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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: How's this? We're talking about catfish stories quite a bit

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Speaker 2: on the show, but my god, this is a pretty

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Speaker 2: full on one. What's happened? It involves one of our

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Speaker 2: very good mates of the show, Dr Chris Brown. Now

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Speaker 2: Brownie has been putting up quite a bit lately and

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Speaker 2: this has been happening. We've seen it quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: I think it happened to Hamish Koshie. It happens to

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Speaker 2: quite a bit where they use their identity and try

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Speaker 2: to suck people in.

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Speaker 1: That's right, certain gummies. It was a big thing around gummies.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't that to hand over money? And obviously Brownie is

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Speaker 2: a big target for this because he's a good looking man, single,

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Speaker 2: he's on television, he's well known, and you know, women

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Speaker 2: at home can get a message from who they think

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Speaker 2: is doctor Chris Brown and unfortunately they're not and fall

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Speaker 2: in love with him. Oh no, this we try to

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Speaker 2: get Brownie on this morning and obviously it's pretty sensitive.

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Speaker 2: It's very sensitive for Brownie, so he didn't really want

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Speaker 2: to talk about it too much. But this video went

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Speaker 2: up last night. This woman wants to know the truth

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Speaker 2: about her internet boyfriend.

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Speaker 3: He's a well known celebrity vat I'm TV presenter in

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Speaker 3: Australia and I'm looking well maintained guy, very muscular. This

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Speaker 3: is have you a date? And I said no, I

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Speaker 3: just live at my home with my mom, my, dad

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Speaker 3: and Matuka. He asked me to marry him. You know,

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Speaker 3: really took a loss with persuader to do it. When

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Speaker 3: I decided what I'll say yes.

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Speaker 2: Chris was wealthy, successful and handsome. He even shared Lisa's

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Speaker 2: love for animals. There was just one problem.

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Speaker 3: He was sick in Africa. He had really bad insect bites.

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Speaker 3: It was said that he got kidnapped and they asked

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Speaker 3: for twenty million dollars. His management wanted it in the

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Speaker 3: form our quip pow and didn't have that fund of money.

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Speaker 3: We're not mere nailes. We used celebrity like you say

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Speaker 3: you are. You should be loaded the money.

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Speaker 2: It's so full on.

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Speaker 1: Make fun of it because it's really tragedy.

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Speaker 2: It's so full on that someone would actually think that

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Speaker 2: Brownie is in Africa and he's been covered in in

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Speaker 2: sick bites and kidnapped and his management want twenty million

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Speaker 2: in crypto and you still think I need to help

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Speaker 2: him like it's but this is the thing, Whip. It

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Speaker 2: happens regularly. I suppose it's.

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Speaker 1: Hard to understand at times because you practically think, why

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Speaker 1: would a good looking, successful vet based in Bondai, Sydney,

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Speaker 1: Australia be interested in starting a relationship with someone on

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Speaker 1: the other side of the world.

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Speaker 2: But see this episode, it's.

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Speaker 1: The logic has gone from the situation. But it does

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Speaker 1: happen because I think people are desperate for escapism and hope,

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Speaker 1: and that's what probably she might be lonely has found

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Speaker 1: herself believing Brownie must have made a fortune from this.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to he doesn't, right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: sorry him promoting it taking twenty percent.

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Speaker 2: We're not saying that at all. But there's a serious

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Speaker 2: side to this, and he must because he quite shattered

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Speaker 2: that people are putting money into this and losing it

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Speaker 2: and then he's involved with that.

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Speaker 1: But you do hear these stories where people continue to

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Speaker 1: pass money to people on the other side of the

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Speaker 1: world for an operation for their grandmother and they're in

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Speaker 1: light like they're actually in love and emotionally connected to

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Speaker 1: someone they've never met.

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Speaker 2: Brownie put up last night. I reckon six or seven

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Speaker 2: scam accounts with his face on it that he that

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Speaker 2: he just had. There'd be more out there. Get me

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Speaker 2: out of here, because he would. I mean, if he

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Speaker 2: popped up in your feed, you would be instantly drawn

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Speaker 2: to it.

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Speaker 1: I'd transfer a couple of crypto to Brownie just for

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Speaker 1: a hug, maybe a couple of questions about.

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Speaker 2: The dog too, if he's a vet though, and he's

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Speaker 2: I mean, you need twenty million dollars for insect bites.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's where you've got to start asking questions.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry that it was the kidnapping.

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Speaker 1: It was the insect bites that got you, was it?

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Speaker 2: I mean, when alarm bells would go off for me, Mum,

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Speaker 2: can you have a look at this insect bites? W'd

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Speaker 2: you get that much?

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Speaker 3: Of?

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Speaker 1: You got?

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Speaker 2: Mum?

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Speaker 1: Twenty mil? Give me some stingos and twenty mil?

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Speaker 2: Mom? Well, can we tell when he feels comfortable talking

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Speaker 2: about it?

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Speaker 1: Tommy, he does look like about relationships at the best

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Speaker 1: of time.

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Speaker 2: That's true. So I've just transferred five thousand bitcoin. I'm

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Speaker 2: just hoping to get it back at some stage any day.

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