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MFM Minisode 482

April 6, 2026·28 min·2 clips

A babysitter's search for the Jonas Brothers ends with police surrounding her grandma's house after a 911 call.

The welcome is already off-script. Karen and Georgia announce the mini-sode, correct themselves, wave past the correction, and fall back into that friend-room rhythm. Hair is the first detour. One has blow-dried in the car with the windows down. The other has not washed her hair and lets the banter do the work. Then the ads barge in. The excerpt includes promos for other shows, so the episode keeps snapping from murder-adjacent chaos to polished podcast-commercial mode. The listener story shows up fast. The subject line is red flags and online dating, and the greeting is for Frank, very pointedly, and only Frank. That tracks. The writer says that six years earlier, online dating had rules they mostly followed: meet in public, keep phone numbers private, keep addresses private. Then attraction walks in and knocks the rules loose. After only about two days of messaging, they invite a first date to their house, give out the address, exchange numbers, and plan a fancy dinner. Karen and Georgia hear the alarm bells immediately. This is every safety rule going the wrong way at once. The setting does not help. The listener lives in farm country, with corn and soybeans along the gravel drive, woods nearby, and cell service that barely works. It is already the movie poster. The hosts react like people watching the front door open in a horror scene, but the room still feels warm. The date arrives near dusk. He calls nervously from the driveway, and the listener jokes that the whole thing is creepy before telling him not to be a murderer. Then the story reaches the doorway. The excerpt cuts before the payoff, leaving the dread hanging while the show drops back into sponsor audio and another promo.

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A first date at a remote house turns into a tight little horror setup, with Karen and Georgia making every red flag funnier and worse.

A listener's online dating story gives this minisode its true crime jolt: she knows the safety rules, ignores them anyway, and invites a first date to her rural house after only a couple days of messaging.

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A listener invites an online date to her farm-country house, with iffy cell service and woods nearby, and then the power goes out.

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