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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Dakota and this is Angie, your favorite

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Speaker 1: Okay Storytime hosts, and we've got some great stories coming up.

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Speaker 2: But before that, we have a quick two minute break

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Speaker 2: from the sponsors to keep the show alive. I refuse

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Speaker 2: to pay for my fiance's best friend because I.

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Speaker 1: Don't like him, then get rid of him.

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Speaker 2: I know how it sounds. My fiance, twenty nine Mail

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Speaker 2: is an amazing guy. He's sweet, funny, attractive, and hard

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Speaker 2: work eight I twenty nine female, was impressed with him

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Speaker 2: from the moment I met him, and we've been together

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Speaker 2: six years. We are devoted to each other and working

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Speaker 2: towards building our shared life. By the way, this comes

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Speaker 2: from user throwaway Red to Blue And if you want

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Speaker 2: to submit your own stories, go to the r slash

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Speaker 2: Owkay Storytime subbort it. I'm Dakota, I'm Sophia, I'm Carly,

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Speaker 2: and we're here to give good advice. Goofily. But we

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Speaker 2: don't have all the answers I fill in see on

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Speaker 2: every multiple choice test I take, So just if you

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Speaker 2: know what you would do, let us know what it

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Speaker 2: is in the comments and OPI says, we each put

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Speaker 2: a percentage of our earnings into two funds, one for

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Speaker 2: our wedding, which is a year away, and another for

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Speaker 2: a down payment on a home. We each pay the

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Speaker 2: same percentage, but I pay a much larger amount because

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Speaker 2: I went into a higher income field. We've budgeted it

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Speaker 2: out pretty well. At this rate, we'll have enough to

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Speaker 2: buy a home around the same time as our wedding.

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Speaker 2: As planned. As to the wedding, we both wanted a

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Speaker 2: small one, and my fiance and I decided to have

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Speaker 2: a destination wedding. OOO, we are paying for the entire

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Speaker 2: wedding ourselves. Cool. My family's pretty poor, so I've also

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Speaker 2: been saving a portion of my remaining paycheck to be

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Speaker 2: able to pay for all of them to come to

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Speaker 2: the wedding for free. I'm also paying for one of

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Speaker 2: my bridesmaids, who went into teaching and doesn't make much.

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Speaker 2: My fiance wouldn't really have the disposable cash to do that,

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Speaker 2: but his family can afford to pay and is somewhat

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Speaker 2: wealthy and is happy for the vacation. The problem arose

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Speaker 2: last week my fiance's best friend, Tom thirty mail, who

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Speaker 2: he asked to be his best man, got in an accident.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, it was likely entirely his fault, as he

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Speaker 2: was riding his motorcycle while wasted. Piss tiss, all right,

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Speaker 2: well not, my empathy levels are going down. He suffered

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Speaker 2: significant injuries and is going to have some major medical bills,

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Speaker 2: and admitted to my fiance he doesn't think he can

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Speaker 2: afford to come.

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Speaker 1: Also, should go to like, should get help in terms

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Speaker 1: of that because driving well under the influence to that

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Speaker 1: level is really doesn't seem like you're in a good place.

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Speaker 2: My fiance wants to pay for him, which would be

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Speaker 2: several thousand dollars, and lend him money to help cover

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Speaker 2: his medical bills, but especially with everything going on, my

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Speaker 2: fiance does not have and is unlikely to be able

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Speaker 2: to get the money to do either. I could afford

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Speaker 2: to do both, but I don't want to. Truthfully, I

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Speaker 2: can't stand this friend. He often rides or drives wasted

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Speaker 2: and does not have a job, and makes snarky comments

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Speaker 2: about my fiance that he insisted jokes but that I

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Speaker 2: know actually affect my fiance and lives in his parents'

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a bad guy. That's like that guy kind

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Speaker 1: of sucks.

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Speaker 2: I was willing to have him up there as best

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Speaker 2: his choice.

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Speaker 1: He sounds like a bad brother.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't happy about it, but I wasn't about to

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Speaker 2: throw a tantrum about it. But with everything going on,

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Speaker 2: my fiance has suggested taking a huge chunk of our

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Speaker 2: We got in a huge fight and he called me

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Speaker 2: selfish and cruel, at which point I lost it. Told

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Speaker 2: there was no way in the world I'd pay anything

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Speaker 2: for his sorry self. I ended by saying if he

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Speaker 2: can't afford to come, he can't be your best man.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't spoken to me since last night and slept

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Speaker 2: I wonder if I went too far. Am I the

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, okay, I don't think in like a

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Speaker 1: perfect world, I don't think you should have called his

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Speaker 1: of started the argument and was pretty insistent on you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the house money, and most of it's yours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And most of it's yours for his

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Speaker 1: friend who has constantly been disrespectful and just unsafe and

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Speaker 1: you know, not a great person. So he like started

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Speaker 1: that argument, and it seems like kind of pushed you

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Speaker 1: I think he's being kind of unreasonable.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie, you're not even out of

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Speaker 2: line because if you drink and drive all the time, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm like, you know, if you want to

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Speaker 1: have a productive conversation, that's maybe not the best language.

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Speaker 1: But also given the circumstances, this guy does suck and

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Speaker 1: should not be on the road. And I would not

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Speaker 1: know they're in a really bad space and like need help,

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Speaker 1: and I would like probably go that route first. But

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like oh, P's partner is even doing that,

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Speaker 1: which you know, you're not holding your front accountable or

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Speaker 1: stop doing that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So not the ale tie him down and keep

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Speaker 2: his hands behind his back. That way he can't drink and.

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Speaker 1: Draw and make him run a free legged race.

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Speaker 2: It's true what friends do, comment one, not the ahole.

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Speaker 2: You need to sit your fiance down and tell him

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Speaker 2: point blank that he is asking his fiance to sacrifice

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Speaker 2: her values and risk the down payment on your future

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Speaker 2: house for a man who frequently drives after drinking and

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Speaker 2: is currently in a situation of his own making. Personally,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to remain friends with someone who

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Speaker 2: drives like that. Putting your own life in danger that's

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Speaker 2: none of my business, but risking other people's lives that

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Speaker 1: Now, as someone who's lost like a family member to

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Speaker 1: drunk driving, it is completely unacceptable.

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Speaker 2: Just don't do it. They got CAUs they drive themselves. Now,

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Speaker 2: your fiance needs a serious reevaluation of his morals. Opie says.

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Speaker 2: I have the same view. People can be as self

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Speaker 2: destructive as they want, but I cannot respect or support

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Speaker 2: someone who is destructive towards others. My fiance and I

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Speaker 2: help him turn his life around. Comment two says, my

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Speaker 2: question is why is this all falling on your shoulders?

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Speaker 2: If drinky Pooh Tom wants to attend your wedding and

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Speaker 2: stand by your fiance that badly, surely drinky Pooh Tom

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing, oh P's partner er fiance has

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Speaker 1: made it clear that he'll bail his friend out, and

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Speaker 1: so his friend has come to rely on him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like that's what's happened, OHP. He replies that,

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Speaker 2: l that made me smile, and I needed that. Drinky

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Speaker 2: Pooh Tom has no savings. For years, he mooched off

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Speaker 2: his parents were insisting he'd get a job or move out.

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Speaker 2: His uncle eventually booted him out because he wouldn't contribute

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Speaker 2: home with his parents, still no job, and continuously invite

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Speaker 2: some of his less than savory friends over to stay

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Speaker 2: his undergoing chemo. So his parents haven't tossed him out yet,

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Speaker 2: but they are so fed up they are refusing to

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Speaker 2: him to our wedding. I can't really blame them. He

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Speaker 2: does sound like the kind of guy who'd be like, oh, Mom,

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Speaker 2: what the heck? Guys, it's so like unfair. You guys

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Speaker 2: won't help me go to this destination wedding or pay

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Speaker 2: for they want to go to Cobbo.

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Speaker 1: Go to Cobbo.

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Speaker 2: Come on, but I'll get a job next decade. Please

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Speaker 2: think you know, getting a job in Cobbo. Yeah, I was,

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Speaker 2: you know, like handing out drinks or like working for

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Speaker 1: Guys selling bracelets you know on the street.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they take you to the back room and they

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Speaker 2: have things to sell. Anyway, and now that he's injured,

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Speaker 2: he probably won't be able to get a job for

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Speaker 2: a while, since he is not held a job for

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Speaker 2: more than three months in his entire life as far

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Speaker 2: as I know, I don't know that he's even eligible

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Speaker 2: for unemployment or disability, so he really doesn't have many options.

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Speaker 2: And there's an edit. Thank you to everyone that's responded.

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Speaker 2: I will try to work through all of those this evening.

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Speaker 2: a question that comes up. A lot are finances to clarify.

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Speaker 2: We have talked about everything, especially financial expectations, to make

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Speaker 2: sure we are on the same page. My fiance's dad

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Speaker 2: is the family law attorney, and as soon as it

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Speaker 2: became clear we were in it for the long term,

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Speaker 2: he saw that ended relationships and gave us his advice

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Speaker 2: to avoid them. His advice revolves largely around open communication

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Speaker 2: we wanted. My fiance decided he'd rather take a lower

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Speaker 2: outside of work. He wasn't worried about helping his parents

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Speaker 2: He also wasn't worried that much about developing a big

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Speaker 2: retirement account because he's very likely to inherit enough to

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Speaker 2: survive on comfortably. I, on the other hand, likely will

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Speaker 2: my parents' medical expenses and retirement as they get older.

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Speaker 2: I also have a good amount of student loan debt.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't because his parents could afford to pay for it,

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Speaker 2: and while we both really enjoy traveling, he'd be willing

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Speaker 2: to cut back on it significantly to have an easier

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Speaker 2: job year round. I wouldn't want to burden him with

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Speaker 2: those costs, the ones that I brought into the relationship,

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Speaker 2: as I feel that would naturally cause resentment, especially if

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Speaker 2: it meant he had to work a job he enjoyed

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Speaker 2: less to help share the costs with me. So I

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Speaker 2: took a high stress job that I don't enjoy and

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Speaker 2: that requires me to work longer hours, but that pays

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Speaker 2: significantly more. We agreed we each should be able to

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Speaker 2: make that choice, and decided a fair way to handle

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Speaker 2: finances would be to create a joint account for common

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Speaker 2: expenses like rent bills, food, entertainment, and work clothes. At

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Speaker 2: his father's suggestion, we put in writing specifically what the

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Speaker 2: fund could be used for, and agreed that anything outside

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Speaker 2: that list would need to be approved by both of us,

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Speaker 2: and that if the account is dissolved, we each get

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Speaker 2: back what we put in and we split any interest evenly.

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Speaker 2: We each pay thirty five percent of our incomes. Because

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Speaker 2: But don't let loser Ben go to your his name, right,

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Speaker 2: I don't know loser.

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Speaker 1: A loser, isn't it Tom?

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Speaker 1: Well, hope you guys figure out the Tom Sich.

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Speaker 1: My fiance has been love bombing me and I finally

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Speaker 2: It's because they love me.

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Speaker 1: I know the title sounds horrible, but please hear me out.

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Speaker 1: My fiance forty five female and I forty five male.

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Speaker 1: Because of my excess issue, I have full custody of

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Speaker 2: Two other guys. Dang well, it could have been worse.

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Speaker 2: It's sort of reading that way, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, didn't charity cheat or is this before?

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Speaker 2: I think this is the cheating comes after?

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Speaker 1: and maybe oh okay, okay, so OPI gave her another chance.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, so they cool to look past it because people

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Speaker 1: So yeah that and also one, We've got like so

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Speaker 2: I am not staying engaged, nor am I staying in

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Speaker 1: Like at that point, you're literally you're about to get

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Speaker 1: At this point, my red flag alarm system was going berserk.

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Speaker 2: I guess, cheeter, cheater and pumpkin eater. Her face is

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Speaker 1: Day now let's be honest. She is a complete ten

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Speaker 1: Wait wait girl, and gets hit on all the time.

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Speaker 1: He tells me when people hit on her, even people

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Speaker 2: That's just not true.

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Speaker 1: That's just cheating.

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Speaker 2: You're just a dirty little liar.

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Speaker 1: into when we are getting married lately. I told her,

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00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,639
Speaker 1: when she can prove her loyalty to me, her family

437
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,120
Speaker 1: and our friends think I shouldn't be acting this way.

438
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,159
Speaker 1: They say. My insecurities are mine and I need to

439
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 1: get over them. I just want to know if she's

440
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,679
Speaker 1: embarrassed by me or if I am being played for

441
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,640
Speaker 1: a fool? What do you guys think? You are being

442
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 1: played for a fool? And also she is embarrassed by you?

443
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 2: I hear a little ma'm mitlanau because you're being played

444
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 2: like a fiddle.

445
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: Yes, um, she's cheating on you. Now, she was cheating

446
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,199
Speaker 1: on you? Then we gotta go.

447
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 2: She will cheat on you again? Then will she.

448
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: Cheat on you? Have you cheated? That was a That

449
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 1: was an Elijah Woods reference. But there's an update. Leave

450
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 1: leave that's the answer.

451
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,680
Speaker 2: But wait, but wait, wait what she's so hot?

452
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 1: But did we think about that. She's a ten?

453
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 2: She's so hot? Cheat on me?

454
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: Oh, she's so hot that you're burning yourself.

455
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 2: Cheat on me, baby girl, Cheat on me.

456
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 1: That's what Opie said. Thank you everyone for your comments.

457
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 1: It's been a month since I last posted. A lot

458
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: has happened since then. Right now, I'm sitting at a

459
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 1: bar trying to drown my stupidity. I'm not sure where

460
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 1: to begin. I called her on her bs. We got

461
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: into a fight about her behavior. After that, it seems

462
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: she started she started getting more involved with my kids.

463
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: You seem to be more transparent and open. I thought

464
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: things were going in a good direction. We spent the

465
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: holidays with my family and she was friendly and seemed

466
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: genuinely happy. Two weeks ago, she said she had a

467
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 1: temporary assignment out of town. I thought it was weird,

468
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,159
Speaker 1: but said whatever, it's her job. But I had this

469
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 1: weird not in my stomach. I started questioning her about it,

470
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: and something felt off. She wouldn't give me details about

471
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: her hotel or what she was doing. So I did

472
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: something that I'm not proud of. I put a tracker

473
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: in her car.

474
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 2: My guy, oh, you're doing FBI.

475
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: Now, well, we've got to be the FBI to our girlfriend.

476
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: Maybe we got a f out of that relationship.

477
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 2: You don't what you should say? F B y E

478
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 2: by FB. Why are you doing that?

479
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 3: Why?

480
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: Because it's just silly. Now, it's it's silly.

481
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 2: Freaking booty inspector. Huh, that's what FBI stands for. Yeah.

482
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 1: I helped her pack her clothes. She grabbed sweats, jeans,

483
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 1: and workshirts, told me she loved me, then left the

484
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: two days prior to her leaving were weird. The best

485
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: way I can describe it is she was love bombing me.

486
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 1: She kept telling me how much she left me and

487
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: how she was going to miss me. She was more

488
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: affectionate than she had been in months. After she left

489
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: and went to the hotel for her job, I started

490
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: tracking her. She said she had to be at the

491
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Speaker 1: job site by two pm, which was two hours away her.

492
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Speaker 1: She had to check into her hotel, then she would

493
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,719
Speaker 1: head to the job site. The problem was her vehicle

494
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: never left the hotel, so I followed her tracker to

495
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 1: the hotel. I pulled up to the hotel and saw

496
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: her vehicle, the nice convertible that she wanted me to

497
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: buy her, so I did. I called her and texted her,

498
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: but she wouldn't respond. She finally called me back and

499
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: told me she was busy working and had to go

500
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: to the bathroom to talk to me because of the noise.

501
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 1: She said she would be working all night and would

502
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: call me when she got off work. I sat in

503
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: that parking lot, doubting myself. What if I was wrong?

504
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: What if she took a shuttle or uber to her

505
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: job site. I sat in my car processing. When I

506
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: saw her, she came out of the hotel with her boss.

507
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,959
Speaker 1: She was dressed in a nice outfit that she hadn't ACKed.

508
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: They walked to her boss's truck. He opened her door,

509
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: helped her in, and climbed into the driver's seat.

510
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 2: It broke me.

511
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Suddenly a rage

512
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: surged through me. Everything in me wanted to ram his truck.

513
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 2: Eh ooh.

514
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: The rage quickly turned into cold anger. I texted her

515
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: enjoy finger boss. I put my car and drive and

516
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 1: drove home. I called my friend and asked if I

517
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: could swing by. He recently went through something similar. He

518
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: said his door was always open and to swing by

519
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: when I got back into town. When I got there,

520
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: I told him everything. He didn't say a lot. He

521
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 1: just listened or I was done. He said there wasn't

522
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: a lot of advice he could give me. I needed

523
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: to figure things out. Whatever I decided. He would have

524
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: my back, and he helped me talk through what needed

525
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: to be done. I left his house and went to mine.

526
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: I woke my kids up and told them to pack

527
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: some clothes. I called my parents and asked if I

528
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: could stay there for a few days and I started

529
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: packing my clothes when my now ex fiance came into

530
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: the house. She kept trying to call me, but I

531
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: blocked her number, so she drove back from the hotel

532
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: to the house to talk to me. Did she just

533
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: want him to like parent her kids?

534
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure what her long, you know, term

535
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: plan was here, Like.

536
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 4: I don't understand it, And of course she's gonna pull

537
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 4: the no way it's you don't understand. Yeah, it's not

538
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 4: what it looks like, and then she'll pivot to, well,

539
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 4: it is what it looks like, but.

540
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 2: Not the way that you think. It didn't mean anything,

541
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: and then she'll just pivot to, well, you shouldn't think

542
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,239
Speaker 2: that way. You should be okay with this act. So

543
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 2: you didn't love me enough, that's right, And that's the

544
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 2: final pivot right there.

545
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: I kept packing while she kept trying to explain to

546
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 1: me that it didn't what I thought, that they were

547
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: just going for a drink. I told her to get

548
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: away from me. The weird thing is it is she

549
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: wasn't showing much emotion. She kept telling me that she

550
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 1: didn't want to lose me and that I was a

551
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: big misunderstanding. She kept blocking the door so I couldn't leap.

552
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: As much as I wanted to, I didn't try to

553
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: move her. I didn't want her to be able to

554
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: say that I touched her. It took an hour for

555
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: me to get her to move. Finally I was able

556
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: to leave and went to my parents' house. Of course,

557
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: she immediately tried to spin the narrative, telling everyone it

558
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: was a misunderstanding. Everyone started calling me and telling me

559
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: to call her and talk it out. It's just a misunderstanding,

560
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: and she didn't do anything. I blocked them all.

561
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 2: You didn't really find any concrete evidence that what you

562
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: think happened did happen. With the additional context you provided us,

563
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 2: it feels like a pretty much it's like a pretty

564
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 2: much a certainty that it did. However, you really didn't

565
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 2: get to a point of incontrovertible evidence.

566
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: But honestly, I don't even care, because whatever it gets

567
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: a p out of this relationship is good with me.

568
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at.

569
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do believe this is bad, and you know

570
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 2: what you did. Already have evidence she cheated on you before,

571
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: so in a way, that's all the evidence you need

572
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 2: that she'd do it again.

573
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: And she was a bad parent, so kind of all

574
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: good because she is blocked on my phone. She started

575
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: emailing me, telling me she was sorry and how she'd

576
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: never meant to hurt me, and that she now sees

577
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: how she has been and how she can change. She said,

578
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: she sees how she has damaged our family and how

579
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: she can fix it.

580
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 2: Well, okay, and you unbang your boss. Wow, how do

581
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: we do? Do you have a time machine and we

582
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: can go back and take the place that in our lives?

583
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: I can see birds. Lying doesn't mean I can lie.

584
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: I told her that she had four years to do that.

585
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: She didn't regret what she did. She regretted getting caught,

586
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: and I blocked her email. I want to go scorched her.

587
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: Her boss is married with three kids. I want to

588
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: burn it all down and contact his wife and the

589
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: HR department and let them know what their government employees

590
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: have been doing.

591
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: Yay, do that.

592
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: So now I'm sitting at the bar, spiraling between anger

593
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: and heartache. I'm not sure what to do next. The

594
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: least for our house is in both of our names.

595
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: I don't have the money for a deposit for a

596
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: new rental, so I am sitting here trying to figure

597
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: out the next steps in my life. I will keep

598
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: everyone updated on what I can figure out. I my

599
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: only my only kind of warning to scorched her is

600
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: I think you should tell the boss's wife that she

601
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: deserves to know. However, I don't know if you should

602
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: tell your company or you know, wherever they work unless

603
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: you cause it seems like you a good relationship relationship

604
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: with her kids, and if she loses her job, that

605
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: affects them too. So that's my only thinking there.

606
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 2: Well, the children in the marriage that the boss has

607
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: is going to be affected by the knowledge that their

608
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: parents are going to get divorced.

609
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, no matter what I think, it's just like financially, what.

610
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 2: I did is what I mean. I think you just

611
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 2: move somewhere else.

612
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: You just leave.

613
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: And that's the end of this story. We're going to

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Speaker 1: My boyfriend decided to share a hotel with random women

619
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Speaker 1: after wanting to go solo.

620
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: That seems suspicious.

621
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: Currently, my boyfriend is traveling with two random girls he

622
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: met in a hostel. He initially told me he would

623
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: be traveling to an island alone and that he would

624
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: be staying in hostels. He spent two nights in the

625
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: varsity and was having a good time exploring with a

626
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: group of people he had met at the hostel. After

627
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: his two nights there, he told me he was taking

628
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: an uber to the next city. By the way, this

629
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: comes from Kindly Sugars seven to seven eight and if

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Speaker 1: you want to smit your own stories, go to the

631
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Speaker 1: r slash Okay storytime suppared it.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sophia, I'm Riley, I'm ke On.

633
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: And we're here to give good advice goofy. But we

634
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: don't have all the answers. We only know what we'd do,

635
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: So let us know what you would do in the

636
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: comments and Opie says usually we talk when he has

637
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: time like this, But when I called him, he told

638
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: me he was actually traveling with some other people because

639
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: they were taking the same path as him, so he

640
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: could not answer the phone. The next day, we were

641
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: talking on the phone and he had to go soon

642
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: because the people he was with were waiting for him.

643
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: I asked him who they were, assuming they were guys.

644
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: I called them guys at that point he made a

645
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: face that made me think otherwise, and I asked them

646
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: if they were girls. He said yeah. I asked him

647
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: if he was joking, and he said he was not.

648
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: I asked why he was spending time with him like that,

649
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: and he said because they were on the same path

650
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: as him. I don't think this is unreasonable yet. I

651
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,479
Speaker 1: don't think we've reached a part of the story that

652
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: it's unreasonable.

653
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 2: But kind of had to get him out of it,

654
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: like yeah.

655
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: I think, well, well, I mean, all he said he

656
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: was like, I'm traveling with some people, and then she

657
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: was like guys. It was like uh, and she.

658
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 2: Was the girls.

659
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: So that is a little bit weird. But I don't

660
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: think like just traveling with them by itself.

661
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 2: Is like that.

662
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: I get that, you know what I'm saying, Like, I

663
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: think he was a little bit weird, but.

664
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 5: Just that mentioning some names, Hey, yeah, you know Maria

665
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 5: and ham Maria are coming with me.

666
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably. I think it would have been more

667
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: respectful if he said it immediately.

668
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: Yes, there we go, That's what I'm looking for.

669
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I then asked if he was going to

670
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: be with them for the rest of his vacation, and

671
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,239
Speaker 1: he said yes. I told him that this made me

672
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: feel really uncomfortable. He told me it was nothing to

673
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: worry about, and that this was hostile culture, which I

674
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: would not understand because I've never stayed at a hostel.

675
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: I told him I did understand, and I had never

676
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: had any reservations about him meeting people at hostels and

677
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: hanging out with them before. But I had an issue

678
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: with him meeting two girls at a hostel and then

679
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: planning out the rest of his trip with them when

680
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: this was supposed to be a solo trip. Okay, I like,

681
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: I see where he's coming from. But also, like so

682
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: many of my friends who have done solo trips, meet

683
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: people along. Like one of my close friends that I

684
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: met while traveling in hostels, she ended up meeting me

685
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: in multiple places. It's my friend Jada, and she ended

686
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: up meeting me and like, we like planned our trip

687
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: so that we could meet up. And this also happened

688
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: with like other male friends that I made along the way.

689
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 5: Just because it's a solo trip doesn't mean to be

690
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 5: solo forever time.

691
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like you're I don't know, like in silence.

692
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: It's not a like original wool trip solar retreat that.

693
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: He asked me if I was threatened, and I told

694
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: him it was not about feeling threatened. I just did

695
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: not like it, and it had nothing to do with

696
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: my confidence in myself. I can dislike something and still

697
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: feel great about myself. At the same time, I reiterated

698
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: that it was not cool with me and decided to

699
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: move on. In the conversation, I told myself it was

700
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: okay and that I did trust him and I could

701
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: just think of it like he was traveling with two

702
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: other people. Well, I mean, that's that's what he's doing

703
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: so far. The next day, he messaged me and told

704
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: me he got a really nice suite. He said it

705
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: was an ocean front suite and that he was excited

706
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: to check in. He had a few hours to lie

707
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: before he could check in, but said he would call

708
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: me later.

709
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's by himself here, right.

710
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Later that night, when

711
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: we were talking on the phone, he told me it

712
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: was a really nice place and a two story ocean

713
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: front suite. I told him I would love to see

714
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: it and asked if he could show it to me

715
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 1: on FaceTime. He hesitated and then said there was someone downstairs.

716
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: I was confused because he was at a hotel, so

717
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: I asked who was staying with him. He said it

718
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: was the girls from the days prior. I told him

719
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: it was one thing for him to travel alongside them,

720
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: but a totally different thing to share a hotel room

721
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: with them. He told me it was a big deal

722
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: because they were on a different floor than him. He

723
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: told me I didn't understand because this was hostile culture.

724
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: You can't use that as your excuse for everything.

725
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 2: We're not in a hostile anymore.

726
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're at a hotel now. He's like, no, He's like,

727
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: he's at He gets back to the wherever they live

728
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: and he's like, like, she finds him cheating with a

729
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: girl and he's like, no, no, babe, it's hostile culture.

730
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 2: You don't get it.

731
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't understand we're sharing a bed because it's hostile culture.

732
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 2: My gosh.

733
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: I said staying in a hostel was different because there

734
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: are more than three people there, and he said not always.

735
00:36:58,920 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: What does that mean?

736
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 2: Not always? Something could always happen.

737
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes I've already slept with just them in the

738
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: same room. I told him that regardless, this was inappropriate

739
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: and that he was crossing a big boundary with me.

740
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 1: We talked about his plans the next day of going

741
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: storkling and fishing, and I asked if they would be

742
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: going with.

743
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 2: Him too, and he said yes, buddy.

744
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: From there, we talked for a few more minutes and

745
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: then said good night. Since then, I have had a

746
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. This just

747
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: does not sit right with me, and I'm hoping people

748
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: familiar with this hostile culture can give me some clarity.

749
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: I was okay with him traveling with them in an

750
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: uber to get to the same place. I was not okay,

751
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: but let it go when he decided to continue traveling

752
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: with them on a trip that was initially solo. But

753
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: I feel like them staying in the same hotel room

754
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: is the thing I cannot get past. Additionally, it also

755
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: bothers me that the reason we do not travel together

756
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: right now is because he says he doesn't want to

757
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: travel with me until we're engaged or married.

758
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 5: Because when you're engaged, Mary, you have to share room,

759
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 5: and he probably has like this thing where like he

760
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 5: doesn't want to share room with someone because he's not

761
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 5: engaging marriage to them.

762
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 1: That's kind of wild. He says that if we travel together,

763
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: we would make all these memories, and if we ever

764
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: broke up, these memories would.

765
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: Be troublesome for him.

766
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: That is the most ridiculous reason for not wanting to

767
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: travel with your partner that I've ever heard.

768
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 6: I don't you know why, because he probably has like

769
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 6: a little like timetable because he's like, all right, once

770
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 6: I'm done with my free single trip or my fun,

771
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 6: my fun solo trip, I actually have op to go

772
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 6: back to that. But if OPI breaks up with him,

773
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 6: which OPI might, He's like, oh, but I can't extend

774
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 6: my trip.

775
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 2: I didn't know I would have.

776
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have ended it. Yeah, I would have just

777
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,280
Speaker 6: stayed out here as long as possible.

778
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this guy stinks.

779
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: I have a completely different take and think we should

780
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: live life and experience new things together. Yeah. Nonetheless, he

781
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: is not comfortable with that right now, and that's okay.

782
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: But then he's willing to plan the rest of this

783
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: trip with these two girls and make these memories and

784
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: have these ones in a lifetime experiences with them, not

785
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: to mention they've been beach hopping.

786
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 2: Oh dare you guys in your swim shopping? Ah?

787
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: And I cannot get past the fact that he's just

788
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: sunbathing on a beach with two girls who are probably

789
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: not fully clothed.

790
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 6: I would hope they're not fully clothed on a beach.

791
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 2: Okay, you're disgusting, keel.

792
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 6: On, everyone gets equal hands.

793
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm jealous of that fact, and I'm still okay

794
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: moving past it. The only thing holding me back from

795
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: letting everything go is the hotel's day. I just think

796
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: it was too much. Today we talked and he mentioned

797
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 1: he was going to a city. I googled it to

798
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: look it up because I often try to find cool

799
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: things for him to check out. When I googled it,

800
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: it came up as a resort.

801
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 2: No, is it the cheater resort? I think so, dude.

802
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: I texted him and said, I tried to look up

803
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: that city and I was confused because it was coming

804
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: up as something else. I told him it was a resort,

805
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 1: so to access that beach he would need to be staying.

806
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 2: At the resort.

807
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: He then told me he was planning to get a

808
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: suite there. Doesn't sound like you're doing a lot of

809
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: hostile staying. Yeah, a hostile solo trip. I asked him

810
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: if he was sharing a room with these girls again,

811
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: and he said probably whow. I asked if he was serious,

812
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: and he said he could not promise me. He can't

813
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: promise you if he's serious. I asked him to please not,

814
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: and he said he meant that the possibility of sharing

815
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: a room might happen. I said, I did not understand

816
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 1: why it needed to happen and why the answer could

817
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: not just be no, he would not.

818
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 2: He said it did not.

819
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: Need to happen, but it might.

820
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 2: Oroh this guy sucks spraak up with him.

821
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,439
Speaker 1: I told him that the fact he could not make

822
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: the boundary and could not say it would not happen

823
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: says a lot. You ask what it said. At the

824
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: time of that conversation, it was about twelve a for

825
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: me and twelve pm for him. Well, y'all got a

826
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: big time difference. I did not reply to that text

827
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: because I did not want the back and forth to escalate,

828
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: especially because he's on vacation, and I didn't want to

829
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: get more upset.

830
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 2: Dude, you're a very kind person.

831
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: We have not spoken since then. I really do not

832
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,720
Speaker 1: want to hinder his vacation, so I think I should

833
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 1: not push our conversation any further. I have not gotten

834
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: overly upset, I have not raised my voice, and I've

835
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: been patient and understanding all the way through. It hurt

836
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: my feelings that when I asked if they were staying

837
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: in the same suite again, he said probably, even after

838
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: I told him how I felt about it that night before.

839
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: It hurt me that when I asked as nicely as

840
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: I could for him not to, He's basically like, no, no.

841
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: But the thing that he said was it wasn't no,

842
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, like I could not do that,

843
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: but like I might do it.

844
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 2: Why, which is.

845
00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: Worse to me?

846
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 2: Why, dude, I don't understand it.

847
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think if you just said like no,

848
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm not like I am gonna do this.

849
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but like this is I'm gonna do it,

850
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: that is bad. Still bad, but I think it's a

851
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: little better than yeah, like I could not do that,

852
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: but I I think I might do it anyway.

853
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 5: Just respect of boundaries, Yeah, put not a boundary and

854
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 5: you're like whatever, dude.

855
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm just gonna tip that over.

856
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 2: Just say no.

857
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to add that he is not

858
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: sharing suits with these girls out of financial need.

859
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

860
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: I figure that out, seeing as he's affording the suits

861
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 1: in the first place.

862
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: So he just went to the hospital to pick up

863
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 2: some girls. I think.

864
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: So, my boyfriend is financially comfortable and would have no

865
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: problem getting a hotel room for himself.

866
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 5: The fact that he was lying, and we all know

867
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 5: what cheeters do lying, that's the Yeah. I just you

868
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 5: for your own self. Just break up or you can

869
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 5: stay with them until he gets back. Yeah, and then

870
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 5: break up with him. That's true, and then he's deemed

871
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,720
Speaker 5: a cheater. Yeah, he probably did stuff, probably already.

872
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: I think I should reflect on this and talk to

873
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: him a little after he comes back. If I cannot

874
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: make sense of it and come to terms with it

875
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: on my own. I am reaching out to see what

876
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: the good people of the internet think, and I am

877
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: open to having people put me in my place if

878
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: I am wrong, or reassuring me that my reservations are reasonable.

879
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 2: So am I the a whole to your show? Yes?

880
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, But but what based on what you're

881
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,720
Speaker 1: asking us? No comment one says not, You're not wrong

882
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: at all. Hostile culture doesn't mean getting private suites with

883
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: two random girls for a whole week. Lmail, the fact

884
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: that he won't travel with you because of memories if

885
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: you break up, but he's out here making memories with

886
00:43:56,200 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: these girls is honestly wild lest the whole I can't

887
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: promise response when you asked him not to share rooms again.

888
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: He's basically telling you his vacation with these girls is

889
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: more important than your comfort in the relationship. Opie said, Yeah,

890
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it feels like. It hurts a lot

891
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,439
Speaker 1: to know that they get to spend this much time

892
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: with him and make these memories with him, doing not

893
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: only once in a lifetime things, but doing things he's

894
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: never done before and are on his bucket list. I

895
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: would love to cross things off with him, and would

896
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: be ready to get up and go anywhere with him

897
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: in less than a second if he asked. I just

898
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: can't see how I can get past this, especially because

899
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: it's one thing to do something that hasn't been explicitly

900
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: pointed out as crossing a boundary, not that I would

901
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 1: think this would need to be stated, but then just

902
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, I'll probably.

903
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 2: Do it again.

904
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: I even tried asking nicely and said please. Yeah, I

905
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: think op, you did everything right in this scenario of

906
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: how to ask him.

907
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, he just doesn't respect you, yeah, or the relationship.

908
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 2: Goodness, gracious.

909
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: It just feels really weird because if he were saying,

910
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to travel with you because I don't

911
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,439
Speaker 1: feel comfortable sharing a you know, minor or a room,

912
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: that's what That's what I thought he was gonna say. Yeah, Like,

913
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: I'm like religious and for this reason I can't share

914
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: a room. But memories, stupid, stupid reason. He creates memories

915
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: every time he's with you, hopefully unless he's like forgetting them.

916
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: He like blank blacks out every time he stinks down

917
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: with you, Like, wait, what happened? Comment too, where is

918
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: the solo part in this trip? Now you know why

919
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: he doesn't want you to travel with him. You'll cramp

920
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: his style. Go radio silent, be too busy to answer

921
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: his messages. Hope he says, that's what I might do.

922
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: Take some time and really let this sink in for me.

923
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 2: Get it. Because he travels on boats.

924
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: Is he traveling in a boat? No, he could be.

925
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: He could be taking a cruise with these two girls

926
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: that losing.

927
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 2: Around the and that's the end of this story. We're

928
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 2: gonna go on to the next one. Hey, it's Angie,

929
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 2: your favorite Riley's girlfriend. Hose here we're going to get

930
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 2: back to the stories.

931
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: But here's three minutes of ads from our sponsors.

932
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 2: My neighbor insists someone had been inside my home, but

933
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: the camera picked up nothing. Why are they looking in

934
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 2: your home? I don't know what to make of this.

935
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 2: The simplest answer is that my neighbor is lying. But why.

936
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 2: By the way, this comes from the next Missus Draper

937
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 2: and if you want to submit your own stories, go

938
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Speaker 2: to the r slash Showcase Storytime Suburn. I'm Dakota, I'm Riley,

939
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 2: I'm Carly, and we're here to give good advice goofy

940
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 2: and we will try our best. But we're not experts,

941
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 2: nor are we geniuses. We are simply humble folk of

942
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 2: the screen. And let us know the things that you

943
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 2: know out there in the comments. Here's what happened this morning.

944
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 2: My neighbor knocked on my door and told me that

945
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 2: while I was out of town earlier this month, they

946
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 2: noticed my front door was open and that if very

947
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 2: nice blue and brown two person tent had been pitched

948
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 2: in the middle of my living room. They said they

949
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 2: thought it was a little odd, and that's why they

950
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 2: mentioned it. I was on vacation over the fourth of July,

951
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 2: and my nephew and another neighbor both fed my cat

952
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 2: while I was gone. Neither are the type to pitch

953
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 2: a tent in my living room, though, to be honest,

954
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 2: I'm not sure who would do such a thing. Nevertheless,

955
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 2: I asked them about the tent, and neither knew anything

956
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: about it. I also don't have anything that's blue and

957
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,439
Speaker 2: brown and could be mistaken for a tent. My living

958
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 2: room is mostly black and white, and I don't own

959
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 2: a tent. I'm not a camper. Nobody has a set

960
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,919
Speaker 2: of keys to my house. I have an r low

961
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 2: camera by my front door, and I set one up

962
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 2: in my living room while I was gone so that

963
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 2: I could periodically check in on the cat. I'm a

964
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 2: little neurotic about her because she is very old. I

965
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 2: checked all the footage going back to June fourth, because

966
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: my neighbor couldn't say for certain when exactly they saw

967
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 2: this tent. Needless to say, there's nothing captured by either camera. Unfortunately,

968
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 2: the cameras sometimes fail to capture everything. I'd say they

969
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 2: have a ten to twenty percent fail rate when it

970
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 2: comes to turning in when there's movement. So there's a

971
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 2: slight possibility someone could have entered my house, pitched a tent,

972
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 2: taken it down, and left and the cameras wouldn't have

973
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: caught any of it. Bro, you need new cameras if

974
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 2: that's even a potential. If you're indoors, there's no need

975
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 2: to pitch a tent. Well, maybe they just wanted to

976
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 2: like have a fun camping, you know, camping role play,

977
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 2: camping cosplay. Maybe again, they thought it was a rule

978
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 2: where it's like if you break into someone's house to

979
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 2: squat there, but you bring your own tent and you

980
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 2: don't sleep in their bed and you leave the front

981
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 2: door open the whole time. Legally, there's nothing they can

982
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 2: do that exists somewhere. Like I said at the beginning

983
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 2: of the story, I'm not an expert in anything, but

984
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 2: that feels like it's right to me. I feel like

985
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,240
Speaker 2: it's a pretty slim chance that neither would have been triggered.

986
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 2: To add to all of this, my cat has been

987
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 2: acting super strange whore ever since I came back she

988
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 2: is very nervous, refuses to go anywhere near the back

989
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,240
Speaker 2: part of the house, and is not using her litter box,

990
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: so something did weird her out. So read it any

991
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: ideas if my neighbor is lying, which is the most

992
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 2: plausible why they've never lied before and always seemed like

993
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 2: a reliable narrator. They also said their boyfriend saw it

994
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 2: too and mentioned how weird it was. Is there any

995
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 2: scenario where it makes sense for someone to break in

996
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 2: and pitch a tent, but also leave the door open

997
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 2: so anyone can see. Is it a glitch in the matrix? No,

998
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 2: just the legal system. Is she somehow suffering from carbon

999
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 2: monoxide poisoning? Am? I? Thankfully the r low camera outside

1000
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 2: did capture part of our conversation, so I didn't completely

1001
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 2: imagine it. It's just so bizarre, at a complete loss,

1002
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 2: and the whole thing has left me feeling unsettled, and

1003
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 2: there isn't edit. Thanks to everyone who's commented so far.

1004
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 2: To answer some questions that seemed to have come up.

1005
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 2: I took the cat to the vet and she got

1006
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 2: a clean bill of health. I'm trying some behavioral solutions,

1007
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: including multiple litter pans, special cat food, for your area health,

1008
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 2: both calming cat treats, calming spray and a fellaway plug in.

1009
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 2: It's been hard, but I'm committed to helping her get

1010
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 2: through this. The neighbor and her boyfriend are both older,

1011
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 2: I think in their late sixties, and we live on

1012
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 2: the same property, so she has to walk by my

1013
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 2: front door to get to the street. I'd say from

1014
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 2: the walkway to my front door is less than five feet,

1015
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 2: so she has a pretty good view of my living room.

1016
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 2: I agree with those who said her timing is strange.

1017
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 2: Why mention it weeks later? But I had recently talked

1018
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 2: to her about my cat's behavior, so I think she

1019
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,959
Speaker 2: mentioned it as a possible reason. She also said maybe

1020
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 2: in the future, you should let me know you'll be

1021
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 2: out of town so I can keep an eye out

1022
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 2: for you. At the time, it sounded like a normal

1023
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 2: thing to say, but if she's lying, then maybe it's

1024
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 2: because she wants to know when I'm gone. My nephew

1025
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 2: is in his mid twenties and very responsible. He owns

1026
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 2: his own home and works long days. Neither he nor

1027
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 2: his brother are campers, and as far as I know,

1028
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 2: don't own any tents. The camera outside captured him enter

1029
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 2: and exiting all three days, and he was in the

1030
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 2: house for less than five minutes. Same with the other

1031
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 2: neighbor who fed the cat. Neither was aware of where

1032
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 2: the camera inside was, but they knew I had one

1033
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 2: so I could check the cat. The camera also caught

1034
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 2: the cat chilling in the house and acting normally on

1035
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 2: all three days. Today I learned about frogging or frogging.

1036
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 2: There's a crawl space under the house, but you can't

1037
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 2: access it from inside. Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh,

1038
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 2: someone's living under the floors. Oh my gosh. There's probably

1039
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 2: a two foot high crawl space in the ceiling that

1040
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 2: you can access from the closet in my bedroom. But

1041
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 2: I have a bunch of boxes and suitcases shoved up

1042
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 2: against the opening, and I don't see how someone could

1043
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 2: put them back if they'd crawled back in. I will

1044
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 2: say that the more I ruminate on it, the creepier

1045
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 2: it seems. And there's an update from three days later.

1046
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 2: Riley is someone living in her walls? Yes, Carly, are

1047
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 2: you living in Sofia's walls?

1048
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 3: I'm the mouse.

1049
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:53,839
Speaker 2: He nibbled the banana in the middle of the night,

1050
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 2: trying to catch. Yeah, that's hilarious. The funniest thing to

1051
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,399
Speaker 2: me is that she's just using the glue trap and

1052
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 2: then it's like the food on it is just getting

1053
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 2: nibbled and not catching them.

1054
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: The funniest thing to me is her door barricade.

1055
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 2: Have you seen just get guys, sorry to all the

1056
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 2: mouse lovers out there, get a freaking mouse trap with it.

1057
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 2: She did.

1058
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 3: She got a zap one.

1059
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 2: But don't get a zap one. Get the spring that goes.

1060
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:22,280
Speaker 2: That doesn't work? Yeah it does.

1061
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,959
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm a mouse catching I'm a mouse

1062
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 5: catching expert. Those those don't work as effectively as the

1063
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 5: glue ones. I've caught three mice within the span of

1064
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 5: my life.

1065
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 3: You haven't caused.

1066
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 2: Sophia's blue ones are more messed up than the one

1067
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 2: that just breaks their neck and explodes their head.

1068
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 5: Sophia has it going to be permission because she knows

1069
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 5: what I'll do with it if I catch it, so

1070
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 5: I offered.

1071
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 2: She wants it to be cat. Oh she does. Well.

1072
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 2: She has given up on the human way. She wants gone.

1073
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 2: I don't think you can just like catch the mouse

1074
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 2: and then be like be free, and it's guess where

1075
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 2: it's going to come back back. It's going to come back.

1076
00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 2: I catch it and we put it back in that

1077
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 2: neighbor's house to all my neighbors again. Today. The neighbor

1078
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 2: who saw the tent is still adamant that's what she saw.

1079
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 2: She said she and her boyfriend sought around lunchtime, and

1080
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 2: he confirmed. They said the tent was up when they

1081
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 2: went to lunch and down by the time they came back.

1082
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 2: When I told her my cameras didn't catch anything, she

1083
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 2: was unbothered. When I suggested that maybe she saw something else,

1084
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 2: she said, it was not my imagination. I saw a

1085
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 2: tent from right here, and then she stood on the

1086
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 2: walkway and pointed into my house. She seems to think

1087
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 2: someone might have a copy of my key and is

1088
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 2: accessing my house whenever I'm out of town. She thinks

1089
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 2: someone sabotaged both cameras, and mentioned black suits that aren't

1090
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 2: picked up by security cameras as a reason the tent

1091
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 2: sector wasn't caught. The detail of you being like, yeah,

1092
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 2: I have cameras and they didn't catch anything and they're

1093
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 2: completely unbothered does make me think that they are telling

1094
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 2: the truth, though, because if you're a crazy person trying to,

1095
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 2: I don't know, convince someone that someone camped in their house.

1096
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 2: I think that would make you go u uh oh

1097
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 2: uh uh instead of just like, oh well, I mean

1098
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 2: regardless of that, I know what I saw, Like, I don't.

1099
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 5: Know, misus ryser says, I feel like there's too many

1100
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 5: variables that make it unlikely.

1101
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 3: Yes, why is the boyfriend like agreeing with her?

1102
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,359
Speaker 2: Oh wait wait, it wasn't a tent like a camping tent.

1103
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 2: It was a blue and brown tent that the men

1104
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 2: in black were inside because they were extracting like an

1105
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 2: alien artifact from beneath the floor, so they had to

1106
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 2: tent it. So that would be my next question, what

1107
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 2: movies have you seen recently? To the neighbor. Yeah. She

1108
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 2: also mentioned that my other neighbor, the one who checked

1109
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,399
Speaker 2: on my cat, had a large white tent in her

1110
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 2: yard a few months back. I saw that tent and

1111
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 2: can verify it existed, But this neighbor said that it

1112
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 2: is not the tent she saw in my house. I

1113
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 2: rechecked all the camera footage one more time. There are

1114
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 2: no unaccounted for gaps. In fact, there are several snippets

1115
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 2: of the cat chilling in the living room looking completely

1116
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 2: unconcerned before and after the cat sitters came into the house.

1117
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 2: It's actually making me rethink the timeline of win she

1118
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 2: got spooked. I rechecked the attic access and it hasn't

1119
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 2: been touched. I also work from home, so it would

1120
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 2: be hard for someone squatting in the attic to go unnoticed.

1121
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 2: I also took the advice here to check internet data

1122
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 2: and electricity usage. Both were way down on the day

1123
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 2: as I was gone. My gas bill was smaller as well.

1124
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 2: But if the tent was up for only an hour,

1125
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 2: that makes sense. I then spoke with the cat sitting neighbor.

1126
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:27,280
Speaker 2: She confirmed the existence of her white tent and explained

1127
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 2: that she was airing it out in her front yard

1128
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 2: after a camping trip, which aligns with all the tent

1129
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 2: care information in the comments. Great, we've correlated, We've got

1130
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 2: I didn't know you had to air out your tent.

1131
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 2: She also said that she had similar conversations with this

1132
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 2: neighbor where what she was saying is bizarre and unsettling,

1133
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,959
Speaker 2: but she says it with such conviction that you find

1134
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 2: it hard not to believe. She understood my unease, saying

1135
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 2: the whole story reminded her of the Manson family and

1136
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 2: their creepy crawling. Once she mentioned that possibility, it made

1137
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,760
Speaker 2: me understand why I was feeling so anxious for those

1138
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 2: worried about my cat's well being. Thank you. She seems

1139
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 2: to be slowly coming back to herself right now. I'm

1140
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 2: putting her in the kitchen at night, and she has

1141
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 2: a cozy little bed where she sleeps. So far, she

1142
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 2: hasn't peed anywhere inside since I've started doing this, but

1143
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 2: I do wake up before six every morning to let

1144
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 2: her out, and she promptly uses the litter pan I

1145
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 2: have set up for her on the porch. I also

1146
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 2: started using the urinary health cat food from Royal Canaan

1147
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 2: that someone suggested on another thread, and that seems to

1148
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 2: be working. Fingers crossed. Next steps are asking the landlord

1149
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,439
Speaker 2: to change the locks to end on a lighter note.

1150
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 2: The cat sitting neighbor also had a whimsical explanation not

1151
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 2: to be taken seriously, that I also thought i'd share. Apparently,

1152
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:46,280
Speaker 2: there's a Japanese folklore tradition of trickster raccoons who shape

1153
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 2: shift and reek havoc. She pointed out that it is

1154
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 2: raccoon season where we live, and in fact, I just

1155
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 2: saw a mother and her babies on my porch a

1156
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 2: couple of nights ago. You got trickster shape shift to raccoons, man, right,

1157
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 2: And they've got keys to your place. Man, you're gonna

1158
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 2: change those lots. How do we not think of that one?

1159
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 2: They're gonna eat all your cat food? Man, that totally

1160
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 2: passed by me. Don't do that, man. Maybe they just

1161
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: snuck in and pitch the tan just to mess with me.

1162
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 2: I mean, it's as probable as anything else at this point.

1163
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: And there's a third update. Oh my gosh, this update

1164
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 2: will probably be more than a little anti climactic.

1165
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 6: For that.

1166
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 2: I apologize to the people who felt like this was

1167
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 2: much ado about nothing. I agree, But like I said before,

1168
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 2: it's her continued insistence and certainty about this bizarre idea

1169
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 2: that niggles at me. So away we go. The boyfriend

1170
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 2: does indeed exist. I have met him and spoken with

1171
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 2: him several times. He seems older than her and is

1172
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 2: quieter overall. He has stated that he's a cat person

1173
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 2: and has engaged with my cat in the past, but

1174
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 2: I have not had the chance to talk to him separately.

1175
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 2: To get his side of the story. The white tent

1176
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 2: was in the front yard of my other neighbor's house

1177
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:04,439
Speaker 2: and faces the opposite street, so a reflection is impossible.

1178
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 2: That being said, the older neighbor does keep bringing it

1179
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 2: up and is convinced people were sleeping in it. I've

1180
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 2: spoken with the front yard neighbor and she was airing

1181
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 2: out the tent after a camping trip. No one ever

1182
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 2: slept in it when it was in her yard. But

1183
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 2: I think a lot of folks in the comments are

1184
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 2: correct when they say the white tent unsettled the older

1185
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 2: neighbor because she brought it up several times.

1186
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 5: I love how exhaustive we have looked at every single

1187
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 5: thing this could have been.

1188
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like a reflection doesn't make any sense

1189
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 2: because they said your front door was open and they

1190
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 2: saw into your living room through your front door. I

1191
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 2: did loop in the landlords, but they seemed to also

1192
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 2: believe the older neighbor. She's rented from them for at

1193
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: least fifteen years, if not longer, and they told me

1194
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 2: that in the past she's been very reliable and truthful.

1195
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 2: They seemed spooked by the whole story and offered to

1196
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 2: change the locks. I figure it can't hurt, so I agreed.

1197
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 2: The landlords and I questioned the older neighbor pretty rigorously,

1198
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,919
Speaker 2: and she's stuck by her story, even as we all

1199
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 2: expressed incredulity. She israted that she saw a two person tent,

1200
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 2: blue and white, fully erected in my front living room.

1201
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 2: She said it was not a pop up tent or

1202
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 2: pup tent. She said she saw it on a Wednesday

1203
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:17,919
Speaker 2: because that's the day her boyfriend takes her to lunch

1204
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 2: each week. She said it was up when he picked

1205
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 2: her up, and down when he dropped her up. She

1206
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,439
Speaker 2: got a little defensive as we probed, so people who

1207
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 2: warned that this could happen if we challenged her were

1208
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 2: spot on. She kept reiterating that it was a tent

1209
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 2: and that she could see it quite clearly. She seems

1210
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 2: to want to pin it on my nephew, and the

1211
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 2: landlords seemed to be leaning that way too, which is

1212
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 2: really frustrating. He's a twenty five year old man with

1213
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 2: his own home. He has no need to air a

1214
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 2: tent out in my tiny living room, and he doesn't

1215
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 2: even camp. Have we asked him? Have we asked him?

1216
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 5: Because this guy could have been like, I'm gonna f

1217
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 5: with the neighbors real quick and do something that no

1218
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 5: one else is gonna say. And Angela. I also spotted

1219
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 5: that it was a blue and brown tint, not a

1220
00:59:58,840 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 5: white and blue tar.

1221
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's right. She did change. She changed up.

1222
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 2: She switched up the cameras. I double checked every Wednesday

1223
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 2: for the last two months, which is the limit for

1224
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 2: stored video. No tent, no people entering my house, no

1225
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 2: footage of her and her boyfriend staring into my house.

1226
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 2: That being said, there's one Wednesday with no footage because

1227
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 2: the battery had become fully drained and I forgot to

1228
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 2: charge it. But but I was home. Oh, there's only

1229
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 2: one Wednesday that I went out of town, but I

1230
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 2: left after four pm and returned in less than twenty

1231
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 2: four hours. I still feel like this is pretty solid

1232
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 2: evidence of no tent, but I have to allow for

1233
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 2: the fact that the cameras were not fully operational. Cat

1234
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:47,959
Speaker 2: is slowly getting better, though we had a setback today

1235
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 2: when she peed in the kitchen after the gardener's scared her.

1236
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 2: She is consistently using the litter pan I set up

1237
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 2: for her outside with no problem. She just refuses to

1238
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 2: use any litter pan anywhere inside. I have one in

1239
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 2: the kitchen, one by the front door, or one in

1240
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 2: the pantry, and one in the bathroom. Well, I guess

1241
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 2: if it's gonna go on the pantry, it's better to

1242
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 2: do it there instead of on the ground.

1243
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 3: Wasn't that a story One time some dude was living

1244
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 3: in the ceiling of a pantry, specifically because then he

1245
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 3: could just grab the food and keep eating shut up like,

1246
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 3: and he just didn't have to come down.

1247
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 2: I want to say he was in the pantry, reached

1248
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 2: down and grabbed like a box of wheedies and then

1249
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 2: pulled it down.

1250
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think they found out because they realized

1251
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 3: food was going there.

1252
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 2: And someone goes. I do think the calmbing food is helping,

1253
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 2: since we're down to just one accident and it was

1254
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 2: on the puppy pads. I am keeping her in the

1255
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 2: kitchen at night and letting her out before six am

1256
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 2: every day. Hopefully I can eventually get her to use

1257
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 2: her litter pan inside. And the raccoon season. I think

1258
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 2: my front neighbor used this phrase because it's baby season.

1259
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 2: Rat Now we have a mom and two kids that

1260
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 2: hang out in our property. If you've never seen a

1261
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 2: baby raccoon, you're missing out. They are adorable. I'm so

1262
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 2: mad that there's no real explanation here. I think she's

1263
01:01:59,280 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 2: just crazy.

1264
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 5: We're gonna make our own Type one in the chat.

1265
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 5: If you think it's the neighbor, Type two in the chat,

1266
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 5: if you think there's someone living in the craws space.

1267
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 2: Three, if you think it's spooky tanookies.

1268
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 3: I read through all of the comments she gives, like

1269
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 3: nothing more than what we're about to get.

1270
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 5: There's just something bothering me, like at the bottom of

1271
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 5: my heart that there's someone living in her cross space

1272
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 5: and all she needs to do is check it. That's like,

1273
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 5: gets someone else to check it. I don't care, just

1274
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 5: get someone has to check it.

1275
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, throw some firecrackers down there, like you said, just

1276
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 2: throw them in there at the last like yeah, like

1277
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 2: I said at the beginning, not much of a resolution

1278
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 2: at this point. I just want to put the whole

1279
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 2: thing to rest. I'm changing the locks so if there

1280
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 2: are any mystery indoor campers or mischievous raccoons with a

1281
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 2: copy of my key, they'll have to find another locale

1282
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 2: for their shenanigans. I'll stop questioning the neighbor because she's

1283
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 2: adamant and now it feels a little weird to keep

1284
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 2: harping on it. I'll ever to be patient and kind

1285
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 2: to my cat so that she'll get back to her

1286
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 2: old self. And that's the end of the saga. I'm

1287
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 2: surprised by how much attention this all got reddits. That

1288
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 2: was almost a million and a half people looked at

1289
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 2: the post and the update. That's not wow. Thanks everyone

1290
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 2: for all your comments, suggestions, insights, and comic relief. Even

1291
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 2: the snarky comments made me laugh. Bukita Nuki, that's the

1292
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 2: end of that story. I saw a lot of ones

1293
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 2: that it was a neighbor.

1294
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 3: Most of the Reddit comments said neighbor, neighbor.

1295
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is a case of maybe your

1296
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Speaker 2: neighbor does a little bit of funny funny dust, you know,

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Speaker 2: and you know, maybe, uh, maybe boyfriend is just a

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Speaker 2: calm version of that guy. And it's just like, yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 2: I'll go along with whatever you say. I love you,

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Speaker 2: I'll love you, I will lie for you at all times.

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Speaker 2: I love you. You're on day one a one. I

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Speaker 2: will always love you, and I will lie to you

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Speaker 2: about tents in people's living rooms as long as I live,

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Speaker 2: and that's the end of this story.