Speaker 1: A flash of light, an angry fight, no luggage in sight,
Speaker 1: my darkness night. I'm Bo Brimley and my husband went
Speaker 1: missing a few days ago. So I decided to start
Speaker 1: a podcast to get to the bottom of where he
Speaker 1: is so my baby can come home. This is Tooked
Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone. UM. Sorry if I sound a little
Speaker 1: all sorts, It's just my Greg still hasn't come home,
Speaker 1: and I'm really just wondering if I should even bother
Speaker 1: having a hope anymore. UM, it's really really gotten dire. UM.
Speaker 1: So again, a call to action. A please, if you've
Speaker 1: seen my Greg, if you think I should still have hope,
Speaker 1: please please contact me just to help me talk this out.
Speaker 1: You guys know that I've been trying to um garden
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And as I was gardening, I
Speaker 1: I saw some rabbits coming over to my plot from
Speaker 1: a neighbor's plot, and so I started kind of yelling
Speaker 1: and screaming. And I saw this saddle and and I
Speaker 1: recognized him, um from from a newspaper article about a
Speaker 1: man who lost his wife, because I try to keep
Speaker 1: track of that stuff. Uh, and I kind of we
Speaker 1: kind of had an instant connection. So please welcome Peter Thompson.
Speaker 1: Hey bo, hi, Hi, thank you for having me of course. Um,
Speaker 1: it's nice to finally meet you. You know, I kind
Speaker 1: of track all these people who have lost somebody, like
Speaker 1: little celebs, and you're a big celeb. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: you were my neighbor because I don't really look over
Speaker 1: your house has sort of overgrown. I like my privacy
Speaker 1: and you know you've been bothering me for for a
Speaker 1: little bit now about this, right right, No, it's no problem. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I guess just like it seems like you your
Speaker 1: wife has been missing for a while, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: I I haven't seen my eth vol from about forty years.
Speaker 1: Forty years. Wow, how did she disappear? Because I'm going
Speaker 1: through that right now. Well, uh, well I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know that it's exactly the same. But the Ethel
Speaker 1: and I Ethel and I met met in the circus,
Speaker 1: very different different backgrounds. She was circus, going back generations,
Speaker 1: going back, going back to her great grandparents. She did
Speaker 1: it all, you know, started out swaying around on trampies,
Speaker 1: climbing into clown carriages. That that's what they were back then.
Speaker 1: The cars came later Yeah, it was a regular size horse. Uh,
Speaker 1: tiny little buggy, and then an absurd number of clowns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've read, I've read books. Towards the end of her life,
Speaker 1: she became the first in her family to become the
Speaker 1: woman in the bear costume who would ride around on
Speaker 1: the unit site. So that's not really a bear. No,
Speaker 1: the rest of the act is a bear. It's this.
Speaker 1: It's an old circus trick from the entire act. To
Speaker 1: be an actual bear, you get the ugly is bear
Speaker 1: that you can find, right, find one that's you know,
Speaker 1: sick mangey, it's dying. You get an old, shitty looking bear, right,
Speaker 1: the shittiest one like. And you get that bear and
Speaker 1: you train it. And that's that bear is easy to
Speaker 1: train because it's because it's a weak it's it's never
Speaker 1: been loved. It's so desperate for for any whuin's attention,
Speaker 1: and it's not used to getting its way. It's an animal,
Speaker 1: and a weak animal is is a subservient animal. An Uh,
Speaker 1: you do that so that when then you have a
Speaker 1: woman in the bear costume, which inevitably it doesn't. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like a real bear. The shittiness of the
Speaker 1: actual bear it helps you to hide the costume. So
Speaker 1: at some point, right so you have the bear dance around,
Speaker 1: you do the bear things you haven't on a ball.
Speaker 1: But here's the things that are real. Bear will never
Speaker 1: ride un asych Wow, No, it won't happen. It won't happen.
Speaker 1: I want to point out some language. I do want
Speaker 1: to get back to the unicycle fact. But you said
Speaker 1: before we lost her or something like that, do you
Speaker 1: still have hope that she's out there after forty years?
Speaker 1: How did you lose her? Also, it was a mixing.
Speaker 1: There's a lot involved in the bear towards the ends
Speaker 1: of the grand finale. Of course, is the bear getting
Speaker 1: on the unicycle. The audiences has got to see it.
Speaker 1: It's tradition. It's not real circus if the bear doesn't
Speaker 1: ride away on a unic cycles of course, But if,
Speaker 1: as I said, any self respecting bear won't do it,
Speaker 1: that's why you need the lady in the bear acause
Speaker 1: at the end you do a switch. It's like you
Speaker 1: get the real bear runs down a little a little
Speaker 1: play tunnel, there's a trapdoor and that it falls into
Speaker 1: a cage doug below. The circus freaks the hell out
Speaker 1: of the bear. After that outcomes the woman in the
Speaker 1: bear costume gets onto the Unice cycle rides away. Now
Speaker 1: the bear in the cage is pretty freaked out after that,
Speaker 1: And normally you can only use the bear a couple
Speaker 1: of times. What happens to it after you use it
Speaker 1: a couple of times? It's round it, all right, It's
Speaker 1: circus and it was the old days, all right. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I'm not saying that it was okay by
Speaker 1: today's standards. This podcast is not supp drowning bears. Yeah, continue, sorry,
Speaker 1: all right, it doesn't. And I gotta say I feel
Speaker 1: like I need to point out that I don't support
Speaker 1: drowning bears life. I I wasn't in that. I did
Speaker 1: a regurgitating act, okay, right, So I wasn't involved in
Speaker 1: the bear. I don't know if I want to know
Speaker 1: what that is. What a regurgitating act? I just swallow
Speaker 1: things and then cough him and spit him back up.
Speaker 1: Why is that in the circus. It's the side show.
Speaker 1: It's the side show of the circus before the main
Speaker 1: parts of the circus. People want to see other you know,
Speaker 1: weird ship And that's what I did, right, I would
Speaker 1: swalloway back up. Sorry, I'm just emotional because this is
Speaker 1: all just really triggering for me. This is sort of
Speaker 1: exactly what happened to me. But continue. You said there
Speaker 1: was a bear mix up, the bears in the cage.
Speaker 1: It's freaked out. Well, how how did your wife get
Speaker 1: mixed up? I don't know. I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: she may have switched herself with the bear, like she
Speaker 1: may have got sick of it all and tried to
Speaker 1: live her life as a bear. Somehow do you think
Speaker 1: she left you to live as a bear? Well, that
Speaker 1: I don't relate to because my husband was taken, he
Speaker 1: maybe even murdered. I forget if I told you what
Speaker 1: happened to me. Did I tell you? Oh, I'll just
Speaker 1: tell you, Peter. It's like it's like we're so similar
Speaker 1: in so many way flicks, you know, like you've been
Speaker 1: missing your way for like forty years. It's like been
Speaker 1: like what I I can't even keep track of like
Speaker 1: four days into this, three days maybe two, and my
Speaker 1: husband it's been gone this whole time. We got into
Speaker 1: this big fight, we got too bad, and I woke
Speaker 1: up in the morning and he was gone, and all
Speaker 1: that was behind it was like a wedding ring and
Speaker 1: like he like he like dropped the head and like
Speaker 1: it's like a train ticket receiat and then all his luggage.
Speaker 1: This is a crazy part. His luggage was gone, and
Speaker 1: all his clothes were gone, and all his toiletries were gone.
Speaker 1: And listen, listen, I need to stop. Be right there.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, for all your evident halling and wringing
Speaker 1: your hands about the way we disposed it, bears, I'm
Speaker 1: a little offended at being called here to talk about
Speaker 1: my loss in comparison to your fight with your husband,
Speaker 1: which is what this is. Okay, okay, First of all,
Speaker 1: it was a fight, but the way that I might
Speaker 1: fight with the TV when I don't like what's happening
Speaker 1: on it, You know where I go? Come on, come on?
Speaker 1: You know? Does that ever work to the TV? Sometimes
Speaker 1: it affects the outcome, like when you're bulling and the
Speaker 1: ball goes a little bit too side and go and
Speaker 1: then it goes right the right way. My husband went missing, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know who can napped him. We had some
Speaker 1: idiot forensic specialist on here that was like, oh, maybe
Speaker 1: he had an affair, and I'm like that is literally
Speaker 1: the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Right, that's the stupiest
Speaker 1: thing I've ever heard. This man clearly was taken. This
Speaker 1: man and I were in love. Okay, we're in love.
Speaker 1: Nothing can affect love, you know that. I know the
Speaker 1: opposite of that. I know a lot of things can
Speaker 1: affect love. I know that at some point might belove
Speaker 1: and wife that will felt unsatisfied with me and chose
Speaker 1: instead to switch herself with the shayest bear that we
Speaker 1: could find. Right, wait a minute, back to me says
Speaker 1: that love can in fact stop, And I think that's
Speaker 1: what's happened to you, and I think you need to
Speaker 1: accept You're right. A bear can affect love. Do you think,
Speaker 1: oh this is so fun? Do you think someone took
Speaker 1: my greg, brought him into the wood, took one of
Speaker 1: these depressed bears, and fed him to the bear? Is
Speaker 1: that what you're saying? You know? What if that helps you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't know this, But I've had a detective I've
Speaker 1: been working with for a long time that's on top
Speaker 1: of this case like a shell to a snail. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him up. We'll tell him the details
Speaker 1: are your case. Because maybe maybe your wife is still
Speaker 1: out there too. If she's living as a bear, she
Speaker 1: better how to eat my husband. But if she's out there,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he could help. So I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonn give him a ring hold on. Sometimes he rejects
Speaker 1: my calls. I can see. We're sorry. Why phone number?
Speaker 1: You are trying nothing, It's just it's fairly obvious what happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a bear, ain't my husband? Let me try? Can I try? Um?
Speaker 1: What do you got? You got a flip phone? Can
Speaker 1: I try your phone? Yeah? Yeah, I have a Jennnor bug. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh my god, how do you use this? You just
Speaker 1: press the buttons a gigant. Yeah, it looks like one
Speaker 1: of those calculators you get for free somewhere. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: this is my most detective agency detect phone speaking Hello.
Speaker 1: This is UM. Somebody reporting a case of Okay, it's me.
Speaker 1: Don't hang up, don't hang up, don't hang up. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's me, it's me. It's bo Okay, listen, I've got
Speaker 1: a live one on. Okay. We've got Peter Thompson here,
Speaker 1: his wife, and I'm not lying. His wife has been
Speaker 1: missing for forty years. She might have become a bear. Okay,
Speaker 1: have you heard anything about this, Brimily, I'm I'm actually
Speaker 1: glad you called. Oh my god, my husband got eaten
Speaker 1: by this bear. You're my husband, and I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 1: Bears are much more likely to eat trash or salmon
Speaker 1: or not taking it back. It's a fact, Frimly. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to apologize, you know, for brushing you off,
Speaker 1: not taking your case seriously. I've done a real disservice
Speaker 1: to the private investigation industry, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: want to say I'm sorry. Wow, well, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: so sorry. I got you, Frimley. You're so fucking stupid. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got someone I want you to talk to over here.
Speaker 1: Huh how old do you want to talk to someone? Hey? Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: are here? Take the phone? Here? Can take this? Hello,
Speaker 1: it's your dumb husband. Oh my god, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: are you a mouth? What's happening to you? Are you okay?
Speaker 1: I'm not in a bears mouth off. I've been staying
Speaker 1: at the Extended Day of America sixty three. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: who put you there? I put me there? You had
Speaker 1: that dude outside of my hotel room for four days now.
Speaker 1: I just going outside with the crowbar I keep in
Speaker 1: my bag, and I was gonna tear a new hole
Speaker 1: in his ass. Scared the Jesus. Really, okay, Gregg, what
Speaker 1: do you doing at the hotel? You're planning this little
Speaker 1: d n No, I'm not planning a date night. No
Speaker 1: more date nights. No more date nights. Bore we getting
Speaker 1: second marriage? No? No second? Why don't we do that
Speaker 1: so soon after the first one? No? Why don't we
Speaker 1: do a second marriage after the first one that soon?
Speaker 1: I'm not planning any of that. What don't you understand
Speaker 1: about this? I tried to make it as clear as possible.
Speaker 1: I left. I'm gone. I don't want to be married
Speaker 1: to you anymore. This has been a year of h
Speaker 1: E double l L. You never spell curse words. Who's
Speaker 1: holding you under dress? Nobody? Nobody's holding me under the rest.
Speaker 1: Stop acting like this is something that has happened to me.
Speaker 1: I left. Think about everything that I left. I took
Speaker 1: the suitcases. I took the left over boxes, the cereal.
Speaker 1: I took the booty pebls with marshmallows. I took the
Speaker 1: oops all berries. Yes, I even took the Cashi go lean.
Speaker 1: I don't even like that. It makes me dukie. You know, Greg,
Speaker 1: I had become really good friends after that scared and
Speaker 1: we realized we had a lot of common. We played
Speaker 1: our arrival high schools. We played football rival high school.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? I was an Archbishop Bryan, he
Speaker 1: was at McDevitt. Mm hmm, this is so crazy. I'm
Speaker 1: putting the clues together before my eyes. I can't believe
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. You have been mind controlled by
Speaker 1: Detective Mullins this whole time. It's been an inside jaw.
Speaker 1: It's just like that movie Searching where Debra Messing is
Speaker 1: the one that was the one that hurt the kids. Spoilers, spoilers,
Speaker 1: spoilers at the years you should have seen it. Okay, listen, Greg, Greg,
Speaker 1: let's speak in our little special language. Tell me where
Speaker 1: to pick you up, and I will grab you. I
Speaker 1: will grab you. I will fight off Mullins with my
Speaker 1: fucking teeth. If I have not mind controlled by him.
Speaker 1: I'm not mind controlled by anybody but my religion, the
Speaker 1: tempresent nation. That's the only thing that I'm controlled by. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of good stuff that he's been
Speaker 1: telling me about this religion. I think I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to join up. Open your eyes. Open your eyes
Speaker 1: and see the light. Now I'm seeing it clearly. Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought Mullins was mind controlling Greg, but in order
Speaker 1: to trick me, Mullin's mind controlled Greg to seem like
Speaker 1: he was mine controlling mullets. This is so fun. This
Speaker 1: is so fucked Brimley. If you if you just accept
Speaker 1: your higher power at this point and say you're ready
Speaker 1: to move on, you know, and replace Greg with the
Speaker 1: higher power, I think you're gonna be a lot happier
Speaker 1: in your life. All right. I had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with this. Really the best thing that happened for me
Speaker 1: as I came out with a new friend and eventually
Speaker 1: Salvation and we talked about you. We talked about the
Speaker 1: fact that you like to clip your toe nails right
Speaker 1: when I'm eating breakfast. That's the t and they fly
Speaker 1: right into the fruity pebbles, right into them. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know marshmallow from toe nail. So what. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're married. All body parts are getting inside of body parts.
Speaker 1: Who cares? That's not the same thing. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: we haven't done that in a long time. You know
Speaker 1: everybody's body makes me sick. The last time we did it,
Speaker 1: you threw up all over me. Yes, it was very
Speaker 1: it was thick. Yes, I had all my minister on
Speaker 1: that day. Greg, I don't understand this is coming out
Speaker 1: of nowhere for me. We're in love every single day
Speaker 1: for a year, in our beautiful, blissful marriage. We're literally
Speaker 1: not a single problem has ever occurred. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you quote unquote leave. I mean, is
Speaker 1: it so unreasonable that I believe you were kidnapped and
Speaker 1: murdered and putting out of a bear. If you're so
Speaker 1: good at clues, thank about the clues that I've been leaving.
Speaker 1: The note on the refrigerator, what did it say, Melons,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell you there was a note
Speaker 1: on the refrigerator because it was ultimately confusing. It said, bow,
Speaker 1: I can't do this anymore. I'm out, Greg. The bottle
Speaker 1: of vodka that I keep in the top of the toilet,
Speaker 1: what did the label say? Okay, Moms, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to tell you this because again, n I'm glad you
Speaker 1: didn't tell me. I'm glad, actually it would have been
Speaker 1: just a waste of time. It said have this toilet
Speaker 1: vodka for when you're feeling sade Because I left you.
Speaker 1: That's what I wrote on the bottle of Taca vodka.
Speaker 1: I was still thinking about you, and that's why I
Speaker 1: knew you loved for all these there so personalized, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: I I love you as another human being who occupies
Speaker 1: the same earth as I. You know, when I traveled
Speaker 1: to Europe, people would say, why do Americans say how
Speaker 1: are you? They don't care how you are. They don't
Speaker 1: really want to know how you are. After I met you,
Speaker 1: I realized that was true. I do not care how
Speaker 1: you are, even when I ask you that. So I
Speaker 1: love you in that way. I love you not like
Speaker 1: a love song, baby. I love you like, you know,
Speaker 1: like a commercial when people like pick somebody up at
Speaker 1: the airport in a taxi, when they're the taxi driver.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get that person to their destination safely. You
Speaker 1: love me like that. Oh no, she's taking this the
Speaker 1: wrong way. My own parents, I'm not surprised. Greg. You
Speaker 1: a little sweet bug. That's so cute. I love you
Speaker 1: like a taxi driver too. Also, you know, my mother
Speaker 1: was eaten by ten thousand roaches, and you still call
Speaker 1: me a sweet bug? Well, I mean, isn't it a
Speaker 1: nice memory of your mom? If I said no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a bug? I haight? Bugs? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess that's our first fight, isn't it. We've we've
Speaker 1: gotten into a multiple fight. We've got plenty of fights
Speaker 1: our first fight, Mullins, Can you believe it? Put that
Speaker 1: in the scrap bug? And you know my son intentionally
Speaker 1: pukes on his dog. Don't you telling me? Are you
Speaker 1: telling you who? You're telling it? Dude? Just tell my
Speaker 1: group tell him to give me a cold. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: your regurgitation expert. Stop hitting on all of my guests,
Speaker 1: you fucking pervert. Mullins. I can't believe you're the only
Speaker 1: one in the one yellow page that I saved because
Speaker 1: you're out of control. Well, honestly, I'm proud of myself
Speaker 1: for cracking this case. Greg. I'll see you a hole.
Speaker 1: I'm saying to say, America until my new apartment kicks in. Okay,
Speaker 1: wink wink ease, that's America. That's our house together. Don't
Speaker 1: get backed up here? Do come here, come there and
Speaker 1: Brimley lose my number fast? Okay, I won't. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have free muffins in the lobby. Oh um, and since
Speaker 1: I've kind of had this little happy ending, love you, Greggy.
Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't check in a
Speaker 1: little bit about Peter Mullins. You're a detective. Have you
Speaker 1: heard a sad story about some woman dress as a
Speaker 1: bear who left a sad man and a sad story
Speaker 1: about someone leaving somebody? No, it sounds like a Stephen
Speaker 1: King's story or something. Sounds wild. Yeah, this would have
Speaker 1: happened forty years ago in ames Ill. Okay, well, Peter,
Speaker 1: it's possible your wife is dead, so maybe that gives
Speaker 1: you a little bit of closure. It does. I've lived
Speaker 1: living with that assumption for you. Well, that's very sweet.
Speaker 1: So we all got our little happy ending. I'm with Greg.
Speaker 1: Your wife's gone and we know that, and because we're
Speaker 1: with each other. Okay, I'm gonna cry. This is so cute. Um. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, and um catch me at the
Speaker 1: Extended Stay American with my little hush. You got to
Speaker 1: get out of here now I'm leaving me. I'm already
Speaker 1: in the back grab that. Well. Thank you guys so
Speaker 1: much for tuning in to too where we went on
Speaker 1: a really nice adventure to find the love of my life. Greg. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm currently stationed right outside our roof at the Extended
Speaker 1: Stay America. We're doing one of these like fun little games,
Speaker 1: um um, and I'm knocked on the door. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: he's grabbing dinner for the both of us or something,
Speaker 1: and he'll let me in. Greg, you didn't seek back
Speaker 1: when I went to the bathroom, did you, Okay, So yeah,
Speaker 1: he's probably grabbing dinner or something. Um. Let me fill
Speaker 1: check with the front dost just to make sure, because
Speaker 1: get get out of here. Let's turn yourself. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for my fucking husband to come back with our
Speaker 1: dinner for two. He's getting a chicken from What you've
Speaker 1: just heard is the final recordings of an absolutely unhinged
Speaker 1: woman named both Brimley. Soon after that, she was arrested
Speaker 1: for going to a state park and killing a bunch
Speaker 1: of bears looking for a woman that's living inside one
Speaker 1: of them. She's at Forest Lake State penitentially where I
Speaker 1: hope she'll frankly be there for the rest of her life.
Speaker 1: And I stole this audio from her, so I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of like putting it out there into the world,
Speaker 1: hoping it comes like a big thing for me. I
Speaker 1: want to get a book out there in the world,
Speaker 1: you know, just to kind of give my perspective on
Speaker 1: the detective thing. You know, so this detective agamem Non.
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Speaker 1: your mom. You know, Mom's love me. Uh, Mullins out