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I took in my son's girlfriend…she turned ENTITLED fast! | Reddit Stories | EP3140 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: And this is Keon, your favorite OK Storytime host, and
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  Speaker 2: we've got some great stories coming right up.
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  Speaker 3: But before that, we have a quick two-minute break from
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  Speaker 3: the sponsors that keep the show alive. I took in
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  Speaker 3: my son's girlfriend. She turned entitled fast. Looks like she
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  Speaker 3: wanted to keep him. I, 43, a female, married to
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  Speaker 3: a 45 male, two female, disabled homemaker for 20 plus years.
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  Speaker 3: We also have a teen daughter in high school.
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  Speaker 1: My son.
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  Speaker 3: Just turned 19 and is in.
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  Speaker 1: His first year of college.
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  Speaker 3: Last summer, before school started, at 18, he hatched a
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  Speaker 3: plan with his internet girlfriend, also 18, male to female,
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  Speaker 3: and his friends to bring his girlfriend to come live
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  Speaker 3: with us without our knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Surprise!
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  Speaker 3: In August, one of my son's friends bought a bus
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  Speaker 3: ticket for my son's girlfriend to come to my home.
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  Speaker 3: We were informed when she was already on a bus
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  Speaker 3: on her way here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the you get what you get. You don't
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  Speaker 2: get upset. Surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the only ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't you happy for me, mom? I'm in love. What
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  Speaker 1: are you going to do? Make her go back? She's
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  Speaker 1: on the bus. They can't tell that bus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Tell that bus to turn around.
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  Speaker 1: They can't turn around.
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  Speaker 3: Needless to say, we were shocked. I had just had
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  Speaker 3: a major career shift in January and was still trying
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  Speaker 3: to heal from severe burnout and and catch up financially
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  Speaker 3: from being unexpectedly unemployed for six months. At first, I
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  Speaker 3: refused to take her in. We had never met. My
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  Speaker 3: son and her only knew each other from the internet,
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  Speaker 3: and we didn't really have the resources to take on
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  Speaker 3: another adult child.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is the first time he's meeting
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  Speaker 1: her in person? Ooh, there's no way, right?
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  Speaker 2: They did say internet girlfriend right off the bat.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised.
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  Speaker 3: The first time you meet your internet girlfriend in real life,
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  Speaker 3: you're moving her into your parents' house?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, yeah. You're like, this is the first time I
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  Speaker 2: meet my girlfriend. I'm moving mountains.
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  Speaker 1: This is Reddit, bro.
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  Speaker 2: I'm moving mountains for my internet girlfriend that I've never met.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man. Oh, my gosh. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: 300 dude named Mark Henry.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Napoleon Dynamite.
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  Speaker 1: An NFL linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: What's Napoleon's brother's name again? Napoleon Dynamite?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: This is what it's feeling like.
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  Speaker 1: Kip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's Kip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Kip and La Fonda. Dude, honestly, Kip?
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  Speaker 3: Kip had it in the bag. If this is a
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  Speaker 3: story about Kip, I support Kip fully.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: However, due to the timing and the lack of public resources,
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  Speaker 3: we decided to try... and agreed to help her get
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  Speaker 3: on her feet as an adult. She came to us
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  Speaker 3: from a Romani family. She had left due to how
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  Speaker 3: she was treated. She had a fourth grade education, a
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  Speaker 3: state ID, a photocopy of her social security card, and
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  Speaker 3: no birth certificate. She wasn't even sure where she was
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  Speaker 3: born at first or what her biological mother's name was.
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  Speaker 3: According to her, her mom left shortly after she was born.
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  Speaker 3: So she was raised by her father and his family.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was going to say she was raised
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  Speaker 2: by wolves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, raised in the woods by a bunch of squirrels.
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  Speaker 2: Romulus and Remus, her cousins.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Dakota. I'm Riley.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Keon.
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  Speaker 3: We're here to read this story and give our thoughts,
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  Speaker 3: but we don't know everything. We just try to give
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  Speaker 3: good advice like a little goofball. So let us know
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  Speaker 3: what you think. We need to know what you would
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  Speaker 3: do down in the comments.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And OP says, we started with the basics. Social security
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  Speaker 3: card and insurance as she is diabetic and had limited
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  Speaker 3: supplies with her.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, dude.
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  Speaker 1: This is crazy. She's literally dumping her life. Making it
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  Speaker 1: y'all's problem. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's hi.
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  Speaker 2: Hello. Nice to meet you. Welcome stranger that we weren't
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  Speaker 2: aware of. And okay. Now we need to get you
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  Speaker 2: social security.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to meet you. Build my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is a little build my life.
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  Speaker 2: This is create a character.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you've got no birth certificate in a
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  Speaker 3: fourth grade education, you probably do need a little help
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  Speaker 3: building your life.
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  Speaker 1: Fair. Fair.
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  Speaker 3: So we resolved the birth certificate. I got her a
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  Speaker 3: cell phone, which her family had turned hers off. A
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  Speaker 3: fireproof briefcase for her documents and the medications she needed.
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  Speaker 1: Dang.
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  Speaker 3: We struggled to find balance in the household for about
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  Speaker 3: a month. Once my son went to college, we let
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  Speaker 3: her take his bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So the son is now gone to college, and she's
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  Speaker 3: still living here?
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  Speaker 1: Yep. It's a surprise. Surprise.
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  Speaker 2: My girlfriend's staying with us.
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  Speaker 1: It's someone you can take care of while I'm gone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm already an adult. I'm already taken care of. You
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  Speaker 1: can take care of her now. Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Surprise. My girlfriend is now your child. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Can you get my girlfriend ready for society while I
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  Speaker 1: go to college?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Mom.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: I got her enrolled in the local GED program and
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  Speaker 3: found a certification program she could complete in a field
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  Speaker 3: she was interested in for free. We split the kids'
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  Speaker 3: chores between her and our high schooler and encouraged her
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  Speaker 3: to find a job to start making money for herself.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, how does a sister feel about this? I totally
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  Speaker 1: forgot about that.
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  Speaker 2: How does everyone feel about this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This is insane.
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  Speaker 1: This is.
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  Speaker 2: Like, we're doing a great thing for somebody. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: But what?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like the language encouraged her to find a job.
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  Speaker 1: I think the language needed to be, yeah, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: have a job.
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  Speaker 3: Fair.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta do that. That's not a hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're going to find a job.
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  Speaker 1: Get out there and see what you can do.
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  Speaker 3: So six months later, here's where we are. She has
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  Speaker 3: completed three of four GED tests. She's still struggling with math,
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  Speaker 3: but is still attending GED classes, though with less frequency.
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  Speaker 3: Her first job was at a fast food pizza place.
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  Speaker 3: She quit on her second day. Her second job was
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  Speaker 3: about a month and a half later. She was a
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  Speaker 3: hostess for a restaurant, and that lasted for about Three months.
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  Speaker 3: She claims she was fired. She's often extremely lax in
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  Speaker 3: her chores and does not eat properly to maintain her
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  Speaker 3: health with her medical condition. She has also antagonized my
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  Speaker 3: spouse with rude comments such as, honor these nuts, in
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  Speaker 3: response to a text my spouse sent to the family
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  Speaker 3: chat that.
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  Speaker 1: She was going to pick up food.
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  Speaker 2: That's the fourth. There's the fourth grader. There's the fourth grade. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there it is.
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  Speaker 1: You got to respect it, honestly. I don't think this
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  Speaker 1: person knows what they have.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. I don't think this person knows what
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  Speaker 2: that means.
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  Speaker 1: Honor these nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, honor these nuts.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, at one point they did. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the first time, if it's like the 20th time
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  Speaker 2: you go, Hey, you know what that means, right? And
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  Speaker 2: that's very rude.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was, you know, I think they were
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  Speaker 3: just trying to be a.
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  Speaker 1: Little cheeky with it. A little goofball.
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  Speaker 2: A little nutty with it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll put that in the group chat.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to know what the original message was
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  Speaker 3: for the word honor to show up in there. The
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  Speaker 3: OP's spouse was like, I'm going to pick up food.
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  Speaker 1: Would anyone like.
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  Speaker 2: It's that joke. Did you hear Steve Jobs pass away
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  Speaker 2: of ligma? It's like, who's Steve Jobs? Ligma balls. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Press F for respect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Additionally.
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  Speaker 3: There has been some suspicious activity on her part. She
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  Speaker 3: has a female internet friend whom she says.
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  Speaker 1: I love you to in phone conversations.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's share the love. But it might be
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  Speaker 1: sharing too much love. She's lonely. Her man's off to college.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of love? Living with her man's family. She's
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  Speaker 1: got to show some loyalty. She can't do whatever she wants.
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  Speaker 1: We have needs.
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  Speaker 3: We have needs as human beings.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. She's having all of her basic needs met right now.
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  Speaker 1: Except for one. Oh my gosh. Would you?
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  Speaker 3: I made a mention to her that I had saved
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  Speaker 3: photos of her as a child from her bio dad's Facebook,
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  Speaker 3: which was public. And only a few days later, her
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  Speaker 3: dad and stepmother's Facebook pages just ceased activity. The day
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  Speaker 3: she was fired from her second job, quote unquote fired.
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  Speaker 3: Our whole family was invited to a family dinner by
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  Speaker 3: my parents right before she started work. We dropped her off,
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  Speaker 3: and she came right back out and said she was fired.
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  Speaker 1: Wait. Was she fabricating all of this?
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  Speaker 3: Did she just quit her job to go to dinner?
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  Speaker 1: I think they were going to.
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  Speaker 3: A family dinner that she's not a part of?
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  Speaker 1: So I thought she was hostess at this job, and
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  Speaker 1: they were going to do a family dinner together. at
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  Speaker 1: that restaurant and she just quit. Is that right? Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The Facebook thing's weird. No, I don't think they were
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  Speaker 3: at the restaurant. I think it was like they were
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  Speaker 3: taking her to work and then she just like came
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  Speaker 3: right back out and was like, yeah, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Fired by the way. So she could get into food?
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  Speaker 1: I think so. Okay, weird, weird. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: She did have some other issues there. A new manager
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  Speaker 3: had started and didn't like her. She had been sent
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  Speaker 3: home the day before for not wearing a uniform and
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  Speaker 3: She claimed there was no uniform before the new manager,
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  Speaker 3: and we bought her new black shoes.
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  Speaker 1: That morning for work.
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  Speaker 3: I had the idea to have her make digital audio
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  Speaker 3: projects for sale for me instead of having a job.
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  Speaker 3: She doesn't want to do that, and now she does
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  Speaker 3: not want to do the certification program either. With her
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  Speaker 3: attendance at her GED classes, her lack of doing chores,
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  Speaker 3: and her entitlement, we are trying to just prop up
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  Speaker 3: her useless weight. And she's not even trying.
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  Speaker 1: Am I the a-hole? And what would you do?
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: So... How could you be the a-hole?
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  Speaker 3: You haven't even done anything wrong to her yet.
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  Speaker 1: Your son dumped this woman on you. Then he went
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  Speaker 1: back to college. And now he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, this is my girlfriend. She's your issue now. Thanks, Mom.
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  Speaker 3: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably catching some other tail out there.
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  Speaker 3: This is all... And you know what? Regardless of this
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  Speaker 3: person's like experience or what's going on in their life,
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  Speaker 3: like I can't imagine being put in the position they
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  Speaker 3: were when it's like, yeah, no, my girlfriend from the
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  Speaker 3: Internet is on a bus. She's coming here right now.
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  Speaker 3: And I can't imagine doing anything but being like, well,
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  Speaker 3: we're buying her the first bus ticket back. Like, there's
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  Speaker 3: no universe in which this is going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, I would have loved to try this on my
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  Speaker 1: mom and see her reaction. Oh, bro.
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  Speaker 3: You bus in a girlfriend from another part of the
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  Speaker 3: country right before you go to college. You go, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, she's living here now. She's got a fourth
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  Speaker 3: grade education. And you're going to have to build her life.
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  Speaker 1: She would have sent her to the sawmill. All right,
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  Speaker 1: first job, sawmill. You got to work from there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then she's like, I'm not working at the sawmill.
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  Speaker 3: And then it's like, hey, I've got this stick with
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  Speaker 3: a picnic blanket on the back of it full of
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  Speaker 3: your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and have a good day. Bye. What is
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  Speaker 1: that called?
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's like the hobo pack? Hobo stick?
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  Speaker 1: You did not just say that. Hobo? Hobo. Hobo Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Hobo Bobo?
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  Speaker 3: What is that called? It has a name.
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  Speaker 1: I did remember looking it up once. The little hobo stick.
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  Speaker 1: The hobo stick. I made quite a few of those.
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  Speaker 1: A bindle? A bindle.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Homemade bindle.
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  Speaker 3: I love a bindle. I had Hander a bindle say, hey.
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  Speaker 1: Hit the bindle.
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  Speaker 3: How much is a bus ticket? I can either give
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  Speaker 3: you a bus ticket or a bindle. I got two
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  Speaker 3: Bs on the table right now.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them's got a ton of aura. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: the bindle would be.
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  Speaker 3: If you're out there bindle maxing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking... I can't even think because I don't
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  Speaker 2: have kids, but if I did this with my parents
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  Speaker 2: living under their roof, I can't even think.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even think because they'd be like, what? That's
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  Speaker 3: the hardest part to wrap my head around is the
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  Speaker 3: fact that it even happened.
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  Speaker 1: I got to give props to this chick, though. Six months, rent-free.
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  Speaker 1: Getting some education, not really having to work or do chores.
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  Speaker 3: Getting some education, but not really caring. This person's trying
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  Speaker 3: to build a whole life for you, not really trying.
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  Speaker 1: Got a little situationship on the side.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, got a little I love you thing. Got another
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  Speaker 3: internet partner. I'm asking my son, do you know who
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  Speaker 3: this is? No, he doesn't. We don't even know how
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  Speaker 3: long they've been together.
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  Speaker 1: What is his? There's a spooks here. Also, we're not
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Facebook thing. Those parents aren't real. Yeah,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: what was that? Oh my god, oh my god, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god. Remember the family that adopted that like five-year-old girl? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and it was like an adult? And she turned out
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: to be like a 30-year-old person. Oh, an orphan? Remember that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's probably what this is. I've seen so
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: many different things about that. I've seen people be like, no,
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  Speaker 3: she was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: No, she wasn't. Yeah, I've seen mixed reviews on that too.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to get that kid in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: I'd make my judgment call.
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  Speaker 3: Be like, you're 25.
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  Speaker 1: Get to work.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway. We've got some comments here. The internet's letting OP
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  Speaker 3: know what to do. Comment one says, I would never
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  Speaker 3: have let her move in in.
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  Speaker 1: The first place.
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  Speaker 3: I would give her and your son 30 days to
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  Speaker 3: get out. OP says, my son is usually at college
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  Speaker 3: about three hours away getting good grades too. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? This is his life. Girlfriend? This is
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  Speaker 2: his problem to solve.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, I think we're all missing the plot here. This
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  Speaker 3: is actually... OP's son is majoring in sociology, and this
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  Speaker 3: is all one giant social experiment.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they used to do the egg.
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  Speaker 1: This is how we got a scholarship. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, bro.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: It's like Charlie took care of the egg, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in high school. We upgraded the egg to a Romani
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  Speaker 2: fourth grade educated girl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If that's what she even is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she was... To clarify, she was male to female, right?
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  Speaker 3: That might be a part of why they were so
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  Speaker 3: able to take her in because Opie's wife is also
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  Speaker 3: male to female.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, male to female? I thought it was female to male.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's male to female. Oh, so that hit like
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  Speaker 3: a heart string. Yeah, then their son's girlfriend, male to female.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe that has to be at least some of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we've touched on how the parents have
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  Speaker 1: reacted to that on Opie's son's girlfriend. We need to
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  Speaker 1: give her a name. Also, A-Gal, this is hilarious. Son,
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  Speaker 1: I saw what you did for me. Now do it
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  Speaker 1: for my girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You did such a good job raising me. Can you
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  Speaker 3: raise my girlfriend the same way?
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, Bug says... Triple the speed. Bug says, there is
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of evidence that she was a child. Yeah. Okay.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: We got another comment. Why did your son do this?
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: And I, at the only rea- Obi's reasoning, out of love.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, guys, it's, it's, we can't even put this
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: on the sun. We gotta put this on OP. This is, like,
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: the equivalent of, like, taking your mom's credit card and buying, like,
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: the Pokemon box.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: And then, like, you don't, they don't find out until
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: it's on the way.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: And you're like, but it's already coming.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: It's like, no, we send it back. Did you see
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: the kid who you, who has a Minecraft YouTube channel
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: and uses that credit card to buy $ 118, 000 worth of ads? To, like,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: serve it to people to watch his channel? No. Oh,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: my God. Did it work? There's a new YouTube video
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: that's like, Mike is no longer allowed to upload videos
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: about Minecraft. Oh, no. And it was....
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Man, imagine that paid off. He's got, like, five million
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: subs or something. We need to find this guy. Find
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: that guy. Computer, find that Minecraft child. Anyway, OP on
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: why her son did this. Because he thought it was
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: the right thing to do. He has a form of
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: autism that makes him unable to recognize dangerous situations.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: And this is where you tell him this is a
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: dangerous situation.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Where you explain it!
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: This is where you explain it. So he doesn't do
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: this again, one, and he also should stop this now.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: When going to college and making adult relationships, two.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, if anything, you should have been like, okay,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: your girlfriend, if this is going to happen, you have
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: to be able to sneak her into your college.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: This is your problem.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. If you can't figure out how to secretly keep
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: her in your college dorm, it's not going to work.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the real world. Okay.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: In fourth grade, he climbed under a stopped train trying
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: to walk home.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: It's a mental disability.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: He was trying to remove someone he loved from a
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: bad situation into a better one. He knows it was wrong.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: And has apologized for the issues it has caused.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: That's just words.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go ahead and say he knew it
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: was wrong the whole time because he'd never told y'all
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: about it. So he knew that that was not going
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: to be able to happen.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Has there been things in the past where he has
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: a friend coming over and he's let y'all know? He's like,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: he's out front. He lives four hours away. He's out front.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Can he come over? Well, at least he's the one
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: getting good grades. Doing what he's supposed to do. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: we do have an update.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: People had lots to say about my choices. Everything from
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I was going to be buried in the woods somewhere
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: to I am a saint.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, we're back to the woods.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I am the
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: one who has to live with my choices. After sitting
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: down and discussing at length with my spouse, we decided
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: to have the hard parent talk. We explained that we
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: noticed their drive to pursue their education dwindling. their chores
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: around the house lacking, and their general disposition going downhill.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: We also explained that no matter what they feel inside
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: their heart, they are an adult and capable of taking
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: care of themselves. We sat down in agreement on chores
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: that were expected to be done and the rules that
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: were expected to be followed to complete her GED, which
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I'm happy to say she has, and a final date
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: when she would be expected to move out, about one
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: year from when she showed up at our house. Which
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: means they got about another six months. Just another quick six.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: If that's what you want to do.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Almost right after the vacation, her and my son decided
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: to break up.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: After, after, after, after. That says everything you need to
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: know about the situation.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Says everything. Yeah. She's like, I want that vacation. And
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: now I'm done. I got my, I got my enjoyment.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: So what now? Does she still stay there? What do
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: we do? Where is this in the lease? Where is
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: this in the contract?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Has this girl ever said thank you? Has she ever
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: seemed grateful for this?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Dude, she's entitled. I don't know.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: You just said you accidentally adopted your son's ex-girlfriend.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Whoa. This is how that happens. You've adopted your son's ex-girlfriend. Oh.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: She remained living with me while my son remained at school.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: What? She started.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Dating another friend of hers about two hours away from here.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty cheap bus ticket. Yeah, A, very doable.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: And you say one-way ticket.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, Lord.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: We also learned that she had Social Security for her
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: disability that she currently was not receiving. What is going on?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: She's got new girlfriend, new girlfriend, new boyfriend alert. Get
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: out of here.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Go over there. Absolutely. Go rebuild your life over there.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: That's so awkward that she's still living there.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: You can't raise your son's ex-girlfriend that they never even
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: saw each other.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I love the initiative OP has, though. Putting her in GED,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: getting her a job.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's a very kind thing to do, but.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Also, never touched on the Facebook thing again. Yeah, what
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: was that? Were those fake pictures? I think so. What's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that fake? Why did they get blocked?
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Did she get into your Facebook and block them from yours?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Or was she making fake posts?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I think she was making fake posts and their Facebook
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: just ceased to exist.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: That is a whole other can of worms. Let her
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: new partner deal with that one. Let's finish this. Over
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the last several months, she has resolved her social security payments,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: finished her GED, and even registered to learn how to drive.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Today is her 19th birthday, and she came home with
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: her boyfriend from her boyfriend's house to move her belongings there.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Let's go!
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Let's go!
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I thought it was going to be another domino thing
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: of she brought her boyfriend, dropped her boyfriend off here,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: and went off to college.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Son, that's all you did for me, do for her. Hey,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that's all you did for me, you do for him.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: We're going to fix up the whole neighborhood.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: What's that movie, Viltrum? What? Viltrum? No, that's a planet
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: from Invincible. No, what's the one that starts with a V?
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Is that the one with Jesse Eisenberg?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Vivarium. Vivarium. It's Vivarium.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I did not see that movie, but... You could watch it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I feel like now I know the plot. This is
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the movie Vivarium.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It makes me mad because they use the number nine
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: instead of eight, but watch the movie and you'll understand. Dude,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: number eights rise up. Because it's infinite. You know, if
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you put it sideways, it's infinite. And a nine's not.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: It's kind of sad to think about.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people do not believe that
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: I should have made the choices that I did, but
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: these are the choices I can live with. I'm so
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: very proud of her for being able to get on
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: her own two feet and find a life for herself
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: that she wants and that she's pursuing. And she knows
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: she can always come to me if she needs advice.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Or just a mom's shoulder to cry on. And that's
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the end of that story.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Sweet.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, OP's so sweet.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like, yeah. Is OP just a better
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: person than all of us?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe. Maybe.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Took in a troubled youth against her will, kinda, at first.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And kinda was like, yeah, no, I'll turn you into
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: a functioning adult. Then you can break up with my
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: son and move two hours away with your new boyfriend
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: that you met on the internet.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You know, Saint of the Day right here. Saints of
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the Day. We're going to give this one... Early and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: first to Opie. And everyone, the TLDR is wrong. A
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: teenager with autism mistakenly spends $ 118, 000 on YouTube ads.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Parents confront him about his actions and set boundaries leading
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: to breakup with girlfriend.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: That's enough.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: No, that could have been another side plot. That was like,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: they're like, when they were still in the writer's room,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: they were like, should we maybe? Should we have this
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: side plot with the YouTube ads?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Alright, are we ready for this next story?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm ready. My mother accused me of destroying her
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: life after I agreed to officiate my father's wedding. Wow,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you must have really messed up that speech. I, 21 male,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: was raised by my father, 45 male, because my mom,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: 46 female, became very unwell after my birth and was
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: hospitalized for several months. After that, she was not in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the best situation. So their marriage wasn't old, and my
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: father became my only parent. Before that, my mother was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: also not the best partner. She had her own struggles
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that made things difficult. Although my father was the sole custodian. Custodian?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Sole custodian.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Could you? Did I say that wrong? No, that's right. Oh,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I thought custodian was a guy that cleans like a janitor.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: That is also custodian, but also custodian is like a caretaker.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: So custodian is a parent. Yeah, a parent with an
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: exclusive legal and or fiscal authority to care for and
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: make major life decisions for a child.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like, you know, being a parent is
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: kind of like being a custodian.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to be a custodian. Always a new
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: mess to clean up.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Last story, last OP was a custodian for that one girl.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My mother had visitation. And she was allowed to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: see me supervised at first. Then I started to have
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: unsupervised time with her, although my father was my main parent.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: When I was 10 years old, she met my stepfather,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: 43 Mel, who was a wonderful guy. And for a while,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they were perfect. After they got married, when I was
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: 13 though, things started to change. She stopped keeping up
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: with the care she'd been receiving and thought everything was fine.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: But dear reader, it wasn't. Things at home just became harder.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: When I was 16, my stepfather had to leave their
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: house after a bad incident. He came to my father's house,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and we had to get help so someone could look
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: after her. After that, she went back into care for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a long time, and the vid also extended her stay.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: She was released into her sister's care in 2022. By
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the way, this comes from FunStrength27, and if you want
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to speak your own stories, go to the r slash
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: okstories on subreddit. After my stepfather got divorced... He couldn't
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: annul the marriage. He moved in with us because he
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: didn't have anywhere to go. And my father isn't a
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: man to leave someone to fend for themselves on the streets.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: These people! What is this episode? Oh, man. I mean, like, okay, hey.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: This episode.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, Good Samaritan type stuff.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: This episode is called Keeping People Off the Streets. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Hey, I mean, hey. Hey.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It's a good thing, I guess. After a year of
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: living together, they went on a date. It is a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: known fact that my dad is bi, but my stepdad
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: was straight as far as we knew. What is happening?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: What is going on? Does this mean you get three Christmases? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Four Christmases?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: How many Christmases do you get for this?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I think just three. Okay.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: In a sabbatical.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know, dude.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: This is crazy.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Turns out he wasn't that straight. Okay, here we go.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: We got something now, fellas. We got something now. What?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Not sad cancer, mom. He's just got a little squiggle
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: in him. My mother didn't know they were together until
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: she got out because I never mentioned it during the visits.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: After she got out, She didn't take it well at first,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: but she got used to it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: No, there's no way someone gets used to that.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Until they announced their engagement after the recent legalization of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: same spicy sleep marriage in our country. My mother took
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: it hard.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I think they both took it hard.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I think one person's taking it harder than the other. No. Technically.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I think all three are taking it hard, just a
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: different way how you want to take it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I don't think your mother's taking it at all anymore.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Honestly, if I'm a mom and I hear this, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: turn right back around and I go back into whatever
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: institution I was in because I'm like, I'm going to
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: need some more time in there.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: That's way better than reality.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just, I gotta, I gotta, I'll see you
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: guys later. I gotta get back in there.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: At first, it was just calls and messages, but she
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: was really upset when she heard I would be the officiant.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: She tried to smash her sister's car outside her home,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: but luckily she was stopped by her caretaker, and she
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is currently at home waiting for a spot to open
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: up somewhere where she can get proper support. She can't.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: She's going right back in.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Mom's condition, she got gamma radiation poisoning. She's going to
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: hulk out and smash her sister's car?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: How big is this lady? After this happened, I went
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to see my mother. She tried to ask a lot
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of questions, but she rambled. And she said, how could
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I be the one to tie them together? And how
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: could I betray her?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Technically, if you really look at it that way, Mom,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: you're the one who introduced them.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Technically, that's on you.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I think there's... Very little to do with those guys
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: getting together because of OP. I don't think OP's doing
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: anything wrong, really.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: When I asked her how I had betrayed her, she said,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you were helping your father to destroy my life by
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: taking everything and everyone I like, including you. At that point,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I was just thinking about leaving. And I calmly said
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: to her, I don't care. Go figure it out yourself.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I will be a part of this conversation. And left
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the house. I feel like an a-hole. And my father's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: family is giving me a hard time for being so
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: sharp and emotionless. I don't know why, but they always
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: have a soft spot for my mother. But my mom's
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: siblings say I did the right thing. Am I the a-hole?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: This is backwards. Usually it's the other way around. The
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: father is like, yeah, you did the right thing. And
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the mom's side of the family is like, no, you
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. But it's flipped. Yeah. What? They're like, what,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the backward?
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Maybe their intentions are good. I think mom's family is like, yeah, no,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: she's got to hit some kind of bottom if it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: going to work out.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Bikini?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. Your mom is what we
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: call mentally ill.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. Based off of OP's actions, where are you guys?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Is he the a-hole for this or not? Guys in
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the chat, say a-hole if OP's the a-hole, not the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a-hole if he isn't. I can see where he is
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the a-hole.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: How? Yeah, how?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Explain.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So, his mom's going through a really hard time. We
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: have a history of her having mental illnesses.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: That's not on OP.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It's not on OP. And I know he doesn't have
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to adhere to this conversation, but he can still be like,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I see where you're coming from, Mom. Kind of bear
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: it and then walk away. Rather than being, I give
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: up on you.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or do you think Opie could have at least
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: told Mom when Opie was visiting Mom? Hey.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: No.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Hey, this has been going on. Because imagine you're out
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: and you want to see one person. Like, someone... Oh, man, dude.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Try and wrap your head around that. Like, your ex,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: your ex, and now your new ex.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Is with your old ex. Yeah. I think... Yeah. I think, though,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: her priority while she was in was making sure that
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: her mind was healing. And anything that could disrupt that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: would hurt or hinder the process that she's made so far.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: So it's the.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I think that this was a situation that should have
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: been left up to the power of the coin.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Your mom's like, you've betrayed me and you're allowing them
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: to take everything and everyone from my life. And you go,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: you know what, mom?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Heads or tails?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Are you Two-Face?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: All right, heads, I officiate the wedding.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Tails, I don't.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: We leave it up to chance.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Wow. Because this isn't about me betraying you. I don't
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: know what you're talking about. So we'll leave it up
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: to the coin.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: What about rolling dice? Double or nothing? Now, I haven't
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: been known to roll a mean dice.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: We did roll the dice last night.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: You guys did roll the dice last night?
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a game of chance could.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe lighten the mood a little bit here. You know? Oh, YouTube,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: what do you think? YouTube, where are you? Also, Facebook,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: where are you? Did we ever figure out Facebook?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no. It's there, but it's not there. Oh.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Guys, say something.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Something.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Say something before the reptiles take us. Seeing someone lose
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: it like that is scary. I worked in a mental
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: institution where caregivers and other patients have been unalived in
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the past. It also housed people. who had previously unalived
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: other people.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Ah, he was the best guy around.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: It's easier to have sympathy when you're not the one
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: putting up with the bat crap crazy lady first-handed. Okay,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: good point, the blind one. No, I just think people
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: are quiet right now.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for some reason it didn't show not the a-holes
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: from a lot of people.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, weird. Okay, so we did get a lot of
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: not the a-holes. Okay, great.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know why. Great, great, great, great, great. Maybe
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: they considered it spam, like Melissa. Maybe it was just
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: a bunch of people spammed it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, interesting.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That's why.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Riley, your favorite Southern Belle. We're going
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to get back to these stories, but here's three minutes
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: worth of ads from our sponsors. Update! Hello, it's me again.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: A lot has happened in six days, not even a week.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Hey, a lot can happen in six days.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: My mother is in the hospital, though not for the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: reasons you'd think. She had a heart issue and needed treatment.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: She is doing better and is much more comfortable now. Also,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: thanks to my grandparents... They have arranged a long-term spot
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: for her. My grandparents tried to get me kicked out
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: of medical school for being so cruel and uncaring towards
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: my mother. I'm also in medicine, studying at the same
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: medical school my grandparents graduated from in Turkey. Oh, they're
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: all in Turkey. Hmm.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Probably like.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Like middle of Europe.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: So they're trying to be like, this man already betrayed
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: his Hippocratic oath. He told his mom... I don't know, man.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: You can figure it out. I can't do this right now.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: They wrote a long letter saying I was foreshadowing the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: oath of my profession with my own personal feelings. Therefore,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I wasn't suitable for medicine and I should be kicked out. Luckily,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: our vice dean saw through the letter and called me
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to learn about the situation. And he also congratulated my
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: parents on their marriage. and said he's hoping to attend
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the wedding.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: What a cherry on top.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're good.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I got you. By the way, congrats. I want to
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: go to that wedding. That sounds really chill that your
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: stepfather and your dad are getting married.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Not only did you not get me tossed out of
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: medical school, the vice dean's.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Coming to the wedding. All right. And he's bringing gifts.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Everyone knows the vice dean is the cool dean. The
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: head dean is like.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know why?
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Vice dean? Those had a party.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: You know why? Because that vice dean's got vices.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And vice dean is also the head of air conditioning. Sorry,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I was making a community reference. You ever see community? Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Vice dean was the AC guy, and that's what Troy
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: went to do, to be the AC guy. I don't
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: remember the AC man. I don't remember the.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I only remember the dean who was always doing something crazy.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. At the opening. He was in a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: couple episodes. Both me and my parents are now no
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: contact with my grandparents. My father said they were always
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: like this, and because of that, he was mostly raised
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: by his grandparents' aunts and uncles. My grandparents willingly took
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: over my mother's care plan, and her siblings have stepped back.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: She will be transferred to a long-term residential facility near Athens,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: where my grandparents have their summer house. As far as
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: we know, they have arranged her transfer to her insurance,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and everything else. My father and I were disowned by
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: my grandparents, and they took us out of their will
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and decided to start a fund for medical students coming
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: from lower-income backgrounds. Okay. In a way, your will is
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: helping others. Yeah. That's good for them. Good for them,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, sure.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My father was relieved to hear this. Luckily, our
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: extended family has rallied behind us, and they don't talk
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to my grandparents either. My grandparents were always acting like
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: they were superior to everyone else because of their professions,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: but our family couldn't cut them out because of me
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and my father, and they hadn't been given a so
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: concrete reason to do so. Now, they have that reason.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: The wedding is still going on with full force. Full force.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: That's a full force wedding. Does this make your dads
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: gay now or are they still bi?
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, if bi is a spectrum, they're
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: definitely leaning one way right now.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I think you can move. I think the needle moves
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: around on that, right?
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My needle's just hard left, by the way. You
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: should talk to a doctor about that. I should.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Get that checked.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: There's a hard 90 degrees left, doc.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: What's going on? My parents have found a venue and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: they love the place. My father is also doing well
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: for himself. He is a stock analyst and managed to
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: retire when I was 13 years old, so he has
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of money.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Dang.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: So he doesn't have a significant budget limit. My stepdad
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: is also not in a bad position either, and their
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: finances have been combined since the 2020 pandemic. So our
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: money situation is pretty all right.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Don't be modest.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Here's my question.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Don't say pretty all right.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Here's my question. Pretty all right. Got the house in Greece? That's...
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: That's bi erasure, guys. Bi erasure.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: We're not erasing any bi people.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: No, no. I was just making a joke. I knew
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: they were still bi. Just made a gay dad joke.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Here's my next gay dad joke. You guys ready? Who
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: is planning this wedding? Two dudes planning a wedding? I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, that would be... That would be fun
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to see.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: I wonder what kind of Turkish delights they're going to
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: have at this wedding.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Hopefully the good ones. Because I've seen, I know that
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I am stereotyping here because I've seen an episode or
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: this TV series where this couple gets their dream wedding,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: but the guy has to plan it. Oh. And it
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: goes horribly wrong because the guy's like, oh, what is
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: her favorite color? What is these things? I think these
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: guys are way more intentional. I just, I was thinking like, oh,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: ha ha ha.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: That would be, that would be sad. It would be
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: sad if like both. Both of them had bad tastes.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: They're trying to plan a marriage and they realize neither
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: of them know anything about the other. And they're just like,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: did we trauma bond over our mentally ill ex-wife?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: And then they just make their whole wedding about mentally ill.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: This is going down a bad road.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: They accidentally make their whole wedding about how we came
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: together because we shared an ex-wife. And now we'll share
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: our next life.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Coda saved it. Dakota saved it, guys. That was a
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: good save. Holy cow. Toasted that.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Our next life is two bi dudes. Two dudes who
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: are not straight fully.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Like to swing. They're probably good at the swing dancing.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, so continue this.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: That is the most bi form of dance.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Continue this story.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: What do we think, guys? What do we think about
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: these jokes? So wait, the dads have been together for
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a while and they just are now getting married. Why
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: is the mom taking it so hard now? Did I
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: miss that? No, bug.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: The dad's got, stepdad got taken in to bio dad's
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: house when bio mom had a full blown like episode
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: and had to be institutionalized. And while they were living
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: together and mom's in, you know, like inpatient, they ended
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: up getting their thing on because it's known that OP's
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: bio dad is bi. And stepdad turned out to not
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: be so straight. And then they fell in love and
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: got married. And then once mom got out of the institution,
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: they said, surprise!
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: We're engaged.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: We're engaged now.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yep. Yesterday, I saw my mother. She was still sad,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: but she wasn't blaming me or anyone. She was blaming herself.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: She said she was incredibly sorry for not being the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: mother I deserved. And she was glad to have two
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: of the best people she loved married. As my parents.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. Good. That's good. It's becoming wholesome. I don't know
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: what brought about such a change in her, but I
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: hugged her and I told her it will be all right.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: She said she would try to be two, and she
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: also apologized for her siblings for being a burden after
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I left. I will plan therapy for next week. At first,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: it'll be online, but after September, it'll be in person
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: because she's in Izmir and I will be in Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I will also be starting my clinical years. So much
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: more nerve wracking situation for me. That is all at
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: least for now. Update two. Oh, now here we go.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: First line. I never thought I would be back. Well,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: here you are back. again. Predictions? There's a polycule now. Whoa.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: You have more parents. Polycule marriage. Your parents are multiplying
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: by the second.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: You're getting those three Christmases. Well, no, I guess now
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: it would be one Christmas.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: It's at eight.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: It might be at eight now. Eight Christmases. What's the
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: 12 Christmases? Who would know? Three.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: How many Christmases did Vince Vaughn have?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: In that movie? I think it's four. I think it's
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: four Christmases. From my head. Yeah.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: This could go horribly wrong or great.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: This sounds like the... Those are our two options. What's
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: the opposite of Mamma Mia?
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Daddy Dia.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Papa Dios. Papa Dia.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Papa Pia.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Up date two.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. This is what's giving right now. This is it.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I never thought I would be back, but some big
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: things happened. First of all, my grandparents apologized. Yes, this
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: was something none of us were expecting. They said they
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: had judged me unfairly and they shouldn't have expected me
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to be that understanding in a situation that was too personal.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: But the apology stopped there.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they're like, okay, we're sorry. Like, we want
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: you back in our life. That's on us.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: The money's still not coming back to you.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: They didn't apologize for also trying to sabotage your entire
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: life and career.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: They didn't say anything about how they shouldn't have sent
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: that letter to the vice dean.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: For my father, though, they said they were ashamed to
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: have him as a son because he was a disgrace.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: To their surname and legacy. My father only laughed and said,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: then why do you bother to talk to us? They said,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we want you to know that we won't support your
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: union and you won't be allowed at our funeral. They
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: turned to me and said, now you can do whatever
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: you want, but if you support them, then you are
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: not one of us. I just looked at them and said, well,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: you can leave now.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: That's so funny to me that they want to be like,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: you can't come to our funeral.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, are you going to stop me? I'm sorry.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do? What are you going
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: to do if I show up? You're going to get up? Say,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: get out of here. Get out of here. You're getting
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: up the funeral. Get out of here.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: It's the, we're sorry, but.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nah, these people are. After that, I started my
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: fourth year and some professors looked at me during the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: first day really concerned. One of them approached me asking
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: about some rumors my grandparents had spread about my situation
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and my finances. I was just shocked and showed my
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: bank account. They said my grandparents had mass emailed them.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: We now have at least 15 solid pieces of proof.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: of those emails, and my father and I are opening
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: a defamation case against them. My mom is currently at
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: one of the best caretake facilities in Greece. That's probably
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: why her mind has shifted so much and why she
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: seems to be in a way better place. Yeah, dude.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: If I was in a Greek facility, I'd probably be
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: feeling great. I would like to be in Akros. They
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: got feta. They got olives. They got honey. More olives. Yeah. Oh,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: even more olives. What do you think?
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: It's really good. I'm not going to lie.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Her siblings have visited her twice, and they say she
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: looks much better now and calmer. Her doctors are thinking
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: of settling her into a residential home so she can
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: have some normalcy in her life while still being supported.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: They are even planning to find her a part-time job
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: as a Greek-Hebrew interpreter. My mom's side is half Hebrew,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: half Greek, but no, I don't speak any Hebrew. Shalom!
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: My therapy is going well. I just passed my first
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: clinical exam with an 88 out of 100, and my
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: father and stepfather are getting married on Christmas Eve. So
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: that's it. I think I've got the hang of having
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: a Reddit account, so I will hang around if there's more.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Not with posts like this anymore. Okay.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Fair.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: A little happy ending. Yeah. Weird on the grandparents, but
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: we'll take it.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Good for your mom getting better. Gets the care
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: she needs. Good for your dad's getting married.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: And, uh, yeah. Good for everybody, right?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Good for everybody.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: We love a good for everybody, except for those grandparents.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Dude, crazy that they're still spreading that misinformation. I love it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: They were like, we realized that we treated you unfairly,
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: so we're going to cut you off again, actually.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Even worse.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: We just wanted to let you know that, just straight up,
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: if you support.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Them at all, we will no longer be speaking to you.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, okay, bye. We already talked about that.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: That's the end of that story.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Officiating their wedding.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you burnt the bridges. You caused this. This is
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: your fault.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Yikes, yikes, yikes. All right.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: My wife demanded I abandon my newfound daughter or lose
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: our marriage.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I guess it depends on how you found her.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Back when I, 51 male, was 16, I met a
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Mexican girl, Ann, in my school who was new and
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: immigrated to the States.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: It's that Marty Robbins song. And in the west Texas
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: town of El Paso, I fell in love with a
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Mexican girl.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: She was absolutely gorgeous and had a very distinctive look.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: We dated for five years, and I had always considered
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: her the love of my life. We went to the
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: same college together and always talked about getting married. Her
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: family wasn't very keen on a white kid like me
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: dating her. One day, she asks to meet me at
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: a local park and tells me she has to skip town.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I asked why.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: And when I would see her, she acted like she
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: couldn't talk long and just said she didn't know, but
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: she was doing this for my safety.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: And that was the last time I saw her. No! Whoa.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: This sad la-la land. That lady's pregnant. With her baby?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: That lady's pregnant with his baby.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: That's why she had to skip town? Yep. Why wouldn't
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: she ask to help out?
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Anyways, I don't think the family would have supported that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Heartbreaking.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Hey, it's Dakota, your favorite good time boy host here.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: We're going to get back to the stories, but here's
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: three minutes of ads from our sponsors. I moved on eventually,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: but I always thought of her. When Facebook became a thing,
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: I tried to find her, but never did. Eventually, I
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: got married to my wife, 50 female, when we were
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: in our early 40s. She already had two kids from
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: a previous marriage who were both preteens at the time.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I've provided for them, but they were never warm to me.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: I don't really begrudge them for that, but I never
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: felt appreciated with everything I sacrificed to provide. They are
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: now in their early 20s. By the way, this comes
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: from ThrowingMIDA, a new kid. And if you want to
• 46:01
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• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Fast forward to six months ago, a new girl, Beth,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: started at our office. And when I saw her, I
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: was shocked. She was the spitting image of Anne.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: What? She just started? Out of nowhere? No, this is planned.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: This is planned. She found you, right? She had to
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: have found you. Absolutely. Could be a small town. When
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: I got the chance to talk to her privately, I
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: asked her if her.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Mom's name was Anne. She said she honestly didn't know
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: because she was adopted, but she had been hunting for
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: her biological parents for years. She only had one photo
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: to reference. I asked if I could see it, and
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: she said she would bring it in the next day.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: I kept this from my wife.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Oof, okay.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to say anything if I didn't 100% know,
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: and she is the jealous type and never liked hearing
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: about Anne.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Oh. Sure, this will make the jealousy better, right?
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Also, you not telling, I don't know.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Well, if you're not 100% certain it's Anne's kid, then
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: you would have made this whole big thing up out
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: of nothing. True. I see his point.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: True, true, true.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: But if we do figure it out and he doesn't
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: tell her still, I'm on your side.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: We're just in the evidence gathering phase of our investigation.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: The next day, Beth brought the photo and.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: It was Anne. Oh my God! It's Anne. But this
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: happened at a chance, though, that she started working here.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: Did it?
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: That's what it seems. That's what it seems. That's what
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: it seems. Right? Is that what you get it to?
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Sometimes life works in a funny way, but I don't know.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe Anne told her. Like, who knows?
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Who knows? God could have brought them together. That's a
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: good point.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Fate, destiny, luck, unlucky, I don't know.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Quantum mechanics.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: It's happened. You can't, yeah, you can't take it back.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: So, I see the photo. It's Anne. I told her
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: my story.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: We both came to the realization she was old enough
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: to potentially be my daughter.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, it is her kid. Dude, this is crazy. Fate.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: That's fate, bro.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: We planned to get a paternity test that week. I
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: was hesitant to tell my wife because I suspected she
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: would forbid it.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: How would you forbid it? It's already happened.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't unbirth her.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I would be so happy if Angie was like, I
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: have a kid. I'd be like, no way. Let's bring
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: her in. Let's get it over. That's me. That's me, though.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: But I'd be happy. Yeah, it could be. It could
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: be a, oh, great. Especially at 50, your kids that
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: you already have don't really like you. You now have
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: someone that likes you.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: It's a fresh start.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you guys get along at the office?
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a fun father-daughter kind of vibe. Gotta be.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: So, I think my wife will forbid it. Well, she
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: is my daughter. 29 years later, and I have a daughter.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: We were both overjoyed to have found one another, and
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: she asked if we could start building a relationship.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I want to cry.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: I came home that day and told my wife everything.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: She was livid. No! No!
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Not because I was keeping this from her. Like, what
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: I thought she would be upset over, understandably. My wife
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: thinks I would choose Anne and Beth over her.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Which, I think you would. I think you should.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I think you got i think you could because he
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: held out till he was.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: 40 to get married yeah you got you guys she
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: got what two kids that don't.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Like you she's a very jealous person which.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Is like come on come on come on if you're
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: like oh that's cool i'm like cool but if you're
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: like Ew, gross.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: You can't be. Now I'm like, I want to go
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: be with, I want to go be with my one
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: day one. Yeah.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Cause the, the thing that got away, she should.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Be mad that OP kept this from her, but that's
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: not even the reason she's mad. Yeah. That's mad. Cause
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: she's like, Oh, so you love them more than me.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Hey honey, guess what? Just found out my daughter 29 years,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: by the way, crazy, not bad about that. She just
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: mad instantly, instantly jumps to you'd leave me for them. What?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: And you go, now that you mention it, it's a
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: good idea.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Do you want me to leave? Pretty good idea.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: I hadn't thought about that. But now that you mention it.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: It could be a sweet deal.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a good deal. I'd take that, dude.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I'd take that deal. That's a dang good deal. Okay.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: My wife doesn't want me to be in contact with
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: a girl who isn't more of your child as much
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: as our kids are to you. She feels that by
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: building this relationship, I will see her kids as less
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: of mine. I got mad and said that her kids
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: are her kids, and I've been happy providing for them.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: But I am not their father. I am their stepfather,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: and sometimes I don't even feel they think that. She
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: is forbidding me from this relationship, but I am ready
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: to take a stand on this, and we have an update.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Okay. Where are we standing?
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's put ourselves in the shoes of OP's wife.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Okay. I'm wearing pumps.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: You're wearing pumps.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: You're wearing Skechers. Your partner says, hey, honey, got a
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: new kid. This is a long lost kid that I
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: had from a previous relationship a long time ago.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: She's 29?
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: And I want to start a relationship with this kid.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: It's either me or her.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: I got to say, let's get the coin back out, right?
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Let's do a coin flip for this. Let the power
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: of the coin decide.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's even worth a coin. Heads,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I have a new daughter. Tails, I don't know. Here's
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the dang evidence.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: No habla espanol.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Here's the dang evidence. He said so many nice things
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: about Anne. Yeah, dude. And I haven't really heard many
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: nice things about... Is her name Beth? I think so, yeah.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I haven't really heard that many... No, no, Beth is
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: the daughter's name. Beth is his daughter's name. I haven't
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: really heard that many nice things about his wife, let alone...
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: And the only thing I've heard about this family is
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: that his stepkids don't really like him.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: That's not a life worth living as a man.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: We don't have a name for one.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Have you seen the video? It's kind of depressing, but
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, the best you can get as a
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: man is working full time at Lowe's and going back
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: home to a daughter that kind of despises you after
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: working nine hours and getting through two hours worth of traffic.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: And that's the American dream. And you're divorced. So you're
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: trying to get out there dating, but it's just so
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: hard and tiring and you're losing your weight. Yeah. If
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: there's some love and joy in your life, you kind
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: of want to keep it. That's what I'm seeing.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the most important resource.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: But you're just down the line.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Die on it. I'm dying on it with you.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I found on this. I found this new kid that's mine.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: And like.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Did the DNA test and everything?
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Did the DNA test. I'm excited. And your partner says,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: I forbid you to even, like, sucks to suck. I
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: work with her.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Great. You got married once before. What's going to stop
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: you from doing it again?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: We're done.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Common denominator. You know what?
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: I just came up with a brand new saying no
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: one's ever said before.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh. People always want what they can't have. And I think....
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Get a load of this guy.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: I think that might apply when OP's wife goes, you
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: can't have any relationship with them. Whoa, so you just
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: think hot Anne is going to walk back into your life.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: Hot Mexican Anne is going to walk back into your
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: life and hold your hand while you raise your 30-year-old daughter.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I forbid this. Lego Queen says the fact that they
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: would give the option says all they need to know
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: and would make that decision so easy. Anyways... You're.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Mad about my past that I didn't even know about.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Let's see what happens here.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Update.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: I want to add that this all came to a head,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: and now she is seriously using the it's her or
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: me ultimatum. Prior to this, we had a happy marriage.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: She doesn't work. And I provided for the family our
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: whole time together.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Wow, she's really biting the hand at feet, huh?
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: Well, no wonder she's so insecure. It's like, if you leave,
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: it's also her entire life. Like, existence is going to change.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: She has been in hysterics over this, saying, Beth just
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: wants to get money out of me.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Projection. She doesn't even have contact with her mother. She's
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: been trying to find... Oh, my.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: I do think it's kind of absurd, though, that, like,
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: that it would just be like, oh, I randomly found you.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Like, mmm. It's a good horror movie. I don't know
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: about that. It's a good horror movie. What?
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: What?
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: This whole concept is a good horror movie.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Oh. Yeah. Yeah.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I thought you were saying there was a
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: horror movie called I Randomly Found You.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. I was like, what?
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: I agree with you, Dakota. There's no way this is
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: just like, yeah, maybe it is fate.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: I think it's way too convenient.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Call it fate. Call it karma.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: I'm starting to rethink our whole relationship, but I'm not
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: sure if I'm being unreasonable by saying I'm absolutely going
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: to make an effort to be in Beth's life from
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: now on as her father. I realized I didn't specify
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: a timeline. Beth started six-ish months ago, but I hadn't
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: talked to her because of the vid and whatnot and
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: truly didn't even really bother looking at her intro email.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: It was only until last month when our offices started
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: to open up that we got to be in the
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: same physical space and I saw her in person for
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: me to ask her about her mom. My wife has
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: been livid and unbearable to live with these last couple
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: of weeks.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: I've tried to talk.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: To her, but she keeps telling me She needs more time.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: I realize we need a therapist, but her ultimatums are
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: bothering me. And there is more from OP in the comments.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: OP says, once my wife cools down and lets me
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: calmly talk, I will definitely bring up having a therapist.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Seriously.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: I guess you could say I never fully moved on
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: from Anne. But after so many years, I see my
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: wife as my primary partner and the person I knew
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: that I would grow old with. Beth and I talked
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: after we found out the result. She asked me what
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: I felt comfortable with in terms of relationship building, and
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: I told her I would be ready for whatever relationship
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: she wanted to have because I was excited to find
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: out I had a daughter. It's also nice that we
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: sit relatively close to each other at work, And can
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: have lunches together.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: This is crazy. It's crazy. I love this for him.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: I think they did just find each other randomly.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think so. Anne says, she just
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: wants your money, says the woman that doesn't work. Or
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: says the one who doesn't work.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, she's like, just after your money. It's like, well,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: the money I give you?
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: That money?
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: There's a second update. I mean, are we divorcing? Yeah.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: You're giving me ultimatums? And what are you standing on?
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: On what grounds are you standing on?
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't really have that many cards to play.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: You don't work. Your kids don't really like me. They're
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: just there bearing. They're just like getting through it.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: What are you offering to me?
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it does kind of speak where if
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: you've been married.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think we have a timeline of how long
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: they've been married, but.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: If you're married to somebody and like this happens and
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: your thought isn't, Oh, you lied to me and you
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: hid this from me. It's, Oh, well you're going to
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: fall in love with your ex and leave me and
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: raise and, and live with your daughter and your ex.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's your end. I don't think you
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: can be married to that person. You don't trust that person.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: And if you are that guy, if you're OP and
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: you're like, yeah, I kind of do feel like maybe
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: I do. I would want to be married to Ann and,
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: You shouldn't be married to the woman you're married to
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know. I hope they find Anne. Update two.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to clear up a few things. My
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: wife did used to work when I met her. She
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: stopped five years ago, but hasn't worked since. And I
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: wish I had an explanation for why or why I
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: hadn't brought up how that bothered me.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: But it is what it is.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: She just stopped.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: I wish I had an explanation for why. Guess I'll
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: never know.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, honey, why don't you have a job?
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: She forbade herself. She's like, I don't want to work anymore.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: I forbid myself.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: I forbid this conversation. I've spoken.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: I didn't let her know it bugged me. I just
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: didn't want to pressure her. Despite this, she has always
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: been great at housekeeping and does do legwork with errands.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: Beth has lived in the same city area as myself
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: her whole life. I've lived here my whole life for
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: the most part. We work for a large company downtown.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: While it is bizarre she got a job in my department,
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: it happened. I don't doubt we would have eventually found
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: each other through some other means, especially given we are
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: in the same career field.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Aww.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: When I say she is the spitting image of her mother,
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: I mean she looks exactly like her mom. The only
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: thing she inherited from me seems to be her interest
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: in the legal field.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: That's so sweet. Are you guys going to go in
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: on the divorce together? You guys going to work on
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: it together?
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Finally, everyone keeps commenting on how she just is insecure
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: over my long lost love obsession.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: I need to be clear.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: Let me be clear.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: Uh the only reason i brought ann up was because
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: she's relevant to the story early on in my wife
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: and i's relationship we discussed past relationships and relationship trauma
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: we commiserated together about what that did for us mentally
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: or emotionally and And after a few snarky comments from
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: her about Anne, I.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Said we wouldn't talk about it anymore. And we hadn't
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: for years.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Did you say all that like that was a resolution?
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: You're like, just to be clear, we've never been cool
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: about this. And I just decided we should never talk
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: about it ever again.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: I hope he seems to do that a lot with
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: his current wife.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. Oh, we haven't talked about it
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: in years. It's not a problem.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: It was a one and done. You know, we talk
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: about it and it's good.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: I love my wife. All right, Chance the Rapper.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: But maybe the veil is lifting for me, and I'm
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: realizing that despite her loving me, she might see me
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: more as just financial support.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bro, I don't think she love you. She love
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: your money.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: I don't like thinking that because we had amazing times together,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: and to think that it might have been a facade hurts.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Jalen?
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Update three.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: Father-daughter divorce. Father-daughter divorce dream team.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Hmm. Colon.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: The movie. Yeah. Coming to you this Christmas. This is definitely...
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: This could be... This could be, should be... This should
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: be a movie. This should be a movie. I could
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: see a horror spin on it, and I could see... Yeah.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: A horror spin would be... Because Beth is actually Anne,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: and she's infiltrating the family.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: No! Oh, yeah.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Anne's a vampire.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Anne's a vampire poses as their daughter.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Spinning image of her. I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa. Whoa.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of dark places that script can go. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we've got an update number three here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, everyone!
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  Speaker 3: For your insights, however mean some of them were last night.
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  Speaker 3: I am not a pushover. I'm just not interested in
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  Speaker 3: unnecessary arguments. I have enough of that kind of environment
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  Speaker 3: at work. We haven't had many issues pop up in
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  Speaker 3: our marriage other than the kids' attitudes sometimes. But they
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  Speaker 3: were teens, and I also acknowledge I should have been
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  Speaker 3: more proactive in bonding with them. I do love and
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  Speaker 3: care for my stepchildren. Yes, I spoiled them a bit,
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  Speaker 3: but I have been making boundaries with them that predates
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  Speaker 3: the Beth revelation.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't believe my wife.
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  Speaker 3: is a gold digger, but I do believe in this
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  Speaker 3: case she does care more about financial stability than understanding
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  Speaker 3: my relationship with Beth. I don't want my marriage to
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  Speaker 3: end because I know she loves and cares for me.
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  Speaker 3: We've had great times and I'm very much in love
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  Speaker 3: with her. I was harsh in my wording before and
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  Speaker 3: I apologize to anyone who thought I was being misogynistic.
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  Speaker 3: I had a long grueling conversation last night with my wife.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really not ready to share. I don't want added judgment.
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  Speaker 1: On my end. Oh, it wasn't good on hit. You
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  Speaker 1: gave us everything you needed right there, buddy. I can
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  Speaker 1: say it wasn't very good or bad. It just is.
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  Speaker 1: But we're talking now. All right, we've got a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more here. Let's see if there's a sick, unexpected
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  Speaker 1: twist at the end of this story. Opie marries Kat's boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: Opie married... I was about to say... Because they were
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  Speaker 1: both bi the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: We are trying to work past this, but I am
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  Speaker 3: feeling disheartened. For now, I am continuing seeing Beth... Learning
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  Speaker 3: about her adoptive family. We're planning on going to dinner
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  Speaker 3: this weekend to meet. Most of you have been so
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  Speaker 3: warm to this old man. And I am eternally grateful
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  Speaker 3: for all your kind words. And that is the end
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  Speaker 3: of that story. No, I forgot. This whole thing about,
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  Speaker 3: it's like Beth and Anne. Beth was adopted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So Anne wasn't even in the picture really.
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  Speaker 1: Anne has no connections towards Beth or OP. So then
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  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Then your wife doing that is like extra.
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  Speaker 1: Way extra.
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  Speaker 2: This is what OP sees. Yeah. Do I go with
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  Speaker 2: my wife or do I go for Beth and build
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with my daughter?
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  Speaker 3: Daughter you gotta you gotta work down to the bottom
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  Speaker 3: of a very deep muddy pit in therapy if you
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  Speaker 3: want to get through this because i can't imagine that
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  Speaker 3: level of jealousy being in a marriage in a man
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  Speaker 3: like it's crazy it.
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  Speaker 1: Is crazy you know what you got to do didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem like you're the biggest fan of your wife i
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  Speaker 1: know you say you love her and all this stuff
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  Speaker 1: but i'm not really hearing i i see that but
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  Speaker 1: i don't i don't believe it yeah yep.
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  Speaker 2: You think you think your wife would at least try
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  Speaker 2: to like compromise at least a compromise.
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  Speaker 1: Dude that's just wild it makes me think she's in
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  Speaker 1: love with somebody especially i forgot that it's like and
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  Speaker 1: she was adopted so ann's not even around she's not
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  Speaker 1: she's not and she has no connections towards ann or
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: op until recently with but she's.
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  Speaker 3: Like oh but beth looks just like her so it's
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  Speaker 3: just all she's gonna do is remind you that woman
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  Speaker 3: dude whatever Uh, we.
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  Speaker 2: Have, that's the end of that story, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: All right, sweet.
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  Speaker 2: But we have some comments.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we do have some comments from a previous video.
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  Speaker 3: This video is Bridezilla wants me to cosplay Game of
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  Speaker 3: Thrones for her wedding. And this was posted September 5th, 2026.
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  Speaker 3: The TLDR for the first story.
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  Speaker 1: Is as follows.
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  Speaker 3: OP was thrilled when her college best friend Lila got
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  Speaker 3: engaged until she learned the wildly elaborate plans for the
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  Speaker 3: big day. Lila and her fiancé Ben had become completely
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  Speaker 3: obsessed with Game of Thrones during the pandemic, and they
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  Speaker 3: wanted a full-themed wedding. Bride and groom dressed as their
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  Speaker 3: favorite characters, bridesmaids and groomsmen in custom costumes, an expensive
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  Speaker 3: lace front wigs, guests wearing their house colors. But when
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: LP finally sat down to research the two characters the
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  Speaker 3: couple planned to dress as, she discovered something about the.
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  Speaker 1: Pairing that made her know about entirely. And if you're
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: curious to know what that pairing is, you can go
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  Speaker 1: watch the full video. Horrific. Horrific.
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  Speaker 2: Wild. We won't spoil it. If you want to know,
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  Speaker 2: go listen to that crazy story. We'll get some comments
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  Speaker 2: from it.
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  Speaker 1: It was horrible.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, these comments might contain a little bit of spoilers.
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  Speaker 2: It won't tell you who, but it might, you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's just get into those comments.
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  Speaker 1: Point in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because I remember the story, and this story was wild.
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  Speaker 1: It got so much wilder.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not a Game of Thrones fan, that's okay.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: The bride just kept asking for more and more, and
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: then it got creepy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And let's start with these comments from that fantastic story.
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  Speaker 2: Misspell4897 says, I like Game of Thrones story. Imagine if
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: the bride and groom dress up as the Lannisters, and
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  Speaker 2: I know it.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, the fact that that's not what they did,
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  Speaker 3: Just lets you know how bad it had to have been.
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  Speaker 1: They thought it was going to be Jon Snow and Ygritte. Ygritte.
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  Speaker 2: Ygritte.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a different variation of a redhead and.
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  Speaker 2: A guy with curly hair. And here's another comment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't know Game of Thrones, it's okay. You
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  Speaker 2: can start. There's always time to start. But here's another comment, which...
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  Speaker 2: I love. Oh, this is from Dancer of Boreal saying,
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  Speaker 2: sitting here going, please not the Lannisters. Please not the Lannisters.
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  Speaker 2: Please not the Lannisters.
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  Speaker 1: Edit. Never mind.
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  Speaker 2: I wish it was the Lannisters.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm remembering now. Do you want me to?
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I remember it, but. It was bad.
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  Speaker 1: It was bad, bro. So bad. Yeah, no, that's so bad.
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  Speaker 3: That's so unbelievably the worst.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why it was so even much worse.
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  Speaker 1: Just so bad. She was her protector. Just so, so bad.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: So bad. Oh, take it away.
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  Speaker 2: A couple more comments here that we'll get into because
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  Speaker 2: this one was a fun story to read. Deadhead8323 says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but having those Game of Thrones custom theme
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  Speaker 2: outfits have to be more expensive than a regular outfit
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  Speaker 2: for a wedding?
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  Speaker 1: Screw whimsy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not destroying my wallet for something like that. I
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  Speaker 2: would let her just have the wedding vibe and go
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  Speaker 2: uninterrupted without my presence.
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  Speaker 3: Fair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what would be the cheapest Game of Thrones character
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  Speaker 1: you could dress up as? Oh, that little, one of
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  Speaker 1: the orphan boys.
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  Speaker 2: The Starbucks cup. You know, remember the Starbucks cup?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: The Starbucks cup. The infamous Starbucks cup.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I just give myself a tail and I'm a dragon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just give myself a little tail.
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  Speaker 2: And one last comment here from Let's Patch It Up saying,
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  Speaker 2: Why would anyone want a Game of Thrones wedding thing?
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  Speaker 2: The only wedding I remember in Game of Thrones was
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  Speaker 2: the red wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Also, if this is what the bride demands and plans
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: to keep their dresses, then the bride can pay for
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: it and stay dressed in red. No one survived that wedding.
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  Speaker 1: No one did.
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  Speaker 2: Spoiler alert.
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  Speaker 1: And to answer your question, the cheapest outfit you can
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: get from Game of Thrones is a prostitute.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because they would have no clothes. But then
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: you end up paying for whatever the fine is for
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: public indecency. I think maybe cheapest costume?
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  Speaker 1: Bran. Wheelchair. I mean, it would be really lazy.
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  Speaker 3: It would be really lazy, but if you were sitting
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: in a wheelchair and you said, which Game of Thrones
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  Speaker 3: character am I? It wouldn't matter what you were wearing.
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  Speaker 3: They would probably guess... The one in the wheelchair.
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  Speaker 1: You have to guess, like, you have to get, like,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: a specific wheelchair.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you'd have to get, yeah, you'd have to get, like,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: the old, like, wooden wheelchair.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a hilarious bit about this whole universe by
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: a comedian. I'll have to send it to you. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it?
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  Speaker 2: That is it, yes. Those are the comments. Go hear
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: about that story. That's a crazy Game of Thrones story,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: especially if you like that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, that's the end of this episode. If you love us,
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  Speaker 1: make sure to subscribe. We love you. And see you tomorrow.