270 - Three Out Of Ten

[0] This is exactly right.

[1] And welcome to my favorite murder.

[2] That's Georgia Hardstar.

[3] That's Karen Kilgariff, if you can believe it.

[4] Can you?

[5] Can you wrap your head around Karen?

[6] Five years in a row of doing this.

[7] For you, we both show up every time.

[8] This is, believe it.

[9] My second longest relationship, this podcast, officially.

[10] We're working on it.

[11] We're still a work in progress as we all are and all relationships are.

[12] And it's a discussion and a compromise.

[13] That's right.

[14] How's it going?

[15] Good, especially because I have down almost an entire nitro latte with oat milk.

[16] What does that mean?

[17] That means I'm going to be real happy during this recording.

[18] Is there something special about that canned latte?

[19] It's nitro unsweetened, black, and oat milk coffee.

[20] So it's essentially what's the cold brew?

[21] Oh, shit, okay.

[22] Oh, you're about to go off?

[23] Is that what you're warning me about?

[24] You're about to go for it.

[25] I'm having the best time.

[26] Yeah.

[27] What's up with you?

[28] Nothing.

[29] You know, I just have my theory.

[30] I have my theory about the end of quarantine and how difficult I think, we, none of us understand how difficult the ending of things are.

[31] Even things we don't want to be in anymore.

[32] The adjustment we're about to make basically merging back into society as a whole.

[33] I hate it.

[34] None of us have ever done it before.

[35] No one understands really what any of these vibes or feelings are.

[36] There's nothing to necessarily do about it.

[37] And we all have to like wait for our second shot and then see what happens.

[38] And it's very I just don't want to be in my house anymore.

[39] That's what it comes down to is a big piece of it is no good can come from sitting in your house this much.

[40] Let me ask you because you loved your house a year and two months ago.

[41] Do you resent it a little bit at this point?

[42] Not in the least because this house has made my enjoyment of this house has made it easier for me. Like I always, always think of people like I think of my past apartment relationship situation.

[43] and how impossible they would be.

[44] Or you had your last house.

[45] Can you imagine how depressing you would be?

[46] Your ex -husband house?

[47] That house was so depressing just structurally, just architecturally.

[48] It was like it was a Winchester mystery house of bad feelings and bad vibes.

[49] It had a lot of rooms that didn't make sense.

[50] There was a lot of doors that opened right on to the next room.

[51] There were no very few holes.

[52] Yeah.

[53] It was just weird, and I was trying to make it work, and that is the story of my life.

[54] And so, no, this, the house I have now is a joy and I love it.

[55] And, well, the good news is it's all turning around and change is actually ultimately good.

[56] Of course.

[57] So it will be okay.

[58] Think of it as like quarantine is a womb and we're in the birth canal, stuck in the birth canal.

[59] So hopefully we're getting oxygen.

[60] And we're about to be birthed into the world, take a first deep breath, get spanked on the ass, and fucking get to it.

[61] And that's like the goal.

[62] But at the moment, the soft plates in our skull are smashed together and making it feel like our brain is going to come out of our head.

[63] And that's, it's temporary.

[64] Yeah.

[65] The doctor is temporary.

[66] is threatening us with the C -section.

[67] And we're like, no, I want to try a little harder.

[68] The clamps are coming in for our skull.

[69] Did they still use those?

[70] My thing is, no big moves in the birth canal.

[71] No big moves.

[72] Just keep it low fucking key as much as you can in the birth now.

[73] Let that Pitocin work.

[74] Why do I know so much about birth?

[75] It's your favorite.

[76] There was this show when I was like in my 20s called A Birth Story.

[77] And it was like literally.

[78] the last couple days of someone's and I was obsessed with it.

[79] And then I started watching birthing videos.

[80] God, why am I admitting this?

[81] Just because it became an interest?

[82] Yes.

[83] Yes.

[84] And that's when you decided never tap children.

[85] I was like, that don't look like fun.

[86] That looks terrible and then I'm tired for 18 years.

[87] I'll never forget when my friend who had two kids at the time and I was probably 27 told me my god um how embarrassed she was because when she had her first baby she's shit on the birth on the table and she was so embarrassed that that happened in front of her husband and all this stuff and i remember looking at her like oh god it's all so difficult you change as a person but i think that happens every time and people don't talk about it and i think that's why they position the husband at the shoulders yes i agree which is so polite but also like you should take a look motherfucker and see what i'm going through yes down there.

[88] Get your face.

[89] Close.

[90] I was going to actually there's a bunch of stuff that happened last week that lots of people were interacting with all week long.

[91] Oh yeah, let's hear it.

[92] So many things.

[93] The first and foremost, I have to say it was a surprise how the Catholic hive rose up around.

[94] I mean, unbelievable.

[95] Oh, my God.

[96] I think it's part there are a lot of us who are either lapsed Catholics, ex -Catholics, still practicing but low -key Catholics, who have all this knowledge in our brain.

[97] So, like, clearly I'm not one of the leading people on this.

[98] But if you had, like, grandparents that did a bunch of Catholic stuff around you, you know it.

[99] So, honestly, minimum 50 tweets from people going, I'm sure a bunch of people told you this already, but the first one.

[100] And Instagram is wrong because 50 comments, but you can see other people's comments.

[101] So it's not like they don't know that, which just bless your heart.

[102] Everyone get your, get your shit out, you know.

[103] So what did it say?

[104] This was from the, I'm just going to read the first one, and they included a photo of the statue.

[105] So we know what about we speak.

[106] That's polite.

[107] And it was from someone whose handle is Fleetwood Mom.

[108] So she's at Tango or her name.

[109] name i don't know what the difference of the two is the tan the at is tango morin c and tango morin c was first and she included a photo amazing um it says to us just listen to the latest minisode the buried statue was actually probably a statue of st joseph because irish catholics love hocus pocus catholicism finally someone fucking admits that it's all magic so true and believe that burying st joseph upside down in a garden will help you sell your house.

[110] It's green.

[111] It's glow in the dark.

[112] It's made of the same material as my childhood retainer.

[113] Because it's glow in the dark, baby.

[114] So he's down there underground, lighting up the soil upside down because he's the patron saint of real estate or whatever.

[115] And then if you buy the house, you're supposed to dig it up and put it on your mantle, which I think is cool.

[116] was this chachkee lover.

[117] I love that.

[118] Yeah, I mean, sure.

[119] That seems dirty.

[120] But yes, if that's what you want to do, I think that's kind of crazy.

[121] Well, none of it's buried in manure, but if it's just like plain old backyard dirt.

[122] But it's your mantle and then it's this plastic glow in the dark, like truly daytime glow in the dark things that are just weird green, like nauseated green.

[123] Yeah.

[124] It's like, you know, you wouldn't rush to put it on the mantle.

[125] No. Doesn't seem like.

[126] But I do appreciate everybody for.

[127] I mean, I still get them all day, every day.

[128] Usually I get like a handful.

[129] This was so many people.

[130] Well, that's great.

[131] Another clarification corner, which we value, request.

[132] I feel like slowly but surely, we're going to get, we're going to become experts in both Judaism and Catholicism through and through our mistakes.

[133] And then my mom will finally be happy.

[134] Oh, we all go to temple together as a family.

[135] It will make up for the fact that my brother, sister and I, none of us married a Jewish person because we were so like, fuck that.

[136] At the end of our bar and bat mitzvahs, we were like, never again.

[137] See you later.

[138] Bye.

[139] Thanks for the check.

[140] My brother actually married a Catholic girl now that I think about it.

[141] Yolanda.

[142] Yolanda Cortez.

[143] She's amazing.

[144] Oh, she is.

[145] I love Yolanda.

[146] She's so nice.

[147] She is a psychological.

[148] ecologist for severe children with severe cases of autism.

[149] It's she's a fucking saint.

[150] I love her.

[151] She gives our family a good reputation.

[152] That's good.

[153] Get it however you can.

[154] That's exactly right.

[155] What else?

[156] Can I tell you that I've finally taken a break from Sopranos?

[157] Oh, yeah.

[158] And I have something new.

[159] Thank fucking God.

[160] So if everyone needs a break, I highly suggest, made for love on HBO.

[161] Have you been watching it?

[162] No, I haven't heard of it.

[163] Oh my God.

[164] It's incredible.

[165] It's Made for Love.

[166] Made for Love.

[167] It's Kristen Melotti from all the sci -fi things and how I met your mother.

[168] Do you know who Billy?

[169] Sorry.

[170] Sorry, really quick.

[171] Is she the girl that was in Palm Springs with I love her?

[172] And she was in the second season of Fargo.

[173] Oh, yeah.

[174] And she is so good, so good.

[175] And a great episode of Black Mirror with what's his name who's married to Kristen, Kirsten, who was in Friday Night Lights.

[176] This is getting con. Oh, Jesse Plumman.

[177] Thank you.

[178] This is getting convoluted.

[179] So she was in an episode of Black Mirror on a spaceship.

[180] And then Billy Magnuson.

[181] Do you know who that is?

[182] Beautiful blonde.

[183] Oh, Billy Madison, who had to go back to fourth grade?

[184] Yes, I've heard of him.

[185] He stars in the.

[186] No, but that would be fucking great, right?

[187] That script is pretty good.

[188] Billy Magnuson, who was in also in an episode of Black Mirror, also in Kimmy Schmidt.

[189] Fun fact, in an episode, in a show called American Crime, he played none other than Cato fucking Kalin.

[190] Wait.

[191] Hold on.

[192] I'm looking at him.

[193] You have to look at him.

[194] He's gorgeous.

[195] He's our new.

[196] We're his new fan girl.

[197] Oh, yes.

[198] I know this guy's case.

[199] He's like in everything and you see him and you're like, I know that guy from somewhere and you don't know where it is.

[200] And he's legit great in everything he does.

[201] But he's the most beautiful character actor.

[202] It doesn't make sense.

[203] That's how it is these days, because everyone's so pretty.

[204] This is a tour de force on his fucking part.

[205] Like, he plays such a creep beautifully.

[206] Oh, made two love or made for love.

[207] Oh, and he also is in or was in, your pretty face is going to hell with Henry.

[208] Henry Zabrowski, friend of the family and one of the pioneering reasons we started this podcast.

[209] Yep.

[210] So, I don't know, fun.

[211] And then also way back in the beginning of his career, he was in as the world turns, which I think is a necessity for character actors, right?

[212] Well, absolutely.

[213] I mean, what's funny is this guy does not look like a, is not a traditional character actor because he's gorgeous, but he plays a certain villain, a certain bad guy, a certain slimy guy.

[214] So then, yeah, he's been kind of corralled into this.

[215] But it's the same thing as Kristen Mulani.

[216] That's her last name, right?

[217] Melotti.

[218] Kristen Milioti.

[219] So she is similar where I find her to be an incredible actress.

[220] Absolutely.

[221] Not just good or regular.

[222] Or the standard there.

[223] But she's a sublime actress in that second season of Fargo, which every member of that cast was really like hitting threes the entire time.

[224] So it was like really a beautiful thing to see.

[225] It's three good.

[226] Hitting threes and basketball is when you're, it's like for shooting for the outside so you're getting an extra point look at you i was like three out of ten doesn't sound great actually i don't know shit about basketball girl we're not rating her her face or body we're saying she's she's killing it she's killing it killing it um yeah she's one of the reasons that that second season of fargo was transformative experience i don't remember who she played in that but congratulations she had cancer she was the young mom with cancer which is such a fucking 80s thing the idea that they represented it in a show like that.

[227] I was just like, this in the 80s, in the early 80s, everyone's parents got divorced.

[228] Truly, I would ask my parents every day, are you going to get divorced today?

[229] And my mom was like, this is crazy.

[230] I was like, I need just, I need you the first one to know, please.

[231] As a psych nurse, how did she not take you to a child psychologist based on that alone?

[232] Because she was always just like, please, relax.

[233] I don't have time to drive you to fucking therapy.

[234] Everybody had, everybody's parents got divorced and then a bunch of like moms got cancer where you're like, wait, what, what, what?

[235] Like, it was so horrifying.

[236] And the fact that they lace that in was amazing.

[237] At the time, though, you were like, but they're old ladies.

[238] And now I'm 40 and I'm like, oh, that's tragic.

[239] And also at the time, we should say at the time, it was, it could be a death sentence.

[240] And these days, not as much.

[241] Thank God.

[242] Do you know, it's so crazy that you said that is Kristen Millilogy's mom in this dies of cancer.

[243] It's not a spoiler in the, like 90s or 80s.

[244] and her dad is played by Ray Romano.

[245] Brilliantly.

[246] Oh, that's interesting.

[247] Brilliantly played by him.

[248] He's very good as well.

[249] Oh, and then Patty, what's her name, that comedian?

[250] Patty Duke.

[251] She plays twins, right?

[252] She is her own teenage cousin.

[253] Hold on.

[254] I have to give her a shout out because she doesn't know who I am, but I find her so delightful on Instagram, and I've seen her do stand up.

[255] And she is.

[256] Patty Arquette.

[257] Patty Harrison.

[258] Yes.

[259] Patty Harrison.

[260] Patty Harris.

[261] Follow her on Instagram.

[262] It's party underscore Harderson.

[263] She is, she has the filthiest mouth and she is the funniest.

[264] I just am like, she's the office bitch in Shrill, which is a great show too.

[265] This is a lot of talk about Made for Love.

[266] That's all I have.

[267] Well, it's fun to find a new thing that you actually like.

[268] Yeah, it's great.

[269] I started watching my version of this is, of course, British.

[270] It's a British crime procedural.

[271] That fits with the normal.

[272] But you see this, if you have Amazon Prime, you see this on there all the time.

[273] It's called May Day.

[274] It's from a while ago.

[275] And it's real good.

[276] It's real good.

[277] There's a murder in a town and you don't know who did it and everyone is suspicious.

[278] Is it a charming town?

[279] Is it a charming British countryside town?

[280] It is and it's forest based, which is another additional thing that a part of it where I'm like, if you can fold in a little bit of pagan forest witchery, which this has.

[281] quite a bit it's good stuff but the one of the stars of it is the great british actress leslie manville who was in phantom thread and she was in the show that i love called um mum if you need to relax and watch some british comedy very light very subtle british comedy there's a there's a series called mum i'm i know for a fact i've recommended it before it's so lovely it's about a woman whose husband just died and basically what her life slowly kind of turns into in a really lovely way.

[282] It's like surprisingly wonderful.

[283] That sounds great.

[284] That's like a chill one and mine's like a crazy sci -fi adventure set in the future.

[285] Yeah.

[286] So let's, to watch mine and then watch yours to go to before you go to bed, I feel like.

[287] Then we do brackets.

[288] And then we see who votes for who.

[289] And then we fight to the death in a ball pit, right?

[290] In a ball pit that has razors hidden around.

[291] And all we have for weapons is flower.

[292] Perfect.

[293] Flower and Zippo lighters.

[294] I also wanted to say, because my story last week with the Paris's burning murders, I was kind of breathtaking to see that the legendary drag performer, Peaches Christ, complimented us on that story.

[295] I didn't do anything.

[296] On Twitter, well, you know, but we share it.

[297] Thank you.

[298] Um, we do.

[299] And, uh, it was just one of those kind of things.

[300] Because we've started following each other and I've heard of her.

[301] She's a legend.

[302] Yeah.

[303] And she's, I'm, I'm almost positive.

[304] She is in San Francisco, which is one of those kind of things like when you're a legend there.

[305] It stays with you.

[306] Yeah.

[307] So it's very.

[308] Thank you.

[309] I believe she listens.

[310] And it meant the world.

[311] Gorgeous.

[312] What a, what a honor.

[313] And especially someone in that community who, who's like you did it.

[314] You did it justice.

[315] That is.

[316] Yeah.

[317] what we do this for i guess that's kind of it's a subconscious brag ultimately but it's like but if peaches christ says you says you did a good job then you can take that to the fucking bit that's right if anyone never talk shit just retweet her tweet at you to that fucking motherfucker and no matter what the topic that's right oh yeah you don't like the way i said whatever i didn't put a fuck i said your i spelled your wrong well guess what oh that wouldn't happen to me it's fine.

[318] We know the words I speak sometimes incorrectly.

[319] Hey, don't we all?

[320] Hey, man. Also, just as a sidebar, a couple people were wondering, I was not being sarcastic when I said Pittsburgh was one of my favorite cities.

[321] That was not sarcasm.

[322] It's so sad that people immediately are like, you love Cincinnati?

[323] What?

[324] It's like, no, I fucking love Cincinnati.

[325] It's the best.

[326] Their thrift stores are unbelievable.

[327] That's right.

[328] They're like the 90s thrift stores that we used to go to and, like, that are now gone.

[329] Here's a moment of do you remember this from the road.

[330] Okay.

[331] Oh, the road.

[332] We should totally steal you must remember this as theme song because see if Karina Longwood gets mad at us.

[333] Do you remember this from tour?

[334] Okay.

[335] When we landed in Pittsburgh, first of all, remember when I lost my phone and Vince ran to the gate to try to go get it off the plane and it wasn't there and it turned out I'd left it in the back.

[336] I remember that well.

[337] which is fair because remember when Vince left his backpack in the cab and had to go meet like we had a show that night and he usually goes to the venue at like 5 o 'clock before us to get everything set up so we all lose we all lose shit it's yes definitely happens but also we had gotten to be such a well -oiled machine that those hiccups which usually were me based were major hiccups where it's like fuck but that aside we got to Pittsburgh, we got into the SUV and we had a driver who introduced us to Pittsburgh.

[338] Do you remember that man who was like, we were talking amongst ourselves, I think you were talking, I want to go to this place, I looked up this place, I heard about this place and then he basically, very politely and very naturally kind of slid into the conversation was like, a lot of people don't know this about Pittsburgh and was basically giving us fun facts and like kind of a verbal tour.

[339] It was the coolest conversation, he was, he had this great accent.

[340] You wouldn't have guessed that he would be, he was like, almost like a Pittsburgh advocate.

[341] Yeah.

[342] Like, we're, we're a this town, where that.

[343] Da, da, da, da, da.

[344] And it was the greatest.

[345] It was such a great introduction.

[346] And we're tired out.

[347] And you've lost your phone.

[348] And you're in problems.

[349] Nine times out of 10, the fucking hotel room isn't ready yet.

[350] Because for some fucking reason, you always can't check in until four, which I think is bullshit.

[351] Because if you rent a room, you should have it for 20 for fucking hours.

[352] which is a day if you run a you do you have it till the next day at four no you don't remember they always kick you out at 11 or 12 well because they have to clean they have to turn the room over hear me out this is my platform okay no I don't that's fine oh I thought you had a plan like a new way to do it I never have a plan I just fly by the seat on my pants uh yeah that was lovely and so it was really nice so just there are people who I relate to you it's hard to take a compliment but that's how it was was met.

[353] Hey, um, since this is, after all, 50 % a true crime podcast, can I, uh, say, tell a couple things that please based on that.

[354] So did you hear that killers of the flower moon?

[355] The incredible book is being turned into a movie.

[356] You're shaking your head yes.

[357] So I'm guessing that's a yes.

[358] And it's, I think it's really cool because so, uh, Tatanka means is playing, is it is in it.

[359] I know this one.

[360] which is true, who's great.

[361] And then also a sort of friend of the family, Pat Healy is in it, who I love because I see him in the neighborhood once every 10 years after meeting him 20 years ago.

[362] And he never forgets my name.

[363] Maybe once every five years, we walk by each other.

[364] And he's like, Georgia.

[365] And he doesn't need to know who I am for any fucking reason.

[366] He is in a million movies too.

[367] He was the evil guy in compliance.

[368] Yes.

[369] Which is the crew.

[370] He's a great actor.

[371] Yes.

[372] he's great so I love him just if you remember me that's all it takes really well that's that thing of like you know the books about persuasion or political anything is honestly on the like in the first chapter it's always remember people's names it means the world to them well you're great at that and I just I just write off your glory I'm great at it yes you remember everyone's fucking name oh I don't even really remember that Pittsburgh thing I was just going along with because I didn't want to be a dick to Pittsburgh to be totally.

[373] The thing I was picturing, I realized what actually happened in Arizona.

[374] And so I was like, shit, that's not it.

[375] Here's a thing, though, a lot of those experiences, that's so funny.

[376] A lot of those experiences are so similar because you're inside a car.

[377] So it's not like you know, or we were in a blue car that time.

[378] You're inside the car.

[379] It's the guy sitting, it's always the same setup.

[380] And it's just different variables within it.

[381] I appreciate you.

[382] but it's purely it's purely the past 20 years of drinking listen if you don't think I have big Swiss cheese holes in my brain as we speak come on a month and a half since I've had a drink and I keep being like my fixed kid am I done yet why isn't my memory coming back what's happening the reason I was nodding my head is because one of my favorite musicians Jason Isbell it also got cast in that movie and he tweeted about it and I had a little bit of like I'm so excited kind of thing and it was just like oh my god this is so cool because it feels like the casting is very conscious about putting the right representation of people in place and telling the story in that way which I think is so cool absolutely absolutely necessary and in fact my computer right now is sitting on a copy of I'm not fucking kidding you killers of the flower moon so I always have my hand I'm I should thank my friend, Denise, Kreissel, because she recommended that book to me three years ago.

[383] Oh, yeah.

[384] We worked on baskets together.

[385] She recommended it so long ago and told me and begged me to listen to it.

[386] I was like, absolutely, just bought the audio book and never, never did.

[387] Yeah.

[388] The other thing, true crime thing I wanted to mention is that Kristen Smart, who I mentioned a couple episodes back, because I listened to the podcast in your own backyard that is fucking incredible.

[389] And so listen to it to catch up on the case because there have been two.

[390] arrests in that case the father and son who have always been a suspect it seems like they found some forensic evidence finally which they should have done 25 fucking years ago if they had actually done a correct proper investigation instead of saying she was a runaway um so fucking hallelujah congratulations to in your own backyard because you are yeah congratulations in this catch game in the same way Michelle McNamara was um it's incredible I got chills.

[391] That's awesome.

[392] And sorry, but are those people that started that podcast from San Luis Obispo or like that area?

[393] Is that why they started it?

[394] Yeah.

[395] So it's hosted and just created by Chris Lambert, who's a freelance journalist from that area.

[396] And that for 25 years, there's been a billboard of her face and have you seen me on it.

[397] So I think so many people are saying who from that area saying I grew up passing that billboard and actually Chris helped start or maybe someone and he never started a fund to get a new one up because it was so old.

[398] So I think everyone from that area and everyone who went to college at Cal Poly just were waiting for something to happen.

[399] Yes.

[400] Well, that's it's kind of the whole ethos behind the idea of a hometown story, you know, which was Georgia's idea when we started this podcast is we all got into true crime for a certain reason for because we got exposed to it at a certain period of time or.

[401] whatever, or we have these stories that because they were near where we grew up or somebody went to our school or whatever it is, it's the one that that is your case.

[402] And there's a lot of oftentimes, you know, derision or like criticism of true crime, of being interested in true crime because of that idea, it's always interpreted as like this almost like a rubbernecking kind of thing for people who are outside of it.

[403] And I think when people who are inside of it, this is such a great example of really what it's like where it's like no this was a girl that lived in my town disappeared it mattered the fact that nothing got done about it matters you know and so it's not there's always that thing of like well other things matter it's like yeah right but this is in my tiny town yeah exactly we all have someone and something like like polycloths from your town and that must have shaken you guys to the core Yeah.

[404] It changed the entire town permanently.

[405] Yeah.

[406] It's incredible.

[407] Mine was the kid who his father divorced took him to Disney.

[408] This is a horrible story, but his father took him to Disneyland.

[409] They got in a motel and he lit the kid's bed on fire.

[410] He survived.

[411] It's so horrifying.

[412] But I could, I've never stopped thinking about it.

[413] And it just changed me that the father could do something.

[414] And my, parents were divorced too and we went on vacations with my dad so it just like put this not that marty would ever fucking do something like that but just put this fear in me and this being like oh other people have it really bad and you know life can be a fucking monster yeah and the armchair expert thing quote unquote is so it's like such a negative thing to so many people but i think people like michel macnomera and paul haines and now chris lambert are changing the of that and giving us some fucking legitimacy, which I feel like is powerful and is going to only help other cases.

[415] It can only help.

[416] Right.

[417] More eyes on it, even if they're not professionals.

[418] Because look at this Kristen Smart case.

[419] They had 25 years and multiple changes in sheriff and head sheriffs, whatever they're called, and district attorneys.

[420] And none of them were able to do anything about it and this podcast comes along and maybe it's a coincidence that this case now has momentum but I don't think so no it doesn't seem like it no yeah it's nice it's a nice change it's a good it feels like it's a you know there's possibilities in places to to affect change so congratulations to that podcast and and it's um and you know it's nice when some there is can be resolution of some kind or at least at least a step forward we'll see definitely speaking of horrible things i'm reading this great book so it's this harrowing book called the trauma cleaner i cannot name all the trigger warnings it has because it would take four hours so be careful if you loved hoarders and intervention this book is for you oh wow yeah i loved both it's dark um it's the trauma cleaner, one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster by Sarah Krasnestine.

[421] It's about this dynamic, incredible woman who has been through so much in her life.

[422] It's trauma after trauma.

[423] And now as an older woman with like lung cancer, her career is going to the places where horrible things have happened and private homes were where, where horrific things have happened and helping those families and those individuals like the hoarders reassess their lives with so much empathy, partly because of what she went through and the way she was treated.

[424] She's trans and she has done some horrible things herself.

[425] I have read, oh, no, sorry.

[426] I think this person, she's been on criminal.

[427] Phoebe Judge has interviewed her on criminal and that's how I know this story.

[428] Oh, my God.

[429] And that woman is an unbelievable, the way she talks about what she does for a living and why is so inspirational.

[430] Yeah.

[431] I can't wait.

[432] Wait, are you listening to an audio book or a book book?

[433] And the reader is beautiful.

[434] The book is written.

[435] It could just be a story of this woman's life and it would be incredible.

[436] But the writer, yeah, but the writer Sarah Kranstein.

[437] I hope I'm saying that right, is such a poetic, beautiful writer that these horrific traumatizing things she's writing about sound gorgeous and get to hit you in the heart.

[438] And I just can't say enough good things about it, but it's definitely triggering.

[439] The woman's name, who is the trauma cleaner, Sandra Pinkhurst is her name.

[440] And will you spell the author's last name really quickly?

[441] Oh, definitely.

[442] Her last name is spelled K -R -A -S -N -O.

[443] S -T -E -I -N.

[444] Krasnostin.

[445] Krasnostin.

[446] That's right.

[447] Krasnostin.

[448] Australian, so you get that great accent going to.

[449] Sure.

[450] Which is always helpful when things, it's helpful to deliver bad news in a British accent, I feel like.

[451] Or any, yeah, any negative thing.

[452] It always works.

[453] Someone should start that service.

[454] Hello, Miss Hartstock.

[455] Yeah.

[456] Oh, hi.

[457] Yes, your UPS package.

[458] It's smashed.

[459] Oh, tiny bits.

[460] That's okay.

[461] It was a priceless heirloom from my grandma, but, oh, well, you sound so friendly.

[462] I am.

[463] Thank you.

[464] Okay, wait a second.

[465] I got to ask, can we have, I think it'd be even better if it was a drunk British person.

[466] Listen, listen.

[467] You don't know what it's like over here in the fog.

[468] Brexit, Brexit.

[469] Let me. Do you know how hard that was to do drunk Karen British?

[470] That would really, really hurt my, fuck, can I just say this?

[471] Oh, yeah.

[472] The other day, if you have stacked washing machines or at a laundromat, I need to warn you.

[473] Don't be careful.

[474] I don't, I want to save this paint.

[475] I stood up.

[476] Oh, no, I know where this is going.

[477] Yes.

[478] This happened yesterday and I honestly was like, I might have to go to the hospital.

[479] You were like a cartoon character with fucking stars over your head.

[480] You plonked your fucking head.

[481] I bent over to take the wet clothes out of the wash and stand up to put them in the dryer.

[482] And I stood up full speed and slammed to the back of my head into the dryer door to the point where I was like, this is what it feels like to get, like have someone hit you with a pipe over the back of the head when they're, you know what I mean?

[483] It was it was such a bummer all day long.

[484] I'm fine now.

[485] And I had an egg, but it went away.

[486] Thank God.

[487] Oh, wow.

[488] I thought you're like, because I was like, oh, is eating an egg good for a concussion?

[489] I didn't know that.

[490] You crack a raw egg and you stick it on your scalp.

[491] No, I had a fucking bump that was like, I was like, whole.

[492] I literally was like, make sure you don't take a nap.

[493] Like I was do all the concussion, the concussion procedure because I was just like, are you smelling anything weird?

[494] Be careful.

[495] The fact that they don't like just make those stay open, I think is a fucking trick of big, big washing machine getting you to fucking get out for like the healthcare system and the wash big washing machine are in motherfucking cahoots.

[496] and also big skull oh wait speaking of wit sorry it goes all the way and it's talking of what let me ask you I don't want to put you on the spot but I'm putting on the spot which if you had to go to the hospital and none of your neighbors were around would you call me or Stephen?

[497] Now Stephen does look closer to you now than I do that's true yes I have this I feel like Vince would make a real he makes a real calm vibe when there's a fucking panic Vince is definitely an emergency call that's not a judgment on you you, Georgia.

[498] But if I had a henj head injury, and I think I drive like a monster really fast, so I'd get you the fast.

[499] I would not want you driving me, which is what I'm saying.

[500] I have a head injury.

[501] I need my skull protected.

[502] I need my brain not scrambled.

[503] No. Honestly, if I'm going to be honest to both of you, I would call Jake.

[504] I know he would.

[505] That's why I didn't fucking out him to the mix.

[506] It's because I know and be near Stephen, even though he lives on the motherfucking west side, you'd call him and I'm hurt by that.

[507] I'd call Stephen and say, I think I have a head injury and he'd go, oh.

[508] Are you okay?

[509] Steven's like, hmm, Steven's like, I'm medium on your, on this.

[510] Anyway, okay, let me know how it goes.

[511] Yeah, you would.

[512] Thank you.

[513] Here's a call on the middle of the night guy for sure.

[514] He is, you're tried and true, Stephen.

[515] But I think I would wait.

[516] I would save it for a technical issue because the time that I my cable went out.

[517] Stephen was so, like, literally reporting moment by moment.

[518] Because when your, when your Wi -Fi goes out, you don't know what the fuck is going on.

[519] And he was just like, I checked, I checked cable down .com.

[520] I checked Twitter for fucking whatever your, Verizon or whatever it is.

[521] And here's the news report.

[522] By minute by minute.

[523] He's right there.

[524] I think we all have different, like, I think I'm good in an emergency because I was raised by two first responders.

[525] So I'm just like, let's just get this done.

[526] Everyone's had stitches in their skull.

[527] Don't worry about it.

[528] Like, that's literally who I was raised by.

[529] So, and then, yeah.

[530] And I think for my ego, can you tell me about what my positive contribution would be?

[531] I think it'd be keeping you awake by talking your ear off as I'm doing right now.

[532] You, I, here's a thing.

[533] If it were, if I made the called events, I would want you to be in the car.

[534] Oh, for what?

[535] Because for that exact reason, for the, it's a. Okay.

[536] I think you would definitely hold my hand and pat the top of it.

[537] You know what I mean?

[538] Like, I think you would be very, you know, checking things.

[539] And then like Vince would go park while you would walk in with me. You know what I'm really good at?

[540] I'm really good at going to the front and saying, my friend has a fucking concussion.

[541] And I just saw a guy with a toe injury going before her.

[542] Yep.

[543] You'd throw some elbows.

[544] I think you'd be a great patient representative in the waiting room at the emergency room.

[545] I'd ask questions and take notes for you because your head would be injured.

[546] So you'd say you'd I couldn't.

[547] Okay.

[548] Thank you.

[549] I appreciate it.

[550] I needed that.

[551] Otherwise, I've been sulking all day.

[552] I was going to make a joke and say, I would call you for a restaurant emergency, but I don't.

[553] I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings.

[554] I was just trying to be funny.

[555] And when if you had a restaurant emergency?

[556] Let's face it.

[557] I think you're good at that.

[558] Where should we go?

[559] I call you every time my dad comes into town and beg you to go out with me every night because that's all he wants.

[560] I really am good in a restaurant emergency.

[561] It is my passion.

[562] And when people check me about it, socializing.

[563] I feel like it's a compliment.

[564] I'm good at socializing.

[565] Thank you.

[566] Well, just kind of like you're good at a dinner or like a family.

[567] Oh, I thought you meant like a restaurant recommendation.

[568] Well, that too, but usually it's like you should go too.

[569] I appreciate that.

[570] All right.

[571] Great.

[572] This is like this has given me a week of boost.

[573] We should do more boosts corners.

[574] I'm going to write this down.

[575] Stephen, can you remind us?

[576] You haven't gotten one.

[577] What do you want yours to be?

[578] Your thing.

[579] would be, oh, I know if I'm having a, this happened a couple weeks ago.

[580] I'm having a fucking, I had a panic attack.

[581] I'm not fucking doing well.

[582] I, my instinct is to quit it all and just live in the forest.

[583] Mm -hmm.

[584] Can you help me the end?

[585] That's when you'd call me. That's when I did call you two weeks ago.

[586] Remember?

[587] Nice.

[588] Yes, I do.

[589] Yes, I do.

[590] That's kind of, but, yeah, it's.

[591] The idea that people have panic attack these days and don't immediately go, of course, I'm having a panic attack.

[592] This shit sucks.

[593] Like, everything is crazy.

[594] I don't think about it.

[595] Things are so crazy right now.

[596] Yeah.

[597] But thank you.

[598] I'm glad to be, I'm glad to be that person.

[599] Well, the problem was, it's like you, talk to you or pour some alcohol on it, which is a great way to fix it.

[600] But try calling a friend first.

[601] It's like, who wants to be a millionaire?

[602] You have, that's right.

[603] You have four options.

[604] take a shot of vodka call a friend I don't know what the other two are well because also and we've said this before but the shot of vodka freezes it it doesn't fix it it just pauses it in time and then when you're sober now you have more problems and it's that one still there which sucks and I'm sorry because honestly I tell you this with the true heart of an alcoholic I would not be saying this if it didn't almost end my life but but then I was forced to I was forced to face it because it really did feel like it solved problems for me. It does.

[605] But that's because I didn't have all my problems counted up.

[606] Well, I was, I think up until this point, I've been really scared.

[607] Well, first of all, yes, there's nothing to, I didn't, I wasn't ready to, I knew that if I stopped pouring alcohol in the problems, they'd have to face them.

[608] And for the past year, my therapist has been trying to get me to do that.

[609] And I was like, I can't, I can't, I can't, because I wasn't ready to do that.

[610] and then something changes and you do it and it sucks but you do it um but what i wanted to say um there's this book called the unexpected joy of being sober by katherine gray which is my new fall asleep book and she and i'm sure this is an a quote um once i start drinking i finish which is kind of hit me really hard when i heard it where it's like i've never heard that before okay i think I'm sure it's an AA thing, but yeah, that's a good one.

[611] Another one I heard, if I can say it by my friend Emily Gordon, and I'm sure she got this from a self -help book too, is when things stop giving you gifts, it's time to walk away, which I think is beautiful as well.

[612] And if you're drunk all the time, you can't tell a gift from a pile of shit.

[613] So let's also be aware of how our perspective changes when this.

[614] that part changes because we think we know everything and that we're just drinking and it's just this kind of additional thing when in fact it's clouding, covering, and changing the point of view of everything as we do it.

[615] Yeah.

[616] And then when you stop doing it, as you well know, things go in a different direction, which is also upsetting and creates problems.

[617] You know what I mean?

[618] There's a real issue with it.

[619] Yeah.

[620] It's a period of turmoil, but it's for a purpose and you can get through it.

[621] And that's the only way life can get better.

[622] Also, turmoil isn't always bad.

[623] And also, even though this sounds stupid, bad things aren't always bad because we need muscles.

[624] We need to lift heavy, hard things for ourselves to get the muscles so we can do it again.

[625] And next time it's not as big of a deal.

[626] There is progress made when effort is made that maybe.

[627] not be measurable isn't measurable as you're doing it but you know in six months in two years in whatever you can look back and go I was really different before and I'm you know and now I've changed because of this thing but the only way to that change is through like the dark tunnel of what the fuck yeah you got to get pepper sprayed to appreciate your vision and and to make it so that you don't pepper spray people left right and center just because you feel like it.

[628] Quit pepper spraying yourself and you will see clearly.

[629] If you could get step out of that strong wind with your bear maze.

[630] Oh, I've done that.

[631] I've fucking done that.

[632] I've pepper sprayed myself because I was walking and I had my pepper spray out because it was night.

[633] And I was like, I'm going to make sure this works.

[634] Sprayed it in front of me. Continue to walk.

[635] Met my friend at the bar could barely see.

[636] It wasn't bad, but it was bad enough to be hilarious.

[637] It's serious business.

[638] It worked.

[639] I mean, that's why when long ago, we wanted to make merch that said pepper spray first, ask questions later.

[640] I was like, this is not a good thing to put into the world.

[641] It's not a good plan.

[642] It's also just let's not be that way.

[643] Oh, isn't this episode the day that we get to announce something?

[644] Really?

[645] Yes, it is.

[646] we have very we've been inching up toward this for a little while so many of you might suspect this already but today is the day we actually get to announce it well this is for the non -skippers who have listened this far yes you've earned this this is a gift special for you do you want to say it at the same time no go ahead we're not in fifth grade i say a word you say a word i say a word Stephen says a word let's do some improv exercises and then get it Zip Zabs up.

[647] We wrote another book.

[648] That's right.

[649] We finally get to tell you.

[650] The whole thing that we were talking about, about the sneak peek and the paperback that's coming out May 11th, which it is, there's a paperback version of Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered that's coming out on May 11th of this year, which is basically a month away.

[651] Your birthday.

[652] And it is my birthday, which is, you know, one of the pluses of being in the biz is they do stuff like that for you.

[653] On top of that, there are going to be two.

[654] sneak peek bonus chapters in the back of the paperback from the new book that is coming out that is a whole new thing.

[655] Oh, and now we get to announce what the theme is.

[656] It's more stories from our lives, but it is in the theme of responding to your freaking letters, the most, the beautiful letters you have sent us for years that we have saved because we loved them when we were pitching new ideas, it just came organically that what if we finally fucking respond to these?

[657] I think it was Allie's idea.

[658] It was definitely our incredible editor, Ali Fisher, who edited our last book.

[659] And so this book was so much easier to write because we always knew we were in good hands.

[660] And then the product as states, I don't get murder, was just felt so good that the second book, I think, was a little easier, but harder because the pandemic.

[661] So they've been really patient with us.

[662] us because yes when you're calling your editor and saying sorry I didn't finish my chapter it's just that there was a coup you know you're you're just in rare air so so we're thrilled that we finally get to talk about this and we're thrilled a second book is coming out and we're really thrilled that you guys and the people who have written us letters are included and these are letters that we've gotten at meet and greets that people have sent us in the regular mail all over we basically just kind of pulled together a collection of just different letters to answer.

[663] So I think it's going to be a pretty cool and different and exciting book.

[664] Fucking hooray.

[665] Very exciting.

[666] And we're excited to finally tell you.

[667] So yeah, get the paperback and then you can get the sneak peek of the brand of two chapters of the brand new book.

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[669] Absolutely.

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[688] So we're doing a quilt episode this week.

[689] And my, mine is first, as apparently Stephen Seth.

[690] And so my story this week is from the legendary 2019 London show that I believe through word of mouth, we found out that Florence, well, of Florence and the machine was in attendance.

[691] And everyone was insane out of their minds about it.

[692] It was very cool.

[693] I mean, I think a lot of cool people are in attendance, but that was the one that people spotted in the audience and then more tweeting us about.

[694] And my story from this, it's 2019, London.

[695] And so I did The Bride in the Bath story about killer George Joseph Smith.

[696] Okay, I thought since we've never done it before, I should cover the Brides in the Bath.

[697] And that's the murder and Bigger.

[698] George Joseph Smith.

[699] Again, my sources are Wikipedia, Murderpedia, and, of course, the legendary Kent Live News.

[700] Unbelievable source of information.

[701] Okay.

[702] This is the same time period as yours.

[703] Look at that.

[704] It starts January 3rd, 1915, and Division Detective Inspector Arthur Neal receives an intriguing letter from a man named Joseph Crossley in Blackpool.

[705] I hear it's like Atlantic City there.

[706] That's what April told me, yeah.

[707] Good times.

[708] Sounds fun and drunk.

[709] Yeah.

[710] Sounds like you can get, what was the, a drunken, well, forget it.

[711] You know what I was going to say.

[712] Find it.

[713] Where?

[714] Oh, heavy drinking nightmare.

[715] Are you a heavy drinking nightmare?

[716] Come on down to Blackpool or up.

[717] Come on over to Blackpool.

[718] So, okay.

[719] So Joseph Crossley says that he's writing about the death of a 25 -year -old woman named Alice Burnham Smith.

[720] So this is Alice.

[721] And so basically, a year before in December, I was sorry, I screwed this up, a year before, newlywed Alice Smith suddenly died while taking a back.

[722] in the rental house that the Crossley's own.

[723] And her husband of two months, they were nearly wed, George had been the one who found her.

[724] And so Crossley in this letter includes a clipping that's from Alice's coroner's report.

[725] And he also encloses a second clipping, and that's from an issue of the news of the world.

[726] Oh, it's one of your great newspapers over here that respects everybody and loves privacy.

[727] and really holds the story until they get all the correct information?

[728] Journalism.

[729] I'm very familiar with that now.

[730] So essentially, Margaret is found dead in the bathtub, and the second clipping is about a woman named Margaret Lloyd, who on the evening of December 18th, 1914, went and stayed in a boarding house with her husband, John Lloyd, at 14 Bismarck Road in Highgate, London.

[731] sure.

[732] Love your cemetery.

[733] So that night, they're planning dinner and John has to go out to buy some tomatoes.

[734] He sees their landlord stops by and he's like, I'm going out to buy some tomatoes.

[735] The landlord's like, I don't care about you.

[736] Which is rude.

[737] Here's Margaret Lloyd.

[738] She wore that.

[739] hat all the time.

[740] Every hat in this time period was fucked.

[741] Yeah.

[742] Okay.

[743] It's a good outfit, though.

[744] Okay.

[745] So when John comes back from buying tomatoes, he finds his new wife murdered dead in the bathtub.

[746] An inquest is held on January 1st, 1915.

[747] Her death is ruled an accidental death by drowning.

[748] So Joseph Crossley basically explains these two deaths are almost exactly a year apart and they're so similar that he believes they must be connected somehow.

[749] and the first one happened in his rental home, so he's very connected to Alice's death, and now he sees it's happened again, and he's asking Inspector Neal to please look into these deaths.

[750] And then he says, my wife made me write this letter.

[751] Your wife's a murderina.

[752] Yes, an OG murderina.

[753] God bless her soul.

[754] So the next day, January 4th, 1915, Inspector Neal goes to the Lloyd's boarding house at 14 Bismarck Road and he meets with the landlord and landlady and they tell the inspector that when the Lloyd's first arrived that the first thing that John did was go straight to the bathroom and examine the bathtub.

[755] It's very of a foremost concern to him.

[756] I do that too though.

[757] Yeah, you're actually like that.

[758] Yeah.

[759] It was only after he found it satisfactory that they agreed to rent the place.

[760] He's like, this looks like a good place for murder.

[761] I mean, to live.

[762] I mean, uh, uh, uh, uh, so they then bring the inspector in and show him that bathtub.

[763] There it is.

[764] Oh, I would have noped that one.

[765] Yikes.

[766] He yipped it.

[767] So, um, so of course the landlady thought that John's interest in the bathtub was strange at the time, but she didn't read too deeply into it.

[768] The tub is much smaller than Inspector, Inspector Neal thought it would be, and the fact that it was only filled three quarters of the way up when Mrs. Lloyd's body was found, and it makes it hard for Inspector Neal to believe that this was an actual case of accidental drowning.

[769] So he goes back and reads the coroner's report and finds out that her death was listed as accidentally drowned through heart failure when in the bathtub.

[770] He just changes the cause of death.

[771] It just makes it...

[772] No, no. He sees that it wasn't listed as drowning.

[773] It was like heart failure.

[774] So there was a little more to it.

[775] So then he's now more skeptical, so he gets a hold of the corner.

[776] One, Dr. Bates.

[777] And he asked Dr. Bates, are there any signs of violence on Mrs. Lloyd's body?

[778] Bates says there were not, aside from a small...

[779] bruise above her left elbow.

[780] But he does say that he found it strange that Mr. Lloyd expressed almost no feelings of grief when she died, and he says Lloyd bought the cheapest coffin possible for his young wife, and once she was buried, he'd reported to have said, thank goodness that's over.

[781] What the fuck?

[782] Right out loud.

[783] Jesus.

[784] Don't talk.

[785] Just don't talk.

[786] Hoo!

[787] Okay.

[788] Yeah, that's terrible.

[789] So now the inspector knows he's on to something.

[790] He keeps digging and he finds out that just three hours before her death, Mrs. Lloyd had visited her lawyer and made a will.

[791] Oh, no. In it, she left everything to her husband.

[792] Then she withdrew her entire savings.

[793] How come to take it home and take a bath with it?

[794] I don't know.

[795] Was she going to watch it and redeposit it?

[796] A week later on January 12, 1915, Inspector Neal gets a call from his new coroner friend, Dr. Bates, who tells him that he's just received an inquiry from the Yorkshire Insurance Company about Mrs. Lloyd.

[797] So apparently three days before her death, Mrs. Lloyd had taken out a life insurance policy on herself for 700 pounds.

[798] Don't do that.

[799] The equivalent of 68 ,000 pounds in today's money.

[800] and the sole beneficiary on that policy.

[801] It's the bathtub.

[802] I know it's new, but I love it.

[803] Why, it's her husband, Mr. John Lloyd.

[804] Oh, wow.

[805] I wonder if anyone's ever screamed, ha, at the top of their lungs.

[806] Okay, so now Inspector Neal asked Dr. Bates, please, he says, delay any reply to the insurance company.

[807] Give me a sec. He calls up Blackpool Police to find out the details of the death of Alice Smith.

[808] All right, the first one I talk about.

[809] about.

[810] Turns out that her story is identical to the lead -up of the death of Margaret Lloyd.

[811] Her husband also inspected the new home's bathtub before they moved in, and Mrs. Smith also took out an insurance policy just before her death, also naming her husband as the sole beneficiary.

[812] So Inspector Neal calls Dr. Bates back and says, go ahead and tell the insurance company that they can pay him.

[813] And he goes to the insurance company and basically sets up a stakeout, and he waits for John Lloyd to come and collect his money.

[814] So, on February 1st, 1915, a man matching the description of Mr. Lloyd arrives at the Yorkshire Insurance Company offices, and Inspector Neal stops him and asks if he's John Lloyd, and the man says yes, and then he says, oh, are you also George Smith?

[815] Uh -uh, gotcha.

[816] And the man's like, but pish -posh, absolutely not, um, until the inspector threatens to take him in for questions.

[817] questioning on suspicion of bigamy, and then the man finally admits his true identity.

[818] He is George Joseph Smith.

[819] Inspector Neal arrests him on the spot.

[820] So here's his mugshot.

[821] George, Joseph, Smith.

[822] He looks like my guy, kind of.

[823] He does a little, well, it feels like maybe they just had one guy take all the pictures back then.

[824] Or maybe there was a single male model.

[825] There was one look.

[826] He also has a bit of a Shai Leboof feel to him.

[827] I see it.

[828] I totally see it.

[829] George Joseph Smith.

[830] He was born on January 11th, 1872 in Bethnal Green.

[831] He's this...

[832] Oh my God, it's so fucking green there.

[833] He's the son of an insurance agent.

[834] Oh, no. Foreshadowing.

[835] Growing up, he's known as a troublemaker in 1881 when he is nine years old.

[836] Oh, no. He's sent to a formatory at Gravesend.

[837] Um, is that the good reformatory?

[838] Uh, he's serving time for theft and swindling.

[839] As a nine -year -old.

[840] Oh, that's kind of cute.

[841] Considerative self.

[842] Uh -huh.

[843] Pre -pubescent British child crime is the most adorable crime.

[844] It's pretty cute.

[845] Little urchins.

[846] That's what they call it, street urchins.

[847] Yes.

[848] So, when he's 24.

[849] He meets a woman, we'll call her, she doesn't have a name in any of the research, we'll call her Helen.

[850] We'll call her Helen Mirren.

[851] He convinces her to steal money from her employers and give it to him.

[852] Then he takes that money and uses it to open a bakery in Leicester.

[853] That's nice.

[854] That's a nice churn.

[855] He gets caught, he has to go to jail for a year.

[856] after he gets out of jail he stays in Leicester he changes his name to Oliver George Love and then he marries a woman named Caroline Thornhill.

[857] A year after that he also marries another woman.

[858] Can't do that let's see.

[859] It is illegal.

[860] You just can't.

[861] And like uncool.

[862] Yeah.

[863] This other woman he married didn't have a name so we'll call her Judy Dutch.

[864] Now we have as bigamy added to his long list of offenses.

[865] So shortly after this illegal marriage, he, George, aka Oliver George Love, and his original wife, Carolyn, they moved to London.

[866] And she gets work as a maid in a couple of different houses.

[867] He coerces her to steal money from her employers and give it to him.

[868] And she's eventually caught, of course, and she goes to jail.

[869] And as soon as she is released, she rats on her husband.

[870] and he's arrested in January of 1901, and he serves two years for these crimes.

[871] When he gets out in 1903, Caroline's like, oh, you're out of jail, I'm moving to Canada.

[872] Everybody thought Canada was the place to be back then.

[873] Oh.

[874] So George, he goes back to the old fake wife, Judy Dench, and he stays with her just long enough to kind of reassess.

[875] establish trust so that he can steal her life savings and then leave her again.

[876] So then in June of 1908, he meets and marries a widow from Worthing named Florence Wilson, and together they move to Camden.

[877] And everybody's represented tonight.

[878] I'm going to figure out a way to name every single neighborhood and county.

[879] Okay.

[880] about a month after their wedding he steals 30 pounds from her 3 ,000 pounds in today's money sells a bunch of her stuff and ghosts her too then he moves to Bristol drunk we get we get how you are now won't stop hooting must be from Bristol party on okay he moves to there and he puts an ad in the paper puts now in the paper her housekeeper, a woman named Edith Pelgar applies for the job, and less than a month after he leaves his last fake wife on July 30th, 1908, he marries Edith.

[881] Oh, my goodness.

[882] Yes.

[883] He must have game.

[884] Like, imagine the charisma of that mustache man, like, the small talk.

[885] Just hyper -focused attention.

[886] You're the only one in the world.

[887] She's like, oh, my God, you'll not believe this guy.

[888] He likes all in the same chamber music I like.

[889] He totally thinks I should have the right to vote.

[890] He's really into my pockets.

[891] Okay, so during the next four years of their marriage, he disappears on Edith for months at a time.

[892] He tells her that he needs to travel for his job, which he claims is selling antiques.

[893] So he's the original Antiques Road Show.

[894] And so sorry.

[895] And so, so sorry.

[896] I love it.

[897] I love it.

[898] But really, actually, what he's doing is meeting and marrying almost every fucking woman he runs into.

[899] Wow.

[900] Yes.

[901] And then stealing their money and ditching them and taking that money and bringing it back to Bristol.

[902] What about those poor antiques?

[903] No, it's too much hooting Bristol.

[904] Like, Bristol drank on the train.

[905] Easy, easy.

[906] I don't want to get jumped by Bristol tonight.

[907] Come on.

[908] Okay.

[909] In October...

[910] In October 1909, he takes the incredibly different alias George Rose Smith, and he marries a woman named Sarah Freeman.

[911] He immediately steals 400 pounds from her and disappears.

[912] Back to Bristol.

[913] Honey, I'm home.

[914] That's what the wife does.

[915] She's so stoked to see him.

[916] Everybody cheers.

[917] He's like, oh my God, look, I got you.

[918] This really meaningful book of poems.

[919] And she's like, oh, it says, property of Sarah Freeman in here.

[920] What?

[921] Yeah.

[922] It's antique.

[923] Don't worry about it.

[924] Why do you have to be picky?

[925] Okay.

[926] So, basically, that was his bigamy run that he went on.

[927] And this is what the inspectors found out.

[928] So now we're back to current times.

[929] George Smith has been identified.

[930] His whole past has been discovered.

[931] He's in custody.

[932] Inspector Neal.

[933] Now enlist the help of, who's this?

[934] Pathologist, Dr. Bernard Spills No. Crossover character in both our stories.

[935] What the fuck?

[936] That's why I made that noise.

[937] Yeah, I remember.

[938] Has that ever happened?

[939] Check this shit out.

[940] You want to see Dr. Spillsbury?

[941] Yeah.

[942] What's up?

[943] That's what I was doing all day while I was researching the story.

[944] Singing Adele songs to Dr. Pillsbury.

[945] Spillsbury, I said.

[946] Spillsbury.

[947] He already, he looks like he's aging in reverse.

[948] No. He looked like the old man from Thanksgiving.

[949] What a doctor Spilsbury came by your...

[950] Oh my God, and he knew somehow.

[951] Let's just pretend.

[952] He knew.

[953] We should have reached out to touch him.

[954] He's a ghost.

[955] The ghost of Thanksgiving.

[956] So this guy must have been fucking famous back then.

[957] Okay.

[958] So Spilsbury's on the case.

[959] He exhumes Margaret Lloyd's body, and he checks it again for marks of violence.

[960] But he just, finds the same bruise that the first coroner found, and then two tiny marks, but nothing is enough to prove that Margaret Lloyd died suspiciously.

[961] He then tests her body for traces of poison.

[962] Those results come back negative.

[963] There aren't any signs of heart or circulatory problems.

[964] So what is clear to him, though, is that Margaret Lloyd's death was sudden and instant.

[965] So when the news starts to hear about these two young women's mysterious bathtub deaths, they nickname the case, the brides and the baths.

[966] So on February 8th, 1915, Inspector Neal receives a call from the chief of police in the small seaside town of Hearn Bay in Kent.

[967] There are much more...

[968] You're no Bristol.

[969] Okay.

[970] They have to do it.

[971] They have to.

[972] I feel so bad that the person's sitting in front of them.

[973] They hate your guts.

[974] Yeah, really, truly.

[975] Easy.

[976] Guys, we're all best friends.

[977] Okay, so the Harm Bay Police Chief read about the two other mysterious bathtub deaths and realized that he had had a case three years prior that was exactly the same as the two brides and the bath murders that he had read about.

[978] and he'd investigated the death of a woman named Bessie Monday.

[979] Okay.

[980] Oh, I don't have a picture of her.

[981] Sorry.

[982] All right.

[983] I really led up to it.

[984] In 1912, which was a year before Alice Smith's death, a man named Henry Williams and his wife of two years, Bessie Monday Williams, rent a house together in Hearn Bay, and it doesn't have a bathtub, so Mr. Williams buys one.

[985] Guy, you need to change it up a little fucking bit.

[986] He doesn't know that.

[987] Don't kill people.

[988] But if you're gonna.

[989] The two, this couple met in 1910 after Bessie's father's death when he had left her an inheritance of 2 ,500 pounds, which is $200 ,000 in today's money.

[990] So he's like, I'm in love with you now.

[991] I'm in love with your purse.

[992] so shortly after they move in Henry Williams takes his wife to a man named Dr. Frank French and he tells the doctor that his wife has had an epileptic seizure Bessie's like I actually just kind of have a headache I don't know what he's talking about Dr. Frank gives her medicine for the headache then Henry calls Dr. French again says Bessie has had another seizure so Dr. French comes and checks on her again.

[993] She's fine.

[994] He tells Henry, I'll be back in the morning, you know, just to check on her again.

[995] But before he can show up at their house the next morning, which is July 13th, 1912, Henry calls Dr. French first and tells him Bessie has drowned in the bathtub, in his brand new bathtub.

[996] So Dr. French comes over to their house and finds Bessie in the bath.

[997] Shit, this is hard.

[998] Her head is submerged under the bathwater and her legs are stanch.

[999] out the end.

[1000] Basically, Dr. French rules her death in accidental drowning after an epileptic attack because that's what he's been led to believe it's happened.

[1001] So Inspector Neal finds out that not only did Bessie Monday Williams have a large inheritance, but she'd also taken out a life insurance policy just five days before her death.

[1002] So Henry Williams is awarded an insurance payout of 2 ,500, or 2 ,500 .7.

[1003] 70 pounds, which is 68 ,000 pounds today.

[1004] I love them.

[1005] I love telling you what the old money is and then the new money.

[1006] I love it.

[1007] It's really satisfying.

[1008] Today's money.

[1009] When time passes, money goes up.

[1010] For the next few weeks, after February 8th, 1915, Inspector Neal and Dr. Spilberry, they look at all the evidence around these deaths and they try to determine how each woman actually died.

[1011] Um, so So for Bessie Monday, she was five foot seven.

[1012] And so her head would have been far above the water line in a five -foot bathtub.

[1013] And then if she were having a seizure and her limbs were thrashing around, that would have actually kept her head above the water line.

[1014] And they also would have been more water on the floor, which there was none reported.

[1015] So it dawns on Spilberry that if Dr. French's report is accurate and Bessie's head is underwater and her feet were sticking out, it was possible Mr. Williams could have pulled her underwater by her feet.

[1016] So he poses a theory to Inspector Neal that Mr. Williams may have been in the bathroom while Bessie was bathing and came over and played around like jokingly and lovingly with her feet and then when she's not expecting it, suddenly yank them upward and that would cause the tub water to rush into her nose and mouth.

[1017] And it would be the force for enough to make her lose consciousness, and then she would drown under the water.

[1018] And that would leave no marks.

[1019] So to test that doctor's theory, Inspector Neal hires several experienced female divers.

[1020] Now he's just fucking around, I think.

[1021] But also several, like it's 1915.

[1022] Women weren't allowed to leave the fucking house, and it's just like, find me divers now.

[1023] Um, so he does, they do tests on these women to test out and see if this is actually what they think it is.

[1024] Um, and first they try to hold them underwater, but anyone's struggling if, if the, um, a woman at that size, Bessie's size, what struggled against being held down, they would have had to use force back on her that would have left marks on her body.

[1025] Yeah.

[1026] Um, so they know that that's out.

[1027] Then they drive spillberries, foot yank theory on one of the women.

[1028] And even though she knows it's about to happen to her, when it happens, she goes under and immediately loses consciousness.

[1029] And it takes over a half an hour for them to revive her.

[1030] What a bummer.

[1031] Yes.

[1032] She's like, what?

[1033] No. You told me I was...

[1034] I thought this was a fucking diving thing.

[1035] Like, I wanted to see some fish and hang out in some murky water.

[1036] What's this bathtub shit?

[1037] Spillsbury's kind of hot.

[1038] Spillsbury's looking good.

[1039] It's Spilberry, actually.

[1040] I added an S in.

[1041] I don't know.

[1042] I don't know.

[1043] Okay.

[1044] So they realized if she, knowing it's going to happen, is unconscious, then the average woman who thinks she's just hanging out with her newlywed husband.

[1045] Who's into her feet.

[1046] Who's a foot fetishist.

[1047] Then they wouldn't have had any chance.

[1048] So thanks to.

[1049] Dr. Spilberry, Inspector Neal finally has an M .O. So George Smith's trial begins on June 22nd, 1915.

[1050] English law at the time dictates he can only be tried for the murder of Bessie Monday, but the prosecution's allowed to mention the other deaths of his other wives to establish his pattern of behavior.

[1051] Of course, his lawyer, George's lawyer, argues the unfairness of this including to the judge, but the judge overrules him, and all three deaths are cited in the prosecution's argument.

[1052] And on July 1st, 1915, much like in your story, the jury takes just 20 minutes to find George Smith guilty of the murder of Bessie Monday.

[1053] He's sentenced to death.

[1054] Yeah.

[1055] Bristol.

[1056] And on August 13th, 1915, George Smith is hung for the murder of Bessie Monday.

[1057] And that is the highly repetitive and sometimes hard to follow.

[1058] story of the murders of the brides in the bath.

[1059] Great job.

[1060] We did it.

[1061] We did it.

[1062] I put my shoes back on.

[1063] That was gruesome.

[1064] That was amazing.

[1065] London is a fucking awesome crowd always.

[1066] Oops.

[1067] Yes.

[1068] Especially when Florence is in the audience.

[1069] I mean, could you hear her laughing?

[1070] Yeah, it's always big time when we're in in England.

[1071] So many good candy bars.

[1072] What you got this week?

[1073] Okay, this week.

[1074] I'm doing my, we were in St. Louis at the Powell Symphony Hall in December of fucking 2017.

[1075] Oh shit.

[1076] It was heady days.

[1077] We were three years in.

[1078] First tour.

[1079] Oh, 2017.

[1080] Okay.

[1081] See, you remember so much shit.

[1082] This is this incredible, crazy banana story of Pam Hup.

[1083] And hey, guys, stay tuned for an update on what happened post me doing this story.

[1084] So enjoy.

[1085] Guys, really quick.

[1086] just in case you won these tickets on a radio raffle or something like that it's a true crime podcast that's also a comedy podcast which sometimes is a slightly difficult combination for people so if you can't give us the benefit of the doubt get the fuck out I'm kidding my uncle got up and left my uncle Michael just leaves Uncle Michael storms out I'm joking that was the first joke of the night so now you know now you know what to expect well okay here we go okay here's who I'm doing and you fucking murderino almost just ruin my surprise because I'm doing Pan Hop Pam Hup is that is that the picture you have I have it up there yeah you guys I was like don't ask them about it don't ask them about it I thought you seemed because I have never seen that woman before and I got really if you're a murderino or a true crime a personal semi -oficionado when you look at a picture and everybody knows who it is and you've never seen that mug shot before like I started to get real upset and she's fucking sanitary napkins on her neck it looks like but I'm going to explain that to you and so I wasn't going to be like oh that's so crazy what are those I was just afraid that I had missed a gasey level person in my in my travels I'm really bad at I should have played a or been like, don't, I'm going to do her.

[1087] But I just didn't know what to do, so I just stood there instead and thought about my stuffed bra, you know.

[1088] You distracted me by pulling cutlets out of your dress.

[1089] Cutlets.

[1090] It's so funny because we've been together now for two years straight day and night, night and day.

[1091] Thank you.

[1092] I didn't notice that Georgia's bra size went up like four cups in like ten minutes.

[1093] Two cup sizes bigger, because I still had to stuff them to fill fucking Jessica Simpson's idea of what a woman should look like, which I refuse to fucking, and I got this dress for free.

[1094] So who cares?

[1095] Money's not going into her pocket.

[1096] Oh, I really wish that I could sing a Jessica Simpson song right now, but I would just, I wanted to go into I'm not a girl, not yet a woman, and that's not accurate.

[1097] And I also don't know how that one goes either.

[1098] So forget it.

[1099] Forget it all.

[1100] All right.

[1101] Well, how about we talk about murder instead?

[1102] Sounds good.

[1103] Okay.

[1104] Let's start in Troy, Missouri.

[1105] Betsy Furia, she's this warm -hearted, lovely, bubbly woman, tons of friends.

[1106] She's awesome.

[1107] Everyone loves her.

[1108] She has a husband named Russ and two daughters from a previous marriage when in January 2010, at 40 years old, she learned she has breast cancer.

[1109] So, after a fectan of chemo and a mastectomy, she's declared in remission, and she and her husband plan a celebration of life crews.

[1110] Want to see them?

[1111] Yeah.

[1112] Let's see how this works.

[1113] Is this work?

[1114] No. Sin, this one?

[1115] Right?

[1116] Yeah.

[1117] Oh, sorry, we didn't say.

[1118] Stephen's not here.

[1119] Play that up, because he can hear you right now.

[1120] He's the first one to listen to it.

[1121] Act upset.

[1122] We should start getting a pet cube and have Stephen, like, pet cubed.

[1123] What's that?

[1124] It's like, it's basically how to spy on your pet.

[1125] And you can also, you can also dispense treats from your phone through the pet cube.

[1126] Yeah.

[1127] He's just sitting there by the pet cube like this.

[1128] He loves his mustache.

[1129] What would we dispense?

[1130] Little, little tiny kittens?

[1131] Okay.

[1132] Okay.

[1133] That's, so that's Betsy and Russ.

[1134] But then, before the cruise, they find out in November 2011, at 42 years old now, Betsy learns that the cancer is fucking back, I know, it's a bummer, spreads to her liver, and she only has a few years to live, even with treatment.

[1135] But she's this, like, upbeat person, and she's like, fuck that shit, we're going on the cruise instead, and I'm going to fucking swim with dolphins.

[1136] And they go on this, like, celebration of life cruise of what our life is.

[1137] It's beautiful.

[1138] So one of Betsy's friends, who isn't on the trip, but comes around after Betsy was diagnosed with cancer, was a woman named Pam Hup.

[1139] So, yes.

[1140] Yeah, I saw the place, Matt.

[1141] I know what's at.

[1142] There's this thing we do for one of the Jewish holidays that I can't remember, maybe my uncle knows, where we tell a story about the King Haman and what a piece of shit he was, and whenever his name is, whenever, Purim, thank you.

[1143] Thank you for being a better Jew than I am.

[1144] Please keep it up.

[1145] Yeah.

[1146] Whenever the name Haman gets said in the story, everyone goes, boo, and stomps their feet, and then you have those noisemakers, and you do that.

[1147] I should have, so look under your seat, everyone.

[1148] I just feel like every time I say the word hop It needs to be a...

[1149] Can you imagine if we gave out noise makers during the show?

[1150] Like the TV producer and me just had seven fucking heart attacks in a row.

[1151] No!

[1152] Don't collect those right now!

[1153] Oh my God!

[1154] And then you went through and collected each one from everyone yelling at them?

[1155] Can I just...

[1156] Sorry, sidebar.

[1157] Sidebar.

[1158] But it's one time when I worked on a TV show.

[1159] They had loaded in the audience, the warm -up conference, You can't they don't have the volume up in the control room.

[1160] So we're just watching the warm up comic kind of walk around do her whole thing and then they're getting ready to actually start shooting and all those things are very like very time sensitive.

[1161] So it's a four o 'clock shoot.

[1162] You have to be ready at 359.

[1163] And so when they throw all the volumes up to get ready to start shooting, there's this crackling sound.

[1164] And of course the sound guy goes fucking berserk and they're sensitive men.

[1165] They're sound sensitive.

[1166] They're they need to be.

[1167] It's their job.

[1168] This guy comes flying in, he's like, we've got a major problem.

[1169] And it was like, this whole thing.

[1170] And then everyone's like, hold on, hold on.

[1171] Let's just listen for a second.

[1172] Well, it turned out that the warm -up comic had passed out butterscotch candies to the whole audience.

[1173] So every person had a piece of cellophane.

[1174] They were crinkling in their hand.

[1175] Every, like, a hundred people were just like, to all these mics that were everywhere.

[1176] It was the funny.

[1177] I was crying, laughing, but nobody else thought it was funny at all.

[1178] And this has been Hollywood Minute with Ken. Well, this story doesn't go like that.

[1179] Did I tell that story right at the worst possible part?

[1180] I mean, it's always the worst.

[1181] It's always the worst possible part.

[1182] So Pam, she and Betsy had met 10 years earlier when they worked together in an insurance company.

[1183] Pam is 11 years older than Betsy also has a husband, two kids, and she's worked in the insurance.

[1184] insurance industry for a long time.

[1185] Uh -oh, red flag.

[1186] Right.

[1187] Yeah.

[1188] Don't work in the insurance industry.

[1189] I don't know.

[1190] Um, so she's kind of a busy body, gets in everyone's business.

[1191] You know what I mean.

[1192] So Betsy and Pam had been friends when they worked together, but they had parted ways when Betsy's diagnosed with cancer, she comes back around and is like, I'm going to be your trauma friend.

[1193] What's up?

[1194] You know what I mean?

[1195] Did you say trauma friends?

[1196] Yeah.

[1197] You know, the friends that are like, Oh, I'm really good at this.

[1198] I'm bad at, like, drinks on a Tuesday night, but I can fucking be there when you're going through chemo.

[1199] Like, you know, those friends?

[1200] There's people like that.

[1201] Very true.

[1202] Trauma friends.

[1203] Which is like, they are either the best person in the world or a total sociopath.

[1204] Ding dong.

[1205] Guess which one?

[1206] You'll never guess.

[1207] What if you did Georgia went on to tell the most uplifting story?

[1208] And they're like, okay, your turn.

[1209] What the fuck?

[1210] Don't change it.

[1211] You can't change the show.

[1212] Okay.

[1213] So she starts coming, Pam starts coming to Betsy's chemo treatments, every treatment.

[1214] And even when Pam, when Betsy's like, listen, don't come this time, I'm going to be, my old friend's going to be in town, we want some time together.

[1215] She fucking shows up anyways.

[1216] She's like railroads this shit.

[1217] Then on Tuesday, December 27, 2011, Pam, so she shows up insisting that she be the one to drive Betsy home after the chemo treatment.

[1218] But Betsy was like, nope, I'm going to my mom's house.

[1219] So Pam's like, all right, leaves.

[1220] and then shows up later to Betsy's mom house and is like, I'm driving you home.

[1221] What's happening?

[1222] Yeah.

[1223] So Betsy's like, okay, fine, drive me home if it's so important for you.

[1224] I don't know.

[1225] She might have said that.

[1226] I would like to think she did.

[1227] As for Russ, the husband, that day he works at home, like normal until five.

[1228] Then he goes out to his standard Tuesday night, game night.

[1229] Okay, so he goes to game night, they hang out, and at about 9 o 'clock he leaves.

[1230] On his way home, he stops at, of course, at Arby's, drive -through.

[1231] Arby's.

[1232] Sure, that's like, oh, you've been smoking pot.

[1233] Okay, great.

[1234] Yes.

[1235] Yes, got it.

[1236] I relate to you.

[1237] Why would you ever eat that instead?

[1238] It's delicious.

[1239] It is.

[1240] It's also convenient.

[1241] Okay, well, I want.

[1242] He walks inside the house at close to 940, finds his wife Betsy lying on the floor in blood.

[1243] He only sees three wounds, and so from those wounds, he assumes that she had killed herself.

[1244] Oh.

[1245] I know.

[1246] So he calls 911 and hysterically says, my wife killed herself.

[1247] But that looks bad for him later, because when the police come, they're like, what the fuck, dude?

[1248] She has 55 fucking stab wounds.

[1249] What?

[1250] What is wrong with you?

[1251] Fuck.

[1252] Yeah.

[1253] Yeah.

[1254] So, but most of them are hidden by her clothing, so he didn't know.

[1255] so a search turned up Russ's slippers thrown into the back of the closet and their blood stain on the top but he doesn't have any blood on him of course the police initially suspect him but his timeline from before he found Betsy was corroborated by his four friends that he was probably smoking pot with his phone was pinging in the right fucking places where he said he was he had an Arby's receipt that he as we all do threw in the back of his fucking car I save mine like I'm going to bring them to the accountant It's so ridiculous I'm just like thank you fold this up Put it in this part of my wallet for four days And then throw them out later I leave those receipts I kind of hide And then I hate when I have like the straw wrappers On the floor of my car Because everyone knows that you just fucking went through a drive -thru Oh yeah And you're a garbage person Yeah Oh girl yes The straw wrappers to me are more telling than the receipts What about the fucking disgusting next day French fry smell we're just like why am I doing this who I sell oh there's a new oh I was like what sorry that was too real there's a new Carl's Jr I should have finished it wait can I just say this really quick I just tweeted this the other day but I went to filled a shame I went to McDonald's the other night and this one in L .A. It's a double lane so somebody can be ordering over here and then you can be ordering over here and then you zipper formation back into it's amazing You've got to come to L .A., if only for that.

[1256] And also, don't worry, we're going to White Castle tomorrow.

[1257] Yes.

[1258] 100 % got to.

[1259] Never been.

[1260] Never been, never had it.

[1261] Let's talk about murder some more.

[1262] But really quick, the guy that rung me up.

[1263] Yeah.

[1264] First of all, was the most beautiful teen I've ever seen.

[1265] Uh -oh.

[1266] That's the thing that's going to fucking blow this shit up.

[1267] Secondly, and I thought this was very meaningful, when he went to give me my change, he came all the way out of that window.

[1268] Like fucking Rapunzel.

[1269] I was like, hey, is this happening with us?

[1270] Are we going to do this thing?

[1271] It was amazing.

[1272] Okay, sorry, I stopped your whole story to brag.

[1273] I'm sorry.

[1274] Okay.

[1275] Sorry.

[1276] Dude, dude, dude.

[1277] Okay, so he had his receipt matched, and all of that, him leaving Arby's matched the drive that would have taken him to get home and call 911 by 940.

[1278] and the autopsy show that she would have been dead by then for at least an hour.

[1279] And there's video of him, so there's surveillance video where he's going, wearing the same clothes he wore when the police found him without blood on him.

[1280] So it's not like he could have gone home, killed her, and then not had blood in the same clothes because he was wearing the same clothes.

[1281] You know what I'm saying?

[1282] I sure do.

[1283] You know, basic fucking police work.

[1284] The kind we do every day.

[1285] The kind we're known for.

[1286] Meanwhile, Pam's alibi, let's go back.

[1287] to fucking Pammy.

[1288] Okay.

[1289] It's all over the place.

[1290] She's constantly changing her story, and she admittedly says she's the last person to see Betsy alive.

[1291] So she says that she had brought Betsy home from her mother's house that she had insisted on taking her from, and had in the driveway called Pam's husband and was like, Betsy, say happy Christmas to my husband, which is like, oh, you're establishing a fucking alibi.

[1292] What's up, right?

[1293] Oh, yeah.

[1294] She was alive when I talked to her, that thing, right?

[1295] creepy yeah um also a grown adult that makes another grown adult say hi to a third grown adult get out of there fucking death roll out of that car shit hi what now my face is on your phone it's disgusting i'm gonna break out no okay so then she says that she dropped she just dropped betsy off at seven oh five and left and then later she's like whoa you know actually uh i walked her in and then left.

[1296] And then, wait, wait, wait.

[1297] I went in with her, and she told me to come back to her, um, her bedroom to see a Christmas gift that rest had given her.

[1298] So she keeps changing her story and it's flimsy.

[1299] Like in her mind, she's like, oh, I have this on me. I better say I'm in the house.

[1300] Yeah.

[1301] I have this.

[1302] Like, she's putting like fiber evidence ideas together.

[1303] Yeah.

[1304] Or she's just a crazy liar.

[1305] Okay.

[1306] Um, so, and at 721, Betsy's daughter had tried calling her and wasn't getting an answer.

[1307] So we think, and she was expecting that call.

[1308] So we think that she was dead by 721.

[1309] So if she dropped her off at 705, there's like this weird window there.

[1310] Okay.

[1311] So 727 records show that then Pam had left and called Betsy.

[1312] And the police are like, what the fuck is this?

[1313] And she's like, well, I called when I got home.

[1314] And it's like, but it takes you this long to get home.

[1315] And then the phone pings and you're like down the street.

[1316] So all these inconsistencies about when she had called, all these fucking lies about it.

[1317] And then Then, during questioning, Pam says, oh, by the way, December 23rd, a couple days ago, Betsy made me the beneficiary of her life insurance policy.

[1318] Nuh.

[1319] Nah -uh.

[1320] Yeah.

[1321] That's weird.

[1322] She works in the life insurance.

[1323] Yeah.

[1324] She works in the insurance world.

[1325] Forshadowing.

[1326] Uh -huh.

[1327] Or just shadowing.

[1328] Pam said it was because Betsy was worried that.

[1329] Russ and daughters would spend all the money foolishly.

[1330] So she's like, listen, I'm going to give it to you, Pam, you trauma friend of mine.

[1331] But my friend that I don't want to ride from, that's how close we are.

[1332] That I have family in town.

[1333] I have close lifelong friends around.

[1334] I'm trying to avoid you at all costs.

[1335] Take my money.

[1336] Take my money.

[1337] And so she wanted to like parcel it out to Russ and her daughters.

[1338] So, okay, Pam is never going to.

[1339] considered a suspect.

[1340] With this information?

[1341] Uh -huh.

[1342] Known publicly?

[1343] Uh -huh.

[1344] I don't know how publicly it was known.

[1345] Or socially?

[1346] Or police -y.

[1347] Known polisely?

[1348] Policely.

[1349] Yes.

[1350] She must have been very convincing.

[1351] There's videos.

[1352] There's tons and, like, there's so much of this case that I can't get to.

[1353] Otherwise, we'd be sitting here for four hours.

[1354] That is fucking bananas.

[1355] And there's videos and shit of her being interrogated.

[1356] and the cops are like, I don't know if they're in love with her or what, or she's got maybe like, you know, crazy eyes.

[1357] She's really convincing.

[1358] She's like a Rasputin type of St. Louis.

[1359] And they're like feeding her information.

[1360] And is that what happened?

[1361] And she's like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's what happened.

[1362] And, like, they love her.

[1363] That are getting her, like, out of it, essentially?

[1364] Yeah, she must have made them cookies or something.

[1365] Okay.

[1366] But so Russ is brought to police station.

[1367] Question for 36 hours without sleep.

[1368] He agrees to take a polygraph test.

[1369] Turns out they gave him a fake one.

[1370] told him that he failed, so he would confess, he didn't confess, but they never told his defense attorney that this information.

[1371] Okay.

[1372] On January 4th, Russell, Russ is charged with first degree murder of Betsy.

[1373] Judge Menemeyer rules the defense counsel, Joel Schwartz, is not allowed to even talk about Pam as a possible suspect as his argument as to how he didn't do it.

[1374] Like reasonable doubt, it's this chick who is like lying about everything.

[1375] and as well as to the life insurance back in person.

[1376] Right?

[1377] Is this making sense?

[1378] Am I following?

[1379] This is crazy.

[1380] Yes.

[1381] What more do I have to do with my face?

[1382] Fucking crazy.

[1383] It's crazy that they would be like, she got some juice somewhere, obviously.

[1384] Yeah.

[1385] Because maybe it's in her fucking push -up bra.

[1386] That was a party.

[1387] Mm -hmm.

[1388] Okay.

[1389] So then, And since she, okay, so she's not allowed to talk about Pam as a suspect, so defense is prohibited from questioning her at all either in front of the jury or bringing her up as an alternative suspect.

[1390] Uh -uh.

[1391] Meanwhile, since she wasn't a suspect and Russ was going to the trial, the detective's like, the insurance company, and she's like, no, no, you can go ahead and let that, give her that money.

[1392] She's not a suspect.

[1393] So they let the money go and give her the $150 ,000 life insurance policy for the family.

[1394] And then right before the trial, four days before, they're like, it looks really bad that you haven't given any of that money to the daughters.

[1395] So you should do it really quickly before the trial starts.

[1396] So she puts $150 ,000 in a trust for the daughters.

[1397] And the $50 ,000 other dollars, she says is in a bunch of other places.

[1398] That's for her evil amulet fund that she likes to wear around town.

[1399] Yes.

[1400] Okay.

[1401] Okay.

[1402] But, but, but, but, defense prohibited.

[1403] Meanwhile, da -da -da -da.

[1404] Okay.

[1405] Okay.

[1406] So, prosecutor, Leah Aski, Leah, what's call her, says that of Russ's alibi.

[1407] Okay, so this is how she's going to take apart Russ's fucking concrete -as -shit alibi.

[1408] Are you ready for this?

[1409] Yeah.

[1410] Those four friends that he got high and hung out with and played games with, they're all in on the murder of Betsy.

[1411] They're all in on it.

[1412] They've been fucking plotting and planning it.

[1413] but they don't get arrested but they're all in on it this is how they did it the theory was that they kept his phone at the house at the friend's house while he drove back home because it would ping in the right place fucking killed her while he was naked took a shower put the same clothes back on is this real?

[1414] This is the her yes yes what our friend fucking Leah Aski was like let me tell you I'm a fucking prosecutor for real with like a diploma and shit on my wall and this is my argument.

[1415] Dang.

[1416] Listen, I don't have a fucking diploma and I wouldn't argue that.

[1417] So five people are insanely evil as opposed to maybe just this one other lady.

[1418] Uh -huh.

[1419] Okay.

[1420] Uh -huh.

[1421] Okay.

[1422] It's very problematic.

[1423] Okay.

[1424] So killed her while he was naked so that his clothes wouldn't have stuff on it.

[1425] Took a shower.

[1426] Put the same clothes black on.

[1427] Stashed his bloody slivers in the closet.

[1428] Then his friends, because they had the phone and the drive -thru receipt were at the crime scene when she was found.

[1429] So the friend, one of the friends fucking drove the, not only drove the phone back to give to Russ real quick before he called 911, but went through the drive -thru at Arby's to provide him with that receipt.

[1430] Yes, yes.

[1431] I am not kidding.

[1432] Yes.

[1433] Went through a drive -thru for you.

[1434] It's a lot of the reason that I eat fast food is because I just want that alibi.

[1435] You know what I mean?

[1436] We just got to build that file where you've been.

[1437] You see why they gave you this photo?

[1438] Like this chick needs fucking your most banana of stories I've ever heard.

[1439] Yeah.

[1440] He bought an Arby's franchise.

[1441] He put up his own receipt.

[1442] And then it was the whole thing, too.

[1443] He had ran a bunch of errands earlier in the day, and they were like, it's too many errands.

[1444] It's suspicious.

[1445] He's trying to create an alibi.

[1446] And it's like, well, I had a coupon for dog food here, and cigarettes are cheaper here.

[1447] It's silly, but it's like, you know It's kind of the way everyone lives their life Yeah I like my pet food store specifically It's called It's called errands Arons isn't one place Or just be errant That's fucking a very good point That sounded like the hackiest joke in the world But I'm just trying to make this fucking make sense Okay Duh Duh Okay guess what What?

[1448] Guess what?

[1449] Russ is found guilty and given life without parole.

[1450] Can you promise?

[1451] I promise I'm not making this shit up.

[1452] They know.

[1453] Okay.

[1454] Please tell me, okay.

[1455] Problematic.

[1456] Just keep going because this is making me nuts.

[1457] Oh, it's so awful.

[1458] Okay, like a couple days after he is given life without parole, our fucking friend, Pam, Hup, revokes the trust, takes that money back out of the fucking...

[1459] Girl, you greedy girl.

[1460] She's like, JK, bitches, and takes the money.

[1461] So Betsy's daughter sue her, and then they lose, which I think that's ongoing, and they should win it all back, and it's obnoxious.

[1462] Anyways.

[1463] Then, okay, all these, like, appeals and all this crazy shit's going on, and the defense attorneys like this is insane.

[1464] Then in 2015, a judge orders a new trial.

[1465] Let's fast forward.

[1466] when all kinds of blood evidence and Russ's favor comes to light that the prosecutors hadn't provided with the original case, a bunch of luminal shit, that they'd be like, oh, the camera didn't work.

[1467] And then someone anonymously was like, here's 113 photos of the camera working and the luminal not showing anything.

[1468] It's just shit.

[1469] Fucking bananas.

[1470] Anonymous source also turns over evidence that our friend prosecutor Leah Aski is having an affair with one of the lead detectives in the case.

[1471] Detective Michael Lee.

[1472] during the time of the arrest, trial, and conviction.

[1473] And she even fucking talked to him on, on, what do they call it?

[1474] Twitter?

[1475] No. You know, cross -examine him.

[1476] You know.

[1477] Oh, on the bench?

[1478] On the seat?

[1479] On the, up in the, front of the audience?

[1480] On the stand, thank you.

[1481] I am not drunk.

[1482] We don't know the basics.

[1483] It's so irritating.

[1484] we still haven't gotten to why she has fucking tampons on her neck I cannot wait but here's that is such a bummer like to do to put someone in jail for life because of love you fucking idiot yeah or you know an affair it's not even it's just a weird okay everything's insane let's not judge no let's judge the shit they judge let's what this is for what if it was the greatest love of all though Like Whitney used to sing about.

[1485] Go ahead.

[1486] I'm just saying.

[1487] Devil's advocating.

[1488] When the new trial starts, Pam Hup is like, still lying, still making all the crazy shit up, and then is like, oh, you know what?

[1489] Another thing is, another reason she put all the money the life insurance into my name is because I forgot to tell you this.

[1490] We were lesbian lovers.

[1491] Yeah.

[1492] Twist or roo?

[1493] No, no twist.

[1494] She just fucking made another thing up.

[1495] That's not true.

[1496] More banana shit.

[1497] This whole story is very parallel to V .C. Andrew's novel, My Sweet Audrina.

[1498] Oh, my God.

[1499] I was listening to the audiobook on the plane laughing out loud and writing down phrases.

[1500] It's just getting dirtier and weirder as it goes.

[1501] Oh, I can't wait.

[1502] We're you to read them to me. Oh, I mean, not in a gross way, but like, you know.

[1503] Okay, sorry, so.

[1504] No, you're right.

[1505] So finally, Russ is equipped.

[1506] in a retrial in November 2015.

[1507] Yay.

[1508] Great.

[1509] So in the retrial, it's just him.

[1510] It's just about the fact that he went to jail.

[1511] So it has nothing to do with Pam.

[1512] No, now all this, all of this spam shit is admissible because the new judge is like, what the fuck happened?

[1513] Okay, okay.

[1514] Awesome.

[1515] And the old judge is like, there's like four cases that were overturned because they were like, you can't let this into, you know, it was full of shit.

[1516] Okay.

[1517] Were you going to talk some more lost -up?

[1518] Oh, my God.

[1519] It's insane.

[1520] I'm really excited.

[1521] Okay.

[1522] Retrial, acquitted, et cetera.

[1523] Then, here we go.

[1524] Somewhere where shit happens.

[1525] We're getting to the weird shit.

[1526] Okay.

[1527] Weirder.

[1528] August 16th, 2016, Pam Hup calls 911 from her home in O 'Fallon.

[1529] That's not right?

[1530] And tells...

[1531] You did it.

[1532] And tells police that there is a man in her home attacking her.

[1533] and she's on the phone with them shoots him to death the man who broke into her house who's attacking her while she's on the phone with 911 he's coming at me shoots him he's an intruder the man is 33 year old Lewis Gumberberger and Pam Hupp says that he approached her in her driveway of her home followed her into her home with a knife to her and demanded Russ's money terrified for her life she said she knocked the knife away from him ran inside and grabbed her 38 Ruger revolver from her nightstand.

[1534] You know.

[1535] You keep next to your B .C. Andrews' book?

[1536] Sure.

[1537] Yeah.

[1538] And he came after her, quote, like a madman, so she shot him.

[1539] So this guy Louis, he's 33 from Union, Missouri.

[1540] The thing is, he had suffered a traumatic brain injury after being in a car accident 11 years ago and had diminished mental capacity and physical capacity.

[1541] city.

[1542] So he only left home.

[1543] He didn't leave home alone often.

[1544] He didn't drive.

[1545] He lived 13 miles away from her.

[1546] There's no reason he would have been there.

[1547] And when his pockets are searched, he had $900 in his wallet and a handwritten note, with instructions to kidnap Pam Hup and get, quote, Russ's money and then kill Pam Hup.

[1548] So it looks like...

[1549] That was all in his wallet on paper, handwritten.

[1550] What are my errands today?

[1551] Let's say it.

[1552] Like someone had hired him as a hitman to kill him.

[1553] And then written the directions on paper, folded up in his wallet like an Arby's receipt, and sent him on his way.

[1554] You know how you send Arby's receipts all over town?

[1555] That's right.

[1556] Okay.

[1557] When police investigate, a random woman is like, you know what's weird about this investigation?

[1558] Is that a week ago, a woman approached me in an SUV claiming to be a dateline producer, working on a story about 911 calls and she's like, excuse me, random woman, can I just record you saying this 911 call?

[1559] We need some voiceover for the Dateline NBC show I work for.

[1560] That's how they do it.

[1561] That's how they do it.

[1562] Karen, tell us.

[1563] Well, thank you for giving me this opportunity because high -level television producing, especially an award -winning nighttime news magazine, they're going to stick a phone out the window and they're going to use that as an interview.

[1564] It happens.

[1565] Well, she was like, come with me, I'll give you money, just come back to my house with me and record this 911 call.

[1566] And the woman's like, you don't, I'm not going to do that.

[1567] She's like, I'm a professional voiceover actress, and you're going to have to book a studio.

[1568] Right.

[1569] You know, normal stuff.

[1570] But the woman's like, fuck no, because she didn't have any credentials.

[1571] And later, the woman's able to identify the woman in the SUV, shockingly, as Pam Hub.

[1572] So, when the money in Lewis's pocket is checked, the serial numbers from the $100 bills from that $900 matches the $100 bill that Pam has.

[1573] So she was like, one for you, two for you, three, three, four for you, one for me. Like, they were in order.

[1574] They were all friends.

[1575] So it was basically like she took out a chunk of the middle, left the other ones in her wallet, and then stuck them in his wallet.

[1576] Very clearly.

[1577] Yeah.

[1578] They were from the same litter essentially.

[1579] Okay.

[1580] Then she drove around asking people to write a handwritten note that said, go kidnap.

[1581] Yeah, it matches the one in Pam's stupid pocket.

[1582] Authorities think that she picked up Lewis and offered him money for this reason, drove him back to her house, staged the incident to make it look like he was attacking her, and shot him.

[1583] So essentially, she killed an innocent man to frame Restoria for attempting to kill her and take the attention from Betsy's murder off of her, because now they were looking at her.

[1584] Yeah, because you won't get attention, you kill a man in your kitchen.

[1585] No. That's how you lay low.

[1586] It's a good, it's a good tip.

[1587] Well, what happens is everyone's like, oh, she's been through enough.

[1588] Let's not bother her.

[1589] Let's not put her in jail.

[1590] Yeah.

[1591] Yeah.

[1592] She got attacked.

[1593] Before being booked, 57 -year -old Pam Hup was asked to use the restroom and stabbed herself in the neck and wrist with a ballpoint pen.

[1594] Oh.

[1595] Hey girl.

[1596] This chick is fucking looney shoes.

[1597] She is going for it in a major way.

[1598] Here's a thing.

[1599] There's, what could be less effective for a stabbing situation than a ballpoint pen?

[1600] She's like, maybe this will make them get off me, and they're like, she's been through enough now.

[1601] Now she's been through enough.

[1602] Okay, wait, no, now she put a maxi -pad on her neck.

[1603] She's been through enough.

[1604] That's so embarrassing.

[1605] Look at her fucking smile.

[1606] Well, you got me. You finally got me. then book them.

[1607] Jesus.

[1608] Yep, 100 % Jesus.

[1609] Okay, I think that's it.

[1610] And then, okay, finally.

[1611] Now, these days, okay, also the St. Louis County Police Department is also reviewing a 2013 case involving the death of none other than Pam Hupp's 77 -year -old mother, Shirley Newman, who died right before the first trial, before Betsy's first trial, the murder of Betsy.

[1612] She fell to her death from a third floor balcony.

[1613] The medical examiner found high levels of Ambien in her mom's system, and Pam had spent time with her that day.

[1614] It was initially ruled accidental, but it's now undetermined, and they're looking into it.

[1615] And she faces first degree murder on Lewis's murder, and she's going to trial in September 2018.

[1616] So we'll all be there.

[1617] You guys have to go.

[1618] What did I say?

[1619] Crazy.

[1620] Unbelievable.

[1621] Right?

[1622] So intense.

[1623] This is the story with the pad on the, her using a pad on her wound, right?

[1624] Yes, that's right.

[1625] So that's always a, that's always if you, when you're, we're trying to pick stories.

[1626] If you see that, you grab it.

[1627] Any kind of maxi pad based anything.

[1628] We're in a hundred.

[1629] That's right.

[1630] If it's evidence in a trial, that's what we want.

[1631] What's your update?

[1632] So my update is incredible.

[1633] So that was 2017 and she had just been arraigned and was awaiting trial.

[1634] And in August of 20, what was that number?

[1635] In August of 2019, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

[1636] And then in 2020, another update, her husband finally filed for divorce.

[1637] Oh, Mr. Hub.

[1638] It's like one thing after another for that poor guy.

[1639] Yeah.

[1640] Pretty intense.

[1641] Well, great job.

[1642] It's always fun to talk about things we did in the past.

[1643] That's right.

[1644] And listen to them.

[1645] Yeah, and now we have a special hometown, live show hometown.

[1646] Steven, can you tell us the details of this?

[1647] Yes, it is a live hometown from Michelle from North Charleston, South Carolina, September 21st, 2018.

[1648] South Carolina.

[1649] Charleston's definitely one of those, okay, if I ever retire, I want to move there.

[1650] It's a charming little town.

[1651] It was a beautiful town.

[1652] It was very fun to be there for sure.

[1653] College towns, man, you can't go wrong.

[1654] Let's hear it.

[1655] Is her name Michelle's?

[1656] Did you say Michelle?

[1657] Yeah, Michelle.

[1658] Strong accent, which we always appreciate.

[1659] Let's hear Michelle's hometown.

[1660] Do we have time for hometown?

[1661] Yeah, let's do it.

[1662] Hometown time.

[1663] These rolls by you really quick.

[1664] We know, maybe you know them already, but it's important just to remember.

[1665] The key here is being concise, knowing your story exactly and by heart, telling it quickly.

[1666] When you get up here, it's very overwhelming.

[1667] We always forget to warn people about that.

[1668] It can be very overwhelming.

[1669] So if you're like three and a half years, in, you might want to reconsider.

[1670] Just because it hits you kind of like a cold wave, and then you don't really know what to do.

[1671] So key points are important.

[1672] Just run through that fucking story.

[1673] Take us on a journey.

[1674] We'll help you.

[1675] We're here for you.

[1676] We'll help you.

[1677] We love you.

[1678] We want it.

[1679] It's best when it's personal.

[1680] It has to be local.

[1681] We don't care what happened in Arizona.

[1682] We just don't care.

[1683] Nobody here cares.

[1684] Okay.

[1685] And remember, everyone.

[1686] I will hate you if you get picked.

[1687] I will add this.

[1688] I'm still talking.

[1689] I will add this.

[1690] I still have to say.

[1691] They're here for good.

[1692] I said no words of wisdom for us?

[1693] Did you hear that I called you, our what, our husband?

[1694] This job has many responsibilities.

[1695] I do what needs to be done.

[1696] That's what it is.

[1697] He's a good man. I don't select, you select, let's do it.

[1698] All right.

[1699] Picked, be quiet.

[1700] It's hard.

[1701] It's a good man. be doing this because now I feel horrible.

[1702] Can we bring the lights down so we don't and watch people and see everyone.

[1703] Thank you.

[1704] Look how far back to see her goes.

[1705] How do you get four minutes to order tickets?

[1706] What is your shirt saying?

[1707] Thanks for being here.

[1708] Bloody's with a murder.

[1709] Yes, I did.

[1710] What does that mean?

[1711] I had Bloody Mary's with a murderer on local occasions before he committed a crazy murder.

[1712] Okay, by saying, Georgia just picked a person who made a T -Eye.

[1713] shirt of her hometown yes I did holy shit what are the art I'm an art teacher all right tell us and can I have asked another question yes did you wear your purse up here well that says my favorite murder on it she made it did you wear your my friend made it it okay so you do have a friend here you just she's the one who's wearing the half and half question oh okay that makes sense awesome oh you guys are like you but you can't both have a thing All right, so I live in Florence County in Florence and I have a part -time job in Darlington where I work at a dive bar.

[1714] Nice.

[1715] Yes.

[1716] I meet a wide range of great people and I had met this guy before prior and we had an older couple who used to come in and on Sundays they would do what they called communion where you'd have Bloody Mary's, martinis, mimosas people would bring them instead of going to church you know.

[1717] We're Baptist, we can't drink there.

[1718] So we went to several of these functions, plenty of times, had a great time, drank, let him marry, as you know.

[1719] So I smoked, so I go out in the yard, and this guy would come out with me. He's name is Randy Robinson.

[1720] And we would smoke and whatever.

[1721] He was a great conversationalist, very intelligent.

[1722] He was somewhat charming.

[1723] Should have known better.

[1724] So I didn't see him for a long time.

[1725] I flash forward a few years.

[1726] Can I just ask a quick question?

[1727] Yes.

[1728] Did you kind of like him?

[1729] Um, I liked his personality, but he was macking on me hard, knowing my husband was in the house, so I knew he was a douche.

[1730] Of him very quickly.

[1731] That wasn't first, you know, that came along a little bit later, but still.

[1732] Disrespectful.

[1733] Yeah.

[1734] I'm turning red.

[1735] So, I heard his name on a newscast while I'm like, you know, in the kitchen messing around.

[1736] Randy Robinson is a person of interest in a murder.

[1737] And I was like, what?

[1738] I'm running the living room.

[1739] It turned the volume up.

[1740] Well, he had moved to the beach about an hour away, and he was the last person seen with his on and off again girlfriend.

[1741] Her name is Angie Pipkin.

[1742] She was 32 years old, single mother.

[1743] And much later, turns out, he had accidentally murdered her in a fit of rage, a domestic incident.

[1744] Of course.

[1745] I didn't mean to.

[1746] But here's the messed up part.

[1747] So he dismembers her in his garage.

[1748] His neighbor said it was weird that he was pressure washing the house, the garage, and his truck.

[1749] But he drives back to Darlington County with these parts in a trash can.

[1750] He enlists the help of a friend from back in the day, tells him he needs help disposing of a hog carcass, which is believable where we live.

[1751] But when they started pulling the parts out, the friend's like, that ain't no hog.

[1752] Oh, fuck.

[1753] The friend ended up testifying against it.

[1754] Oh, that good.

[1755] Yes, and he got prosecuted to the fullest.

[1756] He should have been.

[1757] Yeah.

[1758] But that's my hometown murder.

[1759] Oh, I have to mention.

[1760] My husband has a podcast.

[1761] It's called Cinema Chop Shop.

[1762] Nice.

[1763] It's a movie.

[1764] Movie podcast.

[1765] Love it.

[1766] Cinema Shop shop.

[1767] Guess what you just want.

[1768] Oh, I can return.

[1769] Who work in dive bars are allowed to do hometowns for now.

[1770] Because you know they can fucking talk.

[1771] also just severe respect to someone who's going to plug her husband's podcast It's wrestling everyone Great job Michelle I've always I've always hated Bloody Mary's And I would like this to be the proof that they suck It's fucking cold ketchup And alcohol I love them I really do It's thick cold ketchup You can drink it in the morning and no one says a word.

[1772] Mimosas, too.

[1773] I hate that.

[1774] I hate mimosas and I hate Bledi beers.

[1775] I love mimosas.

[1776] They're too much sugar, but you can't order a beer at brunch.

[1777] Like, you're judged somehow if you order a whiskey or a cocktail and everyone else orders.

[1778] Oh, Vince did introduce me to Greyhounds, though.

[1779] Oh, those are nice.

[1780] Yeah, vodka.

[1781] That's an OJ.

[1782] That looks like OJ.

[1783] That's okay.

[1784] All right.

[1785] Well, I think this has been an extra large episode.

[1786] but you know we enjoy podcasting we enjoy podcasting obviously or we wouldn't have done it for the last five years and written two books about it here's the proof if you need more proof I don't know what more you need Why do you keep questioning us clearly we love it clearly we love you we love you stay sexy and don't get murdered goodbye Elvis do you want a cookie Aww