, her sister's boyfriend,
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borrow money and she kept halfling themfor it, like you know,
where's the money or whatever, andthey're like, Okay, we're gonna give
it to you this day in time, meet up here she went and he
ended up but she helped little ofthe sister there and she ended up getting
like stabbed up, and they like, oh god God. But the as
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a family, we kind of didthe sister get a busted for it?
Or did the end get busted forit? Yeah? She actually yeah,
she actually just got out of jailthis year. Oh my god, how
many years is that? Let mesee? I saw it was a child.
So this is maybe about a littleover fifteen years ago. Because did
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the family's actually turned sixteen? Didthe did the family welcome her back?
Oh? Like half of because it'sa bunch of sisters. So I'm Latina,
So there's like fifteen of the sisters, so half are like we don't
want to talk to you anymore.The other half is like, oh,
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we love you. Oh that's agood one though, that's a good one.
Even the cousins are like, Idon't even want to talk to her
because the one who was murdered,she was like one of the favorite moms.
Wow, that's a good one.I mean, I'm not happy that
anybody died, but that's a goodone. Hey, thank you, ma'am.
By the way, By the way, And I can't say anything yet.
I haven't even responded to the email. But somebody sent me an email
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last week, and she knows exactlywho she is if she's listening, but
is getting ready. And I thinkthat's why this thing stuck out to me
yesterday. It is so close tosolving having been part of a big family
secret. Oh I can't wait.I can't wait. I can't wait.
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And and it'll all go public.She's relying on you to help because she's
not concerned you're going to I'm notgoing to say anything. And I know
all you've just said. I knowI haven't said anything other than that there's
a girl I know in the familysecret thing. That's all. I haven't
said anything if I were her listening, I would have so good. I
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haven't even written her back yet.And yeah, for the people who are
submitting these secrets, they don't haveto include death, the all of them
do. Now let's go fun thelike. How about chicken loaf? My
grandfather claimed to be the original inventorof the Pooper Scooper. That's like a
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Penny Lane pub. Somebody actually wascommiserating with me because, as you know,
instant Messenger, the Buddy List wasstolen. The idea from me to
make it a separate app, butit was. It was Riley's parents.
They invented the selfie line eight HiEllie in the morning. Hello, this
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is Jess from Fairfax, Virginia.Yes, Jess, what can I do
for you? My stepfather stole WorldWar One and World War Two artifacts from
the Smithsonian where he worked. Yeah, he stole them and he'd come he'd
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come home with wads of cash thathe would sell them at like pawnshops and
say that he sold his historical trainsthat because he was obsessed with him.
He was a bipolar schizophrenia two hesent passed away like a couple of years
ago. But uh, yeah,SDI tracked him for years. Carl Schneidy,
you can look him up. Hey, you know, wait, so
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how much stuff? But he endedup he ended up getting caught, right,
Yeah, yeah, they caught him. They sent him to prison somewhere.
I don't know. I was soyoung. I can't remember waving Kentucky
or something. Wow. That's agood one. That's a good one.
And by the way, there's somethere's some solace in knowing that he got
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caught, because as you were,like, I was like, somebody's got
to tell the Smithsonian, this woman'ssky is stealing from them. Yeah,
oh my god, all right,very good. Oh I'm sorry. Say
again. He worked there for yearsand they had like a mannequin up of
him in the i think the Airand Space Museum for such a long time,
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and that's the one he was feelingfrom him. Yeah, they finally
put the mannequin down. Yeah,excellent, excellent, Thank you, ma'am.
That's a great one. You know, it's so sad, and New
Jersey's only top of mine because italways is. Well because of that made
killed in Short Hills. But there'sa bar that had been in Hackensack for
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like thirty years called the Crow's Nest, and they closed over the weekend,
but some of the patrons stole alot of their decor. They'd like it
back. I saw the post yesterday, So the Smithsonian and the Crow's Nest.
Same thing out artifacts line six.Hi elliot in the morning, Hi
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me yes, hiye. I actuallyhave a crazy story, but I'll make
it quick. I had three cousinsthat murdered two elderly gentlemen. The two
cousins ended up murdering my other cousinbecause they thought he was going to snitch
and duct taped him to a steeringwheel and pushed them into a river.
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And remember when we were just yuckingit up about the Smithsonian. Oh,
I don't have one death, havemultiple deaths. It was kind of crazy
because they all three murdered two elderlygentlemen and robbed them out in the country.
They held him captive for about aweek and a half. They put
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him in a puller, and theythought the one because my one cousin,
which I'm not going to put theirname out there, but my one cousin
was paranoid and said he was goingto turn himself in. Blah blah blah,
and my other two cousins took himout to the river out where we
had lived. I don't know whatthey did to him prior to duct taping
into the steering wheel and push himhis card to the river. They didn't
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find the car for twelve years.Did you if somebody was out there?
Did yeah, start started to jumpin there. Did they go to jail?
Oh yeah, oh okay. Onegot one hundred and seventy six years.
The other one got I can't remember, like ninety or something because he
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ended up turning over on my othercousin. So we did we that was
that's not as fun as the crows. That Oh my god, A very
good No, that's all right,listen, these are it's your family secret.
That's fine. The day being Tuesdaynot Friday. Remember, we didn't
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know how to react to being relatedto the Boston strangler. Oh my god.
My grandmother was one of the mostnotorious witches in East Africa. To
this day, people think of usas a demonic family. That's a good
one. That's a good one.And that's another place where I wasn't in
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the right mindset trying to think ofthese crazy stories that would come forward here
this can have been all handled bythe courts. But then your family has
kept it quiet. Yes, yearsremoved from it of course. All right,
Kristen, where am I going?Lying too? Hi? Ellie in
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the morning. Hey is this me? Yeah? Hi? Who's this?
Hey? My name is Cody.I'm calling from Alexandria. What's going on,
dude? Not much? So.I guess my family name changed,
my last name changed, and nobodyin my family wants to talk about it.
So it's kind of like this bigmystery that I mean, nobody really
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talks about. And I still kindof don't have the full story. Why
wait a minute, So the lastname so like the last name, the
family name has changed a couple oftimes. Yeah, well it changed once
my dad's side, so I shouldtechnically have a different last name. But
we got some random It sounds likewe just pulled it out of the hat
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or it was done through like remarriage. But yeah, nobody wants to talk
about it. My grandpa's already dead, so he took that onto the grade
and nobody else knows why the familyname was changed. No, there's like
stories and I did like the ancestryDNA and all that to try to like
figure it out. And there's storiesthat my great grandpa was like abusive in
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an alcoholic so my great grandma remarriedand took that name wow and changed it
when my girl was like one.But then there's also the story that my
grandpa changed it himself to go tocollege because he didn't think he could get
in with his previous class name.So there's it's just nobody really knows the
reason. That's pretty good though.I like that. I like that.
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All right, very good, verygood, Thank you sir, Thank you,
my friend. I love these man. Everybody's got a story. I
know Kathy Lee told you that.Hi, Elliott, the morning, good
morning, good morning, good morning. This is Ben. How are you
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Elliott? I am great, thankyou. What can I do for you?
Oh? Well, you guys weretalking about weird strange stories that are
family members. Mine's not family members, but it's friends. My friends in
college had a girlfriend that decided thatshe was going to tie her mom up
in the basement and kill her withthe baseball bat. Okay, here we
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go, Yes, who back ontrack? Hands? No, I'm assuming
she got busted. She got busted, and she actually decided that The following
day she was going to go outon a blind date, and she confessed
to her blind date and her andthen obviously got called by the cops.
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Wait, did the blind date turnher in? Yeah, yep, I
gotta be honest. I think Iwould think the person was kidding. Why
is somebody telling you that on ablind Yeah. I agree that some people
have a morose sense of humor.Oh, Diane, So you and Scott
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go out on your first date andhe's like, man, I gotta tell
you, I'm glad I'm sitting herehaving dinner with you. You know,
yesterday I tied my mom up inthe basement and I beat her to death
with a baseball bat. And you'regonna you're believing that. Oh I'm sorry,
my phone's ringing. That's a differenttime. You didn't have a cell
phone. Yep. Definitely got believed. Definitely got found out. I was
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gonna have to be a witness inthe trial. But she thankfully killed herself
in jail. Okay, Jesus Christ, dude, thank you my friend as
Ira rode on X. Maybe youshould have just asked for like family secrets,
Yeah, not dark family secrets,and his was friends. It wasn't
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even family. Wow, oh irah, right here another message. I know
a guy who said mail of family'sChristmas cards. Then he threw him in
the trash. They'd never found out. I never knew much about one of
my uncles on my mother's side,but turns out he was the black sheep
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of the family for a good reason. On a drug fueled bender in the
nineties, he hijacked a car,not just any car, a hearse with
a body inside. He ended uprolling it into a high speed chase and
just like that. Oh never mind, one dead body became two. I
didn't know the end. That's thatis a good end. Yeah. Actually,
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Christin says, I have to goto line seven. I have to
go to line seven. Hi,yelly in the morning with me, Yes,
hi real quickly finish us on agood note. Okay, all right,
Well, my name is Saunya.I'm from Richmond. Yes, my
family is black and in the lateforties, early fifties, my grandmother's brother
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was very light skinned. You know, it can only go to black bars
back then. So he went toa bar and this other black guys just
started hassling him and tried to beathim up because you know, he was
really small. Anyway, he goesmy grandmother's brother, goes out to his
truck, gets his gun, comeback in and shoot and kills the guy.
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But he does not get any jailtime because everybody tasked him off as
being white and not black. Okay, it looked as though it was a
white guy killing the black guy.It's a black guy killing a black guy.
You could get away with that.Back there. I under horrible.
I understand, But again, ma'am, I have to be upset with you,
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not the ending I was looking for. I mean, hey, you
know what do we do? Okay, hey, look for the best at
that time. Very good, verygood, Hi, very good, Thank
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you, ma'am, thank you.Oh my god, Hi Diane. An
update from the Crow's nest. Oh, did they get some of their stuff
back? We can never express thisincredible feeling of family that we have with
all of you. Hopefully from allyour help, it'll get us back our
beloved heirlooms. Oh. Now,check and see if there's an update from
the Smithsonians.
Does your family have and whether it'syour immediate family or a little bit of
an extended family, does your familyhave any like deep dark secret that just
doesn't get discussed. Uh No,our family does not have a super small
family. So everything is pretty open. Because I'll tell you some of these
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are so good. Some of themare great, and some of them are
like some of them aren't as asas like some are some are bad right
yeah, and then some are justkind of like it's really like, what's
what's the what's the word that I'mlooking for? Bad, like a scandal
yeah, bad, like the lawshould be involved. Both Some are scandalous
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juicy, yeah, juicy, andthen some are like broke the law And
those were fun to read the littlebit I mean, not that bad.
That's yeah, not that bad.But that would be dark family secrets to
an extra generation from now that willget that will get discussed. No,
no, But like for example,I'll give you a juicy one and then
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I will give you a legal one. Hold on, I just got to
fix something on the computer. Here, bear with me, Here we go.
I got it fixed there I am. So I'll give you a juicy
one and then I'll give you likelike a real, like legal one,
right, okay, juicy one.My dad married the woman who was supposed
to get married to my brother.Would that be out in the open though,
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the say, again, well,I don't know that. You tell
everybody this is my dad's wife.By the way, she was supposed to
marry my brother. Okay, SoI get it. So it's something everyone
in the family knows. We justdon't We just don't advertise. Okay,
Okay, we don't advertise that.But yes, people would know that he
married this assuming younger woman, butnot everybody knows that originally that woman was
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supposed to marry this person's brother.So yes, it's known, but it's
not known. Like. That's agood juicy one. I like that.
Now you want a legal one.Okay. My wife's cousin was the Boston
strangler. We don't talk about him. That's huge. Did I go too
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deep? Right out the gate?Did I go too deep? Albert DeSalvo
was my wife's cousin. That's amazing. Now again, it's not amazing what
he did, But that is yourfamily connected to that huge story? Yes?
Yes, and by the way,I mean think about it. Every
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notorious person you know has a family. Yeah, somebody else has got that
going on. But here's the differencebetween that family and you. When that
movie came out on Hulu that youwere going to watch, and did you
I think you may have. Idid, Kiera Knightley, Yeah, you
would have started to tell everybody.Oh I yeah, no, that I
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would not keep the family secret.As a matter of fact, I can't
think of and because again it's notI didn't do anything wrong. I'm just
a cousin of the guy, right, So yeah, I would tell everybody.
I can't think of anybody that Iwouldn't like start yapping about unless you
were implicated somehow in the illegal activity. Well, either in the illegal activity
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or like I was like really friendlywith them. You'll go to jail for
a source and a cousin. Butlike if Albert DeSalvo and I were the
same age growing up and he wasmy cousin and we used to play like
when we were eight or nine,you didn't do anything wrong, no,
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and I wouldn't. I wouldn't notbe friends with somebody like if for example,
let's say let's say you meet somebody. One of the girls in the
pit comes in and goes, Ohmy god, how weird is that?
My is whatever? Yeah, JohnWayne Gacy. It's not like I'm not
going to be friends with them becausetheir cousin is a notorious killer. No,
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but you do almost get disappointed whenthat's where the story for them,
ends, right, so like youknew them? Well no, not really,
but that would be, that wouldbe I'd be into it. Oh
my god, we were just sentone. Oh really, hey, Mark,
hold on one second. Enjoy yourcash, all right, my friend,
thank you? You got it?Oh all right, you go first,
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because then I got one online one. This is I mean, now
do it? Do it? So? Just no, no, no judgment,
no names. Okay, it's onX. No, you can definitely
judge this person. Okay. Well, they didn't do anything in the family,
Sam. Remember they're about to tellus a story about my uncle solicited
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miners on the internet. He wouldmeet up with teenage boys late at night
and do god knows what. Anundercover cop who was pretending to be a
miner was able to catch him andtake him to jail. I've never looked
at him the same again, andrightfully so rightfully, so, my goodness,
that's a good one. You knowwhat I mean. Did they say
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who the guy is? Like,if it's an infamous person, you mean,
yeah, like Uncle Addy. Theydon't. Uncle Addy was famous in
Philly. But since she's posted thaton x it must not be that much
of a secret. It's just somethingthat upsets the family to be associated,
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understandably with that's very public sharing.A relative hired a hit man to kill
his wife. Hit man killed thewrong person. Same relative hired a hit
man to kill my father, nevergot the chance, was spooked by law
enforcement. Relative died a few yearsafter that. Kristen wrote all of that
in the call screener. No,no, no, I haven't gone the
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line one yet, Oh line one. Hi, Jellie in the morning.
Hey morning Elliott. Hey, who'sthis? Hey? This is a mitch.
First off, you're making me follow, You're making me follow Uncle Eddie?
Thank you? Yes? What canI do for you? All Right?
(06:21):
So I kind of had this unspokenthing with my dad when he was
like twelve, he was shot inthe head and we've never talked about it.
Wait, I don't your dad gotwhen he was twelve years old.
Your father got shot in the head. But you guys, don't you don't
discuss it. Did you do itby accident? Right? Yeah? He
(06:44):
shot himself in the head by accidentwith a rifle. So he was in
his bedroom and saw a rabbit outsideand this isn't Annapolis, so it's nothing
like rural and he was like,oh, I'm going to go kill it,
and as he ran out the room, the butt of the gun hit
like the bedpost and went off andplanted him and put him in a coma
for three months. And now he'sgot to steal plate in his head?
Oh my god, talk about it? Yeah, what is the It's interesting
(07:05):
to me that we've chosen we don'tdiscuss it, though, I don't know
how to bring it up. Howabout how's that plate in your head?
I mean, the only reason,the only reason I know about it is
because my mom told me, andshe learned about it from his mom.
Apparently he woke up speaking Spanish andhe does not know what lock of Spanish.
(07:26):
Oh that's awesome. How do younot talk about that? Oh?
I don't know. It's just it'snever come up, and I'm always just
like, I'm just gonna let thisone go. Is he still with us?
Yeah, he's seventy four and livesin South Carolina. Should we conference
him in, I'll do it rightnow. He won't he won't be awake,
(07:46):
but we could cry. I mean, what's the worst he would say?
So? Yeah, yeah, Imean, I don't know. He
would probably be fairly confused, beingthis is how he wakes up and he's
(08:07):
in his mid seventies. You know, it takes him a little while to
get that brain going. I almostwant to try it. Let's not.
Ah, damn it all right,dude, I appreciate it. Thank you.
My friend. Wasn't the cane usingcomment enough for a seventy year old?
This morning? Apparently my great auntadmitted to killing three of her husbands
while on her deathbed. What whatthese are rough to hear? Oh?
(08:30):
I'm sorry you wanted more of thefamily secrets of without us knowing my uncle
painted the living room. I justlike the ones that maybe the family's embarrassed
by, not be like being relatedto the Boston strangler. No, no,
because there's there's death root, we'reinvolved in that, and there's more
to that. I just need onesthat are like, something significant happen,
(08:54):
but it makes our family look oneway, So we don't want to come
off as dumb. We just wantto move. My half siblings and I
are also cousins. Our father wasmarried five times. Wives number two and
four were sisters. Better I mean, okay, there was no death.
(09:18):
My wife's cousin was the Boston Strangler. Where am I going? Line four?
A lot of listeners had family membersin the kkk Oh god, oh
my god. But you know what, that's a perfect one. But one
is too many. Yes, butwell it's not like they said, let's
(09:39):
all cheer him. No, I'mjust saying we've had three people say that
that they have family members in theku Klux Klan. Yes, m h
wow, but you know what that'sthat's but that's exactly what we're talking They
keep it a secret for a reason. R Hily in the morning, aod
morning, guys. Yes, sir, My grandmother's father, my great grandfather,
(10:01):
was very successful in business, andapparently his brother was extremely jealous.
So his brother hired a hitman tokill my great grandfather's wife. He arrived
at the house at the wrong timeand accidentally instead killed the maid on the
front lawn. Oh No, onewas arrested, Hey, Tyler, this
(10:22):
happened in short Hills, New Jersey. How long are you? Oh?
The mean streets of Short Hills,Tyler, You and I are about the
same age. This happened when mymom was a child, so fifty sixty
years ago. My stepdad grew upthere. Off to see story. Dude,
(10:46):
that's name out on the radio.Yeah, but that gets around the
neighborhood. If there's a dead maidlaying in somebody's yard, somebody knows.
That's a great one. By Yeah, this this was not quiet, but
nobody got arrested. No one knowswhy. Wait, so so there was
(11:07):
never it just went away. Yep. Was that is that up near Deerfield
Elementary School? I'm not sure itwas a Sylvan wife, not far from
the old Dons. Oh, McDonald'sall right, very good, thank you,
my friend. No, no,no, no, McDonald's not McDonald's,
the restaurant Donalds. Thes. Igo to McDonald's, but I call
(11:28):
it Don's. All right, verygood, thank you, sir, difference,
Thank you, my friend. Ohmy god, that's a good one.
That's a good one. Maybe Bob'slistening line eight. I hope he
wasn't earlier. Hi, Elliot inthe morning. Yeah, Hi, who's
this. Hi, I'm Milli.Yeah, Millie, what you got.
(11:52):
So one of my aunts was involvedin the murder of her sister. So
one my other dude it involved inwhat way? So my aunt who passed
away, what was murdered? Shehad let her boyfriend, her sister's boyfriend,
(12:13):
borrow money and she kept halfling themfor it, like you know,
where's the money or whatever, andthey're like, Okay, we're gonna give
it to you this day in time, meet up here she went and he
ended up but she helped little ofthe sister there and she ended up getting
like stabbed up, and they like, oh god God. But the as
(12:39):
a family, we kind of didthe sister get a busted for it?
Or did the end get busted forit? Yeah? She actually yeah,
she actually just got out of jailthis year. Oh my god, how
many years is that? Let mesee? I saw it was a child.
So this is maybe about a littleover fifteen years ago. Because did
(13:05):
the family's actually turned sixteen? Didthe did the family welcome her back?
Oh? Like half of because it'sa bunch of sisters. So I'm Latina,
So there's like fifteen of the sisters, so half are like we don't
want to talk to you anymore.The other half is like, oh,
(13:26):
we love you. Oh that's agood one though, that's a good one.
Even the cousins are like, Idon't even want to talk to her
because the one who was murdered,she was like one of the favorite moms.
Wow, that's a good one.I mean, I'm not happy that
anybody died, but that's a goodone. Hey, thank you, ma'am.
By the way, By the way, And I can't say anything yet.
I haven't even responded to the email. But somebody sent me an email
(13:52):
last week, and she knows exactlywho she is if she's listening, but
is getting ready. And I thinkthat's why this thing stuck out to me
yesterday. It is so close tosolving having been part of a big family
secret. Oh I can't wait.I can't wait. I can't wait.
(14:16):
And and it'll all go public.She's relying on you to help because she's
not concerned you're going to I'm notgoing to say anything. And I know
all you've just said. I knowI haven't said anything other than that there's
a girl I know in the familysecret thing. That's all. I haven't
said anything if I were her listening, I would have so good. I
(14:37):
haven't even written her back yet.And yeah, for the people who are
submitting these secrets, they don't haveto include death, the all of them
do. Now let's go fun thelike. How about chicken loaf? My
grandfather claimed to be the original inventorof the Pooper Scooper. That's like a
(14:58):
Penny Lane pub. Somebody actually wascommiserating with me because, as you know,
instant Messenger, the Buddy List wasstolen. The idea from me to
make it a separate app, butit was. It was Riley's parents.
They invented the selfie line eight HiEllie in the morning. Hello, this
(15:26):
is Jess from Fairfax, Virginia.Yes, Jess, what can I do
for you? My stepfather stole WorldWar One and World War Two artifacts from
the Smithsonian where he worked. Yeah, he stole them and he'd come he'd
(15:46):
come home with wads of cash thathe would sell them at like pawnshops and
say that he sold his historical trainsthat because he was obsessed with him.
He was a bipolar schizophrenia two hesent passed away like a couple of years
ago. But uh, yeah,SDI tracked him for years. Carl Schneidy,
you can look him up. Hey, you know, wait, so
(16:17):
how much stuff? But he endedup he ended up getting caught, right,
Yeah, yeah, they caught him. They sent him to prison somewhere.
I don't know. I was soyoung. I can't remember waving Kentucky
or something. Wow. That's agood one. That's a good one.
And by the way, there's somethere's some solace in knowing that he got
(16:38):
caught, because as you were,like, I was like, somebody's got
to tell the Smithsonian, this woman'ssky is stealing from them. Yeah,
oh my god, all right,very good. Oh I'm sorry. Say
again. He worked there for yearsand they had like a mannequin up of
him in the i think the Airand Space Museum for such a long time,
(16:59):
and that's the one he was feelingfrom him. Yeah, they finally
put the mannequin down. Yeah,excellent, excellent, Thank you, ma'am.
That's a great one. You know, it's so sad, and New
Jersey's only top of mine because italways is. Well because of that made
killed in Short Hills. But there'sa bar that had been in Hackensack for
(17:22):
like thirty years called the Crow's Nest, and they closed over the weekend,
but some of the patrons stole alot of their decor. They'd like it
back. I saw the post yesterday, So the Smithsonian and the Crow's Nest.
Same thing out artifacts line six.Hi elliot in the morning, Hi
(17:48):
me yes, hiye. I actuallyhave a crazy story, but I'll make
it quick. I had three cousinsthat murdered two elderly gentlemen. The two
cousins ended up murdering my other cousinbecause they thought he was going to snitch
and duct taped him to a steeringwheel and pushed them into a river.
(18:10):
And remember when we were just yuckingit up about the Smithsonian. Oh,
I don't have one death, havemultiple deaths. It was kind of crazy
because they all three murdered two elderlygentlemen and robbed them out in the country.
They held him captive for about aweek and a half. They put
(18:36):
him in a puller, and theythought the one because my one cousin,
which I'm not going to put theirname out there, but my one cousin
was paranoid and said he was goingto turn himself in. Blah blah blah,
and my other two cousins took himout to the river out where we
had lived. I don't know whatthey did to him prior to duct taping
into the steering wheel and push himhis card to the river. They didn't
(18:59):
find the car for twelve years.Did you if somebody was out there?
Did yeah, start started to jumpin there. Did they go to jail?
Oh yeah, oh okay. Onegot one hundred and seventy six years.
The other one got I can't remember, like ninety or something because he
(19:19):
ended up turning over on my othercousin. So we did we that was
that's not as fun as the crows. That Oh my god, A very
good No, that's all right,listen, these are it's your family secret.
That's fine. The day being Tuesdaynot Friday. Remember, we didn't
(19:41):
know how to react to being relatedto the Boston strangler. Oh my god.
My grandmother was one of the mostnotorious witches in East Africa. To
this day, people think of usas a demonic family. That's a good
one. That's a good one.And that's another place where I wasn't in
(20:03):
the right mindset trying to think ofthese crazy stories that would come forward here
this can have been all handled bythe courts. But then your family has
kept it quiet. Yes, yearsremoved from it of course. All right,
Kristen, where am I going?Lying too? Hi? Ellie in
(20:26):
the morning. Hey is this me? Yeah? Hi? Who's this?
Hey? My name is Cody.I'm calling from Alexandria. What's going on,
dude? Not much? So.I guess my family name changed,
my last name changed, and nobodyin my family wants to talk about it.
So it's kind of like this bigmystery that I mean, nobody really
(20:49):
talks about. And I still kindof don't have the full story. Why
wait a minute, So the lastname so like the last name, the
family name has changed a couple oftimes. Yeah, well it changed once
my dad's side, so I shouldtechnically have a different last name. But
we got some random It sounds likewe just pulled it out of the hat
(21:11):
or it was done through like remarriage. But yeah, nobody wants to talk
about it. My grandpa's already dead, so he took that onto the grade
and nobody else knows why the familyname was changed. No, there's like
stories and I did like the ancestryDNA and all that to try to like
figure it out. And there's storiesthat my great grandpa was like abusive in
(21:33):
an alcoholic so my great grandma remarriedand took that name wow and changed it
when my girl was like one.But then there's also the story that my
grandpa changed it himself to go tocollege because he didn't think he could get
in with his previous class name.So there's it's just nobody really knows the
reason. That's pretty good though.I like that. I like that.
(21:55):
All right, very good, verygood, Thank you sir, Thank you,
my friend. I love these man. Everybody's got a story. I
know Kathy Lee told you that.Hi, Elliott, the morning, good
morning, good morning, good morning. This is Ben. How are you
(22:15):
Elliott? I am great, thankyou. What can I do for you?
Oh? Well, you guys weretalking about weird strange stories that are
family members. Mine's not family members, but it's friends. My friends in
college had a girlfriend that decided thatshe was going to tie her mom up
in the basement and kill her withthe baseball bat. Okay, here we
(22:37):
go, Yes, who back ontrack? Hands? No, I'm assuming
she got busted. She got busted, and she actually decided that The following
day she was going to go outon a blind date, and she confessed
to her blind date and her andthen obviously got called by the cops.
(23:03):
Wait, did the blind date turnher in? Yeah, yep, I
gotta be honest. I think Iwould think the person was kidding. Why
is somebody telling you that on ablind Yeah. I agree that some people
have a morose sense of humor.Oh, Diane, So you and Scott
(23:25):
go out on your first date andhe's like, man, I gotta tell
you, I'm glad I'm sitting herehaving dinner with you. You know,
yesterday I tied my mom up inthe basement and I beat her to death
with a baseball bat. And you'regonna you're believing that. Oh I'm sorry,
my phone's ringing. That's a differenttime. You didn't have a cell
phone. Yep. Definitely got believed. Definitely got found out. I was
(23:49):
gonna have to be a witness inthe trial. But she thankfully killed herself
in jail. Okay, Jesus Christ, dude, thank you my friend as
Ira rode on X. Maybe youshould have just asked for like family secrets,
Yeah, not dark family secrets,and his was friends. It wasn't
(24:11):
even family. Wow, oh irah, right here another message. I know
a guy who said mail of family'sChristmas cards. Then he threw him in
the trash. They'd never found out. I never knew much about one of
my uncles on my mother's side,but turns out he was the black sheep
(24:33):
of the family for a good reason. On a drug fueled bender in the
nineties, he hijacked a car,not just any car, a hearse with
a body inside. He ended uprolling it into a high speed chase and
just like that. Oh never mind, one dead body became two. I
didn't know the end. That's thatis a good end. Yeah. Actually,
(24:59):
Christin says, I have to goto line seven. I have to
go to line seven. Hi,yelly in the morning with me, Yes,
hi real quickly finish us on agood note. Okay, all right,
Well, my name is Saunya.I'm from Richmond. Yes, my
family is black and in the lateforties, early fifties, my grandmother's brother
(25:23):
was very light skinned. You know, it can only go to black bars
back then. So he went toa bar and this other black guys just
started hassling him and tried to beathim up because you know, he was
really small. Anyway, he goesmy grandmother's brother, goes out to his
truck, gets his gun, comeback in and shoot and kills the guy.
(25:47):
But he does not get any jailtime because everybody tasked him off as
being white and not black. Okay, it looked as though it was a
white guy killing the black guy.It's a black guy killing a black guy.
You could get away with that.Back there. I under horrible.
I understand, But again, ma'am, I have to be upset with you,
(26:12):
not the ending I was looking for. I mean, hey, you
know what do we do? Okay, hey, look for the best at
that time. Very good, verygood, Hi, very good, Thank
(26:33):
you, ma'am, thank you.Oh my god, Hi Diane. An
update from the Crow's nest. Oh, did they get some of their stuff
back? We can never express thisincredible feeling of family that we have with
all of you. Hopefully from allyour help, it'll get us back our
beloved heirlooms. Oh. Now,check and see if there's an update from
the Smithsonians.
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