MFM Minisode 507

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:09Speaker 01

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• 0:19Speaker 03

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• 0:20Speaker 01

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• 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.

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• 1:46Karen Kilgariff?

  Hello and welcome. To my favorite murder. The minisode. We read you your stories.

• 1:53Georgia Hardstark?

  This one's a special episode because we just asked for shame stories. Things that you're ashamed of, like embarrassing stories, right?

• 2:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes, and we have found some great ones. To the point where we think maybe we should do a dedicated episode or a dedicated something.

• 2:12Georgia Hardstark?

  Something about it, because it's funny and they're great, and they made me feel better about myself. And I feel like it's like we're doing a service to everyone everywhere that everyone has done something embarrassing.

• 2:23Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes. So it's basically, we're saying, welcome to shame town.

• 2:27Georgia Hardstark?

  That's right.

• 2:28Karen Kilgariff?

  We've been here.

• 2:29Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 2:30Karen Kilgariff?

  Or, we're so glad we're not you.

• 2:32Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 2:32Karen Kilgariff?

  Everybody gets relief.

• 2:34Georgia Hardstark?

  Everyone laughs, except for you.

• 2:36Karen Kilgariff?

  We enjoy ourselves. Maybe you don't as much.

• 2:37Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 2:38Karen Kilgariff?

  But then we'll tell stories so you don't, like, we won't laugh, but you can laugh at us.

• 2:41Georgia Hardstark?

  It's basically a public service, and you're welcome.

• 2:44Karen Kilgariff?

  So shut up.

• 2:45Georgia Hardstark?

  So shut the fuck up. Am I first or you first?

• 2:48Karen Kilgariff?

  Go first, yeah.

• 2:49Georgia Hardstark?

  Celebrity encounter. I accidentally kidnapped someone famous as Kid.

• 2:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, no.

• 2:57Georgia Hardstark?

  Hello, ladies. My family and I visited LA from Kansas this past New Year's to see the Rose Bowl parade and attend the football game. Welcome. I have a husband and three sons, ages 9, 13, and 16. The level of noise, the volume and smell.

• 3:13Karen Kilgariff?

  And Axe Body Spray.

• 3:14Georgia Hardstark?

  Honey, you should take a year off. And it says, which is important here. One of the days in town, we visited the Academy Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. We walked in, wide open space, lots to look at, and we headed towards the ticket counter. It bends around, and I was looking up at the sign that said prices, info, etc. As I'm looking, I put my arms around my nine-year-old son in front of me, like a little hug, and pull him towards me. The following is what happened in a split second in my head. Hmm, weird. Theo wasn't wearing a puffer coat. Theo doesn't have a puffer coat. Oh, my God. I had grabbed someone else's son and pulled him towards me. I let go and jumped back. Somehow, the kid was unfazed, and the parents were busy up ahead.

• 3:57Georgia Hardstark?

  I quickly stepped back behind my own kids and told my husband. Okay, so breathing heavily, but the crisis is averted. We then bought tickets and made our way to the exhibits. This was the 50th anniversary of Jaws Year, so there was a huge floor-wide exhibit to the movie. One area was showing the special zoom-in camera techniques used in the movie. A couple was there trying it out with a museum helper assisting them. I stopped to watch the process for a moment when I met eyes with the woman of the couple. She looked at me, looking at her, staring at each other. It slowly hit me. Oh, my God. Tiffany Amber Thiessen's son was the boy I grabbed downstairs at the ticket counter.

• 4:35Karen Kilgariff?

  What? What?

• 4:38Georgia Hardstark?

  Tiffany Amber Thiessen.

• 4:39Karen Kilgariff?

  Dude, that's so specific.

• 4:41Georgia Hardstark?

  And it's so, yeah.

• 4:42Karen Kilgariff?

  It's so LA.

• 4:43Georgia Hardstark?

  It's so, you grabbed that person's son. And then Tiffany was not privy to my thoughts. So my guess is she's staring at me like, no, don't say hi, don't say who I am and cause a stir. I was looking back, thinking, oh, no. She thinks I'm a crazy fan who wants to let everyone know she's here, but nope. I was thinking, oh, no, oh, no. And then also, I have to tell everyone I know that I sort of abducted Kelly Kapowski's baby boy.

• 5:04Karen Kilgariff?

  Abducted is strong.

• 5:05Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, yeah. Like, she held him for ransom, kind of.

• 5:08Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah, that's right.

• 5:09Georgia Hardstark?

  Again, I skirted over to my husband and said, you know the boy I grabbed downstairs, thinking it was Theo? And I told him the story. Whew, well, all was well, and no words were exchanged. No cops were called. My own three sons, husband, and I enjoyed the rest of the museum and LA. Love the food. Thank you.

• 5:26Karen Kilgariff?

  You mean that Marie Callender's, that's right down there by?

• 5:29Georgia Hardstark?

  Down tacos. Thanks for reading my story and doing over 500 minisodes. My 13-year-old said, Evan, and I listen to your minisodes every Monday on the way to school.

• 5:38Karen Kilgariff?

  Hi, Evan.

• 5:39Georgia Hardstark?

  Hi, Evan.

• 5:40Karen Kilgariff?

  What's it like being 13?

• 5:42Georgia Hardstark?

  Good luck, bro.

• 5:44Karen Kilgariff?

  Listen.

• 5:44Georgia Hardstark?

  It's gonna be hard for a little while.

• 5:46Karen Kilgariff?

  Just hold your breath, and before you know it, you'll be 19.

• 5:49Georgia Hardstark?

  Let your mom pop your zits. Just let her do it.

• 5:51Karen Kilgariff?

  Ew.

• 5:52Georgia Hardstark?

  I know.

• 5:53Karen Kilgariff?

  No.

• 5:54Georgia Hardstark?

  And then it says, I love that we have this podcast to bond over. It can be hard to stay interesting to your newly teenage boy. Love Alice.

• 6:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Alice, epic.

• 6:04Georgia Hardstark?

  Tiffany Amber Thiessen, if you're listening.

• 6:06Karen Kilgariff?

  If you're listening, there's a lady that's trying to steal your children. I've done things like that, not with, like, not famous, but my equivalent is walking into the men's bathroom because I wasn't reading the sun.

• 6:18Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 6:18Karen Kilgariff?

  Have you ever done that? Or just like, a full march?

• 6:21Georgia Hardstark?

  Yes, I totally have.

• 6:22Karen Kilgariff?

  Full march into, like, past the sinks, almost to the stalls.

• 6:25Georgia Hardstark?

  And then nobody, like, everyone pretends to not notice, and it makes it worse, instead of being like, oops, ha, ha, no.

• 6:31Karen Kilgariff?

  I had a guy, like, a businessman looking, coming out, and being like, huh, huh, like that, and then I just spun on a foot and, like, marched back out.

• 6:39Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah, I've definitely done that.

• 6:42Karen Kilgariff?

  That doesn't apply, but still.

• 6:47Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay, so along the shame town theme,

• 6:53Karen Kilgariff?

  this is also a kid with a job.

• 6:54Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay, oh, good.

• 6:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Good one. I won't read you the subject line. It says, I was the daughter of immigrant parents, so naturally, I was waiting tables by the time I was 10 years old. The tips weren't great, but they were in cash. And then in parentheses, it says, 10% was standard in Indiana, and if they greeted you with blessed, when asked how their day was going, you were for sure going to get 5%.

• 7:16Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh.

• 7:17Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 7:18Georgia Hardstark?

  That's an indictment, and I love it.

• 7:19Karen Kilgariff?

  That's truth telling from grassroots style.

• 7:22Georgia Hardstark?

  If you can't take it.

• 7:24Karen Kilgariff?

  Then don't go to restaurants and not tip.

• 7:25Georgia Hardstark?

  Exactly.

• 7:26Karen Kilgariff?

  Cut to me, the only fourth grader at Holy Spirit who was regularly rolling in ones and fives.

• 7:33Karen Kilgariff?

  Yep.

• 7:33Georgia Hardstark?

  I love it.

• 7:34Karen Kilgariff?

  Little plaid uniform. And whenever there was pizza day, field trip, or book fair, you can bet that I was the one my classmates turned to for a loan at 100% interest a day.

• 7:46Georgia Hardstark?

  Damn.

• 7:47Karen Kilgariff?

  And then this is all written as if it's dialogue. See, I'll give you $2, and then you just give me $4 tomorrow. That's how they did it. These were kids with allowances and parents who were born in this country. They didn't know the value of a dollar. However, you best believe that I knew the amount of sweat and fake smiles it took to pry a buck out of some old man's wallet when he came in for a lunch special. So they had no problem paying me, and I had no problem taking their money.

• 8:16Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, no shame.

• 8:17Karen Kilgariff?

  I still might have the ledger I kept somewhere in my box of childhood mementos. I can tell you, however, that my waitressing apron has long been languishing in a dump somewhere in the Midwest. Stay sexy and come see a 10-year-old loan shark when the bank won't approve that pizza loan. Claudia.

• 8:35Georgia Hardstark?

  Wow, Claudia, I love the little picture of 10-year-old you, fucking slinging drinks and...

• 8:41Karen Kilgariff?

  I don't actually think, I think I've mislabeled this. I don't think Claudia is ashamed at all. And this is really, this isn't, no one's asking to go to shame town.

• 8:50Georgia Hardstark?

  I think she thinks she should be ashamed, and we're like, no.

• 8:53Karen Kilgariff?

  Not at all.

• 8:54Georgia Hardstark?

  You're smarter than the other kids. Congratulations.

• 8:57Karen Kilgariff?

  Well, and also, just that point of, like, this is what it takes to get a dollar. So I will absolutely get your dollars.

• 9:04Georgia Hardstark?

  100%.

• 9:04Karen Kilgariff?

  Hell, yes.

• 9:05Georgia Hardstark?

  Love it. No shame.

• 9:06Karen Kilgariff?

  No shame.

• 9:07Georgia Hardstark?

  That's what we say.

• 9:08Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes, either shame or no shame.

• 9:09Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 9:10Karen Kilgariff?

  And then when someone's really bad, we can ring a bell and go shame, like in Game of Thrones.

• 9:13Georgia Hardstark?

  I love it.

• 9:19Speaker 07

  Please help us. They're everywhere. We think they're murder warrants.

• 9:24Speaker 01

  911 Nashville returns.

• 9:26Speaker 02

  There's a homicide detective down here.

• 9:28Speaker 01

  Three bodies on the ground. With emergencies of biblical proportions.

• 9:32Speaker 03

  I will send swarms upon you and upon your people.

• 9:35Speaker 02

  That's one of the plagues of the Bible.

• 9:36Speaker 03

  And somebody's unleashing them on Nashville.

• 9:39Speaker 01

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

• 9:46Speaker 00

  Whether you're buying, renting, or selling, Zillow can help make your someday today. To help find a home that fits where you are in life, or that apartment that's a little closer to where you want to be. Zillow has the right information, tools, and support to help turn your future home into a reality. Because someday starts today. Visit zillow.com/today to get started.

• 10:13Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay, my next one's called Late Confessions. Howdy from Texas. When me and my bestie were old enough to reach the car pedals, but not old enough to drive, we would dare each other to back my mom's car out of the driveway and back in.

• 10:28Karen Kilgariff?

  What a great dare.

• 10:29Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah. She worked nights, and it was the 1980s. Bad combo for mischief.

• 10:34Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes.

• 10:34Georgia Hardstark?

  All fun until my friend hit the garage door and dented it. The good news was that because my mom worked nights, she never saw it and was too tired in the morning to notice. During the day, her car blocked the dent, so my dad never saw it until much later on. When it was noticed, none of the drivers owned up to it. My parents blamed my two older brothers. For years, every Thanksgiving, it would come up, and my brothers get in a friendly argument and would blame each other, and I sat there quietly. Shame. So much shame.

• 11:05Karen Kilgariff?

  Shame. Ring the bell.

• 11:06Georgia Hardstark?

  Uh huh. When I was in my late 30s, I assumed the statute of limitations was passed, so I confessed. Shock. And then laughter went around the table. Cheers, Joanne. Shame.

• 11:18Karen Kilgariff?

  Shame, Joanne, but also like, those, I love those, we'll call them like benign

• 11:23Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 11:24Karen Kilgariff?

  sins or whatever, where like, but you still hold on to it for 20 years.

• 11:28Georgia Hardstark?

  Totally, because it's your family, and that's the dynamics that come with it.

• 11:31Karen Kilgariff?

  It's not going to be funny. We have to put a couple decades on this before it's funny. Because you screw up your dad's car or a car in the family. Like, for us, is like, you can't.

• 11:41Georgia Hardstark?

  My brother did it, for sure.

• 11:43Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah. And then the insurance goes up.

• 11:45Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 11:45Karen Kilgariff?

  Okay. This is kind of a legendary shame tone. It's so good. It just says, "Most embarrassing moment."

• 11:52Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 11:53Karen Kilgariff?

  Years ago, I sang in a church choir near my parents' house. Before I went to sing, I would stop and visit my parents, who had a dog with a thick, white ruff. I often left their house covered with dog hair. One Sunday morning at choir, an older woman was wearing a bright cobalt blue dress. I noticed that one long, wavy, white dog hair from my clothes had made its way to the neck of her dress. Feeling all sisters got to stick together, I went to pluck it off. Only to find it was, all caps, growing from her cheek.

• 12:29Georgia Hardstark?

  That long?

• 12:30Karen Kilgariff?

  When I tugged it, it pulled the skin of her face like,

• 12:35Karen Kilgariff?

  when I tugged on it, it pulled the skin of her face out like a tiny dent.

• 12:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 12:41Karen Kilgariff?

  So, so, period. Stay sexy and keep your hands off other people's clothes. M.B.

• 12:47Georgia Hardstark?

  I mean, she was doing her a favor, but then it just turned so quickly on her. But like, why had no one ever done that?

• 12:54Karen Kilgariff?

  I know. Why had no one ever done that?

• 12:56Georgia Hardstark?

  You've got to tell someone.

• 12:58Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, I will absolute, I will absolutely tell people, and I will, I insist.

• 13:02Georgia Hardstark?

  And it has to be women, because I know Vince doesn't. I can have a huge hair on my fucking chin, and I'm like, why didn't you tell me? Vince doesn't notice that shit.

• 13:11Karen Kilgariff?

  They don't look at it.

• 13:12Georgia Hardstark?

  You have to tell your girlfriends.

• 13:13Karen Kilgariff?

  I, recently, I was on a trip, and we got up in the morning, and my friend I was on the trip with, their friend was like in town, and they're like, oh, he's going to meet us and whatever. And so I was like, I don't need to sit here and put on a bunch of makeup. I'll just, you know what I mean? I tried to be like, easy breezy.

• 13:29Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 13:30Karen Kilgariff?

  And it all went fine until I got back to my hotel room. And just like, the one white chin hair, just like, sticking out, or it's like,

• 13:38Georgia Hardstark?

  Pointing out at everybody.

• 13:40Karen Kilgariff?

  You have to review

• 13:42Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 13:42Karen Kilgariff?

  in these later years.

• 13:43Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 13:44Karen Kilgariff?

  You can't just like, throw on some sunglasses and assume.

• 13:47Georgia Hardstark?

  The hotel's light in the bathroom, everything's fine.

• 13:51Karen Kilgariff?

  You get into that fucking magnetized mirror.

• 13:52Georgia Hardstark?

  I bring my tweezers with me everywhere I go, because you never know how good those magnetizing mirrors at hotels are going to be. Sometimes they're great.

• 13:59Karen Kilgariff?

  They can be so good.

• 14:00Georgia Hardstark?

  Right.

• 14:00Karen Kilgariff?

  Face torn up, completely ruined, scarred.

• 14:06Speaker 07

  911, what's your emergency?

• 14:10Speaker 07

  Please help us. They're everywhere. We think they're murder warrants.

• 14:14Speaker 01

  911 Nashville returns.

• 14:17Speaker 02

  There's a homicide detective down here.

• 14:18Speaker 01

  Three bodies on the ground. With emergencies of biblical proportions.

• 14:22Speaker 03

  I will send swarms upon you and upon your people.

• 14:25Speaker 02

  That's one of the plagues of the Bible.

• 14:27Speaker 03

  And somebody's unleashing them on Nashville.

• 14:29Speaker 01

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

• 14:36Speaker 00

  Whether you're buying, renting, or selling, Zillow can help make your someday today. To help find a home that fits where you are in life, or that apartment that's a little closer to where you want to be. Zillow has the right information, tools, and support to help turn your future home into a reality. Because someday starts today. Visit zillow.com/today to get started.

• 15:03Georgia Hardstark?

  My last one is called Grandma and Elvis Man, Not Cat.

• 15:09Georgia Hardstark?

  Hello, all.

• 15:09Karen Kilgariff?

  What if it was a whole story about your old cat?

• 15:11Georgia Hardstark?

  I love that. And I love that we have to like, clarify that in this podcast. It means so much to me. Hello, all. Hope everyone's well. Let's get into it. I'm writing in because you all recently asked for stories about hanging out with celebrities, and my grandma did just that. My maternal grandmother, Patricia, moved to the United States from England in the early 1960s because, in her words, she quote, "didn't feel like marrying a boy from great Yarmouth," and settled, Yarmouth, and settling down. Yarmouth?

• 15:39Karen Kilgariff?

  I think it's Yarmouth.

• 15:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Yarmouth. And settling down. She was about 21 when she arrived in New York and quickly made her way to California with some girlfriends who had moved, who had also moved across the pond. One day, shortly after their arrival, the women all took a break from their retail jobs to visit Santa Monica Pier. Some American boys gravitated towards the group and eventually revealed that they were part of Elvis's road crew. Thinking they were full of it, but still wanting to party, Grandma Pat and her friends went with these men they had just met to a house in the hills to continue their night. No such thing as SSDGM back then, I guess.

• 16:14Karen Kilgariff?

  Hey, listen, sometimes people just get drunk and have some fun.

• 16:17Georgia Hardstark?

  That's right. They're drinking and talking in the kitchen late into the evening when suddenly the saloon-style doors swing open, and you guessed it, the king himself walks in.

• 16:26Karen Kilgariff?

  Fuck.

• 16:27Georgia Hardstark?

  The guys weren't lying after all. To hear her tell the story, he was pretty laid back and even let one of the young women interview him for their little newspaper back in Yarmouth.

• 16:38Georgia Hardstark?

  He handed out signatures for them to give to friends and family back home. Later in the night, Elvis ordered Chinese takeout for the group.

• 16:45Karen Kilgariff?

  Hey.

• 16:45Georgia Hardstark?

  When the ladies finally left, he went out to the driveway and guided them down the steep incline back onto the main road.

• 16:52Karen Kilgariff?

  I mean.

• 16:53Georgia Hardstark?

  I've got mixed feelings about this whole thing, because on one hand, it's an amazing celebrity encounter, but on the other hand, he had already met and begun, and begun grooming Priscilla, who was living in this home in Memphis at the time of this encounter. When I asked my Grandma Pat about whether he came off as a creep, she said she quote, "didn't pay much attention to him back then because she didn't like his music."

• 17:15Karen Kilgariff?

  What? How?

• 17:17Georgia Hardstark?

  So there's that. Grandma was too cool for the king. Thanks so much for all you do. I'm a day one listener who started listening to your show in undergrad and just finished graduate school.

• 17:27Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, congratulations.

• 17:28Georgia Hardstark?

  I now have a doctorate in history, which means we do, too.

• 17:30Karen Kilgariff?

  That's right.

• 17:31Georgia Hardstark?

  That's the new rule.

• 17:31Karen Kilgariff?

  The honorary.

• 17:32Georgia Hardstark?

  Mm-hmm. I've been doing a re-listen of the show while preparing for my new job as a history professor. And you kept me company on road trips and cross-country moves. Keep doing what you're doing. SSDGM Kayla. P.S. Here's a picture of 20-year-old Grandma Pat before she left her England with the pearls. Look how cute she is.

• 17:51Karen Kilgariff?

  Oh, my God.

• 17:52Georgia Hardstark?

  That platinum blonde hair. She looks like Anna Faris, doesn't she?

• 17:55Karen Kilgariff?

  She does.

• 17:56Georgia Hardstark?

  Like, of course, the king was nice to them. They're fucking cuties.

• 17:58Karen Kilgariff?

  She's so cute. Also, and I don't know if he had a different backup band or, you know, whatever, but the guys that were in the Elvis backup band, at least from that special he did in 68, were insanely hot.

• 18:09Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, really?

• 18:10Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah. All of them were like, had the like, dark hair slicked back or whatever. They were cool. Okay. This is kind of amazing. Okay.

• 18:20Karen Kilgariff?

  It starts, "You guys, day one listener, first time writer, lifetime procrastinator. I've mentally written so many stories to share with y'all, but I never typed them out. I was going to send this as a fucking hooray, but then you specifically asked for lottery stories and I knew this was finally it."

• 18:37Georgia Hardstark?

  Okay.

• 18:38Karen Kilgariff?

  First, your podcast is the first podcast I ever listened to.

• 18:41Georgia Hardstark?

  Ah.

• 18:42Karen Kilgariff?

  And is, of course, my favorite. Period. No joke. You all are one of the greatest joys in my life.

• 18:47Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 18:48Karen Kilgariff?

  And one of the best things to ever happen to me.

• 18:51Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God. Thank you.

• 18:53Karen Kilgariff?

  That is until earlier this year, when I won the fucking lottery.

• 18:58Georgia Hardstark?

  No.

• 18:59Karen Kilgariff?

  Uh huh.

• 19:00Georgia Hardstark?

  That's the only thing that wouldn't offend me. You know, anything else.

• 19:02Karen Kilgariff?

  Immediate fix.

• 19:03Georgia Hardstark?

  Until I found the podcast morbid and now I hate you both.

• 19:06Karen Kilgariff?

  Those girls are incredible. It says, "Who the hell has money to waste on the lottery, I always thought, but over the years I became a casual player because my mom occasionally had good luck. Then came the lottery apps, which made things so much easier."

• 19:21Georgia Hardstark?

  There's a lottery app? I wish I didn't know that.

• 19:23Karen Kilgariff?

  I know. Careful, careful.

• 19:25Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 19:26Karen Kilgariff?

  I really got into it the last few years. So, anyway, recently I decided to play a game that I don't normally play because the jackpot was a high perfectly round number.

• 19:34Georgia Hardstark?

  I see you, ADHD. Perfectly round number, you have to play.

• 19:37Karen Kilgariff?

  Yes.

• 19:38Georgia Hardstark?

  It's good luck.

• 19:39Karen Kilgariff?

  It's telling me.

• 19:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 19:41Karen Kilgariff?

  I follow what it says. "I played five $1 tickets, four of which were quick picks. I forgot to check right after the drawing, but I got an email saying I won. I've gotten those before, so I assumed it was like a couple of dollars, like usual."

• 19:54Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah.

• 19:55Karen Kilgariff?

  Nope. "It all felt like slow mo."

• 19:57Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 19:58Karen Kilgariff?

  "I checked the first game. No wins. I checked the next one. No wins. Confused, I checked the last one and I saw the numbers were all highlighted."

• 20:07Georgia Hardstark?

  Ah.

• 20:08Karen Kilgariff?

  "My eyes widened, my ears got warm, my heart sped up, and then I saw it. $1 million."

• 20:13Georgia Hardstark?

  What?

• 20:14Karen Kilgariff?

  $1 million. I lost it. I thought I was going to pass out from the excitement building inside my body.

• 20:19Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 20:20Karen Kilgariff?

  I couldn't believe it. I still don't. I had done research before and I knew I should get a lawyer and a tax pro and whatnot, so I did all that first. Then I claimed the money anonymously and then it says, "So, please don't share my name. I've told very few people, but I immediately knew that I wanted to tell y'all."

• 20:39Georgia Hardstark?

  We're so happy for you.

• 20:42Karen Kilgariff?

  "It's been a whirlwind, but I am beyond happy. I have so many plans for myself and the people I love. Most of them have no idea what's coming."

• 20:49Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 20:51Karen Kilgariff?

  Stay sexy and remember that you have to play to win. P.S. I couldn't send my first email without telling y'all how much I appreciate the way you do constantly educate your listeners about the realities of the world, inside and outside of true crime. I love the way you speak up and speak out for people of color and other marginalized groups. As a Black woman in America, hearing the compassion, the understanding, the rage that you share with us is so impactful. It's helped me heal in ways I didn't know I needed. God.

• 21:18Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 21:19Karen Kilgariff?

  I think one of the reasons people ride so hard for the show.

• 21:22Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 21:23Karen Kilgariff?

  This is gonna get me.

• 21:24Georgia Hardstark?

  I feel like we won the lottery.

• 21:25Karen Kilgariff?

  I know. Is because it really feels like you see all of us.

• 21:30Georgia Hardstark?

  Oh, my God.

• 21:32Karen Kilgariff?

  You'll never know how much that truly means. Thanks a bunch. Like sweetheart, like the emoji with the big teary eyes.

• 21:40Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah. Oh, my God.

• 21:42Karen Kilgariff?

  Anonymous, we can't say who it's from.

• 21:43Georgia Hardstark?

  Thank you to you.

• 21:46Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah.

• 21:47Georgia Hardstark?

  Wow.

• 21:48Karen Kilgariff?

  Thank you, rich lady.

• 21:50Georgia Hardstark?

  I'm assuming. Yeah. That's incredible. I love that story. That was so fucking sweet and it is mind boggling. It's, yeah.

• 22:01Karen Kilgariff?

  Yeah. Oh, first of all, the idea that we got thought of to share the most exciting news is just so touching.

• 22:08Georgia Hardstark?

  Totally.

• 22:09Karen Kilgariff?

  Aside from a beautiful message, which is like, what a nice thing to hear.

• 22:12Georgia Hardstark?

  Yeah. And we're genuinely so excited for you. It feels like a friend of ours won the lottery. I don't know anyone.

• 22:17Karen Kilgariff?

  Buy yourself a crazy expensive purse and then it'll be, it'll be so satisfying.

• 22:23Georgia Hardstark?

  A purse?

• 22:24Karen Kilgariff?

  It'll feel crazy and then you'll have like-

• 22:26Georgia Hardstark?

  You'll still have so much money left over.

• 22:28Karen Kilgariff?

  You put it in the purse.

• 22:29Georgia Hardstark?

  And the-

• 22:30Karen Kilgariff?

  You stuff that purse with cash.

• 22:33Georgia Hardstark?

  Expensive purses have their own purses, their bags that they come in. It's crazy. So, you get two for one.

• 22:38Karen Kilgariff?

  That's right. And also, expensive purses come with a bunch of money inside. That only rich people know that. And now this is the world you live in.

• 22:47Georgia Hardstark?

  Well, thank you, everyone, for writing in and for listening and that was so much fun.

• 22:52Karen Kilgariff?

  The mini-sodes, they're really, they're really becoming something.

• 22:54Georgia Hardstark?

  They are.

• 22:55Karen Kilgariff?

  It's so exciting. All right. Stay sexy.

• 22:56Georgia Hardstark?

  And don't get murdered.

• 22:57Karen Kilgariff?

  Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie? Ah.

• 23:08Karen Kilgariff?

  This has been an Exactly Right Production.

• 23:10Georgia Hardstark?

  Our managing producer is Molly Smith.

• 23:12Karen Kilgariff?

  Our consulting producer is Kate Schellbach.

• 23:14Georgia Hardstark?

  Our creative lead is Allison Agosti.

• 23:16Karen Kilgariff?

  Our associate producer is Tessa Hughes and our editor is Aristotle Acevato.

• 23:20Georgia Hardstark?

  This episode was mixed by Leona Scolacci.

• 23:22Karen Kilgariff?

  Email your hometowns to [email protected] and follow the show on Instagram at MyFavoriteMurder.

• 23:28Georgia Hardstark?

  Listen to My Favorite Murder on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

• 23:33Karen Kilgariff?

  Or watch new episodes every week on Netflix. Search for My Favorite Murder, add us to your list, and hit the double thumbs up button. Goodbye.

• 23:48Karen Kilgariff?

  Calling all amateur detectives and podcast obsessives.

• 23:51Georgia Hardstark?

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• 24:00Karen Kilgariff?

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• 24:16Georgia Hardstark?

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• 25:02Karen Kilgariff?

  I'm Lacey Mosley, author, actor, stand-up comedian, creator, and host of Scam Goddess Podcast, the true crime comedy podcast, all about robbery, fraud, and those who practice it. Each week I bring on an amazing guest.

• 25:14Speaker 01

  Ooh, I scam them.

• 25:15Karen Kilgariff?

  What?

• 25:16Speaker 01

  I could talk to you for an hour.

• 25:17Karen Kilgariff?

  You're a generational yapper, like me. That's why I had to make yapping a job. And now you can catch full episodes of my show on YouTube. Start listening to Scam Goddess on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.