Karen Kilgariff
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3,962 appearances
39 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jun
Karen Kilgariff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I love how you normalize mental health and therapy, although my therapist might be worried about my true crime obsession sometimes. She's taken notes on some of the things that you ladies have opened about. Have opened up about. You've got me through the pandemic, finding my life partner and finishing my master's in data science. So smart. Jesus H. Come on.
Stay sexy and maybe don't live in a serial killer's house, regardless of how cheap it is in this economy. Nicole, she or her.
Both together. Both together. And they're going to help. That's like what the world is becoming is.
Where they're burning their evidence? Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
You know what I mean? Yes.
Unless you live in a hotel like Eloise, there's no reason to have your own. The whole point of a fireplace is everyone gathers around and stares together. Yeah. Don't go individual with fire. No.
It's me.
Why not? Just keep saying what over and over. You'll just drive people insane. Yeah.
Emily, that happened in my family too. I don't want to be too specific, but we did that one day where we were just like, well, wait a second, and did the math, and then we're just like, Because it is. It's always religious families too that that happens in. Yes. Because like we don't give a shit, you know.
And actually it happens so much that it's like people should know if that's a discovery, it should not be. No one should be like, what a dirty secret. Because it's like probably 70% of marriages are like that.
Yeah. It was just you go and do the right thing. Yeah. Don't bring it up. Don't make a family tree about it. Don't run around from new relative to new relative. The subject line of this email is that time I was a nun. Karen, Georgia, and the whole team. I was listening to Minnesota 419 and you asked for nun stories. Okay. When? It's just, and it just so happens, I was a nun. Wow.
It's my favorite story to pull out at parties to surprise people or if the conversation is getting a little boring, especially because most people wouldn't pin my outgoing tattooed F word saying true crime loving self as the nun type. So cool. I grew up very loosely Catholic. Shout out, Karen. I love all your Catholic references.
Meaning my parents were raised Catholic but didn't really practice but sent me to Catholic schools. That's rough.
Mixed in with that and some textbook childhood trauma, you know, alcoholic parents, divorce, severe parental mental illness. The kind that gets you lots of points on the ACE scale and many healing years in therapy. Hi. Welcome. Hi. I ended up getting really involved in my charismatic new high school youth group. I could have done a lot of other things as a teenager to act out.
Drugs, alcohol, boys. No, I chose high control religion. I mean, there's worse things. There is. I mean, but it's funny because on the face you think, well, at least you're being this. At least you're safe or something. Yeah. I got very active in the Catholic faith and a young faith group in the area, and it was all very consuming and in some ways almost cult-like. Okay, so back to the nun part.
Usually when I drop that information, I get a ton of questions. Could you have sex? Why did you go? Did you change your name? After years in youth groups and religious settings, I truly believed there was no higher calling than to, quote, live my life for only Jesus. End quote. So I entered the convent at 21 years old. Wow.
After about nine months, I decided to leave, which is fairly common in the first couple of years as young women are figuring out if it's truly a good fit. It takes seven to ten years total, depending on the order, to be a fully vowed religious sister in the Catholic Church. About 90% of my days were spent in silence, prayers, and work around the convent.
Meals were eaten in silence, sometimes with a reading, unless it was a special celebration day.
No way. It's giving me agita just describing Nicole's experience. In the order I entered, it's a teaching order, so all the sisters teach in schools around the country. You keep a really rigid schedule of prayers, reading, and recreation, which is sometimes playing sports like Ultimate Frisbee outside. What?
And you can see right over there, he's playing. Or board games. Overall, there was a lot. See, now I'm back in for the board games. Overall, there was a lot of beauty in the life. As a person who likes alone time, I don't mind not talking to people all day. But I ultimately decided for many obvious reasons that the life wasn't for me.
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