MFM Minisode 497

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tying his shoes kit kat gives people permission to take the break they've earned and make it a better break while the world tells us to keep going kit kat reminds us that the best time for a break is now break now have a kit kat goodbye your brain is basically working all day whether you want it to or not yeah it's thinking stuff like if this meeting could have been an email couldn't this email also be something slightly less annoying but for a lot of people prime thinking time gets eaten up by money stress instead running numbers stressing about bills all that noise that's exactly the gap clarna's built to close it's an everyday money partner a card cash back that builds on its own tools that manage the spending quietly taking the complicated financial thinking off people's plates so their minds free to wander get your money sorted with clarna so you can think about well anything else california resident loans made or arranged pursuant to a california finance law license nmls number one three five three one nine oh clarna balance account required to be eligible for cash back points limitations terms and conditions apply goodbye hello and welcome to my favorite murder the mini so do we read you your stories and you will go first okay i'm not gonna give this one away okay let's see love from new orleans 1700s cemetery pool lore please hey karen and georgia hello from new orleans louisiana i work as a ghost tour guide in the french quarter yes it's as dream jobby as it sounds and in 2024 minnesota someone wrote in about swimming in the pool where herb ballmaster strangled his victims and that's episode 67 this reminded me of a creepy piece of pool related historical lore here in new orleans new orleans new orleans new orleans yeah in the late 1700s new orleans closed its first cemetery st peter cemetery where the dead were actually buried underground as opposed to in the above ground tombs we tend to use today some of the bodies from that old cemetery were moved by their families to tombs in the new st louis cemetery number one that many bodies were forgotten or abandoned just paved over and left there in 2011 a guy who owned a condo in the french quarter decided to dig an in-ground swimming pool in his courtyard oh man his condo happened to be on one of the blocks where st peter cemetery had been and you guessed it the crew started hitting bodies as they dug 15 bodies in fact within a 20 square foot area a forensic team from lsu studied the unearthed remains and concluded that all of these people were either african-american or indigenous which may explain why they weren't moved to the new cemetery their families probably didn't have the connections or the money and that's why they were moved to the new cemetery and that's why they weren't moved to the new cemetery when a really cool thing happened the head archaeologist on the project decided to arrange a public reburial event for these people who were left behind wow there was a ceremony to honor the mixed heritage of black and native people in new orleans and afterwards there was a second line parade to st louis cemetery number one where the remains were reinterred on sanctified ground wow the pool was eventually completed and i happen to know the current owners of the condo have i swum in that pool ab's a fucking lootly many times everyone calls it the pool of souls anyway i don't know of any poltergeist style hauntings at the pool of souls and i'd like to think that's because all of those people have been so kindly laid to rest on sacred ground we try to do right by our dad in this city p.s karen i have got to tell you the sinkhole related pun my boyfriend recently made we were driving through a beautiful dysfunctional city with his potholes the size of meter right craters and we noticed a new place where the street had caved in my boyfriend goes oh shit a new sinkhole just dropped get it yeah just dropped i died stay sexy and love new orleans like the goddamn magical gem it is ariadne she her wow yeah i love new orleans i know and those stories and when you said that they gave those like the unnamed dead it's called a second line parade yeah so that's the the band walking and like that whole like it's the celebration of life type of thing yeah it's like a second line parade yeah so that's the band walking and like the vibe so cool it's amazing the holidays are right around the corner which means people are about to do a lot of shopping and if you have a small business they could be shopping with you get your business ready with shopify shopify is the platform for a record-breaking reliable holiday selling season at every stage they power millions of businesses worldwide from household names to those that are just getting started shopify's pre-built website themes make it easy to launch a beautiful professional looking store without ever touching a line of code and shopify's website themes make it easy to launch a beautiful professional looking 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to write couldn't have been a good idea couldn't have been a good idea couldn't have been a good idea i've been more specific with these people and they're like yep we got that finally it says i'm in my 30s now still close friends with the three girls i went to the party with and we still tell the story with pride to set the scene i was 16 me and my three best friends went to a party at a friend's house whose parents were out of town there was beer pong and lots of underage drinking one of my friends decided with the poor judgment of a teenager to walk to a gas station with a group of people and on the way there they got stopped by cops because a neighbor had called in a complaint about the party while the cop worked on some paperwork in his car my girl somehow had the wherewithal to call me and say dude get out of the house the cops are on their way there nice me and my two friends were hanging out in the basement and i said something to the effect of get the fuck up we gotta go right now we all ran up the stairs and just as someone was answering the front door and cops were coming into the house we opened the sliding glass door to the backyard and bolted out into the night we were in a neighborhood with a series of fenced yards and houses and we realized that if we tried to climb the fence at that moment we were going to get caught so instead the three of us climbed up on the top of an rv at the back of the yard the railings along the roof of the rv blocked the view of our flat bodies as cops swarmed the backyard shining their flashlights around looking for drunk teenagers nice they're all like sitting there once the coast was finally clear we leaped from the top of the rv over the back fence into someone's bushes one of my friends caught her thigh on a piece of the metal fence on the way down and ended up with an eight inch gouge scratched up bruised and bleeding but giddy about our narrow escape we made our way through backyards and called my friend's older sister to come pick us up i seriously don't know how i got so lucky to grow up with these three amazing badass women who always have each other's backs through all sorts of mischief and heartache but their friendship means the world to me female friendships truly are a magical gift in this fucked up world thank you for sharing yours with all of us much love of Erica. 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Stranded on Easter weekend in Italy, my friends and I were desperate for a ride to our condo. And what luck. Someone offered us one. And then. There's a catch. I'm not going to read it to you because I don't want to give it away. Okay. Everything shut down in Italy for Easter, so we had to leave our villa and entertain ourselves for the week. Little known fact about Italy, non-family members are basically kicked out to fend for themselves during the sacred holiday. My two friends and I decided to head to Capri, so we rented a tiny condo and took the train to Sorrento to explore. I would love to confirm that with other Italians. It's like, is that happening to everybody or is it just you guys? They just didn't. They were like, let's get this fucking started. Hey, this is real sacred. How about you leave town? While waiting for the bus that would take us over the mountain to our place, we decided to do a little shopping. As we shopped, we chatted with a shopkeeper and mentioned our plans to head to Capri. He casually dropped the bombshell that no buses were running all weekend because of Easter. We fact-checked this and it was true. We quickly realized we were stranded. Then the shopkeeper generously offered to drive us over the mountain once he got off work. My friends and I looked at each other and asked for some time to think about this offer. We were well aware. We were well aware. This is how a tragic study abroad murder started. Well, I mean, an older man was offering a ride to three young women out of the kindness of his heart. Who does that? And I'm sure our parents would have been very upset to know we were considering getting into a car with a stranger in a foreign country. But there were no buses for three days, so how else were we going to get to our place? So reluctantly, we agreed. We met him outside the shop and that's when we saw it. His blue sedan was covered in phallic etchings. Not one or two either, but the entire car looked like it had been the victim of a very determined but not so talented artist. Maybe one really pissed off ex? They weren't just drawn in the dust either. They were scratched right into the paint and were talking everywhere. All sizes, shapes, and angles. What? A fucking dick drive. A big dick car. My friends and I exchanged questioning glances, but instead of backing out and embarrassing him, we climbed right in. And? And? What's that thing you two say? Fuck politeness? Well, not that day, ladies. I ended up in the front seat because it had been decided that I was the most badass of the group and would be expected to protect everyone if necessary. No pressure. As I buckled my seatbelt, and then it says safety first, I glanced up and saw even more questionable carvings. This time carved right into his leather dashboard. It had to be an ex, like an angry ex who just carved. I mean, but it's just, you're carving dirty pictures? What were the dashboard carvings? Thicks. It was all dicks. Oh, more dicks. This is called, are those wieners etched on his car? We all made small talk while I silently calculated just how many phallic impressions it would take for this situation to become a red flag. I didn't dare ask about them because what if it set him off? But also, why wasn't he saying anything about them? They were not subtle. We got to the top of the mountain. He pulled over to show us a, quote, gorgeous photo op overlooking the Sorrento Valley. At that point, I was like, what? And I was convinced this was it. This was where we were going to get thrown off a cliff and our parents were going to be so disappointed in us. But no, he simply snapped our picture and we got back in the car. We made it to our condo without incident. He even helped us get checked in, unloaded our bags and drove off. What a relief. Later, I told my uncle this story and he explained that sometimes people are just nice and that you must trust them. We murderinos know that's not always true, but it was true this time. Stay sexy and when in Italy, always put the most badass friend. And in the front seat, Kimberly. P.S. We never asked about the questionable carvings and he never mentioned them. An hour and a half of driving with curious doodles everywhere and not a single word about them. That's the weirdest fucking part, right? Well, because clearly if like if it was an ex or some revenge thing, that's one thing. But there's a chance he could have just wanted to do it and did it himself. Yeah. My husband hates this part of the story. Quote, why didn't you ask about them? Smiley face. You know, there's I remember. We were going to a little town, a little mountain town, and there was a bar that was famous for being a it was like a phallic bar. And there was all kinds of that everywhere. And that's the reason you went and had a drink because it was like the dick bar. That's a choice. Yeah. I mean, who knows? Yeah. OK, well, the subject line of this email is trapped in a Chuck E. Cheese machine. Why, yes, I was. Oh, no. OK. Similar, not the same. In your most recent episode, there's no beginning. It just we go right into talking about why somebody would be writing this in. You specifically asked for stories about being trapped in a machine at Chuck E. Cheese. Sure. That makes sense. And I just happen to have a story for that weirdly specific ask. I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the 80s. And Chuck E. Cheese was where you went for birthday parties, playdates and just general merriment. This specific Chuck E. Cheese was pretty elaborate. I remember a really big ball pit next to a big bouncy area, completely surrounded by an overhanging series of fort like structures. Of course, they all had the usual games that would spit out tickets that you could then use for prizes as well. I am still to this day pretty darn good at skeeball. Same. I love it. When I read that line, I was just like, George is going to have something to say about this. My. But the real. Have you ever seen the viral video of the little boy that just literally nails that top high number every time? Oh, my God. So crazy. But the real treasure was the, quote, cheese factory. This was a glassed in separate area that was sort of like. Do you remember this? It sounds familiar. You started out just walking through, but it got progressively smaller, narrower and darker as you went to the point that it was just a small, narrow square tunnel wrapped in what I can only assume was the most disgusting carpet in the world. You could only continue through by crawling on your hands and knees. And we were small children. So it had to be a very small tunnel. My sister and I never once got to the end of wherever that tunnel went because it just got so dark and so small. It was so small that you could barely move. We tried so many times. I'm getting like I'm getting claustrophobic. This is sweating. This is a nightmare I have where I'm like walking down a hall, but suddenly the hall is small around me. You know, when you see those like those like drawings of people who go into caves and can't come out again. I just can't. I can't. They're sending children in. Yeah. Now they're now they're sending children. And now this is what they're doing. Yeah. OK, so we never ended up where we started and we never once were successively able to get out of it. We never went out of the cheese factory. The exit was a slide that would take you back outside the glassed in enclosure. We could always see that slide, but we could never figure out how to get there. We always ended up banging on the glass, sobbing, and our parents had to find someone to rescue. I've done that. Rescue a slide. And then it says every period, single period time. I want to go up there. You cry every time. I'm not coming to get you this time. That last tunnel freaks you out. No, we know how to. We're doing it together. Why they continue to let us go. Go back in or why we wanted to is beyond me. We weren't necessarily trapped in a machine at Chuck E. Cheese per se, but we sure spent a lot of time trapped in the cheese factory there. And it haunts me to this day. I wish I knew what it was at the end of that gross carpeted tunnel and how to really get out. Kate. Do we have a photo or anything? No, we got nothing. We got we got the photos in our mind of that creepy little dark carpeted tunnel. I can like it's like the industrial carpet probably. Right. Yes, it's. It's dark maroon, maybe black a little bit and then bright red or bright orange. Right. Like a combination where you're like, why these colors? Like covers all the stain, wet stains. 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That's article.com slash murder for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. Goodbye. Well, here's a nice one. My last. Next one. Karen's voice is literally healing. What? Oh, no. And then it just goes, Karen et al. Hurtful, and you're trying to cause problems when you started reading it like that. Truly, but I'm reading it. Yeah. Long-time listener. Anyway, I must inform you that you have quite a grip on this tinnitus suffering, hard-of-hearing listener. Here's the deal. For as long as I can remember, I slept with a TV on and would tell my boomer parents that the quiet is too loud. Oh. To have her TV on. Yeah. I haven't used my fucking. I keep meaning to use it. That means I don't need them, right? If I haven't used them. Well, maybe. Did Italy heal your eyeballs? Oh, my God. Is my voice right now healing your vision? I hear everything now. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. Too loud. Oh, they don't work. They just made me real stupid. Too loud when they complained about the TV being on. You know that authority figure who speaks sternly and quietly when he's mad? That's my dad. And when I responded with, huh, more than my low-speaking father appreciated, I would get in some major trouble for, quote, not paying attention. Growing up, I was always, quote, too loud and would get in trouble for, quote, not listening. But I didn't know how to change it and was always super embarrassed. Teachers absolutely hated it. But did my parents ever think any of these complaints were cause enough to take me to get a hearing test? For fuck's sake. Of course not. They're boomers. And I, quote, just wasn't paying. I wasn't paying attention and needed to be quieter. Yeah. Man, I hear you. Which is the thing children cannot do. Right. Cannot do. It's not part of their, the thing they, you know. Yeah. At the age of 31, I suffered an extreme double ear infection that resulted in multiple CT scans to watch out for meningitis. The infection was very intense and even resulted in short-term memory loss. Oh, shit, yeah. That's fucked up. Yeah, that's exciting. I thankfully walked away with a physically trauma-free brain, but the ringing, oh my God, the ringing was so loud. Do you have tinnitus? I don't. Vince has it. It sounds terrible. I sincerely thought I was going to go crazy. No sound was present enough to drown it out. I visited an ENT and he suggested that I, quote, learn coping mechanisms to alleviate the condition. Then took only a quick peek in my ears. I said, fuck these local doctors and delegated this job to someone outside my small corner of southwest Michigan. And then it says, go Lions, Vince. Yeah. This new doctor did a thorough exam and a hearing test and all caps. It turns out I was born a little bit deaf and can't register low tones. 31 is what she found out. God damn it. You bet the first thing I did on the drive home was call my dad and demand an apology for all those years of hounding. Did I receive one? He only giggled. The doctor referred me to get hearing aids that amplify lower tones and provide a constant little shh sound in the background, which completely dissolves the ringing. God. The aids also connect to my phone and I can listen to my favorite podcast without anyone knowing. Wink. You're just in a meeting and you're just like, yeah. Doing a lot of nodding at the wrong time. I cannot sleep without the hearing aids. And this is where Miss Kilgariff comes into play. Do You Need a Ride and MFM have been my, quote, falling asleep podcast for years before my ENT appointments and have continued to be in the years after. There's something about Karen's voice that hits the right note to drown out the nighttime ringing. And lulls me right to sleep. I don't think that's true. You said that. Don't worry about my mental health. I stack my cue with podcasts like Sleepy History and Lights Out Library. I listen to Lights Out Library. You do? Yes, I do. Holy shit. It fucking works. I will never listen. I need it. Yeah. For when I'm asleep, I'll be totally fine. All this to say, hearing aids are just glasses for your ears. No one should be ashamed to get them because, quote, they're too young. I've heard so much of this since getting them. Insurance did not take promo code murder to help cover the cost of the hearing aids. And the third one is Karen's voice is literally healing. Stay sexy. You look so mad about this. It's sweet. It's embarrassing. Sorry. Stay sexy and pay attention. Kay, she, her. Kay, I'm honored and goddamn I'm sorry that you, like, tinnitus and that ringing and that idea that you just had to deal with that. At 30 and they're like, well. Get used to it. Just as someone who, like, has seizures, when you have a thing that's wrong with just inside your head and, like, it's not like someone can be like, you're poor, broken arm. Yeah, we took a blood test and, yeah. Yeah, it's just, that's so frustrating. And so, like, and it's also funny because I wonder if having a dad who is technically also kind of deaf or at least very hard of hearing. Right. Because. You did. Yeah. Oh, right, because of the fucking firehouse. The firehouse and the alarms made all of those guys, that generation of firemen. And completely deaf. Right. The alarms on the truck. Yeah, in that. When they'd all go off when they'd be asleep. Yeah. That was, like, beyond not good for your ears. So, yeah. So, we have to modulate our voice where we're yelling at my dad, but in the lowest register possible. Jesus. So, I think I've always had a, I've always, and also the first time I saw Janine Garofalo do stand-up comedy, I was like, I want to do, have a deep voice when I do stand-up comedy. Because I kind of was like, I'm here like this. And I was like. Now I'm going to talk as low as I can. And now people fall asleep to that, thanks to Janine Garofalo. The dulcet tones, thanks to my deaf father and Janine Garofalo, this is the product you get. Love it. Do you have one more? Yes. Okay, good. Oh, yeah, this is great. The subject line of this email. Thank you. What was her name again? Kay. Just Kay. Oh. What if I wrote it about myself? You listen to her. Do you know whose voice I like best? I listen to her. Do you need a ride in my van? That's all I listen to. And lights out library. Yeah. Okay. The subject line of this email is inappropriate and probably illegal kid jobs. Great. Ahoy, ahoy. Here is my story of inappropriate kid jobs I gave myself. I also, for the record, babysat five children under the age of eight, including an infant when I was 10. Gen X was no joke. In third grade, I was living with my great-grandparents, largely unsupervised, completely undiagnosed ADHD, fiercely overachieving, and just a deeply weird kid. Aw. And then in parentheses, still weird, no regrets. That's right. Hell, yeah. That's, please be. Either I was going to end up in federal prison or running my own company. Same. Hi. Oh, my. Friend. Literally same. We're all looking in the mirror at each other. We're all Spider-Man pointing at each other. But luckily, because I am an introverted and like my space, I chose the latter. My entrepreneurial journey began at a friend's house when I hit the jackpot. I found the dirtiest, most scandalous publication my young eyes had ever beheld, a Fredericks of Hollywood catalog. I was obsessed with that as a kid. It was the dirtiest thing. You know what I wanted? The full-body, like, fishnet lace suit. Like, it went to your ankles and to your, what are these, wrists. It was enough to hear. But it was like see-through in lace. Yeah. And I was like, that's it. Like, that's, when I'm an adult, that's going to be the sexiest thing that ever happened to me. I feel like in that catalog, they were drawings, right? Wasn't it like really cool cartoon women? I don't remember that at all. Oh, okay. Maybe like in when I, I was like probably in the 90s when I was looking at it, early 90s. Oh, I was looking at it in the 1800s. Okay. Yeah. Okay. It says, naturally, they saw this Fredericks of Hollywood catalog at their friend's house. And so they say, naturally, I took it with zero remorse. I saw an underserved child. I saw a demographic of neighborhood boys. And I instantly launched a tiered subscription service. Oh, my God. This is fucking genius. So the first tier of the subscription service is bare essentials, and it's 25 cents. And it's a standard glance at bras and underwear. Then the second tier is cheeky business, which is 50 cents. What are you the most brilliant kid in the world is happening? And cheeky business is high cleavage or a thong. Wow. Now looking back, did I lead some young boys astray? Maybe. But like any good CEO, I didn't care. And more importantly, I knew I couldn't rely on a single revenue stream. channeled my illicit money into a second venture, establishing a schoolyard candy cartel. This is fucking major. I'd buy a pack of now and laters for a quarter and flip the individual squares for 25 cents each. Wow. Come on. I was basically the Pablo Escobar of cavities. The lingerie division was eventually shut down when a teacher. That's so good. That's so smart. The lingerie division was eventually shut down when a teacher noticed a suspicious queue of boys forming around me. My poor father had to sit in the principal's office, not the first or last time, by the way, and listen to a tale of his wayward daughter's adult undergarment subscription ring. I mean, he had to be a little proud. It had to be. I got grounded, obviously. They took away my Intellivision. Do you remember Intellivision? No. What is that? It was kind of like early Atari. Oh, my God. Which I found deeply unfair. It's not my fault I knew my audience. However, the candy operation completely survived the crackdown. Ran that operation straight through sixth grade until I was finally busted. But I had bought an amazing Casio keyboard. Wow. Totally worth it. Unsurprisingly, I've now been a legitimate, successful, and happily self-employed business owner for 22 years. The hustle started early, and I can't recommend it enough. Stay sexy and be your own boss. And it's just the initials PCP. That is so smart because it's the tiered part that makes me go, that's the smart. I would never think of that. Yep. The tiered part is brilliant. Yeah. You could have this. Yeah. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Find it. Steal another quarter out of your dad's bowl on his dresser, and you can see some cheeks. Amazing. Tell us how you started. You became the person you are today by doing fucked up things as a child. Yep. At My Favorite Murder at Gmail. Get it off your chest on this podcast. We love it. 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