August 17, 2021 • 49 mins
In the season finale of Truth Hounds, Anna and Kyle’s investigation into the tipster’s confusing object is thwarted by Anna’s refusal to share a deep dark secret. With the investigation at a standstill, Kyle attempts to get Anna to spill the beans in the interest of concluding the season. Will Anna spill? The beans? And, if she does: will they even be good beans?
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Hosted by Anna Seregina @cashmoneygranpa & Kyle Mizono @jylemizono.
Edited by Adam Wand @Adam_Wand.
Produced by Anna Hossnieh & Miles Gray.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of I Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for about a year now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle.
In middle school, I received the award most Enthusiastic to Learn,
so that makes me pretty special. And that is what
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makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are two friends
who love each other very much, but what we love
even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries. All mysteries, sure,
but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, No mystery is too small. No, no, no,
Why don't you trust me when I tell you we
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are ready to sniff around? We are the truth Hound. Hello, Hey, Kyle? Hi, yeah, Hi,
Hey it's Annah. Yeah. Hey. Um, are you busy right now? Yeah? Actually,
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I'm about to give a toast to my brother's wedding.
My back is turned, but I can feel very one
staring at me, and I'm pretending to wipe a stain
off my dress. But I just don't think I can
get away with it for much longer. Get it out? Yeah,
I mean mole obviously, but um, I actually I'm so sorry,
but we just we really do need to talk. Okay,
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we'll be right there, Hi, my friend, Thank you so
much for meeting me here. Of course, it's very tranquil today.
It is tranquil. It's a beautiful word, actually, tranquil. Yeah,
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and when I think of tranquil, I specifically actually think
of water. So it it's like the words perfect application
is to what we're looking at. But I have to say,
this investigation doesn't have me very tranquil. No, I actually
feel the opposite of that myself. I feel almost violent.
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I mean, let's think about what we've already done rest
for this investigation, right. So this person Whitney, came to
us saying, I don't know what the subject is. Can
you help me determine its value and give me ideas
of what to do with it? So we put our
heads together. We reached out to art appraisers, a person
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who works at a cool vintage store, a person with
good taste, and they told us that probably its value
is mostly determined by people who are fans of the
movie The Aviator. So we watched the movie and we
had maybe the worst night of our lives. I mean,
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I'm still in a bad movie. I still can't watch movies. Yeah,
I'm done for movies. I think the thing it sucks
is I shouldn't I shouldn't say anything, but I actually know. Ah,
you know what. No, I'm sorry. I never no, I
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actually I'm sorry. I can't. No, I can't, I can't.
Let's just let's just look at the water and wow,
what is this eagle? Yeah? It is? But I just
all right, Episode ten? What is art? Part two? So
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we didn't have a plan. Honestly, I didn't even know
where to look. Well, actually I knew exactly where to look.
Something happened with this person I know, and it was
so embarrassing. I can't go there. No, I'm done. This
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investigation was at a standstill. Did Anna just say to
you guys that she knew exactly what to do but
didn't want to talk about it. That's really frustrating. She
knows she can tell me anything. I mean, when it
comes to one another, we're basically open books. And you
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guys listening in right now, well you're basically family at
this point. So over the next couple of weeks, I
would meet up and hang out with Anna, business as usual.
Then when she least expected it, I confront her, Hey,
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I sorry, I'm l I where do you want to
go to to d eat um? I just I kind
of feel like, uh, I don't know. Maybe could you
can you tell me? I'm not going to tell you
get out of the car. Yeah, I don't know. I
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feel like that's that haircut is not it's not too extreme.
But I'm like, I don't know. Can you just tell me? No,
I'm not going to tell you. Fine, let's go. So
are you ready going to do do? Gordona? M really tired?
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But yeah, M could you tell me? Now? Hey, come on,
I'm not I'm leaving where Gordona? I'm sorry, I'm not
going your m No dice h. She was really good
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at keeping secrets, which was really bad for this investigation.
I had only one option. I had to start my
own little investigation within the investigation. So I came up
with a plan. I would figure out how to get
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my friend to spill the beans and then watch the
beans spill, meaning get her to tell me the secret,
and hopefully it would be helpful to this investigation. I mean,
it's the season finale. My first and only stop consulting
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my little book of Anna. That's right, folks, I have
a little book of Anna. You know, A kind of dossier.
It has the essentials, her emergency contact, an extra key
to our house, her measurements in case I'm out and
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I find a top she likes, but I'm like, what sizes?
She again, the essentials, her handprint from when she was
a baby. But it also has a section where I
keep her greatest secrets. I took a look at those. Okay,
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where is it, this little book of Anna? Okay, think
this is it? Yeah? There we are. Oh yeah, there
they were, the three secrets staring at me. I looked
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at them, and, like a good investigator, I thought about
the details, mainly where we were when she told me
the secrets. The first secret as we rode a roller
coaster at the Santa Monica Pier. The second secret she
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told me as we were ascending to the top of
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. And the third one
while we were on a long bus ride to see
the pyramids outside of Mexico City. One of the wonders
of the world, and by that, I mean it makes
you wonder, how did they do that. I thought about
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these moments, specifically the locations and what we were doing.
A common denominator emerged. We seem to be doing something thrilling,
something that had us outside of ourselves. To put it bluntly,
these were memories that we would think upon on our
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death beds and go whoa life. Put on quite a
show for Anna and I, and we were right there
calling Encore, Please Encore. If I gave Anna and I
a one of a kind experience that she would think
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fondly about on her deathbed, then she would a hundred
percent spilled the beans and we would be back on
track with this investigation. Granted the beans are good, you
never know what Anna could be. Good beans could be
bad beans. I needed to give Anna a one of
a kind experience. I closed my eyes and pictured the
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words one of a kind experience. I was immediately transported
to a open road, driving fast convertible, top down, hair
blowing in the wind, fearless. So that's what I did.
I rented a Mustang convertible and told Anna to meet
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me outside of her place from room over here. Why
what's this car? I just wanted to show you a
good time. I'm sorry you have to say that time.
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I just wanted to show you a good time. To
look forward. Why I was going through like a you
know what Fellman and Looney thing, you know, tell me
and Loonie, you know those two gals. We'll come off
on in. Come take you, I mean just come in,
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take a feel. It's a strong machine. Oh yeah, watch
the door because it's a rental. Here's your scarf um
could wear one too obvious scar. That's right. We were
in a Mustang convertible and I got Anna a scarf
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roum rom ready to check this out. I was going
to take the top down of the Mustang convertible and
Anna would definitely tell me the secret. Um, okay, maybe
it needs to be on. Okay, Oh my god, Oh
my goyeah. I think that's just preparation. What okay, and
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we're done? What do I mean done? Ah? I actually
feel like we just because I overwhelmed, are you okay?
I'm kind of nervous because because this car is so huge.
I mean I don't need to be this car is
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really big. I think we should just maybe just stay
stay here. You want to stay in the cars? I mean,
this is pretty crazy. Did you rent the car? Yeah,
you rented the car, but now you're too scared to
drive the car. Yeah. From from honestly driving a Mustang
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convertible was really scary. I thought convertibles were supposed to
be small and sexy, but this thing felt like a tank.
It gave me such a fright. We were just sitting there.
This was not a of a kind experience. She probably
wouldn't tell me anything. Can I just tell you the secret?
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I don't like keeping secrets for me, so Kyle got
me to spill the beans. Let me give you guys
the background. I have this friend. He's a really nice guy.
I'm telling you, guys, this guy it's awesome. Here is
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where it gets hard. Recently, let me take a sip
of this wine. Okay, recently, I was flipping through Instagram
stories absent mindedly, and I came upon a story he
had posted, which was a picture of himself that his
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partner had posted. Are you following? Here's the thing about
this picture. It was totally innocuous. It was just a
photo of him sitting at a desk. I just happened
to be moving into a new spot myself, and I
was having a hard time figuring out a spot for
a desk in my place. I was looking for inspiration,
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so I screen grabbed what he had posted and again,
the photo is innocuous, but the way that he is framed,
it's pretty intimate. There's nothing salacious there, but it was
clearly taken by someone who loves him. Okay, um, I
need a few more SIPs of wine. Hang on, yeah, okay.
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So I screen grabbed this photo, and days go by.
I forget about the photo. I forget about the screen grab.
I take more photos, take more screen grabs, my photo role.
It's just it's moving on. So late one night, I'm
in bed scrolling. As I'm falling asleep, I wake up
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with my phone. Honestly, it's just on top of my face.
I check my phone and I see something mortifying. It's
a message from the guy in response to the story
I had posted. And the message it says, you posted
a story about me. Immediately a panic kicks in. Oh
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my god, I posted that screen grab of that photo
of him sitting at that desk, taken by his loved one,
and it had been sitting there long enough for the
guy to see it. And here's the thing about this guy.
He was undoubtedly the perfect person to interview for this investigation.
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He was a curator at one of the top museums
and he had impeccable taste. He was honestly the first
person who came to my mind when Whitney gave us
the call altogether, But because of what had happened, I mean,
you guys, see what I did, I can't reach out
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to the sky. I posted a story of him sitting
at a desk on my Instagram that his lover took. Yes,
what you did was unimaginable, horrifying. I sit here full paralysis,
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yet still disgusted enough to shake my damn head. If
I did that, I would go live in a closet.
But we have to talk to him Anna. He's a
curator at one of the top museums. There's just no
other way. Too much is writing on this. This is
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our season finale. I know I already said that, but
this is our season finale. I know things are getting
really good, but we have to take a break for
some ads, and the ad break is over. I knew
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this would be hard for Anna, so I set up
a training session with Chad. You remember Chad. He was
a trainer with the huge legs that helped us move
the dirt. His legs. Okay, Hi, I'm Chad. I'm a
personal trainer, and I'm also training to be a life coach.
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I'm halfway through my certification with my life coach. Yeah him.
I had Chad meet us at the Truth Town Fitness
Center my garage. Oh my god, I see I see him? Yeah? Hi, Hi?
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What you're walking really slow? Sorry? I was to be
honest that I was just kind of thinking about game planning. Okay.
I had previously explained to Chad that we needed his
help to train Anna to face her fears and to
make it right with her Instagram friend. Chad didn't waste
any time and immediately got into it. Okay, um, can
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we do a quick experiment collea, okay, okay's Oh my god.
Chad first lunched at me Kyle, and without blinking an eye,
I got out of the way. Then he lunged at
Anna and she didn't get out of the way. Oh
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my god, she was frozen. We moved on to a
different an exercise, a wall sit three two. It's not
too easy, guess what You're only thirty seconds in what? So?
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I wonder if next time we two will look ready?
It was not easy. You gotta be in a full wall.
Can I do this? I mean it's a little boy
band cover all out. I didn't do that too. Okay,
we got twenty seconds left ya. Once our bodies went
through hell and back, Chad went back to lunging at Anna.
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This time something was different. She was different and you moved.
Did you get that on tape? Wow, that was the
first time you move. Okay, that was amazing. I was
also three ft away and un fast as a panther,
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like I'm all explosive energy. Yeah, you really are you?
You move? I did not. I did not hold back. Okay,
that I feel good. Chad gave Anna a final pep talk.
I want you to think about this thing. I want
you to think about the person that you wish to
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talk to about it. If they charge, what do you do.
I moved out of the way, but I don't anticipate
that they're going to charge. Yes, and I give them
the opportunity to not to pass, to pass, to give
them the opportunity to pass. But if they charge, guess what,
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I don't even got the way. Wow, you're gonna let
this is This is one of the biggest days of
your life. So I just have to pace my fears left.
I was ready. Chad had taught me that I could
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do anything, including confronting my worst fear contacting a guy
of whom I had posted an intimate photo to my
Instagram stories. And yeah, that's important. But also, let's revisit
the whole reason why we're here. The investigation was at
a standstill. Whitney had brought us an object and we
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were trying to figure out whether it was art and
what art even is, and this friend of Anna's seemed
to be the key to unlock all of this. He
was a curator at one of the top museums. So
Anna set up a time to talk to this guy.
I asked her if it would be easier if she
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did this alone, but she insisted on having me right
there next to her. Before we could get into our
investigation questions, Anna had to make things right. Hi, Hey guys,
how are you doing. I'm good. I don't know if
you've ever met the thing we've ever met I used
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to meet you. Here came the big moment. I just
I had to do it. Hey, you got this, Remember
what Chad said before we ask you for your official
opinion on something. Also, just kind of wanted to take
a moment to make things right. To make things right's
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right with you because of what happened, And I'm very
sorry about the photo. Oh that's totally fine, I thought.
I hope you didn't think I was really like weirded
out by that. I mean I might be, you know,
And I kind of assumed that's exactly what it was,
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which was you were saying like, oh, look, this is
a something in a whom like as I would do.
And I was often not like, look at this fucking
hell hole this person lives. I thought, because the photos
photos really kind of it's clearly taken by someone loves
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you and so a very delicate lover at a table,
and so I thought that it just seems like I
delicately love you. Yeah, and then you accidentally posted I
don't know what happened, and it posted to my story,
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which is one of the most fortifying things I think anyone.
Totally fun. I assumed nothing to ferry us. That's amazing.
I mean, no, no worries about it, okay, but I
just wanted to make things right. Yeah. No, I'm happy.
I'm happy. I'm happy that was that there was nothing
to make right. It was all good. You just need yeah,
they just need to be smoothing over what we talked
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about anything before we talking about other things. Absolutely fine,
all right, can I just have a moment here because
that was really hard to do, but I did it.
I kicked ass, and we could finally move forward in
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our investigation. We began our interview. My name is and
I'm a curator. Now that the hard stuff was out
of the way, the next part would be super easy.
So we actually were wondering if, um, you could just
tell us what art is? Mm hmm. He thought about
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it for a while. Damn, that's a big question. Huh.
I guess it was a really big question, but eventually
came through. I think art is anything you put into
a gallery or museum setting and and today is art
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and that's it. Whoa. That was amazing. It was all
we needed to hear. We set our goodbyes to thank
you so much. This is really helpful for us, and
you know, I am glad that we were able to
make anything. I'm happy we could solve that as well.
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Told us exactly what we needed to hear. If you
put something in a gallery or museum setting and say
it's art, it's art. So that's what we needed to do.
With Whitney's object, build an art show around it and
say it's art. Look, that doesn't necessarily answer her question
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of what she should do with it, but it would
now have so much more meaning. And then maybe the
gift we would really be giving to Whitney is the
gift of peace and clarity. The next step was simple.
We would just plan an art show. First, we got
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an art space. Okay, let's be honest. It was actually
the offices of I Heart Radio, but the building had
an industrial flare to it. No, no, no, no, cut
the tape. Do we have something that's a little more
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like fitting, like a chain being dropped in a pool,
a man slapping a fish as percussion in industrial? Yeah,
that's the stuff. Anyway, back to the building, tall cavernous ceilings,
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cement walls and floors, an elevator with a ceiling made
of abstract metal art pieces. It just screamed art in
l ah. Next, we needed wine. Just two bottles, one white,
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one red. What's the big deal? The next part was
a little tricky. We couldn't just have an art show
with one object, even if it was two or three
or fifteen parts or whatever. When you had said in
the beginning. There had to be other stuff to you
as well. Then I had an idea. Annah's always talking
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a big game about my call to action posts. She
always says that they are art and I've never commented
publicly on this because I'm super humble, but it actually
meant a lot. With Anna's encouragement, I decided to include
some of my call to actions in the art show. Additionally,
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I had a couple other surprises at my sleeve. Now
we had the space, the two bottles of wine, the art.
To me, Anna art, it's actually nothing without music. I'm sorry,
but I'm just a huge music lover, always have been,
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always will be. Without saying too much, well, it's in
my DNA and I actually had a couple of ideas
of what we could do. First and foremost most, Kyle
and I had accidentally devised a musical masterpiece earlier this season.
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I would describe the genre as noise. Take a listen.
That's noise, all right? This would be the perfect background
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noise to loop under the art show. But wait, there's
something else too. My friend Witt had also written an
awesome song for us. Remember contemplating suicide. Take a listen
Suicide that's it all right. Wit had even made us
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a techno version of the song for when we re
aided visiting the Yogurt Chop. Take a listen, Yeah, that's
it all right. Like I said, I am a huge
music lover. Hearing those three songs back to back just now,
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I'm basically in heaven. So we had our music. We
would invite my friend Wit to play live and we
would loop our original noise composition on a laptop in
the space. I myself am not a huge music lover.
I don't like anything in my ears. But wait a minute,
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I'm sorry, Anna. We can't just have a laptop just
sitting there playing a song. What if someone steals the laptop.
I'm going to be very honest with you guys. That
would suck. So we decided we would have to hire
someone to stand beside the laptop just to keep an
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eye on it. Okay, Kyle, you literally don't know how
to throw a party. You put a security guard in there,
it's gonna throw off the whole vibe. My biggest fear
is that a bunch of people come in and are like,
this place is dead. Let's bound. I don't care. I
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don't want my laptop to be stolen. That's where I
watched the amazing race. Can I offer a suggestion? What
if this person is not a DJ but Leonardo DiCaprio.
I bet all those cool people you were worried about
would be like, WHOA a party with Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm
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at least going to stay for a few minutes for sure, Kyle?
Are you baked out of your gourd? You think that
we can get Leonardo DiCaprio to a come to our
art show at all and then be forgo having the
time of his life to clock in and work a
ship as a DJ. But really he's just guarding the laptop. No,
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it's not happening. We can't get Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm sorry,
I just I don't think we're there. I mean yet,
I do really think he'd like the show, And I'm
not going to disagree with you and that one. Okay,
what if we hired a Leonardo DiCaprio impersonator to guard
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the laptop and pretend to DJ. But why Leonardo DiCaprio,
Why are you suddenly obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio? Why are
you on his jock? Anna? Because of the movie The Aviator.
I'm not on his chalk. I don't even know where
he is right now, so how could I even be
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on his jock? Yeah? Anna finally agreed, and all right,
let's speed things up. We looked all over the place
and we did finally find an official Leo DiCaprio I personator,
but his hiring fee per hour was eight hundred dollars,
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plus we had to pay his agent. I mean, I
love this crazy town, but who really has that kind
of money? I mean, we sure don't. We had gotten
the quote from the impersonators agent, and after that we
thanked her profusely, but said to her, is there any
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way you could make fifty bucks work? I mean, we
don't need him to do much. Just stand there. She
got back to us promptly, I suggest you purchase a
cardboard cutout. She also added she hadn't actually seen one
of Leo and wished us luck. So we had to
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broaden our search. We put up a kind of unofficial
call to action, and by that, I mean I just
asked my friends on Instagram, Hey, do you know anyone
who kind of looks like Leo? Before we knew it,
we found a guy who at once dressed up as
Leo for Halloween. Specifically, he dressed up as a paparazzi
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photo of Leo wherein he was just kind of inhaling
from an industrial sized vaporiser. Everything was in place, and
now an ad break. The ad break is over. Now
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it was time for the art show. No, Kyle, we
have to tell the listeners who was on the guest list?
Do we have to? We've been writing v O for
like three hours and my butt herds from all the sitting. Yeah,
we do have to, because it's the finale, all right,
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all right. We put up a call to action. My
art was good. It was a picture of Leo from
the Aviator was really stretched out. The post said do
you like the Aviator? Do you want to come to
a party? Kyle? Remember we expanded it just in case
we didn't find anyone who likes the Aviator. Yeah. We
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also said if you like Martin scorsesey you can come,
and if you like film, and if you like regular movies,
and if you were free and just wanted it to come, Bingo.
So back to it. The art show was finally here.
All the arts were in place and people started to
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show up. We were nearing the end of Whitney's investigation.
Our hope was that by putting on this art show
dedicated to the object, we would show Whitney that it
was valuable. Honestly, it was annoying how much went into
the making of this show that by the time we
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were letting people inside, I flew off the handle. I
completely lost my cool. If we could just stop, minimize
the talk, thank you, I just take it mind. I
just feel like there's a conversation over there. I just
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I mean, what didn't you hello? I'm sorry I didn't
should my co host is losing her cool, but Anna
rained it in. Thank you so much for coming to
the art show. We're sorry we made you wait in
the holding area. But the thing about art is that
it does take time. I mean sometimes it's never even finished.
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And that's a really good point, and so we can
never let you in. But we are so um. Having
said that, please come upstairs and thank you so much
for being a part of the art. Now feel free
to clap. Thank you, And so the evening had begun.
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The Leo Um kind of impersonator took his place by
the laptop, and people began to mill about should we
stand right here? I guess, okay, just we'll give them space,
so they guess recruit to take space. To take space,
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Kyle instructed our Leo guy to play our noise song
on the laptop. Again, he wasn't a DJ, but he
was standing right there. I mean he might as well.
Does it cost you anything to hit the space bar music?
I'm me care So that's actually my screen love. That's
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going really well. I think this is going. Yeah. A
lot of people showed up, people you might recognize. There
was Megan, the mean friend who maybe wasn't actually that mean.
How are you feeling about you feel the mean nowadays? No,
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I'm feeling pretty good. Actually, yeah, yeah, it's not really
any thank you. Well it's Captain, it's Captain seasons. But yeah,
I mean I'm not really I'm not. I'm still not
really doing much, so there's not really much to get
mad at. Thanks, thank you. Wow amazing. She was literally
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glowing and honestly it made me want to go out
and buy a calf tan. Anyways, so Megan was there. Also,
our third friend Rod was there. We haven't seen you
since your big day. Yeah, it's been a while, so
he's still feeling good after it. Yeah, I'm feeling I'm
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feeling pretty good. Uh. It really did feel good to
get back to him. He really needed it, you could tell.
So lots of people were milling about, chatting, drinking from
those two bottles of wine. The event was an absolute success.
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But let's not forget who the real star of the
show was. The art. What do you think about? This piece?
Is art? And I think I can see that theme
of like his already see this like growing distancing from
the world and society, and I can see that really
present in the piece, that kind of a lot of
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empty space, and then like the chairs there as his
comfort as a zone of comfort, like the screening room
and like seeing the daily Huh. I didn't get that
at all. But that's awesome. This is beautiful. Wow, we
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had gathered together a really exceptional crowd. Okay, so this
is actually um. We talked to an art appraiser and
I was just showing her slides and she said my
photos were so good that it was our that's right.
Remember when I said I had a couple of surprises
at my sleeve. Well, here's the first one. Because I
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had gotten such great feedback from the art appraisers about
my photographs of the model, I decided, what the heck
it should be part of the show. And you know what,
it was the talk of the town. People thought it
was a part of Whitney's Peace. They improved each other.
I say, would you say these two are kind of
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twin claims? Are pieces? I think so, and I think that,
and like it goes in the other direction to I
think the other one, like the other animals. The other surprise,
by the way, was that I had also printed out
a poster of our Truthhound tipline phone number. The poster
was really just the phone number and a dog dress
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like a detective next to it, but my thought was
maybe someone would call some of the best art is interactive.
The whole show was going really, really well, and now
it was time for the performance art. My friend wits
performance of his hit song Contemplating Suicide. Given the seriousness
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of the mood, we thought it would be appropriate if
he did a more stripped down, deconstructed version of the song.
We wanted it to feel like emptvs. Unplugged, so we
set him up on a stool at about thirty candles
and had everyone sit on the ground, cross legged, looking
up at him. This is a sign. The first episode
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of Truth Towns um I wrote it, and we can
also listen to you here a remix of this same
song in the third episode of Truth Downs. Should you
want me to say that this prob Yeah? Yes, yeah.
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The song is called contemplating suicide. Okay, content warning. We
caught a mean case of the sillies. Forgive us. We
were so overwhelmed by the success of the night we
couldn't help but laugh. Called someplating suicide my whole life.
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I want to die contemplating suicide. I want to die
my whole contemplating suicide. I want to die my whole
contemplating suicide. I wanted to do something cute. Now, mhm,
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what's contemplating? Want to die the whole contemplating suicide. I
want to do something contemplating tu from song Song, Song, Song, Song.
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I know. We keep saying the night was a success,
but before we could officially declare it as such, we
had to check in with one last attendee, arguably the
most important one. Whitney and I actually talked to like
a few people that gave me new perspectives on like
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having a piece like this, like how important it is.
I do like the idea of setting up something was
like your piece that you made tile like next to
it and having a little kind of like explanations. Yeah yeah,
I'm like, I'm so grateful. Whoa. We really helped her out,
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And before saying goodbye to her, I made one last
effort to pitch myself to her, because you know, this
is Hollywood, you have to advocate for yourself. Well, I'd
love to work with you in the future on some
kind of artistic project. What you guys? Yea. After a
little bit of networking, sorry, you just have to do it,
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I noticed that we actually had a new tip on
the tip line. I took a listen, Hi, my name
is Chris, and I'm calling him from the art and
it does this is art. Remember how I told you
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that I had hung up that poster of the tip
line phone number next to a dog dressed like a
detective in the art show. Huh someone used the tip
line and that someone was Chris from our late People
focus group. He was at the art show. I don't
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remember inviting him. M hmm, what was he doing here?
And wait a minute, Anna had been consistently five to
ten minutes late over the past couple of months. Did
that have something to do with it? Before I could
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really grapple with these mysterious thoughts, Anna pulled me aside
with urgency. She was getting a weird phone call. Weird
two calls one night? Huh this? Wait? Who is this?
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I've got a tip for you, the tip that only
the truth towns can get to. This is the crime
of the century. It's a real life murder. Who whoa? Whoa.
We had started the show to investigate mysteries like why
are puppies so fat? Or why is it so funny
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when someone falls down just a couple of stairs, I
don't know, questions like that, and now someone was calling
us to investigate a real murder. We had come so far,
and in a second it seemed like everything was about
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to change. Yeah, that's right. We had spent this entire
season grappling with these kinds of questions. Why are some
people always late? Why? Why are people mean? Does distance
really make the heart grow fonder? Why does time fly
by when you're having so much fun? Why does giving
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back feel so good? And finally, what we just answered?
What is art? And now this guy was asking us
to get involved with a real murder. And let's not
forget about the Chris thing. What was that? If I
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were to pursue this murder case, who would I even
be investigating with? I felt like I didn't even know
Anna anymore. In a second, it seemed like everything was
about to change. What do you say Ye? To be
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Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of I Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for about a year now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle.
In middle school, I received the award most Enthusiastic to Learn,
so that makes me pretty special. And that is what
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makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are two friends
who love each other very much, but what we love
even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries. All mysteries, sure,
but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, No mystery is too small. No, no, no,
Why don't you trust me when I tell you we
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are ready to sniff around? We are the truth Hound. Hello, Hey, Kyle? Hi, yeah, Hi,
Hey it's Annah. Yeah. Hey. Um, are you busy right now? Yeah? Actually,
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I'm about to give a toast to my brother's wedding.
My back is turned, but I can feel very one
staring at me, and I'm pretending to wipe a stain
off my dress. But I just don't think I can
get away with it for much longer. Get it out? Yeah,
I mean mole obviously, but um, I actually I'm so sorry,
but we just we really do need to talk. Okay,
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we'll be right there, Hi, my friend, Thank you so
much for meeting me here. Of course, it's very tranquil today.
It is tranquil. It's a beautiful word, actually, tranquil. Yeah,
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and when I think of tranquil, I specifically actually think
of water. So it it's like the words perfect application
is to what we're looking at. But I have to say,
this investigation doesn't have me very tranquil. No, I actually
feel the opposite of that myself. I feel almost violent.
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I mean, let's think about what we've already done rest
for this investigation, right. So this person Whitney, came to
us saying, I don't know what the subject is. Can
you help me determine its value and give me ideas
of what to do with it? So we put our
heads together. We reached out to art appraisers, a person
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who works at a cool vintage store, a person with
good taste, and they told us that probably its value
is mostly determined by people who are fans of the
movie The Aviator. So we watched the movie and we
had maybe the worst night of our lives. I mean,
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I'm still in a bad movie. I still can't watch movies. Yeah,
I'm done for movies. I think the thing it sucks
is I shouldn't I shouldn't say anything, but I actually know. Ah,
you know what. No, I'm sorry. I never no, I
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actually I'm sorry. I can't. No, I can't, I can't.
Let's just let's just look at the water and wow,
what is this eagle? Yeah? It is? But I just
all right, Episode ten? What is art? Part two? So
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we didn't have a plan. Honestly, I didn't even know
where to look. Well, actually I knew exactly where to look.
Something happened with this person I know, and it was
so embarrassing. I can't go there. No, I'm done. This
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investigation was at a standstill. Did Anna just say to
you guys that she knew exactly what to do but
didn't want to talk about it. That's really frustrating. She
knows she can tell me anything. I mean, when it
comes to one another, we're basically open books. And you
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guys listening in right now, well you're basically family at
this point. So over the next couple of weeks, I
would meet up and hang out with Anna, business as usual.
Then when she least expected it, I confront her, Hey,
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I sorry, I'm l I where do you want to
go to to d eat um? I just I kind
of feel like, uh, I don't know. Maybe could you
can you tell me? I'm not going to tell you
get out of the car. Yeah, I don't know. I
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feel like that's that haircut is not it's not too extreme.
But I'm like, I don't know. Can you just tell me? No,
I'm not going to tell you. Fine, let's go. So
are you ready going to do do? Gordona? M really tired?
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But yeah, M could you tell me? Now? Hey, come on,
I'm not I'm leaving where Gordona? I'm sorry, I'm not
going your m No dice h. She was really good
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at keeping secrets, which was really bad for this investigation.
I had only one option. I had to start my
own little investigation within the investigation. So I came up
with a plan. I would figure out how to get
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my friend to spill the beans and then watch the
beans spill, meaning get her to tell me the secret,
and hopefully it would be helpful to this investigation. I mean,
it's the season finale. My first and only stop consulting
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my little book of Anna. That's right, folks, I have
a little book of Anna. You know, A kind of dossier.
It has the essentials, her emergency contact, an extra key
to our house, her measurements in case I'm out and
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I find a top she likes, but I'm like, what sizes?
She again, the essentials, her handprint from when she was
a baby. But it also has a section where I
keep her greatest secrets. I took a look at those. Okay,
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where is it, this little book of Anna? Okay, think
this is it? Yeah? There we are. Oh yeah, there
they were, the three secrets staring at me. I looked
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at them, and, like a good investigator, I thought about
the details, mainly where we were when she told me
the secrets. The first secret as we rode a roller
coaster at the Santa Monica Pier. The second secret she
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told me as we were ascending to the top of
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. And the third one
while we were on a long bus ride to see
the pyramids outside of Mexico City. One of the wonders
of the world, and by that, I mean it makes
you wonder, how did they do that. I thought about
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these moments, specifically the locations and what we were doing.
A common denominator emerged. We seem to be doing something thrilling,
something that had us outside of ourselves. To put it bluntly,
these were memories that we would think upon on our
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death beds and go whoa life. Put on quite a
show for Anna and I, and we were right there
calling Encore, Please Encore. If I gave Anna and I
a one of a kind experience that she would think
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fondly about on her deathbed, then she would a hundred
percent spilled the beans and we would be back on
track with this investigation. Granted the beans are good, you
never know what Anna could be. Good beans could be
bad beans. I needed to give Anna a one of
a kind experience. I closed my eyes and pictured the
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words one of a kind experience. I was immediately transported
to a open road, driving fast convertible, top down, hair
blowing in the wind, fearless. So that's what I did.
I rented a Mustang convertible and told Anna to meet
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me outside of her place from room over here. Why
what's this car? I just wanted to show you a
good time. I'm sorry you have to say that time.
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I just wanted to show you a good time. To
look forward. Why I was going through like a you
know what Fellman and Looney thing, you know, tell me
and Loonie, you know those two gals. We'll come off
on in. Come take you, I mean just come in,
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take a feel. It's a strong machine. Oh yeah, watch
the door because it's a rental. Here's your scarf um
could wear one too obvious scar. That's right. We were
in a Mustang convertible and I got Anna a scarf
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roum rom ready to check this out. I was going
to take the top down of the Mustang convertible and
Anna would definitely tell me the secret. Um, okay, maybe
it needs to be on. Okay, Oh my god, Oh
my goyeah. I think that's just preparation. What okay, and
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we're done? What do I mean done? Ah? I actually
feel like we just because I overwhelmed, are you okay?
I'm kind of nervous because because this car is so huge.
I mean I don't need to be this car is
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really big. I think we should just maybe just stay
stay here. You want to stay in the cars? I mean,
this is pretty crazy. Did you rent the car? Yeah,
you rented the car, but now you're too scared to
drive the car. Yeah. From from honestly driving a Mustang
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convertible was really scary. I thought convertibles were supposed to
be small and sexy, but this thing felt like a tank.
It gave me such a fright. We were just sitting there.
This was not a of a kind experience. She probably
wouldn't tell me anything. Can I just tell you the secret?
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I don't like keeping secrets for me, so Kyle got
me to spill the beans. Let me give you guys
the background. I have this friend. He's a really nice guy.
I'm telling you, guys, this guy it's awesome. Here is
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where it gets hard. Recently, let me take a sip
of this wine. Okay, recently, I was flipping through Instagram
stories absent mindedly, and I came upon a story he
had posted, which was a picture of himself that his
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partner had posted. Are you following? Here's the thing about
this picture. It was totally innocuous. It was just a
photo of him sitting at a desk. I just happened
to be moving into a new spot myself, and I
was having a hard time figuring out a spot for
a desk in my place. I was looking for inspiration,
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so I screen grabbed what he had posted and again,
the photo is innocuous, but the way that he is framed,
it's pretty intimate. There's nothing salacious there, but it was
clearly taken by someone who loves him. Okay, um, I
need a few more SIPs of wine. Hang on, yeah, okay.
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So I screen grabbed this photo, and days go by.
I forget about the photo. I forget about the screen grab.
I take more photos, take more screen grabs, my photo role.
It's just it's moving on. So late one night, I'm
in bed scrolling. As I'm falling asleep, I wake up
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with my phone. Honestly, it's just on top of my face.
I check my phone and I see something mortifying. It's
a message from the guy in response to the story
I had posted. And the message it says, you posted
a story about me. Immediately a panic kicks in. Oh
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my god, I posted that screen grab of that photo
of him sitting at that desk, taken by his loved one,
and it had been sitting there long enough for the
guy to see it. And here's the thing about this guy.
He was undoubtedly the perfect person to interview for this investigation.
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He was a curator at one of the top museums
and he had impeccable taste. He was honestly the first
person who came to my mind when Whitney gave us
the call altogether, But because of what had happened, I mean,
you guys, see what I did, I can't reach out
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to the sky. I posted a story of him sitting
at a desk on my Instagram that his lover took. Yes,
what you did was unimaginable, horrifying. I sit here full paralysis,
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yet still disgusted enough to shake my damn head. If
I did that, I would go live in a closet.
But we have to talk to him Anna. He's a
curator at one of the top museums. There's just no
other way. Too much is writing on this. This is
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our season finale. I know I already said that, but
this is our season finale. I know things are getting
really good, but we have to take a break for
some ads, and the ad break is over. I knew
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this would be hard for Anna, so I set up
a training session with Chad. You remember Chad. He was
a trainer with the huge legs that helped us move
the dirt. His legs. Okay, Hi, I'm Chad. I'm a
personal trainer, and I'm also training to be a life coach.
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I'm halfway through my certification with my life coach. Yeah him.
I had Chad meet us at the Truth Town Fitness
Center my garage. Oh my god, I see I see him? Yeah? Hi, Hi?
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What you're walking really slow? Sorry? I was to be
honest that I was just kind of thinking about game planning. Okay.
I had previously explained to Chad that we needed his
help to train Anna to face her fears and to
make it right with her Instagram friend. Chad didn't waste
any time and immediately got into it. Okay, um, can
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we do a quick experiment collea, okay, okay's Oh my god.
Chad first lunched at me Kyle, and without blinking an eye,
I got out of the way. Then he lunged at
Anna and she didn't get out of the way. Oh
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my god, she was frozen. We moved on to a
different an exercise, a wall sit three two. It's not
too easy, guess what You're only thirty seconds in what? So?
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I wonder if next time we two will look ready?
It was not easy. You gotta be in a full wall.
Can I do this? I mean it's a little boy
band cover all out. I didn't do that too. Okay,
we got twenty seconds left ya. Once our bodies went
through hell and back, Chad went back to lunging at Anna.
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This time something was different. She was different and you moved.
Did you get that on tape? Wow, that was the
first time you move. Okay, that was amazing. I was
also three ft away and un fast as a panther,
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like I'm all explosive energy. Yeah, you really are you?
You move? I did not. I did not hold back. Okay,
that I feel good. Chad gave Anna a final pep talk.
I want you to think about this thing. I want
you to think about the person that you wish to
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talk to about it. If they charge, what do you do.
I moved out of the way, but I don't anticipate
that they're going to charge. Yes, and I give them
the opportunity to not to pass, to pass, to give
them the opportunity to pass. But if they charge, guess what,
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I don't even got the way. Wow, you're gonna let
this is This is one of the biggest days of
your life. So I just have to pace my fears left.
I was ready. Chad had taught me that I could
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do anything, including confronting my worst fear contacting a guy
of whom I had posted an intimate photo to my
Instagram stories. And yeah, that's important. But also, let's revisit
the whole reason why we're here. The investigation was at
a standstill. Whitney had brought us an object and we
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were trying to figure out whether it was art and
what art even is, and this friend of Anna's seemed
to be the key to unlock all of this. He
was a curator at one of the top museums. So
Anna set up a time to talk to this guy.
I asked her if it would be easier if she
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did this alone, but she insisted on having me right
there next to her. Before we could get into our
investigation questions, Anna had to make things right. Hi, Hey guys,
how are you doing. I'm good. I don't know if
you've ever met the thing we've ever met I used
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to meet you. Here came the big moment. I just
I had to do it. Hey, you got this, Remember
what Chad said before we ask you for your official
opinion on something. Also, just kind of wanted to take
a moment to make things right. To make things right's
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right with you because of what happened, And I'm very
sorry about the photo. Oh that's totally fine, I thought.
I hope you didn't think I was really like weirded
out by that. I mean I might be, you know,
And I kind of assumed that's exactly what it was,
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which was you were saying like, oh, look, this is
a something in a whom like as I would do.
And I was often not like, look at this fucking
hell hole this person lives. I thought, because the photos
photos really kind of it's clearly taken by someone loves
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you and so a very delicate lover at a table,
and so I thought that it just seems like I
delicately love you. Yeah, and then you accidentally posted I
don't know what happened, and it posted to my story,
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which is one of the most fortifying things I think anyone.
Totally fun. I assumed nothing to ferry us. That's amazing.
I mean, no, no worries about it, okay, but I
just wanted to make things right. Yeah. No, I'm happy.
I'm happy. I'm happy that was that there was nothing
to make right. It was all good. You just need yeah,
they just need to be smoothing over what we talked
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about anything before we talking about other things. Absolutely fine,
all right, can I just have a moment here because
that was really hard to do, but I did it.
I kicked ass, and we could finally move forward in
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our investigation. We began our interview. My name is and
I'm a curator. Now that the hard stuff was out
of the way, the next part would be super easy.
So we actually were wondering if, um, you could just
tell us what art is? Mm hmm. He thought about
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it for a while. Damn, that's a big question. Huh.
I guess it was a really big question, but eventually
came through. I think art is anything you put into
a gallery or museum setting and and today is art
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and that's it. Whoa. That was amazing. It was all
we needed to hear. We set our goodbyes to thank
you so much. This is really helpful for us, and
you know, I am glad that we were able to
make anything. I'm happy we could solve that as well.
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Told us exactly what we needed to hear. If you
put something in a gallery or museum setting and say
it's art, it's art. So that's what we needed to do.
With Whitney's object, build an art show around it and
say it's art. Look, that doesn't necessarily answer her question
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of what she should do with it, but it would
now have so much more meaning. And then maybe the
gift we would really be giving to Whitney is the
gift of peace and clarity. The next step was simple.
We would just plan an art show. First, we got
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an art space. Okay, let's be honest. It was actually
the offices of I Heart Radio, but the building had
an industrial flare to it. No, no, no, no, cut
the tape. Do we have something that's a little more
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like fitting, like a chain being dropped in a pool,
a man slapping a fish as percussion in industrial? Yeah,
that's the stuff. Anyway, back to the building, tall cavernous ceilings,
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cement walls and floors, an elevator with a ceiling made
of abstract metal art pieces. It just screamed art in
l ah. Next, we needed wine. Just two bottles, one white,
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one red. What's the big deal? The next part was
a little tricky. We couldn't just have an art show
with one object, even if it was two or three
or fifteen parts or whatever. When you had said in
the beginning. There had to be other stuff to you
as well. Then I had an idea. Annah's always talking
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a big game about my call to action posts. She
always says that they are art and I've never commented
publicly on this because I'm super humble, but it actually
meant a lot. With Anna's encouragement, I decided to include
some of my call to actions in the art show. Additionally,
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I had a couple other surprises at my sleeve. Now
we had the space, the two bottles of wine, the art.
To me, Anna art, it's actually nothing without music. I'm sorry,
but I'm just a huge music lover, always have been,
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always will be. Without saying too much, well, it's in
my DNA and I actually had a couple of ideas
of what we could do. First and foremost most, Kyle
and I had accidentally devised a musical masterpiece earlier this season.
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I would describe the genre as noise. Take a listen.
That's noise, all right? This would be the perfect background
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noise to loop under the art show. But wait, there's
something else too. My friend Witt had also written an
awesome song for us. Remember contemplating suicide. Take a listen
Suicide that's it all right. Wit had even made us
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a techno version of the song for when we re
aided visiting the Yogurt Chop. Take a listen, Yeah, that's
it all right. Like I said, I am a huge
music lover. Hearing those three songs back to back just now,
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I'm basically in heaven. So we had our music. We
would invite my friend Wit to play live and we
would loop our original noise composition on a laptop in
the space. I myself am not a huge music lover.
I don't like anything in my ears. But wait a minute,
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I'm sorry, Anna. We can't just have a laptop just
sitting there playing a song. What if someone steals the laptop.
I'm going to be very honest with you guys. That
would suck. So we decided we would have to hire
someone to stand beside the laptop just to keep an
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eye on it. Okay, Kyle, you literally don't know how
to throw a party. You put a security guard in there,
it's gonna throw off the whole vibe. My biggest fear
is that a bunch of people come in and are like,
this place is dead. Let's bound. I don't care. I
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don't want my laptop to be stolen. That's where I
watched the amazing race. Can I offer a suggestion? What
if this person is not a DJ but Leonardo DiCaprio.
I bet all those cool people you were worried about
would be like, WHOA a party with Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm
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at least going to stay for a few minutes for sure, Kyle?
Are you baked out of your gourd? You think that
we can get Leonardo DiCaprio to a come to our
art show at all and then be forgo having the
time of his life to clock in and work a
ship as a DJ. But really he's just guarding the laptop. No,
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it's not happening. We can't get Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm sorry,
I just I don't think we're there. I mean yet,
I do really think he'd like the show, And I'm
not going to disagree with you and that one. Okay,
what if we hired a Leonardo DiCaprio impersonator to guard
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the laptop and pretend to DJ. But why Leonardo DiCaprio,
Why are you suddenly obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio? Why are
you on his jock? Anna? Because of the movie The Aviator.
I'm not on his chalk. I don't even know where
he is right now, so how could I even be
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on his jock? Yeah? Anna finally agreed, and all right,
let's speed things up. We looked all over the place
and we did finally find an official Leo DiCaprio I personator,
but his hiring fee per hour was eight hundred dollars,
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plus we had to pay his agent. I mean, I
love this crazy town, but who really has that kind
of money? I mean, we sure don't. We had gotten
the quote from the impersonators agent, and after that we
thanked her profusely, but said to her, is there any
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way you could make fifty bucks work? I mean, we
don't need him to do much. Just stand there. She
got back to us promptly, I suggest you purchase a
cardboard cutout. She also added she hadn't actually seen one
of Leo and wished us luck. So we had to
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broaden our search. We put up a kind of unofficial
call to action, and by that, I mean I just
asked my friends on Instagram, Hey, do you know anyone
who kind of looks like Leo? Before we knew it,
we found a guy who at once dressed up as
Leo for Halloween. Specifically, he dressed up as a paparazzi
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photo of Leo wherein he was just kind of inhaling
from an industrial sized vaporiser. Everything was in place, and
now an ad break. The ad break is over. Now
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it was time for the art show. No, Kyle, we
have to tell the listeners who was on the guest list?
Do we have to? We've been writing v O for
like three hours and my butt herds from all the sitting. Yeah,
we do have to, because it's the finale, all right,
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all right. We put up a call to action. My
art was good. It was a picture of Leo from
the Aviator was really stretched out. The post said do
you like the Aviator? Do you want to come to
a party? Kyle? Remember we expanded it just in case
we didn't find anyone who likes the Aviator. Yeah. We
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also said if you like Martin scorsesey you can come,
and if you like film, and if you like regular movies,
and if you were free and just wanted it to come, Bingo.
So back to it. The art show was finally here.
All the arts were in place and people started to
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show up. We were nearing the end of Whitney's investigation.
Our hope was that by putting on this art show
dedicated to the object, we would show Whitney that it
was valuable. Honestly, it was annoying how much went into
the making of this show that by the time we
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were letting people inside, I flew off the handle. I
completely lost my cool. If we could just stop, minimize
the talk, thank you, I just take it mind. I
just feel like there's a conversation over there. I just
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I mean, what didn't you hello? I'm sorry I didn't
should my co host is losing her cool, but Anna
rained it in. Thank you so much for coming to
the art show. We're sorry we made you wait in
the holding area. But the thing about art is that
it does take time. I mean sometimes it's never even finished.
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And that's a really good point, and so we can
never let you in. But we are so um. Having
said that, please come upstairs and thank you so much
for being a part of the art. Now feel free
to clap. Thank you, And so the evening had begun.
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The Leo Um kind of impersonator took his place by
the laptop, and people began to mill about should we
stand right here? I guess, okay, just we'll give them space,
so they guess recruit to take space. To take space,
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Kyle instructed our Leo guy to play our noise song
on the laptop. Again, he wasn't a DJ, but he
was standing right there. I mean he might as well.
Does it cost you anything to hit the space bar music?
I'm me care So that's actually my screen love. That's
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going really well. I think this is going. Yeah. A
lot of people showed up, people you might recognize. There
was Megan, the mean friend who maybe wasn't actually that mean.
How are you feeling about you feel the mean nowadays? No,
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I'm feeling pretty good. Actually, yeah, yeah, it's not really
any thank you. Well it's Captain, it's Captain seasons. But yeah,
I mean I'm not really I'm not. I'm still not
really doing much, so there's not really much to get
mad at. Thanks, thank you. Wow amazing. She was literally
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glowing and honestly it made me want to go out
and buy a calf tan. Anyways, so Megan was there. Also,
our third friend Rod was there. We haven't seen you
since your big day. Yeah, it's been a while, so
he's still feeling good after it. Yeah, I'm feeling I'm
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feeling pretty good. Uh. It really did feel good to
get back to him. He really needed it, you could tell.
So lots of people were milling about, chatting, drinking from
those two bottles of wine. The event was an absolute success.
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But let's not forget who the real star of the
show was. The art. What do you think about? This piece?
Is art? And I think I can see that theme
of like his already see this like growing distancing from
the world and society, and I can see that really
present in the piece, that kind of a lot of
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empty space, and then like the chairs there as his
comfort as a zone of comfort, like the screening room
and like seeing the daily Huh. I didn't get that
at all. But that's awesome. This is beautiful. Wow, we
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had gathered together a really exceptional crowd. Okay, so this
is actually um. We talked to an art appraiser and
I was just showing her slides and she said my
photos were so good that it was our that's right.
Remember when I said I had a couple of surprises
at my sleeve. Well, here's the first one. Because I
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had gotten such great feedback from the art appraisers about
my photographs of the model, I decided, what the heck
it should be part of the show. And you know what,
it was the talk of the town. People thought it
was a part of Whitney's Peace. They improved each other.
I say, would you say these two are kind of
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twin claims? Are pieces? I think so, and I think that,
and like it goes in the other direction to I
think the other one, like the other animals. The other surprise,
by the way, was that I had also printed out
a poster of our Truthhound tipline phone number. The poster
was really just the phone number and a dog dress
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like a detective next to it, but my thought was
maybe someone would call some of the best art is interactive.
The whole show was going really, really well, and now
it was time for the performance art. My friend wits
performance of his hit song Contemplating Suicide. Given the seriousness
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of the mood, we thought it would be appropriate if
he did a more stripped down, deconstructed version of the song.
We wanted it to feel like emptvs. Unplugged, so we
set him up on a stool at about thirty candles
and had everyone sit on the ground, cross legged, looking
up at him. This is a sign. The first episode
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of Truth Towns um I wrote it, and we can
also listen to you here a remix of this same
song in the third episode of Truth Downs. Should you
want me to say that this prob Yeah? Yes, yeah.
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The song is called contemplating suicide. Okay, content warning. We
caught a mean case of the sillies. Forgive us. We
were so overwhelmed by the success of the night we
couldn't help but laugh. Called someplating suicide my whole life.
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I want to die contemplating suicide. I want to die
my whole contemplating suicide. I want to die my whole
contemplating suicide. I wanted to do something cute. Now, mhm,
(43:45):
what's contemplating? Want to die the whole contemplating suicide. I
want to do something contemplating tu from song Song, Song, Song, Song.
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I know. We keep saying the night was a success,
but before we could officially declare it as such, we
had to check in with one last attendee, arguably the
most important one. Whitney and I actually talked to like
a few people that gave me new perspectives on like
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having a piece like this, like how important it is.
I do like the idea of setting up something was
like your piece that you made tile like next to
it and having a little kind of like explanations. Yeah yeah,
I'm like, I'm so grateful. Whoa. We really helped her out,
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And before saying goodbye to her, I made one last
effort to pitch myself to her, because you know, this
is Hollywood, you have to advocate for yourself. Well, I'd
love to work with you in the future on some
kind of artistic project. What you guys? Yea. After a
little bit of networking, sorry, you just have to do it,
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I noticed that we actually had a new tip on
the tip line. I took a listen, Hi, my name
is Chris, and I'm calling him from the art and
it does this is art. Remember how I told you
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that I had hung up that poster of the tip
line phone number next to a dog dressed like a
detective in the art show. Huh someone used the tip
line and that someone was Chris from our late People
focus group. He was at the art show. I don't
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remember inviting him. M hmm, what was he doing here?
And wait a minute, Anna had been consistently five to
ten minutes late over the past couple of months. Did
that have something to do with it? Before I could
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really grapple with these mysterious thoughts, Anna pulled me aside
with urgency. She was getting a weird phone call. Weird
two calls one night? Huh this? Wait? Who is this?
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I've got a tip for you, the tip that only
the truth towns can get to. This is the crime
of the century. It's a real life murder. Who whoa? Whoa.
We had started the show to investigate mysteries like why
are puppies so fat? Or why is it so funny
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when someone falls down just a couple of stairs, I
don't know, questions like that, and now someone was calling
us to investigate a real murder. We had come so far,
and in a second it seemed like everything was about
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to change. Yeah, that's right. We had spent this entire
season grappling with these kinds of questions. Why are some
people always late? Why? Why are people mean? Does distance
really make the heart grow fonder? Why does time fly
by when you're having so much fun? Why does giving
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back feel so good? And finally, what we just answered?
What is art? And now this guy was asking us
to get involved with a real murder. And let's not
forget about the Chris thing. What was that? If I
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were to pursue this murder case, who would I even
be investigating with? I felt like I didn't even know
Anna anymore. In a second, it seemed like everything was
about to change. What do you say Ye? To be
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