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Speaker 1: Hello, what are your top three interests?

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Speaker 2: Did you say, what are my top three interests?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Is a job interview?

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Speaker 1: No, I was just what's so funny?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 1: I just want to get to know you.

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Speaker 4: Better after forty years?

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Speaker 1: You want to give me your What's your top interest?

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Speaker 5: Probably my kids?

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Speaker 2: Children in general?

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Speaker 1: Children? Would you say, would you say couscous? I would

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Speaker 1: not say you really like cuscus? No, I wouldn't, But

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Speaker 1: I mean, so your children number one? Number two A

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Speaker 1: close second is couscous? And what's three?

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Speaker 4: What do you tell me?

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Speaker 6: What? What do you just tell me?

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Speaker 7: Where number three is?

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Speaker 6: Go ahead?

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Speaker 2: What is my number?

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Speaker 6: Three?

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Speaker 8: Mmmmm?

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Speaker 1: Hanging up on me? Boom boom. Start the show from

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Speaker 1: Gimblet Media. I'm Jonathan Goldstein and this is Heavyweight Today's episode.

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Speaker 1: Rob my friend, Rob Cordrey is a famous actor and

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Speaker 1: the fact you think I'm resentful is ridiculous. No, I'm

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Speaker 1: afraid that says more about you than it does about me.

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Speaker 1: I guess you could say Robert and I have both

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Speaker 1: done pretty well. He works with famous movie stars like

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Speaker 1: Dwayne the Rock Johnson, and I work with famous podcast

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Speaker 1: editors like Jorge the Rock Collection Just and Boyd does

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Speaker 1: he have a lot of amethyst. Rob was a correspondent

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Speaker 1: on the Daily Show and stars in film franchises like

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Speaker 1: Hot Tubs, Time Machine one and two. An I star

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Speaker 1: in Heavyweight, the podcast you're listening to right now. So

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Speaker 1: good for Rob and good for me. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know why we're still talking about this, because, after all,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't Dwyane Johnson who Rob recently approached with a

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Speaker 1: unique problem.

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Speaker 3: It was me.

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Speaker 1: Aside from a pocket full of nogi's and karate chops,

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Speaker 1: I guess there wasn't a thing the Great the Rock

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Speaker 1: could do for Robert. Rob is more your showbiz name, right,

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Speaker 1: but it's also my name.

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Speaker 9: It is, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Because of showbiz opportunities, Rob can't leave Hollywood. So he

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Speaker 1: phones me from a studio in la Hey.

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Speaker 2: Come and start whenever you want, and we'll just keep rolling.

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Speaker 1: Once his studio operator Laura gets us rolling, Rob tells

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Speaker 1: me his tale of woe. It all began with his daughter, Sloan.

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Speaker 10: My daughter is eleven and she tripped over a log

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Speaker 10: and broke her arm.

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Speaker 1: Sloan was at school and she tripped over a log

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Speaker 1: and fell, which was exactly how I broke my arm

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Speaker 1: when I was a kid. When Rob was around his

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Speaker 1: daughter's age, he was out in the woods with his

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Speaker 1: boy scout Troop, and he also tripped over a log

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Speaker 1: and broke his arm exactly like Sloane. Did you tell

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Speaker 1: her this story about how when you were a kid,

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Speaker 1: the same thing had happened to you.

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 10: Every connection I make with her I kind of cherish,

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Speaker 10: and I thought there was just a funny one that

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Speaker 10: we broke our arms in the same exact way. So

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Speaker 10: she went and got a cast, and I forwarded the picture.

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Speaker 10: It was this adorable picture of my daughter and her

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Speaker 10: purple cast, and I sent the picture to my family.

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Speaker 1: Rob texted the folk to his brother, his sister, his mother,

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Speaker 1: and his father, and so a text thread began. Do

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Speaker 1: you have the texts on you?

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Speaker 2: I do?

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Speaker 9: I think I do. Yeah, it might take me a

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Speaker 9: second to find sure.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, is this it's I'm just trying to find

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Speaker 10: the beginning.

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Speaker 9: It's so long.

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Speaker 10: There's a lot about my daughter here, a lot of

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Speaker 10: ah man, that poor little girl, and so forth.

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Speaker 1: When the family asked how Sloan had broken her arm,

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Speaker 1: Rob excitedly told them about the weird coincidence, and that's

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Speaker 10: My mother immediately shot back, you never broke your arm.

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Speaker 10: My mother said, I do not remember that at all. Laura,

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Speaker 10: do you remember that? Because my sister is the keeper

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Speaker 1: In a family, each member has their role the thing

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Speaker 1: And immediately she texted.

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Speaker 9: Back, don't recall any of this.

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Speaker 1: A second later, Rob's father weighed in with ridicule.

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Speaker 10: Was that the camping trip where you broke your arm

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Speaker 10: and it healed over night? Rob shot back, I had

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Speaker 1: Next, Rob's younger brother, Nate, chimed in.

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Speaker 10: Oh boy, here we go another I broke my arm.

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Speaker 10: I broke my arm story. Look, I'm the broken arm guy.

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Speaker 10: That's my role in a family. Those agreed upon rolls

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Speaker 10: are reinforced through agreed upon stories. Rob says, the Corderies

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Speaker 10: over and over. One of the biggies is about young

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Speaker 10: Nate and how he broke his arm twice. Rob's mom

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Speaker 10: is quick to confirm that's true, you are the broken arm.

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Speaker 10: But I'm just reading this for baby him. She my

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Speaker 10: mother can't type worth a crap, and then she wrote

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Speaker 10: right after that broken arm, guy, I don't have my

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Speaker 10: glasses on. I was texting with them for about an

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Speaker 10: hour afterwards. And everyone in my family swears that I

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Speaker 1: This in spite of Rob's absolute certainty that he did

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Speaker 9: It really it made me angry. It's very invalidating.

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Speaker 10: I felt like, you know, my mother didn't remember this experience,

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Speaker 10: this this that her son was in pain and had

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Speaker 10: in a cast and for a long time, you know,

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Speaker 10: And I think I felt, I don't know, for gotten.

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Speaker 1: Rob has crystal clear memories of the day it happened.

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Speaker 10: I was on a camp out my troop. My boy

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Speaker 10: Scout troop would go on a camping trip one weekend

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Speaker 10: I assumed we were in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was dark,

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Speaker 10: And I fell and knew immediately that I had broken

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Speaker 1: One of the adults on the trip, an old friend

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Speaker 1: Smith brought Rob back to the campground, and that night

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Speaker 10: And I remember waking up and being in such pain,

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Speaker 9: I felt so bad waking him up.

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Speaker 1: Eventually, the pain became so severe that Rob had no

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Speaker 1: asked him what else He remembers the way it smelled

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Speaker 1: the cast.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you know, your your arms covered up

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Speaker 10: in plaster for five to seven weeks, and so you know,

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Speaker 10: it smells like a gym locker that hasn't been cleaned

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Speaker 10: in five to seven weeks. And I remember liking the smell,

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Speaker 10: that's the weird part. And getting it off. I remember

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Speaker 10: getting it off. I remember getting the cast off, and

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Speaker 10: it smelled terrible, of course, but good to me. I

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Speaker 10: and my arm had just withered to nothing. It looked

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Speaker 1: Rob fired off a series of texts to his family,

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Speaker 1: recounting those memories in exhaustive detail, the camp out, mister Smith,

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Speaker 1: the cast. When he finished, his mom was the first

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Speaker 10: I'm afraid you were hallucinating, sweetie.

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Speaker 1: Rob tried to laugh it off, but he couldn't stop

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Speaker 1: thinking about it. That evening, Rob shared his frustration with

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Speaker 10: And she patiently listened to the texts, and afterwards she

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Speaker 10: smiled and she said, I'm on your family's side.

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Speaker 1: Gently, his wife reminded him that he's kind of absent minded.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't always have the memory. Also, in their sixteen

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Speaker 1: years of marriage, Rob had never once mentioned a broken arm.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Rob's mom was right, Maybe he was hallucinating.

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Speaker 10: Either I'm telling the truth, Jonathan, or I'm completely insane.

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Speaker 10: And it could be that I'm insane.

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Speaker 1: Is Rob insane? Or had he really broken his arm?

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Speaker 1: I was going to find out, but before setting forth

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Speaker 1: on something like this, I need a call to arms,

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Speaker 1: something to stir my inards.

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Speaker 6: Good.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to do this. I'm going to do it.

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Speaker 9: Yeah good.

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Speaker 1: My innerds remain unstirred, so I'm going to get right

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Speaker 11: All right.

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Speaker 9: Great.

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Speaker 1: But just when I think that Rob will never give

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Speaker 9: Hey, Jonathan, Yes, go get him, you son of a bitch.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was good for. Yeah, that was good.

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Speaker 9: That's good.

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Speaker 10: I was going to say to that or get those bastards,

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Speaker 1: After the break, questioning some dirty, rotten bastards.

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Speaker 9: All right, great, all right, I love you very much.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, thank you? Right back at you there.

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Speaker 9: I want you to say it.

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Speaker 11: I love you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: So what.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, hello, ullo.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm still here.

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Speaker 1: So Laura is there as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you dropped out a little bit there, Jonathan.

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Speaker 12: Oh you should repeat what you said.

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Speaker 8: That'd be great.

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Speaker 6: Rob.

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Speaker 1: Is Rob still there here?

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Speaker 9: I'm still here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're both here.

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Speaker 1: I think there's one little section.

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Speaker 12: Where you dropped out of it.

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Speaker 9: I think you know what section that was, Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: I was just I was just asking if you were

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Speaker 1: if you were still can you hear me?

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Speaker 6: Laura Hello, Hi.

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Speaker 1: Is this Robin?

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Speaker 7: It is Hello?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Is this Laura? It is Nate? Yes, mister Cordy, Yes,

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Speaker 1: is this an okay time to talk? My search for

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Speaker 1: the truth begins with the Quardrees. Rob's brother Nate. I'm

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Speaker 1: comfortably sitting in a chair, his sister Laura right now.

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Speaker 7: We're in Disney World, his mother Robin, I'm.

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Speaker 5: In my car in front of a post.

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Speaker 1: Office, and his father, Steve, I'm in Florida. What makes

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Speaker 1: them all so certain that Rob never broke his arm?

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Speaker 2: No one in the family can remember it.

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Speaker 7: His own mother, no broken arms for Rob, his own father.

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Speaker 3: I certainly don't remember coming back in the cab.

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Speaker 2: If there's anyone's memory in the family that I would trust,

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Speaker 1: And you've not been long before.

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Speaker 7: No, nothing, Well, we got cable one summer, so that

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Speaker 13: Mister Smith never owned a pickup, and we knew the

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Speaker 12: It lived across the street Funtains for a number of years,

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Speaker 3: If any of my kids get hurt, do not take

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Speaker 13: Go to the Jordan hospital.

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Speaker 7: That would never happen. He said. He went to Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Hospital in his make belief pickup, and most damning of all,

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Speaker 13: The only one that I remember having a cast on

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Speaker 2: Was his younger brother, Maids, my younger brother.

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Speaker 7: Nate broke his arm, broke.

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Speaker 14: His arm twice.

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Speaker 2: I had to be in traction with in traction for

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Speaker 1: They all remember when Nate's arm broke, and who broke it.

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Speaker 2: That was running out of the family room onto the

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Speaker 2: That is not the truth. Many years later, Rob said,

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Speaker 12: I tripped you.

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Speaker 2: He stepped on my shoelace. He was behind the door,

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Speaker 1: Rob didn't bring up any of this.

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Speaker 2: Oh what a surprise.

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Speaker 1: According to Nate, Rob's false memory stems from guilt. Laura agrees,

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Speaker 7: So I don't know if he's feeling responsible. So now

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Speaker 7: I also broke my arm.

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Speaker 1: But Rob's visceral memories, the smell of the cast, the

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Speaker 7: He was with Nate when Nate has his.

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Speaker 1: Cast removed, and he remembers the smell of Nate's cast.

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Speaker 7: I remember the smell of Nate's cast. So he took

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I asked Laura if she would describe the odor as

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Speaker 2: I think he might have tried to steal my memory.

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Speaker 1: Even if you're famous, you shouldn't go around stealing people's memories.

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Speaker 12: Hello, Jonathan, Hi.

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Speaker 1: How are you? After speaking with the Cordrees, I decide

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Speaker 1: that I no longer believe Rob. It isn't like I

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Speaker 1: So I need to tread carefully. So I wanted I

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Speaker 1: does it Johnny boy? Okay, well, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: it's looking great. So for one thing, I spoke to

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Speaker 12: Oh, he would never He would never have owned a

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Speaker 1: No, he's not that kind of guy.

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Speaker 12: I'm not sure if it was his.

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Speaker 1: As Rob flounders for an excuse, I try my best

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Speaker 1: that you guys slept in together.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, yeh, I assume, like whoever had the most comfortable

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Speaker 1: But what about the snake ridden Jordan hospital?

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Speaker 9: I ask?

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Speaker 1: His mom swears that she'd written on his medical form

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Speaker 1: that he was never to go there, but Rob brushes

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Speaker 12: You know, she's already in her robe. Her stories and

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Speaker 1: Rob's explanations were becoming increasingly far fetched. But he was

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Speaker 1: bring out the big guns. The other thing that you

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Speaker 1: failed to mention to me. According to your family, you

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Speaker 1: were responsible for Nate's broken arm. Oh no, Rob says,

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Speaker 1: Nate's arm is something he still feels bad about, which

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Speaker 1: can't deny. When Laura, keeper of Memories, told me about

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Speaker 1: nate broken arm guy getting his cast removed, her description

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Speaker 1: was suspiciously familiar. She mentioned Nate's withered arm and how

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Speaker 12: Exactly my story. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean there's being forgetful and then there's completely

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Speaker 12: It's made me, I don't know, it's made me.

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Speaker 8: Kind of look back at my entire life and realize

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Speaker 1: It's finally beginning to sink in maybe Rob didn't break

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Speaker 1: his arm. Before we get off the phone, Rob asks

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Speaker 1: me if in spite of all this, I'll keep digging

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Speaker 1: a little longer, and I promise him I will. I'll

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Speaker 12: Great and Jonathan, Yes, I love you very very much.

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Speaker 1: I hear you, buddy, and you know what what, I'm

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Speaker 9: Hello.

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Speaker 12: Yes, my name is David Orcott. You had called him

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Speaker 12: up the message.

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Speaker 1: After reaching out to several of Rob's childhood friends who

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Speaker 1: from David Orcott. David and Rob were in the Boy

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Speaker 1: Scouts together, and Rob recalls them taking a group of

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Speaker 1: person in his family said, what, you're crazy. You never

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Speaker 1: But he is quite positive himself that he did break

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Speaker 12: He did break his arm. I've got a picture of

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Speaker 12: him with a broken arm. They need the picture.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is crazy. Do you still have this photograph? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Well, you're the first person that I've spoken to who's

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Speaker 12: The only reason is I believe I have a scrap

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 12: I could check that tonight and verify it if you want,

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Speaker 12: and then if you need a scan copy or scan

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Speaker 12: of it, we could do something along those lines. It

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Speaker 1: Maybe Rob wasn't as insane as you people thought. Sorry, folks,

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Speaker 1: but according to the Gimlet Media Employee Handbook, when you've

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Speaker 1: to amp it up with a plethor of advertisements.

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Speaker 9: So take a.

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Speaker 1: Bathroom break and fix yourself a snack, not at the

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Speaker 1: same time, of course, and I'll catch you on the

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Speaker 1: b side as promised. A couple days later, I received

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Speaker 1: the photo from David Orcott. Rob's on vacation in Hawaii,

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Speaker 1: a paradise island populated by celebs like Tom Selleck and

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Speaker 1: Don Ho. But I just can't wait to share the news. Plus,

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Speaker 1: I've never talked to anyone in Hawaii before. Hawaii. Are

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Speaker 12: I am. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Once Rob's done bragging, I tell him I have something

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Speaker 12: I just got a text from Jonathan Goldstein that image.

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Speaker 15: Whoa.

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Speaker 1: The photo looks like it was shot on a nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighties in Stematic. In the foreground is a group of

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Speaker 12: Me in the back row with a broken arm.

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Speaker 1: The picture is pretty grainy, but you can see a

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Speaker 1: his friend David, who stands beside him. Rob's arm is

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Speaker 1: he remembered it with it?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 12: Yes, with a huge, huge cast and look and not

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Speaker 1: Armed with this? I mean, what can they possibly say?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 12: I almost feel bad for them.

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Speaker 1: Evidence in hand. Rob organizes a conference call with the

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Speaker 1: whole Cordery clan and to best enjoy the moment, he

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Speaker 1: also writes a victory speech. I'm very proud of it.

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Speaker 1: Do you need to practice it? Yes, let's hear it.

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Speaker 12: I can't imagine what you're all feeling right now. How

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Speaker 12: would I react if I had forgotten that my son

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Speaker 12: or brother spent five to six lonely weeks of recovery

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Speaker 12: shoved into a cast so bulky, so glaringly white. It

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Speaker 4: Surprise me if strangers who at the time had been

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Speaker 4: cursed to catch a glimpse of me lugging that albatross

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Speaker 4: around still jolt awake at night, screaming. Man, that kid

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Speaker 4: sure did have a broken arm.

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Speaker 12: I'll never forget. It was a big cast. Your son,

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Speaker 12: when I was a kid, I definitely definitely out a

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Speaker 12: doubt broke my arm.

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Speaker 1: That's beautiful, understated, but beautiful.

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Speaker 16: All right.

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Speaker 1: So you know what, why don't we call into this

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Speaker 1: they will, so we could greet them. Okay, just like

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Speaker 1: the evidence is sitting calmly, cross legging in an armchair. Hello, family,

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Speaker 1: glad you can make it.

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Speaker 12: Please make yourself comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So I'll call in and you're gonna call in

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Speaker 11: one minute, okay, joining conference now?

452
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 2: Hello, Hey Jonathan, you have Nate so far?

453
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: Oh h oh, Hi Nate. I was I was hoping

454
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 1: to get in here before everybody.

455
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:54,920
Speaker 5: Mama code is here.

456
00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 3: Hi, Hi, Hi, It's Lara.

457
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: Oh hi, how are you, Laura. It's so nice that

458
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 1: you're all here. I just got off the phone with

459
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: your brother Rob.

460
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 3: Your hell.

461
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 12: Oh no, you beat us, We all beat you. Everybody's there.

462
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: Yeah. We were one minute into Rob's victory conference call,

463
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: and already his family was ruining his moment. I can

464
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: tell Rob needs a minute to collect himself to get

465
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: back into that Aloha state of mind. So, taking my

466
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 1: cues from a Southern lawyer and a Hannah Barbara cartoon

467
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: possibly portrayed by a large rooster wearing suspenders, I take

468
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: the stage. The reason I've I've brought everyone here together

469
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: is because I've uncovered a piece of evidence that I

470
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: think might very well be definitive. In homage to the

471
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: original text message thread that started this whole thing, I

472
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: group text the photo of Rob to the whole family.

473
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 9: Here we go.

474
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: I'm about to hit send you all set mm hmm, Okay,

475
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: here we go. I just sent it.

476
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 6: Oh wow.

477
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: There's a moment of silence as everyone studies the photo.

478
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: I worry that maybe it isn't clear enough that the

479
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: Corderies will contest it's even a picture of Rob, But then.

480
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 3: Does look like Robert in a caf it does.

481
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: With Rob's identity confirmed, I give it two shakes of

482
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: a lamb's tail for the apologies to start rolling in,

483
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: so Rob can put this whole business behind him and

484
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: enjoy his two o'clock hula dancing class with a free

485
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: and easy mind. But two shakes of a lamb's tail

486
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: becomes three shakes and then four shakes. So do you

487
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: all like believe now, like definitively, that Rob was right

488
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: and you guys were wrong?

489
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 3: I don't know how Dad and I and Laura and

490
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 3: they could not remember this?

491
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: Again, A hush falls over the conference call. How could

492
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: they not remember?

493
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 16: It?

494
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: Just didn't make sense unless I think.

495
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 13: That was the camp out that they were practicing first

496
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 13: aid and they were using robins they getting big on

497
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 13: how when they broke an arm.

498
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: With that, the floodgates are open and everyone begins forwarding

499
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: a theory.

500
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 2: It does vaguely look like a pretend cast because of it,

501
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: like an Adobe photoshow.

502
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 13: Maybe you just wore that cast when you were away

503
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 13: from a health Oh right, we thought it.

504
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: From here, all of the Corderie small theories converge into

505
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: one grand theory, which they trumpet in much the way

506
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: villagers in a Broadway musical.

507
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 7: Might it kind of looks like a sling phone, Not really.

508
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: It does look like a sling.

509
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you're saying, is a sling. So maybe sprained.

510
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: It was some sprain or that's what it was. Yeah, okay,

511
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: I say if it was a sprain, then why wouldn't

512
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: you just remember a sprain?

513
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 3: A sprain is not that memorable, just doesn't just doesn't

514
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: look right. The sprain in a sling that big.

515
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: Right, So then it can't be a sprain. It has

516
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: to be a broken arm now.

517
00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 3: But there would still be an enormous cast on a small, slight.

518
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: Boy in the face of the evidence. I wonder if

519
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: Rob's family is clinging to this whole sprain thing because

520
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: they just feel bad for not remembering. Do you think

521
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: it's a denial out of guilt, you, guys.

522
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 3: I don't feel guilty.

523
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 2: I will say that my memory is imperfect and it's

524
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: altogether likely that you did break.

525
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: Your arm, just just likely, not one hundred percent though

526
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: I do have zero memory of it. But what about

527
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: even seeing the photographic evidence.

528
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 7: I I'm not one hundred percent convinced, because nobody remembers it.

529
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: In this way, we go around and around. Since no

530
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: one remembers it, then it didn't happen. And if it

531
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: didn't happen, how could anyone remember it? And all the

532
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: while Rob is silent. I imagine him on the other

533
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: end of the line, seated alone at a luau table,

534
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: sadly picking the weeds from his grass skirt and taking

535
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: sad slow SIPs from one of those drinks that come

536
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: in a flaming pineapple, the kind famous people are forever

537
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: throwing at the paparazzi. Suddenly Rob lets his frustration be known.

538
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 12: I cannot believe that you guys are working this hard

539
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 12: to not believe that I broke my arm.

540
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: I did not expect this.

541
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 12: I did not expect this reaction.

542
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: It seems it's going to take more than an old

543
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: photograph to change the Quderi's cemented version of history, and

544
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: it's going to take the Cordery's belief in Rob to

545
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: make him feel sane again. So I asked the family

546
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: what they'll need to accept that Rob broke his arm?

547
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 13: Well, where's the medical records?

548
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 3: Then I would believe it.

549
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, Yeah, of course, of course. And if

550
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: we're able to present medical records attesting to the fact

551
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: that Rob broke his arm. Would they then all apologize.

552
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: To Rob if this is all true, if he deserves

553
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: an apology, I would apologize.

554
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would definitely apologize.

555
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 5: I would feel terrible.

556
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 12: Absolutely, Yes, yes, I'll.

557
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 13: Be the first to stand up.

558
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: But do you think that's going to happen.

559
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 12: No, I don't know.

560
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the time to bring

561
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: up the speech.

562
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 12: But I mean, yeah, I wrote a speech. I wrote

563
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 12: a victory speech.

564
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: In spite of everything. I knew that Rob was proud

565
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: of that speech, and since he'd already written it, I

566
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: figured he might as well read it.

567
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 15: So I cannot go Actually, oh, I'll start again. I

568
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 15: can't imagine what you're all feeling right now.

569
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:09,919
Speaker 1: How would I react by and forgotten? The corderies want

570
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: written proof? But do hospitals even keep records from so

571
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: long ago, let alone a snake pit like the Jordan Hospital.

572
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 1: Since Rob can't be expected to interrupt this Hawaiian holiday

573
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: with the trivial business of procuring paperwork, I decide to

574
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: handle it myself. And who better to help me handle

575
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: it myself than someone else? And who better is someone

576
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: else than an actual doctor, Jackie.

577
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 6: I'm just walking home from work.

578
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 4: I'm actually not far from your old apartment.

579
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: Oh really, can you check if I have any mail

580
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: for Let's get right to it. I explained to Jackie

581
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: that a friend of mine, a famous friend who for

582
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: his own privacy I'd rather not name, was in need

583
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: of medical records. They were probably like easily over thirty

584
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: years ago. Do you think they would still exist, Well, it.

585
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 7: Depends, but they might either get rid of them or

586
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 7: they might have gone into deep storage, but they may

587
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 7: have a record as a doctor.

588
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: Would you be able to get the records out of

589
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: deep storage?

590
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 7: Nobody can request them himself.

591
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: He doesn't need me.

592
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, he's a very busy man. Did

593
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: I mention that he is?

594
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 2: I'm not busy?

595
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 12: Right.

596
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: This isn't going at all the way I'd hoped. Instead

597
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: of offering help, Jackie is offering jealousy of Rob. I

598
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: explained that she's being ridiculous, that she's also my friend,

599
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: but that Rob just has VIP needs the needs of

600
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: a very importure.

601
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 3: Let me reiterate what I already said to you.

602
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: Would I say, yeah, you said you too bad?

603
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 7: You said your famous friend what can your famous friend

604
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 7: do for himself?

605
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: Hey, you said that he could phone up and he could.

606
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 2: Find out he can get them himself, Yet you need

607
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: his signature on a piece of paper.

608
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: In the midst of tearing me a new bee hole,

609
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: Jackie runs into a friend of hers named Jeremy. I'd

610
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: never heard this tone in her voice before. Could it

611
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: be that an unplanned social encounter with a friend was

612
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: making Jackie happy?

613
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 16: Don't tell you, Oh, it's.

614
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 1: So good to say hi to Jeremy.

615
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 8: Medical records.

616
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 4: This is Karen.

617
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 2: How can I help you?

618
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 8: Hi?

619
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 6: There?

620
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: I have a question. When I explained to Karen when

621
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: I'm after, I expect her to say something like medical

622
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: records from the nineteen eighties. Dude, this is the Jordan Hospital.

623
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: I'm performing open heart surgery with a spatula as we speak,

624
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: and I'm the mother f and switchboard operator. But to

625
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: my surprise, we do have records that go that far back.

626
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 1: We have a copy service correspondence team and if they're

627
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 1: able to find anything, lots of times they're on microfiche,

628
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: then they can reach out. Okay, thank you so much, Okay,

629
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: good luck, thank you, Okay, bye bye bye bye. I

630
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: don't know my experience with the Jordan Hospital has been wonderful.

631
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: For the next seven to ten business days. I wait,

632
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: but something. You don't have to wait for his deals,

633
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: because here they are deals, deals, deals. An envelope arrives

634
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: to my office. What's that, asks Gimlet CEO and founder

635
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: Alex Bloomberg. A letter, I say, A letter? He repeats,

636
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: what are you five billion years old? I only use Snapchat,

637
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: wheat Chat, Kick, slack, poke in vox. Well do you

638
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: use email? I ask, because I've sent you a half

639
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: a dozen of them about renewing my son's health insurance.

640
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: He swallowed a penny over the weekend, and my words

641
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: are interrupted by the sound of Alex's fitbit, which has

642
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 1: begun emitting a terrifying series of beeps and whistles. Alex

643
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: shushes me as he studies his wrist and then, leaping

644
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: into the air, cries boo yah. He then walks away

645
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: performing tai Chi poses, and I tear open the envelope.

646
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: Inside is a single sheet of paper. At the top

647
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: it reads the Jordan Hospital Emergency Department. But as for

648
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: the rest of the sheep, I can't make out a word.

649
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: It's filled from top to bottom with doctor jargon written

650
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: in doctor hana, and so who better to translate than

651
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,720
Speaker 1: an actual doctor? Jackie, I got a second.

652
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 5: Inside my turtle neck?

653
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 4: Is that okay?

654
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: You're wearing a turtleneck?

655
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's nice about a turtle neck? Is that has

656
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 5: no arms?

657
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: So it's just a neck.

658
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 4: Yep.

659
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: Rather than risk another dust up by suggesting Jackie might

660
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: not be wearing a turtleneck at all, but rather a

661
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: neck brace, I instead text her the records so she

662
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: can take a look.

663
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 4: I can't.

664
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 5: I can't do that while I'm driving.

665
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: Can you pull over to the side of the road,

666
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: to the shoulder of the road.

667
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 7: Absolutely not.

668
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: You cut out there for a second. Did you say yes?

669
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 5: I said absolutely not.

670
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: You cut out again?

671
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 15: Did you are?

672
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 1: You're pulling over?

673
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 2: Stop telling me I cut out.

674
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 7: I did not cut out, and I'm not pulling over.

675
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: I think you cut out again, So you're pulling over? Okay.

676
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: So did you look at what I sent you?

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Speaker 12: No?

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Speaker 2: I didn't look at what I'm I'm on the highway, John, John,

679
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Speaker 2: I'm on the highway.

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Speaker 1: Just dart your eyes between the windshield and the papers

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Speaker 1: that I just sent you. No, Because Jackie's neck brace

682
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Speaker 1: seems to be constricting the flow of kindness from her

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Speaker 1: heart to her mouth. I decide to just read to

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Speaker 1: her what little I can make out. It was an

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Speaker 1: exam med Richard's forty ugh Like, where does it say

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Speaker 1: if he just broke his arm? FX of right distroll

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Speaker 1: rady radius FX.

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Speaker 7: Means fracture of dystole radius.

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Speaker 1: FX means fractured. Yeah, so he fractured his arm. Yep,

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Speaker 1: so is that the same thing as breaking? Yes, so

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Speaker 1: he broke his arm.

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Speaker 2: He broke his arm?

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00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 4: Looks like it.

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Speaker 1: This confirms he broke his arm.

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Speaker 4: Wonderful?

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Speaker 2: Are we done?

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Speaker 1: In high spirits? I get Rob, who's just returned from

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Speaker 1: another vacation back on the phone. Welcome back from Fiji.

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Speaker 12: Thank you very much.

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00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: Everything must seem like sort of like in black and white.

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00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 4: Now Fiji is not all.

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00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 12: It sounds more exotic than it is.

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Speaker 1: When Rob's done bragging, I tell him I have some

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Speaker 1: news I wanted to share with you. The er report cool.

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Speaker 12: I'm nervous. It's because because if it's because if I

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Speaker 12: didn't break my arm, then I mean I got to

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Speaker 12: shut everything down and live in therapy.

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Speaker 1: You broke your arm? I did you did? Yeah?

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Speaker 12: Of course I did I know.

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Speaker 1: Joining conference. Now, an impromptu family conference call is arranged.

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Speaker 1: Eight is traveling and unable to make it, but we

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00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: get everyone else on the line. Any last minute predictions

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00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: anybody wants to make. Don't think there's a record of it,

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Speaker 1: anybody else.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking a screen.

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Speaker 1: Well, according to the hospital report, Rob broke his arm.

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00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 15: Wow, gourd, you're kidding.

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00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 7: No, what did the hospital record say?

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00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: I texted over and since Rob's mom is a nurse,

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Speaker 1: she decodes the report for the rest of the family.

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Speaker 5: Okay, complained of pain, swelling, risk, tripped over, log landing

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00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 5: on wrist.

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Speaker 1: It was just as Rob had said, right, risk.

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Speaker 5: Distal forearm, the fracture distal radio. Wow, my full apologies, Robert.

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Speaker 1: The medical report has done the job.

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Speaker 13: I am sorry that I don't remember this incident at all.

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00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 13: I mean, I remember a lot of other incidentss, but yeah,

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00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 13: this one I don't remember it. But that doesn't mean

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00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 13: that it didn't happen.

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Speaker 5: You've got me in two years, and I believe you.

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Speaker 12: Nothing to be in tears over.

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Speaker 1: As his family begins to apologize, Rob begins to backpedal.

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Speaker 12: I can't imagine making you apologize for this but like

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00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 12: I could do that. No, this is I'm just it

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00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 12: just makes me uncomfortable. I think it's kind of understandable

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00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 12: that a group of four people would forget something like

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00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 12: this because it was it was fairly trivial.

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Speaker 5: No, I disagree. I this was not trivial. It wasn't

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00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 5: a little thing. You broke your arm and I have

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00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 5: absolutely no memory of it. That makes me crazy.

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Speaker 13: That kind of makes me feel bad that as a parent,

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Speaker 13: I don't remember it.

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Speaker 1: With Rob's broken arm confirmed, his parents go from doubting

744
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: their son to doubting themselves. What kind of parents were they?

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00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: All the agreed upon rolls are called into question. How

746
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 1: can Laura be the keeper of memories if she failed

747
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: to keep this memory? And Nate, how can he be

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00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: the broken arm guy if now there's some other broken

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00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: arm guy. This is the moment when Rob should be

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Speaker 1: delivering his victory speech. In its entirety, he should be

751
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: saying I told you so in a sing songy voice

752
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: that is sickening to everyone. He should be gloating. But

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00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: there's something about his family's remorse that feels worse than

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00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: their disbelief. So instead, Rob tries to diffuse the situation

755
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: by joking around no, no, no, I don't listen.

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00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 12: You weren't there for it. You probably had to write

757
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 12: me a note to get out of zet, which was great.

758
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 12: That's probably here at the extent that you're involved.

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00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: To reassure them, Rob falls back on the old Qudrey

760
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: family chestnuts.

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00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 12: I can think back to seeing little Nate in traction

762
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 12: in the hospital, and even today can probably cry over it.

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00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 12: That's that's that's memorable.

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Speaker 1: And just like that, things begin to snap back into

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00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: place once again. Nate is the broken arm guy. And Laura, I.

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Speaker 7: Mean, I'm surprised that I don't remember it because I

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00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 7: remember stupid things like what color sneakers I had.

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Speaker 13: And I remember one day we went for dinner or

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00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 13: lunch at either Burger King of McDonald's, and Laura found

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00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 13: ten dollars under the table.

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00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 6: It was Brigham's.

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00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 13: See I remember this, Yeah, I remember.

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00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 6: Where we were sitting.

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00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: And just like that, once again, Laura is the keeper

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00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: of memories. After everyone gets off the phone, I stay

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00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: on with Rob. The calls left him feeling kind of bad,

777
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: especially for his mom. Before we'd all signed off, she

778
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: apologized yet again, despite Rob's reassurance, she was still feeling

779
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: guilty and unsettled by your lack of memory.

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00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 6: Hi, this is Robin.

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00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 3: I can't take your call.

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00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: Right now, so Rob and I give her a call

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00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: to check back in, but she isn't picking up.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for calling.

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00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 12: Hi, Mom, it's Robert William. My friend Jonathan's here. Hi,

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00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 12: and I love you.

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00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: Oh, I love you. Oh sorry, I.

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Speaker 12: Was talking to my mother that time, Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: Eventually, my friend Jackie did read Rob's medical report, and

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00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: then she texted me. This is notable for two reasons.

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00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: One Jackie never texts me, and two she began the

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00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: text by saying, I read the report, and truthfully, the

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00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: most interesting part was the remark that the patient was pleasant.

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00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 12: Oh well, that's very nice.

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00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: And she goes on to say in an er setting,

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00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: no one would ever bother writing that.

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00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 12: Oh man, I remember getting along with the doctor and

798
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 12: him saying that.

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00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 2: I was a champ.

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00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: I just swallowed your pain.

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00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 4: Always.

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00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 12: I took great pride in being a champ.

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00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 8: In the er.

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00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: Rob was pleasant in the pickup truck. He didn't want

805
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: to bother anyone for a painkiller. A couple weeks later,

806
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: and he was leading girl scouts on a hike and

807
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: ultimately maybe that's why no one remembers Rob breaking his arm,

808
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: because whether it was a big deal or not, he

809
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: acted like it wasn't. Rob liked being a champ, and

810
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 1: he still likes being a champ, making people laugh, joking

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00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: things off. So it was no surprise that when I

812
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: asked the Quderies what Rob's role in the family was,

813
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: they all said the same thing.

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00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 7: He's the funny guy.

815
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 2: He was funny, he was the funny one.

816
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 3: He always started sayings at the dinner table.

817
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: Rob isn't an insult comic. The joke's always on him,

818
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 1: the jokes always to make everyone else feel better. You're pleasant,

819
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,879
Speaker 1: I'm good, I am. I hope you feel good about that.

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00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 12: I do. I actually do. I ho hope that that's

821
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 12: what people say about me.

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00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 14: He is really funny and caring and sweet, and I

823
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 14: love the soft side of him.

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00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: This is Sloane Rob's little girl who broke her arm,

825
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: whose picture in a big purple cast set this whole

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00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: thing off in the first place.

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Speaker 14: He doesn't really have a hard slot, and he's someone

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00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 14: who you can always go to and he's not gonna

829
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 14: yell at you or tell you like that you did

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00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 14: something wrong.

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Speaker 1: After Sloane broke her arm, Rob told her the story

832
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: of how he had also broken his arm on a log,

833
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: how he was rolling on top of it to make

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00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: his friends laugh.

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Speaker 14: Anyway, it was just comforting to know that, like, I

836
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 14: wasn't the only one who tripped over a tree, because

837
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 14: that's embarrassing.

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00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: Rob told me that when no one in his family

839
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: believed him, not his mother, father, sister, or brother, not

840
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,919
Speaker 1: even his wife, there was one person who did.

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00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 14: Yeah, I did. I just felt like he was telling

842
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 14: the truth. He was very frustrated that no one believed him,

843
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 14: so I wanted to be nice to him too.

844
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: In Rob's new family, everyone is still growing into their roles.

845
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: So for now, Sloan is the bookworm, her little sister

846
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: Marlowe is the rocker, always playing her electric guitar. And Rob,

847
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 1: to them, isn't the funny one or even the famous one.

848
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: He's the soft one, the sweet and caring one.

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00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:47,359
Speaker 12: Thank you, Jonathan, Thank you Rob, and hey John, Johnny. Yeah,

850
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 12: I love you very much.

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00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:53,280
Speaker 1: I love you Rob.

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00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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00:50:55,719 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 12: Okay, good bye, okay, bye bye.

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00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 16: Now that the Fernitures return to its goodwill home, Now

855
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 16: that the last month's rent is skiming with the damage

856
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 16: the bottle. Take this moment to deserve, if we meant it,

857
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 16: if we talk, we felt around from far too, from.

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Speaker 1: Things that accidentally. Heavyweight is hosted and produced by me

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Goldstein, along with Khalila Holt, Peter Bresnan, and Stevie Lane.

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Speaker 1: The show is edited by Jorge Just, with additional editing

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