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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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From MFM Minisode 494Jun 29, 2026

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Switch now for unlimited wireless at a price that'll never go up only at Boost Mobile. After thirty gigabytes, customers may experience slower speeds. Customers will pay twenty five dollars a month as long as they remain active on the Boost Unlimited plan Hey everyone, it's Kell Penn. I'm inviting you to join the best sounding book cllub you've ever heard with my podcast Earsay Audible and IHart Audiobook Club Every episode, I nerd out with amazing guests and dive into the best new audiobooks available on Audible It's the book Club for your ears Listen to Earsay, the Audible and I Heart Audioobook Club On the Arhart Radio apppp or wherever you get your podcasts Hi, it's Karen Georia from My Favor Mur. We cruis around LA in the Hyundai Ionic F and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hetty Lamar. Want the full story? Take a listen. She starts dating Howard Hughes. And in fact, she helps him design a faster plane. So she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. and he calls her a genius. Check out our new episode Spottting groundbreaking innovators like Hed inMR and Billy Jean King. presresented by the Hyundai Ionic Five. Goodbye. Yeah Hello and welcome to my favorite murder mini. That's right, you got it. It's the minie the day before our vacation starts So we are fucking ferrealist shit. We're about to say the hottest takes in content land. Can I go first I love this one? Please do. Oh, I'm trying not to disappoint you or scare you or be so loud that I upset people. Oh This one's called Matthew Shepherd, Romain Patterson, a fucking badass bitch.. Hi, Karen, Georgia and the entire adjacent animal Kingdom. First of all, I was at the Portland Live showhow recently. you guys killed it. It's been so fun listening to recent episodes and catching the little Easter eggs from that night Remember a single thing we said. What are the Easter eggs like? Are they filled with You tell us? Candy egg yogi. We had fifty thousand dollars in cash in that theater. In the theater I'm writing because of your recent episode on Matthew Shepd. You did such a beautiful, respectful job with it, but there is a total badass in the story that I need to make sure is on your radar. Matthew's close friend, Romaine Patterson When the absolute garbage fire that is the Westboro Baptist Church showed up to pick at Matthew's funeral with horrific signs, Romaine said, absolutely not She mobilized a squad of people dressed in massive ten foot tall white angel costumes with giant wings. U oh, she's crying already No, its it's the most brilliant. Yeah, it's the most brilliant way to fight. Just block it. Yeah. ye. block it with with angels. tootally They stood in a line right in front of the protesters silently blocking the hate with their wings. Oh, it must have enraged them so much because it's also like Angels. Yeah. That's exactly what would happen. That It was a brilliant peaceful, visually stunning middle finger called Angel action. And there's photos of it. Look at that. They made these so they're these angel wings that have these like tent po sticking out of the shoulder so that the wings are really high and large and blocking. Yeah, h It's like five foot expanse on either side, so you just cannot see their terrible signs and their horrible faces. It's such a brilliant, quiet, peaceful way to protest monsters Romain wrote an incredible memoir about it called The Whole World Was Watching And her activism and those giant angels became a huge part of the play, the Laramy Project by Moises Kaufman She now hosts a podcast with her close friend and it's hilarious. It's called Derek and Remain. ammazing This is where it gets personal for me. I actually got to be Romaine in the Laramy proroject when I was in high school. Being a part of that play, feeling the weight of the story, and seeing Romaine's fierce love for her friend was the exact catalyst that gave me the courage to come out as a pan woman My high school theater teacher even had her sign a copy of her novel for me when I graduated high school is my most fond memory of high school. Now, I am a teacher in a tiny rural town in southern Oregon, so stories about young people standing up to hate and changing the world through creative resistance mean everything to me. Romain is an absolute legend and her legacy literally changed the trajectory of my life Happy Pride Month, stay sexy and keep fighting the bigots Carolyn MacArthur, she herard Wow. I'm so glad she wrote that because I definitely saw that when I was doing my research and for time how to just say Let's talk about it all It's its own story in itself. And it's beautiful because it's like people know the importance of Rain in that story and so it's like You can't you can't tell it all. R, But it's an integral part of the story. and I'm so glad that emma got s. Also, I love like that The desperation level to have to figure out a creative solution to that horrible protesting and that horrible church And then what has evolved since that time? Yeah. where have you seen the ones where it's just like they'll be that those types of horrible protesters and then someone will just hold a sign next to them that guys These guys are idiots or something like that or like one just like it's so funny. They're They they all say all different things or sometimes they just put them up in front and it just says something random. Yeah. And it's so funny And it makes me think like with stuff like this And I know this seems like off topic, but That's why it's really important for people to go into the arts to know how to write, to know how to act to know how to sing or dance or play an instrument. to see the beauty and life And that the Laramie project can get made by the people who want to make it because they're like, this can't be happening And we're going to do we're going to not just let it sit as a news story, but then tell that story again and again in other ways. So incredible And it's like if anybody's like, oh, AI's gonna to take over that, it's no, no, no, it can't speak for people. The humanity in it is something that cannot be turned into AI. That's right. And On that same note, let me reach you my first email. Okay The subject line of this is Big newews from Petaluma.. It says, Hey there, Karen in Georgia. D one listener writing in with hometown news to share with Karen And Georg For the past few months, there's been a great horned owl that has taken residence on the face of the Circa eighteen eighty five building in downtown Pedaluma. Oh my God. Heard nothing of this My sister's in like the last week of kindergarten. Before they go on summer breaks. so she's not paying attention. Yeah. I have no one on the ground. Okay, tellell me everything I love this She is attracting visitors from near and far who are all concerned for her fledgling chicks Last week, one of the chicks attempted flight and since she's literally in the middle of downtown and there are no large tree branches near the nest, she glided to the sidewalk below see photo attach. Oh my God.. God wait, if you give me one second, I can figure out where the from the child's neck. That's how well I know I have You know what it is. it's it used to be a weird shoe store.u. But I'm pretty sure that's just at the corner of Western P my. It's like a boooo. I love it. She looks like over it She was taken to the local Wildlife Rescue for rehabilitation and flight training, and the folks of downtown have been banding together to create a safe environment for the other baby to make her first trip out of the nest. And it says so pedaling W it Yeah We're a town built on chickens, so we respect birds of all types. My sister and I own a small salon in the building that the owls have nested on. and it has been such a pleasure to have such majestic roommates, even if I am terrified of birds. We've really enjoyed meeting folks from our town and remembering that community and joy is the most important thing in this fucked up world. Next time you're in downtown, give us a wave. We're the ones with the groovy wallpapers. Stay sexy and talk to your neighbors, Maria And she works at Honey Bee Color C collllective in P. I wantan to live in a small town. I mean I guess my neighborhood's kind of small townish, but like surrounded by Los Angeles Right. I want to live in a town like that, small. I had no idea how the level of privilege of just like you know the person that works in that store. You're going. I told you the story of one time Na was getting math tutoring And she her math tutor who's like it's him and his wife that run the place. And he she was done with all her tests and she did really good. So he wass like, oh If you want to walk down, we'll get you an ice cream. So the two of them are walking down Petlomba Boulevard. She's probably eleven or twelve. My sister said she got no less than ten phone calls All the different people child is with a random, not random but a man. To them it was random. Yeah. They're like, I Laura just sawura, it was the fest or just like, yeah, that's really sweet. Nice. Oh wait, there's a PS too. Okay. It says PS, I was a model for the Biobottoms catalog in the early nineties. That's where I worked It was the baby clothing catalog. Yeah. and that Pollly Class's mom was my manager Oh, remember that. Yes. That was like, I flunked out of Sack State, I moved home, got the job at Biobottoms, had to get be there at five thirty every morning And then I was off at one. Oh my God. And that was this weird life I lived before I moved into the city Yeah. person was a biobotoms baby model. Oh my God That's who we got the email from. That's Maria. Look at little Maria in the seaside shorts, soop cotton jersey. Oh I my go. hold on. Maria says, I wonder if that was the time you worked for them as well. 's early nineties it was And then it says many of not all of us were the children that the people who worked there. and my dad was a contractor for the offices at the time. Right. Oh, how cute. I mean, Maria, that was like, she just gave me a little, are you homesick? There' to Oh, that's so cute.. If you wna give me like weekly pedela updates, do not be afraid to write. Yeah We're gonna say haircuts, but that's good. What pettle the hair cuts.'s a palle hair look? It's real high in the back and longong in the front. Some streaks. Let's talk about modern home shopping It's sort of become a fun side hobby, right? Scrolling listings at night, dreaming about kitchens you've never seen or backyards you haven't even stepped foot in All from the comfort of pretty much anywhere Redfin knows a lot of people like you want to own, but are stuck in this browsing mode loop. That's where Redfin flips the script. With listings that update within minutes and tours you can book are right from the Redfin app, you can see your dream home the moment it appears. Now liking a listing is easy, but actually landing it That's where Redfin comes in. Redfin has over two two hundred agents with local expertise. And Redfin agents close twice as many deals as other agents. That means they want to help you win, not just Windowshop. Redfin is built to help you go from just looking to wait, this could actually be home, so become the newest neighbor on the block. Visit reedfin dot com to start finding and start owning. That's redfin dot com Hi, I'm Cindy Crawford, and I'm the founder of meaneingful Beauty Well, I don't know about you, but like I never liked being told, Oh wow, you look so good for your age. Like why even bother saying that? Why don't you just say you look great At any age, every age That's what meaningful Beauty is all about. We create products that make you feel confident in your skin at the age you are now Meaningful Beauty, Beautiful skin at every age. Learn more at meaningfulbeauty. com Why is it always chaos when we link up? Because nobody plants anything, bro. Good thing the Rgue' ready like that. For real, rain, dirt, whatever. Available all wheel drive, five modes we still outside. And they got some kick too. That turbo? Torque is crazy. The most in its class, it moves, moves. Rogue doesn't mess around and peep the space Merch on merch, gear, mics, all the fits. Load up, We out. twenty twenty six Nissan Rogue, built for all of it. Auto Pacific segmentation, twenty twenty six roogue versus latest in market competitors in the XSUV mainstream midsightize class excluding electrical vehicles based on manufactured websites Okay This one's called another fake illness resulting in a hospital visit with a twist. Oh Dearest ladies, I was recently listening to Minisode four hundred and twenty three, where someone shared their story of how they faked blindness and had to go to the hospital when they were thirteen, and it brought back a memory of my own similar story where I took a fake illness way too far I used to takeake sick all the time to get out of school when I was a kid. I did it when I forgot to do my homework, had to give a presentation at school, had detention, or generally didn't feel like going. sameame Looking back, this was probably a symptom of the anxiety that now runs my life as an adult and then shrug emoji Hmm There was one day when I was a young middle schooler that I knew I needed to really sell it. I had already faked being sick a couple times that week and I knew my mom wasn't going to fall for it this time. So I had the idea to crush up some Cerios and drop some food coloring into the toilet to make it look like I had thrown a genius They write. Thinking it looked perfect, I went out, told my mom I had thrown up and showed her the evidence, thinking there was no way she could deny me my day off My mom took one look at it and immediately put me in the car to go to the hospital because the food coloring made it look like I had thrown up blood. Oh The instinct to grab the little red dropper. Right A little red, a little yellow. You can't be that good at getting out of school. C it says, Well, shit. Also I wonder if her mom was like, I know this is food coming. Let's see how first she'll take this. Like at what point is she gonna let's scare the shit out of her. Yeah. It's nothing worse than. Not good. Okay Well, shit. At the hospital and doctors decided to x ray my esophagus with one of those tube things that they put on your throat by way of your mouth The anxious kid I was, and then it says, A I said not a word to anyone that I was totally faking the entire time and went through with it They had to put me under for this procedure and I still said nothing. Oh my God. So my luck, they found something It turned out that I did have a tear in my esophagus I remember it was nothing major. I just had to take a very nasty tasting medicine, the texture of thick milk, vomit emoji. But if that was my punishment for getting away with lying, so be it But she wasn't lying or they weren't lying because There was something wrong. That's why she didn't want to go to school. Maybe M she knew something there and just the messaging wasn't accurate. You're very generous just saying we have anxiety for a fucking re. No, you're right. Y body' always just like, oh, it's crazy. I have this reaction.'s Yeah, yourour body knows stuff. You have anxiety and like tearing your esophagas. Your brain is trying to go something's wrong downstairs and then you're just like, I'm so crazy. It's like The adults are supposed to catch it, but they really don't give a shit most of the time Coughing really hard, maybe?. Everyone let us know. how do you esophagus doctors, how do you tear an esophagus Anyway. O ACDC song? Over two decades later, I have never told the story to anyone, but now that I know I'm not alone in this kind of stupidity, it feels like a good time to get it off my chest. You didn't tell your mom? I think that the fact that we're the first that they've told We should send them like a sweatshirt or something. Yeah. becausecause that's huge to admit something that you were like, you fucked up. You had surgery. Her name is B, just the letter B. B. I love you, ladies, dearly, stay sexy and stick to your story. You might just get away with it. Be. How did you get away with it? You went under you had surgery. Just she kept yes ending her own fucking mistake. She's like No matter what. As long as I'm not in school. R. It's fine. Yeah I could be having major surgery., I'd rather do that than be in school. Send us your years later confessions. I fucking love those. Yeah, it's genius. A my favorite murder at G Mail. Years later confessions. Yeah. Also because Be's mom. can't be mad because there was something. S wrong. And you're right. Maybe it was like Yeah, six sinel Inincts. There was no ghost in her esophagus. It was She had a haunted throat Okay This one, the subject line is canan't find a Gh Find a Costco employee. Okay. Hey, hey, hey I'm starting to write this as my sixth grade students are doing a short written response after watching a video about Hazel Ying Li First heard on MFM episode five and thirty one I live in Hood River about forty five minutes outside of Portland. Wow. Awesome. Local hero When I was about sixteen years old, I was in Costco with my mom and friend. While working our way around the store, I felt the two men were very consistently behind us I didn't give it much of a second thought because it was there's a certain flow to Costco and maybe we started our journey at the same time in place. one hundred percent. R? one hundred percent. You're like, no, no one needs a TV. Everyone go Yeah, it's like a It's a really slow like oh, it's like a what are those laps? L lazy river It's a lazy river It's the shopping laazy river. It feels so good. Do you need a sweathirt? We can Aamble over this way? This way. so mindless and nice. Okay. It's really nice. There's one very close to here. Yes, sir Okay However, my mom was an OG murderino. I grew up watching in parentheses, I grew up watching forty eight hours, datelinine, Snap, etcetera. She and Brian Williams taught me how to determine if you're being followed. After circling back, weaving through the baby clothes, granola bars and flowers, they were still behind me I caught back up with my friend who immediately grabbed my arm and said, Those guys were looking for you. saying, She's wearing a blue polka dot dress. I indeed was wearing a blue polka dot dress After a short meeting of the minds, now including my mom, Gina Yes, Gina Is Gina allowed to have her own cigarette in Costco just because she's that special. She's She's a shidy. She's just like,' me, Jane I got I gotta shop, I gott to get some stuff done. I gotta smoke. I'm not putting this thing out We decided we needed to keep them in our eyesight to ensure we weren't in theirs. Once we saw them go to the checkout, we were in the clear Or so we thought. We got into the line and as it is our turn, we see them waiting on the other side near the tire center, staring I was creeped the fuck out Not wanting to be forced towards them, I informed the Costco employeee scanning my items. He, understanding the assignment, casually looked over and said, Whoa, that is so creepy He did this a few more times mentioning Wow, they're just staring you down. He ultimately said he would walk us to our car. Then he said better idea And then he came back with the single largest man I have ever seen in my life. I A giantant. A giant at Costco. W. Have I died and gone to heaven I mean, he could have been the mountain in the Game of Thrones He was now our designated escort to the car The original cashier went over to the men to distract them, talk with them, and he ended up walking them to their car while our gentle giant walked us to ours. He hid our license plate from view, packed all of our things into our cars all while keeping one eye on those men. Again, repeatedly calling them creeps and instructing us to take back roads home. And if it looks like we're being followed, call nine hundred eleven immediately and do not go home, just keep driving. Oh my God. Separate line. J another reason to add Costco as a safe space. And then it says my true crime loving mom sadly passed away. Oh, Gina's gone. Gina She sadly passed away in twenty eighteen from a rare autoimmune disease called scleroderma She was a trusted adult for all of our friends, the sweetest lady who everyone loved, and she had the best tim. That's what she said Oh A mom, that's what she said. Are you kidding me? That's the only person who can do it and not. with their cigarette set me up Hey, that Calm down and you're going too deep That's what she said. S know Sorry I wasn't ready. through do it again Gt you just to do it. That's what she said I think she'd feel a smug, ye. And that's what he said That's what she said, Okay She was my best friend. I miss her constantly. Stay sexy and find a Costco worker if you can't find a goth, Sammy. Amazing. So good, Sammy. amazing job Yeah Let's talk about modern home shopping It's sort of become a fun side hobby, right? Scrolling listings at night, dreaming about kitchens you've never seen or backyards you haven't even stepped foot in All from the comfort of pretty much anywhere Redfin knows a lot of people like you want to own, but are stuck in this browsing mode loop. That's where Redfin flips the script. With listings that update within minutes and tours you can book are right from the Redfin app, you can see your dream home the moment it appears. Now liking a listing is easy, but actually landing it That's where Redfin comes in. Redfin has over two two hundred agents with local expertise. And Redfin agents close twice as many deals as other agents. That means they want to help you win, not just Windowshop. Redfin is built to help you go from just looking to wait, this could actually be home, so become the newest neighbor on the block. Visit reedfin dot com to start finding and start owning. That's redfin dot com Hi, I'm Cindy Craword, and I'm the founder of Meingful Beauty Well, I don't know about you, but like I never liked being told, Oh wow, you look so good for your age. Like why even bother saying that? Why don't you just say you look great At any age, every age That's what meaningful Beauty is all about. We create products that make you feel confident in your skin. age you are now. Meaningful Beauty, beautiful skin at every age. Learn more at meaningfulbeauty. com Why is it always chaos when we link up? Because nobody plants anything, bro. Good thing the Rgue's ready like that. For real, rain, dirt, whatever. Available all wheel drive, five modes we still outside. And they got some kick too. That turbo? Torque is crazy. The most in its class, it moves, moves. Rogue doesn't mess around and peep the space Merch on merch, gear, mics, all the fits. Load up, We out. twenty twenty six Nissan Rogue buuilt for all of it. Auto Pacific segmentation, twenty twenty six Rogue versus latest in market competitors in the XSUV mainstream midsidize class, excluding electrical vehicles based on manufactured websites Okay, here's my last one. Okay. July fourth Fishing poole Is it about to be the fourth fuck? When this comes out, it's about to be the fourth fucking cry I know MyFM team, my parents, Mark and Joy Christians live out in the country on a big plot of land with a beautiful pond

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