My girlfriend cheated on me with my best friend…but it was “just a prank”? | Reddit Stories | EP1961 - ok storytime

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My girlfriend and friend tried to pull a cheating prank,
but didn't expect me to break.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Up with her.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
That's the real prank, the loss of your relationship gotcha.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, I, twenty six male, broke up with my girlfriend,
twenty five female of two years because of something that
happened recently. And now my friends are saying that I
massively overreacted. But this comes from a user a match
character thirty one seventy eight on the r slash Okay
story Time style about it. So, a few days ago,
my girlfriend in a close mutual friend decided to play

(00:32):
a prank.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
On why the prank was that they filmed the scenario.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
They filmed a scenario where I caught them in bed
together pretending they were hooking up.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Why.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
They had set up a hidden camera in the bedroom,
and when I walked in, I saw him in just
boxers and my girlfriend in just a bra and panties
straddling him, acting like they were hook up.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
But the thing is that it's not even a prank
at that point, they're they're unclothed straddling each other. That's
not there's no prank that they did that.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, to make it even more realistic. It gets worse,
ladies and gentlemen. They even made some noises and tried
to act like it was happening for real.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
So they were incredibly intimate.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Basically like you said, there they are in very.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Little clothing, getting all up in each other's girls.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Right, they're blocking the scene.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Very bad, very bad. I was shocked, furious, and immediately
confronted them as I thought it was real at first,
like an actual betrayal. And then I walked out of
the room started leaving the house when they followed me,
screaming it.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Was just a brank, It was just a brank.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
And then they showed me the video that they'd been recording.
To be honest, I felt completely betrayed, not just by
the idea of the prank, but also because of how
they had gotten undressed to film it. Yeah, and even
more than that. I know it's meant to be funny
to some people, but for me, it felt disrespectful and

(02:08):
I was hurt. The whole thing felt like a violation
of trust, even though I knew they weren't actually cheating.
I told her I couldn't be in a relationship with
someone who would do something like that, and I ended
things right there.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think that's fair.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
She's devastated.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
They have just broken up, and our friends have been
telling me that I overreacted. They think it was just
a harmless prank and I should have taken it better.
But I can't shake the feeling that it crossed the
line for me, especially with how intimate and uncomfortable it
felt to see them in that situation, even if it
wasn't real. Now I'm left wondering if I made the
right decision. I'm starting to doubt myself because everyone else

(02:47):
seems to think I blew it out of proportion. And
we have an edit edit. I did not expect this
many responses. Thank you guys. She posted here earlier and
sent me a link.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
To her posts.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
We've got some reddit on Reddit action action.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I wonder what she like, how she's gonna try and
spin it.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I pray this is one of those long stories where
we get the other p of I'm praying.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm praying.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
She posted here earlier and sent me a link to
her post. I know she wants me to watch the
video to prove it was all set up and planned,
but I feel like she still doesn't get that I'm
upset about her disregard and disrespect for me and our relationship. Anyways,
I'm going to sign off for the night, but the
relevant commenters haven't signed off because we got some.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Let's get into it.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Ah ah, says the massive A holes. Yeah, I think
would know about A holes. You know, it uses the letters.
So many months is a long. So there are things
that it's okay to joke about or print someone with,
like putting marshmallows and someone talk cocoa and then not
doing that.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Sophia's signature.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Fear of spiders A rubber spider in a drawer is fine.
Afraid of snakes put a rubber snake on your driveway
while your at work is fine. Not as abatable. But
we're gonna keep going where you afraid of poop fake poop?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
You know what, I don't think I understand the concept
of prey.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Let's talk about it after this, so thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, most people just drive over it or hit the brakes,
but this is not But this is not something to
prank someone with. You and her had an intimate bond,
I assume, and she decided to pretend to have an
intimate bond with someone else for a prank in film it?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Why why film it to post it online?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
If they post it online, it's probably to make you
look bad, like you're such a weak man that even
though you caught her cheating, you still want to be
with her. Not the a hole. She was either going
for attention or trying to make you look bad. And
Ope responds. I asked her what she planned to do
with the recording, and she said she had hoped I'd
come to find it funny too and be on board

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with her posting it on YouTube. Why the fu she
would think that I would be remotely interested in doing that.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
I will never know.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Doctor Lucia. Uh, you made the right decision. Other people
don't get to decide what sort of prank goes past
your line for pranks. This is true. If your ex
girlfriend really was devastated, maybe she'll learn that trying to
pull elaborate pranks can backfire on her and she won't
do it to other people in the future. Not the
ahle Opie responds, thank you. I was going crazy with

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everyone around me, gaslighting me into thinking I am overreacting.
Conspiracy theory. I wasn't even gonna say.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
That at the end of it. They're gonna be like,
we pranked you. We actually do think that was crazy
for her to do well.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
On one step further, they planned this whole the girlfriend
and like everyone in Opie's life plan saying, hey, we're
gonna do this prank where you know, I'm pretending to
like make out what rev and you guys all have
to gaslight him into thinking he's wrong and it's just
one big We know he's gonna try to break up
with me, but then he's gonna walk in and we're

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gonna all gonna be like it's a prank, like a
hippy birthday surprise.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
And then totally destroy his entire worldview.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yes, yes, that Wow, wow, I love how we accidentally
created this experiency together. This environment sixty six twenty seven says,
not the a hole and you were not comfortable with that,
And that's okay.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Classic reddit, classic reddit response, do what you feel is best.
Uh And on a side note, there is no reason
to strip down for a dumb prank like that, lull
and straddling in your undergarments.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's just disrespectful.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
That's the thing I should disrespectful.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
That's the thing.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Opie responds, this was a whole other thing. I told
her they didn't need to do that.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
She said that she.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Was trying to make it more believable. On to twenty five, says,
so two adults who were comfortable enough being in their
undergarments together and assuming a spicy sleep position. Think you
are overreacting, Opie, I can't make sense of it either,
this environment, responds back. No, that's crossing a line and

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can be seen as cheating by some. To be honest,
what was the point of the prank just to hurt
you for kicks and giggles. The whole concept of cheating.
Pranks are so stupid. Opie responds to that pretty much.
That's how I see it too, and she says I
am insane for equating it with cheating. Ultimately, what led
to the breakup was her not realizing how effed up

(07:38):
she was, how effed up what she did was, Which
I think is such a good point. He's like, it's
not even necessarily the prank itself, although that was like
very hurtful, it's not like you don't get it. And
we are at two different places of understanding to be
unified as a couple.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, she refused to apologize.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Right's tragic away. Understanding thirty four says, not the ahole
at all.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
They were nearly naked doing a prank that was designed
to cause you pain. They are at best insensitive idiots,
and so are the friends calling it a harmless prank.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's not harmless.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
The situation is something that causes harm, especially with how
intimate and uncomfortable it felt to see them in that situation,
even if it was even if it wasn't real quote unquote,
but it was real in a way. They might not
have had a spicy sleep in that instance, but she
was in her bra and undergarments straddling him. Why was

(08:37):
she so comfortable doing that? I would never do that
with any of my guy friends. They could have kept
their clothes on and just made noises while sitting apart
behind a closed door. Even then, crazy.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Crazy, But at least it's not actually being in a position.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
That's better.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's like third degree not fore Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
like that.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
That would be actually a bad prank. But that would
have actually been a prank.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
This was just doing what they did was intimate. It's
so clear the way they are comfortable with.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Each other in that way.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
I am not fully convinced that nothing has ever happened.
The competent says, she can be devastated all she wants,
but hopefully this serves as a lesson to her to
respect the relationship that she's in move on to someone
more mature and ready to be in a committed adult relationship.
Opie response to that, I've never considered it might even
be real to some extent, but yeah, come to think
of it, I would definitely not have been comfortable if

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I were in the same position had the roles been reversed.
Darth pimpin sixty nine says, I'm curious whose idea it was.
If it was the ex girlfriend, then that's messed up.
If it was the friend, it wasn't a prank. He
wanted to break you up. Yeah, yet a third conspiracy theory.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Lots of conspiracy theories.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Whoa Opie says, Apparently they came up with the idea
together a few days before they did it. Q Tatum
seventy four says, easy reality check. If you had done
that to her, what would her the action be? Ask
your friends the same thing, not the a hole, Opie responds.
She said she would have been shocked at first, of course,

(10:08):
but then found it funny, knowing how jealous she can get.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
I don't believe it for a.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Minute, and she's yeah, I'm even more in the camp
of they cheated together and are trying to find some
elaborate ruse to like cover up if someone brings up
the past. I think so infinite Wish seventeen sixty three says,
not the a hole. How does your girlfriend of two
years not know you well enough to know what you
would find funny? Another great point, Even if you prank

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each other all the time, she should know you and
what you would find actually funny. If you're not laughing,
it's not actually a prank. It's just them hurting you
and then blaming you for being hurt. Opie says yep
I told her that. She says she wanted to try
something new and unexpected and didn't think I would feel
so strongly about it.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
I wanted to try straddling your friend, dude.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I love how it's something new and I'm expected as usually,
like you and your partner in bed, And she's like,
let me, let me get your bet. Your friend in bed.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Is my third party.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Let me, let's do that.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Form ten forty shout out to Taxes says, uh, never
talk to either of these idiots again. Were they gonna
put this video online? Opie says, Yeah, that was the plan.
Let's try to find it. Hopefully we hopefully it's in
the story. We will see Excellent Highway eighty eight four
says your friends aren't your friends if they're really supporting

(11:30):
your ex girlfriend and saying that you're the one overreacting. Honestly,
I wouldn't want people like that around me. And what outcome?
Did the two of them expect you to be okay,
funny hahaha and be able to move on and trust
them both? You walking out is underreacting and just breaking
off the relationship is definitely nowhere near overreacting. A lot

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of people would have resorted to some form of overreaction
with their hands put in that situation. These hands are
ready to eat for everyone. And yet you were the
mature one and walked away. Be proud of yourself and
how you handled it, not the a hole. Yeah, do

(12:13):
we think at this point? I know we talked about like, oh,
take a second to talk about it, but yeah, was
there was there any part of Opie's reaction that was overreaction,
would you say.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't think so. And it also seems like ope,
I mean, based off context of what Op's saying in
these comments, that he did give her a chance to
say sorry and apologize and she was just so unapologetic
the whole time.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Maybe in that moment right where it's like he caught
her and and and he was like this is and
she's like, oh, it's just a prank. It's just a prank. Yeah,
looking for her to be like do you sorry? Like
that funny but you know what, you're right, or like
I didn't mean to hurt you. But yeah, I gets
she from I believe what we've read. She never said
any it's still not and it's still not.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, Like maybe I wonder is there a world where
she had come back and been like, hey, I was
just in the moment and now that I've had, like
want like a beat to think about it, I was
so completely in the wrong.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, I think if she had come back, I mean,
Opie would still have been the right to break up
with her if you want to, but I think there
would have been a path forward that.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I was gonna say, like, do you think do
you do you think if she has a full apology later,
should he take her back?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Nah, it's too late. Yeah, I think it's too late.
She doubled down too many times.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I feel you, Opie says. My immediate reaction was shocked,
which is why I walked away. But as soon as
it sunk in, I would have gone back and beat
him up. And she knows it. Oh, she says she
wasn't going to let it get that far. Too little
MSG says, I bet this was a prank to throw
you off the scent, which is what we said. How
comfortable did they seem? Opie says too comfortable? And he's

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not a long term friend of mine or hers either.
We've known him for just over a year. Again, that's
all I'm saying. Saund Gangster says, I hope you show
her this thread. Not the a hole, Opie said. I
shared this post with her, him and my friends so
they'd get off my case and see what others have
to say about this. Say the Turtles eleven twenty six says,
not the a hole. I'm curious as to what your

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supposed friend has to say for himself.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
How is he justifying your ex.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Grinding on him in their undergarments and moaning in pleasure
as being funny. Is he claiming that he didn't get
at least uh oh semi semi strong censored having your
ex grinding on top of him, and he can look
at you with a straight face and think they did
nothing wrong, Opie says. They say they didn't grind. They

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that she just sat on him like it makes it
any better.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Someone else shook the bed Mormon style.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Straight soaken, ladies a gentleman.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
The BYU addition edit to ask is the mutual male
friend in a relationship with some one if so House's
partner taking the prank update me Opie says she mentioned
a while ago that she finds these pranks on YouTube
and TikTok hilarious. But I never suggested I liked them,
or watched them, or had any interest on being on
the receiving end of one. No, they didn't tell anyone.

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They planned and executed the whole thing themselves. He puts
on his pants and chased after me just as she's yelling.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Bro, it's just a prank.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Key is single.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Friends watched the video and thought it was a funny.
Prank KERR four curs says, what conclusion. If they can
fake cheat, what's stopping them from real cheating? Jumping to
conclusions in my opinion, would be something like accusing them
of lying about recording a prank. As far as you
and we know it was an insurance policy to gaslight

(15:49):
you in case you caught them, which again we've said,
but saying it was disrespectful, poor taste, and just outright
cruel isn't jumping to conclusions.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
It's just stating facts. Opie responds.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Some are accusers of her sleeping with him, which I
totally understand and can't shake the possibility of it being true.
She says she's hurt by this accusation. Sassy Taquito says,
are you still pals with the guy or is it
just your ex girlfriend you're mad at. Opie says, nope.
I told him off for partaking in this and cut
him off as well. While Gonner in nineteen eighty one says,

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did they know that you were home with them? What's
the context there? Or did you just walk in and
find them? Opie says, I came home heard sounds coming
from the bedroom. When I walked in, I found her
On top of that, that's.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Actually a good question. How did they know how long
it would take for him to get back, Like, did
they know was he late? Was he early? Was he time?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
The one thing, and we have this update we'll get
into in a second. But the one thing I will
say to debunk that theory is they had the camera
set up already, unless the camera wasn't for a prank video,
which I just realized as.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I was saying it, and how.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's bad, which is totally plausible.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, totally possible.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Because I'm just wondering if he like, let's say he
was there's one possibility where he texted and said, hey,
I'm on my way back, and so they were like, okay,
let's set it up. We'll set it up. Yeah, or
they didn't know when he was coming back, and they
just kind of like they were like.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, just kidding that.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
God, there are like ten conspiracy theories here. All of
them are awful and very possibly true.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
They're all jumbling around.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Well, let's see if we get those from this update
four hours later from.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
The original post.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
This is just hot off the press, So this is
a reposter's note. Usually I don't post multiple povs, but
in this case.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
He said that he showed the post to his ex
girlfriend and friends and also said that she made a
post herself that's now deleted.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
And this is the post.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yes, girlfriend, it's a Krushers miracle everyone. So uh, ex
girlfriend says, I think my boyfriend is overreacting for breaking
up with me after my caught cheating prank.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Am I the a hole? So got him?

Speaker 1 (18:30):
So my boyfriend posted here a few hours ago and
shared the link with me to show me what people
thought about what I did and that he is not overreacting.
I thought I'd come here and give my version of
events for a more nuanced takes.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Just really add a couple of perspectives in here, maybe
a couple of positions. So well, it's all about the contest.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
I planned the cheating prank with our close mutual friend
several days ago. We were hanging out m hmm and
scrolling through TikTok videos hmmm, and came across prank shorts
between couples. That's cheating right there, watching TikTok videos with
someone else. It's not your.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Dude, it's suspicious.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
This is not helping, This is not helping your case.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
We went down the rabbit hole and ended up watching
YouTube videos of cheating pranks, and I mentioned it would
be funny to try a cheating prank on my boyfriend
to find out what his reaction would be. This is
also her telling on herself that she's the w.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, because I just said, they both came up with it.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
He said that he would do one with me, and
I agreed because it was someone my boyfriend liked and trusted,
so I thought it would be harmless. It started out
as a hypothetical plan, but over the course of a
conversation and while hashing out the details, it turned into
a real plan and we agreed to the day that
we would do it when my boyfriend would be out

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come back home and find us together. By the way,
it kind of does sound like they live together. I think,
just picking up clues.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
But me know, I digress.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
We set up the camera and filmed ourselves talking about
the prank and set it on top of the dresser
in the bedroom and got into position. We were laughing
throughout it, and that was all on videos.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
It's even worse. They were unclothed on top of each other,
laughing it's too intimate.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Right, yeah, because I was gonna say, is got into position?
Does that mean there are they literally just like just
like staying like like no.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
They're laughing. There's movement going on.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's you know, the shakes from the last for the last.
That's a whole nother kind of soaking, you know. Late Uh.
To make it believable, I told him to take off
his shirt. He said that I should probably do the
same time.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Oh, come on, this is classic. This is a classic line.
This is like when you're like, oh, it's so hot
in here. No, no, liar, I've never done that.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
That seems like it would be top five in Riley's.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Book.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
So then he thought it.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Would be even more believable and provide that shock factor
if we also took off our pants. Ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
This was a terrible idea, but I agreed to it.
You know how the rest of the story went from
his post. But what he didn't mention is that he
refused to watch the video I recorded, showing that it
was a planned prank and that we only took off
our clothes and got into spicy sleep position when we
knew he was home.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Okay, so to be clear from earlier.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
So we have proof they didn't assume position until he
opened the door and then presumably ten seconds later or less.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Oh yeah, walked in to them.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Kirsten says, I've also seen like like fake cheating pranks
with mannequins. She wanted to be safe. If she want
to be safe, I'm sorry she could have used a mannequin.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I mean, if she wanted to be safe, she wouldn't
have taken off her clothes.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
If she wanted to be Yeah, she wouldn't even entertain
the life let.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Alone, suggests Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, like and and again like, yes, they didn't have
a conversation about it, but it's like one would hope
that after this long, you would know your partner well
enough to at least have some sort of inclination onto
whether or not they would like this. My girlfriend loves
prank videos, but some of them I've watched with her

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and I'm like, these are insane, Like they are like
like worse than this.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yea, I had to watch a lot of prank videos
back in my thumbnailar days and they were crazy.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
That's true. That is true that.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I was like, these are insane, and you should know
what an actual prank is to study.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Well, they were bad, so I understand.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
The next girlfriend continues, I understand that this prank was
extra and hurtful to him, and for that I am sorry.
But I am not cheating on him, and I did
not mean to disrespect our relationship. I think him breaking
up with me is a massive overreaction because other than
this incident, which I now massively regret, our relationship was great.
We shared two wonderful years together and moved in together

(23:26):
over the summer.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
So there it is, there, it.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Is there, it is.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
We don't want to go back to pay in full rent. Okay,
it's expensive out here. I plan on deleting the video
and won't be sharing it on social media, but I
will share it with him first for proof of my intentions.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
And everyone voted that the girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Was the a hole.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Shocking.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Now we have a response from op coming up. How
are we feeling of the girl right now?

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Chat?

Speaker 3 (24:01):
The same the same, not redeemed herselves?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
She did.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
She did apologize barely.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, I feel like she apologized for Reddit. Yes, but
it doesn't seem like anywhere does she actually feel remorse
for her actions.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
I I one hundred percent agree. The lawyer.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Princess says it takes just one bad day, responding to like, oh,
we've been together for two years, exactly absolutely you can.
You can you know, build up trus for years and
lose it in literally one second by doing something terrible.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Built in a day, and it was also destroyed, not
in a day.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
But Sophia Donner twenty twenty four, almost twenty twenty five, Uh, I.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Could do a lot in the day, is my point.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
This is true.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Cherylde says, Uh, stripping down to your skivvies with a friend,
quote unquote is a holary for sure. Sophia Collen says, worse,
she isn't understanding where where he's coming from. I think
I think that is honestly the biggest like piece of
the puzzle here and and is correct because again it's like, Okay,

(25:10):
if she like doesn't fully understand where I'm coming from
and why I'm so hurt about this, what else is
going to transpire in our relationship that she's.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Just not gonna understand, that.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
She's not gonna understand, and she's not only gonna hurt
me in those instants, but then have the same dismissive reaction,
not like uh acknowledging and uh appreciating my feelings exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, so true, so so true.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Bug says, why would you want to put your partner
through that shock? Anyways? Just gross? Again, Like I just
I feel like being in a relationship is like avoiding that. Yes,
that moment of like feeling like your partner betrayed you.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Absolutely, like the fact the fact that she was she
snitched on herself. She said that she was the one
that suggested the idea to him and that, and then
I think, like you were saying, like it kind of
became a thing where it's like actual, like like cheating,
where it's like, oh, like, oh, why don't we take
a shirt of Oh why don't take our pants off?

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Like ooh what if what if we get on top
of each other? Oh what if we?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:18):
I will say the only conspiracy theory that I think
that we thought of that is probably not true is
that they were filming a spicy video. I think they
did actually set up a prank, But I do believe
that even if they didn't consciously realize it, they were
like essentially yeah, lightly.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
I mean, there's no way there was no butterflies going
on there? You know exactly what if we don't know
took off our pants. It's it's too much, it's too much.
But you know what's not too much? This story?

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Opie's response, who the ex girlfriend?

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Hat?

Speaker 1 (26:59):
So we have we have some some comments where where
where Opie responds to it. So Scott saywe Scott sway
Hey says, get another friend to watch the video. Opie says,
all our friends watched it and said it was obviously
just a prank and I should not be breaking up
with her over it. Save Turtles eleven twenty six says

(27:21):
what does the video show that they did? And what
does he specifically have to say for himself? Man to
man about betraying a friends trust for a prank that
wasn't even remotely funny. Opie says, never saw the video,
so that confirms that, and I stopped answering his messages
and calls. Academic respect twenty seven eight says, OPI, you

(27:43):
say you watch the video. In the edit, you say
you haven't watched the video, leaning towards this post being
a prank.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Hmm, oh, they're.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Like you said that you haven't watched the video, but
like earlier, you said that you did watch the video,
so I don't trust this post.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Hmm. Interesting.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
The guy girlfriend made a new Reddit account apparently, Opie
says in my original post, I said they showed me
the video as I was leaving the house.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
I should have clarified they were.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Chasing me, waving the camera with the video recording, and
we're trying to show me the recording, but I left
the house without seeing it. I haven't seen the video
as of yet. And now we get into the big update,
new updates. My ex girlfriend was really upset with all

(28:34):
the hate she received online and blamed me for painting
her in a bad rind.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
You painted yourself girls a self portrait.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
It wasn't a painting, it was a picture because it's
all reality.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Oh it was a video actually?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Ah? Yes, I told her I did no such thing.
She just didn't like that she got called out on
her behavior. The mutual friend, who is part of the
prank is now also pissed off at me, saying I
went way overboard. What's that saying about the pot and
the kettle? I told him I told them both to off,

(29:09):
and I have blocked their numbers. Our friends have since
started taking this more seriously after reading some of the
comments on here, with a few taking my side and
saying what my girlfriend and the friend did was horrible.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Too little, too late, a little too late.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Honestly, others still think this was all unnecessary and I
just should have just laughed it off and moved on now,
Opie responds, before deleting his account.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
This is such a drop the mic.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
But we're only halfway through the story.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
So this is isn't just more comments.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
We're gonna find out Penelopie shots says that was one
heck of a crap test.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
They were trying to pull on you. How much of
a simp.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Is match character? A little? Which is Opie?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
If they could have convinced you to get over it?
They figured they could convince you every time she was
cheating with him or did something else to massively disrespect you. Uh,
you have a strong backbone and you're not afraid to
use it. Also, how often do they hang out alone
together for hours at a time. Looking at TikTok, clearly
he doesn't think she's a platonic friend and she knows it,

(30:18):
thus her suggesting this prank and suggesting that she take
her clothes off for it. So why are they hang
out alone, which is a.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Very good question. I'm also very curious about. Yeah, I'm
breaking up over the prank.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
It's the TikTok thing, scrolling for hours watching TikTok prank, cheating.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Cheating, TikTok pranks. Pretty damn.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
It seems like they're trying to communicate without words, but
like every other without saying, hey, I want to hook
up with you, but every other possible way, like well,
let's watch a bunch of cheating videos.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Oh, let's take off her shirts.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
That's the thing. It just feels like, uh, like a line,
you know, Like it just feels like line that they're
using to not outright say it.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
But yes, they should be politicians because they could get
away with so much stuff, with all this crap. Opie says,
I never thought he had malicious intent. He would sometimes
come over and hang out with her when I'm at
a friend's house or at the gym or busney working,
same with our other male friends. It's fed up that
she's so comfortably took off for clothes in front of him,
already blocked both, I do have to say real quick

(31:26):
shout out to op for his security because a lot
of people would not be like I've had many female
friends and all that stuff. Like a lot of people
and like everyone's temperament is different, which is fair. You know,
you you can come together and figure out the terms
of your relationship.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
But I feel like a lot of people would not
have been secure enough to not have a problem with that. Yeah,
not that it's bad to have a problem with that necessarily.
I like the zero BS tolerance that they had. That
was good.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
And then and then when it crossed his line, He's like, Okay,
this is cross my line.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
I'm out.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
I'm exactly a lot of self respect.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
I kind of like Opie, kind of this is good.
This is a good I grab a few drinks with him,
watching him drink.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Would you pull any pranks with him? Uh? Well, Penelope
Shots responds back to that, do you hang out alone
with female friends while their significant others work. It's not
something guys do unless they are interested in women.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Not true, that's not true.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
I don't know, Penelope Shots say, stating in that's not true,
Miss Shots, brothers and sister.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah, but also, but that's the thing, like, you you
can have a relationship.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
And her allowing it made him think that she was interested,
and you allowing it made him think that you were
a sucker and he didn't respect.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
This is the wrong lesson to take away.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
I wouldn't have any guy friends coming over to hang
out alone while my husband is at work.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
It gives the experience of my impropriety because it ain't kosher.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
How old is?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Penelope shoots old enough?

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Oh bother, I can't have another man folk the parls
and see my ankles.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Well, Opie responds, no, I don't. I trusted her and
trusted her to respect our boundaries, but she clearly wasn't
worth the takeaway.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
That's the takeaway.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
She wasn't worth trusting it. Opie's like, sorry, I'm self secure. Yeah,
hey John, we don't trust you.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
We still don't trust you.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
We will never trust you.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Trespastors will response, OPI, you are right, you are right,
and how you reacted right to dump her and right
to cut off the friends. No sane person would think
this was anything other than hurtful. What blows my mind
that she wants you to watch the video so you
can see her true intentions.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
But what were her true intentions?

Speaker 1 (34:07):
She wanted it to be as real as possible, to
inflict the most amount of shock and pain on you.
How the heck does she think that that will somehow
exonerate her and make all of this okay. Her actual
intention was to hurt you. That's the point of the prank,
To make someone feel extreme pain and then extreme relief
that the source of the pain isn't real. To treat
your pain so lightly, to treat your relationship so lightly,

(34:30):
to treat straddling him in undergarments so lightly, all premeditated,
not wasted, not thoughtlessly, spur of the moment, actual plotting
to think of how to make you feel as much
pain as she could. I think you probably dodged a
bullet in ending things with her. She feels like the

(34:51):
kind of girl who will be telling you that the
guys she kissed at the bar didn't mean anything, or
the things that she did with the spicy dancer on girls'
night was just girls having fun, just girls being girls.
I think she exposed a basic values gap between you
that would surely have come up again in another context
the longer you stayed with her, which, again, like we said,

(35:14):
at that is seem I would I would say, is
one of the most important pieces here is just this
giant gap that it's just a misalignment, It's just not
doesn't make sense for the relationship. Opie says, Honestly, what
a waste of two years. I thought I knew her
and she knew me. I am not entertaining watching the
video of her straddling that guy and nothing but their undergarments.

(35:37):
Water Boy fifteen twenty three says how wasted were they
to come up with that scenario? Did anyone else know
about the prank? I mean, I guess since they recorded
it to catch your response, it would be a lame prank.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
But it seems weird.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
I've heard of more disturbing pranks between couples, but they
were really effed up and they're crazy. Kind of seemed
to match. Doesn't appear to be the case here with
both parties. OPI responds with two words, completely sober, stone cold,
stone cold, not stones. But that's the end, uh, Rightley,
we have another story, right we do? We got another story.

(36:18):
But yeah, I mean, just to quickly sum it up,
I mean, did op do anything wrong?

Speaker 3 (36:23):
No?

Speaker 4 (36:24):
I think I think Opie.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
You know again, I suggested in the beginning, like, hey,
maybe good to just take a beat and whatever else.
But I don't think he's like wrong in how he
approached it. That's just a alternative approach. But I think
Opie was very self secure.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
He didn't.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I think he did that because he knew he might
cross a boundary, like like attacking the guy. And you
know what, he knew, he knew his lines. He was
self secure.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
I'm not bad.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Yeah, I like it. I agree Conker, But.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
You know what else, I like this next story, this
next story. My fiance suddenly does want to marry me
anymore because of a disagreement we had a year ago.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
What now, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Why are you gonna hold on to it for a year.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
By the way, it's male thirty two and female thirty two?
So hi everyone. I have been with my fiance, Lola
Ola for almost seven years, and we've been engaged for
two of those years. We have twins together, male and female.
Three cute, and I thought we were happy. But this
comes from a throwaway bad manners too on the ur
slash okay stort time super it. So about a year

(37:34):
ago we had a small fight slash disagreement about how
she was raising our kids. But after receiving some feedback
from Reddit, I was able to see that I was
in the wrong and I was being incredibly offensive towards
my wife. This was on a different account that I
lost the info for, but everyone is very helpful, so
thanks again. I apologized and she seemed to accept my apology,

(37:54):
and I thought things were back to normal after all
of that. She seemed to be her normal self again
and we didn't argue slach disagree about that topic anymore.
In fact, we hadn't even had a minor disagreement for
months after that.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
I thought we were happy.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Well. We were originally planning to get married last year
October of twenty twenty three, but she ended up changing
her mind and saying she wanted to push back the
wedding a bit. I was a bit confused, and she
wouldn't really elaborate on why put ic you in the
comments if you see why with your ICU. She just

(38:31):
said it was stressful to plan a wedding with toddlers
and she needed some time, so I agreed. Well, she
just dropped a bomb on me out of nowhere a
few days ago when she randomly stated that she doesn't
think she wants to get married anymore. This was heartbreaking
to hear, of course, and I asked that we sit
and talk it out. She ended up telling me that
she doesn't think we are compatible after seven years question mark,

(38:55):
and that she thinks that we should go our own
ways and co parent. I am devastated. I pressed for
more information, like what made you realize this and why now?
And she basically says she felt like I didn't really
know her and that I didn't want to know her.
I thought this was ridiculous. I know everything about her.
I know her favorite color, movie and song, I know

(39:18):
her favorite food. I can read her body language extremely well.
Just to say when you're like she says, she doesn't
feel like I know her. I know everything, I know
her favorite color.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
It's pretty pretty surface level.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
That'll Hey, listen, people say your favorite color.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Is a key to their heart.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Ooh, it's what everyone says, Sofia's true. It's a quote
and effect.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
It's a quote like why is it your favorite color?
That's important?

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Now we're getting deep.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Now we're getting deep.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Where is your favorite color?

Speaker 1 (39:49):
When your favor this is getting this is getting this
is too much, it's too much.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I'm getting uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
So I do know her. We've been together for years.
She said a few more things, and apparently she's been
thinking over our relationship since that fight happened, since that
fight happened a year ago. She said it was eye
opening for her and that when I let her see
the post and she looked through all the comments, she
realized things about me that she had swept under the
rug for years and blown off as one time issues.

(40:19):
She went on a whole spiel about all these things
she had realized about me and how she didn't think
we should be together anymore. I don't even know what
she means. I think I zoned out for most of
her rant. Guys, he's so attentive, he's so.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
I know everything about her. She was talking to me.
I don't know what she said.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
But like like Tom Brady's record, I mean like he's
just like he's just so great, you know, and just
like thinking about that. And then she's like, so what
do you think? And I was like, uh, I think
you're the freaking best, babe. I know your favorite color.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Let's do this.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
No, I've literally never zoned up.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
So I zoned out for most of her rant because
I was blindsided and hurt by this, and I was
trying not to break down in tears, not because he
was thinking about Tom Brady's foot Archard, Okay.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
I offered to.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Go to couples counseling and individual counseling, but she said
it was too little, too late, and that I should
have done that. Slash offered that a year ago when
this all blew up. I don't even know what to
do now, and I think it's a bit unfair for
her to put all of that on me, just because
I don't think of therapy after a minor disagreement a
year ago, all caps, I'm no longer someone she wants

(41:24):
to marry.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
That's insane, Opie says. I don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
How can I get her to give me another chance
to see that I still love her and we can
make things work. What can I say to make her
change her mind? I'm so lost and I don't know
what to do. We have an edit, but super quickly.
Oh Bro just doesn't get it.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
But I know he doesn't get it. Yeah, No, Like
reading this, it really feels like he's like, I don't
understand why she's upset, Like she told me, but I
didn't listen.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Like, the only thing I could say here, and I
think that uh Opie's partner, basically from what she said,
was like, hey, it wasn't until like I really sat
down with myself and had had time to connect the doctor,
you know, took off the rose tinted glasses essentially that
I fully realize like how I feel about you and

(42:17):
us in this relationship. And now that that's happened, I
kind of feel like I see the clear picture, and
that clear picture says to me that we are not
compatible and we shouldn't need a relationship.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
But it feels like she was probably saying the.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
One and only thing I think you could possibly critique
her on is like, well, keep me more in the
loop as you're doing that.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
That's what I was gonna say, because I don't. I
do not like that she took a year, yeah, to
then tell him. I think that he's probably missed more
than a few cues. Yeah, But I do think that
waiting a year to tell someone, Hey, I'm still upset
over this thing, and I don't I think we're you know,

(43:01):
working when you're parenting together. I think maybe there should
have been more.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
That's true. Yeah, I feel some I feel some sympathy
for her because I you know, if this is how
like Opie reacts everything, I could see a world where
it's just like it's hard for her to bring up
these things because it's so non receptive. But at the
same token, it doesn't make for a healthy relationship dynamic

(43:28):
to withhold like just communicate everything like as quickly as possible,
because then you can actually like come to a consensus
and work on it.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
And yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Don't think I don't think a problem. If you've never
brought up a problem and then you bring it up
as a way to break up, I think it's I mean,
you can do whatever you want, but I think it's
it's maybe not the best practice.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
I agree that they I think maybe an alternative route
that could have happened here is like, like, for instance,
he did suggest couple's therapy. I think she could say, like, hey,
this is where I'm at, where I'm feeling, but yeah,
let's go to a couple's therapy. Let's like have a
third party help us like walk through this process. Not
to say and hey, that doesn't even mean she has
to stay in the relationship just as a means of like, Okay,

(44:12):
let me like use this to now to at least
we're you know, the year is past, where we're here,
where we're at, where we're at, but let's have the
conversation like goods to therapy and talk about it. I
don't know, let us know what you think of the comments,
because I'm very curious. It's it's a very like nuanced
dissection of it. But I'm very curious to what you
all think.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
But we're very nuanced here, very there's a lot of context.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yeah, but there's also a lot of edits here and
I'm gonna freaking read it to your face. I think
it might be a good idea to link the original
post with the details of our disagreement, as some people
are asking for the details and accusing me of avoiding
the question. So the post can be found here, Riley,
if we could click that, we're gonna check. We're gonna
check into that, uh, and then I'll read this. In

(45:00):
the meantime, I feel that you all have given me
a lot to think about and reflect on.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
I will no longer be replying to the comments, So
I'm gonna we're gonna pause right here and we are
gonna see the original post. So we're gonna read the
original post real quick, and then we're gonna.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Get right into the update. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
So, am I the a hole for demanding my fiance
stop teaching our kids bad manners? I see you, Hi,
Everyone using a throwaway because I don't went this on
my man, but I would like an outside opinion. My fiance, Lola,
and I have been together for five years, engaged for
a little over a year, and we have twin boys,
boy and girl two and a half. Also, just real quick,

(45:39):
Opie literally never mentioned her culture or anything in the
original part of the.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Post because he knew that he was in the wrong.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Yes, and to me, that proves he doesn't care. Just
saying our wedding is in two months. Lola usually takes
care of feeding the kids in the morning since I
work early, and so I never noticed this until recently.
I took a week vacation from work to just spend
time at home with my kids and Lola and started
to notice something that bothered me. Lola has been teaching
our kids bad table manners and sees.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Nothing wrong with it. I'm getting angry already.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
I hadn't noticed this before, as they didn't eat this
type of food for lunch, dinner, snacks, or eat it
all the time. So I guess they just missed it
as I wasn't home or she fed them other things
on the weekends. This morning, I was helping Lola make
breakfast and then I got the kids ready while she
brought their food out for them. As as they were
getting ready to eat, I noticed that they didn't have

(46:30):
any fork slash spoons. So I told Lola I would
get them, and she said there was no need. I
watched instead, and she gave the kids tortillas and she
ripped it into pieces that they were using with their
bare hands to grab the food using pieces of the
torch off bro.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
That is a utensil.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
No, you know what they should have known the should
have harder pieces of tortillas. Some call them chips and
then use that to eat it with.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Literally, this is crazy.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Literally this is oh my god, that off Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
But I bet you if he was if they were
using chips, there would be no problem. And could we
say even if h this even if it was like
my mom all the time, she's like, oh, John used
to like take spaghetti with his hands and just like
shove it all over his face because he's a fat
little baby.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
It's cute.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
They're three, they're two, like my.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
God, Like maybe again in the spaghetti scenario, maybe be like, hey,
you know.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Should be like eventually teach them.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
You know, like but not like what pisses me on
talk to me because right before this, Opie says I
didn't notice because she had been feeding them different food,
which implies that they are using utensils for different food.
So it's literally just specific to different foods. And I'm like,
the thing that pisses me off here is that clearly

(47:55):
they do know how to use work and knife they like,
they clearly already know because he hasn't noticed it before,
and so it's literally just dependent on what food they're eating.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Yeah, and again, it's a tortilla. It's a tortilla.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
It's meant to use that, like it's like using I
mean like it's like using a tortilla.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
They're doing what they're supposed to.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
It's a taco.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
Hello, tacos with your head?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Are you are you cutting up the taco?

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Because tacos are bigger and that's like proper eating And
God gave us forks to eat. I'm I hope it is.
I mean this so we're gonna keep going as painful
as it is. I asked her what she was doing, uh,
and that she should be giving them utensils, But she
seems shocked that I was concerned, and said that's how
they always eat it. I told her that she was
teaching them bad manners and making them think that it

(48:43):
was okay to just grab food with their hands. She
told me they do that anyways when they have chips
or grapes or tacos and pizza, and listed a bunch
of other snacks and fast food you eat without utensils.
But I pointed out that those things are usually made
to be eaten quickly or on the road like fast food,
and utensils aren't needed.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
What do you think the tortilla is for?

Speaker 1 (49:02):
My brother?

Speaker 4 (49:04):
She said.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
I was being offensive by calling her way of eating
gross and saying that it was having bad manners. But
I do think it's gross to see someone grabbing at
food with their bare hands like that.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Well maybe you should freaking wash your hands, you dirty.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
A.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Can you wash your brain? Can you like scrub out
all of them?

Speaker 3 (49:23):
He makes me so angry. This man has never had
Indian food. This man has never well, he's clearly had
never had any cultural food.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Dude, the dipping, the nod and not in any sauce.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Yeah, the knot. You grab the rice and the curry,
you eat it up, numb.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
I'm getting hungry, Stop hungry, Stop it.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
It was small though.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Oh, Sophia, sweet, sweet Sofia.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
She said she grew up eating like that and would
always use tortillas to eat things like egg like eggs
or meat, rice, beans, et cetera, and that it wasn't
gross because she's always made the kids wash their hands
before they ate. I grew up having my kids forks,
having forks for them to eat, which they didn't want
to use, which made me even more frustrated with her

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because now they're used to this. Lola has been really
annoyed the rest of the day and wouldn't let me
help her with lunch, and earlier she was walking around
the house speaking to someone, probably her sister, in Spanish
about me, and I'm starting to feel a bit annoyed.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
He probably also never even try to learn Spanish.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Zero percent? Am I the a hole?

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Yes? I hate you, brother, Yes, you're the a hole
and I hate you.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
So update, Hi everyone. We're still in the contact post here.
So hi everyone. This will likely be the last post
I make on the situation, as everything seemed to be
final about how oh it is not. This one is
made with my excess permission, and she will read it
over beforehand, as she thinks I am an unreliable narrator. Yes,
first of all, we have broken up good. She gave
me back the ring. Even though she said she didn't
have to and she could pawn it and keep the money.

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She didn't want to do that and give it and
gave it back to me. I think I will put
it myself and give her the money. Since she has
moved out of the house. She moved in with her
brother and his partner, who is actually able to get
her a job where he works, and she is apparently
starting next week. Even that is like oh her brother, surprise, surprise,
Like her brother just subtle.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Microaggressions. I believe we.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Will split our time with the kids since she said
she was able to get shifts that align with my schedule.
I have a pretty flexible schedule, but I prefer to
work the same day slash times every week, so we
will trade off the kids when each of us is
at work, and we are going to split the weekends.
We are going to get a custody agreement, but we
talked about it and agreed to a fifty to fifty
split and are going and we are both going to

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be cooperative, as I don't want to stress her out
and I do want to see my kids. I will
also be brushing up on Mexican culture. The one thing
he's like, yam.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
I'm gonna get the dust off of my one book.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Yeah, it's one page.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
It's his Spanish seventh trade a textbook.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Oh my god, como se dce.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
I will be also brushing up on Mexican culture so
that way I am able to participate in things with
my children, and I am looking to take some Spanish
classes as well so.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
I can communicate with them in both languages.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
I showed my wife the post the day after I
made it, and she read it over and read all
my comments and a lot of other comments.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
She took like two days to do this.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Afterwards, she said she wanted to talk and asked me
if I was serious when I claimed that I thought
she wanted to break up because of the one fight
about the food I said yes, because I was serious
and did think that, and she said she couldn't believe me.
I asked her to elaborate, and she got very mad
and asked me if I was really oblivious to my
own actions. I realized that I probably had been oblivious

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to my own actions and that I've been selfish, and
she kind of blew up and said something and asked
me if I need an effing.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
List so I could see all of the crap I've
been doing.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
I told her I would appreciate it if she could
communicate some of the issues and there was no need
for a list, and she said that a list would
probably lessen the chances of me losing focus while she
went on a ranch.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
On a rant ouch but deserved.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
We ended up having a long talk about it, and
she wanted me to include this in the post, so
out it below. Note these are just the things that
happened since the fight about the foods, so that's.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Just going to contain things.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
When one of her nieces had a kinsinera, I kept
calling it a sweet sixteen is.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Not even a sixteen, just fifteen.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
She has since explained to me multiple different times that
they were different, had different meetings, different cultural significance, and
different practices. Which fifteen and she's fifteen, not sixteen exactly,
Sophia said.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Dumb, idiot.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
She said, I still called it a sweet sixteen when
I would talk to people about it or mention it.
She said, I also embarrassed her at the party because
she felt that I was making fun of how.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Her relatives were dancing.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I believe that I to this day sometimes call her
her Spanish instead of his spanis Latina or Mexican.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
She said that there's a big difference and me slipping
up and forgetting is bs because.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
She's not from Spain.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Literally, idiot, this is something that like again five or
six years and he just don't know. When she was
pregnant with the twins, I told her she could give
them names that are miss that are pronounced in Spanish
so that her non English speaking family could say them easily,
and also since they are half Mexican.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Wait, so okay, my interpretation of that is he's like,
you can call her Maria and then just be like Maria.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
Yeah, that's so that way.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Yeah. Yeah, He's basically saying, like, give them, you can
givens that are pronounced in Spanish, but non English speaking
family could say easily yeah, okay, that's yeah, basically like, hey,
I don't want to like, uh, we can give them
a Hispanic name, but don't make it.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
Too don't go too much.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
We agreed that she could so long as I could
choose which name was.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
So as long as I can pronounce them.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Yeah, and I'm the final say Anyways, she said that
I have not held up my end of the deal,
and that uh we uh, and that when we were
at Christmas with her family in December, I obsessively corrected
her family members when they pronounced our daughter's name Elena
and kept saying.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
It's Lena, Lena.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
According to her, I did this more than six times
that night and she stopped keeping count. I don't know,
is he is he correcting the people for the correct
Spanish pronunciation or the English pronunciation.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
They are trying to pronounce it in a more like
the spin the true correct way, and he's like, no,
it's Alena. Yeah, And they're like.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Like he's he's he's he's going too hard on it
right on this.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
He's trying to make it more americanized.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Oh I see gotcha. Okay, that's what I'm trying to
clear up.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
So I didn't let her feed the kids Mexican stew
she made because it looked spicy. I genuinely thought it
was bro is just telling on himself so hard as
crazy spicy.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
It's vanilla babes up. It's just spicy, she said.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
She told me that she hadn't used spicy peppers, but
that night I fed them something else before the soup
was done, and she said I disrespected her and her
parenting skills. She feels like she is not allowed to
listen to her music or any Spanish music because I
will complain or change a song. She said that she
can only listen to your music when I am not home,
otherwise I will change it within a few seconds. She
said that there were other smaller examples there, but these

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are the bigger ones that she had already mentioned brought
up before, and nothing had changed when I asked her
why she stayed.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
With me for so long, and she didn't mention any
of these things.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
More. She said that she'd always had low self esteem
and she thought I was a good person slash partner
other than these things. So she talked herself out, so
she always talked herself out of taking a break, but
she was just over it.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Now.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
The thing is that she listened off really opened my
eyes and made me realize how selfish and unaware I've been,
and I know that I.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Needed to change.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
I apologize to her. I know it won't change her mind,
but that's okay. I just wanted her to know that
I do not regret my actions. I am not going
to ignore her or gray rock her like some people
were suggesting.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
I don't even know what that is, like stonewalling. Okay,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
As I want to remain amicable for our children, I
want us to have a good communication, and as I
don't want our kids to grow up with parents who
hate each other and can't have a simple conversation. Thank
you to everyone who left comments, especially the ones who
are harsh. I always want to correct a typo on
my last post where I said we were going to
get married in October instead of twenty twenty three. In
October twenty twenty three, it should have read October of

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twenty twenty two.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
Correct me if I'm wrong, Riley. This was like the
year ago, so it went.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
It went. First post we read and then we went
back a year, and then this one is present time,
if that makes sense. So okay, okay, so we've now
we're now fully caught up. Yeah, we're fully caught up.
In this new post that we just read, Schmid says,
how can you be racist and get with a Hispanic woman?
I don't get this guy. There are many people that

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lots of people do it like and and many times,
like op they don't even realize it. And maybe, if
we're gonna really really give them the benefit of doubt,
their ignorance could be like they're not even trying to
do it. Possibly, but there are many scenarios where someone
gets with someone of another culture and they are like

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Opie listened out, like he snitched on himself. He did
this so many times where he was doing these microaggressions too,
like he won't let her play her music, he won't
let her have the kids eat, like how the culture
spicer food probably.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Much more like able to handle that he is.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
Yeah, and again it's like not even necessarily always two
spice or whatever. It's the disrespect that he shows. She's like, no, yeah,
drado force. They are trying to whitewash their partner op
is like, this is totally outside my cultural norms.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
I'm I'm so yeah. All in all, like.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Sophia divorce or not divorce, I.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Think, is that like they could have maybe come around
had Opee not jump to breaking up. Well, I mean
they not even divorce, just break up, yeah, because they're
not married. But Opie just kind of assumed that the
relationship was over. Yeah, and his partner was like, what
are you talking about? I just wanted to hold off
of marrying you. Yeah, and then he continued with the breakup.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
So not only did he like completely disrespect her culture
and her and her parenting, he just broke up with her.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
He just like doesn't get it on every single level,
like every single level. And like, now, were there moments
where he was like like, Okay, I wanted to do
fifty to fifty split, I want to sell the ring
and give for the money. Yes, but he he has
to realize and acknowledge the whole laundry list of other things.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
MJ.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Grow says, I know, we made too many WASP males
that marry non white females and try to erase our
identity and culture.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Like it happens. It happens.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
So mean misogynists merry women all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Man, go so but so divorce, divorce, divorce, and we
are going to divorce this episode because it's over.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Sorry dang, but if you love us, make sure to subscribe.
We Love you and Cinema.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
This is an episode from Deep within the Archives.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Time for okop rewam. This is also insane because they
want to fire me for someone cheaper. Fine, all follow
the rules and burn this place to the ground. Here's
how my job was design and write software for big
high value customers NERD. And if these high value clients

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liked our work, they would go to a big engineering
team who would build.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Out the rest of the products.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Occasionally, I would run a prototype for a few months
while the customer was thinking about if they want.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
To go all in, I'll go all in.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
But Sam, yes, tell me, these projects require a lot
of data. Okay, I'm talking even when it's compressed over
a terabyte of data.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. Are
we talking like like like video data? Are we talking
just like text? Code data?

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Text?

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Terabytes of text? Terabytes of text is insane. Especially I
have a fun fact for you, John Oh, if you
were to guess all of Wikipedia, Yeah, how many gigabytes
if you just have the text version of text? Yeah?
And then how many gigabytes for the images?

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
I'm gonna guess kind of lower.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Five hundred gigabytes eighty eighty gigabytes eighty all of Wikipedia.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Wikipedia. That a sane six or six or twenty five
million articles. That's insane. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
I would have guessed more articles. Honestly, they have a
ton and it's maybe it might be sixteen million or yeah,
I would have guess one hundred honestly, undred million. I mean,
I'm I'm wrong, probably, but well, many things out all
we're talking in just English, Okay, okay, gotcha. Now, having
done all this work over the years, I've accumulated a

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small farm of hard drives from past projects. Oh yeah, which,
as you can imagine, could be very useful if a
customer needs old data. Like a customer comes back and like,
hey do we have do we have the data?

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Like I got it in my my hoarding storage of
my small army. Yeah, my my graveyard of freaking hard drives.
I'm just imagining.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
I uh, have you seen the episode of SpongeBob where
he gets really buff and has like pink arms, like
buff arms. I'm imagining there's a bunch of hard drives
with tiny buff pink arms that are just like freaking
soldiers just like guarding that data.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
If you guarding the data, ready to go to war
to protect your data?

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
Now that cybersecurity bro.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
But also this guy is sitting on a treasure trove
of like fucking overpower literally.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Like probably millions worth of projects oh data.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Yeah, and you could I mean you could do anything
with that data. You could could sell it online, You
could do anything to that data. Just they can do
anything to these cheeks. Oh, but here's the thing, Sam,
what is the thing? The kicker? Oh, kick me, daddy,
I will.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
The company refused to ever buy hard drives for this,
so I own all of the hard drives with the
customer data. That's like kind of shitty because a terabyte
hard drive is like sometime I like one hundred to
three hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Like nothing for what this is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Yeah, but it's a lot for individual, it's a lot,
But it's like for a company, it's like why would
you not? Yeah, like you shirk that that's potential, like
probably a million dollars of potential value for like one
hundred and fifty bucks exactly insane. But OP owns all
of it, okay, and it saved me a lot of
time just buying them myself. I ended up buying like
one or two a year until I accumulated ten terabytes

(01:04:27):
of hard drives.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
So man has ten hard drives. I guess he was
explaining like, oh, so many. I was expecting like like
hundreds of hundreds, just to give you a uh, to
give you an audience, an idea. In my hand, I'm

(01:04:51):
holding three terabytes, this is this is two, this is one.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
Well wait, wait to minimize the big reveal.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
But he spent he spent one thousand dollars on all
the drives over the years.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Okay, okay, I mean that's it's it's a decent nothing.
It's not nothing. It's not nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
But then unexpectedly the entire management changed, and the new
management thinks that they can replace the new management thinks
they can replace the old software guy with the cheap,
stupid new software grad.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Fuck the new software grad. So guess what're your engineering
degree from? Cal State Wichita?

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
Fuck?

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Yeah, cal state bumfuck can get you anywhere in this industry? CSBF,
do you think I've been I've been coding since since
you were, since you were learning your first I was
learning my first programming language when you were never learning
your first English language.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
A little bitch, you know, learn some damn respects. Yeah,
for your elders. And it gets sweeter, Sam. So they
gave me two weeks to train the new guy before
I'm laid off.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
That's so shitty, dude, just so.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Humiliating, so humiliate, Like, you're fired in two weeks, but
before you go, you're training the guy just.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Like everything that you've learned. Can you just like tell
that that new guy so we could we really want
to fire you, you're too expensive, just like give all
of your expertise to the new guy. That's that's a
pretty shitty business practice.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Super super slimy move, super slimy move. And Opie says, yes,
it's blatant age discrimination, but impossible to fight. So I
just went for a graceful transition to the next job.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Okay, So he said he did train, He did train,
not knows new engineer, then knows Brad is learning.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Except except I have one thousand dollars of personal disk
drives with old customer data that I own okay, and
the company insists that ex employees have to take any
company data off of drives that they own. So they
like the company owns, but he owns the drive. He

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owns the drive, so he has to delete all of
the customer data.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Hhmm, okay, yes, or he has a transfer it to
another He has to he has to to get rid
of it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Okay, he will, he will choose his method wisely. Okay,
let's hear now. I don't want to leave the drives
at the company, but they insist I delete all data
before taking them home.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
So I give them two generous offers.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
They can buy them from me or I will eventually
use them for something else, but I can leave the
data on them in case anybody needs it. But nope,
they refused my options. The new manager insists I delete
all data and all backups before I remove the drives.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Yeah, this is very short sighted. I have a feeling
Karba is gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Circle around pretty quick.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
So I said, okay, and that's what I did. I
deleted all the data everything. Six months later, I got
a flurry, a rush of desperate phone calls. Turns out
new software grad has been unable to build any new
prototypes whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
All of the old all of the old high.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Ticket customers are calling to get their old prototypes updated,
and the new software grad has no idea how to
do that. It went all the way up to the
executive VP, who is now calling me and begging me
what would it take to bring me back to do
my old job.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
My response, crawling back from the back. Please, I need
your hair. Please, I beg of you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Way in the tunnels is the lightest fading.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
The clients are leaving. We're dying.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
Resuscitate us, read that life and do a desperate lungs.
We plead for just another hour, another hour of existence.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
But you know Op's response, dam what, Sorry, I got
a new job. Yikes, Yo, I'm busy, bro. Maybe you
could freelance, though I just charge a ridiculous amount.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Maybe maybe, But I think I think OP is going
for the sweet delicious revenge angle. It's revenge that you
can't put a price on the sweetest rivenge.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
You know what I mean? Good revenge worth its weight
in gold.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
And then I told them, even if I did, I
can't modify the old prototypes because you made.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Me delete all of them. Fucking idiots, idiots, idiots.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
If I did want to modify it, I would literally
have to recreate everything from scratch. They do still have
the code, but all of the data is gone, so
basically everything they have is useless. Sorry, you screwed yourselves
exactly like I told you what happened. Hope whatever you
saved by hiring the cheap new grad to replace an

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experienced programmer was worth it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
I feel so bad for the cheap new grad. Yes,
he did nothing wrong. Like imagine that you just did
his college and like, oh man, I can't wait for
my first job. Yeah, and they put you into something
that like you are totally unqualified for and then you're

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just like desperately trying to keep above water, but you're drowning.
And then you're like, your fuck because no one's going
to hire you after that if it was such a
catastrophic failure.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
And you're and the employees is never going to be like, Okay,
you know, we're we're ditching this old guy, you know,
you know for you, like he's probably he's probably coming
into oh I'm just going to join the company, and
then he's like everything falls on him. It's true, he
was the innocent mindstander Yeah, yeah, I feel I feel.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Worse, worst, worst, I feel worst for for mister newcra Hey.
Hopefully find another great job. Denny's Subway.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
You know they're they're hot burger king. You know they're
they're the king.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
So you know, maybe you program that cash register. There
we go talk. You know, there's still gonna be work
for you, just maybe not in this field exactly. Sorry, sal.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
If you like this story, check out this one where
they overwork OP. So they decide to destroy the company
about deleting the.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Files, burn it to the ground. Huh okay op.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
These are the scariest stories on Reddit. Countdown to Halloween.
The neighbors invited me for dinner. All of my survival
instincts told me, I'm in danger.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Not a dinner party you want to go to?

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
No, not not, not, not very inviting. My next door
neighbors are an odd bunch. Sure, they have a bunch
of top of the line furniture vehicles, and everything was
honestly quite outdated. It looks like everything was old but
in between aged and antique, so they honestly kind of
just looked ugly. But like I said, everything looked really pricey,
like expensive. Paying me down space. I say next door neighbors,

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but they're really a couple miles to my right. We
all live in an expansive closed community, all with really
nice houses and acres of wilderness separating us. It's honestly
quite beautiful, and if anyone has the money to be
able to live in one of these areas, I would
highly recommend it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Some real estate advice.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
Yeah, I love that, as long as the neighbors aren't
quite like these ones. I get it, they're rich, they're eccentric.
Those often go hand in hand. But these people in
general have just always put me at unease. When my
wife and I were invited to go to their place
for dinner, I was an'n ecstatic about it, but my
wife convinced us to go and just check the place out.

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Maybe they were simply miss up understood the invitation was
a literal invitation. When I say outdated, I mean really outdated.
We had a letter hand delivered to our residents by
their butler, who.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Also gave me the creeps by their butler.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
By the butler like this makes me think of like
Scooby Doo weird butler coming from the manor to like
deliver this key mysterious invitation.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
I'm almost imagining like a red wax seal. Yeah, yeah,
you have to break the seal, and it's coated in blood.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
I could definitely see that. We opened it to find
the invitation beautifully handwritten inside with amazing calligraphy. The letter,
word for word went like this, Welcome mister and missus redacted.
Sorry for such a late welcoming letter. We seldom have
the time for such formalities, but found some time for tomorrow.

(01:13:51):
We would be most grateful to have you both for
dinner over at our manor and would love to share
our rich, familiar culture with.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
You and your wife.

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Hope to see you soon, Sincerely, the redacted.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
If someone calls their home a manner, run.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Literally the same run exact. I thought the same exact thing.
Something about the letter felt wrong, but when my wife
shrugged it off, so did I. The day came to
go over to their manner, but of course she came
down with a stomach bug and couldn't make so now

(01:14:30):
I had to go alone.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Oh, don't go into a strange person's home alone.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
I would not have done split up. Come on, say
you have hockey practice or something. I rived there on
what I supposed was on time, since no time was labeled.
I got there around four pm and was greeted with
an extremely attractive young man and woman. They were already
outside of the front door when I showed up, and

(01:14:55):
something told me they were waiting there for a while,
like you just got the feeling they were just standing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
There, standing there, watching, waiting, very so creepy.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
Everything about these people was flawless but dated. Perfect skin,
perfect clothes, perfect teeth, perfect hair. It felt like I
took a step backward in time. The only thing that
truly looked old were their eyes. I worked at a
nursing home as an adult, and I could recognize old
eyes anywhere. Walking into their house was truly a blast

(01:15:28):
of the past. It felt like I really time traveled,
except everything was covered in dust from lack of use,
except for the kitchen and dining room, which was already
set up magnificently. We had small talk in the dusty
lounge area for a couple of hours before we began
to eat. Nothing really stemmed from the conversations, but while
I felt awkward from it, they kept on smiling, but

(01:15:53):
not really with me. They smiled at me.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
I'm just imagining a smile. It's just like the transfixed look,
and you're just smiling, like where it goes from warm
to creepy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
When we finally went over to the dining area, we
passed by a door that was halfway open and faint
noises could be heard from downstairs. I guess my body
language showed an interest because the woman announced there was
nothing to be seen down there, twirled her fingers, and
the door magically slam shut. I thought I must have
been seeing something, but they kept heading on, so I followed.

(01:16:28):
Every survival instinct inside of me told me to leave
right away, but I wouldn't be telling the story if
I did. We sat down to eat and started off
with some wine. As soon as the first ship hit
my lips, I felt an instant craving to eat. They
must have noticed, because they sent out butlers with food
to me, well really only meat. I began to devour uncontrollably,

(01:16:52):
failing to notice at the time what I was eating.
They just sat there was eating watching. Yeah, so they
bring out literally just meat, no other sides, vegetables, fruits, salad, nothing.
I ate about three times what I normally could stomach.
In about half the amount of time it would normally
take me for a regular meal. After that, I felt

(01:17:13):
extremely bloated and sick, as one normally would after going
through such an endeavor of eating. Then they brought a
glass of liquor for me to drink, saying it's an
old family remedy that will make me feel better. I'm
not the biggest fan of liquor, but in order to
not offend them, I pretended to drink it anyways. Besides,
every cell in my body told me not to drink that,

(01:17:35):
and something was wrong. Even the whiff of vapor from
the drink made me feel unnaturally tired. Deciding that I
needed to purge what I ate immediately, despite it tasting
so good, I feigned stomach issues and ask where the
nearest restroom is. They told me through the kitchen and
to the left. I get up and walk to the kitchen.
After I was out of sight, I walked a little faster,

(01:17:57):
almost breaking into a light jog. I noticed absolutely no
one was in the kitchen right now, and found it finished.
Looking around, I noticed mine and my wife's photo laying
on one of the counter their photo, their photo.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
They had something planned. Why was it there.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
Curiosity got the best of me, so I took a
detour to take a look.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
I probably should have left by now, but I needed
to find out why that photo was there before I
headed over. Something in the invitation came to mind after
seeing a cookbook next to the picture. Next to the
photo was an old, tattered, handwritten cookbook already opened to
a page. I didn't pay much attention until I saw

(01:18:39):
a very detailed drawing of the human anatomy. There was
no title on the page, but it was the last
words on the page that shook good. Flesh is most
potent when victim consumes its own kind. And then my
stomach gurgled.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
He was eating human flesh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
She was eating human flesh. And potentially my theory, it's
a picture of him and the wife. The wife had
some sort of stomach issue and said she couldn't make it.
Was it potentially the wife that they took for the
hours while they were talking, They they took the wife.
They took the wife. He was chatting with them for
hours before they ever went to dinner. She had a
stomach bug. Eating their own kind could be interpreted as

(01:19:21):
just eating another human.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Or he ate his wife or he ate his wife.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
Oh god, and the drink that they gave him was
his wife's blood.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
Maybe not his wife's blood, but basically it was some
sort of chloroform like substance that would have knocked him out,
so that way, like the quote says, after he consumed
the flesh of someone else, his flesh would be better
for consumption.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
Oh my god, dude, cannibals are fricking insane. Yeah, all right,
I'm not going to sleep tonight. Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
Yeahsh no sleep. You have successfully done the job.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
Geez animals.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
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