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Speaker 1: Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio Elizabethtte.

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Speaker 2: So good to see my friend. See you be good.

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Speaker 2: I've been over Well yeah, I got another question for you,

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Speaker 2: but the easier one to answer. Do you know it's ridiculous? Yes?

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Speaker 2: I do? What this is?

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Speaker 3: This is?

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Speaker 2: This is ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, So what do you get when you mix

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Speaker 4: a cell phone with a very petty drunk girl.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, it's not about this. This is all a sudden,

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Speaker 2: an exciting mix. Go on.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So there's this lady Rhianna and Evans in Wales

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Speaker 4: the song ran.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Sure, she's twenty five and she's dating this dude who

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Speaker 4: you know has an ex girlfriend. Okay, and the boyfriend

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Speaker 4: her current boyfriend and his ex have a child together.

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Speaker 2: The boyfriend and his ex have a child together. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And so then apparently there's some custody issues and this

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Speaker 4: rheannon this like new girlfriend. She's you know, she wants

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Speaker 4: to defend her her love. That's not any of her

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Speaker 4: business quite frankly. But aside from that, so what she did,

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Speaker 4: and this started in December of this last year around

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Speaker 4: the hall, Yeah, yeah, she started sending these videos to

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Speaker 4: the ex girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: Oh, like stay away from a man, right, I mean.

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Speaker 3: It's just so embarrassing when people do that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Grow up well, also, it reveals it's a it's a

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Speaker 2: losing energy. It reveals your hanging on. And so it's

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Speaker 2: like either going and just scare them once or but

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Speaker 2: don't just keep saying go and scare them once.

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Speaker 4: She was upset because of this custody thing, and like

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Speaker 4: how upsetting it was to her boyfriend, this custody and.

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Speaker 2: When you got a kid involved, I mean you can't

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Speaker 2: just bum in rows the f up.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, she really did not grow up. She went

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Speaker 4: backwards full of hotcheys, went to like five six seven

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Speaker 4: year old humor. She started she sent videos of herself

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Speaker 4: farting into the phone. Yeah, she would like to start

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Speaker 4: the she would she'd take a video of her like

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Speaker 4: put the phone up to her rear end for bear.

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Speaker 4: Let's say she was wearing clothes, I don't go, I

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Speaker 4: beg you, and she'd rip a heater and be like

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Speaker 4: smirking and send this to the ex girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: So the ex girlfriend pretty much only gets the sound,

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Speaker 2: well the visual of like, yeah, but if it's a

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Speaker 2: clothes you'd have no idea if it's on mute, just you.

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Speaker 3: Know, it's the sound.

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Speaker 4: And so she's basically saying, I eat a lot of

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Speaker 4: fiber in your face.

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Speaker 2: A fiber?

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Speaker 3: Is this I'm discussing.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessed her would be that's not so bad in the.

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Speaker 3: House, baby, What is this? So she's just like she's

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Speaker 3: just tuning it up and sending these videos.

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Speaker 2: And she does she not understand that the really potent

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Speaker 2: part of a fart is the smell.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean for kids though, it's the sound. Sound?

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Speaker 2: Why does it always it makes me laugh?

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Speaker 3: Anyway, So anyway, so she sends these, but she starts

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Speaker 3: sending like.

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Speaker 2: More and more.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, and then it becomes harassment, and so she

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Speaker 3: got arrested.

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Speaker 2: That's what you're talking about there. Well, Hi, it's a crime.

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: So it was called it's cyber harassment, and all the

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Speaker 4: press was calling her the cyber fart. Yeah, And so

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Speaker 4: the prosecutor was, like, she admitted she sent the videos.

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Speaker 4: She said she was doing it because her boyfriend was

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Speaker 4: being treated unfairly. The prosecutor also said, quote it was

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Speaker 4: purely malicious. She was smirking throughout, found it hilarious. But

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Speaker 4: the victim didn't, so she gets she gets convicted. Okay,

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Speaker 4: she would get a twelve month community.

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Speaker 2: Order, and she did public service.

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Speaker 4: I guess she had to pay one hundred pounds in

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Speaker 4: compensation to the X and then one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 4: nine pounds in costs like fees, and then because she

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Speaker 4: was totally drunk when she made these, which it's like,

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Speaker 4: if I'm the ex I'm like, so I'm expected to

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Speaker 4: send my child to this woman's house who's drunk in Okay, yeah, no, this,

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Speaker 4: thank you? This works in my favorite for custody anyway,

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Speaker 4: because she was drunk. She also has to go to

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Speaker 4: fifteen rehab sessions, yes, and you.

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Speaker 2: Know rehab sessions like AA.

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Speaker 4: Meaning they call them rehabilitation sessions in the order. Sure,

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Speaker 4: and so you know she's only as sick as her secrets.

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Speaker 2: Quite frankly.

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Speaker 4: She also has to abstain from alcohol for sixty days

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Speaker 4: and they.

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Speaker 2: They have like an ankle monitor, this.

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Speaker 4: Ankle monitor that takes a sample of her sweat every

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Speaker 4: thirty minutes, twenty four hours a day.

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Speaker 2: What have you done to yourself? Girl? Did the boyfriend

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Speaker 2: stay with her?

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Speaker 3: I don't know order as well, but why don't.

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Speaker 2: All of his ability to see his child.

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Speaker 3: Totally fart monitor that's what she needs.

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Speaker 4: And then there's like a print out, like a long

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Speaker 4: piece of paper that comes out that.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember you saying how old they were? Do

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Speaker 2: we have any idea how old?

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Speaker 3: Twenty five too old? He's been with this dude.

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Speaker 4: The guy and the ex had been together for two years,

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Speaker 4: and I don't know how long she's been with this guy.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, he needs to cut his losses.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know what to make of that. I

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Speaker 2: know me neither.

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Speaker 4: Like it's like, ahha oh, this is why we can.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you see people like I think I've

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Speaker 2: seen like couples like this or like this triangle in public,

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Speaker 2: like in airports, bus stations and so forth. You're like

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Speaker 2: train stations, the public transportation depots. You know, pajama pants.

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Speaker 2: I was just about to say, you can almost feel

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Speaker 2: the pajama pants coming off of this.

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Speaker 3: I think that a lot of the gas is generated

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Speaker 3: by energy drinks, like I've got a picture of.

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Speaker 2: My coming from a high fiber diet.

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Speaker 3: She just eats fiber one bar and drinks and it's

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Speaker 3: just like a giant, like the un cloud that comes

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Speaker 3: out of her, so maybe that you could see it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm going to certify that ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Little thank you, thank you?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, now if you got a second, because I'm

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Speaker 2: not trying to like play like, oh I can top that.

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Speaker 2: But I got something that's seriously very similarly crazy and

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Speaker 2: it's also from overseas does Well a fortune telling ventriloquist

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Speaker 2: so good at what she does that she's able to

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Speaker 2: con the French mayor of the newdest seaside resort town.

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Speaker 2: It's not a mad lot, I'm about to tell you.

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Speaker 2: Buckle up, buttercup. This is ridiculous crime a podcast amount

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Speaker 2: absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cuns. It's always ninety

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Speaker 2: nine percent murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Oh I'm gonna start howling. Why not?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let free, like, let's let your wolf out.

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Speaker 4: I got neighbors who bang pots and pants when like

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Speaker 4: big events still doing them? Well no, I mean it

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Speaker 4: was like, you know, it's when the big events happen. Oh, sure,

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Speaker 4: old events they bang on pots and pants and okay it's.

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Speaker 2: Charming, you know what. Yeah, I want people to be

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Speaker 2: free to express themselves.

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Speaker 3: That's how I know something has happened. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 3: I got the pots and pants.

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Speaker 2: Speaking are free to express themselves, nudicts, Elizabeth, if I

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Speaker 2: got a story for you, I've been sitting on this one,

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Speaker 2: but today I fel like, you know, the right day,

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Speaker 2: at right time of the year to tell you about

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Speaker 2: the story of a fortune telling ventriloquist. Who can this mayor,

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Speaker 2: this French mayor in south of France no less indeed

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Speaker 2: by using ex seances and like this voice and possibly

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Speaker 2: some how do you say sex in this voice? Yes? Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this story. It takes a place along the Mediterranean coast,

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Speaker 2: right in the south of France, right around the corner

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Speaker 2: from the French Riviera. So go to the French Ria

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Speaker 2: Riviera in your imagination. Yeah, and then travel east. Go

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Speaker 2: so it's closer to Spain than Italy.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's so travel west?

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Speaker 2: You mean sorry, yeah west, I'm saying travel from the

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Speaker 2: east to the west.

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Speaker 2: So then it's a seaside town that's closer to Spain

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Speaker 2: than to Italy. It's a charming, idyllic, little postcard worthy

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Speaker 2: spot picture soft sandy beaches, warm days under the sun,

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Speaker 2: right as you enjoy this cool Mediterranean breeze belowing off

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Speaker 2: those blue blue waters. Also, everyone's fully naked.

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Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, I want to be there until

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Speaker 3: I got to the naked part.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned that up top. But this little idyllic seaside

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Speaker 2: town is to the biggest swinger community in Europe. Well

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a kinster bucket list destination, Elizabeth. It's

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Speaker 2: a welcome home for naturist aka nudists as we call

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Speaker 2: them over here. It's also it's also where a lot

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Speaker 2: of kinds of you know, pardon the expression, eurotrash freak

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Speaker 2: daddies like to get down and have their freak moments.

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Speaker 2: It's the preferred location for an appointment with a sex

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Speaker 2: party if you are you know.

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Speaker 2: The town is called Cape de Agda, Okay, And now

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Speaker 2: every year tens of thousands of visitors come to this

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Speaker 2: beach town to get down and dirty. They strip down,

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Speaker 2: they meet and greet, they exchange partners, bodily fluids, what

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Speaker 2: have you. They do it all in this rich, classy,

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Speaker 2: tasteful South of France kind of vibe. Yeah, having never

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Speaker 2: been there, I didn't really trust myself to convey to

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Speaker 2: you what it's like in this charming, idyllic freaks. Oh

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Speaker 2: way past that girl. We need to understand this, like

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Speaker 2: this community, it's so part of this story. You need

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Speaker 2: to understand it when you're picturing what I'm about to

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Speaker 3: I got a Google street view. Yes, so it's there's

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Speaker 3: people walking around with nicked on the Googles.

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Speaker 2: I thought about that. I didn't even know the cars

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Speaker 2: going through a bumping.

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Speaker 3: Into the body bus parading his gall exactly?

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Speaker 2: Is that everywhere every week? Yeah? So, as I said,

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Speaker 2: do you go from like the French Riviera, you know

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Speaker 2: where that is, and then you go around that little

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Speaker 2: bump and in France and then you run down south

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Speaker 2: towards Spain down there like apparently know Brits like to

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Speaker 2: go there, because I found a lot of British papers

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Speaker 2: like the stories going and they send a journalist like

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Speaker 2: I stripped down and I winded to this town right

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Speaker 2: and then.

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Speaker 4: The exactly I saw a museum like there was like

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Speaker 4: what do you call it?

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Speaker 3: How do you say?

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Speaker 2: Display?

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Speaker 4: Exhibit about naturalists? Naturalists? I know how to talk today?

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Speaker 4: Knew in France and like the history.

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Speaker 2: Oh I bet that's interesting. It really was. It was

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Speaker 2: an exhibition and.

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Speaker 4: It was like with the photographs, photographs and all these

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Speaker 4: like written materials they and kind of like promotional pamphlets

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Speaker 4: and films.

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Speaker 3: So there are you know, naked people and.

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Speaker 2: You're just looking at it and probably.

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Speaker 3: Naked people for the first time in my life.

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Speaker 2: Don't tell system Mary pat exactly.

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Speaker 4: But it was really interesting and like the connections with

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Speaker 4: various like pseudoscience, real science, weird like you know, social

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Speaker 4: movement exactly.

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Speaker 2: you encapsulate this vibe, well, the vibe in Ogda, because

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Speaker 2: out with them, pay to enter, strip down, and then

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Speaker 2: the gate. Clothing is forbidden also, so as photography obviously,

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Speaker 2: so people can be you know, very demure, hold space

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Speaker 2: for their body. Now in this OGDA you can do

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Speaker 2: from Old Naked City, quote, every facet of ordinary life

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Speaker 2: city is here. A bank, a post office, several supermarkets,

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Speaker 2: concrete arcades lined with hairdressers, fishmongers, opticians and clothes boutiques

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Speaker 2: throughout fully dressed staff, a formality the apparently developed of

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Speaker 2: So the people working are dressed. The people who are

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Speaker 3: That's interesting because I imagine like you're at the hairdresser

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Speaker 3: Some of that that for some that might be a selling.

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Speaker 2: It might be extra. They play extra autometrist.

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Speaker 3: And you're just sitting there, like they put paper down

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Speaker 2: Lot of paper, A lot I imagine a lot of

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Speaker 2: But some of the people are nude. So like it's

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Speaker 2: That's why I've been here for thirteen years. So you'll

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Speaker 4: They go to clear the table and they're like, excuse me,

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Speaker 4: pardon my reach, and now you've got crotch in your face. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I just keep thinking of violations of my.

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Speaker 2: All the hair flying around every I mean like that violations. Yeah, sure, yeah.

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Speaker 2: The general clothing rule at the Seaside resort is simple. Quote,

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Speaker 2: we do ask that guests are dressed for breakfast, but

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Speaker 2: since it'schure up and since it's newdiced that this means

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Speaker 2: So you might see a quote grandmother aged beauty and

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Speaker 2: But also you may see like young children. So if

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Speaker 2: is quite pg with families and couples wandering around doing

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Speaker 3: Oh see, that's what I was wondering, Like, is it

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Speaker 2: Day night? Exactly? Da night. Yeap. So let's take a

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Speaker 2: little break and after this I'll tell you what happens

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Speaker 2: when the lifestyle happens. Elizabeth Zaren you ready to find

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Speaker 3: I guess yeah. I'm trying to, you know, I I

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Speaker 3: and I'm trying to get away with from that. So

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to, like, you know what, Furries, I love you,

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Speaker 3: you do you? Same with the magic, the gathering around cards.

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Speaker 2: I care? Almost got close. We'll try and get work

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Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, you know what, I am not gonna And.

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Speaker 2: Also who cares what a podcast host says?

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Speaker 3: I mean, really can we get down to that? And

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Speaker 3: anything I say is a total crock of.

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Speaker 2: Either it's either it's enjoyable and funny, which is about

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Speaker 2: our job, or it's like I didn't need that opinion.

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Speaker 2: You ignore. Ignore.

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Speaker 3: You have no idea how much stuff I ignore all day?

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Speaker 2: Yes, what you say, I'm well, I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: listen to that. Who knows?

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Speaker 3: Who cares?

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Speaker 2: And I only listened to ten percent of what I say.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, continue, So, yeah, we're gonna go check out the lifestyle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you ready, let's do it.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well you want to take off a couple of

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Speaker 3: No, So first of all, it's freezing in here.

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Speaker 4: Second of all, I am I am not someone who

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Speaker 2: I'm getting paid by AhR.

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Speaker 3: Just a second's admiral, iHeart, it was really quick. Well

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Speaker 3: they got the whole place bug so.

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Speaker 2: Well, Elizabeth the Lifestyle, the Guardian did this writer who

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Speaker 2: went around by the way, as I teld you, nude

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Speaker 2: like took off her clothing, had like a partner there.

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Speaker 2: I was like, doing the life.

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Speaker 4: Well, you can't get people to talk to you if

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Speaker 4: you're there. Well, first of all, you have to take

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Speaker 4: your clothes.

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Speaker 2: Off there if you want to look through the gate. Right,

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Speaker 2: So they report and I quote as the bars and

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Speaker 2: clubs open, the Harbourside promenade resembles a fantasy catwalk with

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Speaker 2: fetish finery of all types trying not to be prudishly

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Speaker 2: British and splutter her into my apparol. As I witnessed

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Speaker 2: a sort of testicle dog collar, or a woman wearing

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Speaker 2: vagina was a challenge.

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Speaker 3: Was this the.

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Speaker 2: Bars and clubs open?

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Speaker 4: I see see okay, and she's got a skirt on.

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Speaker 4: Why would you make a cutout just take the skirt

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Speaker 4: off to hero?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a hero anyway. It's kind of like it's

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Speaker 2: overwhelming and then also becomes it becomes underwhelming. And she says, quote,

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Speaker 2: when you've seen fifty penises on your walk to breakfast,

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Speaker 2: the fifty first doesn't feel like a big deal.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would you would you would get to nude

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Speaker 4: numb or you pass hey cold today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 2: Well, nudity and may be brazen sometimes it's in very

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Speaker 2: nipple forward. Officially, sexual intercourse in public is banned. Right,

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Speaker 2: there's broadly a steep fine. If you're caught bumping joy button.

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Speaker 2: You cannot do that. Now, this whole seaside resort town,

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Speaker 2: the waiters, the shopkeepers, so forth. Who's policing this place?

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Speaker 2: They are their nude cops walking around with like a

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Speaker 2: utility belt, with like a badge and some handcuffs and

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Speaker 2: like the hat radio. And for the private clubs, they

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Speaker 2: remember it's just a mile by a mile. They're just

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Speaker 2: not that big. But it's got a lot of marks.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of people apparently, it's like, what are

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Speaker 2: you gonna do?

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Speaker 4: This is this an actual like incorporated town or public

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Speaker 4: streets and they can yet they can stop you on

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Speaker 4: the way in interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So during the busy summer season, the French authorities

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Speaker 2: and they task them with keeping the influx of tourists

439
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 2: under control. I wanted you to guess what they call

440
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,360
Speaker 2: this will be French police, but I was like, it's

441
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,639
Speaker 2: probably not the y SVU. Anyway, this summer is also

442
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 2: the time of year when Ogna play host to the

443
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 2: most families. Right, So you got this little tiny nude

444
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 2: to seaside rese are people everywhere. You need someone to

445
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 2: run it. You need like a as I said, right now,

446
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 2: when it comes to crime, the safest place apparently is

447
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,439
Speaker 2: the Sandy Beach. One foreign bar owner and Agda, a

448
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 2: man named no Joke Johnny walker, just like the liquor brand.

449
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 2: I just assume American. And he explained the low crime

450
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 2: rate on the beach with his American simplicity of reasoning,

451
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 2: and I quote, where's the shop left? You're supposed to

452
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 2: hide his swag up? Well, you know, I love a

453
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 2: challenge the general lack of crime. Obviously this leads to

454
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,680
Speaker 2: a lax attitude that the French they call it ben alize.

455
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 2: So it's apparently this laysaf fair attitude is why the

456
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,360
Speaker 2: beach is. It's clean, it's hygienic, but from what I read,

457
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: it could use its fresh coat of paint. And so

458
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, somebody should probably fix the boardwalk. Okay, right,

459
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 2: But as I said, I don't want to just rely

460
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 2: on journalists. I also decided, you know who else can

461
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 2: really root me here? Trip Advisor Elizabeth. I was like,

462
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,639
Speaker 2: well that's what Elizabeth would. I got a review for you.

463
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, from a trip Advisor user named keefeld Trucker.

464
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 2: We have the review from September twenty twenty four. This

465
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 2: is reason such a gift. I love stuff like this,

466
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 2: like a theme park. Once you're in, you're in, and

467
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 2: they have you somewhat literally by the testiculars. We stayed

468
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,239
Speaker 2: in Naturiva Spa, tired and not worth the cash. In

469
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 2: my book, I stay in mini hotels throughout the year

470
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 2: with work, and this was at best very average. Food

471
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 2: was decent. Most places we ate were nice. We tend

472
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 2: to do for late lunch and then some top us

473
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 2: per evening top up before going out. Clubs and bars

474
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 2: are super expensive. It seemed to only play club music loud.

475
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 2: It's not a Beitha. The demographic is so mixed they

476
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 2: should cater a bit more for other tastes. I don't

477
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 2: know what that last line means, which just sounds like

478
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 2: he wants he.

479
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 3: Wants like a jazz bar, like a piano bar.

480
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's KAO. So it sounds like basically

481
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 2: it's like a cruise ship or a conference in like Vegas.

482
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 2: Sounds like it's a key part of this review I

483
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 2: left out that I got to share with you. We

484
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 2: were there for bike Week, which is pretty cool. Can't

485
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 2: beat the sound of Harley's All Day Wait bike Week, Elizabeth,

486
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 2: you know what I'm accepting of you? Do you?

487
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 3: Bike Week?

488
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 2: So this charming, idyllic French seaside resort town Chocolate block

489
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: with nude bikers just pressing their copious hairy flesh into

490
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 2: those leather saddles of their harleys. Listening, Elizabeth, you were

491
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 2: wondering what the verdict was quote over all, the village

492
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 2: is cool. It's very tired, though, for the money you

493
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 2: pay everywhere, plus the visitor tax and entry, it would

494
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 2: be nice to see some investment. Litter, weeds, bins, et cetera.

495
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: All need addressed. If you want to cater for adults

496
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 2: willing to spend, make it a pleasant environment. Will we return?

497
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: Probably we will do a good bit of research and

498
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 2: searching out a good property next time. So it really

499
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 2: is more of a review of natural riva spas what

500
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 2: I'm reading.

501
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 3: It's kind yeah, but he's saying the rest weeds everywhere.

502
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, it's just like naked myrtle beach is what

503
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 4: it's kinda right.

504
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 2: So I found Jackie T from La who rode in

505
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: September of twenty twenty two that she had one hell

506
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 2: of a time at the French seaside resort town and

507
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 2: the title to her review kind of tips her hand.

508
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 2: If you need any kind of medical attention, good luck

509
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 2: remember all notice, So did I pick out a doctor.

510
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: I am a doctor. Is Jackie t Reports quote. My

511
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 2: husband and I are visiting from the United States. I

512
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 2: ended up getting COVID and I needed a PCR test

513
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 2: for my travel insurance company or any kind of legit

514
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 2: COVID test. No one that worked here was helpful at all.

515
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,640
Speaker 2: The doctor on site was closed Thursday at two pm.

516
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 2: I asked the woman working at the entrance where the

517
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 2: closest hospital was, and she didn't even know. Went to

518
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 2: the pharmacy across the street. They had no idea where

519
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 2: to get a test or where the hospital was. Either.

520
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 2: You're a pharmacist, you should probably know that. I looked

521
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 2: up the closest twenty four hour hospital asked if they

522
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 2: spoke English since my travel insurance company recommended them, and

523
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 2: said they did. The guy who answered the phone said

524
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 2: no and hung up on me. My husband has such

525
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: a hard time finding a restaurant that could do takeaway

526
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 2: for me since I had to quarantine. I get it.

527
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 2: I don't speak French, but I know the basics and

528
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: have a translation app. The most helpful person here was

529
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 2: our Airbnb host. One out of five would not recommend.

530
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: Oh my god, they're like the nightmare Americans.

531
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 2: When was it twenty twenty two September? Make us all

532
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: look bad? Oh god?

533
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 3: You know she's in there raising her voice, demanding COVID

534
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 3: tests and they're probably on the shelf behind the pharmacists.

535
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 3: And the pharmacist is like.

536
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: You know, maybe you should try London. I love the

537
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: d speak English. No tell us her husband running around naked.

538
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 2: Where gonna get a COVID test?

539
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 3: I want three chicken strips to go.

540
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: Well.

541
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 4: And you know what, like I've been not to this town,

542
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 4: to this region, and like Thursday at two pm, ain't nothing.

543
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 2: No, you're not going to find it. No, but you know, well,

544
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 2: I've kind of given you this environment. You can picture

545
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: the crime. Are you ready to me?

546
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 3: Like making cable Wabbo.

547
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 2: The fortune telling ventriloquist in the middle of this, Oh

548
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 2: forgot about the mayor of all of this, Oh god,

549
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 2: until the mayor at the time was a fifty five

550
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 2: year old man named j's Del. I'm gonna be speaking French.

551
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 2: I apologize anybody who speaks French. I'll be trying, said,

552
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 2: I'll be trying. I'm not gonna know this time, won't

553
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 2: be making fun of you like I do other times.

554
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: So anyway.

555
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 3: He well, I always, I mean, I don't like I

556
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 3: think you try.

557
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 2: I try sometimes I do like a pepula pia. So

558
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 2: everybody knows that it's a joke.

559
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: Trying to be I try. I do my damnedest. Like

560
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 3: you know, I fall short.

561
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 2: I know why I fall shorter. So that's why I

562
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 2: can look up and see you and I'm like, oh, Elizabeth,

563
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 2: I'm down here. So this guy, he's a he's a

564
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: police officer. Right. Then he becomes a French Secret service

565
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 2: officer and in two thousand and one he gets elected

566
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 2: mayor of this nudist town. And his father had been

567
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: in local politics, and so everybody was like, let's just

568
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 2: take his idiot son as a safe grow up against

569
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: the Socialist Party. Yeah. So so Gios dietur It was

570
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 2: a Minister of Parliament between two thousand and seven twenty twelve,

571
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 2: part of Jacques Scharrox Party the Union for a Popular Movement.

572
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: At the time, he was one of the two major

573
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 2: French political parties. It was the Liberal Conservative Party and

574
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 2: then the other party was the Socialists. Yeah, and this

575
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 2: party no longer exists because France, you can reap you.

576
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, make a new party.

577
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 3: All the time, they realized that the world of life evolved.

578
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 2: And that party shouldn't last like forever, like beautiful trees. Yeah.

579
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 2: So this party no longer exists and was replaced in

580
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen by Nicholas Sarkozzi's Republicans Party. That's Republicans plural,

581
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: yeah with a Q. Yeah. No, this is what he

582
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 2: looks like, the conservative French politician of this seaside resort town.

583
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: Got a good idea of him. Yeah, I'm trying to

584
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 2: imagine it with no clothes on. Now. The other crimer

585
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 2: of our day is the aforementioned fortune teller with the

586
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 2: ventriloquism skills, a forty four year old mother of six

587
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 2: named Sophia Martinez. On Facebook, she describes her professions as

588
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 2: quote a medium, hypnotherapist, and healer. Means don't we all?

589
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: I know you do now? She uses chigong as to

590
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: direct energies, right okay. She also says that she is

591
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 2: quite a specialist in the cleansing of energy for pipos

592
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 2: in places, so you see, not just people Elizabeth places.

593
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: She can like psychically dust your home maybe, like if

594
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: you need, like so someone to come down and free

595
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 2: a curse from your clubhouse. She's your girl. Okay, In

596
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 2: case you were wondering, this is what Sophia Martinez looks like. Wait,

597
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 2: oh okay, right, businesswoman. She looks like she gonna come

598
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 2: in and like fire everybody right now. According to the

599
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 2: French newspapers I read, these two met back in twenty twenty.

600
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

601
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: Now the reason they met with Sofia had a reputation

602
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 2: around town. And you may be wondering what she could

603
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 2: do to get a reputation in this freaky French nudist

604
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: seaside resort town. Well it turns out Sophia could speak

605
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: with the dead.

606
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 3: Well that'll get you a rep.

607
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be people anna talk. Yeah, now this

608
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 2: is the word on the street, you know. Sofia she

609
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: talks with the dead, And I was like, oh, how

610
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: about she charged right?

611
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 3: So she looks like quite the seductress.

612
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 2: I must say. Yeah, there is that aspect too, So

613
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 2: we'll get to that in a second now. According to

614
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: the mayor's lawyer, Jiles met Sophia after he'd heard about

615
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: her and after he'd suffered a personal tragedy his father

616
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 2: passed away. The mayor heard that this new misfortune teller

617
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 2: could help him reconnect with his departed daddy, So he

618
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 2: has to meet with her, and at their first seance,

619
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: Sophia was able to channel the spirit of the Mayor's

620
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: deer departed daddy. He was ecstatic he had to hear

621
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: from his father across the Great Divide Elizabeth.

622
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 3: From a naked lady.

623
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 2: Yes. After that first taste of Sophia's powers to speak

624
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 2: with the dead, the mayor was hooked. Yeah, and he's like,

625
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: I go back. I got to go back to that

626
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 2: naked lady who sounds like my dad. So another local

627
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: who had also lost her mother back in twenty seventeen,

628
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 2: she recalled to the French press how this all worked

629
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 2: and how she'd also relied on Sophia Martinez's ole connection

630
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 2: to help her speak with her dear departed mother. During

631
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: her first seance, Sophia told the woman that her power

632
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 2: to connect with her mother was also indicative that her

633
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 2: mother wished for her to duke the fortune teller with

634
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 2: some franks. Yeah, so as a pen moved on the

635
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: desk without any rational cause that this woman could perceive,

636
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 2: Sophia reportedly told the woman, it is your mother who

637
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: is signaling to you, she's asking you to help me.

638
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: That's a direct quote. That first seance cost her two

639
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: hundred euros, right, So the woman went for it and

640
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: then she's hooked. Right. So she estimated that over three

641
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 2: years she spent ten thousand euros. Whoa just trying to

642
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: talk to her mom naked lady a naked lady telephone.

643
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: So when it came to the mayor, Sofia went all

644
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: out right and her seances with the mayor. She called

645
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: herself an arch angel. She won the mayor's trust pretty quickly.

646
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 2: But how does she did it? Is really quite incredible

647
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 2: or in French all cray so. But rather than me

648
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 2: tell you about Elizabeth, close your eyes.

649
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 4: I am both excited and terrified like you to picture it.

650
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 2: It's a weekday evening and cape day actor and you, Elizabeth,

651
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: are an orange cat, an agent of chaos. You live

652
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 2: in the home of Sofia Martinez, resident psychic media and

653
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: communicator with the dead. You've watched her do her act

654
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 2: as a flesh telephone to the other side, and you

655
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: are not impressed. But still you sit on a high backed,

656
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: velvet upholstered chair as incense wafts past you. Soft and

657
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: Lousian folk music plays from the radio of the volume low.

658
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: It sets a mood. Seated next to you on a

659
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: similar chairs Gios de'e tour, the mayor of Cape de

660
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: Dog across the table from him is Sofia Martinez. At

661
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 2: the moment, both of them are nude, as is the

662
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 2: custom in this tiny nudist seaside resort town. With your

663
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: collar on, you're wearing the most clothing in this room.

664
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 2: The mayor waits, leans forward, his breath, expectant and halting. Meanwhile,

665
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: Sophia Martinez focuses her spirit and aligns her energy so

666
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: she can connect through the veil to the other side

667
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 2: and communicate with the dead. She takes a deep breath,

668
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: the literal inspiration fills her lungs with air and apparently

669
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: the words of the mayor's dead father, and then she

670
00:32:54,640 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: speaks moon fearz p deans du moment rips in English, Elizabeth,

671
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: which you also speak. You know this means my son,

672
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: why do you disturb my rest? But that voice she uses,

673
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: if you were not a cat and you possess the

674
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: power to laugh, you would burst out laughing. It's this hoarse,

675
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: masculine voice. It must hurt her vocal cords to even

676
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: do the voice. Meanwhile, the mayor is transfixed because when

677
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: she does the voice, somehow her lips don't move. The

678
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: voice seems to emerge from her. The Mayor's mesmerized, if

679
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 2: you could, you'd roll your eyes, but being an orange cat,

680
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 2: you just swish your tail. He asks his father, via

681
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 2: the fortune telling ventriloquist, a few more questions. He gasps

682
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: at times when Sophia does the voice, as it seems

683
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 2: like his father is there with him. Then comes the

684
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 2: ask that you know is coming. You hear Sophia say in.

685
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 6: The voice, proteges sofia, proteges sofia rendeis de he this

686
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 6: won't be bad.

687
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 2: And again you know what this means in English.

688
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,719
Speaker 6: Protect sofia protia, take care of her and her people,

689
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 6: the mayor tells his guiding archangel. Of course, of course

690
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 6: he will do whatever she needs. Since you can't laugh,

691
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 6: you reach forward with a paw and just knock a

692
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 6: candle off the table. And there you go, Elizabeth, you

693
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 6: furry agent of chaos. After just a few seances like

694
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 6: this one, the Mayor was the proverbial clay in her

695
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 6: hands right ready to be molded to her liking, because

696
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 6: the mayor would later confess that he was struck by

697
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 6: what he called her prowess as a clairev lant. Now,

698
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 6: from what I read, she would perform seances in person,

699
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 6: but later, once the long con had matured, she didn't

700
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 6: always have time to get over to his place and

701
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 6: do a full on seance, So the mayor would just

702
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 6: phone her and she'd be on the call with him,

703
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 6: and she would to persuade the mayor to do more

704
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 6: of her bidding, so he would do whatever she asked,

705
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 6: just as long as he could hear the sound.

706
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 2: Of his father's voice. That's crazy. But how does she

707
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: do it? How did she do? Yeah, well, you're doing.

708
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 3: It, but I am a man, whoa I gotta start making.

709
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 2: Some I saw your lips moving though.

710
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 3: Now you know I'm still recovering from a cold.

711
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 2: No, it probably didn't help feel well, Yeah, well there

712
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 2: was I found this guy of a French researcher, Antoine Giovanni.

713
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 2: He wrote for the journal Science and v DI Corvettes anyway,

714
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 2: Science and life discoveries. Right, So that's what Sophia Martinez

715
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: did with her her voice. He said, quote does not

716
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 2: rely on any extraordinary faculty, but exploit certain characteristics of

717
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 2: our speech production and listening systems. So she's working on

718
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: two angles. So what a ventrolquist does that's so remarkable

719
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 2: is how a person quote replaces the movements of the

720
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 2: lips with contractions of the tongue, the soft palette or

721
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: the larynx, well, keeping the mouth slightly open, without which

722
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 2: no speech is possible. So you got to keep that

723
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 2: little slight crash. Yeah. So this other key is to

724
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 2: control the pressure in her throat and her chest. You

725
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 2: want to compress the lungs using your diaphragm. Right, This

726
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: helps give the illusion of motionless speech. Our brains take

727
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: care of the rest. We tell ourselves the story. Oh

728
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: my god, they're not moving right. And this is what

729
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 2: the mayor did. He told himself the story and why

730
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 2: it worked so well because he just kept telling himself

731
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 2: story and he wanted it so badly.

732
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, as Joan Didion wrote, we tell

733
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 3: ourselves stories in order to live.

734
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 2: Very true. She is so accurate. Now the years go on,

735
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: this conservative French mayor, he starts telling others in this tiny, idyllic,

736
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 2: nudist town about how he felt about Sophia and her

737
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 2: remarkable skills, how she's so her prowess, her client list,

738
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 2: it starts to grow and grow all of a sudden,

739
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 2: everyone's talking about it. She's milking this whole one by

740
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 2: one mile town. And you know he also said that

741
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 2: he was quite infatuated with her.

742
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and her amazing knocker.

743
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 2: Is it Booboo's mes monizing. So even though he was

744
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 2: in nudist town and all these sexy, freaky parties are

745
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 2: going on every night, and you know, the mayor said

746
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 2: that their relationship wasn't sexual. This is not what the

747
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: local said. They saw. One local said, and I quote

748
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: for me, sex is at the haught of this scanda

749
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 2: where there is money involved, and its means sex is

750
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 2: bought of it too. They kind of go together. It's fridge,

751
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 2: all right. So my question is was the reporter nude

752
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 2: asking this question like like did they have to disrobe

753
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 2: to cover the story? The telegraph conservative, well, I don't.

754
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a good point and thought about that,

755
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 2: but you kind of if you're going to talk to locals,

756
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: you need to do man on the st Yeah, like

757
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 2: the telegraph of the British at the Telegraph, which is

758
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 2: a rather conservative pature.

759
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 5: Right.

760
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 2: So and they said, you know that the mayor said

761
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 2: that Sofia was indeed special to him, but not in

762
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 2: the way that was more like, quote, considered her to

763
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 2: be his daughter. Okay, yeah, I don't know. So that's

764
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 2: why he would say he would do anything for her,

765
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 2: And I mean like anything like when she recently remarried

766
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 2: the psychic's third marriage. The mayor paid for the sumptuous affair,

767
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 2: and he walked her down the aisle. Yeah, like a father. Yeah, exactly, yes,

768
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 2: And his lawyer put it, quote nothing was too good

769
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 2: for missus Martinez. And is that one incensed local mentioned

770
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 2: earlier he did it with the French seaside resort town's

771
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: money like it was his own. So when that got

772
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 2: out of that changed things. Yeah. So Elizabeth, if you

773
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 2: were a scammer living in a seaside resort town of

774
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 2: nudists and you had the mayor doing your bidding, yeah,

775
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 2: you know, whenever you daddy talked to him, why what

776
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: would you ask the mayor to do for you? Will

777
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 2: be your ask? Oh gosh, I don't know. Put some

778
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 2: clothes on, tell these people to get dressed. You're the mayor,

779
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: you can do it. I don't know what did she Well,

780
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: let's take a little break and after these messages, I

781
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 2: will tell you what she got for doing the boys.

782
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Zaren, we're back. Hello, I put my clothes back on.

783
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: If you're happier? Now you're good? So are you?

784
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: Are you decent?

785
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: Yeah? Producer? Do you can put your glasses back on?

786
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 3: Oh?

787
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 2: Thank god? Now, Sophia, our psychic medium of today, I

788
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: asked you what you would ask for? Right before I

789
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: tell you what she asked for? Do you have an answer?

790
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 2: Have you thought about what you would ask for from

791
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: the mayor of this newest seaside?

792
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 3: I still don't know.

793
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: I'm just I can't not a good crimer.

794
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 4: Well, because we go to break you stripped down, you

795
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 4: stand on the table, you help my hands on your

796
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 4: hands and I'm like, I please stop. So how do

797
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 4: I focus?

798
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: Now? The interns loved it, so anyway, the psychic medium right,

799
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: they received obviously the lush, beautiful wedding, yeah, very sumptu

800
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 2: fair that was paid for by the mayor by the city.

801
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 2: But there was also a veranda for her home that

802
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 2: he had the mayor build onto her home. But the

803
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 2: question of how she did it was what we would

804
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 2: call in America insurance fraud. Oh yeah, because who's going

805
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: to pay for it? Not this town. Like obviously, remember

806
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 2: the people were complaining about how the trash wasn't getting

807
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 2: there is not money being spent in other places that

808
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 2: it should have been spent to Sofia.

809
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 3: House.

810
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: I read the French paper. I did not think it

811
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: was the French.

812
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 7: Paper Medi Libre or medi Libre anyway, it's like, yeah,

813
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 7: so they reported quote during work that took place in

814
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 7: Valet Plague during a large construction site, the terrace of

815
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 7: a restaurant owner was apparently damaged through overcharging for the

816
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 7: repair work to be carried out with the insurer of

817
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 7: the construction company, but also a reduced scale of the

818
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 7: repairs undertaken.

819
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 2: A significant sum was apparently released. It seems to have

820
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 2: been used to cover the construction of the Clairvoyance property.

821
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 2: This is an insurance scam but also an abuse of

822
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 2: corporate assets. The sum that was released is very significant

823
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 2: and does not correspond to the work carried out at

824
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: the restaurant, but more to what was implemented at the Clairvoyance.

825
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 3: I see, yeah, that's that.

826
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: So she can get the veranda. Do not repair the restaurant,

827
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 2: but she gets a veranda. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, so beyond

828
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 2: the construction pod. Sophie also finessed the mayor into getting

829
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 2: her jacuzzi hot tub. Yeah, because you know sometimes you

830
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 2: need one to sip off there. Now. She also arranged

831
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 2: for the mayor to buy her airline tickets for her

832
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 2: and her family too far away dreamy destinations like French,

833
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 2: Polynesia and Thailand.

834
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

835
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 2: Now all told the mayor and Bezel nearly three hundred

836
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 2: thousand euros over a four year period of time. Wow.

837
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 2: The funds to his fortune teller whoa not only that sop.

838
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: He also arranged for the mayor to get her a

839
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: car to drop off and pick up her daughter at school,

840
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 2: all paid for by the seasward resort town. She had

841
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 2: the mayor hire five of her family members her jobs

842
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: in the city. We had no show jobs. Yeah. The

843
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 2: mayor hired her daughter at his office on probably a

844
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: no show job. He hired her new husband as the

845
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 2: technical director for the town. He hired a friend of

846
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 2: hers to run the toll gate. The tourists had to

847
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 2: pass her to enter the nasty seasiders. Yes, so I

848
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 2: feel that I have to say that from everything I read,

849
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 2: there was indeed no romantic aspect to this story. I

850
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: could be wrong about that, Yeah, but his lawyer denied it.

851
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 2: Her lawyer denied it. The two of them denied it.

852
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 2: He walked her down the aisle. You know. It does

853
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 2: seem like he was more infatuated in a sense of

854
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 2: she makes my daddy noises. So it's France, you know,

855
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 2: and it is home of them in Najatua in the afternoon,

856
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 2: tryst with your lover. We cannot look past the idea,

857
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 2: and it's hardly hard to believe. There may not have

858
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 2: been no hanky panky, even initially, especially in a new

859
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: dist town. But whatever. The locals really are fixated on this.

860
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 2: They were convinced there was a lot of them, at

861
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 2: least from what I read, or convinced that it was

862
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 2: all about sex or possibly love. Yeah. But they also

863
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: didn't want to blame the mayor, so it said they

864
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 2: blamed her.

865
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 3: Oh well, yeah, as.

866
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 2: One local recounted, quote, I like Zime. He has been

867
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 2: good to me. He was tricked. Maybe he was in

868
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: loveless hair.

869
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 3: Well it does actually so, I mean he's the victim.

870
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there was someone else in town who might

871
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 2: have been worried that the mayor was falling in love

872
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: with the fortune telling Ventriloquist, it was, namely the mayor's wife.

873
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 2: I was going to say, Geraldine, Oh, poor Geraldine. Right,

874
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: So in October twenty twenty three, she went to the

875
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 2: police and told them she believed that her husband was

876
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 2: breaking the law for the sake of his newest psychic medium. Now,

877
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: working off this tip from the wife, the police spring

878
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 2: into action. Right, we have nothing to do here, so

879
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 2: they set up a wiretap. They began to record conversations

880
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 2: between the mayor and his favorite soothsayer. They record these

881
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: for months. Right, the police listened into the calls. The

882
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: officers are amazed by what Sophia is doing. Right, not

883
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 2: the long Con, Right, that's kind of run of the mill.

884
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: But they just couldn't believe the voice. They were here, right,

885
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: the cops doubted themselves and what they knew to be true.

886
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 2: The voice was that's powerful. Yeah. After a few months

887
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 2: of listening in on the Long Con, in March of

888
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, the French police finally set up a

889
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 2: raid at the mayor's office. Roughly twenty judicial police from

890
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 2: outside the area come rushing in for the nearby Montpellier.

891
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, did they have to take their clothes off.

892
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: To come in? I think that the cops they can

893
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: qualify as workers. They have to, so they came in

894
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 2: when they did the police actions, that'd be great, though.

895
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: Twenty cops set the door of the town. They're stripping

896
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: down and putting everything in a little bit. Other cops,

897
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 2: the mustaches. On Tuesday morning, the French investigators they raid

898
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 2: the mayor's office, other locals, the local cops, they go

899
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 2: to his house, they go to the helm of Sofia Martinez,

900
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 2: they arrest everybody. Doesn't take much digging to find evidence

901
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 2: of the mayor's embezzlement, the fraud, the insurance scamming. But

902
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 2: it wasn't just him because obviously he's criminally implicated his partners.

903
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 2: So yeah, he found some people who've been taking bribes.

904
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 2: There's the construction company that's in on the insurance scam. Right,

905
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 2: So this is when all hell breaks loose in this sleepy,

906
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 2: little sexy, freaked at eastas Side resort town. So at

907
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 2: this point, right we've got the cops. They've run their

908
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 2: wire tap, they've been listening for months, they got all

909
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 2: the evidence they need, right, but yet they're still beguiled

910
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 2: by Sophia and her magical ventriloquism act. And so when

911
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 2: they raid the mayor's office and they arrest her and

912
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 2: they arrest him him, they're going, okay, tell us all

913
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 2: the story. They separate out everybody, right, So they got questions,

914
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 2: and their questions are essentially, is the mayo guilty or

915
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 2: is he just dumb? Right? Well, Sophia really channeling the

916
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 2: dead father? And the does she a natural voice down

917
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 2: and to just got stuck to the felonious skills?

918
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 3: I think I could answer all of those for.

919
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 2: Them right now. So news also breaks with the arrest

920
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 2: because it's big news. They go into the mayor's office,

921
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 2: all these judicial cops, they pull them out. So this

922
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: conservative mayor gets attacked immediately by his fellow conservatives who

923
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 2: tried to climb over his wrecked mayoral career. And then

924
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 2: his main rival was this man named Fabian Derasano. Right,

925
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 2: he's from the new far right Marine Marine Lapane Party

926
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 2: National Party. So what are all these conservative politicians doing

927
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 2: in a new just freaked out eas seaside resort town.

928
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 2: Right to our American political sensibilities. This may not job

929
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 2: in Europe. It makes perfect sense. But I mean he's

930
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 2: right out in the open. I mean they're not like

931
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 2: hiding here. They may get caught.

932
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because we've got the weird puritanical Yeah, the

933
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 3: whole moral hypocrisy, y puritanical.

934
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 2: So this far right mayoral rival of this newdest seaside

935
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 2: beach Town Fabian Verrasano, He says of the recently conned mayor, quote,

936
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 2: he can be generous in love with lots of different women.

937
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 2: That's his personal life. But using the attack SPA's money,

938
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 2: that is a different story. He has made the mockery

939
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 2: out of hometown. I don't know how that's possible. So

940
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 2: he falls out with the calls for the bear to

941
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 2: step aside and to resign. It's a problem with that, Elizabeth,

942
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 2: because under local French law, this mayor doesn't have to resign. Yeah,

943
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 2: even if he's behind bars. So really yeah, the law

944
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 2: professor Sebastian Danija, he explained it this way. He said,

945
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 2: quote theoretically he can be in prison and remain mayor

946
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: of Ogda and president of the urban community. No one

947
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 2: can force him. And as long as he's not deprived

948
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 2: of his civil rights, and only the judge can ultimately

949
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 2: do that. The judge would have to see hear her

950
00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 2: whole case and whatever. So until that happens, he stays

951
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,959
Speaker 2: the mayor. And so what that means is he's there

952
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: doing mayor business, like having the weekly town council meeting,

953
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: and he's in prison. He's in the behind bars. He's like, yeah,

954
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: come to my cell. You guys sit on the other

955
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 2: side of the bars. Let's do this. So anyway, after

956
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 2: these raids, the arrests, the mayor, the fortune telling ventriloquists,

957
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 2: they all get they're all on police custody, as I said, right,

958
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 2: and the police also said they've been listening and they're

959
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 2: just so like struck by the voice. Right. So they

960
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 2: once they have Sophia and custody, the first thing that

961
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 2: they want is like, to the voice, the voice, Come on,

962
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: do the voice for us to do it? Just do it.

963
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 2: It's like the one of the Benny Jesuits from Doomed.

964
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 2: Do the voice. So she does the voice for the cops, right.

965
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 2: The cops are floored. They are literally speechless watching her

966
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,720
Speaker 2: do it. Apparently, from what I can tell from this story,

967
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 2: French people are very impressed by ventriloquism.

968
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 3: Oh really, they're.

969
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,479
Speaker 2: Just like, their lips are not moving. Where is this coming?

970
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 2: Pick up? Shake out? So, I don't know. One local

971
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 2: cop told the press that what he witnessed white and

972
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 2: he heard. He said, it was astonishing. This is like

973
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 2: what I would expect children to say about this. Right,

974
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 2: these are the cops, the tectives investigator, I know, right,

975
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 2: God bless he doesn't say oh well, yet I feel

976
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,959
Speaker 2: what he's saying. So this other cop describes a voice

977
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 2: as quote masculine sounding, calm and husky. So they're like, yeah,

978
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 2: it's like Kathleen Turner voice, like Kim Carnes. I don't know. So,

979
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 2: after this demonstration, the French cops have all sorts of

980
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 2: questions for Sophia. They play a tape of her doing

981
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 2: the voice over the phone. They play it for the mayor. Right, so,

982
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 2: after they interrogate her and they have her do the

983
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 2: voice and all that, and they recorded all this, they

984
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 2: go over to the mayor and they're trying to tell

985
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 2: him and he won't believe that she's not channeling his father.

986
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 2: So and I don't know. I don't think he's just

987
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 2: buyer's remore or a lack of buyer's remorse, you know,

988
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 2: even Dunny Krueger, all those types of things where a

989
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 2: person just refuses to believe that the past and the

990
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: future don't connect. Right, He's like, what are you talking

991
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: about here? I am she's all this time, know that's

992
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 2: been my father. They're like, oh, seriously, she's doing it. Yeah, yeah,

993
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 2: and they're like okay, well, so the cops then have

994
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: to play an actual video of the interrogation so he can.

995
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 3: See doing this, and it just fractures him.

996
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 2: And then finally he's like, man, so he realizes like

997
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 2: he's been coned. Right. The French newspaper Media Libre, they

998
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 2: reported Sophia told the cops quote, I knew I was

999
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 2: being wiretapped, but I cannot stop talking in death voice.

1000
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 2: I've entered into a rope lay and I can't get

1001
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 2: out of it, like someone who drinks and can't stop.

1002
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 2: So now she has a drunk on her own power.

1003
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 3: I know how that goes though.

1004
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 4: You start saying something as a joke and then you

1005
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 4: can't stop saying, oh, yeah, you.

1006
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 2: Got a couple, I got a budget. So the mayor,

1007
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 2: you know, he's been a mayor for twenty three years.

1008
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 2: That's why people are like, I can't believe it. You know,

1009
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 2: he blows all of this up just for somebody who's

1010
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 2: going to pretend to be his daddy. That's why he

1011
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 2: did it. They weren't even doing the boom boom man.

1012
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 2: On March twenty first right is of twenty twenty four,

1013
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 2: last year, the mayor makes his first appearance in court

1014
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 2: right on charges of quote, illegal interest taking and corruption.

1015
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 2: He tells the judge quote, since I found out that

1016
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 2: this voice was a hoax, I've been stunned. I regret

1017
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 2: if I've committed in the wrongdoing, I would like to

1018
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 2: add it in this case, I am first and foremost

1019
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 2: the victim. An entire city will suffer.

1020
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 3: Wow.

1021
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 2: So yeah, he tries to plead like oops, yeah, and

1022
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: some of his friends who he leaned on to do

1023
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 2: favors for his fortune, telling Ventriloquist to Medium, they get

1024
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 2: dragged into this fire. So now they've got to get

1025
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: themselves out. So there's like the construction company. Two executives

1026
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 2: from the construction company. They get indicted for the insurance

1027
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 2: fraud and corruption and so forth, because they're taking public funds.

1028
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 2: It's all bad and also there's forged documents. That's another crime. Yeah.

1029
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 2: So in Sofia, where is she? She's in detention, right,

1030
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 2: so she gets sent to an all women's facility, but

1031
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 2: then she has to be removed from that because her

1032
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 2: fellow inmates they all attack her because they believe that

1033
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 2: she's a witch. So has he placed in protective custody.

1034
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 2: Ball she waits.

1035
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 3: Justine with two of the voice in jail.

1036
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, she the voice and they were like no. So

1037
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 2: her lawyer says that that he tried to excuse what

1038
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 2: she was doing. He goes into the court and she's like,

1039
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: you know, you have to understand, Uh, my client, she's

1040
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 2: a witch, right, and so or maybe she thinks she's

1041
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 2: a witch. People think she's a witch. This guy thinks

1042
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 2: she's a witch. You know, so some people, smart people

1043
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 2: believe she's a witch. So therefore throw the case out

1044
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 2: and the lawyer and this is how the lawyer put

1045
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 2: in Elizabeth. She is admitted betraying the mayo's confidence, but

1046
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 2: it's not the case of manipulation because she has owned

1047
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 2: up to what she did, and other clients, including doctors

1048
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 2: and architects, said that she had mystical powers. So she

1049
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 2: you know, if you can an architect in France, that's

1050
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 2: like it's clear high bar. Y'are on a case closed

1051
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 2: no in a sense then, so if you're wondering why

1052
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 2: her lawyer might make that case, right and don't be

1053
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 2: a legal hater, Elizabeth, Okay, he did have evidence, actual evidence,

1054
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 2: he said, and I quote she revealed the details about

1055
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 2: their lives that no one else knew about. So boom,

1056
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 2: what are you gonna say about that?

1057
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 3: Don't you feel so small town?

1058
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 2: I don't believe that. I don't believe it's true. Personally,

1059
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 2: that's simple. But so via she knows that sees these

1060
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 2: secrets that doctors and architects are impressed by, but the

1061
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 2: judge not so impressed. So again you're on the clearly

1062
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 2: my life is in a sense, she is a witch.

1063
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 2: And so the justice though, of this side, it is

1064
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 2: a strange too, I admit that. But the justice is

1065
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 2: kind of strange too, because it's like everything's about like

1066
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 2: if you admit it, and we will throw away the case, right,

1067
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 2: because they really want the mayor to stop being Zi Maya,

1068
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 2: that's the thing. So he's like, no, I am still Maya.

1069
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 2: No get to me, lunch or whatever. So the ventril

1070
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 2: she's locked up, she separated. The mayor is still in town. Right,

1071
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 2: and also, by the way, the ventriloquist, her daughter gets

1072
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,479
Speaker 2: locked up. Her close friend who ran the toll door gate,

1073
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 2: she gets locked up, her third hug he gets locked up.

1074
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 2: So out of interest for them, she's like, okay, she

1075
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,439
Speaker 2: starts confessing I did this, I did that. They start

1076
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 2: getting released, right, So that's that's a happy thing for everybody.

1077
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 2: But the trouble for all of this is that the

1078
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 2: scandal was bad for the vibes of this tourist rich

1079
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 2: nudist calling you. They're like, people don't want to come

1080
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 2: here and get naked if they think we have no

1081
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 2: good mayor and our cups of fools. So justice has

1082
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 2: to be swift. They want this story to go away. Yeah,

1083
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 2: so they start leaning on them, right, So they need

1084
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 2: to get the mayor to quit his job, and he's like, no,

1085
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 2: when is the next election two more years? Yeah, And

1086
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 2: so his co conspirators from the construction company, though, they're like,

1087
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 2: they're not so blase about power. They pay their fifty

1088
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,800
Speaker 2: thousand year ob bail. They get released. So now this

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00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 2: case starts to go away a little because we don't

1090
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 2: have updates on them in the press anymore. That's good. Right.

1091
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 2: In April, after waging a long fight to keep his gig,

1092
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 2: the mayor announces that he will give way to ZIP people.

1093
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 2: He resigns his being mayor in May, right, and he

1094
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 2: announces he'll do it, and then he does it in May.

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00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 2: And in June they let him out. He gets released

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00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 2: from jail. They're like, okay, fair enough, and so that's it.

1097
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 2: That's all the time he has to do. So that's

1098
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 2: enough time behind bosh for him. They decide they put

1099
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 2: him on probation. He's released, he's barred from leaving France.

1100
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 2: You can't leave France. And he's forbidden from doing any

1101
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: contact with Sofia. He's like, no more talking to your

1102
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 2: daddy through hell, right, and so then also he can't

1103
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 2: talk to the construction company buddies.

1104
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 3: But he's very limited exactly.

1105
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 2: Just kind of go on from naked, naked and humbled.

1106
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 2: So Sophia nor obviously your friend, her daughter, husband, they've

1107
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 2: all been released from jail, but Sofia, she's still in

1108
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 2: jail come June. She's locked up. She's doing advoice to

1109
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 2: try to get it out, it's not working. By the

1110
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 2: end of the month, she's finally said to be free

1111
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 2: because they decide, okay, that's been enough time. But for

1112
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 2: her probation, they send her a halfway house in Strasbourg,

1113
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 2: which is Frances just across the German border and just

1114
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 2: across the Swiss border as well. It's just really the

1115
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 2: name strasburgs like, is this really a French time? Do

1116
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 2: you guys get this in the war? And so anyway,

1117
00:54:56,040 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 2: she's forbidden from practicing witchcraft, esotericism, no alternative meta send,

1118
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 2: no other form of woo woo treatments of any kind.

1119
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 2: And so there you go, justice meeted out because and

1120
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 2: the story went away, and the tourist down was happy,

1121
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 2: and they took the clothes off and they said, so

1122
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Strange, a true story of a fortune telling ventriloqust

1123
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 2: to condom mayor of a French nudist seaside resort to

1124
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 2: there you go by thinking it was dear dead departed

1125
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 2: amazing any ridiculous takeaways here?

1126
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 4: You know, I think it's really interesting where the mayor

1127
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 4: wanted so badly to connect with his father, and you know,

1128
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 4: you have that trauma and that loss, and especially I

1129
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 4: don't know how fresh.

1130
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 2: It was for him. If this was a recent loss.

1131
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 2: It's obviously extending years.

1132
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 3: I mean, but it'd be like at the beginning when

1133
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 3: he first.

1134
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,439
Speaker 2: Starts talking like, yes, it is a recent loss.

1135
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you think, like that's when you're you're

1136
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 3: most desperate in your grief.

1137
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. She's weaponizing his grief, Yeah exactly.

1138
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 4: And so he he's convinced himself that this is true

1139
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 4: and it has become so important to him, and that

1140
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,760
Speaker 4: you can then, when you have the kind of of driver,

1141
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 4: you can rationalize anything. So he's rationalizing all of his

1142
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 4: poor choices and his criminal choicest Yeah exactly. And it

1143
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 4: is almost sort of like he is obviously the victim.

1144
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 4: He did dumb stuff, but like I really feel for

1145
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 4: him and.

1146
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 3: In what his grief did to him and her manipulation

1147
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 3: of it to exploitation.

1148
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:25,320
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.

1149
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 3: Saron, what's your ridiculous takeaway?

1150
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 2: Zim boobies? While she's mismerizing him with your voice, I mean,

1151
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 2: you were watching a ventriloquist. He's not moving their mouth,

1152
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 2: but they're like jiggling all over the place. It's just

1153
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 2: hilarious to me.

1154
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 3: Well, I mean then you can really see if they're

1155
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 3: breathing or not. There's no clothing to mask it, like

1156
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 3: if you're wearing like And then if she rips a

1157
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 3: fart right on the Nauga High, there's no clothes to muffle.

1158
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 2: It's just a sharp They're in her house, so she

1159
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 2: may have been wearing a robe. I have no idea.

1160
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 2: I just like picture. She's naked just everywhere, Yeah, exactly everywhere, and.

1161
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 4: He's just mesmerized, not only by her rack looking and

1162
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 4: seeing that she's not moving and breathing.

1163
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 2: Like you know, crowd. So my ridiculous takeaway, Elizabeth, is

1164
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 2: that perfect? Now, if you you'd like, we can wash

1165
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 2: this all down with the talkback. I got a talkback

1166
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 2: for us.

1167
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 8: Yeah, in fact, tonight I have two, and I'm going

1168
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 8: to tell you why.

1169
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 2: Why, Oh my god, I went get.

1170
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 5: This.

1171
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 8: First one came in January thirty first, not too long ago,

1172
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 8: and it is tipping off the story that Elizabeth told

1173
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 8: at the top of this episode. So I want to

1174
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 8: give credit where credit is due to this talkback contributor.

1175
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 8: And then I'm going to give another one at the tailor.

1176
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 8: I certify, as a matter of law, I did not

1177
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 8: share this with Elizabeth.

1178
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 5: Ahead of time, Zarn Elizabeth, Producer D interns that may

1179
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 5: or may not be dogs. I have a ridiculous crime

1180
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 5: to share with you. So my husband and I were

1181
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 5: texting back and florith. I was at work telling him

1182
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 5: how much I loved and missed him, and he was

1183
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 5: telling me, yeah, yeah, I love you too. But first

1184
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 5: check out this news article I found about a woman

1185
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 5: who was harassing her ex's partner with fart videos. They

1186
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 5: called them fart selfies in the news article, and it

1187
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 5: was ridiculous.

1188
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 3: Part selfie start selfies is so good and so gross. Yes,

1189
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 3: all right, let's hear our second one.

1190
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 2: Number two.

1191
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 8: You know what's ridiculous is getting all dressed up for

1192
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 8: the Purpies and then there's no Purpies this year.

1193
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 2: I am a sad person. Well, it got good news,

1194
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 2: and we waited this year for award season so that

1195
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 2: the Purpies could be properly framed amongst all of the

1196
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 2: mountaintop accolades, the egots of it all. Yes, so we

1197
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 2: hope to be in there, the pagotcotts. Yes. So yeah,

1198
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 2: there you go, Elizabeth and Producer D. That's all the

1199
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 2: story I got for y'all. Thanks for everybody, as you

1200
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 2: can always find us online Ridiculous Crime on the social media,

1201
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 2: primarily the Blue Ski the Instagram. I think there you go,

1202
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 2: so yeah. And also we have a website Ridiculous Crime

1203
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 2: dot com and we clearly love your talkback, so please

1204
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,880
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1205
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 2: can obviously hear your voice here in the future and

1206
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 2: that be fun. Yes, and also emails if you like

1207
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Speaker 2: a Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com and please start

1208
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Speaker 2: the email. D producer d as always thank you for

1209
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 2: listening and we will catch you next crime. Diculous Crime

1210
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 2: is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and Zaron Burnette, produced and

1211
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 2: edited by our resident Newdiest acting Mayor of Flavortown, Dave Houston,

1212
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 2: and starring Etaalis Rutger as Judith. Research is by the

1213
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 2: French detective cosplayers Rissa Brown and Alex French. Our theme

1214
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 2: song is by our naked house band Freak Daddy and

1215
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Speaker 2: the Voice aka Thomas Lee and Travis Dudley. The host

1216
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 2: wardrobe provided by Botany five, guest hair and makeup by

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Speaker 2: Sparkleshot and Mister Andre. Executive producers are the Inventors. Of

1218
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 2: the Sea through Raincoat for Stormy Days at the Nudist Colony,

1219
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 2: Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown.

1220
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Speaker 3: Cry Say It one more time.

1221
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Speaker 5: We Cry.

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