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Speaker 1: Step soon destroys my daughter's priceless collection. Then his real

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Speaker 1: dad prevents me from exacting my revenge.

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Speaker 2: Okayop, how dare you you know let me seek revenge

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Speaker 2: on this child.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get out of my all out there revenge.

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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta learn about the real world sometime.

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Speaker 2: Yoh, no, we gotta lay down a law a little

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Speaker 2: bit over here.

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Speaker 1: My biological twelve year old daughter, Susan, likes to collect

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Speaker 1: and read.

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Speaker 3: Old children's books.

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Speaker 1: Seems like an old slash young soul. Indeed, an old

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Speaker 1: young soul, old young soul. She's become an incredible reader.

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Speaker 1: And she had some problems with reading and learning before,

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Speaker 1: and we were advised to encourage her to read. And

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Speaker 1: ever since she started reading, which she does regularly, her

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Speaker 1: skills improved.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing.

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Speaker 3: She also reads to her two year old sister every night.

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Speaker 2: Adorable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so adorable. That's good sibling love, that's right.

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Speaker 1: I have a sixteen year old step son, Levy, who

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Speaker 1: can be a hot head some time. I'ms we don't

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Speaker 1: have a son dad relationship, but I respect him and

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Speaker 1: he respects me. Though he can be a little brat

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Speaker 1: and that quite mean and selfish.

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Speaker 3: Towards me and his sisters.

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Speaker 1: I respect him and I and he respects me, but

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Speaker 1: he's fucking so much.

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Speaker 2: Your daddy can't save your Now, I'm your daddy.

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Speaker 1: He throws stuff away that belongs to us over small arguments,

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Speaker 1: and teases Susan for spending so much time reading, calling

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Speaker 1: her a grandma.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Like if that's if that's my steps,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you're just you're just a jerk, Like.

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Speaker 3: You're yeah, and you're dumb and you can't read.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe on audible, Yeah yeah, maybe if you can't read,

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Speaker 1: and maybe try listening to my voice or someone else's

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Speaker 1: voice audible. My wife and I discussed his behavior and

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Speaker 1: had comes and agreed on punishments, but Levy would go

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Speaker 1: to his dad's place whenever he causes trouble, then have

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Speaker 1: suitable punishment.

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Speaker 2: Get out of jail, free card man.

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Speaker 3: Go into the dad's place.

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Speaker 1: Then Levy comes home days later, expecting me to let

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Speaker 1: go of whatever he did every time, and it's frustrating,

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Speaker 1: which I can imagine that sounds like a piece of work.

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Speaker 2: He really does, though, I got a call.

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Speaker 1: At work from Susan saying Levy took her entire book

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Speaker 1: collection and threw it into the pool after she refused

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Speaker 1: to lend him and his friends her camera for his trip.

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Speaker 2: That is unacceptable. That is like completely unaccepted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's like, I mean, think about like all

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Speaker 1: these like old books that she's collected, Like that's like

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Speaker 1: a priceless connection.

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Speaker 3: She's a kid, priceless collection.

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Speaker 2: So bad.

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Speaker 1: My wife helped get them out, but they were wet

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Speaker 1: and some were torn.

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Speaker 3: It was horrific because some of those books are hard

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Speaker 3: to get and meant a lot to Susan as a

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Speaker 3: part of her life.

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Speaker 1: I was so mad at Levy, which I can imagine

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Speaker 1: sounds like a little shit. I came home to have

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Speaker 1: but Levy had already packed up a small bag and

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Speaker 1: went to his dad's bro It's like his get out

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Speaker 2: He knows he's abusing it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he knows he can get away with it. I

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Speaker 1: asked my wife how she could let him basically run

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Speaker 1: after doing this. She said he called his dad and

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Speaker 1: he came to pick him up. After Susan said that

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Speaker 1: I was coming home to deal with this problem. Dude,

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Speaker 1: all right, this guy is getting way too upset. All right,

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Speaker 1: this guy, this kid Levy is one getting way too

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Speaker 1: upset about a camera.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he absolutely is. Like he should honestly read the

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Speaker 2: subtle art of not giving a fuck.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and or if you can't read, which you probably can't,

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Speaker 1: he said, listen to it, he should listen to it

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Speaker 1: on Audible. And also, Susan the little girl has that

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Speaker 1: book collection, just get all those books at Audible. And

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Speaker 1: then even if shithead Levy throws it in the pool,

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Speaker 1: at least it's backed up on the cloud.

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Speaker 3: You can have it forever. There's nothing he can do,

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Speaker 3: nothing he can do, dude. Audible is forever.

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Speaker 2: So if you want to free book and want to

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Speaker 2: support the okop show, sign it for Audible with our bilink.

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Speaker 3: Get in there, all right.

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Speaker 1: So Opie needs to go deal some justice because it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I went to his dad's house and we refuse to

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Speaker 1: let me see him. I told him how Levy was

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Speaker 1: hiding from consequences, and his dad tried to justify why

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Speaker 1: Levy was acting out by blaming me for how Susan

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Speaker 1: treats him. Dude, Susan's twelve, Levy is sixteen. Yeah, come on,

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Speaker 1: that's come on. He even said he'd get child of

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Speaker 1: Protective Services involved if I ever try to punish him.

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Speaker 3: Because I'm not his dad, I have no right.

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Speaker 2: This is just classic teenage like annoying brat.

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Speaker 3: I know, bro.

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Speaker 1: It's like also like if you're like a step father, like,

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Speaker 1: how do you reprimand your step kid?

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Speaker 2: I bet I, but I bet there's something where it's like,

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Speaker 2: you know, legally when they get remarried, there's probably something there, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're a co guardian or something like that. Lay down

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Speaker 2: this long and you lay down that long in my house.

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Speaker 1: Even said he gets Child productive Service involved in I

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Speaker 1: ever try to punish him because I'm not his dad

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Speaker 1: and I have no right. Adding what Levey did was

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Speaker 1: a reaction to my daughter being mean to him. He

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Speaker 1: told me to leave because Levy won't come home till

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Speaker 1: I promise not to do anything about what he did

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Speaker 1: and put that in writing like a freaking contract, trying

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Speaker 1: to be like say like I'm not gonna do anything.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I hate this kid, but well played.

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Speaker 3: Well play. This kid's gonna be a lawyer in his future.

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Speaker 1: I told Levy stay there then he's not coming back

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Speaker 1: till he gets proper punishment. His dad argued it's his

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Speaker 1: mom's house too, and called my wife and she asked

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Speaker 1: to let this go and we'll figure out some way

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Speaker 1: to resolve it. But I don't think it's fair for

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Speaker 1: Susan to have her books ruined and Levee get away

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Speaker 1: with it, which I agree.

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Speaker 3: Levy's a little shit. He needs punishment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're asking me to let it go, but this

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Speaker 1: will only encourage Levy to do worse things and I

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Speaker 1: don't want to deal with it now. It's been two

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Speaker 1: weeks and my in law say I was out of

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Speaker 1: line for banning Levy from coming home and are telling

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Speaker 1: me to step back, but I refuse.

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Speaker 2: Don't step down, step daddy, step inop.

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Speaker 3: But but there's some edits.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Levy's dad thinks that because I'm not his bio dad,

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Speaker 1: that I have no right to punish him for whatever

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Speaker 1: he does in the house. In the past, his dad

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Speaker 1: caused issues when I used to take Levy's electronics, which

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Speaker 1: is like, that's like a very mild punishment just taking

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Speaker 1: some of the electronics. Come on, then, I got talked

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Speaker 1: out of punishing him every time he did something unacceptable,

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Speaker 1: whether to me or sisters. I've arranged for family therapy,

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Speaker 1: but Levy's dad refuses to go. Come on, dude, this

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Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Bro Levy needs some good old fashioned justice. Really,

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Speaker 1: does Bam get this wig off of me