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Could Tara's bully be a crush? · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Chake, Tara, how are you? Thanks for holding?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, I'm I'm doing okay. But I called in
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  Speaker 2: cause I generally don't know what to do about my
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  Speaker 2: best friend's new boyfriend. Basically, we've known this guy since
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  Speaker 2: we were kids, and he used to bully me so
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  Speaker 2: much when we were younger, and I'm like talking like
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  Speaker 2: middle school super villain, like I this dude made fun
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  Speaker 2: of my fangs, he made fun of my braces, he
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  Speaker 2: made fun of like my clothing, like nothing, nothing was safe.
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  Speaker 2: And I used to run track and once he was
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  Speaker 2: there and he told me that I ran, Like what
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  Speaker 2: do he say? He said, I ran like a divorced
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  Speaker 2: aunt chasing a coupon.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, I've never recovered from that. That that stayed
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  Speaker 3: with me. And I mean, like now he's like suddenly
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  Speaker 3: showing up to girls' nights, he's holding flowers, he's calling
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  Speaker 3: my best friend beautiful, like sir, like you used to
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  Speaker 3: bully me so much, and like you used to throw
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  Speaker 3: dodgeball at my head during Jim Like, I'm just trying
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  Speaker 3: to be supportive, but every time she says, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: he's so sweet, I just feel like a war veteran
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  Speaker 3: being gaslet Like it's just it's like disrespectful to me.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, I think he liked you in middle school.
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  Speaker 2: Has he acknowledged it a all, like, hey, sorry, I
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  Speaker 2: was such a jerk back then. No, I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even think that he changed. And if he did
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  Speaker 2: like me, he's really good at acting like it just
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  Speaker 2: seemed like.
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  Speaker 1: He hated me. It's funny.
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  Speaker 4: So when you describe it, I feel like I'm seeing
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  Speaker 4: a movie in my head and it's like this kid
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  Speaker 4: with whatever you know, middle school kid tip. We all
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  Speaker 4: know the middle school kids. You're all you are, We
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  Speaker 4: were all one of them, and it's you're making fun
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  Speaker 4: of people, you're having fun, and now he like shows up.
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  Speaker 4: He's cooking up with your best friend. He's got abs,
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  Speaker 4: he's bringing her flowers. He's good looking, he's like the
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  Speaker 4: stud from off season or whatever it's called off campus.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's just like this, like but when everyone when
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  Speaker 4: you're a kid, you're goofy, but obviously you triggered you.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I think the same sex bullies. Like for me,
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  Speaker 4: when I think about the bullies I had grown up,
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  Speaker 4: screw those guys, screw those guys.
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  Speaker 1: But like the girl feels there was a.
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  Speaker 4: Girl that no same sex. I said, well, the girl,
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  Speaker 4: the girl that bullied me, she's way hot. Yeah right now, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I remember probably liked you too, Colle.
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  Speaker 1: I remember she Yeah, I remember this Colleen girl. She
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  Speaker 1: said some things to me.
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  Speaker 4: Uh and I was like really embarrassed, and uh, now
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  Speaker 4: I think she likes I think she liked me when
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  Speaker 4: I think back, but you know what I mean, So
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  Speaker 4: it's different.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, what are you gonna do. Your friend likes him?
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  Speaker 1: Is he cute? Your friend likes him?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not gonna like he's pretty cute. And like
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  Speaker 2: when I was younger, like I did kind of like him,
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  Speaker 2: but like every time he bullied me just felt like
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  Speaker 2: a punch to the face. And like now I just
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  Speaker 2: have to like see him three times a week and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I should be the person to extend that all
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  Speaker 5: of branch and be like, hey, you're dating my girl.
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  Speaker 5: You're dating like one of my best friends. Now, so
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  Speaker 5: whatever this was back then, like just you know, you
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  Speaker 5: kind of hurt my feelings, but I hope that you
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  Speaker 5: treat my girl right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Or just clear the air, like oh, my god, you
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  Speaker 5: remember when you act so me and all the time,
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  Speaker 5: he remember the.
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  Speaker 1: Joke of it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember, or I'm so sorry, like he should be.
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  Speaker 4: He's an adult now, he's probably you.
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  Speaker 1: Know what I mean. I think I think, I think
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  Speaker 1: I would think so because your best friend, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she's good people, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a really good she's a really good friend.
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  Speaker 2: I was so surprised when she started dating him.
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  Speaker 4: She's all, you're not gonna believe this. I'm dating Ricky
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  Speaker 4: brinker Off. That's the guy, one of the guys like
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  Speaker 4: that was very specific, Ricky breaker Off. That's a bully
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  Speaker 4: name Dennis Ganey, Dennis Kinney. I already died. I know
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  Speaker 4: this guy, Dennis Ganey. You said beat me up all
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  Speaker 4: the time. And I remember I'd come home crying and
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  Speaker 4: I'd be so and my mom we were going my
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  Speaker 4: mom made me go through to the grocery store with
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  Speaker 4: my mom my sister, and we'd get in the car
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  Speaker 4: and we're driving. We're in Chandler. We're driving and like
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  Speaker 4: where we go the grocery store. She's like, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: go to Dennis Kinney's house. And I dropped down the
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  Speaker 4: backseat of the car and I'd laid down on the
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  Speaker 4: floor and I was crying, no, no, and my sister's like, eh,
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  Speaker 4: they drove by his house. My mom drove by his house,
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  Speaker 4: and I was so upset. No, she didn't go in,
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  Speaker 4: but I was like, and he smelled so bad. And
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  Speaker 4: then I overheard the football coach telling another football coach
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  Speaker 4: that Dennis had some issues at home. And I remember
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  Speaker 4: eavesdropping on that and I was kind of okay, but
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  Speaker 4: still he was so meaningful.
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  Speaker 1: He was so mean to me.
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  Speaker 4: And then later on in life, you hear about bullies
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  Speaker 4: that usually most bullies do have that problem at home.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, eighth grade John Jay
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  Speaker 1: agrees with that. There was somebody, John j. We were
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  Speaker 1: in a baseball game or something.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he died too. Oh you know who I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking about the guy that did that. We were at
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  Speaker 4: the World Series. Rich and I at the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: We're on the upper deck. I looked down and there's
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  Speaker 4: a guy that I know. I don't want to say
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  Speaker 4: his name because he passed away already and it's sad
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  Speaker 4: and he was below and I go, I look, he
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  Speaker 4: looks up me.
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  Speaker 1: Does this deal like you know what? I mean, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like yeah, And I was like I was
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  Speaker 1: on the upper deck.
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  Speaker 4: This guy's like five two, and John, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: just yes, you could squash it like a pop.
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  Speaker 1: So two of the bullies died, one more to show,
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  Speaker 1: just like m I A turns out you can't have
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  Speaker 1: pissed off John Jay in middle school.
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  Speaker 4: I'm coming after you. And then there's Brett Johnson. Brett
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  Speaker 4: Johnson was the guy I think I told you guys.
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  Speaker 4: I was sitting with them at a w Roupier and
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  Speaker 4: Chandler and he says to me, Hey, no fence, but
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  Speaker 4: is your dad fat like you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Brett rude. T you got you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a bully, you had a crush. I'm the one trigger.
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  Speaker 1: Now she threw a ball. You were dodge ball. It
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  Speaker 1: was dodgeball. Remember we're talking about my all right, Tara,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling in.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck, Thank you,