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Introducing Moms and Mysteries · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: When you think Chippendale's I'm guessing you're picturing muscular, oily
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  Speaker 1: bohunks and spandex pants and bow ties. After hearing the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Moms and Mysteries tell the dark story behind the lucrative
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  Speaker 1: and infamous brand. However, the word murder has become the
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  Speaker 1: first thing that comes to my mind. The bad business
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  Speaker 1: dealings and envy that fueled the Chippendale's killing is among
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  Speaker 1: the three hundred plus episodes of Moms and Mysteries. On
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  Speaker 1: another episode titled Based on True Events, I learned that
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  Speaker 1: the movie Scream was inspired by the true crimes of
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  Speaker 1: the Gainesville Ripper. Moms and Mysteries is hosted by friends
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  Speaker 1: Melissa and Mandy, whose tragic tellings are matched only by
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  Speaker 1: their quick wit. They balance true crime's inherent darkness with levity.
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  Speaker 1: While the Chippendale's murder and Gainesville Ripper cases are highly
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  Speaker 1: publicized and generally sensationalized, Mandy and Melissa also take a
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  Speaker 1: compassionate look at many lesser known, unsolved crimes, where they
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  Speaker 1: help get the word out and share ways everyone can
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  Speaker 1: become more involved. So, however, you like your true crime podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's getting through the uncomfortable with a little humor,
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  Speaker 1: never at the expense of victims, or something more serious
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  Speaker 1: that might include an important call to action. Moms and Mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: As you covered, subscribing to Moms and Mysteries is as
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  Speaker 2: So if there's one thing that I really don't understand,
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  Speaker 2: it's the life of an Ivy League student. I am
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  Speaker 2: neither smart enough nor rich enough to have ever had
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  Speaker 2: to think about fitting in at a place like Yale,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes I kind of do wish I was, because
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I missed out on some of the
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  Speaker 2: really amazing traditions there, like the annual Halloween concert put
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  Speaker 2: on by the Yale Symphony Orchestra, which sounds absolutely lovely,
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  Speaker 2: and the excitement of a game of bladder ball, which
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  Speaker 2: sounds kind of funny.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like a game you play when you're pregnant,
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  Speaker 3: like near the end of pregnant, feel like you're always
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  Speaker 3: playing bladder ball.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely does. This game actually ended in nineteen eighty two,
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  Speaker 2: but it was pretty interesting. So this is a game
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  Speaker 2: that Yale students would play once a year at eleven
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  Speaker 2: am on the Saturday before the Yale Dartmouth football game.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, they would inflate a six foot ball, think
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  Speaker 2: like giant beach ball. Or they actually would call it
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  Speaker 2: a bladder which makes me even more just im so confused.
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  Speaker 2: I can't call it a bladder. It's a ball. It
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  Speaker 2: looks like a beach ball. But they would inflate this
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  Speaker 2: giant ball, and then there were teams that were made
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  Speaker 2: up of the various on campus organizations like the campus
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  Speaker 2: radio station, the campus magazine, etc. And these teams would
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  Speaker 2: use any means necessary to gain control of this giant
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  Speaker 2: six foot ball. So eventually, though, this event got way
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  Speaker 2: too unruly as you can imagine, due to students drinking
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  Speaker 2: alcohol before they would play, and after several years it
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  Speaker 2: devolved into more of an annual disaster that included trampling, vandalism,
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  Speaker 2: and many injuries. So the administration finally put an end
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  Speaker 2: to this and banned the event, almost thirty years after
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  Speaker 2: the tradition started. But it was on the day of
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  Speaker 2: this event in nineteen seventy four that Bonnie Garland first
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  Speaker 2: met Richard Herron, and since they met at Yale, it
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  Speaker 2: goes without saying that these two were both cut from
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  Speaker 2: a different cloth. Bonnie was born in New York in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven. She was the first child to her parents,
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  Speaker 2: Paul and Joan, who eventually had three more kids. Bonnie's
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  Speaker 2: dad was a Yale graduate who finished second in his
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  Speaker 2: class after writing his thesis on Spanish intellectual history before
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  Speaker 2: heading off to Harvard Law School, which he eventually graduated from.
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  Speaker 2: Paul was very interested in South American culture, so after
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  Speaker 2: law school he moved to Brazil, where he started a
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  Speaker 2: law firm that soon grew to employ fifty attorneys. Bonnie's mom, Joan,
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  Speaker 2: was also well educated, having earned a master's degree from
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Lawrence and Human Genetics and later earning a second
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  Speaker 2: master's in social work at Columbia. Bonnie spent most of
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  Speaker 2: her younger years growing up in Brazil, which helped her
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  Speaker 2: become multi lingual. She spoke English, Spanish, and two other
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  Speaker 2: languages when she was a teenager, her family relocated to
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  Speaker 2: Virginia and she started going to the prestigious Madeira School,
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  Speaker 2: which we actually have mentioned on the podcast before. We've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned this school in a previous episode about I believe
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  Speaker 2: his name was Herman Tarnauer, so we actually have mentioned
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  Speaker 2: this school before. So when it came up in this one,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I recognized that school.
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  Speaker 3: Nice job.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, but this is an elite day and boarding college.
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  Speaker 2: It's a prep school for girls only. So that is
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  Speaker 2: where Bonnie was attending school when she was a teenager.
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  Speaker 2: The family later moved to Scarsdale, New York, which is
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  Speaker 2: just outside of New York City. They lived in a
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  Speaker 2: sprawling tutor home in the wealthy area of Fox Hollow.
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  Speaker 2: In the spring of nineteen seventy four, Bonnie graduated from
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  Speaker 2: the prep school and started her first semester at Yale
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  Speaker 2: That same fall. She majored in music and took private
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  Speaker 2: voice lessons and sang in the glee club and several
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  Speaker 2: other singing groups. Less than two months after she started
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  Speaker 2: going to Yale, Bonnie met Richard Herron, who was a senior.
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  Speaker 2: On November first, nineteen seventy four, Richard and a friend
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  Speaker 2: of his went to see a Beatles movie and on
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  Speaker 2: the way home, they decided to recreate a scene from
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  Speaker 2: Let It Be and serenade bladderball players from the roof
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  Speaker 2: of Saybrook College, which is still part of Yale. So
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  Speaker 2: at around two am, Bonnie and some of her friends
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  Speaker 2: walked by Robert and his buddy and they decided to
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  Speaker 2: join in the fun and start singing with them. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Bonnie and Richard started getting really close and they were
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  Speaker 2: singing in Unison, and their friends that were there said,
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  Speaker 2: the sparks just flew and it was a magical moment.
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  Speaker 2: From that point on, Bonnie and rich were an item.
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  Speaker 3: Unlike Bonnie, Richard didn't grow up in the lap of luxury,
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  Speaker 3: but he was extremely intelligent, with an IQ of one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty, which we still don't know our IQs,
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  Speaker 3: but I guarantee, speaking for myself, mine is not anywhere
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  Speaker 3: close through that.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: He was the son of a Mexican mother and an
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  Speaker 3: Irish father who actually abandoned the family when Richard was
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  Speaker 3: just three years old. His mom later went on to remarry.
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  Speaker 3: Richard grew up in la and he went to Lincoln
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  Speaker 3: High School, where he played football. And basketball, and was
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  Speaker 3: a leader in student government. He was always pleasant, to
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  Speaker 3: the point that no one ever saw him angry. He
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  Speaker 3: really wasn't the type to be involved in drama or
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  Speaker 3: in fights. He spent his summers and weekends helping out
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  Speaker 3: in his stepdad swapshop, and he went to Mass with
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  Speaker 3: his mom every Sunday at seven am. Richard was a
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  Speaker 3: valedictorian of his high school graduating class of four hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifteen students. He applied for Yale along with eighty
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  Speaker 3: six hundred and eighty one other students who applied that year,
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  Speaker 3: and he was only one of oneenty nineteen men accepted.
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  Speaker 3: Not only was he accepted, but he went to Yale
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  Speaker 3: on scholarship. When he entered the program, he began studying geology. However,
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  Speaker 3: something changed when Richard started going to college. His academic
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  Speaker 3: performance took a downturn, and in the four years at
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  Speaker 3: Yale he only earned one A. But that didn't really
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  Speaker 3: seem to bother him. Which seems like a big difference
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  Speaker 3: from high school valedictorian to now barely you know, getting
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  Speaker 3: one A Andrew at this college on scholarship, that seems
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  Speaker 3: like a huge difference. Yeah, but Richard told his friends, quote,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a geology major. There's no one less competitive at
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  Speaker 3: Yale than a geo major, and I'm a C student
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  Speaker 3: in geology end quote. But it's not that Richard was
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  Speaker 3: just blowing off academics. It was just that he had
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  Speaker 3: other things. He wanted to spend his time and energy on,
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  Speaker 3: things like intramural sports, Catholicism, the Chicano group on campus,
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  Speaker 3: and playing his guitar, watching midnight horror movies and lazy
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  Speaker 3: brunch dates with his friends. Making the best grades in
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  Speaker 3: the class just wasn't a top priority. It was during
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  Speaker 3: the fall of his senior year of nineteen seventy four
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  Speaker 3: when he met seventeen year old Bonnie. The relationship became
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  Speaker 3: serious almost immediately. Bonnie was really smitten with Richard. He
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  Speaker 3: was tall, handsome, musical, athletic, and really fun to be around.
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  Speaker 3: On top of that, he adored her, and he told
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  Speaker 3: her so all the time. It was really a change
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  Speaker 3: of piece for Bonnie compared to the boys she had
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  Speaker 3: grown up knowing. Bonnie's parents, however, weren't such big fans
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  Speaker 3: of Richard. After meeting him for the first time, Bonnie's
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  Speaker 3: dad described him as a quote, slovenly in appearance, slovenly
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  Speaker 3: in manners, difficult to talk to, and physically unattracted. Tell
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  Speaker 3: us how you really feel, dad.
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  Speaker 2: No kidding, I'm just like I feel like that's such
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  Speaker 2: a dad straightforward, like straight right, that's how your dad
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  Speaker 2: feels about this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Mysteries podcast episode titled The Murder of Bonnie Garland, released
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  Speaker 1: on July ninth, twenty twenty four. If you like what
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