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Speaker 1: Hey there, friends, Hey, everybody y'all doing today? Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the show. I am Eli, I'm Diana, y'all. We

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Speaker 1: got to spend a little bit of time this week

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Speaker 1: with a dear friend of ours named Julian who was

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Speaker 1: in town from the Best. He got us to play

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Speaker 1: a game which I think was going around the internet

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Speaker 1: a while ago, and I loved it. I thought it

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Speaker 1: about So now we're gonna make y' all care about it.

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Speaker 1: It's called Trombone Champ. If you've never played it, listen

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Speaker 1: to me when I say to you that, you will

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Speaker 1: laugh NonStop for at least twenty five minutes. That's how

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Speaker 1: we Seriously, it's amazing. It's just you just downloaded. It's

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Speaker 1: a it's a computer game. Yeah, and it's like it's

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Speaker 1: like rock Band or Beat Saber, one of those music games, um,

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Speaker 1: except you're playing a trombone and it's really hard to

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Speaker 1: it's exactly. It's because trombone is objectively the funniest instrument.

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Speaker 1: It is a lot funnier when you're bad at it.

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Speaker 1: I did pretty well and everybody was having a bad time.

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Speaker 1: I know. We were like, okay, like I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying for a long time, we need a

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Speaker 1: Twitch channel for Diana to play video games because she's

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Speaker 1: at some games shockingly good. She will beat you at

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Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat. She'll say all day long, I don't want

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Speaker 1: and then she'll kick your ass. Um. But you put

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Speaker 1: her in front of Trombone Champ or Grand Theft Auto

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Speaker 1: Chaotic in the best way. I love it. I was

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Speaker 1: the worst at Trombone Champ, which meant I was the

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Speaker 1: best because we could not stop giggling. So let us

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Speaker 1: know if you want us to quit doing ridiculous romance

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Speaker 1: and devote ourselves to a full time Uh. Patreon it

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Speaker 1: funded twitch stream. Well, y'all. Uh, we're very excited because

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Speaker 1: we're back here on our our video stream of the podcast,

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Speaker 1: our first TikTok video total hit. 're glad y'all were

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Speaker 1: able to check that out and uh and responded well

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Speaker 1: to it. We didn't get anyone commenting who were these

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Speaker 1: ugly idiots we were for TikTok so watch out, all

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Speaker 1: of your everything you ever thought about yourself is going

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Speaker 1: to be thrown a disharp relief exactly, but not too bad.

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Speaker 1: And so we did that episode first, but you know,

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Speaker 1: today we had to change things up because I think

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Speaker 1: we started with one of the most upsetting, bizarre stories

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Speaker 1: their groins feeling a little weirder after that episode ended.

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Speaker 1: I kind of hope you were. Yeah, yeah, that one

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Speaker 1: was a freaky one. But so we decided we kind

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Speaker 1: of go the other direction. After sitting with that all weekend,

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Speaker 1: it's time to do something maybe a little sweeter, Yes, totally.

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Speaker 1: And y'all know when it comes to romance, you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes years go by before you realize you're the right

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Speaker 1: you know you're with the right person. It's like your

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Speaker 1: like over time, it's enemies to lover's kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: We're still getting there, are out, we're you know, one day,

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Speaker 1: we've been married a few years. I'm starting to think

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Speaker 1: you catch their eye across the room, you touch hands

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Speaker 1: you know, you know what I mean. And we've had

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Speaker 1: goodie bag for y'all today. Um so go brush your

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Speaker 1: get real sweet in here? Hey? Their French come listen well,

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Speaker 1: Elia and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking,

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Speaker 1: no romantic tips. It's just about particulars. This relationship a love.

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Speaker 1: It might be any type of version at all, and

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Speaker 1: a story, were a second glance, ridiculous role vance the

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Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. Our first story is a

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Speaker 1: strong argument for public transit. It begins on Christmas Day

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Speaker 1: and Linda Wegner is riding the train. I would love

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Speaker 1: Wegner was riding the train on Christmas Day. Now, Linda

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Speaker 1: And Linda doesn't really mind this because she's Jewish, so

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Speaker 1: train ride. Yeah, I'm sure it would. Now, Linda had

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Speaker 1: She felt pretty satisfied with her life, but she told

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Speaker 1: CNN that on that day. Quote, I might have been

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Speaker 1: a little wistful. She might have been a little open

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Speaker 1: to some magic on that day. You know, whist can

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Speaker 1: take your magical places. I can also get you in trouble.

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Speaker 1: and he started spreading out wallpaper samples. See another great

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Speaker 1: project you can do on the train that you cannot

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Speaker 1: do when you're driving. That's true. That's true. Although if

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Speaker 1: Linda recognized the pattern. So she's like, Okay, well maybe

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Speaker 1: It's just something ingrained in us. It's not necessarily bad

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Speaker 1: you know, because it is amazing. Fifty bucks can go

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Speaker 1: we froze. I felt a strange closeness. I turned to

424
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: my boyfriend and asked, does this portrait look like me?

425
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: And the boyfriend was like kind of, and he walked

426
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: off to look at something else. Damn, this guy sucks.

427
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 1: He's like whatever, he's gotta be the like bad boyfriend

428
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,919
Speaker 1: in the rom com. You know, everything he does is

429
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 1: like obviously the worst option, right, He's like, yeah, I

430
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: guess anyway, I gotta take this call. But Parissa was

431
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: stuck by this portrait and it does look a lot

432
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,120
Speaker 1: like her. We will definitely put on our Instagram. Yes,

433
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: this side by side, because it's pretty striking. It's crazy.

434
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: She said. She felt like the portrait was quote a

435
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: near perfect reflection of her own dark eyes, her long,

436
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: curly hair, and her strong features. So the very next

437
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: day she's telling a friend about this. She's like, I

438
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,439
Speaker 1: went to this gallery and this guy's got a portrait

439
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: of me, but we've never met. And the friend was

440
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,919
Speaker 1: quote more excited than I was. So she's like, we

441
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: gotta go to this EXHIBI have to show me this thing.

442
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: And so they went and her friend took one look

443
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: at the portrait and said, quote, I don't know what

444
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,439
Speaker 1: the story of this painting is, but this man is

445
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: madly in love with you. And she was not wrong,

446
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: because as soon as he saw her for the first time,

447
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 1: Ahd was a gonner. He like handed his heart over

448
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: to her on a platter. He even invited Parissa to

449
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: his workshop to take pictures of his artwork because I

450
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 1: guess he found out she was a photographer. But police,

451
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: I know, he's like, oh, this is a good way

452
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: to get in with you. But Parissa came with her mother,

453
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: so he's like, well, I guess I won't try to

454
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: mac on you right now. You're standing right here, right,

455
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 1: so nice to meet you. Well, at least had had

456
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: her Facebook information, but theressa like me these days, it

457
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 1: was just never on Facebook for her. Every time I

458
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: open it, I just get depressed. What is the point, Like,

459
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: screw this social media game? Piously anyway. For eighteen months,

460
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: had said that he checked social media every night, hoping

461
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: that she would be on so he could start a conversation,

462
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: which I mean to me, I'm like, you can send

463
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: a message when she's not there, then she'll see it

464
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: when she does log on and message you back. That's

465
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: how she might get a notification and they choose to open.

466
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: It's possible, but he was just like, no, I want

467
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: to live chat or nothing. It's yeah, I mean an

468
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: immediate response. Maybe he was like, if if I send

469
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 1: it and I don't know if she's going to see it,

470
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: then I'll get real, you know what? I mean discourage

471
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: before I know for sure nobody wants to be left

472
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: on red. God, that's so true. You're just going to

473
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: see those dots pop up for a few seconds and

474
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: then go away for six months. Cuts deep. It kept

475
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: me deep, all right, I get it. I get it well.

476
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: Then one magical night he checked on Facebook. He did

477
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: not see that she was active, so he went to bed.

478
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: But he just had this feeling something eaten in him,

479
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: that that Facebook addiction that gets into your brain was

480
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: telling him, Now, get that gun. You gotta go check God.

481
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: So he did. He opens up the app again and boom,

482
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: Parissa was online. She says it was Valentine's Day, which

483
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: is also her birthday. Crazy enough, and so she had

484
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: jumped on to Facebook to thank everyone for their birthday wishes.

485
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 1: A had immediately reached out with one of the great

486
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: pickup lines, Hello just you know, sometimes it's all hello,

487
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: hello you, She responds, and he asked her where she was.

488
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: He was in a standball holding an art shibition. Well,

489
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: it turns out Barissa was also an is stand ball,

490
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: and she agreed to meet him at his exhibit and

491
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: have some dinner. The coincidences in this story azing not

492
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: to mention, I'm sorry if you paint a girl and

493
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: then she walks into your gallery and her birthday is

494
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, Like, I'm sorry, this is you. You magically

495
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: did create this woman into existence. I'm sorry, Parissa. I'm

496
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: sure you had a very full life before all this,

497
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: but I also kind of think you just appeared out

498
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: of a pink cloud of glitter. All your memories were implanted, Like, yeah,

499
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: you didn't exist before this painting. I'm sorry, You're You're

500
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: a magical creation, the mystical manifestation of true love. That's

501
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: all I can figure here. Well, no wonder she's a

502
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: good artist, yew, Parista says. When she arrived to this date,

503
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: she knows she stretches out her hand to shake because

504
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: they don't know each other yet, but a had took

505
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: her into his arms and hugged her really tight lee

506
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: and whispered, quote, you don't know how much I love you.

507
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: Oh wow, he really one upped. Michael's great to meet you.

508
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: I know, maybe he should learn a little risk trick,

509
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: because I feel like that might be a little like

510
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,239
Speaker 1: a coming on strong. Speaking of even though they've only

511
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: seen each other twice, he proposed to her over dinner,

512
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: like right there on their first day. He's like, okay,

513
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: I'm in I see that because he's been in love

514
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: with her, I mean sort of when he painted her,

515
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: but at least for eighteen months, he's been trying real

516
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: hard to get her. So he's just like, whatever, I

517
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: just want you around all the time. And again the signs,

518
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: I mean a woman, she appears in your gallery when

519
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: you're showing off this painting. Her birthday is Valentine's Day.

520
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: She's got the cartoon birds floating around her, singing kiss

521
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: the girl like it's come on. He's like one or

522
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: all of the gods one this. So, of course Paris

523
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, oh okay, um, that's sort of a

524
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: big question. Can I have a month to think about it?

525
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: And he said, quote, Parissa, you can only give me

526
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: one answer, and that is yes. Okay. Now my Western

527
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: ears kind of read that, and I was like, I

528
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: can give you whatever answer I want. I got a

529
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: little contrary, but I don't think that's what he meant

530
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: by that. I don't think he was trying to be like,

531
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: you can only give me one answer. I think he

532
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: was trying to say, like, there's only one answer. That's

533
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: this is real and true, and there's really only one answer,

534
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: and I don't care how long I have to wait

535
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: for it. It's yes, but I will wait as long

536
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: as I have to wait. And Parissa, I think, agrees

537
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: with me, because she says she only ever quote felt

538
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: a deeply beautiful feeling from a hod so not like

539
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: a coercive, you know, overpowering kind of energy. So she

540
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: went home from this date, and she's thinking about this proposal.

541
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: She's thinking about this painting that looks eerily like her.

542
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: She's probably think about all the things they have in

543
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: common because they're both artists, you know, they're both from Iran.

544
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: They're both living in a a stanbowl now, and it's just

545
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: again a lot of coincidences, a lot of commonalities. And

546
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: the very next morning she called him up and accepted

547
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: his proposal. She said yes, quote, thus began my beautiful

548
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: life with a hod I am so happy. A Hodd

549
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: is the greatest gift given to me by God. Now

550
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: Parissa's mother was understandably, you know, kind of like, excuse me,

551
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: excuse me. You're marrying a man you met twice in

552
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: your life. He proposed you at the first dinner come

553
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: up very very frozen vibes. Right, else is like, anna,

554
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: excuse me. Right. But when Parissa explained how they met

555
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: and how long a had had been trying to get

556
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: in touch with her, plus the fact that you know

557
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: she very recently manifested into the world because of this painting,

558
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: her mother quote side in relief and was deeply touched

559
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: by the story. And of course a Hodd's mother was thrilled.

560
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: She's like, oh my god, it came true. The woman

561
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: stepped out of your painting, and now I'm getting a

562
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: daughter in law. She's like, whoever it is, I don't care.

563
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: So Ahad and Parissa both say that meeting each other

564
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: was one of the greatest moments of their lives and

565
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: they have never been happier. That's right. And if you

566
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: go on their instagrams you can see all of her art.

567
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: She does really cool like multimedia paintings and then she'll

568
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: take a big picture, like a cool picture in front

569
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: of it. Anyway, just really cool stuff. So check them out.

570
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: It's really cool stuff. I once um made a collage

571
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: of the woman I thought I was going to marry,

572
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: because you know, it was there was a good art

573
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: form for me as a teenager, I couldn't draw, so

574
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: I would do collages and stuff. So I got into

575
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: a Vogue magazine and I decided to build the Perfect Woman,

576
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: which was just cutting out one picture of Angelina Jolie

577
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: and gluing it to my wall. I don't think I

578
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: manifested her into existence. But she hasn't showed up at

579
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: my art gallery yet. Wow. Yet, hold onto hoping. I'm

580
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: always holding on the hope Angelina. She's not a brad anymore,

581
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: she's not her daughter us to Spellman. So sometimes she's

582
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: in town. So this is your coincidence that sometimes she's

583
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. It's only a matter of time. Well, I

584
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: guess I can't wait to be divorced. I don't know.

585
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: Come on, we've done this show long enough to know

586
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: that there are many solutions here. That's true. We can

587
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: have a harem situation. I bet you and Angelina would

588
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: spend time just together without me, even to have a

589
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: great time. I'm sure we would. Yeah, we could. We

590
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: could get along, go to the gym together. I don't

591
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: think of something else. I don't think it's something else

592
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: to do with Angelina. So yeah, I mean, I just

593
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: love that story. I think that's so cool. How weird

594
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: too to be a hod like oh yeah, glad handing

595
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: some like art dealers. And then he looks up and

596
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: he's like the woman I painted is here, and then

597
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: you like go check your portrait, like thinking there's no

598
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: one in there, and you are like frame, it's like

599
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: an eighties movie. Yeah, it's a weird science like she

600
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: literally yeahd in or something. Um, can I get cynical

601
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: sure speculation station? I mean, is there a way that

602
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: a hot had ever seen her before? And like try

603
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: to set this whole thing up like, oh, I'd never

604
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: I just imagined you whoa we must be meant to

605
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: be together under proposed immediately. I mean, I guess it's

606
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: not impossible because they were both artists in Iran, so

607
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: maybe there was some kind of like art show where

608
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: they crossed paths and he's like, that lady is super hot.

609
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna paint her. I'm going to set up a

610
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: scheme wherein I paint her and then convince her that

611
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: I magically created her, well or less cynically. He did

612
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: see her, and he's like, now that's the kind of girls.

613
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: So then he painted her and then she showed up

614
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh my gosh, it's that girl. More

615
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: likely and sweet for sure, sweeter than yours, not as

616
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: sweet as this one, like mid sweet, there go again, Midwstern.

617
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the end of fifty First Dates.

618
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: Alexander shows up and she of course has been painting

619
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: him all this time because she doesn't remember having met him. Um,

620
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: so maybe just forgot that he ever saw her. I

621
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: guess that's possible. I kind of like the magical nous

622
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: of this story. Yes, that he just had a woman

623
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: in mind, and there happened. She happened to be out

624
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: there waiting for him, rode in on a unicorn. It's incredible.

625
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: It's really an amazing story. Artists getting together can be

626
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: disastrous or it can be, you know, really beneficial. Yeah,

627
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: and I don't know everything. I don't know them, but

628
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: it does seem that they both really appreciate each other's art,

629
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: and they try to encourage each other's art work, and

630
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: they're always like exhibiting and then like on her Instagram,

631
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: she's like, look at my sexy husband and his cool art,

632
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: and he's like, look at my wife and her awesome art.

633
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: You know, like seem really supportive instead of like, as

634
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: you say, sometimes it can be disastrous where you have

635
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: a lot of ego at play and one or the

636
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: others like you need to be smaller so that I

637
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,479
Speaker 1: can be the big one. That happens, for sure. Other

638
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: times people just thrive better with more of an opposite person,

639
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I know how many artists do

640
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: we know? Actors, painters, whatever, dancers who marry an accountant

641
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: or you know, a restaurateur or something, and and and

642
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 1: that's better for them than being full time with someone

643
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: else who you know that you want that contrast more

644
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: than just constantly the two of you speak in the

645
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: same language all the time. For some people, that's you know, intolerable,

646
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: which I can understand too, but not for us, fortunately, No,

647
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: you need to understand. Yeah, exactly, how need you to

648
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: get this? Because both of us were like, let's try

649
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: and marry ourselves. Let's try and marry I want I

650
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 1: don't want to marry someone who's basically exactly like me,

651
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: but a pretty lady. Yeah. Well, anyway, that was a

652
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: beautiful story. It was. So maybe your collage, your next

653
00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: collage or project could manifest perfect partner for you. Or

654
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: at least so get it out of your system one

655
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: way or the other. Art is good. Pop on a

656
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: train and hate yourself, or make a collage out of

657
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 1: wallpaper samples of your perfect partner and maybe they'll just appear.

658
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: But we have one more story for you, and this

659
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: one is really cute because it's about some people who

660
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: found each other after sixty years apart. And we will

661
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: get right to that right after this. Welcome back, lovers,

662
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: and here come the water works, because we are about

663
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 1: to tell you about Boris and Anna Koslov. That's right now.

664
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: Back during World War two, to cast your mind on

665
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: back to the forties, Boris was the secretary of the

666
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: Young Communists Party in Russia and he had to give

667
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: a speech in the town square and Borov Leonka, which

668
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,959
Speaker 1: was a village in Siberia. And I'm probably saying that wrong.

669
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: Could very cold. I know, if people live in Siberia,

670
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: they just lived there, which I mean sounds like a

671
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: dumb thing to say, because Siberia is really really big,

672
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: But in my mind, it's just a tundra, like a

673
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: frozen tundra that no one can live in. It's very

674
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: sparsely populated. It's it's like that, and like Northern Australia,

675
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: Like don't you don't live in most of those places, right,

676
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: But there are people who lived there, and these were

677
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: two of them. And Anna attended this speech along with

678
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 1: a group of her friends. But Boris only had eyes

679
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: for Anna as if she was standing in a spotlight.

680
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: He says, quote, she was too beautiful for words amazing.

681
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: So after his speech, you know, of course he had

682
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 1: to go find her, talk to her, try to try

683
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: to lock this down. But Anna wasn't really the best

684
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: choice of bride for a young Communist because her father

685
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: had been purged by Stalin before the war for refusing

686
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: to work on a collective farm, so her family just

687
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: didn't have a great reputation with the Communist Party. I

688
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: can't promise that I would not refuse to work on

689
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: a collective farm. I'm pretty sure I would refuse to

690
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: recoa a farmer. That's I don't know if he was

691
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: a farmer already, but I'm not a farmer. Like, no,

692
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: thank you. Let me just say that I'm grateful to

693
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: not have to refuse to work on a collective farm. Now,

694
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: Boris did not care about any of this stuff. He

695
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: says quote, I loved her and would always defend her.

696
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: So when I guess when other young communists were like,

697
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: we look at these traders, he'd be like, shut up now.

698
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: Happy news dot Com says that the romance blossomed through

699
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: the war. Every time Boris came home from the front,

700
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: Anna was waiting for him with a smile and a kiss.

701
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: And finally, in ninety six, they were married in a

702
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: small ceremony. For only three days they lived in this

703
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: newly wed bliss, and then Boris had to return to

704
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: his army unit. After the atomic bombs exploded in Hiroshima

705
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: and Nagasaki. Russia was extra on their guard about America

706
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: and they were still fighting to keep control of Germany

707
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: and the Soviet block. So off Boris went to do

708
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 1: his you know, national duty, be a duty, while Anna

709
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: stay at home to hold down the hearth, just like

710
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: any good army wife, you know. But instead, honest family

711
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: was classed as enemies of the state. This isn't detailed

712
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 1: in any of the articles that we found, but we're

713
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: sort of assuming that this is probably since her dad

714
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: had already been purged, they just decided, you know, his

715
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: whole family was guilty. By association. So it could be that,

716
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 1: or maybe Anna or someone in her family had been

717
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: found with just you know, the wrong books in their bag,

718
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: or maybe they were discovered to have attended a Menshevik

719
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: meeting before the Bolsheviks took over. Any number of things

720
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: could have gotten them in big trouble. I know there

721
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: was kind of a time when it was very hard

722
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: to do the right thing ye teams, at least from

723
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: my my perspective. Right. So, whatever the reason, Anna and

724
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: her family were forced into internal exile, just somewhere else

725
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: in Siberia, which of course is very big. To find

726
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: someone there not easy to find someone. So when Boris

727
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: came home from the front this time, he discovered an

728
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: empty house, no beautiful wife waiting his safe return. Nothing,

729
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: And he said in an interview quote, she was always

730
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 1: smiling for me when I came home, but this time

731
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: there was no sign of her. Nobody knew where they

732
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: were or what happened to Anna. That's how we lost

733
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: track of each other. And Boris was frantic. He was

734
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: doing everything he could to track her down but had

735
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: no success. And Anna was heartbroken too. She says, quote,

736
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: I threatened to commit suicide rather than go because I

737
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: couldn't live without him. But in the end I was

738
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: forced to go. It was the most miserable time of

739
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 1: my life. Man. This was made even worse by both

740
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: their families insisting that they needed to remarry, especially Anna.

741
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: Her mother insisted that Boris had forgotten all about her

742
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: and probably married someone else already and that why he

743
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: never wrote. But Anna Ana was like, hell, no, not

744
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: my Boris. He's out there waiting for me. She refused

745
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: to believe that he remarried, but she said, quote, one

746
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: day I got back home from work at a timber

747
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: plant and my mother had burned all boris Is early letters,

748
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: his poems, pictures, including our wedding pictures. That's not a

749
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: mother in law that I want. This seems cold, Not

750
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: to make a Siberia joke, but like, that's so upsetting.

751
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: I can see why the mom might feel like it

752
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: was the right move to get her daughter to like

753
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: let go of this past man or whatever. But ouch,

754
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's my wedding photo, and especially back in

755
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: the day, it's not like you had a billion waiting

756
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: on the cloud or something. No, I mean I get

757
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: you know again, an older mother in Siberia post World

758
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: War two, she's seen some ship, and she probably does

759
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: firmly believe like, look, I've seen this before. You are

760
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: never going to see this man again, right, you know,

761
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: so I can see. Yeah, she's really just trying to

762
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: detach her from these memories so that she can still

763
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: live a full and happy life. And she's also like,

764
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: I know the way of the world, you need a man, sad,

765
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: but true, you need to be married or else you're

766
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: not going to be taken care of. But it feels

767
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: so cruel and unsentimental, you know. But but I'm sure

768
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: that's you know, that the mentality she had to keep

769
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: the survived too, so it's tough. Anna also said that

770
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: it was her mother who refused to let her leave

771
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: a forwarding address for Boris, So I don't know, like

772
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: maybe her family were just like liberal democrat types they

773
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: didn't want a young Communist in the family, or maybe

774
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: her mom just hated army guys. You know. She's like, oh,

775
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 1: so sick of stalling and all is damn military. I

776
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: don't want to single one of them around, right, I'm

777
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: sick of this ship. I see another uniform. Just get

778
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: Boris out of my house. If I see Boris, I

779
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: turned him to burst. Anna told Happy News that her

780
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: mother quote told me this other man was coming to

781
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: meet me and that I should go out with him,

782
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: and if I was lucky, he'd marry me. I burst

783
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,280
Speaker 1: into tears and rushed into the yard. The world turned

784
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: black for me. She said that she even took a

785
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: clothes line out to the hayloft, intending to hang herself,

786
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: but her mother quote came in and slapped me in

787
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: the face and told me not to be so stupid.

788
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: And she was persuaded into going out with this man

789
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: and the fed and eventually he and her mother convinced

790
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:40,919
Speaker 1: her to marry him. Man, this mom is tough. Yeah, yeah,

791
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: she's doing that tough love thing, Like she's really trying

792
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: trying to save you. Like, you don't have to kill yourself.

793
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: I know that you're sad about this guy, but you

794
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 1: gotta do something else. You got one life, and the

795
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: years are taken own by now. Boris also eventually got remarried.

796
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: Um doesn't say whether he needed his mom to have

797
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: a mana um, but even so Boris and Anna never

798
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: forgot each other. Anna had a son with Nafed, her

799
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:12,959
Speaker 1: new husband. Um Boris actually wrote a book dedicated to

800
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: his young wife Anna. But this is kind of where

801
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: the articles I'll skip over some really interesting details, and

802
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: I wish I was there to ask them some damn questions,

803
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: because according to one article, Boris quote even spent time

804
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: in prison at some points. But why where what this

805
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: book is called? Whether it was ever published or if

806
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: he just wrote it and had it like hanging out

807
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: in a drawer somewhere. Nothing, no info the best part

808
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: exactly Come on, now, why did you put the prison?

809
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: But anyway, oh well, I guess the main takeaway of

810
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: the story is that Boris and Anna tried to move on.

811
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: They really did, but they really couldn't. Their hearts still

812
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: belonged to each other even though they couldn't be together now. Eventually,

813
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 1: over the years, both of their spouses passed away, and

814
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: Anna tragically lost her son as well, very sadly. So

815
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: she's lost so many people. She's a really hard life.

816
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: And maybe she would find some happiness when the fed

817
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: is possible, you know, even if she did a great start. Yeah. Well,

818
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: and even if she did, he died too, leaving her

819
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: alone and then her child dies like that. You know,

820
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: she's really just lost so much. And that's I was

821
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: gonna say, that's on top of just living in Siberia,

822
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: which I feel like our perfect because she lives transplanted

823
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,320
Speaker 1: into Siberia would be hard enough. And then to also

824
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: be like just hit with tragedy constantly, so brutal. But

825
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: then in two thousand seven, after more than sixty years apart,

826
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: Anna and Boris both decided to revisit some old memories.

827
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: Anna was able to go home now that the Soviet

828
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: Union had been toppled, and Boris wanted to go back

829
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: to his hometown to visit his parents graves. When he

830
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: stepped out of the car, he saw a woman standing

831
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: outside of the house where they had lived for three

832
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: days as a married couple. It was Anna. Anna looked

833
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: up and saw him too, and she said, quote, I

834
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: thought my eyes were playing games with me. I saw

835
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: this familiar looking man approaching me, his eyes gazing at me.

836
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: My heart jumped. I knew it was him. I was

837
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: crying with joy. Oh my god. Boris ran up to

838
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: her and said, quote, my darling, I've been waiting for

839
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: you for so long, my wife, my life. He said

840
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: that despite the decades, quote, I felt the same I

841
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: couldn't take my eyes off her. Yes, I had loved

842
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: other women when we were separated, but she was the

843
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: true love of my life. God, this scene in the movie,

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, she's standing there and they're really old.

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Speaker 1: But when you know, like I think they were like

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Speaker 1: a D two when you shoot it in the movie,

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Speaker 1: when they see each other, they look the same age

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Speaker 1: as they have to. Yeah, you'd have to like flash back.

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Speaker 1: I don't see you any differently young. It's like no

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Speaker 1: time has passed. But it is amazing to see just

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Speaker 1: how different they do look and they still recognize like

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00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: like that, it's like heart recognizes another reference to fifty

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Speaker 1: first dates. I guess now Boris immediately a little hot

854
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Speaker 1: in him because he immediately suggested they get married again.

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Speaker 1: He's like, let's do this. But Anna was more hesitant.

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00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: She suggested that they just lived together for the rest

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Speaker 1: of their lives because, according to her quote, what's the point.

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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe her two weddings just like stressed her

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00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: out so much that she had lost faith in the

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Speaker 1: entire institution. But Boris talked her around and they got

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Speaker 1: married again. And Anna says, quote, I never thought I'd

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Speaker 1: be a bride at my age, but it was my

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00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: happiest wedding. Yeah, eighty two years old. And they claim

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Speaker 1: him that they had not had a single argument since

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Speaker 1: they found one another. Again, Boris says, quote, we've just

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00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: been parted for so long, and who knows how much

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Speaker 1: time is left for us, So we don't want to

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Speaker 1: lose time on arguing, absolutely, which is a beautiful sentiment.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I mean, I God, some people love fighting,

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00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: and I eight it. It's such a waste of time.

871
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: I'm always just like fast forward to when this is done.

872
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 1: I know that at a certain point this won't matter anymore.

873
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: It's like, can we just skip to that, because like

874
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 1: it sucks. I mean, sometimes you have to, but it's

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00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: very frustrating, and I love this idea, just like we

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Speaker 1: know that, like we know what it's like to only

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00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: have someone for three days. What if one of those

878
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: whole days had been us fighting? And maybe it was

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00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: and they don't say, but you know, maybe even the

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00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,919
Speaker 1: morning he left that last day, she was like, I'm

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00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: sick of how late you are coming in. He's like,

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00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: shut up. And then they were like they had sixty

883
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: years to regret, but probably not. It sounded like they

884
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: were very much in their newly wed bliss period and

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00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: we could not find anything wrong with the other. Um.

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00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: So it's kind of beautiful in a way that they

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00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 1: had to newly weds periods in a way. And I

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00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: also going back to her very very tough mom, very

889
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 1: glad she came out and slapped her face and said,

890
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Speaker 1: don't kill yourself because look at this. She's she hung

891
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: on tight and she got her happy ending in the end.

892
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: So sometimes you just gotta it's so hard, but sometimes

893
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: just gotta hang on through those really dark times and

894
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: there's something so beautiful on the other end. Just crazy

895
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: story sixty years apart and it was like not a

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00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: day had gone by. I think that is so beautiful.

897
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: And it's just like your heart connecting over the years

898
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: and over like just not mattering, you know. I just

899
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: and I can't relate to that kind of memory. I mean,

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00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: sometimes you're in the bathroom for five minutes, We'll come

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00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: back out and I'm like, I know your face is

902
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 1: that you do we've met, right, we have that you're

903
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: something to me. I feel like, are you trying to

904
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: say it's been too long in the bathroom, because I

905
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: feel like there's a hidden message messages. My memory is

906
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: like I can't even remember. There's an animal. I think

907
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: people say has a bad memory, but I forgot what

908
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 1: it was. Well, there you go. We get a newlywed

909
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: every day, every day, get you a man with a

910
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: memory like a goldfish, and it'll be like the first day,

911
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:39,320
Speaker 1: every day, I'm Drew Barrymore first day. It's basically, Oh,

912
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: shout out to Toss Popcorn for doing that episode was

913
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: so funny. They had a great one this week on

914
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: Clockwork Orange. If you yes, they're so funny. Well, hopefully

915
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: these three stories restored your faith in true love and

916
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: romance and humanity and chance encounters. Yeah, and wallpaper and

917
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: wall paper and textiles, because surely whatever we do next,

918
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 1: we'll ruin it for you again. You would like to

919
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: build you up and then tear your back down. That's

920
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: the ridiculous romance promise. Yeah. I like to think we

921
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 1: keep a decent balance of you know, horrific relationships and

922
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: sweet ones. You know, I think we do mostly for

923
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,919
Speaker 1: our own mental health. It could be hard to live

924
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 1: with some of these people during the research period. Definitely,

925
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,919
Speaker 1: this one's nice. You're just like, oh, sometimes things work

926
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: out right, And if this is too sweet for you

927
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: and you want to go check out an older episode

928
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: that's kind of in the opposite direction. Find like Linda

929
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: and Bert Poogashuh, We're Simon Parks and the Alien Cat,

930
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: Queen Friend and Dolly Oster Reek. Goodness, those are some

931
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: good episodes about some folks. You know you don't want

932
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 1: to spend time. I don't know, maybe don't know the

933
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: meaning of love, certainly on a different idea than the

934
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: rest of us love and romance. Yeah, but if you

935
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: did enjoy this story, please reach out to us and

936
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: tell us what you thought. Maybe if you had a

937
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,720
Speaker 1: chance encounter in your life, you met someone on the train,

938
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Speaker 1: if you painted a girl into existence, especially seriously, I

939
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: would commission you to do some work for us. Yeah,

940
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Speaker 1: we got some dreams we'd like to seek. Yeah, could

941
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: you paint me a big pilot cash, here's my dream house.

942
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: I wanted you to paint all the inside and outside. No,

943
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:25,800
Speaker 1: but reach out to us through email. It's predict Romance

944
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. That's right. You can find us

945
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: on social media. I'm at O Great It's Eli on

946
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram, and I'm Dianamite boom. The show is

947
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: at pridict Romance on both those platforms, and find us

948
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: at Ridiculous Romance on TikTok as well. And you are awesome.

949
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for spending time with us today.

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Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed the stories and we'll see you

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Speaker 1: next time. All right, bye bye, so long friends, it's

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Speaker 1: time to go. Thanks so listening to our show. Tell

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