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1:29

Little precious emails that you've written into

1:31

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1:33

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this time? Sure. Okay. Mine's called Biker

1:49

Gang Parents. Hello, ladies.

1:51

Love you both. Love the podcast. You

1:53

make my workday so much better. I'm

1:56

a medical biller and some days I get to listen

1:58

to my girls tell me some stories. Shout

2:00

out to my friend John Paul, who tried to

2:02

tell me for years that I would love your

2:04

podcast. He was right. You have to listen to

2:06

John Paul. John Paul knows what's up.

2:08

He knows. Settle in for this crazy shit. This

2:11

story has been told to me by both

2:14

parents at separate times. My parents met at

2:16

a party at Kent State University in Ohio.

2:19

My father was from a neighboring city about 45 minutes away, asked

2:22

my mother if she wanted to go for

2:24

a ride on his motorcycle. The rest is

2:26

history. Hot, hot, hot. In

2:29

1972, my 19-year-old mother, Debbie, was

2:32

pregnant with me, and she and my

2:34

18-year-old father, Glen, were

2:36

in a motorcycle quote, club, called

2:38

The Chosen Few. Oh.

2:42

The club members quote, hung out in

2:44

an abandoned house. My dad was

2:47

the vice president of the club and went by

2:49

Lush. The

2:51

club president went by Sex, and

2:54

then it's cracking up emoji, and then it says, it

2:56

was the 70s. Sex

2:58

is not a good nickname.

3:00

That's just straight up your nickname. It

3:04

just really ruins everything about like double

3:06

entendre and trying to be kind of

3:08

like a flirty. It's just the word.

3:10

No. There's no subtlety. What

3:13

you call yourself that. Lush, I

3:15

guess. It's okay, but. So

3:17

there they all were, hanging out, doing

3:20

God knows what. The story goes, there

3:22

was some beef with another club and

3:24

the rival club went looking for The

3:26

Chosen Few's clubhouse. Is Sex here? Is

3:29

Lush here? Knock, knock, knock. My

3:31

mother was sitting on a couch, getting ready to smoke a

3:33

cigarette. Remember, she's pregnant. When she

3:36

reached down to pick up her lighter, just

3:38

then, someone began shooting up the house. So

3:40

this really is a fucking motorcycle gang. Yeah,

3:42

this is a motorcycle gang. Yeah. My

3:45

dad and the other guys began shooting back. The

3:47

first shooter fled, so they got in a car

3:49

and chased him. Thankfully, no one was hurt or

3:52

killed. My mom said, quote, after

3:54

the guys left, the girls were all freaked out

3:56

and began to nervously clean up. That's

3:58

when we see the bullet hole right. above the

4:00

couch where I was sitting. If I hadn't

4:02

been down to get my lighter, we would

4:04

have both died. Her and the baby. Oh

4:06

my God. My father and another member

4:09

of the club were later arrested for shooting into

4:11

an empty car they thought was the car involved

4:13

in the shooting. Oh no. I

4:15

couldn't get. I still have the newspaper

4:17

articles about how the quote gang members, known

4:19

as sex and lush, were told by the judge

4:22

in court to take a shower and get

4:24

a haircut. My

4:27

father was in jail for almost two years, including the day

4:29

I was born. He and my mother

4:31

split shortly after his release and he moved

4:34

to Florida, not before my mom became pregnant

4:36

with my brother. We still live

4:38

in Ohio. I reconnected with my father about 10 years

4:40

ago when I was 40. He

4:42

came to visit and we talk and text. He

4:45

has actually grown up and I'm glad he's in my life.

4:47

I have heard so many stories about the

4:50

crazy shit they did. Most of the stories

4:52

about their lives back in the day come

4:54

from my 71 year old Harley Davidson wearing

4:56

chain smoking tattooed mother. She

4:59

is still a fucking wild

5:01

child. Yes. Stay sexy and

5:03

don't let your teenage parents

5:06

join a motorcycle gang. Trina,

5:08

she, her. I mean,

5:11

here's the thing. I feel like that's

5:13

a long term lifestyle. It's

5:15

not a trend that you're joining and then,

5:18

or I would say very uncommon

5:20

because that's in Northern California where

5:22

I'm from. There's lots of people

5:24

who were like hippies that then

5:26

became bikers that that was what

5:28

was happening in the

5:31

North Bay kind of. And you were either

5:33

kind of like the kind of hippie that

5:35

looked like a biker, but you actually owned

5:38

like a vegetarian sandwich shop, right? Or you

5:40

were literally just dealing meth and

5:42

whatever. It's weird. It's like,

5:44

it's lifestyle. Yeah. Anyway, that's,

5:47

I love an inside, a

5:50

true crime story from the inside kind

5:52

of. Yeah. I want to see a

5:54

photo of them back then of lush,

5:56

lush. Now

5:58

I'm scared that I insulted sex as well. This is

6:00

a gang name. Don't do it. Where it's like,

6:02

hey, I want no beef with either lush or

6:04

such. No beef, no beef. Please. Okay,

6:07

here's my first one. They're

6:11

Karen and Georgia. Hello from Ireland. Oh,

6:13

yay. This is a bit

6:15

of a long one, so I'm going to get

6:18

straight into it. My grandmother lives in a beautiful,

6:20

old three-story house in Dublin that's been in our

6:22

family since her aunt moved in way back in

6:24

the early 1900s. My

6:27

grandmother has lived there her whole adult

6:29

life, raising four children alone after her

6:31

husband passed away when she was only

6:33

30 years old. Oh my God.

6:36

Not so fun fact, when my grandmother

6:38

was a single young mother, her neighbors

6:40

petitioned to kick her and her children

6:43

off the street as apparently a single

6:45

mother in Ireland at that time brought

6:48

down the quote unquote prestige

6:50

of the neighborhood. Oh my

6:52

God. Yeah. But

6:55

being the independent woman that she is, she

6:57

said fuck politeness still living there to this

6:59

day. Nice. Yeah, God forbid

7:02

any woman be single or

7:04

independent. About 10 years

7:06

ago, she was getting work done on the

7:08

house, which had builders going through the house

7:10

and into the attic, a place my grandmother

7:12

probably never ever stepped foot in in all

7:14

her time living there. One

7:17

day as my grandmother and uncle were having a

7:19

cup of tea, one of the

7:21

builders came into the kitchen white as

7:23

a ghost, putting two brown objects onto

7:25

the table saying, I think we

7:27

need to call the police. Oh

7:30

my God. After the police and

7:32

a full blown forensic team arrived,

7:34

it was determined that the objects

7:37

found were two human feet. One

7:40

child's foot and one adult foot,

7:43

which still had parts of the leg attached, preserved

7:47

from a bog dating back over

7:49

2000 years. Holy

7:52

shit. Bodies of the bog.

7:54

I mean, of course

7:56

my whole family were in shock as to how

7:58

there had been literal human remains. remains in the

8:00

attic for all these years. And

8:02

my 80 year old grandmother was even

8:04

questioned by the police. Turns out

8:07

my grandmother's uncle who lived in the house

8:09

before her was a pathologist who worked in

8:11

the Midlands where many of these bog bodies

8:14

and body parts turned up during

8:16

the cutting of turf and milling of peat.

8:19

He passed away a few years before they were found.

8:21

So I guess we'll never know why he decided to

8:23

bring them home. The feet are now

8:25

on display in the National Museum in Dublin

8:28

if you wanna go see them yourself. Wow.

8:31

Wow. Wow. Thank you

8:33

for everything you do in relation to mental

8:35

health awareness. And even though my boyfriend is

8:37

very unsettled by it, your podcast helps me

8:40

peacefully fall asleep most nights. I love it.

8:42

Lots of love, IFA, which is

8:45

spelled A-O-I-F-E. So

8:48

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8:50

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8:52

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8:54

IFA. That's so pretty.

8:56

Isn't that incredible? Oh, I wanna be

8:58

there now. I wanna be there. Like

9:01

that sounds amazing. Jesus Christ, he put

9:03

them up in the attic and now we're all going

9:05

to jail for it. That's

9:08

how my grandma would say it. But she's drunk, but do it

9:10

when she's drunk. Jeez, well, I can't

9:12

do that. That's very disrespectful to my

9:14

grandmother who is who I'm doing an

9:16

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I got framed for arson as a child. Just

11:35

starts, I grew up in a tiny

11:37

town in Northern California called Olivehurst. Never

11:40

heard of it. Never heard of it. That's

11:42

crazy, right? I've never heard of it. Never

11:44

heard of it. Although, do they say anything

11:46

about where it's, what it's near? Nope, just

11:48

Northern California. Can I look really quick? It

11:50

might be near, oh

11:52

no, it's right near Yuba City. Oh,

11:55

okay, yeah. I would never venture that

11:57

way. No, you wouldn't, but it's between

11:59

Sacramento. and Chico, you'd stop over at all

12:01

of hers to have a nice milkshake. As

12:05

most small towns go, there wasn't much for kids

12:07

to do, so we would hop the fence to

12:09

get to the area behind the local park that

12:12

everyone just called the bowl. One

12:14

time, while with some friends and some other kids

12:16

in our class, we were probably in like sixth

12:18

grade, we rode our bikes to the park

12:20

and then hopped the fence to hang out in the bowl.

12:23

It was partly concrete, but it had a lot of

12:25

dry grass. One of the people in

12:27

the group, a kid named John, who I disliked,

12:29

my best friend had a crush on,

12:32

this will be important later, found a

12:34

box of matches. Just

12:38

how every story from your childhood in the 90s starts.

12:41

Just a random box of matches. Oh,

12:43

sorry, I was thinking of like a

12:45

box of match books, so it's a

12:47

ton, but it's one small box of

12:49

matches I've met. I

12:51

guess so. Found matches. In the

12:53

teenage brain, he decided it would be a great idea

12:55

to light one of the matches and drop it into

12:57

the dry grass. As you can

12:59

expect, this went poorly and we quickly realized

13:01

that we could not actually handle this fire,

13:04

so we did the logical thing and

13:06

ran. While

13:08

attempting to get back on our bikes and

13:10

flee, I got about one street away before

13:12

I spoke on my wheel snap and I

13:14

crashed my bike going over the handlebars and

13:16

the bike coming down on top of my

13:18

head. It says, of course with no helmet.

13:21

My best friend stopped to help me while everyone else kept

13:23

going. It's a good friend. I

13:25

don't remember how, but the next thing I

13:27

know, my parents were there while firefighters were

13:29

busy trying to put out the fire in

13:31

the bowl. I bet they had a concussion.

13:33

I bet. And go ass over teakettle on

13:35

your fucking bike. As you're hauling ass

13:37

away from a fire. Totally.

13:41

Totally. Since my best friend had a crush on

13:43

John, she made me promise not to tell them

13:45

that he was the one who started the fire.

13:48

I like a fool, listened to her and said that

13:50

I didn't know who set it. My

13:52

parents decided that I must have been the one

13:54

who set the fire and I was grounded. That's

13:59

not fair. Your honor, no. Were

14:01

the parents trying to do high pressure, you will

14:03

tell us? Yeah. And if you, was

14:05

it that idea? No, it says even now as a

14:08

full grown adult, I'm pretty sure they still think I

14:10

was the one who set the fire. No.

14:13

That's not a lot of faith your parents having you. I

14:16

don't remember getting in trouble with the fire department at

14:18

least, but I don't think I ever went back to

14:20

the bowl. Stay sexy and

14:22

don't take the blame for an

14:24

arson that you didn't commit, Milo

14:27

Heavey. Milo, I'm so

14:29

sorry. What worse

14:31

injustice is there than being accused of

14:34

something as a kid and having your

14:36

parents think it's true? That's right. We

14:39

believe you here at My Favorite Murder, the murdery

14:41

knows we believe you, we're on your side. We

14:43

believe you. We know you're

14:45

not stupid enough to pick up matches. Yeah.

14:48

We'll call your parents and tell them. Yeah, that's

14:50

right. Or just play this for them. I don't

14:52

know. Will you play it and then write in

14:54

their phone number if they're not going along with

14:56

whatever it is we're making up right now? Yeah,

14:59

we'll go see them in Olivehurst. We owe

15:01

that town a stopover. We

15:04

owe Olivehurst everything. They made us and

15:06

they can break us. This

15:09

is a drunk elevator story. Dear wonderful

15:12

women, your episodes are something I always

15:14

look forward to during my work week.

15:16

Hearing your voices instantly gives me peace,

15:18

even when you're almost always talking about

15:21

not peaceful things. It's

15:24

real weird. We don't

15:26

get it either. We don't get it either. Thank

15:28

you for all that you do. Y'all are amazing.

15:30

I also love hearing you try to say y'all.

15:35

I hate taking on regional trend

15:37

language because I just feel phony and

15:40

like I'm doing it wrong. Yeah, y'all

15:42

is very much not one of your

15:44

words for sure. I write it, but I don't

15:47

say it in like emails and shit. Right.

15:50

It is the kind of thing where I think

15:52

this podcast has really opened my eyes to like

15:54

how often I'm wrong. So those kinds of things

15:56

where you have to have the kind of blissful

15:58

ignorance to be like. Y'all come

16:00

in here and come over for a dinner party or whatever.

16:03

It's just like, it doesn't sound, you're

16:06

not from there. Yeah, but it's gender

16:08

neutral. And so you're allowed to adopt

16:10

it to be able

16:12

to accommodate number one. True.

16:14

You know what I mean? That's a good point. Okay,

16:17

so it says, I

16:20

just listened to this week's mini-sode where you said

16:22

you loved hearing stories of drunk people doing dumb

16:24

things and elevator stories.

16:27

I knew I had to write in this stupid

16:29

combo from when I was

16:31

briefly in college at Appalachian State.

16:34

A group of seven of us were

16:37

leaving my friend's dorm room, a little

16:39

stoned and smelling of shitty weed, our

16:41

underage pockets and jackets shoved with loose

16:43

cans of cheap beer, most

16:45

likely PBR. We cheerily loaded up on

16:48

the very small elevator looking forward

16:50

to our no doubt mediocre night

16:52

out. On our way

16:54

down, we decided it'd be fun if we all jumped

16:56

at the same time. Oh my God. Oh

17:01

my God, I love it. To

17:03

make the elevator shake. Can you tell

17:05

our brains were not fully formed? We

17:08

counted to three and jumped. The

17:10

weak little elevator jolted and we all looked

17:12

at each other and let out a nervous

17:14

laugh when it stopped moving altogether. We

17:17

were trapped. The call button

17:19

on the elevator did absolutely nothing. None

17:21

of us had cell service. And who

17:23

would we call anyways? The elevator police,

17:26

wouldn't you know it? Out of our

17:28

seven friends, two of us had claustrophobia.

17:30

Oh my God. That's

17:34

a high percentage. I'm just trying to think of

17:36

like, because I just went to New York recently

17:38

and it's the elevators there are

17:40

small and like smaller than this, I feel

17:43

the standard of California elevators where it's a

17:45

little like roughly two people

17:47

wide, you know, two maybe three. Because they

17:49

had to build, they had to add them.

17:52

Whereas LA like was like so new that

17:54

they were already in the plans, right? It was

17:57

like, let's get this thing six people wide

17:59

and see where. or we can go with

18:01

it or whatever. I don't know, maybe they're

18:03

standardized, but there was an

18:05

elevator that I was in while I was in

18:07

New York where I was like, this is too

18:09

small, I don't like it. And it sounds like

18:11

they had seven people in one of those kind

18:13

of elevators. At least you know everyone, okay. Yeah,

18:16

that's true. You know everyone, but two

18:18

people have claustrophobia. Okay, within a few

18:20

minutes, one friend started joking about establishing

18:23

a pea corner. That's when the panic

18:25

really set in for me. I

18:29

would have been the friend that made that joke for sure. I

18:32

curled myself into a little ball in the corner to

18:34

give myself the illusion of more space. And

18:36

then in parentheses, it says, I'm one of the claustrophobic

18:38

ones. The other truly

18:41

panicked person, one of my best

18:43

friends, Jordan, took the initiative to

18:45

start screaming into the little crack in

18:47

the elevator doors, help, help. To

18:50

this day, I can hear his goofy

18:52

sounding cries, no offense, Jordan. He repeatedly

18:54

yelled that same word for probably 10

18:56

to 15 minutes before

18:59

an RA peered through the

19:01

small crack and then walked away to call for

19:03

help. Oh my God. I guess the

19:05

police were the ones to call since they showed up to rescue

19:07

us 30 to 40 minutes into

19:10

our elevator nightmare. At

19:12

this point, everyone's buzz had worn off. So

19:14

we were mostly sober by the time they

19:17

pried open the doors to pull us out.

19:19

We had to climb out being pulled up

19:21

through a two to three foot gap at

19:23

the top of the elevator door. Luckily,

19:26

no one got cut in half during this

19:28

rescue. And the elevator police

19:30

kindly ignored the beer can shaped lumps sticking

19:32

out of our clothing. I'm

19:34

very grateful that we all had better

19:36

control over our bladders than our impulses.

19:38

And we can still laugh about the

19:40

experience, except for Jordan. To this day,

19:42

Jordan will only take the stairs. Stay

19:45

sexy and don't jump around on

19:48

elevators, Ashley. Oh my God, that's

19:50

a nightmare. Oh, I

19:52

mean, it's not fair. To

19:56

name check Jordan so extensively in

19:58

this email, but. However,

20:00

there's so many people that would be

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confined space with seven other people You

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don't even have to be quote Claustrophobic

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here's my last one Crazy neighbor story

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and then in parentheses it says please read.

20:59

I'll why I love you. Please read. I

21:01

love you. Oh Hello

21:05

MFM crew love to you all I've been

21:07

an avid listener since the beginning when y'all

21:09

asked for crazy neighbor stories I decided it

21:11

was time to write in First

21:14

thing to note my neighborhood has

21:16

an insane Facebook group. They are

21:18

so paranoid every car Every

21:21

car that even remotely goes quote too suspiciously

21:23

around the neighborhood gets posted with a caption

21:25

sort of like quote Does anyone recognize this

21:28

car? It was looking like it was casing

21:30

the neighborhood type stuff. I Feel

21:34

like we have a piece of responsibility in that

21:39

Hey communicate yeah, tell your neighbor you gotta

21:41

tell everyone I had minor cosmetic surgery last

21:43

summer I was still on narcotics and my

21:45

dad who I was staying with was as

21:48

usual drunk by 7 p.m We

21:51

decided we were craving wings and placed a

21:53

door dash order for hooters since neither of

21:55

us were sober to drive My

21:57

house is kind of hard to see at night. It's down a

21:59

long driveway that you could easily miss. This

22:02

poor teenage door dasher calls me and says,

22:04

I accidentally delivered to the wrong house and

22:06

now they won't give it back. And they're

22:08

saying they're calling the police. Oh,

22:10

my God. I was obviously like, what the fuck?

22:13

So I walked down there. My

22:15

neighbor was holding his door closed with

22:17

just enough opening to stick out a

22:19

cell phone and let the girl know

22:21

he was videoing for, quote, evidence while

22:24

she was trying to get our food back. And

22:27

yes, he did call the police. He told

22:29

them he was delivered a

22:31

suspicious package. Oh, my

22:33

God. He was holding

22:35

my wings hostage. Two sheriff

22:37

patrol cars pulled up and then had

22:39

a good laugh once I explained the

22:41

situation and they realized it was not

22:43

a bomb, but in fact, two orders

22:45

of chicken wings. Also

22:48

to note, the delivery was clearly in

22:50

a hooter's bag. Stay

22:52

sexy. And I guess don't trust hooters wings

22:54

being delivered to your door. With

22:57

all the love, Sarah, she her.

22:59

Sarah, thank God that you

23:02

took the initiative to go and right

23:04

that wrong. Oh, Jesus. But you know

23:06

that was like a lonely old person

23:08

or something trying to start a fight

23:11

or get a little interaction on a

23:13

little connection. You think so? Well,

23:16

because none of it makes

23:18

sense. Like if

23:20

you're claiming you're afraid of that mysterious package,

23:22

why are you? Why did you

23:24

bring it into your house? Yeah, you weren't.

23:26

I hope they tipped her really well. The door

23:28

dasher. Oh, my God. The

23:30

subject line of my last one is

23:33

this is a blimp podcast now. And

23:36

then it starts get in losers were going

23:38

blimping. I

23:41

love it. I was born and raised

23:43

in Akron, Ohio, home of the iconic

23:45

Goodyear Tire Company. One of

23:47

their three US based blimps has a home in

23:49

Akron, and it is a common sight to see

23:51

it flying in the Northeast Ohio area for no

23:54

reason. It was so exciting as

23:56

a child to be at recess and see

23:58

the blimp flying over your playground. Yeah, I

24:00

bet. It flies much lower

24:02

than airplanes and the old model made

24:05

this distinct humming noise that you could

24:07

hear overhead. All the

24:09

kids would run and wave excitedly at

24:11

it. As a grown ass adult

24:13

who now lives in Columbus two hours from

24:15

Akron, I still get the same excitement when

24:17

I see the Goodyear blimp here for an

24:19

Ohio State football game or some other big

24:21

event. I still wave at it, I just

24:24

can't help myself. Of course, of course you

24:26

do. Childhood friends that live

24:28

in other states now always send me

24:30

pictures if the Goodyear blimp is in their

24:32

city. Oh, I

24:34

love it. We know you love this

24:37

blimp. So here, remember? As

24:40

it really brings back innocent feelings of childhood

24:42

for all of us. Goodyear

24:44

actually donates blimp rides for charities

24:47

to sell at auctions, hence the

24:49

frequent weekday flyovers. My parents

24:51

bought one back in 2012 and we

24:53

all were able to ride the blimp along with

24:55

my grandparents. They casually asked us

24:57

where we wanted to go and we

25:00

had them fly over all of our houses and

25:02

my old grade school playground. Oh my God.

25:04

Full circle. Where do you wanna go? Shouldn't

25:06

there be regulations that tell you exactly? I

25:08

don't know. It can go. And we could

25:11

have had a world like this if we

25:13

had given blimps a chance and the Hindenburg

25:15

had an exploit. It

25:17

was not scary at all. Just felt like

25:19

a calm, peaceful floating. So this is my

25:21

peer pressure to have the two of you

25:23

get out on that Goodyear blimp in California.

25:26

2010 would recommend this is the content

25:28

we need. Can't wait for you to

25:31

become blimp girlies. Your friend, roe

25:33

bro. Oh. I

25:36

love it. I'm in. I'm in. I

25:40

already am a blimp girlie first of

25:43

all. Secondly, I'm into, you know

25:45

what? I want more and more people to write

25:47

in to explain exactly what the experience is gonna

25:49

be like. And then once we know for sure.

25:51

Do you have a blimp story for some

25:54

reason? Send it in. But

25:57

it's actually really interesting to know that about,

26:00

it'll just go where you want. Because

26:02

one time my friend Bradford and I,

26:04

who works in the Great Lakes office

26:06

of the Exactly Right company,

26:09

we were both unemployed and we were in

26:11

my backyard at my old house, sitting

26:14

around the pool and the Goodyear blimp came

26:16

toward us. And we were like, what the hell?

26:18

And we're like, at first we were laughing like,

26:20

that's so crazy. And then it

26:23

like came toward us, like

26:25

toward the backyard multiple times.

26:27

What I think I realized now is they were

26:30

probably trying to go over the Warner Brothers lot.

26:32

Oh, well that makes sense. Which was like three

26:34

blocks from my house. Yeah, see someone famous. And

26:36

so I think they were like, oh, look at

26:38

this and then trying to turn around. But it

26:40

looked like they were like coming to look at

26:42

us. That's so unnerving.

26:44

Oh my God, it's like a police helicopter but

26:47

way less chill. Still

26:50

pretty chill, chill. Very, very chill.

26:53

The silent version, the slow silent version of

26:55

that. Hey guys, thanks for

26:58

listening. Hey guys, what was this?

27:00

We appreciate you. If you want one more story

27:02

from each of us, it's in the fan cult.

27:04

And at this point, if you

27:07

have a good story about your

27:09

family, a blimp, something

27:11

scary or a

27:13

near miss or your own hometown true crime

27:15

which is how this series started. Then

27:18

please write in at my favoritemurdert@gmail.com.

27:20

That's right. And stay sexy.

27:22

And don't get murdered. Elvis,

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27:35

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27:37

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