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Antipasto-Gate: A Full Breakdown of TikTok's Viral Small Town Drama · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to a mini deep dive for this Friday's
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  episode. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  You guys really liked a couple weeks ago when I did one story
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  on Friday as like a mini deep dive for you guys in lieu of a
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  mini scroll or a bigger deep dive.
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  So I am here today for that and we're going to be talking about
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  Antipastigate. This is literally viral all over
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  TikTok and has been for the past couple of weeks.
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  Alex on my team is obsessed with this story and she kept asking
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  me to cover it on mini and I was like, this just feels like
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  there's nothing to say. And then it just kept
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  snowballing and snowballing and snowballing and I was like, OK,
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  the time has come. So the situation, it's all
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  centered around 1/4 of July party.
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  Yes, 4th of July. It's been going on that long.
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  So a woman named Nicole arrived at a 4th of July party with
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  homemade anti pasta salad in hand and instead of being
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  welcomed by the hosts, she was kicked out in a pretty horrible
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  way. Nicole went on to post to TikTok
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  talking about the situation. In tears.
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  Nicole explained how she thought she had been invited to the
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  party by her son's best friend's mother.
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  Son's best friend's mother. OK, she had messaged asking if
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  she needed to bring anything and was repeatedly thanking them for
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  inviting her since she's new to the area.
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  As soon as she arrived, she introduced herself to the
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  attendees, but the vibes she said were off.
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  Everyone at the event seemed surprised that she was there.
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  The hosts named Stasia and Jake Hicks were extremely nasty to
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  Nicole and she ended up having to leave the event distraught.
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  She also ended up leaving her salad, which everyone was very
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  upset about on TikTok. So I made an Antipasto salad
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  like this. Big, gorgeous salad.
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  And I asked, you know, is there anything you want me to bring?
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  You know, thank you so much. I was so gracious.
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  I kept reiterating that thank you so much for like, inviting
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  me. And I don't know anybody here.
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  Like, and I get there and the kids get out and I grab the
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  Antipasto and I brought one beer with me because I was only going
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  to drink one beer because I, I don't know, like I have kids to
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  drive home. Honestly, never been treated
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  like this before. And I just, I can't like imagine
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  like having a party at your house and treating a guest like
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  this, even if like maybe it was a surprise.
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  I don't know. OK, so this initial video went
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  extremely viral, accumulating over 35 million views and 3.5
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  million likes at the time of researching.
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  The comments were overwhelmingly supportive, with many users
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  shocked by how seemingly horrible Nicole had been
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  treated. Naturally, TikTok users felt
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  inclined to find Stasia and Jake's social media profiles and
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  tell them their thoughts on the situation.
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  Stasia did go on to post a response video to the backlash.
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  It has since been deleted. But in this video, she was not
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  apologetic. She started the video by
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  clarifying that she and her husband are not mean people.
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  She continued by saying that Nicole had come into their house
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  quote unannounced, which I don't understand because Nicole was
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  invited but OK. In Stasia's words, the reason
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  why they were rude to Nicole was because it was a quote get
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  together of people who knew each other.
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  What does that mean? Because they didn't want a
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  stranger in their house. She's not like a total stranger
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  to you. She was invited, OK.
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  Stassia also added that her husband reached out to Nicole to
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  apologize to her, but she quote didn't accept that answer.
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  I am not a mean person. My husband is not a mean person.
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  We are not mean people. Neither is my mother-in-law.
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  We simply did not know who this person was that come into our
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  house unannounced to not a party.
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  Let's clarify, this was not a party.
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  This was a get together of people who knew each other, OK?
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  And just because we didn't know her doesn't mean that she
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  couldn't have stayed and hung out.
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  We just didn't want her in our house, OK?
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  And there's nothing wrong with that.
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  So to you people that are getting on TikTok and all my
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  social medias, first of all, or my husband's or my mother in
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  law's so forth, so on and trying to bully us, I don't care.
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  I really don't because you don't know the story.
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  You weren't here. And for you to feel like you
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  have to be behind the phone to bully somebody else that you
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  don't even know about, that says law about you, not me.
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  Nicole did share her conversation with Jake.
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  During the conversation she held her ground saying it was
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  unacceptable to be treated like that.
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  Nicole's husband Chris also jumped in on the call, backing
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  his wife and describing the situation as quote trash and
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  quote not Christian like behavior.
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  Nothing was meant yesterday by the way it sounded.
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  The only reason I come into the house is because I I didn't know
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  who you was and I feel like it would have been the same at your
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  house. Like you don't want to leave
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  your house for somebody you. Don't let me interject for a
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  second. It wouldn't have been that way.
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  I don't treat people like that. And the way I was treated was
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  completely irreparable. So I mean, you can sit here and
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  tell me that. You can turn it around on me and
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  act like I did something wrong, but I didn't.
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  I'm just called to say I'm sorry you got that the wrong way.
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  Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm going to dime you out there
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  right now, Bob, because I'm going to say this right, I'm
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  Chris, by the way, and I'm going to say this right now.
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  The way your mother came at my wife hot like that, just being a
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  wretched human being, that's unacceptable.
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  That is not very Christian like behavior.
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  And I'm going to tell you right now that no matter where I've
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  ever been in my life, in every state that I've lived in, nobody
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  treats anybody like that. Many Tick Tock users also found
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  it weird, if not concerning, that Jake said that he was
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  expecting Nicole to drop off her child and then leave.
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  This left users questioning why the Hicks wouldn't want Nicole
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  to stay anyway. Nicole also stitched Stasia's
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  video response. In it, she shared an audio
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  recording of a phone call that she had with someone else who
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  was there named Samantha and quote UN quote proved Stasia and
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  Jake knew that she was coming beforehand.
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  I was setting down food and I was chatting like I didn't know
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  that I I'm not some party crasher who's coming to rob your
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  house. Exactly, And I even told them
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  before you showed up so they knew that a kids friends parents
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  were coming. And then because me and mom, we
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  talked a lot about this last night and I was like, you know,
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  I understand that I should have said something.
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  It wasn't my house. I should have introduced them.
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  But I am so I don't know the word like such an antisocial
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  person that when I get around people I don't know how I'm
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  supposed to do things the correct way.
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  You know in the caption she wrote, don't try and make me
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  look like some criminal because I called you out for being
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  horrible behind closed doors. The mean girl attitude is insane
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  and your husband's apology was BS.
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  So amid all of this, so much personal information about
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  everyone involved is getting leaked on the Internet, which is
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  obviously never a good thing. Many TikTok users are fixated on
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  the pictures circulating of the Hicks's house.
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  These users I guess expected the house to be the grand, you know,
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  some like MC Mansion, which would explain why Stasia and her
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  husband were so protective of it.
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  I'm a little late to this whole Stasia Hicks anti pasta drama of
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  it. All right, I'm I'm late to the
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  party. But when I heard about this
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  story and then I went looking for the the culprits, Stasi and
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  her husband, I said, oh, they track that tracks like that
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  tracks for me. I they, they look exactly how I
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  imagined them to look right? Then the mother-in-law, I'm like
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  that tracks too. Then I went to go look at like
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  the house, like the video of the house.
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  And I said I didn't expect the house to look like this.
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  I'm not. Trying to home shame I lived in
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  a shed at one point but don't come on here treating people and
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  acting like you live in $1,000,000 home in a gated
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  community. Got to show.
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  Photo ID at the booth to get in and then, and then oh, they can
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  drop the kid off. No, nobody's dropping their kid
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  off here without meeting you or coming inside and checking
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  first. OK, so this was all pretty bad,
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  but things took a turn for the worse when the police got
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  involved. Nicole went on to post another
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  video sharing that a special agent had left his card on her
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  car. She included security footage
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  with the agent arriving to her house, and many TikTok users
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  were confused because it was seemingly a personal vehicle.
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  Aside from the footage, she shared the phone conversation
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  with the special agent, who claims that he was calling to
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  chat with her husband about a quote threat that he made to the
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  Sheriff's Office. Nicole said her husband did not
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  threaten the department and was at work at the time of the call.
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  She added that they shouldn't be accused of something like this
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  without appropriate evidence. Chris later jumped on the phone,
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  saying that he was willing to produce his phone records to
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  prove that he didn't make this phone call.
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  During the phone call, the police officers played the voice
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  recording of the threat and it sounded nothing like Chris.
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  You really thought that southern accent resembled a northern
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  accent? That's definitely not me.
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  Not what? What kind of accent?
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  My it's not. The southern accent from around
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  here, it's just a different accent, I don't really know
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  what. Many things from We're from
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  Vermont. Yeah, we have hard.
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  We have hard hours on our motherfuckers.
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  To make it more complicated, TikTok users are convinced that
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  the person who made the phone call is actually Jake Stasia's
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  husband because they had heard him on the phone when he called
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  to quote UN quote apologize. There are two reasons floating
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  around TikTok as to why they would have done this.
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  First is that many TikTok users believe that the Hicks are close
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  friends with the sheriff, and the second is that many TikTok
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  users have come to the conclusion that Jake against
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  Dossier's husband, works with the sheriff or the police in
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  some capacity. Ultimately, the comments were
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  very supportive of Nicole and her family, with many
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  encouraging her to chat to a lawyer and saying that this kind
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  of intimidation is unfortunately extremely common in small towns.
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  Apparently, as one user wrote, quote.
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  I'm so glad you're in a position to bring public attention to
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  this. These small town intimidation
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  tactics thrive in secrecy. I'm sorry that is wild.
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  I don't know. I'm from Toronto which is like a
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  really big city and I obviously live in Sydney which is also a
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  big city. I cannot believe that people are
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  saying this is like commonplace. It seems Nicole followed their
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  advice but in a follow up video she revealed that she's been
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  trying to get in contact with some lawyers but nobody will
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  take her case because they know the Hicks.
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  So it would be a quote conflict of interest.
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  I've been on the phone trying to get in contact with lawyers but
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  it seems like I can't get far enough away for it not to be a
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  conflict of interest, so I'm going to have to be searching a
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  little bit further. Nicole has since shared that she
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  made a T-shirt to help pay for any legal fees.
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  The shirt has a picture of the salad and it reads I brought
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  anti pasto. Wait, I don't think I explained.
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  Nicole handmade this Antipasto plate.
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  OK like this salad. Apparently she like grew the
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  tomatoes herself. She made like everything from
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  scratch. Like everything was from her
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  garden. Apparently she's also like a
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  chef or a cook. Anyways, people are losing their
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  minds and very upset. Like I said that she left this
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  amazing looking Antipasto dish. OK.
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  The Scott County Sheriff, which is where this is all taking
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  place, has since gone on to issue a statement about the
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  situation on their official Facebook page.
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  You guys, this anti pastor drama has literally.
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  I can't like the Sheriff's Office having to make a comment
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  about this. To boil it all down, the
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  statement clarifies that the sheriff is not acting in any
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  favoritism and that the sheriff is not close personal friends
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  with any of the people involved. Interestingly, though the
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  comments have been restricted, Nicole has since responded to
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  the statement, taking issue with one claim.
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  Aside from the refuting of allegations of favoritism, the
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  statement also claimed that the police is not involved involved
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  in the incident in any way. The statement reads quote, we
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  want to stress that Sheriff adds and the Scott County Sheriff's
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  Office was not and is currently not involved in this incident in
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  any way. The Scott County Sheriff's
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  Office was not dispatched to the scene, nor did the individual
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  involved file any formal complaints with our office or
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  any other law enforcement agency.
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  There were no deputies or Sheriff's Office employees
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  present at the scene and there is no current investigation into
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  the initial incident. So Nicole claims this is not
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  totally accurate given that she is a video of an agent arriving
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  at her house and leaving a note on her car.
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  Now obviously it could be argued that the statement is referring
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  to the 4th of July like gathering specifically, but
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  either way, viewers are suspicious.
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  If you had nobody come to the scene or were involved in the
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  incident, then why do I have videotape of the state police
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  showing up because you had summoned them to my property?
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  That's a big question I have. The other thing is I am
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  extremely curious in knowing if you happen to figure out who,
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  who called since it was so serious to send special
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  investigators to my house and it was so important to talk to my
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  husband. I'm very curious what have you
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  done for the situation since then?
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  Since you're not involved in everything, What's going on?
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  Now, Nicole's son has been caught in the crossfire of all
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  of this, and his personal information has allegedly been
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  doxed. There have been comments under
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  Nicole's videos alleging that a friend or family member of the
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  Hicks works at her son's school and is leaking his information.
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  In a video posted over the weekend, Nicole recorded a phone
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  conversation that seemingly confirmed this claim.
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  I'm not. For sure How?
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  The relation is there, I just know that they are family and
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  then also she is dating taken you know him.
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  I don't. It's like the active.
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  School teacher. OK.
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  But he's also. Teacher, as Nicole shared in the
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  caption quote, I received a long apology from my son's friend and
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  some very needed clarification on just how my son's information
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  got doxxed and a little perspective on the situation.
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  And the final update that I have on this story is that now Stasia
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  has apparently been fired and that is the story of Tik Tok's
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  4th of July anti pasta gate. I don't even know how to feel
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  about this because the behavior of the Hicks is so deeply
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  inappropriate and unhinged and I have no idea why they would
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  freak out when Nicole was in their house.
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  And I don't know. And of course I think they must
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  have just been mad when they saw her initial video and they
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  realized it was about her but she didn't even name them.
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  That's the thing, when Stacia made that response video, nobody
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  knew it was her. It's wild.
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  It is so wild. So anyways guys, I am sure a lot
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  of you guys have been seeing so much discourse around this
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  online. So that is essentially A
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  chronological timeline into the 4th of July anti pasta gate.
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