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Speaker 1: But what happened next was way worse than I ever expected.

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Speaker 2: It's like in GTA when you're like cruising around, you're

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Speaker 1: Like, now I have to throw fifty your names and

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Speaker 2: Don't make me escalate this as police. You take out

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Speaker 2: a female, am a doctor? Good for you?

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Speaker 1: Good for you? And part of my job entails being

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Speaker 1: on call for one to three nights a week, twice

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Speaker 1: a month. My fiance Dale thirty mail has been saving

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Speaker 1: with my step son's mom to buy him a car

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Speaker 1: for Christmas. My steps on Rex sixteen mail, which, honestly,

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Speaker 1: if your name is Rex, like you're you're already You're

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Speaker 1: already in trouble. Like what does Rex stand for? Is

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Speaker 2: Truly? I mean, what my name is taranosaurus Rex? You

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Speaker 1: Rex has a license, but always has to borrow his

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Speaker 1: mom station wagon or his dad's beat up pickup truck.

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Speaker 1: His mom's car is layme and embarrassing, and his dads

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Speaker 1: can only hold one passenger. Not practical. Fourteen makes sense

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Speaker 1: Onto the main conflict. Rex texted me yesterday around twelve

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Speaker 1: His friends wanted to go to the mall. But the

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Speaker 2: You know my grandfather had to go uphill in the

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Speaker 2: snow both ways. That's right to get the school. That's right.

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Speaker 2: At least you could do with thick a bus.

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Speaker 1: We have to walk thirty to miles to deliver these

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Speaker 1: podcasts every Friday, delivered by snail mail to your ear God.

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Speaker 1: So he asked if he could borrow my car. I

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Speaker 1: texted back and said, sorry, but no, I'm on call

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Speaker 1: again with the hospital. Can you ask your mom? He

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Speaker 1: says no. I told him sorry, but my answer is

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Speaker 1: still no. I'm sure you will find a solution. Ask

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Speaker 1: your friends. I'm sure you'll figure it out. If you're

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying where this is going.

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Speaker 1: Yet, so he he walks, Yeah, yeah, exactly easy. I

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Speaker 1: an hour later, I went to the kitchen, cleaning up

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Speaker 2: When I saw this, so they can't even put away

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Speaker 1: Literally like it's there's a trash can.

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Speaker 2: Right there at sixteen. Clean up for yourself.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you disgusting, filthy, fucking animal. Your existence disgusts me.

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Speaker 2: You belong in a zoo.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I saw the spot where I left my key

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Speaker 1: I bolted to the door. The car was gone. Dude,

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Speaker 2: This guy to freaking steal his mom's car, stepmom's car

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Speaker 1: This is literally so ergo we will meet you with

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Speaker 2: Has full license to show up to with with a

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Speaker 1: I immediately dialed my step son. He picks up and

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Speaker 2: It's Rex.

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Speaker 1: It's Rex.

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Speaker 2: It's Rex. You know, leave a message. Leave a message.

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Speaker 1: I'm probably plowing some some ten right now, hitting a

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Speaker 2: There we go.

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Speaker 1: That's what it is. I told him to get his

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Speaker 1: it's her car, though, bro. The I would never have

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Speaker 2: That, yeah, well yeah, you're not Rex. Bro, I'm not

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Speaker 2: got the confidence of freaking Rex. Dude. I need everyone's mom.

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Speaker 1: He needs to make it like a like a one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called Rex has sex and he can too

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Speaker 2: follow the the ten step program that's to get your

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Speaker 2: rex erect.

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Speaker 1: That's right, erex erexed. I'm not proud, but I told

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Speaker 2: Yeah, laid down the law mother, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Rex panic and said that he couldn't find all his

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Speaker 1: I phoned Rex's mom and informed her of his stunt.

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Speaker 1: She was madder than me when I told her that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, this at least this is good parenting. Like

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Speaker 2: there's one same person. Yeah, it's like, uh, he could

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Speaker 1: It's just your car, Like you're just people dying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Rex came in, threw my keys down, and locked himself

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Speaker 1: and said he had been on the phone with his ex.

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Speaker 1: He demanded to know why I punished his son.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, first off, she just asked for the car,

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Speaker 2: she's not doing anything wrong.

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Speaker 1: She actually didn't punish him because, like she she threatened

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Speaker 2: Rex has had nothing to go against him except returning

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Speaker 2: the car. Yes, that was rightfully if not his Yes.

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Speaker 2: Yoh, Dale, this ain't a good relationship, bro l For Dale.

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Speaker 1: His ex agrees with me and decided that she will

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's like, I mean, Dale sounds like a

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Speaker 1: Also, it's like, how do you not notice the red

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How does that not happen? I am so sorry?

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Speaker 2: Like Dale seems like he doesn't know handle himself or

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Speaker 1: Awful and no judgment. But Dale is thirty and the

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Speaker 1: kid is sixteen. Oh shit, so oh fuck just saying

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Speaker 1: Adam where they was fourteen? I even realize that that's crazy, right,

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Speaker 1: it's insane. At least one of them has matured since fourteen. Yes, actually,

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Speaker 1: Dale thinks I'm making a big deal out of nothing.

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Speaker 1: I didn't end up going into work, So why did

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Speaker 1: I have to threaten Rex?

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Speaker 2: That's terrible. She needed the car because Rex is being

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Speaker 1: No, he has no like entitled mint to it whatsoever,

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Speaker 1: that's why? And what if someone called exactly like God,

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Speaker 1: I have only gone in twice this year while on

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Speaker 2: Yo, he should not be pissed. Also red flags. Also,

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Speaker 2: maybe you shouldn't go through with the fiance to husband.

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Speaker 2: Uh kind of change. Maybe you should just keep it

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Speaker 1: Well, funny you say that because there is a update,

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Speaker 1: let's hear it. So apparently Dale reads this subbreddit on

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Speaker 2: I mean, no one knows it's you Dale, actually yourself.

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Speaker 2: And she she changed the names.

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Speaker 1: I she didn't state whether she used fake or real names.

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Speaker 2: And imagine Dale reading this, and he's.

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Speaker 1: Like, she told him that she didn't give a flying

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Speaker 2: That was such a lame respot, Bro, I'm calling my mom.

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Speaker 1: My Mommy was a born being no idy as well.

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Speaker 1: Dale's mother handed his ass back to him.

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Speaker 2: Good, thank god. I love how everyone around Dale has sense.

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Speaker 1: Yes, thank god, uh and reiterated Dale that he was

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Speaker 1: he has no leg to stand on. Dale tried to

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Speaker 1: something wrong and that this isn't about punishing him for

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Speaker 1: about an hour earlier than he usually does. He looked defeated,

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Speaker 1: but he was still short with me, said he was

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Speaker 1: disappointed that I posted, and now everyone thinks he's a

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Speaker 2: I mean, you are so swan Dale. Also, I love

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Speaker 2: how it's like Dale got roasted on Reddit and now

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Speaker 2: he's about to get roasted in this story when he

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Speaker 2: posted like Dale's getting freaking roasted to this center every

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Speaker 1: That's right now. I didn't think this conversation would end

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Speaker 1: up with my ending the engagement and relationship.

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Speaker 2: Oh whoa wow, that's escalated. Dale got his whole life ruined.

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Speaker 1: His whole life is ruined, but it did. The house

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Speaker 1: is all in my name, So Dale is packing up

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Speaker 2: Dale got fucked, Yeah he did. I wonder if he's

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Speaker 2: like mad at his son, now, if you can't take

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Speaker 2: the blame, he's like, you did this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, even even a delusional person at that point

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Speaker 2: Why. But there's just so many opportunities for him to

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Speaker 2: like say, like, ah, man, I am wrong. But he

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Speaker 2: That he went to his mom, Yeah, and his mom

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Speaker 2: dared a mend a new asshole and like, Dale, you're

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Speaker 2: being an idiot, Like, come on, it's all you.

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Speaker 1: Dale's out there, cut it out.