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Speaker 2: My boyfriend's family believes in Santa Claus, so I'm leaving him.

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Speaker 2: What all, God forbid a man in his family have

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Speaker 2: a little bit of whimsy. I think he actually believes

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Speaker 2: Santa is a real person in some capacity and thinks

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Speaker 2: he delivers presents to his family personally. I'm probably going

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Speaker 2: to leave tomorrow because it's been awful so far and

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Speaker 2: I just want out. You op, he is the reason

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Speaker 2: Santa Sleigh wasn't flying in elf.

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Speaker 4: That's true.

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Speaker 5: I know who's getting cold this year right.

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Speaker 5: I'm Savannah and I'm Keon.

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Speaker 2: And we are here to give you good advice. Goofy,

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Speaker 2: But we don't have all the answers. We just know

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Speaker 2: what we'd do, So let us know what you would

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Speaker 2: do in the comments as OP says.

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Speaker 5: Well before Op says anything, because Savannah, you're new here.

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Speaker 4: I'm new here. She's now around these parts from the

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Speaker 4: black or.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of whimsy, Savannah, could you give us like a

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Speaker 5: little fun fact, little tidbit of who you are, what

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Speaker 4: Who I am? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: What are you am? I? What are you?

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Speaker 2: You're Akon? Well that's what your shirt says.

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Speaker 4: I'm Acon. Sorry, it's actually Akron.

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Speaker 2: Akron, but Akron.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of Akron, I'm from Skibbity, Ohio. Wow, it's a

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Speaker 4: real place and it exists. Unfortunately.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, we have a story about Sannah. Ohpi hates Sannah.

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Speaker 2: I'll call my boyfriend Adam. Fake name. Adam twenty five male,

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Speaker 2: is from a pretty rural area up in the mountains,

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Speaker 2: family are what i'd consider religious extremists. Told me this

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Speaker 2: before I, twenty three female, came to see them for Christmas,

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Speaker 2: thought it would be similar. I'm not seeing my own family,

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Speaker 2: and his beliefs have only come up minimally. Santa Claus

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Speaker 2: was not part of that. I don't even think we've

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Speaker 2: call Santa Saint Nick to start off with. He has

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Speaker 2: Jesus is, how dare he besmirched the name of Saint Nicholas.

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Speaker 3: And don't even think about drinking any of that wine.

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Speaker 2: Don't don't you drink the milk? Then we leave out

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Speaker 4: And those cookies.

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Speaker 5: It's mother's milk.

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Speaker 4: It's Mommy's milk and Santa's cookies.

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Speaker 2: When we made dinner, she told me to fix a

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Speaker 5: No, this man goes all over the world and has.

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Speaker 4: What about you can like roasted chicken or something. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: He's sorting all night long. He needs a hearty meal.

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Speaker 5: What does he have scurvy?

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Speaker 2: So I loaded up about as much as I gave Adam,

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Speaker 5: Stap your fingers, hi sel.

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Speaker 2: Han, you're forgetting the most important part of Christmas. Adam

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Speaker 2: she's really serious about Santa getting his food, huh, trying

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Speaker 5: This just turned into a horror movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what is this? Just like a guy who lives

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't be an old twist.

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Speaker 5: Yeah he didn't pre warn you or like, hey, so

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Speaker 5: we take Christmas seriously, like.

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Speaker 2: Not even, but we take Saint Nick.

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Speaker 4: Call him by his real name, Satan.

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Speaker 2: We believe in saints in this house.

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Speaker 2: No, no, Saint Nick Christopher Kringler. We went back into

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Speaker 2: Saint Nicholas, and his dinner is only in our house.

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Speaker 4: No one else gets presents, and no one else has

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Speaker 2: It's just us come on, one dinner in the on

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, leaving out food offerings. I get that.

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Speaker 5: I guess it's like, you know, especially for like a

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Speaker 2: This is funny. This is fully a guy who lives

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Speaker 4: Is out of the dumpster once a year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds calm, typed out like that, but the

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Speaker 2: later to go straight to bed. I've just been laying here,

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Speaker 2: unable to sleep because I'm so anxious. I already hear

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Speaker 2: don't know what to think. I thought, after everyone had left,

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Speaker 2: strict and live relatively off grid and isolated. I barely

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Speaker 2: I can't even text my friend's sos right now. I

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Speaker 2: feel like I'm in a horror movie where they believe

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Speaker 2: Santa is like a distant uncle or something. Does anyone

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Speaker 2: know of any traditions like this? They unalived a pig

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Speaker 4: Why did you mention.

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Speaker 2: That they so they slaughtered animals to eat. I mean

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Speaker 5: So yeah, but it's like a farm.

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Speaker 4: They do sacrifices in the middle of the woods.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, and then sacrifice Yeah, I think that

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Speaker 2: If there's a guy who named Nick who lives in

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Speaker 5: Unless it's verbatim like we sacrificed these animals for Saint Nick.

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Speaker 2: We summoned Saint Nick. That animals.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, this is fine. It's if it's

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Speaker 2: But no, man, it's not fine.

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Speaker 4: Are they gonna sacrifice You're doing.

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Speaker 2: Animals sacrifice rituals to summon Santa Claus. I'm not okay

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Speaker 5: That's what If it is that, that is very odd.

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Speaker 5: If it's just like we're cooking it for a meal.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, that's what I meant, right.

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Speaker 2: No, I thought you were saying, like, look, if you

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Speaker 2: just for our household, I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't. I don't know. This is like I said,

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Speaker 5: I've heard. I've heard of food like I do food

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Speaker 5: offerings for like a past relatives, you know, birthday or

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Speaker 5: something like that that I do. That's fine, I've done

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Speaker 5: that before. But if it's for clearly like this is

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Speaker 5: let's just keep reading. I'm very interested in what this does.

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Speaker 2: Op continues. Maybe it'll be less weird with more people there.

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Speaker 2: A few of his cousins gave me a more modern

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Speaker 2: I just head back and stay at my apartment a

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Speaker 2: couple hours away alone. I don't think I can continue

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Speaker 2: seeing him. It's just been so weird, and there is

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Speaker 2: an update. I guess let's just let's get into it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I don't even know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what we leave at this point.

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Speaker 2: If if you had that weird moment where he was like,

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Speaker 2: and why what made you think that that was cool?

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Speaker 4: It's Crampis, you know, the devil, Santa.

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Speaker 2: Evil Santa Crampist man. Update. I'm still alive.

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Speaker 5: That's a good start, not passed away.

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Speaker 2: Holidays ended horribly, and my relationship is over. Oh probably

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Speaker 2: You did? Oh no, Saint Nick literally left the food

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he said, you know what, you don't believe, Well,

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Speaker 4: Not believing.

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Speaker 2: I think a good reaction to anything that crazy is

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Speaker 4: That like that makes complete sense to me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we were there. Presents. I don't I wonder how

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so like if he doesn't eat, are there no presents?

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Speaker 2: Yep? They threw them all in a pile. Out back

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Speaker 4: That seems like this could happen.

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Speaker 2: Christmas is ruined. We can't open any of these, Saint

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Speaker 2: Nick told me, so. Yeah, I don't know. I barring

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Speaker 2: So op he says, so good, that was so good.

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Speaker 2: only for it to be called a horror movie in

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Speaker 2: I wish there was more to say, or it was

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Speaker 2: and aren't normal people that let their son date girls

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Speaker 5: Wait, how did you meet this guy?

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Speaker 2: I want to I need amish?

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Speaker 4: Yeah wait, that was never mentioned and.

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Speaker 2: You lived two hours away, so you met this guy's

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Speaker 2: this was so terrible. I'm out. I don't even blame

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Speaker 5: But also, did the mom break up with you for him,

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Speaker 5: because that's what it seemed, or did you break up

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Speaker 2: It sounds like she got shamed she didn't and told

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Speaker 5: Believe at this point, no point of giving that energy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got some comments. Comment one. I imagine Santa

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Speaker 2: on his meal. Then all of a sudden, he senses

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Speaker 4: That's exactly what I thought too.

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Speaker 3: It's like, well, I can't wait to just dig right into.

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Speaker 2: He's He like smells It just.

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Speaker 5: Sounds like non believer.

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Speaker 2: This dinner smells like someone doesn't believe.

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Speaker 5: Spits on it, throws it no presence, throws it at

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Speaker 2: Like he just opens his mouth and howls like oh.

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Speaker 4: And then all his monkeys coming like wo.

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Speaker 2: Get back in the sled, monkey, okay.

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Speaker 4: And that's how it happened.

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Speaker 2: The money. Yeah, the monkeys were going to deliver all

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Speaker 2: He's like, get back in the sack.

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Speaker 5: I just want to I want to know their entire like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how come? I think a boyfriend might have just

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Speaker 2: been like, you don't understand. You don't not believe Santa

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Speaker 2: exists in this house? Saint Nick, right, he's above it all.

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Speaker 5: He's the only saint.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Like I feel like, do they have any other

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Speaker 4: Like they said they're super religious, so like do they

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Speaker 2: There's gotta be some more, right, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I want to. I want to know that.

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Speaker 2: To me, the type of like religious people where it's

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Speaker 2: like when you have a headache, they're like, oh, it's

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Speaker 2: because there's a demon in your blood and we have

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Speaker 2: to like blood let you now, Like that's that's the

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Speaker 2: It's it's your head hurts because there's a demon inside you,

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Speaker 4: Update, I've been perched, I have.

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Speaker 2: Been They purged me of my filthy blood. Comment to

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Speaker 2: is this some sort of shared psychosis? I can't fathom

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Speaker 2: which I would think is right. They used it to

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Speaker 2: already on her way out. Reply Yep. The food would

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Speaker 2: But you'd think that if he knew playing along was

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Speaker 2: I'm actually more creeped out by the squeezing Op's hand

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Speaker 2: of that story. Wow, now my head really is like

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Speaker 2: being like, what the scary story is that? Again? There,

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Speaker 4: I honestly at this point think it's the mom. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Possessed like a like a werewolf, and.

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Speaker 4: She's like, say his name right, kids, don't believe in anything.

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Speaker 2: That's guy saying he doesn't even know Saint Nick resides

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Speaker 4: Put a little extra barbecue sauce on the side. Santa

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Speaker 2: Yeah, St Nick wants the spicy Chipotle Ranch. He let

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Speaker 4: He let me know.

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Speaker 2: He wants chicken tenders with the spicy chip Write this down.

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Speaker 2: There's spikey spicy Chipotle ranch, which is different than the

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Speaker 2: you gotta go into town. And he wants write this down.

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Speaker 2: He wanted you to know this. But that is the

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Speaker 4: Of Ta Yeah. Wait, so does that mean that, like

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Speaker 4: since he didn't eat, like, will he come back next

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Speaker 2: He starved? Christmas is over?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Christmas is done and Christmas is over. It's no

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Speaker 5: The budget's kind of tight this year, so we need

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Speaker 4: What I feels all that this could go in so

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Speaker 2: But there's a creature in the woods and she feeds

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Speaker 4: Tom. I truly believe it's the mom. The mom is,

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Speaker 4: it's the mom.

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Speaker 2: It's the mom is the creature in the woods where

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Speaker 4: Anyway, my girlfriend discovered I'm famous, and I fear she

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, she sees you as a big famous guy.

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Speaker 4: I twenty seven mail. I am an actor on a

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Speaker 4: I'm certainly far from a big deal. I am not

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Speaker 4: but I'm not Brad Pitt.

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Speaker 2: Oh I wish, I wish I was Brad Pitt. No,

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Speaker 4: No, you don't be careful what you wish for.

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Speaker 2: You gotta carry the weight of Brad Pitt's career.

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Speaker 4: His last name is Pitt, equivalent to Armpit. Come on,

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Speaker 5: Oh, he's one of those guys. He's like, I'm quirky.

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Speaker 2: This is Robert Robert Pattinson.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

442
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 4: By the way, this comes from you like me for me,

443
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 4: And if you want to submit your own stories, go

444
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Speaker 4: to the r slash okay storytime subreddit. I am Savannah,

445
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 4: I am Dakota, and I'm Keon, and we are here

446
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 4: to give good advice goofly, but obviously we don't have

447
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 4: all the answers. We would only tell you what we

448
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 4: would do in this situation, and you should tell us

449
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 4: what you would do in this situation in the comments.

450
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 4: I recently met someone twenty three female at a coffee shop.

451
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 4: I sat next to her and we started chatting. She

452
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 4: was down to earth, and when she asked what I did,

453
00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 4: I told her I did some acting, nothing uncommon around

454
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Speaker 4: these parts. She didn't seem to recognize me, and I

455
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Speaker 4: didn't go into more detail.

456
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,399
Speaker 5: She didn't notice you when you're like yes, right.

457
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 2: Finally, a girl who doesn't know me, she doesn't she.

458
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 5: Sees me for me.

459
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 4: I got her number and we texted a few times.

460
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 4: Then we met for lunch and she said something that

461
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 4: made it clear she recognized me. We've hung out since

462
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 4: them several times. She wanted to introduce me to one

463
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 4: of her friends, who is a a liver fan of

464
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 4: the show. That had me nervous. Apparently she is just

465
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 4: a big fan. I didn't really like being paraded in

466
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 4: that way, but it was fun. That's part of my

467
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,639
Speaker 4: job to some extent. The thing that is getting to

468
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 4: me is that she often refers to me as though

469
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Speaker 4: I am my character. Oh gross, Yeah, I don't like

470
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 4: that gross. That's like, I don't know, because you're not that,

471
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 4: You're not that person.

472
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 2: Gross. You like John Krasinski just everyone calls him Jim

473
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 2: from the office, yeah, or or Rain Wilson being Dwight

474
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 2: Or is it Ryan? Is it Ryan or Rain?

475
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 5: Rain?

476
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 2: I always think I always get him mixed up because

477
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 2: Ryan Johnson spells his name the same way. Whatever call

478
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 2: me by their name.

479
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 5: I think it's Rain because it's spelled r Ai.

480
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 4: N call people by their name because it's spelled you know, Rain,

481
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 4: That's probably how you would pronounce it. For example, I

482
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 4: might say something sarcastic and she'll say, okay, character name.

483
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 4: I'm not on Facebook, but one of my friends is

484
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 4: and he friended her. He showed me her page, and

485
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 4: she wrote a few months ago, omg, I met my name.

486
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 4: I think he is into me. Hashtag celeb girlfriend. Use

487
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 4: of hashtags on Facebook aside, it started making me think

488
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 4: she was into me for my character or to show off,

489
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 4: and not into me. This is obviously a problem in

490
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Speaker 4: my life. I have dated two actresses, neither of whom

491
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 4: are all that famous, but had their sights on bigger things.

492
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Speaker 4: I know for a fact that at least one was

493
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Speaker 4: using me as a way to get her name out there.

494
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 2: It worked.

495
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 4: I'm very happy for her. Otherwise, I am attracted to students, bartenders, baristas,

496
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 4: et cetera. Huh what Okay, that's just weird to just throw.

497
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Speaker 2: Up students and bartenders and baristas.

498
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Speaker 4: That's my type.

499
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 5: Those are my three, that's my top three.

500
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 4: I tend to date around rarely in serious relationships because

501
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 4: I am concerned that they don't like me. For me,

502
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 4: that is a problem. I play a very extroverted, confident character,

503
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 4: but that isn't me in real life. My self esteem

504
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 4: is fine, but I guess I'm a bit paranoid.

505
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Speaker 5: I want to know who who you are. You keep

506
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 5: getting like the way you go about this is just like, yeah,

507
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 5: I don't know, I know who you are.

508
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 4: I feel like this girl likes me, But would she

509
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 4: if I wasn't a minor celebrity? Is there some way

510
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 4: to know? Am I doomed to dating within the industry?

511
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 4: Do most people realize that who we are as characters

512
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 4: is not who we really are as people. Any advice

513
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 4: is appreciated. Oh and yes, I am a regular redditor.

514
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 5: I'm just like one of you guys. Yeah, celebrities, they're

515
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 5: just like us. I really want just he just really

516
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 5: wants to be like I'm listen, I wonder you guys.

517
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 5: I'm on TV a lot. I make money. I'm just

518
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 5: like you. I work a nine to five. Not really,

519
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 5: but come on.

520
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I lerk on this sub a lot. And I

521
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 4: appreciate the advice of those not in the industry. Thank

522
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 4: you well. I am in the industry.

523
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 5: He is also in the industry.

524
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out who this guy could be.

525
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 4: There's also an edit edit just to clarify. She doesn't

526
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 4: call me by my character's name. She does talk about

527
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 4: my character as if it is another person, but she

528
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 4: then compares me to him. I really appreciate everything I've

529
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 4: read so far, even if I don't directly respond to it.

530
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 4: And then there's some irrelevant comments.

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Speaker 5: Okay, M what we think in.

532
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Speaker 2: Bras, I think you're you're concerned that it's like, does

533
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: she really like me?

534
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 5: For me Dakota as the biggest well known actor here

535
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Speaker 5: among the three.

536
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Speaker 2: Robably she probably saw my BUILDE Bear campaign from when

537
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 2: I was seventeen, and that's why she really likes me. Yeah,

538
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 2: that's what I think everybody everyone around me.

539
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,479
Speaker 5: Have you actually had anyone date you because you were

540
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Speaker 5: a I don't even know why I would put you

541
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Speaker 5: like a tea less celebrity.

542
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: No, okay, no one's ever dated me because I'm not

543
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 2: a celebrity. I'm not.

544
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 4: I'm not.

545
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Speaker 2: I don't think anyone ever dated me because I was

546
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: an actor. Like no, but uh, I don't know. It's

547
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 2: be like I'm quitting, I'm quitting acting. I'm gonna work

548
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 2: at a hardware store and see how she reacts.

549
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 4: Give her a big fat lie.

550
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know. Even that's hard because

551
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 2: then it's like if she's like, wait, what, why would

552
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 2: you do that? And it's like you are passionate about

553
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 2: it and you like doing it. Then that she might

554
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 2: just be supporting you, being like, are you sure you

555
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 2: want to work at the hardware store instead of do

556
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Speaker 2: the thing you said you really like to do, and

557
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Speaker 2: our success successful at have succeeded at.

558
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I think a genuine conversation like hey,

559
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Speaker 5: so do you you got to stop with like the

560
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 5: celebrity stuff and like like treating like a normal person.

561
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd just have a conversation, but also like I

562
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Speaker 4: understand because my sister's friend dates the celebrity and like

563
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 4: it is very hard. I'm gonna throw it out. I'm

564
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 4: gonna throw it out. Yeah, No, I would never What's

565
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 4: what do they work on their musician?

566
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 5: Okay, how big?

567
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 2: What instrument?

568
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 5: Voice of an angel? Voice voice of an angel?

569
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 2: She's dating no Nickelback, She's dating.

570
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 5: Maroon five, the entire band of Maroon five. I'll tell

571
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 5: you guys left, okay, sweet?

572
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 2: Yeah?

573
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 5: Please?

574
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 4: But yeah, oh, I will say that there are like

575
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 4: there's really hard things when it comes to that. Obviously

576
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 4: I've never been in that situation, but hearing things from

577
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 4: her like it is tough at times.

578
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 5: So yeah, I've it's I'm the local boy. I have

579
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 5: known people who have dated celebrities and yeah, you tease

580
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 5: them what they're like, you can tell like it bothers

581
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 5: them a lot. Yeah, well because it's normal.

582
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 4: Like it's weird because like you only you think that

583
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 4: the like the partner puts you on a pedestal.

584
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 5: Yea, but it's like a it's like a really special

585
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 5: it's like a golden pedestal.

586
00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

587
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 4: But then like like you know, you do things wrong,

588
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 4: you're still like you're still a bad person for doing

589
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 4: wrong things, Like you can't just be like, well, I'm

590
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 4: this person, so yeah, you know, like it goes into

591
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 4: a lot of them. Yeah, leave me alone.

592
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 2: I don't.

593
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 4: I don't know.

594
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 2: Maybe you reverse psychology them and start being like I

595
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 2: just thought you were a bigger fan. I don't know

596
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: if this is gonna work out. I want I want, like,

597
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: you know, you need to get a shirt with my

598
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 2: face on it that you wear. You needs socks with

599
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: my face on it. So I'm with you every step

600
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Speaker 2: of the way.

601
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Speaker 5: If you're not my number one fan, you're not my

602
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 5: number one girlfriend.

603
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't really. I don't know when it

604
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 4: comes to like celebrities and like dating and stuff. I

605
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 4: feel like it's really hard for them to date because

606
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 4: like you don't know who's being genuine and who's not.

607
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 2: But they have their own like Tinder, now, don't they.

608
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: I forget what it's called, but it's like.

609
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 4: Ry guys.

610
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 2: I was, and I don't care.

611
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 5: I have some friends who are on Rya and I'm

612
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 5: like it stopped.

613
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: I didn't want to plug it.

614
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 4: It's dumb. Unplug next, all right, comments sweet Pee one

615
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 4: twenty two. I would tell her you're not comfortable with

616
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 4: her announcing you on Facebook, et cetera. It's a new

617
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 4: relationship and you're not even on Facebook, so that's pretty weird.

618
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 4: She sounds a little immature, in my opinion. I would

619
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 4: put some space between yourselves. I don't think she's the

620
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 4: one for you. How is the relationship otherwise, OPI responds, thanks.

621
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 4: I don't know if i'd say immature, but I could

622
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 4: see why you would say that. When we are together,

623
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 4: we tend to have excellent conversations. She is beautiful, She

624
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 4: has a good head on her shoulders, and is very

625
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 4: understanding of my work schedule. We haven't had to talk

626
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 4: about being exclusive, but as far as I am concerned,

627
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 4: we are, so yeah, it's pretty good. I feel like

628
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 4: this is more my problem than anything she is doing overall,

629
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 4: but I don't know how to approach it with her

630
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 4: without sounding like I am accusing her of something. Liquid

631
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 4: McCartney eight says, as a non famous redditor, this is

632
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 4: somewhat outside of my wheelhouse. But I don't really think

633
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 4: this is totally unique to the show business world personally

634
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 4: as a lawyer just starting out and not rich slash

635
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 4: notable by any means. But still I definitely get the

636
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 4: feeling that women are interested in me for the wrong,

637
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 4: you know, reasons such as financial status, whatever those reasons.

638
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 4: Sometimes I haven't really figured out how to deal with

639
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 4: it either, but I'd say you should trust your instincts

640
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 4: if you think she's using you. Otherwise, I am attracted

641
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 4: to students, bartenders, Buris's, et cetera. That said, I think

642
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 4: this is the problem. Really, these are probably the last

643
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 4: types of people you want to date. You need to

644
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 4: find someone who is more established in a legit career

645
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 4: so you're more or less equals, and who isn't interested

646
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 4: in irrigating herself into the world of showbiz, ingratiating. Oh

647
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 4: it's not integrated, ingracious, irrogated. I don't even know what

648
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 4: I said. Wait, ingratiate.

649
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: She just wants to spread the water of herself all

650
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 2: over town. Oh okay, yeah, you got to stay away

651
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 2: from those irrigating girls and guys.

652
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 4: And who isn't interested in ingratiating. That's okay, ingratiating herself

653
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 4: into the world of showbiz. I feel like integrating would

654
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 4: also be good.

655
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 2: So what irrigating?

656
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 4: So what irrigation?

657
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: She's trying to water the sprouts of her seeds that

658
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 2: she plans throughout time. She says, one day I will

659
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Speaker 2: one day I will irrigate to the correct flower and

660
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: it will bloom into a famous actor and then I'll

661
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: be set for life until we divorce.

662
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 4: That's like, take all this much. She's like Seymour from

663
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 4: what is? Why can I think of that? The plant?

664
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: Oh horror man? Yea, the shop of the little man

665
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 2: who is horrior? Horrified?

666
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: John Here, we're gonna get back to this juicy story,

667
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: but a quick three minute break of ads from our sponsors.

668
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Speaker 4: Op responds, I saw someone else just wrote down that

669
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 4: I date down. I understand that, but not too many

670
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 4: years ago. I was a student and barista. I grew

671
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 4: up in a small town. I think being a lawyer

672
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 4: is something you earned through your education, et cetera. I

673
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 4: don't know what my equals would be, as I don't

674
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 4: want to date anyone in the entertainment industry. She is

675
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 4: going to graduate in may and engineering, if that matters.

676
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 4: These are just the people I've been attracted to. I've

677
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 4: dated professionals as well, but I keep going back to

678
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 4: the person I meet at quiet places. You've given me

679
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 4: something to consider, however, ooh, top comment. I live in

680
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 4: West Hollywood. Hey I'm by there. No, well, I'm I'm

681
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 4: a little bit what do your chravel road? I live

682
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 4: in West Hollywood, so I have seen a lot of this.

683
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 4: I think the key is time, simply getting to know

684
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 4: her better and her getting to know you better. If

685
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 4: she is in the industry and using you, you are

686
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 4: already learning how to recognize this. But if she is

687
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 4: not in the industry and just a little dazzled and excited,

688
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 4: I wouldn't take this as a death blow. She's young,

689
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 4: and our culture has become really obsessed by this sort

690
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 4: of thing. It's true. As she gets to know you,

691
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 4: it will gradually become obvious whether she likes to real

692
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 4: you or not. What you are asking for, if you

693
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 4: think about this, or if you think about it, is

694
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 4: what we all want a guarantee. Does she really like

695
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 4: me or just my looks, my money, my status, the

696
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 4: fantasy in his or her head. You don't have to

697
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 4: be a celebrity to worry if the people you are

698
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 4: with is really seeing you. Clearly, that is also true.

699
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 4: We all struggle with this. Your situation just has a

700
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 4: more easily identifiable element to it. But this is why

701
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 4: celebrities hook up with celebrities. Ex patriots with other ex patriots.

702
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 4: How dare you make me say that twice? Thank you, Pretzel?

703
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 4: I don't even know what that means.

704
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 2: I don't know what any of that just meant?

705
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 4: Really, I just what, thanks Pretzel?

706
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: What thanks Pretzel?

707
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 4: Millionaires merry other millionaires? Do they actually?

708
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 2: I don't know.

709
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 5: I feel like, okay, I don't like this comment. It's

710
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 5: like you can't date out of like what your or

711
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 5: you know, where you're in, like your wealth, your status.

712
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 5: You can't date out of that. This is why everyone

713
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 5: just dates in their own little circle. Yep, yeah, and

714
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 5: I'm guared to you like always, like I don't want that.

715
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, Pretzel, thank you, thank you, Pretzel Banks, Pretzel.

716
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 5: Welcome, You're welcome, Wetzel.

717
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 2: Yeah great, thanks Pretzel.

718
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 5: Thanks, thanks Wetzel.

719
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 4: Uh. Millionaires marry other millionaires. You try to find someone

720
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 4: whose life cancels out the extraneous factors. I can see why,

721
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 4: but it doesn't really address the ultimate problem we all face.

722
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 4: Does the person I am with really see me? And

723
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 4: to add to that, we seldom show our real selves

724
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 4: because we are convinced deep down that we aren't all

725
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 4: that lovable. Lol. So Danny becomes a test. I'll hide

726
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 4: who I am and you come and find me. There's

727
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 4: an update. Should we just get into it?

728
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 5: I say, just get into it.

729
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 2: Let's go.

730
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 4: Six stays late too. Your kindness and sage advice was overwhelming,

731
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 4: and I apologize for not commenting more in that thread.

732
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 4: I did, however, read all of the comments. I also

733
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 4: apologize if I did not respond to the man to

734
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 4: the many private messages I've seen, I took that one.

735
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: I didn't respond to the man PMS, only the woman PMS.

736
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 5: If you're interested in me, hit me up. That's what

737
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 5: Opie's prying to say too.

738
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 4: Like several wanted to know who I was sorry. Some

739
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 4: wanted to know about other famous people on Reddit, probably

740
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 4: quite a few. And I especially appreciated the messages from

741
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 4: those of you who have been in similar positions, same

742
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 4: with comments to that effect. My favorite private message was

743
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 4: the one telling me to swallow some sort of pill,

744
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 4: with a link to a subreddit that I can only

745
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 4: assume consist of troubled, aggressive fifteen year old boys who

746
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 4: don't have mothers or sisters. Wow, no thanks, but you

747
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 4: enjoy that. I don't even know what I just read.

748
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 2: It was probably that I think that was they were

749
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 2: trying to get red pilled.

750
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 5: Ahm oh, all right, gotcha?

751
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 4: See I see, I see. Anyway, after thinking and reading,

752
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 4: I decided that maybe I was blowing the situation out

753
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 4: of proportion, but also that I needed to be honest

754
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 4: about my feelings. She and I talked for a long

755
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 4: time unless told her everything that I said here. I

756
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 4: debated about just showing her the post, but decided against it.

757
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 4: Good idea. It was a great conversation and brought us

758
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,240
Speaker 4: much closer together. I'm happy to say that this conversation

759
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 4: also led to the exclusivity talk. We are officially a

760
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 4: couple now ore a few things. She apologized about the

761
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 4: Facebook post and also explained it. She said that she

762
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 4: assumed I was just a womanizing celebrity who got numbers

763
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 4: just for the sake of doing so. The celeb girlfriend

764
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 4: thing was sarcasm, as she figured I would never contact her.

765
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 4: I did laugh at her use of hashtags on Facebook.

766
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 4: She admitted to me that it was a bit overwhelming

767
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 4: for a while because she figured I would just date

768
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 4: within the industry. I guess she also googled me and

769
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 4: saw who I have dated in the past. I assured

770
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 4: her I don't make comparisons like that. She told me

771
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 4: that the shock of things has worn off and now

772
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 4: she just sees me as a person as she should

773
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 4: have before. She did joke about the character thing, and

774
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 4: she said that she could never date the character I play.

775
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 4: When she brings it up. It is just some until

776
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 4: ribbing that made me feel kind of silly. She said

777
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 4: what many of you said, me being in a sitcom

778
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 4: is who I am. She can't just ignore that. But

779
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 4: she said she is much more excited about the production

780
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 4: work than any of the acting. She wants to know

781
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 4: how things work. Me being an actor to her is

782
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 4: not all that different from anything else, but she warned

783
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 4: me that many of her friends might see it differently.

784
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 4: Some already want to know if I'll introduce them to

785
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 4: celebrities I've never met and probably will never meet. If

786
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 4: I did, I'd probably be in shock when they realize

787
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 4: how little of a deal I am. Then, I think

788
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 4: we can easily blend our friend groups and whatnot. There

789
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 4: is some relevant update. What do we think on I.

790
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: Mean, I think that was all solid, you know. It

791
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 2: sounds like, nah, it's more normal. Yeah, probably, you know,

792
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 2: And yeah, maybe you're actually dating up, you know, insteaded down. Yeah,

793
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 2: since you're not that famous, since you're just a normal

794
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 2: every day Yeah.

795
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 4: Speaking of that that he does mention that next it

796
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 4: says there's a couple of you mentioned dating down, et cetera.

797
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 4: She also informed me that she has two job offers

798
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 4: for when she graduates at large firms. One is here

799
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 4: and the other is in Portland. As of right now,

800
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 4: her plan is to stay here, and I factor into that,

801
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 4: I'm not looking at her as the person I am

802
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 4: going to marry. Could she be yes? Then again, so

803
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 4: could a lot of people in my past and my future. Instead,

804
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 4: I am going to enjoy the ride. Nice Sophia, she

805
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,720
Speaker 4: was mature and did a lot of a swat.

806
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 5: I thought you could say sausage a lot of sausage, a.

807
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 4: Lot to a swage, and did a lot to a swage.

808
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 4: My concerns is a great vocabulary.

809
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 5: This guy's an actor.

810
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 2: Nice, this guy knows what words are.

811
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 4: She even told me she thought I was using her

812
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 4: for access to the university's library. Ha ha, jokes on you.

813
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: I can't read. I just know how to say a swage.

814
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 4: And x X patriots.

815
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: I'm an actor. People tell me what to say. I

816
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 2: don't know how to read.

817
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 4: She's beautiful and so it seems she does like me

818
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 4: for me. Who knows where this will lead, But I

819
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 4: sincerely appreciate all of the comments. They helped me to

820
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 4: organize my thoughts and to just say to heck with

821
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 4: it and actually talk.

822
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 5: To her, all right, Shila Buffet, Hey, folks.

823
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 2: That's what it is. That's what it's all about.

824
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 4: It's communication, whether you're a celebrity or no one.

825
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: Actually talking to somebody, regardless of your social static.

826
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 5: Celebrities, they're just like us.

827
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 4: They really are. Yeah, they really are just another personal.

828
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 5: Richer and well more known.

829
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 2: Well what's funny is when I met like my best

830
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 2: friend who moved. Yeah, when I first met him, it

831
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: was in an acting class, and I didn't realize. I

832
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 2: was like I heard him talk, and I'm like, I

833
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: feel like I've heard what what do I feel like

834
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 2: I've I've heard him or I know him? And then

835
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 2: it struck me that he was the voice actor for

836
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: a series that was like one of my favorites of

837
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 2: all time, like in high school.

838
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I knew a commercial and I was like, I

839
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 5: know you from somewhere. He's like yeah, and I was like,

840
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 5: all right, shut up, we're friends now. Yeah, and I did,

841
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 5: and I whooped his ass and smash bros. Yeah there

842
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 5: we go. Yeah yeah, And I was like, yeah, how

843
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 5: about that? How about that commercial?

844
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 2: It was it was nerve wracking at first, and then

845
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: it was just like, Oh, it's just a cool guy.

846
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 5: They're just like us. Anything.

847
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 2: Got just a weird dude, just cool dude.

848
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 5: He's just a cool He's a cool dude, cool dad.

849
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 2: Now, cool guy.

850
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 4: Well that is the end of this story, and we

851
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 4: got another one coming right now.

852
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 3: I can't be happy for my partner's surgery because he

853
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 3: excluded me from it.

854
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 4: I have a lot of questions.

855
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 3: My partner and I have been in love for ten years.

856
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 3: He has been seriously ill for the past four years,

857
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 3: and I've adapted my job and my entire life to

858
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 3: be able to support.

859
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 4: Him through everything.

860
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from I'm opening permit for

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Speaker 3: eight six and if you want to spit your own stories,

862
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 3: go to the r slash Okay storytime subpret it.

863
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 4: I'm Sophia and I'm Savannah, I'm Keon, and we're here

864
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 4: to give good advice goofy. But we don't have all

865
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 4: the answers.

866
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 3: We only know what we'd do, So let us know

867
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 3: what you would do in the comments and Opisas he

868
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 3: recently got an incredible chance, his brother is a compatible

869
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 3: donor and a life changing treatment is available around five

870
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 3: hundred miles from our home, we planned that the three

871
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 3: of us would move there temporarily for two months. Because

872
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 3: it's expensive, we agreed to share the costs and even

873
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 3: discussed possible apartments. I extended my remote work so I

874
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 3: could come with them, help him and be present during

875
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 3: the treatment and recovery. I was genuinely excited, not only

876
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 3: for his treatment, but also to spend those months together

877
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 3: in that city. Yesterday, while checking our emergency finances, I

878
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: noticed a large payment from three months ago. I checked

879
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 3: our shared emails, which I have permission to access, and

880
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 3: found a rental agreement in his inbox. It's signed only

881
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 3: by him and his brother. The apartment is officially limited

882
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 3: to two people, so not me.

883
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 4: Why I'm confused.

884
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 3: Why would you not want to include your partner who's

885
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 3: been there for you for ten years.

886
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, something happened.

887
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 3: I was shocked and incredibly hurt. I can't afford to

888
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 3: stay there alone, so this decision basically shuts me out,

889
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 3: and he kept this hidden from me for three months.

890
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 3: When I talked to him yesterday, just making small talk

891
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 3: about Christmas or about spending Christmas there and how this

892
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 3: treatment could change everything, he suddenly got strange. He mentioned visiting,

893
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 3: became quiet, and acted like our shared plans were never real.

894
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 3: Oh so he's like, oh, yeah, you can come visit

895
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 3: every once a month. I'm angry, sad, confused, and honestly devastated.

896
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: I know he's ill and stress effects him badly, but

897
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 3: this was a major decision about our lives that he

898
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 3: hid from me, and now I'm supposed to smile and

899
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 3: pretend everything's fine. So am I the ale for being

900
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: upset that they rented a place without me instead of

901
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 3: being purely happy he's finally getting his treatment. And there

902
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 3: are some comments, But do you have any comments of

903
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,919
Speaker 3: your own? I mean, I just think why there wasn't

904
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 3: even like a conversation. Yeah, I mean, well they had

905
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 3: multiple conversations about moving in together.

906
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, so there was conversations about that, but none

907
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 4: of those concerns came up at all. No, that's so strange.

908
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 4: I could not. I couldn't. I don't even know what

909
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 4: to do. No, I've ten years.

910
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 3: You'd think you know a person ten years, four years

911
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 3: of your life has been spent taking care of him. Yeah,

912
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 3: maybe he's like, I don't want you to have to,

913
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 3: you know, go through that here. I don't know what

914
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 3: the reasoning is. Let's let's find out, all right, But

915
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 3: there are some comments. First, not the mama says, like

916
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 3: others have said, this was his game plan for a

917
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:01,479
Speaker 3: long time.

918
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 4: I'd love to be the fly on.

919
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 3: The wall after the surgery, and there's no way to

920
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 3: take care of these two guys, and there's no one

921
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: to take care of these two guys.

922
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 4: Oh, and I think what this person is saying is

923
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 4: that maybe he's been, you know, ten years with this girl.

924
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 3: Last four years she's been taking care of him, and

925
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 3: now he's like, well, now I have a chance to

926
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 3: not need anyone to take care of me, so I

927
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 3: don't need you anymore, which would be like a really

928
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 3: messed up way of thinking. It sounds like maybe a

929
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 3: kidney transplant. Both will have undergone major surgery and have

930
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 3: now to deal with no one to help either of them.

931
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 3: When he and his brother signed a lease SANSU it

932
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 3: was made clear he does not want nor think he

933
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: needs you anymore. Go be happy enough without him. He

934
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 3: and his brother deserve to suffer together. Take your money

935
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 3: and run, and Opie says, you're spot on. It is

936
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 3: a kidney transplant. Thank you so much for your comment.

937
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 3: Internal coat says, not the a hole, but pure speculation.

938
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 3: Is it possible that the brother pressured him not to

939
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 3: include you. Perhaps the brother was uncomfortable with the idea

940
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 3: of you staying with them, and your partner felt he

941
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 3: had to cave to his brother's demands since his brother

942
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 3: is devoting two months and risking his health to become

943
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 3: a donor for him. That still doesn't absolve him from

944
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 3: cowardice and gaslighting in not discussing this with you sooner.

945
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 3: Opie says, thank you so much for your comment. His

946
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 3: brother and I are actually good friends. I've just been

947
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 3: too much of a coward to bring this out with

948
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 3: him yet. I'll add this to my edit.

949
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 4: Really appreciate it.

950
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 3: I mean, if you guys are good friends, why haven't

951
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 3: either of them told you?

952
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 2: Then? Yeah?

953
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like if I were the brother

954
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 3: and this person was my friend, I'd be at least

955
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 3: even if I didn't know that she didn't know that

956
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 3: she wasn't moving in with us, like and assumed that

957
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 3: Opie's boyfriend and OPI had talked about it, I still

958
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 3: probably would want to talk about just the whole situation,

959
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 3: you know.

960
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 4: Well, of course, yeah, I would want to talk about

961
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 4: like what is going on? You guys are just gonna

962
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 4: do this and then I'm done, Like, yeah, I'd be like.

963
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 3: I know you guys talked about it, but like it's

964
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 3: pretty interesting that no one's gonna be there to like

965
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 3: help us out at all.

966
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 4: And then she'd be like, what, we didn't talk about anything.

967
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all little suspicious.

968
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something else going on here.

969
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 2: Hey, it's John here. We're gonna get back to the stories.

970
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 2: Put a quick three minute ad break from our sponsors

971
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 2: that keep the show going.

972
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 3: Nicohazini says, info. Is he planning to live off your

973
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 3: earnings for three months? Opie says yes, we plan to

974
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 3: cover most of the living costs through me since I've

975
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 3: been the breadwinner throughout his illness. Cranky Ashley says a

976
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 3: lot of people are saying her, I don't see a

977
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 3: gender in the post.

978
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 4: Am I missing it?

979
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 3: Opie says that's true, but I am a female and edit.

980
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 3: We live in my house, which I inherited from my parents.

981
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 3: For the past four years, I've been the breadwinner. He

982
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 3: only works part time. He is covered under my insurance.

983
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 3: His brother and I are good friends. I've just been

984
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: too much of a coward to bring this up with

985
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 3: him yet, I honestly thought I wouldn't get any comments.

986
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 3: Thank you so much in advance, and there is an

987
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 3: update one week later. Seems like we're about to get

988
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: some more information on what is going on. Yeah, let's see,

989
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,439
Speaker 3: but six seven eight, says he's used her to look

990
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 3: after him.

991
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 4: This is sad.

992
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 3: I bet he wouldn't have done the same. He'd have

993
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 3: left long ago.

994
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

995
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 3: If OP were in the same situation of needing help

996
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 3: and needing someone to care for, yeah, yeah, I would

997
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 3: be very confused.

998
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 4: But there is an update.

999
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 3: One week later, I talked to his brother and his girlfriend.

1000
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 4: Two days later.

1001
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 3: I stayed calm and genuinely hoped for a solid explanation.

1002
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 3: His brother swore he didn't know my partner had already

1003
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 3: booked the apartment, and his girlfriend backed him up, saying

1004
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 3: he hadn't even requested the days off work. According to them,

1005
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 3: they had no idea what's going on. He offered to

1006
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 3: talk to my partner, but I told him not to. Honestly,

1007
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 3: I still don't know what to believe. Since then, I've

1008
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 3: been having breakdowns in the bathroom in secret and making

1009
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 3: a plan to leave. Maybe that makes me the ale now,

1010
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 3: but I don't want to talk to my partner about

1011
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 3: this anymore.

1012
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 4: I feel like I'll just.

1013
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 3: Hear excuses and the same. I can't talk about this

1014
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 3: because I'm so ill line. I've reached the point where

1015
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 3: I truly don't care anymore about his explanation. I'm just

1016
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 3: trying to keep my mask on until then and edit

1017
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 3: an hour later. I'm trying to stay calm and act

1018
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 3: normal because I'm scared he might do something drastic or

1019
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 3: lash out. Probably a far too late edit one day later,

1020
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:24,800
Speaker 3: but I want to clarify that we have two joint

1021
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 3: bank accounts, one we share for fixed costs and some hobbies,

1022
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 3: and one emergency account that's definitely a lot of money,

1023
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 3: a couple of thousand, But we always kept one personal

1024
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 3: account each as well, so I may lose a heck

1025
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 3: of a lot of money, but I still have my

1026
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 3: own account with my money, and there is a little

1027
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 3: bit left to this story.

1028
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 4: Any final thoughts, I'm kind of just confused about the whole.

1029
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like brother doesn't know what's going on. Oh,

1030
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 3: he hasn't been told.

1031
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 4: It feels very like I literally just forgot what I

1032
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 4: was gonna say.

1033
00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 3: It feels it feels it just feels, you know, it

1034
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 3: feels now I think he's hiding something. And whether that

1035
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 3: I mean some people said cheating in the chat, or

1036
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 3: if it's just you know, he feels like he can

1037
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 3: go off on his own now. That he's getting the

1038
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 3: surgery and he doesn't you know, quote unquote need op anymore.

1039
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 3: Maybe that's the reason, and he's trying to kind of

1040
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 3: soft quit that or quiet.

1041
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 4: Quit as they say.

1042
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's still very strange.

1043
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's still like obviously not right to do.

1044
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 4: You don't just do that to someone you've been really

1045
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 4: literally out of nowhere, and to also like use their

1046
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 4: money for your surgery and then be like, oh, by

1047
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 4: the way, you're not living here anymore. Yeah, by the way,

1048
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 4: you have to stay at home. And also I'm going

1049
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 4: to use your money. Yeah, and it's just gonna be

1050
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 4: asked to don't worry about, you know, like taking care

1051
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 4: of us or anything like what he's two going to

1052
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 4: do that you can't, Like, it's a major surgery, so

1053
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 4: I'm sure they're going to need people to like, you know,

1054
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 4: clean their wounds, get up and you know, make food.

1055
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 4: Like how are you supposed to do any of that?

1056
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 4: Yeah without this, like you need hurt. So didn't think

1057
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 4: this through.

1058
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, But Opie finishes off by saying, in ten days,

1059
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 3: the lease starts, and I'm honestly curious to see what

1060
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 3: actually happens. Thank you again for all the supports. I

1061
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 3: don't have family I can talk to, and your comments

1062
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 3: made me feel less like I'm the crazy one or

1063
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 3: a cold ahole. Comments from eight Marshmallow says, how is

1064
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 3: he paying for the lease? If his brother isn't going

1065
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 3: and you're the bread winner? Have you offered to help

1066
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,720
Speaker 3: and pack? You can make sure to pack absolutely everything

1067
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 3: of his and see if he wants to discuss things

1068
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 3: at that point. Opie says he paid from our emergency

1069
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,919
Speaker 3: bank account. Eight Marshmallow says, if his brother isn't going,

1070
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 3: who is? Are you sure there isn't someone else? Sometimes people,

1071
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 3: usually men, resent their caregivers, get tired of being seen

1072
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 3: as the patient and look for someone else.

1073
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 4: Opie says, I have no idea.

1074
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 2: I would love to know any.

1075
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 3: Expression says, so why is it a two person place

1076
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 3: and the brother knows nothing? Sounds sketches. Heck, you most

1077
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 3: definitely shouldn't wait to approach.

1078
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 4: This because this is huge.

1079
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 3: He needs to explain himself now. I'm sure at this

1080
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 3: point he's had time to delete things, and op says, tbh,

1081
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 3: I think they're lying to me. C Ad says, can

1082
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,479
Speaker 3: you cancel the booking and call it a fraudulent charge.

1083
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 3: Opie says, that's actually a good question. To be honest,

1084
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 3: I'm a bit scared of his reaction if I do

1085
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 3: something drastic. I'll probably try to wait these ten days.

1086
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 3: Mbt Omega says, no, what, cancel it now? Cancel the treatment.

1087
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 3: If you can, he can rob you in secret. You

1088
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 3: can reclaim you're stolen money in secret. To and op says,

1089
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 3: to be honest, I'll be relieved when he's out, because

1090
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Speaker 3: I don't think he would just leave the house if

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Speaker 3: I broke up with them here. Lemon Icy says, did

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Speaker 3: your partner forge their brother's signature on the lease? In

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Speaker 3: eleven days? You should change the locks and shut down

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Speaker 3: joint banking credit cards, along with savings and checking account

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Speaker 3: and any other common stuff too, like email and their

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Speaker 3: mobile bill too. If you're also caring, it not an

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Speaker 3: a hole to leave a relationship where you have been

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Speaker 3: clearly taking advantage of your partner is way too comfortable

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Speaker 3: having you pay for everything that it doesn't even occur

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Speaker 3: to them that you would turn your back and walk away.

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Speaker 4: You should be angry. I think you're underreacting.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, I'd be furious after having twisted myself

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Speaker 3: and my job into a.

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Speaker 4: Pretzel to accommodate him. Don't look back.

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Speaker 3: You deserve so much better, and Op says, I don't

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Speaker 3: know what to think about the signature. I'm not even

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Speaker 3: sure if his brother is telling the truth or lying.

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Speaker 3: I feel like he is, or I'm just going crazy.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate it, and

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Speaker 3: trust me, I am angry. It's just so unreal that

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Speaker 3: I can't believe this is my life right now. More

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Speaker 3: Kitar says, did he forge his brother's signature? Or why

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Speaker 3: are you so scared? How he's going to react? Has

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Speaker 3: he been unpredictable or harmful? How do you know the

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Speaker 3: brother won't tell him anyway?

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Speaker 4: Are you safe?

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Speaker 3: How do you plan to leave if it is your house?

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Speaker 3: This sounds really hard, But this is not making much sense?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, none of it is. Yeah, I'm like trying to

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Speaker 4: follow and I'm like there's so many like pieces missing.

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Speaker 3: I I mean, yeah, someone asked in the or six

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Speaker 3: seven Nights says why is she scared of his reaction?

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Speaker 4: I wonder?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all of this just seems like a pretty unhealthy relationshipeah.

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Speaker 4: It's a big mystery, and I don't I like knowing

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Speaker 4: things now. I don't want any more mystery.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, OHP says it is my house, only my house

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Speaker 3: in my name. Yes, he's a bit impulsive, but I

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Speaker 3: don't want to go deeper into that.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 4: I am safe.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it will change anything if I tell him.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, he is on my insurance,

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Speaker 3: so I just assume he plays it cool. I stayed

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Speaker 3: through very tough times. I think he's sure that I

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Speaker 3: will just stay again and won't leave. Sadly, not my

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Speaker 3: first rodeo with him. You gotta leave this guy, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Not your first rodeo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it just sounds like there's no communication. You're on

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Speaker 4: You're obviously unhappy, he's obviously unhappy. Like it's just not

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Speaker 4: really working, and it sucks that it went on for

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Speaker 4: this song, but truly so law Yeah of his relationships.

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Speaker 5: Six seven eight says why is she scared of his reaction?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the one.

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Speaker 5: I Yeah, I agree, which again is good question. What's

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Speaker 5: going on with that?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, But that is the end of that

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Speaker 3: story and the end of this episode. So if you

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Speaker 3: love us, make sure to subscribe, and we love you

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