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Speaker 1: Now they're complaining to hr Good. So this happened just

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Speaker 1: last night, and I'm still fringing every time I think

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Speaker 1: about it. I'm in this little online gaming group with

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Speaker 1: some guys from work. We play every week, mostly Rocket

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Speaker 2: Not familiar by the way.

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Speaker 1: This comes from scrambled Cube on the bor Updates subreddit.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we were deep in a match, things are

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Speaker 1: getting intense, and I get called out for making a

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Speaker 1: dumb move.

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Speaker 2: Fair.

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Speaker 1: I'm already a little salty because it's been a long day,

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Speaker 1: so I make a mental note to go on a

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Speaker 1: small rant to my wife after the match. Well, right

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Speaker 1: after we finish, I take my head set off and

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Speaker 1: start venting to her about these guys.

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking I muted my mic. Oh yeah, I guess,

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Speaker 2: so damn mute the mic.

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Speaker 1: This guy who I'm telling her all the juicy stuff.

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Speaker 1: I go off about every single one of my colleagues

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Speaker 1: in detail. Steve's such a try hard like dude, Calm down,

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Speaker 1: It's a game, not a performance review.

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Speaker 2: Why does Ryan always actly he knows everything? He's not

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Speaker 2: the boss.

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Speaker 1: Stop being so smug and oh my god, Ben's voice,

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Speaker 1: it's like nails on a chalk for it sometimes, and

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Speaker 1: I keep going or what feels like forever. I even

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Speaker 1: start bringing up stuff from the office. My wife is

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Speaker 1: just nodding and laughing along, clearly enjoying my little roast fest.

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Speaker 1: When I finally cool down and put my headset back on,

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Speaker 1: I casually glance at the screen to jump back into

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Speaker 1: the next game. Dead silence. The guys are still on

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Speaker 1: the call, the chat is dead. No one's left, but

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Speaker 1: no one is saying a word. It's like they've all

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Speaker 1: collectively turned into ghosts. That's when it hits me. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, my mic wasn't muted.

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Speaker 2: They heard everything.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I sit there for a solid ten seconds, completely frozen.

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Speaker 1: My brain's in panic mode. Should I say something, pretend

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Speaker 1: nothing happened, close discord, and throw my PC into the ocean.

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Speaker 1: I'm scrambling for some way, some way to salvage this

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Speaker 1: absolute disaster. Finally, in a desperate attempt to break the silence,

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Speaker 1: I clear my throat and go, oh, anyone.

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Speaker 2: Wanta queue up again?

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Speaker 4: At that moment, you just start bad talking your wife.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, You're like, damn, my wife, she out here having

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Speaker 1: me talk crap.

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Speaker 5: About you guys, while my wife is always threatening me

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Speaker 5: unless I talk crap about my amazing.

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Speaker 2: More silence. Then Steve just goes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do that, no one else saying anything, we

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Speaker 1: play one more painfully awkward round where literally no one

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Speaker 1: speaks except for like basic callouts left right out of

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Speaker 1: me here, et cetera. I have never in my life

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Speaker 1: experienced a more uncomfortable gaming session.

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Speaker 4: I could see them being like, hey, uh, performance review

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Speaker 4: coming on your.

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Speaker 2: Left, really annoying voice on your right, metrics for you.

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Speaker 1: As soon as we're done, I make up an excuse

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Speaker 1: about needing to go do something and immediately log off.

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Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for the fallout at work on Monday,

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Speaker 1: and Bethany says say end scene, loudly pretending.

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Speaker 2: Was this kid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, if Opie had realized he gonna be like

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Speaker 1: hot jokes pranked y'all, eh.

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Speaker 4: But sometimes you know, when it's real.

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Speaker 2: They would have known there's no way to get out

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Speaker 1: You just kind of have to apologize, be like, sorry, guys,

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Speaker 1: I was ranting.

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Speaker 6: My bad, bad, my bee.

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Speaker 4: Let me just sit here as you guys talk crap

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Speaker 4: about mego.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Hey, Yeah, I'm furious. Yeah, how much I love Riley?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, John, I literally hate that Riley is such.

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Speaker 6: A good producer, right, it infuriates me.

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Speaker 2: Actually, did you hear that he's gonna because pizza.

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Speaker 3: That's so stupid, disgusting, you disgusting?

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Speaker 2: He a non meat one? Who does that?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Weirdos?

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Speaker 3: Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And see chugs. God, my coworkers are so great. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's actually terrible logs.

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Speaker 1: So far, nothing's been said in the group chat. It's

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Speaker 1: like everyone silently agreed to just pretend it didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: But I know they know, and they know. I know

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Speaker 1: they know. But there are some comments. Match a Magpie

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Speaker 1: match a Magpie says, don't be a coward and put

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Speaker 1: it on them to bring it up or not bring

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Speaker 2: You should apologize. It's the very least you can do,

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Speaker 2: which I agree.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, agreed.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Rakil says, Yeah, I apologize. Also, what you imagine

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Speaker 1: to be silence was actually everybody messaging each other or

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Speaker 1: creating a group chat to either roast you back or

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Speaker 1: say what the f is wrong with you?

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Speaker 2: Hope that makes you feel better?

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Speaker 1: He loll Weaselbeef says, the job market is dreadful right now,

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Speaker 1: but hey, better than having to deal with those guys

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Speaker 1: next week, Gunner Cassin says, or a cousin says. Life

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Speaker 1: rule number seven microphones are never off and update. I

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Speaker 1: went ahead and sent a message in the group chat

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Speaker 1: to apologize. Here's what I wrote. Hey, everyone, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to reach out and sincerely apologize for my rant the

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Speaker 1: other day. I realize now how out of line and

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Speaker 1: hurtful my comments were. I didn't mean for any of

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Speaker 1: it to come across the way it did, and I'm

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Speaker 1: truly sorry for any offense or discomfort I caused. I

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Speaker 1: to talk yet, but I wanted to acknowledge my mistake

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Speaker 1: and try to make things right. A few people have

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Speaker 1: seen the message, but so far no one has responded.

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Speaker 1: I get that it might be too awkward or they

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Speaker 2: Just wanted to.

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Speaker 1: Keep you all update is another update. I hope he's

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Speaker 1: going to keep on keeping us updated.

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Speaker 4: That sounded like his YouTube apologies.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I understand that I've made mistakes, I've hurt people,

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Speaker 4: Is better than just d jan this is that's right?

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Speaker 3: Is it too late now to say sorry? Oh man,

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Speaker 3: just a good enough apology? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: What else could he do? That's my question.

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Speaker 4: I want to invite him over for stakes.

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, hey, guys, I'd like to invite you

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Speaker 1: all for some stakes and to offer you an opportunity.

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Speaker 5: To roast me back this. That's awesome because this might

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Speaker 5: be controversial. But like I think sometimes when you kind

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Speaker 5: of like lay out an apology like that, it feels

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Speaker 5: too formal, too formal, right, like your friends, Like I

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Speaker 5: Like that was that was that was not cool?

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Speaker 4: Uh, and it's it's.

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Speaker 5: You know, sad that I had to realize that my

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Speaker 5: microso I muted to realize joke a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like like I realized that I'm such

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Speaker 1: an idiot for one leaving my mic off, but also

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Speaker 1: for saying that because I shouldn't have.

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Speaker 2: Said that about you guys.

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Speaker 5: L's in the chat for me. Yeah, but I feel

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Speaker 5: like that would have felt more like Okay, he's genuine, yeah,

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Speaker 5: they're just yeah, it just feels like the corporate apology.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, literally, like oh we're.

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Speaker 2: Not it feels like they're not even friends.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so do you do?

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Speaker 3: You agree?

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Speaker 6: Because I'm like, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what do they do again?

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Speaker 2: Office?

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Speaker 3: The work, that's what they do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, m hmm. But there is another update.

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Speaker 1: One day later, after going over the thread, I realized

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Speaker 1: my first apology was rushed and didn't really reflect how

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Speaker 1: sorry I truly am, so I took a step back,

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Speaker 1: rewrote it, and sent a new message.

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Speaker 5: New apology script like this, gentlemen, I apologize for my apologies.

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Speaker 4: This one didn't get enough us, so no comments on this.

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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, I've had more time to think about what happened,

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Speaker 1: and I want to give a better apology. I know

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Speaker 1: the things I said were hurtful and frost a major line,

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Speaker 1: and I deeply regret letting my frustration get the best

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Speaker 1: of me. There's no excuse for what I said, and

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Speaker 1: I want to sincerely apologize. I value our work relationships

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Speaker 1: and genuinely feel terrible for portraying your trust. I understand

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Speaker 1: if you guys don't want to talk or hang out

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Speaker 1: with me anymore, but I'm open to any conversations you

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's a little better, a little better, but still

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Speaker 4: pretty formal.

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Speaker 1: Still your relationships, yeah yeah, what about our friendships?

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Speaker 5: See yeah, and like if this happened while you were

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Speaker 5: can we can be real here, we can be real here.

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Speaker 2: It's still a couple guys. This time.

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Speaker 1: I got a few responses. One of them wrote back

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Speaker 1: saying thanks for reaching out. Let's just move forward and

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Speaker 1: put this behind us. The other said something along the

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Speaker 1: lines of, I appreciate you owning up to it. It's

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Speaker 1: stung at the time, but I'm willing to move past

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Speaker 1: it as long as it doesn't happen again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like who was it Ben?

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Speaker 5: Where he's like and Ben's voice is just like nails

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Speaker 1: And also the other one, he's like, oh, like they're

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Speaker 4: Like, I'm Ben, he's ugly. Yeah, what are you saying?

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Speaker 4: I wanted to see who responded who like, like, oh,

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Speaker 4: because out of two of them they were okay, which one?

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Speaker 2: What did Ben say?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Or which one had a problem with actually had

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Speaker 4: a problem with you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One coworker, however, messaged me privately saying, honestly, what you

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Speaker 1: said wasn't just frustrating, it was completely unprofessional and crossed

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Speaker 1: a line for me. I'm not comfortable with this and

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Speaker 1: would prefer you don't contact me again. WHOA, I'm honestly

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Speaker 1: considering going to HR. That's Ben. Gotta be Ben. That

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Speaker 1: one's stung. But I get it. I messed up royally.

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Speaker 1: I'm just hoping this doesn't escalate any further, but I

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Speaker 1: know I can't undo the damage. All I can do

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Speaker 1: now is try to learn from this and make sure

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Speaker 1: nothing like this happens again. Thanks for pushing me to

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Speaker 1: give a better apology. I feel like the HR thing

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: If I would, I would just be like, I'm not

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Speaker 1: It's not work, So I don't know, it feels like

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Speaker 1: it's it's I don't know, playing games with your friends

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Speaker 1: I just I feel like it's not really I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I agree. I agree, Yeah, weird vibes all around, weird vibes.

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Speaker 2: Is just petty. I don't see it going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: And doctor Puzzle says, I'm sorry, but the guy who

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, this isn't an HR issue.

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Speaker 1: You didn't grab the cause.

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Speaker 1: For f's sake, you spoke ignorantly, not on company time.

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Speaker 4: Wow Wow.

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Speaker 1: Is oh, I assume all his exes scrub from socials?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yes, that I wanted all of his exes scrub for

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Speaker 5: The guy before this got married to the chick he

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Speaker 6: Just no, you get him, how you lose him?

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Speaker 6: No pun intended.

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Speaker 5: Ay she got kicked out for sleeping around and selling

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Speaker 4: What, well, you need to find a better man, right

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Speaker 5: They put it out publicly that I wanted him to

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Speaker 6: This is the old But.

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Speaker 1: She also doesn't want you to have a girlfriend anymore.

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Speaker 1: Boom Boy, bye boy, bye bye.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye bye bye bye.

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Speaker 3: Boys got him?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: The other one?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we know the same one.

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Speaker 2: What's the one I was thinking of the instincts?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, every bye.

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Speaker 5: Backstreets back all right, I was right, yes.

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Speaker 4: I would have ever said that to Oh I was wrong.

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Speaker 5: What I did ask for was to be included more often,

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Speaker 5: which turned into him claiming that I said he shouldn't

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Speaker 5: assigned to twenty year old. Assigned to twenty year old,

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Speaker 5: He's deleting the fact that they're texting and using WhatsApp

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Speaker 2: Sorry, explain the signing thing to me again. I didn't

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's essentially signing attracted people jump.

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Speaker 6: People that he would be attracted to.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 5: We moved into a house that he agreed to pay

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Speaker 4: Really, Riley, you just say it was a miscullaneous.

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Speaker 2: That's there was a reason I didn't still here.

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Speaker 4: You delete it.

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Speaker 2: I don't go into miscellaneous. That's just my deleting thing.

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Speaker 6: Well just deleted, delete it.

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Speaker 4: But anyways, Oh no, do we keep? We were already

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there was okay, warning abuse, Yeah, there was some abuse.

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Speaker 1: I leave due to the now physical and safe. Maybe

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh my gosh, Okay, I leave to now physical,

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Speaker 6: We aren't earning enough to get the loan back. I

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Speaker 5: He decides not to work on this but get an

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Speaker 5: He lies to me when I come home that nothing happened.

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Speaker 2: You know what that D and D story is? Looking

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Speaker 4: Oh Man.

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Speaker 5: I give birth and start to notice a change in

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Speaker 5: He tries to give her a promotion after they start

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Speaker 4: To get ahead. You know, the evidence is pretty damning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a bad relationship.

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Speaker 5: I ask him why she would be given any kind

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Speaker 5: ask her what happened. Radio silence suspicious for someone with

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Speaker 5: One morning, I go into a psychosis and start calling

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Speaker 5: She emails the company stating there's corruption in the management

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Speaker 4: Involved for her safety to be there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, Yeah, this is oh he should have

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Speaker 5: I have proof of the conversations. That's crazy, babe. I

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Speaker 5: What about these conversations? And so would I be the

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Speaker 5: ahole to finally finish, pay the separation lawyer and pack

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Speaker 3: Am I dealing with a sociopath?

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Speaker 5: And does anyone have any advice on the trauma that

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Speaker 5: there was some wrong moves on both ends here. I

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Speaker 5: do feel very much for op because it sounds like

449
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Speaker 5: HER's in a.

450
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Speaker 2: Very unsafe situation.

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Speaker 5: Unsafe situation for sure, very extremely toxic situation. And I

452
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Speaker 5: to answer her question, I definitely think you should move

453
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Speaker 5: forward with like separation and yes, that is.

454
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Speaker 4: The best thing you could get possibly.

455
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Speaker 1: Out of there immediately. Yes, and see if you can

456
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Speaker 1: get some sort of lawyer involved or family if you

457
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Speaker 1: have any in the area who can kind.

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Speaker 2: Of you can go to for safety.

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Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, this is one hundred percent and it sounds

460
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Speaker 6: like an.

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Speaker 3: Advice is now.

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Speaker 1: Also, they're in the army, so she could kind of

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Speaker 1: approach the army people about this, that's yes. They they're

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Speaker 1: pretty strict about it, like essentially.

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Speaker 3: Reported to HR. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a thrillion percent. And I bet, actually I wouldn't

467
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Speaker 5: say I bet, but I wonder if she's able to

468
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Speaker 5: go like I imagine she could get reassigned to something

469
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Speaker 5: else because they're like, Okay, this is like, this is

470
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Speaker 5: just causing a lot of issues. Let's move you both

471
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Speaker 5: to two different areas or like two different areas of

472
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Speaker 5: worker but whatever it might be. Yeah, this is a

473
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Speaker 5: insanely toxic situation. I would also definitely, in addition to

474
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Speaker 5: everything Sophia said, like some therapy honestly to work through this.

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Speaker 5: It seemed like your kids.

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Speaker 1: In therapy, which you might be able to if you

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Speaker 1: have the army that's true benefits.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you might have you know, a great, great health insurance,

479
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Speaker 5: so look into that for sure. Yeah, I would look

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Speaker 5: into all of those different things. And you are absolutely

481
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Speaker 5: not the a hole for wanting to leave the situation

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Speaker 5: that there.

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Speaker 2: Were there were other moments, other.

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Speaker 5: Moments, bad things done on both sides. But I think

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Speaker 5: you just take this as a as a I think

486
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Speaker 5: probably removing yourself from the situation, well, that's like you're

487
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Speaker 5: already like on the path, on the path, and that's

488
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Speaker 5: already going to be probably a lot of progress, and

489
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Speaker 5: getting out of that headspace will help a lot, and

490
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Speaker 5: then you can kind of maybe look at that other

491
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Speaker 5: stuff in therapy moving forward from it. But Bowsers, we

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Speaker 5: really closed out with a crazy one awesome. Well that

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Speaker 5: I think is it for this episode?

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Speaker 3: Riley?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a doozy, but we're so If you

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Speaker 5: love us, make sure to subscribe.

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Speaker 2: We love you and see it a world boom.

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Speaker 3: This is an episode from Deep within the Archives.

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Speaker 4: Time for okop Relam.

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Speaker 7: My daughter in law told me she was infertile. I

501
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Speaker 7: laughed in her face. But what happened next I never

502
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Speaker 7: would have expected.

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Speaker 4: OPI is pregnant. No, that would be unexpected.

504
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Speaker 5: Oh if OPI is pregnant, yeah, or if Opie's partner

505
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Speaker 5: was pregnant. And then they laugh in Opita's face. Oh

506
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Speaker 5: the reverse laugh?

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Speaker 3: Heyback?

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Speaker 4: Or maybe just maybe Ope's.

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Speaker 7: Daughter is a comedian and it was a joke and

510
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Speaker 7: the mother was just being a supportive audience member by laughing.

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Speaker 4: Come on her face, not at her with her. It's

512
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Speaker 4: called timing.

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Speaker 7: It's called timing. Okay, no, that's not That's not what's happening.

514
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Speaker 7: But I will tell you what's happening. I'm sixty four,

515
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Speaker 7: rainy on Reddish, let's go, and I have one son, Robert,

516
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Speaker 7: with my late husband James. What was he late A living.

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Speaker 7: You're they Robert Cage's Zara, who was thirty five. Last Sunday,

518
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Speaker 7: Sarah Robert came to my house for dinner. We were

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Speaker 7: chatting and I told them a story about James, who

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Speaker 7: Sarah unfortunately never got to meet, you know, because he

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Speaker 7: was late.

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Speaker 3: Right Where is he?

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Speaker 4: James?

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Speaker 3: James? Why are you always late for everything?

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Speaker 7: While I was pregnant, James was very excited and insisted

526
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Speaker 7: on putting together everything, cribs and changing tables. Bless his

527
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Speaker 7: poor little dead heart. But my James was not much

528
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Speaker 7: of a carpenter, and one day when I was putting

529
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Speaker 7: Robert in his crib, the whole thing broke and our

530
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Speaker 7: baby died.

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Speaker 4: You're on one today.

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Speaker 7: I managed to catch Robert just in time, so no

533
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Speaker 7: harm was done, thankfully. Why would you put your precious

534
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Speaker 7: child in some shoddy craftsmanship.

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Speaker 4: And like if you built it, you low key know

536
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Speaker 4: that it ain't good?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, oh God, like I'm imagining, like I don't know

538
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Speaker 7: if you've ever seen that Simpson's thing where they like

539
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Speaker 7: make a birdhouse and it's just the birdhouse every Yeah,

540
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Speaker 7: you know you made a shitty birdhouse. Come on, after

541
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Speaker 7: the story, I made a joke along the lines of

542
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Speaker 7: Sarah never having that problem if they have children, because

543
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Speaker 7: Robert is actually a carpenter. But then she burst into

544
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Speaker 7: tears and asked me why I was being so cruel.

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Speaker 7: I was taken aback and asked her what was wrong,

546
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Speaker 7: as I certainly had it meant to make her upset,

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Speaker 7: and I was sorry if I asked.

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Speaker 4: Don't you compliment my husband's carpet?

549
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Speaker 3: How dare you bring up woodworking? Would you know why

550
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Speaker 3: husband's would don't work?

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Speaker 7: She told me that she discovered recently that Sarah is infertile. Ah,

552
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Speaker 7: so it's not the wood that don't work, it's what's

553
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Speaker 7: under her hood that don't work. Yep, and she would

554
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Speaker 7: never be able to have children even with IVF.

555
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Speaker 3: Oh that sucks. That sucks.

556
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Speaker 7: Literally the last story, like the last lady was able

557
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Speaker 7: to have three kids.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a punch in the face.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, maybe this is cousin.

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Speaker 3: This is cousin.

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Speaker 8: E villain origin story has come out of the woodwork.

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Speaker 7: I apologized profusely and said if I had known, I

563
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Speaker 7: would never have made a joke about it, but we

564
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Speaker 7: would Dames. I struggled with having Robert and we were

565
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Speaker 7: never able to give him siblings. So I felt awful

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Speaker 7: that I had hurt Sarah like that. The mood was ruined.

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Speaker 7: Really say, After that, and Robert and Sarah decided to

568
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Speaker 7: leave early dang thang, that's you know, at least they

569
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Speaker 7: didn't leave. Late Tuesday, I ran into Robert's best friend

570
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Speaker 7: and his wife while I was out shopping.

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Speaker 3: His wife is good friends with Sarah and.

572
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Speaker 4: Seemed unusually cold to me. Maybe they were in the

573
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Speaker 4: frozen foods. Oh god, Lego and tobago.

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Speaker 3: He's cold arted.

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Speaker 7: I asked why, and she said she hadn't known I

576
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Speaker 7: was rude and that I would be ashamed of mocking

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Speaker 7: Sarah's infertility. But it's not what happened, not all what happened.

578
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Speaker 7: Sometimes the grapevine gives a bad info. Really that Yeah,

579
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Speaker 7: who would have thought the great vine is usually one

580
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Speaker 7: hundred percent quality?

581
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Speaker 5: Exactly? No one gossips.

582
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Speaker 7: Changes the story as it goes from Burs and to Burs.

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Speaker 7: It turns out that the story has been spread, and

584
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Speaker 7: it was told that I viciously inshulted Sarah and insinuated

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Speaker 7: she shouldn't marry Robert.

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Speaker 5: We literally went from a compliment on carpentry to you

587
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Speaker 5: should not be married like.

588
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Speaker 3: Robert would don't work. I know, woom don't work. Y'all

589
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 3: shouldn't be married them ws ain't working.

590
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Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, those Peni and Vagina aren't coupled in the

591
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 7: way that they should.

592
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Speaker 3: They know they ain't. This is so ridiculous.

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Speaker 7: The story even got back to our family, and a

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Speaker 7: lot of her relatives are quite upset with me the story.

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Speaker 3: This may know what's going on.

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Speaker 7: But now I'm wondering if I really did overstep that

597
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Speaker 7: badly and insult Sarah horribly. I don't want to be

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Speaker 7: a bad mother in law, and I get along quite

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Speaker 7: well with Sarah ordinarily. Am I the whole here?

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Speaker 3: John?

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Speaker 7: Give me your quick input one sentence, but of here's

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Speaker 7: she the a whole and what you predict is gonna

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Speaker 7: happen next?

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Speaker 4: Because damn bad godly gosh, there's an.

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Speaker 5: Update like like a conservative Mormon, I see no A

606
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Speaker 5: holes here.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that made sense.

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Speaker 7: But the A hole might be the Mormon loophole for

609
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 7: not having sex before marriage. That is true, only the

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00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 7: loophole that is another loophole. There's multiple idea, there's multiples

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Speaker 7: that you could loop into yeah, but you know, not

612
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Speaker 7: the hill, I say, I say, not.

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Speaker 3: That hill, not the A hole.

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Speaker 7: Okay, well, there is a little bit of an update,

615
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Speaker 7: at least some questions that were answered. You might have

616
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Speaker 7: tidy to answer some questions. I haven't spoken to Robert

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Speaker 7: about the story spreading the way it did. I thought

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Speaker 7: it was best to give them space after the dinner

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Speaker 7: to process Sarah's diagnosis. But a lot of the commenters

620
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Speaker 7: are saying I should ask him about it, and thinking maybe, right,

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Speaker 7: that makes me think OPI is even less the a

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Speaker 7: hole than she already isn't too. I haven't discussed future

623
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Speaker 7: children with them before, as my own mother in law

624
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 7: was quite cruel to me, myself and James, especially me

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Speaker 7: since we only had Robert. James's siblings all quite have

626
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Speaker 7: large families, and until she sided, my mother in law

627
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Speaker 7: was very clear about who she blamed for a lack

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Speaker 7: of children. I decided early on in Sarah and Robert's

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Speaker 7: relationship that I wouldn't ask the typical questions of when

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Speaker 7: they would have children. But I've only met Sarah's family once,

631
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Speaker 7: so I don't know if her own relatives pressure her

632
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Speaker 7: in the way my mother in law pressured me three.

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Speaker 7: I've also decided to reach out to Sarah and ask

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Speaker 7: if the two of us can talk. I think the

635
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 7: story spreading was really a case of telephone for sure. Yeah,

636
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Speaker 7: but I would like to clear the air. The air

637
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 7: needs to be cleared, and the telephone wire needs to

638
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Speaker 7: be stripped down or replaced with the new telephone wire

639
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Speaker 7: because that connection is following that. I'm going to discuss

640
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 7: and ask both of them over for a chat and

641
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Speaker 7: discuss the situation, as I don't want this to fester.

642
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Speaker 7: I haven't decided what I'm going to do about clearing

643
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 7: everything up with family, but it's not my concern. Robert

644
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 7: and Sarah are John. I'm gonna direct the attention over

645
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Speaker 7: to you. What do you think in that beautiful nogin

646
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Speaker 7: of yours?

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Speaker 3: Oh God, for.

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Speaker 5: Sure, not the Opie, not the a whole Honestly, probably

649
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 5: Opie is the angel, because like everyone's just been like

650
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 5: crapping on op left right in the center, and she's

651
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 5: literally she's just taking it like like a champion. Like oh,

652
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 5: like you know, it seems like a game of telephone

653
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 5: all this stuff, and she like feels so bad that

654
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 5: she accidentally caused this pain I don't think that they

655
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 5: were necessarily the ones that kind of like start like

656
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 5: fanning the flames and like the you know what it

657
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 5: evolved through in the game of telephone.

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Speaker 7: Do we know?

659
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Speaker 3: It could be?

660
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Speaker 7: It could be, it could make I'm not saying they

661
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Speaker 7: definitely are the a hole right right right, like a

662
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Speaker 7: guy with a match stick and a forest fire behind him.

663
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 7: I'm smelling smoke. I see you with a match stick.

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Speaker 7: Maybe they didn't cause a whole forest fire, but they

665
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Speaker 7: broke that first lea for sure.

666
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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah may maybe yeah.

667
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Speaker 5: I was so I mean, what do you think do

668
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Speaker 5: you would you classify them in the a whole category?

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Speaker 7: Not with one hundred yeah right, Like they could have

670
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 7: just said, you know this, you know, like rough situation

671
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 7: happened with our mother or like Sarah, I'm Sarah right,

672
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 7: it's rough histuies happened her.

673
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 3: This rough situation happened with my mother in law, and

674
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 3: she accidentally brought up something that made me sad.

675
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 4: I don't know why.

676
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 7: She's like a little bit English right there, and I

677
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 7: could see like her starting that and then there's like

678
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 7: I know, like some freaking Karen that's like.

679
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 8: Oh my god, did that like, I can't believe she

680
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 8: literally insaulted you to her fris.

681
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 7: I could imagine like Karen and like a Karen friend

682
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 7: being like, you should not take off.

683
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 3: So what we know what?

684
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 7: We know for a fact that it's either Sarah or

685
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 7: Robert or it's someone within this telephone game. Someone in

686
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 7: the grape vine. There's a grape in the grapevine that's rotten.

687
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 7: We don't know who. Could be at the beginning, could

688
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 7: it be the middle, could be at the end, but

689
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 7: there's a rotten grape, and that grape is the ahole

690
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 7: for sure.

691
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 5: You know what, I wonder if someone in that line

692
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 5: of communication thought that like has a vendetta against op

693
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 5: and they're like, bro, this is my opportunity. Like Sarah

694
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 5: and Robert are already upset, so let me just like

695
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 5: kick in another like another little lie that'll just snowball

696
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 5: even harder.

697
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 7: Yeah see, we know this is what we need to do.

698
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 7: We need to go detective mode. We need to go

699
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 7: to the person that she saw in the grocery store

700
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 7: and be like.

701
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 3: Who told you? Don't like hang her off the building?

702
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: Oh don't.

703
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 8: They'll be like, who are you? Don't worry ma'am. Or podcasters.

704
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 8: We're trying to get to the bottom. But this we

705
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 8: like start a true crime podcast. I mean, podcasters are

706
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 8: low key like crimes.

707
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 5: They're low key the new like investigators now, like come

708
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 5: on solving all the crimes out here.

709
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 7: If you don't have a couple of podcasters in your city,

710
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 7: it's going to be rife with crime.

711
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 3: That would be.

712
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 4: A story is Batman, but it's a podcaster.

713
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 3: It's like, this is a city that knows how to

714
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 3: keep it secrets. But there's one man, one microphone that

715
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 3: stands between you and they're coming over.

716
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 8: It's Mike Man, Mike Man or Mike woman, Mike, Mike

717
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 8: not non binary, not having a stroke, non binary, non

718
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 8: binary mic Man, Mike.

719
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 3: Or you just Mike. But John, I heard you have

720
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 3: a few thunk a thought story.

721
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 4: I got funk.

722
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 3: Give me that funky thunk. So Sam, we made some.

723
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 5: Pregnancy observations here, we did. But I am switching gears

724
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 5: to ovulation situations.

725
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 7: Ovulation. I'm always scared of that time. Well, let's just

726
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 7: say that me and my girlfriend, I tracked my girlfriend's periods.

727
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 4: Let's just say just say that. Just just say that

728
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 4: and nothing more.

729
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 7: Professor accuses me of cheating, but I prove him wrong.

730
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 7: I'm actually a geenius. Okay, OPI this is okay, op.

731
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 7: I'm Samuel Daughter and I'm John Fry and we tell

732
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 7: the funniest stories on the internet. And John I used

733
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 7: to So I used to study engineering at LA and

734
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 7: one of the main ways you would prepare for the

735
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 7: test is you would go to the test bank.

736
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 3: Do you have a did you ever have a test bank? Yeah?

737
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 7: The test bank. You know about test banks. So basically

738
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 7: it was a either you had it for your fraternity

739
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 7: or your club, or sometimes the school would have it.

740
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 7: And every person that was part of that club that

741
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 7: came before would give their old tests to the test bank,

742
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 7: and to study, you would go look through all these

743
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 7: old tests.

744
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 9: Right.

745
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 7: Often for our ancient, ridiculously old professors, they were like,

746
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 7: I gave up teaching a long time ago, so they

747
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 7: wouldn't really teach the class. But two they would reuse

748
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 7: all of their questions for like decades, let's go. And

749
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 7: so often you would go and get you know, get

750
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 7: a get a test from the test bank, and it

751
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 7: would be question for question what was on the test

752
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 7: that was given that day?

753
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 4: Glorious.

754
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 7: But what really sucked is if you didn't have the

755
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 7: test bank or didn't know about the test bank, the

756
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 7: test was really hard. Right, So this story actually relates

757
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 7: to that that dilemma of test or be tested.

758
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:07,479
Speaker 4: What one very quick quip.

759
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 5: I passed my online driver's permit test entirely through Yahoo answers.

760
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 3: So shout out Yahoo answers.

761
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 7: Shout out Yahoo answers, Thank you for taking it before.

762
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 7: Thank you for taking the test before us.

763
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 3: That's right.

764
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 4: Professor accuses me of cheating, but I prove him wrong.

765
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 3: I'm actually a genius.

766
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 7: When I was in college, I took a class with

767
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 7: this gem of a professor. On the first day of class,

768
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 7: he ass oh, many people thought they would get to

769
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 7: know this being an engineering school where a sea actually

770
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 7: was average. Something like five students at the class of

771
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 7: sixty raised their hands, and then he announced, that's so

772
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 7: many a's he would give voute that's some messor. So

773
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 7: I love how you just asked the students, Hey, how

774
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 7: many as you want? Five people raise their hands?

775
00:36:58,760 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 4: Have more self confidence?

776
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 3: Come on.

777
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 7: All of our tests for that class were multiple choice

778
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 7: exams we took online. We were allowed to refer to

779
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 7: our notes during the test, and we were allowed to

780
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 7: study from old tests as long as we didn't refer

781
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 7: to the old test during the exam. Fair enough, I

782
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 7: studied for the first test, but didn't have access to

783
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 7: any old exams, so I did fine, but not great.

784
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 7: By the time the second exam rolled around, I had

785
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 7: made a friend who was in a fraternity that had

786
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 7: multiple copies of old exams from this professor.

787
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: Huh.

788
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 7: We and a couple of others took advantage of the

789
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 7: rule allowing us to study for old tests. We quickly

790
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 7: discovered that on these fifty question tests, the professor had

791
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 7: a repertoire of about seventy five questions he pulled from

792
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 7: on the first copy of the test we studied from.

793
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 7: We took the time to work through the answers to

794
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 7: make sure that we understood each in every one of them.

795
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 7: But the time we got to the fourth copy, we

796
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 7: could answer before we even finished reading the question, so

797
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 7: they were freaking prepared. Wow, exam time rolls around, just

798
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 7: as with previous years. He pulled the questions he asked

799
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 7: in the exam from the same pile of questions. I

800
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 7: think it took me about twelve minutes to answer everything correctly.

801
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 7: It was supposed to be an hour test.

802
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 4: Okay, you can't. You can't go that hard.

803
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 3: He like that hard.

804
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 7: Just just do the twelve minutes and then just doodle

805
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 7: for just wait, eighteen minutes. He gave himself away. Oh good, hindsight,

806
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 7: I probably should have let the clock run for a bit.

807
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 7: We had an hour, but I went ahead and submitted

808
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 7: it because I had other things to do. I checked

809
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 7: in with the others I studied with the next day,

810
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 7: and all of them had gotten that ninety percent plus.

811
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 3: Sweet.

812
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 7: Definitely using that plan for test three and the final.

813
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 7: The next day, we all received an email from the

814
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 7: professor letting us know that we are.

815
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 3: Being reported to the dean for an hoorn A code violation. No.

816
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 9: He claimed that he had never in all his skars

817
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 9: had anyone make better than in eighty on.

818
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 3: One of his tests before. So the fact that we

819
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 3: made all was clear proof that we hadd.

820
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 4: And he's been teaching for one hundred years, so you know,

821
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 4: it's rare.

822
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 7: This being an engineering school. We were all nerds and

823
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 7: we're pretty scared about receiving such an email, but we

824
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 7: agreed the best course of faction was to talk to

825
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 7: the professor before he went to the Dean to tell

826
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 7: our side of the story and see if we could

827
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 7: sort things out. We reached out to him and he

828
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 7: agreed to meet with us after class. When we met

829
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 7: with him and laid out our case, he was surprisingly

830
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 7: receptive to our explanation. I think in reality he didn't

831
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 7: want to go through the hassle of reporting us all

832
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 7: to the Dean because he was old, said in his ways,

833
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 7: and didn't want to do much work. So we left

834
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 7: the meeting feeling pretty good and agreed within our study

835
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 7: group we would keep studying from the old tests.

836
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 3: Well.

837
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 7: About a week before test three, this professor announces to

838
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 7: the class that.

839
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 9: Because some of us had filmed the previous tests so easy,

840
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 9: the next one would have twice as many questions in

841
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 9: the same amount of time. And then, being the cheeky

842
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 9: s ob I am, I asked him as I was

843
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 9: leaving the class, what would happen if someone made one

844
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 9: hundred on this test?

845
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 3: He said, God help you on the final.

846
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 7: So we use the same approach in studying for the

847
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 7: test and found the same pattern of a limited set

848
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 7: of questions. Of course, in addition to the extra questions

849
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 7: he had promised all the questions on this test would

850
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 7: be new. So while we again got to the point

851
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 7: we had the questions and answers memorized, we tried to

852
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 7: make sure we understood the concepts as much as possible

853
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 7: to deal with what we expected to be his wrath.

854
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 7: So basically they were just studying, really well, yeah, they

855
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 7: were actually understanding, Yeah, just to understand. The test day

856
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 7: comes around, and lo and behold, eighty seven of the

857
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 7: questions are pulled directly from old tests, Ten are from

858
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 7: a guest lecture where he basically pulled the question and

859
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 7: answered directly from the slides, and three were filler questions

860
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 7: like what's one plus one equal?

861
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 4: And the Earth revolves around the sun.

862
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 3: For a false? This guy's so lazy.

863
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 7: I know he can't he even he says, face my

864
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 7: wrath and his wrath are what's one plus one two?

865
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 7: I knew I had everything right. I also knew I

866
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 7: didn't want to screw myself and everyone else for the

867
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 7: final I purposely answered the filler questions incorrectly, so if

868
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 7: he looked at the results he would know what I

869
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 7: had done. I got my ninety seven, and I never

870
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 7: heard from the professor about that third test, but I

871
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 7: like to think of him rage scrolling through the results, like.

872
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 3: Oh, get those kids one day.

873
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 7: I don't remember the details about the final but I

874
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 7: do remember the format being the same exact thing as

875
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 7: what had been announced at the beginning of the semester.

876
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 7: My study group also worked together on the group project

877
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 7: where we made a's and so on. So if he

878
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 7: really only gave out five a's that semester, we received.

879
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 3: All of them.

880
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 4: Wow, man, oh great, great job. I'm a college dropout,

881
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 4: so I appreciate cheating and stuff like that. Ope, he

882
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 4: just studied.

883
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 7: Well like that's you know, he just he just didn't

884
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 7: did He just used the resources at his disposal and

885
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 7: uh and got around the system.

886
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 4: Was it was kind of a combination deep study and cheating.

887
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 7: I feel like you know what I mean, Like, well,

888
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 7: it wasn't cheating because the professor said he could they

889
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 7: could study from old tests.

890
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 4: He could they just that is true.

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