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Still doesn't make sense. She found out

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she was pregnant in jail. The person

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1:10

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1:38

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Hello. Hello.

1:57

And welcome.

2:01

My favorite

2:04

murder. That's

2:07

right. Here

2:10

it is. So,

2:36

not much true crime happened during

2:38

my time there, but in 1970s Vermillion,

2:40

two teenage girls went missing and

2:42

the case went cold for over

2:44

40 years. There's a book

2:46

called Vanishing Vermillion by Lou Raguse

2:48

that details this case much better

2:50

than I can, but I'll do

2:53

my best. On May 29th, 1971,

2:55

two 17 -year -olds, Cheryl Miller and

2:57

Pamela Jackson were on their way

2:59

to an end -of -the -school year

3:01

party in the nearby town of I'll

3:04

chester about 40 minutes away

3:06

when they disappeared without

3:08

a trace. Despite searches of

3:10

the surrounding land and creek, the girls in

3:12

their car were never seen again. The

3:14

sheriff at the time insisted that the

3:17

girls were runaways and the case quickly went

3:19

cold. They just ran away

3:21

on the way to a party, as you do.

3:23

In nine years, I think you and I

3:25

have said that phrase a thousand times. It's so

3:27

frustrating. It's the past. We can let it

3:29

go. It was reopened in

3:31

2004 and a classmate of the

3:33

girls was charged with their murder

3:35

in 2007, despite no bodies or

3:37

car ever being found. Those

3:40

charges were dropped in 2008,

3:42

and the investigation went quiet again.

3:44

That was until September 2013,

3:47

when a drought caused the rural creek

3:49

to dry up, and a citizen

3:51

of Vermillion who was investigating the case

3:53

on his own spotted the tires

3:55

of a car sticking out of the

3:57

water. Bro, I'm telling

3:59

you, half of every missing person's

4:01

case. Right. Or a car

4:04

is involved and someone disappears randomly is them

4:06

in a fucking body of water. Right. Also,

4:08

can you imagine being the person is like,

4:10

I'm taking this up. I'm going to try

4:12

to figure this out. A drought happens and

4:14

you're like, holy. It's over here,

4:16

everyone. I did it. Did

4:18

I do it? I did it. It's

4:20

so huge. Yeah. Okay.

4:22

The car in the creek was confirmed

4:24

to be the 1960s Studebaker that the

4:26

girls were driving. It had been submerged

4:28

upside down in the creek for 42

4:30

years. Sadly, the skeletal remains

4:33

of the two girls were found inside. One

4:35

source described the inside of the car

4:37

as frozen in time because the girls'

4:39

clothes, purses, and even a driver's license

4:41

were found with the remains. No

4:44

foul play was suspected since the remains

4:46

did not show injuries. The theory is that

4:48

the girls were unfamiliar with the roads

4:50

and the new bridge and somehow careened off

4:52

the road and into the water. A

4:54

sad and unfortunate ending to a

4:57

four decade long mystery. Thanks

4:59

for reading. Stay sexy and solve

5:01

cold cases. Wow. Geffen, she, her.

5:03

Man, the person who they accused

5:05

of killing them. Yeah. Having a

5:07

fucking good day that day. I

5:09

mean, but also just like, and

5:12

that life ruined because that tarnish

5:14

of like the name, the

5:16

association. Totally. Horrible. Absolutely. Okay,

5:19

my first one is called two

5:21

hometowns intertwined because my son knows

5:23

what's up. Howdy, murderinos.

5:25

I listen to you every day as I drive

5:27

to school through the woods. I have about a

5:29

half an hour drive where most days I might

5:32

see one logging truck and that's it. There have

5:34

been a couple days I have to change over

5:36

to are you garbage because I get too scared.

5:38

But I can usually turn you back on after

5:40

school for the drive home. Just we

5:42

scare them in the morning commute to the

5:44

woods. Yeah, that's too intense. Anywho, one day

5:46

this week I was listening and all a

5:48

sudden I remembered the killers we lived right

5:50

next to and I was like, oh my

5:52

god, a hometown of my own. We

5:55

had moved from Illinois to New Mexico

5:57

in search of more Sun our Sun

5:59

was going to sixth grade and we found

6:01

a small house in the town of

6:04

truth or consequences New Mexico I've always heard

6:06

of that town so interesting the place

6:08

was pretty crappy And we had to do

6:10

major cleaning to even feel comfortable sleeping

6:12

our son was not having it right off

6:14

the bat He said there was a

6:16

killer coming and he was too scared to

6:18

sleep in his room We

6:21

did all kinds of things to make him feel

6:23

comfortable. Then just said, heck with it. And he

6:25

slept in our room. And it

6:27

says New Mexico does have flying roaches. So there

6:29

are some pretty gross things besides thoughts of a

6:31

killer on their way. But also a child

6:33

saying, a killer is coming. Yeah. Can you

6:35

chill out, dude? Kind of dude. It's not

6:37

that thing of like, oh, there's a little

6:39

girl in the room with me. It's like

6:41

a killer is coming. coming. Cool. His

6:44

talk of a killer continued for several

6:46

weeks. And we were preparing for school to

6:48

begin. I was starting a new job,

6:50

things like that. It was July 4th, 1999,

6:52

and we were checking out the new

6:54

area and found out that we'd just moved

6:56

in to the home of the Toybox

6:58

Killer. No. And

7:00

the lake outside of town, Elephant Butte, where

7:03

we thought we would go for a

7:05

swim, was where this guy had been dumping

7:07

his victims. One of the absolute worst

7:09

fucking stories of all time. Long ago George

7:11

and I talked about like we're never

7:13

covering it because it is just simply carnage

7:15

and disgusting and horrifying. Why they just

7:17

fucking tear that house down? So they sold

7:19

it to a family? A family. and

7:21

didn't tell them. And the child's like, hey,

7:23

the vibes are so bad that I'm

7:25

having psychic experiences. Totally. If that

7:27

wasn't disturbing enough, our son

7:29

continued to talk about the killer. One

7:32

day we were watching the news, getting dinner

7:34

ready, and the news was discussing the railway

7:36

killer, who at the time was in Southern

7:38

Illinois. Our son said, that was

7:40

him, and he was coming. Oh,

7:43

we assured him that wasn't going to

7:45

happen and that he was safe. I

7:47

can't remember the timeline, but the railway

7:49

killer moved down to somewhere in Texas,

7:51

then overthrew the Panhandle or Oklahoma, and

7:53

then was caught, I believe, on I -25

7:55

in New Mexico. I -25 runs

7:57

right down to truth or consequences.

8:00

That child knew. Yeah. I'm going to look that

8:02

up now that I already wrote what I

8:04

recall. Okay.

8:07

Worse than I remember, I'm good at

8:09

forgetting disturbing things. I just

8:11

looked up that the railway killer

8:13

was arrested in El Paso about

8:16

two hours from Truth or Consequences

8:18

on July 12, 1999. We

8:20

moved south of T or C

8:22

to Caballo and made it about six

8:24

months in New Mexico, then headed

8:26

to Montana for normalcy. Our

8:29

son loved Montana and he is

8:31

still there safe and sound and

8:33

no serial killers. Stay

8:35

sexy and don't get murdered,

8:37

Jackie in the UP of

8:39

Michigan. Yay. Wow,

8:43

Jackie. That was a good one. graders

8:46

talking about killers coming. The killer's

8:48

coming. Prohibition

8:52

is synonymous with speakeasies, jazz, flappers,

8:54

and of course, failure. I'm Ed

8:56

Helms, and on season three of

8:59

my podcast, Snafu, there's a story

9:01

I couldn't wait to tell you.

9:03

It's about an unlikely duo in

9:05

the 1920s who tried to warn

9:07

the public that Prohibition was going

9:09

to backfire so badly. It just

9:11

might leave thousands dead from poison.

9:13

Listen and subscribe to Snafu on

9:16

the IHark radio app, Apple Podcasts,

9:18

or wherever you get your podcasts.

9:21

What would you do if mysterious

9:24

drones appeared over your hometown? I

9:27

started asking questions. What do

9:29

you remember happening on that

9:31

night of December 16th? It actually

9:33

rotated around our house, looking as if

9:35

it was peering in each window of

9:37

our home. I'm Gabe Lenners.

9:39

From Imagine I Heart

9:41

Podcast in Lenners Entertainment.

9:44

Listen to Obscura. Invasion

9:47

of the Drones. Wherever

9:49

you get your favorite podcast.

9:54

This email is kind of

9:56

totally insane. A little bit long, but

9:58

I think worth it. Okay. Okay. The

10:00

subject line is, my husband's

10:02

recently resurfaced repressed Boy Scout

10:05

memory. Oh, God. Uh -huh. Greetings.

10:08

My husband and I were watching Bob's

10:10

Burgers and then parentheses. It says my

10:12

favorite anxiety soothing show. After

10:14

finishing the episode where they scare

10:16

Louise by creating her own haunted

10:18

house legend such a good episode

10:20

My husband turns the TV off

10:23

turns to me and says I

10:25

just remembered something scary that happened

10:27

to me when I was a

10:29

kid So memories they just like

10:31

flit around and hang out and

10:33

tell some random fucking thing happens

10:35

or you smell something You're like, oh,

10:37

yeah. Yeah shit. I haven't really

10:39

wanted to be in a relationship

10:41

that much over the years until I

10:43

read that line and I'm just like,

10:46

that's what I want for myself. Someone to

10:48

go, hey, hey, I just have a recovered memory.

10:50

I have to tell you about it's horrifying. Okay.

10:53

Okay. I'm here for it. This is my love

10:55

language. Active listening. As

10:58

he pieced his memory together, I listened

11:00

on the edge of my seat. When he

11:02

finished, I immediately asked his permission to send

11:04

this in. Here's

11:07

what he could recollect. He was about

11:09

12 years old in the Boy Scouts

11:11

and on a camping trip a little

11:13

outside Graham Rapids, Michigan. He and his

11:15

troop were getting their camp set up

11:17

in the woods on top of a

11:19

ravine, ravine theme, near

11:21

a river when an older man drove

11:23

up. The man whose home

11:26

was nearby, seemingly seeing the troop

11:28

arrive, approached the scoutmaster to alert

11:30

him to some alarming news. Apparently

11:32

the older man had seen a man lurking

11:34

around the woods the night before. He

11:36

had called the police and was told

11:38

to be extremely cautious as there was

11:40

currently a murderer they were looking for

11:42

and they believed he may be hiding

11:45

out in the woods. Despite

11:47

this concerning news, the

11:49

Scoutmaster did not get the kids and get the

11:51

fuck out of there. Of course not. They

11:53

finished setting up the camp knowing that there

11:55

may or may not be a murderer nearby.

11:57

Jesus. As night fell and my

11:59

husband and his peers were settling down in

12:01

their tents to go to sleep, they heard

12:03

what sounded like a gunshot coming from

12:06

a couple hundred yards away by the ravine.

12:08

A few moments passed and a

12:10

second gunshot sounded. The Scoutmaster

12:12

finally rallied the troops. telling

12:15

them to be quiet and began leading

12:17

them towards where they had parked the

12:19

van. Great. So after multiple gunshots. Yeah.

12:21

Now is the time in the dark

12:23

to go. On writ to the van,

12:25

creeping along the ravine as quietly as

12:28

possible, the troops were met with a

12:30

horrifying scene. At the

12:32

bottom of the ravine was a man

12:34

in a camo jumpsuit standing next

12:36

to a blood -soaked sheet. covering

12:38

a lump of something corpse like which

12:40

was next to a big hole in

12:42

the ground that he was actively digging.

12:44

Oh no. A shotgun leaned on a

12:46

tree next to him. The man moved

12:48

the body into the grave and the

12:50

scout master thought it would be a

12:53

good idea to confront the gun toting

12:55

possible murderer. No. He shouted hey and

12:57

started going. down the ravine. What the

12:59

fuck? The camo man looked up and

13:01

moved toward the tree where his shotgun

13:03

was leading. Also on the tree was

13:05

a gas lantern hanging from a branch.

13:07

As the man reached for his shotgun,

13:09

he also turned off the lantern.

13:11

Cool. Okay. This

13:13

is literally an email from

13:15

Blumhouse Films. Like, this is insanity.

13:18

The Scoutmaster had a lantern as well,

13:20

which dimly illuminated his movements that the

13:22

boys could see from the top of

13:24

the ravine. As the Scoutmaster made his

13:26

way towards the Camel Man, a burst

13:28

of light erupted from the Man's shotgun. The

13:31

Scoutmaster fell, and his

13:33

lantern was extinguished. What? The

13:35

boys, all terrified, began running

13:37

towards where they thought the van

13:39

was, the van was gone. They

13:43

started running down the road leading

13:45

away from the campground as they

13:47

were running. They were halted by

13:49

two freshly butchered cattle heads that

13:51

were lit on fire, swinging from

13:53

tea tree branches. You can't.

13:55

As the kids were all peeing their

13:58

pants and preparing for their too soon

14:00

deaths, the van appeared.

14:02

Driving it was their scout

14:04

master and riding shotgun

14:06

was the camo man. You

14:08

mother fuckers. You

14:10

fucking... Psychopaths.

14:12

What? You took it too

14:14

far. You took it too far. You, first

14:17

of all, what are you

14:19

doing in the Boy Scouts? There's

14:21

something wrong with you. Oh, my

14:24

God. Apparently, this was a super cool,

14:26

well thought out, trauma -informed prank played

14:28

by two adults who should never

14:30

be allowed near any children again. No.

14:33

Thank you for your podcast. I'm a

14:35

social worker. Thank God you're a

14:37

social worker. Yeah. Because your man needs

14:39

you now more than ever. What

14:41

the fuck? I hate those

14:43

two men so much. It's

14:45

almost like his recovered memory, like

14:48

the trauma isn't that that happened, it was that it

14:50

was they were played a prank on. Like it

14:52

was that traumatic that they were played that specific prank

14:55

that he had to forget it. Then they had

14:57

to get it in the prank. Right. But then they

14:59

had to get into a van with two men

15:01

that would play that prank. Seriously, and spend the rest

15:03

of the night or weekend or whatever there. Jesus.

15:07

Okay, so thank you for your podcast. I'm

15:09

a social worker and my job can be a

15:11

lot sometimes. I can't tell you how much. I

15:13

appreciate laughing alongside you ladies as I clean my

15:15

house and do my best to keep going, even

15:17

when things are terrible. Thanks

15:19

again, Gina. And then in parentheses,

15:21

it says, and Dan, my husband

15:23

who graciously agreed to share his

15:26

story. Dan. Thanks, Dan. Dan.

15:28

Dan, you deserve a nice cream. Oh,

15:30

that's awful. That is just, you

15:32

can't. You shouldn't, and you won't. And

15:35

please don't. Please don't. Good Lord,

15:37

the lawsuits. I mean,

15:39

this one's called Trash Kid

15:41

Girl Scout Edition. Oh,

15:43

okay. We're doing some scouting themes. Nice.

15:45

Oh, yeah. That's weird. Hi

15:47

friends, longtime listener, first -time writer. Growing

15:49

up, instead of sports or dance

15:51

for extracurriculars, my sisters and I

15:53

did Girl Scouts, probably because my

15:55

mom worked for our local Girl

15:57

Scout Council. Looking back on it,

15:59

it was probably the best decision because I

16:01

was a very clumsy child. One

16:04

summer when I was eight or nine, I was

16:06

at a friend's birthday party and was playing

16:08

on the zipline in their backyard when I let

16:10

go way too soon and broke five bones

16:12

in my left arm. Geez. It was

16:14

the end of May, so this obviously limited

16:16

the amount of summer activities I could participate

16:18

in. My mom's creative solution

16:20

was to put me in an ASL

16:22

class. Oh. Like sign language.

16:24

Yes, learn sign language. That's smart. And then it

16:26

says, you know, whether you have to use

16:29

both your hands to sign. I'm

16:32

still not sure if she thought that through

16:34

all the way, but it was air conditioning, which

16:36

is a big plus for Houston summers.

16:38

I got assigned my own name, learned how

16:40

to sign stop in the name of

16:43

love by the Supremes. Nice. fucking pretty great.

16:45

And some basic vocabulary. Flash

16:47

forward to the following spring when it's

16:49

cookie season and my Girl Scout troop is

16:51

selling cookies at our local grocery store.

16:53

Being the youngest of three sisters, I'm just

16:55

a little competitive and my goal was

16:57

to try to lure in the most customers.

16:59

So I decided to use my summer

17:01

activity to my advantage and began signing, would

17:03

you like to buy some Girl Scout

17:05

cookies to anyone who walked by? And

17:07

wouldn't you know it, a lot more

17:09

people stopped at the booth instead of

17:11

walking on by. This is

17:13

called Trash Kit. When

17:16

people started asking me questions about the

17:18

cookies, I realized I didn't know enough sign

17:20

language to keep going, but I also didn't

17:22

want to blow my cover and start talking.

17:24

So what did I do? Signed

17:27

the Supremes on a loop. They

17:31

don't fucking know. They didn't take

17:33

ASL last summer. My

17:35

mom was also my troop leader, but she

17:38

was helping with the other booth on the

17:40

second entrance, so she was not wise to

17:42

my antics. Wait, sorry. Did she truly and

17:44

on purpose or was it like, oh, here's

17:46

an interesting thing I can do and then

17:48

realized? It worked. It worked and people.

17:50

going. Yes. So either way, it's bad.

17:52

Yes. Either way, Trash Kid, which I love.

17:54

Yes. This is a theme that we

17:56

absolutely have to explore. But when I told

17:58

her how we were able to sell all

18:00

of our stock that day, she just laughed

18:02

and said, she was glad I learned something

18:04

that summer. I am

18:06

now a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts

18:08

and try to support the local troops when

18:10

I see them out and about selling cookies

18:12

because it really did help me face my

18:14

fear of talking to people in public or,

18:16

you know, signing to them. Thank

18:18

you for all you do, bringing humor

18:20

amidst the frustrating climate we find ourselves in

18:22

this country. My dog Atlas and I

18:24

take a walk every day at lunch and I always

18:26

listen to MFM to have a laugh before I have

18:29

to go back to work. Stay

18:31

sexy and support your local Girl

18:33

Scouts, Stacy. Stacey. And

18:35

take a signing class. Yeah, you should know how

18:37

to do that. I mean, I've always wanted to

18:39

learn. I have to. There was actually

18:41

a TikTok where a woman was just talking about

18:43

that and I think there might be an app

18:45

where you can learn ASL. That's a good idea.

18:47

I'm gonna look that up. Prohibition

18:51

is synonymous with speakeasies, jazz, flappers,

18:53

and of course, failure. I'm Ed

18:55

Helms, and on season three of

18:57

my podcast, Snafu, there's a story

19:00

I couldn't wait to tell you.

19:02

It's about an unlikely duo in

19:04

the 1920s who tried to warn

19:06

the public that Prohibition was going

19:08

to backfire so badly. It just

19:10

might leave thousands dead from poison.

19:12

Listen and subscribe to Snafu on

19:14

the IHark radio app, Apple Podcasts,

19:17

or wherever you get your podcasts.

19:20

Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok. Imagine

19:23

you're scrolling through TikTok. You come across

19:25

a video of a teenage girl and

19:27

then a photo of the person suspected

19:29

of killing her. It was shocking. It

19:31

was very shocking. Like that could have

19:33

been my daughter, like you never know.

19:35

I'm Jen Swan. I'm the host of

19:37

a new podcast called My Friend Daisy.

19:39

It's the story of how and why

19:41

a group of teenagers turned to social

19:43

media to help track down their friend's

19:45

killer. Listen to my friend Daisy on

19:47

the I Heart Radio app. Apple podcasts

19:50

or wherever you get your podcasts.

19:52

Okay, here's my last one. The

19:55

subject line is, museum guests, the

19:57

good, the bad, and the unforgettable. Hi,

19:59

I'm FM Crew. I heard we're sharing

20:01

stories about guests behaving badly in museums,

20:03

and oh baby, I could go on

20:05

for days. I worked at

20:07

a Titanic Museum in East Tennessee for

20:09

eight years. Why would

20:11

East Tennessee have a Titanic Museum? Guys.

20:14

Maybe they'll tell us. It

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was always busy and I can still say Titanic

20:18

facts at the drop of a hat. Did I tell

20:20

you that my sister said that the kids in

20:22

her class are obsessed with the Titanic because there's a

20:24

book, the boys are obsessed because there's a book

20:26

in the library about it and they all fight over

20:28

the, I mean, there's a book in her classroom

20:30

about it and they fight over it and they talk

20:32

about it all the time. Yeah, we were, that

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was like the scariest thing as a kid. The Titanic.

20:36

The Titanic. Okay. We

20:38

had more than our fair share of stupid people.

20:40

come through the museum, but my favorite example was

20:42

this. I was telling a group of guests

20:45

one day about the differences between the film and

20:47

the actual sinking, and I would always start

20:49

with, I am sorry to tell you, the Jack

20:51

and Rose were not real. Usually

20:53

this got a laugh, but one

20:55

day a woman loudly shouted at me, yes they

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are, I saw them on Oprah. She

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was not wrong, but she was not right either.

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I walked into a gallery just

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in time to watch two teenage

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girls hip -check a case and a

21:09

$150 ,000 life jacket fell off

21:12

its stand. My Italian grandmother

21:14

would be proud of the yelling I did that

21:16

day. I've watched people literally lick

21:18

glass cases called the cops on

21:20

people stealing from the gift shop

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and I've had some people literally

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spit in my face. What? At

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a museum. At a

21:28

museum for maritime disasters. That's

21:31

insane. However, we

21:33

were lucky to have some really amazing

21:35

guest interactions as well. I met a

21:37

World War II vet who had coffee

21:39

in Paris with Ernest Hemingway once. Wow.

21:41

One day I was giving a tour to

21:43

a group from New York and as a

21:45

New York native, I always felt a kinship

21:47

with them. We were talking about 9 -11

21:50

and I had a parallel I like to

21:52

use for 9 -11 and the Titanic in parentheses,

21:54

world impact, emotional impact. It's a whole speech

21:56

I worked very hard on as I have

21:58

very strong memories of that day. When

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I was done, a woman came came

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up and hugged me. She told me quietly

22:04

that she had been in the towers

22:06

that day and was one of the few

22:08

people from her floor to survive. Oh

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my God. She was happy to

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think that someday her friends and co

22:14

-workers stories would be shared with the

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love and care that we share the

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Titanic passenger stories. I think

22:20

about her frequently and I hope she's doing

22:22

well. Sending you ladies and your team lots

22:25

of love. Y 'all keep me sane most days

22:27

on my drive to and from work. Stay

22:29

sexy and watch your kids. And

22:31

it says that in all caps of the

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period. kids. And watch

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your kids. XO Stephanie. Oh my

22:37

God. Wow. That

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had layers. It really did. And I

22:42

didn't realize I like scanned it

22:44

of course. I like it when it's

22:46

fresh for me too, but. I thought it

22:48

was like museum guests in general, like I've been

22:50

a docent here and there or whatever, but

22:52

it's like, listen to this shit that goes on

22:54

at the Titanic Museum in East Tennessee. East

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Tennessee, we barely knew you.

22:59

Come on. Okay, my last one

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I love because it just

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shows you the breadth of hometown

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stories that we're accepting at this point

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and that if you don't have one

23:09

yet, keep listening because you're going to

23:11

have one one day. Yeah, this is

23:13

called, my dad accidentally became a snail

23:15

breeder. Which fits. Which is

23:17

now. Which is welcome. Fitting. Holy.

23:19

With the podcast theme. Hey,

23:21

MFM crew. Like,

23:25

you know what I mean? Yes. This person may

23:27

be listening for years and years, and then suddenly

23:29

it's their time to shine. like, you know

23:31

what I know they'd like? Yeah, like, you know

23:33

what they just talked about? Breeding snails. Korean

23:35

skincare. That's right. Hey, MFM crew,

23:37

I was listening to episode 470, Except

23:39

No Dare, when you mentioned breeding snails

23:41

for Escargo. Well, do I have a

23:43

related story for you? Oh, yeah, we

23:45

went into a whole escargot thing. Yes,

23:47

because we thought about a great idea

23:49

would be... to breed snails and sell

23:51

them to restaurants. Like, that's a great

23:53

money -making scheme. If eggs are $17 a

23:55

carton, let's get those snails up

23:57

there. Seriously. My dad accidentally

23:59

became a snail breeder, not for

24:02

escargot, but for aquariums. For

24:04

as long as I can remember, my

24:06

dad has had a large 55 -gallon fish

24:08

tank. Oh, that's the most high -maintenance fucking

24:10

hobby, right? My dad had the one that's

24:12

about a foot and a half wide,

24:14

and he's like, that thing's going to kill

24:16

me. He just couldn't deal with it. The

24:18

occupants rotated over the years as fish died

24:20

and were replaced. About two years ago, my

24:23

dad bought a small freshwater puffer fish, which

24:25

ate, you guessed it, snails. Ooh, I didn't

24:27

know that. Oh, I didn't need it. My

24:29

dad bought some snails to feed the puffer

24:31

fish. It refused to eat and died. Okay.

24:35

The snails were left to up. That's the

24:37

whole story. The snails were left to

24:39

clean up the tank by eating the algae.

24:41

As they got bigger, they started laying

24:43

eggs. My sister, who still lives at home,

24:45

was horrified and threatened to crush the

24:47

eggs in the night. She threw

24:49

her sister under the bus. Despite

24:51

the threats, the eggs hatched and

24:53

he had dozens of baby snails. When

24:56

they were about an inch wide, he sold them

24:58

for 50 cents each to the local pet store. Since

25:01

then, he sells at least 50 snails

25:03

to the pet store every couple months. He

25:06

marks adult females and males he catches in

25:08

the act and known egg layers so he

25:10

won't sell them accidentally. This

25:12

has become like a fucking... It's like

25:14

he's got a cattle ranch, but it

25:16

snails. He now has

25:18

multiple tanks for the snails. He fucking

25:20

went, he's just like, this is okay.

25:22

And has had over 100 at once

25:24

before selling them off. Wow. Fun fact,

25:27

the snails love green beans. I'm

25:30

a PhD student in cancer biology

25:32

and have spent several afternoons doing

25:34

punnett squares. Thank you for writing

25:36

that phonetically, with my dad to

25:39

figure out how to get snails

25:41

with purple shells, like how

25:43

to breed snails with purple shells. I

25:45

will often get a text with a photo of

25:47

a pet store snail with, will this help with

25:49

my genetics? SSDGM

25:52

and let your dad hatch his

25:54

snails. A. Wait, will you

25:56

go back? There's a sentence that you read

25:58

before we got into the purple shell. Fun

26:00

fact, the snails love green beans. That is

26:03

the funnest fact I've ever heard in

26:05

my life. I think that's the number one

26:07

fun fact of my life. When you

26:09

say I have a fun fact, it should

26:11

be the equivalent of that, because so

26:13

many fun facts are not fun or a

26:15

fact. Yeah, exactly. But snails love green

26:17

beans. Snails love green beans. That is fun.

26:20

You can see it in your head of

26:22

a snail just like chowing down and loving. Just

26:24

being like, finally. Wait, does he eat it

26:26

like a corn on the top? Or does he

26:28

eat it like a sandwich? I think he

26:30

has to put it on a table. Because

26:33

he doesn't have any other way to hold it. Or

26:35

he gets a chipmunk and a little

26:37

squirrel to hold it up for him.

26:40

Oh my god. Oh no. He tucked

26:42

a little bib into his shell. We

26:44

just made a cartoon for the cartoon network. Oh

26:48

my god, that's it. Do you guys have any stories that

26:50

are weirder? Do you guys have any snails? Did

26:53

it rain in your town? Let

26:55

us know how many snails came out

26:57

the sidewalk. I want a competition of

26:59

the weirdest story subject, but it is

27:01

related, because I think this snail story

27:03

wins right now. Yeah. Like, this is

27:05

a weird story. However, it

27:08

is related to something you guys have talked about

27:10

on an episode or on a minisode, wherever. Sure.

27:12

Yeah. Right? Yeah. Or

27:14

not. Whatever. We

27:16

won't know. Dad snail breeder is

27:19

a bit free -floating. Oh, no,

27:21

that's not true. It's cargo based.

27:23

We asked about snail breeding. Like

27:25

we talked about snails and how

27:27

they're bred and like, it's

27:29

totally a thing we talked about. And that's basically

27:31

it's kind of like, hey, we're not experts

27:33

in terms of like, no one's got a master's

27:35

degree in snails and snail breeding, but we're

27:37

in it. We're in this biz. And do you

27:39

know more about it? Tell us. Do you

27:41

know what they love to eat? Green beans. I

27:44

do. We're curious people. Green beans. I'm

27:47

going to pull that one out the next

27:49

time I'm feeling awkward. Do it. Yell it.

27:51

Fun fact. Everyone. Thanks

27:54

for listening. Right to my favorite murderer, Gmail.

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