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Speaker 1: This is Cowboy Sam and this is ee how John. Hey.

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Speaker 1: We've lastowed in some amazing stories for y'all the Okay

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Speaker 2: us the bucks to help this show stay alive. My

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Speaker 2: father cut me out of the inheritance, cut me back in,

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Speaker 2: put me in, Duddy. Well, my dad is a business

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Speaker 2: that me and my brother worked for. My dad wants

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Speaker 2: to leave the family business entirely to my older brother.

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Speaker 2: He says that makes the most sense because my older

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Speaker 2: brother is his oldest child and has been in the

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Speaker 2: business the longest. He has a business degree and knows

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Speaker 2: much more about the business side of his work because

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Speaker 2: there's some other side that's not business related.

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Speaker 3: Business business business.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: While I do the physical aspect of the job very well,

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Speaker 2: I was a bit in poled also when I was younger,

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Speaker 2: so he doesn't think it would be a good idea

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Speaker 2: for me to be charged. To be honest, I don't

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Speaker 2: think it would be either. But considering how much I

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Speaker 2: contribute to this business and that I am his son too,

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Speaker 2: I think I should at least get some of the

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Speaker 2: say in the future of the business and a stake

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Speaker 2: in the company.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think, yeah, yes, in part, but also

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Speaker 3: I think that you need to kind of prove that.

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Speaker 3: And if you are trying to prove that and he's

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Speaker 3: not even letting you, like he's not acknowledging that, then

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Speaker 3: that's another thing.

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Speaker 1: Indeed.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like if you're just like I deserve

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Speaker 3: it because I want it, so that's nepotism.

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Speaker 1: Indeed.

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Speaker 2: I feel like at this early in the story, it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: could could potential way either way. The one thing I

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Speaker 2: will say is the you don't have to give him

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Speaker 2: the control of the well I.

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Speaker 3: Guess he said he's done a lot of the physical

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Speaker 3: work for the late yeah. Yeah, and he has done

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Speaker 3: a lot of work for the company.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Because like inheritance is like, oh, I'm giving my

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Speaker 2: children just part of it that's generally not even associated

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Speaker 2: with like oh they worked on.

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Speaker 1: It way exactly.

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Speaker 3: So the steak in the company.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so something something there, not even half, but some

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Speaker 2: some steak in the company. Right in the end, my

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Speaker 2: father said no, but that I would get some money

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Speaker 2: after he passed away. The whole thing really pissed me off,

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Speaker 2: and I was starting to get bitter continuing to work

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Speaker 2: there and be around them. So I gave two weeks notice.

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Speaker 2: I've been trying to keep a neutral demeanor the whole time.

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Speaker 2: This is my last week. And Jared, the guy that

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Speaker 2: presents our biggest client, was asking if I could take

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Speaker 2: him I would pass that along to my brother, that

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to be working here next week.

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Speaker 1: Oh I'm not gonna be here.

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Speaker 3: Which, honestly, yeah, if you're not getting paid the way

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Speaker 3: not appreciating the work that you do and you've asked

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Speaker 3: for your raise or not your raise, but you've asked,

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Speaker 3: you know, you've made your requests and stuff, and he's like, no,

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Speaker 3: don't stay there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, being in family business can be tough.

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Speaker 3: It's tough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not everyone is the donners.

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Speaker 3: It's so true. Tell you, not anyone can flowish work

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Speaker 3: with their brother.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Jared and I talk a lot and are pretty friendly

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Speaker 2: few times. So he asked me why I was leaving.

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Speaker 2: I just said for personal reasons. He asked where I

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Speaker 2: wasn't sure yet because there's not a lot of business

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Speaker 2: that need employees with my skills. Anyway, today, while I'm working,

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Speaker 2: Jared's boss comes down and asks if I will consider

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Speaker 3: Whoa little poaching going on?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, coaching action.

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Speaker 2: He said he's been thinking for a while of doing

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Speaker 1: It's such a specialized field.

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Speaker 2: He said, He's always been very happy with my work

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Speaker 2: and that's why they always request me. He offered me

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Speaker 2: a three year contract, and the salary is so much

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Speaker 2: more than I ever would have made at my dad's company.

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Speaker 2: Plus it comes with benefits and an office.

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Speaker 3: Heck, yeah, perfect. I mean you get benefits and an office.

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Speaker 3: Come on, and somebody who appreciates what you can offer,

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Speaker 3: because your dad clearly does not this.

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Speaker 2: He just listed all things that were all significantly better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 1: Not sure what I'll do with an office with that,

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Speaker 1: saymes pretty gold.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm going to do an office. Shock.

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Speaker 3: I could do anything with office, and the pus ability's

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Speaker 1: With a whole box, I can sit and.

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Speaker 3: Waken I I don't know. I could play in an office.

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Speaker 1: I could shuffle papers in an office.

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Speaker 3: Who's to say I could do a lot in an office.

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Speaker 2: I also get to pick out the equipment, and I

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Speaker 2: can hire two employees.

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Speaker 1: To work under me.

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Speaker 2: It just keep getting better. Overall, It's an amazing deal.

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Speaker 2: But I know that losing this client will hit my

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Speaker 2: family's business hard because remember this means that the client

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Speaker 2: OP coming over. At the same time, It's not like

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Speaker 2: I was asking for it or trying to steal their client.

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Speaker 2: He was the one that came to me and wanted me.

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Speaker 2: I thought about maybe using this as a bargaining ship

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Speaker 2: with my dad to gets some say and stake in

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Speaker 2: either of them anymore. Yeah, I mean, we have a

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Speaker 2: quick edit coming up. But yeah, it seems like he's like, hey, look,

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Speaker 2: you guys are not showing me the respect, and this

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Speaker 1: Salar and everything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because at the beginning, I was like, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: if it's just him asking for it, and he's actually

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Speaker 3: that's different. But he is seemingly yeah, he's just not

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Speaker 1: And again the like, if you don't want to give

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Speaker 2: Inheritance, that's fine, But to give one kid like pretty

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Speaker 2: kind of like.

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Speaker 1: What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: You could you could you could give him the monetary

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Speaker 3: That's that's what Yeah, like you could have a steak

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Speaker 3: in the company. He's doing a lot of work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, now there's an edit.

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Speaker 2: I really regret putting the whole bargaining chip in this post,

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Speaker 2: people seem to keep focusing on me doing that when

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Speaker 2: I say right afterwards that I don't want to do

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Speaker 2: that and don't even want to work with them anymore.

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Speaker 1: It was just a fleeting thought. Guys, It's okay, we

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Speaker 3: I can fleet, we can can flip, we can fleet.

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Speaker 1: Had at number two.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, guys, not actually planning on bargaining or negotiating with

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Speaker 2: my dad or my brother. And the verdict was not

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Speaker 2: the a hole. We have some relevant comments, but very

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Speaker 2: quick do we agree?

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Speaker 3: So you yeah, I mean in the same way. I

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Speaker 3: mean not exactly in the same way, but like somewhat

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Speaker 3: in the same way that your dad said no to

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Speaker 2: So is this Yes, it's like, hey, you didn't want

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Speaker 2: to give me something, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, them, these guys over here, they offered it.

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Speaker 3: They wanted me more than you.

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Speaker 1: What am I supposed to do?

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Speaker 2: Not get anything from you and then not get anything

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Speaker 2: from them, but peace out me if you if you

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Speaker 2: want me so bad, then give me the things they're

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Speaker 1: Beg for me, beg for me.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we got some relevant coments going on. So propa

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Speaker 2: have shown up. Will it be awkward or your family

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Speaker 2: be upset? Maybe, But you gave your notice and they

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Speaker 2: haven't attempted to retain you. You would be the A

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Speaker 2: hole if you tried to leverage this. But as is,

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Speaker 2: you gave your notice. The client was looking for someone

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Prompa to number two says, just want to second this,

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Speaker 2: but op, please don't use this as leverage or anything

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Speaker 2: like that. Op, don't worry, it was just a fleeting thought.

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Speaker 2: Or don't want to work with either of them anymore,

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Speaker 2: how much? Or number three says, not the a hole.

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Speaker 2: Your dad was being completely unfair. You now have an

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Speaker 2: awesome opportunity. Go for it.

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Speaker 1: I would, however, check any employment contracts you have and

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Speaker 1: make sure you're doing it by the book.

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Speaker 2: For example, my old contract said I couldn't work in

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Speaker 2: a competitor business until six months after I left my

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Speaker 2: old place. Opie says, I'm pretty sure mine didn't have

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Speaker 2: any competitor clause. It was it was really short, like

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Speaker 2: two paragraphs long. I'll check again later though, when I

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Speaker 2: get back to.

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Speaker 1: My office really quick.

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Speaker 2: Would Ope be the a hole if he came back

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Speaker 2: to his dad and was like, Hey, they offered me this.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to cash out to beat that?

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Speaker 3: Everyone was saying, don't use this as leverage. Don't I

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Speaker 3: feel like you could. I don't know, Like I was like,

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Speaker 3: I feel like you could, Like what is so? I

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Speaker 3: feel like a lot of people do that all the time. No, Yes,

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Speaker 3: they're like, hey, I'm getting paid, I can get paid

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Speaker 3: way more. Yeah, if you want to keep me, you

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Speaker 3: have to pay more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's perfectly fine.

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Speaker 3: I think I was also wondering about that. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: is that.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like like people with groves or lammed. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, what what is you wrong about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Like, like I mean, I guess like tone matters of

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Speaker 2: Nothing seems like a good possibility of this happening from

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Speaker 2: but that honestly felt more like an insult. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: What do you say, pal, Did.

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Speaker 3: You like that? No, I can give you a cent

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Speaker 2: You know what, I'm going to increase that. I'm going

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Speaker 1: Johnson?

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Speaker 1: Is that good work? Johnson? Not good work?

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Speaker 2: How much A number six says info. I'm guessing the

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Speaker 2: And Opie says the pay is significantly less than what

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Speaker 3: Mean it's like law, it's long in the long term,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, why would you want all that money if

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Speaker 2: I'm getting nothing. I'm not appreciated, and over here they're like, dude,

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Speaker 3: Exactly?

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Speaker 1: Go for the vibes, Go for the vibes. But we

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Speaker 3: Okay, so Opie should be working at this other company.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's see. So it's been a while since my

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Speaker 2: There were a few that said that I should give

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Speaker 1: Quick take Sophia mmmmmm mmmmm. She's thinking I don't know.

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Speaker 1: She's thinking, I think I'll find out eventually.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, even I don't know if they quote unquote.

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Speaker 3: Well, perfect, you don't have me anymore. You don't have

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Speaker 1: Yep, there you go.

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Speaker 1: And you're not selfish for giving it all to the brother.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, anything interesting I ever heard of?

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Speaker 2: My brother said, I was basically betraying the family because

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Speaker 1: For a few weeks.

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Speaker 3: They already appreciate you more.

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Speaker 1: They already do that. Yeah, yeah, man, look at that.

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Speaker 2: The office they gave me isn't huge, but it's also nice.

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Speaker 2: Overall, I definitely feel much more appreciated here than I

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Speaker 2: Time and listen to all twenty five hundred of our episodes. Guys,

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Speaker 3: Anything, anything, anything your heart desires can be yours if

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Speaker 2: That's right, Opie says, speaking of which I haven't talked

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: I had heard from Jared that right after I had

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Speaker 1: Let me get the bag dad.

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Speaker 3: Bye, come on, I'm not contacting.

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Speaker 3: So maybe you left a good time right.

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Speaker 2: Also, if they had appreciated Op, none of at least

447
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Speaker 2: the peace stuff wouldn't.

448
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,440
Speaker 3: Have happened exactly exactly. You could have sucks to suck.

449
00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,520
Speaker 2: I have to imagine they would have come out money ahead,

450
00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,880
Speaker 2: giving Op everything he wanted and keeping the clients.

451
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Speaker 3: I absolutely agree.

452
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Speaker 1: I have to imagine.

453
00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,680
Speaker 3: I absolutely agree.

454
00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,920
Speaker 2: But I'm also not imagining. Some relevant comments from comment

455
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Speaker 2: are number one, congrats on the new job. It's bad

456
00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,080
Speaker 2: business to rely so heavily on a single client vendor

457
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Speaker 2: slash product.

458
00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,800
Speaker 1: That is your dad and brother's fault. Calling your new.

459
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,480
Speaker 2: Boss to bad mouth you reflects very poorly on them.

460
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 2: I doubt Jared is going to recommend them to anyone

461
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,160
Speaker 2: who needs the service they offer. After that, another good point,

462
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,359
Speaker 2: So yeah, like, yeah, they're just they just keep digging

463
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:35,200
Speaker 2: their own grades.

464
00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:36,800
Speaker 3: Are Yeah, they're making it worse for themselves.

465
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,080
Speaker 1: My goodness. Enjoy your new office with a mini fridge,

466
00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:44,120
Speaker 1: me jeous who Opie says oll.

467
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,639
Speaker 2: The mini fridge is honestly one of my favorite things

468
00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,399
Speaker 2: about the new place. Commuch To number two says, in

469
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,280
Speaker 2: the original post, you said you'd be able to hire

470
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,480
Speaker 2: a couple of people to work under you, any chance

471
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,880
Speaker 2: you can hire two people that were laid off from

472
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Speaker 2: the family business. Opie says, I actually already hire people

473
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,520
Speaker 2: before I found about the layoffs. Okay, too late timing

474
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 2: day it happens, it happens, two hundred and of three

475
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,600
Speaker 2: says my dad said. This was a reason why it

476
00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 2: would have been bad to give me part of the business,

477
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,800
Speaker 2: because I'm selfish and only think about myself when he's

478
00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 2: trying to keep over a dozen people employed. My brother said,

479
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,680
Speaker 2: I was basically betraying the family because I didn't get

480
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,720
Speaker 2: something that I didn't really deserve from them. They're mixing

481
00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,040
Speaker 2: up cause and effect. Business partners are responsible for looking

482
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Speaker 2: out for the well being of the business. Employees are

483
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,160
Speaker 2: responsible for doing a job in return for money. Your

484
00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,200
Speaker 2: father and brother made a decision that you're an employee instead.

485
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Speaker 1: Of a business partner.

486
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,440
Speaker 2: That is so true, so true, and now they're mad

487
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,840
Speaker 2: at you for acting like an employee instead of a

488
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,600
Speaker 2: business partner. If they actually wanted you to act in

489
00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 2: the best interest of the business instead of seeking the

490
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,159
Speaker 2: highest pay and best working conditions for the job you

491
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 2: are paid to do, then they should have cut you

492
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Speaker 2: in as a part owner. So that way, it would

493
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 2: actually be one of your responsibilities. That is a main point.

494
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 2: It's if you're being treated like an employee. It's like, well,

495
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 2: let me.

496
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Speaker 3: Make yea Why does it matter if I leave? Yeah?

497
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, Why does it matter.

498
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 3: If your business is declining?

499
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 1: Yeah?

500
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 2: An employee would be like, hey, let me go where

501
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 2: I'm most appreciated and get the best salary in all

502
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 2: those things for myself.

503
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 4: Maybe if I had a say in the business, I

504
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:20,680
Speaker 4: could have helped you, but I didn't.

505
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 1: Sorry, come on, come on, how much?

506
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Speaker 2: A number four says It's unfortunate that your dad and

507
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 2: brother didn't consider the potential consequences of their decision. I'm

508
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 2: sorry they have chosen to make this all your fault,

509
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 2: blaming you for looking after yourself and your own future.

510
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 2: I wish you the best of luck in the new

511
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 2: job and hope that your family will eventually be able

512
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,159
Speaker 2: to mend things. And that is if for the story.

513
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 2: What the poll said was ninety five percent no contact. Yep,

514
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree.

515
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

516
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,080
Speaker 3: I think that at this point they have tried to

517
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Speaker 3: get you fired from your new job. They have told

518
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 3: you that you broke the family apart. I mean, until

519
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 3: they are to apologize and recognize that you did nothing

520
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,920
Speaker 3: wrong and they didn't appreciate you, and you found a

521
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 3: new job that they don't. There's no point in like

522
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 3: trying to have a conversation with them, because they're just

523
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:11,439
Speaker 3: gonna yell you.

524
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are good points.

525
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 2: I think maybe maybe because I'm just a big old

526
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 2: mister softy like the ice cream, I would have them

527
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,399
Speaker 2: on very limited contacts.

528
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 1: But I just thing is that like they've dropped the ball.

529
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like trying to sabotage his job is pretty pretty

530
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,120
Speaker 3: awful if your own son.

531
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 2: Don't your own son, Like I could see him being like, look,

532
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. This really sucks and kind of

533
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 2: hurts that we're losing this business. However, because I'm your

534
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 2: father and I love you, I'm so glad that you

535
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 2: have this good situation. They they treated him not just

536
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,200
Speaker 2: like an employee, but like as a poorly treated him

537
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 2: as an employee.

538
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 3: That'd be like if if Kean was leaving the company

539
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 3: to go work for another YouTube channel, and then we

540
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 3: went to that YouTube channel and we're like, Keon sucks,

541
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 3: he's terrible.

542
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 2: To smire him, I would have to say a lie,

543
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 2: like he's not the sexiest man I've ever met. He's

544
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 2: so he's not he's so unsexy. Not his cakes won't

545
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 2: won't help.

546
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 1: It's tiny.

547
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 2: His butt is tiny, tiny, little flat button. I would

548
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:20,959
Speaker 2: have to go and say, looks.

549
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: Oh. But that's the end of the story, ladies, gentlemen.

550
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: But there's more.

551
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:30,360
Speaker 3: There's more.

552
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 1: I see, I see what you do there. There's more stories.

553
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 3: There's more, and we're going to get into them. So

554
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 3: let's do it. I refuse to let my mother stay

555
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 3: with me.

556
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: Get out, mom.

557
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go through a long timeline of events. But

558
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,239
Speaker 3: to start, my mom isn't the nicest person. Until I

559
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 3: was like twelve, we never really had a full conversation.

560
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 3: What type of conversations were you having?

561
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 4: Hey, mom, Okay, when you get to school, I was

562
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 4: learning how to do fractions and I thought I was

563
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 4: pretty cool, but yeah, it was kind difficult. And they

564
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 4: told me to ask you some questions about the fractions

565
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 4: to see if if you can help me on my homework.

566
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Google that helps it.

567
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: I can't risk saying too many words to otherwise it'll

568
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,959
Speaker 2: become a full conversation. But I've already said too much

569
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 2: already so I'm leaving goodbye.

570
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 3: It got worse in twenty twenty my dad had left

571
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 3: our family and so it was just her, my little sibling,

572
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 3: and me. That time, I got super sad and didn't shower,

573
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 3: do the chores, anything like that. This led to my

574
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 3: rockiest period with my mom. She would yell at me

575
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 3: to take out the trash or do the dishes, and

576
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 3: I would just stay in my bed, triggered and even

577
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 3: less willing to do my chores. By the way, this

578
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 3: comes from Neither League thirty one sixty three, and if

579
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 3: you want to submit your own stories, go to the

580
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 3: r slash Okay, storytime separate it. So, of course that

581
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 3: isn't really an excuse. But over the past three years,

582
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 3: I've told my mom explicitly to stop yelling at me

583
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 3: because it was making my bad habits worse. Every time

584
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 3: she promised, and then after a few we would be

585
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 3: back to square one, and sometimes her screams would be

586
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 3: even more explosive. My last straw was six months ago

587
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 3: when she started the rule that if we didn't do

588
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 3: the dishes or throw at the trash, we didn't get food.

589
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yikes, that's not whole CPS she would buy.

590
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 3: Groceries for herself, but not for me or my sibling.

591
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 3: And to be clear, at that time, I was working

592
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 3: full time with full time college, my sister was still

593
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 3: in high school doing a bunch of aps and extracurriculars,

594
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 3: and my mom had quit her job to work on

595
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 3: an online business at home.

596
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: She her job, you can earn so much by working

597
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: at home.

598
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 3: It didn't make sense to me why she expected us

599
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 3: to do all the chores when she was at home

600
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 3: all the time, then to threaten to take away our

601
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 3: food for it. At that moment, I knew I wanted

602
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 3: to leave and never talk to her again. The next

603
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 3: couple of months were like a fever dream. I stupidly

604
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 3: blurted out that I was planning to leave, but she

605
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 3: didn't seem to care. In fact, she passed aggressively said

606
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 3: that she'll even let my siblings stay with me, and

607
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 3: that she's only gonna live for herself. That's when she

608
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 3: went on a two month long business trip. She works

609
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 3: from home for her own business. During that time, I

610
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,880
Speaker 3: finished signing a lease to a great low income apartment.

611
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 3: I started to actually relax and see my future again,

612
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 3: one with me and my sibling in our tiny studio,

613
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 3: working together to take care of ourselves, inviting friends over,

614
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 3: et cetera. I learned how to be an adults and

615
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 3: stuff through my older college friends, advisors and so on.

616
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 3: I felt so supported and at peace. And you're probably

617
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 3: doing all those tours right, So there we go.

618
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 2: Literally, just by living as an adult, you do the

619
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 2: chores by default.

620
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 3: When my mom came back, she was calm. I still

621
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 3: felt so tense around her, but it seemed like she

622
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 3: mellowed out a lot over the trip, like she wasn't

623
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 3: getting mad at me for leaving the lights on and

624
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 3: wasting power. Wait, didn't you move out?

625
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: I don't know when he's visiting or something.

626
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 3: I yeah, I'm confused. Didn't he be move out and

627
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 3: you got I thought you got a studio with your sibling?

628
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm confused too.

629
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 3: She bought us take out a lot. Even when I

630
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 3: still acted upset around her, she would actually back off

631
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 3: and let me cool down. And finally, this feels really silly,

632
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 3: but she thanked me for taking care of my sibling

633
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: and commended me for my strength. She said she was proud,

634
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 3: and I felt validated by her. I still didn't like

635
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 3: living with her, but I thought maybe I could keep

636
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: contact with her. Then last night happened. This week is

637
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 3: my finals, and so I've been sleeping from six pm

638
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 3: to eleven PM, studying from eleven to six am, going

639
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 3: to class at seven to eleven, and then working between

640
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 3: twelve to six pm. Dang, that's terrible. I'm absolutely exhausted.

641
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 3: And because of that, I stupidly forgot I had a

642
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 3: final tomorrow at the same time we were supposed to

643
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 3: have movers help us load and unload our rented truck.

644
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I honestly, ope, I think you should

645
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,959
Speaker 3: do It's good? How awful seven eleven because I'm I'm

646
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 3: assuming you can't have classes. Well, actually no, you might

647
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 3: be able to from seven to eleven the whole time,

648
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 3: and then you go to work twelve to six, take

649
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 3: an hour break, and then do all of your studying, like,

650
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 3: take an hour nap, do all of your studying from

651
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 3: like let's say seven, seven thirty to eleven, and then

652
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 3: go to sleep. Because that your schedule sounds bad. Six

653
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 3: pm to eleven PM and then studying from eleven to

654
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 3: six am is insane. That's a bad schedule. Ope, sick,

655
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 3: that's a bad schedule. Hi, my mom checked in with

656
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 3: me today and I told her about it. To be honest,

657
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: I didn't think it was a big deal because we

658
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 3: have different crews helping us load and unload. With my

659
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: mom moving the truck, I wasn't going to be available

660
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 3: for the loading crew, but we have everything packed, so

661
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 3: in my mind there was nothing to really coordinate. But

662
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 3: she completely snapped at me in the same furious, loud

663
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: yelling way. She kept telling me how I promised, Why

664
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 3: couldn't I just do it anyway? And then we don't

665
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 3: have much time. She then said she was canceling our

666
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 3: truck reservation and that I was on my own. FYI,

667
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 3: I do not have a driver's license. Financial issues and

668
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 3: depression got in the way, and my mom offered to

669
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 3: pay and drive the truck to help save costs. Not

670
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 3: only am I going to lose the money from paying

671
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 3: for the movers because of this last minute cancelation, but

672
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 3: we all have less than a week until our lease

673
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 3: for the current apartment we all live in together until

674
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 3: that ends. To say that she completely sabotaged me is

675
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 3: an understatement.

676
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ope, he's the one paying for What are you

677
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: crying about? It?

678
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 3: I don't understand she's not even paying. She's not paying

679
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 3: for it.

680
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: This mom sucks.

681
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 3: I think you have to like completely move out, like

682
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: don't have any content like or I don't be living

683
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 3: with your mom at all. Yeah, because you know this

684
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 3: isn't working.

685
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: I agree.

686
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: I know I'm at fault for messing up my timing,

687
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 3: but I just couldn't take it anymore. I embarrassingly just

688
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 3: started screaming like I was being unlived. I broke down,

689
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 3: ugly crying and wailing. I was pulling my hair out,

690
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 3: and just crumpled onto the floor. I've never done that before.

691
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 3: I feel absolutely foolish and dramatic for doing that. This

692
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 3: leads me to my final point. A week before all this,

693
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 3: my mom sat me down and asked if she could

694
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: stay with me for the next two months. Wait, I okay,

695
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 3: so she's not staying with them. Okay, because I was,

696
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,239
Speaker 3: That's what I thought, But then it sounded like she

697
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 3: was kind of staying with like she's coming over all

698
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 3: the time. Yeah, so she's not staying with you currently.

699
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 2: Was it that all of them were moving out of

700
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: the old apartment and then OPI was moving into their

701
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: new apartment and the Mom's like, Hey, now I don't

702
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: have a place to stay, so let me live with

703
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 2: you for two months.

704
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: Which that probably means for forever for free.

705
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 3: Okay. So Opie signed Elise to a great low income

706
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 3: apartment and then they're oh they had it. Yeah, Okay,

707
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 3: so they hadn't moved in yet. Yeah.

708
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, he hadn't moved into They.

709
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 3: Hadn't moved into the new apartment yet. Yes, that's what

710
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 3: it seems like, because Opie was like seeing that future

711
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 3: of being like, Oh, I'm gonna like live with my sibling.

712
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 3: It's gonna be so great, blah blah blah. So it

713
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 3: doesn't seem like they have Yes. Yeah, Emily Lame says

714
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 3: Opie was moving and oh Mom is trying to mooch,

715
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 3: and when Opie said no, Mom said, I'm not helping you. Okay. Yeah,

716
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 3: so Opie had not yet moved out. This leads me

717
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 3: to my final point. A week before all of this,

718
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: my mom sat me down and asked if she could

719
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 3: stay with me for the next two months. Honestly, my

720
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: hair is pricked up. When she asked. I felt like

721
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 3: she was starting to invade my space again, and I

722
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: was scared she would ruin the peace and comfort I

723
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 3: found at my apartment. Again, we were wrong. Apparently they've

724
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 3: Ope is gone, Opie has moved out. I don't understand.

725
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 3: I guess is moving to a new place.

726
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 2: Maybe well maybe maybe they were saying that that was

727
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 2: like right before the move, But now Opie is at

728
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: their new place.

729
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 3: I'll keep going. It's a little bit confusing, but if

730
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,959
Speaker 3: I said no, she would have nowhere else to go.

731
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 3: Ever since she quit her job or savings have depleted,

732
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 3: and he's even asked for money to help pay bills

733
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 3: and stuff. And then, because of our relationship was improving,

734
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 3: I accepted, despite my body screaming to say no. Now

735
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: I don't now. I don't know if I am in

736
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 3: the mental space to decide, especially after my mental freak out,

737
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 3: but I need to know whether I should let my

738
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 3: mom stay with me. I don't think I can mentally

739
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 3: have her with me for even one more week, but

740
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 3: my moral compass won't let me fully commit to that.

741
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 3: We have less than a week. But I'm just not

742
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 3: ready to sit down and think about it right now.

743
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 3: So would I be the a hole if I don't

744
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 3: let my mom stay at my place, even if she

745
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 3: could become homeless and there is an update, folks.

746
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: Hmm, yeah, so.

747
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 3: Badpool girl is asked the mom is asking if she

748
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 3: can move with them. I was just kind of cool, Yeah,

749
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 3: there's an update, but I was a little bit confused

750
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 3: because Opie had already moved out to a new place,

751
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 3: because that's what they said. They said they were staying

752
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 3: in their new apartment, and so it seems like they're

753
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 3: once again moving. But regardless, don't move in with your mother?

754
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: Yeah?

755
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean what about the whole time and everything

756
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 2: else that she's had a place to live?

757
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:07,479
Speaker 1: What about that?

758
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: Yeah? She used why does she not? Why is she

759
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 3: losing that place?

760
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: You know, if you're that doesn't make any sense you're

761
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: of college age.

762
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: Just sounds like so it sounds like for at least

763
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 2: the past eighteen years and probably longer, she's had some sort.

764
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: Of box like structure for you and her to live in.

765
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 2: Could she not figure out a plan to get another

766
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 2: box like structure aka a home to be in?

767
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: And she's a she's a big girl.

768
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 3: Yeah what did she do with that home? Where did

769
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 3: it go?

770
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: And the business and the business? What is this? What

771
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: is this online? She quit her job?

772
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 3: Yeah? Maybe she can get a job if she's so

773
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 3: you know, low on cash.

774
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, this business sounds like she figured out went on

775
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: vacation for two months and then and then that's it.

776
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: She w on a vacation for two months. No wonder

777
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: you had of money.

778
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: You have no job and spent two months on a vacation. Well,

779
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: that that's hard to keep money.

780
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 3: Then it is, so, I opie, that is not your

781
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 3: responsibility at all. And your it seems like your living

782
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 3: situation was going really well with your sibling and like

783
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 3: not having your mom around. So just remember that, remember

784
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 3: how good it was. And also, you don't really owe

785
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 3: your mom anything because she wasn't even feeding you.

786
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 2: Guys, Simba, remember remember Simba, look to the stars.

787
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 3: There's an update, though, let's do it.

788
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: Hey, it's Sam. We're gonna get back to these stories.

789
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 2: But here's three bits of ads from our sponsors that

790
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 2: keep the show alive.

791
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 3: I'm so used to being ignored a lot of the time,

792
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 3: even when I had my intense breakdowns, because my mom

793
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 3: would never react. Either she'd walk away or stare at

794
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 3: me blankly while I'm a wreck. And after so much

795
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 3: of that, I think I convinced myself that I was wrong, guilty, shameful,

796
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 3: and dramatic at the same time, though I also think

797
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 3: all of the people were right in that deep inside,

798
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 3: even as I was writing the post, I knew we

799
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 3: were a toxic and horrible match. As for the update,

800
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 3: my sister and I are fully moved in now.

801
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 5: Yay.

802
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 3: While I did not roll high on loving family, I

803
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: have an exceptional friend group. They all helped me pay

804
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 3: for the movers and moving truck, while also helping me

805
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 3: move boxes themselves and comforting me through the mess. Yay,

806
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 3: this is great. They're the best. This morning, though, I

807
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 3: woke up with a text from my mom. I think

808
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 3: I'll just send a screenshot of the whole thing, because honestly,

809
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 3: I had a hard time reading it. Basically, the whole

810
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 3: thing was littered with the same frustrations and excuses she's

811
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 3: had since twenty twenty that I don't seem like I'm

812
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 3: doing enough. She was tired, and she had a hard

813
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 3: time controlling her emotions the whole time. I was just

814
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 3: thinking of every moment she screamed in my face when

815
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 3: I was literally breaking down on the floor crying, and

816
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 3: now half the time she apologized, and now one hundred

817
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 3: percent of the time her promises to change were temporary.

818
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 3: The worst part is that I just think my mom

819
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,720
Speaker 3: is simply unempathy. Whenever I say something like I'm tired,

820
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 3: she always responds with it you're tired. You can't be

821
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 3: as tired as I am. I'm old. If I don't

822
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 3: do something well or don't know something, oh sorry. If

823
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 3: I don't do something well or don't know something, she'll

824
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 3: say something alluding to me being stupid, but claim that

825
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 3: she never actually called me stupid. And if I ask

826
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: about anything serious that is related to me, especially finances,

827
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,439
Speaker 3: she says, you're too young to understand. Not to mention.

828
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 3: She does this and then flips around to tell me

829
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 3: she loves and cares about me.

830
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: Boo oooh.

831
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: This is an understatement. But she is emotionally exhausting to

832
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 3: be around. But it's never exhausting listening to full episodes

833
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 3: of stories just like this. Just go to Spotify, Apple

834
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 3: Podcast for iHeartRadio and search up Okay, storytime. Do there's

835
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 3: a little bit left to the story? What does OPI do?

836
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I hate this Mama, I hate her. I

837
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 1: hate so much. Yeah.

838
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 3: Well, K says maybe she's bipolar. I think she kind

839
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,479
Speaker 3: of said she has trouble regulating her emotions, so.

840
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 2: That could be the case. Yeah, and then maybe unmedicated

841
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 2: if that's yeah case, absolutely, but yeah, like at the

842
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 2: end of the day, op doesn't deserve us, op or

843
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 2: their sibling, No, both don't deserve us. And hey, Opie's

844
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 2: got a good head on their shoulders. And it can

845
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 2: be super hard, especially from like your parents in the environment.

846
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 2: We talk about reality disortion fields and like you know,

847
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: like a partner, I mean you're dating or married to dude,

848
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: your mom, and that's like full you're fully rewired your brain.

849
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so it can be hard to kind of

850
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: like and you were so overworked and everything.

851
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 3: You like, OPI's probably like nineteen maybe Max.

852
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 2: So much, so much burden on OPI's shoulders, and they're

853
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: handling it so well, and they totally deserve their own

854
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 2: space and peace and they've you know, done the work.

855
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: They've been going to school, like you've quite literally earned

856
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,240
Speaker 2: that space by you know, doing all of that, taking

857
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 2: all that responsibility and doing all these things to have it.

858
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: So, yeah, your mom can freaking yeah find her own

859
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: situation exactly.

860
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: She'll figure it out. She'll get a job like you did.

861
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 3: And also just imagine your current schedule that sucks and

862
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 3: then putting your mom into it. Oh my god, nightmare, nightmare.

863
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 3: Not for me, truly. Yeah, she's got her own problems

864
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 3: to solve, and she's an adult and she'll figure them out.

865
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 3: Right now, you're literally taking care of your sibling. You

866
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 3: don't need to take care of your mom too, but

867
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: there's a little bit left a let's do it anyway.

868
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 3: I have not explicitly told her I won't let her

869
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 3: anywhere near my apartment because I feel both my energy

870
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 3: and my tears will be completely drained if I dare

871
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 3: to even try to talk or respond to her. I've

872
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 3: let my landlord know, though, so that makes me feel

873
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 3: more secure about that. She still tries to keep in

874
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 3: contact with my sibling, which stresses me out. I'm planning

875
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 3: on opening a secret bank account for them, just in

876
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 3: case the messages seemed a bit fishy. Great job of me,

877
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 3: I mean, just like, how mature and how like you're

878
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 3: doing a great job of being unfortunately a parent, but

879
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 3: for your sibling's sake, fortunately that they have someone in

880
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 3: their life that is willing to like take care of

881
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 3: them when your mom is not stand standing, you know,

882
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 3: stepping up for you guys.

883
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: Doing You're doing great, op doing great. Shout out to you.

884
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and good luck. Change your sleep schedule. It's bad. Yes,

885
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 3: stop doing the eleven to six study. That's bad.

886
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: Eleven pm to six am studying is great, especially considering

887
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: that you're already doing all the other stuff during the

888
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 2: other hours of the day.

889
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

890
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 3: Time, Yeah, yeah, let's do let's do our two hour

891
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 3: break study for a couple hours, go sleep.

892
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, or even like take half the course load.

893
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's true.

894
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 2: So you can like yeh, yes, it will take longer

895
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 2: of course, or or like three you know whatever.

896
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: You can decide what the sliding scale is.

897
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 2: But if it's half the courseload, you get like a

898
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 2: lot of that time back, and it's way ward pressure

899
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's it's too much for one one person.

900
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 3: Well that was the end of that story.

901
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 2: That's the end of that story. But Sophia, we've got

902
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 2: another story. We've got around a story coming up. My

903
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 2: mother abandoned me to raise another man's children.

904
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 3: Uh, hold on, come back here, parent me.

905
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 2: My twenty two father, seventy six male at the time

906
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 2: of his passing, married his first wife at a young age.

907
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: They had one son, my brother, now fifty eight male,

908
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 2: whoa twenty two and fifty eight day rata.

909
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 1: That might be the furthest siblings were.

910
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 3: Twenty two and fifty eight.

911
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow wow.

912
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 2: My father's family comes from old money, so after his parents'

913
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 2: death when my brother was little, my dad inherited a

914
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 2: sizable fortune. The wife passed away when my brother was

915
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: nineteen years old. By the way, this comes from thurrow Away, Pippy,

916
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 2: And if you want to submit your own stories, go

917
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 2: to the r slash Okay, storytime subredits. So after around

918
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 2: seventeen years after his first wife's passing, my dad met

919
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 2: my mom, forty seven female, and after a year of dating,

920
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: they got married. At the time of their wedding, my

921
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: dad was fifty three and my mom was twenty four.

922
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: Okay, wow.

923
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 2: I think it's important for the context of story to

924
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 2: specifically note their age difference, as it's caused some resentment.

925
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 3: I can imagine why there.

926
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 2: It is particularly in my older brother, who is eleven

927
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 2: years older than my mother.

928
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 5: Ooh ooh, yeah, the fifty eight year old when your

929
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 5: old stepson is eleven years older than you stuff, that's

930
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 5: tough man.

931
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: That's wow. Oh wow.

932
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 2: I was born soon after their wedding, and when I

933
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 2: was around two months old, my mom essentially packed her

934
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 2: bags and left my father and me.

935
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: Whoa wow.

936
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: That was all I knew of the story until my

937
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 2: father passed away thereafter. I was solely raised by my father,

938
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 2: and we had a fantastic relationship. He was a great

939
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: dad and tried his best to give me everything he could.

940
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 2: But one thing you refused throughout my childhood was talking

941
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 2: about my mother in any way. He never bad mouthed there,

942
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: but he also never said anything substantial that would give

943
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 2: me any clue about what kind of person she was.

944
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 2: My brother and I had a complicated relationship. He was

945
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: always respectful and friendful towards me, but also distance well understandably.

946
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 3: So yeah, to be fair, there's more than twenty years

947
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 3: of difference between you guys. So he's not I mean,

948
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 3: like it would be weird. Yeah, Like maybe he could

949
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 3: be kind of like uncle brother.

950
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: I think I think he should be an uncle brother.

951
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, he could be an uncle brother. But yeah, it

952
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 3: makes sense that you guys don't have like a sibling relationship. Yeah,

953
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 3: the man who's let's go get some dinner significantly older

954
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 3: than you.

955
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, this is like you're five and he's forty.

956
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, hey, kid, what do you like to

957
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 3: do for fun? Why did day? And then you go

958
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 3: like you're driving around your little this little baby, and

959
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 3: you're like, yeah, this is my sibling.

960
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: Right, that's crazy.

961
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 2: We've never had a brotherly sisterly relationship, which in a

962
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 2: way is expected since he is thirty six years older

963
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 2: than me.

964
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: So crazy through him.

965
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: I also have two nephews and a niece twenty nine,

966
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: twenty seven, and twenty.

967
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: Four, all of whom are older.

968
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 2: That's great, and we'd had more of a cousin type relationship.

969
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 2: My brother and my father had a very strange relationship.

970
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 2: I later learned this was due to the resentment my

971
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 2: brother held over our father for marrying my mother. Fair

972
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 2: As said before, I had no contact with my mother

973
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 2: or any member of her family for my entire childhood.

974
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: Besides my father, brother and his family, the only family

975
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 2: was my aunt. In November twenty nineteen, my father was

976
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 2: diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. It was advanced and

977
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 2: very aggressive. Although he went through extensive treatment, he passed

978
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: away last January, which devastated me. We were extremely close

979
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: and I still can't believe he's gone. He left some

980
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 2: of his money to my aunt and my nephews and nieces,

981
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 2: but most of it was split evenly between my brother

982
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 2: and myself. After my dad's passing, I was dealing with

983
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 2: some anxiety. One of the fears I particularly harbored was

984
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 2: the fear of being left alone and abandoned. I had

985
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 2: my aunt, but she was also poor in health, and

986
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 2: if anything happened to her, I was really afraid that

987
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 2: I would be left alone. I didn't think my brother

988
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 2: would be particularly inclined to upkeeping our relationship, but I

989
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 2: was very wrong.

990
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: Oh, my brother and his.

991
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 2: Wife, fifty six female, stepped up and in a way

992
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 2: assumed a sort of parental role, maybe because they're thirty

993
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 2: six years older than you.

994
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 3: As their parent age sister.

995
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: In law has been very keen on in concluding me

996
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 2: in their family life and has been calling me and

997
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:48,919
Speaker 2: visiting very often.

998
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 3: I love that. I mean, yeah, he had this complicated

999
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 3: relationship with his dad because of your mom, very rightfully so,

1000
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 3: but has not let that bleed into his relationship with you.

1001
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: Don't carry it over into the children.

1002
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 3: Don't do it.

1003
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 2: We've seen this with the fair babies, yeap, where people

1004
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 2: are like, oh, it's a baby as.

1005
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 3: A baby, it's a person who literally baby did nothing

1006
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 3: wrong and did nothing that as a baby. That baby

1007
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 3: doesn't even know what you're talking about.

1008
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 2: That's correct, it's a baby because babies don't speak words.

1009
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 3: Babies are dumb.

1010
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: They speak babbel. Yep.

1011
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: Now I couldn't be more grateful, and we've established a

1012
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 2: close relationship. The core of my problem, however, appeared at

1013
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 2: my father's funeral back in January.

1014
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: My father had lots.

1015
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 2: Of friends, what he called associates, so my brother decided

1016
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 2: to hold an open funeral so that everyone could come

1017
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: and say goodbye to my father.

1018
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 1: Well, my mother appeared. Hey, it's John here. We're gonna

1019
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: get back to the stories.

1020
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: Put a quick three minute ad break from our sponsors

1021
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 2: that keep the show going.

1022
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 3: Whoa what girl, you've been gone for years? What are

1023
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 3: you doing here?

1024
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: Wow? With her entire family?

1025
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 3: Oh, I would be so upsessed.

1026
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, which again, Oh, to remind everyone, the mom's entire

1027
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 2: family never saw, spoke, had any interaction with Ope whatsoever.

1028
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 3: And also I think she was twenty four when she

1029
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 3: had opee, right, yeah, not young enough to be like ah,

1030
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 3: I like I needed to or like, you know, not

1031
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 3: that anyone should ever abandon the child, but like you know,

1032
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 3: usually when you're younger, that is, it's like, okay, well

1033
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 3: she was so young and like blah blah blah.

1034
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: When never she's twenty four.

1035
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, she decided to have a kid, and then she

1036
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 3: abandoned that kid and then had more kids. Never once

1037
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 3: came back. Why are you here?

1038
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 1: I know another woman who's twenty four years old.

1039
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 3: I'm not having a good children.

1040
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,399
Speaker 2: Well, my mother appeared with her entire family, and when

1041
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 2: I say her entire family, I mean it.

1042
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: I didn't recognize her.

1043
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 2: I've only seen some photos of her, but my brother's

1044
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 2: reactions soon made me realize it was her. I didn't

1045
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 2: recognize any of the other people that came with Amber,

1046
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 2: my mother's name, but was later told about them by

1047
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 2: my aunt. Amber brought her husband, children, her parents' siblings,

1048
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 2: and their families. My god, we're talking like probably like

1049
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 2: twenty thirty plus people.

1050
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 3: To your ex husband's funeral that you haven't seen in

1051
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 3: ten twenty twenty four years, four years, two and a

1052
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 3: half decade. What huh?

1053
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: Moreover, her husband's family also came.

1054
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 3: They come that just does? She was like, Hey, do

1055
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 3: you guys all want to come to my ex husband's funeral?

1056
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 3: Thought it could be like a fun outing. There's gonna

1057
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 3: be drinks, it's gonna be a nice tip. Maybe we

1058
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 3: could go get dinner afterwards.

1059
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 2: Love little or nerves. We can wear the best blackout fits. Good, No,

1060
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 2: don't do that. My brother was pissed and wanted to

1061
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 2: throw them out, but sister in law convinced them otherwise.

1062
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 2: I have to say I didn't know how to react

1063
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 2: at that point. I think I glanced their way A

1064
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,760
Speaker 2: couple of times. After the funeral's over, Mom came towards

1065
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 2: us with her husband and tried to give her condolence.

1066
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 3: The audacity to literally come over and be like, hey,

1067
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 3: sorry for your loss. I'd be like, Mom, mama, Mama,

1068
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 3: haven't seen you in twenty four years.

1069
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: You're not You can you can keep it?

1070
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you keep that title. I don't want it.

1071
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: You can.

1072
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 2: I mean, it would already be a lot to reach out,

1073
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 2: you know, outside of the far and be like, yeah, hey,

1074
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 2: I messed up with that.

1075
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 3: But she's not even addressing it. She's not even like, hey, child,

1076
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,479
Speaker 3: who I haven't seen ever.

1077
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 2: She's like, c up, sorry about your dad, sorry to

1078
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 2: oops Oopsie, sorry abandoned you, Oopsie. But my brother told

1079
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 2: her to leave, that she was not welcome and to

1080
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,439
Speaker 2: not come close to us ever. Again, I didn't speak

1081
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 2: with her or any member of her party when she

1082
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 2: came over. I sort of partially hid behind my nephew.

1083
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 2: At one point, I think she tried to say something

1084
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 2: to me, but my brother shut her down. He was

1085
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: pretty rude, but I think it was in a way understandable.

1086
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 2: When people do things that that are terrible, it is

1087
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 2: acceptable to get frustrated and mad at them.

1088
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 3: I agree.

1089
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: I concur that is acceptable.

1090
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, could be nice to you when you were awful.

1091
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1092
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 3: And also I appreciate that your brother's standing up for you.

1093
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 3: This is true once again, he is being much more

1094
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,720
Speaker 3: of a parent than your mother literally ever was because

1095
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 3: she wasn't even at all any sort of parent or

1096
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 3: any sort of figure in your life.

1097
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: There you have it.

1098
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 2: I think I tried to ask my brother questions about mom,

1099
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 2: but he refused to talk. So I convinced my aunt.

1100
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 2: Seeing my mother and her new children made me want

1101
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: to know why she left me. I was half expecting

1102
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 2: that Aunt would also be hating Mom, but she seemed

1103
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 2: convinced that my mom cared for my father when they

1104
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 2: first met, but that after they married realized the impact

1105
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 2: their age difference had on their married life. I learned

1106
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 2: that while my mom was pregnant with me, she met

1107
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 2: x mom's current husband, fifty two male I'm gonna call

1108
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 2: him Xander.

1109
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 3: Ooh, Xander called Xander.

1110
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: Who I was working close to. My father.

1111
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 2: Mom's new husband was married at the time and had

1112
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 2: three children, but his wife was very sickly and passed

1113
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 2: away at one point during my mother's pregnancy. After I

1114
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 2: was born, my mother suffered postpartum depression and left with

1115
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:15,959
Speaker 2: Xander when I was two months old.

1116
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 3: Well, now I'm feeling like there was some overlap between

1117
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 3: the sick wife's passing and Xander and Opie's mom's relationship.

1118
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,919
Speaker 2: It's definitely, I mean two months after he was born.

1119
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 2: I mean that's and she just it wasn't like oh,

1120
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 2: I like, for instance, divorced before the baby came out,

1121
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 2: and then after by no, she left she familyft with Zane.

1122
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, so they were absolutely had some sort

1123
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 3: of relationship before.

1124
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 2: You don't leave with someone that you don't know, and

1125
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 2: that's that's not the beginning of their relationships.

1126
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just not.

1127
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 2: My brother hated my mother and believed she was a

1128
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: gold digger, but my aunt assured me that my mom

1129
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 2: never demanded or got any money. After Dad and her divorced.

1130
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 2: Last aunt heard my mom married her new husband soon after.

1131
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 2: Just real quick, Yeah, maybe she's not a gold digger,

1132
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 2: but she also is.

1133
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:05,320
Speaker 3: Not a good person.

1134
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: Left you. And yes, she had postpartum depression, which.

1135
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 2: Is very real, absolutely very serious and deserves you know,

1136
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: deserve a lot of support and treatment and all of those.

1137
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 3: Did she have postpartum depression for twenty four years?

1138
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: That part, that part make a mistake. Got owned up

1139
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: to it.

1140
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 2: She gave up all her parental rights after the divorce

1141
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 2: and also refused visitations my god. I asked aunt if

1142
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 2: mom ever tried to initiate a contact while I was

1143
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: growing up. She didn't, but her younger sister tried to

1144
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 2: see me twice when I was six and ten, but

1145
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 2: my father refused that.

1146
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 3: That is actually rough, that's rough that the aunt tried

1147
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 3: to go in cop because she probably wanted to have

1148
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 3: a relationship with her niece. Yeah, and then the father

1149
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 3: was like, no, like what that's that's her aunt.

1150
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: And I have to say this hurt me a lot.

1151
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 2: It was one thing knowing that she left, but another

1152
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 2: to know that she left to be with another man

1153
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 2: and his children. I searched her on Facebook and saw

1154
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 2: that she had three children with Xander and also considers

1155
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 2: his three children hers.

1156
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: In some posts, they refer to her as a mom.

1157
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: But you weren't a mom for your yeah, iological first daughter.

1158
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 3: I mean four years, Opie. It is really awful and

1159
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 3: your mom does not deserve any of your you know, forgiveness.

1160
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 3: But I do think it's important to note that, like,

1161
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 3: you have your brother, and you have your brother's family

1162
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 3: who all love you and all support you and all

1163
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 3: care about you, and so that is not nothing. Yes,

1164
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 3: but still obviously her is a lot.

1165
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 2: And especially I think the coming up at the funeral

1166
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 2: for such a loop so disgusting.

1167
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's terrible behavior. Who does that?

1168
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 2: God, who freakin does that? I was pretty hurt, so

1169
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 2: I left it at that. In a way, I kind

1170
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 2: of forgot about it until March when a girl with

1171
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 2: a familiar name followed me on Instagram, so I recognized

1172
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 2: her instantly. As a step sibling. I was confused, why

1173
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 2: would she follow me? I did not follow her back.

1174
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 2: During the next couple of months, I got followed on

1175
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 2: Instagram by other members of my mom's family, her children,

1176
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 2: nephew's nieces. Even her mother followed me the grandmother what.

1177
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 2: I never followed back, nor did we ever strike a conversation.

1178
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,439
Speaker 2: Some of them liked some of my pictures, but never

1179
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 2: anything beyond that. I didn't tell anyone about this, nor

1180
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 2: did I have any intention of initiating any conversation with them.

1181
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 2: But a week ago I was followed by my mom, Oh,

1182
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 2: what is this weird?

1183
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 3: Like this? It's so ichy. So if she had I

1184
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 3: don't know if she had maybe sent a letter or

1185
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 3: sent some sort of message to op and said, Hey,

1186
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 3: I know I don't deserve a relationship with you in

1187
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 3: any way. You don't owe me anything. I just wanted

1188
00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 3: to tell you that I have. I don't know. Maybe

1189
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 3: she's made changes in her life, realize the errors of

1190
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 3: her way, YadA, YadA, YadA, and said I just wanted

1191
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 3: to know that I'm here if you ever want to talk.

1192
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 3: But I will respect your you know, respect your decision

1193
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 3: and leave it at that. That would be the right move.

1194
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: This is not at this point so long.

1195
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 2: That would be probably almost the only accept I agree.

1196
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:26,280
Speaker 3: I agree. Yeah, this getting your entire family to follow

1197
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 3: op in some kind of weird like I don't know,

1198
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 3: it just feels like psychological like torment. Yes, you know,

1199
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 3: it feels I would be like, why are they following me? Yeah,

1200
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 3: like obviously not like to be clear to all reviews,

1201
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 3: not following, but Instagram following or social media social media following,

1202
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,720
Speaker 3: but why I would be so confused.

1203
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and every every person that follows you just like

1204
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 2: brings it.

1205
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 3: Yeah. It can't sack all.

1206
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 2: Those emotions every single time. It was quite shocking and

1207
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 2: seeing the notification, I did not know what to think.

1208
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 2: In a way, it felt intrusive. Yes, I should have

1209
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 2: put my profile in private. That very same day, she

1210
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,720
Speaker 2: sent me a message. It was a very long message,

1211
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 2: and after reading it, I was very conflicted and also

1212
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 2: too like, again, you can write this letter, but I

1213
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 2: feel like sending it on an Instagram DM just feels

1214
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 2: like like like at least in emails, like yeah, but

1215
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 2: I guess how do you.

1216
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 3: Get your emails? Yeah, yeah, that's it.

1217
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Facebook message, even if I don't know, but I'm

1218
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 2: just flitting hair. But even if Facebook message feels like okay,

1219
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 2: I'm like trying to find the most respectable channel personally.

1220
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 3: I think if she was gonna go to that freaking funeral,

1221
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 3: which I don't think she should have, she should have

1222
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 3: come with a letter in said here you go. You

1223
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 3: don't have to read this if you don't want to.

1224
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 3: Just wanted to give it to you. There we go,

1225
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 3: and then left and not brought the whole freaking family. Yeah, Like,

1226
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. What No.

1227
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 2: In the message she introduces herself expresses how hard it

1228
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 2: is for her to write this message. She in a

1229
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,479
Speaker 2: way expresses regret for leaving me, doesn't say why, Anne

1230
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 2: expresses her wish of beating me in to talk and

1231
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 2: get to know me. I did not respond. It's been

1232
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 2: a week since I read it, but I simply can't

1233
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 2: bring myself to respond. In a way, I don't know

1234
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 2: what to say. On one hand, I've always wanted to

1235
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 2: know my mom, but that was before learning why she left,

1236
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 2: or rather how she left. By the way, if you

1237
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,399
Speaker 2: never want to leave us and hang out with us

1238
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 2: for basically eternity, ever, forever, forever, I have a solution

1239
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:31,200
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1240
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: Time and now you have do we get an update

1241
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: on the days? Keon, I think it's sixty five day five.

1242
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but Frank the Puck I think

1243
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 2: said sixty five the other day.

1244
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: I know with that right now we have sixty five

1245
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: straight days.

1246
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 2: Like, if you listen twenty four to seven for sixty

1247
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 2: five days, you would still not right out, which means.

1248
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 1: You'll know you'll never run out. So do that. Please

1249
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: listen to our podcast. Oh and you know what, Please

1250
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: please please rate us five stars on Spotify while you're

1251
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: at it. Please, that'd be cool. That'd be nice. I mean,

1252
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: thank you.

1253
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 2: We are approaching the end of the story. But my god,

1254
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 2: this one's a dude.

1255
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 3: It is. And I think my advice for op right

1256
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 3: now is that first kind of sit with this before

1257
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 3: you go and take it to your siblings, your family members,

1258
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 3: because they'll have their own thoughts, probably saying don't talk

1259
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 3: to her. Sit with it before you talk to anyone.

1260
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 3: Think about does any part of you want to see her?

1261
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 3: Is any part of you curious about what she has

1262
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 3: to say? And if you aren't, if you're like I

1263
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 3: literally don't want to see her, and it's just like

1264
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 3: maybe some obligation you think that you have to see her.

1265
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 3: You don't. There's no obligation to see her.

1266
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: Yep.

1267
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 3: And also if you are at all curious, you don't

1268
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 3: have to see her. Now you can say, hey, I

1269
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 3: appreciate for reaching out. Don't feel comfortable right now. Maybe

1270
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 3: there will come a day when I am it's not

1271
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 3: right now, so you can postpone that she's on your timeline,

1272
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 3: not the other way around. And then once you've made

1273
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 3: those decisions, you can go talk to your family members

1274
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 3: if you want. But it can also just be kind

1275
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 3: of a thing for you.

1276
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: Well, that was phenomenal advice.

1277
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1278
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: I mean basically everything Sophia just said.

1279
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,959
Speaker 2: But I guess also if you do feel that part

1280
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 2: of you that is, you know, whether it's curiosity, whether

1281
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, I just want to have a mother

1282
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 2: in my life, you don't wish again, like, whatever you

1283
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 2: want to do, that's the move. You know, whatever you

1284
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 2: feel and your desires are for this again, it's your timeline.

1285
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 2: This is for you because you know you're the one

1286
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 2: that had to go through this very awful thing right

1287
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 2: potentially be prepared to potentially be let down. Yes, because

1288
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 2: she has literally flubbed the ball at every single pass,

1289
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 2: at every single juncture.

1290
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: You can prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

1291
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, go into it being like she might ask me

1292
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 3: for money. Yep, you might say that she hates me, like,

1293
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 3: you know, go into it knowing that she might hurt you.

1294
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 2: Yes, And if you do want to talk to her,

1295
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 2: maybe fine, especially with the new inheritance. You're like a

1296
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 2: really good therapist that specializes in this kind of maybe

1297
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 2: like mother ab abandonment or something along those lines, to

1298
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 2: help you navigate that if you want to do that.

1299
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 2: M Dang, Sophia, we both kind of crushed the advice

1300
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 2: on this one.

1301
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 3: I gotta agree. Yeah, I agree.

1302
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: What a great allue was. Thank you welcome.

1303
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 2: But ladies and gentlemen, we're going to get to the

1304
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 2: conclusion of this roller coaster we've got in front of us.

1305
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: Opie says.

1306
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 2: But then again, I feel like meeting her would be

1307
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 2: a betrayal to my father. I truly believe that he

1308
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 2: started hating her after she left. I also feel like

1309
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 2: meeting her would be a betrayal to my brother, who

1310
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 2: has become my biggest a port system in the last year,

1311
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 2: and he has truly taken.

1312
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Speaker 1: Care of me.

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Speaker 2: He detests her, and I know he would not be

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Speaker 2: okay with me meeting her. I also ask myself, why,

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Speaker 2: now the only thing that's changed, my father is no

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Speaker 2: longer around. Why would my mom contact me? If my

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Speaker 2: father was still alive, would she contact me at all?

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Speaker 2: It is very suspicious, Yeah, suspecially because what happens when

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Speaker 2: people pass away in inheritance, it's probably won that money.

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Speaker 2: And maybe every one of the hundred family members that showed.

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Speaker 3: Up, Yeah, I was all looking for money.

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Speaker 2: Our most I think still our most popular episode of

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Speaker 2: all time was the story of basically how army of

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Speaker 2: family literally stormed Opie's lawn to demand for money and

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Speaker 2: they literally got in a physical altercations.

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Speaker 1: Trying to demand money from her. It can get a

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Speaker 1: little nutty.

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Speaker 2: It can get crazy, especially when you have mob of

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Speaker 2: family like literally.

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Speaker 3: I'll come into your dad's funeral.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no idea what to do, or how

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Speaker 2: to respond, or whether to respond at all. I would

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate any advice at all. I will quickly

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Speaker 2: say that OPI mentioned like, oh, I wouldn't want to

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Speaker 2: you know, let down my father, my father's memory, or like,

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Speaker 2: but my brother.

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Speaker 1: You do what you want to do.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's okay if it goes against their wishes because

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Speaker 2: I think this is your experience that you went through. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: and I fully believe that you are entitled to do

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Speaker 2: what you want to do. Maybe that aligns with what

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Speaker 2: they want, but if you want something different than then

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Speaker 2: it's perfectly okay, which.

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Speaker 3: Is why I think it's like, figure out what you

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01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 3: want before. Yeah, before you got people putting things in

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Speaker 3: your head.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, but that's the end of that story and I

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Speaker 2: think the end of this episode.

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Speaker 1: But guys, if you love us, make sure to subscribe

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Speaker 3: We love you, and see it tomorrow.