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Ep. 48-Viola Hyatt: Alabama's Axe Muderess
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What drives a quiet, hard-working farm woman to become one of Alabama's most notorious killers? The story of Viola Hyatt reveals the darkest corners of human endurance and revenge.
Born into grinding poverty in White Plains, Alabama, Viola's childhood was marked by ridicule, isolation, and a mother who openly told her she was "ugly as hell." Growing up on a hog farm with the stench so strong you could taste it, young Viola developed an unsettling interest in death, particularly in the slaughtering of the family's pigs—a skill she would later perfect with chilling efficiency.
When two construction workers, the Harper brothers, began boarding on the family property, Viola's already difficult life descended into horror. For months, she endured sexual and verbal abuse from both men, who treated her with contempt while telling her she should be grateful for their attention. Her father's attempt to intervene only resulted in his own assault, leaving Viola to suffer in silence.
The breaking point came on June 27, 1959. After being refused the use of their car for groceries following another night of abuse, Viola took her father's shotgun and killed both brothers. What followed—the methodical dismemberment of their bodies and the scattering of remains across three counties—shocked even seasoned investigators. For seventeen days, Alabama was gripped by fear as body parts were discovered by horrified residents.
Though Viola ultimately confessed and accepted a life sentence, she never revealed her complete motive, only stating she had "the best reason in the world." A mysterious grave on the property where she was seen speaking after the murders remains unexplained. After serving eleven years and receiving a pardon, she lived in isolation until her death in 1992, taking her secrets to the grave.
Was Viola a monster born of circumstance? A victim pushed beyond human endurance? Her story forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about justice, trauma, and the human capacity for both suffering and violence. Listen now and decide for yourself what makes a victim become the villain.
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Introducing Viola Hyatt: Alabama Axe Murderess
Speaker 1Today we're traveling back in time to White Plains, Alabama, to unravel an unsettling story of Viola Hyatt, the Alabama Axe Murderess. This is Hold my Sweet Teeth. Thank you, Hello, beautiful people.
Speaker 2I'm Holly. It's all relative to the size of your steeple. I'm Pearl.
Speaker 1Oh goodness, we can't see the forest, or the trees.
Speaker 2No, I'm not going to say the next part.
Speaker 1A little man's in there for you this morning and not Charlie. No.
Speaker 2I just like popped in my head.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was like what the beautiful people Whoa?
Speaker 2yeah I was like, what the beautiful people? Oh gosh, now I'm gonna be singing that all day. So marilyn manson and, and dexter, dexter, that never happened.
Speaker 1Yeah, dexter, that never became dexter, we're talking about the good old hurricane that was churning, but I think it's just going to be a tropical whatever they're calling it thing.
Speaker 2A lot of rain. I saw one of the meteorologists post don't get mad at me because you have to go to work. I don't control the hurricanes. We were all looking forward to a to a day off. Everybody's like oh hurricane, like who? Who's begging for the hurricane?
Speaker 1people like us who are tired. A hurricane, I like that, yeah that was a good one.
Speaker 2I was like no, we don need the storm, people don't need to drown and die. No, their houses don't need to be wrecked so I can have a day off.
Speaker 1No, and we don't need to lose electricity because it's too damn hot here.
Speaker 2Yes, it is and it gets nasty steamy.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's steamy because the heat and then the rain it just makes steam, so it's like you're in one of those really hot steam rooms all the time.
Speaker 2Perpetual sauna.
Speaker 1Perpetual sauna that's what it is. You walk outside and you're just like perspire. So I guess today we're just going to jump into this, because we are talking about the axe murderess Viola.
Speaker 2Hyatt.
Speaker 1And I think of Murderess in a dress. If you watch Jenny in Georgia, they had the mayoress murderess. That's what I was like popped in my head and I was like, well, she was not a mayoress, all the S's, but she was a murderess.
Speaker 1That's what she was dubbed by the media in uh good old, uh, white plains, alabama. Okay, but this isn't just a story about murder. It's more of a what made her actually kill? Okay, to the day she died, she never, ever, revealed the reason that she killed. She was very tight-lipped and she would not speak. It did send shockwave through the community, but we're going to explore the life of Viola Hyatt. It was not a nice one at all. She grew up on a struggling hog farm, oh, and the shocking events on June 27th of 1959 that put her in prison were just. Nobody could believe it. They were like really, Not in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2Not in my neighborhood Right.
Speaker 1But you know be, warned that this episode contains. Believe it. They were like really this, this woman neighborhood, not in my neighborhood, right, but you know, be warned that this episode contains themes of violence, and abuse and it delves into a dark chapter of alabama history maybe we just need a blanket statement for the whole podcast because they all go into abuse I don't want somebody to be like. Oh my God, you talked about murder on a true crime podcast.
Speaker 2We talk about murder all the time, all the time, not even just on the podcast. We talk about murder all the time. True, true, we do. We do Because we're always preparing for the next podcast. Right, because we're always preparing for the next podcast right.
Growing Up on a Hog Farm
Speaker 1So to truly understand viola hyatt, we have to start at the very beginning. She was born into abject poverty in white plains, alabama, a community ironically dubbed the garden spot of the world. I'm like, what does that even mean?
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1I don't think it's lush and green, but they just have a lot of farms. Maybe they have a lot of farms. So, even as an infant, she was described as chubby, red-faced and fussy.
Speaker 1Sounds like me, aren't we all that sounds me at the end of the day After work Chubby, red-faced and fussy. So as she grew, her appearance became a cruel target for others. Her long, coarse black hair resisted grooming, her skin was marred with moles and blemishes and her bright blue eyes often had frequent eye infections, like they were always red and inflamed. She had pink eye, that's what. I'm thinking, and she grew up on a hog farm.
Speaker 1Like forever pig sty, pink eye yeah, exactly, her home, a four-room shack with a sagging roof and noticeably crooked walls, was a testament to her family's desperate circumstances. Her father, mr Hyatt, eked out a meager living as a hog farmer on a small inherited plot of land. Isolation was a constant companion for young Viola. She had little interaction with other children and when she did, her sullen demeanor and sudden outbursts of rage quickly alienated her. There were accounts of children openly mocking her, calling her mean and ugly taunts that would dab her heart and make her kind of like go into this stoic silence. So she just backed away from society and because she was being picked on about her appearance, Somebody calls me mean and ugly.
Speaker 2Today I'm like yeah, and.
Speaker 1And that's how, like I was in, like you know, middle school, high school, I got picked on a lot for like my weight and stuff like that and I was very quiet.
Speaker 2Now I'm like yeah pick on my hold my sweet tea bitch. Step to this right. I got years of rage, let's go. We're like I have plenty of comebacks, yeah bring your best, yep.
Speaker 1So the family's two dozen pigs confined in an enclosure between the house and the barn were a constant source of misery. The stench, especially in the sweltering Alabama summers, was a smell you could taste.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was going to say the air probably tastes dirty. I mean, if you can smell it, you can taste it.
Speaker 1That's the sad part. I grew up on a farm and we had hogs. We did hogs every year. My dad would take them to the hog farm and you know that meant they were getting slaughtered. But they were all the way in the back of the property, beyond the barn, like way back there. But when you got close to them I know the smell, like I can pick that smell out of anywhere. So to be right there, connected on top of your house.
Speaker 1Oh, I bet it was brutal, it was gross. Viola hated the hogs, not just for their odor but for the back-breaking work that they demanded, because you have to slop them, you have to clean like they're nasty. Yet she understood her vital role in the family's survival. It's here, in this grim environment, that we see the first unsettling signs of Viola's fascination with death and violence. But I mean, really, was it a fascination? She just hated the pigs, so I guess she took out anger on them with death and violence. But I mean, really, was it a fascination? She just hated the pigs, so I guess she took out anger on them. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1As soon as the pigs approached market size, she would press her father When's it going to be time to kill the hogs? I want to watch when you do it and if you'll let me, I'll help with it. Her father, in his paternal wisdom, always refused, deeming it not fit work for a girl her age. Viola's mother, a woman who had once been beautiful but was now ravaged by poverty and illness, offered no comfort. She was bitter. She was resentful of her life and her family. She didn't shy away from vocalizing her contempt for viola. She would say I don't know why god is punishing me by sending me a husband like your pa and a girl like you.
Speaker 2You're ugly as hell why you gotta include the kid in that like be mad about your husband, but I mean the life that you chose yeah, but then telling your daughter you're ugly as hell. Yeah Well, I don't know. Back then did they get to choose?
Speaker 1I don't know, probably not. She was probably like traded to him for something. Maybe that's how he got the land. Marry my daughter, I'll give you this plot of land.
Speaker 2Yeah, who knows?
Speaker 1It actually happened because that's how my grandmother and grandfather were married, and he was in his 50s and she was 16. Ew yeah, these cruel words, heard over and over, solidified a consuming hatred in Viola's soul when her mother finally passed away two years later. Viola's earlier venomous outburst like to her mother, like she was like I don't care if you leave, I hope you die Took on a new meaning because, like her mother died then. So you know. But she had a lot of hatred toward her mother I was about to say For calling her name.
Speaker 2She's a child Right and honestly like shame on mom yeah.
Speaker 1And she was probably not allowed to even express her feelings of hurt. Mm-hmm, just go do your job, like, quit crying, quit crying about it. You're ugly, like that's just mean. So with her mother gone, viola stepped into a new role, taking on household chores, cooking, and mastering them with quite efficiency. She grew into a tall, powerfully built young woman, her strength honed by the strenuous farm work. So she was a husky girl. She's buff Buff. This made her morbid fascination with the hogs even stronger. She would tell her father things like they don't deserve to live. They're dirty, stinking varmints and they lay around and expect to be weighted on hand and foot they're animals, bro, right you have to take care of them and also it's your livelihood.
Speaker 1Yeah, then one fall viola went out. She got her father's axe and she sharpened it. She honed it to like a razor, precision on the on the old sharpening stone and everything. And the next morning her father was jolted awake by a loud squeal. He rushed to the hog pen and he was met with a horrific scene the largest hog laid dead, its head nearly severed, and Viola, covered in blood and gore, was already swinging the axe at another hog, killing it instantly. She was like I'm killing these hogs this year. Go lay back down, daddy. And he's like, you know he's yelling. You know he's yelling like, demanding what are you doing, viola? And her reply was you're getting old, pa, it's time you had some help. So from that day forward, viola not only killed the hogs, but expertly butchered them, her father no longer objecting to her macabre efficiency. By the age of 18, she was the sole butcher and her father was delegated to selling the pork. So she would kill him, slice him up, he would sell it.
Harper Brothers and Escalating Abuse
Speaker 1The isolated world of the Hyatt farm was soon invaded by two outsiders, though. Oh joy, yeah, lee and Emmett, harper Brothers in their 40s working for a construction company building a new road, oh joy. So Mr Hyatt, eager for extra income, agreed to let them park their trailer on his land. So the deal initially included Viola cooking for them. But the brothers had far more sinister arrangements in mind. They quickly began to exploit Viola, both sexually and verbally, treating her with open content. Sexually and verbally treating her with open content You're lucky to have anything to do with. You know an ugly old thing. Like you, emmett, sneered. Really you ought to be paying us. So they would verbally like tell her these things like she owed them something, and then sexually abusing her.
Speaker 1Oh, like she should be grateful it's happening at all, right you should be grateful that you're getting a man, oh my gosh. So her father, upon realizing the horrific truth, confronted them, only to be brutally assaulted by Emmett. So for months and months Viola endured this escalating abuse in silence, her rage simmering beneath the surface. So she just kept taking it because they were paying her father to stay there. So she didn't know what else to do. But like inside, it was just like boiling in her, and especially when they were drunk they got increasingly cruel to her.
Speaker 1It's like you don't realize how shitty it was to be born a girl Right, and this was back in the 50s, you know, and women still had no rights. Pretty much, you just had to take whatever.
Speaker 2Yeah, just take it. And still had no rights pretty much.
Speaker 1You just had to take whatever. Yeah, just take it. So one evening Emmett, after wolfing down supper, drunkenly ordered Viola to meet them at the barn. After she complied with their demands, she made a simple request to borrow their car for groceries. Emmett's response was a harsh refusal, laced with further insults. So he was like no, you can't use my car, you can walk to go get groceries to feed us. So that was her breaking point, like she took what they were doing to her and then they refused to even help.
Speaker 1So early the next morning, on June 27th 1959, viola Hyatt loaded her father's shotgun. She walked to the trailer and knocked loudly. Emmett, groggy and annoyed, opened the door, only to be met with the sight of a leveled shotgun. He slammed the door, but it was too late. A blast ripped through the flimsy barrier. Viola ripped the door open and blasted Emmett full in the face. Lee, emerging from the bedroom, met a similar fate. Both men lay dead in their blood, just you know, pooling on the floor.
Speaker 1What happened next cemented Viola Hyatt's place in the you know annuals of true crime. So, calmly and deliberately, she took the car keys from the trailer, returned the shotgun to her living room, drove the old Ford to a as close to the trailer like that she could get to it, because she was going to drag their bodies out, you know, into the yard and put them in the trunk. But deadlifting a body just was like too much for her. So she knew what she had to do. She went to the barn, got the double-edged axe, sharpened it up and, with some powerful strokes, started severing arms and legs. She loaded the dismembered body parts into a wheelbarrow, transported them to the car and did the same thing to Emmett's brother Chopped him up, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop in pieces all over the place. And I mean she had, like she chopped him up like she would, one of the hogs.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was going to say she's had a lot of practice.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was going to say she's had a lot of practice. And then, you know, when the gunshots had went off, her father was like woke up, and he came to the door and she was like go back inside, I'll take care of this. So he went back inside, he listened, he was like, oh God.
Speaker 2Yeah, you better listen old man.
Speaker 1Yeah, go back inside, old man, I got this. Yeah, go back inside, old man, I got this. Then, with almost chilling composure, viola called the Ace Construction Company reporting that the brothers were sick and they wouldn't be at work for a week. She buried the bloody axe and then she went to this little rectangular mound of dirt on the property and it had some field stones at each end of it, like a makeshift grave. It was said that. She then said, you know was sitting there like kind of like a little prayer. But she said I made them pay for what they did to you, just like I promised when I put you here. The identity of the person buried there remains a mystery, but the implications of a deeper, perhaps earlier, trauma is undeniable. I'm like was it a baby? Hmm, was you know? Because they stayed there for months and months and months. So was it that? Or a pet? I, I don't know. They never said because she would never, she would never say what it was this is interesting, this is just like going yeah, was it like?
Speaker 2I don't know?
Speaker 1yeah, the only thing I can think, yeah something symbolic, like was she's?
Speaker 2she's just like having a complete break. At that point, like you know how you kind of can build a partition in your brain to separate everyday life from trauma, right? Is that everyday life, viola, talking to trauma, viola.
Speaker 1Yeah, maybe she made that little spot and that's where she would tell, say something about, like I'm going to make this happen, I'm going to make this happen, or the only thought that came to my head was like, was it a baby? Yeah, I don't know. Did she give birth and they killed it? Or died stillborn? I don't know. I don't know, but it was never. Never said anything. So, under the cover of Nightfall, viola embarked on a macabre journey. She went through three counties Calhoun, etowah and Cleburne and she scattered their remains. She just tossed them out the window, just willy-nilly, all rando, all rando all over the place, like they were tossed in some rivers, bushes here and there.
Speaker 2Briars, wherever they should have been put in the trash.
The Double Murder and Dismemberment
Speaker 1That's what they were tossed in some rivers, bushes here and there briars wherever they should have been put right trash. So that's what they were, right. So there was an arm that was discovered by a horrified blackberry picker. Oh damn, I'd have been like dang. Two torsos were found separately, thrown in entire, like different regions, like so people began locking their doors. They were terrified of the quote-unquote deranged man that they assume was responsible.
Speaker 1Just run around whacking people and throwing their pieces all over the place and all these reports started coming in of I found a leg, I found an arm, I found a head, just you know. The police were baffled. The battered remains, dubbed Mr X and Mr Y, were offered little in the way of identification. Funeral homes were just aghast at receiving such gruesome evidence. Like we get whole bodies, we don't get body pieces. Today you get pieces, and autopsies were actually conducted in scorching parking lots. That's like autopsies of what I'm like. What did they autopsy? Just the torso part.
Speaker 2But what are they going to get from that? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1It was a shotgun to the face and then chopped up. For 17 days the mystery deepened until a crucial piece of information emerged, and this is where she made the mistake. Ace construction reported two of their men, lee and emmett harper, missing their address the hyhmm. What followed was inevitably discovered Sirens blaring Officers descended on the farm, viola's incriminating phone call, blood and hair in the car's trunk and shotgun blasts to the trailer door with bloodstains spattered back there all pointed to her guilt.
Speaker 2Why should I burn down the trailer?
Speaker 1That's what I said you should have just left the bodies in there and burned them, burned it.
Speaker 2Yeah, burned down the trailer, you know, buried it in the back of the farm somewhere. Right, I know it wasn't a very big one, but you know what I mean. Yeah, just like that flimsy. I know it wasn't a very big one, but you know what I mean, it's just like that flimsy.
Speaker 1I can't imagine no back in the they had to have been built way worse than they are now.
Speaker 1Oh yeah. So the discovery of the axe buried under freshly disturbed dirt left no doubt the community and the authorities were shocked that a woman could commit such heinous crime. Not me, maybe she was a cancer. Initially, both Viola and her father were taken into custody, but he was quickly released. His like, he was cleared. He had nothing to do with it, he was told. Go back in the house, paul. Yeah, don't even look, don't even look. Don't implicate yourself. Get out back in the house, don. Yeah, don't even look, don't even look, don't implicate yourself.
Speaker 2Get back in the house accessory.
Speaker 1So viola, however, was questioned for six agonizing hours before she finally broke down and began to relate her story, which I guess is where she told about her at the little plot of land, and what she said. And da, da, da da. So the court appointed attorneys. Ra norred and john phillips moved quickly, requesting a mental evaluation of course they did right because if you're a woman, you're crazy.
Speaker 1You're crazy back, especially back then yeah, crazy. They argued that she appeared unable to understand the charges or assist in her own defense. Viola was transferred to Bryce Mental Hospital in Tuscaloosa, alabama. The director initially predicted a stay of three weeks to a month. He was, as it turned out, very optimistic. After five months of examination, the hospital returned her to aniston, alabama, declaring her presently sane and believing her to have been sane at the time of the murders. When viola emerged from the sheriff's cruiser on a crisp fall day, she surprised everyone, despite her unkempt hair and lack of makeup, which you don't have to have makeup on, but still but also she's been in a mental institution right wait, let me fix myself up first before I get out of here.
Speaker 1She paused, half smile on her face, turning toward the flashing cameras. A newsman called out violaola, how'd you like, bryce? She said the food wasn't bad, but too many crazy people there. How about you, viola? Are you crazy? He said. They say I'm not, but I could have told them that without spending all this time and money. She retorted with a grin.
Speaker 2She's like I just got five months being fed and taken care of she's like that was the best five months of her life.
Speaker 1Her, her attorneys, however, were frustrated. She's willing to talk to anybody but us. The attorneys complained it's it was the first time that they had a client that won't, would not like, tell them what happened at all. Like she was tight-lipped so they were like. They asked her like how are you going to justify a killing when you won't even give a reason right and all she's telling us what happened, not telling us about how they did all these bad things to you?
Speaker 1the only thing she would tell them was she had the best reason in the world, but nobody ever found out what that reason was. She's like I did it because I had the best reason in the world and I'm like what does that mean? Yeah. So she didn't deny that the sexual abuse abuse was involved, but she indicated that that wasn't the main reason.
Speaker 1She said it was way worse than that oh gosh like she would say these things, but she would never give the reason why. The public, however, was like ravenous for details. The trial set for March drew an unprecedented that word kills me.
Speaker 2So they never went and actually explored this piece of land that she was talking about there was nothing there, because they would have found something if there was something buried there.
Trial, Imprisonment, and Untold Secrets
Speaker 1So they, like I said, drew an unprecedented. There was nothing there, because they would have found something if there was something buried there. Yeah, so they, like I said, drew an unprecedented crowd filing into the courtrooms, its balconies, they were packed and overflowing with people. In the lobby, a roar of excitement erupted as Viola, composed and seemingly unfazed, was escorted across the skywalk into the courtroom. She was dressed in a charcoal colored dress, gold earrings, red high heels and far too much bright red lipstick. She was like boop here I am.
Speaker 2She went to court looking like a hookup and she was holding.
Speaker 1She was holding an unopened pack of camel cigarettes. Oh she like, give me a cigarette.
Speaker 2I'm just like she looks like. Okay, because of the way you describe it. In my head it's like a black and white movie, yep, and all you see is red heels and red lips. Yep, Like that's great it is I was like.
Speaker 1She was like I'm going to step out. This is my last time, as jury selection proceeded, punctuated by groans and catcalls from eager spectators. Judge Longshore maintained order, but the spectacle they craved was cut short. An agreement had been reached. Viola Hyatt changed her plea to guilty breach. Viola Hyatt changed her plea to guilty. The state, to avoid uncertainty of a trial that would highlight the gruesome dismemberment, accepted a life sentence removing the possibility of the electric chair. The attorneys felt that the dismemberment aspect of the crime would have significantly swayed the jurors. If we were just concerned with the shooting, there would have been some danger as far as the state was concerned, like you know, that's what the attorney said.
Speaker 1As Viola left the courtroom, she spoke quietly to her father who, when questioned by a reporter, replied they told me not to tell nothing. That's a double negative, sir Right. They told me not to tell nothing, and that was a quote. A local relative stunned remarked I never would have believed that Viola could do such a thing. She never had much to say and always did what she was told. She went to church regular and was a hard worker.
Speaker 2I don't know why you people cannot understand the quiet ones are the scariest ones Exactly.
Speaker 1Have we not learned anything?
Speaker 2Ever, ever. I'm just saying right. The ability to keep your mouth shut right makes you dangerous exactly I am a very quiet person.
Speaker 1I I hold secrets and grudges.
Speaker 2Everyone tells was going to say everyone tells me everything, and guess what? I'm a damn vault Yep, so yeah.
Speaker 1So as this you know whole thing was going on and people were talking about her, a chilling new version of the Lizzie Borden rhyme began to circulate, capturing the public's morbid fascination. Viola Hyatt took an ax and gave her lover 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave his brother 41. And so Viola Hyatt was sent to Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. But it wasn't her lover it wasn't her lover, it was her sexual abuser. Right Like not a lover.
Speaker 2Let's change that to gave her abuser 41.
Speaker 1Yeah, and gave her brother 41. His brother 41. There we go. So for decades, the woman who had committed such a gruesome act remained a mystery. Her attorney, john Phillips, speculated unless she changes, she will take it to the grave with her. And so it proved to be. On April 15th 1970, after years behind bars, the state pardons and parole board unanimously voted to pardon Viola. She returned to her family farm where she lived quietly in isolation until her death in a Jacksonville hospital in 1992. She never discussed her experience, even with the family, and refused all interviews. The best reason in the world that she claimed for her actions and that was a quote the deeper truth behind the Alabama axe murderess died with her.
Speaker 2Because she knew got a locket in her pocket Exactly To get this one to the grave.
Speaker 1Exactly she the grave, exactly she. Kept a secret Like was she a monster, a victim or something like far more complex? I think she was just a victim of her circumstance. Yeah, and she held it in as long as she could and something happened that she would not speak about. And that's what was her trigger point. It broke the camel cigarette. Yep, the camel cigarette. That's why she was like red pumps, red lipstick, let's go, girls. But I thought that was an interesting little tale.
Speaker 2Yes, it is.
Speaker 1From the 1950s Also. Yes, it is the 1950s Also, just like poor her.
Speaker 2Yeah, Like this is one of those instances where I feel sorry for the person who killed other people.
Speaker 1Exactly, I felt the same way the whole time I was doing this one. I felt that I was like I feel really bad for her. Yeah, that I was like I feel really bad for her. Yeah, because if she would have gotten positive reinforcement and been treated right, she would have never turned out like that.
Speaker 2I always feel like so twisty about stuff like that because this is a horrible example, but I'm like like I watch the you know rob zombies, stuff like house of a thousand corpses all the, all that stuff, yep so I'm like you know the part where they like get all shot up in the car, yeah, and I'm going.
Speaker 2Why do I feel bad for them? All right, something's wrong with me, but that's like, that's how I feel in this instance, like she went through so much stuff, right, and I I know how terrible it feels to feel like you have zero control over any of this and there's no one's ever going to do anything about it, because you're just some woman, right?
Speaker 1you're just some woman. You were just some kid that everybody picked on and made fun of, and you grew up including your mother yeah, including your mother, and you never. You were like I'm never gonna get out of this life. No man is ever gonna love me. Not that we need validation of men.
Speaker 2No, but I mean back then. That's pretty much all.
Speaker 1That's all you had to look forward to and I'm sure her mother probably told her that, you know, and then the the two dudes that showed up were like oh, oh, you better be grateful that we're actually like doing this with you. Yeah, we're touching you Right.
Speaker 2Ew Nasty yeah At first.
Speaker 1But I will post pictures of her. I don't think she was that bad looking like at all.
Speaker 1And that's what I was about to say she was a very like stout woman, you know, but that was just from her doing farm chores and doing all that stuff for her father. You're going to muscle out, you know, you're not going to be scrawny. No, Cool, yeah, like it was a you know little fun one that had to pluck out of there. Not fun one, but no, interesting. An interesting one, but like just one from history, that something a little different a lot of people haven't heard of.
Speaker 1Unless you're in alabama, you've probably heard of it maybe, maybe not, maybe not.
Speaker 2We all live under rocks these days, do.
Wrapping Up the Story
Speaker 1You know who doesn't live under a rock, Patti Salzetta. I saw her pictures at the beach yesterday. Yeah, I watched the video. It was like so cute. I watched the video of the beach and stuff I was like look the bebe, so cute, yeah.
Speaker 2Little chunky boy, yeah, so yeah. Yeah, little chunky boy, yeah, so yeah. Our theme music is by Patti Saldana.
Speaker 1We always bring her into this.
Speaker 2She probably didn't create it on the beach, but it's cool. It's cool anyway. I knew she was the best person for the job.
Speaker 1Absolutely. She's a musical genius.
Speaker 2So you know, if you're thinking about starting a podcast and you need some theme music, hit her up. You can find her on the Book of Faces.
Speaker 1Or you know, if you need somebody at your club, hit her up, she does that too yeah, and if y'all aren't sharing our damn links by now? Why?
Speaker 2I just feel like the mom who keeps telling you to clean your room.
Speaker 1You're such a helicopter mom pearl, share our links. Why haven't you shared our links yet?
Speaker 2share our social media, do it all right now. Uh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1I just feel like such a but we do get giddy when we see another country added to our list.
Speaker 2Yes, yes, we do, and, of course, the states.
Speaker 1You know absolutely. We love everybody here that is listening to us.
Speaker 2We still haven't had anyone listen to us in New Mexico, yeah. So if you've got friends in New Mexico, tell them they're missing out and Hawaii and Wyoming, huh yeah and Montana. And.
Speaker 1Montana.
Speaker 2Like what are y'all doing?
Speaker 1I know, there's not a lot going on.
Speaker 2In Idaho, y'all could be listening to us while you're dealing with potatoes.
Speaker 1That's right, it's like what are you doing, right? I mean, that's an all-day job. Put your earbuds in listen to our podcast binge. I'm just saying we're out here trying to pimp this thing Like y'all, help us out, come on.
Speaker 2Gosh, you know, make me feel like I'm actually spending my money on something that's worth it, and if you have shared us.
Speaker 1Thank you, thank you, you're our bestest friend. Send us a message and if you're listening in another country, please send us a message. We would love to hear from you Absolutely.
Speaker 2You can message us anywhere, we don't care Facebook, instagram, tiktok, youtube. I don't care, just put it somewhere, put it somewhere. We have an email steeped at HoldMySweetTeacom.
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