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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Jonas is Sam your og Okay Storytime

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Speaker 1: the sponsors that keep the show alive. My roommate is

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Speaker 1: trying to replicate my friend. I had to Warner Geneva Convention.

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Speaker 1: Cloning is illegal. No fizz primarily involves me. Solberry twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: My roommate Cassie twenty six, the girl she's stalking male

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Speaker 1: twenty eight in Simon thirty one, male's fiance and ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Welcome to the white bull Yeah, welcome to

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Speaker 1: whiteboard Topia. Also, what is that name?

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Speaker 2: Male?

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Speaker 1: May l m A E L say male? Male? I'm

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Speaker 1: just say male. We live in a city of almost

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Speaker 1: two million, but somehow everyone this nerd circle knows or

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Speaker 1: at least knows of everyone else. By the way, it's

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Speaker 1: comes from Soulberry at ten thirty one. If you want

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Speaker 1: to sm meet your own story, it's good. Our shash

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Speaker 1: Okay Storytime separate. It's so I moved to this city

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Speaker 1: for college and ended up staying, as a lot of

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Speaker 1: people often do. I was living alone until I met

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Speaker 1: Cassie through a mutual friend about three years ago. I

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Speaker 1: come from a very stable home life subtle flex but okay.

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Speaker 1: I have a very close relationship with my mother and stepfather,

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Speaker 1: and I have twin younger brothers that I talked to daily. Cassie,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, the roommate, I think, was raised

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Speaker 1: by her aunt and uncle. Yes, and was on and

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Speaker 1: off medicine. I don't know what for for a lot

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Speaker 1: of her middle school years. I am already detecting some

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Speaker 1: judgmental vibes from op and some superior than now vibes.

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Speaker 2: But what do you mean, She's just talking about the

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Speaker 2: medicine she was taking, with no ulterior connotations whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: I am. I am sensing things. She has no siblings

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Speaker 1: and a voice calls from her aunt, only talking to

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Speaker 1: her maybe once a week. She has her quirks, but

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Speaker 1: I thought she was a well adjusted member of society.

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Speaker 1: I am hating ope more by the minutes, maybe fematurely.

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Speaker 1: We shall see. Cassie and I were at a convention

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Speaker 1: roughly a year ago when we met Simon and Mayl.

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Speaker 1: They had just moved to the area and Simon, Cassie,

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Speaker 1: my roommate, and I hit it off. We found out

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Speaker 1: that we all had quite a few mutual friends, and

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Speaker 1: our friendship was solidified when we all saw each other

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Speaker 1: at a party a week later. Mail was really quiet

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Speaker 1: and reserved the first couple of times we all hang out,

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Speaker 1: but eventually we were all getting along very well. Simon

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Speaker 1: and Mayle are somewhat of a power couple, if that's

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Speaker 1: the correct word. They are both attractive, they have good careers,

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Speaker 1: but they also have a very visible and active presence

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Speaker 1: in these subculture communities and a myriad of hobbies both

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Speaker 1: within and outside of the community. Don't tell me this

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Speaker 1: is another niche community, please, Fenny says it's may L,

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Speaker 1: But unfortunately I have already said mail, so that is

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Speaker 1: what we're sticking a withy.

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Speaker 2: I've also wrote it as male Mayil, so it's a mail.

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Speaker 1: They have a lot of friends surrounding them, and their

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Speaker 1: or parties. Mail is very no nonsense, take charge kind

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Speaker 1: They're both very social basically, and after we met them,

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Speaker 1: Simon and Mayl got engaged. Shout out to them. It

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Speaker 1: was a long time coming apparently, and everyone was thrilled.

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Speaker 1: While I know that Cassie has a crush on Simon,

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Speaker 1: oh okay, I wonder if that's gonna pop up later.

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Speaker 1: Not surprising. He's very good looking and charismatic. I thought

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Speaker 1: that it was something very innocent, as she had crushes

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Speaker 1: on other people in our friends circle before. But sometime

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Speaker 1: after they were they were engaged. I can't remember the specifics.

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Speaker 1: that she was going to flake On plans to hang

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Speaker 1: out at their house and play board games. When I

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Speaker 1: asked why, she said that Mail and Simon had been

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Speaker 1: fighting a lot recently and it made her uncomfortable. Hmm,

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Speaker 1: is this suspicious? Why are we Why are we around

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Speaker 1: when they're fighting all the time?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? What?

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Speaker 2: They're not roommates? No, they're not roommates. Nope, So why

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Speaker 2: does it matter? Would you fight that they final?

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Speaker 1: Of course, because Op and Cassie are the roommates. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out how that behavior clues

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Speaker 1: I think we're I think we're building up with something

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Speaker 1: person and Simon honestly deserved better. Ah, I see it

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Speaker 1: now better like you, Cassie. Yes, she's making all this up.

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Speaker 1: You were my roommates, but you want to make a

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Speaker 1: home in his heart, don't do it? Uh. This seemed

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Speaker 1: like a pretty intense escalation to me, as she had

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Speaker 1: She apparently did this a lot in therapy, and making

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Speaker 1: worries and difficult decisions. That's kind of cool. Okay, have

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Speaker 1: She and she instead asked if I was still going,

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Speaker 1: and when I said yes, immediately said you go, oh

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Speaker 1: oh yog, all right, all right, I'm gonna go. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go, Da goodam. Just let them be. No, Cassie

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Speaker 1: has to take him. Cassia has to take him. I

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Speaker 1: We went, and she would laugh and joke with Simon,

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Speaker 1: but when Mail spoke to her or asked her questions

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Speaker 1: food drink choices, for example, she got visibly uncomfortable and

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Speaker 1: Simon would glance between me and her a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: but no one said anything, even Male. I hadn't seen

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Speaker 1: Cassie act like this in a long time, and I

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Speaker 1: that never happened, as we ended up staying the staying

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Speaker 1: fine with Mail. This is strange. I don't know, something's

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Speaker 1: very off. This is starting to get afraid. Yeah, my

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Speaker 1: what's going on in this time, Cassie. It seems once Simon,

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Speaker 1: I thought it had blown over and Cassie didn't say

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Speaker 1: casually dated women exclusively since I met her, so this

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Speaker 1: was a new development. I asked if she'd ended up

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Speaker 1: bringing him around if she wanted to switch beds. Her

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Speaker 1: and I took the bigger one at Cassie's insistence. At first,

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Speaker 1: After she got her boyfriend that I never met. Almost

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Speaker 1: two months later is when crap really started getting weird.

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Speaker 1: Cassie started getting oddly obsessed with things she'd never cared

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Speaker 1: What is what is happen? This is a this is

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Speaker 1: a freaking true crime mystery. She was getting packages almost

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Speaker 1: oh man, I thought that she was really talking about

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Speaker 1: her car for a second day. That's our censoring, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen. The airbags in the front of a woman.

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Speaker 1: If you didn't catch that, those all natural airbags, all natural.

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Speaker 1: They're naturally shrinking ladies and gentlemen, according according to that

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Speaker 1: line of the story. Now, when I was holding laundry

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Speaker 1: We'd always watched TV shows before, but she was spending

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Speaker 1: an abnormal amount of time on her phone now. She

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Speaker 1: Mail or another friend, Stephanie, both are trilingual. She said

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Speaker 1: she'd never ask Mail for help and asked me to

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Speaker 1: up a poll. Cheating or not? Is is Cassie cheating

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Speaker 1: with Simon or not? No? No, no, you say no?

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Speaker 2: Pray sell Why he is currently attempting to become male?

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Speaker 2: Down to write? Speaking French, changing body types, changing clothing

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Speaker 2: tastes everything about me.

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Speaker 1: I want to be male. Oh, she wants to be

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Speaker 1: a male lady. When I asked why, she said, it

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Speaker 1: seems like male was mean to her, and Male's behavior

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Speaker 1: gave her anxiety. At this point, I started writing things

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Speaker 1: handle it. She Opie has got a scooby do this

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Speaker 1: thing because this is this is getting nutty. By the way,

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Speaker 1: only nine percent say cheating. I think Dakota is probably right,

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Speaker 1: but there's still a chance. There's still a chance that

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening. But I digress, which brings us to yesterday,

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Speaker 1: when I got a text from Simon after I came

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Speaker 1: saying that she was at her boyfriend's word for word

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Speaker 1: off of my phone. So this is Simon Simon, Hey,

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Speaker 1: are we hanging tonight? Me? I had no plans why,

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Speaker 1: Simon just saw Cassie leaving our development wondered if we

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Speaker 1: forgot about plans we'd made Male's working overtime tonight. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry if there's a miscommunication. There wasn't. I had

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Speaker 1: no plans to hang out, and neither did Cassie. Simon, okay, nice,

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Speaker 1: just making sure see you on Sunday. I thought about

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Speaker 1: texting Cassie at this point, but decided against it. She

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Speaker 1: came home that night and her hair was dyed dark brown.

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Speaker 1: Let me guess who's got dark brown hair? Paula Abdul?

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Speaker 1: Could it be male? It's Paula Abdul.

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Speaker 2: Well, Paula Abduell definitely does have as we all know, icon,

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Speaker 2: Paula Abduel has dark brown hair.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, guy, but maybe maybe male does do. Where did

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Speaker 1: paul Abduell come from? Hey, I can be random back

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Speaker 1: and I can hang with the buys. I'm thinking of

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Speaker 1: bangles and peacocks. I am very worried about, Cassie. Yes, sanity,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how long this has been going on,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's a fixation. It's an obsession.

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Speaker 2: It's like anyone who's in their right mind would look

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Speaker 2: at their behavior doing that and being like, oh my god,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, what am I doing? I'll never just

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Speaker 1: So Cassie worked a part time job and did not

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Speaker 1: I had a bunch of things of males in it, lipsticks,

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Speaker 1: I immediately texted Simon with hey, is Mail missing anything

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Speaker 2: My god, this is the hey Arnold gum shrine in

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Speaker 2: Helga's closet. Helga for all my Nickelodeon children. Yes, this

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Speaker 2: is the gum shrine that Helga had of her sick obsession. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Yes, dude, that that was me, bro I was. I

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Speaker 2: And again I think it's more to like male like,

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Speaker 2: It's not even so much Simon as much as being

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Speaker 2: that's what it feels like, because it's my my girl, girly,

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Speaker 1: It's it is. It has reached levels of like we

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Speaker 1: In them, she blamed me for ruining her chances with Simon.

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Speaker 1: She accused me of destroying our friend which good, he's

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Speaker 2: All right, brother, we're doing the wrong thing. Now, we

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Speaker 1: Protect yourself, but uh yeah, leave it, leave it to

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Speaker 1: At first, I was going to go on her Facebook,

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Speaker 1: She had taken jewelry, a lot of stuff from the

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Speaker 1: I'm at a loss I'm convinced there's no boyfriend of Cassie's,

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Speaker 1: very wrong with Cassie for her to be so weirdly

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is poisoning territory, biochemical getting into KGB tactics territory.

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Speaker 2: And Cassie hasn't been home since she left yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: We have an update. We are not even halfway through

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Speaker 1: this saga, ladies and gentlemen, But my god, Dakota, please, Riley, please, brothers,

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Speaker 1: what do we do here? I think maybe it was

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Speaker 1: good to get on the computer and get those files.

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Speaker 1: I say, bat them in. Huh, beat them in, bat

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Speaker 1: them in, bait them in, Oh, bait them in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean they're there there, There is no bait.

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Speaker 1: They're already in it. Yeah, but I'm taking photos of

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Speaker 1: Cassie in, she broke in, Get Cobs involved. Boom, you're stuck.

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Speaker 2: Its sting, I gotcha, gotcha. If you know Cassie's family,

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Speaker 1: She appears to be going through like an acute episode.

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Speaker 1: That's a good that's a good point too. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna dive right in. Sorry for the radio silence,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for your concerns and messages. A couple

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Speaker 1: of things I want to address. I own my own

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Speaker 1: and Mayle's condo has keypad locks. They changed the combination

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Speaker 1: they were at work. We were over at their house

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Speaker 1: at least once a week, sometimes twice, so it's not

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Speaker 1: unthinkable that Cassie could have taken those things while we

429
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Speaker 1: were over there. Mail thinks she has food poisoning. She

430
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: was feeling ill on Thursday after a company lunch, and

431
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 1: a coworker from her a department apparently called off yesterday too.

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00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 1: She wasn't feeling well enough last night to see her

433
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 1: in her maid of honor at her condo. Simon told

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Speaker 1: Mail everything that I told him around the time I

435
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: made the post, and Mail was understandably freaked out about

436
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Friends normally aren't welcome upstairs in their

437
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 1: condo at male's requests. I've never seen Mail in Simon's

438
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: bedroom or their bathroom, aside from those images on Cassie's computer,

439
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: so the fact that she was stooping around there it

440
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 1: made Mail furious. I wrote the original post about Thursday's

441
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: events at yesterday. Around five or so after I wrote

442
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: the post, I was texting quite a few people, one

443
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: of whom got a hold of Cassie's aunt Mary on

444
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: my behalf Marie got I keep mispronouncing names. It's like, well,

445
00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: it's because you had that.

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00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 2: You guys, you got the may mile at the beginning,

447
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 2: and you're like mail all right now everything's getting a

448
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 2: little French when you do it.

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00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: Let me just let me just you know, ruin, ruin,

450
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: ruin everything from here, ye, Marie. Marie called me around

451
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: seven pm the aunt and we spoke for almost half

452
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Speaker 1: an hour. Marie had told me that Cassie had struggled

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Speaker 1: with depression and a type of dissociative disorder when she

454
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: was in elementary in middle school as a result of

455
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Speaker 1: being in foster care for over a year. Wow. I

456
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: asked if Marie wanted me to alert the police, and

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Speaker 1: Marie said that she would do it. Okay. To Dakota's point,

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Speaker 1: we are now getting the uh, you know, the monkey

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00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: out of our circus. The pertinent parties are involved. Now,

460
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: pertinent parties are involved. As far as I know. The

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Speaker 1: police in my area and Cassie's hometown have been told

462
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Speaker 1: that she's missing and no of her current mental state.

463
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, now she's declared missing. Dude, this is the

464
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Speaker 1: ante is upping over here. After I spoke with Marie,

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Speaker 1: I took a long shower. I came out to find

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Speaker 1: miss calls from both Simon and Mail, as well as

467
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Speaker 1: one of our other friends, Shane. Shane is a gym

468
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,959
Speaker 1: buddy of mine, an ex military. Simon has called him

469
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: to tell him and let him know what's going on,

470
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Speaker 1: and I called Shane back first. He was going over

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Speaker 1: to Simon and Males just to make sure everything was

472
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: all right, and he wanted me to come up with

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Speaker 1: him and spend the night there. I agreed, and I

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00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: called Mail back to make sure that she was all

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Speaker 1: right with that. She didn't answer, but Simon did, and

476
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Speaker 1: he was in agreement with us spending the night. Dude,

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Speaker 1: you know it would be the craziest plot twist ever

478
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Speaker 1: if Simon did end up with Cassie. Can you imagine? No,

479
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: that would be crazy. Nuh uh.

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00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 2: That'd be like if you, like, Saron got the ring

481
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 2: at the end of the Lord of the Rings, that'd

482
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 2: be like he was just.

483
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: Like and they lost. I'm just saying he'd be crazy.

484
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Speaker 1: I packed up a bag Male's things and Cassie's laptop

485
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Speaker 1: and drove over to Simon to Males. She had just

486
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Speaker 1: gotten out of the shower as I arrived, and she

487
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: looked like she was definitely recovering. We settled into the

488
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Speaker 1: living room and I gave her the bag of what

489
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Speaker 1: was missing, which Simon put upstairs without her looking at it.

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Speaker 1: Shane and Simon spent a good portion of the night

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Speaker 1: playing Mario Kart with us, while Mail alternated between playing

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Speaker 1: and chatting with her maid of honor, Susie, but had

493
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: come over after Simon had told her what was going on.

494
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: Susie left at around ten, and afterwards Mail went to bed.

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00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: At around midnight, Shane and I decided to go to

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Speaker 1: bed as well. Simon went upstairs and while Shane went

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Speaker 1: to bed, immediately I opened Cassie's laptop. Aside from the pictures,

498
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: there was not much else there, and she hadn't logged

499
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: in on Facebook from her browser in so long that

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00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: it had been logged out and I couldn't access anything regardless,

501
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: but I gave up and went to bed. At around

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Speaker 1: three am in the morning, I heard a car door

503
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: slam shut outside It's her. It immediately woke me up

504
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: and I opened my eyes in time to see lights

505
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: flickering inside the window. I assumed this was someone's car

506
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 1: lights flashing when the lock button is pressed, but I

507
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: wasn't sure. I definitely heard footsteps on the wooden steps

508
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: leading up to the front porch, and that's when I

509
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: reached over and woke Shane up. Shane shut up and

510
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: turned on a floor lamp, and I heard whomever was

511
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Speaker 1: on the porch running back down the wooden steps. Shane

512
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: unlocked a door and threw it open, and we saw

513
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: a car speed out of the driveway and take off

514
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: down the road. I asked Shane what color the car was,

515
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: and he said he couldn't see it in the dark.

516
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: Simon and Mayle's road is not well lit, so we

517
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: closed the door and debated waking Simon up and calling

518
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: the police. Ultimately, we did not wake Simon up, but

519
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: Shane went outside to call the local department and ask

520
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: if they sent a couple of cars up and down

521
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: the road. Shane lied and said that he'd seen Cassie's

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00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: car in the driveway and while they said there wasn't

523
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: anything they could do. Not surprising, they'd have their cruisers

524
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: in the area start looking for her car, and they'd

525
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: said someone to patrol the condo area. Okay, maybe you know,

526
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: not much faith in anything happening, but maybe I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, it's possible if they were in her car, but

528
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 2: if they're not, then it's like it doesn't matter, and

529
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 2: then you're just gonna have the cops be like yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess like next time costs when they're

531
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: here and it's like, well they were.

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00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'll use my tractor beam to hold him in place.

533
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: Next time, it'd be one day we'll have teleporting police officers.

534
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: Maybe when they come fast, like nine one one of

535
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: the white neighborhoods. I don't know if it's good or bad.

536
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: Is that a Kanye bar? No, that's not no. Actually

537
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: it's probably the opposite of Kanye, which is J Cole. Yes.

538
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: So after everyone woke up this morning, I made breakfast

539
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: and mostly hung around talking and playing the occasional Mario karts.

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00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: Mail said that she was going to attempt to file

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Speaker 1: a report for theft of her things, but as she

542
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: had them back now, she wasn't sure if she could

543
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: file a report based on hearsay. We discussed her options

544
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: what she could do, and I relate that what Marie

545
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: had said about Cassie's mental state. Mail is more angry

546
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: than freaked out and seems to have her wits about her.

547
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: When I told her about the pictures, she just laughed

548
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: in disbelief and shook her head. She agreed that Cassie

549
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: was mentally ill and said that she hopes Cassie gets help,

550
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: but she would never come over to their home again,

551
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: and asked me to refrain from inviting her and side

552
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: into any event that Cassie would be at. They both

553
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: blocked her on social media and mail even deleted Twitter.

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00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: Simon's uncle is a police chief who works in another state,

555
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: and they are getting ready to call him after I left. Now.

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00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: When I got home later on, the apartment didn't look

557
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: like it had been visited by Cassie. I did a

558
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: walk through and nothing seemed missing or out of place.

559
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: So I then left around two to go to a

560
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: prior engagement. At around five, Marie called me again. She

561
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: said that she hadn't heard anything from Cassie and our

562
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: city's police hadn't seen her car. They were working on

563
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: getting the police to track her credit or debit card transactions.

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00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: Bank banks close early today in my country and won't

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00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: reopen till Tuesday due to a holiday, so it's been hard

566
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: to get a hold of anyone. Also, this is sounding

567
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: like Europe. Yeah, maybe it's maybe it's happening in France. Ooh,

568
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: could be in France. So it sounds like vaguely French

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Speaker 1: names male somewhat France. Male is France. Yeah.

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00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: Look, honestly, at the end of the day, here, all

571
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 2: of this is like Cassie is. And I think maybe

572
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 2: this is why OP prefaced this whole story at the

573
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 2: beginning with like she was on medication in her youth

574
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 2: and all this stuff. Yeah, I forgot about my add

575
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 2: a history of mental health problems.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, Chef to mal, I think I think

577
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: her comment was was good, like, hey, I hope she

578
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: gets help, but I also need to, you know, protect myself.

579
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: And oh, she seemed very upset, and I promised her

580
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: that I would keep her updated if I heard anything.

581
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: Cassie's uncle will be driving into the city about four

582
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: hours away if they don't hear anything from her or

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00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: the police by tomorrow morning. Shane is staying over at

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00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: my apartment tonight, and aside from that, there's not much

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00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: else I can update with. I'll be changing the locks

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00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: tomorrow with his help, and at Shane's insistence, we child

587
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: proofed the doors with knives and kitchen utensils in them

588
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: to make sure they're more difficult to open. Update number two. Hey,

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Speaker 1: First things first, Cassie has been found and is willingly

592
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: doing three days of psychiatric psychiatric inpatient evaluation. Okay, this

593
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: is positive progress. Yes, where do we find her? That

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00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: I hope in a good place. Maybe we're about to see.

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00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,959
Speaker 1: To clarify a couple of things I saw brought up

596
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: in my last post, the goal was always to find Cassie.

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00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: I tried texting and calling Cassie a couple of times

598
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: a day since Thursday. Chane has known Cassie for almost

599
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: six years, and they have been and there have been

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00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: constant phone calls and messages back and forth with all

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00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: of our mutual friends. Some of them know the full

602
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: story and some don't, but we're all keeping an eye

603
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: out for her. Comments on the Internet are their own animal.

604
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: But I will say that while I was worried for

605
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: Cassie's safety, I also had a responsibility to Mail and

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00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: Simon to tell them what I knew and not keep

607
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: them in the dark. Mail and Simon are rightfully upset,

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00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: but I won't turn Cassie away if she chooses to

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00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: stay in town and live with me again. I don't

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00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: know about you, Dakoto, but I don't know if I

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00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: want to be living with Cassie right now. Yeah, it

612
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: would be totally understandable to be like, I can't live

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00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: with this person again right now.

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00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 2: You can right away right now, not right away at

615
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 2: least right but yeah, me personally, I'm out.

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00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: Marie and George, Cassie's uncle, knew that I had her laptop.

617
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: I brought her laptop intending to check her Facebook messenger

618
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: history to see if she'd been communicating with anyone else

619
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: over Facebook. Marie knew that I was going to do this,

620
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: but it did work. As stated in my previous post,

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Speaker 1: after Shane and I woke up on Sunday, I had

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00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: an email for Marie saying that the uncle George would

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00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: be getting into town at around nine pm and he

624
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: wanted to meet with me at my apartment. I taxted

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00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: Cassie again and didn't get any sort of response. Games

626
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: at Simon and Mal's and males were on as usual,

627
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: and because of everything that happened, or it spread fast

628
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: despite our efforts. It seemed like a lot of people

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00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: wanted to take the opportunity to see them. There was

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00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: almost twenty people there. I don't know, man, that's it

631
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: feels like kind of a lot we're doing. We're doing

632
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: a lot, aren't we doing a lot? A little bit?

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00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: Which is how I ended up in the basement playing

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00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: board games. At around seven pm, A friend upstairs started

635
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: calling for me. When I went back up, she pointed

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00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: to my bag and told me that my phone had

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00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: been ringing constantly for the past five minutes. I fished

638
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: it out and I had three miss calls from another

639
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: from a number I didn't recognize but had our area code.

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00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: I wonder who it could be. I'll give you a

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Speaker 2: one guess mmmm, Cassie. Yeah no, immediately stepped outside.

642
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: And call back. We're gonna We're gonna get to the

643
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: bottom of it, okay. Without going into boring details of

644
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: the greetings, the number belonged to Elsie at least at

645
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: least I am you're overachieving a lease is Slash was

646
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: Cassie's long standing friend with benefits and is one of

647
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: a couple people that we know do not hang out

648
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: with people from the nerdy hipster group that they're a

649
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: part of. Elise had called me because of course people

650
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: had been talking. I CA I remember what the exact

651
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: conversation is, but it basically went like this, Elise is

652
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: Cassie in some kind of trouble. I heard this morning

653
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: that she tried to attack a girl. Me.

654
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 2: No.

655
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: She made some pretty weighty comments about a couple of

656
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: friends of ours, and when I asked for a proof,

657
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: she started crying and said that I didn't trust her

658
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: and that I was choosing them over her, and that

659
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: she was leaving to go stay with Chad. Elise what, No,

660
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 1: she's been here, Cassie's with me? Boom, Elise is Chad?

661
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: Oh No. I basically felt like a bomb had been

662
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 1: dropped into my stomach. Cassie had come over at around

663
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: two am on Thursday night slash Friday morning, as Elise

664
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: and her boyfriend were getting home. All Cassie told Elise

665
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: was that she'd had a nasty fight with me and

666
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: wanted to give it the weekend to cool off. Alise,

667
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: knowing how Cassie can get with her anxiety, didn't press

668
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: for any details. They spent Friday just hanging out and

669
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: took off to the mountains all day Saturday to go hiking.

670
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 1: I asked where Alise and her boyfriend were on Friday

671
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: night slash Saturday morning, and she said they'd basically smoked

672
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: and went to bed around on a Cassie didn't smoke

673
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: with them, but she did leave it around midnight to

674
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: grab donuts and other things from the store. At least

675
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 1: couldn't say if Cassie went to bed with them or not.

676
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: At this point, I asked where Cassie was now the

677
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: big the big reveal. She and Elise's boyfriend were picking

678
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: up dinner and she wanted to take the opportunity to

679
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: call me about what she'd heard while they were out.

680
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: I said that her uncle and aunt were insanely worried

681
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: about her, and the uncle was driving in town around

682
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: nine pm today. At least asked why he was in

683
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: town and why he was worried, and that is when

684
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: I told her the full store. Oh hell, lord, yup

685
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: getting crazy crazier than it already is. That's already pretty crazy.

686
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: Right As I ended, however, Alise told me that her

687
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: boyfriend and Cassie had just pulled up and continued, Oh

688
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: and to continue over text, we agreed at first to

689
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: meet at the wait wait wait wait yeah wait what

690
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: at least told me, oh that her Elise's boyfriend and

691
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: Cassie just built up. Okay, not yeah that was I

692
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: was like, is Chad real? Is Chad? Dude? Imagine if

693
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: Chad was like a carbon copy of Simon where we're

694
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: uncovering a global doppelganger conspiracy. Wow, this is this plot

695
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: goes deep. So over text. We agreed at first to

696
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: meet at a restaurant around ten, and then at lease

697
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: drastically changed it to her house, giving me the address

698
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: and telling me to come over as soon as possible.

699
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: She said it would be easier to keep Cassie in

700
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: than drag her out and possibly cause a scene in

701
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: a restaurant. After this, I went back inside, but it

702
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: was a bit hard to focus on the party. I

703
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: decided instead to step out and call the uncle George.

704
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: After greeting him formally introducing myself, I told him what

705
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: I just heard. He said that he'd been trying to text,

706
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: slash call Cassie as well, and he had gotten no response.

707
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: He sounded extremely relieved and a bit choked up when

708
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: I said that she was safe and staying with a friend.

709
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: I told him that Elis had agreed to keep Cassie

710
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: in and have us over so that way we could

711
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: talk to her, and he immediately agreed to that. I

712
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: went back inside and found Shane and another close friend

713
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: of Cassie's, and I pulled them aside to tell them everything.

714
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: By the time I was done, it was almost eight pm.

715
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,919
Speaker 1: Shane and our friend both agreed that while they wanted

716
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: to go, it was probably best if it was just

717
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: me and Cassie's uncle, as they didn't really want to

718
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: embarrass or freak her out. I left the party thirty

719
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: minutes early to go get some coffee because I was

720
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 1: starting to get really nervous about confronting Cassie. At around

721
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: nine to fifteen ish, I parked on the street a

722
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: couple of houses away from Elisa's and I waited. I

723
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: saw a car pull up on the other side of

724
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: the street maybe five minutes later, and the uncle, George,

725
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: walked out and over to my car. After confirming it

726
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: was each other, he reintroduced himself and made a couple

727
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: of small jokes. I texted Lease to let her know

728
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: that we are there and he had and that he

729
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: had asked to go in first. I was more than

730
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: happy with that, and we rang the doorbell and then

731
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: Elise opened the door. Okay, Elise's house turned out to

732
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: be a foyer setup, which means the front door didn't

733
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: open up into the living room like I'd hoped. We

734
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: had to walk in and go down a hallway to

735
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: get to the living room. When George turned the corner,

736
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: I sort of stayed behind. I heard all of the

737
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: talking go silent, and I heard Cassie start. George immediately

738
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: walked into the living room, and when I finally turned

739
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: the corner, he was sitting on the couch with his

740
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: arm around her. Cassie eventually saw me and just started

741
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: buying harder. Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day,

742
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: you know, Cassie definitely has a strong mental illness, you know,

743
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: and I wonder if if under because it seems like

744
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: she was normal or like she was doing very well

745
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: before all this happened.

746
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever, whatever the combo may be, it's uh, it's

747
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: gonna have to be strong. I don't know, it's like

748
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 2: this is it's you know, it was a lot, a lot,

749
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 2: a lot.

750
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: Of deception, a lot of obsession, none of it healthy. Yeah,

751
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: it's bad. You'd like channel let into a hobby at

752
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: least turn the TV off, and brought a chair out

753
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: there for me and all three of us. Alisa's boyfriend

754
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: was there, but was put in a very awkward position

755
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: and just stayed quietly firmly stated that we loved her

756
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,280
Speaker 1: and cared for her, but that she needed to schedule

757
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: an appointment to see a psychiatrist. George took it a

758
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: step further and insisted that she sees someone now and

759
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: that he wanted to take her to the hospital downtown.

760
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: By the way, if you are looking for a release

761
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Speaker 1: to help with your very stressful life, because this is

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Speaker 2: Dakota is that's where we are, that's right, and how

765
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: you find us full episodes with stories just like this

766
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 2: two thousand EPs said that part yet I hadn't, but

767
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 2: that's I just threw you under the bust over there.

768
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 2: I blacked out because someone in the chat said strong

769
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 2: mantail illness is crazy. Yeah.

770
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's not what I've said. I thought,

771
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think I said that, So that's that's

772
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: that's that's that's directed to me with I said, whatever

773
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: she needs to address it is going to have to

774
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: be strong. I might have so strong mentally, Yeah, but

775
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: it's on me. Yeah, sometimes it is right, okay, all right,

776
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: boys and girls. So getting back to it, Cassie didn't

777
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: say anything for a long time. She mostly just nodded, cried,

778
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: and listened to us, and eventually verbally agreed with George.

779
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: Alice said that she's packing up Cassie's things and to

780
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: give them to me later, and that Cassie and George

781
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: could leave now if they wanted. Cassie turned to me

782
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: to ask about her car. I said, if that was

783
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: okay with her, someone to drive it back to the apartment.

784
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: She agreed to the keys out of her purse and

785
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: started crying again. George walked her out into his car.

786
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen Cassie and George since Sunday, although both

787
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: George and Marie texted me back to thank me. Cassie's

788
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: living situation is still uncertain, but I hope i'll know

789
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: more tomorrow when she's released. Thanks for hearing me out.

790
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: It was nerve racking to go through it. That is

791
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: the end of this story. But I'm lying to you,

792
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 1: psych it's not the end because Riley has found I

793
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: did an updates for us to read more. Here we go,

794
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: So final updates. Hey, it's John here, og host of

795
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 1: the show. We're gonna get back to these juicy stories.

796
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,280
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797
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Speaker 1: Me twenty nine female, in my roommate twenty six female

798
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: are in a really messed up situation. I'm starting to

799
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: feel the constant consequences of it. So Cassie went batty

800
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: over mail and Simon's engage in pictures, and they're excluding

801
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: her from the save the dates and the engagement party,

802
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: I would hope. So she's now living with her aunt

803
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: and uncle four hours away and cannot contact anyone. So

804
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I should be writing this update.

805
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: This entire thing, from the beginning to end, has been

806
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: one hundred percent fed up, and I am so exhausted

807
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: and my nerves are totally shot. I swim for endurance,

808
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: I do MMA, and I stick and I got sick

809
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: with an ear infection that started two weeks ago geez.

810
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: As such, I'd been working from home and when I

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00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: typed that last update. That was actually my first day

812
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: back into the office, and in rushing to get out

813
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: of the house, I left my effing phone at home.

814
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: I don't live far away from work, and I wasn't

815
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: planning on going out that night, so I just left

816
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: it at home, knowing that I could go back on

817
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: my lunch break if I wanted to get it. So

818
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: I got to work and it was really slow in

819
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: the morning for me, and that's when I type the

820
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: original post. My coworkers and I usually go to lunch

821
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: around one thirty as one of our peak times for workers.

822
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: During regular lunch hours, we have up to an hour

823
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: for lunch and normally we take all of it. So

824
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: we get back around two thirty and I'm almost immediately

825
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 1: calling another worker's desk help to fix the problem. When

826
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: I finally get back to my office, I see a

827
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: voicemail light on my phone flashing. The voicemail function is

828
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: so sparsely used with my clients I barely remembered my

829
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: pin and have to double check it. The message was

830
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: something like this, Hey, I'm looking for op. This is Simon.

831
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: Please call me on my cell phone. And again, this

832
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: is the Simon from before who Op not op, who

833
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: Uh Cassie. Cassie was obsessed with and you became his

834
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: his fiance very creepily. Yes, so my office is pretty

835
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: far removed from the rest of the circles, from the

836
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: cubicles but a store list. I do have my cell

837
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: phone with me, and while I was able to look

838
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: through the call history and write down a cell number,

839
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be making a personal call from work.

840
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: I decided to go over to my boss James and

841
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: ask if I could run home and get my phone.

842
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: I vaguely explained the voicemail and say that someone might

843
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: be trying to get a hold of me urgently. He

844
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: says it's fine. I know it's kind of dickish of me.

845
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: But the second I got home and looked at my phone,

846
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: all I could think of was that I was going

847
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: to have to take two and a half hours of

848
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: PTO because there was no way I was getting back

849
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: to work. I had forty two unread text messages and

850
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: three call slashed voicemails. The text messages were mostly from

851
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: Simon and Shane, and I saw a Lease and Marie's

852
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: names mentioned as I scrolled, as well as another unmentioned friend.

853
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: I sat down and started with Simon. I scrolled up

854
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: from the first message, which was essentially Simon, I don't

855
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: know if you're we're aware, but Cassie attacked Mail. No,

856
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: I'd seen the mention of hospital in Shane's most recent message,

857
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,240
Speaker 1: and I swear this is the first time in my life.

858
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: I felt like I was going to faint. I quickly

859
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: scrolled through Simon's messages. Basically, Cassie had attacked Mail in

860
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: a parking lot as she was leaving a restaurant with

861
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: her coworkers. She had grabbed a male's bun and and

862
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: her head got hit on the ground as male's co worker, Karen,

863
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: let's say, shoved Cassie away. Something happened, Simon didn't say,

864
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: and Cassie somehow gave Karen an orbital fracture. I know

865
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: what happened. Strong right, huh A strong right? Is what happened? Oh?

866
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 2: I think needs to be in prison now. Yeah, these

867
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 2: are Cassie needs to go to prison.

868
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: These are crimes. This is this is very, very dangerous.

869
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,720
Speaker 1: A husband and wife ran over and apparently wrestled Cassie

870
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: to the ground with the other two co workers and

871
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: the police had been called. Both Mail and Karen had

872
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: been taken to the hospital. I immediately called Simon before checking

873
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: the rest of the messages, and he didn't answer. I

874
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: checked Shane's message next. Cassie had been arrested a couple

875
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: of counties over while Mail worked, Mail had been taken

876
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: to a hospital, and message call me a SAP. I

877
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: had only one message each from Malisa Marie, and both

878
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: were essentially hello, please call me. Marie's text message was

879
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: dated barely five minutes ago. I didn't want to call Marie.

880
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: I wanted nothing more than to never talk to Marie

881
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: and George again. I felt like I had failed them somehow.

882
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: I justified it at the time by saying that I

883
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: didn't have any facts yet and calling Marie wouldn't do

884
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: either of us any good. I called Shane has Staid,

885
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: and he almost immediately answered. He was still at work,

886
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: but on a long break, and he filled me in

887
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: with the rest of the story. Now, Shane and Cassie

888
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: are very close. They have known each other for over

889
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,720
Speaker 1: six years and they have a pretty solid bond. Cassie

890
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: was upset of all things Mail and Simon's engagement photos

891
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 1: that had been posted at the end of June. That's

892
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: what triggered this whole thing. We were getting into her,

893
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: you know, a psych evaluation and getting her into a hospital,

894
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: and maybe well she might have access to a psych

895
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: evaluation in jail in whatever country she's in.

896
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 2: Uh.

897
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: Look, and I'm not like over here like I love jail.

898
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm pro jail.

899
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 2: But it's like when you become like a physical like

900
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 2: danger to others.

901
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: Yes, in a way. That's not just like, oh, you

902
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: scraped my arm, it's like you could have ended my life. Yeah, literally,

903
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: time to go to jail. Whenever they texted or spoke

904
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: on the phone or went out for a midnight fast food,

905
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: she would bring it up. Shane's tried to steer the

906
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: conversation to other things, and she'd be okay for a

907
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: couple of days, but then a Cassie would bring it

908
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: up again. And one night a couple of weeks ago,

909
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: while they were at a late night burger slash shake

910
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,479
Speaker 1: place with another friend, Cassie just stood up and left

911
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: out of the blue. After she didn't come back for

912
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, Shane and our friend went after her,

913
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: and she burst into tears. When Shane asked what was up.

914
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: It turns out that our friend and Shane's phones had

915
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: gone off at around the same time. It was a

916
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: Facebook message from Mail asking for addresses from everyone to

917
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: save the dates and engagement party invitations. Cassie had been

918
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: holding his phone and watching a video at the time.

919
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: Apparently he strongly suspects that that is what set her off.

920
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: She saw the wedding invitations come in and knew that A.

921
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: Simon was getting married, and of course she wasn't getting

922
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: an invite. Yeah, like Sophia says, Sophia, Collen says, she

923
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,240
Speaker 1: needs rehabilitation. Like we It's a tough It's a tough

924
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 1: situation because will she like you know, can consent to it? Uh?

925
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: But can can we get her some help? Like that is?

926
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: This is what we need to avoid situations like what happened.

927
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: There wasn't much left to say after that, and we

928
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: promised to keep each other update. After I got off

929
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: the phone with Shane, at least almost immediately called me,

930
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: but I shuddled her to voicemail and I tried to

931
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: call Simon again. I didn't get an answer. I went

932
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 1: I went up to get in my car and go

933
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 1: back to work, and as I pulled out of my driveway,

934
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: Simon called me back. The call itself was pretty mundane.

935
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: He asked what I knew if I'd spoken with Shane.

936
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: I told him I did, and we discussed it briefly.

937
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: I asked how Cassie knew where Mail would be, and

938
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: he said that she told the police that she didn't,

939
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: and she'd been in the area and ended up in

940
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: the restaurant, the same restaurant as them, and had quote

941
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: unquote lost her mind when she saw Mail. Cassie and

942
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 1: I live almost thirty minutes away from where Mail works,

943
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: and while there's a lot of real cool shots in

944
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: the area, I've never heard Cassie say that she went

945
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: there before, so it's smelling like she didn't just happen

946
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: to be there.

947
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you don't just happen upon the message and

948
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 2: then you happen upon them at a restaurant, and then

949
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 2: you happen to send them both.

950
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: To the hospital. That doesn't just happen. You wanted to

951
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: do this, That is right. He said that Mail is fine,

952
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: but has to stay in the hospital overnight because she

953
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: hit her head really hard, and Karen has a really

954
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: huge black eye, but probably would be discharged. By the evening,

955
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: Karen was currently talking to a police officer and he

956
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: was waiting for Mayl to get back from an exprey.

957
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: It was embarrassing to admit, but while I was on

958
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: the phone with him, I started crying. I apologized for

959
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: not being able to control Cassie's behavior, but because I

960
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: ultimately introduced Cassie to Mail and Simon's life the first place,

961
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: I understand that it's rational. Simon was very understanding. He

962
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: assured me that he and Mayl didn't blame me or

963
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: anything like that, and he made tentative plans to invite

964
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: me over that Sunday for coffee since games were pretty

965
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: much canceled for the week. I didn't end up going

966
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: back to work, and I did end up calling Marie

967
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: much later that evening. What I discussed with her is

968
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: probably not okay to type out, as it's currently an

969
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: active lawsuit and whatnot, So I mean, not a surprise,

970
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: but we've reached that point. Some details may be redacted.

971
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: I met with Simon and Mayle on Sunday and it

972
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: turned out to be an okay crowd. Shane wasn't able

973
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: to make it, but Susie and another coach friend of

974
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: ours was there, and Mayil insisted on normalcy, so we

975
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: all ended up having a really good time. Simon told

976
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: us about Labor Day plans, probably deliberately so I didn't

977
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:01,959
Speaker 1: feel left out, and we made no mention Cassie. On Wednesday, Shane, Marie,

978
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: and George came over to move Cassie out. She's being

979
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: pulled out of her graduate program for now and is

980
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: living with Marie and George. I didn't see her at all.

981
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: Shane quietly told me that she went from jail to

982
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: Marie and George's hotel room and hasn't seen anyone. Marie

983
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: and George took her cell phone the laptop from her.

984
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: I helped her as much as I could before I

985
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,439
Speaker 1: went to the gym, and Marie gave me a very

986
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: warm hug as I left. I'm honestly not sure how

987
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: much they know slash understand about what's going on, because

988
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: when I came back, there's a stack of papers on

989
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: the side table by the sofa. Some were just grad

990
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: school papers and flow charts, but a good majority of

991
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: them were printouts of Simon and Mayle's engagement photos.

992
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 2: I don't know how you do deal with this, I

993
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 2: don't This is out of my tax bracket. Yeah, out

994
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 2: of my league, this is out of my area of expertise.

995
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. My gut is telling me,

996
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: like she needs to be like and I don't know

997
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: if this will make her better. She's be locked in

998
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: a basement for six months. Yeah.

999
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 2: I fel like if you just purely isolate yourself from

1000
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 2: the world and all of your triggers and you just

1001
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 2: like dig.

1002
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: Into your own like your own noodle up here.

1003
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like maybe you can unlock the secret to

1004
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 2: like changing your ways. And then of course, also like

1005
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 2: you know, if you could get like real therapy and

1006
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 2: like and actually work through it.

1007
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: I had My problem with that is I think she'd

1008
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: probably be fibbin'. Yeah. We need we need like a

1009
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: like a for lack of a better word, like hospital

1010
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: level rehabilitation level psychiatrist. Yeah, that's going to really really

1011
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: walk Cassie through again. It's I could be wrong. We

1012
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: didn't get as much context, but it seemed like before

1013
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: all this went down, she was, you know, operating well and.

1014
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,919
Speaker 2: And Sofia Colone says Dakota, that's how you make people

1015
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 2: get worse and get out to do worse things.

1016
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: Yet, like I said, this is not I'm too This

1017
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 1: is too much for me to know how to deal with. Yeah,

1018
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: my instincts may be wrong. We are not the uh.

1019
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 2: But if I was her and I saw an alert

1020
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 2: that then made me go into a rage, I'd be like, I.

1021
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,959
Speaker 1: Need to lock myself away for six months. Cassie's gone,

1022
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: She's got a rough couple of months ahead of her,

1023
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: and my friends have been paying so much attention to

1024
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: me that it's almost annoying. This is the first night

1025
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: since this BS went down and I've been able to

1026
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,479
Speaker 1: be by myself. I'm sorry I didn't respond to anyone

1027
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: in the last posts, but honestly, I never really want

1028
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: to log into this account again after this. Typing it

1029
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 1: all out was cathartic because all my friends seem to

1030
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,439
Speaker 1: want to avoid the topic for now. I know they're

1031
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: worried about hurting feelings or overstepping boundaries, and they're wonderful

1032
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 1: in that sense. But sometimes girls just got event. Girls

1033
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: just want to event, and girls they want to be

1034
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 1: may may L. Girls just want to be may L. Yes,

1035
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: so they get married. Simon, we are we are getting

1036
00:53:55,840 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: the strongest hook cartoon pulling out. Ever so they plies,

1037
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I am afraid to say that's that's the

1038
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: end of the story. Please let us know what you's

1039
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: on the comments below, but if you love us, make

1040
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: sure to subscribe, Love you and see you tomorrow.