S4E38 Hello Kitty 9/20/2026

Joy (0:06)

Welcome to Murder and Everything Else. My name is Joy.

Cheryl (0:10)

And my name is Cheryl. Joy and I are two very old friends who love to talk about murder and everything else.

Joy (0:18)

Well, obviously, those of you who listen to us regularly can tell by the sound of my voice that I am getting over some kind of September itch, which has decided to settle in my nose and in my throat.

So there's been lots of coughing and lots of nose blowing and cold medicine and all that. But you know what is crazy, you guys? Cheryl manages every flipping time to not get sick. I'm here to ask you, what is the magic recipe?

Cheryl (1:04)

If you guys are keeping Tally, Joy gets sick every two months. It's incredible.

Joy (1:10)

I do not.

Cheryl (1:11)

Joy.

Joy (1:11)

But what else?

Cheryl (1:12)

I've only been sick once. I attribute my robust health system, my robust immune system to jelly bellies. I can eat a huge three pound container of it in a week.

Joy (1:25)

She can.

Cheryl (1:26)

The end.

Joy (1:27)

She can.

Cheryl (1:28)

You're welcome.

Joy (1:29)

So thank you, Jelly Belly people. You know that's in Fairfield, California, the Jelly Belly Factory?

They do tours. You can go on tour the factory.

Cheryl (1:40)

Okay.

Joy (1:41)

Seriously, I imagine it's like Willy Wonka. Yeah. You know, you fall into the Chocolate River and you eat, you know, an everlasting gobstopper and you blow up like a grape and have to be sent off to the pressing room.

Anywho, I am not sick anymore. Mind over matter.

Cheryl (2:00)

Although she sounds sick because she is.

Joy (2:02)

Well, there's leftover, you know, but that just goes with the territory. Also, school started a couple weeks ago, so this is just part for the course, you know?

We've been around a lot of school kids with, like, my work, and also with going to see my kid play volleyball, surrounded by all their germs. It's amazing. Within two weeks, every kid gets sick at school.

Cheryl (2:28)

Yeah.

Joy (2:29)

Because they're sharing rooms with other germy people, and I feel like those ventilation systems are not very good, and, you know, these are old, old, old dormitories with dirty carpets, and they're not very clean. Anyway, on to some other exciting things. I'm just curious also, why don't bras make, why don't bra companies make bras that have extra padding only at the nipple?

Like, seriously, I bought a bra that was so comfortable. It was like second skin. It had all this padding in that made me feel- Was it removable? Well, it wasn't, because it was like glued in, but I ripped it out and ripped the glue off. And now I can't get it through this little coin size hole. And when you do get it through, it's crooked and then you can see the things poking out. Yeah. I just like make a bra that gets a little thicker as you get towards the nipple, and then thinner as you go away. And if you're an inventor and you're out there and you're listening to this, I just gave you the idea on how to make millions of dollars.

Cheryl (3:40)

Yeah, that is actually a great idea.

Joy (3:43)

Yeah, because when you're cold and you go in some place that the air is really cold, your nips get hard and then everybody and their dog has to stare at your nips. And you know what? Women should have the right to decide not to wear bras if they want.

Cheryl (3:58)

I know. I said we should start going back to the bra-burning era.

Joy (4:03)

Exactly. And just so you guys know that we do not record this on the same Sunday that you hear it, but Gloria Steinem passed away this last week, which makes me very sad. It really makes me sad because she died during a time, much like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when humans' rights and reproductive rights are more censured and less comprehensive than ever.

So you know what? All the more reason to fight, fight, fight. Hey Cheryl, you got any retractions?

Cheryl (4:42)

I have a retraction for you.

Maybe it's just a clarification. I'm not sure, but when I was listening to our Hot Car Death episode, you said something, now I'm not sure if it was in relation to Lindsay Clancy's case or one of the Hot Car Death stories, but you said women carry babies for 10 months. Did you mean that?

Joy (5:08)

Yeah, they say nine months all the time, but it's actually 40 weeks. And if there's four weeks in a month, 40 into 40 is 10 So technically, a woman's gestational period is considered 40 months to full term.