174 - Rough Winds & High Waters

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[1] Hey, this is exciting.

[2] An all -new season of only murders in the building is coming to Hulu on August 27th.

[3] Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are back as your favorite podcaster, detectives.

[4] But there's a mystery hanging over everyone.

[5] Who killed Saz?

[6] And were they really after Charles?

[7] Why would someone want to kill Charles?

[8] This season, murder hits close to home.

[9] With a threat against one of their own, the stakes are higher than ever.

[10] Plus, the gang is going to Hollywood to turn their podcast into a major movie.

[11] Amid the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, more mysteries and twists arise.

[12] Who knows what will happen once the cameras start to roll?

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[16] Hello.

[17] Hi!

[18] And welcome.

[19] Welcome to my favorite murder.

[20] It's the podcast you listen to, the true crime podcast, remember?

[21] You remember.

[22] You were there that one time.

[23] All those times?

[24] That's Karen.

[25] Hi, Karen.

[26] Hi, that's Georgia Hardstoke.

[27] Hi.

[28] Hi.

[29] We got back yesterday from the last weekend of a five and a half month two season tour.

[30] Yeah.

[31] Hi, we need the summer off.

[32] Hi, we're taking the summer off.

[33] That's right.

[34] We'll tell you all about that later.

[35] It'll be fun.

[36] You'll still get.

[37] episodes, don't worry.

[38] Yeah.

[39] But we are also simultaneously going to take vacations.

[40] We're going to go to a three month long silent yoga retreat.

[41] Yes, in Nova Scotia.

[42] Right, where we eat vegan seal.

[43] Vegan seals the whole time.

[44] Yeah, we eat with vegan seals.

[45] Right.

[46] So it's seaweed, seaweed, seaweed.

[47] Swim with dolphins.

[48] It's going to be amazing.

[49] And that's all we're doing.

[50] But also, yes, it's silent.

[51] So all the podcasts will be silent throughout the summer.

[52] That's right.

[53] Just around a minute of I mean, an hour and 28 minutes of just silent vocal, vocal drag.

[54] What's it called?

[55] Oh, uh, vocal fry.

[56] Vocal fry.

[57] But silent.

[58] But seals.

[59] Seal vocal fry.

[60] And seal the vocalist.

[61] That's right.

[62] Yeah.

[63] What a great vocalist.

[64] Remember him.

[65] Um, a couple quick things.

[66] Let's get them out of the way.

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[84] Paul Giamati is one of the guest narrators.

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[87] The whole thing is nuts.

[88] It is.

[89] And then there will be a very brief book tour.

[90] Very brief, very angry book tour.

[91] Is there going to be a lot of anger?

[92] Let's just too angry.

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[94] I mean, easy.

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[97] And also there you can find details about our Santa Barbara weekend in November that we're doing.

[98] Yeah, did you hear about my favorite weekend?

[99] So it's basically like instead of going on a weekend tour at a couple different places, we're fucking taking over Santa Barbara.

[100] We're kicking out all the residents.

[101] Yes.

[102] They're really angry about it.

[103] That's going to be tough.

[104] We're busing them out.

[105] That's right.

[106] But we're keeping the pets.

[107] So we can hang out with them.

[108] Right.

[109] And we're going to do a live show.

[110] show fucking the murder squad's going to do a live show per cast is going to do a live show it's just going to be and then you guys are going to have a chance to like meet up and hang out and special events and it's going to be fucking cool yeah we're very it's like a little a mini mini con yeah we're coning you it's it's a con for sure it's a long con con it's the long con all the way through uh november yeah so um again go to my favorite murder dot com to find out all the details and think of it as a cruise but you don't have to throw up over the side of the boat unless you really want to we will have a throw up section sure we always do it's the whole theater oh man we somebody always comes through for us in that way that's true um so yeah but yeah exactly we won't get we won't get caught on uh in high winds or rough waters none of that is uh is anything we're going to be bringing to the table no you want to look over and see dolphins or anything obnoxious like that.

[111] No, not at all.

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[118] It's going to be super fun.

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[120] Illuminal mugs.

[121] Oh yeah.

[122] This might be luminal.

[123] Yes.

[124] We have a travel mug and a regular mug on my favorite murder on the store.

[125] I fucking love those.

[126] Now am I right about this that they light up in the dark.

[127] They glow in the dark.

[128] The word luminal glows in the dark.

[129] The word luminal glows in the dark.

[130] You know those people who have those mugs that say, this might be vodka.

[131] And it's like Cheryl in accounting.

[132] You're like, Cheryl, you're so crazy.

[133] You're not Cheryl.

[134] That might be wine.

[135] Alcoholic, Cheryl.

[136] Yeah.

[137] Well, now you can have one that says this might be luminal.

[138] Yeah.

[139] Which don't drink that.

[140] Don't drink luminal.

[141] It's poisonous, probably.

[142] And it's a waste.

[143] People need it to spot other liquids.

[144] Someone gave us vials of luminal at a live show recently and I just was like let's go to the hotel room and fucking throw this about you said that and then the woman who gave it to us went no she knows meaning she's done it she's like do not you don't want to see what's going to come up under that black light I don't what do you have a lot of people got very fired up about what the best cracker treat combination is this something we should talk about a little bit always because people really Stephen goes.

[145] Snack Corner.

[146] Stephen goes.

[147] Oh, I've got some responses for that snack when you said this is the best snack cracker.

[148] Yeah.

[149] And then he just handed me like eight printed pages of responses from people.

[150] Can I get a copy of those?

[151] Yes.

[152] I'd take it very seriously.

[153] But credit goes to Jay for finding those.

[154] Oh, did you find them?

[155] Yes, you did.

[156] There was one guy and I wonder if it's in here because there's so many where a guy just, he DMed us and he just wrote on the Twitter, which I actually.

[157] never look at the DMs of because it's like oh my god that's it's open DMs that's a nightmare but DM all over the floor all over the place really gross but for some reason I opened it and then it just said gram crackers with peanut butter boom like someone that just like this discussion is over about what the best cracker snack is we're not in the middle of this discussion like we talked about that two weeks ago yeah maybe that's how every response on social media is for the person responding and going I'm to log on Twitter and let them know how I feel, it's always, it just happened for them.

[158] Oftentimes, they're like, I need to talk about what happened in episode 64.

[159] And it's like, no, we're not doing that anymore.

[160] I wasn't, I don't even remember being alive then.

[161] There are people walk up to us wearing shirts of things we said on this podcast at the meet and greets.

[162] And every time I go, oh my God, that's so funny.

[163] And then they'll go like, you said it or like, she said it to you.

[164] And we're like, really?

[165] This is great.

[166] Or it'll be like, you said it last.

[167] episode and it's like, holy shit.

[168] Oh, yeah, that's a bad sign.

[169] Somewhat, speaking of snacks, can I just say that someone sent us a snack pack backstage when we were just in Minneapolis without an explanation?

[170] And I just, I hope they're okay because it was, um, onion and chive or like onion and garlic crackers.

[171] Yeah.

[172] Cottage cheese.

[173] Oh, that's right.

[174] And then mint fudge.

[175] And I was like, this can't be right.

[176] I hope they're okay.

[177] Okay.

[178] Well, you would say.

[179] say that, right, having not read a couple of these pages that Stephen handed me that Jay found.

[180] Give me some highlights.

[181] So get up on this.

[182] Like this was the first one I saw from someone named Jordan.

[183] And a lot of these are coming through just as like listed out recipes.

[184] So it just says the number one.

[185] One, saltine.

[186] Two, smear some creamy peanut butter on it.

[187] Okay.

[188] Three, slice dill pickle.

[189] Ew.

[190] And then here's the underneath that.

[191] Do not say gross until you ingest it.

[192] It is creamy, sour, salty, crunchy, and sweet.

[193] No. My fave hungover snack, which may also be a new subgroup name, Peace and Blessings, Jordan.

[194] People got into this.

[195] That sounds gross, but, yeah, I guess not.

[196] It's kind of good.

[197] Then there's really fancy ones.

[198] Like, this is from Kayla, and she wrote, here's my new favorite snack ever.

[199] I don't know if there are Aldi's in California, but they sell an artichoke jalapeno drip.

[200] Mm. Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.

[201] drip drip drip it says dip i said drip it's a fucking injection you put it into your arm and it's a slow jalapeno drip they fucking have an um artichoke jalapia dip at traitor dose that is so good i wonder if that's same i'm proud it is okay what does say uh so she says she spreads it on thick sliced salami wrapped up and it's the easiest and most delicious snack all right so she's using the salami yeah as the cracker loving it oh and then she says if i'm feeling really crafty.

[202] I'll add a Ritz to everything Cracker.

[203] Oh, Ritz everything Cracker to the mix.

[204] Wait, there was a couple of them that, oh, how about this?

[205] This is from Steve.

[206] My favorite cracker is something that my mother got me addicted to while I was just a little kid.

[207] It's her favorite snack as well.

[208] Step one.

[209] Take a delicious, take a delicious buttery Ritz Cracker.

[210] Many of these are Ritz Cracker based.

[211] These are all, this is fucking Ritz.

[212] Employees being forced to email us.

[213] I know what you're.

[214] We know what you're doing.

[215] Ritz, you don't get a free fucking commercial out of us.

[216] Ritz and Triscuit are going head to head in it in this corner.

[217] Promocode.

[218] Fuck you.

[219] Step two, put a dollop or a smear if you're Georgia of cream cheese onto it.

[220] Step three, top with a smoked oyster.

[221] Oh.

[222] So I guess this is from the 1 % they sent an email from the elite strata.

[223] Smoked oysters are for hobos.

[224] What are you talking about?

[225] Hold on.

[226] Steve said, sorry.

[227] Steve, who calls himself a crackerino.

[228] I understand full well That this sounds like some people's version of hell And had I not been raised on this delicacy myself I wouldn't likely try it either But something about it is so savory and salty and buttery And at the same time that is pure bliss You really should try it Wow Stay sexy and don't avoid seafood that comes in a can And is readily available at the dollar store Steve Crackarino Mercury poisoning Isle 1 That's the savory taste is that mercury under the underpinnings of mercury is your death being closer then there's stuff like there's some people that are genuinely being fancy so it's like caviar with caviar it's not really oh this is this one i like this is from just the letter a as for cracker snacks the best ones i ever ate was when i was a little kid at vacation bible school you take a ritz cracker of course you do top it with a little bit of jarred spaghetti or pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese and toasted in an oven until melty and wallie A lot.

[229] Toasted Ritz.

[230] Vacation Bible School pizza crackers.

[231] My son once had a party, and I made those.

[232] They were all five years old.

[233] And one kid raved about them so much that the mom had to call me and ask for the recipe.

[234] Damn.

[235] A little pizza ritz.

[236] That's adorable.

[237] It's actually pretty precious.

[238] That's a step above.

[239] I mean, yeah, it just goes on and on this way.

[240] Maybe we'll post some on the fan cult.

[241] Here's a thing.

[242] Do you remember why apricot jam got mixed into that other recipe?

[243] Yeah, because I'm crazy and said that you should put a little, I forgot jam on top of your pickle and whatever, acmec and what was it?

[244] Yeah, and pepper jack.

[245] Pepper jack.

[246] Yeah, and I fucking stand by it.

[247] Did, have you eaten that?

[248] Not with a pickle.

[249] Okay.

[250] But I'm definitely a jam and cheese person for sure.

[251] I've been hip to that with you and your charcutory boards and the cheese boards that I'm now, I used to on like hotel menus be like, that's not for me. Yeah.

[252] That's not my area.

[253] And now I'm like, I believe it.

[254] to be my area entirely.

[255] I opened your eyes to the, ask for a little bit of honey on the side.

[256] And maybe some of that good young fig jam that I love so much.

[257] Right.

[258] That's always good.

[259] Anyway, snacks abound.

[260] You know what we should do is take all these and put them on the website.

[261] For sure.

[262] Cracker corner.

[263] I'm going to file those away to.

[264] Cracker corner.

[265] Shareables.

[266] It is crappening.

[267] I mean, look, it just keeps, it just keeps going.

[268] Oh, I want, I need a copy of those for my, for my recipe book.

[269] for to go right in there for my recipe folder who goes first Stephen Georgia goes first this week I don't know why it's such a relief to go first you know just like that much closer to being done you guys we love doing this podcast no we love it but there is something about going first to me it's just like then afterwards I can relax and just listen to you as crack a can of wine fucking chill out it's a bit of a hang but also I think like we I've gotten very comfortable complaining on this podcast about being tired and doing other stuff, which I shouldn't.

[270] I shouldn't be like that.

[271] Well, it's hard not to.

[272] It's true.

[273] It's true and true.

[274] So, I tie tight.

[275] I mean, we're so fucking happy and this is amazing.

[276] But yeah, I think, and a lot of people have been saying to us, like, you guys can take a break.

[277] It's okay.

[278] Yeah.

[279] And I think we're finally catching up to that.

[280] We're like, oh, yeah, that's right.

[281] We should do that.

[282] My therapist today when I was just weeping in therapy, which is not like me. He was like, yeah, you seem exhausted.

[283] did.

[284] Like, you've never said that to me before.

[285] And I was just like, can you leave me alone so I can just cry for a minute.

[286] Yeah.

[287] Please witness my emotions.

[288] Can I get a witness?

[289] Can you?

[290] I need credit that I cried right now to show that I can.

[291] And then it's important to me. Then fucking Vince, because it was couple's therapy that we got back in the car and I was like crying.

[292] And I was like, I feel like I shouldn't stop because this never happens to me. And he's like, totally.

[293] I'm here for this.

[294] And then he makes a joke and I start fucking laughing.

[295] I'm like, God damn it, Vince.

[296] Made some silly cute joke That just made me laugh I was like fuck There was some My sister sent me something Because I was doing While we were gone I was having some emotional Upheaval Turmoy It just felt like a Almost like Stomick flu It felt like that kind of thing Where it was like It was not connected to anything specific But there would just be like These weird weepy Like bouts Oh bout of weeping And then I would just kind of come over me And then I'd just be like Just let it do it Just let it be here and then let it go and like barf it out or whatever.

[297] But of course, kind of similar but probably exactly opposite events is when I call my sister.

[298] Because I almost never, I'll call her to talk about stuff.

[299] Yeah.

[300] But I won't ever call her like losing my mind.

[301] Yeah.

[302] Because I know that actually she doesn't like it.

[303] Who does?

[304] Who does really?

[305] What's wrong with her?

[306] But she's, but the funny thing is when you do, she's really good at like, she's really good at just like in the moment.

[307] Or just being, okay, hold on a second.

[308] Snaping into it.

[309] Yeah.

[310] And then she'll kind of bring everything else into perspective.

[311] And she's really, it's very funny because you wouldn't think it, but she's really into horoscopes and astrology type of things.

[312] So she immediately sends me this astrology meme thing all about how they're these solar storms.

[313] It's not your fault.

[314] It's not your fault because you're so sensitive and you're such a, you know, you're such an air sign or whatever.

[315] fuck it is that like that's the reason this is all happening to you i've always thought that about you karen like oh she's such an air sign i'm a nurse sign actually oh a what sign a earth i'm earth i thought you said a nurse sign i'm just a nurse i'm just posing as a nurse oh i'm a firefighter sign but then it actually feels good when even though we can all argue that it's bullshit or it's just too far away to actually affect us and yet how does the moon make our periods happen but it fucking curses us.

[316] It does.

[317] But it's interesting when things like that happen and then you can just kind of go like, then it's like, this thing is passing through and now it's a time of renewal.

[318] Yeah.

[319] You're like, oh, that's good.

[320] It's good to like emote, barf it out and let it feel like.

[321] And blame it on something else.

[322] Blame it on something else.

[323] And then be like, I'm renewed.

[324] I'm going to do something else now.

[325] I'm a flower.

[326] I'm opening up.

[327] Well, I'm getting my period every two weeks.

[328] So that's how stressed out I am.

[329] Oh, no. Yeah, it's not good.

[330] You're going to get that looked up?

[331] I looked up in the dictionary, I am.

[332] Right up that dictionary.

[333] Put that speculum right up my dictionary.

[334] Please, and tell me what the fuck is wrong with me. And just tell me, give me some definitions.

[335] Oh, you ve.

[336] Hey, this is exciting.

[337] An all new season of only murders in the building is coming to Hulu on August 27th.

[338] Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are back as your favorite podcaster, detectives.

[339] But there's a mystery hanging over everyone.

[340] Who killed Saz?

[341] And were they really after Charles?

[342] Why would someone want to kill Charles?

[343] This season, murder hits close to home.

[344] With a threat against one of their own, the stakes are higher than ever.

[345] Plus, the gang is going to Hollywood to turn their podcast into a major movie.

[346] Amid the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, more mysteries and twists arise.

[347] Who knows what will happen once the cameras start to roll?

[348] Get ready for the stariest season yet with Merrill Streep, Zach Alfenakis, Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, Melissa McCarthy, DeVine, Joy Randolph, Molly Shannon, and more.

[349] Only Martyrs in the Building, premieres August 27th, streaming only on Hulu.

[350] Goodbye.

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[372] Okay.

[373] Well, guess what?

[374] What?

[375] So, you know, sometimes I like to do stories that aren't exactly murders are just morbid, like deaths at an amusement park.

[376] Yes.

[377] Death set a different amusement park.

[378] Yeah, a different one.

[379] Right, those kinds of stories.

[380] And a third amusement park.

[381] And another amusement park even.

[382] You've done three, I think.

[383] I think you're right, yeah.

[384] I love any off the beaten path version.

[385] So this one is morbid, but it's not murder because I kind of was like, I can't keep murdering.

[386] This is too much.

[387] So this is one of the things that when I found another one like death said in an amusement park that when I found out about, I just buried my face in articles for hours and hours and hours.

[388] And I go back to it all the time because I just find.

[389] it so fascinating let's hear it these are the just some of the bodies on mount everest oh shit how about that yes you hear for this yes i am do you ever do you ever i'm sure you click open i have i climbed it yeah yes me i went to base camp a um no but you know what i did i've seen a couple of those documentaries and going into them i am not interested in a in a climbing life right i'm not interested in a interested in, to me, it seems like you're signing up to probably die.

[390] Like, there's so many things that can go wrong.

[391] But I am fascinated by people who are so driven by a thing like that.

[392] Yeah.

[393] It's so interesting to me without having anything in common with it.

[394] See, it kind of pisses me off.

[395] And like, I'm just like, just chill out.

[396] No. It is so foreign to me that it's, yeah, it's crazy.

[397] Okay.

[398] So I got a lot of information from, um, An article on Rancor by Sabrina Eiffal and a website called M -P -O -R -A .com by Tristan Kennedy and All That's Interesting .com by Katie Serena.

[399] And I mean, there's just so many articles all over the internet you can find.

[400] Yeah.

[401] So, here we go.

[402] Karen, 200 bodies still remain on Everest with nearly one out of every time climbers perishing atop the mountain on average.

[403] One out of ten.

[404] One out of ten.

[405] Those are bad odds.

[406] Those are terrible odds.

[407] Hey, rich people.

[408] Yeah.

[409] Those are bad odds.

[410] I mean, let's be honest, it's fucking, it's rich people with a lot of time or it's.

[411] It's, yeah, it is.

[412] I think that's what it is.

[413] Yeah.

[414] Or it's like crossfitters who take it too far.

[415] Yeah.

[416] I mean, there's probably like the camp of like, no, I've been in this since I was a kid and I've been sponsored or something.

[417] But, but yeah, I feel like.

[418] That's true.

[419] But when the odds are one in 10, like, what if you were, it was like, that's what the odds of camping were.

[420] you wouldn't be like oh here we go I'm just gonna roll the dice it's a weird thing of like well thinking you're special you know what I mean where it's like you think you're special but really there's a lot of it that has nothing to do with you right because it's nature at its most vicious air that barely exists like the basics that humans need let me tell me I'm telling you what I don't know how about you tell me what you do now Okay.

[421] Frozen corpses have become almost run -of -the -mill on Mount Everest.

[422] Everest has claimed the lives of almost 300 climbers since the first attempt to conquer the mountain in 1921, two -thirds of whom are buried in the mountain's ice and snow.

[423] So two -thirds of the bodies of people who have died there since 1921 are still fucking there.

[424] Right.

[425] Despite the risks, thousands swarm to Nepal every year in an effort to conquer the tallest point on Earth, and many of them never leave.

[426] No, they don't.

[427] So Mount Everest is 29 ,000 feet.

[428] It's the world's highest mountain above sea level.

[429] Sits directly on the border of Tibet and Nepal.

[430] And mountaineers are crazy about it.

[431] More than 296 people have died trying to climb it.

[432] I think like I'm throwing out a lot of numbers that aren't adding up.

[433] But let's just keep going.

[434] Well, 296 clearly got rounded up to 3.

[435] Which is what happens in so many articles.

[436] I said almost 300.

[437] Yeah.

[438] And I was right.

[439] You're fine.

[440] Most deaths have been attributed to avalanches, injury from fall, Syrac collapse, which I think is a climbing thing, exposure, frostbite, or health problems related to conditions on the mountain.

[441] And not all bodies have been located, so there's not a lot of details on, like, how those ones died, so they can't be like most people died from this or that.

[442] Because they just don't know where they are.

[443] Yeah, exactly.

[444] So it could be a fucking meteor for all we know.

[445] Could be the Yeti, which I absolutely and 100 % believe is real.

[446] That's it.

[447] That's true.

[448] It's happening.

[449] Okay.

[450] So Everest, because of all the bodies that are still on it, it is the, it is the, has the title of the world's largest open air graveyard.

[451] Oh.

[452] Which like, God, that sucks.

[453] That's dark.

[454] That was like, yeah, right?

[455] Well, also, yeah, I think that's not what people would think of first.

[456] the world's largest open -air graveyard.

[457] The upper reaches of the mountain are known to climbers as the death zone.

[458] And the death zone is a mountaineering term for altitudes above a certain point around 26 ,000 feet, where oxygen level is not sufficient to sustain human life.

[459] You knew.

[460] Yeah.

[461] So when the human body enters this altitude, it just starts dying immediately.

[462] Yeah.

[463] It's not insane.

[464] It just starts stopping to work.

[465] And people are prepared to start dying.

[466] and push on through it?

[467] Yeah, so in the death zone, the human body cannot acclimatize.

[468] Is that right?

[469] I think so.

[470] As it uses oxygen faster than can be replenished.

[471] So it becomes a race against the clock.

[472] So at that point, they have to race to get to the summit.

[473] Okay.

[474] So as they die.

[475] As they're dying, so they don't fully die.

[476] And then back again before their body fails them.

[477] Since oxygen at this level is only a third of what it is at sea level, climbers find themselves sluggish and disoriented and fatigued and the pressure I can relate welcome to my life sweetheart what's up um the pressure because of that makes the weight feel 10 times heavier than it actually is same all over it and causes extreme distress on organs is this you my liver is crying right now um because of this climbers usually only have a window about 48 hours inside the death zone and so they can get up and fucking back before and they're strongly urged to use supplemental oxygen at all times but there are these crazy fucking people that are like I want to do it without oxygen yeah like as if somehow they're you know well you know what that makes me think of is like when they go to the party when they get back and you know they talk about climbing Mount Everest for the rest of their lives yeah but that those details at the cocktail party when they are bragging will be lost on every right so the kind of the thing that they is the biggest victory people are just going to be like right the death zone yeah yeah like i didn't carry oxygen with you why oh because i thought everyone could take a to yeah why wouldn't you do that it's just it's like do you remember sorry i just had this recovered memory in nine 11 that you that you climbed everest and i climbed everest and i forgot to brag about it no that a 9 -11 there was a doctor running into the rubble and he kept saying can i take a to of like there was there was like a you know either a fireman or an ambulance worker standing there and he was taking as he called it taken a toot and then running into places to see if there was anyone alive did he make it?

[478] Yeah I believe so but I mean I How did that come of taking a to?

[479] That was like literally live CNN was just going live to fucking ground zero and being like what's happening and then suddenly someone you're like this toot is not the right word for this fucking moment but he was like it was like this fuck he was a guy in scrubs and he was just like we got to get in there give me a toot and then fucking running in let us know everyone doctors nurses doctors that do cocaine let us know that's actually what you call okay um da da da da where was I okay so many deaths at high altitude mountaineering have been caused by the effects of the death zone either directly because of loss of fucking vital functions in your goddamn body or indirectly which I think this is interesting because you make unwise decisions when you're under stress or physical weakening leading to accidents.

[480] So you become, it's like when you have a, when you have, what's it called when you're super hot and the sun's beating down on you?

[481] Just sexiness?

[482] No, you know.

[483] Oh, sunstroke?

[484] Sunstroke and you start taking your clothes off or when you have frostbite and you take your clothes off to cool down.

[485] Right.

[486] That's not what happens.

[487] It's like your body is sending you the wrong signals.

[488] So you do stupid shit.

[489] the extreme cold so when they die on the mountain the extreme cold preserves the bodies and keeps them intact just as they fell and due to the difficulties and dangers in bringing bodies down because it's so hard to even just go up on your own right bring someone down most of those who die in the mountain remain where they fall and they turn the bodies turn into something like a morbid landmark for the climbers who are going up and down it's like well once you pass this person then you know you're halfway there and you like they know them and then probably they're like they're like talisman.

[490] I'm sure they have a moment of silence or something for them.

[491] I hope.

[492] You know what I mean?

[493] I think it's like a respectful thing.

[494] Good.

[495] So the first recorded deaths on the mountain were the seven porters or Sherpas who died in an avalanche in 1922 on a British Mount Everest expedition.

[496] And the fucking Sherpas, man, these are people who do this all the time and have, you know, dozens of climbs under their belt.

[497] They're really incredible, but they also then are more susceptible to accidents because they're going up so often.

[498] They're doing it so often.

[499] Right.

[500] So Sherpa is one of the ethnic groups native to the mountainous regions of Nepal and the Himalayas, and many are highly regarded as elite mountaineers.

[501] And Sherpas and their teams are hired by mountain climbers to help manage and advise on their climbs, as well as carry the oxygen, carry the gear, set up camp, and as a safety expert.

[502] Because they've lived at that altitude for generations, their bodies are used to it and they have a genetic natural allowance for it.

[503] So Many, when you hear of people who are like, the guy at the party is like, yeah, I had a solo climb.

[504] The guy is bragging that everyone's like, great, Jim.

[505] Many solo climbers actually use Sherpas.

[506] Sure.

[507] They just fucking call it solo.

[508] Yeah.

[509] So, in total, 118s have died on Everest between 1921 and 2018.

[510] And April 2018 report by NPR stated that Sherpas account for one third of Everest deaths.

[511] Yeah, that makes sense.

[512] Which is so tragic.

[513] Okay.

[514] And while dangerous for the The novice climber, the mountain also has claimed the lives of some of the most experienced climbers.

[515] One of the most infamous tragedies on the mountain was the 1996 Mount Everest disaster on May 11th, 1996, during which eight people died while making summit attempts.

[516] So in one day, eight people died.

[517] And there's a really small window of when you're allowed to climb.

[518] It's like sometime in May. It's like a few weeks, I think, because it's just like this is when the weather allows it go.

[519] Yeah.

[520] Um, so that's like, you know, 18 people.

[521] Nope.

[522] That's eight people in a really short, a period of time.

[523] And it was turning to the movie Everest, which I will definitely see at some point.

[524] It starts a bunch of famous people.

[525] I've seen the beginning of it.

[526] And it's totally, it's good.

[527] You want to watch it because I'm pretty sure Josh Brolin is also in it.

[528] He's one of the leaders.

[529] There's just a bunch of really good people.

[530] And it's kind of, it feels very real the way they shot it.

[531] It's kind of.

[532] It's kind of.

[533] It's kind of.

[534] it feels like you're just there eavesdropping as all these real people are going to go do this thing.

[535] Crazy.

[536] I mean, I wouldn't, yeah, I would have bummer to even shoot that, let alone hike Everest, climb Everest, excuse me. That's hike is probably insulting.

[537] In that entire 1996 season, 15 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest single year in the mountain's history to that point.

[538] On April 18th, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche that struck base camp.

[539] Just over a year later, on April 25th, 2015, 19 people were killed in an avalanche at base camp following a 7 .8 earthquake, which killed at least 9 ,000 people and injured at least 23 ,000 in Nepal.

[540] Shit.

[541] So this is the worst single day death toll ever in the history of Mount Everest in modern incidents with accurate counts.

[542] All right.

[543] So on to specific people.

[544] Let's talk about the one you've probably heard of and everyone's heard of, green boots.

[545] No, I haven't.

[546] I mean, not me. This is like the most famous, I guess you could call it landmark while climbing.

[547] Oh.

[548] So climbers taking the North Call route to Everest Summit inevitably end up passing the mountain's most infamous landmark green boots.

[549] He's called this because of the brightly colored hiking boots that he was wearing when he died.

[550] And I mean, there's photos.

[551] Like, they're not gruesome because there's no skin, there's no face.

[552] But you can say it's fucked up.

[553] Yeah.

[554] Do they look like kind of like mummies?

[555] Yeah, exactly.

[556] While Green Boots Identity, but they're covered in their clothes most of the time.

[557] While Green Boots identity has always been hotly contested, he's widely believed to be an Indian climber named Swing Paljeur, who died along with two of his colleagues in 1996.

[558] So because they can't see his face, they're not sure if it's him or the other two, but they're pretty sure it's him.

[559] Paljure was part of a high -class Indian expedition of six people to summit Everest that yielded only one survivor.

[560] Wow.

[561] Harbjohn Singh.

[562] Singh later recalled that the expedition was marred by mistakes, and he had urged the other men to abandon their quest because of inclement weather that was heading in, but the singing in his men refused, and they succumbed to summit fever, a term used when climbers abandoned thoughts of safety in often their own morals, because they are close to reaching the summit and become blinded by the drive to cross the finish line.

[563] above all else.

[564] So it's this like, I fucking came here to get to the top.

[565] You can't say to someone at a party, I hiked Everest.

[566] Two thirds of the way, you know?

[567] So they just like don't think about all the safety.

[568] Like even their own morals, right, which is just not good.

[569] So the body of green boots looks as though he toppled over from exhaustion mid stride.

[570] It looks like he was just doing like a, what do they call it?

[571] What's the ski walk thing?

[572] Like cross -country skiing?

[573] Yeah, and he just like, it looks like he just toppled over.

[574] And it's been, he did so in what's been now since known as Green Boots Cave.

[575] Luckily his face and Skinner obscured, but this, but his blue snow pants, red snow jacket, a couple tanks of oxygen are right where they fell along with him, along with his neon green hiking boots.

[576] Paljor's body has become a landmark seen by every climber attempting the Northeast Ridge route to the summit.

[577] So it's like the most famous one.

[578] Wow.

[579] Then there's Francis Arcentive.

[580] Francis, her story is fucked up because she was alive when climbers first found her in need of help.

[581] Oh, no. Yeah, this one's fucked up.

[582] So Francis, let's see, Arsaintive and her husband, Sergei, were avid climbers who sought to climb Everest in 1998.

[583] Francis had a goal to become the first American woman to summit Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen.

[584] which is like it's kind of like that's like wanting to be like the first woman to swim across the ocean without having anybody look out for sharks for her I mean isn't it yeah but it's like you want to be you want to be a first something and that's the only option so you're gonna go for it even if it's not safe like she couldn't just be a woman who'd who'd gotten to the top of Everest how about the first woman with it like with a buzz cut on top of Everett wrist you shave that hair yeah get up there and and you like toot all the oxygen you want the entire time too motherfucker that's the thing you need yeah anyway it's right don't be a hero let's not put up walls and boundaries in front of ourselves that actually take oxygen away from us right whatever you do keep the oxygen keep that oh two flowing that's right to toot so after two aborted attempts of trying to get up on there without supplemental oxygen she finally succeeded very late in the day on May 22nd, 1998.

[585] So she fucking did it and made it.

[586] But she became separated from her husband, Sergei, as they descended.

[587] Which is like so scary.

[588] Can you imagine like looking down and being like, where'd you go?

[589] Right.

[590] Oh, shit.

[591] And she's all high off of not having oxygen.

[592] And adrenaline.

[593] And adrenaline and whatever other chemicals start going through your body.

[594] And she's like, oh, look, unicorns.

[595] A whole bunch of unicorns.

[596] And she just runs.

[597] And she just runs off to the side.

[598] So, arriving back to camp around on May 23rd in the evening, Sergey found that his wife hadn't returned.

[599] So even though he was exhausted, he turned around and headed back up the mountain to attempt to rescue her.

[600] On his way up, he passed a team of Uzbek climbers who'd abandoned their own summit attempt to try to help, to help, Francis, down as far as they could.

[601] but they weren't able to get her all the way down and the following morning climbers Ian Woodall and Kathy O'Dowd and their team were amazed to find what they thought was a body still alive so she murmured to them don't leave me so she's stuck she's frozen in place and she's still alive overnight but she was immobile and slipping in and out of consciousness and she was beyond rescuing And there, so after spending nearly an hour with her in the temperatures of minus 30, Ian and Kathy were forced to leave Francis when their own oxygen was running out.

[602] So like they wanted to stay with her.

[603] They didn't want to leave her.

[604] It was like they wouldn't have died to if they had.

[605] Right.

[606] In her book, Just for the Love of it, Kathy O'Dowd writes, quote, I had never encountered anything like this.

[607] I had passed bodies.

[608] I had had friends not come back, but I had never watched anyone die.

[609] nor had I had to decide to leave them.

[610] Neither Sergei or Francis returned.

[611] So he went back up to look for her.

[612] And he didn't come back either.

[613] And it was later learned that Sergey had fallen to his death trying to reach his wife.

[614] So what he went, he took a weird step and then went down.

[615] It looks like she might have been like, have slid down a mountain.

[616] And so maybe he saw her and started to try to reach her and fell.

[617] So like green boots, Francis Arsendeeves' body lay right next to the route for years, dressed in her black snow pants and purple snowjacket.

[618] And she was passed by hundreds of climbers going to and from the summit and became known as the Mount Everest Sleeping Beauty.

[619] Oh.

[620] In 2007, Ian Woodall, the guy who had to leave her behind, returned with the intention of moving her body out of sight.

[621] because I think it's like a respect thing.

[622] Like, you know, let's get her out of the way so people don't take photos and shit like that.

[623] Right.

[624] And he covered her with an American flag and placed a note from her family on her body.

[625] Oh.

[626] I know.

[627] So David Sharp, like Francis and Sergei, David Sharp was climbing Mount Everest without a support team and without the aid of bottled oxygen.

[628] It's a weird bride thing.

[629] I know.

[630] It doesn't make sense.

[631] It's the thing of like, yeah, you need a one up on yourself.

[632] Like you can't get high on your own supply anymore So you're like, I'm gonna fucking do this then Check this out It's like being like I can drink the most shots Whereas like, yes you can And then where will you be?

[633] Yeah, that's yeah you don't But you don't need to Right Where is the true victory?

[634] That's right So It's believed he made it to the summit On May 14th, 2006 Is that today?

[635] No, today's like a 20 -something Close I know But on his way down Fatigued and confused he stopped and sat down in Green Boots Cave.

[636] Oh, no. Around 40 climbers from several expeditions are thought to have passed David Sharp on their way up the mountain the next day.

[637] A climbing party stopped and when they realized Sharp was still alive, they didn't make any attempt to rescue him until they passed him again on the way down about nine hours later.

[638] So they were like, we're on our way up.

[639] Oh, he's still alive.

[640] We'll get him on the way back nine hours later.

[641] Yeah.

[642] And this, by this point, Sharp, by the time they breached him afterwards, he was alive but beyond help.

[643] And he died frozen in the position he'd sat down to rest in with his knees, like, tucked up and his arms kind of huddled around his knees.

[644] So, I mean, you can see that the person was just like, I need a restroom in it.

[645] And then they just stay that way.

[646] Right.

[647] Because you can't, like, it's almost like he wasn't making good decisions.

[648] Then the pack of people who clearly have the eyes and the prize disease, you were.

[649] talking about earlier they're not going to make the best decision for that guy yeah they're not going to be like forget it we're going to do we're going to help you um but but many but so um the the that team maintained that they believed sharp was beyond help on their way up which may have been true but it was like a controversial decision still and um as let's see like uh recovering a body requires a shit ton of effort so and risks so most of the time they're just left there even if they're dying, but a lot of people think that if you see someone in need of help on your way up, it's your duty to halt your mission and help, even if it means abandoning your summit.

[650] But people pay between 30 grand and as high as 130 grand to get that fucking experience and opportunity.

[651] And so they're not willing to abandon their quest.

[652] No, we call it that to help someone, which is fucked up.

[653] Yeah.

[654] So I think it's a, I think it's a mountaineering people like you take aside you're like it's they're torn between whether you do or not well because it's easy to say you should abandon your quest then there's the person who actually sunk a hundred grand into doing this thing that he he could die doing too yeah I mean you could kind of argue from any angle it's crazy but morally you're gonna get back down and be a normal person again and you're gonna have left someone to die yep for money because you spent them like and for you know for money and for like cocktail party glory or maybe you get to be in a magazine somewhere.

[655] I don't know.

[656] Wouldn't you rather hear I save someone on Mount Everest at a cocktail party?

[657] Personally yes.

[658] Yeah, me too.

[659] I was going up and this guy was dying and although I'm not saying that I would walk away if someone said I actually killed someone on Mount Everest.

[660] You know that I'm...

[661] I wonder if there's ever been a murderer.

[662] I mean, that's the perfect place to do it.

[663] Yeah.

[664] But also it's yeah, they're creating their own culture of if I paid this much money how could I be expected to I mean that's the world we live in now every man for himself kind of a thing or herself for real and so that's it okay then George Mallory George Mallory is one of the oldest bodies on the mountain when he died on Everest in the 1920s Mallory was the most famous mountaineer of his time and arguably arguably our time as well like of any time.

[665] When asked why he wanted to climb the as -then unconquered Mount Everest, Mallory famously replied, because it's there.

[666] Oh, right.

[667] I know that kind.

[668] Yeah.

[669] But his body wasn't discovered until nearly 75 years later in 1999.

[670] So he died, did people know he was dead or was he just missing?

[671] I think they must have known he was dead, but yeah, they had not known where his body was.

[672] It was kind of this like, almost like, treasure.

[673] you know like who are we going to find his body wow so to this day though and one of the reasons they wanted to find his body is because to this day no one is sure whether he and his climbing partner sandy irvine who also perished on the mountain reached the summit on the mountain on june 8th 1924 my birthday so they don't know if they made it or not because they died and they weren't you weren't able to find them so you couldn't you know tell by the evidence if they had right so um they were climbing they were climbing dressed in the time of what was mountaineering clothes in tweed oh tweet suits like a fucking professor like Indiana Jones style like these dudes were fucking Indiana Jones yes they weren't they um they were using incredibly primitive equipment by today's standards and including very clunky oxygen bottles and yet when they were last cited they were just a few hundred vertical feet short of the summit and according to a fellow expedition member They were going strongly for the top, but then they disappeared no sign of them.

[674] So they were never seen alive again, and the question whether or not they made it, it remains to this day, one of Mountaineering's greatest mysteries.

[675] An expedition was launched in 1999 to try and find Mallory's body in hopes of solving the mystery.

[676] But Mallory's mumified corpse is finally located, and you can see photos of it.

[677] It's fucking creepy.

[678] It's like straight up one -eyed wily style, like goonies shit.

[679] Yeah, yeah.

[680] But it didn't really reveal much.

[681] He appears to have fallen to his death.

[682] And from the injury around his waist caused by his rope, it has been figured that he and Irvine were still roped together when they fell.

[683] So Irvine's probably farther down the mountain.

[684] But two pieces of circumstantial evidence suggests that he did make it to the top.

[685] Mallory was found with a pair of snow goggles in his pocket.

[686] And it was thought that if he didn't have his snow goggles on anymore, then maybe it was because the sun had gone down, which would imply that they had died late in the night, which means they would have, they were making the way back down, which means they would have made it.

[687] Okay.

[688] And also, he said that when he got to the top, he was going to place a photo at his wife, Ruth, at the top of Everest.

[689] And when they found his well -preserved wallet on him, there was no photo of his wife in it.

[690] Okay.

[691] So he probably made it.

[692] Good.

[693] Yeah.

[694] That's hopeful.

[695] Right.

[696] I pictured them falling into an ice cage.

[697] I wonder if I'm getting that from one of those many documentaries Like that idea that like you step down You think you're like You're coming back down Or you're going up or whatever it is And you start thinking Like falling through the ice Yeah That basically it's like one false step I bet that happens But then also in the ice cave Is treasure And yetis The Yeti family treasure So there's also money in the recovery of bodies on Mount Everest.

[698] In 2017, a team of local Sherpa climbers recovered the body of three climbers that had been on Everest for a year.

[699] The high -risk expedition was financed with about $92 ,000 from the Indian state of West Bengal.

[700] So the expedition sparked this crazy debate in the mountaineering community, about the morality of risking more lives to retrieve bodies from Everest.

[701] And in a way, I feel like if you're this crazy mountaineer, you've been doing it for years and years to get to this one spot of fucking getting to the top of Everest and you die, I feel like a lot of them maybe would want to stay there.

[702] I would think so.

[703] Right?

[704] It's part of the glory of what you were, you died.

[705] Like, it's literally that he died doing what he loved then.

[706] Yeah, and like scatter my ashes over somewhere I like, you know.

[707] Right.

[708] My pool.

[709] I don't know.

[710] Scatter my ashes into my pool And then please clean them back out It's an apartment building pool But don't just do it People need to swim So if you could clean them back out immediately That'd be great Ang Sharing Who's a Sherpa Former President of the Nepal Mountaineering Association Said because of global warming The ice sheet and glaciers Are fast melting And the dead bodies that remained buried All those years are now becoming exposed I know I love it To get one body off the mountain there are risk they are risking the lives of 10 more people um some 563 climbers scaled the peak from Nepal's southern side in 2018 and I think that must mean right now is when the season's going on yeah that we'll get those numbers soon um five climbers died on Everest in 2018 and uh as I said 293 people have lost their lives since the first attempt to scale Everest in 1921, 118 of whom were Sherpa guides.

[711] And that is a couple of the many stories of the bodies on Mount Everest.

[712] Amazing.

[713] And you can see photos of them, you know, some are gruesome.

[714] Yeah, they're like a mummified.

[715] It's creepy.

[716] Crazy.

[717] I love it.

[718] That's amazing.

[719] I hate it.

[720] That was great.

[721] Thank you.

[722] When they started like in National Geographic, whatever, they started putting out articles about how all of the ice is melting on the tops of lots of peaks around the, you know, infamous peaks around the world and that they are starting to find, they're starting to find like crow magnin bodies and like old this guy was out hunting and he was just about to kill a saber to a tiger and like that kind of shit.

[723] And that one guy who got like stabbed in the back too.

[724] Is that like a really he was like a really old basically fossil man that they found?

[725] I have been murdered.

[726] I love That and I love when the ice melts and they find old viruses in the ice.

[727] Oh, God.

[728] That's going to be the end fucking days.

[729] It's coming soon.

[730] Enjoy yourself tonight.

[731] That's right.

[732] Do you want to know what I was going to do?

[733] I mean, I'm going to do.

[734] I kind of have to, but I also want to.

[735] You can't.

[736] Don't look away from this.

[737] I'm going to go in the other room.

[738] Please don't.

[739] Just stay.

[740] Okay, okay.

[741] I, because we were just in Minneapolis, St. Paul area, Minnesota, thank you all, Minneapolis and Milwaukee for enabling us to have such a wonderful end to our tour.

[742] Yeah, with some fucking great hometowns.

[743] Oh, my God, Stacey.

[744] I feel like the best, Stacey.

[745] What a crumb.

[746] Tell the story real quick.

[747] Just when we were in Milwaukee, Georgia picked a woman named Stacey who came up and she's a forensic.

[748] She's a teacher.

[749] Psychology professor, I think.

[750] Yeah.

[751] Or psychology professor.

[752] She was just great, had a great accent, told the story really well very earnestly.

[753] But then in the middle, she was describing how this man killed his wife, I believe, and was very gruesome and terrible.

[754] And the audience at one point made a noise about what a bummer it was.

[755] And then she just stops and goes, I know, he's a real crumb.

[756] And I was trying not to.

[757] I always want to say shit while people are telling their story, but I know it's going to throw them off.

[758] So I try to be quiet and just let them tell it.

[759] Your face just made me start cracking up.

[760] It was the best thing I've ever heard.

[761] You were so happy about it.

[762] It made me laugh so hard to see you trying not to fuck it and lose your shit.

[763] I feel like a lady named Stacey who it takes the time to describe us like this murderer as a crumb is the exact opposite of us.

[764] where we'll describe the fucking a fluffy kitten as a fucking bitch or you know what I mean like it's the idea of that where it's like that's as far as she was willing to go it just was the most charming bless her heart bless her little heart so um so this is one of the stories that I prepped and then was like there's no way I can do this is just too much great but also because I I've been given the confirmation multiple times that you have in done this one yet and I still think you have oh my god the weepy voice killer I have not done it okay I have thought about it so many times oh I'm ready and is it because I hate 911 calls uh no oh maybe I just I wonder maybe yeah maybe it's because it needs that and you don't no I don't know why I just never did it yeah oh I didn't either and then I was going to um but as i was going through it it's just so it's so hard to do um well if they're famous that's one thing and everyone kind of knows them or whatever but sometimes when and we've talked about this bunch of times when it's just a killing killing killing no one's pick no one's solving the crime tragic childhood from the serial killer and it's just like oh okay there's just no i can't get in there and then be like he looks like yeah look what actor look it's dustin Hoffman.

[765] You can't do that in certain stories.

[766] It's not funny.

[767] Nor should you.

[768] No. Okay.

[769] So I got information from Here's the fucking twist .com.

[770] Ooh.

[771] Uh -huh.

[772] The criminal minds wiki page.

[773] Okay.

[774] Which is hilarious.

[775] And a website called criminally intrigued.

[776] All right.

[777] Dot com which has a really good their logo for criminally intrigued is the bottom part of a jaw and then a tooth that's kind of like over here.

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[782] come back to it it's well designed it's beautifully designed and interesting okay so we're going to start on new year's eve 1980 and a 20 year old university of stevens point wisconsin student name actually stevens point is a very small town in northern wisconsin that my friend bradford burleski is from you're it was in your story last time yes last two weeks ago yes weird it is not weird and it's not big at all huh um and there's a woman we met in the meeting greet who said she was from there and that's when I was like my friend Bradford's from there.

[783] Right.

[784] Anyway.

[785] Okay.

[786] Okay.

[787] Start over.

[788] So New Year's Eve, 1980.

[789] Okay.

[790] So this 20 year old who goes to University of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, her name is Karen Potech and she's just gotten to St. Paul because she's coming to celebrate New Year's Eve with her sisters.

[791] And so they are going to a party.

[792] Somewhere there's an article that said they were throwing the party.

[793] But whatever it is is they end up at this New Year's party and Karen along with everybody else in America gets drunk and she ends up wandering away from the party after midnight and just starts kind of walking around the city drunk.

[794] I do that shit too.

[795] I know.

[796] Like I'll be like this party's too loud.

[797] I'll grab the dog and a leash and just fucking walk away from a party and then you're kind of drunk and you're just like, have everything so beautiful out.

[798] Yeah.

[799] It's so stupid.

[800] It's well yeah.

[801] I mean...

[802] I mean, that's stupid.

[803] It's just It's risky.

[804] It's risky.

[805] Thank you.

[806] It's a risky thing.

[807] It's good to do with a dog.

[808] It sucks that we can't as women fucking do that.

[809] Just do it and kind of wander around drunk and have a good time.

[810] It also makes me think of too.

[811] It's that thing, how I would do every party where you kind of go into it with all this hope and this idea of what cool could happen.

[812] And it makes me feel like maybe she liked somebody and then at midnight he kissed somebody else.

[813] Or he wasn't even there.

[814] He didn't even show up.

[815] Yeah.

[816] Or just nobody good showed up.

[817] Or it was just that kind of thing.

[818] I've got to get away from this party.

[819] Yeah.

[820] Around three in the morning, police get a call from a man asking for a squad car to be sent to the Malberg Manufacturing Company machine shop on Pierce Butler Road because there's, quote, a girl hurt there.

[821] And the caller's voice is very shaky and filled with emotion.

[822] And when the police ask for his name, he hangs up.

[823] And when the officers get there, they find Karen's naked body in a snowbank near the railroad tracks.

[824] And she's been beaten with.

[825] a tire iron so severely that her skull's been cracked they can see her brain but she's alive what she fucking survived no yes she survives now she doesn't have any memory of the attack it really of course very severely affected her memory oh my god and she had to you know um work back from that right place but she lived through it oh honey yes but they have no it just seems like this this random attack um okay are we gonna listen to any of them or no Well, uh, yes.

[826] We, so Stephen has them standing by.

[827] And so we'll, we'll go in.

[828] Let me do this one first because that one was, um, you know, she lived and it was the, it was basically the first one.

[829] Okay.

[830] So the next one is Kimberly Compton.

[831] Um, this is the second attack, but the first murder.

[832] So on June 3rd, 1981, a group of boys are walking through a wooded area by Interstate 35, St. Paul.

[833] Mm -hmm.

[834] And they come across.

[835] cross the body of 18 -year -old Wisconsin student Kimberly Compton.

[836] She has been stabbed with an ice pick 61 times.

[837] Oh, my God.

[838] And she then was strangled with a shoelace.

[839] So at the same time, another call is made to the police.

[840] And the caller, tearful, full of emotion, reports the crime that he committed.

[841] And he tells the police, God damn, will you find me?

[842] I just stab somebody with an ice pick.

[843] I can't stop myself.

[844] I keep killing, I keep killing somebody is the phrase that he uses.

[845] And then they trace the call, they get to a pay phone at a bar across the street from a local bus depot, but when they get, by the time they get there, of course, the guy's gone.

[846] The killer's gone.

[847] Two days later, he calls again, and here's the phone call.

[848] Oh, my God.

[849] This is the first time in the history of my favorite murder where we played a 911 call?

[850] We're going to play a 911 call, and it's purely so we can hear.

[851] Yeah.

[852] Don't talk.

[853] Just listen.

[854] I'm sorry what I did to count, and I couldn't help it.

[855] Don't know why I ever.

[856] I am so upset about it.

[857] I can't get drunk every day.

[858] I can't believe I think it's like a big dream.

[859] I can't think I'm being locked up.

[860] If I get locked up, I'd kill myself.

[861] I'd rather kill my.

[862] I try not to kill anybody else.

[863] Just.

[864] Oh.

[865] So I don't like 911 calls because, well, most of the time, if it is the killer, it's oftentimes a husband pretending to be upset when he's actually not.

[866] Or just hearing the people actually upset, being upset is upsetting.

[867] But this is, for some reason, this is different to me because he's just talking about himself.

[868] Yeah.

[869] He has just murdered someone so viciously.

[870] and insanely.

[871] And he's calling and acting like he's upset that he did that.

[872] Right.

[873] But really he just immediately starts talking about I can't go to jail.

[874] Right.

[875] And that this is all like very sad for him.

[876] And also just that if I ever had to listen to really anybody, but especially a man talking in that tone of voice.

[877] Like a cowardly lion?

[878] Sir, sir.

[879] It sounds like the cowardly lion.

[880] It totally does.

[881] I'll beat Emma.

[882] Don't talk.

[883] I'll take Emma.

[884] I don't know.

[885] Oh, you're very.

[886] Um, yeah.

[887] It's, it's, I would have as a 911 dispatcher probably been very disrespectful to that, to that man. He does not turn himself in, as he just said in that phone call.

[888] Um, and, uh, he does kill someone else.

[889] So on July 21st, 1982, a woman named Carol Kellogg goes to her friend's house, Kathleen Greening.

[890] They're going to go on vacation to Mackinac Island.

[891] And Carol knocks on the door, nobody answers.

[892] Um, but.

[893] Then she tries the door and it's unlocked.

[894] So she goes into the house and she calls for Kathleen and no one answers.

[895] So she starts looking around the house, checking every room and Kathleen's not there.

[896] And finally, Carol notices that the bathroom lights on.

[897] So she goes upstairs to the bathroom door and she opens it and she finds Kathleen's naked body lying face up in a filled bathtub.

[898] And her head is under the tap or her legs are down to the other side.

[899] So she calls the police.

[900] Police arrive, and they ultimately rule Kathleen's death an accident.

[901] No. Because there's no proof that anything nefarious happened.

[902] But Kathleen's friends and family don't think it's an accident, and they actually think that her estranged husband could be responsible.

[903] But there's the police look into him, and there's no charges are filed against him.

[904] Right.

[905] About a month later on August 5th, the same year, 40 -year -old Barbara Simons goes out for a night at the hexagon bar in Minneapolis.

[906] and she meets a man there.

[907] He's about to smoke a cigarette.

[908] She offers him one.

[909] Then later on, he offers her a ride home.

[910] And she says yes.

[911] And as she's leaving, she actually says to the bartender, he's cute.

[912] I hope he's nice since he's giving me a ride home.

[913] And then they leave.

[914] So the next morning, August 6th, there's basically a paper boy, but it might be an adult, is walking along the Mississippi River and they find Barbara's body her dead body she's been stabbed over a hundred times Oh my God It's like that's rage stabbing You know beyond I mean yeah But he doesn't even know these women Right it's insane overkill Yeah and must be so disturbing For the people that find these bodies Oh geez Again the police get another phone call And it's the same voice and this time he's full on crying and he once again starts the call please don't talk just listen um which is how he's starting these calls do you want to try the the next one okay your emergency please don't talk just listen I'm sorry I killed I killed I stand there 40 times Kimberly Compton was a first one over three for all right I don't know what's about me I'm saying I'm going to kill myself, I'm saying.

[915] Where are you?

[916] I'm going to die when it looks out of me. I kill both of these.

[917] Calm down.

[918] Calm down, the dispatcher, calm down.

[919] It's not real.

[920] What, his, the emotion?

[921] Yeah, I, you know, I always thought it was when I've heard it in the past.

[922] But now I'm like, no, he just wants credit for these murders.

[923] And attention.

[924] Attention and credit.

[925] And he's crying for himself.

[926] The last thing he said, you could barely understand it.

[927] He says, I've killed more people.

[928] I'll never make it to heaven.

[929] He's crying about himself.

[930] And I think there's, you know, obviously there's that interesting, like, is this a Jekyll and Hyde situation where he's doing these crazy overkill murders waking up and then feeling bad.

[931] Wait, so he just took credit for the woman who drowned, right?

[932] No, he, no. Kimberly Compton, who is the first one who was stabbed and strangled with the shoelace.

[933] okay he's he did not take credit for for that and because how do they know but how do they change it you're going to tell me probably yes it's a reveal okay yeah and i won't she doesn't actually fit into the mo yeah so actually that one does it goes it stands alone cold for a while okay tell me tell me and again normally i really can't even i can't take nine one one calls at all but there's something about this one that it's just like it's so it's just like the dispatcher that finally breaks in that's like calm down yeah What are you even doing?

[934] What is this for?

[935] He's leading this thing that no one else has anything to do with it.

[936] He wants control over, oh, that's creepy.

[937] It's so creepy.

[938] And also, but then he's just kind of complaining.

[939] He's complaining.

[940] Yeah.

[941] Okay.

[942] So investigators start their search for the killer trying to identify the man that Barbara left the bar with the night before.

[943] So the witnesses, they all tell authorities that they remember seeing Barbara leave with a man that was around 40 years old, six feet tall, 185 pounds.

[944] He's a white man with a receding hairline.

[945] Okay, so then on August 21st, 1982, so this is basically a month after that, police are still searching for Barbara Simon's killer from the hexagon bar when a 19 -year -old Minneapolis sex worker named Denise Williams is out on the streets working, a client approaches her, they talk about pricing, and then she gets into his car.

[946] they drive to a secluded location they have sex and then afterwards he says he's going to drive her back home and then as they're driving Denise notices that they're actually going further away into like into an area that she doesn't recognize they're not going back to the city it's a very dark suburban area she's starting to get uneasy and she knows she's in danger she has a bottle near her leg that she has, she just knows where it is.

[947] So she's kind of prepped.

[948] He pulls off into a dead end street, turns and starts stabbing her with a screwdriver.

[949] But she's ready.

[950] So she grabs the bottle from the floor of the car and smashes him in the head.

[951] Yes.

[952] And then she starts screaming and she actually wakes up a neighbor nearby who comes out of his house.

[953] He tackles the attacker to the ground and saves Denise.

[954] But the attacker ends up escaping.

[955] And by the end of the whole thing, Denise has been stabbed with the screwdriver 15 times.

[956] Holy shit.

[957] Yeah.

[958] So the neighbor calls an ambulance for Denise.

[959] And then he tells the police all about what the attacker looks like.

[960] And meanwhile, the attacker has made his way back to his apartment.

[961] And he...

[962] But they have his car.

[963] No, he got away.

[964] Okay.

[965] But when he gets to his apartment, he calls an ambulance for himself.

[966] No. Uh -huh.

[967] So it's another.

[968] 911 call and he's calling in saying, I need help and doing the same weird voice.

[969] And the dispatcher who takes that call from him goes, this is that person that keeps calling and saying they've killed somebody and then someone ends up stabbed to death.

[970] And so the dispatcher basically tells the police, I think this is the same guy that's been calling in these murders.

[971] And so police show up at the attacker's apartment and he is finally identified as 37 year old Paul Michael Stefani.

[972] He's arrested.

[973] He's arrested and he's charged with second -degree assault for Denise Williams' attack.

[974] Okay.

[975] So as they dig deeper into Stefani's background, they're able to connect Barbara Simons' murder to him because of the eyewitness account.

[976] So there's a waitress who saw Barbara Simons leave the hexagon bar with a man that she knew was Paul Stefani.

[977] She knew his name.

[978] So when the police came back around to look into Stefani, she was like, oh, yes, that she left with Paul.

[979] I know that that's who it was.

[980] So they look into Paul Stefani's background and they see that he used to work at the Malberg Manufacturing Company, which was the place, he was fired there in March of 1977, which was three years before Karen Pollock's attack, and that's the place where her body was found.

[981] Oh, you very.

[982] So basically, they're able to add a murder charge for Barbara Simons on top of the assault charge for Denise Williams.

[983] So a little tiny bit of background about Paul Stefani.

[984] There's not much, and it's not that interesting.

[985] But he was born September 8th, 1944 in Austin, Minnesota.

[986] He was one of 10 kids, super religious family, and super repressed.

[987] He married a woman as an adult named Beverly Leiter, and they had a daughter together, but they later divorced.

[988] Basically, Stefani goes to trial for that murder and for the attack, and his ex -wife, Beverly, his sister and his former roommate all come to testify.

[989] that the voice that you hear on these 911 calls is his voice.

[990] Oh, my God.

[991] They're all there saying that's him.

[992] Yeah.

[993] Basically are just trying to get these, the charges that they have for these attacks and then connect these other ones that they don't, that have gone cold, they want to link to him.

[994] But because he becomes so incoherent at the end of those calls, when it turns into that, they can't, like, directly connect it because basically it could be anybody.

[995] making that noise it's not distinctly his voice um so but even still stephanie has found guilty guilty in both the second degree assault charge and the murder charge for barbara simon's death and they give him 40 years in prison so yeah 40 years yeah yeah so um in 1997 he's 53 years old he's still in prison and he gets diagnosed with skin cancer and when the doctors tell him he has about a year to live, he tells the authorities that he has other confessions about other attacks that he wants to make.

[996] He says he wants to apologize to the victim's family before he dies.

[997] So on a taped confession, he confesses to the murders of Kathleen Greening, Kimberly Compton, and the tire iron attack on Karen Pollock.

[998] And he hadn't even been a suspect in the greening case.

[999] That's the one where she was in the bathtub.

[1000] And because there was no phone calls made that was like a really early one and he just basically gave it to them.

[1001] Wow.

[1002] Yeah.

[1003] So about in 1998 a year later after that, Stefani dies at Oak Parks Heights maximum security prison just shy of his 54th birthday.

[1004] And that is the short and upsetting story of the weepy voiced killer.

[1005] Oh my God.

[1006] Yeah.

[1007] I hate him.

[1008] Isn't he the worst?

[1009] Yeah.

[1010] I'm glad one of us finally did that.

[1011] I don't know why we haven't I know I mean I think I've been so anti Oh yeah Because of the And then maybe I just didn't want to play it for you So it's good that you did it Yeah Because now I'm not forcing anything on you Well and also I realize it's like I want to paint that with a broad brush Of like I don't ever want to hear any 911 call Which is true Except for there's something about this one It's like it feels different No it is It totally is And it's just so like I don't know it just fascinates me It's just that thing of these people and these these fucking crazy murderers who then also think I just don't it's so fascinating what they think and the way they do things they're just like he's crying for himself he feels worse for himself than anybody in that situation just that void of humanity but still able to pity himself yeah is amazing to me yeah yeah so yeah fucking fucking a man fucking a good job Fucking hooray Yeah Fucking hooray time I guess I will say this one And I'm not sure if you're going to remember this But it was a couple years ago My niece Lauren Was down here, down south Going to college Just out of high school And she really hated it immediately And Was really miserable And having a terrible time And She would come and hang out with me every once in a while just because she was like it was a really small school it was a really weird area she wasn't her room nothing was working out the way she wanted it to she wanted some familiarity yeah so she would come and hang out with me and just kind of like tell me about how much she hated it and just she just felt like she made the wrong decision um which is heartbreaking yeah um today she graduated from berkeley oh my god with an anthropology um degree because she is such a badass that in that time she basically went to her parents and was like I can't go to this college anymore.

[1012] I'm so miserable.

[1013] And her parents were like didn't want to let her just quit.

[1014] And we're going to say you should actually just go here for two more years.

[1015] It's better for your.

[1016] They had kind of had this plan in place.

[1017] And then I basically was like if I could just on her behalf say I get why you want to like hold the line on this.

[1018] But it really does suck.

[1019] And it's a tiny school.

[1020] And two years is a very long time, especially when you're young and miserable.

[1021] Right.

[1022] And she does have a plan.

[1023] She just doesn't want to do it down there.

[1024] It's not like she's like partied her way out of school like me. And it's not like it'll ding your record that much that you'll never get a job once you get out of college or whatever.

[1025] Right.

[1026] And also I think it's a thing of like I think she was nervous about it too.

[1027] All of this is to say that, you know, this was a low time in her life.

[1028] And what she did was basically just kind of like pack it up, go home.

[1029] get into the JC and she just started working and she knew where she wanted to be and she worked her way into Berkeley which is one of the best schools there is and and got to the point where she graduated like very quickly and she just I don't know she just turned it all around like her life is so different than it was when all that happened and I'm just so proud of her so anyway I'm just thrilled but it also is that that thing of if you make a decision and you're like, here's the big thing I'm going to do and you go down that road for a while and you don't like it, you get to change your mind.

[1030] It's hard, like, I'm sure there's parents that'll weigh in.

[1031] There's lots of people, especially if you're spending their money.

[1032] There's lots of people who have lots of opinions.

[1033] And there's lots of times where people won't make that decision because they go like, oh, everybody at home will find out.

[1034] And I'll be ashamed because everybody else is doing this and that and how do I compare?

[1035] and blah, blah.

[1036] And you cannot make decisions for yourself and for your future based on what other people are going to think.

[1037] You have to do what's good and right for you and best for you and you have to like figure out your path and you get to figure and refigure it a couple times.

[1038] Yeah.

[1039] And I think she's just this shining example of how you can do that and you can start over and go like basically recalibrate and do whatever you want.

[1040] That's amazing.

[1041] Yeah.

[1042] I love that.

[1043] Yeah.

[1044] Yeah.

[1045] Good for her.

[1046] Congratulations.

[1047] I know.

[1048] I'm so proud of her.

[1049] Yeah, I bet.

[1050] Mine is a piece of paper that I got in therapy today.

[1051] That is a list of the 10 classic unhelpful thinking styles.

[1052] Ten.

[1053] Yeah, yeah.

[1054] Let's hear him.

[1055] My brain feels broken a lot because I go to the wrong spot when, you know, like, Vince is going to hate me if I ask if he'll do the laundry.

[1056] You know, like, it just doesn't compute correctly sometimes.

[1057] and so our therapist gave this to me that was like everyone does that it's totally normal maybe yours does it a little more than everyone else is but it's normal and so but probably not right yeah well yeah so there I'll learn I'll just name it but you can look up the 10 classic unhelpful thinking styles I think is what it's called do you want to hear them yeah all or nothing thinking a mental filter paying attention to only certain types of advice jumping to conclusions emotional reasoning assuming not because we feel a certain way and what we think must be true labeling labeling ourselves overgeneralizing disqualifying the positive magnification catastrophizing and minimization so like everything is the worst whatever I've done good it doesn't count using critical words like should must and ought and personalization like this is my fault and I do all of those a lot and but then i was like vince and i afterwards i was like do you do those because vince always seems so like fucking together to me he's like yeah all the time like he even him looks like you know affected by it so that's kind of nice right now everybody is yeah yeah it just doesn't seem like it because they're on the outside right not having to deal with the shit that you hear on the inside it just seems so much easier for other people to like get it especially when you can't.

[1058] Yeah.

[1059] So that's it.

[1060] Mental health.

[1061] Yeah.

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[1086] Cool.

[1087] Thanks for listening guys.

[1088] Uh, and what else?

[1089] That's it, right?

[1090] I think so.

[1091] Um, yeah, thanks for sticking around.

[1092] Yeah.

[1093] And stay sexy.

[1094] And don't get murdered.

[1095] Goodbye.

[1096] Bye.

[1097] Elvis, do you want a cookie?