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It must have been. What? Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you, I was a spy.
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Hello. Hi. Welcome to a very special mini-sode. today's uh minisode is unlike any we've ever done before that's right but it's similar to like them
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but because yeah you won't be confused yeah it's not like and we're gonna throw you a total uh
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curveball it just has a theme because it's brought to you by it's brought to you and to me and to
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karen by the uh movie searching yes that we got to go to the sony lot in culver city and sit in
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And it's like, well, wait, so we basically get a call saying they want to do like a special mini-sode where it would be like a big long commercial for this movie.
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So come down to Sony and watch this movie in one of their screening rooms. And like these little theaters, it's like a little, like if you were rich and had a mansion and had like a movie screening room, it's like that.
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And the chairs are huge and comfy. And it's like, it's like, it was awesome. It was really fancy.
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The Sony Lots of old. It's like one of those ones that's in Culver City. It's been there forever.
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Gorgeous. And we were just like living the highlights in this screening. And then we got to see a movie that we actually like,
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because I think both of us, as the credits were rolling to begin with, we were like, oh, wait a second.
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What if this is terrible? This is like one of the many films I see on a weekly basis and enjoy.
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Because of the badness, we were like, oh, no. Thank God. I think like 10 minutes in, I was like, okay, we're safe.
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Yes. John Cho is like the freaking best actor. Okay. So if you saw Harold and Kumar, I'm sure that's not the first credit he would love for us to
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give. Although he might be quite proud. It's one of my favorites. But John Cho is the lead in this movie.
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And Debra Messing is the another lead, maybe first lead, maybe second lead. I don't know.
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This is one of my favorite things about living in Los Angeles is, or to me, the best thing
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is you can live in Los Angeles. You can go into a movie theater, watch a movie, come out, and then accidentally run into the
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person that was in the movie that's right and so very soon after i saw harold and kumar in the
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theater um i was at a starbucks very very near you and he was walking out as i was walking in i don't
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think i think it was the next morning it wasn't the same day the next morning but it was the next
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morning and he had this little like hat on he is so good looking in real life it was like he's very
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star-like in real life so it was very exciting so to see him in like kind of his own movie or like
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it's a vehicle for him was super super cool and then and it's a thriller and there's just like
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crazy twist at the end the thing is we can't tell you about the most interesting part of it of course
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but it's essentially we told you hear the ads you know it's really cool uh karen of course as a tv
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writer was three steps ahead of me in knowing what the twist was she was like i know what it is like
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and then i just started guessing and i was wrong but it was it was really fun but i have to say
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usually, no brag, in most movies, I get the twist much quicker than that. And I was really
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hunting for it and I was just, and then when I got it, I was like, okay. But it's
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that's part of the fun. I never get the twist and I guess so wrong, constantly loudly. So it's fun going to
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movies with me. You know why I think I do that? It's because I saw The Sixth Sense with my friends
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and all of them were like, it was so obvious from the beginning. And I was like, not until the
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the very final moment did I know how great that feeling was when like suddenly it was revealed
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and you're like holy shit yes you have to go watch it again yes so that's okay searching
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is in line with one of those thrillers where you're like what did I just see what's happening
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yeah and it's very so it's very we're very excited to be doing this oh and so Sony is giving away a
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bunch of tickets to the screening on the 23rd if you are in the fan exactly so we're gonna post
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these links in the fan cult. It's a ton of cities. Steven's going to read them very fast
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right now. Go. Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas,
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Denver Detroit Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Miami Minneapolis Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Sacramento San Antonio San Diego Seattle St Louis Tampa Toronto and Washington D Yes That was amazing Stephen If you in the fan cult and you live near any of those cities go onto the fan cult
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forum. These links will be put up. You can get two passes and go watch this movie for free.
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I think it's going to be cool. Yeah. I think it's going to be cool because it's going to be screenings.
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It's like one screening. So it's going to be a ton of murderinos there with you.
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Right? Oh, I guess. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yes, exactly. That'll be fun. A ton or like four.
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Or four really exciting ones. What we're saying is keep your eyes peeled. Don't just start yelling weird shit.
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Also, we don't really know how this works. We've never done it before. Okay, so what we asked for is for you guys to have, like the theme was then to go together was what, you know, what was your, someone or a story or you hiding a secret life?
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Yes. So, or living a secret life. And Stephen said we got over 600 emails just in the week that we solicited.
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That's amazing. Was it 600 or more than that, Stephen? It was a little, it was like about 600, essentially.
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It's crazy. So crazy. And just from the, he culled those for ones that he, you know, as he told me earlier,
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after a while, it wasn't good enough just that your dad had a secret family in a second city.
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Like he started getting bored. Yeah, he was like, common, yes, it's happened. This is the story.
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Which, of course, it's not common or boring for the people it happens to. but uh you know they're they're then deep there was uh variations on the theme that were very
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interesting you had to up the stakes and i think we got so many and there's so many good ones that
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i think we're just gonna start you know adding these to the regular minisodes and throwing them
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in here and there because they're really good who doesn't like a secret life yeah like it's a
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fascinating reveal totally sorry just as quick sidebar did you see the guy that tweeted the
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picture this is what I found in my wall and it's a cat hanging in the in the paint of a ceiling
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like a little hammock it's like there's a little pooch dad no no it's in fact it's looking down
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and its eyes are rolled up so it looks like a demon it's the funniest picture it's on our
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twitter feed you have to go look at it it's so good oh my god Stephen's handing it to me oh my
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god he was like I found this in my wall wow like the paint is peeling and this demon cat is just
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like and of course a cat would be able to get up in that and just be like that cat is so like fuck
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you that's my new bed that's where i live now fuck you all right you want me to kick this off sure
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oh here we go yeah i'm out of i'm out of iced coffee let's see uh subject line on this is just
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crazy secret life people got it they got it easy georgia karen steven and animals on the most recent
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mini so do you ask for outrageous stories about secret lives and i decided to share mine um about
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About 10 years ago, my dad came home and started telling us about an elderly couple he met while working as a police officer.
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He said that he was going to help them on their farm and do odd jobs and earn some extra money.
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We thought nothing of this story and didn't question it. About a year or so into my dad helping the couple, he came to us again and said that they'd won the lottery and that they were going to give him some of their winnings.
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Again, this didn't seem off to us. The couple gave him $5,000 and we went on a nice family vacation to Universal Studios in Orlando.
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Oh, my God. a really fun place to go on vacation. Around this time, my dad started acting very different.
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He started drinking more and withdrawing more from the family. After we got back from his vacation,
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he said he won a hunting trip to Canada. Still didn't seem weird to us. He's an avid hunter
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and he showed us a letter from a respected outdoors company detailing the trip. Oh my God.
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He goes to Canada for a week or so. About a week after he came home, we started getting weird calls
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on our home phone. A woman kept calling saying she was from his company and asking how he liked his trip.
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This happened incessantly. Oh, my God. Finally, after the 10th or 11th call, asking the same question,
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we figured out something was very wrong. My toes are crunched right now. We find out that the woman calling was his girlfriend.
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All along, the elderly couple was code for his mistress. Oh, my God. His mistress actually won the lottery.
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What? And paid for our trip and random shit around our house. That was real? How is that the most insane part, the real part?
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Isn't that the best? Dude. But so she wins the lottery. She's paying for shit, random shit around the house.
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And he, the dad said he brought, or this email says, he brought home from the quote elderly couple.
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This secret ended the 20 year marriage, 20 plus year marriage to my mom. Stay sexy and question everything, Jordan.
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oh my god oh the lottery part like makes that story it's it's because i was like what are they
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did they rob a bank like how's the money gonna i didn't know like yeah and you're or you're
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thinking does he kill that old couple like is this the sure one of those things where you're
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like and then my dad was an evil person or whatever and it's like but they're trying to
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figure out a way to basically launder lottery money into the family oh my god and i love that
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this fucking girlfriend's like, maybe he's ignoring her. She's like, hey, how was that trip, motherfucker?
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Yeah, this is just a, this is a customer service call to make sure you were pleased on your trip.
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That's a great way to like drive him crazy. Yes. Like, that's a great way to infiltrate
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and just be like. Well, it's also clearly maybe an indicator that she was a touch crazy
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because if you call anyone more than five times and I don't care if it's your best friend
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or your mother, you're crazy. like 10 10 times phone call walk away yeah you gotta walk away like ever or in a day yeah yeah
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i'm counting them up you're on number eight for me holy shit okay but how about when you don't
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it's only when you don't answer though that's why i don't answer the phone i don't want to cut
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anyone out of my life when i call you i just picture you rolling your eyes well you know
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the problem is most of the time i have my earbuds in oh and i singing along terribly to like some song And then I startle you And then you just automatically resent the person even if they calling to tell you they love you more than anything
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And that you won the lottery. Yes. Okay. All right. This is called Secret Life. My fellow intern, Tony slash Kayla, the sextortionist.
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Okay. Sextort. How do you say it? Sextorist? Or like sextort-inist. Sextortionist.
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Like an extortionist, but with sex? Yes, thank you. Yeah. Okay, cut that out. Keep it in.
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Turn it up louder. Turn that part up really loud. Put some bass in it. Yeah. Hi, Karen, Georgia, Stephen and Pets.
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I never thought I'd have a good story to share until you requested secret life stories.
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This doozy just came flying out of my memory bank. It's kind of dark, so I'll avoid going into too much detail.
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When I was 19, I interned for my first political campaign in the small Wisconsin town where I went to college.
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I was assigned to work for a really cute guy who shared an office with another staff member, as well as his intern, Anthony.
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We called him Tony. Tony and I spent a lot of time together by default doing intern projects, making phone calls and knocking doors for our candidate.
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On election day, we got up at 5 a.m. to drive around neighborhoods, hanging vote reminders on people's doorknobs.
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Tony was a bright, low-key, normal high school kid. We were both the kind of teenagers who gave up all their free time to work for a cause we believed in.
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Or so I thought. A couple months after the election, local and national news lit up with details about Tony's online persona, Kayla.
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Around November 2007, Tony began setting up fake Facebook accounts, most notably a pretty flirty teenage girl named Kayla, to lure male classmates at his high school.
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Kayla coerced the boys into sending her sexually explicit content of themselves and then threatened to release the photos and videos to the whole school
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if they didn't follow through with what she had asked. Whoa. Predictably, her demands began to escalate.
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Kayla made some of the victims meet up with Tony in person who claimed he was also being blackmailed.
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I started working with Tony about eight months into his online scheme and he continued doing it the entire time we worked at the campaign.
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um tony's reign of fucked up terror came to an end soon after the election in the most teenager
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way possible he did something really stupid at school that bit him in the ass a week after
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election night the last time i saw him he emailed an anonymous bomb threat to his school at quote
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as a prank when using the internet in the school library police traced him traced it back to him
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which probably took two seconds because this kid was had never heard of an ip address and he was
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expelled. After that, the victims came forward and police seized his computer to find all the
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content he collected of his victims in very obviously named file folders. Oh, no. In that
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one year period, Tony had 31 victims, somewhere as young as 15, and at least seven had been
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sexually assaulted by him. Whoa. So the part I didn't read was that he would have them meet up
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with him and be like, I'm also a victim. And Kayla said, we have to do this or she's going to expose us.
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So that was how he got them to hook up with him. Isn't that fucking insane? Yes.
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Okay. When he was arrested in 2009, his case became the first big national story about sexual extortion
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online and launched the term sextortion into the national conversation. Whoa. I received a letter from his attorney sometime after he was arrested.
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asking if I would serve as a character witness. When I worked with him, he seemed like such a regular, unremarkable dude
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I probably would have forgotten about over the years. I almost wish I could go back in time and see if there was something off about him that I missed,
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but he was probably just a sociopath who could live two different lives like no big deal.
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Anyway, there's no way in hell I was going to defend his ass in court. I don't want to end this story in a bummer note, so here's a fun fact about the same campaign.
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Remember I mentioned interning for a really cute guy? We crossed paths a few years after I graduated from college,
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and next month we'll be celebrating our three-year wedding anniversary. Oh! There's a lot of scumbags in politics,
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so when you meet a good guy, you've got to lock him down. Take notes, political murderinos.
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Thanks for reading my story. I am working on a campaign right now, and I look forward to your podcast each week
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so I can take a mental break and recharge my batteries. Can't wait to see you in Portland in October.
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Stay sexy and don't campaign with internet creeps. Liz. Oh, my God. High school.
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Like, high school. High school. also that that story makes me think of that movie tickle did you watch the documentary tickle
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and it's it's a similar but it like on a larger scale thing of of extorting people and manipulating
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them and that's like the whole thing about putting things like on video or on picture and sending
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them on the internet you're you become you're at the mercy of a person you have to know who they
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are a lot of these do have like black the ones i read that i'm not really have like black male shit
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in them yes and like that i mean it makes me so glad that we didn't have fucking internet in high
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school because i would have done something very stupid of course i mean we had internet but we
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didn't it wasn't like that that's insane it makes me think of my cousin kim and she what she tells
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my nieces like before they go do anything social because now they're well sophie's in college but
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and is still in high school and she just says don't do anything you don't want everyone to know
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about because that's what what it's going to end up being so that you don't want to follow you for
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the rest of your fucking life. You just have to be the first line of defense instead of trusting other people.
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I'm just now learning that lesson, so. I haven't even learned it. I can't imagine a fucking
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high school person. I mean, Jesus. Okay. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent
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Bradley Hall. In 2018, the FBI took down a ring of spies working for China's Ministry of State Security,
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one of the most mysterious intelligence agencies in the world. The Sixth Bureau podcast is a story of the inner workings
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the MSS and how one man ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets Listen to The Sixth Bureau on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts
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In 2023, Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twins, but the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax.
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You doctored this particular test twice in so-and-so, correct? I doctored the test once.
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It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing.
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Greg Gillespie and Michael Mancini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped.
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You know the famous author Roald Dahl. He thought up Willy Wonka and the BFG. But did you know he was a spy?
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neither did I you can hear all about his wildlife story in the podcast The Secret World of Roald Dahl
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all episodes are out now was this before he wrote his stories? it must have been
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what? okay I don't think that's true I'm telling you, I was a spy binge all 10 episodes of The Secret World of Roald Dahl
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now on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts let's see
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this is Secret Life Roommate Edition Yes. Dear Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and Pod of Pets, I have an absolutely insane secret life story about a previous roommate of mine.
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We'll call this roommate Kristen. Kristen and I met through a college program and became fast friends in 2014.
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After a semester, we became roommates with another girl we were friends with and things were great.
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I would have considered her my best friend so much so that I would have asked her to be a bridesmaid in my wedding.
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Anyways, after a year of living together, we graduated and decided to move to a new city together.
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We both got jobs in our profession at different locations. We both made separate friend groups, but this is where things started getting weird.
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I met her friends for the first time in August, and they were super nice and friendly with me.
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But then the next time I was around them in September, they all gave me the cold shoulder.
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I couldn't really shake that feeling that I'd done something wrong, but thought maybe I just wasn't as close with them as she was.
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fast forward a few months mine and kristin friendship had totally diminished uh she made
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plans to take me out for my birthday but the morning of canceled due to period cramps i
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understood but was disappointed i felt like i had done something wrong unknowingly and was being
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punished for it i had tried to bring it up a few times but she just brushed it off and pretended
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everything was fine eventually i just accepted that our friendship was falling apart in march of
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2017 she ended up in the er for some mental health issues i met up with her and her friends at the
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hospital and they proceeded to ask me why I'm there and quote, do you think your presence here
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is going to help her mental health? I'm shocked. I asked them stunned what they mean and their
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response is, don't you think your breakup is a little too much for her to deal with right now?
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That's right, ladies. She had told these girls that we were dating back in August,
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unbeknownst to me. Furthermore, in an effort to end her lie, she told them we broke up,
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hence the cold shoulder for a month. And it all began to make sense that she wouldn't hang out
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with me in public. I wasn't invited to her birthday party in my house. What? And she unfollowed me on
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social media while they were still living together. All that stuff was done in an effort to cover her
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lies. Not only that, but her new friend group showed me all of our quote breakup tests. After
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she was released from the hospital, we had a talk and she had no remorse or explanation for her lies.
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Needless to say, we're no longer roommates or friends. Thank you for all you do. Me and my not
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pathological liar friends love your show and can't wait to see you in atlanta stay sexy and
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don't get scammed by your roommate harriet i have so many questions for i want to know how her
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friends reacted like her like girls friends reacted when she was like when she was like
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none of that is true well i think the key part there though is if she ended up in the hospital
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for mental health issues maybe everybody went oh this is a little shakier than like we thought
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like everything got on like questionable ground sure but yeah oh my jesus that must have been so
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bewildering where everyone's immediately yelling at her we're like everyone's mad at you like yeah
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mean to you for no reason i feel like i'd be going crazy right like what happened what went wrong
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all right so this one is called i can't read you the name of the thing but all right karen georgia
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steven and various animals i just finished listening to minisode 83 where you ask for
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secret life reveals and my friends have been begging me to send this story in so here we go
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back in the 70s my parents were in a bowling league over the years you get to know other
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people in the league and you all become friends acquaintances whatever one of their friends
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always invited my dad to come over for taco parties but he never went i don't know why
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all the it's like taco parties taco parties no fast forward a bit and one night my dad and his
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friend sam are at the alley when their friend walks in acting very animated he shakes my dad
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dad's hand and puts an arm around sam and says to them something along the lines of hey guys i don't
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think i can stay very long because the fbi is following me they pretty much blew him off thinking
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he was crazy the next day comes and both of my parents were at the local grocery store they worked
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at they were 18 and 19 years old and who walks in that morning but sam holding a newspaper my mom
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said that he looked like he saw a ghost what's the front page story that day their bowling league
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friend from the night before had been arrested for multiple murders oh and who was that guy from
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the bowling league none other than the killer clown himself fucking john wayne gacy
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all caps fucking john wayne gacy oh shit sam went on uh to be his defense attorney
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oh whoa and sam and my dad are still friends to this day he wrote a book about it
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ago and signed a copy for my dad. I remember hearing the story from a young age, but I never
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really thought much of it until I was a teenager and realized who John Ewing Gacy was.
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Doesn't everyone's parents bowl with notorious serial killers? No, just mine? Okay. Anyways, that's all I got for now. Stay sexy
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and don't join boiling leagues with killer clowns, Alyssa. P.S. My dad would like to note
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that it was Duplaine's PD following Gacy and not the FBI. Lol, crazy clown. wow oh that just makes me think of in the i think it was the made for tv movie or could have been
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the real movie brian dennehy is playing john wing gacy and when it gets to that part where he's just
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like he's like drunk during the day and driving around and just like trying to avoid the police
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oh my god like it just made me pick in my mind in the movie in my mind it was brian dennehy walking
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into that bowling alley yeah hey guys the fbi is following me at the bowling alley what if they
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He's like gone to his taco party and been in the house. And then he's like, who likes magic tricks?
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Down to the basement, everybody. Oh, Jesus, John. So insane. Okay. I like this one.
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The subject line is secret life. Well done, everybody. Good day, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and Fur Babies.
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They just have to say it. My name is Tiana, and I am an education assistant at a small private school in Canada.
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A group of my friends at work got me addicted to your podcast, and you guys have made my
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morning commute much more entertaining. When I was listening to last week's mini-sode and you asked for secret life stories, I thought I may have one that is interesting.
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When I was nine years old, I was adopted. Growing up, my parents did not hide the fact that I was.
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They were always very open and honest. At 12 years old, my mom and I were sitting in the basement, and I started asking some questions about two pictures in my baby book.
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I have something attached to my head, and I'm being held by a nurse. I asked why I had that, and my mom replied that they were running tests.
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and then I asked what kind and she responded to see if you had drugs in your system.
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Why the heck would I have drugs in my system? And my mom said, because you were not born in a hospital.
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So many thoughts are running through my mind and then my mom proceeds to tell me my story.
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Oh my fucking God. On November 25th, 1987 in Calgary, Alberta, two young boys were skipping school
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and took a route through a parking lot. The boys, 14 and 15, stopped to look at a cool car
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when one of the boys heard a soft cry of a baby. He looked down to find what he thought at first was a doll but was in fact a real baby inside of a garbage bag head sticking out One of the boys picked me up and ran over and both ran towards an older gentleman who helped me get inside to a warm place
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The police said that if it had been an hour later, it would have been a much sadder situation.
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And yes, that little baby they found is me. I was placed into foster care and my now mom and dad became my foster parents at nine days old.
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They legally adopted me on my mom's birthday, May 2nd, the following year. My face was all over the newspapers and on TV, and it was a huge story in Calgary.
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My dad at the time was a journalist, and he was actually covering my story. The social services people thought, what a better place to hide this baby from the media
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than with someone in the media. That's hilarious. No one at my dad's job knew that while covering this crazy story, he had the little baby at home.
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I love it. I was also dubbed Mary Olympia Doe because Olympia because the Calgary Olympics were happening in just a few months.
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Now, if you're wondering why my parents waited to tell me the story, it was because a doctor told them that it would mess me up if they told me when I was younger.
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Anyways, stay sexy and don't abandon babies. Tiana. Oh, my God. I'm going to cry.
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That's the best. That's the best. That's there's nothing. There's none. I don't even know if I should read my last one.
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Do it. No, do it. I love that. Great job, Tiana. That was beautiful. We're so happy for you.
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I wonder if she has ever met those boys that found her. I just got chills. They're heroes.
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Tiana, find those boys and say hello. Yeah. Let them carry you across the parking lot again.
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Yeah. Take pictures of it. Show it to us. Okay. Secret. Life lighthearted. Oh, secret life lighthearted.
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I get it. Was there a hyphen in there somewhere? And so I thought that, yeah, that I, okay, here we go.
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Hi, MFM crew. Hi. Hi. My dad has always been my favorite person. We always, we've always been extremely close, even though he's a naturally very distant
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person. Think Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird's demeanor. Even, he even looks like a young Gregory Peck and is a defense attorney.
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Wow. As intensely private as Karen's dogs are, he dislikes being noticed or congratulated to
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the point that he didn't even go to an awards ceremony for him being congratulated.
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Wait. For him being an attorney of the year because he didn want people to think he wanted a pat on the back Wait are these people Irish Did she say at the beginning No They just like you turning down attention Can relate
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Ha ha. Anyways, I found out some stories I had never heard on my last trip home.
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As it turns out, he secretly anonymously pays for the transport, food bills, and medical care of a janitor at his office who had to quit due to a chronic illness and couldn't afford a car or meds.
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The janitor has absolutely no idea who is behind it and due to my father's very distant nature would never suspect.
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He was even left. He has even left anonymous envelopes of five hundred to a thousand dollars in mailboxes of people he knew who said they couldn't afford Christmas presents for their children and waive fees for clients to be able to buy gifts for their kids during the holidays as well.
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I could go on and on, but it just goes to show that not every secret life is a bad one.
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Some people are secretly making the world a much better place. he's helping us all stay sexy and not get broken down by the constant stream of shitty news
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anyway thanks karen georgia steven all for all you do best jay oh my god i love that one amazing
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and also so true like it there are lots of people doing lots of very good things and they're
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they don't want the credit it's not about the credit i don't get it so we'll never hear about
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it like that i remember somebody telling me and i think it's come out at this point when david
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letterman was still on the air he used to just anonymously donate thousands and thousands of
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dollars for scholarship money for ball state which is the college he went to oh my god and like he i
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just anytime i hear about that at all it's just so amazing because yeah it's you know there's good
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there's good things happening out there so the first thing i do whenever i donate is put a
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post up on instagram to tell everyone i don't of course like come on that's why everyone does but
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you know that's the thing about it is and you know there's every once in a while people will
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email us talking about like, I feel bad or I had a breakup or I feel terrible. What should I do?
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And that's the thing I got taught early is if you feel bad, help somebody else, because it will make you feel so much better. And you don't realize it,
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because I think most of us weren't really, it's not a natural thing to do, because it doesn't connect. It's like, but what about me? Why do I have to put myself aside? And
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it's like, that's actually the good part. Get out of your own fucking world and,
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and go, yeah, yeah, extend yourself to someone who actually really needs help. Right That a great that a really great advice That a nice one Well this has been so cool what yeah what a fun exciting kind of um you know experiment experiment and fancy commercial we get to do we love that we
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love the opportunity that we get to kind of like host a movie like this yeah um for you guys and
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uh and you know hopefully we get to do it again yeah very exciting yeah thanks for listening you
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guys and uh send your letters to my favorite murder at gmail we we're still taking these
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secret life emails. We love the secret life. So much fun. And don't forget, if you're in the fan
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be posted. Stephen will post it on the fan cult and you can find out everything.
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And stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, you know your line. You want a cookie?
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