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Speaker 2: Guys?

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Speaker 1: Why do I do this? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It's a good actually like slightly like just itchy throat, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: itchy throat? M is he my real dad? I just

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Speaker 1: took opportunity test and found something even worse. What's worse

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Speaker 1: than finding out your dad isn't your dad? Finding out

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Speaker 1: that your dad is your stepp brother step bro dad father. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just when like the family tree just becomes like a

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: God, oh God?

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Speaker 2: Where ship? I hope not?

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Speaker 1: Is that producer Riley? Is that? Is that where we're going?

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Speaker 1: Is that where you where you're taking us today?

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell you anything. You're just going

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, only one way to find out, huh, guys,

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Speaker 1: let's get into it. I was born in Colorado in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. I'm thirty one male. My brother followed

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety three. My mother was not ready for

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Speaker 1: a family and continue to party, do illegal substances, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 1: My dad had just gotten out of the army and

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Speaker 1: moved to Iowa in nineteen ninety four, not seeing our

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Speaker 1: pretty boring in regular life. My dad remarries in six

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Speaker 1: or seven. My sister comes in two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 1: her to pieces. Fast forward to twenty eleven. We take

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Speaker 1: had never told us anything about her our entire lives. Wait,

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Speaker 1: is this the mother that was partying? Yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to talk badly about anyone, and

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Speaker 1: that means. Whenever someone the raging bitch. I just don't

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the hint, Dad. My mother was honest about

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Speaker 1: what happened. It was very emotional for all of us.

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Speaker 1: At that point. I had her number, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: decide to do a DNA test. M sweet, sweet DNA.

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Speaker 1: We know where this is going, guys, everyone's gonna live

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Speaker 1: happily ever after.

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Speaker 2: Wait, so she was partying a lot.

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Speaker 1: She was at parties with other What do parties have people?

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Speaker 1: What is half of the pop of people? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: about to go down. My mother is Native American, and

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Speaker 1: I've always been curious what percentage Native I am. So

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Speaker 1: it says that she is my niece. So I'm thirty one.

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Speaker 1: My brother's twenty nine, So my brother has a twenty

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Speaker 1: nine year old Hmmm, No, it doesn't make sense. My

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Speaker 1: you and Jane are half siblings. Jane's father is John Doe.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, you're crazy. You're implying that my dad

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Speaker 1: Then she says something too relevant. He was stationed in

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Speaker 1: So I call my mother, not knowing of her phone

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Speaker 1: I ask, Hey, do you happen to know a John Doe?

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Speaker 1: She responds, yes, I know a John Doe a very

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Speaker 1: any chance that John Doe is my father? And I

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Speaker 2: I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: F I hang up the phone and I call my dad.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I would have said anything.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not like immediately, because this sounds it's like we

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I would. I don't know. It seems so

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I would want time just to like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like what does it What does it mean? Like

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Speaker 1: And like I'm guessing this is all accurate stuff, but

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Speaker 1: I would need like probably a day to like really like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: He met my mother while she was pregnant. He had

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Speaker 1: coming around. He wasn't sure if he got deployed or

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Speaker 2: Oh what damn?

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Speaker 1: So he knew. Maybe that's okay. Interesting. He said he

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Speaker 1: And when he came to Iowa, he and my grandparents

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Speaker 2: But he signed on the birth certificate.

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Speaker 1: So he did sign it. Yeah yeah, yeah, like uh

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Speaker 1: I don't actually know if putting your name the name

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Speaker 2: Your name on the birth certificate.

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Speaker 1: Is you're legally that person?

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Speaker 2: I think you're legally bound in some sense father.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, So does that mean legally that other person is

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Actually, yeah, Riley look it up. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 2: are you if you sign a birth certificate, are you

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they could technically both be Okay.

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Speaker 3: When a man signs the birth certificate, he is acknowledging

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Speaker 3: that he is the legal and biological father of the child.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, his signing indicates he's agreeing to paternity and legal

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Speaker 1: So the person that raised op Opie's dad is as

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Speaker 1: basically you have two dads?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, because I mean think about the like the

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Speaker 3: Okay or regardless if the man is the biological father

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Speaker 1: Interesting, No two daddies. Why can't I have two daddies?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can? I could? You can't?

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Speaker 1: But my parents kept it all a secret. The people

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Speaker 1: my dad's sister, and that's about it. My my brother

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Speaker 1: who isn't my biological dad, took my brother and I

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Speaker 1: He could have left me to rot with my mom.

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Speaker 1: My dad is an amazing guy. Mentally, this has sucked.

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Speaker 1: The only family I have ever had and ever known,

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Speaker 1: I share absolutely zero blood with except a half brother.

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Speaker 1: Blood doesn't mean much. My family is still my family.

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Speaker 1: My brother's still my brother, my sister's my sister, and

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Speaker 1: and it really really sucks. I could make a part

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Speaker 1: two if it's wanted. And John Doe has passed away

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Speaker 1: of a heart attack at forty two in twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Dang, so your real daddy is dead.

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Speaker 1: Man, op just like went through the ringer, Like, real

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Speaker 2: Well, the real dad did exist.

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Speaker 1: It exists. Sorry, yeah, his dad true? That is actually correct?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah dude, well I think it's really I mean,

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Speaker 1: Opie's dad, like he is like what who ope views

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Speaker 1: I wonder if John Doe ever knew yeah or like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was just like, I'm just I'm here

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Speaker 1: I'm curious. What would you all do in this scenario?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like again, if you want your family

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Speaker 2: I hope you never would have realized that she was

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Speaker 1: They need to have like an anti family ruining feature

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what can you do? I just don't get it,

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Speaker 2: Just don't get it.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, we're not going to run away

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Speaker 1: I only got so many rooms. Your rooms are expensive, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Rooms are expensive. Real estate, it is expensive.

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Speaker 1: Food. Food is very Vipers be expensive, vipers cool cool shoes, you.

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Speaker 1: Our kids have been playing that these days.

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Speaker 2: We uh. Christian plugged in his Xbox through sixty recently. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It was fired, dude, right around Warhogs just freaking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really bad. I could only play for like ten minutes.

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Speaker 3: Well, like, I grew up with no internet, so the

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Speaker 1: The Riley played this game called life ladies and gentlemen. Yea,

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Speaker 1: and he won. He was hanging out with the real world. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I just don't sit in my basement play video

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: All right, So I thirty male, have an eight year

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Speaker 2: I was still married and thought the baby was mine.

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Speaker 2: First mistake. Never just assume the baby is yours.

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Speaker 1: Just because you're married to someone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, come on. But then I learned she cheated and

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Speaker 2: She said, our son was lucky to have me and

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Speaker 1: Ooh damn. She looked shocked, and I told her she

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Speaker 1: You can't force someone to take you back or take

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Speaker 2: Okay, please just do it.

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Speaker 1: You're you're you're you're fathering one already and I know

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Speaker 1: I got a two four for two for one, Come on,

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Speaker 2: Four years on and my ex did not find someone else,

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Speaker 2: I had to bring her back to court to arrange

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Speaker 1: Oh, I feel bad for this younger son. Yeah, dude,

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Speaker 2: It became a problem and she refused to stop. So

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Speaker 1: Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.

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Speaker 2: Dude, do do do do do do? He walked over

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Speaker 1: Damn dude. God, both of the parents are just like,

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Speaker 2: I gently told him to return to his mom. Poor

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Speaker 1: Damn. I would just take the freaking I mean, I

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Speaker 2: The mom is like really hardcore emotional manipulation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. God, oh dude, yikes.

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Speaker 2: So X started texting me late Friday night and all

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Speaker 2: She said that I have proven to be an amazing

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Speaker 1: You got your spy bro bruh. At least he's at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, yeah, yeah, this is what my mom said.

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Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want, you know, that old

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Speaker 2: Yeah. God, my exis words get to me though, maybe

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Speaker 1: A little bit of a I could see maybe some

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Speaker 2: It's not his kid. Yeah, I mean, I think that's

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Speaker 1: And if he if he let's in his exis son,

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Speaker 2: To tendls, just her octopus hands, her octopus tentacles.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, her octopus tentacles all wrapped around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I know, it's it that is I And I think, like,

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Speaker 2: I mean, she cheated on him, you know.

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Speaker 1: So you get you're done, You're done, messed up, messed up.

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Speaker 1: You can't force you can't force it to be fixed.

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Speaker 1: You cheated. Yeah, And and reminds me she was trying

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Speaker 3: She was like trying to like, hey, he's always right there,

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Speaker 1: So there's like always during her second pregnancy, I was

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Speaker 2: I think so yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he he's known the whole time since the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like this all came out when she

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Speaker 2: I think he's doing exactly what he should be by

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Speaker 2: taking care of the kid that is his one hundred percent. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I don't think you can ask more.

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Speaker 1: Can't ask more, But let us know what you think

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Speaker 1: down in the comments. And uh, I got something that

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Speaker 1: I want to birth to you, Sam, this next story,

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Speaker 1: this next story, Give it to me.