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#77 The Pied Piper of Tucson

True Crime Guys

True Crime Guys

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Charles Howard "Smitty" Schmid, Jr., also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson" was an American serial killer. His crimes were profiled by journalist Don Moser in his article "The Pied Piper of Tucson", featured in the March 4, 1966 issue of Life magazine and are the basis for "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. In 2008, The Library of America selected Moser's article for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime. OhMyGaia.com Mohave High Creations truecrimeguys.com Facebook Twitter/Instagram: @TrueCrimeGuys @AndImMichael Patreon.com/TrueCrimeGuys STICKERS CREEPER MERCH Creeper Galaxy Gear

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the TrueCon Guys podcast. I'm Warren and I'm Michael. What's up people? How you doing? Michael has the move going?

0:29.0

Oh, it's going okay man. You know how it is? It's like you you put up all the shit you think you don't need all the unnecessary things like way too far in advance and your house looks blank and then you procrastinate.

0:41.0

And you end up needing you end up needing half that shit. Yeah, you end up needing some stuff for sure. But then you also you know you just you save everything else for the end because you don't want to live in your house without all your shit.

0:53.0

You know what I mean? Like you you don't realize how many things you become accustomed to using on a daily basis. Just little just little shit, you know. Yeah, it's a where's the cup I put my toothbrush in? You show me throw it on the counter like an animal. Like what kind of you know what I'm saying? Yeah, you do end up living like a rat or something. You just got shit all misplaced. Yeah, it's so looking forward to this next move actually because right now we're like living like I could throw a football and hit the lot that we're building a house on and we're like I don't know if you guys knew as listeners where we've been my wife and I and my two kids

1:23.0

and living in a trailer as we're in the early process of building a house and it's a nightmare man. It's like the just all the crapping need to do like we got the house plans engineer but now we got to get the plumbing engineered and the electrical engineer to just like one thing after another.

1:36.0

We haven't even moved to piece of dirt and we've been here for four months. So by the time but by the time we do have the house built and we move we're going to be able to just like throw shit and wagon and walk it over there. Like it's so close. Whereas you're moving to freaking North Carolina. You know, it's going to be. Yeah.

1:50.0

That's like you really got to be strategic about what what goes and what stays and what exactly. Yeah, you got to you start prioritizing shit. You're like and that's kind of what we're doing we're like okay all these boxes are priority one like these gotta go on the truck.

2:03.0

And we're like this stuff not so much you know it's three or four down on the list like this doesn't have to be. You start you start yeah you start realizing like do we really need that piece of furniture like it's really heavy. You know what I mean like do we really need it.

2:15.0

No dude our last our last move when we moved up here we we just started giving everything away to having yard sales and by like the second weekend third weekend a yard somewhere just like please fucking take it.

2:25.0

Just take it free.

2:27.0

I did that look at it. Yeah I did we did that a lot more so when we moved from North Carolina here because we had a house full of shit and you know we'd live there our whole life.

2:39.0

So we had collected so much shit and then we moved out here in a four by a trailer and our SUV so we we got rid of everything we did the same thing like we had yard sales for you know the last three or four days we were there and then on the last day we just put a huge cardboard sign out the yard just said free.

2:57.0

And it was just there was all kinds of ships like dressers we eaters and shit people just like well fucking Christmas.

3:03.0

So yeah so if you don't have any doubt as to our dedication to this podcast just just realize all the shit that's going on in our lives are hectic right now I'm living in a trailer you're moving across the country again.

3:14.0

This train still rolling baby we still rolling so and you know what I'm going to get this episode up this weekend and then well it's already up obviously you're listening to it and then traveling in the middle of the day.

3:26.0

Traveling in the midst and then we'll have a free loader episode next week we won't even miss a beat are you not to tie you're not seriously man.

3:36.0

And from a comfort standpoint like I'm trying out recording in the trailer right now and we got a pretty nice trailer we're living in you know for as far as trailers go I'm literally telling like a villain I know I've got my recliner my plethora recliner that I'm completely reclined in.

3:52.0

And so I'm thinking how the hell have I not been recording like this forever like I'm just like comfort is key like I saw a comedian recording a podcast recently he was doing it in like a hotel bed like fully like just laying back like shirtless just like that's how it should be done.

4:07.0

That is how it should be.

4:08.0

This is a podcast why should we do it all business like in a studio and all that fuck that I want to do it new to recliner from now on yeah who cares especially now we're remotely you know it's not even weird.

4:18.0

Exactly it's amazing yeah it's good.

4:21.0

Dude don't fall asleep on me during this podcast okay but who you snoring or nothing we'll know.

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