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We're law tubing over there. You deserve it. So
6:02
great, Bob. We're trying. Yeah, it's
6:04
fun. It's fun. It's eating into
6:06
my podcasting, which my podcast fans are getting
6:09
irritated with. You
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know, I like I started that thing to whatever. I'm not
6:13
going to, but I really was doing it
6:15
to promote the pot. Right. So, but
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at any rate, like I kind of love it. It's kind
6:19
of fun being on there and being able to like really
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because I'm on core TV a lot and law and crime
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and it's like so truncated. You know, you
6:26
get to go in for like three minutes and they
6:28
ask you one question. Yeah, don't really get to stretch
6:30
your legs on it. So I kind of
6:32
love being able to just yap at will. So
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but like watching this whole trial, you
6:37
know, and it's like I
6:41
was and I'm still now that
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the evidence is closed, we've heard
6:45
closing arguments. I still
6:47
don't know what happened to John O'Keefe. Like
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honestly, I honestly don't know. Like
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midway through it, I was starting to
6:54
throw out this third theory concept
6:56
because remember, and I say it all the time and I know
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I've said it to you guys, the state
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wasn't there. The Commonwealth was not there. The cops
7:02
were not there when this went down. Neither
7:05
was the defense. So what they're doing is
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they're just throwing theories out there based
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on the evidence that they've seen. Yeah,
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I started thinking I'm like, well, what happens if
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he just slipped like a double
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leg both feet out from under you
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slipped on a slippery driveway because the
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nor'easter's bearing down. There's snow on the
7:23
ground. It would explain that giant wound
7:25
on the back of his head. He
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somehow gets up on all fours. Like if
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you hit your head and you're not knocked
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out cold immediately, but you're definitely concussed. Yeah,
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yeah, you have that wound. But you know,
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in your your woozy, you get up on
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all fours, which is how you do it.
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You know, he slips again, hits his,
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you know, gets the egg over his eye,
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you know, falls on his face a little
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bit, but then ultimately staggers over to where
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he's ultimately found. It
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could be, I mean, scrambling if there's gravel
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or something on the arm, but ultimately
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then he's still innocent. to
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be so credible, I found her
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to be like unimpeachable with her integrity
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because she came in with an undetermined.
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She said, I don't have enough evidence
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to say whether or not
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he was struck by a motor vehicle, which
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is a death. Now to Lally, you know,
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I mean, like you want your me coming
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on and say, okay, yeah, this this lines
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up with what the state's theory is. She
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couldn't say it like, and I respected the hell
26:24
out of her for being honest about it. Like
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she just wasn't a hack for the state. She
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just said, look, I don't have enough information to
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be able to say, you know, with
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a reasonable degree of medical certainty that John O'Keefe
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was struck by that SUV, I can't say it.
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So she came back with undetermined. She couldn't even
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say it was a homicide. So
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then you've also got to
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look at Trooper Paul, poor Trooper Paul, who
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I actually felt terrible for. I mean, there's
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no way that he should have been called
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to the stand. If you guys have not
26:52
seen that testimony, you need to go back
26:54
and watch it. It was he was their
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accident recon guy. He's in.
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He just didn't have the education level
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and the experience to be able to get on
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the stand and sell the case. He's the guy
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who comes up with his concept
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is that John O'Keefe had his arm in
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a kind of a 90 degree angle up,
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you know, holding his fist up in
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the air, maybe holding the glass
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and that the arm
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is struck in a side swipe that
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his whole body doesn't get struck and
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that that causes him to pirouette. He
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then falls to the ground
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and then bounces somewhere between 50 and 30
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feet. Isn't this
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the guy who did like 150? Is
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this the 156 reconstructed accident guy? No,
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OK. No, no. This
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guy is like he it
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was terrible. Like his like
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it was so bad. The
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Commonwealth. He was the man. He was the one who
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was like sweating bullets, right? Yeah, he
27:53
was the one who just I felt terrible for
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the guy. Because he just like he was stumbling
27:58
over his words and he couldn't say certain. that
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they're searching on the internet, you know, maybe they're
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porn. Who knows? I mean, there's a million
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like, I don't want anybody searching through
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my shit. I know, but it's that
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accompanied with so many other things. Like,
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it's so much. I
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think one of the YouTube comments at the
30:15
end of the of Jackson's final
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statements was like, Oh, you forgot about the sale
30:20
of the home. Right. And it
30:22
was like, Oh, my God, there's even more than what
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you said. Yeah. No, I mean, they
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sold the home now. And
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I'm always devil's advocating, you know, because like on
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this thing, you know, obviously, like,
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I think that reasonable doubt, like,
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I don't know how a jury can't find reasonable doubt.
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In that case, that doesn't mean that I don't think
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that Karen may have hit him. I don't know. And
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it doesn't mean that I don't think that maybe
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John went in that house because I feel the
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same. Yep. Like when I heard the text message
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because the way that it played out with the
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Brian Higgins text messages, which if you guys haven't
30:55
followed the case out there as thoroughly as we
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may have, he's an ATF
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agent who had an office that was
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in the Canton Police Department. He's pretty
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he's pretty tight with Brian Higgins, the
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homeowner they had been out or
31:08
Brian Albert. Thank you that
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day. And then they were in
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New York. I think it a cop's funeral.
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And so they had traveled back home.
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They went out. They went drinking. So
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we then get into Brian Higgins text
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messages. And it turns out that
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he's texting with Karen Reed about
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for about a 10 day period where Karen reaches
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out to him. Now, this
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is after the whole Aruba
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trip where Karen thinks that
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John was banging or had some kind
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of sexual encounter with one of the
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Sullivan sisters. I think she did see
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him kissing someone. Right. Well, it was
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one of the Sully. Yeah, it was
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I think it was at a
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I think it was like it's Marietta Sullivan, the
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younger of the two Sullivan sisters. I might be
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messing up her first name, but so
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the younger of the two Sullivan sisters. So that
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thing. blew up in Aruba. She, you
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know, she called her and, you know, an
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effing bitch and whatever. And they had an
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exchange. The Sullivan sister and Karen, Karen apologized.
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She offered to pay for half of her
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room. She's like, I'm so sorry that this
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happened. But that that feeling
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lingered with Karen, like Karen believed
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what she saw or what
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what had happened. John had ghosted for a
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while. Couldn't she couldn't find him. He wasn't
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answering texts. So there's this whole
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thing leading up to her reaching out to
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Brian Higgins and kind
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of flirting with him. And then like in Higgins
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isn't an idiot. He's like, yo, you know,
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like I'm not I'm not about being your
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pawn because Higgins would have heard about the
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Aruba trip. You're like, this is
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a small the inner circle. That's what
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they call them. So he's hearing what
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went on with John and Karen in
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Aruba. I have no doubt about that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's asking. He
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kept asking the question. So why
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did you get my number? Why did you hit me up? You
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know, like, what's your game here? You know, because
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he knows he's like, I'm not going to be
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your pawn in your battle with John. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. And then she texts him that, you know,
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she plants that kiss when she's walking him out
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of John's place like after the Patriots game. And
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like she tells Higgins like, oh, John saw
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the video of when I walked you out.
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And he's like, what? She's
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like, oh, no, no, he didn't see the kiss. But it
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implied that that he had
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that John. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seen the kiss.
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And maybe John had like if that was
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Karen's game to be like, you know what?
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Fuck you, John. Yeah. You pulled that shit
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here. A little tit for that. Little
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tit for tat. Just normal, like crappy
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relationship stuff. Exactly. But let me
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play it out. Let me play it out. Like, because
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this is where this is where my head was at,
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because like the problem that I had with with John
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going in that house was the timing of it in
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terms of the like the way it had to
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work for the defense's theories. It had to go
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down immediately. And what could have gone on like
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going into the trial when I didn't know about
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the Brian Higgins tax? Like,
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I'm like, what? What could have possible? going on.
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I'm not buying that. You know, Colin, Colin
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Albert threw a beer can on John's fucking lawn and
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he went in there and started to fight. It sounds
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like bullshit to me. So here, let me let me
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let me play it out. So once we
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got like watching Andy's ready. And
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he's ready to come at me. I'm so I'm going
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to say it real quick. Pip
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to the face. You're walking in
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a room with. Yeah,
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but like, no, I'm not buying that. You're
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talking about Colin. Now, I don't know. I
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don't know. You haven't have you met that many Boston
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men, sir? Yeah.
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Yes, I have. And
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they are they are. Yeah, I know you you Midwesterners.
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I know are a different breed.
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We are. But I have my my boyfriend
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in Boston when someone started a fight, because a guy
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asked me about my necklace and he thought he was
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looking down my shirt. Right.
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All right. So let me finish. So this
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is what I'm getting with the whole Brian
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Higgins situation. So we know that
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like either John saw the kiss or he
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didn't see the kiss on the red camp
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video. But what we also know is that
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Brian Higgins, as this is like played out
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over the next 10 days, Karen starts pulling
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back. Yeah, Higgins is still coming
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at her a little bit. And we know that the the
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so or well, um, or what, you
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know, whatever that text was that night
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while they're all at the bar, you
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know. And so you have to be
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able to to bring yourself to a
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place where Karen's driving.
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John sees that text. John's
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hammered. He's a Boston guy,
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just like you guys were saying. Like
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they're had they're having a beef in the
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car. She's like, fuck you, John. I know
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you fuck fucking Sullivan. And but
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John's going in into that house hot
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going directly at Brian Higgins because he's
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macking on his woman. That's
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that changed everything for me in that
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scenario, because I can then see
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why John O'Keefe would have gone
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into that house and immediately picked a fight. So
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like and that's how it goes. Yeah, but even if he
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picked a fight, he's.
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