Speaker 1: Get your hands together, and we're gonna stop and pot
Speaker 1: in start.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to party, the Elvis Duran After Party.
Speaker 3: Games, The Act Show Party Podcast. You ready to go out? Yeah,
Speaker 3: my friend Cilia's in here. Listen to what she did
Speaker 3: and see if you agree with how she handled it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and tell your story.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: The other day when I was home in New Orleans,
Speaker 5: it was like eleven am, and I went to get
Speaker 5: breakfast and I got back to my car and I
Speaker 5: got in as if nothing happened. But I was with
Speaker 5: my friend, and so my friend was like, Celia, Celia,
Speaker 5: you need.
Speaker 4: To get out of the car. You need to get
Speaker 4: out of your car.
Speaker 5: Look at the back of your car, and so like
Speaker 5: the trunk window was completely smashed. And New Orleans is
Speaker 5: like pretty notorious for getting cars broken into, but it's
Speaker 5: never happened to me.
Speaker 4: And I didn't really know what to do.
Speaker 5: So I just started knocking on doors and I was like, hey,
Speaker 5: did you see anyone to like hear like a smash
Speaker 5: or something like I gotta find the person, Like I'm
Speaker 5: not paying for this and I can't drive my car.
Speaker 5: So in the end, I did some like detective work.
Speaker 5: I stood around there for like two hours in this
Speaker 5: dangerous neighborhood. Yeah, And they ended up pointing me to
Speaker 5: the landscaper. So I found him and he I literally
Speaker 5: I like pinned him. I cornered him, and I was like,
Speaker 5: did you do this? Because everyone's telling me that you did,
Speaker 5: and you you're always around this neighborhood, so I believe it.
Speaker 5: And he was like, all right, fine, like I did it.
Speaker 5: And I was like, yeah, I'm guessing it was an accident.
Speaker 3: No, no, not New Orleans. Did he take anything from
Speaker 3: your car?
Speaker 5: No, I don't keep anything in there. There was like
Speaker 5: a towel in the trunk or something, and so he threw.
Speaker 3: Broke in to look in there to see if there's
Speaker 3: anything worth taking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like my console was open and stuff. But I
Speaker 5: don't keep anything worthy in my car because I'm always
Speaker 5: scared of that. So I went up to him and
Speaker 5: once he admitted it, I said, all right, this is
Speaker 5: how we're going to do it. You're gonna give me
Speaker 5: I'm going to call the glass guy. I'm going to
Speaker 5: get an estimate. You're gonna give me that amount of
Speaker 5: money either through insurance or right now, like zell me,
Speaker 5: I'm banned from Venmo, so you can only zell me
Speaker 5: of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and wait a minute, that's a.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: So then I was just we ended up actually like talking,
Speaker 5: like really just chatting, and he was like, listen, like
Speaker 5: I lost my mom when I was fourteen, and I'm
Speaker 5: like a mentor.
Speaker 4: To these kids, and I was like a terrible and
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5: You know what, like I need to like give it back,
Speaker 5: like give back, you know. And so I was like, okay,
Speaker 5: you still got to pay for it, but like I
Speaker 5: forgive you and I won't call the police. And then
Speaker 5: I was like also, you know, he was like I
Speaker 5: want I'm I'm I'm doing this because I want to
Speaker 5: see my mom eventually, like I guess in heaven.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he's working in the cars because he
Speaker 2: wants to die.
Speaker 5: No, Like he was giving me the money because like
Speaker 5: he was like, I'm only doing this because I want
Speaker 5: to go see my mom in heaven. He was like,
Speaker 5: I'm not really a good person, but yeah. So then
Speaker 5: I ended up talking him for a little while and
Speaker 5: I was like, listen, if you keep surrounding yourself with
Speaker 5: these bad people or like you know, if you do
Speaker 5: these things like this, breaking into people's cars and running
Speaker 5: away and going on with your day. You're not going
Speaker 5: to meet your mom again. So you got to get
Speaker 5: it back together. And I'm here.
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, So Celia, you told the man that
Speaker 3: bashed the window in your car to rob you. Essentially,
Speaker 3: if he pays you the money and he's nice to people,
Speaker 3: he will see his mother in heaven. Yes, and he
Speaker 3: could be by the way. This is a New Orleans
Speaker 3: story through and through. I mean, I know.
Speaker 4: We hugged it out. We hugged it out.
Speaker 3: As a sucker. I have so question? Yes, godhi, what
Speaker 3: some questions?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: So now when you say they ended up pointing me
Speaker 1: to the landscape or who is they?
Speaker 4: Oh, a bunch of neighbors all rally together.
Speaker 1: So they all saw him do it. And he was
Speaker 1: still on somebody's property somewhere.
Speaker 4: He was like a block or two.
Speaker 1: Man who was a criminal broke into your car.
Speaker 4: And he had the weed whacker too, get a weed whacker? Yeah,
Speaker 4: you cornered him? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Are you?
Speaker 3: Was he hot?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I actually have a picture of his license. I can
Speaker 4: show y'all after No.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's okay, a picture of him.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 3: So the conversation here is forgiveness.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I gave him a hug and I was like,
Speaker 5: don't do anything bad again. Just keep going around and give, give,
Speaker 5: be generous, don't take.
Speaker 4: And then he was like, yeah, and see.
Speaker 3: I'm the only one in this room that sees the
Speaker 3: logic behind where she's coming from.
Speaker 1: Logic went out the door when she approached a criminal
Speaker 1: and cornered him.
Speaker 3: There's a lot, neighbor.
Speaker 2: I see her heart and how you want to do
Speaker 2: these wonderful things, and I think that's fantastic. I think
Speaker 2: you need to be careful because you're gonna get yourself killed.
Speaker 2: And I also think he was telling you a bs stories.
Speaker 3: Probably, And I also love how Celia is guarding the
Speaker 3: gate at heaven. It's really hurt. It's her decision. Go ahead,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: It makes me a little bit nervous that he gave
Speaker 1: you the money and was like, the only reason I'm
Speaker 1: doing this is because I want to see my mom
Speaker 1: in heaven. Like I my life would have flashed before
Speaker 1: my eyes like three times. Like this guy wants to
Speaker 1: kill me, but also he wants to get to heaven,
Speaker 1: so he's.
Speaker 3: Not like no, no, to see organized religion, and this
Speaker 3: guy slipped like grease and he just got caught. So
Speaker 3: he figured, think fast, think fast, think fast. And he
Speaker 3: just told you this entire lie. And he's like, I'll
Speaker 3: will to manipulate her emotions, and that's exactly.
Speaker 4: What he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it worked, and in the end, my.
Speaker 4: My car got fixed. He gave me cash, and it
Speaker 4: got costs three hundred and.
Speaker 5: Fifty two dollars and he gave me three fifty so
Speaker 5: it only cost me two dollars to get it fixed.
Speaker 5: But I had to drive home with my windows smash
Speaker 5: and all of the glass was like falling through it
Speaker 5: lying at me.
Speaker 3: There's the inconvenience of having to get it fixed and
Speaker 3: the whole thing. So yeah, I don't know. So forgiveness.
Speaker 3: You know, there have been times in this room where
Speaker 3: someone will do me wrong or the show wrong, and
Speaker 3: I will I will go, okay, no big deal, let's
Speaker 3: move on, and you guys will get mad at me
Speaker 3: absolutely for being okay, let's move on. I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to sit here and harbor that negative energy.
Speaker 1: I understand moving on, and I understand like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna forgive you. I just don't get the forgetting thing.
Speaker 1: Never forget, no way. And then also because I don't forget,
Speaker 1: then it makes it harder to forgive because every time
Speaker 1: I remember, I'm like.
Speaker 2: You mother, m I'll harbor that negative energy for you will, Yes,
Speaker 2: you will.
Speaker 3: You're plenty for everyone. So you guys think silly's out
Speaker 3: of her mind?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have a question, how are you still alive?
Speaker 6: This is just one of probably a dozen stories I've
Speaker 6: heard in your life that something similar happens where you
Speaker 6: put yourself in a situation that you could die.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how are you still? I really don't know? Like,
Speaker 4: was he bigger than you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Clia, I truthfully, I don't know. I've like scathed death
Speaker 5: like a lot of times.
Speaker 2: I really have a Can we also ask your why
Speaker 2: you are banned from venmo oh week skipped over.
Speaker 5: I got hacked and somebody sent themselves seventeen hundred dollars
Speaker 5: on my account. Before I was I was on a
Speaker 5: flight to Europe, so it was quite literally the worst
Speaker 5: situation ever. So I disputed it and they were like, Okay,
Speaker 5: now you need to prove that it's your account.
Speaker 4: Take a selfie with your idea.
Speaker 5: I was like, great, done, they said, actually, that's not you,
Speaker 5: so retake it.
Speaker 4: You have one more chance. Retook it. They said, that's
Speaker 4: not you. Your account is done forever.
Speaker 5: What. I cannot contact them, I can't do anything. My
Speaker 5: phone number, my email, my name, oh, my bank account
Speaker 5: banned for life.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm seeing a pattern here with Celia.
Speaker 5: Are you? Guys?
Speaker 3: You are sort of a magnet for interesting stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I bet. I bet you could go for hours about
Speaker 3: all the crazy crap that's happened to you because it's
Speaker 3: you and it can't be explained. You're just a magnet
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what all my friends say. They're like, anytime
Speaker 5: something happens like, of course that would happen to Celia
Speaker 5: like that, nobody else because that's just how it goes.
Speaker 5: But it makes me the entertaining friend than you.
Speaker 4: Around for the entertainment.
Speaker 3: Then therefore, I think we have to invite Celia back
Speaker 3: up the hallway to hang out with us again.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna jeez, I miss y'all.
Speaker 3: All right, the forgiving Celia, We love you.
Speaker 5: Thanks guy, Helia.
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