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Speaker 1: there it is. There it is. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome

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Speaker 1: to another phenomenal episode of My Mama Told Me, the

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Speaker 1: theories that you the listener have at home. That's right,

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Speaker 1: motherfucker's this a mini episode, a motherfucking mini episode, And

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Speaker 1: just like all the many episodes, a true tradition we've

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Speaker 1: of fans and and unpack the conspiracy theories that you've

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Speaker 1: weird one. This is a nice, interesting conspiracy theory that

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Speaker 1: came to me. It was sent to me, and and

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Speaker 1: it came from a person who introduced herself by a

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Speaker 1: that mean that she's writing from a different person's email

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Speaker 1: or is she giving me a pseudonym? It's hard to

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Speaker 1: for you. Now, what a blank to in my name

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Speaker 1: is Phoebe. I just wanted to look into a theory

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Speaker 1: my mom has had my whole life, well, more like

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Speaker 1: a phobia. She is deathly afraid of cats. Yes, cats,

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Speaker 1: small fuzzy feline friends that live in the home. Pets. Yes,

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Speaker 1: she thinks. Has told me many many times that cants

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Speaker 1: will steal your soul, that thing they do when they're

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Speaker 1: She's like, that's them, that's that's them thinking about it

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Speaker 1: if it's just from that story, that Stephen King movie,

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Speaker 1: many times do I have to keep telling you fucker's this?

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Speaker 1: Come on, people, the time is now, you know anyway, Bye, bitch.

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Speaker 1: Motherfucking many years, so many years, so, motherfucking many years. So,

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