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You're Wrong About

Going Postal

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mike tells Sarah about the rash of mass shootings carried out by postal workers in the '80s and '90s, then brings out the debunkin' turducken.

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0:00.0

My conviction is about love and writing or that they're basically like mashing.

0:03.6

So you have to just like hold on to something that you don't know where it's going.

0:16.2

Do you want to tell me about your relationship with the phrase going postal?

0:19.2

I feel like it's a phrase that you heard a lot in the 90s.

0:22.2

And the first thing I associate it with is with Newman on Seinfeld.

0:25.5

Let me ask you something. What do you do for a living, Newman?

0:28.7

From the United States Postal Worker.

0:32.4

All right, those are the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody.

0:37.6

Sometimes.

0:41.6

Why is that? Because the mail never stops.

0:44.9

It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

0:47.2

There's never a light up. It's relentless.

0:48.8

Every day it piles up more and more and more and more.

0:51.1

You come and get it up and the more you get out, the more it keeps coming in.

0:53.5

And then the barcode reads it breaks and it publishes clearing house.

0:56.8

Don't hide, don't hide.

0:58.8

As someone who spends a lot of time reading about random crimes,

1:02.8

and you know, when I was in Alaska, I was at a thrift store in Vata book called Murder at 40 Below,

1:07.6

because that's the kind of thing that I do in my spare time.

1:10.0

I cannot think of a single thing I've read about a postal worker committing a massacre or anything like that.

1:15.8

There were a series of shootings in the late 80s and early 90s,

1:22.8

committed by postal workers.

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