Warm Milk, Foot Rubs, and White Claws: ALL The Texts Between Mackenzie & Dad

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This episode analyzes leaked text messages between Mackenzie Scharilla and her father, Steve, revealing a complex, often chaotic parent-child dynamic. The discussion explores internet theories about inappropriate behavior, particularly around 'warm milk' and foot rubs, while examining parental permissiveness and emotional manipulation.

Key takeaways

• Texts show extreme parental leniency, including buying alcohol and weed for a minor.
• Internet users speculate about inappropriate relationships due to late-night 'warm milk' requests.
• Mackenzie frequently treats her father as a personal assistant, demanding favors without consequence.

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Welcome back to the second half of part three of Mackenzie Scharilla's case. We've talked about some of the recent interviews Steve Scharilla, Mackenzie's dad has done, which has not really shed a better light since the release of the Netflix documentary. It just seems like any time Steve and Natalie Scharilla opened their mouths, nothing necessarily good comes out of it. People are not getting the point that they want people to get and people are getting more frustrated and it's just leaving everybody at more odds than it's just leaving everybody at more odds than before. So in this next part we're going to go through all of the text messages that we received from the police between Mackenzie and her dad Steve Schirilla and all the little conspiracies that people have about them. In the police FOIA file we received this lengthy document. It's the cell-bite extract of text messages between Mackenzie and her dad. And I will say, the internet has taken some snippets of it and ran with it to very interesting directions and corners of darkness. For example, there's the whole warm milk bit online online. I online. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess people have been pulling messages and Mackenzie seems to ask her dad for quote warm milk at odd hours of the day or more often odd hours of the night and there are some notable ones so for example I mean I was going through looking for these warm milk messages because I saw people talking about it online before I even got to it January 4th 20 20 m mikensi text her dad at 2.43 a.m. middle of the night can you make me warm milk he doesn't respond until 1 p.m. the next day sorry just seeing this you And two days later, at 11.31 PM, Mackenzie text her dad again. Can you make me warm milk? He responds, okay, thanks, when you come in, be quiet. Then later, in March 2020, Mackenzie text her dad at 11. 35 PM, can you rub my feet? This seems to like be a thing that she does because months later there are similar messages. Could you please come up here and rub my feet. They are in pain and mom will not do a good job. Can you rub my feet? Which is interesting? April 2, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, again, will you make me warm milk? He responds the next morning at 10 a.m. Just saw this do you still want? No. Sorry, my phone was dead. Then May 5th, 2020 at midnight, can you make me warm milk? Again, May 8th, 2020 at 3 a.m. can you make me warm milk? To which Steve responds, K. Mackenzie asks, then again, May 9th, 20, can you make me milk? And I don't know if it's maybe a lot of people who don't really drink a lot of warm milk, a vibe that people are picking up, but comments on Tik-talk read, Warm Milk is not Warm Milk. That comment has almost 30,000 likes. People are debating under that comment section, you know, arguing what they think Warm Milk means. Some say, Warm Milk helps you come off certain drugs. So like it is Warm Milk, but the reason she needs it so much is because she's trying to come down from a drug. Others say, no, it sounds like a sexual thing. Another comment just reads Google Urban Dictionary meaning for Warm Milk. Which I did, which I did I did I did, and I did, and I did, and I did, and I did, and I did, and I did, and I did. ranging from the beverage you drink while thinking of excuses to explain why you can't fish because your wife or others won't let you. Basically you're a bitch baby. All the way to it's a web comic and all the way to quote, wink, jerk off furiously during a bout of insomnia as a way to work up the heart rate and therefore exhaust oneself to sleep. So there are some people on the internet who believe that they think something weird is going on between Mackenzie and her dad. With one comment reading, this feels like a grossly inappropriate relationship, Others don't think it's that dark necessarily they theorize online Warren Milk helps you come down from very specific substances Just an FYI sounds like she was a junkie and her dad was an enabler so still probably bad Does she ask for anything else? Oh yeah I'm gonna get into that Now one comment with over 40,000 likes reads child of addicts here I was always told Warren Milk helps you come down from drugs So there is no proof that something strange is happening like some netizens theor my algorithm but Tik-Tok was just like something weird's going on between her and her dad but then I'm reading the messages and I honestly would say that this is my feeling I wouldn't be surprised if Mackenzie is literally just asking for warm milk like a literal glass of warm milk and maybe it's weird to some people because I wouldn't wake my dad up at 3 in the morning to ask her a favor but that sounds just about exactly what Mackenzie would do but like I said I don't know if I would be surprised if she's just I wouldn't be surprised at anything at anything at this point just using him as a butler. She asks him to make her hot cocoa, bring her tanning oil, buy her spray paint, make her stencils out of cardboard. She also asks him to edit her photos, texting him, did you fix the pick? I need you to fix it, ASAP, I'm trying to post. That's crazy. Yeah, she's, she's... Yeah, she sends more pictures and she's like, make those lighter. She asks him to make her pants, Or not, then more messages, will you make me warm milk please? No response, Mackenzie text back. Are you home? Can you please try to book me a massage sooner than seven? I have a birthday party that I have to leave for at like six. Mom is telling me to book it when first of all I never even talked to adults and I don't have no money and I don't drive. Yeah. Then later messages show Mack complaining about said warm milk and she says milk is cold a F. I'm gonna drink it but it's not warm. Steve. Steve response. Bring it's bring it down. and critiquinging my parents about how they warm up milk. I wouldn't even give a Michelin star chef those notes if I'm paying for an expensive cup of milk. It's just a lot like a lot. It's very harsh. But that's apparently her dynamic with her parents. One DM between Natalie and Mackenzie, Natalie says, are you good with the D or do you want to complete those final assignments? If my mom ever came up to me as a minor and said, are you going to finish those assignments? Guess what that means? That means? If my assignments tonight even if I'm falling asleep at my desk because that was her way of saying you're finishing those fucking assignments okay she's asking her about her grades mccenzie response dude I don't care about a D wait what is happening so the mom is asking if she would like to finish yeah assignment yeah so she's genuinely asking like are you gonna yeah but like I guess I'm thinking like if my mom you're okay with a D like that's the question I guess so Usually when parents asked that, it's more so you're gonna finish the fucking assignments, right? But then she responds, dude, I don't care about a D. And now this is where I'm expecting Natalie to like pull a mom and being like, hey, you might not care, but guess who cares? The car you're never gonna drive, the outside world that you're never gonna see because you're gonna be grounded, like something like that. I'm expecting. Natalie responds, unless you wanna fix it, I was reading the right person and I'm like no this is Natalie Sharilla's Instagram DMing her and they're Instagram yeah. Holy this is crazy I feel like Natalie just tries really hard to be Mackenzie's friend Mackenzie will even tell Natalie about her night out with friends and she she'll say things like quote they knew my ID was fake they told me we did leave and then we went to Grace says Natalie responds I'm glad you went out and had a good time I feel like okay I understand that when you're raising kids maybe there comes a point where you know that your kids snuck out maybe or you know that your kid did something but like maybe you don't confront them because maybe you let it pass for like whatever parenting reason you decide okay but the fact that the kid is telling you and then you're like well I'm glad you had fun is like not in a world that I can imagine no this is like they flipped the parenting dynamic around Mackenzie is the parent. This is so weird to me. Like what is going on here? That's what I'm saying. Her parents seem much much much much less strict than my parents ever were and I feel like my parents were pretty open-minded raising us. Like it's just I feel like my parents are stricter on me now as a full-blown adult than Mackenzie's parents were at her age at 17. Yeah. In one text thread Mackenzie is texting dog. She was 15. Yeah. I feel like 20. Yeah. I feel like my parents expect more. as a full-blown adult. And so there's another point where Mackenzie is texting DOM about alcohol and she says how are we gonna get alcohol? My dad said make it with vodka. So she's like getting advice from her dad and Dom is like just ask your mom to go buy some. Later Mackenzie says okay well I'm waiting for my dad so give me the money so we can go and I'll get the jello and everything you can help me make the margaritas for the pre-game. Okay I mean the implication there is like I don't know you draw the implication you draw the implication you draw the a list of things that he needs and there's Casamigo's silver on there which is alcohol. Mackenzie later confirms that her dad got the orange liquor which is alcohol and when they get back I guess the party is being hosted at Mackenzie's parents house and she says well my dad is power washing the deck for us. So if this if what I'm getting out of this is is he buying them alcohol and also cleaning up for their party that they're hosting at their house like is that what we are to assume from this? mentions to Dom that she's going to go to the dispensary with her dad. Mackenzie text Dom this is back in February of 2020 my dad asked if I know someone who has hella female weed seeds I'll pay you should give him some. That is insane so they're not only the parents not only buying her alcohol he's buying her weed at 15. Well I don't know if he's buying it for her for himself right or Mackenzie could be making this up right but there's text messages between her asks her dad, Steve, you want weed peanut butter? He responds, no, I don't like to eat my weed. I'm gonna give you a little. Are you making me milk? Dad, dad, are you home? Then I'm okay. Are you okay? Yes, I'm okay. I feel like I have a cold. Okay, to be honest you need weed. I'm worried. I'm worried. I actually feel good. Just got irritated that I got it and have to quarantine for 10 days. They're talking about COVID. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's, I'm Yes, you shouldn't have taken the test. You shouldn't have taken the COVID test? Yeah, so there's this is like a reoccurring trend throughout Mackenzie's text messages with other people. She talks about how she can buy negative tests, like tests that show a negative. Instead of taking it. Wait, I'm so lost. So like because you know it was like mandatory quarantining. Oh, so as long as you show negative you can just be out and about. Yeah, so she's like she was like messaging messaging other people of like how to get negative tests. Steve later says in an interview that he picked his battles as a parent and he let Mackenzie smoke weed. I'm sorry if I find marijuana not that dangerous is I find alcohol or cocaine or whatever else seems to think or wants to interpret or glean. She seemed mature enough to handle it. I didn't see it as an issue. I feel like they have a lot of issues, but that's my opinion. messages it seems at some point mccenzie's dad puts like a bumper sticker on her car I imagine and this is like imagination it's probably some sort of like student driver bumper sticker because she recently learned how to drive right and she text him never fucking put that on my car again now I'm gonna be late to school because I had to turn around and go take that shit off he responds L-O-L it's seriously not funny like I will seriously flip the fuck out don't talk to me like that until that bumper sticker stops showing up on my car. No, L-O-L-L-O-L-L-L-O-L-L-L, because now I'm late somewhere that my hours matter. Okay, then call Polaris and get my hours back, and get my hours back. And then she says, blocked, as then like, she's gonna block him, but she doesn't. Thanks for the laugh, L-O-L-O-L, giggle. The father says, thanks for the laugh. my dad like that when I do talk to him like that. Their interactions are alarming. Mackenzie will text her dad in the midst of a fight with her mom. Tell mom to answer my text right now, right now, do it. Question mark, exclamation, exclamation, exclamation, exclamation, are you just not going to help? Sorry, not getting involved, I'm just going to get mad. Thanks for making this the worst birthday I ever had. She text her dad. Never drive my car again without putting gas in it like what the fuck. going to drive someone's car, then not put a single set of gas in it, and it's literally below the line. It was not below the line when I gave you my car. Steve responds, first, I took your car to get serviced, which I paid for, and I had to waste an hour of my time waiting for it, and cleaned some of the inside, because the person that drives it is a slob and doesn't keep it clean. Then when I returned your car to the driveway, I left you a note, I left you a note, and told you, for the hour I had to sit there wasting my time for my disrespectful daughter. Here's the thing with Steve and this is just like my context that I got from the text messages. Okay when I watched the Netflix documentary I walked away with the feeling that Steve and Natalie never yell at their daughter and just go oh baby baby baby it's okay it's okay baby anything for you baby right? That's what I walked away with. But then when I was reading these text messages I noticed that Steve does yell at his daughter and I think that's where he thinks he's But then like it never really amounts. That's not my takeaway though. Yes, I know with these texts Exactly, but that's not what happens because I'll see him like yelling at his daughter Right and then the next day it'll be like have fun Have fun tonight like text me if you need me and it's like Oh if my child ever spoke to me like that I don't think they're going out the next day Yeah, I don't think they're going out for a long time You know whatever you know whatever you know what? You know? You know? there's nothing no consequences nothing be is being done yeah in our opinions yeah what the fuck yeah I had to move because the person who parked it failed to leave me room and don't you mean the car that I pay for is that the car you're talking about watch how you speak to me or you won't have that car she responds learn how to drive hashtag ass worst driver of the year she doesn't apologize but later she gets upset when a school project doesn't end up working out she rants to her dad you better fix what you ruined or I will fail Polaris school so dot dot dot are you trying to say you're slow I'm saying I don't care if you fail. Mackenzie response let me know when it's fixed question mark do you know how to use a music doll no response good to know to never ask you to do anything again you just fucked up my whole morning how about you tell people your plan instead of just fucking not going they literally text like two friends yes that's what I'm saying I don't even talk to my friends like that is there any moment that they are acting like a parent that's actually a regular freaking parent? are when he's like you do not speak to me with disrespect right those are the again but like nothing comes of it exactly even the friend could talk to a friend like yeah you don't talk to me like that yeah but that's it that's all I can find wow wow these are yeah no I was actually like I was like my blood pressure was going up reading these text messages I was getting like I was huffing and puff it was so stressful then a few days later she text him can you please go get us white claws or some shit white claws or alcohol gas station or mics, something like that. I am in bed, I have to get up early, and it's Sunday. Can you bring us some, please? We need some, even the ones in the garage fridge. Then come get it. There are people here, O. M.G. And then he responds, mom will drop off in a bit. And she says, and she says, bet as in good. Yeah. What kind of teacher is he? Our teacher? school. It's a Catholic school. I'm not sure. Yeah. Then there's this whole Starbucks debacle. She asked him to go get her Starbucks. And he says, what do you want? But I have to go out. It might be in a bit. So he's like telling her it's going to be a little lighter. Smaller, medium, ice white mocha, sweet cream, foam and extra, extra caramel