Maureen
Appearances
Crook County
5 | Bully
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Well, I have met you several times, but you were a child.
Crook County
5 | Bully
I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what you're doing here. Your father wouldn't tell me anything. He was very short and said, I don't have time. Kyle will tell you everything.
Crook County
5 | Bully
And I just, I feel so bad that she, I know how much time... She spent hating me, hating him, thinking, you know, thoughts. I'm a woman. I know how women think. And if there's one regret that I have is that I feel bad that your mom thought Kenny and I were having an affair. And we never did. Never, ever, ever, ever. Not since we were high school sweethearts at 16 and 17 years old.
Crook County
5 | Bully
We were just, we were like the movie Grease, you know? It was like, sort of like John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Crook County
5 | Bully
He was cool. He was a real cool kid. He was my first boyfriend. And it was fun. We had fun and we had good times. And of course, we wanted to grow up and get married and have a house full of kids.
Crook County
5 | Bully
I don't think I've ever loved anybody as much as a friend as him. You know, they say that if you've got five good friends on one hand, you're a lucky person. And he's one of them. We've been good friends.
Crook County
5 | Bully
He didn't want to be at home. He didn't like being there. He liked being at our house. My mom would come into my room at 10 or 11 o'clock and say, Maureen, someone's in the backyard. And first I looked out the front window and I see his car. And I go in the back, he used to take a tent and tent in our backyard and sleep.
Crook County
5 | Bully
Yeah. Yeah. My mom said that she had seen it a few times, but it was too late to wake me up. And then that was, and I went in there and I was like, what are you doing? He said, I don't want to go home.
Crook County
5 | Bully
There would be no way Ken would do any of those things. Everybody adored him, they loved him, they cared about him, and they trusted him.
Crook County
5 | Bully
When he went over to California, she started calling me and telling me all these things, and that's when I found out about the mafia. That's when I found out about drugs. She said, well, you know he was a junkie. I said, no, I didn't know that, but now I do, I guess. And she also told me that he murdered someone. Oh, my God, I can't believe he killed people.
Crook County
5 | Bully
Did he ever tell you the story of Kenny Mendelke, the boy that drowned? No. It was his best friend. They were all set to go scuba diving. There were like five boys. And I had to work that day. And my parents had to work at the restaurant. There was no one to watch my four siblings. And I said to Kenny, I said, would you do me a big favor and watch the kids?
Crook County
5 | Bully
And he said, I'm already written, signed up to go scuba diving with Mandelke and the rest of the guys. And I said, please. And he said, OK, I'll do it. So he stayed home. The equipment that he was to have used was given to Mendelke, his buddy. And Mendelke's equipment failed, and he was like, he's dead. And it should have been Kenny. That should have been the equipment that he should have used.
Crook County
5 | Bully
And it was really bad. That was the first time that Kenny had to deal with death. of a friend, of a good friend, and also he felt guilty that if he would have gone, you know, Mandelke would have lived, and then he took off. And I think, now that I think in hindsight, where him taking off, he took off in his car and he was gone for like two days after the funeral, right after the funeral.
Crook County
5 | Bully
Nobody knew where he was. Richie went out for like a day looking for him. I think he ended up in Iowa or somewhere. He just ran. He just kept running and running and running until he probably ran out of money and gas and came back. And probably be the start of major issues because that was hard on him. Really, really hard.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
And she's like, oh, well, you know, a house key is small. Like imagine if you could just stick their little feet to the key and then they could all fly up, right? Right. Then maybe it would only take like seven bees. And I'm thinking, no, this is like a 50 bee situation, like a ton of bees. And every single person I have asked seems to think it would take less than 20 bees.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
My husband was like five bees. Caitlin says seven. You know, so I've dug my heels in pretty hard and I have come to y'all for some answers.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
I'm so happy to hear from y'all. And here is Caitlin. Hi, guys.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
Okay, my original guess was 50 bees. 50 bees. Mine was seven. And Carl's, my husband's, was five.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
67 bees! Congratulations, Maureen. This is amazing. This is the best news I've had in a while.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
Well, let me take you back. About two weeks ago, sitting on my back porch with my husband and a girlfriend of mine, Caitlin. And she works for this hyper-local honey place here in Atlanta. And she is only about a mile from my house. And she accidentally left a key at her office. And she just made some offhanded comments.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
HTDE: Don't Get in the Fridge, with Jesse Eisenberg
It's like, oh, wouldn't it be so nice if the bees could just fly over my key and I wouldn't have to go get it? Yeah. And so I am thinking immediately, well, this is ludicrous because it would take an insane amount of bees to do this. So I'm imagining like a lot of bees in this huge mass, like a swarm of bees carrying this key. So I ask her, how many bees do you think this would take?