My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - 202 - Live at the Sony Centre in Toronto (Night Two)
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I go first.
Okay, great.
Go first.
Okay.
Here we go.
Thanks.
Oh, I'd actually like to start off with a quick book report.
This is, this is my report on the province of Ontario, Canada.
In the past, there have been times where I showed that I didn't know that much about
the province of Ontario, Canada, or maybe nothing at all.
But I've worked to change that and I want to show that to you right now.
The Canadian province of Ontario is one of Canada's 13 provinces and territories.
It is the second largest province in land area and the largest in total population.
Ontario is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa and the nation's represent and the
nation's most populous city, Toronto.
Which is also Ontario's provincial capital.
The name Ontario is derived from the, from the Iroquois word meaning beautiful water.
Ontario was settled by the Algonquian tribes in the north and west.
Yeah.
And the Iroquois, Iroquois and Waiando Huron in the south and east.
The official language of Ontario is English.
Ontario, the Canadian province is not to be confused with the California city of Ontario.
Which was named after the Canadian province, Ontario.
Which is definitely where I am right now.
I know that for a fact.
That I do know.
The official flower of Ontario is white trillium.
The official bird is the common loon.
And the official website is www.ontario.ca.
Yeah.
Please, please accept my apology Canadian province of Ontario.
I am so sorry.
Oh, a little dig at the end.
Just to show them.
Just to show them.
If we do this for every city a week, do shows on, we'll, we're going to get so much better
in like 22 years.
Oh, yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
It'll also be half the shows are apologizing to the place we're in.
Or just words.
The word attic has two T's and ends in a C.
And I'm still mad about it.
It doesn't make sense.
It's truly stupid.
I am going to go outside of the province of Ontario Canada tonight.
So I can tell you all about the ant hill kids cult.
Really?
Okay.
You guys aren't in the cult as much as we are.
Well, you must be because this is fucked up.
So let's see.
I got a lot of this information from, of course, our best friend Wikipedia.
And then, and then our secret lover, murderpedia, which is, we talk a lot about donating to
Wikipedia.
Murderpedia is the shit.
I'm sure you all know this already, but you could also donate to that if you feel like
it or have extra money.
Who among us?
There's a Netflix movie called Savage Messiah about this.
And there's a YouTube crime documentary called The Rock Terrio.
It's called The Rock Terrio.
That must be wrong.
Anyhow.
But the reason I'm doing it is because I actually prepped it to do another time.
And maybe when we were in Montréal one time.
And thank you.
Thank you.
I made it all the way to French too in high school.
Really rocked that accent.
But it's so awful that I was like, I can't do it.
It's awful.
And then last night, a girl named Jen with two ends gave me a book.
Oh, that's why you were like, I need a book.
Yes.
I like snatched it.
I was just like, I thought you would.
And I was like, give it to me right now.
It's a book called The Cult Files by Chris Michael, M-I-K-U-L.
And this book is written for me.
So it's like say 12 chapters, but the print is really big.
Each cult has like five pages or six pages dedicated to it.
So you can like get in and out real fast.
Again, nobody gets hurt.
Everyone gets hurt.
Yeah, everyone gets hurt actually.
In this book, you can't make it in unless a bunch of people get terribly fucking hurt.
Kind of the nature of cults.
But it actually, it's just like the second I stopped reading about this one, it's, I
turn the page and then it's like the, you know, it was like people in the jungle or
whatever.
And then it was fucking Jonestown.
We were just onto the next one.
It was awesome.
So get that book if you also have reading ADD like I do.
And thank you, Jen, for giving me a book.
All right.
So the anthill kids cult was started by a man named Rock Terrio.
Let's just take a look.
Do we?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Yes.
He's got the piercing blue eyes of a psychopath.
Yeah.
He's got the mustache comb over.
I mean, truly it's like, it's like blinds over his lips.
What if most of that beard is actually mustache?
Cause he has beard.
Just, I'm saying entertain it.
He has beard baldness and he's like, I gotta make up for my lack of beard.
And when he, when he wants to eat, he has to use like butterfly clips to clip it back.
The two clips I had in my hair.
Almost came out it.
That's right.
He just clips them back.
All right.
Good.
I bet that beard smells.
That's all I can ever think of when I see a dude with a big beard.
Yeah.
I bet it smells.
Also, it's like, there's, it's almost like a mullet situation, but it's party in the
front and party in the back.
It's just party.
Party, party, party.
Huge party.
No party on top.
It happens.
Yeah.
Okay.
So this is our friend, Rockterio.
It is not spelled like that at all.
It's fucking.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
Oh, I get it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right.
ROCH.
And that's rock.
I had to write it phonetically for myself.
I literally on every page it says rock like a rock.
Terry dash O like SpaghettiOs.
Wow.
Yeah.
Because every time I'm like, Tharolo?
I thought.
Tharolao?
I thought you were trying to say something like Rocktober.
Oh, Rocktober long.
Like on a radio station.
Rock.
You know.
You're just confused.
Totally confused.
Just letting me.
And I didn't look slightly to the right of his face.
Right.
Because that mustache is hypnotic.
Look at it.
It's also just slight, a shade lighter than the beard.
Uh-huh.
It's because it's in the sun.
It's like, he just suns it.
He suns himself.
He puts the reflective thing underneath it.
Right.
And then puts copper, copper tone five on top.
The lemon juice.
No.
In there.
So it'll sun in.
Yep.
And then he, and then he does just a light highlights.
Little.
Fleet strips.
Some chunky.
It's.
Okay.
He did an ombre when that was in.
He takes care of his shit.
That's what we're saying.
Try it guys.
Guys.
Rock.
Terrio.
Rocktober is the best month of the year.
We're going to be playing the rock jazz.
All night long.
Okay.
Stop it.
Karen.
Quit it, Georgia.
He quit it.
He was born on May 16th, 1947 in Saguenay, Quebec.
Saguenay.
Saginaw.
No, it's not fucking Saginaw.
Fucking some American up here.
Translating incorrectly.
Leading us down the primrose path.
Of course she's fucking Canada explaining to you.
Yes.
How dare you French explain anything to me.
We're going to call it the segue Quebec.
Because of what you've done.
From age six.
He is raised in a town called Thatford Mines, which you'll like this was built over the
world's largest deposit of asbestos.
Your favorite.
I love asbestos.
It is the funniest thing that I'm not.
Okay.
Truly.
I just wonder, first of all, I feel like this whole story could go in a totally different
direction.
If a town is built over the largest natural deposit of asbestos, everyone goes asbestos
crazy.
You've got a horror movie right there.
Totally.
Like, why do I have to do all the fucking work?
Anyhow.
But that's not, it does, this is definitely turning into a horror movie, but it's not asbestos
related.
Okay.
We're going to write that one.
And please make several notes on the back of your Degrassi sweatshirt.
You know what's so funny?
What's weird to me is because I always feel so old when like, when the youngsters talk
about the things that they love, and I'm always like, I've never heard of that and I don't
care.
It's usually my, I don't say it out loud.
That's my internal.
You actually do.
You don't know that you say it out loud.
Oh shit.
Yeah.
You kind of, you kind of mutter it to yourself.
Can you give a hand signal?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just let me know.
Sorry.
I'll let you know.
Who cares?
But we, when I was in high school, that was the thing me and my friend, Lisa Lanyon,
loved to do was walk home to her house because she lived near the high school.
And then we would, sorry, I just had a side memory to this memory where she and I after
high school went and had dinner with her dad and his new wife after her mom died.
So it was a very sad, it was very sad.
And then immediately her dad got remarried and no one knew what to do or no, sorry,
started dating.
So this woman was his girlfriend.
He did get remarried very soon, but he started dating like very quickly after her mom died.
And we were all just kind of like, what?
This is weird.
So she called me and was like, you have to come over because my dad's girlfriend is
coming over for dinner and I don't know what to do.
So I was like, I'll be there.
Don't worry about it.
Well, we are offered wine at the top of the evening.
And I'm like, it is on.
We get so fucking drunk at this dinner.
I mean, like if there was video, I wouldn't be able to watch it because it was insane.
Look, it was kids wine.
We were coping.
Well, we were like 18, 19 maybe, you know, we were all just trying to get through a bad
time.
Sure.
It wasn't even my bad time, but I was like, we're going to get through this, everybody,
give me more wine.
By the time dinner's over, her dad has made everybody the dessert Bananas Foster.
And we go in to help him serve it to his new girlfriend and her son.
I just remembered he was there and Bananas Foster, whatever this dessert he was making
was like this fancy glass with like ice cream and bananas.
And then he poured some liquor on it.
And as he is pouring the liquor, I yell, less bananas, more Foster.
And then we said that to each other for 15 years.
That confusing anecdote that must make no sense to you right now is because Lisa and
I would go home every day after school and watch Degrassi Junior High like it would.
When Spike got pregnant, oh my fucking god, I love her.
We had all these choices and it was like we picked something.
We were just like, we don't even really care about, it wasn't like we loved it.
It was like we were, like we had to do it.
And then after a while, we became addicted where it was like our soap opera and we would
talk about it all the time.
But in the beginning, we'd just be like, what the fuck is this?
Who are these people?
And then after a while, it's all we did.
It's a good show.
Two terrible stories, my guarantee to you.
Terrible stories all night long.
Okay.
Thank you.
I hate that.
Okay.
So Rock's parents are named Hyacinth, that's the dad.
And Pierrette, that's the mom, they're devout Catholics and so of course he has seven brothers
and sisters because that's how Catholics do it.
He's a very intelligent child, drops out of school in the seventh grade, which is kind
of common like none of his brothers or sisters had educations past junior high.
Where is there to know?
I mean, once you get out of junior high, what more do you need to know?
You're done.
You're not once memorized or leaders, you're leaders.
You know the landmass of Ontario, you're done.
He begins to teach himself and despite the rest of his family who only speaks French,
he learns English.
He seems like a real asshole.
Yeah, what a showoff.
But he also begins to read the Old Testament and he gets super into it because he loves
all the apocalyptic end of the world shit that's in the Old Testament.
Pretty fucking cool.
Right?
Like most tweens, he loves the idea of the end of the world.
Okay.
So his father is an ultra conservative Catholic who belongs to a group called the White Berets.
Anyone here tonight from the White Berets?
We love your hats.
He made rock and his brothers and sisters march around town with him, military style
through their neighborhood, knocking on doors, asking for donations for the group and passing
out pamphlets for them.
And he was so humiliated by that and he hated being bossed around like that so much that
he hated Catholicism, like it infuriated, the whole thing infuriated him.
And also, of course, other kids made fun of him for having to wear a white beret, which
is so embarrassing.
Not the theater kids.
They supported him entirely, but the other, the jocks were mean.
So this was basically a breaking point for him.
So he would later on tell stories of horrible abuse at the hands of his father, saying his
father was an alcoholic and that he was so vicious and abusive to him that he would
have to run into the nearby forest and while he was there, he met and frolicked with bears.
Canadian bears are nice.
Canadian bears are so polite, they're constantly apologizing.
They have the best Kit Kats.
He also told people later on that he was paralyzed from age six to eight, that when he was seven,
he had a vision where he was playing St. Joseph in a theatrical production, and then later
he did play St. Joseph in a theatrical production.
That's just like a wish and a hope and then you follow through with it.
Yeah, that's called the secret, actually.
It's not your cult, dude.
That's an Australian ladies cult, but he claimed that that meant that he was psychic and that
he understood medicine.
Oh, no, wait, sorry.
That's another claim.
That's not connected.
Okay, didn't make any sense, so I was like, let's make a sense of this.
St. Joseph loves doctors, maybe.
He thinks he understands medicine, he believes he has the ability and tells people he has
the ability to mend arms and legs.
Oh, broken arms and legs, they have to be broken, they can't just be gross, okay.
All of this, of course, are lies, lies, lies.
He has a very standard childhood and friends, family, neighbors say they never saw Hyacinth
Theriot raise his voice, abuse his kids, that that just simply wasn't the case.
But the father did admit later to having to discipline Rock because he was, quote, a manipulative
and incorrigible liar who refused to accept responsibility for his actions.
So like whenever he was caught drinking or smoking or doing anything, he would just
argue and then blame one of his siblings, nothing was ever his fault.
And so there's all these stories of manipulative and cow's behavior.
And many psychologists believe that he, from a young age, suffered from a narcissistic personality
disorder.
Fun.
Right?
All that in a white beret, pictured in your mind.
Oh, what a little shit, I'm thinking of Rushmore now, the movie Rushmore, seeing him, ugh.
If the kid from Rushmore had just a terrible beard, oh, we can turn that off.
Can we?
No wonder you're so upset.
Okay.
And also, they say that the myth making lies are a way to, like he was trying to prove
his superiority over others, over regular people, which is common, a common tactic among cult
leaders.
So, but the thing is, he was really charismatic and charming and, um, red flag, always, always.
If you like someone, you're wrong.
He would go to dance halls around town, around Asbestos town and drink and pick up women.
That was like his jam.
He was very charming and persuasive.
And he believed that his blue eyes, intelligence and large penis meant that everyone wanted
to listen to him talk all the time.
I mean, you don't even have to talk anymore.
Yeah, that's the thing.
How about you zip it?
Um, he, he basically was an attention whore and it didn't, he didn't care.
He was just like out there to hold thwarth and be like, what's up and then get laid.
So, when he's 20, he basically gets himself the prettiest girl at the dance hall.
It's his 17 year old named Francine Grenier and in 1967, he marries her.
They have two children and, um, he's a really talented woodworker, so he makes them a house
out of pine.
Um, so he's not so bad.
Um, pine trees hate him though.
Yeah.
Not to pine trees.
That forest, those bears that now have no trees to rub their back against.
We were your friends.
We gave you KitKats.
What the fuck, bro?
Yes, we coveted with you.
Page three.
He gets a job, even though he's a talented woodworker, he gets a job as a chimney inspector
because that's his passion.
Okay.
Um, okay.
But here's another turning point.
In 1970, he gets, he has an operation because he has really bad duodenal ulcers.
Don't ask me.
Okay.
And he has to have a large part of his stomach and some intestine to remove.
Oh, fuck that.
Right?
I don't know.
I wouldn't mind it.
There's a little weight.
Yeah.
And just, no.
Suddenly salads are really satisfying.
Never.
So this is when a family and friends say his personality changed.
So he's in constant pain.
Okay.
He also can't digest food very well.
So he begins like binge drinking.
I can't blame him.
So he obsesses on his health.
He starts reading medical textbooks that might be connected to his, I can fix arms and legs from childhood.
So like, he was basically being a Google doctor back then.
Yes.
He was like, what was wrong with me?
So he is a visionary.
Yeah.
In a lot of ways.
But here's, he reads medical textbooks.
Then he starts telling everybody he has cancer.
And that's like a weird way he gets attention from people too.
Which is, talk about a fucking dark blood red flag.
Yeah.
Like people lying about shit like that.
Oh my God.
Which is like, no, go back to the forest.
So, oh, and he also, so he stops paying attention to his wife and kids.
His narcissistic tendencies are off the charts.
He loses his job as a chimney inspector.
Oh.
And, no.
That was the final blow.
They're like, get off that roof.
You're done.
Get your head out of that chimney.
Stop looking at it.
No.
No.
Look away.
Then he starts telling people that his insides are made of plastic.
That's a bit of a jump.
They're like, we were totally on board with your cancer.
Yeah.
But that was fine.
Wait a minute.
How does plastic get cancer?
It only gives it.
Okay.
So.
Then phase two, he becomes obsessed with sex.
More so.
So he had once been very controlling with his wife and saying you have to wear long skirts
and be very dress very low key, cover yourself up.
Now he insists that she wear short skirts and tight clothes and show herself off.
And she's like, bitch, get a job.
How about you don't worry about my skirt?
She didn't say that.
Actually, the family went on welfare and she actually got a job as a waitress and was the
only form of income for their family.
And because, of course, he's drinking all the time, and then he starts making wooden
beer mugs.
Okay.
Imagine it.
I'm thinking it.
Bring it to your lips.
Nope.
Pull it away fast.
Oh, I have splinter mouth.
That's what they call it.
No, I have an idea.
I'm going to do the thing no one's ever done before really good reason.
Go ahead and make a wooden cups, wooden, wooden lip, lip cups, lip specific cups.
They are a little bit popular in Quebec city.
Not enough to make a living, but enough, right?
You guys, you love wooden cups and shit.
You just love splinters.
So he says he has to go out and sell these cups all the time, but of course he's cheating
on his wife.
He's down at the dance hall.
He's doing that shit that he loves to do so much.
Hold forth.
Have a big dick.
What not?
So in 1975, somehow amidst all of this, he gets a seat on the city council.
Because of course, when you're super narcissist psycho, you want to get into politics.
We all know that.
And like, I think every politician, there's charming fucking people.
Narcissists.
Narcissists.
Well, at least in our country.
We're not going to get into this right now.
But fuck Trump.
Okay.
I mean, truly.
I mean, seriously.
Truly.
I should have said that at the beginning.
I mean, seriously, truly, I should have said that at the beginning, too
He runs for city gets a seat on the city council at first. They think he's really smart
He's memorized the municipal code book, which I'm sure no one else did so he's like
Asked me about page 63. He sounds so annoying so boring
So he's informed genuinely concerned about the town's issues, but over time, of course
They see he's out of his mind and because he goes on these long rants and temper tantrums that make the city council meetings
Go on for hours
And they're all insanely relieved when he stops showing up for the meetings in 1976
They're just like is the beard here?
So
Francine his wife is of course just so sick of his shit and then the
The final straw is when rock asks his in-laws if they wouldn't mind if he set up a nudist colony colony on the land
That they have and how Francine's like and we're done
The body so she leaves him
But rock yeah, but he still manages to stay popular around town and in 1976
He meets a girl at a dance hall named Giselle Tremblay
He charms her with his sad story saying a he's dying of cancer and be his wife is cheating on him
Oh, so just hot hot hot like oh my god. Are you a pickup artist with these lines?
Cancer you say hold on
She loves it
She quits her job and they start traveling around selling wooden mugs
Oh, how quickly was she like oh shit? She's in that van like what's that smell? Oh, it's the beard photo
No, I just figure he must that guy had a van. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's no way
Right. He actually if your beard grew this long in 1976 they gave you a van
His drinking gets worse because of his plastic stomach pain
He and then he becomes interested
He starts reading up on the occult and he joins a Catholic affiliated society called the Aramis Club
But then he he becomes ahead of their initiation committee
But when he suggests they wear capes with a picture of Satan on them everybody freaks out
Do they freak out where they so they say there's no picture of Satan there's no way we can put that on
We don't know what he looks like and he pulls out a can of deviled ham and goes. Uh-huh. There. He is right there
Oh my god, he points out a child at Halloween
Oh
Wait, is it true that up here? Oh, you might not know because this I heard this happens in Winnipeg that in Winnipeg
Okay, represent in Winnipeg at Halloween little kids though instead of saying trick-or-treat they go Halloween apples. No
No
Do you not want them to are you saying that?
No, they would never in their lives. We're getting a I'm getting I don't really care 18 rows back
I can see why I'm God's name would I ask this question
Who thinks yes, and who thinks no?
Okay
Halloween apples
That was just someone pulling my leg my Canadian leg. All right. They really got you. They really got me good in Winnipeg
I've been humiliated in Toronto about Winnipeg
Okay, so this is another great turn in 1977
The the seventh day Adventists come to town and they're recruiting very heavily and he decides
He's gonna convert from Catholicism to seventh day Adventistism, so
What he likes is they they're they have very strong
Holistic beliefs that basically like what you put into your body like it's all about health and wellness
So he becomes a vegetarian
And he stops drinking. He stops eating processed food. He stops smoking
And he also of course is interested in their doomsday beliefs because it essentially is has some similar
Thinking to a doomsday cult, so that's how it was initially established
All I know now is that they get Saturdays off, which I think is unfair because
When I worked at the gap there was a guy was like, oh, sorry. I can't work this week
And I'm seventh-day Adventist and I was like fucking me too then
So he loves the doomsday element his childhood passion he gets baptized
Stopped smoking and drinking and it becomes a seven-day Adventist like top recruiter
So this is a thing they did in the 70s a seventh-day Adventist would open
Five days stop smoking clinics. Oh, and that's they would get people in who just wanted to stop smoking
But then they'd be like, have you heard the good word about the end of the world?
Like what's that? We have good and then you're like, oh, I'm just gonna fucking smoke that. Yeah, exactly
Well, why would I quit smoking? Yeah
They're like, do you also do you have any heroin? Yeah, that's what do we do?
Thank God we have a little butron now to quit smoking. Yeah, so he in in running these clinics
He's really good at it. And then he realizes it's really easy for him to convert people to his way of thinking
And he's like, I'm not gonna really gonna help people stop smoking. I want my own church
And that's where he gets the idea to get his own followers
So he invites a small group of fellow Adventists to come to his girlfriend Chazelle's apartment
And he preaches to them for hours on end. It's so great. Um, just telling them the municipal code
Oh wait, wrong one wrong run. He's checking all his big books that he loves to read
Um, this is from Psalms. You may not cross the sidewalk on Sunday. Is that a municipal code?
Saturday is a burn day and you're all gonna burn in hell
It's a municipal apocalypse right there
Okay, for some reason no one leaves the apartment
Could you imagine getting invited over for like a seventh day Adventist hang and then suddenly that guy has the floor for five
Hours he'd just be like, it's too awkward to like get up and leave. Yeah, stay for the whole thing
Is you trapped you're like won't he won't break eye contact with you
Giselle, do you have any water or any cheese crets a cheese plate? Help me
okay
But they're into it obviously in 1978
He decides to open the healthy living clinic where he sells Adventist literature and health foods at huge markups
So they basically all kind of go there and work there. He convinces a woman
So this is basically the end of his stay in the seventh day Adventist Church because while he has this clinic
He convinces a woman with leukemia that he can cure her with his holistic methods and a few weeks later
She dies and the seventh day Adventist Church is like you can get the fuck out right now
Yeah
they know so
That's actually okay with him because he wants to start his own church. So
He convinces a small group of followers. It's 12 women six men two children that the end of the world is gonna come on February
17th 1979
So they spoiler alert spoiler
Smoker spoiler, so they should sell their belongings sever ties with their families and move to the forest
A hundred kilometers northeast of Toronto fucking bears again, right? He's drawn to the bears
So the group is based on obviously religious themes
women's obedience to men
Polygamy harsh punishments the righteousness of the leader the sinfulness of the followers and living miracles
So everyone's kind of like let's yeah, let's do this the world's ending. Let's move to the forest
And not smoke and eat vegetables
my fucking nightmare
Please never make me
So they go out there and he sits in a chair starts drinking again
Just drinks all day and watches them build him a huge octagonal cabin
Oh, and that's where he comes up with the name the ant hill kids
For the group because he's watching them work and they work really fast and they're doing it really well
So and he's sitting back doing nothing meanwhile. He's secretly given up his holistic lifestyle. He's no longer a vegetarian
He's just eating junk food all the time
Right, yeah
So some people leave the group the ones who stay he renames them with biblical names. He renames himself
Moses of course
Um
And he then declares which is always like the huge sign that you're in a cult that he shall have
multiple wives right
That when the polygamy kicks in, you know that like your Bible study group has gone awry
Keep your eye peeled up until then praise fucking Jesus the second. It's like I need three wives
Go to a different. There's so many other Bible studies that you can go to
Oh
Okay
So oh and then he makes every woman in the group his concubine
and
Yes, so this the storyline of this is like any cult and it's of totally insane
His drinking his obviously mental illness and pretty serious mental illness
Everything escalates. He has total power
And he corrupts him entirely
So nobody has any money when they were building that
When they were building that cabin for him, he was doling out the food
So they were all like starving while he's that they're secretly snacking away
And that's kind of how it went so like he they sold baked goods in town to make money
He took and kept all the money and if they didn't sell enough baked goods
He would beat people with a hammer
Oh my god, it's the the abuse and the violence in this story
Like it's disgusting and there's parts like you can go read it yourself
But I I'm not gonna read it out loud because there's things in it
It's kind of like looking at the like crime scene photos or like I just don't want to know
I I get and give him the benefit of the doubt that keys a total piece of shit. I'll tell you some stuff
It's very upsetting, but you can go into the details. I left out
Paragraphs and paragraphs and there every single word I read I was like, oh no, what no like it's fuck
Like here's just an example and this is like one of the lighter things I read a woman took two pancakes instead of one
So he punched her twice in the face
Jesus and then later when she suggested to her husband that she wanted to leave the group
He found out about it and told her husband. You have to cut off one of her toes
And the husband was like, yeah, I don't think I was I'm going to do that and
He started screaming at the guy saying you need to
What do you say? Don't you have any balls if you want to be a man
You have to learn how to teach your woman a lesson and so then the man cut off his wife's toe
Was really hoping they would leave no from there we go like this from there. That's up here and then we go like that
So Google what you will but leave me out of it
So he says and the thinking is this is all of this abuse and the stuff he makes people stand in the cold for hours
He whips them he ties people to trees. He does it to fucking kids. The child abuse is horrifying
It's awful and he says it's all meant to purify the cult members of their sins
So that they'll be saved when that end of the world comes which is pretty soon just hold on a little while longer
He even begins administering regular purifying sessions where he stripped them nude
He would whip them sometimes. He'd just make them lay down and pee on them. Yeah
But they're in it. I mean they're completely brainwashed at this point and they're totally isolated starving
It's all the it's all the cult things like he he really nailed it in that way
It's a brain that washed all of them. So
When that date comes and goes of the end of the world February 17th, I believe it was 1979
Nothing happens. I just in case you didn't know nothing happened and so he says he miscalculated
He's gonna go back rework the numbers. That's not always been my thing. Come on. Only went to school till seventh grade help me out
I
Mourned of medical textbooks and the municipal code asked me anything
So that's then more he senses that the followers faith might be wavering
So then his big fix he marries all the women that are concubines. They actually he marries them and then
Gets all of them pregnant. So he ends up fathering like 20 children. Holy shit. How many people are we talking about at this point at this?
I it is like around 20 adults, okay? Roughly
Or I guess over that probably between 20 and 25. Okay, sorry. There are nearly 40 members
One set I was one sentence away from seeming like I knew what I was talking about
I should you know, it's okay. It's
By this time
There are nearly 40 members living and working on the common
Okay
So here's the end of this first commune
Oh, no, it's bad. It's terrible. It's horrifying. He decides he wants to circumcise a two-year-old child
and in doing so
the child dies and
Then he says I didn't do it that guy did it and blames it on another follower
And then he says to the group well since he did this and he needs to be punished who votes that I castrate him
Oh my god, and they all vote. Yes. No
And they fucking do it. He does it. He does it himself
That guy gets away and fucking gets to the cops. Okay, good
so the cops raid the commune he gets arrested and
a bunch of them get arrested
the top I think it's like the top three people and
Rock spends two years in jail two years for that
Because the other problem is all the abuse that it's not when when they come and see everybody
Obviously, they're all you know, they're they're very thin
They don't look good, but there's not like bruises. It's not overt the abuse is not overt and they're they're voluntarily
And it's they've made themselves a church
So they can't like the authorities can't touch them right if all those people are there and want to be there
so
He goes to jail for two years
Still talks to the people who are still in it like he's still in contact
He sets up
The group is down to eight wives
Ten children and then three other I guess two men and a woman and a woman who somehow made it so that she didn't have to marry him
But they when he gets out of jail
they make another commune a second commune at Burnt River and
That's when the abuses escalate. So it gets fucking worse than the things I've already said
He goes on three-day drinking vinges
This woman
Oh, he he's
People he's breaking people's legs with sledgehammers. He's he's making people shoot each other
Like punish each other. It's it's complete fucking insanity. That's insane
The local Children's Aid Society starts looking into them because they heard about the first commune and so they're keeping an eye on them
but when they go to talk to the women the women will not talk to them the children there's nothing over there's nothing they can do but they're like
There's something really wrong out there
So in 1989
Yeah, it goes on this line. Yeah after enduring extreme abuse
Including being burnt with a welding torch and having eight of her teeth pulled out
One of the followers that's nothing. I wish you could fucking see the things I've read a
follower named Gabrielle Lavalie
escapes from the commune and
She gets fucking caught and brought back
And he cuts off her arm
Yes
Now he had he had already there was a woman who complained of stomach issues
Issues that he said I know how to do surgery and he attempted surgery on her and she died
So that's when Gabrielle was just like I this is crazy
I have to get out of this and then basically that happened to her
So she heals up and then is like I'm gonna do it again
And she escapes again and this time she gets to a hospital and she tells the people at the hospital
Yes, she tells the people the hospital. I was in a car accident. And of course everyone's like and uh-uh
Because it yeah, so
The cops go straight to the camp and they basically raid it and take everybody
But he's not there
I just wanted you to clap a little bit like a getcha
He's not there
He's gone into hiding it takes the police six weeks to find him. Oh, but they finally do
So after 12 years
Of having this bizarre and extremely violent and insane hold over the anthill kids cult
Rock terrio is arrested. He receives 12 years for the assault of Gabrielle
They they can't prove they don't know anything about the murder of salon jet
Um, they the gang the cult dissolves
Except for three of the concubines who when they go and visit him and have conjugal visits in jail
Oh, they're four more children
Bringing the total to over 30 children that he fathered
I bet someone's related in here
At least one person has to be well, then we want to hear your hometown. They might not even know
Yeah, they just don't know I don't even know when the police invest so basically
Gabrielle tells them about so long just murder and how horrifying that was. Oh
Sorry
This is like what in the bakery days when everything was okay. You have that sweater. I swear to fucking god. You really? Yes
Wow, but then
This is when they're out they've gone out into the wilderness leave the goats out of it. Yeah
Fuck sake the goats like can I talk to you? You're fucking crazy
That's the concubines that's when they got married. Oh
Look at them. They're so I just fucking have that dress. I'm sorry. This is inappropriate. No, no
Here's here's the good part
So they investigate the murder of Solange Boyard. They charge him with second-degree murder
He pleads guilty and he sentenced to life in prison in the year 2000
And then
on February 26 2011 rock cellmate 63-year-old Matthew McDonald walks to the guard station
hands them a shiv and says
That piece of shit is down on the range. Here's the knife. I've sliced him up
a
Poet his fucking cellmate just stabbed him to death one day. Oh, fuck you buddy
Yeah
He was already in jail for a murder charge, so we shouldn't really be cheering for right
This is when everyone's confused who didn't this is they don't know this is how we start a cult. We're like, yes
But basically he was like, this is the worst person ever and I'm already in here. I'm staying in here for life
Yeah, that's double up. Let's double up. He's going down on the range
Yeah, and that's the hideous and upsetting story of the ant hill
Kids oh, sorry third everywhere
Wow
Terrible
Another one of those many fucking things that you're like, how did I not hear about this? Yeah, it's I think because it's so
It's just that thing of unchecked power like it's just so extreme
Yeah, and he just could do anything he wanted and then he fucking did and then people believe in him, right?
That's the crazy part stop it
Stop it
Okay
guys
This is the
No longer cold case of Renee Sweeney
This some crazy shit, this is my okay, here we go
Sudbury
Pretty great
It's a city in Ontario, Canada
And then over here
here
So a lot of this information at 2 o'clock today decided I realized that the murder that I had been working on was
Took place 33 hours away from here. Oh, and I was like they're gonna be mad at me
I'm not doing that. So my whole thing was in Montreal. Well, then they would have been double mad
So I went on our my favorite murder gmail page and put in Ontario and this is the first one
I found and I was like, oh, yeah, of course because I've read about it
And so I got a lot of little things from actually our email account for murdering us. Oh nice about Sudbury
Someone of murder you know named M said quote
I almost put the Providence abbreviation there
But then I thought if Georgia was reading this she'd appreciate the full name when she said where it was
So thank you. Um, so it's about 400 kilometers from Toronto. Okay
248.548 miles how many
248.548 miles
So kilometers are smaller than miles. That's what I gather like that information
Yeah, the metric system. It's a mystery to me every American
American, thank you
About Sudbury and a murdering no-name Emily wrote essence said it's quote home of the big nickel
It's Emily with two E's shout out cuz she says for real for real
We're literally known for just having a huge fucking statue of a nickel. And then that fix oh, there's this story
How big is the nickel?
Is it just a little bit bigger than a regular nickel and metrics is the metrics or do you yes?
It's really big huge
Huge is it as big as this?
Like a like a ferris wheel type of
I guess can you ride the nickel?
Wait also do you guys okay? Yeah, that's what I was thinking
But we're not gonna ask the audience any more question. No, we're not. That's a bad idea
Even though they're Canadian, they know everything super pop super polite. Okay, so this is they're like this is their fucking case
And this one reminds me a lot of one of my obsessions, which is the Austin yogurt shop murders that I'm obsessed with
Yeah, so in 1998 23-year-old Renee Sweeney is a fourth year
What did we say that how did we say we said that?
Laurentian
I knew you'd remember that Laurentian University student she's studying music she plans on attending teachers college
So she can teach music and history. She's a study boyfriend plays a trombone in the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra
Wow, she's like she's fucking great because of course. She is she's a sweet baby angel
She fuck she's beautiful friendly warm. Her sister Kim said she had a lot of friends, but she was also quiet
She was like really studious. This is her
So she needed to help pay for school
So she got a good paying part-time job that fit her school schedule
It was at an adult video store
Which of course everyone and everyone like where I read it wants to make clear like that
She was not in a CD underbelly all this bullshit
But it also is like well, even if she was it didn't matter, but it was she was just a good job that she got
It's they had to pay people a lot to work there
truly
And you can wipe down the counters anytime you want
But it was just like pretty much like you know when you go in your video store in the 80s and 90s
And then there was a back-red room. Yeah, it was basically just a whole store of the back-red room
Not that big of a deal. Okay, you know
Um, but it was
What I just thought of your
Wasn't that porn that you said you saw one time naked with shoes naked with shoes on?
It's in your shoes on it's in the whole stories in the book
Stay sexy and don't get murdered coming out on May something
Okay, so the video store is located in a busy strip mall, so it's not like creepy or anything like that
There's a fucking natural food store next door where she sometimes shops and a door that connects the two
There's a bagel short store a couple shops over it's like a normal fucking thing. Okay, here we go
It's a cold morning on Tuesday, January 27th
1998 and Renee opens a video store by herself and what would normally have been her day off because she wants to go to a
Music performance on Saturday, so she works that day instead to get the day off and 1115
She's on the phone with a friend and then says she has to get off because the customers come in the door
So she gets off the call
What happened happened next is based on all the evidence because there's no witnesses
The man who would enter the store stabbed her multiple times while she stood in front of the counter at the store
She collapses. He thinks she's dead. He goes back into the washroom and washes up
When he's done, he comes out and she's not where he had left her
She despite suffering dozens of stab wounds rent fucking Renee badass is able to drag herself
Behind the counter trying to get to the phone
But she doesn't make it
He stabs her again. She was stabbed at least 35 times. Jesus Christ. It's
Horrifying her attacker then stole about $200 from the till and a couple items from the shop
And then he ran out pushing past a couple who were walking into the store who were just trying to get porn
I mean these people
It took them so long to just
Even get up the guts go in. Yeah
And they came upon the bloody scene in 9-1-1 horrible
I know so people saw his face as he ran by the bagel store and shit and when police arrived
They used tracking dogs to track his movements
It led them through some schools and to a nearby wooded area
Where they found the killer's abandoned bloody jacket and a pair of gardening gloves that the killer had been wearing
He like fucking took them off and left them. So let me show you the photo
It's so fucking creepy of the that's there. Um, and then it's a really original name
So this is the jacket which is like so distinct, right? That's what's so crazy about this case
And I feel like it's so frustrating almost more so when there's like not a lot of evidence is when there's so much
Evidence and yet it still goes fucking cold and no one comes forward with any information
It's it's almost like the pieces are right there and no one can put them together
um, so
So this is it's a men's large ocean blue colored high seara jacket
It was sold only at mervin stores in the u.s. Oh mervins remember mervins. Yeah
So it was only sold in the u.s. During the winter of 1994 to 95 so three years earlier
So it's fucking specific as shit right closest mervins to Sudbury is a six or seven hour drive
So like not a lot of people were fucking sporting this right?
Do you recognize this someone call in please okay?
Um another strange thing about the jacket is that it's the middle of fucking january in ontario
And as you and I know because we inappropriately dress for this trip
It's fucking freezing. It's fucking freezing and that jacket's not gonna cut it. Yeah, you know
So that's like a weird thing too. So they're like, oh is he in a form out of town? What's the deal?
Um inside the coat pocket. They find a single diaper pin
Ew, isn't that creepy? Yeah, so many fucking
um, so back at the video store also, sorry, but the idea that they used to use those things
Near babies is like the most upsetting. Have you ever undone like
My mom used to have a diaper pin like she saved a couple
From when we were babies and you had to literally pin diapers because I'm 69
but
If you flick one open, yeah
No, they're done for they were fine with sharp shit around babies back then they didn't care. Yeah
Smoking over the baby as you stick a pin in to their diaper. There were no fucking covers on electric outlets
You learned not to do that the first time you stuck a fork in it
That's how you learn and then you're like, that's kind of fun and then you kept doing it and you got spanked for it
Are you telling us a story george? I don't know
Like having a recovered memory just say it just keep talking. What else?
I hate january
No, I love you. I texted her she texts me we're like meaning to call each other and I was like
I'm sick as fuck like I can't talk and she was like you she texted back. You love that word
There's your favorite word again. Um, well, I will I have a fucking sore throat. So I'm not fucking going to like she just like mimicked me
She's such an asshole
Uh, this is horrible janet janet. Okay back at the video store
The killer's uh bloody fingerprints are found on the cash the cash box where he sold the money as well as a bloody footprint
And they could figure out that the print came from a man's size 10
Brooks brand athletic shoe and they can tell it was like the kind of shoe is a white shoe with a black stripe
Like they fucking had all this information about this person that they of course
It was a huge story because it's insane. So
Say sergeant david to folly of the greater sudsbury police sudbury. Yeah
You're there. You got it in england
sorry
um
Then the lead investor on the case said quote renais fought him and fought him hard and because of this
Um investigators were able to gather dna from under renais fingernails from her scratching the shit out of her attacker amazing
Witnesses described the killer as early 20s 5 10 to 6 feet tall
140 to 150 pounds with short dark hearing glasses and a sketch a composite sketch was made of him
It's creepy. I'll show you in a minute. Okay
As for the motive uh the investigators didn't even though they he stole shit
It was like an afterthought. So they didn't think it was robbery
robbery
Investigators discovered that someone had so okay. So someone had been
Calling and hanging up on renais
um in the weeks leading up to her death and they found this out because she never mentioned anything to
To her friends family or co-workers, but they checked her phone records and someone had been obsessively calling her and harassing her
and like
They think stalking her and hanging up
um, and also
Because co-workers said that she always used to park as far away from the store as possible
Which I think is that fucking annoying ass rule when you work in a store and they make you which shouldn't be allowed or she was embarrassed
She's like, but I work at the bagel store. I didn't even know what you're talking about
love schmere and
So she would usually park far away for some reason for whatever reason
Um, and then in the week leading up to her murder. She had started parking right in front of the the store
But she never mentioned to anyone. Why?
um, and so
Shortly after the murder the police arrested a 31 year old man
Charge him with first degree murder in the case later admitted
They'd wrongly accused him based on a mistaken match with the fingerprint and issued an apology. Let him go. It wasn't him
Um, and the apology part is how you know it wasn't in the States
Very good point. Yeah
Despite a composite sketch of the killer the distinctive jacket and gloves left behind
The possibility that the murder had scratches on his face because he was covered up everywhere else
So where else would you have scratched him?
Um, all this other shit there would not be another arrest in the case for nearly another 21 years
So police had eliminated 1800 people of interests
when in early 2017
Greater, uh, Sudbury police released a new composite image of the murder suspects using our friend paraben nano labs
We know them
We don't know them. They're so fun at the christmas party. It's nuts
They take everyone's dna
So they're that the dna technology that um, remember right, okay
When they they're in, uh, virginia
They use a snapshot dna phenotyping service and they predict what the appearance of the killer would look like based on
Ancestry dna. So i'll show you essentially
Uh, it's they do that. Yes
So like a creepy as fuck realistic photo and that's the composite sketch next to it. Wow. Yeah
So they I mean obviously it's so close
And creepy and we and I'll take it away. What do you think? I hate it. Yeah
It's so creepy. I this was like right. Yeah, whoops
Okay, sorry look down you have all am I stealing the covers you have all the covers
I'm freezing
Okay, so funny is it just says I've been slowly doing apple
That's so distracting. Sorry. No, no, no, we're gonna have to bring a new a new setup
Fint
God damn it. Um
So creepy. I think this is like before I remember this is like the new thing right before
Um, the golden state killer was caught based on genetic genealogy. Yeah, this was the thing
And it's fucking creepy as shit. Everyone's losing their mind
And the suspect is that they had come up with as a male of northern european ancestry with fair skin blue green eyes
Brown blonde hair and freckles few freckles
And then they added eyeglasses and yet still nobody was like, yo, that's my brother like someone knew that fucking jacket, you know
So then
So our friend em from earlier from the letter, you know, is she here? She's here
Someone's acting like they're em, but we can't tell for sure until we get her dna someone
We're gonna get a picture up and we'll see if it's you someone's drunken has an m in their name
So em my name's kathrym
Man
It's me
So she says in her email to us she said last year was the 20th anniversary
So it started getting a lot of attention again
And the police were feeling extra pressure to get itself because she was a pretty young white university student
And not one of those thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women in this country. That's right
That's right
Good point very good point so
So
That doesn't mean renee doesn't deserve it to be but I also wanted to go ahead and yes bring that up
It's a very good point. Okay. So this so the new lead of the the facey face over there
Brought in hundreds of tips, of course and then okay, and then in early 2018
Um, they law came into effect that expanded canadias
Someone's nyquil just hit really hard
Panadia
I'm really sick
I say it as a joke usually
I came out of my mouth I could have acted like it was a joke, but I just couldn't okay. No, you guys
Canada's national dna data bank, which at the time had only had dna from convicted offenders and dna collected from crime scenes it expanded
Um, and it gave uh everyone hope of catching renee's killer
It was lindsey's law named after 14 year old lindsey nickles who had um gone missing on bank huber island in 1993
Which is why this law was passed and expanded the data bank
Data bank to include dna from missing persons as well as from unidentified human remains so we can find out, you know, who is who
so
We're not totally sure what led to this crack in the case
Because they're not they're not talking about it, but we all fucking know
Um, it's probably something similar to the golden state killer. It's probably genetic genealogy because
A couple months ago in early november 2018
Greater Sudbury police identified a person of interest. Hmm be a forensic evidence which led them to obtain a search warrant
And this led to the fucking arrest of 39 year old robert steven right of north bay
Wow
It fucking caught him. Yes
You want to see his picture? Sure
So
He was 18 years old. What when he killed renee?
Yep, so
On december 12 2018. He was arrested. This asshole was an 18 year old
Lockerbie composite student at the time of the murder
Where he was voted quietest
Ew
So fucking creepy god damn it
Listen, I'm so sorry. Why are you voting on quietest like?
Like you're not allowed to vote on like never creepiest
Exactly the teacher's like sorry the yearbook teacher
Makes the hair on my the back of my neck stand up pissed. Yeah
Quietest that's horrible. It's insane. The school is located about 500 meters or a third of a mile. Oh
Oh, now I understand away from the video store
So of course i'm reading all these reddit theories and people are like did he fucking like leave school for lunch and go into like
What the fuck it's insane
Which actually would be the perfect tidings place, right?
That's because they wouldn't be like oh this murderer is in the high school
I think they kind of did search though because the dogs actually tracked his scent through through the school grounds
Yeah, so
Yeah, so this dick who also goes by steven or steve steve
He's arrested where at his place of work, which is the north bay regional health care center
That sounds like a hospital. He worked there as an emergency lab room technician
So the fucking thing that got him caught as he's working there. He must have been scared shit
Yes, I bet he was and of course people describe him as gentle nice and quiet
Insanely quiet to the point of being upsetting, right
So now
I know
disgusting
So just this past thursday
February 21st a three-day bail hearing wrapped up in Sudbury court
Where the court heard 12 hours of testimony on whether or not to give this fucking psychopath bail
obviously don't
Unfortunately, there's a court ordered publication ban on the on the testimony. So none of the details can be made public
But um the the justice edward grove said
He needed more time to consider to granting bail and he's going to uh deliver his decision on march 27th
So let's fucking keep an eye on that
As a whole not the judge that fucking
Not mad at him
So kim sweeney the younger sister of renae sweeney last spoke to her big sister the night before renae's murder in 1998
When they stayed up until 12 30 in the morning talking on the phone, which is something that kim has always been glad about
Um, she said it's been a very long 20 years. I'm so grateful that throughout this time
You've never forgotten my sister renae not only was she my amazing sister, but she was also my best friend
And that's the not cold anymore case of renae sweeney amazing
Yay
This is why I swear every night before bed I google cold case and just read the news because it's there's always just
It's another one happening every time it's so incredible. It's true. We live in a great age
A wonderful and yet horrifying time
Um, do we have time for a home now? Yeah, let's see
Could we have the lights up a little so we can look? Oh, there's vince. Yeah
Uh, I took the liberty of looking it up and uh, it's a pretty big fucking nickel there in Sudbury. Is it?
How big vince how big? Um pretty fucking big is it?
Also out west when I used to tour out there, there's a town called vulcan alberta
Where they have a giant enterprise starship enterprise
A whole town of nerds
Canada's the best. I love canada. I just want to remind
I want to remind all you guys to always support canadian comedy and always support canadian comments
Thanks vince good point. Um, all right. Oh, let's take a look. Okay. Listen to karen's
I'm gonna tell you some rules while you wave your arms around
You can do that. That's fine
Um, but this is the thing that helps most when we do our hometown murders. We love it to be local
Certainly not american we love it
When you are not so drunk you can't tell your own story
We love it when it's concise when it has a beginning a middle and end
What happened then what happened? How did it end?
That's a beginning a middle of an end. Why did I just say that?
Um, uh, it's very nerve-wracking to be up here. So keep that in mind if you're the kind of person that might
30 seconds in have a breakdown. Maybe don't raise your hand
Um, what else am I forgetting anything drunk? I don't know. I did drunk. I think they they know how to do it. So
Who's got a goodie?
Yeah, yeah
Okay, come here
Go that way. Okay. I'm trying to bring the lights down, please. Yeah, lights down. Thank you
I'm trying a new thing of picking people out, but I'm not gonna tell anyone what it is. Yeah, I wouldn't because
Ooh, could you bring the lights down before um, she gets up here? Yeah, she'll freak out
Thank you
Thank you
It's nicky
I love some news. Nikki everyone. Where are you from Nikki? Well, I live in Toronto, but
My story takes place in Rockwood, Ontario
I thought I was gonna have to clarify that's near Guelph, but okay
They know okay. Okay. Awesome. So, um, my story takes place, uh, or it starts
Um, when my mom was driving me and my sister to visit our grandparents on their farm in Rockwood
So as we're turning into their long, it's like a kilometer long driveway
Suddenly their neighbors, it's a you know, kind of dilapidated barn and weird situation
And it's always looked pretty hoarder-esque there. Um, there are like five cop cars two ambulances
And I turn to my mom and I'm like mom. What's going on?
And her face drops and she says that's Tony border's house
So now
Now we actually have to go back to when my mom was 19
And one of her very close friends Susan Porter was found strangled to death in a shallow grave
So
when she was found it was
Pretty clear
They were able to identify who her killer was very quickly
So Susan Porter her older sister was married to Tony borders older brother
and one night
He offered to Tony border offered to drive Susan home
And it's unclear whether it was consensual or not
but they engaged in sexual activities and he, uh, was choking her
For pleasure and he went too far
and
She she died and he panicked he dumped the body and
And luckily he was caught and unfortunately he was only charged with manslaughter
So he got, uh, I think it was eight years
So now we get to fast forward back to us driving into the farm
So Tony border after he, uh, got out of jail
He went on, uh, to get married to a lovely lady named crystal
now crystal, um
She, uh, she she had a very low IQ and she was a lot younger than Tony and you know
She hadn't been very educated and she was just a very very sweet woman
um, but Tony, uh, he was an abusive man and he
He was you know, he was into
Sexual games and stuff like that that he would force her into
They had two very young sons and on the day that we happened to be driving past
He had set up a noose in their barn
and
He they had a safe word and he had said okay
I want you to raise me up and when I get to my sexual level
I will signal and you'll let me down, but she was at her her end
She was at the end of her rope literally. Oh
and crystal
And crystal
When he signaled to be let down
She just didn't
And she
Chain she chain smoked cigarettes for 15 minutes as he hung. Oh my god before she caught him loose
And because he was so fucked in the head
He had wanted to film
All of these sexual activities. So the whole thing is on camera. Oh my god
and so
At the end of it. She calls the police. She turns herself in she said I killed him, but he fucking deserved it
He totally deserved it
Oh my
Jesus
And she at her at her court case my my nanny who's my grandmother. Sorry, british. Um, she
She uh, she testified she said that you know crystal was really lovely
She was a really nice lady that you know, this was very out of character
And crystal ended up only getting a two years of house arrest
Holy shit
Holy
So
I just want to I just want to add my mom actually was supposed to be here tonight with me
But she lives in parry sound and it was in
It was uh, it was icy and she couldn't get here
She's very safe. She's at home with her cat. What's her name her name's amanda
So my sister is my my sister christina's here with me. So she's part of the story too
Uh, and yeah, so it ends up turning out. Well, luckily that guy got his just desserts
Holy
Nikki everybody
Wow
So good
Jesus
It was perfection. That's how you do a hometown murder
Oh my god
That was amazing. There's twists
I didn't know I was like, uh-oh. I absolutely wrote that in my head very differently
Very differently the whole thing could have gone south
I honestly feel like that's the first time I've ever heard of a woman
In like a revenge killing like that getting
That kind of a sentence again. We're in canada. Oh, we're in canada
So sorry that's like last night
I'm watching tv and there's a commercial comes on for some serial and I'm like, what the fuck is going on?
And I'm like, oh, that's right. I'm in a different country
It was like it was like some serial look just like a serial commercial and everything's right
And then look it was as if I was in a movie where they had to put on a fake commercial
So it was like it was shreddies. I think they were called
Are they delicious? I was just like fucking shreddies. What's happening?
Like they couldn't use the brand name in your movie and so they put a fake one on it
It was like the 555 of serials
No idea what was going on. This is two for two of my new picking method of hometowns and we're fine
That's because we're in toronto baby. Maybe it's just because we're in canada
I'm gonna take credit for it. Okay. No, it's all you. It's all you girl
You guys
You toronto
Sold out this humongous theater two nights in a row for us
Yeah
It's fucking crazy
It's crazy last time we were here. I think it was a year ago
You guys did the same thing and we like got to fucking
Headline about over a bunch of fucking
Comedy dudes who are not used to fucking ladies just talking and selling shit out
So thank you
Yeah
This whole community means so much to us. We appreciate you guys so much for letting us do this
It's such a beautiful fucking thing to see you guys come together and be friends and share your stories and share your anxieties
And uh, we just love the community so much. Also, you've given us over 500 canadian kick butts so far
It's true. We have so much candy right now. It is disgusting. It's crazy and amazing. We love it
You guys put caramel in them. What the fuck is going on?
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Bye Toronto, thank you