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Speaker 2: Dang daddy, ooh boy.

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Speaker 1: Using a throwaway because I'm not sure who in my

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Speaker 1: family has Reddit apologies in advance. This is a long one,

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from no designer of fifty

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Speaker 1: eight to thirty one on the Roka Storytime subpridd it. So, I,

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Speaker 1: if I'm the bad guy here. Let me explain. Please

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Speaker 1: do right now. I don't think you are right.

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Speaker 3: I'm just imagining the data said of the wedding, like

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Speaker 2: My daughter's getting married in there, not good.

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Speaker 1: He's in the picket line. Can't cross the picline, can't

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Speaker 4: The issue.

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Speaker 1: Oh my fiance, let's call him Arch, and I started

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Speaker 1: It's like, according under the eyes of the law, I

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe he's prepping for his picket sign I think so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was hurt and felt disrespected, especially with how

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Speaker 3: No father who like actually loves their child, their kid

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Speaker 3: And he's just like all he's looking for is to

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Speaker 2: How does that one song go rude?

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Speaker 1: Why you gotta be so rude? I'm gonna marry her anyway?

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Speaker 1: But there is more to this story. A few days later,

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Speaker 1: His final words were, but you got exactly what you wanted.

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Speaker 1: But this whole situation is me questioning whether I really

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Speaker 3: But no, he's just all he's done is shown you why.

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Speaker 3: It's a great thing that actually he's saving you the

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Speaker 1: Literally, he took himself out. We don't need him back.

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Speaker 1: We don't need a fight for his approval when you

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk to you ever again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not showing your love.

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, no, swor it off my back.

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Speaker 1: That's that's showing that you don't care about your children.

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Speaker 3: Come on, dad, I have one quick question for you,

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Speaker 2: Op. If you're in op shoes, what do you do do? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you could reach out. If there are certain

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Speaker 1: And if there's still like we're not coming, we're supporting

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Speaker 2: Agreed, Agreed, agreed.

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Speaker 1: But you know what I agree with?

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Speaker 2: What that?

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Speaker 2: Let's check it out out date.

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Speaker 1: Ooh editing because there's been a few comments regarding this.

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Speaker 1: Money is not an issue for him or his side

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Speaker 3: In so so weird that he was like seemingly a

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Speaker 2: Yes, and then I just don't get in your way.

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Speaker 3: It's it's more of a it's more of his apathy

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that might be the case, especially given

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Speaker 1: his reaction right now. Yeah, because those they not line

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Speaker 1: it up, not lining up No Blindbisa's conspiracy theory the

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Speaker 1: You will be missed his message.

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Speaker 1: His message read, I am texting you because we need

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Speaker 4: He's just a curmudgeon, just a freaking curmudgeon that loves

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Speaker 1: I tried to explain that there are sides, because no

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Speaker 2: First, it depends on how I'm treated, if you just

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Speaker 1: If you stop getting married. At this point, I'm floored.

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Speaker 1: I asked him to elaborate because I've never been disrespectful

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Speaker 1: He went on to double down and said that my

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Speaker 1: his live every week to at three pmpst. Just tap

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Speaker 2: Just do it, Just do it. Come on.

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Speaker 1: I'm still reeling. Originally I was fully planning on sending

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Speaker 1: I'm honestly at a loss. I didn't expect to be

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Speaker 1: I'll update again. For now, this is where things stand

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Speaker 1: and that is the end of the story. But John,

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Speaker 1: you think there's anything else that OPI could have done

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Speaker 2: Terrible situation, terrible dad.

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Speaker 3: I feel like maybe the next move that OPI could

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Speaker 3: out like basically say like, hey, after all the a grievances,

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Speaker 3: I as I have been.

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Speaker 2: And here's why, you know, you try to have.

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Speaker 3: This weird control power play thing of like trying to

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Speaker 2: Listing out everything there.

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Speaker 3: It's like I am, yeah, I'm not gonna be I

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Speaker 1: You, and now it's kind of proving that my stepdad

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Speaker 1: is much more of a father figure than you, Zach,

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Speaker 1: if you want to be the sole father figure, act like.

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Speaker 2: It couldn't have said about myself. You could have said

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Speaker 4: I think that will be good just to I think,

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Speaker 4: for op to clearly, you know, just just to very

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Speaker 1: Same this is why you're not coming to my wedding.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think does Opie have to do that?

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Speaker 3: No, it is a bit of an extra mile kind

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Speaker 3: make sure it is very clearly established to the dad

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Speaker 2: Drawing, this line is exactly That's what I'm thinking.

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Speaker 1: Exactly so true. But that is the end of that story.

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Speaker 2: But is it the end of the episode?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Am i ahole for telling my ex I won't pay

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Speaker 3: for a DNA test.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's find out backstory. This is important for later.

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Speaker 3: My ex now forty mail and I thirty nine female,

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Speaker 2: He was a truck driver.

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Speaker 3: We decided I should join him for a few months

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Speaker 2: Mm, I like the collective. Hmm, what does that even mean?

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Speaker 3: He is a carbon copy of his father? Identical. We

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Speaker 4: Fast forward this year. For last two years, my ex

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Speaker 4: he randomly texted me, five months after his last visit

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Speaker 4: I don't think son's name now sixteen mail is mine

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Speaker 2: He just wants to stop paying.

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Speaker 3: He just doesn't want to pay. He just doesn't want

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Speaker 3: to pay. What does he think is gonna this is

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Speaker 4: Make him not pay, make him not pay? But bro, brother,

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Speaker 4: come on brother. My response was to laugh. Then I responded,

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Speaker 2: However, I will not pay a dime for it.

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Speaker 3: Later on in that day, I texted his siblings and

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Speaker 2: And I wanted an honest opinion. If my son looked

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Speaker 4: They all reassured me that they do not share his

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Speaker 4: I didn't ask, it wasn't my business, So am I

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Speaker 4: the A hole? Riley?

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Speaker 2: What do you think about it?

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Speaker 5: She did kind of like go behind the guy's back

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Speaker 5: and ask everything. But it's it's good to be like

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Speaker 3: I think it would have been totally fine if it

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Speaker 2: So I get wanting to like have some sort of.

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Speaker 3: Support, but personally probably would have done one person the

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Speaker 3: Tomas says, wait, he wants to stop paying what he's

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Speaker 2: That's so stupid.

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Speaker 3: Four more years and he doesn't have to pay any

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Speaker 3: more anyways. Probably broke, Probably broke, Probably broke. But guys,

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Speaker 3: you know what else has broke me? Because I can't.

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Speaker 3: I can't can't, I can't do it anymore.

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Speaker 1: I don't have any more stories for you.

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Speaker 2: I don't have any more. I've given it all I

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Speaker 2: could give. I'm laid it on the field.

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Speaker 1: And the story bank is empty.

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Speaker 2: Time for okop ree lam.

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Speaker 4: My husband snapped and is threatening divorce and I never

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Speaker 2: Well now I want to know.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm about to tell you. Okay, freaking sit down,

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Speaker 4: I'm the story brought my buns on a seat. Let

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Speaker 4: me just just fucking just fucking drop out, your parents,

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Speaker 4: your parents, your money, b Yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: Leave your wife for a weird reason.

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Speaker 4: Bro he locked his wife for a weird reason, right,

441
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,359
Speaker 4: didn't he Like? Oh, he's dating like a like a

442
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:51,160
Speaker 4: twenty year old Yeah, yeah, he did. He did fuck

443
00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 4: your parents, your marriage. We've been married for two years,

444
00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 4: dating for five. We are both thirty four. I'm a woman,

445
00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,119
Speaker 4: he's a man. If it matters, I am not a

446
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,160
Speaker 4: picky eater. In fact, I'm quite adventurous. Adventurous eater too.

447
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 4: Oh God, I've had an escargo, and every time I've traveled,

448
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,960
Speaker 4: I've always made a point to tried dishes with unusual,

449
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,200
Speaker 4: uncommon ingredients to say I've tried them. There are very

450
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,719
Speaker 4: few foods I won't eat. One of them, though, is mustard. Oh,

451
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,439
Speaker 4: I hate the condiments. Oh, I don't like it. I

452
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 4: just don't. The taste is very strong and over powering.

453
00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 4: It's an unpleasant taste. I've tried yellow, I've tried stone grat,

454
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 4: I've tried honey, artists in, brown, spicy, you name it.

455
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,800
Speaker 4: I've tried them all and I just don't like them.

456
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,000
Speaker 3: That's that's a lot of mustards, A lot of mustards,

457
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:41,639
Speaker 3: a lot of mustard.

458
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 4: I know what kind of weird foods have you tried?

459
00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, like, I've eaten some foot.

460
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,359
Speaker 4: Chicken foot, chicken foot. I've had chicken foot.

461
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,879
Speaker 2: I killed the chicken.

462
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:55,680
Speaker 4: Have you had escargo anything else.

463
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 2: No, No, let's go. I've tried it, though.

464
00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,360
Speaker 4: Have you ever hunted lobster?

465
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,639
Speaker 3: I've eaten a lobster fresh out of the sea like

466
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:04,200
Speaker 3: a bass.

467
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 4: Have you hunted it?

468
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:06,719
Speaker 2: And I haven't hunted it?

469
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 4: Am you doing that?

470
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,359
Speaker 2: This weekend?

471
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:15,560
Speaker 4: Last weekend, I at like like ten at night, I

472
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 4: went like snorkeling with a like a wetsuit and went

473
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 4: lobster diving and hunted lobsters and then and then cook them.

474
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:31,639
Speaker 3: You're joking, not joking in our ocean. I'm gonna have

475
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 3: to do that. Where are you holding him?

476
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:34,440
Speaker 2: Bro?

477
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:40,639
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm doing this. That is absolutely nuts. Lobsters too

478
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 3: expensive in these streets. Oh dude, it would have been

479
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 3: like a crazy amount. Wow, I've been crazy. Okay, I'm

480
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,159
Speaker 3: gonna have to get that location. It was in Orange

481
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 3: County area. My husband, for some reason, never understood this.

482
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 3: He loves mustard, especially honey mustard. He puts it on

483
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,640
Speaker 3: all his sandwiches, dips his fries in it, and every

484
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 3: time he tries to force me to try it, he'll

485
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 3: insist I'll like it this time.

486
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 4: But we're grown ass woman, I'll say though, and it'll

487
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 4: devolve into a mini argument and he'll call me picky. Well,

488
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 4: last night we were on the road home from a

489
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 4: weekend trip we took together, and he stopped at a

490
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 4: gas station to get us a quick bite. He got

491
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 4: a hot dog, slap bird and mustard. I got one

492
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 4: but decided to eat a plane. I don't really love

493
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 4: hot dogs to begin with, but I will eat it

494
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 4: in a pickle, but not with pickles. I will eat

495
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 4: a plane.

496
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

497
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 4: While he waited in the line, he has what I

498
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 4: got in mind, and I'd pulled the nothings the Plaine dog.

499
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 4: He actually got furious and grabbed it for me. He

500
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 4: marched over to the convent station and began putting mustard

501
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 4: all over my dog.

502
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 2: Why telling me to grow up and stop being so picky?

503
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 4: Ain't this mustard dog? God?

504
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 2: Brother, you grow up? Who cares?

505
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 4: What would you do? Like if someone what would you

506
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 4: do if we were getting hot dogs together? You got

507
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 4: no mustard on it? And I'm like, John, you insultly idiot.

508
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 4: Can't believe you to get buster on your hot dog

509
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 4: and just freaking slathered it all in bustard thread in

510
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 4: your face. I would be like, tell me, you idiot.

511
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 3: I'd be like you're buying me a new hot dog, Like,

512
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 3: I'm not going to eat this, Like it's I could

513
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 3: have just eaten the dog and we would just be chilling.

514
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 4: But what if I brought to you another hot dog said.

515
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 3: You just kept you keep buying it and like like

516
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 3: I'm just forced feeding, Like this time, I promise, I

517
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 3: promised this. I'm like, Oh, I got you, Dad, I

518
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 3: got your get eating. You end up just like thirty

519
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 3: four dogs around.

520
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 4: And you're just like covered in mustard. Oh my god,

521
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 4: trying to toss these things in your mouth. I mean, John,

522
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 4: what do you think OH should do in this situation?

523
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 3: Definitely be like I'm not eating that first step, second step,

524
00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:00,120
Speaker 3: I'm getting something I want and you're gonna pay for it,

525
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 3: because he just I do you.

526
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 2: Know I don't like, Like why.

527
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 4: So Opie just walked out and sat in the car.

528
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 2: Yeah.

529
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 4: I didn't even want the hot dog anymore. My appetite

530
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 4: was gone. He came back and began screaming at me

531
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 4: for embarrassing him even further. The word divorce was said

532
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 4: for the first time ever in a relationship.

533
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

534
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 4: I secretly recorded his screaming because I was genuinely afraid

535
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 4: I would die. He was driving erradically, swerving and speeding, Like,

536
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 4: why is he like acting like this over a freaking

537
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 4: hot dogs?

538
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 3: Just beyond insanity, beyond beyond, beyond beyond.

539
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 4: I'm in a hotel tonight. He ignored me all day

540
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 4: at work, and then the call started ring, ring, ring ring.

541
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 4: I ignored them. Then he realized I wasn't coming home.

542
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 4: NonStop voicemails and texts, ping ping ping like the.

543
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 2: Sound effects, Yeah, I like your sound designing yourself.

544
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 4: He then sent me a screenshot of a Google search

545
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 4: for local divorce lawyers. Wow, you can google sick dude? WHOA,

546
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 4: my god. I haven't eaten all day. I've been sobbing

547
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 4: in my room. I don't want to get divorced, and

548
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 4: I wish I had just eaten the fucking mustard. Can

549
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 4: someone give me an explanation of what's happening? Why would

550
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 4: he react this way to a preference of mine? I

551
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 4: still don't want to divorce. It's so permanent. I just

552
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 4: never pictured myself to be a divorce a and I

553
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 4: never pictured it being over mustard. So John, that's the

554
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 4: story it is. I want to know what you guys

555
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 4: would do in this situation. Also, this has ever happened

556
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 4: to you? But John, what should OP do? Uh?

557
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 3: Dump his ass right now? It's so sad because she

558
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 3: is completely not in the wrong, but she's you know, like, oh,

559
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 3: like I never saw myself as uh a divorce a

560
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 3: and like all these things which like oh my like

561
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 3: heart just hurts for her, you know what I mean.

562
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 4: Like she's done nothing, nothing, nothing wrong.

563
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 3: And I think she's maybe just used to this or

564
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 3: used to the behavior you know, your prior but now

565
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 3: maybe it's like it's just like clicking for her more

566
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 3: at least more than it was.

567
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 4: It sounds like an asshole.

568
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is, without a doubt the a hole. And

569
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 3: you deserve way better, like way better.

570
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 4: That's our that's our that's our decision.

571
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 2: That's our take.

572
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 4: Am I the a hole for turning in a school

573
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 4: project that shows that I live in a crap hold

574
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:43,959
Speaker 4: neighborhood where everyone sucks? Okayop, this is Okayop. I'm samuel

575
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 4: daughter and I'm not from and we tell the funniest

576
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 4: stories on the internet. And John, if you were to

577
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 4: like take a walk around your neighborhood and having to

578
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 4: give like a tour and like this is your direct neighborhood.

579
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 4: What would you seen? What would you find? Oh?

580
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 3: Man, we have some interesting houses. We have one that

581
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 3: has a mosaic museum inside of it really not even joking. Yeah,

582
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 3: it's like legally a museum, but also a house or

583
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 3: something right.

584
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 4: Right right around the Is it like around the corner

585
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 4: of your place. Yeah, yeah, it's walking distance. In my

586
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 4: little back neighborhood area, we have a house with like

587
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 4: we thought for sure that it was like one hundred

588
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 4: percent abandon There's like a car with like ten years

589
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 4: of dust on it, so we thought it was like

590
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 4: one hundred percent of bandon.

591
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 2: But then out of nowhere, they.

592
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 4: Put up like really crappy like Christmas lights on this

593
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 4: like giant overgrown tree in front of their house. So

594
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 4: we're like, like, I guess someone lives there and they're

595
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 4: in the Christmas spirit.

596
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 2: Yes they are.

597
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 4: And then there's there's someone who literally has like the

598
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 4: plants straight out if you just copy and pasted like

599
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 4: an island jungle that like is there like surrounding area

600
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 4: of their house really like plants galore. I mean just

601
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 4: like like Jurassic Park kind of plant practice, palm tree,

602
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 4: just like weird, like trees and plants that you don't

603
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 4: even know what they are, and just like filed around

604
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 4: your neighborhood sounds super super interesting. This story is a

605
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 4: story about a neighborhood that is maybe not as inviting

606
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 4: as you are.

607
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 2: It's not as interesting.

608
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 4: Okay, Am I the a hole for turning in a

609
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 4: school project that shows that I live in a crap

610
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 4: hole neighborhood where everyone sucks. Hmmm. I'm a high school

611
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: student in a Spanish class and we had an assignment

612
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 4: to make a video tour of our place. It had

613
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 4: to be in Spanish and had to be conversational, like

614
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 4: you were showing it around to a friend, like, hey,

615
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 4: look at this planned look at this mosaic as it.

616
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 2: Was pretty cool, don't asta l planto?

617
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 4: Yes, you know, John is very uh I Spanish speak

618
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 4: these Spanish speech yo ah blow Espaniel or poo a

619
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 4: bla Espanol.

620
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 2: How correct?

621
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 4: Okay? I decided to just walk around my street and

622
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 4: make a tour of that because my family wasn't going

623
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 4: anywhere else. So this is what I filmed. A neighbor's

624
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 4: house when I walked by and they were having a

625
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 4: screaming fight like usual, and I I said, here are

626
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 4: their neighbors. They are very angry. They like to yell

627
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 4: in the morning, afternoon, and night. Buenosdes The next neighbor's house,

628
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 4: Joe and Tammy live here. They are very nice and

629
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 4: have three dogs. At that moment, someone drives by and

630
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 4: cat calls me profanely, Hey, no one thuts something like

631
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 4: that would probably worse, as I joke. I yelled back

632
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 4: and stupid, old perro ha, which means stupid dog. Then

633
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 4: he slammed his brakes and yelled something racist about me

634
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: being Mexican, before speeding off. I said to the camera,

635
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 4: this man is very stupid. He is a man, but

636
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 4: acts like a dog. Also, I'm white, but I think

637
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 4: this idiot assumed I was a Hispanic because I was

638
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 4: speaking Spanish. I also introduced ten other mundane things like flowers,

639
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 4: a bird, et cetera. I cut out the long sequences

640
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 4: of me walking, but I left in everything else. My

641
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 4: teacher had a rubric of the types of descriptions and

642
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 4: numbers of things you needed, and taking any out would

643
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 4: lose me points. It was too dark out to film anymore,

644
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 4: so I stopped. The second part of the assignment was

645
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 4: to upload the video on the school website and post

646
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 4: comments back and forth, responding to several of your classmates videos.

647
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 4: One of my friends from class recognized the racist guy

648
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 4: as someone who volunteers with the middle school soccer team.

649
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 4: So the guy that was cat calling is teaching kids

650
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 4: how to play soccer. What So she texted me like, hah,

651
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 4: should I say something? And I said sure? So she

652
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 4: posted in Spanish in the car is mister Jones who

653
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 4: coaches the children. I learned from your video that he

654
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 4: hates women and is racist. I replied to say, does

655
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 4: he teach the girls or the boys, and she replied

656
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 4: back both. I replied back, that is terrible. I love

657
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 4: how all these sentences are super simple, but they're so savage.

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Speaker 4: A guy in my c made a comment like the

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Speaker 4: man yelling at his family is a police officer. He

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Speaker 4: is always a very angry man. I replied back to say,

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Speaker 4: that is scary. The next day at school, my teacher

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Speaker 4: wanted to talk to me alone. She told me my

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Speaker 4: video was inappropriate and I shouldn't have filmed the neighbors

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Speaker 4: or the coach. I said that this assignment was literally

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Speaker 4: to walk around a place you're familiar with and react

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Speaker 4: like you're having a conversation with a friend, and that

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Speaker 4: is literally how it goes when I walk around my

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Speaker 4: house with my friends. My teacher said, I was being

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Speaker 4: belligerent on purpose, and I should have known that this

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Speaker 4: stuff has to be dealt with delicately. I said, I

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Speaker 4: just don't agree. It's just life, and there's no point

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Speaker 4: of pretending that it's not happening. Facts, Opie, I like,

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Speaker 4: Opie is literally dropping these like philosophical gems.

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Speaker 2: Just yeah, nonchalantly.

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Speaker 4: She said she'd taken down the video and it was

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Speaker 4: the sort of thing that should be brought to the

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Speaker 4: authorities instead of posted for the whole class. I said,

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know the guy in the car. And

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Speaker 4: who was I going to call about the cop? The cops?

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Speaker 4: Who police is the police? I have a meeting with

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Speaker 4: the principal coming up tomorrow. Am I the a hole

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Speaker 4: for posting a video for Spanish class? First off, man,

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Speaker 4: can we have a little humor?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I love give we have a little comedy, man Like.

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Speaker 4: I honestly, watching that video, I would have cracked up.

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Speaker 4: I would have thought it was hilarious. Yeah, she did

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Speaker 4: do the assignment that she did. She understood the assignment.

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Speaker 2: Yes she did.

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Speaker 4: But there's an update. John Oh, I had a meeting

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Speaker 4: this morning and I think it went well. I have

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Speaker 4: a study hall now, so I have a little more

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Speaker 4: time to write an update. So last night I did

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Speaker 4: a bunch of prep before the meeting. I emailed the

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Speaker 4: video to the elementary school principal, guidance counselor, and a

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Speaker 4: few parents I know with kids on the sports team

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Speaker 4: to say their coach had yelled sexually explicit and hateful

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Speaker 4: things at me. A student in the school system, I

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Speaker 4: wanted to get out ahead and make sure the video

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Speaker 4: was out there before the school might pressure me to

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Speaker 4: to lead it. Then I backed up the video to

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Speaker 4: multiple places. Then I asked a teacher I trust to

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Speaker 4: sit in on this meeting and have it be recorded

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Speaker 4: and sent to all participants afterwards. We scheduled it for

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Speaker 4: just before the school day started on Zoom so I

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Speaker 4: wouldn't miss any class. And then finally I decided to

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Speaker 4: write up a list of things I'd want discussed in

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Speaker 4: the meeting and shared it with my favorite teacher in

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Speaker 4: advance so she could help me address the questions.

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Speaker 2: Bro shout out to Opie.

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Speaker 4: Opie came really preparedsh darn and for the actual meeting,

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Speaker 4: I decided I'd just go into it acting as if

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Speaker 4: they would obviously do the right thing and ask for help.

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Speaker 4: I was hoping having a teacher on my side and

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Speaker 4: the meeting on video would pressure them to help. I

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Speaker 4: thought if I approached it from and well, obviously you're

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Speaker 4: going to take this seriously perspective, and had it on video,

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Speaker 4: it would put them in a tough spot to have

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Speaker 4: to contradict me. So when I called in, everyone said

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Speaker 4: good morning, and the principal asked if I knew why

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Speaker 4: I had been called in this morning. I just started

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Speaker 4: out by saying, yes, I assume it's about the kid's coach.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for calling me to this meeting

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Speaker 4: this morning. I really appreciate how proactive you are about

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Speaker 4: addressing the sexual harassment from a staff member. I understand

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Speaker 4: this is a mandated reporting state, and I wanted to

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Speaker 4: ask if there's any information you will need to add

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Speaker 4: to your report.

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Speaker 2: That is how it's done.

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Speaker 4: Principle seemed kind of caught out and said a report

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Speaker 4: had not yet been filed. I said, well, as I

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Speaker 4: understand it, there is a forty eight hour timeframe to

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Speaker 4: file report. I understand making you aware of this right

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Speaker 4: before the weekend might have complicated things. Perhaps there was

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Speaker 4: a miscommunication about the severity of the events, but I

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Speaker 4: was approaching a car sexually harassed and threatened by a

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Speaker 4: man who works with other miners in the public school system.

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Speaker 4: As soon as I said all that, the meeting tone

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Speaker 4: really changed. The meeting also had a school guidance counselor

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Speaker 4: on it, and I could tell she understood how serious

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Speaker 4: what I was saying was, especially because I was politely

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Speaker 4: calling out that they were already past the legal deadline

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Speaker 4: and that they should have filed the report already. She

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Speaker 4: actually took over and the principal didn't participate that much.

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Speaker 4: I also tried to smooth things over somewhat by saying

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Speaker 4: I was sorry I brought this to their attention in

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Speaker 4: a school project instead of asking for a meeting with

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Speaker 4: the principal directly, I should have reached out for help.

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Speaker 2: So that's over.

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Speaker 4: I'm still kind of freaking out how big of a

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Speaker 4: deal it turned out to be. Also, I want to

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Speaker 4: say thanks to everyone who had suggestions about how to

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Speaker 4: approach this, like having an adult to back me up.

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Speaker 4: Getting the meeting on record and knowing about the mandatory reporting.

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Speaker 3: OPI is literally a hero like OPI is a freaking lawyer,

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Speaker 3: bro a lawyer like just bowling out justice.

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Speaker 2: Incredible. Wow wow wow wow.

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Speaker 4: But you know what ELS is incredible ooh.

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Speaker 2: Get Simmons, Kathy Giggley see it soon