My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 31: Namaste Sexy
Wed, 05 Feb 2025
It's time to Rewind with Karen & Georgia! This week, K & G recap Episode 31: Namaste Sexy. Karen dived deep into the world of Lululemon with the Yoga Store Murder and then Georgia told the tale of Tent Girl and the Doe Network. Listen for all-new commentary, case updates and much more! Whether you've listened a thousand times or you're new to the show, join the conversation as we look back on our old episodes and discuss the life lessons we’ve learned along the way. Head to social media to share your favorite moments from this episode! Instagram: instagram.com/myfavoritemurder Facebook: facebook.com/myfavoritemurder TikTok: tiktok.com/@my_favorite_murder Now with updated sources and photos: https://www.myfavoritemurder.com/episodes/rewind-with-karen-georgia-episode-31-namaste-sexy My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories, and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. The Exactly Right podcast network provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics, including true crime, comedy, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3UFCn1g. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hello and welcome to Rewind with Karen and Georgia.
Because you see, every Wednesday, we take the time to recap our old episodes for you, but we add all new commentary, we add updates, and we add insights.
And today, we're recapping episode 31, which we named Namaste Sexy. Such a good name. So good.
So now join us as we take you back to August 25th, 2016. And now you can be a day one listener just like we are. So let's listen to the intro of episode 31. Well, it doesn't matter if you're ready, Stephen. Like the real us is just berating Stephen. Stephen includes a seven second just me reaming him before the episode starts.
It's like a, what's it called? When you're a hostage and you're like trying to send a message to the outside world.
It's all Stockholm Syndrome at this point.
Yeah, that's right.
Stephen has really bad Stockholm Syndrome. Evil. We are. Starting now. Welcome to My Favorite Murder. Karen. Karen. I'm just going to yell your name. Karen. Georgia. Karen. Georgia, we started the podcast.
How do you feel so far? Fuck, I can't stop. I'm great. How are you?
I don't know if you've ever asked me how I was like that. How are you? How are you really? How are you? Let's have a moment of vulnerability. I feel a lot of anxiety about... Gosh, so many things. You know that weird Wednesday feeling? We're recording this on Wednesday. Will we get it up in time? You know, job stuff. I drink too much coffee all day. Oh, you do.
Am I drinking too much Diet Coke to the point where I'm killing myself?
How many do you drink? Diet Coke? Yeah.
Oh, it's only like 23 a day.
I like that every episode now you have to admit, like you have to confess something you do. That's like, because you told us you smoked cigarettes last time.
I mean, very rarely. It's not like I wouldn't call that. It's not a thing. It's just that's like my secret sneak away once in a while. I think you're in denial. I know. What's your big reveal?
Oh, what's a good one? What's a good one? What's a fun one? I have adult acne. Okay. That sucks. I can relate to that. Yeah, I don't like that. That's about it. That's all you're willing to give? No, I mean, my life is a fucking op. I have nothing that I hide.
I feel like that's, I think people can, it helps people lock in. To our humanity. Yeah. When we're just sitting here going, you know.
Gross, disgusting, horrible humanity. Check out this hideousness.
And make it a podcast. Gross. It better be a podcast. I don't want to look at it. We're getting a lot of, it's very enjoyable. And of course, feeding the ego. A lot of people are doing like fan art. picture things of us, which the thing I enjoy the most is they always give me a huge nose. I don't think I have a huge nose.
You don't have a huge nose. I think I have a pretty buttony nose.
You have a cute little button nose. I mean, thank you. I just wanted you to say that.
I've noticed, yeah, I have a large jaw in them, which I actually have an undersized jaw, hence my Invisalign. That's right.
But thank you. But you know what? But thank you. We're the most ungrateful assholes of all time. We have a couple notes.
Can you draw us better, please? Draw me. Everything I know is a lot smaller. Listen, if you want to make it onto Instagram.com slash my favorite murder, you got to draw us true to life.
There's some really good ones of us. Really awesome drawings.
Yeah.
Where like you look at it and go, oh, my God, this looks like we have a comic book. Yeah. Which is super cool.
Yes.
Thank you so much. You're fucking backpedaling so hard right now.
I know. I'm embarrassed. Don't be. Go to the Instagram and you'll see a bunch of like we post that shit.
We post all of them. We post everything that we see and find that you guys send us. I love it all. A lot of people made us new logos that say the fuck word murder mystery show, which we really love and appreciate. That was so great. That was good times. Yeah. And also, I just wanted to mention on the Twitter page, we got a quote, a million shout outs from Sweden.
These guys who have a podcast called The Power Meeting Podcast sent us a tweet that said a million shout outs from Sweden, which I didn't know until I read it that that's all I've ever wanted in my life. That's so sweet. A million shout outs from Sweden. Also, Australia loves us. Fuck yeah, Australia. We were number five in Australia. That's amazing. That's a big place, right?
They must not be about accuracy down there. Because I feel like everything I've ever said about Australia on this podcast has been deeply wrong.
Well, we did an Australian murder once. So maybe that's why. Oh, that's right. They like love us for doing that.
Because there's some good ones there. There are some amazing ones. Yours was it was the son who washed his clothes before he did anything. Yeah, he murdered.
He went on a paper route, murdered his fucking family. Blamed his dad, washed his clothes.
Fuck.
No, I think it was Australia. Watch the numbers plummet.
Oh my God.
Why did I even bring this up? I don't know. I brought it up. Oh, okay. This is all your fault. Oh, also, we got a tweet from GlitterPizza91, God bless your heart, that said, why not at the end of every murder, why don't you ring a gong? Which I read out of context, just read as a random tweet, and it made me laugh very hard.
Then I understood, I saw a bunch of other tweets that said, what's that noise? What's that creepy, spooky noise that we keep hearing? And it was, we got, Stephen set us up with these awesome... Mic stands. Yeah, they look like what you see like real radio people using. So we don't have to like touch our mics and make noise anymore.
But what we did was we touched the mic stands and we were making the springs.
Because I can't sit still.
Right? Is that super loud?
That's it. It's perfect. Okay. Yeah, that's the sound. Listen, I have ADD, I think. Right. At least that's what my psychiatrist tells me. Okay. I know. But it's, you know, I'm going to sacrifice that for the podcast.
Well, we really appreciate it. Thank you. I'm going to speak for everybody.
Thank you. You have a button. And myself. You have a button nose. Thank you. And two eyes made out of coal. We also had, we just ended our last t-shirt sales and we are giving half the money to endthebacklog.org. Nice. How much is that? Do I say? Because what if it's like, that's not what if they're like, well, it was just a one month sale, right? We're sending two grand to endthebacklog.org.
That's great, right? That's good. It's two more than they fucking had before. I got so freaked out when I posted like, hey, we're going to get 50% to end the backlog because I expected people, this is the opposite of what happened, but I expected people to be like, Only 50%? You're being so greedy. And then all these people are like, that's so incredible. I'm like, oh, okay.
Like I'm just being hard on myself.
Yes. I mean, I think it's just weird to be in this position where you can actually put something out, have people buy it and then actually give money. That's like a neat, cool thing. But also we've never done it before. So everything feels wrong and bad and weird.
Is there anything else that you love right now? Yeah. Anything going on in the news? We know JonBenet's brother is getting... Oh, did you watch? You and I both looked at each other at the exact same moment. Watching that trailer? That JonBenet docu-series trailer. We have to watch it together. I insist you watch it. Can I tell you something? What? A magazine wants us to do...
recap every night of it. That's awesome. I know. The trailer gave me freaking chills.
Okay. We watched the trailer at work today. I love the people I work with because they're super into shit like this too. And when it got to the part... Trailer spoiler. When it got to the part... Where they have reconstructed the Ramsey's house. The room by room recreated. Down to the detail of shit that was like leaning against the walls. Life changing.
These people are going, these investigators, these very qualified people. From all walks of life.
criminal forensicness yeah criminality criminality they're gonna be able to walk through and talk about and restage things that happened do you think they'll come to a conclusion it clearly what in the trailer you can tell that they're gonna they're like yeah there was no this is not an outside job motherfuckers i mean that's what they're leading you to believe that's true but
And then like, oh, when they played the, when she hung up the phone and you can hear her in the background. I still don't hear it. Do you? Have you listened to that? You mean when they say like they reduced all the sound? Yeah. And they hear her say, I'm not talking to you. Yes.
I still don't hear it. Do you know? But I feel like that's almost like one of those ghost investigation.
Yeah.
They're like, do you hear it? And then they put the subtitles and you're like, I guess I hear if you want me to hear it, I'll hear it.
Totally.
I'll hear whatever you want.
Yeah.
My thing was because everybody at my job, everybody pointed out like the thing that freaked them out or that they like the most. And mine was that when Patsy Ramsey said, I love that child, she did it with her eyes closed. That was the creepiest part is both of them being, both of them speaking was so fucking eerie. Yeah.
And to camera, like basically clearly some lawyers said, you have to go out there and tell these people you didn't kill your daughter and you have to make a statement. And when Patsy Ramsey said, I didn't kill my daughter. And then she closes her eyes and goes, I love that child. And then they stay closed forever. Like to me that I just love those. Like that means something.
I don't know what it means. Also saying that child means something. Cause it's like, she's not saying my daughter, JonBenet. Yeah. It's like not child.
Yeah. I love that child. She can't take, take ownership of the thing.
Did you ever watch the show Lie to Me with Tim Roth, where it was all about the person that read micro expressions and it was like a whole company?
No. Oh, I know someone who worked on it that I dated, so I didn't watch it.
Oh, yeah.
Because you're mad. No, he was very nice. I don't want to step on his show.
I just love that show because that's kind of stuff of like being able to interpret what people are really doing underneath how they mask it.
When they point it out and they're like...
would they like pause it and be like this thing right here and that thing oh I love that yeah yeah you should watch that show it's pretty good I don't know if it's on anything but okay well um did you catch up on the night of we've only got one episode left I gotta say you're out everyone telling me about stuff about it and talking to other people about it has made me want to watch it less
You're so fucking punk rock, Georgia. I swear to God, you're just like... Are you being mean right now? No. I mean it in that way of like, you're just like, you know what? I don't have to like it if you like it. It's a good way to be. I respect it. But I think that's what it is where you're like, does everybody like it? Then everybody can fuck off. Well, what everyone's telling me about it.
Thank you. That actually means a lot to me. But what everyone's telling me about it is like, I don't care about the prison stuff. I want the trial stuff. And from what someone said to me, someone was like, and I'm not gonna take responsibility, but I don't remember who said it was like, listen, I watched Orange is the New Black. I don't need to know what's going on in prison.
Like, so did I. Totally the same. It's totally the same. I just like... I want to know the way that they find out how the investigation goes, how the trial goes. Stuff in prison, I don't care about.
Right. You know what? I feel the same way because I find, and this is going to blow your mind, I find prison to be really depressing. So I don't want to know. What's wrong with you? I fear going there. Who hurt you as a child? I don't.
a prisoner it was a warden um yeah i don't like i know it's living hell and there are many many people in this country that are there yeah and that's awful to me especially people people are there that like oh it was really hard for me to watch him get taken in to get out what's it called when you get processed in yeah because it's like no one gives a shit about you and like
Immediately are just trash. Yeah. Like the way, you know, when you wait in line at a post office and you get to the next teller and you can tell they've had a hard day and they fucking hate everything. So you can smile and be like, hi, and they can be nice. And so they'll give you a better experience and be happier. Yeah. You can't do that in prison. What am I supposed to do?
I didn't learn to be polite for nothing. It's like, I mean, and it is like we talk a lot. We talk a big game about like, send them away. Because we talk about these specific stories where people cut off 15 year old girls arms and leave them to die. And these horrible cases. And of course, you want Larry Singleton to disappear from the planet.
but the reality of a human being in a prison is a nightmare. And like, and so I'm not saying I'm not a hypocrite or that I can't rectify those two things, but it's yeah. Watching it. What I love it that in that show is that they're laying in, it's just really good writing. And I really like to watch good writing. It may, it makes me feel smart. And again, I'll say it for the millionth time.
Riz Ahmed. I don't,
Someone made a, I want his DNA inside me. A couple people made it. Someone made a valentine last week, I said. Your serial killer valentine. Yeah. I said, I want his DNA inside me, meaning I want to have his baby because he's so cute that I want like that.
But it just didn't sound like that. No, it's literally the most... Not cute kind of disgusting thing, but that's not what you meant.
OK, you know what I don't like about I don't like innocent people in prison that people like Larry Singleton deserve to be in prison. Good. Have a fucking horrible time. But innocent people. Oh, my God. That terrifies me. It's horrible.
And it happens. And we all know what happens. And it's incredibly stressful.
Yeah.
All right. But I like it. It's to me, it's worth the stress. And there's things that are happening that are exciting.
I won't not try it. It does disappoint me. I mean, I don't know what happened. Maybe I'll watch the last episode. Is that okay? Can I do that? Hey, it's your life. Jump in, jump out. I don't know. Yeah. Can they please bring the family back on ABC? That's all I ask. Is that all you want this Christmas? That's all I want for Hanukkah Christmas.
All right. I think that's it, right? Are you in? Is there anything you need to talk about? I got nothing. Yeah. Is this, are we now 45 minutes in?
Basically. I'm first this week, right? Okay, go. Tell me. I think I am. Mine is short too. So take your time. Okay, we are back from the intro. Karen, remember when podcasts used to just be audio and you could wear whatever you want? You could sit however you want.
You just do you. Like, I think that's really where that saying came from as a podcast in 2016.
It was a beautiful, glorious time of just being you. Do you think we would have started a podcast if we had known that video would have been was like
I certainly, I can give you my answer before you finish the sentence. Fuck no. Are you kidding? A middle-aged TV writer being like, yeah, let me get in there and make some clips and make some content for, what is it, Gen Alpha? No thanks.
Yeah.
Which I didn't think I would do so late in life. I thought I'd have them all down, you know?
But now you're what? What are you getting? Now my face is falling.
I know.
I meant what tricks have you learned?
How to stop your face looking like it's fucking falling. What's the trick? I don't know. Bronzer. I think it's bronzer. And then it's also like some kind of weird eyeshadow thing.
Yep.
You know.
Just layering layers and layers of makeup. That'll do it.
Yeah. Like make shadows if they don't exist, essentially. No, it's been a nightmare. Not a nightmare. It's great. I'm lucky. But I've gotten all my filler dissolved because you can see the bumps on the video. I can totally see everything that's wrong now.
I mean, I feel like we've never been strangers to our own flaws and foibles. And then, yeah, it's just a new way of... It's a fun thing. And it's like where podcasting is going.
Yeah.
It's just kind of like the option that you need to give people. Totally. But it definitely is distracting.
Yeah.
And it distracts the mind. Yeah. Yeah. As we perform.
You know us, though. We, you know, we change along with the times. Like, we are with it.
That's what we like to do. Right now, this show is not on video, so I'm wearing just a towel on my head just for, just got out of the bathtub.
I'm literally wearing a shirt that says bullshit on it really big.
And this is what we're doing. That's it. All right. Well, I like how in that we just did a new intro because there wasn't that much going on in this intro. Some of our old intros are just chock full of insanity. But this mostly is like that we are so stoked to only be audio. Yeah. And then me loving the night of. Yeah. And not so much.
No, that was a long-running discussion or topic of discussion in this podcast.
I think it was like a first, because I remember, and tell me if I'm wrong, when we first talked about The Night Of, we had both watched it like unplanned, right? So then it was like, did you see? It was that feeling. Yeah.
Yeah. And then I lost interest. But, you know, Riz Ahmed kept doing it for you.
It was such a good show.
It was. All right. Well, should we get into your story and also like the reason this episode's called Namaste Sexy? Absolutely. Okay. Let's hear Karen's story from this episode 31 about the Lululemon murderer. Or as I liked to say back then, not on purpose, Lululemon. Here we go. We all love a little luxury. I mean, it's so luxurious.
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Okay. Mine is... I wish I had four months to research this. Because the first time I heard of this murder, I thought, oh, who cares? Not about the people, but that's not my style. Yeah, I get that. Like... as we've said a million times, but like Silence of the Lambs is my ideal murder everything situation. You've got a weird serial killer that's got an M.O. and a whole plan and a creepiness.
And it has always been this crazy way. It's not like he's... It's not a one-off. It's not a crime of passion. It's not whatever. I find that extreme criminal mind thing fascinating. So when I first heard about this crime, I was like, oh, that's not my thing at all. But it kept coming back. I would see it every once in a while looking for other stuff. And then I finally started looking into it.
And it is so fascinating. All right. So it's the Lululemon murder. Oh, yes. In Bethesda, Maryland.
That is fascinating. I didn't know that. I know. That is definitely not one that I would have...
Looked into. Okay. I'm excited. Me too. Thanks. Thank you. So I first heard of it, I think it was like a year ago or something. I was doing Tig Notaro's. Tig Notaro has a comedy festival every year called the Benson Ball in D.C., which is where she's from. And so whoever was driving us to the theater that night, we drove down the street and we passed a Lululemon.
I don't think it was the one we were driving by because Bethesda, I believe, is north of Washington, D.C., but he brought it up and told the story. Love him. And he basically just said, oh, did you hear about that really terrible crime that happened at Lululemon? It was really bad, you know, and it was basically one of the employees killed another one. And so I was just like, you know what?
I know now we're talking yoga pants. We're talking crime of passion. I'm not interested in any of this.
For anyone listening who doesn't know, Lululemon is a fucking high-end... Kind of when I see girls wearing yoga pants with a little M and I'm like, oh, you spent a lot of money on yoga pants and didn't buy them a Rite Aid.
Yeah. You're better than me. Crazy expensive. Like they're almost it's it's like Louis Vuitton of yoga pants, which is a hilarious paradox of this is yoga.
Yeah. And they have like the like. logo out so you can see them. Oh, hell yeah. You know what I mean? Yes. Instead of hiding your shame, they put it out there.
Right. So when I first Googled this, a couple of Huffington Post articles came up and one that I really liked is by a girl named, believe it or not, Elizabeth Licorice. And great. That's a great stage name. Oh my God, she wins. Yeah. Amazing. She's all red and her skin is twisted. Uh-huh. No, no.
Delete that.
Delete that. Stephen, mark that concept. Okay, so she wrote an article called Lululemon's Cult Culture, Get Fit or Die Trying. So this girl started working at Lululemon. That's how you pronounce it, right? Lululemon? Yeah.
I don't give a fucking shit. Okay, great.
It sounds right? It's how it's spelled and that's what I assumed.
Lululemon.
Lululemon? I think it's Lululemon. But there's an extra... Lululemon would be... There's too many Lus. All right. So I think it's Lululemon. Let's call it... Let's not give a shit. Okay. All right. So... I think you're right. I think you're right. It has... This girl worked there. And so she's talking about what a creepy culture this business has.
which is very funny because like when I worked at the Gap in the 90s and I only worked there for a year, I really hated it. But it is this thing where they want you as a person that's getting paid shit and mostly working part-time so they don't have to give you full-time benefits and all that stuff. But they still want you to really dig into this.
Care about it.
Yeah, this, the culture, the retail culture of like, and if you sell this, you'll get this and we have to get our numbers up here. Meanwhile, Dawn Fisher, the owner at the time, was making like billions of dollars. Ew, I hate that. So I can see where that was in the 90s. It's now, you know, 20 years later and they have refined this concept.
So it's like branding and marketing and, you know, lifestyle choices and it's all that kind of stuff. I bet it's the kind of thing where they don't call you an employee. They call you like a team member or whatever the fuck. The Thighmaster. So this girl, yeah, this girl worked there and talked about that...
She said, Lululemon wants you to know it's elevating the world from mediocrity to greatness and creating components for people to live long, healthy and fun lives.
But if you dig deeper, you find about... Yeah, you can't do that and fucking pants you about a target. Come on, man.
No, no, no. No, you have to get really superficial to rise above media. But if you dig deeper, you'll find you'll learn about Landmark Forum. No, they don't. Yes. Which is the ultra secretive, eerily cultish educational series, which Lululemon employees are strongly encouraged to attend. Shut up.
yes now Lou now I know I have a friend who did landmark forum and is like I believe in it I think it's great and I said yeah but isn't it a crazy pyramid scheme where you basically have to bring people in and you spend thousands of dollars and he goes yeah but I just didn't do that like I got what I wanted and I left and I'm like well you're you're a strong-willed person yeah but I think it's one of those things that like it's like est or anything that just it makes money off of people kind of going this is the answer to my life and then trying to get everyone I know into it so oh it makes me sad so
So they encourage their employees to go to the Landmark Forum, which is bizarre to me. So bizarre. And before you're in line for Landmark, you're bombarded with Brian Tracy motivational CDs and a book club that culminates with Atlas Shrugged. Oh, shit. Yeah. So it's not... It's so culty.
It's like, get that money and get yours and empowerment, but in this weird culty way, which also it's like, this is your job. This is your retail job. Yeah. Yeah. So...
She said all of it made walking into work feel like she was time traveling to Salem because with the Lululemon Creed and catechism comes a collective mentality that thrives on scapegoats and leaves you feeling worthless if you subsist on anything but spring water and kale. Once another employee sneered at me from across the floor and said,
and said the soda I happened to be enjoying would rot me from the inside out. Eventually, we were all issued reusable acrylic cups and forbidden to drink anything but water. Oh my God, stop it.
So this is... I'm just trying to paint a little bit of a picture and I really encourage if you're slightly interested in this to look up these articles because it's pretty fascinating how many directions that goes in of... Yeah, that sounds like a fun read. Yeah. Well, and just the intensity of a retail job.
It bums me out so much to think that what people expect from you when they're not willing to give you any respect at all. Right.
Right. And when you work there, everything about you is inventoried and measured in terms of authenticity and integrity, which sounds reasonable until you realize your yoga mats on a sweaty, slippery slope that missing your extra... I'm still reading the article.
Uh, missing your extracurricular kickboxing class, taking too long to pee during your break or falling to throw or failing to throw a kitchen party. And then she says in parentheses, don't ask what, um, in the fitting room means you're deficient in character and devoid of morals.
What's a kitchen party?
I'm going to ask. We have to find out. But it's like, I think it's in, you know, it's secret in-house language. Yeah. Those girls happen to just be older, sportier versions of seriously cutthroat sorority sisters. So that's one person's take about what it felt like to work there. So what's kind of to go along with that, this company's had a lot of controversy since they started.
It's a Canadian company. They opened in, well, in 2002 to mark the opening of their second store in Vancouver. They offered a free outfit to anyone who would stand naked on the street for 30 seconds.
Are you fucking... How about for people who can't afford them and are homeless, you fucking assholes?
But like also, so it's a store that's mostly women's clothing. Yeah. And you're basically trying to get ladies to stand around naked so you give them their $140 yoga pants. That's so sad.
You're asking them to exploit themselves. Yeah. Oh, my God.
That same owner, I can't find his name right now. He, in an interview with the National Post Business Magazine, which sounds very Canadian to me, but I'm not sure. He said he purposely named it Lululemon with lots of L's because, quote, it's funny to watch Japanese people try to say it.
He also once blogged that breast cancer, quote, came into prominence in the 1990s due to all the cigarette-smoking power women who were on the pill and taking on the stress previously left to men in their working world. I am going to Lulu murder you. You piece of shit. His name, sorry, that guy's name, I'm trying to, oh, that guy's name is Chip Wilson.
And of course, later on, everybody heard about the, they in, I think it was 2011. Oh, no, sorry, 2013. They had to recall their line of Luan yoga pants because they were see-through.
I remember that.
they were see-through I've seen girls G-strings from behind in yoga before and then that same CEO when he was interviewed on Bloomberg TV about it he asked he was asked what the nature of the pants recall was he said quite frankly some women's bodies just don't work for it it's more about the rubbing through the thighs how much pressure there is over a period of time you fucking dick
So he's basically saying, if you're not emaciated, you can't wear our yoga pants. And if you do, it's your fault. Yeah. Yeah. So he's a superstar. After he said that, of course, he was asked to step down from being the CEO because it's, you know, at the time it was 2013. So I'm sorry, sir, that it's not 1945 anymore. You can take that shit elsewhere. Yeah.
And in 2007, they had a line of clothing called Vita-C, S-E-A, which the company said was made from seaweed fiber. And according to the tags, they said it released marine amino acids, minerals, and vitamins into the skin upon contact with moisture. Did it stink? Reducing stress and providing anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, hydrating, and detoxifying benefits. Bullshit.
So the New York Times, that's exactly right. The New York Times commissioned a laboratory test of a shirt made from Vita-C. And there was no significant difference in mineral levels between the Vita-C fabric and a plain cotton t-shirt. In other words, the labs found no evidence of seaweed in the Lululemon clothing at all. How were you allowed to do that? We're not done.
In 2008, a mother and daughter found a hidden message in the shopping bag underneath a layer of inspirational quotes such as friends are more important than money. Yeah, right. There was a second note that said, quote, some brief or quick fix instance.
Whoa, start over.
Some brief or quick fix incidences when our minds are clear to be creative are when drunk or stoned or just after an orgasm.
What does that mean? Okay. So they're promoting being drunk or stoned or having an orgasm so that you can be creative.
And this is inside a yoga pants bag. So they had this. It turned out that they had printed this up initially. People saw it and were like, what the fuck are you doing here? Well, the other the other quotes were the athletes high is the most long lasting as it can last up to six hours. And there's a little difference between addicts and fanatic athletes.
Both are continually searching for a way to remain in a creative state. So it was all just weird. They were very pro drugs and sex. And then a couple of people got the bags and were like, what's wrong with you guys? This is a yoga pants store. So they took the bags and just sewed over them with friendship is more important than money. But all you have to do is wash the bag a couple of times.
And then the other label came out.
Oh, I bet those are worth some money on eBay.
It's pretty hilarious and also creepy. Like you're getting weird messages anyway. Yeah. And they just the answer back when when that happened was not an apology. They were basically like, we're about speaking our mind. We're about living in this, having new ideas, new experiences. And they basically were like, yeah, we do what we want. We're trying to inspire people. So... Oh, my God.
So... Yeah. I have... Yeah. Go on. Just how, you're saying? How? Yeah. But also... But also good for them, but don't shop there. Like, I don't, they can do that. It's fine.
You can do that. Like, here's the thing. Yoga is a practice that's about connecting to yourself and connecting, you know, having a body mind connection so that you are more in yourself and calmer, more normal. It's not about spending money. It's not about being better than your sorority sister. But to get a mantra for Transcendental Meditation is fucking three grand. Like, how do you how do they?
Well, no, that's based on how much money you make. But I mean, I'm not defending it because it's it costs money. But what I'm saying is this is a store that's creating that culture of you will spend money always and you will spend money on bullshit because we're going to lie straight to your face and say that our clothes are made of detoxifying seaweed. That's crazy. Yeah.
Um, so anyway, that's just a little background. All right. So, uh, so it, the worst thing that happened to them, of course, was in 2011, um, on the morning of March 12th, an employee entered their store, the Bethesda Maryland store. And she, uh, she actually went in, um, And she heard something inside, I think it said.
And so she went and got a guy off the street and said, you have to go in there and check. I'm supposed to open the store and there's weird noises. And the guy walked in to like a bloody scene. And it turned out that Brittany Norwood and Jana Murray were lying in the store. Jana was dead and Brittany was tied up, bound hands and feet. Jana had a rope around her neck.
and hammer knife wounds to her head. Holy shit. And she had been repeatedly struck with a metal stand. Later on, the medical examiner found out she had 330 distinct wounds on her body.
330.
How long would that take to... Hit someone 330 times. And how much rage and how personal.
That's like 10 minutes of hitting. It's insane overkill. Yeah. So when the cop touched Brittany, she flinched. And then she tells the story that the night before they closed the shop and then she'd gone to, I'm saying Jana, but I think it's Jaina. Did I say Jaina? Yeah. I think it's Jaina. So she'd gone to Jaina and said, I need to go back in. I forgot something.
And when they went back in, two masked attackers came, like stormed into the store, whoops, stormed the store with guns and attacked them. And Brittany said, rape them and tied them up and killed Jaina and left her for dead. Had she been hit at all or hurt at all? Yeah. She had injuries too. Okay. And her pants were slit at the crotch. It all looked very bad.
So... Looked... It all looked very bad. Okay. So... Sorry, I have to scroll down on my dumb thing. So, of course, panic set off because this is apparently a super high-end area. Because that's how those stores are always in. So people are freaking out. There's no violent crime in that area at all. Um, immediately the cops are, uh, set up a manhunt.
Um, there's $150,000 reward for anyone with information leading to an arrest. It's like big and huge. Um, and they start talking to people around the neighborhood and they talk to these employees at the Apple store, which was right next door. And these employees say that, yes, they heard two women arguing and yelling and some weird thumping and fighting noises the night before, um,
But they never called 911. How do you... They didn't get asked that question in court, which of course... Because it's like, ultimately, it's not about them and what they did or didn't do. Yeah. Aside from... I'm sure they struggle with it. Yeah. Because it's hideous. Definitely. But... Yeah, they didn't.
And then somebody included in one of these articles that I read, there's this really awesome thing about how when you are... When you have a phone or a computer or something that distracts you, you are like... some percentage I won't make up and I'll just be honest that I don't know it, but like a very high percentage less likely to get involved with anything happening around you. Wow.
So they're in an Apple store. So it's probably like weird noise, weird noise. Go back to playing Yahtzee with friends or whatever on your phone.
I don't know if I would like, how would you get involved? It just so depends on the situation. You can't expect people to be being, you know, getting murdered. No. If you hear a fight, you're not like, I'm going to go make sure no one's getting murdered. No, not at all.
And especially in that area. Yeah. No, it's a weird thing. I'm sure they had never had any experience like that. No. And they probably were like, oh, no, those girls are fighting next door at the end. That's what they thought. It's just unfortunate because even just a call to say, maybe you should just go check. It's that thing of like people aren't willing to just risk being wrong, which is sad.
Or not being able to read a situation. I mean, the way a couple of these articles talked about it, there was like extended thumping and fight sounds.
No, yeah, you should have checked that out.
At one point, they heard a woman scream, oh, please, God, help me. What?
Okay, no, you should have fucking gone over there. I guess I buried the lead on that one. I should have brought that up earlier.
Oh my God. All right, so yeah, go on. Yeah. That's crazy. So even if you're not sure, roll the dice. Okay, so from that, they realize that these employees only heard two women the entire time. They don't hear anything about men's voices. They don't hear anything else. So they're suspicious. Also, there's this really awesome statistic I found that I know the exact...
Number four, according to the Bureau of the Justice of Statistics.
No, no.
15%?
15%. That's crazy. So in some ways, relax.
Right. Because it's very, very small. Except don't because your fucking family is going to murder you.
It's going to be your husband with that milkshake.
I wonder if that's the reason why we're so fascinated with stranger murders. What? The cord? Oh, I think you're... Are you hitting it with real life? Okay. I wonder if that's why we're so fascinated about stranger murders is because they're so rare. Yes. And so they sound like there are a lot more of them, but in actuality...
Yeah, everyone talks about the ones that happen because they're so crazy and weird. So it seems like they're more likely. That's really interesting. Yeah. So the cops know this. I mean, the cops, they say that all the time on like 2020 or whatever, where it's like you always look to the husband, the wife, the friends, the people that they know. So one of the big breaks in the case was...
That they looked in Jaina's car and... Jaina's the murder victim? She's the victim. Okay. So they process her car and they find Brittany... Brittany's DNA in the car. And then they asked Brittany, have you ever been in Jaina's car? And she said no.
Man, I love when they fucking trap someone like that. Or if you had just said yes, you would not have been a suspect.
But they never do because they were in the car, so they're trying to cover. They think that lie is going to get them out. And yeah, that's the greatest. I love that. So... Also, they realized they had had all the tests processed and Brittany had said that they were both raped by these masked men. But when the test came back, they there was no sign of rape on either.
There was no, you know, evidence of it. Yeah, there was all of the normal things that they find. No penetration.
No.
On either of them. OK. And so. Also, her wounds were few and superficial. Right.
Yeah. If you're going to hit someone 30, 300 something times and the other person just gets a little. Yeah, that's crazy.
And also because then that's like there's some crime of passion taking place.
Yeah.
So there is an intended victim. Yes, exactly. Okay. and also then they realize that for the angles, they start studying the angles of the, of the wounds clearly self-inflicted and she tied herself up. It was all, they start looking back on it stage. Yeah. Now there were in the blood, there were two shoe prints. Jaina's shoe prints were not in the blood and,
So Brittany's shoe pins were in the blood and a size 14 man's shoe, one set of men's shoes were in the blood. So not to like. So she grabbed some shoes off the fucking shelf. That's exactly right. Son of a bitch.
And walked around through as if a man was walking through. What an idiot that she didn't grab both the fucking. Oh, because it's like the display pair. Right. Oh, my God. So it's like brilliant and so stupid at the same time.
Well, it's that thing of like you are. you can't cover up a murder.
You can't.
You just can't. You're not as smart as you think you are. You can't. And also, cops have seen it a million times. Like, they know what they're looking at and what looks weird and what doesn't. So... Ultimately, they basically get her to start talking.
And it turns out, six days after the crime actually happened, it was the same night of Jaina's memorial, they arrest Brittany Norwood for first degree murder. And so basically they figure out that that that day Brittany had been caught shoplifting a pair of yoga pants by Jaina. And that's what caused that was the inciting incident.
Obviously, much more was going on for her to get stabbed over 300 times. And they said she used five different weapons all found within the store.
Oh, my God.
Yeah. And there was a blood trail that showed how Jaina tried to escape through the back door and... And she had 107 defensive wounds. And they said that that was the most that medical examiner had ever seen on a victim.
Wow.
Now here's the creepiest part to me is Brittany goes, clearly just goes fucking berserk snaps. She gets caught. Now she's in that she's out of this system. She has, she's the worst of the worst. If you're bad for drinking diet Coke on the floor, imagine what getting caught shoplifting would be like in that culture at that store.
Um,
And also, I don't think it was probably very easy because Brittany was black. And I don't know what the percentages were of people who were black that worked at Lululemon. But I bet that was an element in it. I'm sure that there was something that brought to the table. There was other articles that talked about how she had stalked her boyfriend.
I think she was definitely maybe a borderline personality. She definitely had some issues, whatever. But this girl viciously and insanely murders her coworker and then lays down in blood for hours and hours until she gets discovered. Crazy. In the same room as a dead body. I mean, that's the creepy level of that.
Oh, and also she went and moved because when she called Jaina back to let her back into the store, Jaina was double parked. So she had to go get into her car and she went and parked it down like a couple blocks away. And that's how they got that DNA of hers in there. So essentially she had 10 hours to stage and plan this crime and figure it all out. Um, so anyway, she was convicted in an hour.
Um, they tried to say that she was insane and they were like, no, sorry, this was insanely premeditated. Yeah. I mean, that's bad phrasing. Uh, this was very premeditated and obviously... She tried to cover it up so she knew it was a... Yes. Yes, exactly. Um, and... I guess. Oh, so she was, she got a life sentence and with no possibility of parole.
So it turned out that the Lululemon murder was much more fascinating than I could ever imagine.
Yeah. I thought she just like went in there and shot her. Like, I don't even know any of the details.
know as grisly as hell yeah and just that the element like the the pressury sales sorority sister element of it is fascinating to me um somebody there's a guy that wrote a book his name is david morse and it's called the this is gonna be wrong i want to say it's called the yoga pants murder but that's not gonna be right the yoga store murder there we go so close Are there crime scene photos?
I'm sure there are. I want to see them without the body, so I'm not that fucked up.
They wanted to show the crime scene photos when they were trying to pick the jury. Was it when they were trying to pick the jury? I guess that doesn't really make sense. But they were basically trying to introduce these photos and like the defense fought it because they're so awful. Her skull was cracked. Her spine was severed. Oh, I don't want to see that. I mean, it's terrible.
I mean, you know, she was stabbed over 300 times. It's insane. It's horrifying. Holy shit. Yeah. So there you go. Namaste.
Namaste. Namaste, Karen. Namaste, everybody. Should we end on an om? Well, well, fuck. All right. That's a gruesome and sad one. Horrible. We're back. Karen, do you have any updates?
No case updates. Basically, it's all status quo. Although we got to the bottom of kitchen parties. So that was the thing that we talked about. It was a Lululemon kind of like alley rally style. Let's all get together, you know, like some sort of retail bullshit cult thing that they make up to make it seem interesting. And then you get people to whatever.
I'm going to have to work that day, but like they still have to come to the fucking.
No, no, this was a different. This was almost like a little bit of a manipulation of the customers. So essentially there are these islands near the fitting rooms and the employees were expected to just kind of hang out there and then stage casual conversations like you're in the kitchen, quote unquote. And basically talking about yoga pants or like, oh, you need that.
I can actually recommend you this great jacket or whatever.
Leave me alone. I mean, as someone who's done that job before. Yeah. At Funky Diva and back in 1999, like I know how it goes and I hated every minute of doing it and I hate every minute of it being done to me.
Yes. The retail PTSD of like being forced to engage when people don't like it and are rude to you actively. Right. Really sucks. It's like if you're the greeter at the Gap this day, I wonder if they still do greeters. I don't think they do. Yeah, I don't think so.
But I bet you better fucking get said hi to, though, like if you're a secret shopper.
For them? Oh, yeah. I bet you better. Like you have to eyes up.
Yeah.
But you don't have to stand there like we used to have to literally stand there and be like, socks are on sale today and blah, blah, blah. Like that whole thing where you're like having this hip interaction with the person you're about to buy jeans from. It's just like... Who cares?
No one needs help finding anything unless it's like a movie and they're like on a mission to get this one thing. No one needs help finding anything.
Can I help you find anything today? No. In this day and age, doesn't the average customer really know their rights in the way of like they're going to find you and let you know the kind of help they need? Like no one's shy anymore about this. And that's, I'm going to say it again, but that's my big complaint about Sephora. I just want to go and touch all the eyeshadows and look at all the samples.
I don't want to, I don't want someone to help me. Because oftentimes they're like, oh, you need that? Well, then come over here. And I'm like, no, I'm over here. I want to be in this area.
Yeah. Like, I don't want to be sped through this.
Yeah.
No, totally. That's a long Zen journey that you want to take when you're there.
That's right. Hot bath of a Sephora. Anyway, also the old founder, or I guess the original founder who's no longer involved in the business of Lululemon.
is a man named Chip Wilson, who has just been spouting pretty nasty rhetoric for years, and so much so that the company had to come forward and say that his views don't represent the company's values, and that they are committed to creating an inclusive environment in that company. So hopefully that's true, and hopefully that actual work is getting done, but...
And also, you know, the information I was looking for that could have been really cool to like unveil right now is that they also change their internal practices and they don't make everything feel like this weird club that you're trying to get into while you have a retail job.
Yeah.
Which was one of the things we talked about of like what the pressures and what this job must have felt like. to result in this horrifying murder. But still, there's no way to get that information unless we had a secret employee, which we don't. It'd be so cool. We should have done that. Although they no longer ask their employees to pursue shoplifters, which is insane that they ever did that.
Never do that. No. Never do that. Okay, now it's time for Georgia's story about Tent Girl and the Doe Network.
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Ready for mine?
Yeah.
Okay. Mine is about the tent girl and the dough network.
What?
Do you know them?
Doe as in deer?
No, D-O-E as in like Jane Doe.
Oh, oh, oh.
Like, doe a dead body. A female dead body. Oh, my God. I had to.
You did it.
Did it.
Did it.
All right. So on May 17th, 1968, a well digger named Wilbur Riddle was killing time between jobs picking up glass insulators on a dirt road. It was just outside Lexington, Kentucky. So he's scavenging.
Sure.
He comes across a large green tarpaulin, and that was commonly used by carnival workers to store the big, like, big top tents in. And inside, he finds the new decomposing body of a young woman. She appeared to be in her teens, and she had been dead for months. They couldn't figure out her exact cause of death, but it was thought that she'd been knocked out with a blow to the head.
And then tied up inside the bag to slowly suffocate. And the way they knew this is that her nails were worn down and broken. Oh, no. As if she had been trying to escape. Nightmare. Yes. She couldn't be identified and became known as the tent girl. Sorry, is 68 you said? Yeah. Okay.
It became a local legend and her grave had a headstone that they had put a sketch of what the police had sketched what she might have looked like. And it said, tent girl found May 17th, 1968 on highway, US Highway 25 North, died about April, like all these weird statistics about her. So it was a place where local teens would visit to cause trouble and to scare each other.
And like on Halloween night, you had to go touch the gravestone and run away and stuff. And so a couple decades later, there's a teenager who moves into town named Todd Matthews. And he hears about the story of Tent Girl by a girl he's got a crush on. Nine months later, he and this girl get married. And it turns out her name is Lori Riddle. Her father was Wilbur Riddle, who found Tent Girl. Ooh.
So Todd Matthews becomes obsessed with the case. And for decades, he's determined to find out the true identity of Tent Girl. Todd's two siblings had died at birth and it really stuck with him. And so he says that he felt like Tent Girl had become his sibling until he could find her real family, which is so fucking sweet. I might cry.
So when the internet's created, he saves up enough money for... He works low-income jobs, saves up enough money to buy a computer, and then he trolls chat rooms and search engines and missing personal listings, searching for details that match Tent Girl. And he creates a website devoted to finding her identity. And this is before any of the web sleuthing shit is going on.
In his mind, he's just going to email as many people as possible until he finds out who this missing person is. So, Cuts of the Night, January 1998. And Todd has been online for hours looking at random stuff when he comes across a classified ad from a woman who's searching for her missing 24-year-old sister, Barbara Ann Hackman Taylor.
Todd sees the three words, Lexington, 1967, missing, and he knows it's her immediately. So in December 1967, 24-year-old Barbara Ann Hackman was a mother and a waitress. She had married young and then mysteriously disappeared. They thought it was a teenager originally when they found the body missing.
But she's actually 24, which is just another reason why cops... It wouldn't have taken someone amateur to find this person because you're looking for a teenager. You're not going to find someone with totally different statistics. Right, right. You know what I mean? Yeah.
They won't fall into that category for you.
So Matthews arranges to have Tent Girl's body exhumed. And in April 1998, DNA tests prove that Barbara Ann Hackman is Tent Girl.
Wow.
I know. Wow. The family chooses to have Barbara's remains kept in the original spot with the original headstone. They just added a little stone underneath with her real name, nickname, date of birth, presumed date of death, and the inscription loving mother, grandmother, and sister. I know. She's a grandmother at 24? No, I think she had her daughter and now she's a grandmother. Okay. All right.
So he died before Tent Girl was identified. But Barbara's husband, George Earl Taylor, never filed a missing persons report. And he told Barbara's family that she had left him for another man.
Yeah.
All right. So you know how she was fucking found in a tarpaulin. Am I saying that right? That was commonly used by carnival workers to store big tents. Guess what George's job was.
He was an accountant. Was he an accountant? Did he work at REI?
Yes, he was a carnival worker. He died of cancer in October 1987. And I hope he rots in hell.
Good.
Yeah. Good. Glad. Fuck yourself. Fuck yourself.
Isn't that crazy? Like, what is what? There's nothing besides like besides fingerprints that could have like made it more of a like, here's who done it. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, did they... Karen, don't question.
I won't. Did they like tie it back to the carnival he was working at?
No, I just meant like at the time when they found her, did they take that tarpulin or whatever it's called? evidence and then go interview some carnival workers. See what local carnival is in town. And then it could that be the third season of True Detective, this story of like the carnies.
Those are great questions. I was just excited that they put that together, but gosh, I wish they had done that before he died of cancer.
Okay.
Can I do a different story? No. I'm kidding. All right. So, so the ending of this is pretty amazing that Todd Matthews goes on to help create the Doe Network, which which I'm obsessed with. It's an online database containing thousands of profiles for unidentified does. Jane and John does and baby does and amateur sleuths try to connect unidentified bodies with missing people. Amazing.
Like people who are like nurses and fucking janitors and all these crazy people who like are doing this for free in their free time. Just sit there and try to find matching characteristics to get these people.
found and get them you know so is it like web sleuthing where anyone can do it yeah enter the information they started they started regulating it because i think that a lot of um a lot of police were getting annoyed with all the calls they were getting like i think
it's this person I think it's that person so there's like for each each town or each city there's there's like a main person that and it has to go through like a crazy vetting process now so if you're like I think this missing person is this unidentified body they have to like it has to be checked out by like a bunch of people who have been certified by the donut work to do that.
But yeah, you can kind of just like look for, it's almost like that game where you, what was the memory one where you turn over a face and you turn it back over and you have to remember where the face is. It's called memory. Thank you. So he also co-founded NAMUS. I think it's supposed to be NAMUS, but there's no E. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
And another thing they do is they hire people who draw portraits and stuff just for free. We'll take a dead body and sketch out what the face would look like or take a missing person and sketch out what their face would look like now. Oh. And they all do it for free. Wow. It's pretty amazing. Next place where we give money for the t-shirts? I don't know.
We can discuss it.
40,000.
Shit. And that's 2007. Yeah. The National Crime Information Center records nearly 90,000 missing people at any given time. So 40,000 of those unmarked, unidentified people, their websites list 70 successful identity resolutions that the site has assisted with. Oh, that's nice. 36 had occurred within the first five years. And Tent Girl was the first case to be identified by use of the internet.
Wow. Isn't that incredible? Todd Matthews. He just like was an obsessive compulsive with this case. And because of that, so many families have been able to find out what happened to their loved ones. And I'm so fascinated with those stories of like, she left home one day and we thought we'd hear from her again and we didn't. And we don't know if she's alive or not.
She might've just fucking moved on and hated our dad and you know. Right. But then they find, they're like, you know, by the side of the road, this person with this crazy tattoo is found. And why can't we identify this person? And so they put all this stuff in the thing. That's very cool. Yeah. Tent girl. There's a photo of her. It looks a lot like the drawing.
Sad, right? Yeah.
Well, yeah, but it's like the tragedy that something good came out of.
I know.
It's very cool. I know. And also it's nice that idea that like, yeah, that's if you have... It's just so nice for the families. Like that idea of just not knowing is so torturous.
Yeah. Yeah. And I've kind of been wanting to do, I've been thinking a lot lately about like, what can I, how can I volunteer my time in some way that we're, this true crime thing we're doing? And I'm like, you know, do I work for, do I go volunteer for women's shelter or something like that? And this is like, I feel like that's what these people are doing is they're like,
They're not making any money. They have jobs. They don't need them. They just want to help. It's just they're really into these crazy puzzles and piecing these things together and they just do it.
And if you have that specific ability of like you can draw a picture of what they last looked like or whatever, it's like everybody pitching in what their specific talent is.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's very cool.
I like that. So maybe I'll do something like that. And I can't draw, but I can look at tattoos and remember if... they were found on dead bodies or not do it I'm really good at that remembering no I'm not
Yeah. Nice. So that was a short one, but I thought it was important. No, that was cool. I like that it's good information. Yeah.
That's a good one. Totally.
Well, I guess that's it. Yeah. Thank you for listening. Thank you so much. Can you guys, if you rate, review and subscribe on iTunes, that helps us a lot and we appreciate it. And gosh, it's nice having you guys listen in this podcast. Also, Elvis is sitting right in front of Stephen's face because Stephen gave him a cookie last time.
I like that you just said, gosh, gosh, it's nice you listen, everybody.
Gee whiz. Gee whiz. Gee willikers, everybody. Thank you. Thanks. And you know what? Stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Elvis, you want a cookie? Want a cookie?
Whoa.
Bye. Bye.
We're back. Georgia, are there updates for this case?
Yes, there are updates. This is one of those cases I love that there is this tragic story and something beautiful comes out of it because of humans and humanity and... You know, caring about causes that have nothing to do with you and just personalizing them. So I love this story. And I love Todd Matthews. And unfortunately, he passed away earlier this year. He was only 53.
And his contributions to the cyber detective community live on through the Doe Network and NamUs. And there's a article you can check out if you want on Vice called The Pioneering Cyber Detective Who Cracked a 30-Year-Old Cold Case by Sammy Carmella that I recommend. And together, the Doe Network and NamUs have resolved over 65,000 missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons' cases.
Amazing.
Which is incredible. So get involved in that if you're good at sleuthing. I'm not. Yeah.
If you're a person that's interested in true crime, that is an incredible way to actually, you know, do something constructive with this interest and interact and help people out.
Well, yeah, like when I had a boring desk job and didn't do anything, I wish I had known about this. Instead, I was just blogging.
Yeah.
So that doesn't feel as good as like helping find missing people.
You were helping other funky divas in your area. Yeah.
That's all. That's my fucking goal in life and my creed, my creed and my motto.
And here's your other motto is Namaste Sexy, which is the title of this episode.
Yeah. So no more number puns. Thank God.
Yeah, that's right.
And so if we're naming this episode today based on something we said in the episode, would it be trailer spoiler? Which Karen jokes she's going to spoil the trailer of the new JonBenét Ramsey docuseries. Don't spoil. You can't even fucking spoil a trailer these days.
That's right. And then Georgia said, gosh, it's nice. That's so funny. Gosh, it's nice. Because we were thanking listeners for listening to the show. And she said, gosh, it's nice having you guys listen. Was that sarcastic?
No, I hear my gosh is definitely something that has, you know, regularly come out of my mouth. Is that your grandma? Who says that? I don't know. I think it's like quaint and old-timey, and I like it like that. Yeah, it is.
It's nice.
Because I don't care about taking God's name in vain, so why would I? Gosh, it's nice. Gosh, it's nice. I guess, you know what? It's like a humbled thing. I'm just humbled. Gosh. Golly. Yeah. Golly gee. Golly gee. Well, gosh, guys, thanks so much for listening. Gosh, I'd pick that title for the show title because I love it. It's nice. It's nice. And so are you guys. And I appreciate you still.
Gosh. Gosh.
If I was listening right now, I'd turn this off. Stay sexy.
And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie?
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