MFM Minisode 411

This week’s hometowns include a hero dog named Beans and sarcasm gone wrong.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:01Karen Kilgariff?

  This is exactly right.

• 0:06Georgia Hardstark?

  In New Orleans, truckers kept getting sideswiped the exact same way.

• 0:10Karen Kilgariff?

  When a man is found murdered under questionable circumstances related to these accidents, that's when the rubber hits the road.

• 0:16Georgia Hardstark?

  And what the feds uncover is a complex scheme of staged wrecks, financial fraud, and a pair of conspiring lovers behind it.

• 0:23Karen Kilgariff?

  This is a story about fake accidents that led to real consequences.

• 0:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Listen to Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe wherever you get your podcasts.

• 0:31Karen Kilgariff?

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• 0:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Join Audible in the Audible app or by subscribing on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Goodbye.

• 0:41Karen Kilgariff?

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• 0:45Georgia Hardstark?

  Because the best gifts don't just look beautiful, they mean something, too.

• 0:49Karen Kilgariff?

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• 1:00Georgia Hardstark?

  Give a piece that says exactly what words can't.

• 1:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Pandora, more than a gift.

• 1:04Georgia Hardstark?

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• 1:08Karen Kilgariff?

  Goodbye.

• 1:25Georgia Hardstark?

  Hello.

• 1:27Karen Kilgariff?

  And welcome.

• 1:28Georgia Hardstark?

  To my favorite murder.

• 1:29Karen Kilgariff?

  The minisode.

• 1:29Georgia Hardstark?

  Where we re- where we re-shoot your mini stodes.

• 1:34Karen Kilgariff?

  Sorry. The tiniest story you send us.

• 1:36Georgia Hardstark?

  A little baby story.

• 1:38Karen Kilgariff?

  It has to be small. That's the agreement. Hey, guess what?

• 1:43Georgia Hardstark?

  You go first?

• 1:44Karen Kilgariff?

  We're all in this together. Just a quick message before we start.

• 1:47Georgia Hardstark?

  This is coming out way later. Everyone's already, everyone knows how fucked it is already.

• 1:51Karen Kilgariff?

  Everyone is entirely dissociated and...

• 1:53Georgia Hardstark?

  It's new for us.

• 1:54Karen Kilgariff?

  Making plans. Very new for us, guys, if you're listening now, two days after the big announcement.

• 2:02Georgia Hardstark?

  Minisodes. You go first.

• 2:04Karen Kilgariff?

  The subject line of this email is "An Irish Goodbye or Good Intuition: Hometown." "Hey besties, I've been listening to you since I was a broke college student. Your voices have accompanied me through college graduation, getting a big girl job, and getting married, and now my triplet toddlers..."

• 2:22Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, no.

• 2:23Karen Kilgariff?

  "...my triplet toddlers and I listen to you on the drive to daycare in the morning."

• 2:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, no.

• 2:28Karen Kilgariff?

  Wow. Just a lot of problems there. "I choose to believe they're just baby merinos and I'm not making tiny serial killers." We're with you. "I'm a little behind on listening now, but on a recent minisode, Georgia mentioned wanting to hear about times when listening to your intuition paid off."

• 2:45Georgia Hardstark?

  Yes, always.

• 2:47Karen Kilgariff?

  "When I was in high school circa 2011..." Go to hell. "...I was cool adjacent, which just means one of my longtime best friends, we'll call her Grace, became popular and I got to ride on her coattails."

• 2:59Georgia Hardstark?

  Hell, yeah.

• 3:00Karen Kilgariff?

  "She would make sure I got invited to whatever party was going on. I, being socially awkward, would try to make conversation for a little while before quietly leaving to get Taco Bell and go home."

• 3:11Georgia Hardstark?

  Grace is so nice. She's not just like, "Bye bitch, fuck you." She's like, "Come, I don't want you to be part of it."

• 3:17Karen Kilgariff?

  You can't... You can only get less awkward when you practice how awkward you are in front of as many teenagers as you can.

• 3:24Georgia Hardstark?

  And I know how lovely you are because you're not awkward around me.

• 3:27Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 3:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Like, show them. Don't you love that when you're like, "Show them how cool you are." You're like, "They won't talk."

• 3:30Karen Kilgariff?

  Bridge the gap. And you're like, "I prefer a chalupa and to get out of here." "One particular weekend, Grace invited me to a party after I got off my part-time job. I went to the party, drank a few sips of disgustingly warm beer, and waited for the right time to make my exit. A guy I vaguely knew started chatting with me on the couch. He was the type of guy that acted like we were good friends even though I barely knew him." Red flag. Eventually, I told him I was leaving soon because I had a curfew. He asked if I would give him a ride home too, since he had been drinking and his ride was MIA. I said yes, although the voice in the back of my head was screaming, "No, no, no." He said he needed to run to the bathroom and I took that opportunity to do my favorite thing, an Irish goodbye.

• 4:14Georgia Hardstark?

  Hell, yeah.

• 4:15Karen Kilgariff?

  I quietly slipped out and drove home alone. I felt really guilty about leaving the guy until a week later.

• 4:20Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

• 4:21Karen Kilgariff?

  Grace sent me a screenshot of a local news article who... And whose mugshot do I see front and center? The guy. He apparently had been charged with kidnapping and assault of three other women in the last year.

• 4:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 4:36Karen Kilgariff?

  His last attack had been just a week prior to when I'd met him. He was 19 and found guilty on all charges. He's still in jail, as far as I know. I still harbor a weird bit of guilt about it for some reason, since I was able to evade him. But at least three other women weren't so lucky. But I am really grateful that my introversion and my intuition kept me safe. Thanks for all that you do and all the causes you bring awareness to. Love be she/her.

• 5:04Georgia Hardstark?

  That is unbelievable. I have chills. Like, he was planning for her to be the next victim.

• 5:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Well, and guys like that, it's like, isn't everyone just a victim?

• 5:13Georgia Hardstark?

  Totally.

• 5:13Karen Kilgariff?

  It's all prey to a predator.

• 5:16Georgia Hardstark?

  Opportunity. And she fucking later dazed so hard. She fucked politeness and she just split and I love that.

• 5:23Karen Kilgariff?

  Take B's advice. You don't always have to explain to a person, "Oh, I'm going to choose not to give you a ride." You don't have to do anything. Literally, it's like, "Oh, my God, I have to talk to my friend for one second."

• 5:33Georgia Hardstark?

  Peace.

• 5:34Karen Kilgariff?

  Hall out that back door.

• 5:35Georgia Hardstark?

  And the next time they see you, they're gonna be like, "Where were you?" And you're like, "I don't know what you're talking about."

• 5:38Karen Kilgariff?

  What do you mean, you drunken fool?

• 5:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Right. You don't owe them anything.

• 5:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Also, if it's a cool person, they would never go, "Where were you?"

• 5:44Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 5:45Karen Kilgariff?

  They'd be like, "Oh, my God, we got separated at the party."

• 5:48Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God. Chills, chills, chills. All right, let's lighten things up.

• 5:52Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay.

• 5:52Georgia Hardstark?

  This is Big Sister Prank confession time.

• 5:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Nice.

• 5:56Georgia Hardstark?

  Hi, Karen and Georgia. I hope you both are doing well. I'm gonna jump right in and tell you both that I am writing for the first time to turn myself in after listening to Minisode 406. After being totally guilt-tripped by Georgia's call for older sisters to write stories in about how we tormented our poor younger siblings.

• 6:14Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 6:14Georgia Hardstark?

  Right? We want to hear from the tormentor, not just the tormentee.

• 6:17Karen Kilgariff?

  Fess up. It's your time.

• 6:19Georgia Hardstark?

  Or, as Karen put it, "Tell us what your problem is."

• 6:23Georgia Hardstark?

  So here I am, proud older sibling to a sister, we'll call her M. We are only three years apart, so we often were heavily encouraged, forced, to do everything together growing up. Looking back, it felt like I was forced to let M tag along to everything I did.

• 6:39Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 6:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Of course, I hated it. One night in our teenage years, I was watching a scary movie I had been excited to see called One Missed Call. M came down to see what I was doing and I wanted to watch something else. She begged me to change it. Annoyed, I refused, but told her reluctantly she could join me, lying that it wasn't a scary movie at all. You'll love it, I told her, knowing damn well M was a big scaredy cat and she'd absolutely hate it. About 30 minutes in, she ran upstairs to complain to my mom and of course, we were told we had to compromise on something to watch and share the TV. She was there first, I would say.

• 7:15Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, that's right. That's the rules.

• 7:18Georgia Hardstark?

  Rules.

• 7:18Karen Kilgariff?

  See, I was there first, rules. I was gonna try to make some sort of like, the one where the pioneers, if you got there first.

• 7:24Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, lame, claim jumper?

• 7:26Karen Kilgariff?

  It's the claim junk for garlic bread. Really good garlic bread. The fuck am I talking about?

• 7:33Georgia Hardstark?

  I don't know. I was pissed. That's when I came up with the idea on how to get back at her. If I couldn't watch my scary movie, I'd just create it at home.

• 7:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh.

• 7:42Georgia Hardstark?

  I quietly snuck into her room and took her cellphone. I downloaded the creepy thing song from the movie, the one that plays before someone is found dead, if I remember correctly.

• 7:52Karen Kilgariff?

  Ooh.

• 7:53Georgia Hardstark?

  And I set it as her ringtone. She had watched enough of the movie too, where I knew this song had truly freaked her out. Once I changed the ringtone, I made sure to turn up her phone volume all the way and place her phone back where I found it. After everyone had gone to bed that night, I took our house phone to our shared bathroom that connected our bedrooms and dialed her cellphone number. I heard the familiar creepy music start blasting from her cellphone and watching through the cracked door, she shot up in bed and let out a classic blood curdling scream.

• 8:27Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh my god.

• 8:29Georgia Hardstark?

  I then jumped into her room laughing so hard I was in tears, still screaming, Em ran to our parents' room. I can't remember much after that, only the fact that I found it absolutely hilarious while Em and my parents did not. She eventually came around to forgiving me and she will still remind me every now and again how I changed her ringtone and scared the absolute shit out of her. What else are big sisters for?

• 8:50Karen Kilgariff?

  For real.

• 8:51Georgia Hardstark?

  This is like classic.

• 8:52Karen Kilgariff?

  It really is. They put in the work.

• 8:54Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah. Anyway, we're both in our 30s now and are incredibly close. I now look back and I'm thankful my parents made me hang out with her because she's pretty cool after all. On behalf of big sisters everywhere, I'm sorry.

• 9:07Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, it's too late.

• 9:09Georgia Hardstark?

  I hope we didn't scar you too badly.

• 9:11Karen Kilgariff?

  You did. Absolutely.

• 9:12Georgia Hardstark?

  That's why we're so funny and have this podcast, so thank you. Karen, Georgia, MFM team, thank you for all you do to bring so much good to this world. I'm such a big fan. Stay sexy and don't scare your little sister, Chelsea.

• 9:25Karen Kilgariff?

  Thanks, Chelsea. That's hilarious and also that really is an ingenious prank.

• 9:30Georgia Hardstark?

  So clever.

• 9:31Karen Kilgariff?

  Very smart. Also, what's more like mean or older sister than peeking through like a bathroom door at you while she fucks with you?

• 9:37Georgia Hardstark?

  Absolutely. The holidays are coming, which means we'll all be spending more time away from home.

• 9:43Karen Kilgariff?

  Whether you're visiting family or doing something actually fun, you want to know your home is protected while you're away.

• 9:48Georgia Hardstark?

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• 9:52Karen Kilgariff?

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• 10:18Georgia Hardstark?

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• 10:35Karen Kilgariff?

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• 10:43Georgia Hardstark?

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• 10:45Karen Kilgariff?

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• 10:51Georgia Hardstark?

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• 10:54Karen Kilgariff?

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• 11:08Karen Kilgariff?

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• 11:17Georgia Hardstark?

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• 11:52Georgia Hardstark?

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• 12:39Karen Kilgariff?

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• 12:48Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay, I'm gonna darken it back down a little bit. The subject line of this is Altamont and my mum.

• 12:52Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh dear.

• 12:53Karen Kilgariff?

  So I was listening to the recent, we just get right into it. So I was listening to the recent episode Karen did about the disaster of the Altamont Free Festival and it reminded me that my mum was there. She said she sat by a yellow bus near the stage, which you can see in photos from the stage, and that Hells Angels were on top of the bus throwing beer cans at random people and they got the hell out. Quote, "It was not a fun festivv vibe." She left while it was still daylight and said they had parked miles away. Holy shit. What great planning, though.

• 13:26Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 13:27Karen Kilgariff?

  The Rolling Stones are kind of my family's mascot. My parents met while they were both working for them on tour, my mum in a P A capacity and my dad was a pyrotechnician.

• 13:36Georgia Hardstark?

  Wow.

• 13:37Karen Kilgariff?

  We even went on tour with them as a family when my sister and I were about five and seven years old.

• 13:42Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh my god.

• 13:43Karen Kilgariff?

  Damn. Anyway, I just thought I'd share that as it also gave me an excuse to force her to listen to an episode. Definitely got some murderino traits from all the episodes of Poirot and Midsommar Murders that we watched growing up. Nina.

• 13:57Georgia Hardstark?

  Cute.

• 13:58Karen Kilgariff?

  Love it.

• 13:59Georgia Hardstark?

  I mean, terrible, but cute.

• 14:00Karen Kilgariff?

  But cute.

• 14:01Georgia Hardstark?

  Thank you.

• 14:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, we always want, like, if we tell a story and then you have a relative that was there for that story.

• 14:07Georgia Hardstark?

  Right, or any connection at all, or a memory from it, we wanna know.

• 14:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Please, please.

• 14:11Georgia Hardstark?

  Always.

• 14:12Karen Kilgariff?

  Best if it's a grandparent.

• 14:13Georgia Hardstark?

  Definitely. Mine are all family-based. This one's called Trash Family? Question mark? Karen, Georgia, everyone. Hello and welcome to my email. I'm some variation of a day one listener as I joined somewhere around the 12th episode. That's day one.

• 14:29Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, that's totally day one.

• 14:30Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, that works. Shout out to my old boss Pat who said his wife Amanda listened to, quote, "These two ladies talk about murder, but it's a comedy podcast," end quote. You two have truly come such a long way.

• 14:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Thank you.

• 14:43Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay, so then they're listing out, like, the trash family, so first is Trash Brother. When I was about six years old, my brother and I set up cardboard boxes on our stairs leading up from the second floor all the way down to our basement. As we built it, we discussed its clever name, Mega Slide. Now, my brother, who was 11 at the time, hands me a circular sled and says, "All right, you first."

• 15:07Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 15:08Georgia Hardstark?

  With the Mega Slide being engineered by children, we failed to realize we didn't put a stop at the end or any type of safety barrier. Our basement wall was concrete. I made my way down mega slide quite fast and flew directly into the concrete wall. Since you're basically rubber at that age, I somehow did not get a concussion, but I did earn fashionable stitches across my forehead.

• 15:32Karen Kilgariff?

  Ooh.

• 15:32Georgia Hardstark?

  Head smack first into the fucking concrete wall.

• 15:36Karen Kilgariff?

  And the amount of blood, because your head, head bleeds the most, right?

• 15:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Absolutely.

• 15:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 15:42Georgia Hardstark?

  I was Frankenstein that Halloween. Okay, then it's trash parents. Whenever we sat down for dinner, my parents asked how our day went. What was the best part, worst part, et cetera? A few years after the mega slide debacle at dinner, my parents decided to ask which one of us they should keep because they quote, "Just couldn't afford two kids anymore."

• 16:03Karen Kilgariff?

  Shit.

• 16:04Georgia Hardstark?

  Panicked, my brother and I glanced at each other as we prepare our arguments. He explained he was older and would be out of the house soon, so they wouldn't have to pay for him much longer. I explained I was smaller and ate less and would cost less. Over the remaining years, I planned to live there.

• 16:19Karen Kilgariff?

  Smart.

• 16:20Georgia Hardstark?

  I truly cannot remember if they ever picked a winner, but I love to bring up both these stories whenever I'm asked why I am the way I am.

• 16:28Karen Kilgariff?

  I mean, the panic, if you thought that was real.

• 16:31Georgia Hardstark?

  Absolutely. Hey, we gotta get rid of one of you two.

• 16:34Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, so just...

• 16:35Georgia Hardstark?

  And then they just throw each other under the bus. There's no like...

• 16:37Karen Kilgariff?

  Also, they have to make up speeches on the spot.

• 16:39Georgia Hardstark?

  Totally.

• 16:40Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 16:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Not fair. Stay sexy and wear a helmet, maybe? XOXO, tar.

• 16:46Karen Kilgariff?

  Tar, what a family.

• 16:47Georgia Hardstark?

  You made it, you did it.

• 16:49Karen Kilgariff?

  You really did it. You should have been like, and also, here's my other reason.

• 16:52Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 16:52Karen Kilgariff?

  He almost killed me on the mega slide.

• 16:54Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 16:54Karen Kilgariff?

  That was his idea.

• 16:56Georgia Hardstark?

  The holidays are coming, which means we'll all be spending more time away from home.

• 17:00Karen Kilgariff?

  Whether you're visiting family or doing something actually fun, you want to know your home is protected while you're away.

• 17:06Georgia Hardstark?

  That's why now is a good time to think about home security with SimpliSafe.

• 17:09Karen Kilgariff?

  Unlike traditional security systems that alert you after a break-in starts, SimpliSafe is designed to help stop intruders before they get inside. These days, you're worried about your house. You're out of town and then something comes up and you get to look on your phone and SimpliSafe is going to show you not only the video of like... It's a raccoon at your front door, but also that they have staff that's sitting there. They already know. And if it was something different or worse, they would have already been on it.

• 17:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, I really think that's invaluable peace of mind that just like relying on your neighbors, paying attention is not going to give you. We've partnered with SimpliSafe to offer our listeners their biggest savings of the year. 70% off your new system with professional monitoring when you visit simplisafe.com/mfm.

• 17:52Karen Kilgariff?

  That's simplisafe.com/mfm. And when you order, write in MFM at checkout and it tells them we sent you. And it really helps the show.

• 18:00Georgia Hardstark?

  SimpliSafe, ahead of crime in real time.

• 18:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Goodbye.

• 18:03Georgia Hardstark?

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• 18:56Georgia Hardstark?

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• 18:57Karen Kilgariff?

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• 19:15Karen Kilgariff?

  Goodbye.

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• 19:50Karen Kilgariff?

  Here's my last story. It's a hero dog story. Hey y'all, I've heard quite a few hero dog stories in the minisodes now and thought it was time for my dog Beans to get her due. We were living in an apartment and there was only one family with children on our floor. I was taking Beans out one day and as soon as we got out the door, she lost it. She was pulling and biting at her leash and as we got down the hall, I heard one of the kids crying in the distance. I didn't think it was unusual, because that's what kids do, right? But Beans insisted on pulling me all the way down the hall to their door. I didn't know the family, so I was trying to pull her away when I noticed that the door was cracked and that I could see legs laying on the floor. I called out and no one answered, so I pushed the door open to find my neighbor, the mother

• 20:35Karen Kilgariff?

  of the kids, unconscious on the floor, apparently having passed out while on the way out the door. Beans licked the toes of the kids in their stroller, while I called 911 and followed their directions as my neighbor remained unresponsive. Eventually EMS arrived and we left for our walk. I don't know what happened, but my neighbor survived and was home a few days later.

• 20:56Georgia Hardstark?

  Holy shit.

• 20:57Karen Kilgariff?

  If Beans hadn't been so insistent, I would have just walked past without a second glance. The woman lived alone with her kids and it was a strange time of day, so who knows how long it would have been until she was found.

• 21:09Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh my god.

• 21:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Beans heard something in the kids' cries that I didn't and knew she needed to help, even though she thought it just meant licking them. Maybe not the most dramatic heroic dog story, but she's just a good girl. I've attached a picture of Beans, because who doesn't love an excuse to show off their dog? SSDGML.

• 21:28Georgia Hardstark?

  Beans! Beans! Oh my goodness, she's like some kind of spaniel mix. Oh, what a cutie! Good girl!

• 21:37Karen Kilgariff?

  I just want to help. I just want to help you.

• 21:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh.

• 21:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Good job, Beans.

• 21:42Georgia Hardstark?

  That's so sweet.

• 21:43Karen Kilgariff?

  Beans.

• 21:44Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay, my last one's also a child one. It's called Sarcasm Gone Wrong, which we asked for.

• 21:49Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay, great.

• 21:50Georgia Hardstark?

  Hi, I just paused minisode 405 to tell you my sarcasm gone wrong for children story. As a child, I lived in a court with a bunch of other families. Our parents would take turns carpooling us to and from school. One day, when my friend's mom was driving, we were approaching my stop. As we rolled along, my friend's mom said, "We're just gonna slow down and you can jump out." I took this statement very seriously. As we got to my front lawn, I threw the door open and left from the car. I don't remember being hurt after, just being embarrassed as my friend's mom laughed and explained that she was only kidding. My mom also found it funny. Oh, the 90s. Thanks for everything you do and for the way you speak openly and compassionately about mental health. Take care.

• 22:34Georgia Hardstark?

  Britt from Saskatchewan.

• 22:36Karen Kilgariff?

  Britt, I love that Britt heard that and was just like, alright, I gotta get ready.

• 22:41Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 22:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Like, well, if this is how it is, this is how it is.

• 22:44Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, like, this story's been bugging her her whole life, that she was laughed at by adults for taking something seriously, and now she's like, finally I gotta tell people who are, like, gonna call them out on it.

• 22:52Karen Kilgariff?

  Who get it. Because guess what? You told me to do it.

• 22:55Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 22:55Karen Kilgariff?

  So I did it.

• 22:56Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 22:57Karen Kilgariff?

  And I, and I lived, so clearly I did it well.

• 22:59Georgia Hardstark?

  Lucky you. Hey, thanks for listening to the mini-sode. Send us your stories at [email protected].

• 23:05Karen Kilgariff?

  Dot com, dot gov, dot U K.

• 23:08Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 23:08Karen Kilgariff?

  C O.

• 23:08Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 23:09Karen Kilgariff?

  And also stay sexy.

• 23:10Georgia Hardstark?

  And don't get murdered.

• 23:12Karen Kilgariff?

  Goodbye.

• 23:13Speaker 03

  Elvis, do you want a cookie?

• 23:22Karen Kilgariff?

  This has been an Exactly Right Production.

• 23:25Georgia Hardstark?

  Our senior producer is Alejandra Keck.

• 23:27Karen Kilgariff?

  Our editor is Aristotle Acevedo.

• 23:29Georgia Hardstark?

  This episode was mixed by Leona Scolacci.

• 23:32Karen Kilgariff?

  Email your hometowns to [email protected].

• 23:35Georgia Hardstark?

  And follow the show on Instagram and Facebook at MyFavoriteMurder and on Twitter at MyFaveMurder.

• 23:40Karen Kilgariff?

  Goodbye.

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