MFM Minisode 252

[0] This is exactly right.

[1] Welcome to my favorite murder.

[2] The mini -sowed.

[3] That's right.

[4] We rejew your stuff.

[5] Also, we're videoing it for the fan cult.

[6] That's right.

[7] We have makeup on.

[8] Bonuses.

[9] Do you want to see us wearing makeup and me, the same outfit I've worn every day for five years in Georgia, a brand new invention dress?

[10] Then sign up for the fan cult.

[11] One of the many things you get to have.

[12] Can you see?

[13] I have a little shiner.

[14] Why did Vince hit you right in the fed?

[15] I know.

[16] It's so.

[17] Okay.

[18] Moses got his claw stuck under my eye.

[19] No. And it left a bruise.

[20] I swear it was immense.

[21] You can see there's a little scratch too to prove it.

[22] Jesus.

[23] Are you okay?

[24] It was the scariest thing.

[25] I had, I had this dress on and I had this cute vintage brooch that I now know is haunted because he got so scared of it.

[26] He fucking flew in the air.

[27] Got his claw stuck in my face.

[28] I had to like cry him out of it.

[29] And I, it was, it's, I have a fucking Shiner.

[30] That's crazy.

[31] I mean, I can see it and this is Zoom, which I don't have a ton of makeup on.

[32] Not great.

[33] Yeah, really nice makeup, by the way.

[34] Thank you.

[35] Was your brooch shaped like a cucumber?

[36] No, I do cats hate cucumbers.

[37] Yeah, I mean, you see those videos?

[38] Oh, they lose their minds.

[39] Yeah, they go straight up in the air.

[40] Yeah, I had a cucumber brooch on.

[41] What is, what was the brooch?

[42] It's just a beautiful, old, tiny, you know, like jeweled thing like I like to wear and clearly it's haunted because he yeah there's so scared of it and he's not like that spirits spirits that's the crazy of whoever I got it from an estate sale from this clearly haunting it I thought you said of liver and then I was like what oh liver what liver feast from fancy feast that's right do you know that my sister this is how long ago we went to grammar school my sister in kindergarten brought our cat Taffy to the pet parade at school and of course the second Taffy Taffy with no nothing but her collar on like no way to control a cat saw a dog and scratched my sister directly under her eye directly like she could have half an inch away from losing her eye she had that scar for a long time it took a while to go away but it was just like thinking we've talked about this I know Yeah.

[43] But I just, it's mind -blowing to be like, oh, kindergartners, five years old, bring all your pets to school.

[44] Totally.

[45] That you're now responsible for whatever happens.

[46] Are they going to bite another kid?

[47] Don't matter.

[48] This was not when parents went to school and stood behind their children all day long, which is how they do it now.

[49] But this is also when like you didn't sue if your dog bit, if a dog bit a kid, it was like, well, the kid shouldn't have been near.

[50] Vince had a dog.

[51] And he's apologetic for this name now, but it was named Christopher Columbus.

[52] And.

[53] this little girl was walking through the yard and the dog was out there and she put her face up to the dog and the dog like bit the end of her nose and it was like well you shouldn't have put your face and the dog's it was no like that dog is aggressive to children no well and also back then it would be like unless the child herself can argue right why she would have some kind of a case right or anything that would be the only exchange it's just like what the adult yells at you as you run away crying well you shouldn't be bleeding so much.

[54] Yeah.

[55] Don't bleed for attention, please.

[56] I think I do have a story of old -timey things.

[57] Okay.

[58] Let's do hometowns.

[59] Want to?

[60] You don't want to just chit -chat?

[61] I'd love to just chit -chat.

[62] But you're right.

[63] We should get down to biz.

[64] I'm a little lonely.

[65] Yeah.

[66] That's what animals, pets are for and getting your fucking face scratch.

[67] Okay.

[68] Do you want to go first?

[69] You want me to go first.

[70] You can go first.

[71] Okay.

[72] This is called, in 1956, my dad witnessed a murder.

[73] Oh, God.

[74] friends.

[75] To answer your call for hometown stories, I wanted to share one of my dads.

[76] When I told him, I wanted to send this story in, he was really nervous.

[77] You'll see why.

[78] But I assured him no one listened to this podcast, so it would be fine.

[79] Lie to your parents.

[80] I would he know.

[81] Right.

[82] Right.

[83] My dad is now almost 80 and grew up in Buffalo, New York, in the section of the city that was home to a massive population of Italian immigrants.

[84] My family being one of them.

[85] He describes it as being lower middle class neighborhoods, It's just families trying to make a better life for themselves in America and doing their best.

[86] My grandparents owned a small grocery store, which was subject to local mafia laws.

[87] Oh.

[88] Like everyone in the neighborhood, the local mafioso would come to my grandparents for a weekly money collection in exchange for what, I don't know.

[89] Protection.

[90] Watch the sopranos.

[91] I mean, protection.

[92] As such, my dad and everyone in the neighborhood were familiar with these men and justifiably afraid of them.

[93] When my dad was around 14, so 1956 -ish, he was out around 1 am.

[94] smoking a cigarette with a buddy to end their night before heading to their respective homes.

[95] While they were chatting, they hear grunting and yelling and turn to see a man getting stabbed repeatedly under a street lamp.

[96] Oh, no. I know.

[97] As they're watching in horror, the murderer turns to my dad and his friend and says, Butch, Jimmy, go home.

[98] That's right.

[99] Mid -murder, the man calls my dad by his.

[100] name my dad says they knew immediately that the man was local mafia what why we name and names on here well it's a long time ago and he's dead bleep my dad and his friend each ran home my dad said he ran into his parents room which he makes a point to say he was never allowed in ever to wake up his dad that's how serious it was freaking out he tells my grandfather that he just saw stab a man to death.

[101] My grandfather reached his hand from under the bed covers, grab my dad's lips, and squeezed them shut.

[102] He then let go, turned over, and went back to sleep.

[103] That's right.

[104] Loose lips, sinks, ships, and families.

[105] The next day, my dad asked his friend if he told his parents and what they said.

[106] His friend said when he told his father he saw kill a man. His father said, No, you didn't.

[107] No, you didn't.

[108] George Jimmy?

[109] No, you didn't.

[110] Yeah, I mean, this is 1956.

[111] This is horrible.

[112] Apparently, that was the one and only time my dad and his friend ever spoke about the incident to each other or anyone else.

[113] Years later, my dad was a Marine serving in Naples, Italy.

[114] He received a letter from his mother that only contained a news clipping.

[115] The headline read that had been murdered in prison by another inmate.

[116] My dad said he almost cried tears.

[117] He was so relieved.

[118] I'm hoping he was in prison for the murder he committed that they saw, but who knows?

[119] Stay sexy and don't get murdered, especially you too, because I really love the pod.

[120] All the best.

[121] See.

[122] God, there was a lot of murder in that email.

[123] Yeah, it's what we asked for.

[124] And I feel like, once an episode, we got to have something.

[125] Dang.

[126] I mean, the trauma of being a child, witnessing something that horrifying.

[127] Yeah.

[128] And then everybody being zip the lip.

[129] Yeah.

[130] It's like go against what you, the morals that you learn, like you're, that's not supposed to happen.

[131] And it's like, well, shut up about it.

[132] Well, and also, you know, if you live in a, where the mafia rules, there is no option.

[133] No. There is no. It's just like a Bronx tale.

[134] It's just like a Bronx tale.

[135] Beautiful movie.

[136] Beautiful movie.

[137] Love that movie.

[138] Me too.

[139] The subject line of this email is licking your finger very delicately.

[140] and Karen's now a secretary from the 1950s.

[141] I'm playing a character for that fan call.

[142] Oh, yeah, for the video.

[143] Yeah.

[144] If you want to see how that looked, watch the fan call video.

[145] Watch it was amazing.

[146] It was, I drew from all of my college theater classes.

[147] You mean theater.

[148] I mean theater.

[149] Okay, the subject line is guess who's coming to dinner a serial killer.

[150] Oh, fuck.

[151] Karen, Georgia, an MDM fam.

[152] What's to M?

[153] MDM fam.

[154] Got the wrong letters in there?

[155] Oh, no. MDM.

[156] MDM might be a drug the kids do these days.

[157] That's us.

[158] I hear it exactly right, network.

[159] We force people to take drugs.

[160] The old MDM fan.

[161] When I was around seven, my older sisters and I stayed with our grandma in a suburb of Albuquerque while my mom was constantly out of town working.

[162] Well, my grandma was a bit naive to the ways of teens and my sisters took full advantage.

[163] This included, but wasn't limited to, sneaking pot seeds into her garden and her growing beautiful, huge pot plants, only to have her burn them when she found out what they were.

[164] Oh, my God.

[165] As such, we constantly had people in and out of the house doing typical early 80s drinking and smoking.

[166] And as big sisters do, they would have me put on early S &L skits for them and their friends, Rosanna, Rosanna, Danna, being their fave.

[167] So back to the nefarious.

[168] part.

[169] One day my sister brought home a stray guy, sunny, to hang out.

[170] No one blinked an eye except for me. His creepy Coke bottle glasses and his older age set my inner Charlie's Angel's radar off and I avoided him.

[171] He ended up staying a few nights at our house, eating with us, watching TV, sleeping, day -to -day stuff until one morning after a few days he was gone to my relief.

[172] Fast forward a week later and I walked in on my middle sister on the phone, My mom, grandma, an oldest sister, huddled around her.

[173] She was on the phone talking to the police about Sunny.

[174] Turns out he had murdered his wife with a hammer, put her in a trash bag, and tried to burn her body.

[175] He then befriended my sister at some suburb party.

[176] Wait, after he befriended?

[177] He killed the wife before.

[178] He came and stayed with a bunch of women.

[179] He then befriended my sister at some suburb party.

[180] and unbeknownst to her, came to our house to lay low, unintentionally, basically.

[181] Holy shit.

[182] And then it says, this is where my love of true crime began and the story ends.

[183] Or does it?

[184] I found out Sunny had previously been Marion Albert Pruitt, who in 1979 was given $800 a new name, Charles Sonny Pearson, and placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program after testifying about a murder in Atlanta.

[185] When he was caught a few months after hiding out at our house, he admitted to killing four other people, but denied killing his wife, Pamela Sue Barker, aka Michelle Lynn Pearson, because she had also been in witness protection.

[186] Eventually, he was executed by lethal injection in Arkansas in 1999.

[187] So long story short, not only did we have a slumber party with a killer, we had a witness protected serial killer casually living with us.

[188] Holy fuck.

[189] Well, stay sexy and only perform SNL skits for family.

[190] No name.

[191] God.

[192] I mean, this is a murder up chock full of murder.

[193] MDM all the way, baby.

[194] MDM, what podcast is that?

[195] Because that's like, it's multi -level marketing, but for true crime where you have to have at least three crimes within email.

[196] Wow.

[197] That's right.

[198] That is hardcore.

[199] It's intense.

[200] More than a brush.

[201] Yeah.

[202] All right.

[203] This is called, and this one just gives me chills.

[204] the one where the garage door almost killed me. Oh, yeah, one of these.

[205] Hi, All, I was a child.

[206] It was the 80s.

[207] I could stop here for the story's sake.

[208] I will continue.

[209] I was five.

[210] My sister was eight and my mom entrusted us to a babysitter who half cared about watching us and mostly cared about watching TV.

[211] We were playing outside and after a while of running around and playing silly games, we decided to play Dodge.

[212] Dodgeball, you ask?

[213] No. We started to play Dodge the Garage Door.

[214] My sister would press the garage door button.

[215] She's eight, the sister, as she was the only one tall enough to do so.

[216] And we would run toward the closing door and slide underneath to the outside.

[217] I remember playing this at a friend's house.

[218] We lived in a condo, so we only had a, what are those called?

[219] What the ones that pull down?

[220] No, no, no. We had the parking.

[221] Oh, like an overhang.

[222] We didn't have a garage.

[223] So I definitely played this at Friends houses.

[224] And I feel like living in a condo complex probably saved my brother's life from doing this.

[225] For sure.

[226] You know.

[227] Carport.

[228] Carport.

[229] I had to remember it.

[230] You gave me a gift.

[231] We would then run inside the front door, go around to do it all over again.

[232] The exhilaration we felt as we Indiana Jonesed our way under the door was impalpable.

[233] It's palpable.

[234] It's not in.

[235] It's not in.

[236] means you, you can feel it.

[237] Palpable.

[238] I knew that.

[239] Yeah.

[240] The closer to the ground it got, the more accomplished we felt.

[241] My sister hit the button and we waited for the gap to become challenging enough for our superior skills before we made a break for it.

[242] Fuck.

[243] This is how it goes.

[244] Children's games, they start innocent enough.

[245] They start kind of easy, but then they have to progress.

[246] Right.

[247] You have to get hurt at the end.

[248] Like, children's games have to end in crying.

[249] Yes, there has to.

[250] Because it's daring and risk and like you're being a baby.

[251] You don't do it.

[252] Right.

[253] You know.

[254] My sister made it through.

[255] I did not.

[256] I don't.

[257] This is terrifying.

[258] I don't remember if I slipped or if it was because my little feet were just not fast enough.

[259] But when I was halfway through, I became lodged under the door.

[260] I screamed for help as it continued to close on me until I could not yell anymore because of the pressure.

[261] I could not take a deep breath to call for anyone and then I couldn't breathe at all.

[262] I felt the door on my back bearing down.

[263] Not being able to breathe when you are desperately trying to do so is terrifying.

[264] And I feel like it's cases like this, you can't have a garage door that just doesn't have a sensor anymore.

[265] Yeah, I'm sure that's why.

[266] Right.

[267] Little kids fucking around Indiana Jones style.

[268] In the 70s and 80s.

[269] Yeah.

[270] And maybe the 90s.

[271] My sister was watching outside in horror.

[272] Just when I started to think, I'm really in trouble here.

[273] I felt the pressure lift.

[274] I wiggled my way out and turned around to see my babysitter standing in the doorway from the house to the garage, mouth open and eyes wide.

[275] girl you would have been fucked babysitter or not again babysitter was sitting in front of like guiding light and then got just got a bad feeling and was like it's been too long it's quiet and weird yeah what was that scream she must have heard my screams before they were muffled by almost being squeezed to death and during a commercial break came and press the button to lift the garage door off of me oh my god that's hilarious I now shut her to think what could have happened if she did not hear me. Fast forward to today, my husband was installing our own garage door and asked if we needed the sensors that stopped the door from closing when something is in the way.

[276] Yes, yes, we do.

[277] Yes, we do.

[278] And there's no sign off and no name.

[279] Oh, my God.

[280] I know.

[281] I know.

[282] That's from our new series, they lived.

[283] Hold on one second.

[284] Let me blow my nose on my dress.

[285] The eight -year -old that lived.

[286] And there she is, ladies and gentlemen.

[287] There she is.

[288] The queen of the cocktail party.

[289] The classy lady we all know in the vintage dress with probably snod on it.

[290] We're going to need to send you a box of Kleenex.

[291] There's one right over there in the other room.

[292] I just don't want to get up.

[293] I got Kleenex all over.

[294] Why didn't I put one in here?

[295] Why don't I put one where I record and need a Kleenex every fucking week?

[296] Every time.

[297] Every time.

[298] Leave that all right, Stephen.

[299] I'm not ashamed of myself.

[300] Yeah, because you're not ashamed and you know what good content is.

[301] That's right.

[302] After six fucking years, Here we go.

[303] This is, the subject line of this is badass warrior queen.

[304] And it just starts, Hi, team.

[305] Y 'all are so great, strong work.

[306] And then I'm hard emoting.

[307] Oh, that's like, thank you, teacher.

[308] Strong work is really probably the best compliment you can get.

[309] Absolutely.

[310] I think.

[311] I moved from my hometown, Sitka, Alaska, to Notches, Mississippi in 2019, where my husband and I adopted two wonderful and crazy dogs, Goose and Maverick.

[312] I take my pups on a walk around my neighborhood every day, and we typically take the same route.

[313] In June, I got to visit home for a couple weeks for the first time in two years, thanks COVID, and had an absolutely magical time seeing my family and friends.

[314] When we got back to Natchez, I resumed, there's no way I'm pronouncing that correctly.

[315] We'll hear from everyone.

[316] Okay, good.

[317] Natchez hive rise up.

[318] When we got back to Natchez, I resumed my normal routine and took Goose and Mav on a walk.

[319] There's a very nice man I always say hi to when I walked by his house.

[320] And this time when he saw me, he had the most relieved look on his face and said, thank God.

[321] Turns out, while I was in Sitka, a woman was attacked while jogging on the same route me and my dogs take.

[322] A man got out of his truck and asked her for directions.

[323] When she stopped to help him, he pulled a gun on her and told her, if you run or scream, I'm going to kill you.

[324] He grabbed her and dragged her to his truck and started to hit her in the head with his pistol, causing six deep lacerations on the back of her head.

[325] The woman saw duct tape and zip ties in the truck, and this badass warrior queen fought this monster off.

[326] She kicked, punched, and bit her way free.

[327] They caught the guy.

[328] He returned to visit the crime scene the next day, and they arrested him.

[329] Holy fuck.

[330] The man I greet on my walks thought I was the woman who was attacked because he hadn't seen me walking in a couple of weeks while I was in Sitka.

[331] Oh, my God.

[332] He told me he was so relieved to see me, which is just so nice to know that sometimes even strangers care about you.

[333] Stop, I'm crying.

[334] I know.

[335] I often think about that woman and how strong and incredible she is.

[336] I can't imagine how terrifying that would be and that she was able to use that fear to fight her way free.

[337] If I ever find myself in a situation like that, I hope I can harness the same warrior energy.

[338] I can't be sure I wouldn't just freeze up in terror, but I know that this podcast helps make me feel more prepared to handle bad situations like a badass oh stay sexy and always remember it's okay to tell someone to fuck off if they ask you for direction teal she her i feel like i'm gonna cry a little bit i know that that one got me yeah well because teal's actually shouting out a survivor which we always love and is the coolest but also here's what i really like because yes it's funny to to end it that way But what I think is really beautiful is this woman is part of her community and her neighborhood.

[339] And so she's not saying fear every person around you, fear of your man. Don't say hello to whatever.

[340] She knows that man who kept an eye out for her.

[341] Somebody was keeping it out for her.

[342] It's good to make those connections in your community.

[343] But if some person giving you bad vibes is just driving by wants you to come over to their truck.

[344] You can tell them to fuck right off.

[345] You can absolutely tell them to fuck off.

[346] And you bite and scratch and you fight fucking dirty.

[347] and you do what you got to do to not get in that car because that's that's yes you know I think maybe because I've been walking cookie ever since I got an adorable puppy who wants to meet every single person and now people know us in my neighborhood and I know who we wave at each and it just feels really it's like my first place my first real neighborhood where I own a home and it's yeah it just kind of there's like a couple people that we're really good acquaintances with I should say which is the best way neighbors wise that's the best way but also it's good that's the power of community.

[348] It's like you should be saying hi to people and have people know you.

[349] And that's like...

[350] We're the ones in the garage drinking beer all the time.

[351] She's the one pinned under the garage door drunk with a beer can in her hand.

[352] What's up?

[353] I got a paps.

[354] I'm fine.

[355] What's up?

[356] We're playing the game.

[357] Indiana Jones.

[358] Karen, you know I'm all about vintage shopping.

[359] Absolutely.

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[379] Goodbye.

[380] here's my last one it's called snake turned lizard dear Karen georgia Stephen and associates hope you are all doing well the following story is one that my mother has sworn my entire family to secrecy however i believe you will appreciate it and well that takes priority sorry mom sorry mom oh sorry mom my youngest brother has always loved snakes unlike myself who has always had what my family considers to be quote an overly dramatic fear of them.

[381] There's no such thing as being overly dramatic with fucking fear of snakes.

[382] I'm sorry.

[383] Aspins.

[384] Fucking families, man. Nothing like your family to just minimize those feelings.

[385] Come on.

[386] Go to therapy.

[387] After years of begging and much to my chagrin, my parents agreed to let him get a small snake.

[388] After meticulously going through the pros and cons of each snake at the pet store, he proudly chose a small corn snake, which he named Griffin.

[389] With me hiding downstairs, my parents and youngest brother brought Griffin home and helped settle him into his new living arrangements in my brother's room.

[390] About five hours later, my brother came running downstairs, upset, saying, Griffin is gone.

[391] Just the same day, like, immediate results.

[392] Now, just some backstory, the same brother had done the exact same thing once before with his fish.

[393] He had been convinced that he had seen the fish, jumped out of the tank, and begin flopping down our upstairs.

[394] hallway.

[395] We searched for hours hoping to find the fish before its dead odor and stank up our house before my brother realized it had just been hiding under some plants in the tank.

[396] So keep imagine this whole fucking adventure that this fish never had.

[397] Pretty sure I saw the fish leave.

[398] No, you didn't, Bobby.

[399] Have a great imagination.

[400] Shut the fuck up.

[401] So now with this boy cried wolf situation, you can understand why none of us jumped up right away to help.

[402] However, he kept persisting until my mother finally gave in and went upstairs to see what was going on.

[403] She came immediately back down and said, he's not kidding, it's really gone.

[404] What?

[405] What ensued was a frantic search and rescue mission around the entire house.

[406] Like Karen and Nick Terry's beautifully illustrated video of the snake sinkhole story, I sealed myself in my room and, quote, hated everything.

[407] Nice callback.

[408] We never found it and have no idea where it went.

[409] What?

[410] When I say that I did not sleep well for weeks after this, I am not exaggerating.

[411] My mom made us all promise never to tell this story to a soul because she was afraid that none of our friends and family would step foot in our house again, which I'm like, great.

[412] I'm telling people that there's a snake loose in my fucking house and no one will come over again.

[413] Soon after the great escape, my parents got my brother a lizard.

[414] This was partially due to the fact he was very upset, but mainly to cover up the fact that people knew of the new pet.

[415] Griffin and with it suddenly gone, there would be questions.

[416] Oh, yeah.

[417] My parents forced him to name the lizard Griffin.

[418] So when it came up in conversation, there was continuity.

[419] What?

[420] You just, I feel like you just make up as you go along being a parent.

[421] You know what I mean?

[422] Entirely.

[423] And also what those parents were worried about.

[424] It's so hilarious.

[425] It's like, we can't have the neighbors thinking that there's a loose snake, which is like I probably eight out of 10 children that get pets, like those kinds of pets disappear within the house at some point or die immediately.

[426] Yeah, we need these stories, you guys.

[427] Please.

[428] This all happened about 10 years ago into this day.

[429] No one outside of my household has any knowledge of it.

[430] But don't worry, no one listens to this podcast.

[431] We're going wide with this.

[432] I figured the statute of limitations was overdue here and wanted to hopefully bring a smile to your lovely faces.

[433] Stay sexy and try not to lose your snake.

[434] Yeah.

[435] Yeah, good advice.

[436] Send us your stories that are not allowed to be told, you guys.

[437] We will not, we will keep it in this little MDM family.

[438] No one will fucking know but us.

[439] Only the MDMers.

[440] This is a safe space to tell on your family.

[441] I also feel like M got what they call phobia immersion therapy.

[442] Right.

[443] With this snake just like, could be anywhere.

[444] Yep.

[445] Good night.

[446] Night, night.

[447] Go to bed.

[448] You're, you live in the.

[449] basement okay here's my last one subject line i'm an only read half of it embarrassing checks hi mfm fam they must mean a mdm fan karen's recent story about simpson's checks unlocked a memory that i had repressed for reasons you will soon learn i grew up in a very rural area of nebraska and i was a quote unquote slightly effeminate child and then in parentheses it says read flaming homosexual who wanted nothing more than to take ballet class with my female classmates.

[450] After being denied my proclivities for dance at a young age, I waited for a chance to express my softer side.

[451] The opportunity arose when I was given the freedom to select the background for my checks for my very first checkbook.

[452] At their ripe age of 13, and then there's some dashes and it says, do teenagers still get checkbooks?

[453] No. No grandpa.

[454] No one has checkbooks anymore.

[455] I was so thrilled to be able to choose the background image for my checks, a variety pack of kittens.

[456] Little kittens playing with yarn and cuddling and piles of kitty delight.

[457] These were the backgrounds that I felt fully expressed my newfound financial independence.

[458] I didn't have a ton of uses for checks as a high schooler, so my 200 pack of kitty checks lasted throughout college.

[459] I love it so much.

[460] You stared at the pizza place.

[461] Could I write you a check for some quarters for the past man machine?

[462] Please, please let me get rid of these fucking checks.

[463] Pizza place.

[464] He was always on like zero zero seven in that check pack.

[465] My bank's mascot is a bear.

[466] So when I graduated to another set of checkbooks, a wildlife scene of bears anointed my next book of checks.

[467] This also feels fitting as I evolved from a kiddie obsession to a newfound identity as a bear in the gay community.

[468] Congratulations.

[469] Congratulations.

[470] Thank you, Bank of the West, for allowing this little country boy to express a sexual interest through checks.

[471] Beautiful.

[472] It's beautiful.

[473] Much love to the MFF family for keeping me sane through the quarantine.

[474] I'm moving to Denmark next week, and I will bring my true crime obsession to the Danes XOXO Joshua.

[475] Joshua, congratulations.

[476] I'm becoming you.

[477] Just a beautifully written email all about your journey.

[478] we are here for it.

[479] We are.

[480] So hilarious.

[481] In the middle of Nebraska where, you know, 14 people live, he's just like, check these checks out.

[482] Yeah, he'll take whatever he can get as far as like just being able to show him his real self a teeny tiny bit.

[483] Just a hint.

[484] A hint.

[485] Hey, speaking of a hint, this is your hint to join the fan cult because we're about to record a mini, mini so for the fan cult.

[486] And also this video and a million more videos are all still up there.

[487] And it's cheap and it's fun.

[488] the end and it's fun and and there's more extras every day yep soon we'll have our own checks could you imagine my favorite murder check bring checks back um thank you write in at my favorite murder gmail thank you guys so much for listening we're big fans of yours mdm fan yes we are yeah mdm forever stay sexy don't get murdered goodbye elvis do you want a cookie this has been an exactly right production our producer is Hannah Kyle Crichton.

[489] Associate producer Alejandra Keck.

[490] Engineer and mixer.

[491] Steven.

[492] Ray Morris.

[493] Researchers, Jay Elias and Haley Gray.

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[496] And for more information about this podcast, our live shows, merch, or to join the fan cult, go to My Favorite Murder .com.

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