My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - 190 - Lick The Clock
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Hello.
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And welcome.
To my favorite murder.
That's Georgia Hardstar.
That's Karen Calguera.
And we're here to do a podcast for you.
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Can you?
Well, don't press pause now.
Yeah, you might as well.
Just keep going.
Keep going.
We're going to talk about stuff that has nothing to do with true crime for a while.
Carry you, like in the sand, like how your friend Jesus did.
Yes, my best friend Jesus.
If you see two sets of footsteps, it's because it's me and Karen.
And we're walking next to Jesus, who has you on his back.
And he's flying.
And he can fly.
Welcome.
Welcome to a podcast.
That's this podcast.
I might as well just go right into Corrections Corner for last week.
Do you mind?
Or is there anything you'd like to talk about first?
Listen, I get so comfortable in Corrections Corner.
It's like my cozy little spot.
That's my life.
I call it home.
First and foremost, I would like to apologize because I referred to, I made a funny reference
to a lock-in last week, which is a thing that used to happen when I was in high school,
where you'd go to and basically sleep in the gym because it was like super spring week
or whatever.
It was like a dance.
And then you'd spend the night.
And they'd lock you in.
And you'd be like, all the seniors.
Boys and stuff.
Yeah.
It'd be amazing.
Well, I called it a lockdown because it's 2019 and I haven't been to school in a while.
And that just goes to show how horrifying the gun situation is in this country, how recent
it is that it is not in my wheelhouse, it's an easy mistake to make and I didn't hear
it.
And the person who corrected me was so nice about it, wrote a lovely email that was like,
I know this was a mistake, but you should also realize that it's this bad thing we all
live with these days.
Teenagers and young children are dealing with that the parents and I just can't even imagine
either being a kid right now and going to school or being a parent of a child right
now.
I mean, it's, you know, we have nieces and nephews and it's horrifying.
It's horrifying.
My apologies.
I didn't even hear it.
And hey, let's get some gun control when, when the country stops spinning out, we get
a hold of everything.
Yeah.
Let's fix stuff.
Let's fix it.
Let's make it so.
Children of tomorrow.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
We support you.
Okay.
Should I do the next one?
Absolutely.
So I did last week, the story of the real life orphan is what I called it, the Natalia
Grace story.
And the first thing I heard was a tweet from someone who said, you can't talk, talk about
a story that's only sources the Daily Mail.
So we looked it up and on Reddit, people are talking about it and there's other articles
about it.
And essentially a user named SkyblueOcean, SKYE, wrote this, it's critical to understand
that Christine Barnett, the ex adoptive mother of the adopted child, sold her story to the
Daily Mail shortly after she and her ex husband got arrested and charged by the police.
This appears to be deliberate behavior by Christine as an attempt to generate a sympathy
and to provoke the public to be on her side prior to her trial.
Not only is this indicative of careful planning, but her sudden act of presence on media regarding
this case is highly suspicious.
Is this an attempt to lessen, avoid and or delay the date of her trial and perhaps put
some of the blame on her ex husband?
That's just a question that that user was asking.
Again, this is Reddit, so apparently Natalia Grace has been found, she has been living
with new adoptive parents in Indiana and the family she's now with maintains that she's
currently 16 years old, which means that she would have been a child in 2003.
That's according to an article from Jezebel.com.
And from thecut.com, police say, this is a quote, police say that bone density tests
carried out on Natalia in 2010 showed that Natalia was eight years old then and that
at 2012 tests showed that she was around 11.
So if this is true, that would mean that the Barnets lied when they said the bone density
test proved that Natalia was an adult.
So this story is even worse than I thought it was when I first read it and good lesson
to learn of if something has a single source.
And that should be interesting to see if we learn anything further from that.
And just kind of on that, on the heels of that, this just broke today that Prince Harry
and Princess Meghan Markle are suing the Daily Mail.
Oh, it's one of those.
Is it one of those you like sent a drone into our backyard and now we have to move?
Yes, they actually published a private letter that she sent to her estranged father.
So apparently the estranged father, I don't know, sold the letter to the Daily Mail.
So I just thought that was kind of funny timing that I just saw that this afternoon.
Well, speaking of England in the UK, you guys can get tickets for a couple of the shows,
have some tickets left.
Just the most seamless transition.
I'm good at this.
No, yeah, you really are.
I'm getting better and better and worse and worse and that's that way too.
Manchester on November 22nd has tickets Glasgow on the 23rd has a little more a couple more
tickets.
I think Dublin on the 25th has a few more and London on the 28th has a couple more too.
So yeah, we're not entirely sold out for that very brief UK and Ireland tour.
So also my favorite weekend is like a month away.
Yes, it's going to be so good.
So good and Santa Barbara November 1st and 2nd.
We'll see you guys there.
There's still tickets available.
Go to myfavorweekend.com I have a like an addition to corner.
So a couple of people after I did the triangle short waist fire factory fire last week talked
about the dire conditions in factories in the US until you know this happened and things
got better ish someone a couple of people pointed out to me that you can you should still
be learning about ethical clothing production around the world because it is really awful
in certain parts of the world.
So to learn about fast fashion and ethical clothing production there's a hashtag called
who made my clothes and it just in on Instagram it just has some details about what you're
buying you know who's making your clothes what what's happened to the workers and it's
just an important thing and I I want to make sure everyone knows that I know that you know
this isn't fixed.
No, so no not at all.
Yeah.
I wanted to know like further information further reading all of that stuff on these
topics.
Definitely.
We do love to hear about it.
Yeah.
It's fun to learn.
Yeah.
Everybody.
Learning.
Are we going to talk at all about other podcasts we've been listening to or anything?
What?
Yeah.
I do.
Tell me what happened on do you need a ride last week?
Or this week?
Are we going to do exactly right first?
Oh wait.
What did you mean?
Oh I actually just had a podcast I can't stop listening to.
Oh my god tell me I need one I'm ready to go.
You may have listened to it already because I don't think it's brand new.
Okay.
So it's a podcast called culpable.
Yeah.
It's the first season.
Did you listen to it?
Which one is it?
It's the first season is about the murder of Christian Andreaquio and his basically his
mother's one woman crusade to get because it was one of those things where it was ruled
a suicide pretty much immediately and then the city of Meridian would not take the case
back up and it's been broken.
This story keeps getting broken publicly.
Crime Watch Daily did a story about it and now they made this podcast and on the podcast
you basically are there as it's becoming more and more public and well known.
Oh is it so frustrating and it's angering and all this stuff?
It's yes and it's but it is also it's one of those things like when you know this is
something that when you like true crime you're kind of in it a lot and so I think we take
I definitely take it for granted a lot.
This woman's son was murdered and she has an entire town telling her not only was he not
murdered he commits suicide but drop it and no one listening to her and she just hasn't
let up and has not dropped it and has basically diligently worked to try to solve it and it's
so inspiring and beautiful and just this example of what people can get done if they like stick
to it and believe in every single person that comes in to start looking at the case to you
know help an expert or these podcasters or whatever.
Every single person is like oh my god this story this has to be solved this has to be
we have to figure out what really happened and it's just amazing listening it's beautifully
produced I think it's Payne Lindsay's production company it's really well done I'm gonna check
it out it's called culpable I'm just in season one right now I think they have a couple other
seasons okay I'll check it out but I'm thrilled for them that it's such good work I love it
I need a new one yeah what's going on in your other podcast there it is again it's a beautiful
transition into the exactly right TV guide time exactly right network we have the per
cast of course Stephen Ray Morris's podcast and our friend Deanna Rooney is on it this
week talking about the race for the rescues that she's doing on October 12th that I love
that we're sponsoring her yeah in the race it's really awesome is it actually like a
long race Stephen it's like a 5k or something I think there's a 5k a 10k like a 1k and you
can bring your dogs I don't think there I don't think there's any cats running I would
hope not it's actually a bull run like a bull run of cats it's gonna be great it's really
angry cats yeah that's exciting yeah and then who's and then you guys do a Q&A on
Do You Need A Ride?
On Do You Need A Ride we drove around and answered people's questions that Stephen got
from the internet and we did it for so long that I drove into and passed Alhambra I don't
know what I did but we were so far away because usually we just kind of like drive around Glendale
and Burbank or whatever we were deep into into the what is that the San Gabriel Valley
what do you call that area I don't even know just we're no we were like like further east
than the east side yes we went past the east side and then we were in and kind of passed
Alhambra it was fascinating we took pictures learning your city yeah really it was I don't
know how I did it but I was truly lost I had no idea where I was that's how you that's
how you know it's a if you like listening to people get lost in the car and answer questions
about like do you want to fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses I mean
we really get into that stuff that's a good one yeah that's a great question yeah it's
one horse-sized duck yes it is okay that's the correct answer I knew it yeah and then
of course Murder Squad this week they had they did a really super important indigenous
women episode about the you know missing and murdered indigenous women and that would
be an insane rate they go missing and murdered yeah and just bringing attention to that and
again we tease us all the time but they're more coming and we can't wait yeah to tell
you what they are yeah and then the fall line and this podcast will kill you check out there
they're on hiatus for the season but you can catch up now and they'll have new season soon
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Amazon music or Wondery app um am I first this week yep okay this kind of this is similar
to the one I did last week but different and it's one of my favorite stories to tell at
parties to to seem like I'm really excited about something and then people realize what
I'm excited about is something morbid and horrible okay and do they still want to be
friends with me right it's the ultimate test yeah or do they say oh I gotta go have a cigarette
and walk away and you're like yeah come with you um so this is the story of the radium
girls oh it's so good this is like yeah next level it's so similar and while I was working
on the triangle short waste factory fire I was like I should do the radium girls didn't
expect to do it so quickly but sometimes you just do it this is well it's fun to do things
that you get excited about yeah it's a good it's a good way to follow right this was like
really easy for me to do because I know it and I love it yes um tried to do it for drunk
history but I think they got someone else to do it so thank you Derek Waters no I'm
kidding I love him um okay so I got a lot of information from a CNN article by uh Jaco
P. Price Prisco I'm sure I got that wrong a BuzzFeed article called the forgotten story
the radium girls by Kate Moore an article today I found out.com by David Hiskey and
the book the radium girls the dark story of America's shining women by Kate Moore so
oh she also wrote that article the BuzzFeed article yeah I wonder if they if they went
ahead and just took parts of her book and then made an article about it and they did
so aside from the radium girls by Kate Moore there's two books that I fucking adore that
have some of this info and like if you're into this shit more um so The Poisoner's Handbook
is a really incredible book by Deborah Blum and The Disappearing Spoon which I've listened
to fucking so many times by Sam Keane K-E-A-N um it's it's true tales of madness love and
history in the world from the periodic table of elements so like every fucking element
has some insane story behind it and he tells them all oh that's such a good way to learn
and it's a really great and I listened to both of them and they're great on audiobook
too very cool yeah so okay let me tell you real quick about radium great radium is a
radioactive chemical element Karen George's eyes just got so big they've always been
big just like did you know Karen it was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie oh yeah you
know and okay so this is at a time when like the x-ray had just been discovered um this
is all like brand new fucking crazy like radiation that just been discovered so this is all really
exciting and new five years after they discovered it um it won and they won a Nobel Prize in
physics for their discovery making Marie the first woman to win a Nobel Prize hell yes
Marie yes good job but not for this one because this one sucks yeah okay it was quickly put
to use as cancer treatment and that fact the fact that it was used to treat cancer made
people believe it could be used as an all healing health like tonic they're just like
great let's use it in the same way that people are like heroin let's put it in baby formula
it makes me so quiet when did they do that and then like turn of the century like heroin
and cocaine we're like drugs you could buy in little like medicine things we're like
yes i swear no no no i believe you okay put a picture of a little bottle of heroin like
it says heroin put a pep in your step i swear sleep sleep sound little baby with your heroin
bottle sleep like a baby when you put your baby on heroin okay so uh it was all the rage
because they were like this is the fucking like literally the pep in your step um it
was used as an additive in a bunch of everyday products like toothpaste cosmetics high end
spas that we always talk about use it in their waters they had like radium radium waters
oh dude yeah it was added to beverages and even butter and it was like it was touted
as this fucking like snake oil tonic because they didn't know how it worked yet so so why
not have everyone drink it just use it then drink it up some really rich people even
got it injected into them i'm serious i believe you i live in los angeles i injected right
into their forehead i have a face of botox who am i to fucking speak you know um radioactive
tonics began to be used for any ailment including fever gout and constipation as well as any
issue the sufferer needed an extra pep from like fatigue and impotence oh it was kind
of like whoop you know here we go jazzy right up um they called it liquid sunshine and actually
because it stimulates the red blood cells it actually does give an illusion of health like
rosy cheeks so it does like people are like it's working yeah you know yeah and then their
cheeks explode yeah really then the cheeks fall off right red and then all right um it
becomes the new wonder drug it's the most expensive substance in the world at the time
costing the equivalent of 2.2 million per gram in today's money holy shit i don't know how
much cocaine is but i'm guessing it's not that much no it really isn't okay not the
kind i get what you don't pay for cocaine stop it i get it free all my dealers love
to crime but one of the most successful radian products um was the radialuminescent paint
that was made from it so look i'm not getting into the fucking deets of the science and
shit please don't this isn't about that we don't do it here no um so basically they made
this luminescent paint which worked by converting the radiation into light through a fluorescent
chemical and it provided a pale glowing paint so think of that this halloween when you see
glow in the dark shit you know what it makes you think of is my grandma's clock that's
exactly it right that's the that's the the she have an old-timey clock uh yeah i mean
i i don't think it was true radium but it was like the kind of thing where you'd wake
up in mullin night and that would be the only light in the room it might if it was made
before nineteen like sixty eight it could have been radium oh shit yeah no wonder we're
also fucked up yeah man the heroine um you'd always make us touch this clock the clock
what why don't you want to lick the clock do it karen three three the paint was used
for clock hands and instrument dial so that's like that was the biggest um most exciting
use of them it enabled like watches and pocket watches and clocks and shit to be right in
the dark which there weren't pocket lights or pocket watch lights at the time you know
like this is you had this is the only way they could be right at night sorry had they
still not invented pocket lights because what a time to live what do you mean cell phones
the true dark ages literally the dark ages literally but they had heroin at least the
dark part dark dark pocket ages so close um so okay this is one of my favorite facts is
like the reason this became popular the watch is being illuminated is because during world
war one when military maneuvers required precise synchronization they needed those lights those
watches to light up at night and in the dark trenches and they needed it to happen without
the enemy spotting them and like you know shining a fucking torch on their like on their watch
and at the time wristwatches was for like ladies mostly but during the world war one they became
popular with men and soldiers um so once the war was over soldiers came back with these
fucking newfangled wristwatch slash illumination watchy times and everyone lost their shit like
I fucking need that I need that that's right um need to lay a lay in bed at night not sleeping
and staring at my watch exactly yeah light pollution man it's a real bitch the dial so
basically um the every little number and every little line and second line and hand the hands
and shit were all painted with this illuminating paint guys you get it so it's shown all the
time didn't require charging and sunlight everyone was like this is fucking magic yeah now we
have heroin cocaine and fucking nice watches and time and time and just at time anytime
we want to look at it that's right we're living truly living truly madly also smoking was
healthy back there yeah what a time and now we're vaping I'm vaping I should say I'm
vaping stop vaping and I have Botox my face oh but speaking of sorry sidebar go even sends
me a fucking we should post this Steven sends me a picture of a vape the other day and goes
is this yours did you leave it at the studio and I'm like no it's not my fucking vape
Steven I think I am I took a real gamble with two I texted first yes I am proud that I was
not the first person to be texted so Matt I was like fuck no what did I write you I
was so mad I think you were just like hell no and then you were like do you think it's
Georgia's I just didn't answer just like you picked me as a vapor first I'm on I feel
like Tori spelling right now I'm just like Donna I'm like Donna Martin graduates I don't
get picked for the vape this is a buck and best I seem like an innocent girl but really
I'm stealing I'm I don't even know who I am then because Jesus Christ I was just like
to have I ever vaped in front of you Steven I dare you I am not a fucking DJ get away
stop making fun of me was it really oh yeah it's CVD and just a smooch of THC oh I thought
you figured that out oh shit am I allowed to announce the AI vape and and but you please
don't do that because it's gonna kill you it's so bad for your lungs I know I know okay I'm
trying not to you just rub the cream on your arms you'll be fine thank you it's my son
of a bitch Steven and I was so nice about your haircut I got the text and I was like
god damn it okay oh my god I literally thought it was gonna be like who's someone left their
baby Billy Jensen he stays up at night solving crimes and vaping at his desk he's like a detective
it's not so cool modern one of the factories to produce these watches that we were talking
about opens in Orange New Jersey in 1916 so it's like they had gotten the military contract
to make the these luminescent watches for soldiers so like that's a big deal they're
called the U.S. Radiant Corporation and they hire about 70 women and girls some of the
youngest 14 it's the same situation as a triangle or short waist factory where you know young
girls worked and they worked in these big you know factories all set up together but
it was actually a well-paid glamorous job and like the girls who got and I'm gonna say
girls a lot and I know I mean young women but just please bear with me it was a glamorous
job it was it paid three times as much as a regular factory job okay it was and then
also they were listed as artists in their town directories so it was like kind of a
prestigious job nice yeah and they told their friends and sisters and they all got hired
for it as well so like everyone was stoked on this fucking position it was quote the
elite job for the poor working girls it paid more than three times the average factory
job and what so if you're making five bucks an hour and suddenly you're making like it
was like 15 to 18 it's bananas and they got to work with radium which in their minds were
like it was like the healthy fucking tonic it was it was like that vitamin C stuff that
you pour in water when you go on a plane that's right that actually doesn't do anything except
for make you feel better that's right that's just harrowing Karen okay and they soon became
known as radium girls and they ranked in the top five percent of female workers nationally
and eventually an estimated 4,000 workers were hired by corporations in the U.S. and
Canada a lot of them were U.S. radium corporation workers to paint watch faces with radium between
1917 and 1926 so this was a big fucking career move for women can I give you an prediction
that I have for this story okay by the end of the story the U.S. radium corporation is
going to change their name okay so this is at a time when women are slowly gaining financial
freedom the boys are all away at war so they can have these fucking awesome jobs and this
is like the best one and it's a time of growing female empowerment so this is like changing
the way women live and work and it's an important step in it except it's radium so well another
perk of the radium paint that it made everything it touched shimmer and glow in the dark so
after work so like they turn the lights off and they sprinkle it on their heads and dance
in it they'd wear their fanciest dresses to work so that it can glow and after work they
go to the speakeasies they go to the dance halls and they'd be the glowing girls and
they'd look you know effervescent but I bet you they were like so thrilled it was like
they got to be a part of the new way of something and it's like you go out and it's like oh
that must be one of those girls who has that fucking tits job yes I'm gonna go borrow seven
dollars from her that's right that's what I would be thinking it's a fortune and the
radium dust was in the factory air itself it was like glowing so they even rubbed it
on their teeth like freak each other out and they painted their nails with it to make them
glow as well they became known as ghost girls because they would be walking home and in
the dark and just be fucking glowing they're the first gods oh yeah yeah they blow their
noses and their tissues would glow that's like my sister sorry but my sister texted me one
time and she's like I just blew my nose and glitter came out because I teach kindergarten
so I love that that's exactly what that is so here's the thing though obviously that's
all bad because now we know radium is fucking toxic but they didn't at the time and the
technique they'd been taught to get these teeny tiny numbers on wristwatches painted
small enough the tiny dials which sometimes were only three point five centimeters wide
was called lip pointing after painting each number the girls were instructed to slip the
tip of this teeny tiny paintbrush between their lips to make it a fine point so you'd
paint the one lip point you'd paint the two yeah let me go through the dial count me up
to 25 have you been fucking with my babe you know conceptually yes so it was known as a
lip dip paint routine so with every digit the girls swallowed a little bit of radium and
the women were not stupid they were like yo is this fucking safe and the managers were
like no it's totally safe it'll put a rosy glow in your cheeks it's fine even though
the like big wig men were wearing like fucking lead you know jackets to work with it and
we're very careful with it and probably I'm sure already knew that it was you know when
did they when did they truly know pretty good question pretty early on I would say yeah
so and it's only a 20 year old element 20 year old element so like what do you know
even if they knew they didn't know the long-term effects of it at all yeah but just like vaping
just it's almost exactly the same shit in fact Marie Curie herself had suffered radiation
burns from handling her own fucking finding yeah and Pierre Curie had once said that he
would not want to be in a room with pure radium because he believed it would burn all the skin
off his body destroy his eyesight and quote probably kill him but they're like no but
put those fucking pain brush chips in your mouth yeah as you can imagine since it's
fucking radioactive the women's started to experience side effects of fucking unknowingly
feeding themselves radium pretty quickly in the early 20s 1920s some of the radium girls
started developing symptoms like chronic exhaustion tooth and jaw pains even stillborn birth 22
year old Molly Magia M H E G I A Magia Magia or Magia yeah she had had to quit her job
at the radium factory because of the aching pain in her limbs that were so agonizing that
they eventually left her unable to walk and that's in the early 1920s and this job wasn't
that old so she had been erroneously diagnosed with rheumatism and had been prescribed only
aspirin at first but quickly she had lost most of her teeth that was the thing was that
the teeth would come out and in their place on these agonizing ulcers would grow and the
teeth would just come out and then her entire lower jaw and the roof of her mouth and even
some of the bones of her ears were said to be one large abscess oh yeah and this is after
a couple years of this so her entire lower jaw bone had become so brittle that her doctor
removed it simply by lifting it out oh my god yeah this is like bad news intense yeah
her jaw bone was found to be riddled with teeny these teeny tiny holes and this is
because the body actually treats radium as calcium substitute so it you know absorbs
like it would absorb calcium it absorbs radium into the bone right but instead of strengthening
the bones like calcium radium kills off the bone tissue but the women weren't yet aware
of the culprit of course that's because the specialist who'd begun to help the women who
were suffering Dr. Frederick Flynn of Columbia University after declaring there was absolutely
nothing wrong with them he turned out not to be a licensed physician but a toxicologist
working for the very radium factory that the women worked for the U.S. Radium Corporation
boo and the man who was introduced as his colleague was actually a vice president there
as well so they were like you know we're doctors you're fine don't worry about it
oh yeah yeah horrible so the U.S. Radium Corporation also paid off local doctors and dentists to
tell the women that they were sufferings from syphilis and partly like they told them they
were suffering from syphilis and it was also like shaming them to not talk about it yeah
shut up and that was being written on their charts and written as eventually their cause
of death which was shameful to the family and they could use it against them in court if
they had to later down the road what's what a fucking dastardly move this is only a hundred
years ago it's that's not that long ago guys so when the girls started dying from their
radium poisoning first with Maggie on September 12 1922 she's just 24 years old the list of
cause of death is syphilis 18 year old Grace Fryer she had started to work as a dial painter
on April 10th 1917 just four days after the U.S. had joined World War One she wanted to
do all she could to help with the war effort which I think a lot of women getting these
jobs but they were you know doing all they could yeah but by the time Maggie had died
Grace Fryer too was having trouble with her jaw and suffering pains in her feet and so
were her colleagues and their legs broke underneath them their spines collapsed like these were
they were bedridden and soon more were dying oh my god yeah the United the U.S. Radiant
Corporation denied any responsibility for the deaths for almost two years but when their
bottom line was threatened by the shrinking sales due to the rumors that were spreading
about the dangers of radium so finally people aren't like buying it anymore and then like
all right we gotta do something yeah in 1924 they commissioned an expert to look into the
rumored link between the dial painting profession and the women's deaths the independent study
confirmed the link between the radium and the women's illnesses but instead of accepting
the findings and making the the changes that had been suggested thank you the company paid
for new studies that published the opposite conclusion and they also lied to the Department
of Labor which had begun investigating about the verdict of the original report bastards
totally so in 1925 a doctor named Harrison Mertland devised tests that proved once and
for all that radium had poisoned the women fucking finally Mertland discovered that when
radium was used internally even a tiny amount the radium had essentially honeycombed the
women's bones oh my god like what a so dark so dark it's so dark in 1925 grace fryer her
spine was essentially crushed and she had to wear a steel back brace she decided to sue
finally US radium corporation but she would spend two years searching for just a lawyer
who was willing to help her that's like two years of that but she said quote it is not
for myself I care I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this may serve as
an example yes because remember there's like four thousand of these workers out there and
like it's as you said just the beginning of this kind of empowerment or when we're like
I can have a job I can get paid decently yeah like all these ideas where it's almost like
this is the you know yeah they could interpret it as like oh this is what I get for trying
to leave the kitchen essentially so it's like thank god and yeah and it is the thing of
like these women stood up to shipping unfair like it's straight up like that's not fair
it's like basic fucking fairness it's not yeah it's not only not fair you you must be
psychopaths do this and then try to justify it totally and lie about it yeah exactly
so other women's legs were shortened and they spontaneously fractured oh sometimes the moment
a woman realized she even had radium poisoning was when she caught sight of herself in a
mirror in the middle of the night as the radium had embedded itself in her bones and had caused
them to glow from the inside out oh she walked by a mirror see herself glowing and be like
fuck and like all of her fucking friends and co-workers were dying they literally were
and falling apart yeah so by then Dr. Marlin had also found that the poisoning was fatal
because there was no way to remove the radium from your body so Grace was finally able to
find a lawyer named Raymond Berry who along with Grace and four fellow workers Catherine
Schaub, Edna Hussman, Quinta McDonald and Albana Larice accepted their case in 1927
wow yeah they were seeking $250,000 in damages which is about 3.4 million today good but they
wanted to just fucking pay their increasing medical bills they wanted they couldn't work
so they wanted money for that and eventually they needed the money for their own funerals
and they knew it it's not fucking horrific yes that you need you're suing this company
because you need money for your own funeral which is probably right around the corner
yeah so keep in mind that some of the women are still employed at the fucking factory
but even with a lawyer they had a huge fight ahead of them due to the two-year there was
a two-year statute limitations on occupational poisoning which is like who passed that law
yeah and so most of the girls didn't start to get sick from radium poisoning until at
least five years after they started work so that was already gone by the time they fucking
realized they were even sick yeah and the rich and powerful radium corporations of course
had to fight them and the fact that they had to fight a legal battle that necessitated
the overturning of an existing legislation which is huge like it's not just like I'm
suing based on this it's I need to turn this over so I have the right to sue yeah crazy
but grace was the daughter of a union delegate and she had chutzpah badass totally by now
the fight had become internationally famous and there were all these people who were on
the women's side and couldn't believe this was happening and there were a lot that were
like this is starting to be during the downturn of the Great Depression and so they were
like you know some people were against them because they were like don't fight the people
who are giving you jobs which is ridiculous yeah well and and it's very much like keep
people in power who will kill you for money right exactly yeah we just need jobs no matter
what they are no no so the US radium corporation of course wanted to delay the trial as much
as possible with the hope that all the women in the case would die before the outcome would
be reached oh wow yeah so they just kept you know being like our executives are on vacation
for months and they kept calling these long recesses for like months and months and I
think that was pissing a lot of the public off because they could tell what was happening
oh so they kind of rallied around the women in fact by the time that women finally appeared
in court to testify in January of 1928 none of them were able to raise their arms to take
the oath oh my god and two were bedridden and these are young women these are young
fucking women as some of the women had just been given four months to live and the company
seemed intent on dragging out the legal legal proceedings the case was finally settled in
the women's favor in 1928 and it became a milestone of occupational hazard law and raised
the profile of radium poisoning just as Grace had wanted that was her whole fucking point
she I think she knew she wasn't going to survive and all by 1927 more than 50 women had died
as a direct result of radium paint poisoning and despite denials of any fault by the US
radium corporation after the lawsuit they and other factories that dealt with radium
laced paint they changed the working conditions quickly I think they were like realizing this
was going to be fucking bad they they banned the lip pointing so you couldn't put the brush
okay good thank you telling us to do it now you don't want us to do it great and they
gave them protection protective clothing to minimize exposure and after these simple changes
were instituted which actually had been suggested and ignored years before by that independent
study the health issues among dial painters quickly went away and it's it's likely that
at least some of them still got cancer later in life as a result of working with the radium
paint right but significantly lower amounts by the time Grace's of Grace's settlement
the dangers of radium were publicly known people stop fucking bathing and drinking in
it buttering their toast with it or whatever the fuck health toast yeah more women sued
and the radium companies appealed several times but in 1939 the supreme court rejected
the last appeal so finally that happened the survivors received compensation and the death
certificates of the women who had been put as syphilis as all these other conditions
that weren't real and true they were changed to radium poisoning good I think is a big
you know a big deal yes that that is such an invasive shitty move yeah like what a
what sinister mind was behind that yeah and they actually they resurrected Maggie's body
sorry I'm listening to an 1800s New York Resurrectionist book right now oh they deinterred
it yeah like a bit dug it up and she was glowing like it lasts it lasts lifetimes yeah
the radium girls case was one of the first in which an employer was made responsible
for the health of the company's employees and it led to regulations that saved lives
and ultimately to the establishment of OSHA the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
which now operates nationally in the United States to protect workers before OSHA was
set up 14,000 people died on the job every year well today it's just over 4500 which
is a fucking a lot yeah I mean it's a lot that's a lot the women also left a legacy
as to science that's been termed invaluable as it revealed the dangers of radium so thankfully
people stopped using it yeah in fact Marie Curie's notes from the 1890s are still considered
too dangerous to handle without protection due to the high levels of radioactivity and
are stored in lead line boxes yeah her notes about this about radium yeah and she died
from a plastic anemia in 1934 resulting from long-term ionizing radiation exposure so she
died fucking from radiation exposure as well yeah but I think clearly Grace Fryer is a
fucking hero hell yeah and cheers to her yeah oh my god radio the radium girls you
know first of all amazing and also don't you think could it be that because of the triangle
shirt waste fire and the results of that that when they finally did get caught yeah actually
that was the that's the different president was said yes there's a tiny bit of an improvement
where those the triangle shirt waste fire guys were just like now we're gonna open another
factory yeah all everything's the same you can't touch us huh huh and in this one at
least they were just like okay shut all that down yeah these fixes like let's do a couple
changes and this is also in New Jersey around the same time so it's like I'm sure they were
following tri-state area tri-state it got around that was great wow thank you so yeah next
time you're at a party give it a shot and say you're the radium girls yeah I just want
to talk to you well this week I'm gonna do my friend Bradford's hometown actually he
is from Bradford, he's from Stevens Point Wisconsin and he told me told me about this
a while ago but he kept saying did I ever tell you about the Dairy Queen murder and
then I was like no and I was like I'll send you the article and then he didn't do it for
like years yeah and he finally sent it to me what it's really called is the murder of
Lisa Sahaske so classic yeah so it is it's just a it's a classic one I got the information
from an article from the Chicago Tribune CBS 58 WDJT Milwaukee which is the local news
and the Wisconsin State Farmer there's a book called Killer Women that you know every once
in a while you'll look up a story and it'll just show you pages from a book yes and it'll
but it'll only show you a certain amount of pages and it won't let you copy and paste
them it seems like a retight no you have to read the whole thing whatever there's a book
called Killer Women Devastating True Stories of Female Murderers by Wensley Clarkson and
so I read a couple pages of that book until they wouldn't let me read anymore but there's
a lot of good information in that and okay so on the morning of September 21st 1989
Shirley Sahaske realizes that her daughter Lisa who works as the assistant sales and
catering manager at the Howard Johnson Hotel has not come home from her night shift so
Shirley drives over there to see if Lisa is still at work or what's going on and when
she gets there she sees that her daughter's car is still in the parking lot so she's really
relieved and then she goes walks up and looks inside her daughter's car and after that nothing
would be the same for her again so Lisa Sahaske is the daughter of ginseng farmers in Burnham
Wood Wisconsin and Lisa is an ambitious smart popular girl she was the 1986 homecoming queen
at Wittenberg Burnham Wood High School and when in 1984 she started dating a local dairy
farmer named Bill Bus who was five years older than her so this is like upstate Wisconsin
basically very rural and it's very and agricultural and so that's what a lot of people do up
there should like a normal life exactly yeah and so a lot of farming a lot of a lot of
cows and dairy smelly but the smells are amazing you know and of course what Wisconsin's famous
for cheese so Bill the guy she was dating he had also gone to the same high school but
he was about five years older as I said so after graduation he took over running his
parents 50 acre farm and he ran it by himself oh my god so he had to do all the work on
the farm did everything so he was real you know salt of the earth kind of person so
Lisa dates Bill for around three years but they bring things off in 1987 because Lisa
wants to become a travel agent so she that's what she's planning to do and Bill wants her
to basically settle down and start a family with him and live on the farm and he's you
know like doesn't like that she doesn't just want to do that so they decide to end it and
soon after Bill starts dating other people and he eventually starts to seriously date
another local beauty queen 18 year old Lori Easter so Lori grows up in Hatle, Wisconsin
her family's 450 he was with 50 he's was 50 so it's a big old a big old ranch I grew
up in a condo I can't even imagine a fucking farm I grew up in a plain old house next to
a very small farm yeah that had no output it was just kind of for fun essentially love
it for 4h essentially but yeah these were these are people that like farm yeah milk
they sell milk it's like they don't complain dairy production no they never complain well
who would they complain to right no one gives a shit they don't have a boss it's they're
the boss they're doing it all my worst nightmare the cows are like you think you have it bad
look at that machine hooked up to my utters live to complain that just kills me okay that's
what people are sewing at night with at the kitchen table yeah I live to complain so Lori
Easter goes to the same high school that Lisa and Bill went to she's a year younger than
Lisa she was a national member of the National Honor Society she was a president of her local
chapter of the FFA the Future Farmers of America got it she's also pretty she's also ambitious
like Lisa and after her graduation in 1987 she goes away and studies at the University
of Wisconsin River Falls to to study agriculture journalism so during her first semester of
her freshman year there in 1988 she starts dating the newly single and now 24 year old
Bill Bus so the next summer she's actually crowned the Marathon County Dairy Princess
it's a very high honor it's a very big deal Marathon County is the most dairy intensive
county in the state of Wisconsin so that's really saying calm down right and and if you're
I guess if you're named the Dairy Princess you're like your family has to be involved
in dairy production you're like you know you're in it so it's not just any old your pretty
face your two teeth and very you got to know your shit yeah your cow shit so so essentially
it seems to things seem to be all coming together for for Lori until June of 1989 and that's
when Bill breaks up with her so she's devastated and she she basically thought she was going
to settle down with Bill and like raise kids and be on his farm her family kept several
head of cattle on his farm that's that's like how she knew him that's how you know you're
serious right he's like the hot older farmer that that was like around yeah she would come
over to feed her watch your cow her cows oh my god how are your cows mine are good okay
so he breaks up with her and she loses her shit because then relatively soon after this
breakup she hears that Bill and Lisa Sehasky have gotten back together and that he is planning
on proposing to her to Lisa on Lisa's 20th birthday which is October 25th oh shit so
according to Lori's college classmates she was obsessed with Bill she talked about getting
back together with him constantly she also told her friends that she hated Lisa Sehasky
she actually one time they were in the same bar together and she's like called her a bitch
and a slut like made a scene in this bar so it's very well known around the area that
like this that Lori hated Lisa and a lot you know a lot of people knew that Lori was kind
of on the edge but nobody understood how far she would go so so one night it's just past
midnight Bill has had to stay up till the way it's explained is that he had to stay
up till midnight because that was like the most productive time that he could milk his
cows so he had to stay up and do it all himself and then he finally gets back into his house
to go to bed at 1245 because he has to get up again at 530 in the morning to start working
again no complaints I mean you just can't and right as he's trying to go to sleep 1245
he hears a knock at his front door and he tries to ignore it but it's not going away
and he knows it's not going away because the person on the other side of the door isn't
going to leave and because she's done it before and it's Lori Isker he had broken up with
her three weeks before but she would not leave him alone and she kept driving down from college
to his house to talk to beg him to get back together with her trying to have sex with
him saying you know like we you know we need to get back together we've never been there
before oh my god you mean pathetic yeah yes of course feeling it's terrible and it is
that thing of when you're in it it is like this is the only person that I will ever
have these feelings yeah you have this adrenaline and you have this like fucking well you have
a like a dopamine yeah they gave you this dopamine hit and they're not giving it to
you anymore so you're like a drug addict that can't get that's jones and jones and if you
can't get that person back it proves something about you and you can't let that be proved
about you yeah have to fucking make this work and it's like the only thing you think about
yeah and you could I think you could put together with those facts about her life that clearly
right she was an achiever she was you know I'm used to winning pretty you know smart
you know guys to being the president yeah getting her way is get through your 20s and
it calm your dopamine just kind of levels out yeah pretty low you know it is when you're
in your 20s try not to make any big moves because although you know you're right yeah
and that you can believe you're right yeah 100% you're not yeah moving slow motion yes
in your three or 20s and if anybody is like waving their arms over their head going please
listen to me yeah just do it just try to listen to them especially if it's your sister I know
she was an asshole when you're young right but she does care about yeah she doesn't want
you look like a fucking idiot she really is trying to do she's trying to run interference
for you and just save a little bit of face and look we've all been there if you've made
a fool of yourself you are not alone you've just become one brotherhood of man that's
right and the sisterhood of women it's right and also because here's a thing that you know
it does suck when people are basically like well I was going out with the girl I loved
but it's not working out now I'm gonna shop around and see how I feel forget it I'm going
back yeah because and that's just what happens sometimes so it can't be this point of pride
because you everybody loses in love yeah until the one time they went exactly how it is oh
it's lovely everyone's a loser until they're not one time it's true true and I'll say this
I only learned understood that like when I was like 47 like it took me way too long to
get it but I think you can win more than once definitely if the winning eventually becomes
losing yeah eventually look we are all gonna lose aka die so or divorce I don't want this
to seem like I'm announcing my doors not if you were to get divorced I would not let you
announce it on this podcast that's not how you do it love you then you have to I love
you Vince too please don't leave us so okay but everyone's had this kind of freak out
and made an asshole of themselves you have to know when to drop it yeah especially when
like this evening in particular Laurie knocks on the door goes inside says we I know you
want to get back together with me it was so good between us begins taking her clothes
off she's wearing lingerie underneath her clothes she's doing a big sexy presentation
he's kind of like what in the hell and he's like I'm not doing this with you I'm too tired
no go home and goes into his room he goes to bed she stands there cuz she can't believe
it's not working then she goes into his room gets on top of him and is like I know you
want it essentially and if basically forces him to yell I don't love you I love Lisa get
out of my house give up and basically he has to like scream it in her face she makes him
scream it in her face don't make people scream it in your face don't make people scream anything
in your face don't make people suggest it in your face yeah just get away don't let
people in your face if people you what's that there's an amazing when when people can pick
your friends screaming faces if you can't pick your Nina some it's a Nina Simone quote
singer Nina Simone and she said you have to learn to get up from the table one love is
no longer being served Nina beautiful okay so she finally stops and without a word she
gets up and walks out the door and slams the door and Bill thanks thank God I finally
got rid of that crazy ex-girlfriend guess what but sadly that was not the case and two
months later on the morning of September 21st Shirley Sahaske would find the body of her
daughter lying dead in her car in the parking lot at her work so the police are called to
the scene they determined Lisa's cause of death to be strangulation holy shit and they
announced that they're on the lookout for either a male or a female so everybody keep
your eyes peeled for everyone around you wow when Bill Bus is questioned by the police he
brings up the fact that on June 23rd Lisa had a loud argument with a woman on his farm
after Bill had said that he wanted to end his old relationship and that that woman was
Laurie Isker so eight days later police arrest Laurie Isker she's brought in for questioning
on September 29th 1989 she gives her account of the evening of September 20th saying that
she had rented a car she was only 20 so she actually had to convince the rent a car person
and she told this big lie about a thing she needed to go grandma dad yes she had to go
help her mom or grandma I can't remember move and that she really needed it and please and
she just charmed her way into renting a car that's bananas super bananas she drives the
150 miles northeast to the Howard Johnson Motel where Lisa works when she gets there
she waits for Lisa in the parking lot she sits and waits for Lisa to get off work and
then when Lisa walks outside she's standing there and she's like we need to talk and she
says we need to talk get it we need to get into your car yeah so once she's inside the
story tells Lisa that Bill is hers and she needs to leave him alone and Lisa tries to
reason with her she says look it's it's you have to give up it's not like this anymore
like you it's crazy now and this is when Laurie drops her bombshell she tells Lisa that she's
pregnant with Bill's baby and she's expecting Lisa to start crying and break down and get
really mad at three weeks earlier yeah and and she's basically this is her thing of like
I'm gonna make her like get mad at Bill and freak her out and then break them up essentially
but instead of that Lisa tells Laurie she knows she's lying she says that Bill would
never betray her and that if for some reason he had like been seduced and gotten Laurie
pregnant that he would have told her by now because that's the relationship they had because
he really loved her and that she's known Bill for a really long time and Laurie has it and
she basically says she trusts him and she knows that he loves her and not Laurie and
that Laurie needs to accept it and this is when Laurie snaps she tells police now she
tells police that she and Laurie started fighting they got into an argument in the car that
then basically got out of control and fearing for her life Laurie acted in self-defense by
grabbing a belt that she found in the back seat of the car and wrapping it around Lisa's
neck.
That's not self-defense.
No it is not.
Holy shit.
So the officer that was questioning Laurie his name is Sheriff's deputy Randy Hoennich.
You got it.
Sorry Randy.
It probably is not but that's as close as I can get.
He asked Laurie to demonstrate the strangulation so it could be on record and he says that
Laurie quote was not shy or hesitant as to how she did this as a matter of fact she had
me off my chair and up against the wall in the interview room.
Holy shit.
And he said Laurie was quote a strong powerful woman.
It takes a long time to strangle someone to death.
It takes over two minutes so the idea that it was an accidental death is impossible.
That's a sustained fucking experiment like you're not trying to calm someone down.
Well no and even if you could use the excuse of like we got into this fight and I was so
angry I was in a rage but then you then count out two minutes on your watch.
Yeah and at some point the person's unconscious and you still don't let go.
No and they're fighting you and yet Laurie horrific.
Lisa had scratches on her own neck trying to get the belt off of her neck.
So Laurie claims she never intended to kill Lisa that at the time of the strangulation
she didn't even know if Lisa was dead or just passed out.
So she says that she went into Lisa's purse took out her makeup bag pulled out like a
compact mirror and held it to Lisa's mouth to see if her breath would create like steam
on the mirror.
Because she wanted to make sure she was dead.
Yes and then when she saw that she was not breathing she said that she told the police
that she thought oh my god I've killed her I don't know what I'm going to do I didn't
mean to hurt her her parents are going to think I did it on purpose.
Honey.
Then she took the belt and she took a ring off of Lisa's finger.
She leaves the car she throws the ring away in a convenience store garbage can and she
throws the belt down the incinerator chute in her dorm.
Fuck incinerators man.
How much evidence has been fucking burnt to shreds and dorm incinerators?
How about we just close off any kind of access to an incinerator.
To fire.
Yeah fire of any kind.
So in court Marathon County District Attorney Greg Grough argues that a death by strangulation
of this fashion could not be accidental that Laurie would have had had the belt in place
around Lisa's neck for at least two minutes.
The jury agrees and after a seven and a half hour deliberation Laurie Isker is convicted
for the first degree murder of Lisa Sahaski.
She sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 13 years and nine months
on July 16th of this year.
13 years that's nothing.
July 16th of this year Laurie Isker was released from the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional
Center in Union Grove.
She is 50 years old and she is now free on parole in 1995 the story of Lisa Sahaski's
murder was turned into a movie entitled Beauty's Revenge starring Tracy Gold and Courtney
Thorne Smith as playing the part of Laurie Isker.
Which one was Laurie Isker?
Is the murderer.
No but Courtney Thorne Smith.
Courtney Thorne Smith.
Oh yeah I see that.
Yeah from Melrose Place.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is very funny because it's such an old I mean now to me it feels antiquated that
idea of like can you believe two beautiful girls like a beautiful girl would do this
where it's like yes, yes sociopaths they are good at being beautiful it's part of the
masking cloak.
Right.
And then you don't need a Melrose Place actress to fucking seem evil and beautiful it's like
you can be Tracy Gold and be fucking.
Yeah.
Yeah that's right.
The thing that when Bradford was telling me about the story the reason he knows it is
because it was of course on the news because it was like huge news where he lived.
When it happened and then like very, very soon after like the trial took place the TV
show Twin Peaks premiered and when it came out his whole family assumed it was a docu
series about this murder.
So they watched it as a family.
They watched the first episode of Twin Peaks as a family when he was in high school.
Did they have a fucking carbon monoxide leak or something?
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
They just assumed it was like oh it's this story the way like the promos came out they
just assumed oh it's a murder story of this thing that happened.
So the whole family sits down to watch it and then I go so did your parents like freak
out and he goes no we all loved it then we all watched it every week like even though
me and my brother were teenagers it became like the thing my family did and that's how
he got into like Twin Peaks and he found out about like.
You guys send us your hometowns of weird shit you watched with your family where inappropriate
stuff that you watch with your family.
And mistakes you made like this because that one is like because they were basically they
were inundated with the story of this local the Dairy Queen murder they called it the Beauty
Queen murder at the time and so they thought and I think that's the way Twin Peaks was
promoted because she was you know Laura Palmer yeah she was the homecoming queen or whatever.
So yeah so that's the that's the story of the murder of Lisa Sahaske.
Great job.
Thank you.
Cool.
Good job.
Thanks.
Do you have a fucking hooray?
Yes I do.
Well this is my my secret fucking hooray but so I didn't get a mammogram until this year
which is bad.
When are you supposed to get them?
You actually I looked it up and the Mayo Clinic website says that they recommend women start
getting them when they're 40.
You should definitely get them by the time you're 45 you should start getting them regularly
but it's good if you start getting them when you're 40 because then you have a baseline.
Don't be like me who when you have your first one you're 49 there's no baseline so if they
find something irregular they immediately panic and you have to go back and get more
mammograms and ultrasounds and then ultimately a biopsy which was what I had to do last week
and for you know I was pretty sure I didn't have breast cancer it does not run in my family
it just isn't a thing and I just kind of was pretty sure I didn't but scared the shit out
of myself for like a good 14 days waiting to find out if I did or not and I will tell
you this for the people who are like I'll just do it later get them early so that you
can create this baseline because biopsies are the most awful things it is really nasty
if they put a big long needle into your boob don't do it to yourself if you can be preventative
and like take care of yourself just do it I highly just as a person who just went through
a little mini quiet drama that I told you about and about three other people.
I'm honored.
I'm honored to hold that with you.
You really did hold it with me nicely and you kept saying do you want to what did you
say you sent me a text that was like do you want to be emotional about this or something
you kept asking me these hilarious questions I'm fine everything's going to be fine I was
like well if you want to be a mo if you don't want to be fine I'm here for that too you're
allowing me to not be fine and my answer was let's save it for when there's actually for
sure reason to not be fine right and so luckily luckily luckily not going to what there was
no reason but I will just take that and as a little piece of wisdom to pass on to the
younger listeners please please get just get your baseline mammogram just do it no you
should get your baseline everything and like just make sure that you're healthy yes pay
attention yeah you don't understand how important your health is because you take it for granted
when you're young so yeah you know do it okay I okay in eight months I'll do it when I turn
40 it'll be my present to you as I'll drive you over will you hold my hand yes and and
while some strange lady with gloves on just smashes your boo and it and look you get you
get your boobs smashed it's a rite of passage it's not so painful that you cry but it does
hurt your feelings a lot it hurts your feelings that you're like who made this machine why
do they hate women so much yeah why can't we update these machines good one well I can't
follow that up come on mine is that you're you got the every okay everything's fine right
yeah no it is I don't know I had Rosh Hashanah dinner at my house with my whole family and
it was lovely and the only political talk was when I wasn't in the room so nice it's
a bonus the brisket came out beautiful thanks to Vince yeah it was like a really nice time
oh that's good yeah I was gonna send you a Rosh Hashanah gift because there's a ton of
them yeah there's one with it a shofar and some apples and honey going down a river and
I was like what's this about I had to look it up if you ever need a gift to send to me
on a Jewish holiday there is an Siamese cat dressed in like our Jewish garb just send
me that photo if you look it up online that's the one for you look up Hanukkah Siamese cat
what about the one that I sent to you nor in that day that's the it's the guy that's
in like a Hasidic Jewish clothing that's on a motorbike that skids up to the camera
and then it just says Jewish in all caps that was my favorite one so far gifts man gifts
that's my fucking array they're great you can use them for anything people who've lived
only in the time where gifts existed you have no idea how sad it used to be you know that
you could only say to other people when you were shrugging your shoulders saying oh you
had to say that there was no gift to send them that was like convey no you had to be
like you had to say it out loud yeah you had to say it as yourself there was no witty
child right that got captured on camera right for you a fucking corn dog yeah the one I
love is that little boy that's holding the cup and looking around like what the fuck
you know that one it you can use it for anything what about the little girl that's holding the
cotton candy at a baseball game and just goes fucking correct yes she's like sugar high there's
actually one and I can't find it anymore it's that same little girl she goes crazy and then
takes off like a rocket and goes up out of the gift it's so funny guys um tweet us your
favorite gift at my fave murder on twitter and we don't want to hear if you pronounce
it jiff oh it's not jiff it's not jiff it's gift it's gift they came in too late with
the connect connect connect the connect pronunciation oh man touch that there's just vapes all around
our feet on the ground around here even just keep trying to give us vapes is it see they're
your vapes you guys need to chill the fuck don't you feel like you want to vape no no
vaping you guys are the best we're we're happy to be here thanks for listening you guys yeah
we're very grateful um we have a very good time on this podcast and we are happy that
you do too yep and uh and that's just what we're gonna assume is happening I mean why
would you get to this fucking insane point in the podcast if you weren't stoked you better
be yeah are you vaping or what I mean you gotta be um do not vape the only I want we won't
we won't we promise no more vape we're all promising okay say sexy and don't get murdered
goodbye Elvis do you want a cookie