MFM Minisode 500

It’s our 500th minisode! We celebrate with two-genre emails like a grandma hiding in a wall, mistaken cat identity and more. For our sources, please visit https://www.myfavoritemurder.com/episodes. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3UFCn1g. Head to social media to share your favorite moments from this episode. Instagram: instagram.com/myfavoritemurder http://instagram.com/myfavoritemurder Facebook: facebook.com/myfavoritemurder http://facebook.com/myfavoritemurder TikTok: tiktok.com/@my_favorite_murder http://tiktok.com/@my_favorite_murder Send your hometown stories to [email protected] mailto:[email protected]. Join the Fan Cult to access ad-free episodes of My Favorite Murder. Members also receive merch store discounts, exclusive audio and video content and more! Visit www.fancult.supercast.com http://www.fancult.supercast.com/ to join. Shop for My Favorite Murder and other Exactly Right merchandise here: www.exactlyrightstore.com https://www.exactlyrightstore.com. Rate, review and follow My Favorite Murder on the iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you like to listen. See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  This is exactly right.

• 0:07Speaker 00

  911, what's your emergency?

• 0:10Speaker 01

  Please help us. They're everywhere. We think they're murder hornets. 911 Nashville returns.

• 0:17Speaker 02

  It's a homicide detective down here.

• 0:19Speaker 03

  Three bodies on the ground.

• 0:20Speaker 01

  With emergencies of biblical proportions.

• 0:23Speaker 03

  Hell, sin swarms upon you and upon your people.

• 0:26Speaker 02

  That's one of the plagues of the Bible.

• 0:27Speaker 03

  And somebody's unleashing them on Nashville.

• 0:30Speaker 01

  Brian Phillippe, 911 Nashville. All new Thursdays on ABC, next day on Hulu.

• 0:37Speaker 00

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• 1:46Karen Kilgariff?

  Hello and welcome.

• 1:48Georgia Hardstark?

  To the minisode.

• 1:49Karen Kilgariff?

  It's our 500th minisode.

• 1:53Georgia Hardstark?

  How is that even possible?

• 1:55Karen Kilgariff?

  It's quite an accomplishment.

• 1:56Georgia Hardstark?

  It is. I'm proud of us. I'm breaking the cute little 500.

• 2:00Karen Kilgariff?

  I'm proud of Cory for this design.

• 2:02Georgia Hardstark?

  So cute.

• 2:03Karen Kilgariff?

  Incredible.

• 2:03Georgia Hardstark?

  All of it.

• 2:04Karen Kilgariff?

  But we're doing a very fun thing for, like, especially for this episode. Our producers thought it would be fun to take all of the different subcategories of minisodes that we've asked you all to send in over the years, and the ones that they know we like the best. They've tried to get two for ones, two subjects in one email for us.

• 2:25Georgia Hardstark?

  So like a random hero pet meets treasure in the wall kind of a thing.

• 2:30Karen Kilgariff?

  A grandma meets Al Capone. That's the only example I ever give. Grandma and Al Capone.

• 2:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Grandma and Al Capone. But then you have to have another one meets a deathbed confession.

• 2:40Karen Kilgariff?

  Glitch in the matrix.

• 2:41Georgia Hardstark?

  A glitch in the matrix. Those are my favorite.

• 2:44Karen Kilgariff?

  So, yeah, that's a... But here's an even more fun part, is that these are complete surprises to us. Usually we pick our own emails to read to each other. But this time, they've been chosen for us, by us.

• 2:56Georgia Hardstark?

  Right. So I'm gonna read three from Karen. Like Karen chose specifically for me and vice versa. So I've never seen these. So they better not be embarrassing. That would be really...

• 3:05Karen Kilgariff?

  They're all, there are all three emails about your butt. I don't know how I did it, but I did it.

• 3:10Georgia Hardstark?

  I'm proud of you. Okay, so, yeah, let's do it. Let's get into it. Who goes first?

• 3:15Karen Kilgariff?

  What do you think? You want to go first?

• 3:16Georgia Hardstark?

  Sure.

• 3:17Karen Kilgariff?

  They're pure surprises, so we can't even...

• 3:19Georgia Hardstark?

  Wait, hold on, because I have a good one for your last one. So if I go, then you go, then I go, then you go, then I go, then you go. So, yeah, me.

• 3:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Counting.

• 3:28Karen Kilgariff?

  Congratulations.

• 3:29Georgia Hardstark?

  I can count to 500.

• 3:30Karen Kilgariff?

  Because you're so good at this.

• 3:31Georgia Hardstark?

  That's right.

• 3:32Karen Kilgariff?

  That you've done it. Also, just for everyone at home, Georgia thought this up the first week we did this podcast.

• 3:38Georgia Hardstark?

  What, minisodes?

• 3:39Karen Kilgariff?

  Minisodes were an immediate, it was a great idea.

• 3:42Georgia Hardstark?

  I'm so happy that we did it. It's brought so much joy, I think, into our lives.

• 3:47Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, yeah. It's my favorite. What better than to read other people's grandma's adventures?

• 3:52Georgia Hardstark?

  Totally.

• 3:52Karen Kilgariff?

  Or whatever.

• 3:53Georgia Hardstark?

  We've read so many great stories over the years.

• 3:57Karen Kilgariff?

  The latchkey children.

• 3:58Georgia Hardstark?

  Dude, there's just everything that we learned about ourselves and our listeners has been so much fun. Okay, so the first one that you picked for me is a grandma vengeance story with cats. So it's a sassy grandmas and cats, those two topics as one.

• 4:13Karen Kilgariff?

  One, sassy grandma's chocolate, cats vanilla.

• 4:15Georgia Hardstark?

  And you get a...

• 4:16Karen Kilgariff?

  Here, we...

• 4:18Georgia Hardstark?

  I want that. Okay, "Hi, y'all, but especially cats, for reasons that will soon be clear. Before I begin, my sincerest apologies to anyone I know, IRL, who listens to this podcast, because I've definitely already told you this story." Anyways, onwards. "My grandmother grew up on the beach in Tampa, Florida, and every kid in her neighborhood had their own little rowboat. It was the 30s, so child safety was not a thing. How fun would that be?"

• 4:43Karen Kilgariff?

  How old did you have to be to get your own rowboat?

• 4:45Georgia Hardstark?

  Eight, probably.

• 4:46Karen Kilgariff?

  What if it's five?

• 4:47Georgia Hardstark?

  Five.

• 4:48Karen Kilgariff?

  That'd be so great.

• 4:50Georgia Hardstark?

  "One day, when she was about eight or nine, she looked outside and saw another kid out in his rowboat holding a cat by the tail and swinging it over the water. Filled with her righteous rage, my grandmother jumped into her boat, rowed out to the boy with the cat, stood up, and started beating him over the head as hard as she could with one of her oars." I thought I was gonna say with one of her cats.

• 5:14Georgia Hardstark?

  "This apparently went on for quite a while, but eventually my grandmother decided that the boy had been suitably punished, and she grabbed the cat and rowed back to the shore. A new home was found for the cat, and the story of the boy and the oar passed into family legend." That is amazing. "Now, my grandmother was known to exaggerate things, so my mom and her siblings always took the story with several grains of salt. But years and years later, my grandparents decided to retire back down to the Tampa area. My mom, being the youngest and the only kid still at home, got dragged along on various errands. One of these errands was to the local bank. When they walked into the bank manager's office, he took one look at my grandmother's maiden name and started edging around to the other side of the desk.

• 5:57Georgia Hardstark?

  It was the same boy! And he was apparently still very scared of my grandmother 50 years later. Fuck, yeah." "My mom obviously lost her entire mind, but my grandmother just laughed and reassured him that as long as he didn't have any cats and she didn't have any oars, he was probably safe. My grandparents opened a new bank account without further incident, and they proceeded to have a very happy retirement. And as far as I know, the bank manager didn't torture any more animals. Thanks for all you do and for getting me through many long hours in the lab as I work on my PhD. Stay sexy and believe your grandmother when she tells you that she once beat up a kid on behalf of a cat, Cassie."

• 6:39Georgia Hardstark?

  The generations of cats that owe their life to this grandmother is such a beautiful thing.

• 6:45Karen Kilgariff?

  Actually, the cat she saved birthed over 5,000 kittens.

• 6:49Georgia Hardstark?

  That's right, 500.

• 6:50Karen Kilgariff?

  500 kittens.

• 6:51Georgia Hardstark?

  Aw, that was fun.

• 6:52Karen Kilgariff?

  Wasn't that a good one?

• 6:53Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 6:53Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay.

• 6:54Georgia Hardstark?

  I can't remember what I picked for you.

• 6:55Karen Kilgariff?

  It's so funny that I picked that one for you, but didn't eat, because I was just like trying to get it right. And it's like, children in little rowboats.

• 7:03Georgia Hardstark?

  The cutest.

• 7:04Karen Kilgariff?

  There's got to be pictures of that. I mean, like, I need to go into that world.

• 7:08Georgia Hardstark?

  I want a tiny rowboat. That's just for me.

• 7:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, for me and the ocean.

• 7:12Georgia Hardstark?

  Put snacks in it, the ocean.

• 7:14Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay.

• 7:21Karen Kilgariff?

  Here's my first one. The subject line is "Hidden Things in Walls."

• 7:25Georgia Hardstark?

  Yes.

• 7:26Karen Kilgariff?

  Surprise it's grandma.

• 7:28Georgia Hardstark?

  Grandmas and walls.

• 7:29Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, okay.

• 7:30Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, yeah. Okay, I remember this one now. Okay, go, go, go. It's so good.

• 7:34Karen Kilgariff?

  It starts, "Ahoy, hoi pals. My grandparents live in an adorable 1950's Cape Cod split-level house. Those two styles put together give you a lot of odd little nooks and crannies in places you wouldn't expect, which makes for a great hide-and-seek house for the grandkids. Eventually, we found all the really good hiding places in our hide-and-seek games turned into hide-and-scare the shit out of each other. My dad has always really been interested in old-timey shit, and I was a poor-middle child who just wanted some attention, for crying out loud. So we would often go into my grandparents' attic and spend rainy Saturday afternoons looking through old family photos, trinkets, and treasures. This attic was more like a hall closet that led to unfinished crawl space in the eaves of the house."

• 8:17Georgia Hardstark?

  I love the imagination of a kid. It's like, this is a hidden room.

• 8:20Karen Kilgariff?

  It was a beautiful... Now, that was just... Don't step on the pink part.

• 8:23Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, exactly. It's got insulation.

• 8:25Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah. "One afternoon, when the two of us were up there, I pulled out a box and uncovered a small door that neither of us knew." I mean...

• 8:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Dream.

• 8:38Karen Kilgariff?

  Just a door, a small door.

• 8:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 8:41Karen Kilgariff?

  "We had just gone to see National Treasure, so my 11-year-old self instantly yelled, 'Oh, my God, the Declaration of Independence might be in there.'" And then in parentheses, it says, "What a fucking nerd." "But, friends, I am here to tell you, it was way more practical than that. What we found was the plumbing access space behind the bathroom. You could get into the bathroom from the crawl space simply by pushing out the built-in wall hamper. Oh, I had found the Holy Grail of hiding places that my sister and cousins knew nothing about. I could not wait to use it." Holy shit, this is awesome. "My twisted little mind started thinking of the perfect way to scare the ever-loving shit out of them and play the best prank ever. I had to make sure my plan would work,

• 9:24Karen Kilgariff?

  so I picked the best guinea pig I could think of: Grandma. Now, I wasn't a complete lunatic, so I made sure she wasn't in the shower when she, where she could slip and fall. Thank you. But while she was cleaning the bathroom, I snuck into the crawl space through the attic and started lightly tapping on the walls of the shower, then pushing on the hamper and topped it off by making quiet groaning sounds."

• 9:48Georgia Hardstark?

  Kids think they're so subtle, but you know Grandma was like...

• 9:51Karen Kilgariff?

  Do you think? One of them's in the wall.

• 9:52Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 9:53Karen Kilgariff?

  "Then, just as I'm ready to jump out and scare her, she yanks the hamper out of the wall and scares me first." Yes. "I couldn't understand how she knew it was one of her grandkids when I so clearly sounded like a ghost. Apparently, this was a prank she would play on my grandpa when they first moved in."

• 10:12Georgia Hardstark?

  Grandma.

• 10:13Karen Kilgariff?

  Relationship goals, Grandma. You have to find someone that you can scare constantly.

• 10:21Georgia Hardstark?

  No.

• 10:22Karen Kilgariff?

  This was their empty nester's house, so the thought of my grandma in her late 50s hiding in the crawl space to scare her husband of 30 some years tickles me. Me too. Just when I think she couldn't get any cooler, she says, did you know this goes all the way back to the guest room closet? We could really get them good. My older sister and cousin were hanging out in the guest room being cool teenagers and not letting me in because sisters. So my grandma decided to go to that end of the crawl space and start tapping on the walls. They began screaming and ran to the only room with a lock on the door. The bathroom.

• 10:56Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, motherfuckers. Yeah, big sisters.

• 11:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Where I was still hidden in the wall, making spooky noises. Needless to say, the two of them had the scare of their lives and still have no idea that their ghostly encounter was just me and Grandma creeping in the walls. That's hilarious.

• 11:14Georgia Hardstark?

  How many people are like, what's your ghost story? And it's just their sibling that they don't know.

• 11:18Karen Kilgariff?

  We, I was looking at a copy of Stephen King's Pet Sematary. And all of a sudden.

• 11:25Georgia Hardstark?

  No, your shitty little sister.

• 11:28Karen Kilgariff?

  It's your middle sister getting revenge. My grandma still loves a good prank and is always down for a game of anything with one of her 22 grandchildren or 11 great grandchildren. Her and my grandpa just celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. When I asked how they have stayed together this long, my grandpa says, she has the most amazing laugh I've ever heard. And I decided a long time ago, oh, no.

• 11:50Georgia Hardstark?

  I know.

• 11:51Karen Kilgariff?

  God damn you.

• 11:51Georgia Hardstark?

  I saw that and I was like, oh, Karen's gonna cry.

• 11:54Karen Kilgariff?

  She has the most amazing laugh I've ever heard. And I decided a long time ago, I wanted to hear that laugh every day for the rest of my life. So long as she lets me, I'll keep making her laugh. You son of a bitch.

• 12:05Georgia Hardstark?

  I'm sorry.

• 12:06Karen Kilgariff?

  You made me cry on the first one. That is so perfect.

• 12:10Georgia Hardstark?

  I know, I know. I'll take that over. I don't think I could be in a relationship that scares each other. Like, I can't jump out. To me, jumping out and scaring someone is abuse.

• 12:19Karen Kilgariff?

  Really?

• 12:19Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, that's not, they can't do it to me and I won't do it to them. Like, then it snows.

• 12:23Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 12:24Georgia Hardstark?

  Like, we'll be like, huh, I'm right behind you, just to be like, I'm not trying to scare you.

• 12:28Karen Kilgariff?

  It's the opposite of what you would enjoy as a, like, my cousin Stevie and, well, it's with his daughters, Kim, his wife, would never have it.

• 12:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 12:37Karen Kilgariff?

  That's all they do is try to find a place.

• 12:39Georgia Hardstark?

  If that's agreed upon, it's great.

• 12:41Karen Kilgariff?

  It's hilarious.

• 12:41Georgia Hardstark?

  I, and I know Vince too, we want no part of it whatsoever.

• 12:45Karen Kilgariff?

  They're so bad, they do things where it's like you're, we're, like, we just went to Dollywood. Like, we're all walking and they always have their eyes out of, like, I could run ahead and just get in there.

• 12:54Georgia Hardstark?

  Or even if you go, what's that? Like, then they get scared. Like, don't, don't do that to me. I don't want that.

• 12:59Karen Kilgariff?

  No, I know, it's not where your enjoyment lies.

• 13:02Georgia Hardstark?

  And tickling, like, unless we've specifically said that those things are okay and enjoyable, like, don't fucking, don't fucking do it.

• 13:08Karen Kilgariff?

  Actually, I think that's a good rule for everybody.

• 13:10Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 13:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Don't, don't tickle people unless you have an express written, no. Direct written permission. Okay. Stay sexy and check your crawl space for Grandma's before going to the bathroom. See, she, her. And it says, PS, Grandma's name is Priscilla.

• 13:27Georgia Hardstark?

  So good.

• 13:29Karen Kilgariff?

  Priscilla.

• 13:30Georgia Hardstark?

  So good.

• 13:31Karen Kilgariff?

  Grandmothering her ass off. Great, that was awesome, see, thank you. It's so good.

• 13:37Georgia Hardstark?

  Let's see what your next one for me is.

• 13:42Speaker 07

  911, what's your emergency? Please help us, they're everywhere. We think they're murder hornets.

• 13:50Speaker 01

  911 Nashville returns.

• 13:52Speaker 02

  What's a homicide detective doing here?

• 13:54Speaker 03

  Three bodies on the ground.

• 13:55Speaker 01

  With emergencies of biblical proportions.

• 13:58Speaker 03

  Oh, since swarms upon you and upon your people.

• 14:01Speaker 02

  That's one of the plagues of the Bible.

• 14:02Speaker 03

  And somebody's unleashing them on Nashville.

• 14:05Speaker 01

  Brian Phillippe joins 911 Nashville. All new Thursdays on ABC, next day on Hulu.

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• 15:09Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay, this is a combo of or so we thought and cats. Are they all cats? I hope so. I love it. Okay.

• 15:16Karen Kilgariff?

  Of course you guessed that I did that to you.

• 15:18Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, you did.

• 15:19Karen Kilgariff?

  Of course you did.

• 15:20Georgia Hardstark?

  I didn't do that, okay. The time my husband found our lost cat, dot, dot, dot, or so we thought. Georgia, Karen, love your gorgeous faces. A couple of years ago, a stray cat snuck into one of the vans at my husband's work and gave birth to a litter of kittens. Oh, my God, my dream. We have to keep them.

• 15:39Karen Kilgariff?

  It's, they, they picked us.

• 15:41Georgia Hardstark?

  Right. Several weeks later, each kitten went home with a different coworker and their mama became the shop kitty. That is how we came to own our second cat, Hazel, a brown tabby who is afraid of almost nothing. She holds her own against our 85 pound dog. She runs laps around the house with our two wild boys, like, children, that's funny. And she's a great addition to the family. However, Hazel has always been an indoor cat despite her best efforts otherwise. At around a year old, Hazel went through a phase where she would run full speed toward any door that was open just for a taste of the outdoors. Oh, my fucking God. Well, one Sunday evening before going to bed, I realized I hadn't seen Hazel in a while. This is me all the time. Have you seen Mo? I haven't seen Mo in a while. I searched the house.

• 16:25Karen Kilgariff?

  Also a tabby, right?

• 16:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, yeah. I searched the house and the yard and couldn't find her anywhere. It was clear she had snuck out at some point without us realizing it. I was so worried about her. The next morning, as we drove around looking for her, my husband called to tell me he had found her in a neighbor's yard, but she was hiding from their dogs and was too scared to come out. I grabbed some cat treats and headed that way to help coax her out of her hiding spot, and it worked. She crept out from under the shed. And when she did, my husband grabbed her. Except then she went absolutely wild, biting, scratching, twisting around and doing everything she could to get away. It was nothing like her and she was such a sweetheart, so it was very unexpected, but she was obviously terrified. The neighbor who lived there grabbed a cage and my husband somehow managed to put the writhing cat inside. His hand was bleeding everywhere.

• 17:12Georgia Hardstark?

  There was a deep puncture wound in his pinky finger and scratches up his arms. He headed to urgent care to get bandage and injected with an antibiotic. Then finally, we brought Hazel home, or so we thought. Oh, my God, have you seen the meme of like, I found my cat three months ago, it came home today and just two large, black and white cats.

• 17:32Karen Kilgariff?

  Like, that look exactly alike.

• 17:35Georgia Hardstark?

  When we opened the cage, she immediately went into our laundry room, hid behind our dryer, and would not come out. As I stood looking at her, cowering in the corner, I turned to my husband and said, I don't think that's Hazel.

• 17:47Georgia Hardstark?

  My husband wasn't sure either, so he started the process of getting the cat back into the cage and managed to do it without further injury. We took her to a nearby vet and had her scanned for a microchip, which she didn't have. Hazel has a microchip. This was not our cat. My husband drove back to the neighbor's house where he had found this cat and talked to the neighbor's wife. He explained the situation and the wife responded, yeah, that's our cat. The neighbor's only explanation for why he assisted in the catnapping of his own pet was that they had several cats. He said he thought it looked like one of theirs, but my husband seemed so sure that he didn't want to disagree. Wow, that's, that's therapy, gotta go to therapy.

• 18:27Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, that's right.

• 18:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Needless to say, my husband was not happy about the injuries he sustained retrieving the wrong cat. Meanwhile, I continued the search for Hazel. I did everything I can think of, posted online, put up flyers, talked with neighbors and got permission to search their yards and put out a trap that managed to catch two more incorrect cats. Then a couple of days later, I walked into her kitchen and Hazel was sitting at her back door, waiting to be let in. After three nights of doing God knows what, I guess she was ready to come home.

• 18:56Karen Kilgariff?

  All of that was in three nights.

• 18:57Georgia Hardstark?

  That's amazing.

• 18:58Karen Kilgariff?

  It sounds like it was two months.

• 19:00Georgia Hardstark?

  Totally. She was covered in cobwebs. I fucking love that. Hungry and thirsty, but none the worse for wear. My husband's hand healed, but he still doesn't have complete feeling in his pinky finger and does not find the story nearly as entertaining as most people do.

• 19:14Karen Kilgariff?

  Holy shit.

• 19:16Georgia Hardstark?

  Thankfully, Hazel has mostly outgrown her taste for freedom. She still makes the occasional break for an open door, but has mostly accepted that she is strictly an indoor cat. I have attached a photo of her to share. Thanks for reading my story. Stay sexy and don't aid and abet in catnapping your own pet. Josie, she, her, oh, my God. Hazel looks just like Mo.

• 19:38Karen Kilgariff?

  Just like Mo.

• 19:38Georgia Hardstark?

  Look at, that's a, that's a smart bad cat.

• 19:41Karen Kilgariff?

  So cute. She's like, what, I was just under the deck?

• 19:44Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, what are we gonna do?

• 19:45Karen Kilgariff?

  Why are you guys freaking out all the time? Stop grabbing all the cats that look slightly similar to me.

• 19:50Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God, I love that story so much.

• 19:53Karen Kilgariff?

  So good.

• 19:54Georgia Hardstark?

  Look at her.

• 19:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Or so we thought.

• 19:57Georgia Hardstark?

  Fucking love cats. What?

• 20:00Karen Kilgariff?

  The subject line of this next email.

• 20:02Georgia Hardstark?

  What is it, what is it, I forgot?

• 20:05Karen Kilgariff?

  This is a combo hero, dog, celebrity sighting.

• 20:08Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, yeah, okay, I remember now.

• 20:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Incredible. Should I hold this subject line?

• 20:12Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wish I had, yeah, hit it from you too.

• 20:16Karen Kilgariff?

  Perfect, though. Okay. This starts ma'ams. Hi, I'm obsessed with true crime, but as fate would have it, I grew up in a quiet Southern California neighborhood no one's ever heard of, which seems like the perfect spot to dig up some murder history. Or shit, I'd take a sinkhole, but alas, here I am.

• 20:33Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, wait, this one is so well-written. I just, I thought it was a different one. It's so well-written, okay.

• 20:37Karen Kilgariff?

  Don't get me wrong, I'm super thankful my parents plopped us down in the most boring and safest of surroundings, but it leaves me very limited on content to send in to super casually say, hey. And for that, I'm resentful. And then it happened. I have been summoned. In a recent minisode, you guys asked for the weirdest celebrity run-ins and I am here to answer the call. Imagine, it's 1988. I'm a teeny tiny baby, fuck you, I'm graduating from high school.

• 21:07Karen Kilgariff?

  What were you in sixth grade? You were eight.

• 21:10Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 21:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Or third grade. I'm a teeny tiny baby, 10 months maybe, in one of those adorable 80s baby onesies with the feet.

• 21:19Georgia Hardstark?

  Those aren't 80s, they're everyone.

• 21:20Karen Kilgariff?

  They've literally been around since the 1500s. The 90s are upon us, simple times. Growing pains is in full teen swing. Everyone's swooning over Kirk Cameron, including my half-sister, who's 15 or 16 at the time. So it's a baby and then half-sister. My parents had gotten our dog, Sarah, from some dog breeder trainer, who I guess also had some sort of celebrity connections. He calls my dad and says, "Hey, Steve, Kirk Cameron is looking for someone to watch his dog while he goes off and shoots a movie. Would you be interested?" Why he chose my parents rather than someone entirely more qualified is beyond me, and why my parents agreed to do it is even more strange. But wouldn't you know, Kirk Cameron himself delivered his sweetheart,

• 22:03Karen Kilgariff?

  fluff ball, Tibetan Mastiff Rex to our house shortly after.

• 22:08Georgia Hardstark?

  Like, we, fuck that guy. But back then, like, he was the heartthrob of heartthrobs.

• 22:14Karen Kilgariff?

  This is Timothy Chalamet coming and dropping his basset hound off at your house. I mean, it's just like, what are we talking about?

• 22:20Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, 100%.

• 22:21Karen Kilgariff?

  He was the biggest. And also, Kirk Cameron is from a Hollywood family.

• 22:26Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, right.

• 22:26Karen Kilgariff?

  His sister is also, like, it was like, they were famous, they were famous about being famous, almost. It was just such a different.

• 22:34Georgia Hardstark?

  It was, yeah.

• 22:35Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay. My parents have a video of baby me sitting in his lap on my sister's bed, who, to her simultaneous relief and disappointment, had been at her mom's that day. Oh, my god.

• 22:46Georgia Hardstark?

  Can you imagine? They should have told her and had her come home, don't you think?

• 22:50Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, it really sucks.

• 22:52Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 22:52Karen Kilgariff?

  I mean, I bet she would have.

• 22:53Georgia Hardstark?

  It's a stepmom, that's a stepmom's fault.

• 22:55Karen Kilgariff?

  It seems, yeah, start some shit. But also, like, I used to, I think I've admitted this to you before. Alison had this picture where we, when we admit things to each other, we have to say, "Welcome to Shame Town", and then we can do a whole segment called "Welcome to Shame Town". Here's mine. I used to get ready just in case Scott Baio was gonna be like, "We are going to the beach. We were going to the beach in Northern California."

• 23:18Georgia Hardstark?

  This isn't like when you were already in Hollywood and maybe he'd be at a party.

• 23:22Karen Kilgariff?

  Couldn't be further away. We'd be like, "Well, we're going out to Stinson Beach."

• 23:27Georgia Hardstark?

  What if Scott fucking Baio's there?

• 23:29Karen Kilgariff?

  And then I'd just be like, trying so hard to curl my hair.

• 23:31Georgia Hardstark?

  Was he ever there?

• 23:32Karen Kilgariff?

  He was never once there.

• 23:33Georgia Hardstark?

  Well, guess who I have for her 500th mini-so, Karen?

• 23:37Karen Kilgariff?

  The great MAGA Republican, Scott Baio.

• 23:40Georgia Hardstark?

  And Kirk Cameron, a two-for-MAGA.

• 23:45Karen Kilgariff?

  Listen, we love, the heart wants what it wants when you're 12. Okay. So, the video is of Kurt with the, holding the baby, sitting on her bed and saying, "Hey, Shannon, sorry I missed you. I get to hang out with your sister. She told me all about you. Hope we meet one day." End quote. She was mortified. I was charming. The VHS tape proves such, as I wouldn't stop touching his face and grabbing at those curls. From what I gathered later from my mom, we weren't told when he'd be back for Rex, but we assumed it was going to be for a few months. We didn't hear from this motherfucker for years.

• 24:23Georgia Hardstark?

  He fucking drops his dog off.

• 24:25Karen Kilgariff?

  Just like, new home.

• 24:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Bye.

• 24:28Karen Kilgariff?

  "I said what I said, gals, all caps, four, period, years, period, later." Four years. "We're just left to assume Rex is our dog now, when all of a sudden we get a phone call that someone will come and pick up this sweet monster bear of a dog the next week. I was heartbroken."

• 24:45Georgia Hardstark?

  Unless you specifically say something a year, tops, then it's their dog. Maybe a year and a half.

• 24:51Karen Kilgariff?

  I would love for all of the film nerds to come and tell me, what movie has shot that lasts for four, that you would, as a lead or second lead,

• 25:01Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 25:01Karen Kilgariff?

  be shooting this movie for four years?

• 25:03Georgia Hardstark?

  That you could abandon your dog and then get it back.

• 25:06Karen Kilgariff?

  Star Wars, maybe.

• 25:07Georgia Hardstark?

  Like, also, you left it with children, who now have grown.

• 25:11Karen Kilgariff?

  You held that baby that you then weaned onto the company of this dog.

• 25:15Georgia Hardstark?

  This is all you.

• 25:16Karen Kilgariff?

  It's, "I was heartbroken. I rode that good boy like a horse every goddamn day of my childhood."

• 25:22Georgia Hardstark?

  The dog's like, "Thank fucking god."

• 25:24Karen Kilgariff?

  The dog's like, "See you." "Our dog had died a few months earlier. Rex was my best friend. And now this asshole had the audacity to not even show up and take his dog himself, the dog he hadn't seen in years, but sent someone to take him away from me. And then in parentheses, it says, "I'm 32 now and obviously I haven't moved on." Full circle, it's 2005, I'm 17, and sitting in church with some friends from youth group, whose dumb fucking curly gray-haired head...

• 25:57Georgia Hardstark?

  So angry.

• 25:58Karen Kilgariff?

  "And whose dumb fucking curly graying-haired head do I suddenly realize I'm sitting directly behind the same guy who's become more famous than this group of friends for breaking my tiny toddler heart than he ever, than he was or ever will be for growing pains? I look down the aisle and every single one of my pals is staring at me wide-eyed and expectant, as if timid shy high school choir nerd me is gonna stand up in the Lord's house, surrounded by grandmas and the Spirit Himself, mid-Holy Communion, and splash that thimble-sized blasted cup of wine in his face and scream, 'Fuck you, Kirk Cameron', which is honestly the biggest regret in my life. I love you both, stay sexy,

• 26:41Karen Kilgariff?

  and for fuck's sakes, don't give Kirk Cameron back his dog. Amber."

• 26:45Georgia Hardstark?

  I want, I feel like my mom, sometimes being a cunt, would have been like, "Fuck you. My daughter's attached to him now. We haven't heard for you, from you in four years."

• 26:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes.

• 26:56Georgia Hardstark?

  It's our dog now.

• 26:57Karen Kilgariff?

  I feel like that's pure reasonable.

• 26:59Georgia Hardstark?

  Totally.

• 27:00Karen Kilgariff?

  Cause four years, like, how do you not get an end date? And then how does that discrepancy? How does anyone believe that they had a four-year window?

• 27:11Georgia Hardstark?

  I hope, I hope Kirk Cameron gave him a big fat fucking growing pains check for that, you know?

• 27:17Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, really? Cause that's dog sitting for four years.

• 27:19Georgia Hardstark?

  Seriously.

• 27:20Karen Kilgariff?

  As a person that pays a dog sitter, that's expensive.

• 27:25Speaker 01

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• 27:29Speaker 01

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• 27:36Speaker 02

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• 27:37Speaker 03

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• 27:41Speaker 03

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• 27:44Speaker 02

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• 27:46Speaker 03

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• 28:52Georgia Hardstark?

  All right, so the last one is sassy grandmas and cats. Thank you. Thank you, Karen, it's like you know me.

• 29:00Georgia Hardstark?

  Ladies, day one listener here. My grandma lived in Queens, New York, and when I was a little girl, I would spend parts of the summer with her, and sometimes long weekends. She would drag me all over the city and we'd see all the Broadway shows. In total, she's taken me to see 24 musicals.

• 29:17Karen Kilgariff?

  Lucky.

• 29:18Georgia Hardstark?

  I haven't even seen one.

• 29:19Karen Kilgariff?

  Is that true?

• 29:21Georgia Hardstark?

  I think, oh, I saw Cats when I was a little kid.

• 29:23Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh.

• 29:23Georgia Hardstark?

  Right, little.

• 29:24Karen Kilgariff?

  That would have turned you off of it. They're, they've gotten so much better.

• 29:28Georgia Hardstark?

  I came out in the audience, it was terrifying.

• 29:30Karen Kilgariff?

  I, okay.

• 29:32Georgia Hardstark?

  For my 14th birthday, she took me to see Cats. Hey. We sat in the mezzanine section, right at the edge where I could lean over and see the stage. No one told my grandmas, "What the fuck?"

• 29:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 29:42Georgia Hardstark?

  What? No one told my grandma that the actors would climb out into the audience and interact with them. That's fucking weird. Like, a whole generation of children were traumatized.

• 29:52Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 29:53Georgia Hardstark?

  So she was very surprised, as was I, when one of the cats crawled into my lap and licked my face, all while purring and having me fully believe he was in fact a cat. That one came up to me, too.

• 30:03Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 30:04Georgia Hardstark?

  My grandma wouldn't have it and reached out and slapped this poor actor, it echoed through the theater, and yelled, "Get the hell off my granddaughter." And continuing to stay in character, this actor hissed at her, jumped off my lap, and crawled back down to the stage. For exactly four seconds, you could hear a pin drop. That is a fucking professional.

• 30:25Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah. Holy shit, someone slapped him across the face.

• 30:27Georgia Hardstark?

  And he hissed. She then turned around, fluffed up her hair, and sat back in her seat to finish the show, holding my hand the whole time. She has taken me to see countless shows, but this is the only one where she physically assaulted one of the actors. It's a story that we've retold over and over again for many, many years. Now I take my own grandchildren to the theater with the promise that I will keep my hands on my lap and not try to hurt anybody. My grandmother was a redheaded ball of fire. No one could touch her. In fact, there's one story where she was mugged and was able to fight him off with a stapler that she, for some reason, kept in her purse. That's amazing.

• 31:06Karen Kilgariff?

  Because it's heavy.

• 31:07Georgia Hardstark?

  Hell, yeah. Her name was Fay, and she was my bestest friend forever. Stay sexy, and don't ever let a full grown man dressed as a cat sit in your lap. That rhymes. Stacy in New Jersey. Stacy, I feel you. Let's have a group therapy session, because like, I remember that, too.

• 31:25Karen Kilgariff?

  Also, how 70s, 80s is it for them to be like, yeah, you guys go find children in the audience to do that, too?

• 31:32Georgia Hardstark?

  Right. And like, don't put a sign anywhere warning the littlest children, who are scared of a lot of fucking things and don't really, like, fully comprehend. They're kind of like, like, they're on psychedelics, basically, all the time, children.

• 31:43Karen Kilgariff?

  Of just like, whoa, this is crazy.

• 31:45Georgia Hardstark?

  Maybe like, give it a little warning.

• 31:47Karen Kilgariff?

  Don't lick them. Don't lick them.

• 31:49Georgia Hardstark?

  Don't lick them.

• 31:50Karen Kilgariff?

  Don't lick them.

• 31:50Georgia Hardstark?

  Don't lick children, please.

• 31:51Karen Kilgariff?

  Don't make us say it. Don't make Stacy say it. Okay.

• 31:58Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay.

• 31:58Karen Kilgariff?

  This one is sisters and winning contests are a money machine, okay? Yay.

• 32:04Georgia Hardstark?

  Kind of. It's still good.

• 32:06Karen Kilgariff?

  Karen, Georgia, Steven, and furry friends. I am so glad I listened to my friend Sarah and started to listen to this podcast and became a murderino. I've passed my love of you on to my friend Morgan, and it's great to have others to talk about, you ladies.

• 32:21Georgia Hardstark?

  Thank you.

• 32:22Karen Kilgariff?

  Keep it. I no longer listen to the radio, and I need to invest in a pair of wireless headphones so I can listen to you while I cook dinner or do the dishes so that I don't have to constantly keep hitting pause when one of my three young boys walks into the kitchen. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad you worked that out on paper.

• 32:39Georgia Hardstark?

  Karen's mad at you.

• 32:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Do it. One of the great joys of life for me is doing the dishes while I listen to podcasts.

• 32:48Georgia Hardstark?

  Like, I don't think I would do the dishes otherwise.

• 32:50Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, I think that is what gets me to do it.

• 32:52Georgia Hardstark?

  You know?

• 32:52Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah. Hey, are you a hoarder? We recommend podcasts.

• 32:57Georgia Hardstark?

  That's so true.

• 32:58Karen Kilgariff?

  So even though I'm the oldest of four siblings, I was always picked on growing up because I was very gullible and easy target. During the fall of sophomore year in high school, around 2001, there was a contest going on that Tasty Cake was promoting. If you found green icing in their crimpets, you won a meet and greet with one of the Philadelphia Eagles players at the time.

• 33:21Georgia Hardstark?

  So specific.

• 33:22Karen Kilgariff?

  Some girls just like, oh, I don't care. To preface this, I was not a huge football fan, and I never enter contests because I never win. Well, you can't win if you don't play. So people don't know, Tasty Cakes are East Coast hostess.

• 33:41Georgia Hardstark?

  Snack cakes.

• 33:41Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, snack cakes. But they're a brand that if you're from California, you didn't grow up with them, usually. So I usually don't have dessert after dinner, but one school night, I had a taste for a Tasty Cake crimpet. I go to open the freezer to grab one. It tasted way better when they were frozen. But my sister, who was sitting at the kitchen table, tells me, there's one in the pantry. She said she went and opened it the day before and changed her mind. That's where you know the lie is.

• 34:09Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 34:10Karen Kilgariff?

  That's a fucking lie. So she just put it in a baggie and put it back in the closet. I didn't really care that it wasn't frozen, so I grabbed that one. You can tell I was the youngest of what was essentially, at the end of the day, five kids, because I had three teenager cousins next door and my older sister.

• 34:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Because you don't trust anything immediately.

• 34:28Karen Kilgariff?

  No, I'm already looking for how are they trying to sum it. There's nowhere, there's no world where my sister would have just nicely and kindly offered me something.

• 34:37Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, I did. And also, a child not wanting to eat a Tasty Cake.

• 34:40Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, I open it and I changed my mind.

• 34:41Georgia Hardstark?

  No, you don't.

• 34:42Karen Kilgariff?

  There's, you've never have in your life.

• 34:44Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 34:44Karen Kilgariff?

  Why would you know? Okay. I was standing at the island in the middle of the kitchen, enjoying my crimpet. A couple bites in, I notice the icing inside is green. I start to freak out. My sister couldn't believe that I won. I immediately stopped eating the crimpet. I quickly start looking for a box to find the phone number or contest rules, but of course, when we put them in the freezer, my mom takes them out of the box. Classic. So I log on to the computer and find a customer service phone number and leave them a message. In the meantime, I'm planning on who I'm taking to this meet and greet and which one of my friends would enjoy the experience the most. The next day at school, I told my friend Tom, who was a huge Eagles fan, that I would take him with me. Everyone is so excited that I won a contest like this. Think Charlie from Charlie

• 35:28Karen Kilgariff?

  and the Chocolate Factory finding the golden ticket. We get it. You won a contest. I get home from school, and my mom tells me that Tasty Cake called and left me a message. Oh, no. Oh, no. I immediately called them back and explained to them, I saved the crimpet, but I don't have the box, and that's the only way that I can prove that I won. The lady tells me that I didn't win. All the winning boxes have already been claimed, and she apologized for the confusion. I just didn't understand. There was green icing inside my crimpet. I hung up the phone. All I hear is laughter coming from my mom and sister in the kitchen. Through tears of laughter, they explained to me that my-

• 36:08Georgia Hardstark?

  Mom, even. Even the mom.

• 36:10Karen Kilgariff?

  The mom. Which is just like a, of course, you pranked a child.

• 36:14Georgia Hardstark?

  That's hilarious.

• 36:16Karen Kilgariff?

  It can't be satisfying. Okay. Through tears of laughter, they explained to me that my sister used a straw, sucked out the white icing, and blew back in the green icing.

• 36:27Georgia Hardstark?

  That's, she sucked it out, put it into a dish, mixed in green food coloring.

• 36:32Karen Kilgariff?

  And her saliva.

• 36:33Georgia Hardstark?

  Sucked it back in.

• 36:35Karen Kilgariff?

  Got a cold. Oh, gross. And then in parentheses, it says, cue vomiting.

• 36:40Georgia Hardstark?

  I feel like the joke's on them, because that's fucking disgusting.

• 36:43Karen Kilgariff?

  They're gross.

• 36:44Georgia Hardstark?

  They went too, they went too far.

• 36:45Karen Kilgariff?

  They really did. She then wrapped it back up, put it in the pantry, hoping I would eat them, but it-

• 36:53Georgia Hardstark?

  No. See, and also, you should have put it back in the original packaging. Put a little glue on there, just to make it seem like, you know?

• 36:59Karen Kilgariff?

  Grab a curling iron or a straightener.

• 37:01Georgia Hardstark?

  Karen!

• 37:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Listen, I'm not saying I'm not a devious motherfucker, but it's so good. It worked anyway. I'm not sure if I was more disturbed as to what she did or that I actually ate it. Either way, I didn't win, and to this day, I will never believe I won anything, especially a lottery ticket for $55,000. And then in parentheses, it says, different story for a different day.

• 37:27Georgia Hardstark?

  Dude, send us your lottery stories. Send us your tricking children stories or being tricked as a child by an adult.

• 37:33Karen Kilgariff?

  Or catching an adult trying to trick you and then outsmarting them.

• 37:38Georgia Hardstark?

  That's right. My favorite murder Gmail.

• 37:39Karen Kilgariff?

  Could be fun. Wait, here's the sign off.

• 37:41Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay.

• 37:42Karen Kilgariff?

  Anyways, thanks for reading this. And remember, stay sexy and don't eat food that's not in its original packaging. Very true. And that is from Jen A. We can only assume it's Jennifer Aniston writing into the show. Thank you, Jennifer. It means the world.

• 37:55Georgia Hardstark?

  Does this make you hungry for a Tasty Cake?

• 37:58Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes.

• 37:59Georgia Hardstark?

  Well, guess what?

• 38:03Karen Kilgariff?

  Did you suck out the frosting?

• 38:04Georgia Hardstark?

  I did. It's open.

• 38:06Karen Kilgariff?

  I'm sorry, can't eat this. Jen told me I can't.

• 38:08Georgia Hardstark?

  Here, cut one in half, and I'll eat one, and you'll see. Trust me.

• 38:11Karen Kilgariff?

  And we'll see who won.

• 38:12Georgia Hardstark?

  Here, you want a fork?

• 38:14Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes, I ate all my snack cakes.

• 38:16Georgia Hardstark?

  This is our 500th anniversary cake.

• 38:18Karen Kilgariff?

  It's beautiful. Thank you guys so much.

• 38:22Georgia Hardstark?

  Cheers.

• 38:23Karen Kilgariff?

  Cheers. My Aunt Jean used to bring these back from New Jersey when she'd go visit her family.

• 38:29Georgia Hardstark?

  I've never had one. That's fucking good. Crimpets. Oh, yeah. I want raspberry jam inside of it.

• 38:40Karen Kilgariff?

  The cake is so cakey good.

• 38:42Georgia Hardstark?

  Mm-hmm. It's not super sweet. That's good.

• 38:46Karen Kilgariff?

  It seems like a real little cake.

• 38:48Georgia Hardstark?

  All right, well, happy-

• 38:50Karen Kilgariff?

  East Coast kids were so lucky.

• 38:53Georgia Hardstark?

  Um, mom, it's not, talk to her mouthful.

• 38:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Well, happy, well, happy Tasty Cake.

• 39:00Georgia Hardstark?

  All right, happy 500th.

• 39:01Karen Kilgariff?

  Hey, great job. These past 500 mini-sodes.

• 39:06Georgia Hardstark?

  That's right. 500 more, and you, and I'll get you a hostess. Also, I think that, what was her name? Jen? Jennifer?

• 39:12Karen Kilgariff?

  Jen A.

• 39:13Georgia Hardstark?

  If we could get the, what was the sports team?

• 39:16Karen Kilgariff?

  The Eagles.

• 39:17Georgia Hardstark?

  If we get the Eagles, like, give her that prize, or Tasty Cake, to like, fulfill it, to get back at her siblings and her mom. Like, how fucking great would that be? Get ahold of us.

• 39:27Karen Kilgariff?

  It's called prank reversal. This is a new segment on the show. Tasty Cake, we would love to talk to anybody, whoever's manning the 1-800 hotline.

• 39:35Georgia Hardstark?

  There's gotta be a murderino.

• 39:36Karen Kilgariff?

  Please. Somebody in this, in corporate.

• 39:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Let's make it happen.

• 39:41Karen Kilgariff?

  We've got to turn it right for Jennifer Aniston. She's had a hard time.

• 39:46Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, we'll meet her. If the, if the football player, or whatever team it is, whatever sport it is, doesn't want to meet her, we'll do it. I'll meet her.

• 39:55Karen Kilgariff?

  We're just like, making, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get some of the most famous people on the planet.

• 40:00Georgia Hardstark?

  Well, thanks for listening to 500 episodes of these, even if it's your first one.

• 40:04Karen Kilgariff?

  And truly, we want to thank every single person who's written in, even if we never used your email, even if you've written in 20 times and we've never picked yours.

• 40:12Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 40:13Karen Kilgariff?

  The idea that we get to feature your guys' stories and your guys' families and your experiences, and then Nick Terry turns around and does animations of them, it's just such a joy.

• 40:26Georgia Hardstark?

  It is. But I can't, the fact that we've been able to do 500 and could do 500 more is such a testament to the people listening.

• 40:31Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes.

• 40:32Georgia Hardstark?

  And us getting to read them their stories back.

• 40:34Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, thanks for playing this game with us.

• 40:36Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 40:36Karen Kilgariff?

  It's been very fun.

• 40:37Georgia Hardstark?

  It has.

• 40:38Karen Kilgariff?

  Stay sexy.

• 40:38Georgia Hardstark?

  And don't get murdered. Goodbye.

• 40:42Karen Kilgariff?

  Elvis, do you want a cookie?

• 40:51Karen Kilgariff?

  This has been an Exactly Right Production.

• 40:53Georgia Hardstark?

  Our managing producer is Molly Smith.

• 40:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Our consulting producer is Kate Schellbach.

• 40:57Georgia Hardstark?

  Our creative lead is Allison Agosti.

• 40:59Karen Kilgariff?

  Our associate producer is Tessa Hughes, and our editor is Aristotle Acevedo.

• 41:04Georgia Hardstark?

  This episode was mixed by Leona Scolacci.

• 41:06Karen Kilgariff?

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• 41:12Georgia Hardstark?

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• 41:17Karen Kilgariff?

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• 41:31Karen Kilgariff?

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• 41:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Virgin Voyages' second True Crime Voyage sets sail March 20, 2027, for a five-night escape to Grand Turk and the beach club at Bimini.

• 41:43Karen Kilgariff?

  As part of the On Air at Sea collection, this immersive sailing brings together fan favorite podcasts, including Disgrace Land, Buried Bones, and Wise Crack, for live recordings, behind-the-scenes access, exclusive meet and greets, and crime-themed programming that you won't find anywhere else.

• 42:00Georgia Hardstark?

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• 42:08Speaker 00

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