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Speaker 2: That's a pretty bad level to be at, you know.

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Speaker 1: Was she opened up and had drug stuffed inside her

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Speaker 2: That would be terrible.

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Speaker 1: Real story that happened to my mom's friend.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Actually, that's insanity. I can tell that story later,

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Speaker 3: all right. My mother in law and I never had

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Speaker 1: She has tried to sabotage my relationship with my husband

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Speaker 1: few years ago, I started getting very threatening and scary

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Speaker 1: emails and texts from a PAX.

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Speaker 2: What's a pax? Riley, What's a PAX? Produce?

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Speaker 1: The ensa capital PA you know what this means. Let

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Speaker 1: It didn't matter how many emails and phone numbers I change,

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Speaker 1: never left the apartment alone. Suddenly, my mother in law

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Speaker 1: in fact, and she's saying the stalking is over from

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Speaker 3: I really hate how the husband is like, oh I

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Speaker 2: It's like it's not like a competition.

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Speaker 3: He's not a competition, and it's not like Binari's not

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Speaker 3: like oh I either you know, love my wife or

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Speaker 1: But I think probably because of how the mom acted,

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Speaker 3: she probably like twisted his brain to Yeah, someone who

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Speaker 1: I started like I never did before, with ten minute

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Speaker 2: Please do. And with that, we're going to leave you

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Speaker 1: Actually no, we're not going to leave you on depression. Hey,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, be happy today by going on what I thought

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Speaker 1: Yes, you know, I had a family friend actually induct

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Speaker 1: Oh, like like, hey girl, you should totally become your

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Speaker 1: You know, whoever looks exactly like their photos? You know

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Speaker 3: Yeah, crazy, I straight up tell her, So, this is

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Speaker 2: Oh my god? They oh what? And this isn't a

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Speaker 3: listen to them explain to me how I could make

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Speaker 3: up to five K a month if I were to

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Speaker 3: get one.

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Speaker 2: Hundred people to join the business.

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Speaker 3: My god, I told them I had to leave to

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Speaker 3: go to the vet with my dog. They didn't seem

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Speaker 3: happy that I wasn't interested in their MLM. Uh oh, dude,

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Speaker 3: this is so this sucks.

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Speaker 2: You're the worst date.

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Speaker 3: You better join my MLM or else. I laughed so

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Speaker 3: much on the way home. I thought I laughed so

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Speaker 3: much on the way home that.

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Speaker 2: I was crying rough. Sorry about that's the end. Tough date.

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Speaker 2: Tough date.