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Hello. And welcome. To My Favorite Murder. The mini-minisode. Where we read you your stories that you've so kindly written to us over the years. Do you want to hear one now? Let's do it. Why don't you go first?
Okay. The subject line of this, which thrilled me when I read it, is money in unexpected places.
We love those stories.
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Chapter 2: What are some surprising money finds?
Can't wait. And it starts, howdy, hi, hello. I'm listening to Minnesota 408 story about finding $50 in a vintage skirt and a suit. Remember that one? That's still with me. It's still right in my heart. And I assumed you either asked for money in unexpected places or the writer had a good idea that I'm now stealing so I can tell my money in unexpected places tale.
You definitely want money in unexpected places stories.
Always, any amount of money. And the more unexpected, the better.
I had a habit, and I explained this to Adrian when we were on vacation in October, because we would be in these weird places far away, like in an island north of Sicily or whatever. And we would be walking by like a cliff, the side of a cliff, and then there would be like a little hole. And then I go, that'd be a good place to hide money. And she kept going, sorry, why do you keep saying?
I'm like, that's just what I think all the time. Or if you had a key, you had a key you didn't want anyone to find, put it right there. Oh, hiding places. What are just hiding places? Yeah.
Yeah. Send those in.
Send hiding places. It's just a list. People are like, a box. Okay. My husband and I used to be very into rock climbing and he being a more experienced climber took me on many new adventures and taught me new types of climbing. One type he taught me is called crack climbing, where you smoke a bunch of crack and go to Yosemite. No, that's not what it says. And then it says, dot, dot, dot.
Have you ever seen a big old rock face with a thin seam running down it? We use those cracks in the rock to go up.
No, no. No, thank you.
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Chapter 3: What is the story of the near kidnapping?
Steve Agee broke his back. Recently? Yeah. No, like a million years ago.
Shit, I know. I mean, there is a lot of risk.
Yeah.
But so much reward. Like this story.
I'll tell you right now.
Okay, go. I was nervous to crack climb, but he convinced me to try it out because one particular climbing route was just too fun, too incredible to pass up. He kept saying that the last pitch, and then in parentheses it says a portion of the climb, was the money pitch because it was so great.
He wouldn't stop saying the money pitch, so I wouldn't stop making fun of him while we climbed because who describes things as money anymore? Well, lo and behold, to both of our shock, when we got to the top of the climb, over 100 feet off the ground, we discovered, tucked right into the crack on this rock, a $20 bill. Oh! the money. I guess it was the money pitch. Yep. Oh my God.
And then it just says stay sexy and pay it forward. So maybe one day the $20 you hide somewhere will end up as a story on MFM Grace.
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Chapter 4: How did a bar happy hour lead to a scary situation?
I love that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to hide $20 somewhere. Yeah.
In a weird spot.
Yeah.
Yeah. If you could hide $20 on a playground.
Oh, my God. Pandemonium.
Right? Wait, there's a PS on this. It says, Hello, Catherine Elizabeth, my best friend slash sister I never had who introduced me to MFM during the pits of 2020. Aw.
Hello. All right. Money found story. Love it. Okay. This is called Your Classic Florida Dad Near Kidnapping Story. Hmm. Hey, MFM. I've been meaning to write this in for so long, and finally I decided it was time. I grew up in a small town in Florida with my two amazing parents in the late 90s, early 2000s. My parents raised my sister and I like a classic 70s, 80s family.
Think latchkey parenting with giant house parties on school nights. This included my dad taking me to his favorite local bar for happy hour when my mom took my sister to her ballet classes on Friday night. Wow. On this particular Friday night, my dad was drinking at the bar while I sat by myself in the, quote, kids corner. In the bar? Yeah. But it's Florida. You know what I mean? Yeah.
And sorry, the 80s in Florida? This is the late 90s, early 2000s. But everything was aged.
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Chapter 5: What do we learn from Emma's story?
As you can imagine, I have plenty more near death secret past life stories that I will have to write about another day involving this legendary man. And with that, stay sexy and don't let your husband take your six year old to happy hour. Or if you do, maybe sit her on the bar like a normal parent. Emma, she, her. Holy fucking shit, Emma.
Holy shit. You got to look up local kidnappings from that, like from that area and that time because... That guy was such a psycho that he, he already had a kid and he was getting another kid. Like what in the living fuck are we talking about?
Yeah. Why did nobody follow up? Why? Why?
Because they're all drunk and it's that kind of thing. It's like, that's the... I feel like maybe to me, part of why I am as obsessed with true crime, there is a little bit of that the 70s parenting where it's like, why is no one paying attention? Am I the only one paying attention? Then it's like, I better fucking pay attention. And I bet I better pay attention to all this shit.
So that like, because if it's, you know, if it's me by myself.
If no one's paying attention, then yeah, you're on your fucking own.
And six-year-old Emma, the badass, who's just like, she, first of all, how brilliant. She's like, not my dad, whatever. She goes, excuse me, I would like to go with you. That's a great idea. Let me get my stuffed animal like a child would. Yeah.
Uno momento. Let me just go grab the, and then be like, dad, what is up with this guy? He says that he knows you.
Should I go with this kidnapper or what do you, would you like to weigh in or are you having too much fun? Motherfucker.
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Chapter 6: How does family drama affect wedding planning?
And then in parentheses, it says champagne, music, dance breaks, bride and groom sashes, et cetera. We got in an argument over family drama. And then in parentheses, it says his mom doesn't like the bride.
I got to question this whole fucking wedding. Yeah. This whole marriage.
Yeah.
Okay.
So they got in an argument about that and my involvement in the wedding stopped. I had tried to meet with my cousin on several occasions and I even wrote him a letter with no luck. The wedding was supposed to be in June of 2023. So in April, my cousin called a 15 person family meeting. If you couldn't attend the meeting, then you were disinvited to the wedding.
I love like wedding monsters. These are great. People go crazy. You go crazy. People go fucking crazy. Okay.
And it's not just like bridezilla. It's like what happens is everyone goes crazy and the bride has to be the like middleman for all of it. And then they go crazy. Yeah.
I love when like you see those people that like pop up online where it's like this is the list that the bride sent that you have like the non-negotiables if you want to be if you want to be invited like I love those and they're like fucking nightmares my favorite also it's like the non-negotiables all right well then I guess I'm out like you're then I don't want to come to your fucking wedding I can't imagine a world where actually just on principle I wouldn't like well then yeah stand your ground I'll talk to you later
Yeah. Have a great life. You dumbass. Okay. So if you didn't come to this meeting, you were disinvited from the wedding. The meeting lasted two hours and no one was allowed to speak unless you were given the magic eight ball. However, no matter how many times someone asked for the eight ball, my cousin wouldn't give it to anyone.
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