My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - 236 - Like A Quilt

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

In this quilt episode, Karen and Georgia cover the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon, and Stull Cemetery.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We at Wondery live, breathe and downright obsess over true crime and now we're launching the ultimate true crime fan experience, Exhibit C. Join now by following Wondery, Exhibit C on Facebook and listen to True Crime on Wondery and Amazon Music. Exhibit C. It's truly criminal. Hello and welcome to my favorite murder. The podcast, the true crime comedy podcast starring Georgia Hardstar. Hi and Karen Kilgariff. Hi. How are you? Welcome everyone. How are you? Answer the question. How's your pandemic going? How is the full global meltdown working out for you? Did you see there was a story about how in Wuhan, a province of China, they had a huge like pool party with thousands of people because they could finally, they're finally opened up

again. Okay. And it's okay. It must be. I would hope that they're making, you know, good decisions. They started, they started all this quarantining. So I think they're saying we're finally done with it. Look, I'm as bored as everyone else, but I feel like I wouldn't go to that. I would need two solid years of inoculations and some guarantees. Yeah. Also just, it's that kind of thing. It's a, that's such a good point because when I saw the story, I was like, Oh yeah. And I was like, a pool party, never, never. B, unless it's my own private. Yeah. B, like a nighttime pool party, which is like every horrible LA party you've ever thought was a good idea. And then when you showed up, you were like, this is a, this is a zombie. I wore the wrong thing. No matter what you wore,

it was the wrong fucking thing. Yes. And no matter where you stand, you're in a bad spot. Right. And there is no, we also don't, there's not immunity to this yet. Cause just cause you had it, doesn't mean you're now immune to it. That's not how diseases work. No, unless they're, unless it's being kept from us, we don't know anything about how these works, whatsoever. I feel like a pool party is a little premature, but I am not a doctor nor have I ever pretended to be one. Hold on. Why do you have that medical advice podcast then? It doesn't make sense. Why would you open yourself up to the amateur medical advice podcast? Put back team on it. Spit on it and put put back, put some back team in your mouth and spit on it. You know what you

need to do is suck out the bacteria and then put in a snake poison. Yes. Spit it in. Yes. Leaches from everywhere from head to toe. Leach your shit. And then here comes the merch that says, leach your shit on the front of it. People don't understand what it means. Your mom's upset. Your cousin's asking questions. We're doing it again. We are having at it. We are. As we tend to do. Going for it. No, we don't know where you are right now. While you're listening to this. Mentally. Your listener. Yeah. Mentally or literally. Where I am personally, it's 106 degrees outside, which is not common for California, especially Los Angeles. We're having this crazy heat wave, but none of us are leaving the house anyway. So right. It doesn't

matter. But if you're okay with, it's just like my, there's no air conditioning duct into the bathroom. So like you go into the bathroom and it's like muggy. It's like a tropical. Tropical storm. That's the most important place for air conditioning because blow drying your, like the thing of getting out of the shower and immediately sweating again is my fucking least, like remember last week I postponed a meeting we were having because I was like, I'm sweating out of the shower. So I can't take this meeting. Nothing feels worse. I don't remember that being the reason because anytime you're like, Hey, do you mind if I, I'm all caps guessing you so hard postpone everything. Anything. Please always. Yes.

Please cancel all day. You love, yes. Anding my laziness or my whatever it is. Your needs. You, it's you choosing to have needs and just declaring them. I think it's important. It's hard for us to do sometimes. There's, there's times we were just like, you know what? I can't get on this zoom. I can't do it. No. And I don't have to even though you know, I'm here by myself sitting here staring. I still don't have to get on that zoom with you. That's my right as an American in 2020. Thank you. What are we talking about? Is there a listen, I've been meaning to ask you this for a while now ever since we've been zooming at home and recording at home. Is there a framed photo? Cause there's like, you're sitting in front of like some nice family frame photos.

Is there a two headed person framed in one of those photos? Let's go over and take a look from where I'm sitting. It's a man's body with two heads on it. No, let me go get that. I'll tell you what. Okay. Oh my gosh, it does look like a friend. Doesn't it? Whoa. What is that? I've been wondering for months and never asked. I feel like now's as good a time as any. What were you talking about? I was saying, I've just been watching. I've just been noticing it and never said anything for months, but now's as good a time as any to ask you. Yes. So this is a, this is a gift that was given to me at the end of a job by America's sweetheart and banana boys star, Scotty Landis. It's a picture of Craig T. Nelson from coach because that's how we met is he was

a writer and I was the head writer on a talk show. And so he gave me, it was a signed photo by Craig T. Nelson of him as coach, but so you can't see the signature anymore because it's sat on my desk at my old house and it got exposed to the sun. But you can see how I would think that he's holding a football like up facing up. So it looks like a two-headed person, but it's not. It's coach with a football. It's coach and his best friend, the football. Stephen, can we get that up on the Instagram for this episode, please? Thank you. Yeah. Please and thank you. All right. Well, we've solved that mystery. Any other questions or concerns about what's in the background of my Zoom shot? Just email us at MFM queries, queries and quizzes. Send it there. Definitely

send it there. You know, what I was going to say is it is crazy boiling hot, unlike any, even though it's been getting hotter lately, today just went nuts. And I'm drinking a very large cup of hot coffee right now, just like the Bedouins do out in the desert. I'm drinking some black tea and water. Oh, it's iced. A little bit of whiskey in there. Sweet. Because it's, what's that drink called? George is having a day. Hey. George is having a day. Put it in there. It's that feeling of, I've been doing some, when the commercial comes on where there's a bunch of people standing in a bar, starting to have a fake, funny conversation, it genuinely makes me want to cry. Uh-oh. What? Hold on. The male lady's here and she's coming up to the front door. Uh-oh. Tell her we appreciate

her and thank you for your service. And we support you and we've been, we've been pushing your merch. Mr. Zip, you can get little outfits for your small dogs and make it look like you're carrying the male or small dogs or large cats. It's pretty adorable. She's going to have to leave it there anyway. I'm actually getting a thing delivered. Oh, that's fun. Like at USPS, as we speak. Here we go. Hey, hey. You, I said you could stay in here if you didn't bark. That was like a stare down and then dirty. Yeah, almost. Hey. Oh my God. That is sharp. Oh, I like sharp. Stephen, take a photo of that. Georgey. Is this what you do when I'm not here? Is this what you do when I'm not here?

You stare out the window. Go, go get up on that bed, George. Thanks for the warning. No problem. Shit. Wait, I had a specific, this, this post person, I was singing some of the things I like to do in my day, little, little exposure, is I'll go ahead and put in the old earbuds and then just, I'm now the lead singer of the YAAS or whatever, right? I think many of us do, especially if you're by yourself. And with the freedom, I just have to go around and make sure all the windows and doors are closed because I've definitely done that where it's full concert and the side windows open. And I'm like, it's such, it's so early in our relationship from my neighbors to be like, Oh no. There's never a good time

for your neighbors to hear you singing. So the other day, and I'm pretty sure it was wait by the YAAS. They don't love you like I love you. Maps, maps. Thank you. Such a good sense. Like wait, maps by the YAAS, really delivering that. And I turned around because like they, the dog did something and the male person was just standing there staring at me through the kitchen window. And it could have been, I didn't have my glasses on. So they could have been doing something, you know, like on a clipboard and I just didn't see it or whatever. But to me, it just looked like they were just standing there staring with their mouth open like what? She's just so disappointed in their, in their lives because of what happened when they

caught you. They're like, where am I going? If I'm just catching people singing, this is my job. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't know why we didn't request this earlier, but can male people write us please and tell us like their craziest experience or their like, you know, some interesting story for hometowns, please? Like, just tell us what it's like to be a postal worker. I'm dying to know. That'd be incredible, right? Well, because also, and the people that, also the people that deliver on foot. So you're getting whatever your weird experiences in the car. But then there's also all the experiences you get just walking around neighborhoods. Yes, walking around neighborhoods. Like, tell us like, what, you know, what, what should we do

to support you guys more? Should what do you will like when we leave you for the holidays? You know, like what, what's it like? I want to, I want a day in the life plus a weird crazy story for male people and people. Yeah, that'd be fun. That'd be great. Good idea. Let's do that. What was I thought you were going to say, we want to hear what people are doing to fill their time during the day to make themselves not go crazy. And aside from watching TV or listening to podcast, aside from media, how do you fill those additional hours of the day? Like for example, yeah, tell me, you, you give a three to 5000 person concert as, as a great lead singer of a band that's never existed or something along those lines of like this, I know this will

eat up a half an hour if I do this for a while. God, what do I don't even know what I do? Here's what, here's what some people are doing back into the media today, because we're recording this on Tuesday, the 18th. Today was the first day of the hearings of the Golden State Killer Trial where victims got to come and give either their own victim impact report or that of a family member who couldn't be there. Amazing. They're doing that until Friday when they sentence him. Fuck, yes. I love that even though he pleaded, pled guilty, he, we still get to hear and the victims still get to speak their fucking, you know, lives and their trauma. So it's like, I love that still part of it. It's so important. And I want to hear everything about it. And Paul

Holes is there, right? Yep. In person. That's what he said in that email. Yeah. You guys, Paul Holes emails us. Guys, sometimes, sometimes we'll drop an email just to catch up. As Paul Holes boss, as Paul Holes bosses who control his career in our palms of our hands. No, we don't. We just like to tell him that. But it is kind of exciting that he would email us and be like, well, I'm up here in Sacramento for the, and we're just like, it's exactly where you should be. Of course you are. I love it. It's very, well, and it's also just like the conclusion, the thing inevitable conclusion of a thing that no one ever thought was ever going to have one. And it's happening and you know, yeah, 40 years. It's never going to be fulfilling. He'll never

speak about it. I bet he's such a piece of shit. He'll never cop up to the cop to the fact that he is pretending to be a feeble old man, right? We all know is bullshit. Yeah, I think, I think that's, it's well known, well known rumor that he, he and his private time is in no way feeble old man, but that's a rumor. That's the kind of thing that absolutely would kick up around something like this. But yeah, still, it's great. You love hearing it because you're just like, yeah. And also, it's the thing we were talking about last week where it's just like, there's no, he's not going to have a crisis of conscience and then say something satisfying. None of that is part of it. But, but it doesn't matter because it's not about him. Yeah, it's not. It's about those

people standing up and being like, you fucking monster. You're a monster. I get to say it. Yeah. You're just a man. You're not, you're not a monster and you're not supernatural and you don't have any powers over me except for the fact that you were so creepy and crazy that you did what you did. But now that's over. Let's do exactly right corner real quick. Yeah. Yeah, our podcast. What's going on the old network this week? That's right. This just in. What's going on this week? Well, I'm glad you asked, Karen. Bridger Weineggers, I said no gifts. That was the wonderful Lacey, mostly AKA scam goddess on the scam goddess, right? If you haven't listened to scam goddess and you like stories about people getting ripped

off and people ripping people off, go over to the scam goddess on your wolf and listen to her on, I said, no gifts. Yeah, get a taste on Bridger's show, see what happens and then go over and try scam. God, there's nothing, nothing better. And then this week on this podcast, we'll kill you. The errands are talking about sickle cell disease and they have guests who are sharing their firsthand experiences with sickle cell. And they also talk about genome editing tools to create genetic conditions. It's a really interesting episode. If you're at all interested in sickle cell disease or don't know anything about it, this is a really great episode. So that's. Yeah, go learn. It's a fascinating thing that like they're basically, they're fixing like genome

science and all that. Oh my God, insane, atomic, atomic surgeries and stuff like that. Thank you, smart people. Yeah, for real. Also, just really quick on bananas this week, friend of the family, Mandy Johnson is on with Scotty and Kurt. She is a producer for the long running independent standup show here in LA called Super Serious. And she has made a book of photography that's all the pictures she takes of the comics before their sets. And then she interviewed like 50 comics to talk about that book. So she's she's on bananas doing stories with them. But then she's kind of there to plug that book a little bit. So and she's definitely a friend of the family. She's she did our first photo shoot together in my apartment, my old apartment,

remember? Yeah, she's been with us. She was the photographer at the Santa Barbara weekend. And our big LA show, she's definitely a friend of the family. Yeah, she's a good friend of mine. And this book is if you're interested in comedy and, you know, the the comics that either started in or like have made LA the LA scene their home for the past 10, 15 years, she's been a huge part of it. And that's this book is just a compilation. That's all about that. So if that's an interest of yours, the book's called Super Serious. Her name's Mandy Johnson. And I think it's coming out in out today, I think, is it? Yeah, well, actually available. It's out this week. Yeah, amazing. Yeah. So you can get it. Look it up if that's something you're interested in. I have a

of a picture in there. I know you do. It's a great one. It's a great. It's like a one year all time greats. She's such a good photographer. She's so good. And then oh, hey, let's talk about koozies, Karen. Hey, let's do it. We have koozies for sale. We have a here's the thing. Fuck everyone koozy and then a koozy with our cool new fingerprint rainbow design on it. And it has been sold out. It got restocked. It's so summertime. We use koozies here at the house all the time for our canned wines. It's been strings beer exclusively. So we are always competing to see whose podcast koozy is going to be used that day. And they really work. They do. I am a big fan. I'm a big fan of koozies. We have so much cool merch right now. I'm loving everything we have and everything we've

got coming in. It's exciting. Yeah, if you're looking for something to do during your day, if shopping might be a part of it, don't be afraid to go over to the MFM store and just kind of look around. We really do have a full line of items. And apparently the Fuck You I'm Divorced sweatpants are selling like hotcakes. Amazing. I love it. It's my favorite merch.com. And then there's like a store link you can go to. And my friend Heather Anthony, a shout out. What's up? She made the suggestion. Now we should make sweatpants and say, Fuck You I'm Remaried. We just keep following relationship arcs of women's relationship arcs through sweatpants. What about Fuck You? It's complicated. Can we do that? That's right. How about Fuck You? I don't

owe you an explanation. Right. It's none of your business. Just because it's the holidays and I'm sitting at your dinner table. Fuck You I'm Single would be great to wear to holiday parties or like at the weekend at your family's house if you're not in quarantine. When you realize that you probably need your sweatpants to speak for you. Yeah. It's loud and proud and you need it and I'm proud of you and I'm loud and I'm loud at you. I'm loud at you, but I'm more than that. I'm proud at you. Let me see. Do I have anything else? Did you watch the show Dave? I might not talk about it if you haven't. I have not. You know what show we just started watching. It premiered on Sunday. It's so good. Hold on. Let me look it up really quick. It's called Lovecraft Country. Yes. Do you

love it? Yes. It's amazing. Oh my god. Lovecraft Country. It's so good. Yeah. And it ended on such a cliffhanger. I'm so excited to keep watching it. This might be incorrect. It's just an observation and it could be incorrect, but what's exciting to me is it feels to me like there's going to be this new wave of of black-centric stories in media, especially in like TV and that kind of like fancy TV, where it's not about that. Right. Just getting heroes and experiences and it's just being treated like every other any other story. Yeah. Instead of having to be, you know, like it's not typical and it's not. It's just like everything else. Yeah. It's sci-fi. It's just fucking cool sci-fi. It's historic. It's interesting because it is. Yeah. There's so much to learn as well,

but that sundown fucking towns and there was a guidebook for black people when to how to travel across the country without going to the wrong places, which is so heartbreakingly awful, but it's like true. And such a strange secret. I honestly believe a lot of people are very upset because Green Book was such a whitewashed version of that story and that makes perfect sense to me, but the idea that we're just learning about that, I mean, like I'm just learning about that in, you know, in 20, whenever that was 18 or 19. Yeah. It's just so crazy. It's just like, it's, yeah, it's the second they walked into that shop. First of all, I got teary-eyed because I want to go into a store and browse again. Just really lame. Just the straight immediate like fucking,

like immediate is I miss shopping. I miss, I miss going into a store that's set up cool, which is that's first store he went into that had the Green Book in the front window. Oh, I never saw that. Yeah. It was like right at the beginning and he was going in to talk to, well, anyway, it doesn't matter. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you meant Green Book. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Got it. Oh, no, sorry. In the Lovecraft country. Got it. And just the, it was supposed to, you know, because it's supposed to be the 50s, right? I think it's like, oh, no, it's like right. It's real. I think it's late 40s because it's super post. Oh, no, it's post Korea. So, yeah, you're right. So probably mid 50s or early 60s? No, 50s. Jesus. I'm saying Korea as if I

know when Korea was. It's 50s. 50s. Korea was in the 50s. Yeah. Okay. So it's 50s. I know that from Mash. It doesn't matter. The point is that he's in this beautiful store that is because they made it look like the time. So nothing in the store, it looks like a vintage shop. Yeah. And it has all these windows. So it's like the regular front windows, but then they also have the top line, which there's a bunch of stores in my hometown that have this too. It was like store, if your store faced the west, then there's extra windows at the top that brought in even more light so that your light wasn't affected by the talls building is across the street. Anyway, the whole thing was just very like, remember when we could just go into a store and stand around and not think about

anything. Yeah, it's good. It's exciting. It's like I fucking love sci-fi to begin with, but it's also like an adventure story. Yeah. It's also, you know, heartbreaking. It's beautiful. Yeah. The opening itself where I was like, wait, who is the red lady? What is happening? What is this whole thing? And it was, it was. They're in the trenches and then they're not. Yeah. So Lovecraft Country, the first episode is out. I wish I could binge it. Let's all, let's all watch it and talk about it every weekend. I mean, because there, I was like, this show is going to suffer no matter how good it is because it has to replace my Sunday night pairing. Well, we have room in our heart now. We do. Well, it's HBO too, right? It's HBO. No. Prime, what? No, it's HBO. Yeah. Yeah.

So, so the thing you can rely on with HBO is they know how to, the teams they hire where it's, it's completely, you're never just going to get great actors or just going to get, you know, pretty cool looking set. But then like they, they just know how to turn in the entire perfect paper and get an A plus on it. Yeah. So it just like the second it started, I was like, oh, thank you. Yeah. It's easier to let go of that one when this one you're delivering right into my hands. It has, it's the same thing where it's period. It's perfectly produced. Beautiful. The outfits, the outfits are incredible. Everyone looks so fucking good. Yeah. Big fan. Looking for a better cooking routine with meal planning, shopping and prepping handled. Hello,

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her talent remains unmatched. But her incredible success hit a deeply private pain. In our series, Whitney Houston, Destiny of a diva will tell you how she hit her true self to make everyone around her happy and how the pressure to be all things to all people let her down a dark path. Follow Even the Rich wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad free on the Amazon music or Wondery app. So should we explain what we're going to be doing today? Yeah, story wise. Yes, this was this is great. So we have so many live shows that we've done. Of course, we've posted a lot. And then we have, and they're all, you know, these fun shows we had the best time at. Then we have some shows where either, you know, we did them the night

before. So they're kind of repeats in the beginning. But the stories we did are the murder stories are still, you know, mean a lot to us. And they were great. And we still want to play them even though we can't play the entire show. So we had that we Yeah, well, I was just going to say that there's also the piece of it to where we used to in the early days. And some of you remember this, we would we would do two shows a night. And that almost always meant that it was basically the same if we'd never do the same stories for both shows. Right. We learned that quickly when we did that the first time in Seattle and saw their faces in the front row go, Oh, why did I buy tickets to both these or the people in the meet and greet? Like, are you going to do the same thing? Oh,

and then I was just like, Oh, no, that's true. This is two separate shows. So increasing our homework load. Yeah, that much more. But so yeah, so some of these are some of the shows are it reflects directly that we are this we are now on our five of performing. We'll just say that there's no judgment. There's always people that are like, my city didn't get posted. And that means this. And it's like, no, release the storyline of whatever reasoning you think it is. It's usually something much weirder and more specific than that. But what we want to do is get the greatest hits out of there. So that's what we've done. Steven's gone through and listened through and pulled the stories that are like, this one's great. Yeah, these are these are usable

stories. Yeah. And then so we're going to almost like you said today, like a quilt where it's like Karen's story from this city and my story from this city. And that's really great hometown. That's so sad. It's languishing. And like it should be because there's so many great hometowns that like never got posted except this week, right? We're posting maybe the worst hometown we've ever had. I argue, I argue you and say the best hometown we've ever had the simply the best hometown we've ever had. We'll introduce it, we'll get to it. So my story this week is from our North Charleston show in South Carolina. It takes I did the story on September 21, 2018, which actually was the first of our fall tour that year. And Hurricane Florence was going on

at that time. And so there's flooding everywhere. So we had done Durham the night before we were supposed to drive to North Charleston and ended up having to fly because all the roads were closed. Yep. Right. Remember that? I do. And it was a really great theater. And I did the old exchange and provost dungeon story. So there's a bunch of like people who who had been jailed there, ghosts that people saw, lots of like creepy stories from it, which is one of my favorite things to do is just like, take a place like Disneyland or whatever and be like, hear the fucked up stories from it. So that's what you guys are going to hear today. North Charleston Pacific Arts Center. I think so probably. So this is from the North Charleston

Performing Arts Center on September 21, 2018. Enjoy. This is so comfortable. All right. Well, I'm going first tonight, right? Yes, you are. Guys, you know how much I love American history. That's one thing everyone knows about me. This is just my thing. So in that with that, I am going to do the provost dungeon. Oh, is it historical? It's so historical and hysterical. Okay, Karen, let me let me give you a history lesson, please. And I bet you guys have heard this story in elementary school. For some, I think I said plays about it and everyone had to be a thing and everything happened. Plays about a dungeon? Yeah, it's like historical. Yes, it's a historical. So like everyone did plays. But in California,

we don't talk about that, this stuff. So we just get high and surf. You go to surf class, you go to high stoner class, you go to snack class. And then you go back to stoner class and take a nap. And you stand by a tree. So but it turns out that no historical landmark in Charleston is as well recognized as the old exchange and provost dungeon, Karen. Okay. At the intersection. What? Let me say it wrong. Good. Shut up. It's at the intersection, Karen, in case you want to go there later, of Broad Street and East Bay Street. Amazing street. Is it apartments now? Do you guys live there? The exchange was constructed on the site of a half moon bastion, which is which is just where they fight. I had to look all this shit up, which is

just where they would like shoot the fucking people from, like not like this. Bastion, that's right. Okay. Like with cannonballs. Boom. The exchange was made in 1767 as a mercantile exchange and customs house, which is basically like where you get your shit. You do your city stuff, like mail letters and stuff. This was long ago before they had stores and ammo. Anything. That's Teresa Caputo. And she's pissed. So beneath the fucking where people are doing everyday business, though, is a fucking legit dungeon. Like how often do you see a dungeon? I mean, you guys see it a lot, but it's been called one of the worst prisons in US history. Prisoners were subject to anything that happened, which could be contagious diseases. There was

no fresh air. It was contaminated food, fucking rats hanging out. Always rats. And they were attached to the people, not the rats, but the people who were attached to heavy iron shackles, and they were just cute. The littlest shackles. Oh my god. It's just like seven paperclips. I love those shackles. It's like a little ring. Okay. And they're left to suffer there in the dungeon until their execution. So it sucked. Let's see. Oh, I have a photo of it. Let's see if we can figure this thing out. I bet we can. Yay. I didn't bring my glasses. I have to look closer. This is Bay Street here. Just kidding. She's asking me. Just kidding. I don't care. So as we always say, when we look at these beautiful historical pictures that are like, oh my god,

it's so incredible, is what did it smell like at that moment on this street? What did it smell like? You gotta wonder. Well, there's a pile of donkey shit right here in the foreground. But it does look beautiful. You know it's weird when you see that and there's no electric poles. There's no wires of any kind. Why? Because they were underground? No. It was wireless. Yeah. Totally. Okay. You're not that into my observation. Yeah. So the majestic building, as you just saw, that's the old exchange. It's built by the British in 774 to accommodate the needs of the trading and shipping business. Yeah. Sure. Bartering. Sure. That flourished in that harbor, bartering, et cetera. Pelts. And it's service. Spices. Spices of all kinds. Tea. I bet you

guys did that play. Yeah. The tea play. They love tea. And Duran Duran was always there. It was also the cultural center of old Charlestown. They called it. I'm not saying it wrong, but from now on, I will call it Charleston because I don't want to get yelled at. But at the time, it was called Charlestown. That's what it says with an E on the end of town. Fucking nurse. Like, yeah, hip. God, how small are your glasses, Ben Franklin? Out of here. So the building has a shit ton of American history. I got that quote from a history book. It was where the Declaration of Independence was publicly read to South Carolinians. And where, is that real? South Carolinians. South Carolinians. Man. I thought I had it.

Sorry. South Carolinians. I've never heard them. We've never heard of anything. I've never heard anything. We're new. We've come out of a pod and walked on stage. We're new here. And where South Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution, George Washington used to fucking chill at banquets there and like dance and stuff. Always leaning. He was just like, but underneath all this lovely shit going on is a place where prisoners were subject to fucking unspeakable torture that I'm going to speakable about right now. Just directly below, like one floor below. Yeah, there's three floors and it's like, nice floor. George Washington out here. It's fucking torture everyone and let the rats hang out here. I kind of love that it's

all in one building. It's like an early mall. That's really convenient. It's also that it still exists and you can take tours of it, including the dungeon, being like, we're not going to pretend that this didn't happen. It's just not open that floor. It's like, no, no, this whole, it was great, but for a lot of people, it sucked. Yes, sucked a lot. Like today. So the whole building, of course, is haunted. I'm not going to say allegedly because I believe it. No, I don't. So they say the ghosts upstairs and then like... And I use the goats. So the goats took over the third floor and they started arresting everyone and sending them down to the dungeon. And they hunt. Now they hunt. The rats. Goat ghosts are the scariest

goats. Oh my God. Have you guys seen a goat ghost? The horns on those goat ghosts are nuts. Really sharp. Mm-hmm. So the, of course, on the like the top two floors that are like nice and classy and shit, the ghosts are like nice and classy and shit. So it, so goes the floor. And they walk like this. They walk like this. Except for George Washington. I wrote, the ghost upstairs and the old exchange are typically less pissed off than those in the former dungeon. I would imagine. Can you imagine? They were like, I'm going to spend eternity sipping tea out of this cup. Yeah. And I'm not trying to scare you. Calm down. Like they don't do that. It's now, the whole thing is now a museum operated by the Daughters of the American Revolution,

they bought the building in 1912 and they were like, let's make, let's let people look around. And the staff all wear revolutionary period clothing, which has to suck. I bet they had paid minimum wage. Well, because you know, I would be interesting to know, but I bet you, you just get the outfit that's there, right? Unless you can make one yourself. It's like when you work at like a theme park, when you have to put the head, the like the head of Mickey Mouse on that someone that's like, you don't get your own Mickey Mouse. Yeah. And if nine a.m. to 12 p.m. Mickey Mouse, eight Doritos, you're fucking eating Doritos too. That's right. It's that feeling, but in like a weird pilgrim dress. Yeah. Just like, and all the women have to just like wear the

shit that's so uncomfortable. I had a job once where I had to wear overalls and let me tell you that sucked. What job was that? I was a waitress. I thought you were a farmer. You're like, I was a cashew farmer. I can tell you, I was a ghost, a goat, a ghost farmer. Heard in goat ghosts. It's hard to say. In my overalls, it is. It's harder to deal with. Okay. They were 90s overalls. Like, can you just describe them? Okay. This is, I was so fresh out of Orange County that they were Dickies overalls. Sure they were. Which is like what, like, McCann, like people who listen to social distortion are no mechanics, which is fine. Great. I'm good with that. It didn't look good on me. It's fine. But what kind of a restaurant makes you wear Dickies overalls? It was like a

country themed. It was like country themed in Santa Monica. You know, the country is country in countryville. They know country. You know, they serve blueberry fucking pancakes. So they thought it was a country theme. Shit, dude. Did you cuff those overalls on the bottom? Probably. What kind of a shoe do you wear? Just like I'm stressed out like now I have to wear overalls, which if you think they look bad on you, simply imagine. Can you imagine the farmer look on me? If the decision to dress what we were going to wear for this, for live shows, because we were like, what should we wear? We got this. Let's just wear black dresses. It's easier. What if it had been between black dresses and overalls? And I bought really hard for overalls. Oh, none of us would be here

tonight. It would be like night three of Teresa Caputo telling you your future. Can't do it. And that's how the podcast fell apart. Okay. So the staff, they were revolutionary, revolutionary period clothings. And so some visitors have approached, being approach, approaching someone that they thought was a staff member like, excuse me, can I, can you tell me where the latrine is or whatever? And then only to watch in horror as that person would then disappear into thin air. But if that exchange happened in front of me, I wouldn't know who the ghost was because who fucking says the latrine? Your husband, who's April, says latrine all the time. Is he real? Oh, shit. This is how we find out. I just fucking go crazy. And then I wrote,

not sure if they were on mushrooms. The person who saw the ghost. That would be, oh, but it was just we were touching. They weren't touching. They were just asking a person they thought was in period dress a question. Allegedly. Allegedly. And then that person, and they're like, I still have to pee. Where the fuck is the latrine? Please come back. Looks like when they put you on hold, but they just disappear. But you have to listen to one moment. Terrible music. Okay. So let's get into who the ghost would be if there were ghosts there, which there definitely are for the sake of the story. So Charlestown, AKA Charleston, was a mix of wealthy socialites, poor immigrants,

labor slaves, and pirates. That's hot. I bet they smelled so bad. Pirates? No, just salty. I mean, hangings were super popular, of course, in this era. Yes, they were. And not everyone who was sentenced to death was guilty. So that is right for ghosting, haunting. I'm pissed off. I wasn't guilty. Sure. So that must be true. That's what we call ghost logic. So there's of course legends that in the early 18th century, Blackbeard would fucking get locked up and chill out there. Of course, you know, that pirate. Yes, the living pirate. What? When he was alive, you're saying. Yes. Sorry. I was, I just love ghosts. So I thought we were so ghost. Yeah, as a full-formed human being that didn't disappear. Shit. Blackbeard, allegedly.

Blackbeard came here? Was he American? No. No. We'll talk about it later. We'll talk about it later. Jesus, why am I asking questions? Yeah, he came here because it was like the harbor and shit. You know. Uh-huh. So he was imprisoned and provost after blockading the Charleston Harbor, taking, he took a bunch of local citizens hostages because he wanted leverage because what he needed was medicine because he needed, he had all these, his pirate friends on a ship. They needed medicine because they all had fucking crazy VDs. Oh. Yeah. I thought you were just going to say scurvy. No. No. They weren't even pretending. They had downstairs scurvy. No lime will help you there, my friend. I just realized how much this telling sounds like an

episode of drunk history. And I'm not drunk. I did not take a big old gulp of that yeti of brown liquor in the Uber. But I wish I had. I know. I was both taking a long pull off that thing. But eventually the town was like, all right, just get your fucking VD meds and let our people go. It was just all to cure STDs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Were they really embarrassed as they were taking hostages? Could you please come here and help me? Or just like you're really itchy. Okay. So one of the people that everyone says is a ghost here is a dude, okay, in 1718 a dude who was quote, a gentleman pirate. And I was like, I don't know what that is. I'm going to look it up. And you think of me like he wasn't a dick to like his, the people he captured? Right. No.

He was a terrible, one of the worst pirates in history. Oh. And it was because, so his name was Steve Bonnet. Steve? Steve Bonnet? Steve. Oh, Steve. Steve. It's a little cooler than Steve. I went to high school Steve Bonnet. And he was a dick. So he was, he was initially this like kind of wealthy landowner. He came from a good family. Then he got bored. He got married and had kids and was like, I hate this, my wife nagged me all the time. I'm going to build a pirate ship, which you don't do. You're supposed to steal a pirate ship. I'm going to pay the pirate, my friends on the pirate ship, but you're not supposed to do, you're supposed to like divvy up the goods, the booty, you know. And so no one respected him. And he just was like this, like, it's like when,

you know, when, you know, something about a rich kid, when a rich kid wants to be. Like a punk rocker. So they just get a bunch of tattoos and then they panhandle and they're like, hey, can I have 25 cents? And I'm like, I have three jobs and you have more gold in your face than I've ever seen in my life. Pawn something. There you go. That's exactly it. Pawn something. That was me living in the upper hate in San Francisco. I was like getting off the bus from my job at the gap to get on the bus to go to my job at Bear Essentials. Early days. Thank you, Bear Essentials. Wonderful mineral makeup product. Thank you. I didn't invent it. Add placement. I didn't invent it. And there would always be like 19-year-olds from Marin County that'd be like,

hey, man, could I have a dollar? And I'd just be like, you motherfucking asshole. I know that's your outie. Get into it and drive away. Okay. So he eventually, Blackbeard like took him under his wing because he felt bad for him. The gentleman pirate? Okay. He was like, you fucking idiot. I'll let me help you out. And they got caught, so they got caught escaping the dungeon and they were brought back and then Bonnet's crew was imprisoned in the prose dungeon. But because he was a gentleman, Steve got put in the town Marshall's house. Because he's like rich. Yeah, essentially. But the 29 dudes that he was fucking sailing around with had to stay in this shitty dungeon. Oh, there's a photo. Ready? You ready for this? Yes. There you go. What? Look at that.

Is this from that play you guys were in in high school? Look at that shit right there. There's George Washington on the left. The guy who looks really bored of his head and his hands and tights on his steed. And everyone looks pretty bummed. That doesn't look fun. This is what is it when you take a tour. This is what it looks like. Love it. I know, right? There's nothing worse than a sad pirate. I'd rather I'd rather than be waving their sword around. That's like, I mean, it just looks and you have a BD chain there. Yeah, that's such a bummer. They're just like, we're just down here with our gonorrhea. Yeah, we're never going to get out. Yeah, this this sucks. We miss the ocean.

What if that night when everything closes up, those dudes come to life. They're just really pouty itchy pirates. Yeah, they don't do anything. Being dicks downstairs. So they're all there and they all are the 29 men are executed by hanging after they had been stuck in the in the dungeon and steed a sentence to be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And he wrote to the governor at this point, he was like, okay, I'm done with this fucking little you know, game I'm playing. I want to go back to my nagging wife. I'm not calling her nagging. He called her nagging. I'm sure she was lovely. And so he wrote to the governor and begged for clemency. And he said that if you let me go, I'll I swear I'll even cut my arms and fucking legs off to

ensure I'll never pirate again. Like that's how he that's what a big fucking liar he was. Asshole. Yeah, did it work? No, December 10, 1718, he was put to death. So goodbye. Now, if you're hung with an STD, do you have it as a ghost? Do you think these are things that we could have asked Teresa if she would just do a double bill with us, what she says she won't do? Yeah. That was Teresa's alive ghost. It's an alive ghost. Did you use that paper already? I already used it. I feel like that's the first time that's ever happened on on stage. I think I've done it a couple of times. Oh, have you? Yeah. Okay. Let's let's move on, children. I'd love to. Okay. So then the British took Charleston in 1780 and under British control the any patriots who were

like, you know, we don't want you here. They put them in the dungeon alongside the pirates and raiders and the end like so they're like these like normal like people and they're in these like scary pirates and heard pirates are scary. And they're left to die there from disease, injury, parasites and rats. And because it was below the waterline, and right there on the harbor, the dungeon would flood sometimes and drown the fucking captives. Oh, my God. She was like, I would haunt the shit out of that place. I would rattle some windows. Exactly. There weren't windows. There was a dungeon. Oh, shit. I'd go upstairs into the tea room. Book and shit. And often they would just leave the dead there in the dungeons with the living.

Really? Yeah. Jesus. I know. It's almost like it's a dungeon. It's almost bad. Soon after the British took over, they locked up a local trader named Casper Strobel. He's a 63 year old dude. His only crime was that his two sons were fighting for the rebels, meaning our side. And in retaliation, he was detained in the provost dungeon where he remained and he quote remained in chains until he was insensible. And then he was released and he died the next fucking day from madness. So that's how crazy it made you there. The exchange's most notorious execution came in 1781 with the advent of the American, advent of the American revolution. This is where you guys did the play, I bet. So Isaac Hain was born in 1745 to a pretty well

off family. He married a woman named Elizabeth Hudson. They had seven children. They were just like, you know, oh wait, there's the dungeon again. Isn't it kind of beautiful though? It's pretty, well, you know what? It's, you gotta love a nice art dome. Yeah. I'm kind of like, if I ever buy a house, I'm going to give this to the fucking interior designer and be like, and be like, and can you pick colors that go good with floodwater and rats? Yeah. And I want around the house tiny rats and chains. It's funny. It's an inside joke. Yeah. You should listen to the podcast sometime. Okay, so that's him right here. She's laughing at your dude. He's just like, he's yellow. He's super yellow. If I have that same ruddy skin, I understand. Looks like a,

I understand. It looks like a light eczema. Yeah. Which means that the painter was like, I'm not going to put the full eczema, but I feel like we need to let everyone know in the future. You know what it is? It's rosacea. Rosacea. That's the one. That's the one. It's rosacea. Please excuse me. I mean, it's not his chin. It's everywhere. It also could be that he just fucking loved booze. And he was just like, I think I'm going to drink like seven mugs of meat and then get my portrait taken. Yeah. Oh, but he just eats a little curell on that. Nivea, perhaps a bit of Nivea. Can I say though, excellent eyebrows. Oh, look at those. I mean, he's very patrician. But he also, he just looks like someone that would park in a handicapped

space. Doesn't he? Okay, question. You have to go around with that haircut for a month. But you get a million dollars. You have to go do your normal shit. Yes. Yes. Okay. Here's, how about a hundred dollars? No. How, five hundred thousand? No. It needs to be up in the six figures. Yeah, yeah. Because it's really seven. Which is why we have an accountant. If I'm going to get a million dollars, it has to have six numbers in it. Sorry. That's how I do business. I'm sorry. How come Karen's so poor? She works so hard. She just accepts. She doesn't know. She always goes backwards with the zeros. She's like, no, I'll only take six figures. Okay. It's like at the end of the night, someone hands me a $20 bill. No. Thank you. That's my $20 million. Okay. I was just

going to say, I can't take a bob that short. Sure. That's why. That's why it has to be. I don't think it's, that's the, that's not the problem. It's not good. What other problems do I have? I don't mean you. Are you saying I can't wear an Ascot motherfucker? Because I can. No one's questioning your Ascot wearing abilities. It's like a way up high. Remember what you said to me in the airport this morning? What? You almost accidentally insulted me. I went like, I feel like I look like this person today. I kind of had this like, I had this vibe of the kid from Freezing Geeks, which I get sometimes that I love. I kind of felt it and I told her and she goes, um, yeah, but he's attractive. But she meant, it's okay that you look like him because he's attractive, but it sounded like.

I didn't say the first part first. Yeah. Yeah. So it sounded like I was arguing. And I was like, oh, I'm going to cry in an airport. And this is, this is why we have to go to therapy. Also it was fucking eight in the morning. It's just not fair. 100%. Okay. No, it was not on you. It was on Freezing Geeks. That happens to me all the time though. Something comes out of my mouth and then I'm like, did I tell you that what I did in Bloomingdale's? This was amazing. It was, it was Labor Day weekend. I was in Bloomingdale's. I thought it was going to be so crowded that like it was the mall and it's just the store attached to the mall. So I thought it was going to be packed. And I, uh, was walking through and there was of course hardly anybody there. Maybe

because fucking Bloomingdale's isn't where everybody wants to shop. It's in San Luis. You know when Labor Day, everyone's like, you know where I really want to spend Labor Day? Blooming's. Just maxing out my credit card for two pairs of shoes. But as I was walking around, I looked over and there was a girl that was just standing. It's like the thing that never happens or at least in California at Macy's where, you know, Macy, you can't get anyone to ring you up. It's just like you have to chase people down. There was just a girl standing at the cash register like waiting for someone to buy something. And so I meant to ask her, like, has it been busy this weekend? But what I did was yell across the store, are you busy this weekend?

You asked the cashier out? Are you busy this weekend? And she's like, like that. And then I just started laughing. I was like, nope. Okay. Then you can't explain it. It's come out of your mouth as a full sentence. There's no, there's nothing else to be done. So now I'm dating this fucking cashier. We're deeply in love. It's fine. It's fine. I love it. You get the discount? Friends and family, baby. Yes. Okay. There was pot involved. All right. It was the weekend. There was pot involved. It's California. We have to do it. Yeah, they make us. The mayor makes you. The mayor comes around your house and makes you. And they give you your rations for the week. They're like, smoke this in the mall parking structure before you go in and then have a

real good time. And then ask out whoever you see. I don't think I've ever asked anyone out in my life. Really? No. I want you to. Never. I'm gonna make you. I'm that friend. I'm that fucking bread. I'm gonna fucking make you have something out. Well, I mean, it worked the last time. Yeah. You just have breakfast. Let's talk about murder. Okay. It was just so loud. Okay. So he lived in a nice mansion and all this shit. He was super rich. We're talking about Isaac Hain again. Yes. Yellow jacket. Yes. By 1776, in the middle of the Revolutionary War, he becomes a captain in the Patriot militia. He's like, let's fucking do this. He's in it. He's a patriot. It would be so cool if that guy talked like that. He's there. No one wanted to defend his country

against, you know, the British. They're coming. How many times do I have to say it? You know. The British are coming. See that. So then a British commander who captures the town, Sir Harvey Clinton, which I'm sure was played by the kid that everyone hated in elementary school. He captures the town in the siege of Charleston. He threatens to confiscate the property of anyone who continues to be loyal to, you know, our town. And he's like, you can't resist the royal anymore. Yeah. Take your fucking shit. And so, but he promised protection to anyone who would support the British. So of course, Hain, he's totally a patriot, but he's like, I don't want to lose my shit. But also his, he got locked up and his wife and his children were on their deathbed from smallpox. So he's

like, I just don't, I can't lose all this shit. I'm just going to sign it. And he signed it. And he was like, he took, like, there was this agreement that he was like, okay, I swear I'll be on your side while you're here. But when you're not here anymore, I won't be on your side anymore. Still. That's, that's when it counts the most. It's when they're there. It doesn't work like that. 100%. But like, they were like, great. So the Patriot forces push back. They get them out of there. And he was like, great. I'm not in the Royal Militia anymore. The success of the Patriots allowed him to believe that they were gone. So he wasn't, he didn't have the obligation to, you know, yell about how great they were anymore. I love tea, stuff like that. So, okay. But then

a few months later, he's captured by General Andrew Williamson. He's an American spy working for the British, aka a snitch is what I wrote. Come on, dude. Be cool. Wait, you mean the second guy? Because the first guy is not cool either. No, which one? Andrew is the case. No, no, no. He's, we like him. We do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He did what he had to do for his wife and children who were dying. Right. And he was like, but I'm also like, but I also like won't be on your side. When it doesn't count. Right. Right. Okay. But the really bad guy. The really bad guy was like, I'm going to secretly be this guy and I'm actually that guy. He's the snitch. So they started to fear that, so they catch him and decide that Isaac Hain should be made an example for what

happened to those who commit treason. So like all he did was tell them he was going to be on their side. Then he wasn't. And then they're like, we're going to send an example of you. Oh, that's treason. Okay. Technically, yes. 100%. Technically. Two people who know nothing about history now fighting about history. It's such a great place to start. It's the new TV show on History Channel. It's happening. So he's in prison in the Post Dungeon and he begs the officials to let him see his children one last time, but they're like, nope. And on the day of his execution, which is August 4, 1781, all the citizens go to the street. He's escorted by a party of soldiers to the gallows with his hands tied behind him and he's hanged until he dies. Yeah. Okay. So he is

one of the most prominent Americans to be executed by the British during the American War of Independence. And he probably is haunting the dungeon. Maybe. So the old exchange in the company dungeon spent the 20th century under the threat of redevelopment. It was saved, like I told you by the dawn of the revolution. In all records, I've identified at least 120 South Carolina residents or patriots who spent time as prisoners on site for treason, sedition, and rebellious speech. And down in the dungeon, you can still see what's left of the original wall. Visitors and staff have reported that they hear fucking ghosts and shit all the time, as well as moaning like someone's in a lot of pain. There's rancid odors that come and go at will, which is like... Those

are the costumes. We went over that already. And visions of apparitions in period clothing with blank stairs will walk aimlessly through the halls. Can I just tell you something? Yeah. That just reminded me of one time I was at work and I kept smelling this really bad like cologne or perfume. It was really strong. It's got to be a ghost. And it was really gross. And I kept going, who's wearing that perfume? It smells so bad. It smells so bad. Who's wearing it? And I couldn't stop saying it. And I would walk up and smell people and be like, I really wanted to find who was wearing this terrible. And it turned out it was me. Of course. Yeah. I had switched. Normally, I wear secret shower fresh. And I switched to spring fresh. No. Or some other flavor. A fresh.

And it did not agree with my armpits. And it created a smell that was like it was like it was like if a dirty 13 year old like got ready for a dance without taking a shower. But it was on me all day. You were the one. You were the one. It was me. I was haunted myself. And some have seen chains being pulled and stuff and dancing orbs are reported cold spots. And a few visitors are reported to be pushed and choked by invisible hands. Whoa. Like actual hands coming out of the air. I mean, it was probably seven year old Susie who just likes to get attention. These hands come up from really low. You're like, what do you want me to lean down? Oh, the club. Some kid was like, I saw a ghost. And Susie was like, I got choked

by a ghost. Susie. Susie. And it's all thought to be the ghost of those who are left to suffer in the provost dungeon. And that's the provost. Look, I like learning. You do? I do. Was that what just happened? Um, doubt it. Uh, there it was. We did it. You did it. You did your story. Thank you. Did I knock it out of the park? I'm sure you did. You must have. I probably did. Great job. Thank you. Here. Now we're gonna, we're gonna then go back in time even one year before that because my story on today's podcast quilt is from Kansas City. Um, and this was December 9th, 2017. So this was basically the one year anniversary of the one we first started touring. Holy shit, really? Yeah, because our,

our first technically first live show, uh, like on the road was the bell house show in Brooklyn, which was in December. And the bell house held 300 people, many more than that wanted to go. We didn't understand that. Uh, again, apologies to the staff and management of the bell house, who absolutely have our faces up like bag check writers in the back of that because it was people to show here again, pure insanity. Also, that was back when I was the tour, the tour manager. I'll take care of it. I said to Georgia. So anyway, this is one year later. We're in Kansas City, which we, Kansas City, we always have the best shows there. Those crowds are fucking nuts. So this was a night where we did two shows in one night and my story was the last,

this is the story, the last story on the second show. So when Stephen, um, put this on the list because Stephen pre listens to all the live shows and then basically takes notes because we, I'm so sick. I'm so sick. It's out of my own voice and everything around it. So he basically says this is good. That means mine. Everything around it is my voice. So you're my voice and you're my voice. This isn't about you. It's about me. So, so this is the last. So when Stephen put this on the list of this was a good one, I said, how is this possible? I remember doing this and feeling physically ill. Yeah. And then when we put it together and Vince just, we were trying to think of, Hey, do we have any stories that you remember from this long ago? Yeah. And we were

just saying, if it was the, if it was the second story on the second show, that's what the bad feeling was. Not that I didn't have a good time, but that we shouldn't have been doing two shows in the night. We stopped doing it, I think after that tour because it's like four hours on stage is too many hours on stage. It just like drains you mentally and you just don't have the heart. You can't, I mean, God bless fucking musical theater people and people who can actually do shit like that. Broadway, Broadway people with like two on Sunday fucking, we're not even singing. So I do sometimes, but that's very low effort. It's rough. Yeah. We want to, we want to do the best show. And so we stopped doing, even though we could make a shit ton of more money, we were

like, but we're going to put out a shitty product. So we refused. Well, and also because the energy in those rooms, so intense and so big and so much like to doing two of that in a night, I couldn't even imagine us doing that anymore. It was pure ignorance that we were able to do it in the first place. Anyhow, so please enjoy. This is at the Midland Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, and one of those big, beautiful old theaters that is so insane looking. I just took a tour of it online today just to see if I could remember any specifics. But you know, I was 37 years old. It was three years ago. Baby. It's crazy to think of. It's so funny. So anyway, all that in mind, please enjoy my story of the Stoll Cemetery. Well, mine is slightly away,

but this place has been of interest to me for such a long time. And I was so excited because it's only an hour away from where we are right now. And it is apparently, according to the internet, the most haunted, evil place on earth. It's the Stoll Cemetery. Where the Bride Cat lives. Where the Bride Ghost lives. Oh my God, I'm scared. Yeah, you should be. You fucking should be. Because guess what? What? The devil comes out of hell twice a year to visit his child's grave, which is somewhere in the cemetery. And I believe on the headstone, they say the name is something. It looks like witches, but it also kind of looks like it could be someone's last name. And so apparently the devil, although he is the Antichrist and the

Lord of all evil, also cares deeply for his dead son. So apparently that's the story. All right. Stull is a city. Stull? No, Stull with a T. That'd be fun if it was called Skull. I mean, it would be fun, but then I bit it. It bit on the nose. Yeah. Don't you think? Yeah. It's a touch. You're right. I'm like, oh my God. So we'll go one letter off. Okay. And we'll call it Stull. Okay. It's an unincorporated community. I said city. It does not qualify as a city. It's also quite small, smaller than your town. Fuck. Sorry. I wanted to win. This is, it's in Douglas County, Kansas. Kansas representing. See, all right. If it's that small, then they're all here tonight. Yeah.

All of Stull is here and they're ready to rise up. I'm so happy to hear you make that noise at us, Kansas, because when I discovered, so basically I had, I had what I thought I was doing and then I changed my mind. Yeah. So I had Steven, I was like, can you send me creepy things? I want to do a creepy one for the second show. It's more fun. And so he sent me a bunch of choices. Well, I see the Stull cemetery and I'm like, yes, this is it. It's my passion. Not so much so that I know what state it's in. So then when I at like 6pm this evening saw that it was not in Missouri, I was like pouring sweat at the desk. I was just like, holy fuck. And I texted Steven. I was like, um, yeah, so that's not

actually where we are. So I need a new story. Did you fire Steven? Yeah, I fired him. But then I rehired him at a lower rate. So it's fine. Thank you. That's all I needed to hear. She supports you? No, it's actually, but then when I looked at it on the map, it's so fucking close that I was like, whoever's mad at this, fuck them. And then I always forget we have such amazing listeners who drive for hours at a time to come to these live shows. So thank you. And now let's journey to hell together. Founded in 1856. Stull was originally known as Deer Creek, but it was renamed after its first postmaster, Sylvester Stull. Now some say it was renamed, the city was renamed after him, but some say that the post office,

if a town was unencour- not a town, if an area was unincorporated and didn't have a name, they would just call it by the post master's last name. That was, that was what they used to do back then. That's easy. So either way, here's to Sylvester Stull. That is a haunted fucking name right there. I know. They call them Stully. They tore the post office down in 1903. I don't know why. They were mad about mail. Price of stamps. So this area was settled mostly by Germans and the Pennsylvania Dutch, aka the Amish. You guys are here tonight? Amish? What have we got a big Amish following? And they have to leave like three months before a show because they have to go by carriage. Alongside a freeway all slow with a reflective triangle on the back. I love the

Amish. Did you imagine? They bring us like homemade things. Well, that's what everybody does. We don't have to imagine that. Okay. So 1857, there's six families that live in Stull, which I love. So the same year, they construct a stone church on land donated by Jacob Hildenbrand and it's later called the Evangelical Emanuel Church. And then in 1859 Hildenbrand donated more land for the cemetery area. Until 1908, sermons at the small county chapel were preached in German. Oh, you've got a gorgeous language. This small community never grew larger than 50 people at the time. Now it's up to 200. Congratulations. Keep it up. Every single one of those 200 people is pissed about how many people tried to come to the Stull Cemetery and fuck around. They hate it.

Okay. Someone named Christcraft. Who wrote this? It's got to be right. It's got to be right. Like Christ Novoselic from Nirvana. It's Christcraft. An inhabitant of the settlement during the 20th century recalls that life in this small town was quiet, easy, sometimes even boring. Oh, shit. Said everyone here. Right? Until. So this is all directly taken from a website called The Week in Weird. And this, the guy that writes this website went to the Stull Cemetery. So a lot of his stuff was firsthand. It's really hilarious because he was like, I got there and there were fires in all four corners of the cemetery. And I was like, dude, are you sure? Okay. So he writes for over a century, Stull Cemetery has been linked to countless legends

involving witchcraft, Satanic cult. Are you pointing at me? Because you love it. I love it. But I'm making you love it. Okay. And of course, the infamous gateway to hell. Have you ever heard about this? No, it's the best. Is it a gateway to hell? It is. It's not a highway to hell. ACDC owns that. They have the copyright. According to legends, Lucifer, the devil, that's who I was talking about earlier. He once used this, the church that was in the center of the cemetery. Then it became abandoned. And he used it as his own personal doorway from the nether world. It was in Stull where he would rouse the spirits who had been buried inside the gates of the most evil cemetery in existence. Sorry, people who are buried in

the Stull Cemetery. I don't know what you did wrong. You fucked up Amish people. Oh, no, you're alienating our Amish listeners. That's Scott. Our Amish listeners. Hand crank podcast machine. It plays podcasts and makes butter at the same time. So good. I just feel like the devil wouldn't be like Kansas. I feel like he'd be like, you know, Transylvania. I don't know. I mean, that's not against Kansas. It's for like, why would you know what I mean? It's like too late. They're better than that. You're better than Transylvania. Oh, now I'm insulting the Transylvanian listeners. Look at that guy in a cape standing up. Sorry.

His hair is all slick back. Oh, no, he's livid. He's putting his hands out and walking really slowly toward us. I'm not scared of you. I'm scared. Okay. So this is really awesome. So this church in the center of the cemetery is like basically the center of all this evil doings and all this kind of stories around it. So there is outside of the church, there is a, there's like a platform and underneath it, they said like grasses grown over it. But if you lift it up, there's a set of stairs that go down to nowhere. No one knows where they go to. For real though? Well, I mean, yeah. Okay. You know, it's like, we're like a half creepypasta realness right now, I would say. Got it. But they say, and those who have done it, no names, no dates, no nothing verifiable,

but those who have walked down these stairs say that as you walk down, a very strong force tries to pull you to the bottom of the stairs. Gravity. Don't fuck up our scary story with science. I'm sorry. I got a lot of sugar today. It's just the one person started walking too fast at the top of the stairs and they like went down. They're like, the devil is making me. Oh, or he did what I did. The opposite of what I did earlier and tripped up a upstairs. I tripped up a step today. Yeah. He fell and it's just gravity. Right. Yeah. Did you just fall all the way down on the ground when you tripped up the stairs? Oh, my knee was really in front of people. Don't worry. It was in front of people. The whole valet stand. So no one tried to help me.

I think that's best. Yeah. When I fall all the way down, I want everyone to leave me the fuck alone. They were like, Oh, okay, leave her. Don't look away. Look away. Let her have her shame alone. One time I fell on this quick sidebar. I fell out of a cab in Chicago. It was very odd. It was like, I thought I had it. I thought I had it, like getting out of a car. I'd done it before. I thought I had this shit on lock. I had stepping up a fucking car. Right. The devil tricks you It does. The devil pulls you down. You don't need stairs. It's a weird force. I fell down in front of this busy movie theater in Chicago. It's out of the cab. It didn't make sense. Like if you had seen it, you'd have been like, but you're supposed to step up out. And I just

like kind of came out and down. And I did it where it was like hard enough is like my toe caught on this curb that I didn't see or whatever. So I went full splay. And then my stupid toe baggy purse fell in front of me. So all of my things just went like, and then so I was like, okay, I don't really live here. So I'm going to survive this. I've never seen these people again. But the saddest part of it was an old lady came and helped me up. And she was like, oh, honey, get away from me. You did this to me. So anyhow, but here's the twist of these stairs. When you turn around to come back up the stairs, it takes longer, sometimes two weeks. It's what this article said to get back up the stairs.

Now you don't know it at the time. You're walking, you think, oh, that just took me four seconds. Should have never gone down to the dark stairs I don't know where they go to. Why did I do that to begin with? Then you come out and you're like, two weeks later, this impacts my life in a very minor way. I missed my favorite murder. I didn't put the garbage out. Those two seats right there. Those empty seats. They're down just walking in place in the still cemetery stairs. I wonder what murder they'll do. God damn that devil. Oh, man. I love that no one talking about going up or down those stairs reports that it is hot

or anything. There's no hellish aspect that I've read. It might be in there. I haven't dug hard enough to the stairs. Those are rumors that it's hot. Okay, go on. Sorry. I don't know. So these are apparently the stairs the devil comes up out of every spring equinox and Halloween to visit his poor dead son. Who was the devil's wife? When did they have kids? I have so many more questions now that I'm done reading the story. Not done, but okay. So the most widely accepted theory behind the origins of Stoll's evil reputation. This is again word for word from the week and weird. It's tied to both a large tree which once stood in the cemetery and an old tombstone. Oh, there it is. Described with the word which. So it's W-I-T-T-I-C-H. No, that's not a word. Yeah.

W-I-T-T-I-C-H. Okay. It's just lightly misspelled witch, I guess. Now that I look at it, it's not that big of a deal. Now the tree is said to be the hanging tree for the condemned witches who were put to death there by torch-wielding townspeople. So like the seven Amish people got together. And they're like, ew, ew. You make candles. We don't like you. You're a witch. Candles are our thing. And then the tombstone with the word which engraved on it is none other than Satan's son himself. Who was, legend says, was born deformed and covered in wolf hair. Okay, maybe that's just a dog. Okay. So a couple of sad things that have happened in Stoll and around Stoll in the early 1900s, a boy was accidentally burned to death by his own father. It was like a weird

turn. Now keep in mind that could have been the devil and his son. That's why he's so sad. Visits him so often. In the early 1900s, a local man in Stoll was reported missing and he was later found hanged from that pine tree in the cemetery. And the old church in Stoll is believed to have been built in 1867, cut and paste. But then in the early 1900s, it fell victim to a fire. Okay, so here's some other things. One story tells of two young men who are visiting Stoll Cemetery one night, they become frightened when a strong wind begins blowing out of nowhere. It's called wind. Yeah, isn't that how wind works? If it doesn't start by going wind, and then like, wait, hold on, I hear us out of nowhere. I hear the cry of an owl. Now that means wind is coming.

So they run back to their car only to find that it had been moved to the other side of the highway and was now facing the opposite direction. That's creepy. That's something only the devil can do. He just plays these practical jokes. Once he comes up those stairs, he's ready to have some fun. He's been bummed out by the death in the family. And now he's like, let's fuck with some people's cars. I'm the devil. Okay, another man claimed that about the same, that same mysterious wind that he was in the church. And he said that the wind came up, knocked him to the floor, and held him down on the floor for some time. Some time. He was a drunk. Oh, okay. I don't know. Yeah. I was gonna say that, but I don't want to

like, well, this, you know, every single time, maybe there's something spooky. I'll let one of these things land. Okay. So you're gonna, of all the things you could pick, you're picking wind, pending man to the ground. Well, that's your pick. There's no going back. Okay. Okay. All right. No matter what I come up with later. Okay. Uh-oh. Is there something good? No. Okay. No, I love this. Like, I would go to this. Oh, I mean, in one second. But they don't want people there. And I think it's very hard to find. Great. Let's go. I'm right. Okay. So this church, it's been missing its roof since the 20s. And they say anytime it rains, it never rains into the church. They got a new roof. An invisible Wonder Woman roof? Yes. No water ever drops inside the

square of the inside church. Okay. Not blowing your mind the way I wanted it to. Oh, sorry. Oh, my God. There it is. But people would see this firsthand with their eyeballs. All stroke visitors would report that the tiny church would stay bone dry no matter what time of year or the weather conditions. That reminds me of like a depression commercial, like a commercial for a pill for depression when it's like the little thing and it only rains on him. You walk around all sad and then he gets his pill and he's happy again. What if the devil just looks like that little blue circle that rolls around with depression? Yeah. Or what's that for? Simbalta or something? It could be Simbalta. The Simbalta Circle. Is that a heart attack medicine? It could be. I don't know. I

don't know. You guys know what I mean. So long. Thank you. This bitch knows her fucking pharmaceutical. Let's hear the well butchers in the house. Come on. There's a well butchered rep here being like, yes. I can write this fucking ticket off. This ticket to my favorite murder. Business experience. Go. They say that. Oh, supernatural attributes. The town finally gathered together to take this church apart because of all these creepy things that were happening and people seeing things that were happening and then people coming to look to see if anything was happening and they're like, fuck and take it down. Let's burn this church to the ground. But that destruction made the spirits angry and so that's when the hauntings in the

graveyard flared up. Why didn't they just put a fucking roof on the goddamn church? Oops, I probably shouldn't say goddamn church. I'm Jewish. I'm Jewish. It doesn't matter. You know what? That can't just be your past. I know. They say that about everything. It's not. I don't care. It's not real. Okay. They said that this is one that you may have wished you'd picked. Okay. They say before the church was demolished, if bottles were thrown at the walls, they would not break. Who the fuck is throwing bottles at the wall? And also it's not scary. It's not like they're especially devilish. It's also like, I mean, like, I don't know. I have so many angry questions. The naysayer in me is like fucking bubbling to the surface. Well, they say that if the bottle

didn't break, you were going to hell and if it broke, you were going to heaven. That's true. So then they all didn't break. So we're all going to hell. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. But at least we'll be together. When Pope John Paul II visited Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado for World Youth Day in 1993, remember how fun that was? Who, like, who planned that? I was like, you know, who we should get for World Youth Day? You know, who the kids love. The youngest man on the planet, Pope John Paul II. Let's get him out here for World Youth Day. He loves youth and the blood of Christ. Okay, so, but they say there's rumors, you know, whatever, that when he, he is so scared of Stole that he made his plane fly around the area on his way to Colorado, which is,

I guess he's the Pope and he has probably the most power of any religious person, but do pilots take requests like that? I wonder, could you go over to the left about 7,000 feet for a little while? Now I'm in the middle of the stupidest one I've ever done. But is it also the best? Or the best? And the best. Oh, wait, it was in, oh, the urban legend would cite a Time Magazine article stating the Pope John Paul II requested his flight, his plan fly far around the section of Kansas, because he, oh, because he didn't want to fly over unholy ground. But it sounds like what they're saying here, oh, that article never existed. This is a comedy podcast. We never promised you facts. I like doing gossip more than facts. I think it's

just, it's better. This is now a true crime gossip podcast. Also, it says here, the Pope's plane was nowhere near Kansas during his flight. They're not even making me try to say anything. They're doing themselves. I don't like it. The thing about Stull is you just have to, you have to believe no matter what I tell you, no matter what happens. Okay, so on October 30th, 1998, the pine tree, the hanging tree. I don't remember that. You do remember? Okay, good. It was cut down. And then a man from the Lawrence Journal World quotes the, is that the best newspaper ever? Okay, so whatever happens now has to be true. Okay. And it's up, it's wrong. It's your guys' fault. Because we believe you. What does he say? Well,

he quotes the official, everyone says that they, the rumor is that they took the tree down because witches would, witches would go dance around it and do fucking witchy things and hold black masses and stuff like that. But Kedric Blackwood of the Lawrence Journal World quotes the official position of the town citizens on that, that the tree had to be removed because it had died. Lawrence. But then it was buried in a grave with a tombstone marked with itches. So now the tree is related to the devil. On Halloween night, 1999, reporters from local newspapers and TV stations went to the cemetery to join all of the onlookers because everyone was there to see if the devil was going to walk up the stairs.

That sounds like a fucking party. I want to be there with a blueberry and a fucking long island. Right? Boom, boom. I was seeing the devil. No. And then you guys sneak up and you come out of the thing. Hi. How did you go down those stairs? I went down three weeks ago. I was ready for this fucking master prank. Damn. So basically, they let people hang out. The sheriffs were there, but they were letting people hang out up until 1130. And then a man who was the representative of the owners showed up and insisted everyone leave. And so then the deputies had no choice but to honor his wishes and make everybody including reporters leave. Well, he sounds like the fucking devil. Party pooper. That's right. His hair slicked back and he was wearing a red

velvet coat and a cape. That was the devil posing as the landowner. You fools. Okay. In early 2002, a large crack also opened in one of the stone walls after the church was struck by lightning. Wait, I thought the church got taken apart. It's the new church. It's the new church. Never letting Stephen write my thing again. Wait, what? Not really, but kind of. Should you punish her for picking the wrong thing? Okay, I get it. It was still up because then on March 29, 2002, it was mysteriously torn down. This for real this time though, you guys. I'm serious. But the man who owned the property, now here it says that man is named Major Weiss, said he didn't authorize that demolition. Say, do you think of there hasn't been a church here? Well, there hasn't been a church here

in 25 years. I love when you do that. That used to be more of an old minor, but I just turned it into Blanche from Golden Girls. I don't know what I was doing. Definitely had a change. I just got excited. This just sounds like a fucking episode of Scooby-Doo. This is the Scooby-Doo-Biest story I've ever done. It really is. There's no Mr. So-and-So. It's the devil. I feel like now that I'm reading this out loud, I feel like the key to this story, especially in stories like this, is when you're reading it on a website that has black background and the writing is green. It only lives there. Once you pull it off of that, it's all ruined. Because at the banner top of almost every website I've ever seen about the Stoll Cemetery, it's like a dead tree and fog,

but it's nighttime. And it's like flashing different colors. It's freaking out. The devil is on earth. And now I'm saying it out loud and I sound like a big dumbass. This is super dumb. In 2016, an earthquake hit Kansas. That's true. A big one, right? So there was a picture that was going around on the internet that said, this is Stoll. The devil is torn Stoll apart or whatever. And it was actually a picture from Christchurch, New Zealand when they had the earthquake. And their roads were like insanely torn up. So people were like, look at Stoll did. Yeah. Truly, the devil is with us now. No. Okay. This is the last and best. In 2013, Ariana Grande did a show right here at this theater on this stage with this same audience. She did a concert stop here at the Midland. And then

she, they knew about Stoll already. So they decided they were all going to drive there. And their big Ariana Black SUVs. You know Ariana Grande, Ariana, whatever. I find her to be very talented. She's done it all. She's very, very good at what she does when she hosted SNL. She was awesome. So I just want, that's, I'm going to preclude everything I'm about to say by saying that first. However. However, she has her bodyguards carry her around like a dog. And it's so funny. Maybe they want to do that. Maybe they're like, you're so cute and tiny. Can we carry you? She's like, I don't care. I'm tired. I work really hard. But here's something I love. There's a guy that I follow that's super funny on Twitter. Jesse, I believe his last name is McLaren. And he did a

thing where he tried to reenact Ariana Grande's album cover where he sits on a stool with his feet tucked under. And he was like, basically pretending to start a thing saying this album cover is fake because he couldn't sit on a stool like that. And then it got around. It was like, kind of became a meme a little bit. And then she fucking sent him a picture of herself not being able to sit on a stool. Like she got in on the party herself, girl, which makes me love her. That's how you got to do it. So, and I also love her because she went to the Stull Cemetery. So here's what she said. Did they carry her there? They carried her. She said, I felt a sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity in the whole car.

Be like, that's your makeup artist, dude. She's a real B. She's nice to only you. Everyone else hates her. That's right. She, Ariana says, we smelled sulfur, which is the sign of a demon. That's a fart. That's what a fart sounds like. Everything, say it again, but think of farting from the beginning of the negativity. I felt a sick, overwhelming feeling of negative negativity in the whole car. And then the next line. And then we smelled sulfur, which is, sorry, but that's a fucking fart. It's Ariana. That's the sign of an internal, intestinal demon. Debunked. You saw it here. I wonder if this also supports your theory.

She said, then there was a fly in the car, also the sign of a demon. There was a fly in the car. Suddenly a fly out of nowhere, a fly. You know, normally you know flies are there. You see them, feel them. Well, this one, this was a surprise fly. So they got so freaked out that there were two signs of demons in the car when they got there, that she rolled down the window and said to the Stoll Cemetery, we apologize. We didn't mean to disrupt your peace. And then she took a picture. They're fucking artists, man. And they're like feeling negativity and they're fucking apologizing to spirits and shit. What if I just got struck by lightning right now?

Fuck a die. How funny would that be? So awesome. So many pictures of social media tomorrow. So she takes a picture and then says there were three distinct faces and she said, quote, they're famous, they're faces of textbook demons. You know. And then when they interviewed that she was telling, she was telling a reporter about this and the reporter says, can I see the picture? And she goes, I deleted it because I gave it to my manager to upload and he couldn't upload it. And then when he checked, it had 666 megabytes of information. So it was too, the file was too big filled with demon faces. The demon was like, I'm gonna make this take up half your iPhone storage. I'm truly sainted. And that is the worst retelling of the

Stills Cemetery, everybody. Well, here in, look, exemplary. Wow, that was amazing. Can you believe I said all those things and did all those things? So many things. You were here, you were there. We all laughed. Now, let's get to what everyone's been waiting for, which is the hometown. So where you see now the point here is where we've cobbled together a live show with all our favorite live show moments without having to have you listen to three, you just get best of. Yeah. This is a hometown that has gone down in the books. It's legendary. It's an example of what not what we everything. Remember how we always go on stage and say, here are the rules. And everyone's like, we know the rules. Well, you don't listen to them sometimes.

So we have to actually tell you them every time. Yeah. And you're all responsible for other people in your town. As you, as all murder, murdering knows well, no, because after the first time, we were like, yeah, we kind of get heckled too much. And the next live show we did, you could hear people just going, yeah, like we don't want to be that town. Totally self policing, which is so such a murdering, no quality that I adore. It's just like, nobody's going to be that person ever. And they won't allow you. It's incredible work. So this was absolutely an anomaly. Someone snuck through. It was my turn to pick. It was all on me. I had to pick. I was picking at the time.

And it's always on you. I always put it on you. This girl seemed really enthusiastic. And she was really close to the stage, which is helpful. We were in Washington, DC, right? Yes. And this theater was very old fashioned. It looked like a place where there would be a convention of some kind where it, the, it was almost like big, huge box set up on the side and then the floor. Right. So she was on one of the boxes on your side. Right. And so she was close. Yeah. And as soon as she started running up, it was a oh time. And it continued to be a oh time. Enjoy this. Oh, time with the, in my opinion, greatest hometown anyone's ever delivered. Do we have time for a, yeah, let's do a hometown.

Irvage. Oh, what's that? There he is. Vince Saverill. Vince Saverill, everybody. Who's this super hot history dad you're fucking talking about out here? Hey, listen, you don't listen to this podcast, so don't worry about it. All right. Tell them the rules. Not yet. Quick rules. And you know these rules, but I have to say them anyway. First of all, we want it to be a hometown murder. We would love it to be a Washington, DC story, please. Maryland. Okay. If like, it's really good, but, but don't know where else. Virginia. Virginia. I'm sorry. This is the one fucking time we'll let it slide. Seriously. Don't get any

ideas. No Baltimore shit. Just kidding. Just kidding. That's like inside Baltimore comedy. You can't be so drunk. You can't tell your own story. It has to go fast because everyone hates you for getting picked. Don't shout out your friends because nobody cares. Not a good idea to tell jokes. It's very nerve wracking to be up here, but just tell the story. This is a new rule, is don't, don't make jokes. Okay. Can we, I'll pick. Hi. Oh, Georgia. You have to go up there. Wait. She just screamed real loud though. I guess I shouldn't have picked someone with a full drink in their hand. Sorry. Hi. You can bring the lights down again. It happened. So sorry. So sorry. Uh-oh. Here we go. What's your name, Mariah? Mariah. Nice to meet you. Okay. Let's go.

Hi. Hi. My name is Mariah. Hey, where are you from? I'm from Manassas, Virginia. This is some crazy shit. Okay. Great. Okay. Deep breath. I know it's nerve wracking. Katie, I just get down here. Katie, if you get down here, I will fucking strangle you. Do it. You got this. You don't need Katie. You don't need anybody. This is your story. I'm serious. Do it. This is everything. Okay. I'm a restaurant manager. I just retired. I work for Navy Federal Credit Union. All of a sudden, I worked... Shut up. I work for Carabas, Italian Grill. Oh, yeah. Plug. Katie. We love it. That's my baby sister. Stay out of this. Stay out of this, Katie. You think you're better than me? You better retape in the shit. I kid you not. Okay. I'm from Manassas. Yeah. What was his name?

Who? Oh, I was a candy striper. Yeah. I was. Okay. John Wayne, Bobbit. Yeah. That was me. I'm just a little girl. John Wayne, Bobbit. Yeah, yeah. I love your hair. Thank you. I like yours too. Mine? That's good. Okay. Bob. We got to focus. We got to focus and tell the story. I can't believe I'm here. I know me too. John Wayne, Bobbit. I know. Do it. Manassas. Manassas. He got his dick cut off. Everyone knows. They know. Okay. Tell your story. I was just a little girl in Manassas, Virginia. I can't believe I'm here. No one can. Yeah. I know. Okay. You're Manassas. You got it. You're a candy striper. And I'm a candy striper. Okay. And it's around the corner. What the fuck? Go, Manassas. Go. You got this. What do I say? I mean, are you just

telling the John Wayne that story? John Wayne, Bobbit? Yeah. Yeah. That's the best one. That's the best one we've ever had. That's the best one we've ever had. Okay. No, no, no, no, no, no. Sit down. No. No. That was your hometown. You got it. That was it. It was John Wayne, Bobbit. And we all had a moment together. That was beautiful. It was everything we love. And listen, I feel like with John Wayne, Bobbit, it wasn't going to be a huge payoff. It's a fucking, we all know the story. And so it's not a murder. All right. Yay. We did it. She did it. Good for her. She did it. She did it. Stephen, are you going to leave in the part where the everyone says pick another one and I say no to that? Yeah, leave it in. Oh, it's really mad.

We have to have a full experience. Just making sure. Because I know it's something that's wrong with me and a bad thing about me. But there's moments like that are my absolute favorite where that audience was just like, get rid of her. We're doing this again. And it's like, no, you're not. That's it. I get to say, this is our, you don't run this channel. You don't run this channel. You don't. Oh, yeah. So we were basically like, and also because that same night, that audience didn't get ripped off because then after all that was over, just as a backup FYI, we read from the book. Remember? Oh, that's right. We read from the book. So that was, we were just like, okay, move in. We read a chapter from Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered,

which hadn't come out yet. And we were recording it for the audiobook. So the live episode that we, if you listen to the audiobook, there's a couple live readings. And that's one of them. That's right. I forgot about that. All right. Awesome. Let's do some fucking hooray then. Let's do it. Go ahead. Okay. This is from Heidi Joy Wind on Instagram. My fucking hurrah. Yesterday, my 15 year old and I had a one hour car ride together, just the two of us. Been a while. He decided to DJ the event. And what followed was an hour of us singing at the top of our lungs, Paul Simon, CSNY, Bjork, Peter Gabriel, and the gorillas. Both of us had goosebumps and were near tears several times. I had this overwhelming feeling

that I had done my job as a mama. Well, that he would be okay. And then I couldn't feel more love for him or the life he has ahead of him. Teenagers. They're so hard. That's great. That's very sweet. Okay. Well, then this one, I'll read this one. It's kind of coming the other direction. Okay. I hate my teenagers. Where do I drop this one off? This is from someone named Alyssa. And they say, fucking hurrah. My stepdad adopted me last month. He's the most wonderful man to my mom, walked me down the aisle at my wedding, and he's loved me unconditionally since he and my mom got married over 10 years ago. I'm an adult and married. So this really is only symbolic, but I got a new birth certificate and a new maiden name. Without going into too much detail,

my biological father is trash. And I don't want wish to be associated with him. And we haven't spoken many years. I was worried COVID would delay what I've waited for for so long. But via Zoom, in a lawyer's office, it was made official and I couldn't be happier. My new birth certificate arrived and I've never felt more free. Much love to my murder girls. Love, Alyssa. That is so beautiful. I've seen a couple of those where it's either like, you know, adults or teenagers present that to their stepfather. The ones I've seen are stepfathers. And it is the cutest, like they immediately burst into tears and like, oh, it's so lovely. I love that. And I think symbolic acts of like stuff like that is so important too. Because even though it's just like, it doesn't mean

anything. Yeah, but it means something to you and you're able to move on from this past that you don't want. And it's also that thing of I think that stepparent thing where it's like, whatever stepparent you might be, that you're always kind of this outsider and intruder. And so how much that would mean to the parent who parented, you know, as she said, as Alyssa said, like parented her for her actual life was her real father. Like that's beautiful. That's beautiful. I love it. Okay, my last one's from morgue underscore why my fucking hooray is that I just finished as a marine animal rehabilitation and environmental education intern at the National Marine Life Center. And before I left, we released four harbor seal pups back into the ocean. They were

separated from their moms due to human interaction. And it was one of the most fulfilling things to see them successfully rehabilitated and going back to their homes. Oh, beautiful. That's so good. Did you see the story of the man who punched the great white shark? Yes, because he was attacking his wife. I saw it on the banana's Instagram feed, actually. Okay, here's my last one. And actually, I found this one, this one's from an older set of these. And I lost it because I printed them all up and lost it and have been looking for it. And I finally found it. This is from control shift tabs. My fucking hooray is that today is my brother's birthday, and we're all quarantined together in our childhood home. The big doofus when asked what he wants for the big two

seven dinner goes, I don't know, tacos, probably thinking that of supporting a local business or the nearby Taco Bell. He forgets that I'm furloughed, anxious, and that my motto is cooking is cheaper than therapy. Boy, is he getting a full taco bar in our kitchen tonight and a cake delivered by a friend who is a supermarket worker and will get us an ice cream cake same day. Fucking hooray. Aw, taco night. I mean, I know there's lots of people with nightmare stories, but I do love that idea of people just everybody going back to their parents' house or apartment or whatever or whatever and just having to go be with their siblings again and spend time with people that

you would have never had a chance to spend as much time with again in your life. Probably, you know, it's like once you play some UNO, get in there, play some UNO, do a puzzle, eat some tacos. I mean, have an ice cream cake. What more delivered, pull your pull that those strings that you have in your town, use that juice, get some cakes delivered. I love that she's like ice cream cake same day. Same day, bitch. Same day. I've got fucking a connection. What are you, the mayor of your town, you lucky duck. Well, everybody. Yeah, I don't, yeah, send us your fucking arrays wherever you feel like it. Yeah, the littlest things, little things. Doing a taco bar for your brother is a beautiful gesture. We need to hear about it. Totally. Things that are bringing you joy

and bring and things you're doing to bring other people joy. You can brag about yourself. Any of that. And of course, any story about your grandma is welcome and accepted always. Anything. Always. All right. Well, I think that's it for this week. Yeah, I think so. We we literally quilted something together for you. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful quilt. It'll be for sale on my favorite murder store. Fuck you. I'm a quilt. We're gonna start selling shitty quilts that say fuck you. I'm a quilt across it for Christmas. What else do we have to do? We're in quarantine. All right, stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis. Do you want a cookie? Okay.