September 14, 2022 • 22 mins
Episode 4: SHOULD WE STILL HAVE HOPE?
True crime dummy Bo Brimley now believes her "missing" husband could still be out there. She interviews new friend Peter Thompson, who lost hope over finding his wife who disappeared at the circus. She makes a final plea to Detective Mullins to take her case seriously.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
A flash of light, an angry fight, no luggage in sight,
my darkness night. I'm Bo Brimley and my husband went
missing a few days ago. So I decided to start
a podcast to get to the bottom of where he
is so my baby can come home. This is Tooked
Welcome back everyone. UM. Sorry if I sound a little
(00:24):
all sorts, It's just my Greg still hasn't come home,
and I'm really just wondering if I should even bother
having a hope anymore. UM, it's really really gotten dire. UM.
So again, a call to action. A please, if you've
seen my Greg, if you think I should still have hope,
please please contact me just to help me talk this out.
(00:45):
You guys know that I've been trying to um garden
a little bit more. And as I was gardening, I
I saw some rabbits coming over to my plot from
a neighbor's plot, and so I started kind of yelling
and screaming. And I saw this saddle and and I
recognized him, um from from a newspaper article about a
man who lost his wife, because I try to keep
(01:07):
track of that stuff. Uh, and I kind of we
kind of had an instant connection. So please welcome Peter Thompson.
Hey bo, hi, Hi, thank you for having me of course. Um,
it's nice to finally meet you. You know, I kind
of track all these people who have lost somebody, like
little celebs, and you're a big celeb. I didn't realize
(01:27):
you were my neighbor because I don't really look over
your house has sort of overgrown. I like my privacy
and you know you've been bothering me for for a
little bit now about this, right right, No, it's no problem. Um, yeah,
so I guess just like it seems like you your
wife has been missing for a while, right, No, No,
(01:48):
I I haven't seen my eth vol from about forty years.
Forty years. Wow, how did she disappear? Because I'm going
through that right now. Well, uh, well I don't I
don't know that it's exactly the same. But the Ethel
and I Ethel and I met met in the circus,
(02:10):
very different different backgrounds. She was circus, going back generations,
going back, going back to her great grandparents. She did
it all, you know, started out swaying around on trampies,
climbing into clown carriages. That that's what they were back then.
The cars came later Yeah, it was a regular size horse. Uh,
(02:32):
tiny little buggy, and then an absurd number of clowns. Yeah,
I've read, I've read books. Towards the end of her life,
she became the first in her family to become the
woman in the bear costume who would ride around on
the unit site. So that's not really a bear. No,
the rest of the act is a bear. It's this.
(02:55):
It's an old circus trick from the entire act. To
be an actual bear, you get the ugly is bear
that you can find, right, find one that's you know,
sick mangey, it's dying. You get an old, shitty looking bear, right,
the shittiest one like. And you get that bear and
you train it. And that's that bear is easy to
(03:16):
train because it's because it's a weak it's it's never
been loved. It's so desperate for for any whuin's attention,
and it's not used to getting its way. It's an animal,
and a weak animal is is a subservient animal. An Uh,
you do that so that when then you have a
woman in the bear costume, which inevitably it doesn't. It
(03:39):
doesn't look like a real bear. The shittiness of the
actual bear it helps you to hide the costume. So
at some point, right so you have the bear dance around,
you do the bear things you haven't on a ball.
But here's the things that are real. Bear will never
ride un asych Wow, No, it won't happen. It won't happen.
(04:04):
I want to point out some language. I do want
to get back to the unicycle fact. But you said
before we lost her or something like that, do you
still have hope that she's out there after forty years?
How did you lose her? Also, it was a mixing.
There's a lot involved in the bear towards the ends
of the grand finale. Of course, is the bear getting
(04:26):
on the unicycle. The audiences has got to see it.
It's tradition. It's not real circus if the bear doesn't
ride away on a unic cycles of course, But if,
as I said, any self respecting bear won't do it,
that's why you need the lady in the bear acause
(04:47):
at the end you do a switch. It's like you
get the real bear runs down a little a little
play tunnel, there's a trapdoor and that it falls into
a cage doug below. The circus freaks the hell out
of the bear. After that outcomes the woman in the
bear costume gets onto the Unice cycle rides away. Now
(05:07):
the bear in the cage is pretty freaked out after that,
And normally you can only use the bear a couple
of times. What happens to it after you use it
a couple of times? It's round it, all right, It's
circus and it was the old days, all right. I'm
not saying I'm not saying that it was okay by
today's standards. This podcast is not supp drowning bears. Yeah, continue, sorry,
(05:31):
all right, it doesn't. And I gotta say I feel
like I need to point out that I don't support
drowning bears life. I I wasn't in that. I did
a regurgitating act, okay, right, So I wasn't involved in
the bear. I don't know if I want to know
what that is. What a regurgitating act? I just swallow
things and then cough him and spit him back up.
(05:52):
Why is that in the circus. It's the side show.
It's the side show of the circus before the main
parts of the circus. People want to see other you know,
weird ship And that's what I did, right, I would
swalloway back up. Sorry, I'm just emotional because this is
(06:12):
all just really triggering for me. This is sort of
exactly what happened to me. But continue. You said there
was a bear mix up, the bears in the cage.
It's freaked out. Well, how how did your wife get
mixed up? I don't know. I don't know. I think
she may have switched herself with the bear, like she
may have got sick of it all and tried to
live her life as a bear. Somehow do you think
(06:34):
she left you to live as a bear? Well, that
I don't relate to because my husband was taken, he
maybe even murdered. I forget if I told you what
happened to me. Did I tell you? Oh, I'll just
tell you, Peter. It's like it's like we're so similar
in so many way flicks, you know, like you've been
(06:55):
missing your way for like forty years. It's like been
like what I I can't even keep track of like
four days into this, three days maybe two, and my
husband it's been gone this whole time. We got into
this big fight, we got too bad, and I woke
up in the morning and he was gone, and all
that was behind it was like a wedding ring and
(07:17):
like he like he like dropped the head and like
it's like a train ticket receiat and then all his luggage.
This is a crazy part. His luggage was gone, and
all his clothes were gone, and all his toiletries were gone.
And listen, listen, I need to stop. Be right there.
I gotta say, for all your evident halling and wringing
your hands about the way we disposed it, bears, I'm
(07:37):
a little offended at being called here to talk about
my loss in comparison to your fight with your husband,
which is what this is. Okay, okay, First of all,
it was a fight, but the way that I might
fight with the TV when I don't like what's happening
on it, You know where I go? Come on, come on?
(07:58):
You know? Does that ever work to the TV? Sometimes
it affects the outcome, like when you're bulling and the
ball goes a little bit too side and go and
then it goes right the right way. My husband went missing, Okay,
I don't know who can napped him. We had some
idiot forensic specialist on here that was like, oh, maybe
he had an affair, and I'm like that is literally
the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Right, that's the stupiest
(08:20):
thing I've ever heard. This man clearly was taken. This
man and I were in love. Okay, we're in love.
Nothing can affect love, you know that. I know the
opposite of that. I know a lot of things can
affect love. I know that at some point might belove
and wife that will felt unsatisfied with me and chose
instead to switch herself with the shayest bear that we
(08:41):
could find. Right, wait a minute, back to me says
that love can in fact stop, And I think that's
what's happened to you, and I think you need to
accept You're right. A bear can affect love. Do you think,
oh this is so fun? Do you think someone took
(09:02):
my greg, brought him into the wood, took one of
these depressed bears, and fed him to the bear? Is
that what you're saying? You know? What if that helps you? Yeah,
you don't know this, But I've had a detective I've
been working with for a long time that's on top
(09:23):
of this case like a shell to a snail. So
I'm gonna call him up. We'll tell him the details
are your case. Because maybe maybe your wife is still
out there too. If she's living as a bear, she
better how to eat my husband. But if she's out there,
you know, maybe he could help. So I'm gonna I'm
gonn give him a ring hold on. Sometimes he rejects
(09:55):
my calls. I can see. We're sorry. Why phone number?
You are trying nothing, It's just it's fairly obvious what happened. Yeah,
a bear, ain't my husband? Let me try? Can I try? Um?
What do you got? You got a flip phone? Can
I try your phone? Yeah? Yeah, I have a Jennnor bug. Okay,
(10:17):
oh my god, how do you use this? You just
press the buttons a gigant. Yeah, it looks like one
of those calculators you get for free somewhere. Okay, okay,
this is my most detective agency detect phone speaking Hello.
This is UM. Somebody reporting a case of Okay, it's me.
(10:39):
Don't hang up, don't hang up, don't hang up. Okay,
it's me, it's me. It's bo Okay, listen, I've got
a live one on. Okay. We've got Peter Thompson here,
his wife, and I'm not lying. His wife has been
missing for forty years. She might have become a bear. Okay,
have you heard anything about this, Brimily, I'm I'm actually
glad you called. Oh my god, my husband got eaten
(11:01):
by this bear. You're my husband, and I'm gonna kill you.
Bears are much more likely to eat trash or salmon
or not taking it back. It's a fact, Frimly. I
just wanted to apologize, you know, for brushing you off,
not taking your case seriously. I've done a real disservice
(11:24):
to the private investigation industry, and you know, I just
want to say I'm sorry. Wow, well, thank you so much,
so sorry. I got you, Frimley. You're so fucking stupid. Hey,
I got someone I want you to talk to over here.
Huh how old do you want to talk to someone? Hey? Hey, hey,
(11:46):
are here? Take the phone? Here? Can take this? Hello,
it's your dumb husband. Oh my god, Oh my god,
are you a mouth? What's happening to you? Are you okay?
I'm not in a bears mouth off. I've been staying
at the Extended Day of America sixty three. Oh my god,
who put you there? I put me there? You had
(12:09):
that dude outside of my hotel room for four days now.
I just going outside with the crowbar I keep in
my bag, and I was gonna tear a new hole
in his ass. Scared the Jesus. Really, okay, Gregg, what
do you doing at the hotel? You're planning this little
d n No, I'm not planning a date night. No
more date nights. No more date nights. Bore we getting
(12:31):
second marriage? No? No second? Why don't we do that
so soon after the first one? No? Why don't we
do a second marriage after the first one that soon?
I'm not planning any of that. What don't you understand
about this? I tried to make it as clear as possible.
I left. I'm gone. I don't want to be married
to you anymore. This has been a year of h
(12:52):
E double l L. You never spell curse words. Who's
holding you under dress? Nobody? Nobody's holding me under the rest.
Stop acting like this is something that has happened to me.
I left. Think about everything that I left. I took
the suitcases. I took the left over boxes, the cereal.
(13:13):
I took the booty pebls with marshmallows. I took the
oops all berries. Yes, I even took the Cashi go lean.
I don't even like that. It makes me dukie. You know, Greg,
I had become really good friends after that scared and
we realized we had a lot of common. We played
our arrival high schools. We played football rival high school.
Can you believe it? I was an Archbishop Bryan, he
was at McDevitt. Mm hmm, this is so crazy. I'm
(13:35):
putting the clues together before my eyes. I can't believe
I didn't see it. You have been mind controlled by
Detective Mullins this whole time. It's been an inside jaw.
It's just like that movie Searching where Debra Messing is
the one that was the one that hurt the kids. Spoilers, spoilers,
(13:58):
spoilers at the years you should have seen it. Okay, listen, Greg, Greg,
let's speak in our little special language. Tell me where
to pick you up, and I will grab you. I
will grab you. I will fight off Mullins with my
fucking teeth. If I have not mind controlled by him.
I'm not mind controlled by anybody but my religion, the
tempresent nation. That's the only thing that I'm controlled by. Yeah,
(14:22):
and there's a lot of good stuff that he's been
telling me about this religion. I think I think I'm
going to join up. Open your eyes. Open your eyes
and see the light. Now I'm seeing it clearly. Okay,
I thought Mullins was mind controlling Greg, but in order
to trick me, Mullin's mind controlled Greg to seem like
he was mine controlling mullets. This is so fun. This
(14:44):
is so fucked Brimley. If you if you just accept
your higher power at this point and say you're ready
to move on, you know, and replace Greg with the
higher power, I think you're gonna be a lot happier
in your life. All right. I had nothing to do
with this. Really the best thing that happened for me
as I came out with a new friend and eventually
Salvation and we talked about you. We talked about the
(15:05):
fact that you like to clip your toe nails right
when I'm eating breakfast. That's the t and they fly
right into the fruity pebbles, right into them. I don't know.
I don't know marshmallow from toe nail. So what. Okay,
we're married. All body parts are getting inside of body parts.
Who cares? That's not the same thing. Speaking of which,
we haven't done that in a long time. You know
(15:28):
everybody's body makes me sick. The last time we did it,
you threw up all over me. Yes, it was very
it was thick. Yes, I had all my minister on
that day. Greg, I don't understand this is coming out
of nowhere for me. We're in love every single day
for a year, in our beautiful, blissful marriage. We're literally
not a single problem has ever occurred. And then all
(15:50):
of a sudden, you quote unquote leave. I mean, is
it so unreasonable that I believe you were kidnapped and
murdered and putting out of a bear. If you're so
good at clues, thank about the clues that I've been leaving.
The note on the refrigerator, what did it say, Melons,
I didn't want to tell you there was a note
on the refrigerator because it was ultimately confusing. It said, bow,
(16:11):
I can't do this anymore. I'm out, Greg. The bottle
of vodka that I keep in the top of the toilet,
what did the label say? Okay, Moms, I didn't want
to tell you this because again, n I'm glad you
didn't tell me. I'm glad, actually it would have been
just a waste of time. It said have this toilet
(16:32):
vodka for when you're feeling sade Because I left you.
That's what I wrote on the bottle of Taca vodka.
I was still thinking about you, and that's why I
knew you loved for all these there so personalized, you know, listen,
I I love you as another human being who occupies
the same earth as I. You know, when I traveled
(16:53):
to Europe, people would say, why do Americans say how
are you? They don't care how you are. They don't
really want to know how you are. After I met you,
I realized that was true. I do not care how
you are, even when I ask you that. So I
love you in that way. I love you not like
a love song, baby. I love you like, you know,
(17:15):
like a commercial when people like pick somebody up at
the airport in a taxi, when they're the taxi driver.
They're gonna get that person to their destination safely. You
love me like that. Oh no, she's taking this the
wrong way. My own parents, I'm not surprised. Greg. You
(17:37):
a little sweet bug. That's so cute. I love you
like a taxi driver too. Also, you know, my mother
was eaten by ten thousand roaches, and you still call
me a sweet bug? Well, I mean, isn't it a
nice memory of your mom? If I said no, I
(17:58):
don't want to be a bug? I haight? Bugs? Well,
I guess that's our first fight, isn't it. We've we've
gotten into a multiple fight. We've got plenty of fights
our first fight, Mullins, Can you believe it? Put that
in the scrap bug? And you know my son intentionally
(18:19):
pukes on his dog. Don't you telling me? Are you
telling you who? You're telling it? Dude? Just tell my
group tell him to give me a cold. That's yeah,
your regurgitation expert. Stop hitting on all of my guests,
you fucking pervert. Mullins. I can't believe you're the only
one in the one yellow page that I saved because
(18:40):
you're out of control. Well, honestly, I'm proud of myself
for cracking this case. Greg. I'll see you a hole.
I'm saying to say, America until my new apartment kicks in. Okay,
wink wink ease, that's America. That's our house together. Don't
get backed up here? Do come here, come there and
(19:02):
Brimley lose my number fast? Okay, I won't. We're gonna
have free muffins in the lobby. Oh um, and since
I've kind of had this little happy ending, love you, Greggy.
I would be remiss if I didn't check in a
little bit about Peter Mullins. You're a detective. Have you
heard a sad story about some woman dress as a
bear who left a sad man and a sad story
(19:23):
about someone leaving somebody? No, it sounds like a Stephen
King's story or something. Sounds wild. Yeah, this would have
happened forty years ago in ames Ill. Okay, well, Peter,
it's possible your wife is dead, so maybe that gives
you a little bit of closure. It does. I've lived
living with that assumption for you. Well, that's very sweet.
(19:44):
So we all got our little happy ending. I'm with Greg.
Your wife's gone and we know that, and because we're
with each other. Okay, I'm gonna cry. This is so cute. Um. Well, guys,
thank you so much, and um catch me at the
Extended Stay American with my little hush. You got to
get out of here now I'm leaving me. I'm already
(20:06):
in the back grab that. Well. Thank you guys so
much for tuning in to too where we went on
(20:28):
a really nice adventure to find the love of my life. Greg. Um.
I'm currently stationed right outside our roof at the Extended
Stay America. We're doing one of these like fun little games,
um um, and I'm knocked on the door. I'm assuming
he's grabbing dinner for the both of us or something,
and he'll let me in. Greg, you didn't seek back
(20:53):
when I went to the bathroom, did you, Okay, So yeah,
he's probably grabbing dinner or something. Um. Let me fill
check with the front dost just to make sure, because
get get out of here. Let's turn yourself. Hey, I'm
waiting for my fucking husband to come back with our
dinner for two. He's getting a chicken from What you've
(21:15):
just heard is the final recordings of an absolutely unhinged
woman named both Brimley. Soon after that, she was arrested
for going to a state park and killing a bunch
of bears looking for a woman that's living inside one
of them. She's at Forest Lake State penitentially where I
hope she'll frankly be there for the rest of her life.
And I stole this audio from her, so I'm just
kind of like putting it out there into the world,
(21:36):
hoping it comes like a big thing for me. I
want to get a book out there in the world,
you know, just to kind of give my perspective on
the detective thing. You know, so this detective agamem Non.
Mullins you know, like comments, share subscribes, Send us to
your mom. You know, Mom's love me. Uh, Mullins out
A flash of light, an angry fight, no luggage in sight,
my darkness night. I'm Bo Brimley and my husband went
missing a few days ago. So I decided to start
a podcast to get to the bottom of where he
is so my baby can come home. This is Tooked
Welcome back everyone. UM. Sorry if I sound a little
(00:24):
all sorts, It's just my Greg still hasn't come home,
and I'm really just wondering if I should even bother
having a hope anymore. UM, it's really really gotten dire. UM.
So again, a call to action. A please, if you've
seen my Greg, if you think I should still have hope,
please please contact me just to help me talk this out.
(00:45):
You guys know that I've been trying to um garden
a little bit more. And as I was gardening, I
I saw some rabbits coming over to my plot from
a neighbor's plot, and so I started kind of yelling
and screaming. And I saw this saddle and and I
recognized him, um from from a newspaper article about a
man who lost his wife, because I try to keep
(01:07):
track of that stuff. Uh, and I kind of we
kind of had an instant connection. So please welcome Peter Thompson.
Hey bo, hi, Hi, thank you for having me of course. Um,
it's nice to finally meet you. You know, I kind
of track all these people who have lost somebody, like
little celebs, and you're a big celeb. I didn't realize
(01:27):
you were my neighbor because I don't really look over
your house has sort of overgrown. I like my privacy
and you know you've been bothering me for for a
little bit now about this, right right, No, it's no problem. Um, yeah,
so I guess just like it seems like you your
wife has been missing for a while, right, No, No,
(01:48):
I I haven't seen my eth vol from about forty years.
Forty years. Wow, how did she disappear? Because I'm going
through that right now. Well, uh, well I don't I
don't know that it's exactly the same. But the Ethel
and I Ethel and I met met in the circus,
(02:10):
very different different backgrounds. She was circus, going back generations,
going back, going back to her great grandparents. She did
it all, you know, started out swaying around on trampies,
climbing into clown carriages. That that's what they were back then.
The cars came later Yeah, it was a regular size horse. Uh,
(02:32):
tiny little buggy, and then an absurd number of clowns. Yeah,
I've read, I've read books. Towards the end of her life,
she became the first in her family to become the
woman in the bear costume who would ride around on
the unit site. So that's not really a bear. No,
the rest of the act is a bear. It's this.
(02:55):
It's an old circus trick from the entire act. To
be an actual bear, you get the ugly is bear
that you can find, right, find one that's you know,
sick mangey, it's dying. You get an old, shitty looking bear, right,
the shittiest one like. And you get that bear and
you train it. And that's that bear is easy to
(03:16):
train because it's because it's a weak it's it's never
been loved. It's so desperate for for any whuin's attention,
and it's not used to getting its way. It's an animal,
and a weak animal is is a subservient animal. An Uh,
you do that so that when then you have a
woman in the bear costume, which inevitably it doesn't. It
(03:39):
doesn't look like a real bear. The shittiness of the
actual bear it helps you to hide the costume. So
at some point, right so you have the bear dance around,
you do the bear things you haven't on a ball.
But here's the things that are real. Bear will never
ride un asych Wow, No, it won't happen. It won't happen.
(04:04):
I want to point out some language. I do want
to get back to the unicycle fact. But you said
before we lost her or something like that, do you
still have hope that she's out there after forty years?
How did you lose her? Also, it was a mixing.
There's a lot involved in the bear towards the ends
of the grand finale. Of course, is the bear getting
(04:26):
on the unicycle. The audiences has got to see it.
It's tradition. It's not real circus if the bear doesn't
ride away on a unic cycles of course, But if,
as I said, any self respecting bear won't do it,
that's why you need the lady in the bear acause
(04:47):
at the end you do a switch. It's like you
get the real bear runs down a little a little
play tunnel, there's a trapdoor and that it falls into
a cage doug below. The circus freaks the hell out
of the bear. After that outcomes the woman in the
bear costume gets onto the Unice cycle rides away. Now
(05:07):
the bear in the cage is pretty freaked out after that,
And normally you can only use the bear a couple
of times. What happens to it after you use it
a couple of times? It's round it, all right, It's
circus and it was the old days, all right. I'm
not saying I'm not saying that it was okay by
today's standards. This podcast is not supp drowning bears. Yeah, continue, sorry,
(05:31):
all right, it doesn't. And I gotta say I feel
like I need to point out that I don't support
drowning bears life. I I wasn't in that. I did
a regurgitating act, okay, right, So I wasn't involved in
the bear. I don't know if I want to know
what that is. What a regurgitating act? I just swallow
things and then cough him and spit him back up.
(05:52):
Why is that in the circus. It's the side show.
It's the side show of the circus before the main
parts of the circus. People want to see other you know,
weird ship And that's what I did, right, I would
swalloway back up. Sorry, I'm just emotional because this is
(06:12):
all just really triggering for me. This is sort of
exactly what happened to me. But continue. You said there
was a bear mix up, the bears in the cage.
It's freaked out. Well, how how did your wife get
mixed up? I don't know. I don't know. I think
she may have switched herself with the bear, like she
may have got sick of it all and tried to
live her life as a bear. Somehow do you think
(06:34):
she left you to live as a bear? Well, that
I don't relate to because my husband was taken, he
maybe even murdered. I forget if I told you what
happened to me. Did I tell you? Oh, I'll just
tell you, Peter. It's like it's like we're so similar
in so many way flicks, you know, like you've been
(06:55):
missing your way for like forty years. It's like been
like what I I can't even keep track of like
four days into this, three days maybe two, and my
husband it's been gone this whole time. We got into
this big fight, we got too bad, and I woke
up in the morning and he was gone, and all
that was behind it was like a wedding ring and
(07:17):
like he like he like dropped the head and like
it's like a train ticket receiat and then all his luggage.
This is a crazy part. His luggage was gone, and
all his clothes were gone, and all his toiletries were gone.
And listen, listen, I need to stop. Be right there.
I gotta say, for all your evident halling and wringing
your hands about the way we disposed it, bears, I'm
(07:37):
a little offended at being called here to talk about
my loss in comparison to your fight with your husband,
which is what this is. Okay, okay, First of all,
it was a fight, but the way that I might
fight with the TV when I don't like what's happening
on it, You know where I go? Come on, come on?
(07:58):
You know? Does that ever work to the TV? Sometimes
it affects the outcome, like when you're bulling and the
ball goes a little bit too side and go and
then it goes right the right way. My husband went missing, Okay,
I don't know who can napped him. We had some
idiot forensic specialist on here that was like, oh, maybe
he had an affair, and I'm like that is literally
the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Right, that's the stupiest
(08:20):
thing I've ever heard. This man clearly was taken. This
man and I were in love. Okay, we're in love.
Nothing can affect love, you know that. I know the
opposite of that. I know a lot of things can
affect love. I know that at some point might belove
and wife that will felt unsatisfied with me and chose
instead to switch herself with the shayest bear that we
(08:41):
could find. Right, wait a minute, back to me says
that love can in fact stop, And I think that's
what's happened to you, and I think you need to
accept You're right. A bear can affect love. Do you think,
oh this is so fun? Do you think someone took
(09:02):
my greg, brought him into the wood, took one of
these depressed bears, and fed him to the bear? Is
that what you're saying? You know? What if that helps you? Yeah,
you don't know this, But I've had a detective I've
been working with for a long time that's on top
(09:23):
of this case like a shell to a snail. So
I'm gonna call him up. We'll tell him the details
are your case. Because maybe maybe your wife is still
out there too. If she's living as a bear, she
better how to eat my husband. But if she's out there,
you know, maybe he could help. So I'm gonna I'm
gonn give him a ring hold on. Sometimes he rejects
(09:55):
my calls. I can see. We're sorry. Why phone number?
You are trying nothing, It's just it's fairly obvious what happened. Yeah,
a bear, ain't my husband? Let me try? Can I try? Um?
What do you got? You got a flip phone? Can
I try your phone? Yeah? Yeah, I have a Jennnor bug. Okay,
(10:17):
oh my god, how do you use this? You just
press the buttons a gigant. Yeah, it looks like one
of those calculators you get for free somewhere. Okay, okay,
this is my most detective agency detect phone speaking Hello.
This is UM. Somebody reporting a case of Okay, it's me.
(10:39):
Don't hang up, don't hang up, don't hang up. Okay,
it's me, it's me. It's bo Okay, listen, I've got
a live one on. Okay. We've got Peter Thompson here,
his wife, and I'm not lying. His wife has been
missing for forty years. She might have become a bear. Okay,
have you heard anything about this, Brimily, I'm I'm actually
glad you called. Oh my god, my husband got eaten
(11:01):
by this bear. You're my husband, and I'm gonna kill you.
Bears are much more likely to eat trash or salmon
or not taking it back. It's a fact, Frimly. I
just wanted to apologize, you know, for brushing you off,
not taking your case seriously. I've done a real disservice
(11:24):
to the private investigation industry, and you know, I just
want to say I'm sorry. Wow, well, thank you so much,
so sorry. I got you, Frimley. You're so fucking stupid. Hey,
I got someone I want you to talk to over here.
Huh how old do you want to talk to someone? Hey? Hey, hey,
(11:46):
are here? Take the phone? Here? Can take this? Hello,
it's your dumb husband. Oh my god, Oh my god,
are you a mouth? What's happening to you? Are you okay?
I'm not in a bears mouth off. I've been staying
at the Extended Day of America sixty three. Oh my god,
who put you there? I put me there? You had
(12:09):
that dude outside of my hotel room for four days now.
I just going outside with the crowbar I keep in
my bag, and I was gonna tear a new hole
in his ass. Scared the Jesus. Really, okay, Gregg, what
do you doing at the hotel? You're planning this little
d n No, I'm not planning a date night. No
more date nights. No more date nights. Bore we getting
(12:31):
second marriage? No? No second? Why don't we do that
so soon after the first one? No? Why don't we
do a second marriage after the first one that soon?
I'm not planning any of that. What don't you understand
about this? I tried to make it as clear as possible.
I left. I'm gone. I don't want to be married
to you anymore. This has been a year of h
(12:52):
E double l L. You never spell curse words. Who's
holding you under dress? Nobody? Nobody's holding me under the rest.
Stop acting like this is something that has happened to me.
I left. Think about everything that I left. I took
the suitcases. I took the left over boxes, the cereal.
(13:13):
I took the booty pebls with marshmallows. I took the
oops all berries. Yes, I even took the Cashi go lean.
I don't even like that. It makes me dukie. You know, Greg,
I had become really good friends after that scared and
we realized we had a lot of common. We played
our arrival high schools. We played football rival high school.
Can you believe it? I was an Archbishop Bryan, he
was at McDevitt. Mm hmm, this is so crazy. I'm
(13:35):
putting the clues together before my eyes. I can't believe
I didn't see it. You have been mind controlled by
Detective Mullins this whole time. It's been an inside jaw.
It's just like that movie Searching where Debra Messing is
the one that was the one that hurt the kids. Spoilers, spoilers,
(13:58):
spoilers at the years you should have seen it. Okay, listen, Greg, Greg,
let's speak in our little special language. Tell me where
to pick you up, and I will grab you. I
will grab you. I will fight off Mullins with my
fucking teeth. If I have not mind controlled by him.
I'm not mind controlled by anybody but my religion, the
tempresent nation. That's the only thing that I'm controlled by. Yeah,
(14:22):
and there's a lot of good stuff that he's been
telling me about this religion. I think I think I'm
going to join up. Open your eyes. Open your eyes
and see the light. Now I'm seeing it clearly. Okay,
I thought Mullins was mind controlling Greg, but in order
to trick me, Mullin's mind controlled Greg to seem like
he was mine controlling mullets. This is so fun. This
(14:44):
is so fucked Brimley. If you if you just accept
your higher power at this point and say you're ready
to move on, you know, and replace Greg with the
higher power, I think you're gonna be a lot happier
in your life. All right. I had nothing to do
with this. Really the best thing that happened for me
as I came out with a new friend and eventually
Salvation and we talked about you. We talked about the
(15:05):
fact that you like to clip your toe nails right
when I'm eating breakfast. That's the t and they fly
right into the fruity pebbles, right into them. I don't know.
I don't know marshmallow from toe nail. So what. Okay,
we're married. All body parts are getting inside of body parts.
Who cares? That's not the same thing. Speaking of which,
we haven't done that in a long time. You know
(15:28):
everybody's body makes me sick. The last time we did it,
you threw up all over me. Yes, it was very
it was thick. Yes, I had all my minister on
that day. Greg, I don't understand this is coming out
of nowhere for me. We're in love every single day
for a year, in our beautiful, blissful marriage. We're literally
not a single problem has ever occurred. And then all
(15:50):
of a sudden, you quote unquote leave. I mean, is
it so unreasonable that I believe you were kidnapped and
murdered and putting out of a bear. If you're so
good at clues, thank about the clues that I've been leaving.
The note on the refrigerator, what did it say, Melons,
I didn't want to tell you there was a note
on the refrigerator because it was ultimately confusing. It said, bow,
(16:11):
I can't do this anymore. I'm out, Greg. The bottle
of vodka that I keep in the top of the toilet,
what did the label say? Okay, Moms, I didn't want
to tell you this because again, n I'm glad you
didn't tell me. I'm glad, actually it would have been
just a waste of time. It said have this toilet
(16:32):
vodka for when you're feeling sade Because I left you.
That's what I wrote on the bottle of Taca vodka.
I was still thinking about you, and that's why I
knew you loved for all these there so personalized, you know, listen,
I I love you as another human being who occupies
the same earth as I. You know, when I traveled
(16:53):
to Europe, people would say, why do Americans say how
are you? They don't care how you are. They don't
really want to know how you are. After I met you,
I realized that was true. I do not care how
you are, even when I ask you that. So I
love you in that way. I love you not like
a love song, baby. I love you like, you know,
(17:15):
like a commercial when people like pick somebody up at
the airport in a taxi, when they're the taxi driver.
They're gonna get that person to their destination safely. You
love me like that. Oh no, she's taking this the
wrong way. My own parents, I'm not surprised. Greg. You
(17:37):
a little sweet bug. That's so cute. I love you
like a taxi driver too. Also, you know, my mother
was eaten by ten thousand roaches, and you still call
me a sweet bug? Well, I mean, isn't it a
nice memory of your mom? If I said no, I
(17:58):
don't want to be a bug? I haight? Bugs? Well,
I guess that's our first fight, isn't it. We've we've
gotten into a multiple fight. We've got plenty of fights
our first fight, Mullins, Can you believe it? Put that
in the scrap bug? And you know my son intentionally
(18:19):
pukes on his dog. Don't you telling me? Are you
telling you who? You're telling it? Dude? Just tell my
group tell him to give me a cold. That's yeah,
your regurgitation expert. Stop hitting on all of my guests,
you fucking pervert. Mullins. I can't believe you're the only
one in the one yellow page that I saved because
(18:40):
you're out of control. Well, honestly, I'm proud of myself
for cracking this case. Greg. I'll see you a hole.
I'm saying to say, America until my new apartment kicks in. Okay,
wink wink ease, that's America. That's our house together. Don't
get backed up here? Do come here, come there and
(19:02):
Brimley lose my number fast? Okay, I won't. We're gonna
have free muffins in the lobby. Oh um, and since
I've kind of had this little happy ending, love you, Greggy.
I would be remiss if I didn't check in a
little bit about Peter Mullins. You're a detective. Have you
heard a sad story about some woman dress as a
bear who left a sad man and a sad story
(19:23):
about someone leaving somebody? No, it sounds like a Stephen
King's story or something. Sounds wild. Yeah, this would have
happened forty years ago in ames Ill. Okay, well, Peter,
it's possible your wife is dead, so maybe that gives
you a little bit of closure. It does. I've lived
living with that assumption for you. Well, that's very sweet.
(19:44):
So we all got our little happy ending. I'm with Greg.
Your wife's gone and we know that, and because we're
with each other. Okay, I'm gonna cry. This is so cute. Um. Well, guys,
thank you so much, and um catch me at the
Extended Stay American with my little hush. You got to
get out of here now I'm leaving me. I'm already
(20:06):
in the back grab that. Well. Thank you guys so
much for tuning in to too where we went on
(20:28):
a really nice adventure to find the love of my life. Greg. Um.
I'm currently stationed right outside our roof at the Extended
Stay America. We're doing one of these like fun little games,
um um, and I'm knocked on the door. I'm assuming
he's grabbing dinner for the both of us or something,
and he'll let me in. Greg, you didn't seek back
(20:53):
when I went to the bathroom, did you, Okay, So yeah,
he's probably grabbing dinner or something. Um. Let me fill
check with the front dost just to make sure, because
get get out of here. Let's turn yourself. Hey, I'm
waiting for my fucking husband to come back with our
dinner for two. He's getting a chicken from What you've
(21:15):
just heard is the final recordings of an absolutely unhinged
woman named both Brimley. Soon after that, she was arrested
for going to a state park and killing a bunch
of bears looking for a woman that's living inside one
of them. She's at Forest Lake State penitentially where I
hope she'll frankly be there for the rest of her life.
And I stole this audio from her, so I'm just
kind of like putting it out there into the world,
(21:36):
hoping it comes like a big thing for me. I
want to get a book out there in the world,
you know, just to kind of give my perspective on
the detective thing. You know, so this detective agamem Non.
Mullins you know, like comments, share subscribes, Send us to
your mom. You know, Mom's love me. Uh, Mullins out
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