Rewind with Karen & Georgia - 103: Live At The Balboa Theatre in San Diego

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Karen and Georgia revisit their 2018 live show at San Diego's Balboa Theatre, blending humor, audience interaction, and a powerful true crime story from a survivor of a serial killer. The episode captures the energy of a

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• Live show nostalgia evokes strong memories

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Hello and welcome to rewind with Karen and Georgia. This is the show where we step into the past through our old episodes and we emerge from the other side with brand new feelings, case updates and more. Today we're rewinding to episode 103 which we named live at the Belboa Theater in San Diego. God this was a good show. It was. So good. This episode originally came out January 11th, 2018. All right, let's listen to the intro in episode. 3. What's up San Diego? Oh good there's an exit there there's two back there and of course there's one right over there The Kilgara family rug was handed down from Galway, Ireland all the way down to, uh... It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. God bless. It's just gorgeous and it's... And then I just spilled my nail polish that I just painted, literally just painted my nails with backstage. George and I say a pre-show prayer. This is the insider information for locals only. And this is not a joke. you guys are faith, no we really say a prayer tonight we said a prayer to the oceans and the local manicurists yeah I know we actually started the prayer and then at some point someone goes Amen yeah and so I had just painted my nails and she went to grab my hands well we I know we actually started the prayer all right and then I went to say something we were like trying to be fake spiritual it's what we do and at one point I goes, watch the fingers. As much for me. Because I don't give a shit. No, it's for the show, you're right, it's for the people. No, I don't want it to get all over your hands. Oh, these old things? My hands are covered in pen and worry. It's fine. Some, some, like, sun damage. Some, yeah. Some gap genes die because I'm never not going like this. Oh, no murder. Well, it's great to be here in San Diego. That's my segue. Is this new? Did you just write this? Is this going to be your new thing? This is my new thing. I lean. Oh my God. This is local Georgia. You're from nearby. I'm from nearby. I like you guys better than my hometown. Oh, my God. This is local Georgia. You're from nearby. I like you guys better than my hometown. Oh, thank you. No, I like Norcal better than my hometown too. Oh, oh, well, everyone's happy. Let's rate the entire United States right now. The last time I was in San Diego actually was for Comic Con. You've been and I got in a huge screaming fight with my friend in either the Gaslight or the Gas Lamp District and I just... Either the Gaslight or the I can't hear anything. I thank you it's um, it's the Gas Lamp District because because the gas light district is where people take you to convince you that your thoughts are wrong. Right. Which is what we got in the fine about. Don't go there. That's what she was doing that. She was gas lamping me in the gaslight. She gas lamp the shit out of you. Yeah, we're friends now. It's fine. But if anyone witnessed it, congratulations. Remember that private memory of Georges that none of us were there for? Well, that's just the last memory I have a San Diego. So I'm, so I'm so I'm really. last one now. Yes. You're making new memories all the time. Right. Oh, San Diego? I went to Belba with theater instead of I got in a screaming fight, you know what I mean? Yeah. The last time I was here I just had a really mediocre set of comedy so I also apologize for my last my last experience here in San Diego. I didn't deliver any of the goods. I mean they should apologize to you. I feel the same thing. I probably brought it. Am I wrong? I brought it in my special way Luckily I've accessed that audience now. We found them. Back in 2008, nobody was having it. It was a different time. It was a different time. New material. That's right. All this. You know? I don't want to look, but are my spanks past my knees right now? That's what it feels like. Let's all be friends and tell her. Oh no, they're right there. I'm. I gave up on those motherfuckers a long time ago. I thought I had caprice spanks on for a second. Knee-high spanks? It scared me. Mejai spanks. Why isn't that a thing? Some girls and guys hate their calves. That's true. Mej high spanks. Yeah, you're, oh my god, calf only spanks might be a niche that we get rich off. Stephen, cut that out. Stephen, that's ours. Send it in the mail. Oh, there is Stephen. Oh, I see Stephen. Come on. missing your cue? Yes. What happened? What if he were wearing the knee-high spakes? Look at him. He's panning, he's panning to the audience. Stephen graduated from the zoo in 1916. Just this old giraffe. It's true. I went back to my old cage. It was great. Stephen graduated from the zoo in 1916. Just this old giraffe. It's true. I went back to my old cage. It was great. So I'm so glad you're free now. No he's not. Now he's in this zoo. We keep him caged in the back. That's why it took a minute to open the cage. So he took him out to get out here. They had to shoe him out. He was way in the corner all like, no, no thank you. Now Stephen, you're a local. Yes, I'm from Southern California. And I love San Diego. That seems sarcastic. That's real. Yeah, we believe you. Any last message. And I'm. And I'm uh... stay stay sexy oh you just... bye get your own fucking saying he steals our motto right in front of us and then we walk off he just ended the show It's nuts. It's so fucking crazy. You guys, what are you doing? You guys, thank you for making this our job. We love it. Oh, it's so stupid. I used to do it, like work on with food stuff and that's really cool because I love food, but then you have to write like a new recipe for fucking Super Bowl every year. It was like, what are you supposed to do with fucking buffalo chicken? What would you do? There's no other way to make it a thing. Let's here. Let's hear some options right now. What would you do? Buffalo chicken dip, buffalo chicken slanders, buffalo chicken, now let's change it up a little bit. It's impossible. Buffalo chicken pudding. Cake. Karen, you should be buffalo putting jello. I don't know what it, buffalo putting jello mold and then hide it in someone's mailbox. It's a different, my thing is a different thing. I was so much cooler now. I was so happy that it was like I love food but I've loved true crime and I didn't realize it was gonna be a job and then I was like oh my God because then you see all the food bloggers who were like here's a new recipe for Thanksgiving thing new thing to put stuffing in good luck stop it oh hazelnut you blew my mind Normally we have all kinds of travel anecdotes and funny hilarious things of how this city is different than our city and we're just like should we go back tonight or just stay like it's not this is a little bit hometowny for us we're just yeah this is a lot like you know what's saying it's like LA but here's the thing people here don't give a shit and that rules it rules if you're in the industry it's like in the chillest way possible. You're not like in the industry and like really care. You make movies about pot or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw a guy that I when we were driving through and it from the head up he looked like my friend's dad and I was like whoa but then from the neck down he was dressed like a 19 year old surfer and I'm like that's not Christine's dad it's not it can't be him. He wouldn't have changed that much. Maybe he went into the um what's it's called when they hide you the Thank you. We actually now like to say that to our audiences before we start because we know that sometimes people bring outsider, we'll call them outsiders to the show, pony boys and soda pops and whatnot, they bring them to the show and they sit here and they listen to us blather about fucking nothing and then like I'll say pockets and everyone starts screaming and they're like what the fuck is going on. And we feel bad for you and we're sorry and we know the majority. you are men and you're like what is happening to my spouse. Yeah this goes out to the Ashur's too by the way. Yeah. Dudes. Yeah. Dudes. Yeah. Um so yeah we just just so you know like we talk about true crime which is very dark and horrifying but then we're also make jokes which is highly inappropriate so. And we know you don't need to let us know we know. Yeah we know. there and I'm purposely doing otherwise just to piss her off. That's right. Because we're always 14. That's true. Right? Yeah. Come on. Let's do it. Anything to wrap up? Any other question? No. No, I guess that's all I got. You got those allergies going again? At least this time I brought a tissue and didn't have to blow my nose on my skirt or the tablecloth, which I've done before. I feel like you have blown your nose on every of anything in this country. It's some of the major theaters in this country. Just don't care anymore. Yeah, you know? It's a great feeling. No a good allergist? Please let me know. Email it. Email it. And thank you. In advance, for helping me. Do you want to. Yeah, that's right. I love reactive tissue. It's not what allergist do. Do you want to show everybody your shoes real quick? Sure. I mean. wear a high heel. I fucking hate high heels. And those look good. Thank you. They're only mildly painful. Thank you. They belong in the Gaslight District if anything does. They really do. Can I do the thing? They're vintage. They are and they're, that's why they're more comfortable is because someone wore them for years. They're letting it up in them. Yeah. For ruining the memory of what's her name? Oh of you mean Giancarla Rosetti? Yes. Whoops. That sounds right. So bad at improvising Italian women's names. Yeah, we've always said that about you. I know I have to take that class at UCB. Should we sit down? Yes. Yeah. tell you guys what to do. Then I'm directing, directing. Is that how it works? I think so and then you just like, and then you just pack it up and walk the fuck away. That's the nice part. We get to keep these. Did you hear? Because you said so just now. Yeah. Here, okay. To go with the rug. Defridges. Didridges. Okay. Defridges, do you know the show's starting as the waters. Is the waters are open. And that's. and I'm trying to talk into it. Right now the sound guy is watching you hold a bottle of water that close to a mic. I'm like, gooker! I'm gonna kill her. Fair enough. Consimate. Professionals. my dog strangers. Oh I thought you said George's hair. I'm so sorry because George's hair. This shit. Yeah. I like didn't know I was like losing all my hair like that all over you. Oh yeah clumps of it are coming out I just didn't want to talk about it. What did I just didn't know? Yeah. And then you just said it and I was like oh that's so funny. Who goes first? It's me. Okay. Guys. Yeah. It's time. all the things you're not supposed to talk about. This was the last time I ever believed a word she said. New voices, each with the courage to tell their own story. He said, I had been kidnapped. Okay, just trying at normal. He was essentially on the run. Every family has secrets. The rug had been pulled from underneath me. Oh my God, it was right in front of my face and I didn't even see it. weekly on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. The Gas Lamp Quarter. There we go. That's the one. Well, we're over-therapies, so we're in the Gaslight Quarter. And we're aware of it. I didn't. I should have known that one, but what are you going to do? The Gas Light Quarter. Yeah. is now if I remember this correctly we stayed in San Diego because we were in like a high-rise hotel yeah by the harbor yeah with a gorgeous view yeah we didn't go home that night that would have been dangerous in my room it felt very like an 80s psychological thriller it was very blue and white with huge windows overlooking like the harbor oh like like Miami Vice episode like a very special I should have tried to ask like the bell-hop me a kilo of cocaine, you know what I mean? Really get into it. I think we've only done really rad stories in San Diego too, like remember the one that you did about the guy who drove a tank? Yeah. Stoll a tank. I remember when that happened. Yeah. But I mean not the way those guys, that was like, you know, that was a whole room full of people's hometown. That's the luckiest story you can tell. Well, I think the one I do this time around like, it's one of those stories where I'm like, okay, okay, I decide to do it's but I can't wait to tell you and if you pick it before I do it I'm gonna lose my mind so I just really want to just do it now but I have to save it for San Diego you know what I mean? Yep I know we have to get real strategic we've learned a lot over the years at what point did podcasting start feeling like a real job instead of a lucky accident? Say it with me the network. Oh yeah right absolutely but I was like when touring became non-stop. Yeah, we got into a touring loop and we were just never not touring. And that was when it was, I think we got, I was gonna say strung out, but I mean like wrung out. I mean I think it just like you can't do that much work. Yeah, and traveling. Especially because I had left my old life up doing foodstuffed because I was so sick of traveling to like eat. Oh yeah, you guys had to travel all over. Yeah, it was just part of it. And I was part of it was part of it. And I was part of it was like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, I was like, okay, I was like, okay, I was like, I was like, okay, okay, I was like, I was like, okay, okay, I was like, okay, I was like, I was like, okay, I was like, okay, okay, I was like, I was like, okay, okay, I was like, okay, with my cat and then it suddenly like guess what you're gonna be even more and Vince is coming with you so you have to leave him with Stephen which is you know obviously fine but disruptive but at least it's gotta come it was just hard you know it was just like there was the pile got higher and higher than the book we were doing a lot of stuff at one time I think this was like a real peak it peaks out here in the next couple years and then look we didn't know what the world didn't know and shut up. That's right. I couldn't have come at a better time to speak. I'm sorry to say it because I know it's it's definitely a place of privilege but I felt like it saved my brain. I got to spend Elvis's last like year and a half with him every day which was like so meaningful to me. The whole experience was just so so absolutely surreal. It was like all these things were happening and then it's like shutting down the world. Yeah. The world was like sit down and shut up. take a seat. Yeah. We're like okay and we won't get up for about six more years right and I'm at your feet my butt yeah all right your story is a fucking classic and it's so good let's get into it shall we yes please okay here's Karen's story about Betty Broderick and guess who I'm gonna talk about Betty Broderick and guess who I'm gonna talk about Betty Broderick. I put together well really when Stephen sent me Stephen sends us like lists of choices that we could have every city we go to he's very thorough and each get different choices so we don't overlap this wonderful system and when I saw Betty Broderick's name on my list I was like oh fuck yeah I forgot she lived down there I have seen every single fucking forensic files 20-20 night line I've seen this woman all my life. The full house episode she was in. She's seen them all. I'm saying that because I don't know who she is off the top of my head. So when I find out I'm gonna be like, oh, I'm really bummed I made that job. The Bob Hope Young Comedian Special where she nailed that seven minute set. I mean, she's just been in my life. No, you do know her, I'm sure, but I don't know names. Well, I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure, I don't know. I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure, I don't know her, I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm course, uh, Wikipedia. God bless him, I use them daily, won't give him a dime. Just kidding, donate. That's what my father used to say when I would walk in and he would be watching PBS at night and I'd be like, what are you watching? He'd be like, Nova for free. That was his big brag. I've never given him a dime. Oh my God. Hilarious. We are, he's never listening to this episode. We have to burn this the second that we're done. But I got some really good information from a podcast called Once Upon a Crime that you guys probably listen to has hosted by Esther Ludlow. Elizabeth Ann Broderick grew up in the New York City suburb of Eastchester. She was the third of six children born to a devout Roman Catholic parents. Her mother was Irish American and her father was Italian American. That's a bad combination, by the way. I don't know if... Are there any Irish Italians here because they're all it's not good it's not right you're a lunatic right? They're screaming Super repressed but then you also scream all the time like nothing makes sense? The Basigliers were very strict parents And as Betty later recalled she was trained to act as a housewife since the day she was born Go to Catholic schools Be careful with dating until you find a Catholic man Support him while he works be blessed in your later years with beautiful grandchildren that was the goal. Pass, hard pass. No, what's my other option? I guess like snort cocaine in a small room until you die? Great! Yes, I picked that one. Okay. She graduates from Eastchester High School in 1965 in that same year when she was 17 she traveled to Indiana with her friend to go watch Notre Dame. Really? We're in San Diego. Play it cool just kidding go daint Notre Dame. She goes to see a Notre Dame football game with her friend and there she meets a man named Dan Broderick he was born in Pittsburgh he was the eldest son of a large Irish Catholic family. Oof all Irish Catholic you're done for that's what I'm from not good okay he wasn't as tall