November 11, 2024 • 27 mins
This week’s hometowns include surviving a shipwreck and a parade on Halloween.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let us say.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, hello, and welcome to my favorite murder. What to
my favorite my favorite, my favorite murder, Murder, Murder it
the minisode. That's right?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Wait is it? Yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We're all where we think we are and are supposed
to be exactly perfect to know, Oh, that's George or
do we do this is mur.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't know. It's been a while we were on
we aren't bak so we had like we had a
little break from this so we don't remember anything. Line
you wanna go first? Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I am very excited about this first email because the
subject line reads my dad's I survived a ship breck story,
blood exclamation point, sharks exclamation point, and then in parentheses
it says, edited for time, Hello, Karen, Georgia and everyone
at MFM. I sincerely love you all so much. That
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felt sincere. I'm here to tell you about my dad's
amazing survival story. My dad, Larry Stewart, is a Hemingway
hero come to life, but like a gentle and non
misogynistic version. He was a captain in the Canadian Airborne
Regiment and participated in the US Ranger course. He led
an expedition to climb Mount Blanc, the highest mountain in
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the Alps, and scuba dived with sharks. He's a true adventurer. Unfortunately,
he had a parachute accident at the height of his
career as a paratrooper, which shattered his ankle. Instead of
taking a desk job in the army, he decided to
become a marine navigation officer and then in parentheses, it
says a sailor. One day he heard about a man
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who was looking for a navigator to help him race
across the Atlantic Ocean. They were to start in the
Canary Islands and end in Barbados. My dad flew from Ontario,
Canada to join the crew in Portugal right away. He
had a bad feeling about the situation. The crew seemed
surprised when Dad asked where his life jacket was located.
Oh no, the parentheses, it says apparently they didn't bother
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to try them on. And a boom, which is a
thing that Big Sale is connected to, clipped my dad
on the side of the head when a crew member
was being careless. One of the first nights they almost
got run over by a high speed ferry. They were
close enough to see the people on deck red flags. However, Yes,
for sure. However, he was committed to cross the Atlantic
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with this crew. Here's where it gets rough. They managed
to take the thirty three foot sailboat all the way
to the coast of Barbados, when all of a sudden,
their satellite navigation system broke down. It was dark, but
they could make out the coast in the far distance
and a dip in the skyline. My dad was at
the wheel, not navigating. When they hit a reef. He
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could smell the algae and marine life that was being
churned up, and he knew they were in trouble. My
dad grabbed his life jacket and the other crew members
rushed to grab theirs, and then, in parentheses, it says
one of the sailors realized that his was child sized
and it didn't fit. If only he'd tried it on
before they left. My dad tried to steer them away,
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but they soon hit the reef again and the boat
gotten off to the side, throwing my dad into the ocean.
The other members of the crew managed to get into
a dinghy before the sailboat sank, but the waves were
strong and the current ripped them away, So my dad
was on his own. I mean, if this is a
creepypasta email, I don't care. I'm in because this is
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good shit.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It would have been like friend of a friend of
a dad of a friend.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
First person dad.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They wouldn't have known his name was Larry. Yeah, their
dad was on his own. He had to muster up
the strength and energy to swim to shore. Although he
could occasionally see a break in the sky when he
looked to shore, he was a great distance from it
and the sea was rough. He remembers worrying about sharks,
and then in parentheses, he was pretty bloody and banged
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up from the wreck and praying he wouldn't get smashed
against the reef and rocks. He was always a strong swimmer,
but the choppy water and exhaustion made it challenging. After
over an hour of swimming, he started to hear waves.
This gave him the psychological push to keep going. Finally,
his tired and beat up body made it to shore.
He was water logged and exhausted, lying on the beach.
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He was eventually rescued by wait for it, a troop
of boy scouts who were camping nearby. Where did you
guys come from? Where did you come from? Sir? They
were able to put their scouting skills into action by
saving this strange man who'd washed up on shore, taking
him to the local police station.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh my god, that was like the night of our
little lives.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
What badge is that? I mean? Are there enough badges
to cover the rows?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
My dad continues to be the strongest person I know.
He's been battling cancer for the past five years and
his grit and determination is inspiring. He is the best
father a girl could ask for. Thank you for taking
the time to read this story. Stay sexy, and always
remember to try on your life jacket before crossing the
Atlantic on a small sail boat.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Kate, whoa, that's badass.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And also kind of from the top. It's like, listen
to your gut. Listen to your gut. Yeah, you know,
you know when something's bad, try in.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Your life jacket. Oh yeah, we got this one. I'm
just going to tell you this part. We did what
in the nineties and it's a Halloween story. So here
we go. Hey, team, here's a spooky Halloween story for you.
When I was a kid, my family lived in Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
notably famous for being part of the Bridgewater Triangle, the
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location of tons of paranormal phenomena.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know this, I have heard about. There's like a
swamp that crazy stuff happens in. If it's the thing
I'm if I'm right about what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay, that's a whole other thing I know very little about,
so for the purposes of this story, Bridgewater is also
the home of Old County Correctional Facility. I've always had
this vague memory from when I was around four years
old of walking through town in a Halloween parade trick
or treating in one big group with tons of other kids.
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Picture every kid in town dressed in costumes, walking down
a main road in one giant cluster. I never really
thought much of it because four year old memories aren't
super reliable, and I just figured it was some event
my mom took us to. But as I got older,
I started to wonder about it. Que some Internet sleuthing,
and it turns out there was a town wide Halloween
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quote parade of kids because all caps two escape convicts
from the local prison were on the loose. Oh that's right.
Two murderers serving life in prison broke out of Bridgewater's
security facility on Halloween. Robert de Lallo was serving life
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for the murder of a Boston police officer in nineteen
sixty three, and Joseph Carreo was serving life for the
murder of a guard during a bank hold up in
nineteen seventy six. So these are like bad guys. Yeah,
both had had previous breakouts from other facilities, and both
had been transferred from the state's maximum security prison four
years earlier due to overcrowding. Officials noticed that they had
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been well behaved until the breakout. If my memory serves correctly,
there we were a town full of kids just parading
down the main road of town while two murderers were
on the loose. I guess it's safer than individual trick retreating.
But either way, nothing says I was a nineties kid
more than our parents throwing caution to the wind for
the promise of some tricks and treats. My mom passed
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away from breast cancer, and then it says get screen
ladies in twenty fourteen, when she was only fifty six
years old. She was the very best despite the aforementioned
accusations that she took her four year old, three year old,
and one month old babies to very exposed Halloween activities
during a prison break.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hey, so did everybody else?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I know they all did it, And I really really
wish I could ask her about this now. I'm certain
she'd brush it off as no big deal as all
good nineties moms do stay saxy and don't trick or
treat during prison breakouts.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kelly g So, basically they had this parade planned and
they were like, well, we're not canceling the parade, even
though there's.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No I think it's we're not. We can't trick or
treat on our own individually, so let's just have this
like group. Well, we're all together. They can't get us,
they can't get us. Mentology. Yes, I think it's like
that year there was basically a Halloween parade so everyone
could stick together and trick or treat.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh man, hey, as long as there's costumes and candy,
does any kid really care what the pattern is?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No? And does any parent want to be like? Trick
or treatings canceled this year? Halloween's canceled this year? No, No,
you can't do that. No, not to sill. They did
the best with what they had.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
They really did was, which was what the nineties were
all about, on top of no one being really informed
or caring.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That much, right right?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean yeah, everyone was doing their best.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Bring it back.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The subject line of this email is per minniesod three
seventy seven, the time I also had the entire neighborhood
in a panic. And then it starts, Hi, mfmfam newer listener,
second time writer. Not sure if my other story has
been picked because I'm still catching up. Wouldn't that be
a fun Easter egg for this person to have two hometowns?
(09:47):
Oh my god, I've been listening for about a year
and I finally made it to twenty twenty four in
your episodes. That's right, eight years of podcasting in less
than a year. WHOA, It's okay to be impressed. I
think impressed is one way to describe it. Deeply worried
as another. Now for my story, I just listened to
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MINNISO three seventy seven, where a little girl incited a
search party while she hid under the bed. I did
almost the exact same thing when I was around seven
years old. At the time, my mom and I lived
at a big house with my grandparents. The upstairs had
been converted to an apartment from myself and my mom.
I had a bedroom upstairs at my mom's and another
downstairs at my grandparents. I was a spoiled, rotten brat AnyWho.
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In an attempt to make my upstairs room more enticing,
my mother bought her seven year old a waterbed. I
was stoked, Yeah you were you Did people have waterbeds
when you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Maybe one of my brother's friends, I want to say,
I definitely saw one once. Yeah, but it wasn't but
it was like, yeah, I was like on silver spoons.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And shit, right, those rich people and those rich people.
It was a very to me of very seventies thing.
So it was like, as my memories were even forming,
these things existed in the world where it's like don't
jump on them or you'll get me. But if you
lay there.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
They were like the pinnacle of like suave, rich, cool
person for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They always in my memory, always had like a velvet bedspread.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
On them, smelled like cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We're back in the email, Okay, One evening we were
supposed to be going somewhere, and then it says no
idea where anymore, and I did not want to go.
Being very used to getting my way, I threw a fit,
went upstairs, climbed into my waterbed, and pulled the blankets
above my head to quote unquote hide. I remember hearing
my mom Laurie, my Mima Carolyn, and my Poppy John
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calling out my name, their panic increasing as they could
not locate me. You see, when I laid down and
pulled the blanket over me, my little body sank into
the waterbed and the blanket appeared flat.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, I could see it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
They were none the wiser. Sometime later, after the police
had been called, my Poppy John went into my bedroom,
sat down and started to cry through his sniffles. He
hurt a small snore yanking the blankets back off the bed.
I was finally discovered. I remember them being so relieved
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that I didn't even get into trouble. However, the police
did have a serious talk with me about how not
getting my way was not reason enough to cause the
entire neighborhood to mobilize the search party. Since being introduced
to your podcast, I've been neglecting all my other favorites. Honestly,
you guys are so good. I'm afraid you've ruined all
the other true crime podcasts for me. Oh yes, so
(12:47):
thanks for that. I guess stay sexy and always check
under the blankets. Whitley, she her, that's so cute.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It reminds me of why I'll never jump on a
bed is because cats like to go underneath the covers.
So even at a hotel where there's no fucking cats,
for sure, like, I'll gingerly sit down on the bed.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Just never, not as a woman who is approaching middle age.
I'm not trying to attack you, but that idea of like,
and that's why I don't jump on the bed, right, And.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's why you launching yourself on a hotel room bed like,
there's there's few pleasures in life that Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I guess you could do it in a hotel room, right,
that's the one place you know it is.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But god, what if there's just like one time a cat,
one cat.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Stray cat gets into those windows that are stealed shut
I wish.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, this one's called dumb reasons. The family stopped talking
in Law's edition, and I guess we asked for this
like cut people out of your life.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, we want to hear all about everything.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Hey mfm rs, you've thrown off the cuff reason for
us to write in and we show up right here
we go. So these are all the reasons my husband
has petty as fuck jeans on both sides of his family,
and I'm here to spill the tea. Names have been
changed because quite frankly, I don't want to get on
the family blacklist. Smart Grandma Doris is a grudge holder.
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She is related to the hat Fields of the Hatfields
and McCoy's, so maybe she can't help it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yes, that's those are deep genes of hatred.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Grandma Doris has blacklisted her children for crimes such as
missing a holiday barbecue and breaking a small glass dolphin figurine.
Once she said to her granddaughter Hope, honey, it's not Halloween,
referring to Hope's makeup. Then Doris blacklisted Hope's dad for
being mythed about the comment. Wow, fucking petty narcissist. So
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gotta love them.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Dealing it out. Can't take it? Yes, and a hat field.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
The blacklist means no communication and no invitations to holidays.
She will ignore you outright in a group text. She
won't answer the door if you come to talk it out.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's why you gotta crawl in a window.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That's right. When Grandma doris is son who is my
father in law, died unexpectedly while on the blacklist, you
would think she would eliminate the blacklist altogether, realizing time
is short and family is everything. Nope, her youngest son,
Chad is on the blacklist right now for having a
failed marriage.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh oh, that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That's not fair. On the other side of my husband's family,
there is a longer term, done forever mentality.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I'm sorry. Getting in trouble for getting a divorce is
the funniest thing of alt It's so not about you,
Doris totally.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like maybe he needs you at this time of like strife,
but no, no, get it together all right, here's the
done forever mentality side of the family. After a bad
round of golf, Uncle Ken and his son Ken Junior
didn't talk to Papa at the Grandpa through Papa's dying
day over a bad round of golf, Like.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Grandpa lost golf, and it was like they were like.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I don't know, they'd be like, you're cheated, You cheated.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
We're only as strong as our weakest link, So get
the hell out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Right right after Papa fell and hurt his hip and
one of his daughters, Susan was not properly notified. She
stopped talking to him and Nana for fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
These people need to be medicated. This is not She.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Stopped talking to him because he didn't tell her about
his hip on time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
He was on post two from the hospital Sunday notifications.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Listen to this. She never spoke to her father again.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
What is wrong with these people?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
This one has a semi happy ending and that Susan
and Nana had a reunion and made amends. Nana must
have been waiting for this, because she passed away the
next day.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Of course Susan and Ken had been written out of
the will and they both found out that last weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I'm sorry, this is my new hometown. Of all fucking deis.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I love family gossip of Kells. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's pure tea, and it's kind of like you think
your family's crazy. Listen to this shit.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Please send us your families your Inlasst family's gossip like
we want to hear it. We don't care that we
don't know them. Change names, make up good ones, yeah,
and tell us about how petty and fucked up everyone.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Also, because I think people do this in smaller doses,
and it's almost like, let's blow it all the way
up so you can see how fucking crazy this is.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
When you add it all together. Look at this, it
says recap of reasons my in law stop talking barbecue,
glass dolphin, golf, hip, injury. Well, I hope you enjoyed.
Much love to you for all you do. Stay sexy
and be as petty as you Damn well, please kay.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Okay, I have a guess that you're from the South
and that your family lives in the South.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It sounds like there's pimento cheese and a lot of
holiday gatherings. For sure.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It sounds like a lot of this has taken place
in the haller. But I could be God damn that
was funny.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Send us your family gossip please my favorite murder at Gmail.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Also, I had kind of a recovered memory because I
used to have a very small glass dolphin that was
on the top of my dresser that I stared at.
I mean it must must have been the late seventies.
It was like the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen, Like,
look at it. Who made this?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It's gorgeous. Those little figurines that they glue to paper
a little square of paper. Yes, that you get right Hallmark?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, and it's like you would get it at the fair.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah. Yeah, you want something? Oh my god? Yes, right,
whoa I'm getting? Yes, I definitely had like that a snail.
I think that was really cute shit and.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like some of its color but see through and some
of it was white.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, like it was hand done. Bring it back.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I like saying that if you have a glass figurine
that you gt to tell us about. The subject line
of this is celebrity Encounteranna Reeves helped during a fire alarm.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Are you ready? I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
No, it starts. I have loved you since late twenty sixteen.
Now pardon me as I drop every name I can
do it, and then in parentheses it says additional story
adjacent names at the end of this email. Yes, okay.
It's fall of two thousand and two. I'm a freshman
studying theater at Pace University, just five blocks from where
the World Trade Tower stood just a year before I
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was working as an usher for the professional theater that
was located on the ground floor of the high rise
that contained the freshman dorms. The play was The Resistible
Rise of Our turo Ui that's a guess you I
is the name, and it starred Al Pacino, Billy Kredup,
Steve Buscemi in parentheses, who told us ushers to break
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a leg before each performance, making us feel part of everything.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh oh oh, like all said.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That might get me. Karen's already, that might get me.
Can you imagine steep break a leg? Steve boushow me
walks by and goes, hey, break a lake.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, are we all ready to do this?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh my god, come on, he's having the time of
his life. Yeah, okay, And then it says, among many others,
because the level of stardom that was performing in this show,
the level of stardom that came to see the show
was equal, if not greater, I'm talking Paul McCartney, Yoko
Ono and then in parentheses not the same night, Yeah,
you know, Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, And again, this
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list could go on. On the night of this particular story,
I was legitimately starstruck. I got to meet and show
to their seat, the one and only Lauren Bacall. Holy shit,
that's that's legendary. Yeah, that's Hollywood Woralty, A true dream
come true. Also in attendance this night, Keanu Reeves a
different type of dream come true. It was about halfway
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into the first act, I, along with the other ushers,
all eighteen or nineteen year old students, are sitting on
the floor in the lobby, whisper gossiping about who was
in attendance that night. When the fire alarm starts to blare.
We all jump up, open our assigned doors, and begin
pointing everyone in our sections towards the nearest exit, which
led to a back alley. Once our sections were empty,
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we were to close our doors and follow everyone outside,
keeping in mind the place, recent events, and no one
having any idea why the alarm was going off. It
felt as though everything was edging on chaos.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That's scary. That was scary time, so scary, like on
fire alarm that close to the fucking spot.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He'll know, I mean in Los Angeles, And I'm sure
I've told you the story before. It was like a
week after and we were swimming in the ocean and
there were planes. We were basically watching planes land at
Lax and every time a plane came to land, we
all thought it was going to crash. It was just
this weird like and it's like, no, no, it has
to land like this, this is the flight path. But
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we were all so freaked out. Yeah, okay, back into
the I was standing at my door, guiding everyone in
my section and thinking about how I can't let anything
happen to Lauren beccall, It's on you. When I looked
towards the exit and see none other than Keanu Reeves
also guiding everyone towards the nearest exit, not going outside,
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but staying and helping us almost children, get everyone out.
John Wick, John Wick, As this is happening. I then
see another man decide this was his opportunity to raid
the snack and drink bar that was curly unmanned what no,
about fifteen feet from where I stood. I was not
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alone in seeing this blatant active theft. Keano also saw it.
He left his self assigned post, walked over to the
snack bar, said to the man who had his arms full,
let me get that for you, and dropped a wad
of cash in the tip jar that was on the counter,
then gently pushed the thief toward the exit.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Holy shit, who the fuck was that person?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I mean, just a kind of a desperate, hungry person
who was like, ah, fuck it, I hope. And then
they actually broke the paragraph and just had to have
a single line that says a true legend because it
actually is true. He went and handled it in the
classiest way.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Ye he cut a punch that I right in the face.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, And it's easy to just be mad and be
like you're an asshole, but it's like, or just how
about you.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Can even make you look really fucking stupid.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And not to worry Lauren. But caall was fine and
got outside safely. Keanu Reeves also made it outside safely
after unknowingly being my night in Black Blazer. The show
went on after about fifteen minutes of the A listers
and the freshman college students mingling in the alleyway, and
the cause of the fire alarm was discovered. It was
a bag of popcorn left in a microwave too long
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in one of the dorm kitchens upstairs. Come on, and
then here's another line that got broken down out of
the paragraph. Fucking teenagers stay sexy and believe in Keanu
reeves faith she her.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I mean, is there anything he can't do? Goddamn national treasure.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And also just like handling shit hand no one's he's
not running to the door getting himself out first.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Totally. I love him. And he's also like these eighteen
year olds can't. Yeah, save everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Someone's going to handle this.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, Okay, my last one's called. I sold my soul, lighthearted. Hi.
Recently my brother got married and my sisters and I
gave a speech celebrating him. Afterwards, I realized I missed
sharing a classic story about his role as the stereotypical
older brother. Coincidentally, that same week, you shared a story
about an older sister's mischievous lies, so I thought i'd
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contribute my own tale. Nice growing up is the oldest
of three sisters. My brother often found himself the target
of our attempts to borrow his Palm pilot or watch
him play video games. It was the nineties, and we
viewed him as our very own inspector gadget with all
his cool tech. I'm sure we were the worst to
be around, so I'm getting some grace to him for
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what he did. Anyways, when I was around six, he
was twelve. While I was pestering him, he offered me
five dollars, an enormous sum for a kid in my age.
The catch I had to sell him my soul. Oh naturally,
I jumped at the opportunity, thinking it was a small
price to pay to be rich. He even drew up
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a contract which I could barely read, and had me
sign it. Not long after, I panicked, worried that I
would die without my soul, something that in hindsight seemed important.
I cried and begged him to return it, and he
said the only way to get it back was to
eat the contract, the entire sheet of favor. So there
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I was munching on that piece of paper for the
rest of the day. Stressful as it was, I kept
the five dollars and regained my soul, so I felt
like a winner in the end. I'm now a clinical psychologist.
I promise it's not his fault, and I've been a
fan of your show since my first year in my
doctoral program. I truly appreciate your mental health shout outs,
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advocacy and mindful growth. Thank you. For everything you do.
Stay sexy and keep that soul to yourself. Kind regards Bethany.
Oh my god, Oh my god, can see my brother
doing something like that as kids.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's such a great plan of like, if you're not
going to stop bugging me, then I'm going to figure
out something something you're gonna have to do all day long.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Keep you occupied all day long. It was worth it.
It was worth the five dollars. And I bet you
anything that two other sisters were responsible for telling her
why she was stupid to sell her soul, then making
her pan you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's like, it's like, do you do know you're going
to hell? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
You know that if you die right now? Like you're
going to hell.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's so hot there, Mom's not theare.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Tell us about your siblings? At my favorite murder at Gmail?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What if that older brother was Keanu Reeves and I
changed everything we thought about him?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh that's cute, though I know it's precious.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Good goodbye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Our editor is Aristotle Oscevedo.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Email your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And follow the show on Instagram and Facebook at my
Favorite Murder and on Twitter at my Fave Murder. Goodbye,
Let us say.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello, hello, and welcome to my favorite murder. What to
my favorite my favorite, my favorite murder, Murder, Murder it
the minisode. That's right?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Wait is it? Yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We're all where we think we are and are supposed
to be exactly perfect to know, Oh, that's George or
do we do this is mur.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't know. It's been a while we were on
we aren't bak so we had like we had a
little break from this so we don't remember anything. Line
you wanna go first? Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I am very excited about this first email because the
subject line reads my dad's I survived a ship breck story,
blood exclamation point, sharks exclamation point, and then in parentheses
it says, edited for time, Hello, Karen, Georgia and everyone
at MFM. I sincerely love you all so much. That
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felt sincere. I'm here to tell you about my dad's
amazing survival story. My dad, Larry Stewart, is a Hemingway
hero come to life, but like a gentle and non
misogynistic version. He was a captain in the Canadian Airborne
Regiment and participated in the US Ranger course. He led
an expedition to climb Mount Blanc, the highest mountain in
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the Alps, and scuba dived with sharks. He's a true adventurer. Unfortunately,
he had a parachute accident at the height of his
career as a paratrooper, which shattered his ankle. Instead of
taking a desk job in the army, he decided to
become a marine navigation officer and then in parentheses, it
says a sailor. One day he heard about a man
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who was looking for a navigator to help him race
across the Atlantic Ocean. They were to start in the
Canary Islands and end in Barbados. My dad flew from Ontario,
Canada to join the crew in Portugal right away. He
had a bad feeling about the situation. The crew seemed
surprised when Dad asked where his life jacket was located.
Oh no, the parentheses, it says apparently they didn't bother
(02:19):
to try them on. And a boom, which is a
thing that Big Sale is connected to, clipped my dad
on the side of the head when a crew member
was being careless. One of the first nights they almost
got run over by a high speed ferry. They were
close enough to see the people on deck red flags. However, Yes,
for sure. However, he was committed to cross the Atlantic
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with this crew. Here's where it gets rough. They managed
to take the thirty three foot sailboat all the way
to the coast of Barbados, when all of a sudden,
their satellite navigation system broke down. It was dark, but
they could make out the coast in the far distance
and a dip in the skyline. My dad was at
the wheel, not navigating. When they hit a reef. He
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could smell the algae and marine life that was being
churned up, and he knew they were in trouble. My
dad grabbed his life jacket and the other crew members
rushed to grab theirs, and then, in parentheses, it says
one of the sailors realized that his was child sized
and it didn't fit. If only he'd tried it on
before they left. My dad tried to steer them away,
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but they soon hit the reef again and the boat
gotten off to the side, throwing my dad into the ocean.
The other members of the crew managed to get into
a dinghy before the sailboat sank, but the waves were
strong and the current ripped them away, So my dad
was on his own. I mean, if this is a
creepypasta email, I don't care. I'm in because this is
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good shit.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It would have been like friend of a friend of
a dad of a friend.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
First person dad.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
They wouldn't have known his name was Larry. Yeah, their
dad was on his own. He had to muster up
the strength and energy to swim to shore. Although he
could occasionally see a break in the sky when he
looked to shore, he was a great distance from it
and the sea was rough. He remembers worrying about sharks,
and then in parentheses, he was pretty bloody and banged
(04:09):
up from the wreck and praying he wouldn't get smashed
against the reef and rocks. He was always a strong swimmer,
but the choppy water and exhaustion made it challenging. After
over an hour of swimming, he started to hear waves.
This gave him the psychological push to keep going. Finally,
his tired and beat up body made it to shore.
He was water logged and exhausted, lying on the beach.
(04:30):
He was eventually rescued by wait for it, a troop
of boy scouts who were camping nearby. Where did you
guys come from? Where did you come from? Sir? They
were able to put their scouting skills into action by
saving this strange man who'd washed up on shore, taking
him to the local police station.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh my god, that was like the night of our
little lives.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
What badge is that? I mean? Are there enough badges
to cover the rows?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
My dad continues to be the strongest person I know.
He's been battling cancer for the past five years and
his grit and determination is inspiring. He is the best
father a girl could ask for. Thank you for taking
the time to read this story. Stay sexy, and always
remember to try on your life jacket before crossing the
Atlantic on a small sail boat.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Kate, whoa, that's badass.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And also kind of from the top. It's like, listen
to your gut. Listen to your gut. Yeah, you know,
you know when something's bad, try in.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Your life jacket. Oh yeah, we got this one. I'm
just going to tell you this part. We did what
in the nineties and it's a Halloween story. So here
we go. Hey, team, here's a spooky Halloween story for you.
When I was a kid, my family lived in Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
notably famous for being part of the Bridgewater Triangle, the
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location of tons of paranormal phenomena.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know this, I have heard about. There's like a
swamp that crazy stuff happens in. If it's the thing
I'm if I'm right about what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay, that's a whole other thing I know very little about,
so for the purposes of this story, Bridgewater is also
the home of Old County Correctional Facility. I've always had
this vague memory from when I was around four years
old of walking through town in a Halloween parade trick
or treating in one big group with tons of other kids.
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Picture every kid in town dressed in costumes, walking down
a main road in one giant cluster. I never really
thought much of it because four year old memories aren't
super reliable, and I just figured it was some event
my mom took us to. But as I got older,
I started to wonder about it. Que some Internet sleuthing,
and it turns out there was a town wide Halloween
(06:48):
quote parade of kids because all caps two escape convicts
from the local prison were on the loose. Oh that's right.
Two murderers serving life in prison broke out of Bridgewater's
security facility on Halloween. Robert de Lallo was serving life
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for the murder of a Boston police officer in nineteen
sixty three, and Joseph Carreo was serving life for the
murder of a guard during a bank hold up in
nineteen seventy six. So these are like bad guys. Yeah,
both had had previous breakouts from other facilities, and both
had been transferred from the state's maximum security prison four
years earlier due to overcrowding. Officials noticed that they had
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been well behaved until the breakout. If my memory serves correctly,
there we were a town full of kids just parading
down the main road of town while two murderers were
on the loose. I guess it's safer than individual trick retreating.
But either way, nothing says I was a nineties kid
more than our parents throwing caution to the wind for
the promise of some tricks and treats. My mom passed
(07:54):
away from breast cancer, and then it says get screen
ladies in twenty fourteen, when she was only fifty six
years old. She was the very best despite the aforementioned
accusations that she took her four year old, three year old,
and one month old babies to very exposed Halloween activities
during a prison break.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hey, so did everybody else?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I know they all did it, And I really really
wish I could ask her about this now. I'm certain
she'd brush it off as no big deal as all
good nineties moms do stay saxy and don't trick or
treat during prison breakouts.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kelly g So, basically they had this parade planned and
they were like, well, we're not canceling the parade, even
though there's.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No I think it's we're not. We can't trick or
treat on our own individually, so let's just have this
like group. Well, we're all together. They can't get us,
they can't get us. Mentology. Yes, I think it's like
that year there was basically a Halloween parade so everyone
could stick together and trick or treat.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh man, hey, as long as there's costumes and candy,
does any kid really care what the pattern is?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No? And does any parent want to be like? Trick
or treatings canceled this year? Halloween's canceled this year? No, No,
you can't do that. No, not to sill. They did
the best with what they had.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
They really did was, which was what the nineties were
all about, on top of no one being really informed
or caring.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That much, right right?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean yeah, everyone was doing their best.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Bring it back.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
The subject line of this email is per minniesod three
seventy seven, the time I also had the entire neighborhood
in a panic. And then it starts, Hi, mfmfam newer listener,
second time writer. Not sure if my other story has
been picked because I'm still catching up. Wouldn't that be
a fun Easter egg for this person to have two hometowns?
(09:47):
Oh my god, I've been listening for about a year
and I finally made it to twenty twenty four in
your episodes. That's right, eight years of podcasting in less
than a year. WHOA, It's okay to be impressed. I
think impressed is one way to describe it. Deeply worried
as another. Now for my story, I just listened to
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MINNISO three seventy seven, where a little girl incited a
search party while she hid under the bed. I did
almost the exact same thing when I was around seven
years old. At the time, my mom and I lived
at a big house with my grandparents. The upstairs had
been converted to an apartment from myself and my mom.
I had a bedroom upstairs at my mom's and another
downstairs at my grandparents. I was a spoiled, rotten brat AnyWho.
(10:34):
In an attempt to make my upstairs room more enticing,
my mother bought her seven year old a waterbed. I
was stoked, Yeah you were you Did people have waterbeds
when you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Maybe one of my brother's friends, I want to say,
I definitely saw one once. Yeah, but it wasn't but
it was like, yeah, I was like on silver spoons.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And shit, right, those rich people and those rich people.
It was a very to me of very seventies thing.
So it was like, as my memories were even forming,
these things existed in the world where it's like don't
jump on them or you'll get me. But if you
lay there.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
They were like the pinnacle of like suave, rich, cool
person for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They always in my memory, always had like a velvet bedspread.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
On them, smelled like cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We're back in the email, Okay, One evening we were
supposed to be going somewhere, and then it says no
idea where anymore, and I did not want to go.
Being very used to getting my way, I threw a fit,
went upstairs, climbed into my waterbed, and pulled the blankets
above my head to quote unquote hide. I remember hearing
my mom Laurie, my Mima Carolyn, and my Poppy John
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calling out my name, their panic increasing as they could
not locate me. You see, when I laid down and
pulled the blanket over me, my little body sank into
the waterbed and the blanket appeared flat.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, I could see it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
They were none the wiser. Sometime later, after the police
had been called, my Poppy John went into my bedroom,
sat down and started to cry through his sniffles. He
hurt a small snore yanking the blankets back off the bed.
I was finally discovered. I remember them being so relieved
(12:23):
that I didn't even get into trouble. However, the police
did have a serious talk with me about how not
getting my way was not reason enough to cause the
entire neighborhood to mobilize the search party. Since being introduced
to your podcast, I've been neglecting all my other favorites. Honestly,
you guys are so good. I'm afraid you've ruined all
the other true crime podcasts for me. Oh yes, so
(12:47):
thanks for that. I guess stay sexy and always check
under the blankets. Whitley, she her, that's so cute.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It reminds me of why I'll never jump on a
bed is because cats like to go underneath the covers.
So even at a hotel where there's no fucking cats,
for sure, like, I'll gingerly sit down on the bed.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Just never, not as a woman who is approaching middle age.
I'm not trying to attack you, but that idea of like,
and that's why I don't jump on the bed, right, And.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's why you launching yourself on a hotel room bed like,
there's there's few pleasures in life that Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I guess you could do it in a hotel room, right,
that's the one place you know it is.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But god, what if there's just like one time a cat,
one cat.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Stray cat gets into those windows that are stealed shut
I wish.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, this one's called dumb reasons. The family stopped talking
in Law's edition, and I guess we asked for this
like cut people out of your life.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, we want to hear all about everything.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Hey mfm rs, you've thrown off the cuff reason for
us to write in and we show up right here
we go. So these are all the reasons my husband
has petty as fuck jeans on both sides of his family,
and I'm here to spill the tea. Names have been
changed because quite frankly, I don't want to get on
the family blacklist. Smart Grandma Doris is a grudge holder.
(14:08):
She is related to the hat Fields of the Hatfields
and McCoy's, so maybe she can't help it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yes, that's those are deep genes of hatred.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Grandma Doris has blacklisted her children for crimes such as
missing a holiday barbecue and breaking a small glass dolphin figurine.
Once she said to her granddaughter Hope, honey, it's not Halloween,
referring to Hope's makeup. Then Doris blacklisted Hope's dad for
being mythed about the comment. Wow, fucking petty narcissist. So
(14:40):
gotta love them.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Dealing it out. Can't take it? Yes, and a hat field.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
The blacklist means no communication and no invitations to holidays.
She will ignore you outright in a group text. She
won't answer the door if you come to talk it out.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's why you gotta crawl in a window.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That's right. When Grandma doris is son who is my
father in law, died unexpectedly while on the blacklist, you
would think she would eliminate the blacklist altogether, realizing time
is short and family is everything. Nope, her youngest son,
Chad is on the blacklist right now for having a
failed marriage.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh oh, that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That's not fair. On the other side of my husband's family,
there is a longer term, done forever mentality.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I'm sorry. Getting in trouble for getting a divorce is
the funniest thing of alt It's so not about you,
Doris totally.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like maybe he needs you at this time of like strife,
but no, no, get it together all right, here's the
done forever mentality side of the family. After a bad
round of golf, Uncle Ken and his son Ken Junior
didn't talk to Papa at the Grandpa through Papa's dying
day over a bad round of golf, Like.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Grandpa lost golf, and it was like they were like.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I don't know, they'd be like, you're cheated, You cheated.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
We're only as strong as our weakest link, So get
the hell out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Right right after Papa fell and hurt his hip and
one of his daughters, Susan was not properly notified. She
stopped talking to him and Nana for fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
These people need to be medicated. This is not She.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Stopped talking to him because he didn't tell her about
his hip on time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
He was on post two from the hospital Sunday notifications.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Listen to this. She never spoke to her father again.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
What is wrong with these people?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
This one has a semi happy ending and that Susan
and Nana had a reunion and made amends. Nana must
have been waiting for this, because she passed away the
next day.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Of course Susan and Ken had been written out of
the will and they both found out that last weekend.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I'm sorry, this is my new hometown. Of all fucking deis.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I love family gossip of Kells. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's pure tea, and it's kind of like you think
your family's crazy. Listen to this shit.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Please send us your families your Inlasst family's gossip like
we want to hear it. We don't care that we
don't know them. Change names, make up good ones, yeah,
and tell us about how petty and fucked up everyone.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Also, because I think people do this in smaller doses,
and it's almost like, let's blow it all the way
up so you can see how fucking crazy this is.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
When you add it all together. Look at this, it
says recap of reasons my in law stop talking barbecue,
glass dolphin, golf, hip, injury. Well, I hope you enjoyed.
Much love to you for all you do. Stay sexy
and be as petty as you Damn well, please kay.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Okay, I have a guess that you're from the South
and that your family lives in the South.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It sounds like there's pimento cheese and a lot of
holiday gatherings. For sure.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It sounds like a lot of this has taken place
in the haller. But I could be God damn that
was funny.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Send us your family gossip please my favorite murder at Gmail.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Also, I had kind of a recovered memory because I
used to have a very small glass dolphin that was
on the top of my dresser that I stared at.
I mean it must must have been the late seventies.
It was like the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen, Like,
look at it. Who made this?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
It's gorgeous. Those little figurines that they glue to paper
a little square of paper. Yes, that you get right Hallmark?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, and it's like you would get it at the fair.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah. Yeah, you want something? Oh my god? Yes, right,
whoa I'm getting? Yes, I definitely had like that a snail.
I think that was really cute shit and.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like some of its color but see through and some
of it was white.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, like it was hand done. Bring it back.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I like saying that if you have a glass figurine
that you gt to tell us about. The subject line
of this is celebrity Encounteranna Reeves helped during a fire alarm.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Are you ready? I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
No, it starts. I have loved you since late twenty sixteen.
Now pardon me as I drop every name I can
do it, and then in parentheses it says additional story
adjacent names at the end of this email. Yes, okay.
It's fall of two thousand and two. I'm a freshman
studying theater at Pace University, just five blocks from where
the World Trade Tower stood just a year before I
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was working as an usher for the professional theater that
was located on the ground floor of the high rise
that contained the freshman dorms. The play was The Resistible
Rise of Our turo Ui that's a guess you I
is the name, and it starred Al Pacino, Billy Kredup,
Steve Buscemi in parentheses, who told us ushers to break
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a leg before each performance, making us feel part of everything.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh oh oh, like all said.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That might get me. Karen's already, that might get me.
Can you imagine steep break a leg? Steve boushow me
walks by and goes, hey, break a lake.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, are we all ready to do this?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh my god, come on, he's having the time of
his life. Yeah, okay, And then it says, among many others,
because the level of stardom that was performing in this show,
the level of stardom that came to see the show
was equal, if not greater, I'm talking Paul McCartney, Yoko
Ono and then in parentheses not the same night, Yeah,
you know, Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, And again, this
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list could go on. On the night of this particular story,
I was legitimately starstruck. I got to meet and show
to their seat, the one and only Lauren Bacall. Holy shit,
that's that's legendary. Yeah, that's Hollywood Woralty, A true dream
come true. Also in attendance this night, Keanu Reeves a
different type of dream come true. It was about halfway
(20:53):
into the first act, I, along with the other ushers,
all eighteen or nineteen year old students, are sitting on
the floor in the lobby, whisper gossiping about who was
in attendance that night. When the fire alarm starts to blare.
We all jump up, open our assigned doors, and begin
pointing everyone in our sections towards the nearest exit, which
led to a back alley. Once our sections were empty,
(21:15):
we were to close our doors and follow everyone outside,
keeping in mind the place, recent events, and no one
having any idea why the alarm was going off. It
felt as though everything was edging on chaos.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That's scary. That was scary time, so scary, like on
fire alarm that close to the fucking spot.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He'll know, I mean in Los Angeles, And I'm sure
I've told you the story before. It was like a
week after and we were swimming in the ocean and
there were planes. We were basically watching planes land at
Lax and every time a plane came to land, we
all thought it was going to crash. It was just
this weird like and it's like, no, no, it has
to land like this, this is the flight path. But
(21:56):
we were all so freaked out. Yeah, okay, back into
the I was standing at my door, guiding everyone in
my section and thinking about how I can't let anything
happen to Lauren beccall, It's on you. When I looked
towards the exit and see none other than Keanu Reeves
also guiding everyone towards the nearest exit, not going outside,
(22:17):
but staying and helping us almost children, get everyone out.
John Wick, John Wick, As this is happening. I then
see another man decide this was his opportunity to raid
the snack and drink bar that was curly unmanned what no,
about fifteen feet from where I stood. I was not
(22:40):
alone in seeing this blatant active theft. Keano also saw it.
He left his self assigned post, walked over to the
snack bar, said to the man who had his arms full,
let me get that for you, and dropped a wad
of cash in the tip jar that was on the counter,
then gently pushed the thief toward the exit.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Holy shit, who the fuck was that person?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I mean, just a kind of a desperate, hungry person
who was like, ah, fuck it, I hope. And then
they actually broke the paragraph and just had to have
a single line that says a true legend because it
actually is true. He went and handled it in the
classiest way.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Ye he cut a punch that I right in the face.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, And it's easy to just be mad and be
like you're an asshole, but it's like, or just how
about you.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Can even make you look really fucking stupid.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And not to worry Lauren. But caall was fine and
got outside safely. Keanu Reeves also made it outside safely
after unknowingly being my night in Black Blazer. The show
went on after about fifteen minutes of the A listers
and the freshman college students mingling in the alleyway, and
the cause of the fire alarm was discovered. It was
a bag of popcorn left in a microwave too long
(23:53):
in one of the dorm kitchens upstairs. Come on, and
then here's another line that got broken down out of
the paragraph. Fucking teenagers stay sexy and believe in Keanu
reeves faith she her.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I mean, is there anything he can't do? Goddamn national treasure.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And also just like handling shit hand no one's he's
not running to the door getting himself out first.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Totally. I love him. And he's also like these eighteen
year olds can't. Yeah, save everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Someone's going to handle this.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, Okay, my last one's called. I sold my soul, lighthearted. Hi.
Recently my brother got married and my sisters and I
gave a speech celebrating him. Afterwards, I realized I missed
sharing a classic story about his role as the stereotypical
older brother. Coincidentally, that same week, you shared a story
about an older sister's mischievous lies, so I thought i'd
(24:50):
contribute my own tale. Nice growing up is the oldest
of three sisters. My brother often found himself the target
of our attempts to borrow his Palm pilot or watch
him play video games. It was the nineties, and we
viewed him as our very own inspector gadget with all
his cool tech. I'm sure we were the worst to
be around, so I'm getting some grace to him for
(25:12):
what he did. Anyways, when I was around six, he
was twelve. While I was pestering him, he offered me
five dollars, an enormous sum for a kid in my age.
The catch I had to sell him my soul. Oh naturally,
I jumped at the opportunity, thinking it was a small
price to pay to be rich. He even drew up
(25:32):
a contract which I could barely read, and had me
sign it. Not long after, I panicked, worried that I
would die without my soul, something that in hindsight seemed important.
I cried and begged him to return it, and he
said the only way to get it back was to
eat the contract, the entire sheet of favor. So there
(25:55):
I was munching on that piece of paper for the
rest of the day. Stressful as it was, I kept
the five dollars and regained my soul, so I felt
like a winner in the end. I'm now a clinical psychologist.
I promise it's not his fault, and I've been a
fan of your show since my first year in my
doctoral program. I truly appreciate your mental health shout outs,
(26:16):
advocacy and mindful growth. Thank you. For everything you do.
Stay sexy and keep that soul to yourself. Kind regards Bethany.
Oh my god, Oh my god, can see my brother
doing something like that as kids.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's such a great plan of like, if you're not
going to stop bugging me, then I'm going to figure
out something something you're gonna have to do all day long.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Keep you occupied all day long. It was worth it.
It was worth the five dollars. And I bet you
anything that two other sisters were responsible for telling her
why she was stupid to sell her soul, then making
her pan you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's like, it's like, do you do know you're going
to hell? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
You know that if you die right now? Like you're
going to hell.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's so hot there, Mom's not theare.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Tell us about your siblings? At my favorite murder at Gmail?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What if that older brother was Keanu Reeves and I
changed everything we thought about him?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh that's cute, though I know it's precious.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Good goodbye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Our editor is Aristotle Oscevedo.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
This episode was mixed by Leona Squalacci.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Email your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And follow the show on Instagram and Facebook at my
Favorite Murder and on Twitter at my Fave Murder. Goodbye,
Hosts And Creators
Georgia Hardstark
Karen Kilgariff
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