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17 | We Can't Stop Talking About the Stranger Things Ending & 'Doll Mom' Drama · Let's Talk! An Our2Gens Podcast

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Let's talk. Hey weirdos, welcome back to our
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two Jens. What is up?
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Happy New year weirdos. Happy New Year, we survived
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2025. OK, we made it.
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Barely barely. I know y'all are sick too, don't
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even worry about it. Yeah, we going to do our best to
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get through this episode without any coughing fits or.
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Sneezing. But it's cool to sneeze with us
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because it's fine. It is what it is.
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All of us were sick but 2025, it was fantastic.
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It was great. We started this podcast.
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Y'all are along for the ride. We have a whole year of so much
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potential. So excited.
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Let's do this. It's going to be great.
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But we're back with an episode. A lot's going on in the world.
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And I wanted to start off with this really strange story that I
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found on the New York Post. So if we can go to my media,
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please. So this woman on your screen,
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this is Gina and that's her child.
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And if you look really, really closely, the child is not real.
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But it looks so. Real, right?
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So real. But this is her child.
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Gina Kassoff is her name and she is a married mother of five.
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Real adult children, yeah. Real adult children fully grown,
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but she has 20 dolls when. You sent me this article.
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I instantly got the shivers because because I don't like
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life like dolls. Exactly.
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And this, this doll, I mean, look at the eyes.
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Oh my. God, I mean she even has like of
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some rosacea on her face. Yeah, she's real.
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This is a real child. So she has 20 real dolls.
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She calls them reborn dolls. And she has this whole like
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lifestyle on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram and everything
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where she just like makes videos where she like tucks them in
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and. Goes shopping and.
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It's like harmless. It seems harmless, but it's a
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little creepy. Tell us how much she makes per
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year. Per year, though.
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OK, she has a bunch of haters and stuff, but she's chuckling
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as she goes to the bank to cash in $200,000 worth of profits for
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this lifestyle that she's making.
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I cannot be mad at her. I could hate but.
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But how much do you make for? You, that's what.
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I'm saying. I'm saying so.
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I went into it also because I saw her her TikTok and I
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remember seeing the the hate in the comments.
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There was a lot of people being like she's sick she needs to go
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to therapy did she lose a baby? Like, what is her deal?
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And I told you I just was freaked out because I don't like
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life like dolls, period. Gross.
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But in the article, she brought up a really good point.
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She did. She did.
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She talked about how men are allowed to keep their childhood
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things that they love, video games, D&D, going to Renaissance
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fairs, doing all these things, these dress up things or
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whatever, and nobody kind of knocks.
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Anything for that, right? But she's doing this completely
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harmless thing, taking care of these children, and people are
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coming for her like she's kicking puppies.
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Exactly like. She's not hurting anyone and she
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also mentioned how she's not wasting products either because
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like in her videos and stuff she talked about how she has like
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yogurt and then she makes food. So all the food that she makes,
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she eats, she goes shopping, she donates the clothes later on and
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stuff. Harmless people are coming for
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her. Well, the fact that she makes
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that much money per year shows me how many Subs she has, right.
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And so there's so many people around the world because she
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mentioned that she has children, a lot of children that follow
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her, But she also has a lot of adults, yeah, who are, like,
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trying to reclaim their childhood.
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And they still play with dolls. And so she's not alone out here.
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In this thing, this niche little part of the lifestyle category
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of content creation, right? It's fine, in fact.
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But my thing is, is that she's doing all the same things as
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like the stay at home content creator moms with real children
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do. Well then.
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But. But we're not traumatizing her
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children. That's what I'm saying, but hers
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is wrong because. Exactly.
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Very good point. So I don't know, I think it's
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fine. It's a little creepy, yes, but
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it's I think it's harmless. That's her.
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That's her like. That's her favorite *.
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That's right, yeah. It's wrong.
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She has a favorite child, right She.
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Does she'll take Pippa out by herself?
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Yeah. What do the other dolls?
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Think about this and good to know she's not a racist either
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because she has. I know she's.
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Got all the different colors, all the doll colors.
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It's just a rainbow in her own. That's fantastic, but literally
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just mornings with doll mom it seems very harmless.
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It does. So I don't have anything against
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it, I think it's fine. And they also had spoken to a
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therapist in the article who says that I did not treat her.
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I haven't talked to her. But saying something like this
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is perfectly harmless because it hasn't getting to the point that
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it's affecting her life, you know, where it's like she's
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ignoring real people in her life or, you know, not going to work.
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Well, this is her work. This is her job.
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Cashing $200,000 a year. I'm not mad at.
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Her, Me neither. So to each her own.
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I think it's fine. I think it's harmless.
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Good for her. Those kids are living the life.
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I'm kind of jealous. Right, they got the best clothes
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and they don't even know it exactly.
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So I don't know. I'm not against it, but that's
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just me. I don't like dolls.
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Not those dolls. Not those dolls, she.
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Has 20 of them. And would she say it said it
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cost between 2 and 10 grand per doll?
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Per Doll. Yeah, depending on who made it
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and all of that stuff. Great business for the doll
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makers, right? I like.
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To make a couple per year and you're good and you're.
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Good. So I don't know.
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Not against it, I mean. It's an it's an artisan.
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Somebody's making these things by hand.
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I'm not. I'm not going to fight it.
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Seriously, if you're pressed, then what's wrong with?
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You. Yeah.
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So before, you know, we normally go into, like, this is what's
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coming out on TV this week. I did want to talk about
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STRANGER Things for a second. So spoiler alert, you know, we
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probably will say something spoilery in this little section.
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So we haven't watched the finale.
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Go watch it. But I feel really satisfied by
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the ending. I do, God forbid I do.
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A lot of people are so pressed about the ending.
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They hate it. They have so many questions.
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There were a couple of holes because I mean, it's.
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Really hard to like. Tie up this big of a universe.
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So like, I get it, but like it wasn't garbage.
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It wasn't. I felt really good.
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I mean the purple rain needle drop almost ended me.
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I was like, why did you choose? This.
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Yeah, just. Oh my God.
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But I do. I felt very satisfied.
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I love the epilogue at the end. The fact that we know exactly
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where all the characters are going, where they're living,
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where they're, you know, and then also the next generation of
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kids that are going down into that basement to play D&D.
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Play D&D and it's not. Over, I hope.
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It's like. Yeah, that's D&D like.
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No more strangers. Yeah, just just D&D.
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But I thought it was cute. I thought it was great.
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I like how they did it like that.
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Well, spoiler I don't like that 11 is we don't know where she
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is. We don't know.
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Believe you choose to believe. You choose to believe.
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Live in my delulu. Yes, I mean, she's out there in
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the mountains. She found her three waterfalls
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and she's there was only two, only saw two, but I also believe
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that maybe there was one on the other side that we just didn't
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get to see stop the camera. So she got her.
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Full fantasy exactly without Mike.
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Yeah, yeah, Mike is becoming a writer.
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He's going to sit in a different basement.
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Becoming a writer. Oh, by the way, I don't know if
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you've noticed, but he had the the painting that Will painted.
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It was on the wall when he was writing.
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So for all the Byler stands. That are just holding on by a
8:04
thread. By a thread because they had
8:07
this one random guy in a gay bar with no lines.
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Is that a zoo Boo? I just hope it wasn't Jeffrey
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Dahmer. Someone someone got a still and
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there was a guy like a blonde guy with he looked like glasses.
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He looked just like him. I was like, are we doing this on
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purpose? Oh my God.
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Don't come for Will. Oh my God.
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And there's no hive mind to tap into like you're.
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You're done, you're on your own. I hope he just does not meet
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Dahmer but. But the ending was good and I.
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Felt good. Yeah, it was good.
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You know, I tend not to judge things for what I wanted it to
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be. I let it be what it is and then
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determine how I felt about it. And I felt really good about it.
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I I don't feel like I had very many questions.
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I was just like, oh, oh, OK. You know, it just, it felt, it
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felt good. Yeah.
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To see everybody. And I will say Steve's storyline
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I love the most because he, you know, was the hot guy in school
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and all this stuff. And he was just like, wait, I
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love living in this small town. I want to coach children.
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I want to have six Nuggets, 6 Nuggets.
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Stop calling them Nuggets. He wants a wife.
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He's on his hunt for a wife. Really is.
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Like I don't, I don't hate that. Like there's nothing wrong with
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loving where you are in life. Exactly.
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Not everything has to be like I have to go get.
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This band, exactly. Because that's not just
9:32
everyone. No, it's not everyone.
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Yeah, I thought it was cute, so whatever, y'all.
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OK now we will go through the shows premiering this week, so
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will Trent season 4 on Tuesday. I love will Trent the Chihuahua.
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Who this Chihuahua stop? No, you have the media.
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Miss Betty, I love her. She loves all the greatest
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little outfits. She's such a well trained dog
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and I think I read a long time ago I'm sorry if I'm wrong but
10:06
this. They adopted her like they went
10:07
and found her. She wasn't.
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Officially, yeah, she wasn't. Like a trained dog out there
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that they found her. She's just the sweetest little
10:13
thing. I love Betty.
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Does she have an IMDb? You know I don't.
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Know she should have an IMDb. We should try that.
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We should check it out. Yeah.
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Yeah. I love Miss Betty.
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So anyway, will Trent on Tuesday.
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Love it, love it, love it on Thursday.
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Yes, our opinion, the greatest show on on the air right now.
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It was so. Good the Season 1.
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Was everything 15 episodes of just back?
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To back-to-back like it did not let off of our necks.
10:42
Not at all. It was.
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So much pressure, yeah. Yeah, I felt it every time.
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It's like, Oh my God, this is what it's like to even just a
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little bit of working in emergency services.
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I could not imagine that. And they did a really good job
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at showing how it affects people exactly, you know, living and
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working in this environment because.
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You're treating humans for things that you're not treating
11:03
for yourself. Like who's looking out for you?
11:05
Exactly for your well-being you're dealing.
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With all this, you saw all those mass casualty patients in the
11:11
first season. Yeah.
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And they're like just go home, get 3 hours of sleep and then
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come back. Come on back.
11:16
I mean, the mass casualty event happened and then they opened up
11:20
the ER and they're like, let's clean up all the blood from the
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ground still on the. Ground like and then.
11:24
Let's just get going again. It's crazy.
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So match that out to everybody who works in those environments,
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because I know I I would, I could not I.
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Could not. I'd be like, oh girl.
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She said. I don't know if this is for me.
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I don't know if this. Is for me.
11:38
Her mom is about that life, but she's not no.
11:40
But I did have one question about this guy because.
11:45
Why did I see you in the trailer in the?
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Trailer for Season 2. So what are you doing here?
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If you watch Season 1, you know he should not be here.
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What is he doing there? I don't know.
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We'll find out on Thursday. I just don't.
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Like his face, You know what I mean?
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I don't. Like his chin.
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Oh. Yeah, his butt, chin swipe a
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credit card and that. Also on Thursday is the Hunting
12:06
Party season 2. So I watched this and it was
12:09
really, really fun. It's a it's a procedural.
12:13
There was an like an underground bunker where, you know, serial
12:16
killers should have been euthanized in real life, but
12:21
instead they put them in this in this bunker and the bunker
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explodes and all the serial killers get out.
12:25
So every episode. Isn't it great?
12:28
Concept. Every episode is just them
12:30
looking for these new serial killers.
12:32
And then I also read that Miss Niecy Nash Betts will be doing a
12:36
stint on this. Seriously.
12:37
Yeah, she's coming in as a detective.
12:40
Yes, Love her. So she's going to bring
12:42
something really fun to this show.
12:44
Always, always. And on a Sunday, we have the
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golden. Globes.
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The Golden Globes. If you are an award show
12:54
watcher, this one normally kicks off the season, Yeah.
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It's the start of the season, Yeah, the.
12:58
Sunday that we're currently recording on is the Critics
13:02
Choice Awards. And before we hopped on, I saw
13:05
that Sinners is killing. So as they should.
13:10
Be able to see. For sure when we're done, but
13:12
that's what I saw right before we sat down her.
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Her. But thank you.
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I do think we should take a moment to talk about the Golden
13:20
Globes, all the first time nominees, the best Picture, just
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drama, because that's all I'm interested in.
13:27
She's like comedy. Can kick racks they can.
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Because this is not even that impressive this year.
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Anyway, so we got Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Turro.
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Great movie. If you haven't watched it,
13:39
please watch it. It was.
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I love it. I love I like I that's in our
13:45
genre already. We were like ready to watch it,
13:47
but it was so good. The storytelling was great.
13:50
The costume, which is funny because he was wearing almost
13:52
nothing for the first half of the movie, but but Kate.
13:54
Hawley killed it with costumes like it was really really really
13:59
good. So please go watch that.
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But yes, Frankenstein that was nominated for best picture.
14:04
We also have Hamlet by Chloe Zhao.
14:08
Same chick that did Eternals I believe.
14:11
Yeah. Absolutely so.
14:13
Good for her, she's got another one.
14:14
She wore tennis. Shoes to the Oscars.
14:15
So she's a queen in my book. Yeah, that's actually.
14:18
Kind of fire, right? She's like, whatever.
14:20
I'm gonna be comfortable cuz so. Who's checking for me?
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And then we also have this movie called It was it was just an
14:29
accident. So I did my research on this
14:31
one. Tell me.
14:32
This one. Was really interesting because
14:34
it is an Iranian movie and they had to film it in secret due to
14:38
the context of the movie. So it was like against, you
14:44
know, certain. Beliefs.
14:45
And stuff. And this is not the first time,
14:47
but the director was arrested and sentenced to a year in
14:52
prison. They appealed and they should be
14:54
in in court today, the day that we're filming this.
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But. That's very interesting, right?
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You know, and This is why art is so important.
15:03
Like, he was willing. He knew the danger of what he
15:06
was doing. Even the editor.
15:08
He talked to the editor. He said you could be banned from
15:11
your country if you decided to take on this project.
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They decided to do it. Go forward anyway.
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I love. It I know.
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I know I feel like I must watch. Thank you like I.
15:22
Have to. Know.
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Absolutely. Yeah, anyway, like.
15:25
Shout out to them for still making the movie anyway and for
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them getting the nomination. So yeah, good for them.
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I know. Next up, this is the director,
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by the way, OK. Shout.
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Out to him, shout out to his face.
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We have sentimental value. This one is a Norwegian film, I
15:42
believe. So again, international films
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getting their love. I kind of love it.
15:47
I have. Been seeing some stuff about the
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elder scars guard going against one of the younger Scars guards
15:52
because they're going against each other in certain
15:54
categories. Seriously.
15:55
As the lead actor, see. I love that.
15:59
I love that. Yeah.
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So. I'm excited to see all that.
16:03
I mean shout out you know, but looks good anyway.
16:08
We always get a little excited when we see this.
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We loved her. We loved it so much, so good.
16:14
Other than. It just being good.
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I love seeing horror being represented at award shows
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because above any other genre, this is the one that is just
16:23
flat out ignored. Ignored.
16:24
Yeah, disrespected. It might as well not even be a
16:27
movie, right? Right.
16:28
They're just like, whatever, you did something over there.
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I mean, it was a travesty that Lupita Noongo was not nominated
16:35
for us. I'm still.
16:35
Pressed about that, Two people, two different.
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So we have version two of the same scenario.
16:44
Let's not do this again and as Michael.
16:46
B Jordan killed it, OK. His first nomination, too.
16:49
They're playing two different characters, yes, So let's not do
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this again. Quit playing.
16:54
Like. OK, just cause it's horror
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doesn't mean that it's not storytelling.
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In fact, it's some of the best storytelling out of there out
17:00
there. OK, Yeah.
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Thank you. Anyway, we set our piece, yes.
17:03
And then last but not least, the Secret Agent.
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This one is a Brazilian film, so we have 3 international films
17:10
for Best Picture, for Drama. I love that.
17:13
I actually love that. I like.
17:14
That actor, too, Yeah. He was on Civil War, you
17:17
remember. Oh my God, He.
17:19
Wasn't civil war another? Movie that really good.
17:23
That was the one. Dead movie.
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Really good movie. But y'all ain't.
17:30
Ready for that conversation. So I figured we should also take
17:34
time for the first time nominees.
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I'm only going to focus on the ones that are black.
17:38
I'm sorry, black. That will be sorted again.
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Play 2 characters. First time nominee.
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Love it. Here for him.
17:47
Next Chase Affinity. I am here for her career
17:51
honestly, both in fashion and in fashion.
17:54
She is a fashion icon. I am here for her.
17:57
Love it. I love her.
17:59
She's been killed in the press tour, so here for it.
18:02
Good for her. She's going to.
18:03
Be on The Handmaid's Tale spin off.
18:05
Is she? Yeah, she's a lead.
18:08
Oh, I really need to finish. You do you.
18:10
Need to hurry up because I'm just like holding my tongue I'm.
18:13
Sorry, I will catch up, I promise.
18:18
And then we have Tiana, which you'd had.
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To choose the one with the ABS I know I.
18:22
Wanted to take a moment for her ABS because I hate her.
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She looks so good. Amazing.
18:28
And the dress she wore to the Critics Choice Award, I know I
18:30
said it earlier. I really liked it.
18:32
Really. Yeah.
18:32
She looked really good in it. I mean she looks good in
18:34
everything so I mean stop but her.
18:35
Press story has been really good too with hers, Wayman and
18:39
Mitchell, I think. Good job, stylist.
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OK, Next up, please. I don't know where we are.
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Thank you, Dwayne. Right, we go by his government
18:49
name. His acting name, huh?
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Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Mr. Johnson Yep.
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Yep, he. Got his first nomination.
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He was almost. Unrecognizable on the character
19:04
he played, I. Know I saw a still from him and
19:07
I was like that's actually very impressive.
19:08
I hope the like cosmetics. Makeup and I hope.
19:12
They get their flowers because that was actually really
19:14
impressive, so good for them. Next up, his best friend Kevin
19:19
Hart. He really is.
19:20
His best friend, literally. I love.
19:22
That they got. Nominated in the same year,
19:24
first time both of them. Oh my God, great.
19:26
He did it for stand up though, so yeah.
19:27
For a stand up, I love it. Way to go, Kevin.
19:30
I know right? And.
19:32
Then we have this man. I love him.
19:35
Jamelle. Tillman I love.
19:36
Him he got. Nominated for severance, right?
19:40
First time nomination. Good for.
19:41
Him love it. Cuz I think he won the.
19:43
Emmy last year. Wait, did he?
19:44
Really. Yeah, I think.
19:45
So yeah, he killed it in Severance.
19:47
He was really, really, he was a stand out sweet.
19:51
Because I hear good things about that show, like all the time.
19:53
Anyway, Season. One the way that it ended made
19:56
my heart want to jump out of my chest.
19:58
It was one of the most anxiety ridden finales I've ever seen in
20:02
my life. And for it to be like basically
20:04
a workplace television show, exactly like.
20:07
It's all in the same place season.
20:08
One, they never left the building.
20:10
It was really good. Good for budget.
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So good, OK. Last but not least, we have
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Ashley Walters for adolescents. First time nomination as well.
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Congratulations. Yes, but we're here for the
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black folks. I said it.
20:27
She meant it. There's a lot.
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Of them first time nominations is crazy for that to.
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Be all those first time, that's what I'm.
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Saying crazy, but just real quick, I want to take a time for
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all of the women LED podcast that got nominated as well.
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Call of Daddy, Alex Cooper. She's been killing it this year.
20:45
Like absolutely killing it. She had everybody named Mama up
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on our show. Really.
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Everyone okay killed it, love it.
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Mel Robbins love it. Do your thing, girl.
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And then good hang Amy Poehler. You know the.
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Amy Poehler clips that I've seen online have been so great.
21:01
Seriously, from her show, because I didn't know she had a
21:03
podcast until recently. Yeah.
21:05
So I started seeing the clips, and she has such amazing women
21:08
on there, and she's funny and she draws the funny out of other
21:11
people. Yeah.
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So they've been killing it. They deserve their nominations
21:15
and yeah all. Right.
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Yeah. So that was good Semi.
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Goodyear in the Golden Globes. To start it off, all right, for
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story time this week, I have an am I overreacting?
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Yes, it is a little bit long, but I chose it because it was
21:35
really, really interesting and I totally want to hear your
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thoughts afterwards. OK, I'm.
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Ready, I mean. All right, am I overreacting?
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I don't think my boyfriend knows who I am.
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OK so I don't even know how to start this without sounding like
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I'm batshit crazy and losing it, but I need to get this out
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somewhere because I feel like I'm going insane.
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My boyfriend and I have been together for over a year, we
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live together. This is someone I should
22:00
recognize without thinking. A few weeks ago he forgot his
22:03
phone password, or that's what he told me.
22:05
His phone locked after a few wrong attempts and he laughed
22:08
and handed it to me and asked if I could try.
22:10
I typed it in without hesitating and it unlocked immediately.
22:13
We joked about it and moved on. I did not think anything of it
22:18
at the time. Then small things started
22:20
happening. Nothing dramatic, just wrong.
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He's always had me saved in his phone as Melissa.
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It was an inside joke. My name is not Melissa.
22:28
He never used it seriously. Then one day he called me that
22:31
just once. No joke.
22:33
I corrected him and he said sorry.
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After that, he mostly stopped using my name entirely.
22:39
I didn't notice at first but now I can't Unsee it.
22:41
He avoids it. He'll restart sentences or get
22:44
my attention physically instead of saying my name like he's
22:47
scared of saying the wrong thing.
22:49
He also started asking questions that sound caring and
22:52
thoughtful. Do you still like oat milk or
22:54
did you switch back? You still hate mushrooms right?
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You still listen to that podcast?
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Is he OK? Always still, always checking?
23:04
At first I thought he was just being attentive, but then I
23:06
noticed the pauses. If I answer differently than
23:09
expected, he freezes for half a second.
23:11
Then he adjusts like he's correcting himself.
23:14
He's on his phone constantly now, not scrolling, looking old
23:17
messages, old photos. Sometimes he scrolls all the way
23:20
back to the start of our relationship.
23:22
When I asked him what he was doing, he said he was
23:24
reminiscing, but he doesn't smile.
23:27
He studies. This is.
23:28
Creepy. Does he have a twin we don't
23:30
know about? Here's where.
23:32
It starts feeling. Genuinely wrong.
23:34
He started repeating conversations back to me, but
23:37
not in a normal way. Like I'll tell him something
23:40
about my day and he'll react normally, laugh, respond, ask
23:42
questions. Then hours later he'll bring it
23:45
up and say wait, tell me that part again.
23:47
When I repeat it, he watches my mouth.
23:49
Not my eyes, my mouth. Like he's checking timing.
23:52
Sometimes he nods before I finish the sentence, like he
23:55
already knows what I'm about to say.
23:58
Last week we were talking about plans later in the year and he
24:00
casually said your birthday's before that anyway, right?
24:05
I said yes and mentioned the date.
24:07
A few minutes later I saw him typing it into his notes app,
24:10
not my contact notes. He said he was organizing
24:15
reminders. That explanation made sense.
24:17
Everything he says makes sense individually, but that's the
24:20
problem. Another thing, this is the part
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I haven't told anyone because it sounds crazy.
24:25
He started copying me. Not obviously little things, the
24:30
way I sit, the way I drink water, the way I say certain
24:33
phrases. Sometimes I'll say something
24:35
without thinking and later I'll hear him say the exact same
24:38
sentence out loud, alone, like he's practicing it.
24:41
He also stopped laughing like he usually does.
24:44
His laugh doesn't sound the same when his phone isn't near him.
24:47
He's different, quieter, less confident, like he's missing
24:50
instructions. When he has it again, it's like
24:53
he resets. Last night I asked him how we
24:55
met. He told the story perfectly.
24:58
Same jokes, same timing. But it felt wrong.
25:00
Like he wasn't remembering it, like he was reciting it.
25:04
Later. I checked our old messages.
25:06
The story matched almost word for word.
25:09
Seriously. What's wrong with him?
25:11
That alone shouldn't bother me, but it does now because I
25:14
realized I didn't hesitate when I unlocked his phone.
25:17
I knew the password the way you know your own birthday.
25:20
Ever since then, I can't shake this feeling that his phone is
25:22
the only place where I exist properly.
25:24
Like that's where I'm stored. Like without it, he's
25:26
reconstructing me in real life. So yeah, part of me thinks maybe
25:30
he doesn't Remember Me. Like actually does not Remember
25:33
Me. Not in a forgot a detail way,
25:35
but in a deeper way. Like the memories aren't there
25:37
and he's trying to rebuild from whatever he still has access to.
25:41
I keep wondering if it's something medical, a head injury
25:43
he didn't tell me about, a blackout, something
25:46
neurological, something he's aware of but trying to manage
25:50
quietly so he doesn't scare me. That would make sense.
25:53
That would explain a lot. But then I don't know what to do
25:56
with the weird parts, the copying, the watching, the way
25:58
he asked things carefully, like he's afraid of asking the wrong
26:01
question. Please tell me if I'm
26:03
overreacting, because I don't feel like I am anymore.
26:07
I'm concerned. Yeah, exactly.
26:10
She's. Not overreacting, I'm genuinely
26:12
concerned. Either he was body snapped and
26:17
we're living in a sci-fi movie, or he has a medical condition
26:21
that he just either doesn't know about or isn't telling her I.
26:25
Chose this to read this one because I read through the
26:27
comments and almost everybody was like, I had somebody in my
26:31
life that either changed their personality completely or
26:34
started losing memories and it's because they had a brain tumor.
26:39
And so they were telling her to take him to the hospital
26:43
immediately. And I wanted to read it out
26:46
there because maybe it's something that somebody was
26:49
watching, maybe has somebody in their life that's showing little
26:52
signs of things. And, you know, don't, don't
26:55
hesitate, like take them to the hospital to get checked out.
27:00
Because there was another video or something story that I had
27:04
read before that was similar to this.
27:07
And before people, the person could come back and do an edit
27:10
on it, their husband had passed away because they did have a
27:14
brain tumor. And she waited a little too long
27:18
to take him to the hospital. So yeah, anybody you know out
27:21
there who is experiencing anything like this, just take
27:23
them in. Don't wait.
27:25
If it's nothing, then hey now you just.
27:28
Now, you know, but that's genuinely concerning, the fact
27:31
that he just doesn't know her. But he's trying to hide it and
27:35
just. Yeah, trying to recall.
27:38
His memories, I know that's. Scary, actually.
27:42
It's really. Scary.
27:44
So sorry to end on a downer, but.
27:47
Yeah, this show is not the downer.
27:49
No, but. In a positive note, you can help
27:51
somebody that you love if maybe you recognize what's going on
27:54
exactly. Yeah, like, I don't know if
27:56
y'all remember the last Reddit that we one of the last ones
28:02
where they wouldn't call an ambulance for their mom, these
28:05
children, I know all jokes and stuff, but like, call the
28:08
ambulance, yeah. Please.
28:10
Call, it's OK. Don't play with people's lives.
28:12
You know, it's fine, but that's crazy.
28:15
I know wild now that we're talking about all these things
28:19
that we're reading, please let us know if y'all are into what
28:23
we're reading. If you want like crazier more
28:25
outlandish things like let us know like we want the feedback.
28:29
Y'all are part of the community now 26.
28:31
It's going to be. Insane, right?
28:33
So we. Just we want to.
28:35
Know and yeah, we love y'all love you.
28:38
Thank you for tuning in today. Happy New Year's.
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Peace.