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Ep. 62-Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield
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The quiet town of Plainfield, Wisconsin seemed like any other sleepy American hamlet until November 1957, when authorities made a discovery so horrific it would permanently alter our cultural perception of evil. Behind the doors of an unassuming farmhouse lived Ed Gein, a man whose twisted obsession with his deceased mother led to grave robbery, murder, and the creation of household items made from human remains.
Born to a domineering, fanatically religious mother and an alcoholic father, Gein grew up in near-total isolation. His mother Augusta preached that all women besides herself were vessels of sin, instilling in Ed a Madonna-whore complex that would later manifest in unimaginable ways. When she died in 1945, Ed preserved her rooms as shrines while the rest of the house descended into chaos. To the outside world, he was just the odd, harmless bachelor who did odd jobs around town—even babysitting local children.
What makes Gein's case so uniquely disturbing isn't just the two murders he committed, but his extensive grave robbing and what he did with the remains. Police discovered furniture upholstered with human skin, bowls made from skulls, a box of collected noses, masks crafted from women's faces, and most horrifically, a "woman suit" made of skin that allowed Ed to "become" his mother. These gruesome discoveries would go on to inspire iconic horror characters including Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.
The Gein case forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about human psychology and the potential for darkness that can exist within seemingly ordinary people. It's a stark reminder that sometimes the monsters aren't hiding in shadows or far-off places—they're living next door, shopping at the same stores, and walking the same streets as us. Listen as we unravel this notorious case that changed America's perception of small-town safety forever and continues to haunt our collective consciousness decades later.
Sources:
The Milwaukee Journal (1957–1958 coverage of Bernice Worden’s disappearance and farmhouse discovery).
The Chicago Tribune archives (1957 coverage of Ed Gein’s arrest and trial).
Associated Press reports from November 1957 (initial farmhouse discovery).
⚖️ Court & Police Records
Waushara County Sheriff’s Office reports on the farmhouse search (1957).
Trial proceedings, Waushara County Court, Judge Robert H. Gollmar presiding (1968).
🎙️ Documentaries & Media
Ed Gein: The Real Psycho (Biography Channel documentary, 2004).
Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield (Investigation Discovery, 2010).
Ed Gein: The Real Leatherface (documentary film, 2019).
Introduction to Ed Gein case
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Speaker 1all right. Well, like I said in the beginning, it's one of the most disturbing cases in true crime history. It's a story so bizarre and grotesque it would forever change the way America thought about small town safety like evil lurking behind closed doors even horror movies themselves. So this is the story of Ed Gein. Now, if you have listened to any true crime podcast, if you have watched movies, if you have, Lived in America.
Speaker 1Lived in America and you know who a serial killer is. You have probably heard of Ed Gein, the butcher of Plainfield, the man who lived in a house of horrors Not whores Horrors, because mother would never allow whores in the house.
Speaker 2There's no whores in this house.
Speaker 1Okay, so let's all settle in, because I'm going to tell you the story of Ed Gein. Story of Ed Gein. So Ed was born on August 27th 1906 in La Crosse County, wisconsin. His family life was complicated, to say the least. His father, george Gein, was an alcoholic unreliable. He struggled to hold a steady job. To young ed, george was a weak man.
Speaker 2He wasn't the bring home the bacon dad, was he bring home? The cheese curds, dad, maybe because wisconsin's got wisconsin. Your cheese curds are amazing, hello.
Speaker 1Hello Wisconsin. I should have opened with that, but it could be due to that. His mother, augusta, despised her husband. She saw him as a failure and she made sure her sons knew it too. Like she talked shit about her husband constantly. Augusta was the dominant force in the household.
Speaker 2Obviously, obviously.
Speaker 1She was deeply religious, strict, controlling and obsessed with her own twisted sense of morality. Sense of morality she taught Ed and his brother Henry that women other than herself were corrupt, sinful and not to be trusted. She would preach from the Bible daily, pounding it into their heads that the world was wicked, filled with temptation and doomed. Like. That doesn't sound like a good time to me. Like why are you so angsty against the world? Like live your life, woman or don't. Or don't. Like don't take it out on your sons.
Speaker 2Peace out Right. Quit making everybody else miserable yo.
Speaker 1But here's the thing Like while Augusta claimed to hate sin, she ruled her home with fear, manipulation and isolation.
Speaker 2Well, she should have isolated herself in another house.
Speaker 1If she was that bitter and sad, left them poor kids alone, right? She allowed very little contact with outsiders. The boys weren't permitted to have friends. The Gein children grew up in near social isolation, cut off from normal experiences of childhood. Their father was abusive and absent, like he was on a bender drinking, or then he'd come home and smack him around or something.
Speaker 2I'd say that if I had to put up with Augusta, I may also be an alcoholic.
Speaker 1And abusive. You're like I, I gotta drink. This woman is getting on my nerves. But his brother, henry, was skeptical of augustus teaching. But ed, ed clung to every word. He adored his mother, he worshipped her. Some say he was like obsessed with her, like she was his only emotional connection so, when she was his only human connection right besides his, his dad every once in a while, and his brother right like literally.
Speaker 2That's all he's got yeah, like that's it.
Speaker 1So to him her word was Gospel. Gospel, yeah, like he was there for it. Nothing that mother said was wrong. The gospel according to mother yeah. So we're going to dive into a psychological concept real quick, known as the Madonna whore complex. It's a concept first described by Sigmund Freud. It refers to a kind of a split in the way that some men perceive women, where they divide them into two extreme categories the Madonna, which represents, like purity, virtue, nurturing motherhood, not the madonna?
Speaker 1I know no she's like a virgin. But women in this category are to to these men who have this extreme concept of women. I'm over here using my hands a lot, but, um, they're respected, they're idolized, um, not viewed as like sexually desired, so they're seen as good women worthy of love and some type of long-term relationship, whether it be your, you know, your mother or somebody that you really look up to. Now, the whore represents sexual desire, promiscuity, sinfulness. Women in this category are desired physically, but not respected or valued for deeper emotional connection. They're often seen as like bad women, suitable for sex but not for love or marriage. And I just want to say that if you've ever been on a dating website, there's a lot of damaged men on there who literally think this, like they think that going through women, and then they're like, oh well, I would never date her because she did this, this and sent me these pictures. But yet you're here, you are sending out pictures to everybody else, but you don't think that about yourself, you just think that's about her.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's not a good girl. She would never do that. So so like, why is this concept problematic? Like duh Right, I think men like often struggle to integrate both sexuality and respect for women in the same person. I've I've met many men who are like this yeah.
Speaker 2And then they marry the girl they think is the quote-unquote good girl yeah and cheat on her constantly, because what they really wanted right was the one they thought was a whore, yep, like and like.
Speaker 1They don't feel sexually attracted anymore because they put her in the position of the Madonna. But I think, like in modern psychology, misogyny and sexism, like treating women as either saintly mothers or sinful temptresses difficult sustaining intimacy. Sinful temptresses difficult sustaining intimacy. Or even when you think of somebody in a different way, like you don't want to treat her well because she's just a sex object to you. But I think you know a lot of psychologists did think that Ed Gein's relationship with his mother fits the framework for the Madonna whore complex. It was extreme, layered with with psychosis and trauma, Of course.
Speaker 2Laid on by the Madonna. Laid on by the Madonna.
Speaker 1Up there preaching, papa don't preach. He didn't, mama did Right.
Speaker 2Exactly, ed Gein is in trouble deep, he is.
Speaker 1So Ed Gein is in trouble deep, he is In 1940, his father died of heart failure brought on by years of drinking Well.
Speaker 1I'm, sure drinking and having to put up with all of that mess going on in the house. He just, but again, he was a weak man and he wouldn't stand up for himself. He lived in a loony farm, yep. So for most families it would have been a tragedy, but for Augusta it was more like the removal of a nuisance. She was like good riddance, of course she was. Then came 1944. There was a brush fire on their property where their farmhouse was. Ed and Henry were working to clear land when the fire spread out of control. Firefighters came and when the smoke cleared Ed reported his brother missing. Authorities later found Henry's body lying face down. He had bruises on his head but despite the suspicious circumstances the death was ruled accidental Interesting. So officially Henry died from heart failure combined with smoke inhalation. Okay, but many have speculated. Did Ed kill his brother? Maybe Did Henry challenge their mother's teachings one too many times so he just had enough? Maybe, and they were out in the field. He saw an opportunity whack.
Speaker 1Maybe, With Henry gone, augusta had Ed all to herself and when she passed away in 1945, after a series of strokes, ed was left completely alone. And that's when things begin to unravel. And police reports say that when Augusta died because he was in such a mind space of a child almost he literally wailed and cried Like a child.
Speaker 2Well, again, this is the only human contact, yep, besides his brother and dad, or human contact, that he somehow managed to enjoy. I don't understand, but but you know his mom was his best friend, it was his entire stinking world. So, yeah, I, I guess he would freak out. Yeah, and it's not like he couldn't.
Speaker 2He doesn't even know how to make relationships with people at this point, because he's never had to be social with anyone, right, and it's not like he could go and do things, because she would not let him, she would not permit him to go.
Speaker 1So he, just when he lost it when she died, he lost what he never had Right. He lost his mind.
Speaker 2Which he also never had.
Speaker 1She was his mind. Yeah, she was a voice in his head for sure. After Augusta's death, ed kept the family farmhouse in Plainfield, but he lived like a ghost within it. He boarded up the rooms. His mother used the parlor, the upstairs bedroom, leaving them untouched, almost like a shrine. So in the rest of the house dust would gather, cobwebs would spread, just trash and stuff everywhere, but he preserved her space perfectly. Meanwhile, as the house descended into chaos discarded food, broken furniture he just got to a point where things just got like darker in his head, getting more depressed. The home literally became the symbol of Ed's like deteriorating mind, I'm sure, but neighbors described him as quiet, odd, but generally harmless. He did odd jobs around town.
Speaker 2So I guess at this point he had to figure something out Take care of himself.
Speaker 1He babysat children. What? Yeah, no way, no way. People thought he was eccentric, maybe lonely. No one could have guessed like what was festering inside that farmhouse and I mean festering. So let's talk about his victims. So his first known victim was Mary Hogan, a tavern owner in Pine Grove. She disappeared in December of 1954. The case like went cold but some of the locals would joke that maybe Ed had something to do with it. You know they would laugh about it and stuff. But he frequented the tavern and he kind of I think not really had a crush on her, but he was, he was like enamored by her Because she kind of resembled his mother.
Speaker 2That's what I was about to say. Did she remind him of?
Speaker 1his mommy? Yes, so she was an older lady. All of his victims were older. So she was an older lady. All of his victims were older. So she was an older lady and he kind of made this whole like mother symbol out of her.
Speaker 1So three years later, on November 16, 1957, another elderly lady, bernice Worden, the owner of a local hardware store, vanished. Denise Worden, the owner of a local hardware store, vanished. Her son, a deputy sheriff, grew suspicious of Ed when he realized Ed had been the last customer in the store. So he went in there for some stuff and I think he got some kerosene and some other stuff and back then they would write you out a ticket, so that was your receipt. So they would write what you got, the price of it, the total. Write you out a ticket, so that was your receipt. So they would write what you got, the price of it, the total, your name on it and you got a copy of it. So there was a copy in the book. So authorities went to Gein's farmhouse to question him. Has, I think, I think has literally haunted everybody that was involved, because it was unlike anything anybody had ever seen.
Speaker 2Ever, ever.
Speaker 1Ever ever. Inside the farmhouse, deputies stumbled into what could only be described as a nightmare. They found a body in a shed. At first they thought it was an animal, but then they realized it was a human body. It had been decapitated, hung upside down by her legs and gutted like a deer.
Speaker 1I was about to say so basically dressed like an animal deer I was about to say so, basically dressed like yeah, an animal, because he was taking her skin, so he was skinning it like an animal. You know, like you would do a deer, you hang them, gut them, let the blood drain out and then skin them. We know this because we live in the South. I've never gutted a deer, but the body was Bernice Worden's body. Have you ever gutted a deer?
Speaker 2Not personally. I've been present.
Speaker 1No, not me.
Speaker 2I would not but.
Speaker 1I didn't do it. I think, when it comes to an animal, I'm like ew, but then I watch something like Terrifier and I'm like okay, well, we just split her completely in half.
The Disturbing Story Begins
Speaker 2I've literally told people to not say, like you know, they have like the reels where the dogs are like running and then they like slam into a wall or something like that. I'm like please don't send me stuff like that, it really bothers me yeah like animals are like no, and they just look at me like you watch horror movies. You're like oh well, that's interesting yeah, and I think that's why everybody looks at me and goes what is wrong with you? Right like nothing's wrong with me. What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1don't know, but that was only the beginning of what they were to find. So in the, these are just some of the things that they found Chairs upholstered with human skin lamps, human skin lampshades. I bet that smelled good. When the light came on, skulls turned into bowls, like he was eating his Cheerios out of somebody's skull. Masks made from the faces of women. A box filled with noses Just random noses, what?
Speaker 2And when.
Speaker 1I and when I like was reading this and put you know, making it into my, my script and everything I would. All I could think of was going to the pet store and that section where they have pig ears and stuff and little pig.
Speaker 2They have noses too, and everything.
Speaker 1Yeah, they have all that and I was like, oh no, now, every time I look at them, I'm going to think of that. You're going to think of human noses in a box.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, that's so funny. There are pig noses in there, but also I'm like. So he's very crafty apparently, but just with the wrong kind of material.
Speaker 1Exactly. But most disturbingly, what appeared to be a woman's suit made out of human skin, complete with breasts, was found. Wow, yeah, he would collect trophies from you know things, but he would also make them into things. So he had it around him, but then he made the human skin suit because he admitted he literally wanted to crawl inside the skin of others to become his mother again.
Speaker 2So he wanted to be his mom.
Speaker 1Yeah, there was also and I didn't put it in here, but I feel I should mention it there was also a belt made of nipples. Oh, my God, he also had. I think there was also like vaginal parts and things like that in boxes.
Speaker 2He had all these things like just all over the place To idolize your mother, to the point of trying to use other women's body parts to recreate her so that you could wear her.
Speaker 1Yep Ugh. So it turned out, many of these trophies, like I said, weren't from murder victims but from grave robbing.
Speaker 1Oh interesting, yeah. So he confessed to digging up the bodies of recently deceased women who reminded him of Augusta. I'm like, so how many cemeteries does Plainfield have? For one. He would see it in the paper like, oh, this person died. Here's a picture. She looks like mother. He would wait it out till they buried her. The dirt's still fresh. He'd go dig it up, get the body out, cover it back up. No one was the wiser because it was still a fresh grave, perhaps. Yeah, so he would take their corpses home.
Speaker 2He would dissect them and use their remains to build his twisted collection I'd imagine he was saving parts for when he had to remake stuff because it just like completely yeah, crumbled, rotted, whatever uh I'm just yuck so the town of plainfield was literally shaken to its core and I guess so like.
Speaker 1I don't know if you've ever lived in a town where you're like see the same like person walking all the time or doing something, you're like, oh there goes.
Speaker 2Old crazy joe and then you find out how crazy joe was right and joe would be crazy chicken.
Speaker 1Voldemort had to throw that in there. And then this person turns out to be this monster that is doing all this stuff. People who, like, once trusted him as a babysitter, like realized that he's like this living nightmare that was living down the road. So he did confess to the murders of bernice warden and mary hogan and the countless acts of grave robbing. So he, once he was caught, he was really like. I think they're like defiling corpse charges.
Speaker 2Yeah, and he did.
Speaker 1He defiled and he also.
Speaker 2There was also necrophilia involved, so he wanted to be Abuse of a corpse, yeah abuse of a corpse.
Ed Gein's Family and Upbringing
Speaker 1So there was all this stuff that was going on with these corpses and then he would dissect them and just these were Like you go into a guy's workshop and he's got little spare parts in boxes and stuff and nuts and bolts. His spare parts were body parts pretty much, because making the skin suit and all this stuff was his craft and all this stuff was his craft. So he was declared insane and unfit to stand trial. He was committed to Central State Hospital for the criminally insane. It wasn't until 1968 that he was finally found guilty, but still legally insane, and he spent the rest of his life in a psychiatric institution. He died in 1984 at the age of 77. And funny thing is is he was buried in the Plainfield Cemetery, not far from the graves that he once robbed.
Speaker 2Did they put all the pieces back? Did they go? Oh, maybe this is you, maybe that's you.
Speaker 1That'll be an update I will give you on the next episode, because I didn't even think about that. Yeah, I'm wondering what'd you do with all the parts. But also, DNA testing was not a thing then. So how would you know who's parts were? Who, I would imagine you? Could look at a picture and go yeah, this was your nose right I think that was my mom's ear, but uh, the vagina, I don't know.
Speaker 2I've never seen it right that may be problematic, but I'm just saying like I don't know what they do with all that.
Speaker 1I was only like a baby when I saw.
Speaker 2I can't imagine you keeping all of that in evidence.
Speaker 1Right Gross.
Speaker 2That's why I'm like what did they do with all this stuff?
Speaker 1Right. So If any of this sounds familiar and if you've never Like heard of Ed Gein before, there were movies, lots of them, inspired by Ed Gein. There were movies inspired by Ed Gein, lots of them Psycho, norman Bates Mother was his only like fixation. He, you know, after she died he kept her up in the attic in her rocking chair and he fixated and he killed other women and stuff. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Speaker 2Leatherface.
Speaker 1Leatherface right Wearing human skin.
Speaker 2Silence of the Lambs.
Speaker 1Yep Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs In the skin suit In his skin suit because he wanted to be a lady.
Speaker 1Absolutely so. His legacy and his cultural impact like big is big, yeah, like the. The terrifying strangeness of like his crimes was went beyond murder. It was about obsession, grief, isolation and madness. But even with all the, the movies and books and things about that inspired you know that were inspired by him. Each one of those fictional characters took pieces of ed's twisted reality and to this day, when we think of the killer next door, the quiet, quiet, harmless, seemingless neighbor hiding unimaginable darkness, ed Gein is the prototype for that. He wasn't a big city monster. He wasn't hiding in the shadows of a bustling metropolis. He was in Plainfield, wisconsin, population barely 700, a small town, a trusted base. Like people didn't lock their doors and windows I bet they did after, but I mean he was locked up, but still, it still gives you a sense of ick.
Speaker 2And like you went from a place that felt like everybody knew everybody. But did you really? I mean, let's be real, real, you never really know anyone right, ever.
Speaker 1You think you do, but you do not, and it's also like, sometimes, the most ordinary places hide the darkest secrets yep, sometimes that's the easiest place to hide because I, you know, I don't know if it goes on in anybody else's mind but like I'll have to take a trip to like Walmart and I have to go in there and get something in my brain, I'll walk in and go. All these people around me one of these people could have killed somebody, I don't know. My brain's so twisted and weird like that. I'm like why am I thinking of things like this?
Speaker 2You think of things like that? Do you want to know what I do? If I'm like walking, driving, it doesn't matter where I'm at and someone looks like they're just nervous or doing anything, like they seem like they might be doing something wrong, I purposely stare at them to remember what they have on, what their face looks like. Like. I literally to the smallest, every detail yeah memorize these people before moving on with my life. Right, like just in case I hear something.
Speaker 1And be like I got you.
Speaker 2Hold on. Let me call the crime stoppers.
Speaker 1Right, I know which one this one is. I know which one it was. Yes, I got you.
Speaker 2Literally I do that. So if anybody sees me staring at you in the grocery store, that's why, yeah, I think you look sketchy and I'm memorizing. You look sketchy and I'm memorizing you.
Speaker 1Yep, she's taking mental pictures of your whole anatomy.
Speaker 2Sorry, even down to those crusty shoes. No, absolutely the crusty shoes. I told you about my interview that one time, yeah, y'all and I worked for EA games for half a second and part of the interview was they sit you down in a room and then they tell you to close your eyes and tell them every detail you possibly can about the room, like anything that's in it. And I literally told the guy who interviewed me that he had two different colored shoestrings one was brown, one was black and he was like holy, holy crap.
Speaker 1Nobody ever gets that.
Speaker 2So, yeah, that's me, that's my problem. I'm a little bit weird, yeah.
Speaker 1I'm right along there with you because I am extremely observant and even when you think I don't know, I know I know things and people will be like oh, blah, blah, blah, and I'm like lay out some details and they're like studying everything. And then you know I won't shut up half the time. Now I'm like, okay, I'm familiar with the situation, let's go.
Speaker 2Now I'm going to talk my self to death over here.
Speaker 1And then my, my flair for the, you know dramatic, that's my Leo moon. I'll do something. And Pearl's like are you okay? And I'm like, ah, I'm like, oh no, I'm okay, I just dropped something, yeah.
Speaker 2Sounds like she then like lost a finger or something. But literally oh no, I just dropped this paper clip, it's fine.
Speaker 1I can't help it. What the hell? My leo people know what I'm talking about. It's the drama.
Speaker 2The sad thing is that's my rising and I'm still like I don't freak out over dropping paper clips. She is not dramatic. Me, on the other hand, dramatic I am very calm, cool and collected. As a matter of fact, when my dog nearly bit the tip of my finger off, I was very calm, cool and collected I was there for that.
Speaker 1She was like trying, still trying to get the dog out from under the recliner and going I need to go to the hospital. That's what I said.
Speaker 2Rob is the dog. Okay, I'm like I don't know, but I need to go to the emergency room, Right.
Speaker 1He was okay, by the way.
Speaker 2He also had to go to the vet and get some stitches, but he was okay.
Speaker 1Watch out for motorized recliners. I did not cause his injury.
Speaker 2I was just trying to get him free from the contraption he was caught in when he bit me out of pain, but he felt so bad yeah he did.
Speaker 1He was very sad. I was there for that and I was like oh my gosh, yeah, he like walked so slowly to me when I came home from the hospital with his head down.
Speaker 2He was like I'm sorry, mom, and I'm like it's okay, and so now a piece of him lives with me forever because he has passed.
Speaker 1But I do have to say like I'm dramatic in certain situations, but when it comes to an emergency situation, I go full, like you know, serious mode, yeah, yeah, so I know the.
Speaker 2I think the first responders when my mom had that incident while my sister was on her honeymoon were kind of surprised at just how chill I was yeah, even the dispatcher when she asked me six times what the address was, and she's like I just wanted to make sure you weren't giving me the wrong address, in case you were frantic. I'm like, I'm not frantic. I'm about to get annoyed, though, because this is the seventh time I've said the address.
Speaker 1Can we wait until you pick her up? Then I'll get frantic.
Speaker 2I didn't do that either. I kind of I just went and went okay, I need to get her medicine, I need to bring her clothes, I need to bring, you know, just like start making lists, making a mental list?
Speaker 1Yes, but yeah, we do, we do these weird little quirky things and I'm sure everybody does. Yeah, share your quirks with us. Yes, we want to know, we want to know. And again, the reason I did Ed, because it is not in the South, it is in Wisconsin, the utmost top of the United States. But I wanted to do it because Brian Murphy's series is coming out with Ed Gein on October 3rd. We are not sponsored, but I am so ready to see it.
Speaker 2We're gonna watch it.
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Speaker 1If you weren't familiar with him. Now you are, and now you can watch it and be like brah.
Speaker 2Also it. Yes, welcome to Derry. Yeah, that yeah, it's coming out October 26th on HBO.
Speaker 1Max.
Speaker 2I am excited to see that one too, and Mr Skarsgård himself is still in it, so he's going to still be Pennywise, which I think is great yeah. They shouldn't pick another one at all. I was like yay when I saw that, so he's creepy.
Speaker 1Do you know who is not creepy? Patti Salzetta.
Speaker 2She is quirky though.
Speaker 1Yeah, very quirky, not creepy, Quirky, quirky. But I don't think she would ever wear a skin suit though. No, no, no, no, no, not at all, but she makes some awesome music.
Speaker 2She might wear an 80s track suit.
Speaker 1She probably would 90s track suit even.
Speaker 2But like neon one. But she made wonderful, wonderful theme music for our podcast and we appreciate it Absolutely. Do and again, send us your quirkiness Social media or at steeped at holdmysweetteacom.
Speaker 1And if you go on our TikTok to our last episode, episode 61, buford Pusser, we got quite the ruckus going on in there in the comments. Yeah, the uproar.
Speaker 2But you know, interaction. But, also tread lightly, because some people are just straight out ugly.
Speaker 1But you know we're just leaving it all up there for people to see, but we had some interaction and we did answer quite a few people. So, yay, there were some ignorant comments on there. Yeah, but we had comments and we, you know, we appreciate that and we love the interaction. So, interact with us and, as always, hold my sweet tea is a drunken bee production. You guys remember to stay safe out there, and just because we're dipping doesn't mean you can't keep sipping bye and stay out of the graveyards, ed. Thank you, bye.