Casey O'Brien

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524 appearances 25 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard Feb 2025

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · MFM Minisode 408 · 4 Nov 2024 podcast

Who's not going to be like, guess who I talked to? I think it's funny that he said he was from San Diego. Where's he from? The Bay Area. Yeah, maybe he was like born in San Diego or maybe he was just like, don't worry about it.

Yeah, like he's trying to keep the image. We're back in the email now. Anyway, with Robin Williams in mind, it seems appropriate to thank you for your openness around mental health and all the wonderful donations you make to such worthy causes. Also for the laughs and education you have given me over the years. Keep up the good work, ladies, and love to the animals. Jodi, she, her. Aw, Jodi.

Jodi, thank you. Great email.

The chances of us being able to have this conversation were so rare. Yeah. And she made it happen. Also, can I just do a quick brag that one time when I was in... When I lived in San Francisco, I was at Green Apple Books, which is a bookstore in, now I can't remember what neighborhood it's in, but it's very well known. I feel like it's down near Fishman's Wharf, but I'm probably wrong.

It doesn't matter. Anyhow, it's this real cool old bookstore that kind of has like different levels and steps and the floor is wooden. Is it next to Vesuvio? Yeah, it's in North Beach. Yeah, that's in North Beach. Yes, that fucking amazing bookstore. Oh, wait, no, no, that's not Skylight, but that's the City Lights books. I think Green Apple, it doesn't matter. It truly doesn't matter.

No, keep it all in. Anyway, I'm walking there. I think I'm killing time before meeting people before a show or something. And so I just go in and I'm walking and I'm so positive I'm going to trip and fall because of these different little wooden steps that I'm just watching myself walk to walk toward the back.

And I walk and then I walk until I see some feet in front of me and I realize, oh, someone is also walking toward me. And I look up and it's Robin Williams. And we are truly a foot away from each other like that.

Yes. When they were they were the most in love people of all time.

Wow, that's hilarious. Did he say anything to you? He did a thing where I could, because I just was like, what? Like 19 years old, finally living in the big city, whatever. And so I just kind of was like, I'm sure I had that look on his face. And he just gave me the little like cute smile.

But he was also like we were both kind of like look down people.

So we both just kept looking down and kind of like kept passing. Cute. Very sweet. Very sweet. And he used to sometimes come to comedy shows. Yeah. Like the Fake Gallery, which is in East L.A. Yeah. And he would come if like he knew someone in town and someone would be there. So he would go and just go and sit in the audience. So no one in the audience knew he was in the audience. Yeah.

He would kind of get there secretly, maybe back entrance or something, and just watch the show. And people would be like, someone get him to do a set. And he didn't want to. He just wanted to watch.

Which is very cool to me. So amazing. Yeah. Yeah.

Sure. Here's the number. Yeah.

Oh, that's a great email. That was cute. Right. Also, it's kind of like I do like that, even though it sucks for those two people, for the two people they were married to.

But it's almost like it feels like Camelia was like, this is a once in a lifetime connection. This isn't nothing. Yeah. I got to go after it. Yeah. And like.

Make no mistake. My dad's an expert water skier, and my brother and I loved riding on a tube. So my mom had a great idea for a road trip from Denver to Lake Powell, a 12-hour drive, towing said boat and finding a camping spot somewhere along the lakeshore. A similar trip to one my parents took pre-kids with a then much newer boat and trailer.

And then in parentheses it says, this will be important later. Mm-hmm. I know my dad had dreams of my brother and I learning to water ski and love being on the lake as much as he did. Unfortunately, his dreams did not become a reality on this trip. We loved road trips and had all of the Disney soundtrack cassettes ready to go.

Literally, that turns my stomach, the idea of, like, you're trapped in a car singing Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo. I agree, unless it's the Little Mermaid soundtrack, and then I'm there. Yeah. I've told you that a million times, but Nora used to have, when she was like three, she had this little necklace and you touched the aerial and it went, ah. And my sister was like, that thing won't die.

She's like, she touches it all the time. It's been around forever. She's like, she was like, found it when Nora was like seven or eight and touched it and it was still working. Like, we're back. We got to the lake and found a camping spot. Being the 90s, we had no phone or internet to tell us the weather.

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