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Morsels of Murder - Tom Selleck and Firefighter from May 28th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a morsel of murder.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really.
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  Speaker 1: What began as an online fantasy involving someone Karen Whittaker
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  Speaker 1: believed was actor Tom Sellick. Have you heard this No,
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  Speaker 1: but I can see where it's going ended in tragedy
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  Speaker 1: at the Bermuda Dunes, California home she shared with her husband,
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  Speaker 1: Authority say, eighty year old Donald Whittaker and seventy nine
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  Speaker 1: year old Karen Whittaker were found dead May fifteenth after
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: sheriff's deputies were called for a wellness check. They are
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  Speaker 1: treating it as a murder suicide. For family friend Joe
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  Speaker 1: Medeki eighty one, the shocking deaths came after months of
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  Speaker 1: watching what she says was a destructive celebrity impersonation scam unfold.
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  Speaker 1: She really thought it was Tom Selleck. Nobody could stop her.
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  Speaker 1: According to Medeki, the scam began last summer through Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: after Karen posted about the death of a friend from there.
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  Speaker 1: An individual or group allegedly used details from Karen's profile
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  Speaker 1: to build trust and gradually ask for money, starting with
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  Speaker 1: a small gift card request, eventually escalating to thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Her family cut up her credit cards, took her off
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  Speaker 1: their accounts, but she still found ways to get money
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  Speaker 1: and send it. We don't know what the final total is,
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  Speaker 1: it's at least thirty thousand dollars. What happened to Karen
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  Speaker 1: Whitaker reflects a scam trend that's becoming harder for families
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  Speaker 1: to catch. Early celebrity impersonation scams are used to rely
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  Speaker 1: on obvious, fake profiles and generic messages. Today, scammers are
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  Speaker 1: increasingly using artificial intelligence to clone voices, create realistic photos,
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  Speaker 1: even generate personalized video messages that can fool victims into
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  Speaker 1: believing their interacting with someone famous. This is the situation
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  Speaker 1: that Karen was caught in. At one point, the scammer
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  Speaker 1: allegedly told Karen that Tom Sellek was planning an event
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  Speaker 1: in California and promised she could be first on the
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  Speaker 1: list if she sent eighty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Only eighty dollars. What a bargain they sneak in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, friends had already sounded alarms. Medeki said she
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  Speaker 1: reported the matter to authorities, prompting adult Protective service workers
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  Speaker 1: to visit the couple's home month before the death. That's
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  Speaker 1: also when Donald reportedly learned the full extent of what happened.
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  Speaker 1: That was the last straw for Donald. That's the husband.
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  Speaker 1: He was so embarrassed he couldn't believe she would ask
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  Speaker 1: friends to participate in the scam. She also suspected Karen
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  Speaker 1: may have been experiencing early cognitive decline, something scammers are
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  Speaker 1: becoming increasingly skilled at exploiting. Oh so it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: you think, how could you fall for this? But like
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  Speaker 1: the AI stuff, if you get a video of Tom
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  Speaker 1: Selex saying, Karen, you know we're we're buddies here and
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  Speaker 1: I would love for you to send me. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Selex, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: I was just talking with Chilimack about you yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Karen sad story. I have a different war.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know if Tom Selik would have said he
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  Speaker 3: needed money after his or Verse mortgage ran out, Yeah, maybe, I.
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  Speaker 1: Guess you want to believe you know that Tom Selik,
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  Speaker 1: He's just such a nice guy. I'm sure sure I
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  Speaker 1: think he likes me. Uh here's another morsel of murder. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: a California firefighter who shot his fiancee and her son
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  Speaker 1: during a disagreement over a movie, has been sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: life in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Well, finally, a good reason for murder.
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  Speaker 1: Darren McFarlane, forty seven, received two consecutive life sentences without
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  Speaker 1: parole for the murders of Melissa Herzog and her son Jojoe.
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  Speaker 1: On August twenty first, twenty twenty five, Herzog and McFarlane,
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  Speaker 1: who lived in Cameron Park, decided to watch the two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight Christian theme film fire Proof Christian theme,
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  Speaker 1: which centers on a firefighter with a troubled marriage.
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  Speaker 2: That's what junkvizl.
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  Speaker 1: However, the family viewing turned violent when m MacFarland became
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  Speaker 1: upset with the portrayal of firefighters in the film and
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  Speaker 1: stormed out. The matter escalated, I'm out of here. The
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  Speaker 1: matter escalated when McFarlane had a heated argument with Herzog
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  Speaker 1: about the film in their bedroom. He apparently wanted her
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  Speaker 1: to accept that the firefighter's wife was at fault for
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  Speaker 1: their troubled marriage and the movie fire Proof.
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  Speaker 2: And if you do and if you don't do it,
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  Speaker 2: I have no choice but to shoot you.
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  Speaker 1: Soon the argument turned physical. Oh my hell. The woman
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  Speaker 1: ran into the family room and told McFarland she was
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  Speaker 1: going to report the domestic violence incident to police. She
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  Speaker 1: called her father and told him. Her fiance was after her. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: McFarland was worried he would lose his job if he
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  Speaker 1: was reported. He grabbed a loaded gun and followed her
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  Speaker 1: into the family room and shot her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there he goes.
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  Speaker 3: His gun's always, you know, make things a lot easier.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you got if you got one around, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: But arguing over point the plot point of a Christian
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  Speaker 1: firefighter film.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's totally understandable. It's totally understandable. These these things are
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  Speaker 2: important and sometimes the only way you can settle whom
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  Speaker 2: is by death.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with guy in the chat room. What
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  Speaker 3: we're learning from this is the CBS needs to go
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  Speaker 3: off the air because that's all the shows that they
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  Speaker 3: that they run stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: They run a lot of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So those are my two morsels, morsels of a murder.
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  Speaker 3: I can't think of a movie plot point to argue about.
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  Speaker 2: That would make you, that would make me that angry.
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  Speaker 2: I just go, well, okay, you're wrong, but whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So he was it's a movie. So he's a firefighter,
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  Speaker 1: and he was mad about how firefighters will portrayed. Is
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  Speaker 1: there a a a radio personality portrayal.
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  Speaker 2: That would make you many Let let let's count how
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  Speaker 2: many there are? I mean all of them?
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  Speaker 3: Uh w k RP was pretty accurate, because I mean
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  Speaker 3: he even cued up the records.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad about that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not mad about that. What was the one with
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  Speaker 2: Joe Rogan News Radios? That was just a comedy.
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  Speaker 1: Frasier. Yeah, I'm listening.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: There's just none of them that would make me angry
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  Speaker 3: enough to argue with.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry you, uh now, I when I was a young person,
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  Speaker 2: I would fly into a blind rage over nothing. But
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  Speaker 2: when you were a young person, yea.
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  Speaker 1: Not anymore. You don't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't done that for a long time. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I remember I my my brother Scott stole my peanut
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  Speaker 2: butter sandwich, and so I kicked him through the glass
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  Speaker 2: plate glass door.
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  Speaker 1: That seems like a bit of an overreaction.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a bit. It was a huge overreaction.
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  Speaker 2: You just yes, it was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: You could have just made another sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, I know you see, Gina, this
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  Speaker 2: is exactly the argument that we were having the other day.
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  Speaker 2: You can give me any number of logical things that
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  Speaker 2: should have gotten me out of that and him out
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  Speaker 2: of that. But when it's blind rage, none of it.
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  Speaker 1: Just never felt that. I've never not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I make it sound like it
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  Speaker 2: happened a lot I have. I just I've experienced it
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  Speaker 2: on occasion blind.
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  Speaker 1: And the blind part of it, that's that's real. Like
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  Speaker 1: you can't it's just it's.
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  Speaker 2: Just a tunnel and you don't see any I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can give me ten logical things. Good, we could
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  Speaker 2: have made another sandwich, you could.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't there, it doesn't you don't see that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm glad we came back to that because my
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  Speaker 2: when I was trying to explain it the other day,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't good at it. But that's that's what blind
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  Speaker 2: rage is.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe do you just either have that or you
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, some people are afflicted with it a lot and
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  Speaker 2: they end up, you know, in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Well you see, I feel like you see a lot
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  Speaker 1: online of people having that at the airport, like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: either you know.
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  Speaker 2: And road ragees is certainly that it's and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten to the point when I'm driving I almost
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  Speaker 2: never even sort of mutter under my breath at dumb things.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I I you you need to expect it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just you know, it's somebody cuts
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  Speaker 2: in front of me and I go, okay, well it happens,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if if, if you, if you get in your
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  Speaker 3: car thinking I'm going to have a smooth drive today,
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  Speaker 3: Nothing's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: You're fool. You are a fool.
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  Speaker 3: It should be all right. What idiot am I going
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  Speaker 3: to encounter today? It's going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: Or am I the idiot? I?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I was? I was, I'm an excellent driver. I
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  Speaker 2: was an idiot the other day and it kind of
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  Speaker 2: made me mad that somebody pointed out my idiocy. I
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  Speaker 2: was going down South Temple and I was going to
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  Speaker 2: make a right turn up into the avenues. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of one way streets and so
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  Speaker 2: and so I signaled and pulled over to start going
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  Speaker 2: up this street. That my my child pointed out, Dad,
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  Speaker 2: you can't go up there. That's a one way. That's
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  Speaker 2: a one way street. And I'm yeah, right. So, so
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  Speaker 2: I was off to the side of the road in
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  Speaker 2: the bike lane. Another car came past me and just
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  Speaker 2: laid on the horn.
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  Speaker 1: Like maybe they thought you didn't know you were going
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  Speaker 1: the road.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that I get, but although my my my child went,
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  Speaker 2: what what was up with that? You were not in
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  Speaker 2: you were out of the way, You're facing the wrong direction,
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  Speaker 2: you were off. No, I wasn't facing the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't started to make a turn. I hadn't even
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  Speaker 2: started to make the turn. I had just signaled to
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  Speaker 2: pull as far as they knew. Maybe I was just
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  Speaker 2: gonna pull over, but they just decided they were gonna
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  Speaker 2: lay and it kind of started to make me mad,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought, let it go. You know, I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: in the way. I wasn't doing anything whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I there's no rhyme nor reason to those one way
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  Speaker 1: streets in the avenues.
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  Speaker 2: That's well, yeah, some of.
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  Speaker 1: Them go two ways, some of them are one way.
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  Speaker 2: It's every it's except for that. There there are three
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  Speaker 2: main ones to go both two way, and then then
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  Speaker 2: they alternate.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like it. There's a reason for it, to
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  Speaker 1: you off, That's why I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: As I recall, it used to be second second Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: Second went one way and third went the other way,
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  Speaker 2: and then they turned them into two way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's confusing,